Threads - 12.24.2011

He who has ears let him hear.

In the beginning was the Word.
And the Word was with God.
And God was with the Word.

The word is one of the most powerful tools a person wields.
It sows creation, it sows destruction.
Inside yourself, outside yourself.

The word can be language.
The word can be thoughts.
The word can be meanings.
The word can be people, worlds, solar systems, creations.
Ahhhh the word is expression.

Your word will increase in strength if you practice how your word issues out of you. Make it a practice to control what you allow yourself to think and speak. Address poor thoughts by calling them so and abandoning them in wait for something better. Do not let statements of self weakness carelessly flow from your mouth to others. Do not carelessly curse and talk down others. If you do these things you also will find your inner dialog becoming more gentle, freer, craftier, smarter and there will be less likely hood of succumbing to misery, or even worse potential threats that an erratic inner dialog might hold.

A wound isn't healed by beating it! Your inner dialog is a precious thing. Be kind to yourself.

I tell you are free! and yet deeply imprisoned in the judgment of truth. To achieve pure freedom we have to work within truth and befriend it, speak kindly of it, honor it's harsh lessons and praise it's rewards. Hate against our lot does not bear any positivity. Neither will fruit grow from a thorn.

At all times you should be able to look at what you are and identify the nature of the wave you are riding. And then say, "Of what spirit am I right now?" Oh you are a host for many different types of spirit, and your house is something that can be managed and operated efficiently. Run your inn well and always be of the best disposition your strength can manage.

If you ever become newly aflame with the light and love of the Lord. Keep the light of your lord modest and do not reveal him until he says to do so or he might leave and with him your light will quickly run out.

Just as intense light blinds the eye that is accustomed to darkness, the untimely revealing of your lofty truth would bring blindness and possible injury to another's spiritual eye. Then not being able to see any revelation by your light, your loved one might place you in contempt, which is neither beneficial you you or them. We can take a lesson from the earth. The earth is like an eye who becomes accustomed to light gradually through sunrise. Be as wise as the sunrise if you are to be a light bringer for the Lord.

If we were were to wear wedding attire to work, we would risk our nice clothes becoming filthy and ruined. Therefore do not wear garments that are out of place or you behave foolishly with your possessions. Render to Cesar what is Cesar's, render to God what is of God's.

It's not what goes in you that defiles you, but what comes out of you that defiles you. This is a hero's saying and will redeem you from sin when you flirt with the consumption of the world. Do all things in the name of perfection. To the pure everything is pure, and no drought of poison or serpent's bite can harm a Saint of the Lord. Even when sinning, seek to be like the lord's love. How can a father turn away a son or daughter who loves his affection all else? Is it not said that "love god first and then neighbor as self" be the whole of the law? Did not Jesus come and repeal the the strength of the law of Moses, smash the rouge laws of the church, and offer freedom, asking only love and Grace from the children of earth? And isn't that seed strongly sprouting in the 21st century? Ask yourself what do you see, and then mind your spirit's reply, and most likely if you aspire to truth and practice self awareness then you will find you have caught a tiger by the toe, and if you are like me you we see that the tiger caught has long been let go.

When you are a lost soul with little good bread, your first task in restoration is to be a gatekeeper at your own stomach, heart, throat, and mind. Be alert! Be alert! See who comes here to go there and what they carry in their hands. Decline entry when the guest is not blessed, and when the heart speaks and says "Let this one pass", bless the traveler and let him pass. In this way you will conduct yourself to receive better life and improve your soul and train your spirit.

A young spirit will not be able to see or affect all that goes on inside of him. But every person is given oversite of a little bit, and there is where such a one should start. Those who acty responsibly for the little they have will be given more.

Know that you are weak and perfection is not instant, least there be no reason for time.

Many try at righteousness and get smashed and leave the struggle and return to darkness because of their failure to find the promise, while instead finding only ugliness. When you embark on the great work, and work to restrain forces here and there, expect them to act out and rage against your will, expect them to inflame and grow in size and severity in attempts to set themselves once again as masters with the true master subdued. Suffer them and combat them with all your measures of might and in time your autonomy will serve you rather than you be forced to serve your autonomy.

Your spiritual power is currency. There are many thought natures who would like you to empower them. They are but fish in the sea. Understand the parties who visit your mind, identify patterns, and prune when needed. Being a gatekeeper is your first role in being a laborer for Heaven. If you, in your new responsibility, see yourself poor and without anything good, then this too is good, because it is a truth of God and you truly are that poor in preferable spirit. Soon new, better spirits will be your lot.

Often you will look at your dark and evil heart and lament because the fountain is unworthy. Here begins your great work. Rejoice because the father never leaves, and cups of sin will fill to their measure and then judgment will visit you and wreck your house for the sake of the Lord's Love which is your Love as well. Keep mind that you do not overfill your cup of sin, least you be wrecked and thrown into the throes of judgment. Work to fill your cup of love so that it over-runs and spills into your cups of sin, diluting it and then purifying it, so that you may always live on the increase until you are perfected in your way, poor or rich, perfection and eternal perfection on perfection of your lot and will become your lot.

Pray prayers because they are good for the reflection on self. The prayer is the gift. One prayer that is strong is "Lord father who is my heaven, holy is your name. Provide me this day with bread. Lead me, but not into temptation and deliver me from evil. Forgive me even as I forgive others. Your Kingdom be and your will be." This is the breath of the assailed King.

Bread and hunger are the foundations for eternal life. Can we be happy forever being satisfied? Oh if satisfaction be a thing eternal then I will enter into it and be content. Watch me abandon the mysteries of doubt and death as I spirit in life and know satisfaction, ask for bread, and am satisfied.

There was a world bourn upon facebook in the image of Man

And who shall benight me for what I made with my time? What I chose to see grow and what I left to see die? I move forward despite arms pulling, and I am clean by tears of the woman bourne from my chest. Her name is Hearkening and the halls of despair preceded her and the halls of glory go forth from her.

When I awoke it fancied me to set down a theatre of play in front of you. Does anyone set their army against my fancy with hatred and dominance in their heart?

Neigh we appeal to those who will bless and feed for love's need and will grow and promote the things of man's throat. But for the crux of mans brow; caste it to the dirt and let a pole pin it there and set a flag on the poll proclaiming freedom from creation's oppressions.

Let the rabble have no voice and be the dirt of a new earth; where the bare feet of biped man walk and bless.

Oh guile. As crocodiles have snapped at crooked men's art, surely the higher truths of heaven were darts at times; rather than rags of comfort.

In the bowels of hell, Men still living rip themselves apart;  

Who is the ruler of their heart that have them caste down into the bowels of Hell? How has man come to hold hell in his sphere? Say, is it required?

Long we awaited the deliverance from the trembling powers of God breaking up unhallowed grounds under out feet. Like infants we crawl, some falling in opening cracks some surviving by the generosity of fortune's intelligence to grow to walk and enter onto stable ground; where grass begins to grow and plants begin to sprout. And living even here; Man finds the world still shows influence of heaven and influence of Hell.

All the time I feel the brothers still aboding in the bowels and becon them into the calmer solar plexus of Man; where they might make something that enters into the heart and can vouch their namesake.

And those babes who fell in the cracks; names now forgotten; can hardly be detected but they feed a work in a inverted Heaven of their own; making fire; Oh how the fire set itself up as a great conqueror; but only of broken men and unfortunate babes;

But how man of heart spurn the fire; and how the men of hell tear themselves over each other; and even attempt to murder the men of heart when they visit.

 

 

For Tool Fans - H

One of my favorite Tool songs is "H" cause it's got a ballin opening slew of words, that I could never quite figure out, but because they are said with such confidence I assume they are chalk full of perosnal truth.

One reason why the band tool attracted such a wide variety of listeners is because their music was mostly about self discovery and the mystery in the development. Their delivery was cloaked in metaphors, and in the world of poetry that leaves infinite room for the subjectee to run with his imagination on the meaning...

So here is the lyric I am going to expand, and to this day it is the only meaning I've ever thought that fits in perfectly with part of my life experience, and at the same time reveals a deeper meaning on the nature of man and life.

lyric!

The snake behind me hisses
What my damage could have been.
My blood before me begs me
Open up my heart again.

Full Lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/tool_lyrics_1951/aenima_lyrics_4858/h_lyrics_57921.html
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPcu614JCTE&feature=related

The snake is the thinking mind, that crunches numbers, runs scenarios, etc.. The blood is the momentum of action. When man tries to do something, he sets his will into motion, when doubt comes into play, it restricts the motion. This restriction is the death to momentum naturally, but it is all-the-same still natural.

Life teaches us about all it's inner elements, and teaches us their names. And I don't mean their word names, I mean the way of their nature and how they co-relate to other inner elements.

The dissonance caused by the conflict illustrated in the lyrics, is part of the 'calibration' process. And as man becomes intimate with himself, and how the life is inside of him, he better understands and becomes familiar with his inner elements so he can employ them in a way that makes sense.

There are other 'tools' that can micro-manage processes such as decision, action, and doubt; like wisdom. I like to call wisdom an greater-angel, because it is a master of many other spiritual processes, and all the process employed by wisdom will have their own personal nature of wisdom within themselves so they can fulfill their roles properly.

When I mention angel-like spirits, I mean spirits that are fixed-and-yet-flexible in nature, like the growth of human hair or fingernails, or even more power-full, like the process of joy rising, or the call of hunger. These 'workers', just mentioned, are given to and serve man pretty unconditionally. There are many other angel-like spirits that, to my current understand, are obviously outside of man-- like the process of water freezing into ice, or pine tree seed growing into a pine-tree.

I know we typically call this biology and geology type phenomenon "science", and it is, but still there is musical order to make the phenomenon come about. Science becomes the study of the micro and macro processes, and while it has it's popper place, the explanation is not the actualization.

That's enough for now. Hope you enjoyed Tool Fans!

Henry Costen Vaugn

Time and time again
Has Ego
Pulled the phantasmic nightmare
In creeping shadows
Over the windows of our souls
And obscured our vision

We come here tonight
Among brothers
To pull back this curtain
And stand naked
Before the ancient mirror

Even when we are low,
Our branches reach high
Into aethers incalculable,
As organic
We grow onward,
Immersed in all
That we see or seem.

Conflict is our friend and teacher.
We fear not its sacred wrath.
Our hearts are indestructible
Effigies to process,
To imminent knowledge
That love instantiates all
And laughs behind the folly
Of our suffering.

Witnessing,
We vibrate always
The variformed Song 
Whose center is nowhere
And whose circumference is everywhere.

Night is the coming of the light.
Light is the coming of the night.
Between, stands the gnarled
Tail of the snake,
Who eats on and on,
And knows our minds
Are not binding.

We were once timid children,
Quaking with compassion,
Unlimited.
We come tonight
In offering to this:
That we are alive
And in love with life,
Despite our protestations.

Should we commune
With our source,
Nature is our mother.
Our roots grow where needed.
We love her always,
Even when blind and broken
And lost,
Convinced we are alone.
Always, we return.

We ingest here tonight
To recover what we have forgotten
That as a great and loving mind
Once wrote:
"...that (we) were once the carrier of a life contained between the poles of an unimaginable future and an unimaginably remote past. Millions of years and untold millions of ancestors have worked up to this moment, and (we) are the fulfillment of this moment. Anything that is past is no longer reality, anything that will be is not yet reality, reality is now."

Man Sitting on his Roof-Top

"When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it does not belong—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the roof of his house go down or enter the house to take anything out. "

The man on the rooftop is the man who is spiritually creating thought in his mind. When in procreative thought if he breaks away to reflect on himself, then he should not give his thoughts to the things he sees by taking his findings and expanding/developing them. He should instead acknowledge the mental action, and ignore it, and then re-enter into procreative thought.

Here is a situational example. This morning A girl walks through the courtyard wearing a blue dress, and I say "And why are you dressed so nice?" and she replies, "Oh I'm just going to work, but thank you though!" and that was the end of our brief and casual greeting. Now I was standing on my balcony when then happened, and walked back inside, and I as I assume people naturally do, begin to briefly reflect over the quick interaction...

And in this session i begin to run countless angles of thought and judgment, which potentially lead to pride, vanity, anxiety... satisfactions of all kinds.

Both judgment and pride, though seemingly small and insignificant, disrupt the homeostasis of the soul's life-nature. This could also be renamed as sin, the worker of death.

Here is what the parable above suggests that man does. When you catch your self going into reflection of this nature, resist the momentum of your spirits and take your spiritual eyes, which are the totalness of your conscious awareness, and look on the raw emotion that is created when you begin to break your momentum, and at the same time look on elsewhere in calm expectation for a new wind to come and pick up your spirits, and take you back into procreative thought, which is non-ego-centric, natural musical and mindful movement.

This is an idea, which is a seed, and at the same time that seed develops into practice and ultimately training. If you apply it you will gain strength over your automation, and improve the melody of your soul, thereby purifying your soul's condition. It also will be accounted to you for much more too.

Heaven and Hell

I am going to tell you in short my interpretation on heaven and hell, and you tell me what you think.

Heaven and Hell can be learned about by studying your own nature. If we are depressed, then there is reason. This reason 'is' because there is a great truth in work, and we are able to know our own condition by this truth.

For example~ I drank last night, so my body has had to work extra hard to clean and restore my system to popper homeostasis. My mind is also burdened because my brain has been weakened and I must deal with this too. This is my condition, and it is the way it is because there is a great truth in the works.

Well, if we acknowledge this great truth, and and try to grow properly in respects to it using all the power and might we have been given-- such as cognition and senses and judgment-- then we can become harmonious with the truth and experience the richer conditions on the infinite scale of conditions that are potentially experienceable within life.

This scale of conditions, within the realm of judgment and matter, depict the nature of heaven(s) and hell(s).

This world is no heaven, and it is no hell. But within us both manifest their reality.

So when one dies, if he carried a personal hell within him, then that hell will unfold unto it's spiritual reality, because it has been freed of it's body.

Likewise, if is one'self is love, patients, forgiveness, etc., then one also has the tools necessary to solve dissonance, and labor heaven within himself where-ever he is on the real world. And when he dies, likewise his spirit and soul will be freed and manifest itself in the new fertile environment of the spiritual world.

Spirit of Spirits

This post draws on aspects of God.

"God is a spirit". He is the creating force of the creation, all things that exist are animated by the currency of his power.

Just as energy is never created nor destroyed by our scientific understanding, God is also eternal, and his creative force moves on through all created things that were, are, and will be.

The material world explains this with the concept of time. 'Now' is the present expression of the creative force. The past is our memory of creation's old material form and interaction. The future is the form to be, and it's interactions. This illustrates the eternal nature of God, but it is not the entirety of God himself; it is only what can be derived by studying the material creation we participate in.

God is an intelligent spiritual being. We can verify this by looking at the created objects of the creation.

Look at a tree and the way it grows up and out, fulfilling a coercive pattern that it must. Look at the human body, it does the same.

There is hardly any material creation that is not indicative of an intelligent spiritual development.

God is called the spirit of spirits in Christian literature. In order to understand this, lets look at something that has spiritually manifested into being, such as the tree and it's fruit. Where do they get their momentum to grow into their form?

We are are persuaded to think "the seed",the "gene", or the "rain, sunlight, dirt etc." But when we separate any of the parts from the whole we miss the mark.Man must combine all his discoveries to see that the factors, (rain, dirt, co2, sunlight, seed, gene, etc.) work together. And the origin of each contributing factor have their own origins and factors, but they are all in the movement, being spirits of the great spirit of life

This is why God traditionally holds the description "The spirit of spirits"