Wednesday, November 17, 2021
You are at the threshold of greater things, and perhaps it would be as well to point out that sometimes greater things come to you whether you are willing or not, and in such case your own free will takes greater importance than even usual.
I think you are saying, in effect, the times come round, prior to which it was “You can’t really experience this yet, except perhaps by exceptional effort or by unusually propitious circumstances,” but once they do come round, it’s “Ready or not, here you go.”
That’s a very striking way to put it. Yes. At one age (denoted by, not caused by, astrological symbolism), a given achievement or attainment or even aspiration may be quite difficult for any given individual to obtain or pursue. In another age, Joe Schmoe will be able to do, naturally and easily, things the greatest adepts of earlier ages were unable to do, or could do only after long preparation and with great effort.
(Of course the changes that now make certain previously difficult things easier may also make previously easy things difficult. Everything has the defects of its qualities; specialization is always a narrowing as well as an extension. However, let us concentrate upon new possibilities rather than older doors closing.)
You could say that is what happened every time a new religion swept the field, I suppose.
Yes. Very good. Very good. That is the connecting theme here. The characteristics of an age manifest through individuals, of course. How else can they be seen? Those changed individuals are of concern to themselves, and their own development, but also of their times and of the newly flowering potential. When Christianity replaced paganism in the Roman world, it closed certain doors and opened certain doors. This was not a case of bad side-effects accompanying good effects, it was the principle we have alluded to in the past, that in order to manifest a rose, you must suppress manifesting what is not-rose.
Which is not to say that Christianity was necessarily as broad-minded as it might have been.
That is more a matter of “season to taste.” For some personality types, a new manifestation must appear narrow and tightly bounded, or it would be shapeless and uncertain and without effect. Other personality types cannot abide narrowness and find new material satisfying only when it incorporates previous understandings, rather than rejects and supplants them. But a religion, like any broad cultural movement, must simultaneously appeal to many psychological types. The better it fits some, the less well it will fit others. There is always going to be a tension there, it’s inevitable.
Still, when the time comes round, in effect the cosmos itself leans toward a certain new way of seeing and experiencing things, and so every individual’s judgment is weighted in a certain direction. At a certain time, even if over generations, it becomes impossible to bring oneself to believe what one’s ancestors had believed and experienced naturally and easily and accurately.
We are saying “religion” to make a point, but any new way of seeing – of living – is going to be subject to the same rules of life. Whatever you believe is you able to believe this rather than that. That tendency is likely to have more to do with the shared subjectivity expressing as “your times” than with any individual qualities you bring to the mix. There was a time when Voltairean skepticism was the latest liberation from a smothering orthodoxy. But later ages do not find in it what its own age did, simply because the times have continued to roll around.
This is not without specific application to you who read it. As we said at first, you are at the threshold of greater things, and it is not up to you whether or not the opportunity comes round. It is up to you how you respond to the opportunity.
Sure. You can’t sail on the ship till it comes to the harbor and is ready to go, but just because the ship is there doesn’t mean you’re going to ready and willing to set foot on it.
Yes, that is it exactly. The times have come round. What may have been long held aspirations that you mostly thought could never be realized, now await your decision. Rejoice.
Of course the ship being in port does not by itself guarantee that we know how to get a ticket.
Don’t fool yourselves. You were born with the right to a ticket. The question is not, will the opportunity arise. It is right here. The question is, do you wish to board, or to stay ashore, or to ponder what to do. We do not imply that there is a right or wrong answer. How could we decide for others? But we do point out, you’ve longed for the ship to arrive, and it’s here. Don’t make your decision by default, whether or not to board it. Deciding by default is rarely satisfactory.
I take it, by the fact that we were born with the right to a ticket, that we can count on our non-3D and on the shared subjectivity to not only not impede, but to facilitate.
Of course. The only joker in that deck is that your own unknown mind may have unsuspected cross-currents. That’s one more reason for you to know yourself. Openness is all.
In effect, do our past-life review while we’re still here, as best we can.
The more you face what you are reluctant to acknowledge, the freer you are, yes. Enough for the moment.