SHORT OFFICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Come Creative Spirit, visit the hearts of your followers, fill them with the Grace from Above: these hearts which you have created. You are called the Consoling Spirit, the gift of God Almighty, the source of Living Water, the Divine Fire, the Charity, the invisible Unction of Souls. Come then, with your Seven Precious Gifts, You who are the finger of God, You who are the Supreme Subject of the Father’s Promise, You who place His Word on our lips. Light up our Spirits with your Light, embrace our hearts with Your Love and, sanctify at all times our frail flesh. Banish from us the Spirit of Temptation, fill us with unfailing peace, be Yourself our guide so that we may avoid that which would be prejudicial to our salvation. Teach us to understand the Father, teach us to understand the Son and Yourself, Spirit of the Father and of the Son, ever be the object of our Faith. That is why Glory in all cycles be to God the Father, to the Son, resurrected from among the Dead, and to the Holy Spirit. So be it. Lord, please send your Spirit and all will be created, and You will renew the face of the Earth. Oh God, who reads all hearts and who knows all troubles, Spirit of Light and of Love, pour down upon me, I beseech You, the fullness of Your gifts, for all are necessary to me and I cannot choose. Give me the Spirit of Wisdom, which makes me view things according to their true value and not according to the judgment of the world but according to Yours, Lord. May I repeat with Solomon: Since my early years I have loved Wisdom and I have chosen it to be my companion in my life. I have preferred it above all that is most splendid in this world, and I thought that riches were nothing to the price of such a jewel. All good things have come with It, and in my pains and my sorrows, it has always been lily consolation and my joy. (Proverbs VIII) Give me also the Spirit of Intelligence which enlightens me in the knowledge of the Scriptures and of the great eternal truths. And that which attracts the Spirit of Intelligence into the Soul is faith and modesty. Faith which submits in order to understand better, and humility which readily recognizes its ignorance. Give me the Spirit of Counsel which lights up the way to Heaven and prevents me from getting lost like the foolish traveller taking an unknown road without a guide. Give me the Spirit of Knowledge which teaches me that the knowledge of salvation is the only necessary one, the only one that no human science can do without. Give me the Spirit of Strength which does not leave me so weak after the slightest effort, so feeble when I have to obey rather than do as I will, to work when I have not the slightest desire to do so, and to conquer myself when the Holy Rule of God orders me to. Give me the Spirit of Piety which gives my heart a filial attraction towards God, and which makes serving Him pleasant and easy. Give me the Spirit of Fear, filial fear which, mingled with respect and love, makes me carefully avoid everything which could displease God, our Father. Oh, precious Gifts, whose excellence I have learned to know, see how my soul calls You with confidence and opens itself to You with love. Holy Apostles who, on the day of Pentecost did receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit, grant us, with some of the same graces, a fidelity similar to that which was yours so that, believing all that you have received and passed on, practicing the works which were yours, living and dying within this Church which you have founded, we may share with you, O Holy Apostles, the blissful reward of Heaven. So be it.

The Sapience of Sin

Wisdom is elaborated with the sapience of sin, and the vertigo of the Absolute. Oh defeated Magdala! Thy withered lips due to too many kisses, also know how to love.... Therefore, I love Thee, fallen woman, I die for Thee, no matter what they say. I like dancing and thy love. Alas! Woman do not leave me, for I die for Thee. Alas! Woman do not leave me, for I only love Thee. The forbidden fruit makes us gods. Thy delectable words of love, and thy grave oaths, are like the fire of the roses, and like those delectable moments which no one knows of... The greatest angels were always devils from great Bacchanalias; they enjoyed the lips of love, they sung the song of songs... Red roses are better than white, because they have the sapience of sin and the vertigo of the Absolute, and because they have wept a lot, a sweet Nazarene has forgiven them.... Temptation is the mother of sin, and the pain of sin is the sapience. Christ loved she who had wept much, and said to her: “Woman, I forgive Thee, for Thou hast loved much...” The most divine Gods are those who have been more human; the most divine Gods are those who were Devils. Chant! Oh Beelzebub, chant thy song, Chant! Oh Beelzebub, a chant of love. Woman, thou art a rose of passion, Thou hast a thousand delectable names, yet, thy true name is love... I want to fasten laurels to thy temples, I want to kiss thy lips with love... I want to tell Thee rare things, I want to tell Thee intimate things, I want to tell Thee everything, within the perfumed room of mahogany. I want to tell Thee everything in starry nights. Thou art the star of Dawn, Thou art the light of Aubade... Thy breasts pour honey and venom, and the liquor of the female is a liquor of Mandrake. It is a summit, an immensity, a fire. It is the ardent and adored flame, through which one enters into heaven...

The Rosicrucian Fellowship Prayer

Not more of Light we ask, O God,

but eyes to see what is

Not sweeter songs, but ears to hear

the present melodies

Not greater strength but how to use

the power that we possess;

Not more of love, but skill to turn

a frown to a caress

Not more of joy, but how to feel

Its kindling presence near;

To give to others all we have

of courage and of cheer.

No other gift, dear God, we ask,

but only sense to see,

how best the precious gifts to use

we have received from Thee

Give us all fears to dominate,

all holy joys to know;

To be the friends we wish to be,

to speak the truth we know

To love the pure, to seek the good,

to lift with all our might,

All souls to dwell in harmony

In freedom's perfect light.

Who Am I?

Who Am I? I asked myself that question and waited in silence until I heard and this is what I dictated.

I am the searcher of information. A beachcomber in the sea of reflection. Often the fool of perception. Chorus of the angels – the voice of the unmanifested. Listener of the repetitive word who am I? I am the silence between the words.
I am the father the gift of life. The traitor in the dark – hidden behind a rock. The knower, The perceiver the great reality – I am.

The dark crevices expanded by light. The unseen observer. Weak and wounded warrior. Listening to the will of the one that is greater. In turmoil letting go – of what it once attached.

Hidden in obscurity. Silence of profundity, The knower sees the assumed wise. Feels compassion but it knows that all that assumed needs to be destroyed.

Silence... descriptive words of the time present tries to describe the details of what am I. Calm abiding, enduring, giver of life. The mind can't decide who it is I or it? The personality attached, the duality attracts to both ends. In muddy water we stand and I Am vanishes in the middle way between the cracks and crevices. From within these the light shines. Lets debrief.

Mind races backwards to describe the experience of what was present and it feels different - nothing is present that wasn't already there but a feeling resides of something left from what was.

Shine ball of light, I look past the light and nothing is really there?!? It would be easy to purport that I am merely light that shines. Cloaked with a body that was sown together with a dark thread. I'm a seamstress replacing the dark thread with the light.

White is the symbol for purity

In ceremonies, it is given as the color of spirituality. Since the ancients taught that we are already pure, they laughed at the teachers who advocated penitence and self-mortification as spiritual methods. They said: “We are already holy. Why struggle to become something we already are?”

The masters of penitence argued that we need to refine ourselves; to cleanse away disgusting desires to arrive at the pure soul inside.

The ancients replied: “If a prince dresses in different clothes, does that change the fact he is a prince? You are already sons of God. Why be so stupid as to obscure yourself when you were born complete?”

The masters of penitence declared: “Humans are evil. Humans are filled with greed. Even the innocent child is corrupted in this ocean of suffering. Let us practice holiness, so that we can return to the pure state.”

The ancients only smiled and said: “If we take up a stone and rub and rub, can we make it into a diamond?”

“Not if it wasn’t a diamond to begin with,” the masters of penitence admitted.With that, the ancients walked away.

The King

There is a king who is coming to see two mens house - one cleaned up his house nicely, the other decided to work on his character and leave his house a mess. When he arrived at the first guys house he left upon hearing the first thing out of the guys mouth, upon the second guys house he didn't stay either but invited him along.

One shell before the pearl

There are a thousand shells in front of man. Man begins to open one by one. If he doesn't find the pearl, he stops short – one shell before the pearl.

Speak of Internal Work

Speaks of internal work and my mind turns to contemplation uponcontests wrought and maidens bought, some aped to captivity or labrynthene ways defended only by virtues' sudden determination...and something is rescued or remained to better venture. But who scouts the apparent desperate plight Perseus once owned and the Virgin thence delivered?
Who will rill the tides or Boreus endorse upon the reus, a strong company of friends and worthy allies bold, more tempering outcomplaint, unruly herd? Roe and Hart the hunting goes while Artemismunder the Sun enclosed the rounds of pasturage, nothing worthy left towandering. Where is Apollo's Windbag, or pipes of Pan, the hermetic ribbons raised? shhhhh, to muttering in the Dark.

The Path

The path is treacherous, the ascent steep; the caves resonate with mystical secrets, the corridors with forgotten whispers of weary travelers; the stairway to the peak is sublime, but it at the top of the tower that the traveler sheds the last vestiges of mortality: Fear, doubt and disbelief. The eye discovers its lost innocence, as the mystery of the universe unfolds a final moment of epiphany…

33

The number in numerology symbolized the highest conscious attainable by the human being. The number is the culmination of the great work. The number is the length of life of Jesus and of Alexander the Great. The number is the heaven Buddha ascends to “Trayastrimsa”. The number is also related with the 33 divinities, which were divided into three classes, invoked in the songs of the Rig-Veda and is the number of Cantos (33) in each of Dante’s 3 parts of the Divine Comedy. Not only that, but King David Reigned in Jerusalem for 33 years. The importance of the number is that this number is the ladder described in the Egyptian Book of the Dead “I raise my ladder up to the sky, that I may behold the gods.” The ladder is described in Genesis 28:12 “And he (Jacob) dreamed, and beholds a ladder set up on the earth (the physical body), and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” This ladder is the 33 vertebrae of your spine.

Applied Truth Directly

Quit ignoring sin. Mathew 16:23 “But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.” What has Jesus revealed in your life lately? Are you only honest when you get caught? Romans 17:20 “For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.” James 1:21 “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” The church leaders today (Shepard’s) only talk to their flock and don’t tend to it. Mathew 5:13-16 “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Are you born again lazy? 1 John 3:18 “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” Proverbs 28:13 “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” Have honesty among your fellow men and women. Proverbs 28:23 “He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.” James 5:20 “Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.”

Intuition

Intuition is a psychic faculty that captures information without using your traditional 5 senses. Have you ever had that feeling that something was wrong before the event happened, "negative or positive (receive an award, got into an accident)?", well that is intuition. Before an event materializes here in the physical it often happens first in the higher dimensions. We have a spiritual part that is located in the higher dimensions where the information reaches us. When this faculty is working for us, we can be forewarned of various types of events (negative or positive). When we have these 'intuitive hunches' we usually end up trying to mentally figure things out and reasoning stops the intuitive hunch. In the astral world dreams and symbols interpretations are done with this marvelous sense. Even though it may not make sense in your mind you can intuitively capture its deep meaning. To gradually learn to interpret symbols and dreams, this information will be extremely useful for someone’s search within – a great book to read is Samael Aun Weor’s Dream Yoga: Writings on Dreams and Astral Travel published by Thelma Press.

Two best ways to increase intuition:
1. Act upon your current intuitive hunches and you will start to recognize more
2. The mantra "O"

Fear

Fear is neglected energy. Neglected fear turns into resentment. Cause of fear is not knowing, the more understanding the less one fears. Fear happens when your projected reality differs from your current reality.

The Secret Teachings - Candle

A while back when staring at a candle my thoughts wandered too -

The secret teachings is like a candle wick. The exoteric the wax, which is the garment. If enough people light wick the wax melts and the garment comes off.

// The candle excercise, it is always good to revisit the basics //

Personal Mission

To leave a positive memory for my family and friends. To do more for others than was done for me. Love without limits or requirements. To leave everything I touch better then it was before. To be a signpost and point to the way. To guide others out of their suffering. This is to have lived…

sanity

Some say I've lost my sanity, really I just threw it away.

from The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"Virtue comes from the syllable vir, virility. The precious gems of virtues are obtained only with virility. Sexual virility, sexual potency is necessary to obtain virtues in the Flaming Forge of Vulcan. Each time that a psychic aggregate is dissolved a precious virtue emerges in ourselves."

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Emerald Tablet

Many of you have seen the movie The Secret. Books and movies have been written and lives transformed with the information written on a small tablet. In the comments I will give the other translations of the tablet. The common translation is:

"The Emerald Tablet

Truly, without deceit, certain, and most veritable.

That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above,
and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below
to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing.
And just as all things come from this One Thing
through the meditation of One Mind,
so do all created things originate from this One Thing
through Transformation.

Its father is the Sun;
Its mother the Moon.
The Wind carries it in its belly.
Its nurse is the Earth.
It is the origin of all,
The consecration of the Universe.
Its inherent Strength is perfected,
If it is turned into Earth.

Separate the Earth from Heaven,
The Subtle from the Gross,
Gently and with great ingenuity.
It rises from Earth to Heaven
And descends again to Earth,
Thereby combining within its
The powers of both the Above and the Below.

Thus will you obtain the Glory of the Whole Universe.
All Obscurity will be clear to you.
This is the greatest Force all powers,
Because it overcomes every Subtle thing
and penetrates every Solid thing.

In this way was the Universe created.
From this will come many wondrous Applications,
because this is the Pattern.

Therefore am I called Thrice Greatest Hermes, having all three parts of the wisdom of the Whole Universe. HereIn have I completely explained the Operation of the Sun."

History of the Emerald Tablet: Molded out of a single piece of green crystal, the Emerald Tablet carries a prophetic message full of hidden meaning. Although its true origin is lost in legends that go back over 10,000 years, the wondrous artifact was translated into Greek by Alexandrian scholars and actually put on display in Egypt in 330 BC. Around the year 400 AD, it was reportedly buried somewhere on the Giza plateau to protect it from religious zealots who were burning libraries around the world at that time. Many believe the tablet still lies hidden there. This tablet has inspired over 3,500 years of alchemy a period in which some of the most creative minds in the world delved into the intertwined mysteries of matter, energy, soul, and spirit. Most medieval alchemists had copies of the tablet hanging on their laboratory wall. Working only with these early translations, many seekers of truth recognized in subsequent centuries that the Emerald Tablet contained a secret formula for transforming reality.

Virtue and its entire Splendor

Many cultures and individuals hold different virtues the ones I’ll be presenting are Christianity, Plato, and Benjamin Franklin for further study.

Christianity has five well-proposed virtues over the centuries:
A) Cardinal Virtues:
1) Prudence
2) Temperance
3) Courage
4) Justice
B) The Theological Virtues:
1) Love
2) Hope
3) Faith
C) The Seven Contrary Virtues:
1) Humility
2) Kindness
3) Abstinence
4) Chastity
5) Patience
6) Liberality
7) Diligence
D) The Seven Heavenly Virtues:
1) Faith
2) Hope
3) Charity
4) Fortitude
5) Justice
6) Temperance
7) Prudence
E) The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy:
1) Feed the hungry
2) Give drink to the thirsty
3) Give shelter to strangers
4) Clothe the naked
5) Visit the sick
6) Minister to prisoners
7) Bury the dead

Plato’s Four Virtues:
1) Wisdom
2) Courage
3) Self-Control
4) Justice

Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Virtues:
1) Temperance
2) Silence
3) Order
4) Resolution
5) Frugality
6) Industry
7) Sincerity
8) Justice
9) Moderation
10) Cleanliness
11) Tranquility
12) Chastity
13) Humility