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The modern science of psychology works on the assumption that what happens in the material world affects our mental states. It posits a system in which cause and effect work in one direction only. But, as we are about to affirm, esoteric wisdom works on the assumption that cause
and effect can work in both directions – from mind to matter as well as from matter to mind. Our inner mental states affect what happens out there in the material world.
In the ancient view we are beings of spirit who have been dipped in matter, coated in it in order that it will filter out the great cosmic mind, the spiritual realms and other spiritual beings. Because of this filtering we are not overwhelmed by them and may develop our own human personalities and characters.
Dreams are for the most part pretty jumbled up and hard to understand, but sometimes we experience dreams that are completely different, that are cogent, compelling and completely real.
If we are receptive we will see that someone or something, maybe a departed loved one, an angel or maybe even the cosmos itself, is trying to tell us something important. There
When in dark and difficult times we eventually find somewhere inside us a line of thought that gives us comfort, perhaps this is the result of someone praying for us?
Forgive others and we create a space, like a vacuum that pulls forgiveness down on us too.
It’s a precious and little known secret that you can ask your guardian angel to talk to someone else’s guardian angel. If you have a meeting planned and you are worried it isn’t going to go well, that the person you are meeting is not sympathetic, is not going to see the good in what you propose, ask your guardian angel to talk to the other person’s angel.
There is a circularity in life. If the same test comes round and round, the cosmos is trying to tell you something. As Robert Frost said: ‘Our very life depends on everything’s recurring till we answer from within.’46
In the ancient spiritual view our lives are pre-ordained to the extent that there are certain great
events, great turning points that we will inevitably be ushered towards. We are free to react to these as we will.
SO BE GRACIOUS Don’t behave conventionally. Don’t ask for your pound of flesh or to get your due reward. Be gracious and you
step outside that law of cause and effect and tit-for-tat by which the cosmos slides into entropy. When God gives us moments of grace, of happiness, moments that come to us unbidden and which are far and away beyond what we deserve, he is also suggesting we behave in the same way.
This is nowhere more true than in the case of love. If I give someone a physical object, the sum of my possessions is diminished, but if I give love, my own store of love increases.
According to this law if we try to do any deed which is purely good, an equal evil force will rise up to meet us. The solution, we now see, is that we should not try to be good, but to be loving.
the esoteric and mystical view we live in a psychosomatic universe, so that by our mental states we can bring about long-term, deep-seated changes in the material texture of the cosmos as a whole.
But by interacting consciously with the unembodied intelligence that lies behind the material world we may experience a wonderful influx
of reviving energy. We may be reborn.
the more we are distanced from life,
