Musings. Hidden in plain sight

 Dearest Reader,

I do not know how to start this, so I will just start.
               

I’ve known that I am meant to write since I began to articulate my thoughts. But this particular set of writings has come to me in the past few years as fragments and feelings more than a solid idea.
                The knowledge and urgency to write it has become stronger in recent months, though I know not what to write.

               

So here goes,

                An intelligence, which has experienced many cycles and viewed others cycles, now finds its self confident that it can accomplish the first cycle of flesh. Each cycle is unique in its own way, but this one has many challenges, and the intelligence has seen many buckle in this cycle.
                The first flesh cycle is unique because it causes a separation from the spiritual plane, which necessitates a veil of forgetfulness in order to allow each intelligences full immersion.
This cycle of flesh opens the intelligence to new sensations of the flesh previously felt and understood only in spirit and mind, which is newly comprehended with great yearnings felt in the flesh.

                There are myriad of obstacles individual to each intelligence as they enter the first flesh cycle.
While yet spirits they have reached a level of wisdom and experience allowing them the confidence to face this cycle. As they enter here, they are babes, vulnerable and helpless. Necessitating another’s growth in the flesh cycle, the spiritual and physical growth/unity of those who care and assist the baby. The baby grows and learns, and all who have raised children know, the baby is protected by unseen forces as well as those that they are here entrusted to.
                Each individuals customized journey on this earth (this first flesh cycle) is of great import to their previous cycles, and will impact their coming ones.

                Understanding that the heavens we long for are in the hand of the intelligence at every moment can help give power back to those who feel that perhaps the next cycle will be better… or the one after that. Indeed, each chapter of this life is a cycle of the whole of it, and this life is a cycle of our eternity. We may choose to find our heaven whenever we choose, whatever our circumstances.

                The world would like to focus on viruses, social tensions, wars, appearance, education and myriad of concerns.
 Here is truth,
When pure knowledge and understanding is a goal, in humility and sincerity, this brings intelligence in line with the memory of who they have been for many cycles, and also a kinship is reignited with the spiritual plane. God, Father and Mother, become mentors. All the squabbles, while sorrowful, are given perspective. Understanding and knowledge overcome the rudimentary inclinations of the flesh cycle, which are inclined to debase who we truly are. Disciplining this inclination and learning to hear the other side of ourselves elevates us to a higher cycle, allowing us a greater inheritance of light.

                The flesh inclines toward the fetal state in an effort to avoid pain and discomfort (meaning that we avoid progression for fear of change because of the comfort of what is known), yet in doing so only temporarily finds blind relief and then the pain and discomfort is not only drawn out but also increased tenfold. If the flesh and spirit, as one, leans into the discomfort that growth and progression bring not only is the pain less torturous, but it becomes almost sweetened by the journey and its outcome.

- Joanna Collett

The internal world is a Labyrinth

Dearest Reader,

              This past little while I have been dealing with a tearing at my soul.
After realizing how limited my study of theology has been, I decided to gather some scriptures that I would not usually spend the time studying (The books of Enoch, The Gnostic Gospels, The Vedas). Each of these have their beauty and truth as does The Holy Bible and other scriptures, I have enjoyed reading them and will continue to. I also decided to study some of the Hermetic philosophy as outlined in ‘The Kybalion’. This is millennia old information, which has its roots in eternal truths. These truths spoke to me and confirmed some questions I had been asking God through prayer.

              As my mind caught hold upon all the new insights I was gaining from these books, I felt my conviction to Christ and Heavenly Father step away (I don’t know how else to explain it. My soul seemed to step away from them) The thing is, the research further proved their existence and influence in all of life, yet still I have felt the distance.

              I’ve always felt that when we learn some of the mysteries of Heaven, that it will be like a memory returning. Something logical that connects easily to our understanding. I found this within these books, but I also found that it left me feeling less enchanted by the whole process of Becoming.

              When I talked with Brad about it he said,
“The Lord taught simply for a reason. We can go through and get deep with many aspects of scripture, but the fact remains, Christ taught simply.”
Later he said to me…
“It seems like you have stepped into a labyrinth without tying your rope at the entrance. You have truths you have known your whole life, you cannot find happiness by abandoning them in search of these new truths. All truth should work together. So hold onto the truth you already know, and take them with you into the rabbit hole.
If something doesn’t bring happiness, then why spend time on it at all? I just want your happiness”

              A part of me felt the need to find all truth at all costs, but I realized that there is more wisdom in Brad’s words than my studying had taught me.
 1. Hold onto the truth you already know.
 2. Why spend time on something that brings unhappiness?

              One of the Hermetic laws is ‘the great fourth principle of Polarity’
“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.” – The Kybalion

              This can apply to truths thusly, Truths and Falsehoods are opposites of the same thing, different only by degree. Then when considering this truth, that we create our own lives and the lives of our posterity, we literally get to choose which truth we desire to follow! And how much we emphasize the different truths we choose to follow. By doing this we create around ourselves the world we want to see, and it is True. One may choose to believe they are a fairy and can fly from a tree, for a moment the wind will blow through their hair, only to be met very strongly by the law of gravity. So an understanding of universal truths is necessary to create our own worlds and make them stick through generations.

              Here’s what I know to be True. I know now through logic that God is real, and that the difference between God and Me is in degree. But I have known this from birth in my whole being, a feeling that ‘I am a stranger here’ has always been within me and I have known that Heavenly Father knows me.
              Humans are so human! We all screw up constantly!! Even the best of us, throughout all of the scriptures, we make mistakes. So when I hear of Prophets doing stupid things, I kind of am at the point of shrugging… I don’t believe in a man, I believe in Christ. And this is how I choose to follow Him. Not just because it creates a beautiful life for me, but also for my family.

              I don’t intend to limit my learning, I have found a serious hole in my studies which I am anxious to remedy. I am determined to know all truth! But while I study I will bring with me the truth I already know, so I don’t get lost down the rabbit hole again.

God bless,

Joanna