Dear Friends,

Beneath the more obvious outer world we find that we are constantly moving in a field of forces and living in a sea of energies. Patterns, codes, rules and laws provide maps with which to navigate the currents - sometimes calm, sometimes treacherous. These maps have been charted by previous explorers of the Way. The guiding principles have been passed down, interpreted and even re-invented when forgotten shoals and reefs take effect with the new tides. All is in movement. All is alive. New tides of force and energy continuously wash through the world, flowing through the gates in consciousness that humanity is beginning to open.

In the midst of this dynamic turbulence the Spirit of Peace is a beacon guiding us to home landfall at the centre of life. It brings the energy of synthesis and synthetic relation - realised in the outpouring of love through the human heart. Even though we may not respond to others' forms of expression, our hearts can warm to their plight, their need, their intentions, their humanity and their aspiration to a greater identity and its ultimate expression, to that which is in all of us and to the realisation that, in essential being, "we are one another".

And so we sail the tides - exploring, learning, growing and expanding until our world becomes our home superseding any individual claim-place within it. The ocean of Life washes on - moved by the mighty centre at its heart. Yet its patterns are cyclic, allowing periods of respite and integration or interludes that bring us closer to the essential being of that still, dynamic potentiality at the centre of Life itself.

We talk of nature and the nature of things - the underlying pattern of being that guides the outer form. But all are reflections at various points of the vibration of Life itself. What do we mean when we say "that's just human nature"? Such excuses are based on a circular logic that fails to reflect the truth unfolding through the evolving identity. The static patterns of habit must eventually be replaced by life patterns, the living reality.

Expanding beyond the barriers of our own self-consciousness (individual, group or nations) we move to a new point of focus from which we assemble a new view of reality. When released from the prison of our form perceptions we also expand dimensionally. The wholistic view opens vistas of perception that can transcend the physical reality which is after all only the effect, or unfolding expression, of an expanding reality that flows out from a point of divine intention.

We are becoming intellectually enlightened and our science enables the application and expression of this enlightenment to emerge in the physical world. The ancient cycles of day and night, light and darkness, are being overlaid by greater cycles of energy direction as our nights become "enlightened" by the extracted power of electricity, neon, LED and so on. These larger cycles are beginning to direct the energies that enliven and direct our daily activity - our living experiment in unfolding consciousness. This experiment is a shared one. We learn from one another and together. In "A Foot in Both Worlds" Arthur Guirdham wrote:

We learn from others yet what we may learn is that we do not truly understand the nature of something until we have experienced its energy, its essential essence. Life is an experiential process. It is more than the theory though it includes the mental apprehension of its operation. We live it, experience it in all dimensions - mental, emotional, physical and, most significantly, in the subtler dimensions of all these realms, where our experience extends back to their spiritual source. "Ye are gods", we are told, yet we think we are "only human" and "as a man thinks, so is he in his heart". But it is also true that "where a man thinks there is he". What horizons of being are calling to us?

How readily we can assume the authority of our current, habitual limitations and close off to those greater possibilities emerging. We make casual surface judgements as though our immediate scope of understanding were the highest watershed of wisdom. And yet the very process we enact is the lower reflection of the god-like potential within that waits to be unlocked. The Tibetan tells us that:

And so we learn from misapplied authority that "authority" - the power of the author or initiator - is a shared responsibility, shared with life which pervades all and is imbued with the divine authorship working out. We learn to distinguish between that which resonates with the greater reality of that One Life and that which draws off borrowed power for its own ends. The craving for separate power is doomed by the limitation of its own intention. The very life it seeks to control is the source of its stolen power. Eventually we learn that what we might call evil is an illusion because it is formed out of the illusion of separateness or inherent individual worth. The Tibetan explains:

Elsewhere He clarifies:

The source of the light we resonate to is what reflects through us into the outer world. Material attachments and desires can cloud and distort if we become distracted by them. So let us hold to the way of Life that has been opened up by the Christ through transcending the crucifixion of the material, redeeming matter and making it sacred in the light of divine purpose. So was anchored the spirit of resurrection. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.

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The Easter Festival in Aries will be celebrated at a meditation meeting at 8 pm on Thursday, 13 April,
at the YWCA, 5-11 Wentworth Avenue, Sydney. The keynote for reflection is:
"I come forth, and from the plane of mind I rule."