©1999 Athene Bitting
XXV
Divine Love:
The Laws of Perfect Relationships
I do not strive to control
the lives or emotions of other people.
I do not try to force others to love me,
but I know that the Divine Spark lives in us all, and I love this.
I fill my mind, heart, and being with love for these lives,
knowing that the Universe already loves me unconditionally.
Lecture based Questions:
1. What repels harmonious relationships?
Neediness, feeling pathetic or like a victim, having a chip on your shoulder, and anger are the biggest culprits. If you feel desire that is focused on a specific person, you will find that controlling another person’s feelings is not within your grasp. Pathetic/needy feelings extend a smelly, elephant trunk-like arm from the heart chakra. Nobody finds that attractive. In fact, everybody finds it quite repellent. Angry feelings radiate outward from the aura in dark red and black spikes. Talk about a prickly personality! An emotionally healthy individual is not going to go near that!
Also, family can even throw a monkey wrench into a union between soul mates. If you are serious about your love partnership, you might have to make choices that put your relationship above your family tree. Clannish feelings tend to keep successful love relationships out of your life. I know a family of really fine people who regrettably have a very tribal attitude about the rest of the world. Whenever an unfortunate bloke marries into the family, they tear and pick and alienate that person until she/he leaves with much bad blood. Family myths often interfere with happy relationships. Some examples are: “Nobody can measure up to our family.” “All our women are too strong to keep a man happy.” “No woman can take care of me as well as my mom.” “All our marriages crash and burn.” You get the picture.
Personal myths such as these generate powerful thought forms in the aura, and in life, the strongest thought form is the one that manifests.
2. Describe relationships on the Astral, Mental, and Soulic level.
Our Astral Bodies form bonds during any type of relationship. Sometimes they look like reciprocal bands of flowing energy. Sometimes they look like umbilical cords. Sometimes they look like lovely garlands of flowers. Sometimes they look like jagged saw blades. The color, shape, and quality of these bonds describe the types of relationships. Bright, clear, and pastel colors indicate feelings of love and equality. Relationships based on neurosis have darkness and ugly shapes.
Our Mental Bodies hold thought forms in the aura of relationships that we would like to have and relationships that we are experiencing. Our expectations and beliefs add energy to these thought forms, making them into archetypes. They in turn make things happen in the physical world.
Our Soul Bodies are always in company with our Soul Opposites. We are never apart at that level. Together we view our different lives and different relationships and learn from our shared observances.
3. What attitude attracts good relationships?
Command and affirm for cooperation, support, loving feelings, and healthy interactions. The more you say affirmations of good and strong relations, the stronger the archetypes become to make them happen.
I have loving, light-hearted, healthy, mutually helpful, and supportive relationships all the time.
Only wonderful people fill my life.
I always have great relationships.
My spouse and I are happily married to each other, and we always get it right.
---- and I understand each other perfectly and harmoniously.
---- and I love each other very much and we get along like two peas in a pod.
My romance is always gentle, wise, and comforting.
4. Exercise: The Ocean of Infinite Love
Visualize yourself as a drop of living water, created of liquid Light. You are part of a sea of moving and flowing energy. The Sun of Eternal Love shines upon you as you live and float among your brothers and sisters, flowing together in complete harmony and perfect understanding.
5. Scrying Exercise: Reading Auras
Always invoke the Spirit of Truth to let you see only that which is reality. If a client does not wish to hear the truth, he or she will leave of their own accord.
View a volunteer subject and have him or her ask you specific questions about himself or herself. You may access answers to these questions by focusing on the corresponding level as listed below.
Depending on your focus of intent, you may read at these various levels: Astral (immediate points of interest, emotional issues, people of the subject’s involvement), Mental (experiences that are pending and messages from Higher Intelligences). You may see Astral thought forms that resemble Christmas tree ornaments, these usually house thought forms of loved ones. Mental thought forms connect to us more as impressions rather than as clear images. Your Guardian Angel can interpret these for you.
6. Why and how does this work? What would be the most appropriate use of this technique?
Your Astral Body and Mental Body work together in this. Your Guardian Angel turns your focus to what needs attention or to what is appropriate.
This is not for tourists. Idle curiosity is not rewarded. Your approach needs to be sincere and for a legitimate inquiry.
7. Draw or describe one of your helpers.
Go ahead! You know it is crazy good!
THE CREED of DIVINE LOVE
Love is the spirit of God. It is the universal answer. Divine Love created me, and Divine Love guides me. Joy, beauty, and wisdom are flowing through my conscious and subconscious minds. Love is a circle of Light that gives as it receives in the same moment.
I rejoice to see the Divine Law work for anybody regardless of who he is, what he is, or where he is. A blessing for one is a blessing for all. I learn from the strength and wisdom of all I meet. I wish the ultimate blessings for every individual. I remember constantly that it is done to me as I believe. I cease blaming any person, condition, or circumstance for anything in my life. I cease projecting expectations on others. I completely surrender all my relationships to Infinite Divine Love. I am surrounded by people who wish me well. My days and nights are filled with people whom I love and admire.
God’s Eternal Presence of Love is the only thing that counts in my life and I feel The Presence constantly with me. I maintain a close and loving relationship with my higher consciousness. I train my mind to joyously expect the best. I contemplate the happily-ever-after of my life today and every day. God knows me. God cares for me. God solves all my errors in thinking and shows me the way to bless my feelings. My heart is safe and nurtured by the greatest love of all. The universe brings peace into my soul and leads me to harmony and joy. All obstacles to happiness are magically dissolved as I bring them to the Spirit of Truth and Mercy.
There is no separation in Divine Mind and death is an illusion of the earthly plane. Therefore, I am in continual contact with everyone that I have ever loved. God’s Light, love, truth, and beauty flow between us. God is with all of us, and all is well. The greater my faith in the Divine Creator, the greater my family of loved ones and Helpers. I daily affirm my reliance on God alone for all my emotional needs. I daily realign myself with the Divine Plan of my life—a life of pure affection for all life and perfect understanding of each unique life form. As I bring comfort, help, and love to others, I receive comfort, help, and love in full circle.
In Divine Mind, I am blessed with understanding, affection, and support. Every day, I am building a castle of love in the Astral world as I strive to increase my capacity to love others and as I live in friendship, fruitful activities, confidence in the Divine Plan for My Life, and trust in the One Power.
Filling My Life with Love
September 6, 1950
I charge you to be a nobler, more honest, more unselfish, and more helpful person this coming week. Let the nobility of spiritual remembrance reach out to the outermost circle of your lives—in the letters you write, the cars you drive, the manner in which you keep your home, the mood with which you prepare food, and the attitudes with which you regard others. Being one with life that is momently becoming more conscious of completeness, you must verify faith, consecration, deepest love, and high courage. In the days that are at hand, you will, of a necessity, be required to choose between the way of the Holy Spirit an the self-centered way. Which do you choose now?
Allow the witness of all the powers that accompany the Great Brotherhood and all who are within it to reach you in every part. Dwell, consciously receiving, accepting, and yearning for inhalations of pure refreshment for these drafts of spirit that invigorate the mind and cleanse the emotions as well as empower the physical instrument, whenever you recollect them.
May your feet be strengthened by the wings of understanding. May your hands be busy in their activities for Light. May your heart beat with more love for the whole of mankind, and may your heads teach you now to live in the clear, in the kingdom from which we come.
So may it be until we meet.
—Master Gamaliel
There is no fear in love.
But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
—I John 4:18
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