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XXVI
Divine Fulfillment:
The Laws of Perfect Self-Expression
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot
Lecture based Questions:
1. What obstructs creative fulfillment?
When we enter each life, we know clearly what we would like to learn and have for a career. We have no doubts. We have thought it all out completely ahead of time. Some of us lose this knowledge very early in life; some of us always retain it.
Now comes the challenge of the game. We also help to design the difficulty of fulfilling our ideals of education and work. Our obstructions are created through a combination of our karmic lessons and our needs for strength testing. Our persistence, our tenacity, our self-knowledge, and our focus are all tested by whatever obstructions come our way.
Astral Contracts have been programmed into our life disks. Sometimes, we have agreed to be born into families that will not support our hopes and ideas. Sometimes, we have designed bodies or circumstances that make our goals physically difficult. Sometimes, we simply have unfinished business that must be completed before we can proceed.
Co-dependent personalities probably have one of the most difficult hurdles to master in this regard. Their parents raise them as servants and discourage any self-expression. If a child in this type of family wants to find a happy ending, she/he will have to risk family rejection and breaking away from the parents in order to find success and self-esteem.
Children of abusive parents also face a hard challenge. Oftentimes, physical survival is the only issue every day. The luxury of having a creative impulse or a happy moment is very rare to these karmic warriors. If they live to be adults, then they have to battle against the impulse to abuse others as they were treated. Oftentimes, their education is almost nonexistent. So they have much remedial studying and training ahead of them to achieve their dreams.
2. What constitutes perfect self-expression?
The thing that cranks your handle is what gives you enthusiasm for life, energy, passion, and the spunk to get it done—no matter how dismal the odds or how badly people try to discourage you. You know that this is your passion, your heart, your happy spot, because it is the one thing that makes you perk up and feel like yourself.
Fourth Rays (the creative personality Ray) have some difficulty focusing on a single goal at a time. Sixth Rays (the devotional Ray) have trouble focusing on themselves at all. The other Rays are a little better at getting a bead on what they have decided to do with their lives.
Here, I would like to add a word of caution. The people and the circumstances of your life are not barricades to happiness. They are challenges of faith and patience and persistence. If you use WILL FORCE to try to elbow your way through to your desires, you will meet with resistance and cause bad energy. Remember, the most important thing in any life is this: how many people we touched with love, nurturing, and support. The rest is only bells and whistles, icing on the cake, gravy on the mashed potatoes of life. The challenge of any game is to learn and pursue the goal, all the while including the people we meet along the way with a warm embrace. If the loved ones in your life feel excluded and superfluous next to your ambitions, then you are doing it wrong. We all need our dear ones to listen to us, to hang out with us, to cheer us on, and to pray for us.
3. What attitude clears the way for the perfect work?
Conditions and Astral Contracts aside, the most useful tool for creating a fulfilling life work is through speaking affirmations. Well-designed affirmations express the way life is supposed to be. Now, here you need to have confidence in your goals. God gave you these ideas for a reason and you must honor them. If you are having trouble with believing in the dream, then you must take care of this first. In order of execution, these are the steps of mental and emotional discipline that must be done for success:
•Believe in your dreams and trust in God’s purpose for you.
My perfect work and my perfect pay come to me right away
In God’s perfect time, they reach me today
Under Grace, in a perfect and miraculous way.
•Envision yourself already having achieved your goal, as much as you are able to imagine it.
Thank you, God, for making me
A wealthy, successful, happy, healthy _______________,
And thank you for making my life partner
My wealthy, successful, happy, healthy supporter, lover, and equal.
•Decide which skills and achievements must be acquired to reach your success.
God gives me everything I need to succeed.
Everyone and everything boost me to achieve my dreams.
•Every day, whether or not you are physically attending to your goal, repeat the affirmations of having already achieved the ideal. Your Guardian Angel will put you in touch with people and resources for your success.
No matter what I do, say, think, or feel, my success is inevitable.
My fulfilling and happy life is easy and fun.
4.Exercise: Invoking the Perfect Work
•Sit comfortably so that your body does not distract you.
•Breathe normally.
•Focus on the top of your head, namely, the Crown Chakra.
•This is your channel that gives you free communion with your Monad.
•Imagine that a golden thread rises up from your Crown Chakra to your Monad Body, which is like a star.
•Pretend that you are very small and that you are riding up this golden thread like a skater skimming across a surface of ice.
•Very fast and very high you ascend, until you see your star self.
•The Monad is quiet, observing you. It has a message of love, hope, and courage for you. Receive this message.
•You are aware that kind and reassuring hands of a feminine flavor are resting on your shoulders. Look behind you. •There is a special Angel who is connected to you and makes you feel welcome. This is your Guardian Angel.
5. Scrying Exercise: Reading Auras for Helpers
Always invoke the Spirit of Truth. Ask that you see only reality. If a client does not wish to hear the truth, he or she will leave of his/her own accord. You can ask your Guardian Angel and also the client’s Guardian Angel for help in finding and interpreting the information.
View a volunteer subject and search for specific thought forms in the upper area of the aura. These are bright, colorful, and beautifully fragrant.
As you are viewing the aura of the client, you will see enlarged in your mind’s eye a highly detailed specimen of a thought form that might resemble a bouquet of flowers or a geometric construct or some other type of symbol. These are gifts from helpers that mark the client as a student of a member of the Hierarchy or a dear friend of a high spiritual person.
To identify the source of each thought form, focus your intent on it and harmonize with its vibration. The name or a picture of the person will come to you.
7. Draw or describe one of your helpers.
A color, a sound, a symbol, or a picture--remember one of your hundreds of helpers.
CREED OF JOYOUS SELF-EXPRESSION
I believe in the harmony of God, in the goodness of life, in the guidance of God, and in God’s love for me. The Light of God shines in my mind. My world is ruled by Universal Law and Divine Order. I feel these qualities flowing through me. My desires and dreams are clues for the direction of my path. My ideals are the prophecies of what I shall be. I travel psychologically and spiritually to the goals, objectives, and achievements of my Divine Plan.
My happy, productive life is the result of my correct thinking. My work blesses and inspires the world. Every choice leads me into the Divine Destiny that my Soul has decreed: a life of creativity, fun, fascinating experience, beckoning adventure, absorbing knowledge, and service to others. Every encounter with any person in any part of the world is full of possibilities and good. Life rewards me in countless ways from unlimited sources. I take no source for granted and expect blessings from all quarters. The Now supplants the past.
My good thoughts bring forth good fruit. I am born to succeed, I am equipped to be a winner, and I lay the foundation of competence with my industry, zeal, and diligence. I fulfill all my duties with excellence and enthusiasm. I rely on my character (the totality of my thinking), for character is destiny. I am alert, in-the-know, and I take advantage of the opportunities all around me. God puts the right words in my mouth for the correct occasion. Any problem is Divinely outmatched in my triumphant life. Clarification constantly takes place in my mind and leads me to the answer.
I rejoice to see anybody happy in his or her work as we venture together toward triumphant living and successful destinies. I have honest, loving, light-hearted, supportive, and mutually helpful relationships with all the people connected to my work. My talents are fully recognized, deeply appreciated, and generously rewarded. I cease fretting about the shenanigans of others. They go their own ways with my blessing and good will. The words and thoughts of others have no power in the Divine Plan of my life.
The greater my faith, the more satisfying is my journey through life. I recognize God’s power to fulfill my destiny. I surrender my life to Divine Mind. I manifest my inspired dreams with daily affirmations. I constantly rejoice and give thanks for these great blessings and responsibilities. God’s presence in me is the presence of peace, harmony, and success.
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I Am Made New This Moment
Within the moment of inception, when the Soul body creates the design of the Perfect Plan for your life, three magical events take place.
1. Cued into the singular vibration of the Monad, a variety of possible careers are orchestrated to enhance the character of the incarnated personality. These incorporate the latent talents that stem from one’s spiritual essence, and also factor in the allotted intelligence for that particular incarnation. All variations on this theme are mutable according to the spiritual attitude of the pupil.
2. Place, social climate, and family influence are next on the list of designated elements for the incarnation. There are karmic variations as well as the ultimate in the perfected life. For the strong character, all such elements serve to whip the personality forward toward success and enlightenment, resulting in the amelioration of the subject’s entire sphere of influence. This factor has the greatest power for karmic blessing and helpfulness at a global level from the innermost heart of a person’s motivation.
3. A combination of emotional elements formulate the Astral body for the prospective incarnation. There is no chance or random factor at this level. Herein dwell all past karmic debts waiting to be fulfilled or transmuted (by enlightened attitude and deed). Here is the clear task of the life path and the assignments that must be accomplished. The Astral body manifests these assignments as life experiences. How these episodes will come to be expressed can depend on the attitude and belief of the personality. The number of obstructions, sorrows, or distractions is up to the individual and what she or he expects.
Consider then that the possibilities and potentials for your life experience can be as satisfying, comfortable, and rewarding as you have come to believe. The Divine Secret is this: moment-by-moment we are affecting the fabric of Eternity with our thoughts and feelings. The life purpose of everyone incarnated is to show (by example) to his or her siblings that the Divine Plan can be made manifest on the physical plane. The importance of this work cannot be overstated. Your greatest gift is the inspiration of a successful life that you can show to others.
•Even as I am, I am being cared for by the love of those from the higher spheres who want me to succeed.—Master G.
•I am ______. I am attuned to God and through my alignment with His Spirit and through His love for me and guidance of me, I now live in the present. I respect myself and am glad for the opportunities confronting me. I approach them without hesitation, knowing that it is more important to do them than even to appear gracious or able.
—Master G.
God’s will for you is
the life more abundant and good
transcending your fondest dreams.
—Joseph Murphy