36. Personal Power Points

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Personal Power:

Its Development and Function

Or, PP—!

Lecture based Questions:

1. What is personal power in the general sense?

This is what we call the accumulation of spiritual energy. It describes experience, wisdom, maturity, virtue, character, and universal influence. You can call it money in your spiritual savings bank. The more you accumulate, the higher you rise in the spiritual power game. It is also possible to lose it through certain mistakes in behavior and choice.

We are constantly accumulating and losing a certain amount of PP during incarnations. We can also gain and lose in between incarnations, but the process goes faster during physical lifetimes.

2. What are three reasons for accumulating personal power?

A) Manifesting things is easier. You and your thoughts become more attractive as you acquire more PP. In other words, if you had 500,000,000 PP, you would barely have to think about something to watch it materialize in your life. Cool, huh? Of course, you would have to be very careful to think good things, but the large PP account indicates that you would have already mastered the discipline of positive thinking.

B) PP carries with it a certain aura of influence. People are naturally attracted to power, and they find high PP individuals to be extremely desirable company.

C) You need it for initiations. For instance, (these are not the exact amounts—merely random numbers to illustrate the contrast in PP quotas) A 1DI (metaphorically) needs 1,000 PP; a 2DI needs 250,000 PP; a 3DI needs 1,500,000 PP a 4DI needs 500,000,000 PP, a 5DI needs 150,000,000,000 PP, and a 6DI needs 900,000,000,000,000 PP. So, you see, it is extremely important to keep saving up those PP! The different amounts of PP needed for an initiation is a proportion issue that can be observed in the Fibonacci number sequence. The amount of learning that it takes to get from one initiation to another builds on the last initiation. The amount of effort and learning increases with the elevation of initiation.

We do this by experiencing the following: suffering, empathy, knowledge, the development of virtues, the strengthening of character, spreading good chi to other people, allies gained, and acts of sacrifice.

There is peculiar benefit to being in the physical dimension. We get more PP at an increasingly higher rate the longer we remain in any single incarnation. The longer you live, the more PP you gain for every minute you keep breathing! This is due in part to the physical pain and difficulty of aging. Another reason is the emotional challenge of living past one’s technological age. Sorrow factors largely in earning PP, and any elderly person can tell you the confusion and grief that comes with outliving everyone from your childhood. So, keep breathing and enjoy the trip.

3. How do we lose it?

The mental, emotional, and physical behavior of forcing can bleed away your PP. Mentally, the attitude is hard, controlling, and self-righteous. Astrally, the facial area extends itself to resemble a beak. The neck sometimes lengthens proudly. Still, physical actions do the most damage to your PP account. Confrontation, manipulation, or acting as though you were above the law or the rules spends energy, and that energy comes from your PP.

Will force, then, is the only way that we fritter away our hard earned PP. In a single day, you will notice that normal people tend speak up, run the stop sign, cut off others in traffic, act with aggression and competition, and leap for public recognition. All these are typical behaviors. We are hard-wired to react this way. Most people spend their days accumulating PP through life experience and then losing some of it through willful expression.

4. How does personal power affect the Astral and Mental Bodies?

PP is actually a description of wisdom and experience. Therefore, the wiser and more practiced we become, the greater our virtue, character, and correct choices. Both the Astral Body and the Mental Body reflect our goodness through beauty, clarity, vibration, and ability.

5. Why does The Way forbid us to use our personal power?

One of the Laws of Service requires that all our energetic work be done through Divine Source. Divine Power is always just the correct amount. It automatically targets the place of need. The timing is always impeccable. Why would you want to mess that up by using your power? That would be goofy!

Then there is the fact that you NEED TO HANG ON to your own goodies. Once you have lost some, you have to earn it back. There is no quick remedy. Since you need it for your next initiation, you are slowing down your own party time.

So, the challenge of the game is this:

1. Refrain from expressing will force and wanting to be the big hero;

2. Always check with you Guardian Angel on the correctness of any choice;

3. Always use Divine Power for any healing or helping or manifesting.

6. Meditation Exercise: The Golden Crown

Tongue on the roof of your mouth, visualize Divine Golden Light pouring into your crown chakra. It resembles a small waterfall flowing from an invisible source into the top of your head. Also, something golden [shaped like a flower] is glowing just above your third eye chakra at the front top ridge of your head. Maintain this image as long as possible. Breathe in a relaxed manner.

During the course of your daily activities, try to maintain this visualization as you drive, walk, or fall asleep. Eventually, we hope to maintain continuous connection with this archetype.

The Waterfall is a continuous benediction from the Christ Office. The Golden Flower is an organ of outpouring to others. This is a requirement for the Third Degree of Initiation.

7. Draw or describe one of your helpers.