Complaining and Self Pity

Posted on Jul 18th, 2008 by abutterflyloves

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Spiritual Path

Posted on Jul 18th, 2008 by Jeff

Very quite in here after so many days of Juicy post from Jon and John and everyone else that has contributed...  Full Moon day! Day of release, letting go of any and all old patterns... More »

Do you believe in the evolution of human consciousness?

Posted on Jul 18th, 2008 by Bluewater

Yes!   The 2SenseWorth Project ...will help launch global human consciousness into a dimension we have all been waiting  for...  Where everyone ...EVERYONE...can do something to help the consciousness of  humanity.... become one. Where the... More »

Capricorn Full Moon July 2008

Posted on Jul 17th, 2008 by trinity

One of the strongest beliefs in our culture is that you need to work hard to succeed.  No pain, no gain is something that is so innately buried in our thinking that most of us... More »

Angela the Ant(copyright, Mike Dineen, all rights reserved)

Posted on Jul 17th, 2008 by Mikey_Dee

Angela, the Ant Angela was an ant who acted on the Stage And Angela's one-ant show, became the Ant-hill theatre rage. She stood there in the centre, Beneath the bright spotlight, and soliliqued from shakespeare,... More »

CELEBRATE your New Consciousness. WEAR it on T-shirts in JOY...

Posted on Jul 17th, 2008 by Mirador

GO to: http://www.zazzle.com/Mirador I stumbled upon this site and played around for a few minutes creating a few T-shirt designs of my own to INSPIRE, CELEBRATE and SPREAD the JOY of our New Consciousness and Awakening.... More »

Money & Spirituality

Posted on Jul 17th, 2008 by Wahido www.Theriaca.info

Can I be Spiritual and Have Money Too? Theriaca was created as a service to humanity. After drinking this wonderful brew your experience of this amazingly healing and powerfully rejuvenating tea will naturally create the... More »

What gets in the way of being fully present?

Posted on Jul 17th, 2008 by ashe

forgetting what i've learned -- that the whole point of it all is the inter-connectedness of all beings and all things.  when i forget, and allow myself to slip into the routine patterns of human-created... More »

hard time

Posted on Jul 17th, 2008 by Kristine

Today has been a whirlwind of emotions that has created a non-stop flow of tears.  My mother has lukemia and we just found out that her medicine isn't working anymore.  They will not do a... More »

What gets in the way of being fully present?

Posted on Jul 17th, 2008 by shaily

past impressions (bad or good past memories) reflact on mind & we start to think accordingly & get absorbed in those ideas becasue mind has only refrence point for the past & think for the future... More »

The search has no end: the knowledge of God has no end. He can not be known. He can only be known by that which proceeds from Him, as effects of His names, not His ipseity*. This is why the following order was given even to the Prophet, although he possessed the knowledge of the First and the Last: "Say, 'Lord, increase me in knowledge!'" (Koran 20:114). And he does not stop saying this, in every state, every station, every degree; in this world, in the intermediate world and in the beyond. *ipseity: The quality of God as a wholly independent being who is complete in Himself. The term gives emphasis to the paradox that God, without any need to do so, creates and draws creatures to Him through love and knowledge. (Definition courtesy G. Thursby)

If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . .

"O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators." (Koran 6:78-79)

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: This means: "Turn the [divine] face which is particular to you. . . ." This face is the secret (sirr) through which your spirit subsists. . . . It is the source of man's being and the command [formulated in the verse] is in reality concerned with this. God . . . does not consider your exterior form but only your heart - which is the "divine face" proper to each of you, and it is this "divine face" which, in you, "contains" God even though His sky and His earth cannot contain Him. . . . He who turns (toward the sacred Mosque} with his body alone, without also turning this face, has not truly turned. . . . He who looks with his finite eye only sees finite things - bodies, colors or surfaces. He who looks with the eye of his hidden spirit sees the hidden things - spiritual beings, forms of the world of the absolute Imagination, jinns - all of which are still only created beings and therefore veils. But he who looks with his face, that is to say, his secret (sirr), sees the face which God has in each thing; for, in truth, only Allah sees Allah, only Allah knows Allah. . . . As for the "sacred Mosque" . . . , although this term applies literally to the Mosque perceived by the senses, it should be understood as designating the degree which totalizes all the divine Names, that is to say the degree of the divinity which is the "place of the prostration" - of the prostration of the heart, not of the body.

His light spreads out and this operation expresses nothing other than the ordered unfolding of His attributes over the non-being. What is called "the possibles" are those things which show themselves capable of receiving that light and those which are called "the impossibles" are those which are unable to receive the light. It is to just this that the Prophet - upon Him be Grace and Peace! - alluded when He said, "Allah created the creatures in the darkness, then He sprinkled them with His light. Those who were touched by some of this light are on the good way; and those who failed to be touched by it are astray."

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly so advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man . . . to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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