38. The Network of Light

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The Network of Light:

How It Affects Us

Lecture based Questions:

1. Why should we never feel alone?

A team of helpers and angels always surrounds us. Not only this, but we also are connected and interconnected by the endless companionship of lives—within and around our physical bodies, throughout the higher realms, and beyond. With this in mind, we can see that the universe is a very crowded place, rich with life of all types and sizes. Wherever we go, we are immersed in a crowded dance of many conscious beings. And, these lives are all connected to us with energies and thoughts and movement.

Imagine a crazy person standing in the middle of New York City. She/he talks to himself/herself as though nobody else were around. This is how the nature beings and angels consider “the blind ones.” Non-aware humans go through their days as though they were alone, but they are always in the company of friends and observers.

Don’t let this idea make you uneasy. This is hardly a new condition! It has been ever thus for everyone. Privacy still remains a fact; nobody peeps in on you without your invitation. Your helpers are watching you, but they love you and your Astral Body has well-developed relationships with all of them.

2. The Network of Light is the Hierarchy’s collective name for every life form in the universe.

A) At which dimension does the Network of Light exist?

At every dimension, everyone and everything connects to everyone and everything else through time and space, through dimensions and through galaxies. We are all part of the same magnificent blessing.

B) What is the purpose of the NOL?

The NOL is a collective consciousness. It develops and evolves along with us, but at a much greater scale than you could imagine. It encompasses galaxies beyond the boundaries of astronomical observation. It permeates the tiniest subatomic particle. Ever growing and strengthening with Light and beauty, it is also a smaller part of an even larger design. This belongs to minds that we cannot wrap our minds around.

3. As we contemplate our positions in the NOL, how do we contribute to its development?

Our continuing education and maturity contribute to the collective development. Here it is truly said, “A blessing for one is a blessing for all.” When you bear in mind that each of us helps to uplift all the others, then there is no room for envy, exclusivity, or abuse.

There is nothing special to about this. We are part of the natural design, and what we are doing is right and good for the design.

4. What do the lowest and highest points do to the NOL?

The lowest points are virgin spirits. Naturally, they don’t have responsibility yet for the general vibration of the whole. However, their speed at gaining insight and wisdom increases with each generation. This is because the momentum of the entire NOL is on a trend of ascension.

The highest points are capable, powerful, and wise at a galactic level. They can monitor and aid trillions upon trillions of lives at a single moment. The more they rise, the more we rise. They drag us upward along with them.

5. How can we use the NOL to enhance our personal development?

Any information, any comfort, any companionship, any supply is available through the NOL. All you have to do is ask with a simple heart and a trust in Divine Mind. Through this mode, you can achieve anything. You can do it without false pride, because you understand that you are part of a team.

You can see the kindredness of your life with all your brothers and sisters. The impulses to feel superior, competitive, or isolated will go away. Your capacity for empathy will improve. As you know, perfect empathy is one of the requirements for the Third Degree of Initiation (3DI), so this awareness can come in very handy.

6. Technique Exercise: Manifesting a New Energy

You may wish to do this outdoors, as it involves flame and burning paper.

This should deal with as specific an issue as possible. Do not give in to the temptation of combining wishes. This technique can be very swift when it targets only one aspect of your life.

The most important thing to keep in mind is that we avoid contemplating things that displease us. To say, “I don’t like or want so-and-so,” is to attract it. We only entertain concepts that we do wish to manifest.

A) Be near a burning fireplace, a well-contained candle flame, or a safe container such as a flower pot or coffee can. You can burn the paper in the safe container by lighting it with a match or safety igniter. Be certain that sparks will not create a fire hazard, as burning paper burns longer and hotter than you would imagine.

B) Choose a single idea that would enhance the quality of your life. This may be a tool, a facet of a relationship, an item to own, a type of work. If you can keep it down to a single detail, all the better.

C) Write this objective on a small slip of paper.

D) Read it out loud until you feel a change in your solar plexus.

E) Fold it three times.

The first fold—say “In Divine Service.”

The second fold—say “In Divine Faith.”

The third fold—say “In Perfect Harmony.”

F) Burn the slip of paper in the flame.

G) As the paper burns, bring your hands together in a double cup.

H) Repeat

In Divine Service

In Divine Faith

In Perfect Harmony.

I) Then say,

As above so below.

God gave me the thought,

And God makes it so.

J) When the paper has finished burning, the exercise is done. Whenever the idea comes to mind, hold your hands in the double cup and repeat step (I).

7. Draw or describe one of your helpers.

It's a crowded universe, and you have many friends in it. Pick one!

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Our Heritage of Immensity

In the Divine Design of the universe, each of us has our unique and irrefutable point of belonging. From the tiniest subatomic particle to the greatest titan-like being of power and mastery, we are all equally important and involved.

We first enter earth life without conscious knowledge of our place and our connectedness. As we fulfill each degree of initiation and acquire a new increment of wisdom, we gradually realize something about the apparent separations between each of us. Invisible threads of Light and power traverse these spaces.

The organism that we call the universe is comprised of many layers of consciousness and life. We of humankind are merely one tiny aspect of this growing and sentient being. We can comprehend the nature of things more easily when we keep in mind that countless citizens of the universe occupy every breath that we inhale and every space that we walk through. As we make our ways through daily jobs, activities, and thoughts, we involve many siblings [both greater and smaller] in our family of living existence.

Let us view this wonderful predicament on a personal level. Your physical body is made of millions of atoms. Each of these atoms is under your care and management. As your consciousness increases in Light and personal power, you pass along the benefit of your developing frequencies to your atoms. Your thoughts and feelings create a transformation in the atoms of your body. As you exhale, you breathe out and distribute atoms into the area around you. When you eat and drink, you assimilate new atoms into your body. Other bodily functions distribute atoms from your body into the world. As you touch other people and objects, you exchange atoms with each other. This constant circulation of atoms creates a grand sequence of blessing and renewal.

Now, picture yourself in turn as a particle in the living body of humanity. The general consciousness of the human collective transforms and uplifts you. As the whole frequency of humankind develops and gains in collective power and wisdom, so are you aided in your personal quest. Involved in this greater picture are the elder brothers and sisters whom we call The Hierarchy. They are members of our own humanity and others from different planets and solar systems. The Planetary Logos conceives and monitors the master plan for our development. Different Offices and angelic Hosts hold specialized aspects of this supervisory work.

Now, envision our body of collective humanity as a particle in the grand presence of the universe. The massive consciousness of cosmic Light and power blesses our human condition as it aspires to increase blessing and energy. This is a simplified version of the system of order, but it may help to enlighten your perspective.

Return now to yourself sitting in your chair. You are a vital point of light in the frequency of your humanity. Every kindness, every prayer or meditation, every moment of simple love generates a higher frequency within you and in your atomic structure.

This is a learning process for everyone, and there are always those who can help us in these efforts to uplift ourselves.

The greater your own personal power, the higher the general frequency of our humanity. This is another reason why we feel the need to push ourselves into new experiences and acquisitions. We feel compelled to rise above the previous day.

At this time, the lowest common denominator of our human network is extremely low. Virgin souls are still entering physical life. The vibrations of their consciousness are dull and slow. However, as you and I continue our journey of realization and upliftment, these infant souls gain access to more advanced concepts and influences. So they rise up much faster than the souls before them.

The principle of the faster-rising young souls was illustrated in Jesus’ parable of the workers in the vineyard.

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Matthew 20:1—16

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard

For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early into the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, “You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.” So they went.

He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, “Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?”

“Because no one has hired us,” they answered.

He said to them, “You also go and work in my vineyard.”

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, “Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.”

The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. “These men who were hired last worked only one hour,” they said, “and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.”

But he answered one of them, “Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?”

So the last will be first and the first will be last.