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Absolute, Infinite, Beingness – God Everlasting Life, Love, and Mercy. Manifesting Your Self within Your Self As the Total Wisdom and Almightiness.
Enlighten our minds to understand your Truth Clean our hearts to reflect Your love towards You And towards all other human beings.
Amen This is our prayer and Daskalos began each Stoa Lesson with this great invocation. This prayer has deep meaning. It contains the tenants of the Researchers of Truth. It is a true prayer of every human being regardless of their spiritual orientation. But a prayer is much more than just mechanically reciting a series of words and letting our mind hop from one thought to another. We should feel a deep connection with the meaning behind the words of our prayers. Empowered prayers come from an integration of our heart, mind, and spirit. It is beneficial to say a prayer before beginning any meditation or healing work. Prayer is an effective method for invoking the authority of God and Self to silence the sometimes tyrannical nature of egoism. Why do we pray and what is a prayer? There are many kinds of prayers made with varying degrees of purity. Prayers of supplication are where the person prays to gain something from God that they deem lacking. There are prayers of intercession petitioning God to intercede in the course of events. There are also prayers of thanksgiving. These prayers of gratitude are acknowledgements for something good that has been received. There are prayers which are really promises made to our Self and or God. There are worship prayers of adoration that are made in praise of God and that which is good. Clearly God does not need our prayers. We are in need of attunement with God, and prayer can be an effective means of that attunement. If we look at the first part of our prayer above we can see that it takes the form of a statement. It is an affirmation to and about God. The first line in our prayer is: “Absolute – Infinite – Beingness”. This is a reference to God in manifestation. As an incarnating human being we are not able to comprehend God in an un-manifested state in Its original condition. We know there must be a cause behind God in manifestation, but it is beyond any name or form and way beyond our ability to research it. It is like a scientist trying to do physical research on the conditions of the material universe before the so-called Big Bang. It is simply not possible. As a reference term to point to this un-manifested original condition of God the name Absolute Infinite Be-ness is given. God in manifestation we call Absolute Infinite Beingness, the Absolute Infinite Reality and the Absolute Infinite Selfhood. God is Absolute Selfhood and not a blind force. It is an Absolute, All Knowing Self Awareness. In the first line of our prayer we have a description of some of the knowable characteristics of God, let’s consider them carefully. The first word “Absolute tells of Its perfect nature, total, complete and without restriction. Infinite means It is without limits, beyond any attributable value. It is both infinitely small and infinitely large. The word Beingness gives much meaning to this description of God. It is called Beingness because It is composed of an infinite number of Eternal Beings, similar in nature to God. The Jews are calling Eternal Beings within God the Elohim. The word Elohim is derived from the ancient Egyptian and Aramaic languages. “El” meant God and “him” meant plurality - thus Elohim literally means God in plurality. But this does not mean there is more than one true God. In the Bible the condition of God as the Infinite Beingness is stated as the God of Hosts and the Lord of Hosts. It is known in our circles as the “Divine Multiplicity of God”. Multiplicity does not mean God multiplies. Multiplicity means being in great numbers. Yet these innumerable Eternal Beings are in full unity with God. They are not in a dualistic state that makes them feel separate from God. They are in complete At-One-Ment with God while retaining their individuality. Metaphorically we can say that as our material body is composed of innumerable individual cells so too is the body of God composed of an incalculable number of eternal Monadic Beings. Some of these Beings within the Absolute Beingness are destined to project a ray of their Spirit through the archetype of the Human Idea and express themselves as Human Beings. Others are destined to project a ray of their Spirit through the Archangelic archetype and express their nature as the Archangelic Beings. The next line of the prayer declares God as Everlasting Life, Love and Mercy. The Everlasting Life is - was - and will always BE. Its characteristic is the complete and total Self-Sufficiency – It needs nothing outside of Itself. Now it is good to contemplate the difference between the Everlasting Life and the temporary forms of life we see around us. On the material plane there is an abundance of life forms being born, growing and eventually dying. On the psychical planes there are even more forms of life than found on earth. But there is a great difference between these mortal life-forms and the Everlasting Life that animates them. The Everlasting Love & Mercy of God are eternal in duration. They do not wax or wane. God never ever withdraws this Love for us. Even when as a personality we misbehave badly. By our way of thinking, feeling and behaving we can become un-tuned to this Love and feel separated from it. But this Love for us is unaffected by our behavior and continues to emanate perfectly for all eternity. Next is the declaration: “Manifesting Your Self within Your Self…” This is a statement concerning the omnipresence of God. It is everything and It is within everything. God is equally present everywhere simultaneously. Not only in the sense of space within the material universe but everywhere in the sense of place as found in all the worlds of existence and beyond. The prayer continues: “…As the Total Wisdom and the Almightiness” This line is stating specifically what God is manifesting within Itself. The Total Wisdom in the Divine Plan is the omniscience of God. It is the all knowingness, total knowledge of everything – nothing escapes God’s attention. The Almightiness is the universal power and infinite authority. By reciting mindfully this first part of the prayer we are attuning to God. When we take more time and ponder deeply this part of our prayer, we are also following the Seven Promises of a Researcher of Truth. That is to: To meditate and to contemplate the Absolute Infinite Beingness every day. The second half of the prayer makes requests. The first request is for God to “Enlighten our minds to understand his Truth.” This is an important request as we often find our selves confused or even completely ignorant of the true causes of the problems we face in our lives. Likewise we are limited in our understanding of the truth concerning who we are, what we are, and the nature of the reality we find ourselves in. This is the point: to know the Truth and the Truth will free us. It frees us from the illusions, confusions, and negative influences. Every human being has the right to research the truth for themselves and ascend the ladder of relative truths towards Absolute Truth. In our prayer we are asking for help to bring forth conditions that will enable us to understand a greater measure of the truth concerning Life, ourselves and God. It is a request to break the illusion of separateness and truly understand the truth that all human beings are brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters to each other. Understanding these truths more deeply we begin to glimpse what we are in God and what God is in us. The final line of our prayer is very beautiful: “Clean our hearts to reflect your love towards you and all other human beings. This is the ultimate persuasion of any true religion or spiritual system - To love God and to love one another.
As Eternal Spirit Beings we are all equal in a state of Oneness within Absolute Infinite Beingness. This is the Common Logoic Selfhood, to which one day all of us will return. We must keep in mind that the people around us are also gods under the influences of illusion in the worlds of separation just as we are. They need our love not our criticism. Love to all, Daniel 1.31.03 We referring to God with the word “It" because God is beyond the duality of male and female. Back
Now, we’ll make an exercise. "Bring in front of you a person with whom you have differences. See that person smiling and tell that person, in your mind, that you love him or love her with pure Love - not personal love. Send a wish for that person to be happy.
"Clean our hearts to reflect Your
Love towards You and towards all other human beings. Blessed are the pure
in heart for they shall see God."
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"What's a prayer? Just going to a building we call a church, kneeling down and reciting what the others taught us? Using the time just to recite it subconsciously? Is this prayer? No! What's a prayer? For me, it is concentration, meditation and observation. That means prayer for me. And, after knowing the reality - adoration. That means thanksgiving to the Infinite Intelligence.
"Should we make a prayer before we start our
meditation?" I say, it is necessary! Why? Because you give thanks, and you
have to give thanks, because in this way we create those vibrations
keeping back all other negative vibrations. Because we have to prepare
ourselves to work on positive vibrations, casting away all negative (I
won't call them devilish) vibrations.
We cannot have enemies. Shall we have friends?
Neither enemies nor friends - have brothers and sisters belonging to the
same family. Our human family belongs to the same house. Our house is the
planet. So, we should have this in mind.
7 Promises of a Researcher of TruthI promise to Myself:
Daskalos has long enjoyed the companionship of a Master on the other side. For nearly two thousand years Daskalos has been in continuous communication with Yohannan (St. John), with whom he shared the blessed period of Joshua Emmanuel the Christ. In this Incarnation Daskalos renewed his communion with Yohannan at a very young age. When Daskalos was seven years old Yohannan bestowed on him the Seven Promises which are the vows of all Researchers of Truth. The promises embody a timeless pledge to the Divine Plan. Taking moral guidance from the promises through daily meditation an aspirant will, in time, attune himself to the Divine Laws of Creation. [from the book "Esoteric Practices"]
General "Our system of Esoteric Christianity celebrates the eternal truths
known to all great religious traditions, while firmly based in the
teachings of the God-Man Joshua Immanuel the Christ and the New Testament"
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