AM-113 MEDITATION (7)

We ended the last presentation by acknowledging that we become our thoughts. Not only this but our thoughts influence others, even when we do not speak them. Telepathy is a much more powerful force in our lives than most people realise and may well be over 80 per cent of all the thoughts that we think are our own. It has been repeatedly stated by Laurency that Humanity is not capable yet of formulating an original thought. All thought, in its archetypal form, is formulated for us by monads that reside on the Causal or higher planes of matter. We are able to take those thoughts and ideas and recombine them in many ways, but they did not ordinate from us. 

In this presentation, we will start by looking at the various subjects for meditation. Our choices will depend on our Knowledge of Reality and the Meaning of Life. This is linked to our level of development. To find a suitable subject to meditate upon, we first need to distinguish between various types of consciousness. We have to be independent of the content and distractions of our envelopes of incarnation, these being the physical, emotional and mental. We have to be indifferent to ourselves. Ego does not get you very far in meditation practices. We are trying to free ourselves from the complexes that rule our lives. This especially includes the greatest vice of all, fear.

If we choose to meditate on a subject, we need to be able to tell the main issue from a side issue. Focus on the essential, ignoring the unessential. You have to be clear about what you know and realise what knowledge you are lacking. What is necessary and what is not. What is harmful and what is not. What is perishable and what is not. The sad fact is that when you consider that the bulk of humanity is focused in the lower sub-levels of their emotional bodies, repulsion, which is hatred, rules our modes of interaction and thought processes. Such monads engage in mental processes but they only serve to divide and separate, rather than seeking out unifying and recognising common traits.

The first suitable subject for meditation is to make clear to yourself that you are not your envelopes. You are not your organism. You are not your thoughts and you are not your feelings. In this manner, you come to realise that it is your 1st-Self that is witnessing these events. Once you have established this, you can meditate on the difference between your 1st-Self and your triad envelope. Remember, this is your lower causal envelope. You can then go on to ponder the causal envelope itself.

Questions to meditate upon could include such topics as what is intuition and where does it reside? What is a causal idea and on which plane would you find it? What is the structure and function of the Causal Lotus and how do the Knowledge, Unity and Will petals relate to each other? While you are focused here, what about your guardian angel? What role does it play in your life and how can it interact with you? If you have an unsolved esoteric question, ponder on what you know and what other facts are connected with it. One day, as if for free, the answer may drop into your waking consciousness.

It was mentioned earlier that the self should come to realise that it is not its envelopes, nor is it the sum of the contents of these envelopes. A good exercise would therefore be to study the contents of these envelopes. What are your thoughts? What are your emotions? What is triggering them? In this manner, you desist from identifying yourself with your thoughts and emotions and begin to see them as tools. A means to an end, rather than the end itself. 

We have to realise that as a 1st-Self, we are cut off from 46 higher planes of matter. We have no opportunity to understand any of these worlds unless we are instructed by a monad from these worlds. Even then, our understating is going to be limited to our perceptions of reality, which do not equate to the reality that would be found in these higher worlds. If you had to give a primary objective for mediation, it would be to meet up with your guardian angels. Remember, there are 13 of them. 

What little we know, has come from the Planetary Hierarchy. We are only objectively aware of the two lowest atomic worlds of matter. These are planes 48 and 49. Even these planes are partially shielded from us, depending on where our monad is focused. How many of us have etheric vision? We can observe parts of the Emotional plane in our journeys during sleep, but unless you have taken the (i3), the Mental World can, at best, be a subjective mystery. Laurency delights in pointing out that even yogis don’t know any more worlds. They may indulge in fantasies about ‘nirvana’, which is the Mental World, but they know nothing of the Causal World.

If you have recently started to study esoterics, think of this as a sort of ‘initiation’  into reality. You may be very eager to learn new facts and equate this to progress in your life. It is, however, interesting to note that Laurency considers it more important to meditate daily on the knowledge you have already acquired. The value of this action is to embed this knowledge into complexes that become automatically active when you need them to be. This is better than having to reach for a book or watch a video on a topic, to reacquaint yourself with those facts. Once these facts are automatically reconstituted in your consciousness, they play an important role in your daily life. If this does not occur, that knowledge becomes too easily latent and has little or no effect on your approach to life. Laurency considered this to have been a major shortcoming in occult sects. Their members have been liberated from some of their ‘fictions’ and are content with that. They do not suspect that knowledge entails responsibility for its use.

So here is what you have to do. Live your life ‘as if’ you have reached the stage of 3. Culture, which equates to Attraction. If you are already there, imagine you have reached the stage of 4. Compassion, which equates to Universal Brotherhood. If you are already here, and that is very few of us, then imagine you are realising the stage of 5. Enlightenment and are in contact with your guardian angels. Why live life ‘as if’? Because it brings about immense stimulation of your mental consciousness and this will inevitably take you where you wish to go. Something else to remember is that an esoterician works up the experiences of the day, but never looks back. “If only’ should not be in your vocabulary. An esoterician is a person involved in thought and so should be fully absorbed in present mental machinations. 

When an esoterician meditates, they often use a mantra that states, “I am the soul”. This is a goal, not a statement of fact. At present, your soul is technically your guardian angel. You are stating, as a monad focused in the Human Kingdom, where you want to go. The next statement is “I am spirit”. This is saying your goal, after becoming your soul, is to join the 5th Kingdom of Nature. When the meditator says, “I am the Light Divine”, they are stating that they are aiming for the 3rd triad, the 6th Kingdom of Nature, also known as the Divine Kingdom. This is referred to, in Gnostic mythology, as the ‘Father’. Laurency feels these statements could be more accurately stated by saying, “I strive for the causal stage”, or “I am centred in the casual envelope and wish to be conscious of it”. Somehow, I feel the earlier statements are more poetic and they are the ones that I, personally, use.

So, for an esoterician, what is the Art of Living? It is being able to remain balanced, calm and unconcerned when all around you is a seething cauldron. The Art of Living is to ‘forget’ oneself. Busy your mind with productive things other than yourself. Draw from mental rather than emotional experiences. It should be noted that suffering only exists in the three lowest Physical (49:5-7) and Emotional (48:5-7) subplanes of matter. It, therefore, does not take a genius to fathom that rampant materialism or unbridled emotionality is not the Art of Living. The Will to Unity and living in the ‘Ever Present’ leads to the higher Kingdoms of Nature.

In the next presentation, we will look at the qualities and abilities that result from meditating.