Here’s an exercise and an act of creation:
Take about 2 minutes in a quiet place. Close your eyes, take a few breaths and imagine feeling a hug so wonderful, so completing that it makes up for all the hugs you‘ve ever wanted and not received. Bask in that feeling.
Do the exercise as many times as it takes to remember and feel the feeling at will.
Remember, the Archangels are actually powers within you, activated by invocation and intention, which assist you in creating your world, enhancing it and moving on to the next creation. These super powers allow you to create in multiple realms in this universe.
Again, the formula is:
The Archangel invokes the power of the law, working with the principle, to produce the attribute.
Tzaphkiel, pronounced TZ-OFF-KEE-EL, invokes the power of the Law of Illusion, working with the principle of Balance, producing Understanding.
Traditional Invocation: Tzaphkiel, Tzaphkiel, Tzaphkiel. Divine illusion settles the properties of this matter and brings balance and understanding.
Discussion:
The teachers said: “You have a power center with the Archangel Tzaphkiel, Divine Illusion. When you are in doubt, invoke Tzaphkiel for enlightenment. ‘Tzaphkiel’ means ‘to dream’ including both sleeping dreams and aspirations. This is to give you the hint that true balance comes in form, but not necessarily form found in your earth-physical manifestation. You witness in the earth-physical more imbalance than balance because there is such lack of understanding. The illusion is that form is the reality, when that is not true. The reality is what lies behind the form. The reality is The Divine Fire. Thus it is that you must give form to your thoughts, to your feelings, to your, what you call, spirit in order to establish the balance.”
“The Principle of Balance stands behind man’s attempt to reach God. And it’s all operative under the Law of Illusion, for if one did not expect to find reality in the form, one would not be in ignorance. But inasmuch as this is the way your universe has been constructed, that is the way you must travel to achieve understanding, through balance. ”
“When you have balanced the forms of one level of experience, you can then move on to achieve balance in the forms of higher levels of experience. With these lessons we are approaching an understanding of everyday life and the meaning of that life, what may lie ahead of that life, what may be accomplished with that life, how that life can be better in quality.”
“When you call on Tzaphkiel, the answer very often will come in a form of something that will demonstrate to you perhaps the futility of your expectation or will be representative of another aspect of the situation. When you are puzzled by a certain set of circumstances, you may call upon Tzaphkiel to interpret the form of the thing for you. The answer may come in dreams, in intuition, and even everyday symbology. This is that level of experience that gives you physical signs. For instance, a book falls into your hands, or you unexpectedly meet someone. A picture appears unexpectedly or in an unanticipated place or manner. A word may be said you, in some way, little signals are given.”
“If, for instance, you wish to have something revealed to you which previously has been hidden from you, you would go with the Law of Illusion.”
My favorite invocation for Tzaphkiel is: With Tzaphkiel I joyfully declare, “Understanding illusion maintains my serenity and enables my creativity.
Discussion: This invocation format states the intention of the invocation prior to the invocation, and affirms an attitude of joy. Joy is a necessary component of the enthusiasm that is part of the fuel of creation. Here I’m declaring that I understand the messages that experience gives, have balance (serenity) and am able to use the images and ideas that come to me and the signs that appear in daily life to answer questions that arise, and to bring forth new creations. The word imagination comes up in the discussion of illusion. I prefer the word “imager” to describe the faculty we have to give form to something that may not already be demonstrated in the physical. If you want to understand something, form the question, invoke Tzaphkiel and watch for the answer to appear as life unfolds in front of you.
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Suppose you positioned your mouth as if you were going to whistle, and blew at the roof of your mouth, versus your focusing on your lips. If you make your tongue concave or U-shaped, you get a round tone sounding like “who”. If, however you make your tongue flat, you get a sound more like the double “o” in “hook”. And as you move your cheeks into a smile, you get an “ee” sound. There is an ancient sacred sound “hree” used as a focusing exercise in traditional Hindu meditative practice. Perhaps you’ve heard of pink noise and white noise. White noise is a “hiss”, if you will, more like “ee”.
Got a few minutes? Try this as focusing exercise:
In a quiet room, sit comfortably and imagine a pure tone, perhaps like a flute, in your audible range. Then, using your imagination, make that tone slide up higher and higher and higher until it leaves the audible range through pink and white noise and goes on… and on… and on…
All of a sudden there’s a huge flash so bright that nothing is distinguishable anywhere… and you just listen to your breath. Enjoy the calm and take it with you out into the world.
The Teachers tell us that we live under the Law of Dominance, but that our focus should be Self-Dominance. An interesting word, “dominance”… The Latin word for Lord or Master or Teacher is “Dominus”. “Lord” and “Master” connote control, and a teacher is one who has controlled him/herself sufficiently to learn something well enough to teach it, and one who studies longer can get a “Master’s” degree. Our task is to quantify the quality “human”, i.e. enhance humanity through self-enhancement, through self-dominance, i.e. self-training, i.e. learning something, incorporating something new into our life. It’s an act of creation, which takes focus and repetition, hence, the 21-day challenge.
You have probably heard the joke about the person asking for directions in New York City, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?”, and the response was “Practice!”. So it is with self-enhancement. It’s been said that human entrainment takes 21 days, so by repeating something 21 days in a row (with sufficient focus) we can incorporate it into our consciousness . So I say to you, “Take the 21-day Challenge”. Repeat something beneficial for 21 days and notice the difference in your life.
My guru, Gurudeva Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, taught that the 5 steps or levels of inner focus are 1) attention, 2) concentration, 3) meditation, 4) contemplation, 5) samadhi. Regardless of the application chosen, the 21-day Challenge helps you build focus, confidence and inner capacities.
For instance, repeat to yourself “I’m watching” throughout the day, continuing to do what you’re doing, but taking about a second to observe what you’re thinking, your attitude, and what you’re doing. No judging, just observing.
Another idea is to always leave a room cleaner or more organized than it was when you entered.
Another is to think of yourself radiating love and joy like a light bulb, everywhere you go, everyone being warmed and blessed by your presence.
Hint: Mark the days on a calendar. Writing is often the 1st physical step in the manifestation process of creation.
What 21-day challenge will inspire you?
Suppose a creator wanted to create a universe one day (she didn’t want to spend a whole week).
First of all, she knew she existed and had potential. She said “KHAMAEL: I am, so I can.”
Second, she decided to go through the necessary steps. She said, “GABRIEL: I can, so I will”.
Then she created the laws for the universe with 7 invocations.
1) “KHAMEL, GABRIEL, RATZIEL: I can and I will intuitive guidance.”
2) “KHAMEL, GABRIEL, RAPHAEL: I can and I will process toward uniqueness”
3) “KHAMEL, GABRIEL, TZADKIEL: I can and I will reproduction in kind”.
4) “KHAMEL, GABRIEL, SANDALPHON: I can and I will optimum progress through resonance and harmony.”
5) “KHAMEL, GABRIEL, TZAPHKIEL: I can and I will understanding, continued serenity and creative enhancement.”
6) “KHAMEL, GABRIEL, MICHAEL: I can and I will appropriation.”
7) “KHAMEL, GABRIEL, HANIEL: I can and I will self mastery through relinquishment.”
Would you like to create something? For any project, even creating your personal universe, you can use the laws and take them a step further.
1) Decide how you’re going to use intuitive guidance to direct you through the completion of your project. Ask your inner self for answers to questions, and be watchful of the ideas that pop into your head.
2) Decide how you’re going to make your project unique, maybe with one of those ideas that popped into your head.
3) Decide how you’re going to make your project reflect you and your goals.
4) Use your intuitive guidance to take the appropriate steps at the right time. Share your goals with people who will resonate with them. Resonating with your goals and others will open appropriate doors. Watch for them, recognize them and take action.
5) Because change is needed for enhancement, you prepare for the required changes. Set the scene, assist the change and voilà!
6) Decide what needs to be acquired to fulfill the requirements of your project and do what is necessary to acquire them, being watchful that someone may give them to you or point you to them.
7) When your project has reached the self-sufficiency you designed and created, let it go and move on to the next project.
You can think about all this all you want, but when you start writing down the details of the plan you’ll get the ball rolling. Happy creating!
As you read in Your Super Powers – Khamael, the Archangels are actually powers within you, activated by invocation and intention, which assist you in creating your world, enhancing it and moving on to the next creation.
These super powers allow you to create in multiple realms in this universe.
Again, the formula is:
The Archangel invokes the power of the law, working with the principle, to produce the attribute.
Raphael, pronounced RAH-FAH-EL, invokes the power of the Law of Process, working with the principle of Differentiation, producing Beauty.
Traditional Invocation: Raphael, Raphael, Raphael. Divine Process perfects, fulfills, and completes what I know.
Discussion: The Divine Process is one in which things evolve to become complete and unique, differentiated from other similar things. Teacher Sheariam said: “While everything IS, there is a becoming, a process. It is through this process that things become different from each other. And beauty lives.”
My favorite invocation for Raphael is: With Raphael I joyfully declare, “I realize Beauty in every moment.” Raphael, Raphael, Raphael.
Discussion: As with the invocation for Khamael, this format states the intention of the invocation prior to the invocation and affirms an attitude of joy. Joy is a necessary component of the enthusiasm that is part of the fuel of creation.
“I realize Beauty in every moment.” means I make it real in my consciousness and my life. I move my awareness to where it exists in its completeness. Expect and look for beauty, wholeness, uniqueness and you’ll find it. Like snowflakes and leaves, Beauty is always there by virtue of the universe unfolding moment by moment, yet being fully complete in nature. And in the creative process you view and focus on the details within the generalities and do what it takes to expand and enhance your creation to make it unique and useful. Allow things to morph as they develop. It’s their nature. Provide a nurturing environment and guidance. Let nature do the rest.
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There’s a lot of occult literature out there about our various bodies being in layers or like sheaths: Soul Body, Vital Body Emotional Body, Mental Body, Etheric Body, Astral Body, Physical Body. The Teachers indicate that the layer “model” or conceptualization is somewhat misleading. “While they are generated from the inward to the outward by the ego, they are not as separate as the layers of onion skins. They are more interpenetrated.” (Saturday Session #8)
So what is a body, really? It’s a composite of capabilities.
The physical body is composed of groups of cells specialized in function giving the various capabilities of our body parts, among them the ability to experience, navigate and act in the physical realm. Similarly, the mental and emotional bodies are capabilities to experience, navigate and act in the mental and emotional realms which, like the physical realm, all humans create together and share.
What are soul bodies? Soul capabilities have to do with generating “egos” to fulfill missions working out the ramifications of the Laws. “Egos” are teams of “personalities” to do the work of enhancing the universe. The Teachers say that we, as personalities, don’t have souls, souls have us and we work on their missions to fulfill the 12 Soul Intentions (big subject).
So what’s the inner core holding these bodies together? The Teachers use the word “rod” to describe that unit of individuality at the center of us. It has been compared to our DNA. The well-known phrases “Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” and “Spare the rod and spoil the child” show a common interpretation: The rod is used to help guide us along our appropriate path. In this instance, the rod defines or contains our capabilities and our uniqueness and regulates form.
So, how can you use this information? It doesn’t have to be complex. If you enhance your life moment by moment with love, joy and creative benefit to the world, you’re “good to go”.
We’re familiar with the concept of wearing two hats, i.e. taking different perspectives and performing different functions as appropriate to the situation. Suppose the two hats are your functions for your outer life and your inner life. Generally our outer life progresses and we do what we have to do to live as we expect to live. But there’s another world. You can put on an inner hat and be the watcher, the awarer, not reacting, just obvserving.
My teacher, David Cheng, taught, “Do everything with consciousness. When you drive, do it consciously.” Be the watcher as you drive. Put your focus there. Be cognizant of all that is happening. Be the watcher as you walk around doing your daily tasks. Be the watcher as you think. Observe your responses.
The word “dimension” means, basically, two outlooks. Are you ready to add another dimension to your life? Another perspective? Another stream of information?
What is Life? What do I do now?
These are the questions we generally ask ourselves. They come natural. People have been asking these questions for ages, writing about them, building social structures and group practices based upon their answers to them.
But take a look at these questions. They assume life is something static and that there is a best or right answer for the person in the current situation. It’s an understandable response, because it’s easy to do… take a snapshot and make a judgment.
What would happen if, instead, the first questions we are taught to ask are, “What can life be?” and “What can we do now?” These questions assume potential, multiple choices, because we know life is not static. It’s always becoming something more than it is. Changing to these questions would be the first step in expressing our creative/angelic nature as a basic principal of society. It would be less like a duality-based society (right/wrong) and there would be more potential solutions to work with.
Imagine how fast change could take place if we all considered ourselves creative and always saw options for the greater good. It’s focusing our awareness on possibility.
What can your life be? What can you do now?
Back in the early 70’s my facility in math and problem solving led me into a career in data processing, so as a programmer, when I saw a poster in a catalog that said “Program Your Own Life” I said, “That’s Great!”. I bought a poster and, one day, sat down and wrote some pseudo-code for my life. That’s programmer talk for describing my life process in words, specifying an initial condition, processes and things that repeated.
Since it was high-level it was a short program, the essence of which was telling my body, my consciousness that guides my growth, to morph each of my cells to such a high vibration that they radiated light. In my study of Edgar Cayce I had read that all our cells are replaced each 7 years, and if one made the intention to spiritualize those cells as they were individually replaced, you would have a radiant body of light in 7 years. So I set the program into action, to be run by my subconscious mind continuously and silently in the background. It’s still running.
Does it work? Whether the light factor has changed in my physical cells would have to be determined, however, the consciousness that controls their creation generates a lot of light, and the physical is the out picturing of what I have created on a mental level. As Cayce said, “The mind is the builder”.
Let’s put it this way… My life continues to be enriched through my consciousness and action. The underlying process, though, is not so much the detail of the program, as your intention, your focus, giving it conscious priority, watching life unfold and acting in concert with the goal, moment by moment aware of inner promptings and the choices inside and outside the box.
Is it time to write your program?
-Seymour Lovejoy