37. Active Faith

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Active Faith:

The Fabric of Reality

Lecture based Questions:

1. Who creates life as you experience it?

You do. Technically, your Astral Body designs your life. In an energetic sense, your life defines who you are, because your beliefs, your subconscious commands, your character, and your choices cannot be separated from you.

Yes, your Kindel Archangel helps you do design this incarnation, but the ultimate creator and commander is your capacity to learn and say the words that your universe obeys.

2. Is it possible to change our physical world through our faith?

Yes indeed it is. The Grand Illusion is that this physical plane does not change—that it is solid. The truth is that it is constantly in flux. Our conscious perceptions alter to accommodate the changes, so that we perceive a constant world.

This dimension has a dynamic capacity to be as you believe. Faith is what life is made of. You can make life as it should be by speaking the word as it should be spoken. The best way to test this is to practice affirmation commands. Start with immediate conditions that are easy for you to wrap your mind around, such as how people will behave during a rendezvous. You don’t need to visualize this. Merely speak the word, such as, “Everyone is happy, relaxed, enthusiastic, and helpful to each other.” If this is not normally the behaviors that the people have, you will be able to see a dramatic difference in the event.

3. How is faith related to the Third Degree of Initiation?

There is no ceiling on the strength or power of faith. However, a requirement for the 3DI is a solid grip on active faith principles. At this point, the initiate understands that the mind and the heart can change the world. The only parameters are the precepts of the word and the Mental Body’s lowest denominator—a person’s level of focus and belief.

4. How does a belief system affect the Astral and Mental dimensions?

The Astral Body wears many thought forms. These float in the aura like fish and plants do in the ocean. Each archetype depicts in symbols and colors the core beliefs of the owner. The Mental Body also wears archetypes in a similar manner. These are more lively than their Astral counterparts and usually they resemble snow globes with moving scenes inside of them.

The belief system affects the Astral Body’s health and experience. In essence, what you expect is what you get in the Astral World. In the Mental World, you are where your ideas put you.

5. Why is faith important to the quality of physical life?

Faith is one of the most important disciplines of character. It is the ability to carry through with the correct behavior despite appearances that conditions are otherwise. It is the ability to know that there is love and support all around us even though we cannot perceive it. The strength of one’s Astral Faith Muscles is evident in Divine Intervention permeating the fabric of one’s life.

6. Meditation Exercise: The Creative Force as a Benediction

Recognizing the Divine Spirit of Creation is primary to feeling connected to the flow of continuous blessings that touch us every day, whether or not we recognize them.

With elbows comfortably bent, turn your palms upward in a relaxed, cupped position. Envision a golden ball in each hand. The divine energy of the golden light that makes up each ball is spinning and alive. Imbue each ball with a separate and different blessing. You will feel mental energy connecting your heart chakra to the golden balls.

Now, send each ball to someone whom you know. The person may be living or between lives. It may be someone you like or find a challenge. The receiver may be animal, human, or angelic. One at a time, envision each ball floating above your hand and then flying off to its receiver. Say, “In the name of the Power of Living Light, so may we all be blessed and empowered.

7. Draw or describe one of your helpers.

Angels, nature spirits, ancestors, teachers, your soul mate—pick one!

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What You Believe Defines Who You Are

We walk by faith and not by sight.

—II Corinthians 5:7

Every day, thousands of miracles touch your life, and you barely acknowledge them. “What is a miracle exactly,” you ask, “How should I recognize it?”

First of all, there is no such thing as a small miracle. Each movement carries its own great sphere of influence. That which you barely notice today will have echoes far into the decades to come.

There is no other way to view this experience that you are sharing with your fellow sojourners. The very act of breathing is so against the odds of success that your life is a daily miracle. Add to this the workings of mechanical tools, electrical circuits, and the coordination of your schedule intertwined with the schedules of others. Answer this question for yourself, is the nifty way all these elements in your life continue to function on a relatively smooth path separated from your belief that they will continue to do so? The momentum of your belief is power. The momentum of a society’s belief is a massive leviathan of energy.

This theater of experience has been arranged in order for you to understand the subtle workings of thought and order. Let us view it with a slightly different understanding. [An apple viewed by a farmer, a historian, a scientist, and an artist will give to each a differing skein of information.] For our purposes, we shall view your world as a teaming mass of vibrating atoms.

Stretch out your hand to touch what seems to be a solid object. A physicist will tell you that covalent bonds and attractive forces maintain the surface and density of this object. What I tell you is that your expectation of its solidity is also a force that penetrates the centers of each atom comprising this solid form. Your belief is also working to continue its manifestation.

Who are the ones that create the seed thoughts for this table, that car, that house, those flowers? We are—all of us and each of us. Our connection to the Infinite Creator makes us creators even on an unconscious level. It is best to maintain as conscious an attitude as possible. It becomes easier with practice. Do not fret over the first fleeting moments of disciplined thought. Like a weak muscle, your ability to maintain a level of awareness will become more strong and controlled with use.

Given now that we have some active part in the creation and shaping of our environment by simply taking for granted that it will continue in our expectation, let us view the possibility for improvement and change. Following are some paths that act with power in this physical realm.

• Prayer: When you pray with sincerity and focus, many individuals act to enforce the manifestation of that prayer. Angels farm the prayer thought form and imbue it with liveliness and energy. Other angels and some members of the Hierarchy work to rearrange the order of the world in order to align the thought form with its intended event. The spin of the planet is affected by your prayers.

• Affirmation: After many repetitions of an affirmation, a belief system falls into place and the Astral Body becomes an active creator of the Word. What the Astral Body believes, it creates and arranges.

• Physical Activity: As we interact with the objects of the physical world, we reinforce their being-hood. As we touch them, we solidify our belief in their existence, and the atoms obey the commands of belief. We affirm the earth as we walk upon it. We affirm the air as we breathe it. We affirm heat and cold as we feel them. Each person in physical life is part of the great machine that perpetuates itself.

• Fear: A very potent and attractive form of belief, fear both draws to it the object of its focus, and also summons entities that dine on its energy. The rotation of fear energy is aligned to the negative tendencies of physical atoms, so it is a constant effort for us to understand that fear is part of the machine of the world and needs to be mastered with intelligence and disciplined thought.

• Imagination: Those times that we spend in creating our private worlds of make-believe have more involvement than you were led to believe as a child. To imagine something is to create a reality in the Astral and Mental worlds. As your mind returns to these thoughts, they gather energy and solidity. Other people tune into them and add even more life force to these thought forms. Eventually, they manifest in some way in the physical world.

• Meditation: Active thought sorts out what is useful to you and what is obstructive. Every day it is recommended to reset your perception of life and how you wish it to be. This is your task—to found a strong layer of reality grounded in the Source of All Life. Your usefulness to the Hierarchy is based on this ability. We are always looking for someone who can step out of his neurosis and become an active member of those who arrange the world.