As personalities sojourning through the worlds of existence, we can often feel isolated, from God’s love.   This is a conditional experience and not the ultimate truth.  For Total and Everlasting Love are prime characteristics of God’s omnipresent nature.  

As personalities, we also experience a conditional separateness from God’s presence during incarnation.  But this also is not the whole truth of our existence.  In our prayer given by St. John the Divine (Yiohannan), it states the truth: Absolute Infinite Beingness, God.  Everlasting Life, Love and Mercy.   Manifesting Yourself within Yourself….    This means that everything manifested has come from God and is manifested within God.   So no matter who, what, where, or when, it is all within God’s Omnipresence.   (Omnipresence means always present everywhere - continuously and simultaneously present throughout the whole of creation and beyond.)   So the life of each one of us, even as a personality is being acted out within God.  This means that God feels what we feel, knows our thoughts and see what we see. We may not be aware of this immutable condition, but God is never unaware of it.  That makes God, the nearest of the near. 

In addition, we are also provided with Divine emissaries working in and around us. The book of Genesis in the Bible states:  ^{GE 1:26} Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.”   Who is the “us” that God is referring to?   The “Let us…” is a reference to the Archangelic orders who participate both in the creation of the human race as well as all the universes.  Human beings are a creation, but the Archangels are not.   Once in Cyprus, during the Easter celebration, we were riding with Panayiota in her car.  The Greek Orthodox Easter services were playing on the radio, when Panayiota exclaimed: “Ahhh, they have said it, but they do not know what it means!”   She was referring to a reference in the service that spoke of the human beings as a race and the Archangels as a system.  Human beings collectively form a race of individuals, who express themselves in the Worlds of Existence as unique personalities.   No two personalities are the same.  However, the countless Archangels in any given Archangelic order are exactly the same as all the other Archangels of that order.  For example, there is not just one Archangel Michael, there are billions and billions of Michaels all similar to each other.   What one Michael knows, all Michaels know; what one Michael can do, all Michaels can do.  Archangels are eternal Spirit-Beings - they have never been born and thus will never die. 

However, in the creation of the human race, a single ray of our Spirit-Being passes through the Archetype of the Human Idea contained in the Divine Plan and our Spirit is humanized. This means that our Soul is formed at this point.   Now we see our I-ness in a new way, which is rightly called: Spirit-Soul.   But to incarnate, our Spirit-Soul must also project a single ray of itself in to the Worlds of Existence, to be dressed in noetical, psychical and physical bodies thus born as a man or woman. Unfortunately, incarnated in the Worlds of Separation (material, psychical and noetical), we all undergo a kind of amnesia, lose sight of our Divine Nature, and become identified with our limited human nature (our thoughts, intentions, emotions, desires and material body).   

To ease the anguish of this conditional God separation, an Archangel (a Metathrone), accompanies and guards us during our journey through time, space and place and eventually helps lead us back to our real Self and its source.  With power and purpose, he unites with us, at the moment of our humanization.  This magnificent brother-companion who co-vibrates unceasingly with God’s will is known more commonly as our Guardian Angel.    Out of his great and unfathomable love for us, the Guardian Angel is unified with us in a similar way as two individual candle flames become one when they are put together.  Our Guardian Angel is so near and dear to us that he has been mistaken as our so-called twin soul.   He is not our twin soul, Archangels have not entered conditional duality as humankind has done and thus does not have or need a soul.  This perfect guardian-guide never doubts, fears or loses its oneness with God or us.  This steadfast brother-guide speaks to us from within.  And if we become still and cultivate the ability to hear him correctly, we will come to know of his reassuring declaration and unbreakable promise that he:  “Has always been with us; and will always be with us.”

So despite the feelings of separateness we undergo, we are never unloved or abandoned.  And we should not let the elementals of loneliness build within our personality to the point of eclipsing the love and help of this constant companion.   As we attune ourselves to the Guardian’s presence in our life, we soon realize a prime teaching he gives us, is how to really love.   He shows us how to really love by the way he loves us.  He shows us how to help others by the way he helps us.  His help does not condemn, criticize, and blame us or anyone.   His love and help is unconditional, patient, kind, enduring, and non-interfering.   The creator’s great gift of free will to humankind is honored and respected by the Guardian.   So too, we must honor and respect the free will of people in our life and not attempt to dominate or manipulate them.  

As the Guardian’s presence in our life begins to dawn on us, we realize that he is not a concoction from human imagination.   We also realize that his guidance and protection is not vague or subjective, but quite practical and effective.   For example, there was a famous photographer from a major American magazine who was taking photos of the twin towers burning on 9/11.   He moved close to the tower that was hit first and was rapidly snapping photos, when he heard a loud voice coming from inside him saying:  “Turn and run!”    The voice was so strong and authoritative, that he immediately turned and started running.   As he was running the entire tower collapsed behind him blowing him down the street and burying him under a pile of debris.   People heard him cry for help from under the rubble and dug him out.  He credits the voice for saving his life.   So many, many other similar stories of Guardian Angels' help came out of that event.  

Another example of a Guardian’s perfect protection was reported by a real estate agent.   In her town there was a serial killer preying on women.   One day this real estate agent received a call from a man who wanted to be shown a house the agent had for sale.   As she was showing the man the empty house he pulled a gun and raped her. Then he instructed her to leave the house with him and get in his car to go withdraw her money from a bank machine.  The killer had so disempowered her she was in shambles and did not resist him.  However, he made the tactical error of stepping out the door first.  Right as she was going out the door behind the killer, the woman heard a voice inside her say:   “Step back inside and lock the door!”   This succinct guidance came at the precise moment it was needed.   The woman immediately took a step back, pushed the exterior door shut and locked it from within leaving the killer outside.  Think how simple but completely effective the Guardian's directions were.

Not wanting to make a scene the killer ran to his car and left.    When she reported this to the police, they told her this was the same real estate ploy the killer had used on his previous victims all of which he killed after they withdrew money from their bank machine.   Whether we identify this kind of help as God, or the Holy Spirit, or the Guardian Angel; it speaks to the intimate connection, and the encompassing love that exists for each one of us.   Of course the Guardian’s help will not stop a necessary life lesson, slated by the Lords of Karma.  Nor will it prevent us from reaping the consequences when we obstinately and repeatedly violate Divine Laws.    But he can and does brilliantly come to our aid - especially when we cultivate a conscious connection with him and live a balanced life.    

Understand that our brother Guardian is not some distant entity apathetically overseeing our life.  And do not think that what we do has no effect on our Guardian Angel or the other Archangels who work in our behalf.  For as it is written: “There is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one who repents." LK: 15:10.  Repenting does not mean beating yourself up psychologically or torturing yourself with guilt ridden feelings because of your mistakes.  It means a change of heart, a change of mind, and arriving at the firm decision not to repeat those mistakes again. 

When if we go too far astray, and we make grievous errors our  Guardian Angel feels a type of sorrow.  Anyone who has experienced a “Sting of Consciousness” over their mistakes has felt the Guardian’s sorrow resonate within them.   The sting of consciousness is not a condemnation or punishment but a type of guidance, a reflection of our own actions, which can serve to wake us up to our mistakes so that we do not blindly repeat them.

All of us have experienced, to some degree, a communication from our Guardian Angel but we do not always understand exactly what is occurring.  Often we simply think we are having and internal dialogue with our self.  To accurately distinguish the difference between the authentic voice of our Guardian and the echo of our own thoughts/emotions, rising from our sub-conscious mind, requires the practice of Observation and Introspection. 

These teachings on the Guardian Angel are not just antiquated ideas from an old religious book.   These teachings are the direct experiences of Researchers of Truth today.  And these will be your own direct experience as you seek your Guardian’s guidance.   What one person can do, anyone can do if they are willing to make the effort.  And what some are doing today in this regard, many will be able to do in the future.

So the creator has provided a super-intelligent, all-loving Guardian for each one of us.   And God always has and always will send his teachers, sages and prophets to be with us and guide us as we travel through the Worlds of Existence.  Furthermore, he gave us his perfect manifestation as Joshua Immanuel the Christ who Saint John the Divine (Yiohannan) aptly describes as: In him was life, and that life was the light of men…The true light that gives light to every man coming into the world. JN 1:4-9   And here we come to a very important point.  The Christ principle is: “the true life-light that gives light to every man coming into the world”.  This light is given not just to those claiming to be Christians but every person coming into the world.   Here, “light” is a reference to Self Awareness. Self Awareness is a state of conscious awareness of the Self within the Divine Plan. So it is the Christ Logos, that absolute, perfect Self Awareness, which gives the light of individual Self Awareness to every human being.    From this great, great truth, we can clear up centuries of misunderstandings associated with some of Joshua’s pronouncements.   For example Joshua stated that:    “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father [God] except through me” JN 14:6

Narrow minded dogmatists who have used this passage to justify the supremacy of Christianity and the ideological exclusion of any non-Christians, from heaven or God missed the point.  Taken in context with John’s statement we understand the meaning as: no one comes to God except through the light of their own Soul-Self Awareness.  No one will find God who does not first realize their own Soul-Self.  And this light of our individual Soul-Self Awareness is but a luminous particle of the Common Selfhood.

This life-light given to humankind enables and authorizes us to use the Mind expressing self-consciousness at any level.  Our level of self consciousness is determined by how we use the Mind (Mind here does not mean our material brain).  So the beloved disciple, John, in his Gospel declares the great truth of the inescapable presence of the light of the Logoic Selfhood in us and us in the Logoic Selfhood. 

Often in his Stoa lessons Daskalos spoke lovingly about Saint John (Yiohannan) with whom he has enjoyed an unbroken connection with for two millennia.  In a previous incarnation of Daskalos’ Spirit-Soul, two thousands years ago, Yiohannan had kissed him on his eyes and promised that he would always be with him – “as two flames becoming one”.  What a beautiful promise of Love!   He replied, promising to Yiohannan that all who would hear him would be told that his teachings were not his own but Yiohannan’s.  What a beautiful declaration of Love!

Two thousand years later Daskalos has given us a similar promise when he said:  “I am telling you, I am with all of you. I know how your circles are working. And when you are in difficulties you can ask for help, close your eyes and ask me for help.  That means Attunement. So I say that again: Today I am very happy being with all of you. What are you for me? My own self!”  What a beautiful proclamation of Love!

It is not possible to adequately convey the experience of sitting with Daskalos and feeling his love.  In those precious moments words failed, thinking paused, and pure joy filled the heart to overflowing.   Our personal relationships with other human beings usually falls in to one category or another – parent, brother, sister, partner, child, teacher, neighbor, friend, etc...  But for me, Daskalos expressed virtually all of them.  At times he would personify the quintessential Grandfather, captivating his audience with his expert story-telling abilities, which underscored the principles of his teaching in a delightful personal account from his own life. There were other times his love, felt like that of a tender, nurturing mother attentively caring for her child.  At other times, his great strength and incredible competence created in me the feeling of security given by a wise, strong and loving father.  His vast understanding of God, man and the nature of reality inspired me as only a brilliant teacher who fully lives their teaching can do. When he laid his hands on to heal, I experienced the focused power of a merciful metaphysician-healer.  Then there were those delightful times when he would get me to laugh so hard my jaw would ache and I felt like I was sharing time with my best friend.  Even when he felt the need to point out my errors, he did so not as a stern disciplinarian standing over me, but as a loving brother standing at my side, gently guiding me onward. Like the Guardian Angel, Daskalos taught us how to love and serve by the love and service he equally gave to all.

God the father, Joshua the Christ, the Holy Spirit and its Archangelic emissaries are not apart from any human being even during our incarnations as a short-lived personality.   And for Researchers of Truth, we have the added care of Yiohannan, Daskalos and other advanced dear brothers and sisters in this system.  They are always near – watching and praying. 

Love to all,

Daniel

Feb 14, 2005

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A Poem by Daskalos
This poem is a dialogue between a Guardian Angel and a man with problems. 
This dialogue, as with all reality, tires to show how man hides within himself wonderful powers, which, if he chooses to activate them, makes all things possible.    

THE TRAVELER OF DREAMS
Literal Translation from the Greek 

The night was dark, drowning in rain,
This moonless night, lost in rain,
A wild night, dark, wet and freezing.

All the elements of nature groaned strangely,
Lightning and thunderbolts, all the world was shaking.
Outside in the garden, in the yard, a wild north wind was blowing
With such fury it seemed as though it was trying
To uproot the cypress tree at one go
And to bum and freeze every variety of flower.

It was a moonless night, lost in rain,
A wild night, dark, wet and freezing.
And I, in my hut, where the light was dim.
In front of the icon of Him, the Christ, the flame trembled.
I gazed dumbly at the door, which every gust of the north wind
Buffeted, and my heart was heavy.
Should I be expecting anyone at this wild hour...
Who, I wondered, would be coming through
this terrible storm?
Truly, whom did I await, to run and open the door
With my frozen hands?

Suddenly, like a flash of lightning he came to me
And the hut was filled with warmth and light.
He looked at me with love and smiled.
He caressed my head and kissed me on the eyes.
My limbs lost their numbness my heart lightened

And I felt such warmth, to the innermost depths of my Soul.
And he, always near, always smiling
Gazed at me lovingly and spoke sweetly.

I said to him: Who are you, who came so suddenly,
in this unexpected rain?
My brain is of no help in telling. I think I know you...
you are very much like Christ.
That you came, I warmly thank you.

And He replied: I am your Angel,
Your guardian and protector, eternally your own.

I said: Where have you been,
when I was in pain, when my heart was bleeding,
and I was struggling? For so long, where were you?

And He replied: I am your Angel, my love, I am your
Guardian Angel. Yours in eternity; guarding and
protecting you... and always loving you.

I spoke to you softly. I bound up your wounds,
I measured your tears. I was always within you.
When you came in pain so was I.

You were always drunk with earthly things, a traveler of dreams, losing your way in the trackless infinite.
Ever running, never stopping... What, then, were you seeking?
These things whirl around, in huge masses like mountains.
The Powers dressed you with earth, with salt and water,
And you slept deeply in earth, for so long.

Dressed in earth, you were sleeping and dreaming...
In vain your friends tried hard to give you their hands
You collected dirt and called it your own.
You collected it, amassed it and your suffering began.
You are obsessed with your own dirt, with glory and wealth.
Your false identity was reduced to an exceedingly sorry state.

You were piling up mud in tons beyond measure
And you thought you were building the house of your dreams.
Like Circe, the muddy matter made you a prisoner.
But inside you, you forgot that there was a candle burning.
The immortal Spirit, your true Ego,

You were covered in dirt... you were not yourself.
On earth, in the mud, are the shadows of those who love you.
Those whom you loved and who have betrayed you,
Those who have wounded you with unfair and bitter words,
Those who struck you harshly and painfully
And those whom you love for their goodness,
All of them are human, human like you, beloved spirits.
They are all travelers of dreams, just like you...
In reality they are gods, beloved Spirit-Ego-Beings.

Now, my beloved one, you should forget the mud,
the earthly and get some rest.

Earthly things, human things have made them dizzy too.
They have forgotten their Being and they have been obsessed.
Look ahead and find your path, you will be at peace.

He stretched out his hand and said: Come, let us go…

I said: Let us go? Where to?

To the Kingdom of Christ, that is where I invite you.
There, where one learns to love, where everyone is loved,
You will see unfading flowers, multicolored and fresh.
Within the inextinguishable light you once possessed,

There is living joy, there is living love.
It is the joy of the Lord, the end of our road.

I said to him: Do I have to leave, to forget those whom I
love? And live alone in the light and the joy?

He said to me: With those you have loved and will love
With those you love now, with all of them you will be living. Here, on earth, in the dirt, are only shadows, muddy shells Souls are somewhere else.

They are Souls, you are a Soul, everyone will be accompanying you. They will join you in the light of Paradise.

He said to me: I am your Angel, guardian and protector. I am always within you, for all eternity yours. In the mud on earth, in the darkness, error and pain, I was always within you, I have never left you. I was always within you. You are awake and you are God.

Do you think I would leave you to live by yourself? You are god and so am I. And both of us are light, life and love, honesty and purity.

Within the embrace of God, till the end of time.
You and I, everyone of our brothers,
All loved the same, home is the Prodigal Son,
Who returned and crossed the threshold of God’s house.
Each of you ‘was lost and is found’ (Luke 15:24).   ~ DASKALOS

From the Esoteric Teachings
© October 1992 Panayiota Th. Atteshlis all rights reserved worldwide.
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