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Working the Rosary

REMEMBER BACK to the teaching of our coming to meet with the physical world particularly via the experience of contact upon the tips of our fingers? In the lower Kingdoms the animals have different points other than their fingers (or equivalent):

In a dog, for example, it is the surface of the tongue that reasons the experience most greatly of the outer world;

In the cat it is their whiskers;

In the bird it is the tip of the beak;

In the otter and seal it becomes the whiskers and underside of the belly;

In the horse it is the hoof;

Monkeys use their hands;

Cows - cows don’t really have one they more or less pretend their way through consciousness in the world;

Sheep, back of tongue and throat;

Camels, by spittle (extending themselves);

The snails, underneath;

The shark’s nose;

The rhinoceros’s horn;

The giraffe’s lips;

The bat’s feet (not a healthy/good way to the enter the world);

The mollusk’s shell;

The caterpillar’s fiber;

The flower’s heart within the petals (as to ‘touch’, this is a contradiction in terms, but the heart is as their eye and flowering plants mature to the world unfolding when in flower, fulfilling their true and desired limit);

Trees emit and travel through the odor and exhaling of their foliage,

While plants like cotton continue a worldly consciousness after being plucked, processed and brought into a direct relationship with Man by use - even long after the plant has withdrawn, the preserved fiber in sheet or shirt is actually still acting as an extended digit to the overall spirit of the plant and gathering experience thereby.

Men enjoy sensation over the complete surface area of the skin and beneath the skin and are not restricted as to how it is that they ‘sense’ the world. However, the tips of the fingers are the most sophisticated (the wiser) one may say, and have too, the dual purpose of issue which acts as a protective form of repellent defining by vitality exactly of the nerve’s boundaries and the forthcoming emanations without.

All ten fingers have an individual ray dispersing from the tip, even though they combine harmoniously. The number of digits has been particular to the streams of ‘interest and enlightenment’ within the man.

The Rosary, in the decade, was worked for each finger (including the thumbs), singularly and separately, moving piece by piece along, working one and then another, feeling each influence and its relationship within and without.

RIGHT HAND

1. Our Father: Active Life - The Will & the forces of Ego. [Index]

2. Peace/Containment (in relation to #1) Directly above the palm (the heart).

3. Strength: sustained and active - to be used, summoned by the Will.

4. Sexuality: Various aspects related.

5. Good Naturedness: humor, goodwill - the thumb is the most obliging of the hand.

LEFT HAND

6. Our Father, Passive: the Divine Will of utter existence - Quiescent. [index]

7. Disintegration: the power to desist, to dissolve.

8. Obedience: strength curtailed - servitude.

9. Reverence: suppression of the Ego, the power to ‘give way’ in surrender to God.

10. Nobility: Generous, upstanding & virtuous. [thumb]

The actual hand depends on which is preferenced for being the leading and active hand - a left-handed person may exchange 1-5 for 6-10.

When a prayer or meditation is entertained we seek to be inward - some lose consciousness in this. However, when coupled with the process of determined and conscious touch, the actual prayer is exteriorialised and then recovered, substantiating and at the same time experiencing a more marked degree of conscious experience.

Every prayer and meditation may be interpreted according to the aspect of the ten. The centers within a man each respond differently and we may ‘work’ internally the constitution in the correct and proper exercise of such.

Quite often the weaknesses and failings a man may experience and personally seek to change are to be located primarily on that hand; in an aspect ‘gone wrong’ as it were.

The cooperation of meditation and rosary encourages the aspects to virtuous activity in the affirmative, even though for the best part of the day they do meet with the world and all of its intemperance.

The wearing of nail polish was as a conceit, saying: (depending upon colour too) “I am refined and animated in all of these aspects - most perfect.”

The nails themselves are great protection of that area which is too subtly tuned to be exposed, but given in the process at the tips. A woman’s vanity at seeking to hide the windows to those spaces was once considered an indication of her worldliness and inner insensitivities.

Rosary Beings

THERE ARE TWICE AS MANY HANDS in the world as there are people. And there are five times that amount in digits upon the hand. Each finger represents a whorling cosmos of inner activity which streams from that central gateway within the constitution of each man. These gateways lead up and out into their respective realms of influence. And although the passage is individually different for every man, the source to which they are connected is one and the same. Therefore for all of those fingers, hands and men, there are but ten pools of Cosmic reference so drawn upon. (In this manner.)

A group of animals who attend the same watering hole may not necessarily be all of the one herd; or species for that matter. Similarly we do not need to confuse issue with men, for every man comes to divinity and its aspects uniquely and makes of them what he can and will, so the communal ‘oneness’ of make-over gives itself to a multiplicity of variables.

Each realm to which the influences may be traced contains its fill of beings who are so characterised by that quality. These beings are innocent of any evil design, however they may exert their qualities ruefully and inadvertently cause much upset within this world, if uncontained. They are prone to contest each other also, and this in itself is disruptive.

Now it may well feel confusing or convenient that there are beings alluded to that are like this and like that. However, it will help to keep in mind that this is a general law: one thing our Cosmos is not short of is entities! The very thought forms that swarm around your being are characterised by the nature of your thinking; and, using this example alone, one can well consider how it comes to be that the more potent realms have characterised hosts of entities who are so impressed by their magnetisms and radiances. And too, that they may frequent the passages upon the planet, which do directly link also to said realms.

A man may be sensitive to the presence of such entities and persuaded thereby. It is good to remember however, that a man can and does summon the governing will at all times, and need not be fearful of being overrun by persistent beings who do naturally adhere to the likenesses perceived in the man.

At the scene of an accident or disaster, there one will find the beings of dissolution, of chaos, of disintegration. The same beings shall be at the bedside of the terminally afflicted. However, and having said that, the ‘undoing’ of the physical form by the resisting of the ‘obedience’ to wit, the natural law, is followed.

This disruption to life is also attended by the beings of spiritual containment who shall protect the soul and cradle the dying, that the separation from this life shall not be painful. For the actual severance from the body, even if it be haplessly debilitated, would be too torturous otherwise - the soul would be compelled to remain with the remains, so to speak.

The reasons for this are not simple. But it is as one can well imagine, an intensely powerful bond between soul and soul-bodies, right down to the physical frame - that which does bind is not so easily unstuck! The motivating and compelling powers to gravitate and bond remain, even throughout sickness and separation. Therefore, the beings of dissolution contribute in the process of desisting from such compulsions to form. Whilst the beings of containment form a protective vessel around the man, so that when the chord is finally severed the soul is encapsulated in a repose of contentment more seductive than the former life.

The beings of Our Father (as hidden) bring to Man the ability to sleep and unconsciousness also. Without these beings there would needs be a process of disincarnation in order that one was not relieved of their driving down consciousness. We say relieved, because the pressure of a fully-run self-consciousness with no rest or remittance would starve the soul of dialogue and in itself would be a disincarnating process.

For the withdrawal of consciousness is necessary to the digestion which is taking place during that period of sleep. With constant worldly activity the soul would be denied and the being would be as two separate entities operating two separate levels of consciousness concurrently. There shall come a time when man may resist the beings which induce slumber; and this can be worked upon when, a) the etheric body is pure and capable of longer periods of being sustained without the peregrination of cosmic influence to be absorbed, as are in sleep. In other words, the individual is so developed that he is as pure in his waking hours as he is in his Father God innocence in sleep, and can bring to himself the renewing forces which enable his etheric elasticity. And, b) when he may consciously achieve the withdrawal into higher spheres and practice this, giving times - though self-appointed - when rest can be achieved. For even the adept cannot indefinitely deny rest.

Once again we can examine those compelling forces - in this instance those which demand consciousness - and ask how should one resist such a strong and motivating drive otherwise? As the muscle relaxes its tension, we give over to the subtle reasoning of the beings of our Father God and follow their trails into the unknowable. They can speak softly to us - because we do know them also - of Him that we may glimpse with a price of forgetfulness for that time we have withdrawn, forgetting completely He who we have been with.

To deny the otherwise irresistible compulsion for consciousness would cause pain and disruption to the individual. The difference may be witnessed in the unconsciousness of an epileptic during a seizure, whereby the man is given to tremors and spasms and clearly does not experience the peacefulness that is ordinarily known in the unconsciousness of sleep. There is a drawing away on behalf of the man who soulfully chooses to take up the consciousness, and wishes prematurely, to go to Father God. The beings in attendance do come as the condition calls for, after a lapse of initial agony experienced by the conflicting forces within. This is why initiates who have resulted poorly are given to these seizures.

The unconsciousness when drug-induced is once again as the desire to literally go to God; which some so effectively achieve they of course, remain with Him. Happy to withdraw into the unknowable, lifted by the beings whose greatest wonderment and satisfaction is experienced through that which is inspired and lived in the men and their expiring emanations. However this experience within this respective realm cannot be tolerated more than briefly and, by our own inadequacy we are once again compelled to resume status somewhere within the scheme of activity.

Sexuality is the creative combining of two otherwise separate entities. By this definition one can see examples of this from the highest to the lowest, and begin to comprehend the beings associated with all creative projection pertaining to this. The principle of combining and the creative outfall therefrom underpins all existence, which could not be if it remained as a compilation of individual units alone, but rather came to be because of the harmonious blending and the value as achieved through the then blended relationships.

However this principle and these beings are well balanced by the forces of containment, disintegration, obedience (obedience to natural law - e.g. cancer overruns because of an irregular combining) and is complemented by the forces of the Active Will/Ego, strength/sustained and active, good-naturedness, Divine Will and obedience (as in the right combining).

Good-naturedness is that harmonious aspect well qualified and well developed, that it may knowingly come to meet terms and do it well. This influence is one of the more sophisticated, and although a quality of fools and the faint-hearted, it is an attribute of the Gods - our Gods who care well for us. It is the beef of compassion and the soul of great pity. Gentle humor grasps the thought accurately, lovingly and with surety and is self-confident in its knowing.

Mercurial these beings, by far the ones to entertain in gatherings and social endeavors. Alas! They are repelled by hot tempers and arrogance, criticisms and poisonous thought. Think well and they shall encourage you, their gift is profound insight, concealed in a gentle wrap. The beings of congeniality are welcome everywhere.

One can begin their exercise of contemplating the forces which are respective to the fingers by thinking of just one positive example of each influence in the ten. If this example is accurate one will begin to actually feel a sensation in the corresponding finger (subtly) and by this may assess some measure of poignancy. Alternatively one may prefer to examine just one aspect per day and may work the rosary with the intention going to that one finger, contemplating the value of its influence and the workings personally throughout your experience.

The Streams of Interest and Enlightenment in the Decade

1. Our Father: ACTIVE LIFE

The Will & the forces of Ego.

The primordial definition of Will is Movement. In origin the Will that drove into Creation’s promise and animated Life at every conjuncture - this Will streamed from one being into the many that were to be, and it was to be seen as pure movement.

Now, in physical existence, a man’s mobility is given to the extent of his will and his mastership of it. The essence of ego-direction and application has at its heart the fiery action of the Holy Spirit. Although the Will of our Father is not unusually apparent in the particular, it is evident in all being.

There has been confusion in the past as to the rightful place and purpose this mighty force holds within Man. For it has been coupled with a creative self-consciousness which is capable of devastating - either with clumsiness or evil management.

Man can not be innocent of his own powers. More and more he is called to become capable and coherent, that he create a’further, rather than simply undo such splendors already done.

One may understand Christ’s gift to Man in relation to his ego by asking what would we have were Man without Christ? To this we would suggest we would have

Lucifer. Or, we would have another who also seeks a reign of forfeit whereupon the men are magnetized together with one group Will. Christ has enabled men to keep to their separateness that they may develop their own. This is no small matter.

The nature of Will is of paradox in that whilst it is motivated out from its initiator it may also be persuaded by that whom it does recognise as a greater power of will also. In this way we succumb to the laws around us without forever contesting the humdrum or necessary values which dictate to all. We have no choice individually in how the globe glides (and it does not spin), we do not will for the sun to rise (not even in our selves) and we may not cause our will to cease ourselves being, in the true sense of soul and spirit.

Therefore we have from this a simple proof that whilst we have will that will is also obedient to greater will constantly.

The ego of Man is generously given, because it is the sum-total of the experience which has gone before and of all of the good which was to be harvested therefrom.

Whilst the soul is so characterised, it also is not.

Our soul selves are primarily angelic in their desires and in their attractions and perceptions. The soul is moreover satisfied with the enjoyment of Creation as it is.

The ego of Man, on the other hand (which it does contrast right from left) advances into aspects of newness, which enables the being of man to take into himself much of the future.

The soul embraces the past and reveres it. The soul is joyous with simple and humble pleasures of spiritual ecstasy, whilst the ego, to a great extent does tire of them. The ego pleads to take to itself more, and to be known to be more it has to be different to what it already contains in ways of experience and comprehension.

And so we are introduced to a dissatisfaction from which we are prompted out into betterment and further development. The parcel of the two - of both will and ego contained and made active within our selves brings also the consequence, and knowledge of consequence, personally revealed. What we will and conjure, in action or by active thought, is consequently offered to us, in the opportunity to perceive the outcome and effect of our doings and to answer them.

Karma, in this respect, is a gift from the Gods also. We shall not say that it is intrinsic to Christ, for He in relation to Karma has brought His addition to Man. Not only are we ensured experience for the ego by all that we will and therefore do, we are also given the grace of deferment, in that our governing angels may decide much about what, when, how and who, that we are not overcome by ourselves and by our mistakes and have to answer them all totally and in the immediate. The soul qualities of Man are quite aware of past purpose when it presents and acknowledges its due. This too is a grace.

And so when we contemplate the forces of Will and active Ego we may bring thankfulness into our heart for the very Will of Father God as it moves throughout Creation; and the Ego of Christ which umbrellas our own - being the greater Ego overall, saving us from the unsavoury attractions of lesser, but more powerful persuasions.

2. PEACE & CONTAINMENT - particularly in relation to no. 1

The aspect and influence of peace and containment brings to Man his knowing of true happiness. In the primordial glamour, peace was as invisible and unknown - for there was no contrast to go by. Containment was and wasn’t- however, its formative ablutions were set to work almost immediately, although held transiently.

Systems unfurled and designs shifted with a precocious aplomb. Containment was as but a brief hesitation on the way to a greater and more complex proposal to be formed. Peace always brought the forces inward for that time to which they were contained and held back from transmuting further. Peace enables us to collect ourselves and remain relatively stationary in a vortex of change and impending chaos.

In the very real sense of it, the influence of Peace is timeless and calls to halt time. Of course it cannot effectively do this indefinitely, however, this is our chief meditation here - which, it may be added is paramount to meditation itself.

From concerns of time we are reprieved, temporarily. That we may look down upon what we have and what we are; that we may be motionless - quieten our own Wills and thereby know the expression of God’s Will as is. That we may not drive our selves to constant distraction, but come to a reflection in still and perfect waters. That we may quell the ego’s habitual prompting - overriding our own driving forces therefrom. That in itself is necessary and most powerful. More powerful than the will and ego themselves that it can restrain the two and do so harmoniously!

Our meditation upon this gift is one of happiness whereupon the ego can afford to relax. Peace is no jailer, it also brings commensurate joy with its application. It is the initial substance from which all substance was derived and subsequently born out from; and that is precisely why we are enabled to return to it.

3. STRENGTH - sustained and active, to be used, summmoned by the Will

Strength is a corporate quality which, as an influence empowers permanence. In the higher order a permanence resides, that although not gauged by Man, is there and in place and thus permits all other constancy to be.

Strength is undeniably amongst us. The permanence within the spiritual Worlds has been guaranteed in the memory of Father God. Such permanence affords all beings the ability to receive the future because the future does not threaten the wellbeing of what has been brought from the past.

We can begin to realise that the constant changing about us - the forming and reforming - works upon a higher principle of constancy which does stream through it. Just as peace itself resides as the essence within all motivated life, so too does a permanency engage itself within the struggles of manifested life as it consists and desists and rebuilds anew.

In no way does permanency imply stagnation. For stagnation is peace which has overrun its time in relation to time’s demands. Permanency as an essential quality of influence primordially speaks to us of the highest drafts which once laid down are here to stay.

Initially those things which were given in the Spiritual Worlds have the strength to remain, to continue regardless of what else is to follow, because Father God does not take risks - he does not seek change merely for change’s sake. The future would not be qualified if it in any way threatened our spiritual heritage. In this sense, as things that were, so shall they be. However, Man himself has the choice always to depend on this strength but travel out from its source and become differently also.

In our very beginnings of the making of soul, these were the ‘days’ when things were built to last - this is the meaning of that - a time of pure strength and resilience, when the patterns were laid down and Man was then given all gifts and purpose, affiliations and loves which he carries to this day, by which it is strength itself that will ensure their permanence within him.

Our meditation on strength - as it is shown actively or by containment - is one of thanksgiving for that which does and will endure. Strength clearly comes from God, for without Him there would be no permanence, no jot would remain.

4. SEXUALITY and the various aspects related

Sexuality is union- productive union, whereby two individuals are enhanced by combining together rather than by remaining separate. Offspring which follows consummates the proper value of the combining. There is no true sexuality without combining harmoniously and in agreement. In other words, in the context of this talk of this influence we shall not confuse the term with primary functions of the physical genitalia - for they alone have no essence of true sexuality - but rather we shall look to the spiritual significance and meaning for which there is always an implication of two, and an action of interaction.

In the spiritual meaning we find that there becomes a culmination of a longing realised because of another like soul, and the two have met so in agreement at those conjunctures for this to be realised.

When two individuals meet so together they invoke forces of creation with great rapidity. Not only in terms of bringing new souls into the world by such physical cojoining, but there are myriads of creative forces which also transpire at the varying levels for which the two may communicate.

Sexuality was not always expressed as it is in the World today - and certainly, in the higher worlds, it is far different in action and application - however, there are male and female angels, contrary to opinion - save to say that their determinations in this way are not with male rods or female wombs and they do not combine in this manner as played out in the physical realm today.

The forces which characterise the female are soul forces - they seek to contain, to embody, to acquire and to keep. The intuitive spirituality of the female influence contrasts the active knowing of the male whose primordial disposition is to go forth with great activity, desire, will and with constant promotion. The action of the will and ego as described are masculine, whilst the action of both peace and strength are quite feminine. These influences counterbalance each other with a remarkable complement.

Now of course it must be said that neither man or woman is confined to sole attributes of manliness or womanliness. In this we have a paradox but an answer also, because, it is necessary for Man to know both, and to know and identify both he must have both. However, one is active and one is quiescent at the one time.

Just as with conversational dialogue it requires one to will and work the words and one to remain silent and take them into their consideration, this is a fine example of the male/female exchange which is enjoyed with differing roles throughout any given day by men and women who inter-engage with both aspects demonstrably.

That a man may execute his own plans projected he must necessarily have those female attributes to contain all else about him. That a woman may come to know of the world outside of her self she must assume a manly attribute that she may leave herself in the first place.

Some things are best achieved with the assistance of another. Unwittingly we combine continually - we are exacted by conflict and difficult exchange - but then, how marvelous when two coincide in deep agreement and their position of soul, as well as the rest, is receptive to a far greater result thereby.

Men can decide upon affiliation and agreement with a self-conscious decision. They choose to be with other souls reflecting upon the needs of their ego, and the gifts they can share. This is unknown by the angels and the beasts - who have not the direct ability to consciously choose in such a way. They gravitate to their own quite naturally and combinings are resulting from proximity rather than acknowledgment of differing individual characteristics. It is by affinity that they would come together - and yet, in Man, he is given the appreciation of all that is different in a being other than him and he can still come to love - and, is enhanced by it! This is the beginning of a most marvelous mystery so told. And a greater step to ego-hood, as contrasted by but a lonely entitlement.

Our meditation upon sexuality is thus: We give a gratitude for that creativity which is spawned from two beings having harvested much love within each other. The primordial force here is an etheric milk which nurtures us all - which springs from the love in both warmth and in fiery desire. We can remember that all physical modems reflect a higher principle at work. And that the underlying forces which compel a sexuality are God inspired, from the earliest moments of this parent universe. The Cosmic seed and semen is spirit and soul, whilst the Cosmic womb is Man.

5. GOOD NATUREDNESS: humour & goodwill

There is an adage to suggest that nothing divines as aptly as good naturedness. This is to say that should you wish to ask something of the universe you will best get your way with her if you are in good humor about it.

This force - and force it is- is as sophisticated as it is not. The primordial influence we experience here sprang from a gaiety as known by the original Spirits of Form. Cooperation began at this early phase and what followed was and is the delights now known by us. We go from the deep knowledge that two may incur within each other to the added creativity as brought about by more than two.

Good naturedness and goodwill extends out from the personal implications and divinations of ego and gives of itself without demand. (This, by the way, is the true meaning of Christian Love.) That we do not invest our own interests is paramount to the effectiveness of the task to be executed.

Now, there is nothing wrong with a man who seeks to care for himself, for ennoblement and enhancement, and the desire for such, come of this right. That is one issue of Man. Counterbalancing this necessary ego-desire is his cooperation with the forces of life which hold him buoyant- and to this he is required to cheerfully submit!

If being happy was a command one could give, it would be one! The truth of the matter however is that it is not - but in time, the satisfaction of harmonious interplay does make itself apparent to Man and he shall respond obligingly.

The meditation for this stream of influence is cooperation. We offer a gratitude for coherence and the forces thereof, and that the experience of humor saves us from the rigidity of self-centredness and brings us into an expanse far further than our selves.

6. OUR FATHER, PASSIVE The Divine Will of utter existence – Quiescent

The influence which predominates the forefinger titled #1 has been recognised as movement with the advancing of both the Will and the Ego’s forces to propel ever further out into the beyond.

Now we come to the forefinger which is same, but not so same, whereupon the chief influence here is of Father God also, however our Father who is not known to us in action or in movement, but rather in stillness of being - in those recesses to which we must go to penetrate His solemn Mystery.

The Divine Will has a two-fold characteristic, as did the Will lived out in action and movement. Whilst it is causal to being it is obedient to lesser wills who do desire and promote themselves either in conjunction or conflict to the greater Will of God. If this were not the case there should be no such thing as the will living in men at all.

The Divine Will allows for and makes way for its immature siblings. And yet, there is further to this something quite wonderfully apparent - that is: when a man wills correctly, with just or creative cause, he gives to the Divine Will and the Divine Will responds. This may only be felt upon the ethers - it is not to be visibly so seen - but it is known to men who have drawn upon their wills after consulting in prayer firstly and are so doubly empowered in action by this.

And so we hold within our beings that access road into yet a higher determination. On the one hand, we are personally empowered to be as definite and creative as a God, directing our Wills with the bidding of our Egos, always nonetheless, remarkably subservient to the higher Will regardless. Then, on the other hand, we have with us the living Will, passive though it rests, of God Himself - and we are given this that we may know His choosing and call upon His Will with any matter that is before us.

When contemplating His non-apparent Self we are drawn to Him and subsequently relieved of the ego’s tensions in this. If sleepiness results it is merely because our definitive selves have given over into His embrace then known. One day, as our development brings us closer to Him in our sharpened consciousness and ego activity we will be enabled to go to Him and return with some recollection.

Our meditation for this stream of influence is:

“Dear Kind and Gentle Father, You are hidden from me - yet ever present. Your Will is truly known by me, and here I do recognise this gift of knowledge. I am thankful for this recourse, and ask of myself to ever learn to seek out Your Will before that of my own.”

7. DISINTEGRATION: the power to desist, to dissolve

Our mirrored finger, as discussed for this one, is one of Peace and Containment. In seeming opposition to this we have the chief influence of disassociation, whereupon the forces which were formerly adherent in property or make-over, have desisted and made way for new form and force to exchange.

As said formerly, Peace, as a cosmic element, exists as the primary substance, and once again, the forces of dissolution require the substantiality as it were of Peace that they may presume upon form and design and desire.

Peace may be thought of as the pause between out-breaths and in-breaths. The evacuation of the out-breath is life metabolised. The exchange and corruption of the new breath requires dissolution - we negotiate substance and ether with the processes of dissolution and then assimilation or part retention.

We know these forces not only in death and in our dissolving out from this package, we know them by our constant evaporations out from our alluvial selves, in soul qualities that move in differing densities.

The power to desist and withdraw allows the ego to return unto itself - and so in similar quality to that of peace we have same aspect, for primordially this influence also calls to halt time, to return to the original aspect before the form was created; and so it calls for dissolution every time.

That we incarnate with worldly gravitation, that we can love so many harbours not only here, but in the spiritual worlds, and leave them all - this is with the same influence known-of returning to that which was before, and before all.

And because of this we find the World’s a fragment and time washes boulders into sand, but we move on.

Our gratitude here is for the might of disintegration, whilst also its providence. And although cautioned by its presence, we are as the ants and the miners, breaking apart those things necessary for conversion to greater purpose.

8. OBEDIENCE: Strength curtailed – servitude

On the one hand the finger presents that strength which has sustained all being - representing Permanence. On the other we come to know of our strength’s strength, the virtue of personal obedience.

Here we have the contrast of strength serving us - our example is clear within the Heavenly Worlds and all of Creation as it binds and supports us completely - to the ability which we may develop of serving also.

Obedience and servitude require an exact strength, measured and equal to that which is necessary; an apportioning, if you like. For to be obedient, through choice (and not because of force) requires the will and consciousness of the man to double-back upon his own ego.

Born of either trust or necessity, we are giving our strength into the hands of another. The primordial characteristic here is the station to which we know ourselves to be in - our true positioning, quite evident with spiritual sight in earliest being.

On the one hand there is the greater strength, on this hand we are given the particular which works within ourselves and that we may utilize such strength as needs be that we can curtail it and direct it with exactness defined. That we may effectively be strong, we must also be obedient - paradox though this is, this is Law. One may only be strong within the given parameters of power and influence - for either way other, the strength itself is compromised by lack of qualification.

We may offer up a gratitude for strength enhanced with servitude. As men who willingly submit by choice, their strength to work for the best purpose as recognised, our egos become more apt in just how such strength is to be exerted and determined and appointed in the now, and then later, into the everlasting as well.

9. REVERENCE - the power to surrender to God

This is distinct from the above as reverence itself is an experience of attitude rather than of application. In the context of the Will of our Father becoming apparent to us we are regarding a course of action and doing and therefore subsequently becoming.

All of this requires a measure of ego-activity within the man, which, as alluded to earlier is an experience of the masculine order primarily.

Reverence is a soul quality which denotes that combining between man and God. With the influences carried and known by the little finger on the other hand we find that the combining and the creative associations are examples of the manner in which we combine with Heaven in the primordial sense.

Reverence knows this and expresses the love in return for God’s infusion into these, our beings. The sexuality of Man is redeemed in the celebration of reverence for his relationship to God firstly.

“Before all, dear God, I hold thee” -

and so in attitudinal devotion we come to realise that our mainstay of Creation rests with Him.

Just as our actions are effective when proper strength is apportioned correctly - just as we are given His conference, His Will to ennoble our will’s willing - just as death uncovers peace as she sleeps beneath the decomposing past, so also may our combining with God bring us nearer to our ecstasies realised in love’s expedient passions.

We may meditate upon this Reverence, finding our own ways to be with Him, and thankful that we are not forgetful of His great Love for us, and this dynamic combining.

10. NOBILITY: the abilities of being generous, upstanding & virtuous

The thumb on the one hand epitomizes selflessness. Goodwill and good humor - amiable and obliging. On the other hand we contrast this with virtues which are not obliging, but rather self-willed and quite defined within the man.

Especially as he progresses and the integrity is ever called upon and tested, the noble nature of a man is often poked and pricked by the lesser men who contest the value of his upstanding. This follows as night does day, that lesser men who are as yet underdeveloped by contrast, shall not be able to recognise the worthier aspects within another, and so presume with morbid projection.

That the virtues may be called upon and live in full color within the man’s aspect brings him to occasion where he is made separate to contrasts within his immediate worldly activity. This does not detract from his overall good nature or good will to fellow men, however, as established there are differing needs that he may carry himself (and them) through the World as is best.

Our meditation here is for Mankind as a collective. We can perceive our own noble aspects inherited and pray for their realisation throughout the whole of humanity in time.

We can be generous with reservation - by that we mean to say that we should never be too generous i.e. one does not give away their soul or their mother or their God for example. On the one hand we have an element of obliging, on the other there is a decided obstinacy and a decided giving made special. Our meditation here is one of finding our true natures, most perfect and complete in all that we are. That we have faults is part of being able to give only so much - however, virtues stream in and out of us regardless.

We are individually entitled to our noble title for attached to us is Christ as he works the greater harmony amongst the individual men.

And so the same theme of community rests with these digits, but with differing aspect where we may find that we are not compelled to group orientation and not committed to give what we give - therefore a true value shall be known and a worthier nobility in each thereby- that it is not by compulsion but rather out from true love that we shall be and become.

Footnote:

Clarification on how to do the Rosary meditation.

Firstly one might start with one quality per day.

Then instead of going through the whole of one hand, start with a finger on
the right and then follow with the mirror finger on the left. This is
the balanced way to do it.

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