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.

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.

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 //

The Observer

Seen you fight with him on his dreams of success,
Heard you neutralize his desires.
Heard you say your not good enough,
Then reaffirm with pride you can have her.
Watching waiting to see who wins this war.
You have infilitrated your legion upon him,
eventually my master will have me take action -
for only his wills sake, observering continues!
© Mike Ridpath

Truth

Truth The great contradiction,
Yet never contradicts
Can be seen in all things,
Can you name one thing,
That encompasses it all?
It is something that can be found,
The greatest treasure of the wise
Through the process of elimination you can come to it
By elimination you will only touch the surface
It is not a thought, object or a desire,
Truth can be found in all of these
Yet it is not either one of these,
Truth stands on its own
You can find it in all things,
Truth is never there when your not
Truth is always there even when your not
The void prior to the manifestation,
The action of the perfect deed
The great verifier, Perfect accuracy,
The seen, The unseen
To all truth is an unknown illusion,
Working right beside them daily
All these contradictions above can be eliminated by what truth really is: Simplicity (simple isn't it?) © Mike Ridpath

International Language

Energy of any thought or form
automatic since we were born
united by all, no race can hide
positives and negatives deep inside
all great things come of me
persuasion of me is why we disagree
wars and marriage and divorce
roars and disparage of force
every decision we can envision
poetic incision graffiti derision
listened to and sold
all smiles we hold
reasons for change, heart feels strange
commitment we exchange, lives rearrange
Peace and freedom come of me
when we die used by your family
words can't describe yet we all try
put into metaphors what am I?

© Mike Ridpath