True Initiation

It is important to develop an understanding of Divine and Ultimate Love.

This does not fit into any man-made standards.
The nearest analogy we can get here is the sun which continues to "shine on the just and the
unjust", but when people awaken to its true potential and power, they are able to direct and use
it's resources in a way undreamed of by the uninitiated; so it is with this Ultimate Love.
We are talking about a profound and very deep energy that flows from the Centre of All Being
which is interpreted and experienced in a myriad different ways in the world with the vast
majority of people getting it wrong, and, because they are working at the manifestational end of
experience, do not know or understand the primary nature or source of all that unfolds for them.
Because mankind has inverted its understanding it looks outwards for the reasons, whys and
wherefores of everything that happens; not knowing that everything comes from within.
Now, when a person gets thoroughly fed up with all the contradictions, pain and suffering, they
seek to find a way out and there is one, but not as they have hitherto conceived it to be. The
tortured soul begins to awaken its sense that it does not belong in the world, but the transaction
into the full awareness and acceptance of the reality of the realm to which it does belong does not
come easily, and the mode of its manifestation and the channels it chooses are a shock traumatising the human being.
Now it is up to the soul to accept gladly the manifestation of Love it has seen and which will
contradict all the man-made hypotheses, rules and regulations the human phase of mind will
erect to put the soul off from pursuing and fulfilling its aim of rehabilitating itself - the battle
commences!
It can be a short, sharp skirmish; a long drawn out bloody fight, or the soul is able to take
sufficient control to negotiate an end to hostility and accept joyfully, and live more fully, in the
Light and Love it has seen.
The experience is past and if the lesson is well learned will not be repeated and the outworking
will harmonise to the good of all.
If however the point of the lesson is lost in a sea of self-doubt and loathing, judging and
moralising - it's back into the mire!
This will be so until mankind has learned to allow the Kingdom to come on earth as it is in
heaven.
It is of the utmost importance to learn where our impulses come from, what are their nature, and
how we channel and use them for the good of all. Wisdom is then born.

Unless we learn to love Wisdom too and how to wisely channel love, we get into all sorts of
trouble and life will continue in a haphazard way until we learn. There is no short cut, but if we
learn discernment we can keep ourselves out of a lot of trouble.
This requires us to stand still and observe from the deepest region of our being, and allow the
chaotic thoughts and judgements of the mind to pass - knowing they have no substance and are
fleeting in Reality; as we let them go to stand firm on the rock of knowing that all is well and the
soul is in the keeping and charge of a Great and All Encompassing Love.
When an initiate starts to reorientate towards the inner realms, past errors will have to be undone.
This means that any suppressed or unrequited energies will be released so that the individual is
totally freed from the effects of wrong teaching and attitudes to life.
When our attention has been focussed outwards we miss what is going on inside and can often
ignore impulses from within, and if we choose to do this or suppress messages from the soul, we
find we become hardened and even totally unaware of certain rigid traits in our make up.
It could also be that what is perceived to be a good and even apparently loving characteristic has
to be faced as it is founded on an illusion of the nature of the whole - this can be harder than our
known bad habits.
However, once this process has been successfully accomplished, the initiate is released from the
burden of a karmic debt and is free to move forward more creatively and in a fuller knowledge
and understanding of the principles of life.
Perfect Love casts out fear
SUM
School of Universal Mind