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Session #103 – July 24, 1988
Gloria’s Circle
Present: Betty Welty, Ida Nevala, Jean Chisholm, Jeneeka, Myra Perala, Owen
Cramer, Sidney Smither, Jnana Sivananda and Peter Valiton
Session opened with AUMs and invocations.
Sheariam: Greetings students and friends. What a lovely day. Welcome to those
of you who did not return last time. Now, would you please put your names in the
circle? (Group sung individual names in unison three times.) Beautiful music. Thank
you. Now it is time for us to move forward in your lessons. It is imperative that we
take advantage of every opportunity to complete our work.
Let us deal with the Wheel of Karma. There are many misconceptions among
you about what has been given. So let us use some of our togetherness to review.
There are three “platforms”, if you will. The Wheel of Karma is not, indeed, a
“wheel”, nor is it a true spiral. It is not consistent from beginning to end. Of the four
stages, in the beginning one might consider a flat wheel: Matter, Life, Environment
and Knowledge. As the “cohesion” occurs and becomes enlivened, Life Form
emerges, unknowing (Ed. i.e. without knowledge, since knowledge develops from
interaction with environment, which hasn’t happened as yet) except as provided by the
Divine Germ Cell Components.
You will recall that as the Divine Germ Cell emerges at Omega Points, all
Components are equal, but as it proliferates, the component’s ratios to each other
change, so that as Life appears in form upon the planet, clothed in Matter, there is
considerable difference in ratios of underlying Components.
It is a fact of existence in planetary condition that there is interaction.
Whatever is, interacts with itself, and then in proliferation, interacts with other
parts of itself. Were this not true, there would be no “Dominance”.
As Life Forms emerge, they create their Environment. At first, in planetary
conditions, Environment is Fiery. So, bodies are fiery in composition. Through
interaction with itself, it produces what you call Air, and formulates Air Bodies. As
Life Form interacts with itself and its created Environment, the bodies mutate and
become transformed. Ultimately, Fire and Air interacting with each other, produce
an environment of Water, a fluid. These three, interacting with each other, bring
about Earth, solid Matter.
The formulating bodies then can go from fluid to solid, what you call
“material”. So you have the four Elemental Environments, none of which
completely disappear as these varying forms interact with each other, and the Self-
Knowledge emerges. Experiential and then Observed, which, when fed back
through, becomes the platform or Theoretical, and ultimately Empirical.
Now this may be as far as some Life Forms may mutate. It may, at that point,
return to inert Matter, even to the “ertiate” state. This is an ongoing process. It
continues, will continue so long as a planet Earth is required by all of the realms
above. In this Repeated Process, eventually other Environments become created,
Environments of size and shape and character and power.
As Life Forms begin to interact with these created Environments, other kinds
of Knowledge emerge. In preparation for moving to the next platform, if you will,
Knowledge may be remembered, or it may be learned, or it may be inspired, and
even fabricated. Do not be dismayed. Do not be misled. Fabrication does not, in this
instance, imply deceit, but truly, fabrication.
With this sponsorship, the next platform begins with desire and the direction
changes from “In-volution” to “Ev-olution”. The Desire Body, in the circumstances
of Planetary life, is the first state of “Evolution”. So the next platform, Desire,
Instinct, Purposes, Will, gives opportunity for other Life Forms to evolve, having
Desire Bodies.
The primary Desire Body acts upon, or is imbued with, Impulsion,
Compulsion, Propulsion, and Expulsion. Now “Impulsion” is that impetus of the
throb of Life, not just Life Form. The Life Component of the Divine Germ Cell
sponsors the Impulsion of the Desire Body. As interaction occurs, Compulsion is
developed, and the Desire Body responds to coercion from other forming Desire
Bodies, as all attempt to establish the Environment in which they wish or feel the
“need” to exist.
Propulsion is a companion to Impulsion. Evolution must go forward, and it is
the Desire Body which sponsors that forwardness. Then the desire Body must
develop the capability of Expulsion, for if it could not cast off that which is no longer
needed, it would become static, and Impulsion would not permit that. This is a
lesson to you in that as you do not expel from your lives that which you no longer
truly need, you inhibit your forward progression, and in some instances, may
regress to the stage of Impulsion, which then must also respond to Compulsion.
Now, as these four states, four activities, of the Desire Body, are evolved,
other “needs” come into being: the “need” for “Identity”, that need to establish
personal boundaries which enables the Life Form to know of itself. This brings
about the “need” for “Space”. Territorialism is a matter of the Desire Body. But
because interaction is a fact, there also grows within the Desire Body a “need” for
“Union”. And then, with Identity, Space, Union, comes that sense of Status. These
needs are all in the Desire Body. Some time ago you were given an exercise, an
assignment, to examine your “needs”, to attempt to identify your “wants” as
opposed to “needs”, or as compared to “needs”. Perhaps this will give you some
foundation upon which you can build a new formation.
Can you now see how these Desire Body’s sponsorships provide for the
development of “Instinct”? They become the engine for the gears of Instinct. Who
among you recalls the four Purposes?
Jnana: Survival, Security, Comfort and Luxury, in that order.
Sheariam: Can you now see how those Purposes become emergent from the
Instinctual operations? If Desire is the engine, the powerhouse, and Instinct is the
moving apparatus, that which enables ratio to change, then Purpose becomes the
vehicle, and Will becomes the destination. This is where current civilization on this
planet earth now finds itself. You are still driven by the powerhouse of the Desire
Body, but because of the many times you have been through the ranks in
Quantifying your Quality of Human-ness, you have increased the ratio of Volition to
Consciousness. Thus you can begin to exercise Will in a manner which directs the
Desire Body, rather than being the target of the Desire Body. You are becoming
masters of your own ship, slowly but surely.
Now it would seem that you have been given enough to consider before we
move onward to the next Platform, for it is this next Platform which offers you the
greatest challenge of your existence. If you think you are challenged now, grow a
little.
Betty: Could you expand a little bit on what you meant by “sense of status”? (As
interaction occurs, the Law of Dominance is exercised. “Status”, in your slang is the
“pecking order”. Each must find where it fits in the order of domination. Otherwise,
Self Mastery cannot be attained.)
Owen: The domination that you referred to here, is domination of one individual
versus another individual? (Any Life Form.) Not domination of the Self? (Ultimate
domination of self.)
Sidney: You said that observation of the experiences of the first four steps of the
Wheel of Karma gives us a platform of theoretical and empirical. Does that mean, then,
that the second platform of Desire, Instinct, Purpose and Will can somehow be equated
with theoretical and empirical? No. You attempt to make too much of a diagram. As I
said to being, this system is not consistent, but is, itself, in a state of transformation.
There are bases which seem to remain unchanged because of the length of time
certain Consciousnesses have in which to view them. But, Indeed, all is in constant
change. Do not equate each four as one and one, two and two, three and three.
While they may evolve or develop as given, they do not necessarily directly relate
one here to one there. It might be one here and four there.
This is a matrix of many, many dimensions. As you move in Consciousness
away from your three dimensional thinking into multi-dimensional thought, these
direct relationships become less imperative for you, but you are not yet upon that
third platform in which this is a possibility for you. You are moving in that
direction.)
Owen: From time to time consideration of “dimensions” comes into the
teachings, and that always has been a little bit of a puzzlement as to which dimensions
we’re thinking of. We’re used to three dimensions to describe a solid, a fourth dimension
of time, another of density. Those are the kinds of dimensions used in physics and
mathematics. I’m wondering just where those leave off and the dimensions that you often
refer to being, and what those dimensions might be. (There is no “leaving off”, no
“beginning”. Those dimensions are parts of the multi-dimensions of Consciousness.)
Are there other dimensions that you might list that would enable us to think a
little bit more of some of the dimensions that you have in mind? (One that immediately
comes to my awareness is “Degree Of Intensity”. Your thinking process at times has
great intensity, and at other times much lesser degree of intensity, maybe of great
depth and little intensity, so they become transitory. At other times, less depth with
great intensity and then have great staying power. We will be considering this topic
in greater depth.)
Jenika: I have a general confusion about the concept of “Desire”. We are here to
“Appropriate” and “Dominate” what we want. At the same time we are told to examine
everything we desire. It’s like once you’ve finally arrived and gotten hold of something,
it’s like you have to figure how to give it up, or should you give it up. Do you understand
what I’m trying to say?
(Indeed. So long as you are in the earth condition, you will wear a Desire
Body. You will deal with Impulsions, Compulsions, Propulsions, and Expulsions.
You will deal with Identity, Space, Union, Status. As you grasp your “Wants”, you
deal with these things with the greater ratio of Volition to Consciousness. You
cannot relinquish any of the four primaries of the Desire Body. (Ed. Survival,
Security, Comfort, Luxury) You can relinquish the secondaries, the tertiaries, or the
quaternaries, which have not been given. You are not ready. Some of you do not
even have them yet.)
Will we be finding out what those are? (Dependent upon your capacity to
grasp.)
Sidney: You made the statement that as long as we have earth bodies we will have
a Desire Body. That leads me to the question that after we have sloughed the physical
body and gone on into another body that is less solid and less visible to us now, are those
bodies then also called “earth bodies” and our “astral bodies” called “earth bodies”?
(Actually, yes. As we have given, we are Spirit-Physical. Some of us still have a
Desire Body. Those who have gone on may have totally relinquished the Desire
Body.)
To continue just a brief follow-up question: You gave us in a more or less
involutionary manner the first aspect of the earth as we know it as fire and moving to air
and water and earth. In our process of moving out of earth bodies, and your process
sloughing at least the desire part of that, will then we move evolutionarily in the direction
from earth, then to water, air and fire again? (Yes.)
So we would say then that you in your state have very little of the earth body but
more of the other three, and your goal then is to eventually arrive, as probably all of our
goals are, to eventually arrive at totally fire bodies? (Yes. It is through my Water Body
that I can come to you through the channel. It is through my Air Body that I can
communicate intellectually.)
Myra: We have spoken many times of the Desire Body, and I remember that the
Desire Body was established in the fourth step on the Wheel of Karma at Desire. Are we
referring here to the subtle body, the first subtle body? (Indeed, yes.) So when we finally
do graduate from eliminating that Desire Body, we will have more or less left the Realm
of Self? (Not necessarily.) So we’ll still be in the Realm of Self but not need that Desire
Body any more?
Sheariam: Remember that the Wheel of Karma has to do with planets earth, this
planet in particular, and does not necessarily apply elsewhere. We who teach have
been in your planet earth, have been in the wheel, and some of us are still in the
Wheel, but some have progressed beyond, some who have fulfilled their
Specialization completely, but choose, for reasons that cannot be explained to you,
to remain near the Spirit-Physical or even in the Spirit-Physical.
Owen: You mentioned that you come to us by coming through your Water Body
and communicating through the Air Body. Do we currently each have Air Bodies and
Water Bodies? (Yes. Recessive.) And these are in addition to the subtle bodies? (In a
way, they are synonymous.)
Myra: Could you say more? (You do not have the scientific physics to grasp.
You do not have the language in which I could convey the concepts to you.)
Jean: Is it something like mixing cement where you can put water and cement
and sand all to fill the same bucket? (Similar.)
Owen: In other words, the subtle bodies and the Fire, Water, Air Bodies are really
all part of the same system. (Yes. Remember that those are Environmental Bodies, if
you will, and the Subtle Bodies are personal. Does that help?) Yes. (The Air Body
for your planet you recognize: atmosphere. You recognize Water Bodies of your
planet. You recognize Earth Bodies of your planet, and this does not dismay you.
When we say to you that these also have subtle bodies, that does not dismay you. So
why can you not apply it to yourselves?)
Do we have Fire Bodies? (Very recessive.) The Nature Spirits, as for example,
Salamanders, that are supposed to be fire. (Fire Bodies.) And they are present in fire?
(Yes. Were it not for the existence of Fire Bodies, you would not have fire.)
Sidney: While I think of Water Body, I think of something that flows, and I think
of the common parlance of what we do in out-of-body experiences or when we dream,
and there is kind of a flowing. I can imagine that body being contained within a channel
just as a body of water, as we think of it in the physical. When I think of Fire body, the
recessive Fire Body, I think of the “I Am” statement we made that means “Fire at the
core”, Khamael. I also think of the Divine Rod. Now, are any of these observations
adequate? (Not adequate, but on the right track. Yes, the Rod is directly related to
the recessive Fire Body in you.)
How about the flowing but invisible body which might be somehow related to the
Water Body? (The Water Body is connected to the water tissue, if you will, your
circulatory system in your physical body. Your out-of-body citation has to do with
the Air Body. But the fluid body moves with the Fire Body inside the Vital Body
which formulates that tie or “Silver Cord”. So that while you are extended, you still
have all of the four Elementary Environments and all of the Subtle Bodies.)
Jean: When I’m working with massage, I sometimes work with what I think is
the Fire element, and do certain holds working with that energy that comes out. Other
times I’m working with what I consider the Water element, and that is the emotion. It
seems to be somewhat different. Is this vaguely touching on what you are talking about?
(Less than vaguely, more in fact.) It is in fact working. (Yes.) Oh, I see. Oh!
Sidney: What is the relationship between the four bodies and the four categories of
astrological sign that we use? (There is a vagueness there. Fire signs do not
necessarily have greater Fire Bodies and so on. Those are relationships developed
through empirical knowledge. Remember that empirical knowledge is not always
totally accurate, but it is more accurate than theoretical knowledge.)
Myra: And those are the two final platforms on the Wheel you’re talking about,
aren’t they? The theoretical platform and the empirical platform?
Sheariam: They are not platforms. They are part of Knowledge as a step, the
final step on the first platform. Take the twelve steps and divide them into thirds.
Each of those thirds would be considered a “platform”. One of the misconceptions
that you have entertained about the Wheel of Karma is the cyclicity. One Life Form
may go as far as Knowledge, then return to Matter. After some number of such
cycles, if it advances to the development of Desire Body, it can then achieve existence
on the next “platform” of the next four. Having achieved Will, it may go back to
Matter, and go through the eight steps any number of times until it conquers Will,
which you have not yet done.
Then having achieved the Third platform, the cycle may go through all
twelve any number of times. Sooner or later the four of the bottom platform can be
relinquished, and the upper eight cycled through, at which time you enter the First
Platform of the next wheel, which may not be Karma.
Myra: But it starts with Desire. (The Second Platform begins with Desire.)
Owen: In the Second Wheel? (Second Wheel: Second Platform of the spiral.)
Jean: When we give up our addictions, are we beginning to get on overcoming
Will in this? (Achieving Will, achieving that step.)
Myra: Before we give up our addictions, we have to recognize our dependencies
and our addictions. (Precisely.) And when we recognize them, that was the second State
of Consciousness that Silverthistle gave us, the dependency step.
Jean: Is this why then as we grow spiritually we have to give up certain foods,
and I suppose certain behaviors, and is this why we become more sensitive and more
restrictive? (True. But as you restrict in one area, you expand and achieve freedom
in others.)
Are these tingles that I feel through my body at times evidence of growth? (They
are evidence of the reassurance of your support group. They may be commendation,
approval, encouragement, reassurance. They are like the signal on you biofeedback
contraption which tells you when you have achieved a certain cycle of mental
activity.)
It seems that other people can go through this without having to have all these
physical reassurances. (Not so. This goes back to Identity, Space, Union and Status.
Everyone experiences that.)
Peter: You mentioned something about recessive bodies. Could you explain that
a little bit for me please? (You now inhabit a body that is comprised of solid matter,
of liquid matter, of gaseous matter, of ertiate matter. Some of those you can
recognize. Some of those you cannot, particularly the ertiate, because you have
become condensed. As matter becomes more solid, the less solid becomes recessive.
If the Fire Body were not recessive, you would explode. As you know, in your
history, this has happened. But for the most part, humans in the bodies now
inhabited, can only perceive the Fire Body in that innate compelling force, to live, to
be. When all drive to do or to perform or to comply seems to be lost, there is still
that drive “To be”, even in a vegetative state. It is that drive “To Be” that
represents to you your Fire Body. Does that help you?) Yes, it does. Thank you very
much.
Owen: Do you differentiate between the ertiate and solid? (Only as a state of
being. Can you imagine yourself in an ertiate state?) That’s what I’m not sure of. I
thought that ertiate was the same as solid, which I thought I was in. (No, indeed.)
Myra: What is “ertiate”? (An ERT.) Comprised of ERTs. Would the whole body
be an ERT or comprised of may ERTs? (Comprised of many.)
Jean: I seem to be undergoing a great deal of change and almost quivery states
often, and I find this a little disturbing. I don’t know exactly what to do. I tend to just be
quiet and wait. Is that the right thing to do? (That is the best thing you can do. “Be still
and know that I Am That I Am”.)
I think maybe there is some fear in it, too.) (That is why we remind you of that
affirmation. The Fire Body is to be the I Am. Fear resides in the Desire Body,
Identity, Space, in Union and in Status. You fear that your Status is changing. You
do not want the unknown. It might attack you.) Yes, that’s right. (Attack the
unknown.) I guess that I want to feel I have control, and I’m afraid of losing it. (Control
is what you must relinquish.)
Betty: Sheariam, as usual, your answers have created more questions in my mind.
(Hopefully.) I think it was in the last lesson you spoke of the appropriate use of
domination. Today you speak of finding the “pecking order”, which I find… (No, I
speak of the pecking order being formulated in the first platform of the Karmic
Wheel. If you participate in a pecking order, then best you discover where that is so
you can deal with it. You do, indeed, participate in such a system. Your choice of
occupation most certainly puts you in that position. Your choice of family, your
choice of friends, your choice of activity, do also. There is, indeed, that system
existent, and for those of you at this stage of human evolution, you are all involved
in some system of Status. Now, how important that is to you determines how you
will volitionally deal with it.)
To me, the ultimate would be that each take dominion over themselves and let the
others be where they would be, be totally accepted. (Wonderful ideal! Can it be
pragmatically instituted?) I believe it can be, but I don’t know if it can be on this plane.
But is it appropriate then to keep that thought in mind? (As we move to the third
platform, you will find that’s germane. )
But in the meantime, learn to accept and be where you are? (Fill your space. Let
others fill theirs. By the choices that you make, you determine where in the system
your space shall be. It is up to you to fill that space, to interact from that space, but
not to act outside of it. That is how you climb onto that third platform. We will
examine that in greater depth in our discussion of Will.)
I heard what you said, but I didn’t quite understand. That is how you climb onto
that third platform? Is that what you said? (Sheariam nods.) What did you mean by
that? Could you say it in other words: by operating within that spot where you are, your
space? (Moment by moment, each makes certain choices that create the place in the
system for your space, and also dictates how well you will fill that space. Your
primary duty at this point is to fill your space completely, and to act only within that
space and not outside of it, with the exception of the necessity for interaction. You
may request, and you may be requested, to intermingle your space because of the
fact of interaction under the Law of Dominance. Your subtle bodies are constantly
interspersed. That is not what we mean. When we speak of “space”. We speak of
that environment which you have created of scent, of sound, of mood, of attitude.
Does that help?)
Yes it does help, but it creates more questions again.
Myra: Could I ask a question that was inspired by a comment you made last time,
about the need to dominate your space, and when your space is invaded by someone else,
then there is a time for righteous anger. There’s anger that’s proper. You were talking
about peace at that time and using the consciousness of space to change the whole
world’s environment. Now, supposing your space is invaded? And this also is a question:
How do you know where your space is, and what’s the outside boundary in a sense. (You
structure it.) OK. So you can decide or choose what your boundary is then. (Yes, within
certain limitations.
As long as you’re not invading someone else’s space? (Yes.) Now, supposing
your space which you have structured has been invaded, and you wish the consciousness
of peace, but you feel angry. How do you express your anger in a peaceful manner? Is
there ever a time for violence? Is there a time for, say, having a gun? (No.) That’s what I
thought.
Sheariam: Now let us discuss “Space”. We are not describing to you a rigid
structure. Space is fluid in nature, but not in character. It tends in character to be
rigid. It is for you, in the exercise of your Volition and with your consciousness, to
be flexible. When another attacks the boundaries of your space, you can bend that
right so that penetration does not occur. Indeed, you also have the capacity to allow
attack and penetration to pass on through, if you do not present resistance. If you
meet force with force, then you are in trouble. Silverthistle has given you much on
this.
It is with gentleness that you express your anger, not in violence. If you allow
your anger to make you violent, then you are in trouble. There is no reason for
violence. You can expel an intruder from your space without violence, with
gentleness. Your very gentleness strengthens the walls of your space prohibiting
attack and invasion.
This does not speak to doormat personalities, but gentleness with self-
confidence, a sense of “I Am”, a knowledge of one’s worth. Anger which arises from
affront means that you have weakened the walls of your space.
Now in contractual matters, which go on all the time, interaction is always
contractual. If the other person does not live up to the contract, anger may be just.
But if you are affronted because the other did not live up to your expectations, then
anger is unjust, for there was no contract.
One of the ways in which one maintains and completely fills one’s space is to
make terms of contract clear, which requires communication, at which none of your
are expert. Another may not know where your space is if you do not tell them. That
space needs to be flexible, not rigid. There are times when one can declare that time
or geographical space or activity must be inviolate from another’s impact,
meditation being one of those. At other times, when you invite someone to
participate in an activity with you, you declare the walls of your space to be relaxed,
to bend, to allow, but it is still your space. Sharing space must be voluntary if it is to
be productive, but anger must only be expressed with gentleness, never with
violence, and that includes violent thoughts.
So you have had sufficient lesson for today.
Myra: Thank you so much, Sheariam. That really helps.
Jean: Sheariam, this is Jean. I’m going to ask one more question. Supposing this
is your ideal, and yet when your button is pushed, you break your ideal. (Mend you
fences and try again. You make peace, and it is up to you to make peace. If you
await the button pusher, then you are in error.) Thank you.
Betty: May I ask one more question then? You spoke of “If there is penetration,
let it go through”. (Yes.) Could you give me a “for instance” or enlarge on that just a
little? (Do not take it to heart. Do not permit yourself to be affronted. Do not permit
yourself to be cast off center. Let it go on by.)
How do you handle that without becoming a doormat at all times? (Fill your
space and do not respond emotionally. Your youngsters have an excellent slang
phrase: “Keep your cool”.)
Myra: That’s self-image that Silverthistle spoke of. (Indeed.)
Owen: Sheariam, you mentioned that some of the mid-eastern countries have
cause for just anger because of the oppression they have suffered for a long time. This
means that there is a race karma or race thought that the individuals, although they may
not have participated in the former cause for this just anger, but they now participate in
the result. (Indeed.) There again the violence is not appropriate. (True.) Does this still
boil down then to the individual response? (Yes.) Is there some kind of a policy that a
nation could adopt that would help to encourage individuals then to achieve a peaceful
situation?
Sheariam: Yes, and that is even now in process. It was the onset, the anticipation
of this expression of another part of consciousness on their part, which encouraged
us to look to a future which in recent times seemed but dim.
Now the channel’s body grows uncomfortable. We must close. So let us have
a brief meditation if we can sustain the contact.
Settle your bodies. Put aside your paraphernalia and focus your minds. Let
peace and gentleness prevail. Imagine within your breast, where your heart beats,
resides the spirit of the dove. The power of that emanates from your hands. Let it be
the olive branch.
Then in your imagination, allow that dove within your breast to emerge from
the heart chakra and grasp within its beak the olive branch. With a great whirring
of flapped wings, the doves take flight and carries your heart love and your mind
peace and your acts of reconciliation to become an environmental influence in the
troubled centers of your globe.
Let those symbols of peace and love and harmony abide in your
consciousnesses, to be at the upper levels of your awareness when you think of the
troubled centers on your globe. Symbols have great power. You empower that
power of symbols with your heartfelt wishes for peace and global harmony.
Then those wishes must first be expressed at home among your own kind, with your
neighbors, with your families, with your friends and associates and co-workers and
acquaintances. Make it one of your priorities to act always lovingly and gently.
Strive for that ideal.
When you fall short, forgive yourself and encourage yourself to move
forward and try again, knowing that you can fulfill your ideal. As you fulfill that
ideal, so it is fulfilled for all.
No I bid you to go in joy and in peace. Farewell for now.
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