Although we take the future for granted, even that which is predictable, it is perhaps the largest of errs to believe it to be so. Whilst there is cyclic repetition, there is also a law which commands certain change. Remarkably, although we are served well by our trust in particular eventualities, it is a wisdom also to work all beginnings, understanding what it is that we do not really know.
This is the two-edged truth of Reaching for the Stars …to hold to a hope in certain, eventually worth investing ourselves in, whilst trying to bravely perceive that we can never be guaranteed of anything. If we can properly grasp the latter, we become less prone to false hope which promises everything, but effects nothing.
The question then becomes: how do we recognise a false hope from a real one? A false science from the true? Scripturally, the answer is: “From their fruits you shall know them”.
Providing that eternity continues we have much, much time to test the futures within. Throughout given failures we will endure. For those who do invest and work for the best of ideals, they will engrave their longings in happenstance, they will realise their imaginings by the very effort put in, in the trying.
For this is how we are spiritually creative – we begin with the fumblings and the means to answer our desires are worked out and shown to us exactly how to achieve that which we did first envisage. Master Edison did not ‘know’ of an exact light-bulb which was waiting ethereally for him to discover … he CREATED the idea and as to how it would work, and then the spiritual worlds set about to find a way as to making this happen. It was not a preceding concept waiting for him to discover, but rather one which he, by desire and his own imagination, had conjured into manifestation.
And so it goes …
For a point of interest, here is a summation of the twelve dietary exercises as given for the twelve:
- Philosophy: Foods for the temperaments
- Mathematics: To take in many of the same thing
- Economics: A compound of ingredients and table manners
- The Arts: Presentation – beautiful banquets
- Physics: Formula and Recipe
- Engineering: Differentiating by small portions
- Horticulture: Buds, blossoms and berries
- Language: Table Grace and naming foods
- Medicine: Making a substance special
- The Therapies: The taking of drinks for the enjoyment of them
- Religious Studies: Eating alone: the contemplation of Heavenly Society.
- Reaching for the Stars: Planting the seed and eating its produce
Reaching for the Stars
Dietary Exercise Suggested:
Planting the seed, and eating its produce
Commentary:
This chapter is about both beginnings and their eventualities, and the faith required between the two – and so it is only fitting that for the dietary exercise concluding here we have both a seed and a plant made known by us.
Although not previously stated, the texts given in this book have offered yet one more perspective upon the zodiacal tendencies as borne out within our esoteric starry natures. You can find (although in a different running order of course) profiles which you will recognise, talents and inclinations, alongside also the emphasis as is given to each within their elemental strengths and notations.
Astrology has long set about to infer from the heavenly bodies that which causal astronomy could not. One of the reasons it could do this was because of its audacity in presuming that it could and can be done. Added to this it is interesting to say, that the astronomers who blithely view the stellar activities generally react with horror at the concept of their being an esoteric implication to their ‘science’ … whilst the configurations of the astrologer are no less accurate in their tracking, yet embellished with an understanding which speaks more about significance than it does of matter.
This is a controversial argument and in one sense borders upon the absurd. However, from the point of view of the spiritual seeker, it is most relevant for we have two main concerns:
- That further knowledge and esoteric insight cannot be gained without a measure of bridging faith. That many futures will not be brought into consequence if we do not enact upon an impassioned commitment to an outcome that cannot be proven until it eventuates. (This being both the nature of the Futures and of Christ in His Action here also.)
- That our founding concepts may indeed be incorrect, that our bearings be so misplaced initially and our main priori be dislocated from such truths as are redeemingly pertinent, that the true outcome is not perceived by us and is therefore fraught with consequent danger.
In other words, it is essential that we are given some kind of correct guidance from the outset as to how a particular seed should be planted, that it will hopefully sprout and go on to realise a productful maturity. And also, the discrimination to recognise this advice in its validity. We are required therefore to have in this process:
- a seed
- a conviction that this planting will effect an outcome
- a hope that the outcome will be good
- a projected picture concept of what that outcome might be
- a desire for the outcome itself
- the correct additives (sun, soil, water)
- the correct advice
- the correct conditions
- the correct determining karma (perhaps and depending)
- cooperation (from the seed and its kingdom)
- attendance (follow-up duties after the initial planting)
- The Holy Trinine (Our Father’s approval, Our Beloved Christ’s Signature & the Holy Spirit’s Life)
As fundamental as this may sound, it is nonetheless just as practical a guide, when pursuing those learnings which are profoundly so unknowable in their totality, yet spiritually palpable in semi-entirety!
What it does not offer however, is a plan given for an outcome which cannot be known, because it is so new, it has not yet happened. These outcomes can only begin in our envisionings, our hopes, our creativity, our whisperings from the spiritual hierarchical architects, and from our greatest and deepest of loves.
