62. Wisdom

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LXII

Successful Wisdom: The Art of Consequences

Lecture based Questions:

1. Draw or describe a reminder or symbol of one of your helpers.

Can't go wrong with your Guardian Angel! She takes you places and shows you things you could never have imagined. Thank you, Guardian Angel!

2. How does swapping Sub-Rays help us to accumulate wisdom?

A Sub-Ray compels a person to feel the need to explore and dig into experiences and skills that are not native to the Soul’s comfort zone. One becomes stuck in a career or situation that may not feel like home, yet teaches the person many valuable disciplines and helps to create a more well-rounded and wise character.

3. What happens to the Mental Body as one becomes a sage?

Beautiful thoughts make a beautiful Mental Body. Besides attractiveness in this sense, the body becomes more translucent, better defined, full of wonderful colors and thought forms. Size has no limitation or physical-style meaning, but the properties associated with greatness are also applied to the Mental Body as it accumulates wisdom.

4. Can we acquire wisdom without having to slog through many lifetimes and experiences?

The journey is the goal. It is our primary function to pass through many varieties of adventures in order to create a unique and wonderful person. On the plus side, the Spirit of Truth and Wisdom is available at any given time when we request information. The Infinite Source of Divine Wisdom is always with us to impart information and advice. All we have to do is ASK AND LISTEN. The truth is transformational, meaning, when the real thing touches us, we see life in a different and positive way.

5. Why is it sometimes wiser to hold back action rather than to act in the name of truth?

There is always a danger of using will force when the temptation to act precedes necessity. One should wait prayerfully for the correct moment and trust in Divine Timing. No matter how a situation may seem, it is not worth your soul to try to force change on people who will not agree nor on circumstances that may not be for your energy. This does not apply to being helpful in small and courteous ways or heroic ways. When you are obviously the person who should be helpful, the energy and wisdom to do so should be a no-choice behavior.

6. What is the greatest barrier to enlightenment?

Pride is the densest of barriers, then anger then fear. However, the attitude of being teachable can get past the more subtle types of pride, anger, and fear. Let us always pray for enlightenment without suffering when we encounter a situation or a person that confounds our ability to understand. It is the quest for understanding that gets us through the barriers.

7. Meditation Exercise: Invoking Enlightenment for Success

The word success does not merely apply to worldly activity and acquisition. It pertains across the universe to the completion of intention. Let your hopes and fantasies be your guide to success. Let every action and word be an affirmation to your belief that you will succeed in your ideals.

The Spirit of Truth waits for someone to ask for the blessing of insight. When we invoke it, the Mental Body is permanently changed for the better, and we find life fitting around us much better.

• Imagine yourself sitting quietly in a beautiful, enclosed garden. The colors are much more vivid than in your physical world. Exquisite perfumes waft by you. Breezes of clear, cool energy clarify your mind. Musical harmonies and tones drift in the air around you and in the distance. You are in the midst of peace and you are made of peace.

• Say, “Spirit of Truth and Wisdom, Angel of Inspiration, Angel of Enlightenment, Angel of Peace, thank you for entering my sphere of existence. I ask to be touched and changed by the powers of enlightenment.”

• State the aspect of your daily life and feeling that has stubbornly resisted change.

• Say, “I surrender this life to Infinite Divine Possibilities. Spirit of Truth, thank you for giving me new perspective to guide my success and to attract a higher level of blessing in the world. As above, so below. God makes it right, and God makes it so.

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If Life Is a Banquet,

What Are You Doing at the Snack Bar?

The world is not so gloomy and dire a place as you might imagine. From where the Masters sit, the world is ablaze with acts of kindness, loving impulses, continual acts of bravery, and the desire to do what is good. Only a few cataclysmic acts of unfortunate negativity create the wars, famine, disease, and abuse that headline the news programs. Even the most immature of souls has the native spark of goodness and spiritual growth.

It does not improve your mind set to dwell on tragedy or evil—this only serves to attract it to you. If you must watch the news, then do it for the purpose of praying for whom and what you are seeing. If the media is playing a commercial with bad energy in its content, refuse to let it enter your aura. You are much better off to change the station and pray for blessings of all hapless viewers and inspiration to guide the advertisers to a more constructive mode of expression.

If you sincerely wish to enjoy your life to the greatest reaches of your happy fantasy, then you must take a more active role in its planning and manifestation. The road to Mastery is paved with experience, but the golden carriage that easily travels the road is built by faith, consistent thought application, and daily persistent effort. If you have trouble accepting the fifteen minutes of meditation required to create the life of your dreams, then it is all right to pray for enlightenment in this regard. When the Spirit of Truth touches you with the reality of your creative power, it is easier to screw yourself in every day to change your life for the better.

The key is to not sweat the effort all by yourself, nor to hand over the reigns to someone else. The surest way to success is through intelligent meditation and invoking Divine Guidance, Intervention through Blessing, alignment with the Divine Design of the Perfect Life, and daily renewal of intention.

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My Rainbow Garment

Each Ray has an innate palate of wisdom that makes up a portion of the requirements for Mastery. As we pass through the Sub-Rays, we get inklings of enrichment that enhance our ability to work well These are called enlightenments, and we can also achieve them by being close to people who have mastered various perceptions of astuteness.

Following is a short list of each Ray and its native insight.

FIRST RAY

Prevent attack through awareness of possibilities.

Never give a weapon to anyone.

Know which weapons might be used against me.

Purge my environment of any distracting influences.

Create an environment that furthers my progress.

SECOND RAY

Touching someone’s heart creates good communication.

Light feelings create interest.

My loyalty creates a network of support in my friends.

The right word creates the right moment.

My confidence is an arrow that always strikes the target.

THIRD RAY

Detachment creates peace.

The structures of society are unnatural.

I can perceive truth by reaching into someone’s head while he speaks.

Attachments drain energy.

I balance my time between loved ones and quietness.

FOURTH RAY

The Creative Force is the Life Force.

You are not what you wear, but what makes you laugh.

Approval from others feels perky, but has no meaning.

Activity gives rise to creativity.

Nature answers every question I ask.

FIFTH RAY

An orderly mind creates a peaceful life.

Honesty creates space for me to do other things.

Focus paves the road to accomplishment.

I do what is at hand.

Solving one puzzle opens my mind to solving others.

SIXTH RAY

As I serve, I am transformed.

A group energy can move faster than a single energy.

My lovableness creates the impulse in others to help me.

Gentleness creates bonding and healing.

My bonds with others give my life meaning.

SEVENTH RAY

Organization creates a matrix of effectiveness and power.

The way of regularity is the way of health.

Structure creates stability during chaotic times.

There is beauty and strength in discipline.

Working within a system gives me energy to do other things.

Such are the beginning levels of insight that each Ray possesses. As we accumulate the wisdom of each of these other Rays and work them into our repertoire of effectiveness, then we become open to more advanced concepts that further enhance our quality of existence.