(Part II) The Beauty of Truth

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“To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness

of the presence of God.”

-Rodney Collins

I was recently listening to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The mans’ words resonate with such profound shining truth. Apart from finding them deeply moving, the main thing that struck me about his words was their spiritual power. The major difference I find between activists and conspiracy theorists, political and social commentators of today and Dr. King is that they essentially have very little spiritual power. Their facts may be correct but the whole slant of their presentation is largely oriented to highlighting, in graphic detail, the problems of the world. A far more effective and actually essential strategy is to embody the solution. An effective spiritual warrior is the living embodiment of the solution to the apparent problems of the times. The real “Super Hero” looks no further than themselves to find both the solution to and the cause of any disharmony, appearing around them. The success of this orientation is guaranteed by certain life-fulfilling facts.

A perfect “Divine Source” (God) of pure spiritual energy exists eternally.

Our choice as human beings and initiation as spiritual warriors is to find this “Source” and to merge in consciousness with it.

The only place to find the portal to this experience is within us.

All manifestations of darkness, discordance, disease, disharmony and evil are a direct consequence of the creative individual points of consciousness (i.e. our souls), ignoring their relationship with “The God Source” within themselves.

Over time, cultural ignorance (ignoring the point of life) causes layers of conditioning within the psyche/soul. Individuals born into a culture inherit this conditioning. Our mission is to dissolve it and allow the pure inner spirit (Holy Spirit) to flow into the world.

The more of us who are learning to do this and consistently achieving this, the faster hell on earth (the consequence of ignorance) becomes Heaven on Earth (the consequence of Truth)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. demonstrates an unmistakable spiritual power born only from this powerful fusion of soul and source, individual and essence, man and God … within. His power came from intense and consistent soul searching within himself and an unshakeable commitment to walking The Beauty Way.

The Beauty of the Inner Path

“Know Thyself.” was the simple inscription found above many of the temples of ancient Greece.

Meeting oneself, knowing oneself is all about relationship and the keynote of that relationship is love. There is no way to approach the inner spirit within without beauty. Divine love, the content of your soul is beauty itself. So many of us have had brutal lives and witnessed, experienced and expressed so much ugliness; yet the pain of that creates tenderness and there is so much beauty in that tenderness. That sensitivity, that vulnerability, the beauty of that tenderness, is the perfect organ with which to meet God in your own soul.

One of the most significant spiritual teachings ever is contained in the shortest verse in the Bible:

“… And Jesus wept.”

Those words contain the greatest secret. The tenderness and power of the Spiritual Warrior. It happened just before He raised his friend Lazarus from the dead. I will leave you to consider the mystery. Let me simply say there is a balance between acute sensitivity and strength that we need to attain. That balance is articulated perfectly in another scripture from the letters of St. Paul to the Corinthians:

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ²If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. ⁴Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered; it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and it always perseveres. 

 ⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 

 ¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Keats once wrote, “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty”. There is a living Truth within you; it is the light of God, the light of His Spirit within you, which is the light of love. It is beauty itself. You find it by coming into harmony with it, merging with it, and being one with it. This is a simple act of surrendering everything you are not. This is a feeling, which requires acute sensitivity within; Attention to detail of the finest hue. You see, within us, are all of the qualities of our divinity and all of the virtues they fuel merge into a living oneness. So the light of enlightenment, intelligence, wisdom and knowledge is merged with the love and beauty of Truth in a blissful, peaceful oneness. All we have to do is allow ourselves to experience it and that is a whole lot simpler than most people believe or teach.

This great and merciful act of sanity — this surrendering and return to innocence — is the most powerful thing any of us can do to transform the world we see around us. All of the social injustices that appall our innate sense of right and wrong are merely a reflection of the discord within.

To be continued…

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