Chapter 14- Reaching for the Stars, Part 2

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