The Inner Journey

The Ascension Career

Unit 8 The Idle Aura

Covenant of Machiventa Melchizedek

 

Instructions to Students & Teachers -: In this first lesson we are

5th Epochal Revelation Quotes - The entire ascendant plan of

Lesson Content - We’ve probably all wondered

The Idle Aura

Unit 8 The Ascension Career

 

Be of Good Cheer. Have No Fear! be always of Good Cheer

 As a mortal creature chooses to "do the will of the Father in heaven," so the indwelling spirit

becomes the father of a new reality in human experience

 Lesson

"Jesus had an unerring ability for the recognition of truth, and truth he never hesitated to embrace, no matter from what source it appeared to emanate".

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  • The Spirit of Truth

  • Lesson Plan Outline:      

  • To control your Idle Aura.

  • To slice your "Time-Pie" efficiently.

  • To live simply and effectively.

  • To glorify and appreciate in every way the wonder of the Creator, all day; every day.

  • To become involved with Life.

  • Examples of success

  • Points to remember

  • What to expect

  • Feedback sheet

  • Supplementary Reading

  • Urantia Book Quotes

  • Exercise: 

Students make up a Time- Pie for the triune balance of body - mind and Spirit.

They meditate on the concept of glorification. Being of Good Cheer and without Fear.

 Students may make a list or Time-Pie of all the different life experiences that they have had in their life: travel, sports, housekeeping, sewing, fishing, etc. Then with their new Time-Pie they can actualize something new in the spiritual reality of character growth, within the living experience of sonship with God, the development of capacity for service through new-found ability. (Ex: music, typing)

Supplementary reading   

Textbook Jacob’s Ladder The Bridge Across Forever-The Sacred Way

He is the Lover of Mankind (Jesus a New Revelation)

When you see this butterfly icon, remember the pace of the caterpillar and the beauty of the butterfly, pause and contemplate this idea for a moment, utilizing the power of your growing spiritual awareness of things true, beautiful and good!

Instructions to the Teacher

The purpose of this lesson is to establish a habit within the student to be conscious of those thinking patterns that are out of harmony with the truth, beauty and goodness that is forthcoming from one who hears the voice of the Father through the Son.  Our Master said "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? What would a man give in exchange for eternal life?

 

For those who would lead the way, as the Father's Ambassadors and our Master's Apostles Messengers and Disciples His advice while here in the flesh to these men of old, was to spend three hours a day in preparation for the work of the Kingdom. As an Apostle for this day and generation I advise one hour of this time would be wisely spent in the technique of approach revealed in these courses.

 

EXERCISE

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  • 2. They meditate on the concept of glorification.

Students may make a list or Time-Pie of all the different life experiences that they have had in their life: travel, sports, housekeeping, sewing, fishing, etc. Then with their new Time-Pie they can actualize something new. (Ex: Music, typing, new life skills)

DISCUSSION

Glorification Night: Think up some thing glorious and fun, the idea will arise out of the group mind.

 

Divine Sistership      Urantia Book Quotes       Divine Sonship

 

LESSON ON SELF-MASTERY

  •   143:2.1   The Master was a perfected specimen of human self-control. When he was reviled, he reviled not; when he suffered, he uttered no threats against his tormentors; when he was denounced by his enemies, he simply committed himself to the righteous judgment of the Father in heaven.

  •   143:2.2   At one of the evening conferences, Andrew asked Jesus: "Master, are we to practice self-denial as John taught us, or are we to strive for the self-control of your teaching? Wherein does your teaching differ from that of John?" Jesus answered: "John indeed taught you the way of righteousness in accordance with the light and laws of his fathers, and that was the religion of self-examination and self-denial. But I come with a new message of self-forgetfulness and self-control. I show to you the way of life as revealed to me by my Father in heaven.

  •   143:2.3   "Verily, verily, I say to you, he who rules his own self is greater than he who captures a city. Self-mastery is the measure of man's moral nature and the indicator of his spiritual development. In the old order you fasted and prayed as the new creature of the rebirth of the spirit, you are taught to believe and rejoice. In the Father's kingdom you are to become new creatures; old things are to pass away; behold I show you how all things are to become new. And by your love for one another you are to convince the world that you have passed from bondage to liberty, from death into life everlasting.

  •   143:2.4   By the old way you seek to suppress, obey, and conform to the rules of living; by the new way you are first transformed by the Spirit of Truth and thereby strengthened in your inner soul by the constant spiritual renewing of your mind, and so are you endowed with the power of the certain and joyous performance of the gracious, acceptable, and perfect will of God. Forget not-- it is your personal faith in the exceedingly great and precious promises of God that ensures your becoming partakers of the divine nature. Thus by your faith and the spirit's transformation, you become in reality the temples of God, and his spirit actually dwells within you. If, then, the spirit dwells within you, you are no longer bondslaves of the flesh but free and liberated sons of the spirit. The new law of the spirit endows you with the liberty of self-mastery in place of the old law of the fear of self-bondage and the slavery of self-denial.

  •   143:2.5   "Many times, when you have done evil, you have thought to charge up your acts to the influence of the evil one when in reality you have but been led astray by your own natural tendencies. Did not the Prophet Jeremiah long ago tell you that the human heart is deceitful above all things and sometimes even desperately wicked? How easy for you to become self-deceived and thereby fall into foolish fears, divers lusts, enslaving pleasures, malice, envy, and even vengeful hatred!

  •   143:2.6   "Salvation is by the regeneration of the spirit and not by the self-righteous deeds of the flesh. You are justified by faith and fellowshipped by grace, not by fear and the self-denial of the flesh, albeit the Father's children who have been born of the spirit are ever and always masters of the self and all that pertains to the desires of the flesh. When you know that you are saved by faith, you have real peace with God. And all who follow in the way of this heavenly peace are destined to be sanctified to the eternal service of the ever-advancing sons of the eternal God. Henceforth, it is not a duty but rather your exalted privilege to cleanse yourselves from all evils of mind and body while you seek for perfection in the love of God.

  •   143:2.7   "Your sonship is grounded in faith, and you are to remain unmoved by fear. Your joy is born of trust in the divine word, and you shall not therefore be led to doubt the reality of the Father's love and mercy. It is the very goodness of God that leads men into true and genuine repentance. Your secret of the mastery of self is bound up with your faith in the indwelling spirit, which ever works by love. Even this saving faith you have not of yourselves; it also is the gift of God. And if you are the children of this living faith, you are no longer the bondslaves of self but rather the triumphant masters of yourselves, the liberated sons of God.

  •   143:2.8   "If, then, my children, you are born of the spirit, you are forever delivered from the self-conscious bondage of a life of self-denial and watchcare over the desires of the flesh, and you are translated into the joyous kingdom of the spirit, whence you spontaneously show forth the fruits of the spirit in your daily lives; and the fruits of the spirit are the essence of the highest type of enjoyable and ennobling self-control, even the heights of terrestrial mortal attainment--true self-mastery."

  •   2:7.11   All truth--material, philosophic, or spiritual--is both beautiful and good. All real beauty--material art or spiritual symmetry--is both true and good. All genuine goodness--whether personal morality, social equity, or divine ministry-- is equally true and beautiful. Health, sanity, and happiness are integrations of truth, beauty, and goodness as they are blended in human experience. Such levels of efficient living come about through the unification of energy systems, idea systems, and spirit systems.

  •   2:7.12   Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty. The real purpose of all universe education is to effect the better co-ordination of the isolated child of the worlds with the larger realities of his expanding experience. Reality is finite on the human level, infinite and eternal on the higher and divine levels."

  •   12:7.13   "Even though the Paradise Father functions through his divine creators and his creature children, he also enjoys the most intimate inner contact with you, so sublime, so highly personal, that it is even beyond my comprehension--that mysterious communion of the Father fragment with the human soul and with the mortal mind of its actual indwelling. Knowing what you do of these gifts of God, you therefore know that the Father is in intimate touch, not only with his divine associates, but also with his evolutionary mortal children of time. The Father indeed abides on Paradise, but his divine presence also dwells in the minds of men.

  •   12:7.14   Even though the spirit of a Son be poured out upon all flesh, even though a Son once dwelt with you in the likeness of mortal flesh, even though the seraphim personally guard and guide you, how can any of these divine beings of the Second and Third Centers ever hope to come as near to you or to understand you as fully as the Father, who has given a part of himself to be in you, to be your real and divine, even your eternal, self?

  •    110:2.1  "When Thought Adjusters indwell human minds, they bring with them the model careers, the ideal lives, as determined and foreordained by themselves and the Personalized Adjusters of Divinington, which have been certified by the Personalized Adjuster of Urantia. Thus they begin work with a definite and predetermined plan for the intellectual and spiritual development of their human subjects, but it is not incumbent upon any human being to accept this plan. You are all subjects of predestination, but it is not foreordained that you must accept this divine predestination; you are at full liberty to reject any part or all of the Thought Adjuster's program. It is their mission to effect such mind changes and to make such spiritual adjustments as you may willingly and intelligently authorize, to the end that they may gain more influence over the personality directionization; but under no circumstances do these divine Monitors ever take advantage of you or in any way arbitrarily influence you in your choices and decisions. The Adjusters respect your sovereignty of personality; they are always subservient to your will".

  •   156:5.2   "Build well the foundations for the growth of a noble character of spiritual endowments," he said: "In order to yield the fruits of the spirit, you must be born of the spirit. You must be taught by the spirit and be led by the spirit if you would live the spirit-filled life among your fellows. But do not make the mistake of the foolish carpenter who wastes valuable time squaring, measuring, and smoothing his worm-eaten and inwardly rotting timber and then, when he has thus bestowed all of his labor upon the unsound beam, must reject it as unfit to enter into the foundations of the building which he would construct to withstand the assaults of time and storm. Let every man make sure that the intellectual and moral foundations of character are such as will adequately support the superstructure of the enlarging and ennobling spiritual nature, which is thus to transform the mortal mind and then, in association with that re-created mind, is to achieve the evolvement of the soul of immortal destiny. Your spirit nature--the jointly created soul--is a living growth, but the mind and morals of the individual are the soil from which these higher manifestations of human development and divine destiny must spring. The soil of the evolving soul is human and material, but the destiny of this combined creature of mind and spirit is spiritual and divine."

Write on the black board and glow as you continue!

"For the purpose of this course we will call these model careers and ideal lives our Divine Principles."

 

"You see, my children, the appeal to human feelings is transitory and utterly disappointing; the exclusive appeal to the intellect of man is likewise empty and barren; it is only by making your appeal to the spirit which lives within the human mind that you can hope to achieve lasting success and accomplish those marvelous transformations of human character that are presently shown in the abundant yielding of the genuine fruits of the spirit in the daily lives of all who are thus delivered from the darkness of doubt by the birth of the spirit into the light of faith--the kingdom of heaven."

Jesus taught the appeal to the emotions as the technique of arresting and focusing the intellectual attention. He designated the mind thus aroused and quickened as the gateway to the soul, where there resides that spiritual nature of man which must recognize truth and respond to the spiritual appeal of the gospel in order to afford the permanent results of true character transformations.

Refer back to #7 aura lesson to link in this subject. Then get feedback. Explain that because we are the only species with a dual aura, we alone are responsible for our actions.

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Write on board the next two sentences -

1./ "ID controlling us destroys!
2./ PSI (Divine Monitor) controlling us enriches!

 

The Human Personality

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Pause now to draw the Outline of your time pie on the blackboard. Go toChart

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Don't make all the slices the same size - put them in one at a time as the Students give suggestions on how is should be sliced.

Give an example of how the husband has a real tough day at work and the wife has a grim time with the kids - plumbing fails, sink clogs up, etc.

Elaborate a bit here with various examples. Get feedback then swing into Part III, the wind up.

 

JACOB'S LADDER

A lesson in Divine Acting

But they who wait upon the Lord shall renew

their strength: they shall mount up with wings as

eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they

shall walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31

"`Every time man yields to anxiety; he takes one step away from the leading of the spirit of his heart.' Pride obscures God. If you would obtain heavenly help, put away your pride; every hair of pride shuts off saving light, as it were, by a great cloud. If you are not right on the inside, it is useless to pray for that which is on the outside. `If I hear your prayers, it is because you come before me with a clean heart, free from falsehood and hypocrisy, with a soul which reflects truth like a mirror. If you would gain immortality, forsake the world and come to me.'" UB131:7.3

THE INNER VOYAGE

UNIT:8 GLORIFICATION - Be of Good Cheer

If you learn today's lesson properly, you can pretty well afford to toss away all the previous lessons in this course - and, for that matter, any other course.

Because we are dealing with human beings, it is necessary to appeal to the intellect with fancy charts and diagrams -references, and so on. Yet the simple man, rising at dawn, working till dusk, eating simple foods - illiterate if you like - if he has one small key to wealth, knows more about God and the Universe than the intellectual could learn in a lifetime. The secret is GLORIFICATION.

What’s glorification? It is the art of getting up in the morning, glad to be alive, glad to be you, hearing, seeing and experiencing the wonder of the creator afresh with every breath you draw. It’s living in a state of total empathy - with nature, with spirit, within yourself - that, dear student, is "where it’s at". We could spend the rest of this lesson just singing - but as the old computer must have its pound of flesh we will elaborate.

We are talking about setting up a constant throbbing blue Alpha rhythm to underlie all physical thinking, a symphony of sound as opposed to banging away on the old beta, one note monotony all day. We call this holding an “IDLE ” aura.

 

PART II CONCEPT AND TECHNIQUE

Point to the black board - ID (the natural being's material focus) controlling us destroys! PSI (our Divine Monitor) controlling us enriches and leads to eternal life!

1./ "ID controlling us destroys!
2./ PSI (Divine Monitor) controlling us enriches!

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In our lessons we have always tried to stress the importance of mind control (or thought control) as a necessary part of psyche and personality development. There are many reasons for this - just imagine having a really powerful radio receiver - yet not being able to tune in and out to various channels - the only result would be utter confusion.

 As we produce more powerful emotions, then it is clear to see that we must learn to control our thoughts effectively. It’s fine to build up a strong identity but likes and dislikes, unless governed by a dominant innate sense of RIGHT and WRONG (PSI) can destroy rather than enrich our lives.

When the mind is at rest, the inner aura remains at a steady shade, which gives constant feedback into the second or spiritual aura which is like a pulsating rainbow beyond the limits of the physical aura.

This IDLE AURA represents the basic mood of the person it shrouds - an orange tint for the frustrated, nervous or irritable person - Yellow for the mind which is constantly machinating with intellectual schemes, pale blue for the mildly optimistic or cheerful person,  Red  for the sensual awareness of the natural being, (taking "false sin or guilt" out of natural pleasure) and so on.

What we are aiming for is a deep, steady brilliant Blue of constant inner empathy. It is, therefore, necessary to first study the previous notes in your personal folders to determine your “idle aura” shading. How do you read your pattern as demonstrated by the basic thread that runs through your self-analysis? This will represent the mood that takes over when the fingers are busy with some automatic task like dishwashing, vacuuming, shaving, hoeing, or perhaps traveling a familiar train route. This shade also takes over during dreamless sleep.

You will see the reason why in lesson 1 and 2 we asked you to record dreams and emotional responses during sleep, for in order to get the correct “idle aura” shade, all disturbing dreams and memories must first be cleared out of the mind that sleep may be un-disturbed by subconscious pressures. Jesus said “Except ye become as little children, ye shall not see the Kingdom of Heaven” - this is an absolute statement of fact and applies to us when we are in the mortal realm as well as when we enter into the spiritual dimension.

 E.S.P. takes place at those times when the “idle aura” shade is a steady blue, bluish-green or green, when we have reached the triune balance of body - mind - and spirit. The more depth to this shade, the deeper one’s powers of perception. It occurs mainly during sleep but may happen at any of the other times outlined above. After you have spent time practicing the maintaining of a steady blue aura when the mind is otherwise unoccupied, precognition, clairvoyance and other extrasensory faculties will increase, till eventually one can reach the topmost heights of spiritual experience.

"It is to the mind of perfect poise, housed in a body of clean habits, stabilized neural energies, and balanced chemical function--when the physical, mental, and spiritual powers are in triune harmony of development--that a maximum of light and truth can be imparted with a minimum of temporal danger or risk to the real welfare of such a being. By such a balanced growth does man ascend the circles of planetary progression one by one, from the seventh to the first."  (to be covered in ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY course)

The techniques of meditation, praise and prayer, when properly applied create a  aura - thus allowing prayers to be answered. If by chance you have failed to master these techniques,  go right back to lesson 1 and begin all over again to achieve mind control.

Unless adept in the early lessons, frustration may be the only result as we proceed more deeply into higher zones of cosmic consciousness.

Read Isaiah - particularly the place where Jehovah says “I am not hiding from you: it is you, through your own erroneous ways that hides from Me...” How true this is. Spirit is always there, willing and eager to communicate. It is the tainted aura of human beings which makes contact so difficult. Thus we have to find the right spiritual wavelength through the perfected “idle aura")

The training and advice of our mentor, a Melchizedek and one time Planetary Receiver is far in advance of anything else available on earth today. Every precaution has been taken to build strong, logical controlled minds. Too often we see “psychics” with emotional problems because of their strong sensitivity and poor mind control unwittingly cast a great deal of harm towards metaphysics through the misunderstood and mismanaged use of this ability,  using these abilities in mystic tendencies rather than the progressive goal of character growth, cosmic consciousness and planetary service.

TIME PIE

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Here is our advice on mind control. We suggest you make yourselves a Time-Pie ...and slice it logically according to our specific requirements, essentials of daily living, which will probably be different at different times in our lives.

A mother with a young family for example, obviously needs to use a bigger slice of her Time-Pie in this area than a woman with no children.

Obviously, living in the physical world as we do demands that a certain portion of our time be spent in earning a living - then, personal family matters occupy a certain place; personal development; recreation needs, etc.

The important thing is not to let the stresses of one aspect of life carry over into other areas.

The husband should close his office door, get into his car or on the bus and immediately concentrate on gaining a blue aura before arriving home. Worry never solves anything. Office problems will still be there next morning. Intuitive Alpha thought serves to solve problems, not Beta worry thoughts.

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Meanwhile, the wife, knowing her husband will arrive shortly should strive to be ready to greet him with smiles not a long string of complaints. 'THIS IS EFFECTIVE MIND CONTROL'.

A trouble shared with your guide is a trouble halved or solved. A trouble shared with another person is doubled, for they will invariably respond by telling you their problems.

That is why we insist that when you come into these classes you need to cut off the external world with its mundane worries and rise above them. If students utilize the Social Events and Training Sessions for unlocking a Pandora’s box of woes, others easily follow, and we can never achieve the right vibrations for personal development.

PART III WIND-UP

To sum up. Try to simplify your life and eliminate wasteful. time consumption. Make yourself a Time-Pie and stick with it. When at work give all your time and attention to what you have to do for Caesar.

When with your family concentrate your full attention on them. Go for broke in recreation or whatever and when you come here concentrate on learning.

Learn to give fully of yourself in whatever area of life you are dealing with. This is ‘what builds spiritual wattage.'

Cut out as many frills and futile activities as you can they consume mental energy and reduce your capacity for effective living.

Once again, this lesson illustrates the futility of reading many books in the hope of somehow imbibing spiritual power. Knowledge must be applied in service to your fellow man. Such reading only results in yellow striations in the aura, which is fine, if combined with blue to form the proper coloration of the teacher, who must combine knowledge with living passion for the subject to get results. Books make fine guideposts but can never replace time devoted to sincere spiritual exercise. Neither can they replace service.

To love is to care - Is to ACT!!! God the Supreme is a God of ACTION. Love is DOING GOOD to others.

And underlying all thought and action should be that “isn’t it great to be alive” feeling. It hits your mind with a little “ping” every time you wake up and you fall asleep with the same glorious thought “What a wonderful universe we live in how amazing to think I’m a part of it all”.

This course promotes not self-examination and self-denial rather a new message of self-forgetfulness and self-control.

"He who rules his own self is greater than he who captures a city.  Self-Mastery is the measure of man's moral nature, and the indicator of his spiritual development.

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UNIT 8: THE IDLE AURA

Ask yourself these questions.

  • 1. How is your ability to glorify, to abandon yourself and have fun?

  • 2. Have you noticed any change in your way of life after the Time-Pie technique?

  • 3. What is your concept of being child-like?

  • 4. Can you live 100% each moment of one Time-Pie slice and then take 2 minutes relaxation and switch to a new slice? Where is your difficulty?

The value of your time!

Remember to daily practice the 1  2 and 3 Lessons Techniques

During my first years in business, I was working very long hours just to be able to maintain the business. The fact is that confusion was burning a lot of my energy and my time. I had tried different ways to cut down both on the work and the expenses involved in personnel managing and the business flow coming in. My business was finally going well but I could not enjoy seeing it grow simply because of lack of time.

Then I was taught the Time-Pie lesson. I realized it was an essential lesson in time planning. I learned to value my time and my personnel's time with a more balanced approach and got more results and more efficiency as well as joy in doing it.

I now work short but concentrated hours, boost the sales of the company and still have plenty of time to golf with the boys.

G.M. Lalonde, C.D.A. Ass’n.

Hull, Quebec

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Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.  As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.  Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.  If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.  Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.  Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.  But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself.  Especially, do not feign affection.  Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.  Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.  But do not distress yourself with  imaginings; many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.  You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.  And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whoever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul.  With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.  Be cheerful.  Strive to be happy.

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You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees

and the stars, you have a right to be here.