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With all the challenges and activities of life, it can be easy to forget that each step you take IS your spiritual path. It can become habitual to feel that you are on a spiritual merry-go-round, pursuing the path but somehow not getting where you need to be. It is at these times that you need to stop, take a breath, and reevaluate where you are in your spiritual journey.
Your Spiritual Ascent is a miraculous journey. It represents the blossoming of your soul, the unfolding of the spiritual powers latent within you. Earth is a schoolhouse and you are here to grow and serve the divine plan. In this school there are definite grades and levels. Right now you are in the process of growing through the spiritual planes. These planes are actual dimensions of life and consciousness that you have to embody and master if you are to win the crown of life, the culminating achievement in your earthly journey.
In the esoteric work, these spiritual planes are called the astral worlds. The astral worlds are the dimensions of life you go to when you pass from this life through the portal called death. These dimensions are magnificent, but they are not just for the day when you are finished with your earthly life. These dimensions are part of you right now. You receive help and support from the astral planes. As you earn spiritual light, you grow through these realms while you are right here in physical life. This is the essence of your spiritual ascent.
There are seven of these astral dimensions that you are evolving through. Eventually you will finish with the astral planes altogether and step into the next dimension of life known as the heaven worlds of Spiritual Etheria.
Your passport to the spiritual worlds is the Divine Light you earn. The more spiritual power you earn the higher in consciousness you can climb and the greater your spiritual ascent through the astral planes. It’s a wondrous journey.
How do you help in your spiritual ascent? Is there a way to quicken this process? The answer is straight forward: there is no shortcut to spiritual enlightenment, but by putting your hands to the plough and applying yourself, you can accelerate the process, right now.
The key to your spiritual ascent is the Divine Light. Do all that you can to earn light. Through every good word, thought, act and deed you are earning light. Your efforts do add up! In all your choices and decisions, look to the best course of action regardless of personal feelings. Be willing to face the challenges of life head on. These tests are the very opportunity to help you grow and mature. And as you master these challenges, you are building your spiritual power.
The other way you earn spiritual light and quicken your spiritual steps is through meditation. By meditating regularly, you are giving yourself time to commune with the Divine and receive the gifts of Spirit. There are some who say they are too busy to meditate or say they do not know how to meditate. This is like saying you have no time for God or don’t know how to receive from God. Of course you do! It’s all a matter of choice.
Through every sincere effort you are growing and unfolding your spiritual power. Put God first in all you do and watch your life blossom.
In Divine Light and Love,
Barbara Y. Martin
Spiritual Director
We are delighted to be going to Soul of Yoga in Encinitas for an exciting weekend event on February 9th. Tom and Trisha Kelly own a wonderful, well-rounded yoga studio with an emphasis on health, fitness, meditation and spiritual growth. Trisha is a student at Spiritual Arts Institute, so we are looking forward to an uplifting spiritual synergy. The workshop will be on the heart chakra, how it’s connected to your soul and the activities of your life. We will explore how the aura is the energetic nucleus of your personal affairs such as finances, relationships and career. We look forward to seeing you there!
The Hermetic Center or heart chakra is an incredibly important part of our spiritual anatomy. Located in the middle of the chest, it is the seat of the soul. This means the soul is registering the experiences of life through this center. That’s saying a lot.
It is essential to keep our Hermetic Center moving strong. If the spiritual energy of this center is weak, it is difficult for the activities in our life to move in a positive way. From the point of view of the aura, the Hermetic Center is the energetic nucleus of our personal affairs. You might call it our action center. We need to constantly impress the Divine Light upon this center to keep it vital. One of the most important energies to have strong in this center is the emerald green ray, as this brings in balance and stability to all that we are doing. Another essential ray is the bright orange. This ray brings in motivation and enthusiasm. If I see this ray in the Hermetic Center, it means that the person is active in life, not sitting on the fence, and is pursing the things that need to be accomplished.
Let us know your experiences in working with the Hermetic Center!
The Holiday season is a special time as the divine down-rays a tremendous amount of light during this time to uplift humanity. Regardless of our religious affiliation, God loves us all and uses this time to touch deep into our soul. Do your best to stay in as high a spiritual place as you can even if difficult situations come up. Keep your thoughts elevated and avoid getting into confrontations with others. Simply be receptive to what God wishes to give you.These next few weeks are a good time to take personal inventory of the year. Look at the things you accomplished and did not accomplish. Forgive those you may have had entanglements with. Pray for your family and loves ones. Pray for the world and the troubled spots where tensions are high.We have a tradition at Spiritual Arts Institute to make a wish list for 2008 and seal it after January 1, 2008. Ask the light to bless those wishes and then at the end of the year open the envelope and see how well you did. Also make another wish of things you do NOT wish to bring into the New Year and burn that list as close to midnight New Year’s Eve. Feel those things being dropped away.
It is estimated that today one in three people are looking to better themselves through personal and spiritual growth. It is a wonderful time where, despite the increasing challenges of life, we are seeking to find real answers to life’s biggest questions. In the pursuit of spiritual development, there is an essential part of us that we employ which gives us the power to grow spiritually. This essential part is your auric field.The aura is not just about pretty colors around someone. The aura is an essential part of your life, because the aura is the blueprint of the soul. It is the aura that gives you the power to develop your soul. As you expand and elevate the power of your aura, you enlightened your soul. This miraculous pilgrimage of the soul shows itself very clearly in the aura. There are three basic shapes to the aura depending on the spiritual development of the individual. These are: the square, rounded and pointed-oval shape auras.The square-shaped aura is the primitive aura. We had this shaped aura when our soul was very young, and we were just beginning to learn how to harness spiritual energy. The square-shaped aura can also be the devolved aura. The devolved aura is different from the primitive aura in that the colors are much more menacing and violent. The worst aura you can have is a devolved aura.From the square-shaped aura, we grow into the rounded aura. The rounded aura is the aura in evolution. It is also called the mixed aura because it has both enlightened and unenlightened colors moving through it. From the rounded aura, we mature into the pointed-oval aura. The pointed-oval aura is the enlightened aura. It shows someone who, if not at the spiritual pinnacle, is very near the spiritual summit. In the enlightened aura, there are no dark colors. The colors are very bright and organized and such a soul has also developed the celestial pearl-luster colors.As a person develops their soul, the colors of the aura become more vibrant and defined. The divisions and compartments of the aura brighten and become more organized. You will see beautiful shades of blues, greens, yellows and pinks. The energies coming from the chakras or energy centers also become more brilliant and the chakras themselves become more developed. And naturally, souls advancing on the path begin to drop more of the darker, unenlightened colors. There is no part of the aura that is not affected and enhanced as the soul evolves. You have a glorious potential that is your destiny to reach. Use the divine energies that God gave you to nourish your soul. And always remember that your aura – that miraculous part of you – is always there to help you in your climb upward back to God.
In Divine Light and love,
Barbara Y. Martin
