Our Great Nation – 5

Hello Dear Readers,

This is the last article I’m writing, reviewing a chapter of the Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East by Baird T. Spalding, who visited the far East on a research mission in 1894.

In this chapter we have an account of a Master called Emil speaking about the birth of our nation, and how it relates to the “rebirth” of an individual. He speaks about the Crystal Age, which we are now in, and his spiritual insight is nothing short of astounding.

How we look forward to the age which is dawning, the Age of Crystal, the pure, white light of Spirit. This morn is now dawning. We can see the time all will see the full blaze and glory of this approaching day. Then there will be no darkness, no limitation.

Does this not suggest that there must be eternal progress? If not, all must return to that from which it sprang, the Universal Substance. All must progress or go back; there is no halfway point, no stopping place. When your nation does recognize its true estate, or mission, and join hands with Spirit and expresses as God wishes it to express, or lets the Spirit unfold from within; we can see for your great nation a marvel far transcending the power of any human tongue to describe.

It is with having the God-given quality of Faith, that Emil hits home the analogy of the unfolding of an individual to that of a nation.

Just as a mustard seed, although it is among the smallest of seeds, has the faith to know that within itself it has the power to express the mustard plant, the greatest of all herbs, for when it is grown it becomes a tree and the birds may come and lodge in the branches thereof; just as the seed knows that within itself it has the power to express the greatest, so must we know that we have the power within ourselves to express the greatest.

In giving this parable it was the quality instead of the quantity of faith, that Jesus referred to.

       “If ye have the faith of a grain of mustard seed (and that faith becomes knowing), ye shall say unto this mountain Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you. “

There is no question but that it took the great strong beak and talons of the eagle to hold your nation together during its development; but when the true spiritual light comes, it will be seen that the dove is mightier than the eagle, and the dove will protect what the eagle now guards.

Look at the words on the coin you send into every avenue of the world trade - In God We Trust and e pluribus unum, one composed of many, the very slogan of Spirit when the dove replaces the eagle on the life medium of such a nation.

Just so the frailest poppy seed and the mightiest banyan tree, the bulb, the plant, the tree seed, all know that they can express the greatest. Each has an exact picture or representation of what it must express. So must we have an exact picture within ourselves of what we desire to express.

Then there must be an inner perfection wrought by hourly preparation and this perfection will come forth. No flower ever burst into full bloom without this perfecting inner urge. A moment before the bud was confined within the sepal sense of self, but when this inner perfection is complete, the flower bursts forth beautiful.

As the seed that falls into the ground must first give forth from self in order to grow, develop, and multiply, so must we first give forth from self to unfold. As the seed must first burst its shell in order to grow, so must we burst our shell of limitation to begin our growth. When this inner perfection is complete we must come forth beautiful, the same as the flowers.

As with an individual so with a nation…

And So It Is.

With Love and Blessings,

Lisa

One Nation Under God - 4 (A spiritual perspective)

Hello Dear Readers,

This is the 4th in a series of brief articles I'm writing about the birth of our nation as seen by the great Masters of the far East. This account is from a Master called, Emil, as quoted in the Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, by Baird T. Spalding, who was on a research mission in 1894.

What Emil has to say about America's birth is quite astounding. Here he starts out with our motto, In God We Trust.

Then the emblematic phrase-In God We Trust-does not that show the most sanguine faith or trust in God, the creator of all? Then the choice of the eagle, the bird which represents the highest aspiration, as the emblem. It shows that these men were deeply spiritual or they builded better than they knew. Can you doubt for a moment that all were guided by the whole of the God spirit in creative action? Does it not bespeak that America is destined to be the guide to the whole world?

Great mistakes have been made by your nation in the ongoing because you have not realized your spiritual import, and the vast majority are still deep in the material. I fully realize that great souls have guided the destiny of your nation. I also realize how little those great souls have been appreciated until they have passed on. The way has been jagged and bushy, a hard way, because man in his limited concept, thus far, let only the mortal concept build the way.

See what wonders he has accomplished! But see what wonders could have been accomplished, had the fuller, deeper, spiritual meaning been understood and applied. In other words, had the Christ been placed at the helm of your Ship of State, and could all have known the truth as Jesus did - that the Christ is in every man, and that all are one-what wonders would stand revealed today. I behold the same glory yet to be, as soon as the deep spiritual meaning of e pluribus unum is understood. Do you not realize that it is one of the first great laws of God, the one expressing through the many, one of all and for all?

Consider every nation that has been founded. Those founded on true spiritual perception have endured the longest and would have endured forever, had not materialism been allowed to creep in and gradually undermine the whole structure until they fell by their own abnormal weight, or were consumed by the misuse of the law that gave them birth...

See what a nation Spain was at the time Columbus set forth on his voyage of discovery, and for a short time afterwards, and see now what is happening. In a short time she will be at war with her own child. Then you will see what a helpless, impotent nation she is, hardly able to totter into a good fight or out of a poor one. To what can you attribute her impotency? Is it utter devitalization? Is it not always thus with a nation or an individual?

When the body form or structure has been satiated, whether by greed or passion, the results are the same. There may be a time of seeming prosperity and success, but this is short-lived; then the decrepit, emaciated, and wasted form bears evidence, as does the halting, uncertain step of the old. Whereas had they conserved and developed their spiritual power they would be as resilient and buoyant at five hundred, five thousand, or ten thousand years, or eternally, as they were in the heyday of their ascendancy.   

Emil draws comparisons of the unfolding of a nation to the unfolding of an individual - just what a lot of us are experiencing now. I will share these comparisons in my next article, as Emil speaks of the dawning of the Age of Crystal. 

Happy Flag Day!

Much Light and Love,

Lisa



Our Great Nation - 3

Hello Dear Readers,

This is the third of a series of brief articles I'm writing out of a patriotic inspiration I received reading the Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East - Volume 1, By Baird T. Spalding. Mr. Spalding was one of a research party of eleven persons that visited the Far East in 1894.

After about two years in India, Mr. Spalding met a Master he calls Emil. In these articles, I am quoting both Mr. Spalding and Emil extensively, as I find their wisdom and perspectives quite astounding.

For example, Emil feels that the hand of God was with the men who created the Declaration of Independence, and that their struggles to achieve this feat, compare to Jesus coming to the world.

Emil asks, Can you not see the hand of the Great Omnipotent One above it all? Then came the dark days when it seemed as though the first Colonies would be snuffed out, but what God has set His hand to must triumph.

Emil states that even the words of the Declaration of Independence where God-Inspired.

Then the emblematic phrase-In God We Trust-does not that show the most sanguine faith or trust in God, the creator of all?

Whether you realize it or not, the struggles of that little body of men in those memorable days and the act of affixing their names to that document is one of the greatest epics since that of the advent of Jesus into the world.

Emil speaks of how the strokes of the Independence Bell were known to him as if he were standing beneath it.

That bell magnified and sent out the vibrations that emanated from that little center, until some day they will penetrate the deepest and darkest corners of the whole earth, and thus enlighten the darkest consciousness.

Emil continues, Look at the trials and vicissitudes that led up to that event. Was not the Great Child born that day? ... The greatest nation of all the earth was born. ... Cannot those that signed the Declaration of Independence that day, be likened unto the Wise Men from the East who saw the Star symbolizing the birth of the Babe in the Manger, the Christ Consciousness in man? Did they not perceive the Star just as truly as those of old?

Is there any question that the watchword e pluribus unum (one out of many, or unity out of diversity or multiplicity) adopted during the successive stages of evolution of the Spirit of Truth? It certainly did not emanate mechanically from man's mortal mind.

No, Emil, there is no question in my mind.

How about you, dear reader? Please fell free to comment!

Spread the Love!

Lisa