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Teachings from the Western Mystery Traditions:
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A Unity in Diversity
Bringing Peace to Earth
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by Jacquelyn Small
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The essential keynote for bringing peace to earth is the quality of Unity in Diversity, where all nations, cultures, and individuals are honored for each’s unique contribution to life here on earth. There are 7 Rays of Creation that determine the keynote or theme of every Age. Each Ray quality determines how every Age will characteristically “behave,” in order to represent the current unfolding petal of God’s flowering in our world. Conscious of it or not, we are each greatly affected by these Rays of Creation and their power to motivate us. The Lords (or Laws) of Evolution bring forth each Ray in the ripeness of time.
Unity in Diversity is the keynote for the 7th Ray of Creation, whose color is violet blue. And as this spiritual color’s power penetrates our earthly atmosphere, the laws that function under this keynote will bring the urges for peace to our world. Unity in Diversity honors and stores all the unique "goods" of each culture's individual essence -- and your own individual essence as well – while simultaneously joining us in the unity of the oneness that we are as the one Soul of Humanity. Neither individuality nor union with the All is sacrificed. It is deeply respectful and supportive of all differences, which negates any need for competition, for overpowering others, or feeling superior to anyone else. So obviously, this new urge has the power to end all wars. This new energetic Force brings together the will of spirit and matter, no longer viewed as separate.
The 7th Ray is coming into its full expression now, as we enter fully into the Aquarian Age. According to some esoteric historians, it actually began influencing the thinkers of the world back in the ‘30’s when Einstein developed the Law of Relativity. As a reflection of God's Will and Power, the sacred Force of the 7th Ray is inherent in all physical matter. It is the power stored in the atom, in mountains, volcanoes, hurricanes and earthquakes that cause life to activate according to each entity’s true nature. In you, the 7th Ray calls you to drop all excuses and distractions and come into your true expression as who you came here to be. And I bet that you are already experiencing its urges, though you may know it not. Many today are telling me they are losing interest in the life they’ve been living, feeling something new and somewhat disturbing telling them they must change. And they are searching, and often with much confusion, for what kind of change they’re being called to make. And remember, our true nature is how God sees us and expects us to materialize. Any other way is a distortion of our essence. So today, you might say that many of us are getting sick of our distortions!
The 7th Ray is often referred to as The Destroyer Ray. The first powerful effects of it on our world are the destruction of old forms that have crystallized and lost their meaning. These old institutionalized ways are destroyed in order to release the true value hidden in the forms, which are law, order, and peaceful coexistence that honor the unique diversity in every form. And you may not realize this, but there is a natural law and order living within you that expresses your blueprint accurately and according to God’s plan for your life. It’s your own unique geometric pattern that cries out to be seen and expressed. We often confuse this with thinking it is a career or relationship we must leave, when really, this plan for your life is often simply a matter of being your true self no matter who you live with, or where you live and work.
The White Magician is the archetype living within us who expresses the 7th Ray. You can draw this archetype forth now by believing in it and visualizing it as already being a part of you. High magic spiritualizes forms through the right use of thought, word, and deed. It always follows God’s plan. Through reflection and ritual we bring into materialization the cosmic-concepts that relate to Spirit's ways. All work is designed to place us in service to humanity. You may not have thought of this before, but we are all world servers just by our willingness to become our whole and true selves. Peter Senge said it beautifully in his book, The Fifth Discipline:
"No one can increase someone else's personal mastery. We can only set up conditions which encourage and support people to increase their own."
Self mastery is a living energy of the 7th Ray, a dynamic Force that comes from our true heritage as sons and daughters of our Creator. When we live from our true nature, these transformative energies are capable of consuming us in the flames of Love and Inspiration, and we are never again the same. We’re now made into someone new who functions upon a higher plane of Reality. These new urges come in through our creative imagination. I’m hoping you are imagining this newness right now as you read this, seeing yourself in your mind as the one you’ve always wished to be. Remember, all new creations must originate first through symbol or a thought-form. In fact, we can never have what we cannot first imagine; it has to first be “thought up.”
Symbols are our spiritual shorthand for creating what we desire. Symbol-codes hold a consciousness-content that become mediators between dimensions; they put life together with consciousness. As outer signs of inner Grace, symbols are what open lines of communication between the subjective and objective realities by giving soul to body, meaning to matter. You can think of symbols as real beings, carriers of meaning and energy.
For example, some of you are already tuned into the Tarot cards. The purpose of Tarot symbolism is to be the currency used to exchange ideas with other Intelligent Beings in differing states than our own that function on all four levels of consciousness: spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. From the standpoint of High Magic, for instance, Rods (or Wands) are Edges; Swords are Points; Cups are Cavaties (or Vessels); and Pentacles are Surfaces. We learn to wield the Rod (stand in our true Power as unique Individuals); point the Sword (focus our energies); absorb through Cups (open and take in what comes from Spirit); then manifest through Pentacles (actualize or demonstrate).The Rod can be a pen or brush. The Sword can be our focused mind, our power of intention. The Cup is our inkwell, marking the depth of true feeling we have about something. And the Pentacle can be our canvass or message pad.
A High Magician works with symbols by becoming them. For instance, until you can walk around as the Rod, having taken it into you as you, you cannot wield it. It must be brought alive inside you. All 7th Ray work is an inside job. All magic happens in the subjective realities. So we must symbolize now what we hope to manifest for the sake of our troubled world. The Laws of Manifestation work like this, though the following steps. And for the sake of practice, let's say we wish to manifest Peace on Earth:
1. First, you intend that which you wish to create -- the "Is-ness" of what we seek is defined and called down. (Truth)
2. Next, allow yourself to become totally attracted to what you are envisioning -- we long to move its energies for the sake of the Whole. (Goodness)
3. Now start to imagine how our world would look with this new quality, Peace on Earth, functioning within it – we see it all in perspective (Beauty)
4. Next, go inward and remove any conflicts, doubts, or negativity that could be in the way of having Peace on Earth. (This is a clearing process that enables us to resonate with Spirit.) This stage will require emotional release work and letting go of past wounds, hurt or distorted feelings, or misunderstandings.
5. Once your emotional body is clear, you use your intellect to tune in and align your ordinary thinking with higher mind and Nature. (We are starting now to actually manifest the soul quality, Beauty, here.)
6. Next, check to make sure that your emotions are balanced so that you can feel your soul's impulses (Here, our masculine and feminine polarities of mind and heart blend; we are manifesting Goodness). You might hit upon a still-uncleared self-doubt or confusion of values you thought you’d cleared. So at this stage, more inner work is usually required.
7. And finally, you embody the Soul. We actualize the Truth of the new quality Peace on Earth, by becoming peaceful ourselves. Our lives and all our relationships will evidence this calming, comforting peace as we become Peace of Earth ourselves.
Now, you will be required to stand and act with the courage of being your true self. All distortions and distractions are seen as just that – because you know your unique expression is needed to help our troubled world. And then, what will happen is you’ll find yourself in unison with many others who are already creating this new quality for our planet and her peoples. They will begin to appear before your very eyes. Today, this group of rapidly evolving souls is labeled “the Cultural Creatives,” and we are being researched! And the findings indicate there are at least 50,000,000 of us living here in the United States alone. And interestingly, because we don’t fit too well into the mainstream, we often feel alone!
To be a 7th Ray world server -- each in our own area of influence, big or small -- we must commit to a condition of purity, where we keep burning the spark of the Divine at all times in the Temple of our Human Spirit. Once a channel is established between your inner desires and outer expression, surges of energy are exchanged – because you are living your truth, with Unity in Diversity as your keynote.
All “peace of earth” has to start from within every human’s individual mind and heart. We must always remain aware, however, that when subjective urges meet objective reality, the tension can be very explosive, within our own psyche as well as among groups of other individuals, and short-circuiting can occur. So 7th Ray destructive upheavals of the old often precede any sign of peace. When this occurs we must hold steady with a deep sense of compassion and understanding for any diversity that is being dishonored, so we can help bring it all into unity. With practice, we can learn to live in a constant state of meditation on purification and keep ourselves clear in our emotional bodies and our minds. We marry mind and heart. Once we can live in this kind of on-going discipline, we intentionally will this kind of work, and our lives become imbued with magic. So review the seven steps of manifesting Peace of Earth, as outlined above, and start practicing it daily in all your affairs. It is literally true that "where there's a will, there is a way."
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Jacquelin Small,
Spiritualist, Clairvoyant Psychologist
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JACQUELYN SMALL, LMSW, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in human psychology and clinical social work. She is a licensed non-denominational minister and a licensed psychotherapist who works with both spiritual and psychological concerns.
Jacquelyn is a popular presenter and consultant in academic settings, new-thought churches and new paradigm conferences and mental health settings, known for her easy-going, self-disclosing, humorous style of intimate relating with her audiences.
She has a long history in addiction counselor training, consulting and counseling, and trains all kinds of health professionals in the emerging field of spiritual psychology. She is one of the teachers who has been selected by Unity Church for their national TV ministry. She served as the Director of Training for the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse for nine years, and served on the adjunct faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Stanford, California for four years.
Jacquelyn has authored eight books about soul-based psychology and the process of personal transformation, some of which have become classics in the counseling and consciousness fields. She is represented by the Tom Grady Agency. She has many audio tapes as well through Eupsychia's publishing company, Eupsychian Press.
Her published books are:
* Becoming Naturally
Therapeutic (Bantam)
* Transformers, the
Artists of Self-Creation
(DeVorss & Co.)
* Awakening in Time
(Eupsychian Press)
* Embodying Spirit (HarperSanFrancisco
/Eupsychian)
* Rising to the Call with
co-author Mary Yovino (DeVorss & Co.)
* Becoming a Practical Mystic (Quest Books)
* Psyche's Seeds-The 12 Sacred Principles of Soul-Based Psychology (Tarcher/Putnam
/Penguin)
Jacquelyn is a regular columnist for Science of Mind Magazine and is featured often in other magazines. Among the many conferences and programs for which Jacquelyn has keynoted or presented programs, include:
* The Association for Humanistic Psychology
* Association for Transpersonal Psychology
* Omega Institute
including their Body &
Soul Conferences
* Tracor and Texaco, Inc.
* Church of Religious Science Annual
Conference
* Great Lakes Addiction Conference
* Whole Life Expo
* The College of William & Mary's Annual Addictions Conference
* Most major universities
in the United States
* U.S. Department of Heath, Education and Welfare
* Omega Institute's
Body & Soul Conferences
* New Age Magazine's Bahama Teaching Cruise
The ConferenceWorks!
She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, America's Talking, Wisdom Television and Radio, New Dimensions Radio, NPR's People's Pharmacy and a CNN's series on Alternative Healing and continues to make regular guest appearances for radio and television.
Jacquelyn Small serves on the Advisory Board of the International Psychosynthesis Association, the National Council on Codependence, and The Holistic Alliance of Professional Practitioners, Entrepreneurs and Networkers, Inc.
She is the Founding Director of Eupsychia (pronounced u-si'-ki-a) Institute which means "good psyche" or "well being" in Greek, a not-for-profit professional training and healing program in Soul-Based Psychology and Integrative Breathwork. With her staff of dedicated, experienced spiritual therapists, she conducts workshop intensives throughout North America on a regular basis.
Eupsychia Institute
PO Box 151960
Austin, TX 78715-1960
(800) 546-2795
Local (512) 327-2795
Fax (512) 327-6043
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New Event!
Healing Into Wholeness:10 Day Wellness retreat For Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening with Jacquelyn Small
June 16- 26
Central Texas Hill Country (near Austin)
Contact:
Eupsychia 800-546-2795
eupsychia.com/well.html
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