The wise depend upon me. CT Step 32 (MP3)
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| The wise depend upon me. CT Step 32 |
Therefore, do not look at yourself in a self-deprecating
way. Do not think of yourself the way you have thought of yourself in the past,
as weak and pathetic. Instead, reclaim your true authority and identity, even
if you are only beginning to experience its reality, for in this way, you open
yourself to receive the great truth that lives within you and that wishes to
express itself through you. This is how God will redeem you. Reclaiming your
strength and your true identity, learning the wisdom of the world and receiving
the gifts of Heaven—-these are the things that will call forth your strength
and will cast out all the demons that live within your mind and around you,
that plague you, haunt you and keep you living in the darkness of your own
imagination.
Come forth today then in your own practice in
stillness. Dedicate your practice as an act of submission and of
strength—-submitting your personal preoccupations to a Greater Power and
exercising the strength of that Greater Power within yourself.
In your hourly practices, exercise this strength
and authority. Do not hesitate. You do this for yourself and for all others who
await escape from the bondage of their conditioning and their own personal
enslavement. This, then, is the great promise that you have come to fulfill,
and great gifts can be given through you if you can fulfill and take advantage
of this opportunity.
Practice 32: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Pictures: This Confucius portrait is in the Fasting Palace on
the Temple of Heaven grounds, Beijing, China ~ Pictures taken – June,
2010. Confucius is remembered as a wise man and teacher. Was he a student of
Knowledge? We don’t know, but the description of his life suggests he thought
and acted in history as such a student. The Fasting Palace, shown below, was
where the Emperor of China prepared for the ritual sacrifices to heaven at the
Temple of Heaven. The wise depend upon us to learn and continue human
civilization and its evolution.
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| Fasting Palace roadway to the Temple of Heaven. |
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| Fasting Palace moat. |
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| Temple of Heaven – where the roadway leads. |
For the continuation of reading material, the next book in Volume 1 of The Message is the not yet published "The Greater Community”. Thus the gray
cover:
In the
list of chapter names, this is third:
We continue.
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the
first time you’ve seen Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge
and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. Begin at
the beginning.
If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps
twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction
of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:
“This is the Steps
to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps
that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to
enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in
your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do.
If you have completed the book, Steps to
Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were
given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to
begin this more advanced study”.
If you are an independent student, that is certainly
an option. Posts here provide a trail that may let you have a virtual companion
when and if you want one. One may have to study alone, as I did in the
beginning. There are other Steps students blogging their experience and you
might find a person more like you as a companion, or use a number of such Steps
journeys. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.
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