Chapter 13- Religious Studies: Recommended

Activities Recommended:

• Convalescence in Prayer
• The wearing of blue garments
• The tending to bonfires and barbeques
• Dedicated art
• Walking on Water

Convalescence in Prayer is a restorative like no other! For the irreligious it often comes to pass that the quickest and most effective turnaround for their entire conscious grappling with the divine, is through that one simple prayer, humbly and honestly coming back to Him.

Everyone has a right to pray. Praying does not lift us up and away from this world, but rather draws the heavens closer to us … to also, in consequence, be drawn closer and deeper into the physical as well.

Praying silently offers us a sense of solemn privacy which is quite blessed. Folk often wonder as to how it would be should every individual be competently telepathic – stories depict the need for speech becoming obsolete – however, and importantly, we can consider this for just one moment … There is a time given to the quiet resolvings, and a time for active expression. We know cosmically that we have both Father God and Christ, His active emissary, His Divine Word making tangible a complexity of realms.

As people, our first thought as to our own private world of thought is wrought with relief that we are not so revealed so easily – that were others to read our minds before we had the time to prepare them for viewing we should be embarrassed at the intrusion, at the very least. But there is a bigger perspective than this convenience (the convenience of keeping our thoughts to ourselves until we see fit to disclose them) and that is the matter of Formulation and of Issue.

To begin with it can be cited that it is not unusual for very religious individuals to be beautifully spoken, in decided and deliberate speech. Conversely to this, when the element of religion is withdrawn from their makeover, or underdeveloped, the processes of formulating thought and working upon the considered talk given out, is wanting. These individuals often lack a sensitivity also, in relation to others’ impressions of them. The flow of speech is not contained or controlled, and they are unempathetic to the rhythms and needs of the other parties in the discussion.

Now, in relation to the greater aspects of this Formulating and of Issue there is a fundamental truth which says:

From the fountain I get water,
but from the ground I get mud.

It is necessary for us to raise our thoughts above the day-to-day, above the mundane, out from the worldly, separated enough that we may find a useful clarity both materially and spiritually. We do this in part with our simple and private thinking – we do this most wonderfully when we confer our reasonings with Father God.

The wearing of blue garments is most encouraging to the would-be religious! If you gazed at a room full of people and looked to their egos you should see a collection of dazzling blue skies – together forming the one ether of blue – the one sky.

Yet another fantastic conundrum! That amongst men who are ‘divided’ by their individualities, kept separate and distinct by the very nature of their beloved egos, they are also so beautifully conjoined in the one expanse of space, in the soft blue depths, lit from consciousness, divinity and soul. 

The wearing of the colour blue brings this into our understanding.