Monday, November 27, 2017

12:41 AM

I would like to welcome the new subscribers to this list and hope you find these letters useful.

There is an old alchemical term known as the Philosopher’s Stone. A substance reported to have the unusual capabilities of turning the baser elements of metal into gold or silver depending on the need.  While it is not obvious in this letter, we will discover shortly the nature of this quality having great importance upon our work. In addition to the Philosopher’s Stone being of such substance and in this case I will use also the term “Quality” whereas one individual may develop these qualities will also exhibit an attitude whereby virtue of their  imperturbability appear to be unaffected by the events and/or comments around them.

The purpose of this work is not to dwell too deeply in the alchemical world. Rather use that as a baseline for the work that we truly are involved. Which is of course is turning the baser elements of mankind into the more spiritual attributes through the process of Spiritual Fire.

Imperturbability is important because it prevents you from being manipulated by people and/or events around you. The process of spirituality and its training requires an individual to become impervious to the assults and actions of those within your spear of observation.

We must consider some of the actions by others which are likely to draw us off our particular path.  Some of you already getting pretty good idea where I’m going with this. I have spoken many times of the issues of judgment and subservience. The problem with judgment and/or subservience is they are both wrong. I have also spoken of the intellect and its capabilities being based upon an unprovable equation having no constant as its foundation. With this in mind since the process of assumption is a primary basis by which all things the intellect has determined to be the case in relating to people places emotions and so forth, then all judgments are wrong because judgments are based upon assumptions. In addition, I have to put in here for moment should is also based upon judgments. Therefore, all shoulds are wrong. In addition, of course we must make a statement about self-guilt. The problem with self-guilt is it is invalid also.  The reason is, according to Webster’s dictionary, guilt can only be obtained if one has been convicted in a court of law and sentenced. 

Now that we determine any possible beliefs of guilt are pretty well without validation we must also turn our attention to the problem of judgment and subservience. When we determine another person is superior to us, then we become subservient. Now I am not talking about their level of education or maybe their athletic capability, no. I am talking about the quality each and every human on this earth has available to them through their breath. There is so much love understanding compassion in each breath that each individual is given permission to use that breath any which way they choose. So if someone wants to work the power they have of the breath in a dark fashion then that is their right to do so, as it is our right to do just the opposite.

The problem with subservience is while we may be in harmony in our breathing and any other meditative sources that we are bringing forward, is we are always constantly aware of what other people are thinking and saying about us finding those individuals superior to ourselves. In doing so our identity is based upon their accepting us, which is not a path of light, but rather a path of lesser light.

To find ourselves to be superior to another person is no different from being subservient to another person as your identity is based upon the other persons reacting to you. Not necessarily a path of light but of lesser light.

I like to keep these letters about two to no more than five pages long so I am going to forgo going into great deal regarding the subservience and/or superiority in detail as that subject could take ten to fifteen pages, which is not the purpose of this particular letter.

The interesting thing about imperturbability is a place where one is in a state where subservience and superiority are no longer interesting; an individual is not affected by those things brought forward to their attention.

I am not suggesting that one become an emotional zombie in order to maintain imperturbability. That is not the purpose of the spiritual path. However, one problem we run into is when we react to another individual’s statements and/or actions to such a degree that we are all consumed by those very words where we are distracted from our own work.

A typical example would be if somebody offended you in some way or another, or even if the offense came as a result of some public statement where an individual makes such statement, and we then run around being angry because we somehow have been offended. The problem here is we have made that person our master. By our reaction and continuing reactions, we have made them more important than ourselves.  You see if you were practicing a form of imperturbability, you take note of the information presented offensive or not and then decide on whether you want to respond to it. If you choose not to respond to it then you will find yourself not subservient to that person.  If you do decide to respond, it will be on your terms whereas when one’s response is complete there is no further attention given to the initial situation. Again, you are not subservient in this manner.

We have seen many individuals who become completely unwound because their political candidate did or did not succeed. This has occurred throughout history and is becoming more of a problem today than ever before. The individuals are exercising their right to complain, and complain they will.  However, their potential peaceful existence is completely disrupted by the events outside of themselves. Much to their chagrin if they realized they are making a master of the individual and/or events occurring, it is unlikely they would continue with their complaining about being offended or other such complaints.

When you exercise imperturbability, you cannot be affected by small minded individuals knowing full well because the nature of their actions are an attempt to make you subservient will for the most part fall on deaf ears. You also discover a different approach will be available to you on how you perceive those individuals who wish to do such a thing placing them and the importance of their actions no similar than that of invasion of cross eyed caterpillars on a distant island far away.

Shortly I will be preparing another survey where I will be inquiring as to your satisfaction of the work I have done in private sessions. The primary reason is, many of the private sessions while including a follow-up phone call to make sure everything on the list was completed for some reason the phone calls were not always completed and probably for good reason, possibly because is all things were completed. If they are not I would like to know. If we have missed something, nine times out of ten I can take care of it over the phone in about five or ten minutes.

In the bonds of the work I am,

Charles

Charles

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