18 - The Cultivation of Gratitude
Ramadahn Circle, August
1975
Beloved
ones, I would say that every emotion you experience in your life has
a reflection in the auric body in the form of energy, in a radiant
colour and outflowing of shape which is easily perceived by us of
spirit and by means of which we are often able to judge the state of
your own energy and health of body as you take your way through the
many schools of earthly experience.
Firstly I would
say that gratitude is the emotion which is most important to the
understanding of every human being. When you are deeply and
inwardly grateful to the Great Master Giver of all things for the
experiences and riches, the friendships and the love, the beauty,
the life, the light and the wonder which fills your world - when
you are sufficiently grateful for all these manifestations of
eternal creativity, then indeed the blood dances through your veins
and your heart beats with the rhythm of life.
But when
ingratitude closes upon your soul, when you gaze with envy upon what
others possess and are devoid of gratitude for that which is your
birthright, then I would say that the aura (the soul body)
contracts around the heart and then contracts around the inward part
of your being. In its contraction it has an effect upon the beat of
the heart and the flow of the blood; the circulation is slowed and
in time you will say: “Why are my hands or my feet so cold? Why
does my brain not remember all I would desire? Why should my body
become subject to this weakening illness?” I would answer you and
say, It is because you have not realised that gratitude is the
abounding energy force of the soul and reflected as energy to the
mortal and physical body.
How sad are we
of spirit as we behold the brothers and sisters of earth sitting in
their little places and mourning because they do not have as much
worldly wealth as those who surround them; mourning and sad because
they cannot retain their possessions within their hands, depressed
and unhappy because they feel they have less than the brothers and
sisters around them. Truly such men and women are poorer than the
peasant who feels hunger and knows cold, who has to labour to grow
his bread and cultivate his vines in the heat of the day and in the
wintry season - yet in his heart he is grateful for the singing
breath of the spring as it brings into bloom the blossoms which show
that later he will have a harvesting. The peasant who is grateful
in his heart for the balmy days of spring and the glistening rain
which brings fertility into his land is richer than you in your city
places who sit and mourn because you do not have as much as the men
and women surrounding you.
Beloved ones, is
it not true that you have many things for which to be glad and
grateful? Do you not have a bed upon which to sleep and warmth to
maintain your body in comfort? Are you not free to gaze through
your window panes upon the twinkling sparks of light for you
are not contained in the darkness of blindness? Why then do you not
cultivate gratitude as the virtue of the soul which keeps your blood
flowing through your veins in a singing happiness? Bless all the
gifts you have, do not partake of the bitter bread of ungratefulness
- and you shall remain well and happy in your body, able to work,
able to labour and sustain your health.
How many of you
are grateful for the work you can do? How many of you bless your
labour and how many give thanks that you have eyes with which to see
the work you do, hands to earn your money and feet to walk forth
upon your city streets? How many of you give thanks that you have
work that you may accomplish? Very, very few of earth’s children
have real gratitude within their hearts and souls! When I look upon
you I often behold only the grey coiling clouds of discontent moving
within the aura and reflecting back again upon the body in sickness
and disease.
Even more would
I say to you, Gratitude is the great singing, influencing power
which makes the blood flow and sing in joy through the veins and
arteries. What accompanies gratitude is joy and contentment - and
where joy and contentment go hand in hand there can be seen in the
living aura which surrounds each one the vibrations of rose-pink and
gold; in their turn these give a flow of energy to the living
cell-matter of the mortal and physical body which means that the
body is not only sustained by the life force of blood but each
living cell is able to respond to the life vibration of joy and
contentment. It is true that those who cultivate the contented mind
and have drunk deep of the cup of joy know much of gratitude and
live long in the years of the earthly body - for these are the great
sustainers of the health and energy which each one needs.
When there is
sorrow and joy departs from the soul, when there is bereavement and
the soul is not able to know joy or laughter, then a greyness like a
shadow closes around the aura of the living person. It closes in
like a shell closing itself together and brings an inhibition of the
energy force to the lungs, the breathing part of the person.
Instead of song and laughter coming forth as the symbol of joy only
a deep sigh of sorrow is breathed forth, the inward sign of
unhappiness.
Sorrow needs to
be healed in your world: it needs to be healed by the ministry of
mediums and through the understanding sympathy of persons such as
yourselves, it needs the healing of the understanding mind, the
friendly hand and sympathetic conversation. Then the encroachment
of sorrow can slowly give way to the simplicity of wisdom, healing
will flow in and the iron grip of that closing shell begins to open
and relaxation comes again to the lungs and throat. The person will
then breathe deeply of the life-giving forces of the air and begin
to unfold once more into the inbreathing of joy and the cultivation
of contentment.
Sorrow is not
easily healed in the being of the beloveds of earth and joy does not
easily replace sorrow, but contentment which goes hand in hand with
joy may come as an emotion of the soul. When you know that your
beloveds wait for you beyond the veil of death and you will meet
again in the great singing land of light, then can you begin to
school your impatient emotion into the way of contented peace in the
certainty that they are with you and you are with them, and at the
closure of your life you will meet again. So does contentment and
peace heal the hard experience of sorrow and pain.
One of the
greatest healing agents known within your earthly world is that of
love: such love as flows from the well deep within the heart in a
tenderness of protection for the child, the husband or wife, toward
brother and sister, friend and sweetheart - the love which flows
from the heart in a tender understanding to those in spirit who make
themselves known to you as teachers and guides and guardians, and
the love which wells from your own heart in a secret outpouring unto
the Great Master Giver of all in the ecstasy and inwardness of
love. It is these feelings of love which bring to the soul body a
singing vibrancy of light and colour, a palpitant outpouring of
radiant rays which is difficult for you to understand because you do
not see it as we see it from spirit.
I would say that
the true healing of love is not when you know that you are a
beloved, but when you outpour yourself in love upon the beloveds of
earth and unto the beloveds of spirit, and in a great outflowing
unto the Great Master Giver of all. From your heart showers of
golden sparks go shooting out through the spiritual aura and these
bring energy, not only to your own physical body, but to those who
surround you. The greatest healing known in your earthly world is
when you outpour yourself in love unto your God, and as the great
shower of light goes out through your aura it goes unto the Master
Creator and stirs energy upon the higher spiritual planes of your
being, which then outflows in healing and energy and power to those
who are weak and sick and lonely in the world around you.
It would seem to
me that your idea of love in the earthly world is to be loved;
your desire is always to ask that God may love you, that spirit will
love you, that the beloveds will love you. Surely the beloveds may
only love you when you have learned to give forth love in the
fullness and beauty of your being? Be not disappointed or angered
when the love which you would give seems to be repudiated but be
content to love, to give forth of your being. Be a lover of
humankind and the great harmonising forces of life and energy will
flow through every cell of your heart, your brain, your living
being, to re-create it in beauty and life and strength. Instead of
our beholding you do this, we see you holding round yourselves the
dark shield of your fearfulness – you are fearful that she may not
love you, you are afraid that he will not love you as you think that
he should. You fold around yourselves the dark cloak of fearfulness
and as fear comes into your aura it closes you off from the great
flow of Divine energy which is forever flowing toward you and
through you from the source of Divine love - you do not receive
this.
Fear inhibits
the flow of the great energy force of life; it slows down the
action of the cells of the body and creates blockages within the
flow of energy force which goes through the veins and into the blood
cells: fear is the great inhibitor of life! I would say to you,
Cease to fear. Do not fear the anger of your God; do not fear the
tongues of men and women near you. Do not fear the loss of those
whom you love, for no loss is possible unto those who truly love.
By letting go of fear you loosen the tensions of your soul body, and
thereby you loosen the blockages which prevent energy reaching you –
you may bring about your own healing in the perfection of healing
which the Master Creator would desire for each one.
Beloved ones,
the important and essential emotions for you to understand lie in
the reality of love, the cultivation of gratitude, in the
elimination of fear and the sinking away of greed which accompanies
fear: I would say to you, By losing these you will grow into
beauty, health and harmony – to maintain you for all the years of
your mortal experiences.
Oh Thou Spirit of Peace,
may Thy peace and love move in the heart and soul of these beloved
ones of the earthly life. As Thy peace and love touch them may it
bring about a relaxation and harmony of the ethereal soul-body, that
healing, rest and renewal may come to the tested and strained
physical body which continually out-patterns the harmony of the
ethereal and ever-immortal self. We bring these of earth unto a
realisation of Your heavenly love that they may rest for a time,
rest in peace in the flux and flow of Your great energy of love as
it is kisses into beauty all things of the earthly world and brings
forth manifestations of joy amongst all things that live – because
You are the Spirit of life, the Giver of love and You are the Maker
and Creator of all things.
In the light of
the great Giver of all good, in the peace of the great Maker of all
things, I set within this room a gleaming cross which is the symbol
of the soul incarnate in matter but forever surrounded by the
gleaming, expanding circle of truth, realisation and ever-lasting
life. May this sign be here and shine within this place, a sign to
all who shall come and all who shall go that herein earth and spirit
have met together.
In peace do I
come and bless each one.
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