Appendix I
“You must have both strength and love to be integrated and
self-actualised.”
- Joshua David Stone (Golden Keys to Ascension and Healing.
Revelations of Sai Baba and the Ascended Masters, Light Technology
Publishing, Sedona, Arizona,
U.S., 1998, p.22).
One of the most important golden keys for me has
been the understanding that life in this Earth school is like a spiritual war.
Anyone who doesn’t believe this is naive, and I say this with no judgement
intended. I learned this lesson very early on in life at around age twenty-two.
That may be the number-one key insight that has allowed me to climb and reach
the top of the mountain, so to speak. This was reaffirmed by Paramahansa
Yogananda in his writings when he said that life is a battlefield. It was
reaffirmed by Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita
when he told Arjuna to give up his unmanliness and get up and fight, and that
his self-pity and self-indulgence were unbecoming of the great soul that he
was. Krishna also said in the Bhagavad-Gita,
‘When you fight with love in your heart, no karma is incurred!’
The
spiritual war in which all of us are involved is the battle between the lower
self and the higher self; the battle between truth and illusion; the battle
between negative-ego thinking and Christ thinking. The term ‘spiritual warrior’
is a most useful tool to get you to the highest levels of initiation and
beyond. The spiritual teacher Paul Solomon said that the spiritual path was
like climbing a mountain. It was up five steps, then knocked down two. Up seven
steps, knocked down five. Up four steps, knocked down two. This was how it was
even for the most advanced initiates. Since the theme for this cosmic day of
our universe is courage, the spiritual warrior archetype is inherent in the way
this universe was created.
There
are a great many lightworkers who do not embrace this concept enough and who
are hence beaten up by life’s lessons. I was never naive about what I was
dealing with, and every morning I prepared for battle by putting on my
spiritual armour. My spiritual armour is my personal power, my unconditional
love, my protection, my faith, my trust, my patience and my forgiveness.
The
battle we are all in is to climb this mountain known as God realisation. It is
not an easy mountain to climb, especially on this planet. It is not easy to master
them mind, emotions, physical body, negative ego, inner child, emotional body
and sexuality, to name a few. Lightworkers also have to deal with negative
extraterrestrials and the Dark Brotherhood. The Dark Brotherhood is nothing to
fear unless you are weak. The very first step on your spiritual path is when
you begin to own your spiritual power. The kind of war I speak of is not the
war waged by the negative ego. This type of war needs to be abolished.
The
spiritual war is the fight to hold true to our spiritual ideals under enormous
obstacles. It is the fight to remain loving under all circumstances. It is the
fight to transcend negative-ego consciousness at all times. It is the fight not
to go on automatic pilot, but instead to remain vigilant for God and His
kingdom at all times. It is the fight to bring one’s brothers and sisters out
of the seduction of glamour, maya and illusion. It is the will to live instead
of giving in to the will to die. It is the fight to remain in absolute mastery
at all times in service of God and the Christ Consciousness.
If
there is one key to my success in this lifetime, it has been to declare war in
the service of God every morning for the last twenty years. This has been the
reclaiming of my personal power and the reaffirmation of my spiritual vows.
- Joshua
David Stone (Golden Keys to Ascension and Healing. Revelations of Sai Baba
and the Ascended Masters, Light Technology Publishing, Sedona, Arizona, U.S.,
1998, p.21-22).
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