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Session #86 – October 18, 1986
Gloria’s Circle
Present: Betty Welty, Eileen Horton, Ida Nevala, Jean Chisholm, Richard and
Mary White, Owen and Maxine Cramer, Myra Perala, Peggy Muldoon,
and Sidney Smither
Following the usual third-Saturday potluck feast, Sidney presented a stimulating review of the
Law of Process and the Archangel Raphael
Sheariam: Good evening students and friends. Let us go about the circle and place
ourselves in unison by speaking our names. (Done.) Sing it. (Done.) Listen to the beauty.
Once more. (Done.) Do you not hear the beauty? Then let us do it once more. (Done.)
Better.
Your discussion this evening was indeed timely. Let us refer to our discussion of the
Wheel of Karma when last we met. We briefly examined that process, but that process is
the foundation for all that you are and all that you shall become in this condition, and holds
within its simplicity the answers to your questions long since tabled. We recommend that
you commit to memory, to consciousness, the process, for it will be referred to again and
again as we discuss your lives in this Realm of Self, as we discuss who you are, from whence
you came, and to where you are bound. It would be well if you reviewed the lessons given
from Realm of Spirit down through the realms, for this must all be integrated into your
understanding.
As last given, the primary wheel was established when life was very primitive, upon
a very primitive planet. It would be well if you continued with your meditations on
primitive life forms, mineral forms, and other such beginnings in terms of this wheel.
As Matter is a product of Mind, and life arises therefrom, Mind then is your
primary source. It is your resource, your support, your promise, your ongoingness, your
guarantee, if you will. And in this condition where there is life, and there is life in all things
and everywhere, environment is created by that life. In the very beginning, environment is
created by the life, itself. That is a process which continues and is even now in effect and
shall remain in effect as long as there is a Realm of Self. You as organisms manifesting life
out of matter, create the environment in which you live. Then you proceed to live in that
environment.
It is through the knowledge gained in that interaction between the creator and the
created that Consciousness enables Quality to become Quantified. As knowledge is gained
through experience, those memories, no matter how primitive, become stored in the Mental
Body. Now at the very primitive level, where there is not yet evolution, memory is stored in
preparation for evolution. Out of those memories, the Creative Body can continue to
create, to manifest, to objectify in ever more complexifying organisms which then, as life,
create more complexified environments. And so a greater complexity of knowledge is
gained.
Then, what does this knowledge lead to? (Ans: Desire.) Is that not true in your lives?
Do you desire that of which you know not? Even in your folk saying, you say “Ignorance is
bliss.” If you do not know something exists, you cannot desire it. But because you are Life,
and because you have resource to the Mental and Creative Bodies, you can then create out
of Desire.
Now, as life forms have complexified and ultimately specialized into what you call
human, you have lost that capacity to readily create that which you desire, and thus Desire
began to direct itself towards that which was another’s environment. As this knowledge is
stored, and Desire is exercised, instinct in primitive life forms becomes hidden agenda in
human beings. Humans, with great arrogance, announce that they do not have instinct as
the Animal Kingdom does. What then drives you from the dark side of your nature? It is
all that accumulation of experience resulting from the action taken on Desire.
And then, on the wheel of Karma, what does Instinct lead to? (Ans: Purpose.) Can
you now see the connection? You, as human beings, are driven by deeply imbedded
psychological drives, and you purpose to do things that are against your social best interest.
But because this is so, you can change those drives into positive manifestation, and this is
your aim in your specialization.
To what end, then, is Purpose without Will? And wherefrom comes Will? (Ans:
From Purpose.) Thus your Will actually stems from your Divine Source, or Soul.
Myra: How is that different from Intention? (Will and Intention are distinctly
different drives, one being the outgrowth of the other.) Oh. Will is the outgrowth of the
Intention? (In your manifestation. It is difficult to find adequate language to condense such
a broad concept into one word.) The reason I asked that is because you said that the Will
comes from the Divine Source or Soul. Did I understand you correctly? (Correct.) So that’s why
I was thinking that.
Sheariam: Now as life rose and the wheel of Karma developed, and the evolutionary
spiral began with the building of the Desire Body, specialization became imperative. In the
beginnings, before the Emotional Body when only the Desire Body existed, initial Egos
were born. You have wondered as to numbers and when. You have been told in terms of
abstraction, where and how. But we have not been able to truly explain the relationship
between Soul and Ego until you understood that Ego is a developed manifestation. So Ego
is, in this manner, developed by Soul through the Desire Body.
As Ego matures and the Emotional Body is built, these complex organisms, life
forms, live their span, but the Desire and Emotional Bodies do not end their duration
simultaneously with the end of the duration of the physical manifestation or the matter
organism, but retain the identity of that complexity, whatever it may be. So now we have
two storehouses, but not independent of each other. All activity is recorded in the Mental
Body. Individual activity becomes recorded in the cells of the Desire and Emotional Bodies.
Now as Desire grew and Emotional needs developed, it became necessary to the
organism’s survival to develop a body of protection, and thus the Vital Body, what we have
termed the Vital Body, is developed. With each development of an additional subtle body,
the Ego matures.
As these bodies are used by the Ego to indwell the continuing oncoming life forms,
there is that union of that Source of Life which your brother Silverthistle calls “the Rod”.
Each organism of life which arises out of matter, has that Rod direct from Soul. Each
complex organism also has that Rod of Life and the two must join when subtle bodies
combine with rising life of matter.
Have I succeeded in making my point?
Owen: I’m not sure I got the last point. Are you describing the process of sexual
reproduction? (Not at all, but yes.)
Myra: What was the last thing that you said – something has to combine to create
matter?
Sheariam: As Silverthistle has given, when the indwelling entity claims a fetus, the Life
Rod of the fetus and the Life rod of the indwelling Entity must meld. But in the beginning,
the primitive life forms had only the first Rod, what might be termed now the “Fetal Rod”.
Myra; So the parent’s rod and the rod of the fetus become a single rod. Is that what
you’re saying? (No. As life rises from Matter, the resultant form has its Rod of Life. As
those forms complexify and build Desire and Emotional Bodies, and ultimately, Vital
Bodies, at the end of the duration of the physical organism form, the Desire, Emotional and
Vital Bodies continue with that Rod. When that Rod, that particular complex, again unites
with a material form which has arisen out of matter and has its Primal Rod, the Rods of
both must meld.)
Jean: I thought I understood it, and now I’m confused. You say the life from matter,
which I take as that coming from the earth, has a Rod of Life. (The simplest organism, the
most primitive organism, has a Rod of Life, which does not have a subtle body. As these
primitive life forms join together to complexify, to make other forms and build Desire,
Emotional and Vital Bodies, a Rod of Life goes into those subtle bodies, which must go on
with them when the material organism ends its duration. So there is continuation of
individual experience.)
But the original Rod came from the soul? (Yes.) There is where I got mixed up. The
original Rod comes from the Soul. Then this primitive organism has that rod which came from
the Soul. (Correct.) And then it joins with the Rod which comes from the earth, or from???
(Suggestions that all rods come from the earth, from matter.) (The Rod that is present in the
life which rises from matter comes from Soul.)
Myra: You’re so great, Sheariam. You explain it so beautifully. (Apparently not well
enough for you to understand. But this must be understood or we cannot answer your
questions.)
Jean: All right, let’s see if I have it. The Soul gives the Rod to the material. Then??
(Then the material builds a Desire Body which partakes of that initial Rod. Then an
Emotional Body is built which also partakes of the initial Rod. Then a Vital Body is built
which also partakes of the initial Rod. But when the duration of the first matter cell
reaches its culmination, the subtle bodies continue with their portions of that Rod.
Another complexity of matter arises into life form with this Rod from Soul. When
the combined subtle bodies unite with the newly risen complexity of material form, the
material form’s Soul Rod unites with the Rod retained by the subtle bodies.)
Jean: I think I understand. (This is an essential point if you are to comprehend to
any degree karma and reincarnation.)
Myra: Does this Rod that starts with the single cell and then grows the three subtle
bodies, when it merges with the new complexity of creation, does this Rod get larger? (Let us
say, it becomes Qualified. It may begin as a very primitive life form. It may become
complexed into a worm, let us say. And then perhaps into a butterfly, and then perhaps
into some other, what you might term, higher life form. These continuing complexities join
with other complexities towards that ultimate of specialization.
Look at your Wheel of Karma and you will see Motivation, and then you see
Thought, and then Specialization. True? You see the higher life forms participate in the
higher cycles of the Wheel. Primitive life forms may remain in the early four.)
Jean: The first Rod I understood, but when it unites with the other Rod which originally
came from the Soul but has not progressed? (It has progressed perhaps to the second rung.)
But it originally came from the Soul also. (Yes.)
Myra: Is that Realm of Soul or Soul Body? (Souls live in the Realm of Soul, yes.) Did
you say that the primitive forms remain in the first four parts of this Wheel? (In the
reincarnational aspect, that material used by Life to comprise a primitive life form, at the
end of that duration, having served its purpose. Do not confuse this word “purpose” with
the word used elsewhere. Let us use the word, perhaps, “mission”, when a life form has
fulfilled, let us say, “function”. Certain primitive life forms are designed for specific
functions, to form foundations, to be the instrument which develops the Desire Body, which
may then later be used for some other mission.
Once a subtle body has been developed, the Soul can then use that feeble Ego for
missions to fulfill its Intention. As with any process, it must start from simple beginnings,
become more complex, more sophisticated, if you will, until Specialization is completed and
all returns to what might be termed “primordial matter”.
Now you, in your current state of humanity, as self-conscious units, individuations,
personalities, are fulfilling a mission of your Ego, which at this time, in these terms of
“mega-cycles” is quite sophisticated. Yet in terms of your ultimate specialization, is still
primitive.)
We have a long ways to go to become more specialized? (In the overall picture of the
Quality Human, yes.) This is part of the wheel of Karma? (Yes.)
Jean: Does this apply to humans as a group? Are there some humans that are much
farther up? Or does this apply to all humans? (All humans at this point in the over-all cycle.
When we are considering the Quantification of Quality being cycles in billions and billions
of years, in your terms, your point of Specialization is still on the primitive side.)
Myra: So that we could anticipate that when humankind in the world today is developed
up to its more specialized form, would we then be where we would have “air bodies” maybe or
“light bodies”? (Yes. Now realize that as the primitive forms built the Realm of Ego above,
so the maturation of Ego builds the Realm of Soul, not from scratch, but in the way of
Quantifying Quality. Specialization is the development of Differentiated Quality.
With that I will let you chew upon it.
Myra: Specialization comes from Thought. So our thought, as it becomes more nimble,
or as perhaps we are helping ourselves along toward higher specialization. OK. (And the
epitome of Specialization at this point in the evolution of your planet is that self-mastery
which we attempt to teach you.)
Jean: Now, on the chart it says “Matter”. Specialization leads to “Matter”. How does
that tie in to mastery? (You have not understood the first ten, how can I make you
understand the twelfth?) Oh, Matter is Special. Oh, sure. Light is special. It starts a new cycle.
It would be like ice turns to liquid and liquid turns to steam? (That is a good simile.)
Richard: And then condenses and begins over again.
Myra: Except that this matter will be more complex than it was at the beginning of the
first time around. (Not necessarily more complex, but more rarely Qualified.)
Betty: Could that be like Bigfoot, saying that their consciousness is different? They
don’t have to experience the Law of Dominance and all this junk that we’re experiencing here.
They have already specialized more than we have. (But they do experience the Law of
Dominance by living on this planet.) But they don’t have to get into some of the junk that we
get in, because they have taken care of that. They are doing their things. (They have Quantified
differently than you have. Yes.)
Jean: Might it be like earlier, people had to lift the rock, and then as they evolved, they
got a lever to lift the rock, and then as they evolved, they got a machine to push the lever to lift
the rock?
Betty: That’s becoming more technical. Some primitive societies can think themselves
into existence, or think themselves there. (It is, however, a form of specialization.)
I had some confusion as I went down to read about the Quality of Humanness. Is
Humanness a Quality just on this planet? (No. But humanness may take a different life form
as far as material manifestation is concerned.) What makes human or not human? (Self-
consciousness.) And yet we’re told that even minerals have consciousness. (But not self-
consciousness.)
Myra: What you said a little bit ago about the Quality Human on different planets... (I
did not say that. I said that the Quality you call Human, that is to say the Quality of self-
consciousness, may manifest in some other condition differently than you experience it
here.)
Owen: By “other conditions”, you don’t necessarily mean other planets? (Not
necessarily.)
Jean: Can you give us an example of another condition? (Law of Harmony.)
Myra: We live under the Law of Dominance, where another kind of Human Quality
would life under the Law of Harmony?
Owen: Are you in the Spirit-Physical living under the Law of Dominance also? (The
physical part of us that unites with the consciousness of humanness in this planet earth is.)
Betty: Have you explained in other sessions what it means to be self-conscious, or could
you explain a little more about that? (Self-consciousness requires the capacity to reflect upon
the past and predicate a future.) Past, as we understand it, like beads on string? (Yes.)
Jean: With that definition, some of the animals, like dogs, would have self-
consciousness. (That is true. One of the dimensions of Thought is that of degree.)
Myra: I have a question about the Wheel of Karma relating one level of complexity, as
you put it, that moves to the next level of complexity. Would that indicate, then, that perhaps
mosquitoes could someday be little mice, and mice could become cats, and that sort of thing?
Does it go like that? (The experience, the desires, the memories, the instincts, are some of
those hidden agendas of yours of which I spoke earlier.) I’m sorry, but I didn’t understand
that. (Does Desire on the Wheel not lead to instinct?) Yes. (Did I not tell you that all is
recorded in the Mental Body, and from these recordings new life forms can be created?
That does not end the duration of the experience. It is simply passed on to the new life
form.) OK. So when the Rod from the subtle bodies is passed on to the more complex body, then
the Rods meld into the same Rod. That is in essence moving it from a lower, simple complexity
to a more highly developed one. Do I understand that correctly? (Fairly so.)
Jean: Now do I understand that as the movement goes to the Wheel of Karma, then the
next joining at the same level or higher could never go completely down to the first? (Matter
does, but the experience is never lost.) That’s what I meant. The experience only goes as far as
it has been before or higher. (The experience, yes.)
Myra: The subtle bodies remember those experiences. (Yes. Incorporate.) So when you
ask us to meditate on the simple one-celled creature, then you’re asking us to not only imagine it
but to experience it as our selves might remember it. (Because it is you. There is within you the
record of the memory of that life form.)
Jean: Is that what sometimes makes the disturbed dream, or the agitation that
sometimes comes, I guess with dreaming, or during sleep? (That is sometimes the source of the
discomfort. But remember now, the matter which comprises your physical organism is
indeed very, very ancient.) And that’s used over and over. (Yes.)
Myra: When you say the matter that comprises our physical organism, do you mean like
our bones and our tissues is old?
Jean: Now does each bit of that matter have its memory? (Yes.)
Myra: I thought when a baby is born, that its body is growing new cells, etc. (It is.) You
are talking about genetic memory, then. (That is one memory.)
Owen: Of course the body is constructed of elements, atoms and molecules that are very
ancient. Is that also what you are referring to? (Yes.)
Eileen: It sounds like an evolutionary thing, like we all started at the bottom with the one-
celled organism and that we’ve experienced every form of life. Is this true? (That is true.)
Betty: This is the question I was trying to get at. We were talking about Darwin’s theory
of evolution, and we were saying that we didn’t evolve from the apes. (No, you did not.) But we
all essentially came from slime. (Yes, you did. But do not lose sight of Ideation. Do not lose
sight of the Adam Kadmon plan. Review your Realms. Your specializations are not
accidental.)
Jean: Is it kind of like working with tinker toys or building pieces?3 You can break
them apart, and, still on the material, you build a big structure and then you break it apart. Now
each one of those little pieces has within it the capacity to make that big structure, because it was
there once and fit together. And this piece that didn’t fit in won’t fit in. So if it was part of the big
structure, it can go up. And then as it is rebuilt, the memory of where it went can help it build
too, to rebuild that structure. (And even more sophisticated structures, because of the
Creative Body. Remember that the Mental and Creative Bodies are involutionary.)
You said “involutionary”? (Yes. Evolution does not begin until Matter has given rise
to Life which has created an environment which has permitted it the knowledge to build a
Desire Body. That is the turning point when “involution” becomes “evolution”, which is the
building of, what you term, the “higher realms”.)
Then is it true that new life forms are being created at this time? (Constantly. With
more and more sophistication, because they are the building blocks of the more
sophisticated Quantification of the Quality Human, for instance.)
Myra: Could this be like little babies that are born today are more sensitive or different?
(Yes.) They seem to be, as a group, quite different.
Betty: I don’t know how accurate I am about this reading of the past civilization of
Lemuria, etc., where they seemed to have evolved very highly, to have Quantified the Quality.
Then we seem to have come back down and are making a mess all over again. If this memory is
there, what is the process where we have to start so low again?
Sheariam: Take in your individual life, you have experiences which should have taught
you certain things, and yet it has not. In some things you have learned a great deal, and so
in some areas, you can be quite sophisticated. In other areas you go back to the hidden
agenda.
This process is extremely complex. It is not a simple spiral. It is many spirals within
spirals, and not everything starts at the same point. To comprehend what we now attempt
to teach you is going to require your purposeful attention to abstract thinking. We cannot,
because of your limitations in time and space, give you detail by detail. You must
extrapolate from what we give and synthesize what you have extrapolated into your own
lives, and thereby mature your self-consciousness. There are parts of the maturing process
which seem to be out of synchronicity with other parts of the maturing process. And you
see this in the individual life span. Multiply that to the nth degree to understand how it
must happen in the maturity of civilization, in the maturity of species, and in the maturity
of the Laws.
If your experience is building the Realms you consider above, then that, too, is a
maturing process. It is not something that goes from Point A to Point B. It is multi-
dimensional, even as you are. You, as individuals, have dimensions of yourselves you have
never explored. You have not even yet dreamed of their existence. But we attempt to guide
you into pathways which will enable you to suspect that there is more to you.
Going back to the Wheel of Karma, it is only through the interaction of Life and its
Environment that Knowledge is gained. It is only through the gaining of the Knowledge
that Desire is built. You cannot want something you don’t know exists. So you are on a
pathway of discovery, of self discovery.
Jean: I get a glimmer of what you’re talking about, and I have a desire now to know
what’s at the next platform that we’re building toward. (But you see, you predicate what shall
be found at that next platform because you are building it.) Oh, you mean, it does not exist
till we build it. But if we have some glimmering of what it is, if we have an ideal, then we can
build toward it. (And only self-consciousness can have ideals.)
Myra: We live to our highest ideal all the time. (Now you are reaching towards those
real secrets that metaphysics has been waving before you.) We’ve worked on our higher
consciousness dominating and appropriating, but our higher consciousness is guided by our real
desire and what we really want our higher consciousness to work on. So they just sort of interact,
don’t they? (Yes. You see what you term “higher consciousness” is that aspect of subtleties
that carries all the previous experience and is that vital contact with the Creative Body.)
Peggy: Can the desires be carried over to our next lives? (Always.) Then we have
something like, on our next step up, we have something to start on to build from. (Absolutely.)
Myra: I was thinking about Desire as being an Attribute for the Law of Dominance. (It
is.) So that connects right here with this too. (Yes.)
Betty: I have been working with my mind on the whole process of desire and how it fits
in. I believe we were told that civil disobedience was not proper. And some other things like this.
If we have a desire to see more equality, what would be the best way to go about it? (Through
the Mental Realm in which all you would affect has connection. You are more powerful
sitting in meditation and contemplation in your own living room than you are sitting on a
railroad track.) Where does the place of assertiveness come in, and of filling up our own space?
(By thinking those thoughts of what you would have in your environment. You build your
environment with what you think, not with what you do. Your actions are a result of the
interaction between Life and its Environment which it has built.)
How fast can we change our environment? How much is up to us? (Now we cannot
Quantify race consciousness for you.) Can we instantaneously change our environment? Our
internal environment we can by how we think about something. (And the external environment
can change just as quickly.) (Gloria begins to cough.) It would be best to close.)
Closed with Let there be peace on earth. Out of trance, Gloria seemed quite OK.
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