Founder, Dr. Masters’ Weekly Mystical Insights

Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.
“Living in and by Mystical Grace”

Every day that we awaken from sleep, it is by Grace. To take a breath and to be alive is not by an act of personal ego will, but because of Grace. Some people may argue that the will of their personal egos caused them to survive some difficult time in their lives, but it was not—that was only the illusion. In truth we survive by Grace; it was not yet our cosmic time to surrender our physical existence in the Ultimate Cosmic Scheme of Things, where nothing is by chance or coincidence, and where all is perfectly orchestrated in a harmonious cosmic melody.

So often the phrase, “by the Grace of God,” is used by people, but what is its meaning? Its obvious meaning is that something has happened or will happen because Universal Presence or God allowed it to happen or will allow it to happen. Grace then could be thought of as the Will of God—not the personal ego’s will—having supreme or ultimate power over all things and human existence, and even life itself.

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“Union with God — in Each Other”

There is only peace in Oneness, and it can rightly be said, there is only Love in such Oneness.  Extending still further—in the peace and love that is Oneness is Allness, and Allness can only be described as God.

On this earthly plane of existence, there has always been conflict—if not between nations, then certainly between other groups or individuals.  Except for a few awake, mystically enlightened souls, this is the way it has been on the Earthly plane throughout history.  Certainly, there have been periods of peace, but just as certainly, those periods of peace have fallen prey to conflict.

For souls who pray for peace on earth—take comfort, for there is peace to be found in this universe, but not for the mass majority on Earth.  Mystically understood, there are countless numbers of soul-groupings throughout the universe—both on the physical plane of existence, as well as in many other dimensions of existence.  Each grouping of souls is at a certain level of awareness spiritually.  Each grouping sees and understands each other and God at a certain level of spiritual awareness.  Every grouping of souls incarnates into dimensions of energy consciousness with which they are in harmonic energy attunement.  There are planes of existence for baby souls, old souls, and for those who are in between.

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“War and Peace—A Mystical Perspective”

Souls who wish peace on earth—in order to enjoy what peace has to offer to themselves and to those they love—dream of peace on this planetary dimension.  In the history of this earth plane, there have been times of peace depending on one’s geographical location; and, thus, a person might idealize that permanent, lasting peace is possible.

Were it only so!

With mystical awareness comes the knowing that on this earth plane, it will never be so.  This is a plane of existence whose very existence is based on dualism or opposites.  There is hot and cold, pleasure or pain, love or loneliness. So, should it not then follow, that there is also war and peace?

This is a plane of existence that is a landing place for souls who are caught up in conflicts within themselves, and thus incarnate into an environment that is in harmony with the turmoil within themselves.  Not being at a point in spiritual awakening where they can deal with the inner demons that plague their souls, they are easy recruits to project inner conflicts into environmental conflicts or wars.

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“The Beginning of Wisdom”

The first step to wisdom is to admit you know nothing.  Yet, until one is ready, this is almost an impossible thing to admit.  The false personal ego identity, which may claim to know so much, rebels when considering that all its thoughts add up to nothing.  It does not matter whether the accumulation of what one believes to know has been gathered through the practical experience of daily life, through formal education, or through religious teachings.  All is stored up in a make-believe identity of the personal ego, which prides itself that it is a storehouse of such knowledge.

Such accumulated knowledge, however, is not to be classified as wisdom.  A person may be quite knowledgeable by worldly standards, yet totally lacking in wisdom.  For any person who possesses wisdom—and there are but a few on this physical earth dimension—there is an awareness that goes beyond being knowledgeable.

Until we can empty our consciousness of any belief that what we know has any significant value in the eternal scheme of things, there can be no release to wisdom. As most people base their identities on their accumulated knowledge, to challenge such knowledge is to challenge their very sense of identity or existence, as they perceive it.  The greater such accumulated knowledge, the greater is the task to declare, “For all I know—I know nothing.”  For, again, the false sense of personal ego identity is threatened.

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