Inspiration from the Esoteric

I cannot emphasize enough the great teaching of the Maya: God talks to us all the time. Still, I am like a child on Christmas morning when synchronicities happen. One occurred on Saturday night, which I'll save for Friday's posting. The other happened on Palm Sunday. I was pondering the topic of my Monday posting: how our capacity to care defines us as human beings. When I checked my email, I found one from a close friend and brother on the spiritual path who now lives in Europe. He and his wife had just visited Dakau, and they were immensely moved by the experience. Instantly, I thought of the inspiring example of concentration camp survivors such as Dr. Victor Frankl and what they taught us. Our capacity to care not only defines us but saves us in the most horrible of circumstances. Focusing on his love for his wife kept him going. I’ll say more about that in a future posting. But for now, below is some inspiration from a little-known volume I discovered one day in my daily diaglogue with the Divine.

The wisdom of the sacred spiritual traditions from all over the world can inspire us further in our quest to live a life that is attuned to the boundless reality of love. This love is both within all and around us. Reflect on the following inspiring words of G. de Purucker taken from the volume entitled, The Esoteric Tradition. Drawing from the secret teachings of different sacred spiritual traditions, he declares:

"We humans are ‘fallen gods’, ‘fallen angels’ with capacities divine, active or latent, enshrined within our minds and souls…We fall to Earth; but we rise again! Indomitable is the spirit within us. Nothing can daunt or conquer it, if only we do use it. It is indomitable, for it is the energy pouring forth through our own individual wills from the very Heart of the Universe; and all evolution, all growth, all achievement, depend upon the degree with which we ally ourselves with this spiritual river of consciousness and force flooding our inmost being. All evil will pass away when men understand this and act accordingly, for evil is the running contrary to the operations of Spiritual Nature… Indeed we are fallen gods, fallen angels, learning, growing, evolving god-sparks. … The urge behind spiritual evolution and the objective which this urge is impelling us toward, is simply the divine hunger in the Universe to grow greater, to advance, to unfold: Excelsior! … and the objective is to become at-one self-consciously with the Boundless–something which never can be reached! Therein is infinite beauty, for there is no final ending for growth in beauty and splendor and wisdom and love and power. The Boundless Universe is our home! All things are latent in the core of the core of the being of each one of us; they are like sleeping powers of the Universe; and this core of the core of the being of each one of us is man’s own inner god, the Cosmic Dhyani-Buddha within him, the Divine Christ immanent within him: the living Osiris of the ways of infinity…"

• Today, consider that the boundless reality of love resides in the core of your bing. Take a slow, deep breath, and silently say, "God is love. Then, as you breathe out, silently say, "and so am I."