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Levels of Consciousness

Virtual Circle Lesson
April 20, 2003

 

 God OF  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

We know the Godhead as the Absolute Beingness, Christ Logos and Holy Spirit.   These are not three separated Gods but three manifestations of God.   This triadic expression has been known by many other names in other cultures and times.  In India this trinity is deified as Brahma, Vishnu & Shiva.  The ancient Egyptians also spoke about the triadic nature of God, and mythologized it as Ra, Osiris and Isis. The Sumerians, Babylonians and other cultures also described the Godhead as three fold in nature. Today in the West, we call this triune manifestation of God the Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 

The Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is the dynamical expression of God.  It is the Almightiness, the Omnipotent characteristic of God. It is the Universal Super-Consciousness and the giver of the Life we see manifesting in all the living forms around us. There are countless life-forms on the Earth but there is a distinction between Life and the various forms Life expresses itself through.   

The mineral kingdom is living and expressing a kind of consciousness known as sensitivity.  Iron is sensitive to moisture and will rust.  It undergoes change and decomposes.  The metals are also sensitive to heat and electricity and will conduct both in varying degrees. The Crystals are living and the pattern of their growth exhibits their sensitivity to the force of gravity.  Pizo-Crystals are sensitive to pressure and under strong pressure they emit electricity. Pyro-Crystals are sensitive to temperature and when heated they also produce electricity.  Sensitivity is a level of consciousness and it is a characteristic of the mineral kingdom.    Throughout the entire natural world we see Life expressing different levels of consciousness.   

The next level of consciousness is called sensibility and it is first found in the plant kingdom.  This type of consciousness is particularly noticeable in flowers.  Flowers exhibit a great deal of sensibility.  They have a remarkably ability to sense the light of the sun. The plant kingdom is very conscious of night and day. Some species like water lilies are so conscious of the sunlight that they open their blossoms when they sense the first rays in the morning and close back up when the sun sets.  Other flowers bloom only in the dark of night.  Some flowers sense the movement of the sun and turn to follow it closely as it moves across the sky.   

In temperate climates as the winter gives its place to spring; the amount of sunlight increases and the plant kingdom comes alive with fresh growth.  Within weeks the plants and trees send forth buds, blossoms and leaves in an amazing demonstration of materialization.   In Midwest America a single mature hardwood tree produces enough leaves to cover 21,780 square feet – that is the equivalent to the living space of a dozen average size American houses. Now imagine the amount of matter being produced by all the trees and plants on the entire planet.  Where did all that matter come from in such a short time?  What is that force which causes this materialization?  The force or power is the characteristic of the Holy Spirit.  As Holy Spiritual emissaries the Archangels of the Elements manifest this power in creating the natural world and all the Worlds of Existence.  They express it in accordance with the Divine Plan within the Total Wisdom of God.

The Divine Plan calls for an immeasurable abundance of life on Earth.  Consider the abundance in all the eatable fruits and vegetables.  Each piece of fruit contains a countable number of seeds within it. Yet encoded within the circles of possibilities of each seed there exist an incalculable number of potential pieces of fruit. 

Coming to the animal kingdom we see life expressing sensitivity, sensibility and another higher level of consciousness called instinct.  The migration of fish, birds and other animals are prime examples of this inborn instinctual consciousness.  The plant and animal kingdoms do not use the mind as thought like humans.  Rather they are governed by what have been called the Nature Sprits. These Nature Spirits are the projected angel elementals from certain kinds of Archangels. Many people have come into conscious contact with these living entities.  These Nature Spirits govern the life of the plant or animal and live within them. Observing animals and plants closely we can detect the great wisdom and intelligences ruling these forms of life. 

In the human kingdom we also see expressed all these different levels of consciousness – sensitivity, sensibility and instinctual.  We also see another type of consciousness in man called sub-consciousness.  It is called sub-conscious because it operates in a habitual way just below the surface of our awareness.  The average person operates sub-consciously most of the time.  The sub-consciousness is composed in part of all the thoughts, emotions, and desires we experience.  These are the elementals that make up our personality and shape our character.  Collectively these form a temporary and very limited type of self awareness.  This shadow self is not our real Self and it is always changing. Yet at its nucleus is the pure radiance of our unchanging real Self the Spirit-Soul. 

Even the limited self awareness of our personality has the ability to use the Mind as thought.   Animals can not use the Mind as thought nor do they have self awareness.  They have a consciousness as described above and a governing Nature Spirit which expresses the wisdom contained in the Divine Plan.  However, human beings are Eternal Spirit Beings and are a separated creation from animal kingdom.  Animals, plants and minerals are Holy Spiritual expressions and do not have a Self.  Rather they are living creations of Self Super-Conscious Archangelic orders.   It is the Selfhood of a human being that sets us apart from the animal kingdom.  Our bodies share common characteristics with the bodies of animals – flesh, hair, bones and blood but that is where the similarity stops.  

God has given the human race the great gift of using the Mind.  This has afforded humankind the opportunity to raise his own slumbering consciousness from sub-consciousness, to conscious, to Self-Conscious, and eventually to the highest levels of Self Super-Consciousness.  This is the real spiritual development or spiritual unfoldment.  During this process that which is sub conscious within our personality gradually is replaced by more and more conscious thought, feeling and actions which in time can lead us to the realization of true Self-Consciousness.  This is the real aim of the Researchers of Truth and any sincere spiritual system – To raise the petty consciousness of the personality to higher levels of consciousness leading one day to full Self-Realization.  Self Realization means knowledge of the Self.  Self-Realization does not mean just knowing our little personality self with its strengths and weaknesses.  It means realization of Soul-Self Consciousness. 

Because we have discolored the reflective quality of our personality’s consciousness with lesser emotions and thoughts it cannot reflect the light of our Soul-Self properly.  Just as muddy water cannot reflect the beauty of the natural world immediately next to it, a dull and dirty personality can not reflect the glorious reality of the Soul’s awareness.  This is why we do not remember our past lives or experiences of other dimensions.  It is not that these things do not exist – they definitely do exist!   It is that we as personalities have allowed our consciousness to become soiled by base desires, impure emotions and worldly interest.  This has dimmed and limited our ability as personalities to reflect and perceive the light of our true nature while in the worlds of existence.   Obviously it is our choices as personalities that have muddied the waters of our consciousness.  So it falls to the personality to clean up its conscious and sub-conscious self. 

This is how we “raise our consciousness” to higher levels.  We begin through introspection and meditation to discover and remove those unclean thoughts and emotions lurking in our sub-conscious mind.   Daskalos referred to one chamber of our sub-consciousness as a jungle – “the storehouse of our elementals” (thoughts and emotions). 


So, boldly and with courage, each one of us should enter into his sub-consciousness. That means, starting to study his Present-Day-Personality, the quality of it, the quality of the elementals composing it. I am telling you, you will find there a very, very cunning and devilish enemy who is the cause of all the troubles of every human being. - DASKALOS

By cleaning and aligning our personality’s consciousness we reflect the light of the Soul in a greater measure and become more accustomed and attuned to it.  Eventually through at-one-ment we will realize true Self-Consciousness.  Beyond that level of consciousness are still higher levels called Self Super-Consciousness.  Super-Consciousness means total awareness within the worlds of existence (past and present) as well as total awareness in the realms of Beingness.  Super-Consciousness goes beyond the limited concepts of time or place and the three worlds of existence (material, psychical and noetical).   Super-Consciousness is beyond any person’s ability to describe in words yet it is the intrinsic characteristic of our Spirit-Self and the ultimate state of consciousness of every Spirit Being.

Love to all,

Daniel

4.20.03

Now, an exercise of health.

Lay down on your bed, flat, or sit as you are sitting there on a chair, in the chair. Make your hands in such a way to resemble the Sun. Take deep breaths and put them on your heart. Start breathing deeply but comfortably. Breath deeply and comfortably. If you do it often, then you will feel from your hands inside your heart a connection, a pulse. This is allowed. That is not concentration on the heart. That is concentration on the hands. But breathe deeply, then open (see what I do) the hands and touch both lungs. And with your thought say "I want my etheric double and my physical body to be full of energy at all times".

Your sub-consciousness has to believe it, because the sub-consciousness is also in the etheric double. The sub-consciousness is getting orders, without reasoning. The sub-consciousness will put you in contact with the source of energy.

Breathe deeply now, having your hands just on the chest (like that) and say "I am filling myself from the source of energy with the etheric vitality, which is energy - electro-magnetic energy. My hands will always be full of this energy. (You will never have cold hands. Your hands will always be warm.) I want all my material body at all times to be full of the etheric vitality or energy.  ~ DASKALOS

 



Daskalos Exiting the Stoa


From a Stoa Lesson by Daskalos

Now, we have spoken about matter and we talked about the vegetable kingdom, the different varieties of luminosity of Light, we spoke about the animal kingdom, again another degree of luminosity of Light, about things in the ethereal and in the psychical worlds, and in the noetical world. What about the human beings now? What kind of Life-Light is in a human being? Christ said, “I say to you, you are Gods. All of you are sons of the Almighty.”   This is a great, great theory, yet, Joshua Emmanuel the Christ, the Godman, gave it practically. “You are now my disciples, my healers and you should know that all the degrees of bright nesses, of luminosity, are manifested in you in what we call consciousness.” He spoke about sensitivity and sensibility, in the material things - they are sensitive to cold and to light. We have the sensitivity and the sensibility, in our bodies, in our muscles. He spoke about our sub-consciousness. He spoke about the instinct.

So, we have the sensitivity and the sensibility in matter and in the vegetable kingdom. And He spoke about the sub-consciousness. Now, the animal kingdom has the instinct. The human beings have the sub-consciousness and I am telling you that ninety percent of the human beings living on the planet today are living subconsciously. Yet, there is the waking consciousness. How many are expressing this waking consciousness and know what they are doing? How many? Very few. Joshua Emmanuel showed us the way to unfold this waking consciousness in us and reach the Self-Consciousness.  We have to unfold in us our real Self, which means the real Self-Consciousness. And He said that we should develop, unfold in us, the Self Super-Consciousness.

 

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