Don't confuse the Will of the Soul that Eckhart is speaking about with the the thing we usually mean when we talk about willpower: the will of the ego.

    The will of the ego is only interested in doing what it can to satisfy the desires of the ego. It cares little, if any, for the good of the soul and the spirit because it simply has no knowledge of those things and so it's desires may make the body, mind and ego happy but often by harming the eternal spirit and preventing the awakening of the soul that is essential for enlightenment.

    The Will of the soul (note how Eckhart capitalized it to indicate not only that it is different, but much more important than the will of the ego) is,in a sense, very narrow-minded. It wants only to know God, to follow God's plan, and to help you and others return us and our planet into the realm of God, the realm of spirit. This is the will that was fully active in people like Jesus and Buddha. It has been said that sometimes the Will of the soul to return to God is so strong that the enlightened person finds it difficult to remain in his physical body, but he does because of his love for his fellow man and his desire to help others become enlightened.

    Of course, all of this is rather meaningless if you can't awaken your soul and become enlightened. That is what real spiritual schools and spiritual teachers are for: to teach the techniques that fill the soul and spirit with God's Light and allow God to awaken the soul (it can't be done with His help) so that true enlightenment can occur. And now that the so-called End Times are here, God has sent the Sun of Righteousness to make that process easier.

    I have written previously about the need for the big corporations to change the way they do business. If they are to survive into the new spiritual age that is coming soon, they must stop functioning from greed and work instead for the common good. Now a business expert writing on the Huffington Post says that is happening, or at least some experts are starting to recognize the need for altruistic business. I am glad to here it.

    Have you ever heard of The Old Catholic Church? It's really a misnomer because this church isn't much over 100 years old. It is an offshoot of the Roman Catholic church that was started by some German and Dutch bishops. It teaches much that the Roman Catholic Church teaches, and has similar masses and other sacraments, but is in other ways very different. It allows priest, nuns and bishops to marry, including the gay ones. It opposes abortion, but thinks it should be left up to the individual rather than written into laws. This church is still rather small, but growing now in America. Perhaps because it finds itself able to change with the times

“Consider our soul to be like a castle made entirely out of a diamond or of very clear crysta, in which there are many rooms.” ~St. Teresa of Avila

In other words, the good soldier is that one who fights the enemies of God and follows God and Christ rather than the desires of men. Happy Memorial Day!

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    When we see people doing things that are wrong or saying things that are wrong, that are promoting violence and deviciveness, it is only human nature to get angry and want to be violent back at them. But that is our animalistic nature talking. We need to get beyond that type of response or we are no better than that other person or group promoting violence and hatred.

    When some fundamentalist preacher says that everyone who is not a member of his church and doesn't worship the Bible, is a false Christian, we want to attack him. When another similar preacher says that gays should be locked up behind an electric fence, we want to have him fired, we want his church shut down. But if we succeed in those things, we are behaving much as they are, no better. Whats more is we often give their radical and totally false beliefs publicity which they don't deserve.

    The way to deal with such people is to remain calm and try to speak to them in a reasonable way just as Jesus did with Satan when Satan tried to tempt Him. Now that may not work with some of these people, but it will with some and will probably work better than a confrontational approach. And it certainly doesn't have to be limited to religious examples. The same applies to the person who cuts you off in traffic or runs a red light. And when you can't talk to these people, or they simply wont listen, just pray for them. Pray that they awaken to truth and wisdom and renounce their evil behavior of the past. That is always better than attacking them. And when they can't be reformed, leave it to God to get them out of the picture.

    You might argue that your form of self-improvement is not egotistical because your aim is to help others, to feed the hungry, care for the sick, etc. While those are worthy goals, they can still be egotistical goals. Some, though not all people in this group, see helping others as a way to tell themselves and others what a wonderful person they are, how worthy they are, how they are better than those who don't do these things. That is still egotism. We see this in the fact that has surfaced in the past decade or so that charities that do a good job of publicizing who makes big donations to them will get a lot more donation than one that does similar work, but doesn't publicize donors, or send them plaques to hang on their office walls.

    So what is the solution? Simple. Obey God's will instead of your own. Follow God's law instead of your egotistical desires. Work for the completion of God's Plan for us all rather than your personal plans which, no matter how benevolent they may seem to be, often conflict in some subtle way with the Plan of God. Of course, in order to do that, you must follow the necessary spiritual technigues to awaken your sleeping soul so that it can communicate with God and find out what part you are to play in that plan.  This doesn't mean that you can't be an individual and have your own plans, just that God's Plan must always come first.

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    That is normal and is the result of the forces of darkness working against you and against any of us becoming enlightened. They love to feed us doubts to get us to turn away from the goal. We must not give in to those doubts and to the forces of darkness.

    If it is ourselves we are doubting, we have to keep reminding ourselves that if we were unworthy of making the journey or incapable of achieving enlightenment, we would never have been chosen to take the journey. (You may think you were the one who chose to develop your spiritual side, but you were guided in that decision by the Beings of Light.) If it is the teacher or the school we are doubting, than consider the others who have studied under that teacher or school and the results they have had and how firmly they believe in the teachings. And don't be afraid to talk to your teacher if you are having doubts or fears. He or she can help you overcome those doubts and is the person best situated to understand where you currently are on your spiritual path and what you need to continue on.

    Also remember that no great thing, spiritual or material, is achieved without some difficulties.

    Most of us think that we know ourselves, but we don't, at least not in the detail necessary to grow and change for the better. We know ourselves superficially. We know when we were born, where we grew up, who our parents were (in most cases), and similar facts about our external life, but we typically know virtually nothing about ourselves internally.

    What motivates us to do good things? What angers us? What makes us jealous, envious? What makes us sad? What makes us happy? Most of us can't answer most of those questions, or can only answer them superficially. We might say that people who abuse animals make us very angry, but why? Is it because we empathize with the animals, is it because we recognize animals as living beings with a spirit that deserves respect just as much as we do, or is it because we are ashamed that we abused animals when we were young and now we want to make up for it or simply hide the fact, mostly from ourselves.

    Do we get jealous when we see someone else having more success with her endeavors than we are having with ours? If so, why? Does this happen even when the success is in something that doesn't actually interest us? If so, then it may be that success itself is what makes us jealous and would indicate that deep down we see ourselves as losers, as unsuccessful.

    Those examples may not apply to you, but they should give you an idea of what needs to be done. We all need to question ourselves. We need to look at ourselves objectively as if we are a psychiatrist analyzing a patient who we don't even know personally. We need to understand our inner working so we can change them. Sometimes, as with programs like the Applied Kinesiology program Psych-K, we can change our behaviour for the better without knowing the root cause of the problem. In other cases, we need to dig down deep and free those demons that hold us back. A good time to do this is when we go to bed at night. Just before going to sleep, thing over everything that happened that day, both positive and negative, how you reacted to it, and try to understand why you reacted the way you did. This is a good time to do because in those cases where you are unable to bring an answer to the surface, the answer may come to you later in a dream. Also, while you are doing this, if you did or said something harmful to another person that day, ask God and the person offended to forgive you.

    Not only reading, writing and arithmetic, but astronomy, medicine, biology, botany, music and many other sciences and arts began in the occult, mystical or spiritual schools of the past. This should leave a sensible person to think about what those schools are teaching now that is currently theirs exclusively but may one day be found in many public schools. So before you materialists and skeptics dismiss these schools and there teachings, you need to consider what they have brought to us. In short, civilization was created by such schools, their teachers and their teachings. And many of the great scientific “discoveries” and theories of recent times can be found written in more spiritual language in the writings of these schools that are much older, so who really discovered them?

    Such schools taught that the physical universe was illusion, not what it appeared to be and not permanent for many centuries before the very modern science of Quantum Mechanics came to the same conclusion by saying that the physical universe is a hologram and it's appearance is not what it really is.

    But, before you decide, “I will just wait until the public schools teach it then.”, there is another aspect to consider. While it is true that many subjects that were once taught only in esoteric schools are now taught in public schools, the portion that is taught in public schools is very incomplete. It is incomplete because it doesn't acknowledge the source of the physical in the spiritual. It doesn't acknowledge that the material cannot exist without its spiritual counterpart. And it doesn't recognize that, since everything exists in spirit before it exists in the material universe (probably with a different form), a person who develops his spiritual facilities may be able to predict with some accuracy some future trends and activities by being able to observe what is taking shape just across the boundary into the spiritual world.

    Even without considering the ability to see into the future to a limited degree, not having knowledge of the spiritual side of the things that are in the physical world is a lot like seeing only the tip of the iceberg that is above the water line. Remember that the Titanic, and probably most other ships sank by an iceberg, were hit by the unseen part of the berg that is underwater and makes up something like seventy or eighty percent of the total iceberg. It's bad enough to not be able to see most of the iceberg, but if you decide to pretend that it just doesn't exist because you can't see it, I certainly hope you are never captaining a ship.

    I heard a CNN reporter talking about the increase in minorities in this country say that projected growth of the immigrant population for the next five years may not mean much because it assumes not much will change, even though there are signs that it already is changing, such as the much lower birthrate in Mexico. The same can be said to those financial planners telling people in their twenties and thirties how much they need to save for retirement to live comfortably when they retire in forty years or so. Neither they, nor anyone else knows what the world is going to be like in forth years and assuming there is going to be almost no changes is ridiculous. The Occupy movement is just one indication that the financial world is going to be in for some dramatic changes. The problems in Greece and other European countries is another. I'm not saying don't save for retirement, just don't get carried away preparing for a future that is probably a complete fantasy.

    The dates for the annual Cosolargy Convocation have been set as well as the schedule for this year's Spiritual State of the World seminar. See the video for more details and a list of speakers.

 Those who think that studying under an occult, mystical, or spiritual school is a waste of time should remember that at one time those were the only schools that taught medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and other sciences.  So what are they teaching now that will be the public sciences of the future? (I will cover this in greater detail tomorrow)

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home...” ~William Wordsworth