Appendix
XI
“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how
pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation.
Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion,
cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about
finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.” - Yehuda Berg.
Understanding Pain.
Excerpts from The Light Bringer. The Ray of John
and the Age of Intuition by
White Eagle (channelled
through Grace Cooke, The White Eagle Publishing Trust, Hants., U.K., 2001).
p.60-62. This
soul of the earth is created by pain and travail. You may not agree because you
do not comprehend the full meaning of what is called pain. Pain is joy. You can
feel pain with exceeding joy. Do you not know the exquisite feeling of joy
which is pain to you? Great happiness, exceeding happiness, can be painful.
Pain and joy are akin to each other, being two separate aspects of the same
thing, being light and shade, both springing from the same principle. Through
the human being undergoing pain the soul goes through its formation, and is
strengthened and built up.
Once you know this you will not
shrink from any experience. You will learn to welcome pain when once you
understand what pain can do, what pain actually is. For pain is creating, is
beautifying the soul by developing the power to feel; developing intuition,
that sixth sense which will become universal in the new age, and will give
vision into other worlds, and will bring through into the mind of earth, into
the outer self, a consciousness of truths universal, of heavenly life.
The individual cannot find God
by intellect alone. People are trying so to do at the present time, however.
Many are seeking to intellectualise God; but no-one, we repeat, can find God
through the intellect alone. Everyone has to go through a development of their
soul, their feelings and their love first. You can only lastingly find God
through life, through your feelings, through your soul; so that the soul
becomes like a bridge between heaven and earth, bringing humanity back again to
God.
The soul is the bridge. It
enables the child of earth to contact God gain. We are trying to convey the
nature of this divine Trinity of Father, Mother and Son, the perfect and holy
Trinity of life. We are endeavouring to show the necessity for that marriage or
union between spirit and soul to take place within every human being.
It is the woman aspect, the
Divine Mother aspect, which is the tenderness, the love and the gentleness of
life, the tenderness without which spiritual death must ensue. Do you see the
importance of woman’s place in the scheme of things? First let us say that
women, those who are in the highly-privileged position on earth of being in a
woman’s body with womanly qualities, have great responsibilities. They do not
all recognise such responsibilities, for they allow their lower or weaker self
to take possession of them instead of realising their noble and divine
attribute, the attribute of the Divine Mother. The work of the woman in you –
whether you are physically a mother or not in this world – is to give love and
motherhood, to mother all life; to express motherhood with tender love and
sympathy – and with wisdom, which is as important as the love. Finding the
woman within you, you must endeavour to develop the qualities of the Divine
Mother. Can you see that the Divine Mother is herself the soul of humanity? It
is the soul, and the soul is the intermediary between the individual self and
the First Principle or Will of God.
When you arise and manifest the
dignity of the divine principle that is behind womanhood, wars will cease
because the soul (or the woman) desires neither strife nor war. The soul is
peace-loving; the soul yearns for beauty, harmony and perfection; the soul,
being intuitive, can look into the future desiring to protect the race, not to
destroy it. We speak most earnestly to all women, urging them to develop the
qualities of the noble, the holy Mary, the mother aspect.
With the blending of soul and spirit
the perfect being is born, the one who is capable of taking the Christ
initiation, who is capable of crucifying the lower self, crucifying matter,
dispensing with the lower form of matter. You do not understand what this means
yet, but we will just say at this moment that the crucifixion of matter, the
dispensing with matter, means that a time will come when the Christ child, born
form the two great Principles of Life [Mother and Father], will rule matter,
will rule the earth, and its darkness will be no more. For the earth’s
vibrations will become so etherealised, so harmonised, that it will be a world
of light.
p.86-87. If
only you could check yourselves, and stop being sorrowful and grumbling! We
know that you have sorrows; that you witness the sufferings of others. We who
see a little deeper recognise a strange beauty beneath the sufferings of
humanity. Behind every experience, every sorrow, every saddening, sordid thing
there is a reason, a great purpose. Some day, somewhere, somehow you will know
that there is no difference between intense sorrow and intense joy. A mystery
of the spirit? Yes: you cannot understand these things no, but when you have
learned the lesson, understanding will come.
We give you hope. You are
marching forward; the earth pane, the earth planet as a whole, moves forward
with its whole being towards becoming itself like a sun. Earth’s humanity has
awakened, and slowly, almost imperceptibly, humanity responds and raises
itself, even as a child stirs in the womb. The earth is surely moving towards
its own birth: it will become spiritualised, so that its very crust, its outer
substance, is changed and transcended.
In the same way, human life
moves towards such a birth. It moves into glory, into freedom. Every experience
brings to humanity growth towards spiritual consciousness. Nothing is wasted in
life: no experience whatsoever. However hard the lessons have been for you, and
maybe at this moment are, may it comfort and inspire you to be told that they
are worthwhile. Humanity makes progress: it does not regress, and every method
used to bring about this birth into the spiritual life is necessary. Look out
upon the world as it is with tolerance and love and hope. There is no death!
Progress, progress, progress…growth; a life-force forever moving onward,
forward into the Sun. Hope!
“You’ve
gotta accept that, to a certain extent, life is pain.” - Ezra Koenig.
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