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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
Today we will look at the third Key in the Ten Keys to Success in Spiritual Growth. Remember, as each key is presented take time to reflect, and honestly and lovingly evaluate how well you are implementing that particular Key. Once you have a clear picture of where you stand and where you would like to grow, meditate using the auric color given at the end of the section.
Third Key: KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is the Third Key.
You are going to need a constant steady flow of knowledge to be spiritually successful. Knowledge is like a beautiful rosebud, opening one petal at a time. Never let yourself be fooled into thinking you have learned it all. The more knowledge you gain, the more there is to learn.
Exercise: To enhance and awaken your passaion for spiritual Knowledge meditate with the Gold Ray for Wisdom
Today we will look at the Second Key in the Ten Keys to Success in Spiritual Growth. As each key is presented take time to reflect, honestly and lovingly evaluate how well you are implementing the Key, and then meditate using the auric color given at the end of each section.
Second Key: INTENSE SPIRITUAL DESIRE
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It is essential to have not only a desire, but a burning desire to continue to be on the spiritual path and succeed. Even if you take only one tiny step a day in the right direction, you are moving on the upward spiral of evolution.
You cannot put your spiritual goal in the corner and expect to succeed. It has to always be there, an active part of your life. If your desire is weak, then it becomes your job to fan your spiritual desire from a spark to a flame and then into a fire.
Exercise: To spark your Spiritual Desire, meditate with the Royal Blue Ray of Determination and Devotion.
Registration for our new Change Your Aura, Change Your Life class is in full swing! Classes begin on April 21st. There’s still time to register – you can call (800) 650-AURA (2872), or email us at info@spiritualarts.org.
Our new summer session of classes on the aura and spiritual development has begun. If you missed signing up this time but would like to take a class, the next session of classes starts on October 14. We look forward to seeing you then!
The institute has some exciting events coming up. We will be at the Soul of Yoga in Encinitas for an exiting workshop Connecting with the Spiritual Worlds on June 6, followed by The Healing Power of Your Aura at the Bodhi Tree in Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 10 at 7:30pm. We are also offering this workshop in our next teleclass, Monday, June 29th at 6:30 pm PST. Both events are free and we encourage you to invite your friends. Our foundation course, Change Your Aura, Change Your Life begins July 8! This foundation program teaches you how to work with spiritual energy and is the key to all the training offered through the institute.
We are delighted to announce we will be returning to Columbus, Ohio for an exciting workshop Reincarnation & Karma on September 26. Join us to discover how you can effectively resolve karmic issues and accelerate your spiritual development.
As a nonprofit, we continue to depend on public support to continue to offer high quality spiritual education. Donations are essential to the institute’s well-being and you can donate on our website. If the work the institute does has helped you in your spiritual journey, we ask for you contribution so others can benefit as well. Click here to donate.
Our door is always open, and we hope to see you often!
Warmest Wishes,
Dimitri Moraitis
Executive Director
It’s a delight to see that knowledge of the aura and its relationship to health is blossoming with the advent of what is called energy healing or vibrational medicine. Spiritual practices from yoga and acupuncture to Reiki and Qigong all use the body’s spiritual power to generate health and well-being.
The aura is essential to healing because it is the first place you generate health. As with all things in life, making any type of change requires energy. You must first change the energy within your aura to create the health you desire.
The organs of the body each have their own aura. When healthy, the lungs and heart have blue auras, the liver usually has a red-orange aura, the stomach a pink aura, and the brain has a green aura. The body itself radiates an orange-red aura along its contours for about an inch and a half when healthy. Even the cells of our body have an aura, a tiny, bright silver aura, revealing their inherent intelligence!
When we become ill, the aura becomes discolored. The primary color of illness is gray. Other unhealthy energies come into play, such as black, mustard yellow, avocado green, and vitiated red, but the predominant color is gray. Gray indicates a devitalization of spiritual power in the affected area in the body. Except in cases of accidents and physical injury, these unhealthy energies actually show themselves in the aura before the actual physical illness appears. If I see these dark energies brewing in an organ or part of the body, I know the person is in need of healing. By healing the aura before the illness manifests, we can alleviate many maladies.
Creating a proper mental attitude of health is essential in working with the aura. If you’re asking God’s light to heal you yet are harboring old destructive patterns of thinking, you impede your spiritual energy flow. Perfect health starts in your mind. Once your mind is thinking in terms of God and health, it is the Divine Light being expressed through the aura that provides the power necessary to actually make the change.
In today’s world, there are many modalities of healing from the medical to the holistic and spiritual. It can become confusing which way to turn when we need help in manifesting health. Working with the aura works very well in conjunction with medical and holistic practices. It’s most important to see that ultimately all healing comes from God. This tells us that God works through all channels of health including doctors and holistic health practitioners as well as spiritual healers.
You will find that by working with your aura and spiritual energy, you have discovered the single greatest key to building and sustaining health. Perhaps the greatest blessing of all is that by applying the spiritual laws of health to physical conditions, you are discovering the secret to healthy living in all departments of your life and are drawing yourself closer to your divine source.
In Divine Light and love,
Fear can certainly have a paralyzing effect upon our lives. It can stop us from going out and doing all that we’re capable of achieving. The thing with fear is it won’t go away by itself. You have to stand up to your fears; you have to face them sooner or later. The mistake too often made is to avoid facing our fears for as long as possible. This only serves to build up the fear bigger than it really is. It’s always better to face your fear as soon as possible. The sooner you face your fears head on, the sooner you put them behind you. You cannot climb high the on spiritual ladder if you are dwelling in the shadows of fear.
Fear shows up as a gray energy in the aura. The divine power that will help you in building courage is the golden ray of wisdom. This is the dynamic energy of confidence. It gives you the strength of God to face and resolve any fears. If God is truly in our corner, what have we really to fear? Use this energy as often as you need to and trust in God that you can surmount any fearful condition that has come into your life.
We all know the power of emotions in our lives. When we have our emotions in harmony and balance they can make life beautiful, and when we let our emotions get the better of us, they make our life a living hell. Our emotions play an important part of our aura. Everything we feel radiates a spiritual energy corresponding to the quality of our emotion. It is a sad fact that often the weakest part of a person’s aura is the emotional body.
The key thing to understand with emotions is that they do not think. The job of the emotional part of us is to feel, to give life to our thoughts. Our mental body is the director of our consciousness and emotions are meant to be the spiritual motor that puts ideas into action. Once an idea is wed with an emotion, it had tremendous power and will express itself in some way.
The emerald green ray is a wonderful energy to work with in the emotional body. It helps to keep balance and harmony between thoughts and feelings. We want to have a rich and expressive emotional life, so it’s important to nourish the emotions with spiritual energy and keep our emotions on a high a level as possible.
In case you missed the Unlocking the Power of Your Subconscious Mind workshop at the Bodhi Tree in January, we will be having the workshop there again on April 13th. Learning to work with the subconscious is such an important part of our spiritual development, this workshop is definitely a must-see! We look forward to seeing you there!
