Prana and the Breath of Life
from Steps to Mastership
Uranda 1936
Let us now
consider the Breath of Life. Air is free, but few people use it freely. In the
Book of Books we read, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils THE BREATH OF LIFE; and man became a
living Soul." To appreciate the value of air, we must study deeper than
the usually recognized physical fact that it is a gaseous substance, mainly
composed of approximately one part of oxygen to four parts of nitrogen, which
must be breathed by all species of the animal kingdom, including man, to
perpetuate life.
Modern
science has proven that a force called electricity can be generated out of the
air. The fact that automobiles equipped with generators can absorb electricity
out of the atmosphere at all times and in all places proves that this force is everywhere
present in the air.
The Adepts
of all ages have known that this force existed, and they have used it in ways
that are far more valuable than the mechanical uses to which it is put. These
wise men have for thousands of years consciously used this energy to promote
perfection within their own bodies, and to help in healing of others. This
force, in its free state as found in the atmosphere, is called Prana in the
Sanskrit language. It is this Prana that is absorbed by the generator and
transformed into what we call electricity. From a material standpoint it is
impossible to determine what electricity is, because it has a spiritual source.
Without this spiritual substance the fleshly body would be as inert as a clod,
for it is really the Prana in the air we breathe that gives us life. It is the
lack of Prana, and not the lack of oxygen, which kills so quickly when a person
or animal is choked or strangled.
Prana is the vibration of the
everywhere-present Spirit of God to which physical life is attuned. There are,
of course, other vibrations of the Spirit of God, but Prana is the primary
vibration of the Spirit which the fleshly body can absorb and use. Prana is the
Spirit of God which man can use, if he will only do it. This force is
absolutely unlimited. It will work through you with unlimited power if you will
only let it. Through the use of it
any and all adverse conditions can be overcome. When you learn to use it fully
and freely you will find that the so-called miracles of healing, and other
accomplishments, are really the natural results of natural law applied in a
natural way.
Just to
realize that Pranic Power is present in unlimited amounts is not enough. You
are like a giant electric motor, with tremendous potential power; but unless
you know how to "throw the switch" and connect yourself with the
unlimited Prana, you will soon deteriorate and die from lack of use. The body
is so constructed that it would never wear out if it were properly used. People
do not wear out from use; they rust out from lack of use. You have a finer and
better motor than man has ever made. And what kind of care do you give it? How
much do you know about running it properly?
When we
realize that this great power is at hand and that we have the right to use it
freely, the next step is to learn how to contact it fully, for the greatest
possible benefit. The human motor is self-repairing, and the switch is
automatic, so that when something goes wrong in the human motor the current is
slowed down until the damage can be repaired. If man willfully, or ignorantly,
produces a short-circuit within himself by disobeying Nature's Laws, the power
is taken from him according to the degree of his wrong use of it. If man
persists in his wrong use of this power, his motor is badly damaged and in time
is completely disconnected from the Source. And then he is pronounced dead.
It is easier
to begin to use the Prana if we first prove to ourselves that it really exists
by seeing it. Anyone with fairly
normal vision can learn to see the Prana under certain conditions, and as one
develops and becomes proficient in the use of it, the Prana can be seen at will
at any time. The person who has received Enlightenment can see the Prana in all
objects, whether it be stone, wood, flower, grass, trees, human beings, or any
other physical manifestation of life. Many people have learned to see it and
use it, and you can also. There is nothing more beautiful in this physical
world than to see the life forces vibrating in all things about you. It opens
up a new world to you. Everything will be more beautiful, and you will find a
sweet peace and joy which begins within yourself and radiates to everyone and
everything around you. Even people who know nothing about these things will
notice a something about your presence
which soothes and uplifts. Sick people will say that it makes them feel better
for you to enter the room where they are. Can you imagine anything more
delightful than to be of such service to those about you? It is as possible for
you as for anyone else. To those who have never given any thought to these
things it all seems quite impossible.
The easiest
way to see Prana is to go
out-of-doors just before sundown and sit in an easy chair, or recline on the
ground, in the shade. Face any direction except toward the sun. Relax as
thoroughly as possible, taking several long, deep breaths of air. Next, close
your eyes and keep them closed for a minute or two. Then open your eyes slowly
and direct the gaze up into the sky without looking at anything. If you focus your eyes on some object, you will look through the Prana and not see it.
The only reason we do not see it all the time is because we look through it,
just as we look through a perfectly clean, pure glass without seeing it. After
a few trials you will see that the air is filled with millions of silvery dots,
some larger than others and all moving continuously. After practice you should
be able to see the Prana as far as thirty or forty feet away. These silver-like
dots are not to be confused with such optical illusions as specks or lacelike
appearances which are sometimes seen in front of the eyes and which float or
dance with the movement of the eyes. The silver dots of Prana will be seen
moving in every direction, both far and near, and at first these dots will seem
to be in great confusion. However, as you watch and study them, you will find
that they are moving in orderly fashion and in symmetrical formation. Once you
see the Prana you will learn to let your eyes "rest easy" many times
during the day so that you can see it. As you fully realize the constant
presence of Prana, you will find yourself working with a force that is as
tangible to you as wood or stone is to most people. This eliminates blind
faith, because you know.
The brain is
the Positive Pole of the human generator, and the gonad glands form the
Negative Pole of the generative system. You do not think with your brain,
contrary statements notwithstanding, for your brain is a mass of millions of
tiny generators which absorb the Prana out of the atmosphere. Each tiny
generator changes the Prana into that vibration of Life Essence which is needed
in the part of the body for which it is responsible. One vibration is needed in
the bones, another vibration is required in the tissues, another in the glands,
and so on through the whole body. All parts of the body require the Life
Essence, but each cell in each part requires a different vibration of that Life
Essence. Each brain-cell generator is set to a specific vibration that is
required in a certain part of the body, and that set vibration cannot be
changed. Though this is a vast study in itself, this will give you an idea of
how the One Life Essence produces
all the different parts of the body.
In order for
the body to function rightly the positive and negative forces must be in
balance. The brain cannot do it all. The gonad glands, connected with the Solar
Center, must supply the negative force in amounts large enough to keep the body
forces in balance. When a lack of this balance is present it is called
nervousness. This shows you why it is so important not to waste the negative
body forces through anger, hate, fear, jealousy, or any like emotion. And also,
it shows why excess in any body appetite, such as overeating, eating the wrong
foods, laziness, drunkenness, and excessive sex expression, are all so very
damaging to the body machine. These things all tend to clog up the body functions
and cause cross-currents, or short-circuits, which detract from the ability of
the individual to enjoy life.
The first
step, then, in gaining control of the Life Essence within the body, that
thereby the Prana outside the body may be controlled, is to bring all the body
emotions and appetites under control. The Law is: No one can attain control
over the mighty power of Prana who has not first proven that he will use it
wisely by gaining control over his own emotions and appetites. The
accomplishment of this will take time and persevering practice. With each step
forward in self-control you will find added power granted unto you.
© emissaries of divine light
Silence in Heaven
from
Seven Steps In The Way
Uranda
September 14-16, 1932
John, the beloved, tells you how to open
the seventh seal of spirituality. This you can do when the first six seals have
been opened within you. "And when the seventh seal was opened, there was
silence in heaven for the space of about half an hour." All of God's laws work both ways. So the
wise will comprehend that silence for half an hour a day will bring about the
opening of the seventh seal.
Remember that to find the kingdom of
God, or heaven, which is your Astral Body, the dwelling place of the Soul-God,
you must turn within yourself, even as your Master instructed. "But thou,
when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door,
pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly."
Thus are you to find a quiet place where
you may be undisturbed for half an hour a day—fifteen minutes in the morning
and fifteen minutes in the evening. And there relax perfectly, consciously
letting go of all muscular and nervous tension. Then shut your door; that is,
close your eyes, for the eyes are the doorways to the secret places of your
Soul. Then remember that "your Father knoweth what things you have need
of, before you ask Him." Therefore in the silence seek not to talk to God
but rather let God talk to you; for this is true prayer.
Besides this, seek in all things to be
moderate. Conserve your energies by directing them wisely. With every organ of
the body under perfect control will come the ability to control all things. You are allowed to control
forces outside of yourself only to the extent that you do control the forces within. Thus will the secret sin find you out;
that is, it will keep you from enjoying the perfect happiness of the perfected
expression. Thus do you bring into your life all that you experience, whether
it be complete (good) or incomplete (evil) in its expression. Nothing is forced
upon you. You receive only that for which you truly ask.
Seek then to ask
perfectly and you will receive the perfect. Learn also to let the breath of God
flow through you by breathing rhythmically and deeply at all times.
Learn to select with care those atoms which
you take into your bodies. The atoms which have reached the development of ripe
fruit and leafy vegetables will be very easy to control when they have entered
your body. The atoms of low vibration, such as are found in all processed foods
and meats are very unruly and you will therefore find much difficulty in making
them obey you. Choose, then, whether you will make your way easy or hard by the
foods you eat.
Remember now the words of James, for he
recorded a great truth: "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that
giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let
him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the
sea, driven of the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall
receive anything of the Soul." Ponder this well, that you waver not;
for he that wavereth now will be caught in the wave of destruction that is
loose in the land.
This brings to a close the Seventh Step
in the Way, and there are two Steps more that remain for you.
Step Eight in the Way brings you to a
true realization of yourself by the means of personal analysis, which will
guide you in making personal application of these great truths and mysteries to
your own needs, that you may be a true success.
Step Nine in the Way carries you to the
completion of the Way, for it reveals to you the means by which you can gain
true spirituality by the Way herein revealed; for he who will may hear with his
physical ears the words of God as they are uttered by those who dwell not in
flesh.
For these two final Steps in the Way
seek out one who is spiritual, who has been taught in the supreme science the
manner in which he may understand the inner needs of his brother, that he may
teach them to you. Such a one is he through whom I have written these words. In
all love and humility will he seek to serve you, because for this purpose came
he into the world. By these words do I exhort you, and by these words do I
guide, that you be not a partaker of the sufferings now creeping upon the
worldly who scoff at my words and heed not these my instructions.
With love I greet you as my
beloved, for I am the Speaker of the words of life.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
Moving Together In This Creative Spiral
Special Session at Sunrise Ranch
Martin Cecil April 10, 1978
We are here to achieve something not so much from the standpoint of
our personal experience, as though we were seeking to attain some individual
heights, but more because we forget the personal aspect of the matter and are
concerned with what we are here to do together as a whole, in this overall body
of ministry.
There are things present individually, of course, that relate
to what is present in the consciousness of mankind as a whole—and we have no
desire to isolate ourselves from the consciousness of mankind as a whole. There
is a need for the connection, so that what happens in us as individuals may have
an impact insofar as the mass consciousness is
concerned. So we no longer object to things that need to be dealt with, we no
longer struggle with them, but we accept them into our creative field collectively.
I have before emphasized the fact that there is nothing properly
merely personal. If there are those personal factors which arise in
consciousness, or that have been carried around by a person which need
rebuking, the rebuke is offered because those things don't belong in the whole,
not merely because they don't belong in "me." And one would not
sustain anything in the whole which obviously does not belong there. So when we
offer rebuke we offer it on a much wider basis than the merely personal one.
Someone may say, "Well I have this tendency, this weakness, and
it takes charge of me on occasion. It needs to be rebuked all right." But
if we are merely doing it on a self-centered basis it will never dissolve; it
will always be there to spring out at you. But if you see it as something that
doesn't belong in the whole then you are in position to deal with it. Personal
attitudes with respect to anything in such case no longer have any weight. And
if there is something that hangs on it is because the person in fact doesn't
wish to let it go; whatever he may say consciously, he doesn't wish to let it
go. And the rebuke offered on this basis doesn't achieve very much. It only
begins to achieve something when you see that what is present in you is a part
of the whole, and that if you sustain it you are sustaining it for everybody
else as well. In particular you are sustaining it so as to provide a barrier
insofar as the expression of the Lord is concerned, by
reason of the whole. See those things not merely as something personal. See
them as a factor in the whole. And if we truly love the Lord and are truly
concerned with providing Him with an instrument capable of doing what He needs
to do here on earth, then instantly the rebuke becomes effective.
In isolation we are weak. Weakness characterizes the individual all on
his own. There may be an appearance of strength but the real strength comes
because what is being undertaken is not merely being undertaken by the
individual. "Well I've got to deal with this thing," a person may say
with respect to something in relationship to himself. Well if you've got to
deal with it all on your own you won't deal with it. It will just hang around.
It is only when it is recognized as being a part of the whole that it is
possible to deal with it from the standpoint of the whole. And there is the
necessary strength in the whole to do whatever is needed to be done.
I'm sure in your own experience along the way you have been faced with
particular problems individually speaking and you've struggled with them on
your own. It is a strange trait in human beings; they seem to want to isolate
themselves in this regard and struggle with their difficulties on their own,
partly because they know they will never succeed in experiencing any victory on
this basis and they can remain merely human. But when it has been shared with somebody
else—if it is the right person, that is, someone who doesn't agree with your
weaknesses—it is handled very simply. And when you begin to let everything be
handled from the standpoint of the whole then we begin to serve.
Now we have a very specific focus of consciousness provided by all who
are present. This enables us to handle many things. If we were to take each of
you individually and examine your background and the quality of your earthly
heredity and all the factors of influence that have been brought to bear in your
existence on earth thus far, we would find a very wide spectrum, wouldn't we? I
think it is quite wide enough to encompass all that needs to be encompassed
insofar as our purpose together is concerned, because we are here together very
specifically to achieve something definite.
I am not suggesting we should try to figure out what that is with the
expertise of our human intellect; it couldn't be done anyway. But we need to
come into position where there is a sufficient pattern of experienced agreement
so that what is necessary can happen. And it happens, as we know, on a very
definite basis. We call that basis the One Law. Everything works as it should
when the One Law is allowed to find its proper application.
Yesterday I was mentioning something with respect to what might be
called "new thinking." I am sure that you have had some
experience in this regard, where something unfolded in consciousness naturally
as you moved along because the spirit was in action. We are moving together in
this creative process on a spiral—at least this is one way of describing it—moving
around an ascending spiral so that we find ourselves coming back over the same
point again but at a different level. This will be happening as we move along,
because we are not here to strike out in some amazingly new direction. What
would be the point? Isn’t the direction we've been going all right? Are we
going to just dissolve all that and say "Well we'll start out in some
other direction"? No. Presumably we have an awareness of the fact that we
have been moving as we should have been moving, up to a point at least, and
this is the right direction to move. So we still move in the same ascending
spiral, we still come back over the same points, but at a new level. We are
quite willing and happy to do this because by this movement there is a drawing
power exerted into the consciousness of mankind.
That drawing power at times may seem like a dragging power, depending
where you are looking at it from. If a person is being drawn by it then he is
being drawn along with it. But if a person is providing the focus of this
drawing power then human consciousness is somewhat sluggish. When you are
pulling something along there is a drag seemingly. So as we move up the spiral
there may be a sense of drag in that way. A sense of drag to us, however, is a
sense of being drawn to somebody who is being pulled along by our drag, so we
don't object to some sensation of drag at times.
In other words, very often people think they are only really achieving
something when everything is so free in the rushing-along role, enjoying the
thing so tremendously. Well there are moments when that happens no doubt, but
let us not look askance at the weight which sometimes seems to put in an
appearance. Because we have a job to do. And so there is nothing wrong with
this sensation of weight at times, of a drag at times. So often people have
objected to this. But as angels we recognize that it is one of those things; it
is part of the creative process; it is part of the way by which we achieve what
we are here to do. So we are delighted in the various aspects of experience
which put in an appearance as we move along.
They put in an appearance because we are
moving along. And when they do, well, that's fine. We are moving along together
in this creative spiral. And so it may be that as we move we will find some
recapitulation of various things that you thought perhaps you knew before, but
seeing them at a new level you find that you really didn't see them before; you
didn't experience them adequately before. Let's do something with the time we
have. In order to do what is required there is the necessity for a freedom of
movement mentally speaking; otherwise the drag that we experience will be of
our own making and it will drag us down.
© emissaries of divine light
