Sustainability and Sustainable Living as Right Relationship

Many of us have come to understand sustainability as the expression of right relationship – the relationship we have as individuals and as groups of individuals with nature, with one another in our societal systems, and with our well being as human beings within a global humanity.

As human beings, as humanity, we are interdependent with the natural environment, with the earth. We are at the same time interdependent with each other – as communities, as nations, as nation states within a global civilization. And we are interdependent economically, as members of a global economic system in which individuals and economies are inter-connected. In each of these relationships, what we do as individuals, and as groups affects and influences the lives of others throughout the global systems of economy, environment, religion, health, well-being, and so on.

We have experienced the truth of this principle of interdependence in the events of 9/11, and many situations since 9/11/2001. One effect of 9/11 is the realization that a severe disturbance in distant societies through the action of individuals in that society can result in disturbances in our own society and community. We see our interdependence in the disruptions within individual religions, and the global system of religious activity, in that the activities of 9/11 has affected all the nations and the communities of the world based on the acts of individuals within factions of several global religions, within specific nation/societies. We see our interdependence in the challenges to our global civilizations – through our economic systems, environmental systems, in societal/national systems – how we are linked globally as individual national economies, within in an all pervasive economic, financial, and workforce system.

These disruptions call for solutions. The solutions that are effective are and will be those that take the interests and agendas of all those who are affected within these systems of relationship - whether economic, environmental, religious, societal or governmental.

Sustainability is a term that captures the processes of innovation that result in solutions that serve not just in the short term, but in lasting, sustainable solutions that provide better for the well-being, growth and development of all involved. All those who are affected within a system are identified as stakeholders – those having a ‘stake’, an interest, an investment in that system. These solutions are sustainable only in so much as they address the interests, needs and well being of those stakeholders. New processes are being innovated to create the solutions for 21^st century life. The processes and institutions that have brought us to where we are – are no longer able to sustain the well being of the majority of humanity, regardless of being in developed, developing, or undeveloped systems.

Now is a time of great opportunity - to engineer individual, community, and global systems that serve the needs and desires of greater numbers of humanity, the natural world, and ourselves. This is the evolved meaning and significance of what we are describing in the term ‘sustainability.’

We are each and all stakeholders in these local, national, and global systems – as we are in their challenges. We each and all deserve to have our interests heard and addressed, and to participate in the development of solutions to the challenges, and the benefits derived from win-win, mutually beneficial relationships with all other stakeholders.

We need awareness and access to the decision making processes in these multiple areas of human activity. Since we are each and all affected, we deserve to have a say in our own lives and affairs. Sustainability and its processes provide both the vehicles of awareness, and the processes for solution building in all areas of human life and affairs. There are significant benefits to be had in participating in these processes, and taking the action that are birthed in them.

What can we as members of an educational institution do to promote awareness of challenges, participate in solution building, teach and support others in their efforts to participate in their own well being? There is much being done to teach and learn these processes of sustainable living. As an educational institution, we have a responsibility, a mission, to prepare individuals and communities for the 21^st century and beyond. How can these sustainable solutions and processes benefit the students and future citizens of communities, nations, and these global systems? How can we prepare them, educate them, provide a solid and tangible basis for their relationships and interdependencies that we and they face in our lives and affairs today and in the future?

Sustainability in Higher Education is a movement that is catching on quickly. It was the theme of Cornell’s Institute for Community College Development conference. Several community colleges have initiated sustainability programs across their community college landscapes – from green building, to use and demonstration of renewable energies for the 21^st century, to producing curriculum to train students in new processes and techniques for initiating solutions, and providing valuable solutions to the problems and challenges of the times. These community colleges are developing new solution building skills that can be exchanged by students and workforce member for acceptable wages, salaries and the financial wherewithal to sustain them and their families.

Without knowing it, our Sustainable Initiatives in these areas, we are not only applying the new and proven principles of sustainability to create a better learning environment with less impact on the environmental system locally, but we have become natural leaders in these areas by virtue of being a first mover in these areas. We are capable of sharing valuable experiences in the sustainable activities we’ve initiated. We are capable of, and have the opportunity for cooperative leadership in sustainability - working with the few other leading community colleges in further innovating sustainable educational activities - activities that serve the needs and well being of communities, their colleges, students, and workforces in learning and implementing these valuable sustainability skills, processes and solutions.

There is great opportunity to educate and serve not just students and community, but to serve the communities, colleges, and students throughout the nation through community colleges and their unique relationships and missions with communities, staffs, and students.

Synthesis & Economy

As you realize, the New Ashram of Synthesis carries the responsibility not only of incarnating, so to speak, as a conscious soul within the body of humanity, but of building the new forms of the new civilization which can and will adequately house that incarnate soul and provide for its continuing growth and development. The Ashramic group life is constituted, if you will excuse please my terminology here, of three major sections insofar as its focus of attention is concerned.

These major sections which are determined by the three major Ashrams which have come together to create the new synthesis are :

1. That section which deals with Divine Purpose - Divine Power - Divine Will, and which is reflected outwardly, works out, that is, within the body of humanity, as Government. Government in right relationship works out within the group life as cooperative leadership as each individual within the group follows his own overshadowing spiritual soul guidance, which is his governing agent, so to speak. The head center then of the group life is the Ashram.

2. The next section - the second section of the Ashramic group life is that of the consciousness aspect - the soul life of the group which deals primarily with the growth and development of the incarnate consciousness - incarnate on Ashramic levels within the causal sheath - incarnate below these levels within the threefold instrument. This section of the Ashram is reflected outwardly within the body of humanity primarily in the field of Education - within the group life in the same field - that of teaching - as well as any other activity which deals specifically with the soul life. I am placing in this section - and deliberately so because this is the new age into which we have entered - healing - all of the cultural activities of humanity - and in part the field of science, particularly in research.

3. The third section of the Ashram is that of intelligent activity - the form building section of the Ashram which has to do with the building specifically of the new forms of the new civilization. This works out in the outer life and affairs of the group, and within the body of humanity in the field of Business.

We have here three major sections of the Ashramic group life - three major sections, insofar as that is concerned, of the Hierarchy. We see these three major sections out pictured within the world of affairs today in this civilization, which is rapidly moving out of incarnation, first major change to be made in the economic structure of humanity has to do with the relationship of these three sections which are a reflection, truly, of the Trinity itself - spirit, matter and consciousness.

It is extremely important that you grasp this concept. The first major change in the new civilization must be made in the economy of the world itself. That change must be in the relationship of these three sections, or fields, or departments of human living to one another. And that change is very simple - as follows:

The purpose of business is to substantiate, subsidize the growth and development of human consciousness - to build those forms which carry the light, the love and the power of the soul into outer expression. This is the purpose of business - any business - all business. This is its only purpose.

For education to become a business or to enter into business - this is wrong relationship. Business is the intelligent activity which will build the forms of the incarnation necessary to the growth and development of the consciousness aspect itself. Finance, then, intelligent substance, is the substantiating, or subsidizing aspect or activity. This section then must support or subsidize the education of the human consciousness - the healing activity, which in this new age, has to do with the healing of consciousness - all of the cultural interests and activities of humanity which relates specifically with the growth and development of the human consciousness, etc.

The purpose of government is to coordinate these two other sections - that which deals with and is under the large heading of education, or rather the growth and development of the human consciousness - and the intelligent activity which supports, substantiates, subsidizes that growth and development. The government then must work through the concept and activity of cooperative leadership to coordinate the activities of the other two sections.

Thus we begin to bring about within the world of affairs that right relationship between spirit, matter and consciousness, which will not only heal the economic ills of humanity as a total, but which will generate a creative economy capable of transmuting the material values into spiritual values.

The entire field of business within the body of humanity must undergo a radical change. That change undoubtedly, to a certain degree at least, will be precipitated through grave economic problems and crises. But it is possible now, for groups such as this, to begin to build upon the new concept, and in so doing, to transmit via the etheric network, into the minds of intelligent and spiritually - to a degree at least - oriented men and women some of the ideas regarding the change. As the shift is completed, it will eliminate the need for money as such. In the meantime, money, finance, has to be made right use of - it has to be utilized as the intelligent substance which builds the forms necessary to the incarnation of the soul’s light, love and power.

If, for instance, thinking through, along with meditation, those problems which confront you, insofar as economy is concerned - and I am not now referring just to that part of the economy which is finance or money - I am referring to all of your economy - the expenditures - the various expenditures of your energy, force and substance - the organization of it - your time and so on. If, in thinking through, with the aid of meditation these various problems to their solution - whether those solutions be temporary, of the moment, or of a more long-range nature - if you can apply this concept to them so that you can begin to establish this right relationship - make the proper equation - then, once that equation is made you will find yourselves completely free of economic problems -particularly those which relate to finance - to money.

You see, for instance, those of you who find yourselves attracted into business activity as such, realize then that your chosen field of service is in the 7th Ray department, in a sense - that is, it is within the form-building aspect or section of the Ashram. This is, if you are truly attracted into this particular form of expression, or this field, regardless of what business it may be. Then this is your chosen field of service. It is the form building section of the Ashram. Let then your meditation be along these lines. Enter into business, not with the purpose of making money, because this is not only the wrong polarity of money and of finance - and therefore the wrong motivation - but it is a misuse of energy which, insofar as a conscious soul incarnate is concerned, will deplete him of this energy. You have all of you wondered as to your lack. This is the primary cause of lack of substance insofar as a unit of consciousness which is consciously identified as soul. You cannot enter into business as a soul with the purpose of making money. Your purpose must be that of substantiating the growth and development of human consciousness - or the growth and development of the soul consciousness - whichever the case may be - into the higher counterpart. This must be your purpose. Therefore your business activity must be harmonic of this purpose - must be in line with it. If it is not then you had better get out of the activity.

You are building the new forms even in your use of the old forms. Meditate then along these lines until you understand your purpose and understand somewhat your goal. And let always your will move to the growth and development of the consciousness of humanity, realizing that this is not an abstraction, but that it has its practical application within the world of affairs.

So likewise with those of you who are attracted into either of the other two sections of the Ashramic group life. Understand what your chosen field of service is and align with its particular purpose and goal, relating then properly with the other two sections, as they reflect - as they work out - in your daily life and affairs.

For instance, if as a school, which is an educational activity, is formed - is brought into expression - do not let it become a business. Because if you do, again this is a misuse of energy. It is a wrong relationship insofar as the new age is concerned - the new effort is concerned - and it is doomed to failure financially.

The business builds the forms, it deals with the form aspect specifically. It is dealing with the form aspect - with the molding of energy, force and substance into those forms which will carry the conscious soul into incarnate, and via that incarnation, into expression.

The intelligent substance is that which is used in the form-building activity, but for the specific purpose of aiding the growth and development of the consciousness. This is how, then, the third aspect serves the Divine Plan for humanity, which is, after all, the evolutionary plan of the soul. This is all the Divine Plan for humanity is - it is the evolution - the growth and development of the soul into its highest potential.

When you go to get a job, the purpose at least, whether you get the money or not - the purpose is that you are aiding the growth and development of the consciousness. First of all, we’ll say, your own, if all you have or earn is to support your own culture and so on - but from that now to see that the whole of business and those who control it must - they do - create the forms. That money is used for cultural and educational purposes. They create how it is going to be done. This is what it means. As far as I am concerned, this is where the meditation comes in. How substance builds forms. Of course, we can see it now. The big corporations own the radio stations and we are induced to buy this, that or the other, and there is the form of our business. There is a form which money - the owners of the money - make. We’re all engrossed - we’re all imprisoned - we’re all forced into this particular. We are so used to it that we don’t recognize it as a form.

Lucille: The symbol I received disturbed me terribly when I had it. It was in relationship to this publishing company thing. I saw these books going out - saw them as their influence - as a light within the body of humanity. And the light was feeding upon money. In other words, money was its fuel - and all of the connotations relating to money and materiality, or material values in the world, were the fuel that this tremendous light was using as it became brighter and brighter and brighter - and I became very concerned for fear that there wasn’t going to be any money left. He says that is a good symbol to use, so for what it is, that’s it. As I say I became so concerned and so disturbed in the meditation that I finally gave it up before all the money was gone. Afterwards, in trying to understand what this was all about, I thought that eventually money isn’t going to be needed anyway, and all I could see was that it might possibly symbolize the transmutation of material value into the soul light.

This symbol can be used in conjunction with the sounding of the OM as a mantric release very effectively, both insofar as the imprisoned consciousness is concerned and its outer reflection within the daily life and affairs. I am permitted to do no more - to reveal no more regarding this. I can only indicate that if you use the visualization in conjunction with the sounding of the OM as a mantric activity - release - it can be very effective, both insofar as the incarnate or imprisoned consciousness is concerned - imprisoned within the reactive patterns, evaluation, and so on, of the body - and the outer reflection of that imprisoned consciousness within the daily life and affairs - which is, after all, presenting you, at this particular moment, with your greatest problem.

This is the reflection of the imprisoned consciousness in the outer life and affairs that gives you difficulty. The use of this vision - visualization - in conjunction with the sounding of the OM as a mantric activity - will be extremely effective in the freeing of the imprisoned consciousness from the prison which money and finance have become - and will, therefore, be effective in the outer life and affairs - in those areas particularly where the imprisoned consciousness is reflecting.

It will affect the individual very specifically and dynamically. It is a 7th Ray magical technique which will aid in freeing the imprisoned consciousness from the prison which money and finance have become. Do not expect this to be a particularly easy process because you are going to have to give up much that has gone into the building of that prison that you not only desire, love, but much upon which your security - insofar as your false sense of security - depends. You can expect to undergo tremendous changes in consciousness and as a result, changes in the reflection which the consciousness is making in your outer life and affairs.

As Lucille has described it, identify the light as a spiritual light. You might see it as the Light of the Soul or any other spiritual light which is being fed by money - the intelligent substance that is giving it its light form. That which is being burned or fed is the rightful fuel - if I may call it that. You will certainly get rid of much of your prison, that the old system of money exchange has become.

Master R/Lucile Cedercrans, Applied Wisdom, Wisdom Impressions, 2007, www.wisdomimpressions.com

THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF CORRUPTION, THAT MELTS IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

Response to Frank Rich NY Times column - Oct 21,2007 - Re

Corruption in our military / business / government complex

It would be very useful to our American citizens to create a graphic image of the inter-relationships of corruption outlined in your article, Mr. Rich.

As other Times graphics have, it could display, with appropriate annotations, the corrupted projects, corrupted government agencies and appointees responsible for initiating and/or participating in these corruptions, the related (as in incestual) contracting and/or lobbying identities of corruption, plus the physical human consequences (suicides, murders, MIA, disappeared, wrecked families, mental/emotional trauma), the losses of America’s financial capital, and the judicial consequences and interferences, by congressional and judicial sources re oversight of these relationships..

It is clear to a thoughtful mind that your article is but the tip of the iceberg of corruption, which melts in the light of truth, just as the arctic icecap melts in our ignorance of global warming.

Since the common thread here is Bushite administrative policies and appointees, there is good reason to trust that the domestic administrative financial policies of the Bushites (or Chaneyites?) carry the same stench of corruption as the foreign administrative financial policies. A similar graphic would be useful in itself for domestic corruptions of corporate / government / financial markets, and may provide more clarity to see the currently invisible lines of relationship among the henchmen administrators of the Bush regime in all areas of American life that it infests.

Note: Could any of these threads lead to the bunkered office suite of the Vice President, before or after tip-toeing through the West Wing?

Since the lives and death of our soldiers and their families, the lives and deaths of countless Iraqis and their families, the threat to and destruction of our middle and working classes from this plundering of our Treasury and work product seems to make no difference to our congressional, the administrative, nor judicial representatives, perhaps putting the corruption network of the military /industrial /governmental complex in a simple visual form would attract the attention of our conservative, short-sighted, non attentive (attention deficit disordered?), red state citizens(‘red’ – as in the derogative term consrvatives used in the 50’s to refer to those who would organize to undermine the principles and laws of the United States), and other supporters of this regime who have been duped by their own ignorance , and willingness to swallow the swill of the ‘con’- servatives – the most insidious of ‘con’ schemes we’ve faced as a nation, and as a global community.

Note: I use ‘con’ (as in neocon) to be the short form of ‘confidence' as in 'confidence man’ and ‘confidence game’– meaning in law enforcement terms - the attempt to, or achievement of, gaining another’s confidence so as to defraud and thieve another’s capital – financial and human in our case. Associations you make to 'neocon' are not coincidental.

Perhaps such clarity in visual form would attract and hold the attention of our electorate long enough to realize the government is ‘conning’ us out of our human and constitutional rights, our money and our life-blood. If they would protect their property with their lives and their weapons, it’s time they see and hear the fox in the hen house, because we put a skulk of hungry foxes in charge of our prosperity that they want for themselves. (Note: Believe it or not, 'Skulk' is the correct term for a gang of foxes.)

We’re being ripped off and refuse to pay attention – attention enough to realize the idea of just how pervasive and damaging corruption is to our lifestyle, much less our culture and value systems that we purport to hold in such sacred esteem.

Perhaps it is only in these personal financial terms that our American community, our electorate and our representatives be motivated enough to take enough corrective action. Whatever measures are taken they must be substantial enough to end this corruption, just like employee theft - because at its root level that's all this is.

Ultimately, Mr. Rich, I agree with your perspective in another recent article included in the Times – we’re getting exactly the value system we hold as an ideal and yet do nothing to stand up for, nothing to implement, and nothing to live by as American and Global citizens.

We talk about courage and conviction. It's time to walk our talk - as citizens, as government, as business and financial people, as religionists, educators, and philosophers.

How far our 60’s generation has moved from our positive ideals and action for the good, the true, and the beautiful - to the support the negative American institutions of government, business and education driven by principles of evil, purposeful deception, betrayal,and brutality brought to our experience through our own lethargy.

Our rallying cry should be “God help us all, not just me”

“For all Life on Earth.” - might be a credo for those who prefer no reference to a universal organizing being.

What a strange symbol is the " $ "

Fred's HG1 L20 commentary

What a strange symbol is the "$" - the symbol for our US currency. In light and understanding of this lesson, however, it's not surprising that in re identifying money as Intelligent Substance – coin, paper, and now electronic credits and debits - should the initials of Intelligent Substance ('I' and 'S' in the English language) form a unified symbol and abbreviation composed by superimposing the 'I' on the 'S' to yield "$".

A coincidence? I propose that this is an example of how something so fundamental to Spirit's being in matter and appearance can be so pervasively present in our lives and affairs and yet so invisible to our human awareness. It is a truth that is with us and in our environment as a powerful expression of Divinity, and yet so mundane as to escape our conscious awareness of its depth and meaning and significance as a Divine Presence, and a Divine opportunity for creating better qualities of life for ourselves, and all our relations.

Perhaps these are the little winks of God and crumbs along the Path to nourish our spirit along the way home.

How many other examples have been shone us, and how many more we have yet to discover. This is part of the joy of our individual and collective growth and development. Part of the joy and grace that attracts us more and more powerfully toward the fulfillment of our being.

Is there any doubt that the power of understanding, and action that we are being made aware of has been available to us in this, and the Group's lifetimes? Clearly there has been its availability to be used and re identified for many generations of incarnations.

We are asked and instructed now to focus not just the awareness of this Presence (and others yet to be discovered), but to begin to use the content of this awareness to direct this intelligent substance into action as a good, true, and beautiful action in manifesting the Plan, the overshadowing Christ and Wisdom to inspire the Christ within to fulfill Its potential and express the Divine Purpose in appearance in this time and space.

Through the week, a diversity of currents and flows of associated concepts and ideas manifested as thoughts in contemplation. Among these came a new appreciation of the dynamics of Divine Love Wisdom stepped down and specified into the pervasive and persuasive power, vitality, and quality of the Law of Attraction. We are being asked to appreciate that in this Solar System and as lives within this Planetary system, the most basic quality and essence is the attractive force of Divine Love Wisdom. It is the power and force of the perfect understanding that Divine Love Wisdom results in. It is the power and force of right relationship in all aspects of our life and affairs.

Such understanding produces the compassion and grace that we recognize as the Grace of Christ – a radiating vibration without limit of time and space, that infuses the intelligent substance and the consciousness with which in comes in contact. It is for us to recognize that as we wield and direct this through our focused attention and visualizations (both as individuals and as the group) we move such grace horizontally, out into the plane of being of humanity and the lower kingdoms. In directing such through the etheric, astral, mental networks of the three fold instrument of humanity and the lower kingdoms, we accomplish that which Shamballa, Hierarchy are not in a position to do – manifest the plan into these lower kingdoms. This is our function, humanity's function, our group function, is it not?

We do this via the basic power of attraction, not by imposition. By invitation not by intrusion does this power find its function and fulfillment. It is in the dynamics of understanding, compassion and grace that a scientific field is established, an environment whose influence is attractive to the good, the truth, the beautiful potential in every living thing – in all our relations. And what would we want to grow and develop in those we love more than such Christ potential?

There are three Laws that are mentioned in the Wisdoms of the Master Consciousness of the Synthesis Ashram: the Law of Economy, the Law of Attraction, and the Law of Synthesis. It appears to me that our effectiveness in the service we have been attracted to is calling for our awareness and attraction, our willingness and our activity in implementing these Laws and their principles, as well as the synthesis of them in our lives and affairs.

The Masters themselves are in a process of integrating their good offices and three fold consciousness into a Master Consciousness, and a Master synthesis of energies, forces and substances of 1, 2 and 7 to fulfill this next Master step and initiation of human consciousness and Planetary Consciousness in manifesting the Plan. This they share with us as we are attracted, accept, and embody.

We are asked to begin in this lesson within the Law of Economy, under the Law of Right Activity, within the principle of Grace*, especially within the principle of right activity and the Grace of Christ. We do this with an eye and awareness of the Law of Attraction that we thereby are implementing in establishing the field of Consciousness of the Christ Consciousness for humanity. And with a budding awareness of the Law of Synthesis, that we are just beginning to tap into, we are beginning a process of embodying the energies, forces, and substances of the Synthesis Ashram.

For All Our Relations

PS – I'm really, really en-joying this stuff !

* The section of D & E re the Principle of Grace is below

P 15 The Disciple and Economy, Lucille Cedercrans, Wisdom Impressions, www.wisdomimpressions.com

3. The occult Principle of Grace which is based upon the Love of God in the sacrificial act of the Christ. The sacrificial act of the Christ means simply that this aspect of the One Life, this higher consciousness of Deity, deliberately and at great sacrifice, identifies with every human being in every condition and circumstance.

This great consciousness of Love deliberately gives Its awareness to man.s violation and denial of that Love. There is no state or condition of consciousness too low or too degenerate for the Christ to live within. He takes on, via such identification, the sins, the guilts, the horrors of human action in order to insure man.s growth up out of these into a Divine Light and Life. This great, acutely aware consciousness, which could in one moment of decision tune out the frequencies of that which is so foreign to its nature, never wavers but takes upon itself the suffering of man.s inhumanity to man. Thus, not one human being, regardless of his action, is left out of the heart and mind of the Christ. Through the Principle of Grace, every man is assured of his divine place within the One Life. The principle is a recognition that all consciousness is rooted in both so-called good and evil and will evolve along either path according to:

a. the mass tendency;

b. the present opportunity; and

c. individual choice.

There is so much that takes place in the world today which the average occultist either blames or excuses as being the result of individual karma and choice. The careless, thoughtless, and little-knowing shrug of the shoulders which indicates .this is his karma., with no effort to adjust that karma, knows nothing of the Grace of the Christ. Such Grace supersedes individual karma via a Love that surpasses human understanding, pro-viding the disciple with his opportunity and his obliga-tion.

Through Grace, the loving, giving action of the Christ, all men are forgiven, and all cyclically receive a new opportunity for right growth. Such a cycle is upon us now where the individual can be given a new opportu-nity through the betterment of his environing situation and circumstances. Thus, the mass tendency is worked with and an effort is made to swing it into right activity. The society is reeducated and reconditioned, and begins to consciously take its proper place and responsibility in the shaping of individual destiny. The individual is forgiven his so-called sins in an understanding of the burden of racial, social, and national karma he is shar-ing with his brothers; and a way is provided whereby he can .go and sin no more.

Society presently sets its standards of acceptance, its rules of behavior, and fails on the most part to provide the opportunity whereby its untouchables can meet those standards or follow those rules. Society has a function to perform which it must discover if it is to serve The Divine Plan for humanity.

There are those new social forms overshadowing and available today which would, if formulated and brought into objective manifestation, help man to achieve that growth in consciousness which is an adjustment of his karma. That such forms will create a certain amount of instability in the outer life and affairs of the present is true; but such conflict is the activity out of which har-mony can be born. And do not forget, conflict is the evolutionary way of this planet. Let us begin to control the forces of conflict then, setting them into that motion which will produce the greatest rate of spiritual growth and development, or spiritual harmony, within the hu-man family.

The invocation and application of Grace . of love and forgiveness . does tend to arouse opposition; but that opposition is a force which can be used in the working out of The Plan. More will be said anent this subject later on in the series.

Before we move our attention from the Law of Right Activity, it would be wise to consider the concept of group consciousness. The invocation of the three occult principles listed under this law, and their application in the life and affairs of humanity, directs the growth of the individual consciousness into that inter-relationship with other units of consciousness which evolves group awareness and group action.

Those disciples being trained in the world today, under the direction of the many ashrams active in a new and unprecedented educational effort, are receiving such training according to their subjective and objective group affiliation. The ashram works with the group consciousness via the Science of Impression. That which is to be impressed is turned to the group rather than to the individual; and according to his group awareness will he receive, absorb, and embody the concepts pour-ing down from the ashram into the three worlds of hu-man endeavor. He makes his own individual relation-ship with Truth in accordance with his group place and function. Later in this series we shall consider the char-acteristics and qualities of group consciousness. In the meantime, much can be derived from meditation and contemplation upon the above.

Blessings of Light, Love and Power to You All,

Fred

Fred McEwan

Teacher of The Wisdom
www.wisdomimpressions.com

Do everything you do with only the welfare of the whole world in mind...

Do everything you do with only the welfare of the whole world in mind...Perform every action selflessly, disinterestedly, concerned only with the peace, welfare and prosperity of all living beings, everywhere. - Krishna to Arjuna, The Gita, Sai Baba Gita