Greetings All –
Today you complete twenty week of practice. Review
Step 140 (MP3)
[Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive –
Step PDF also.]
TODAY
YOU COMPLETE TWENTY WEEKS OF PRACTICE. You have come this far, and from here
you will proceed on with greater strength and certainty, for Knowledge will
begin to guide you and to motivate you increasingly as you become attentive to
it. You wish to be the servant and the Master all at once because the servant
is in you and the Master is in you. You personally are not the Master, but the
Master is in you. You personally are a servant, but you are in relationship
with the Master, and so your union is complete. Thus, all aspects of yourself
find their rightful place. All things are brought into alignment and harmony
with one purpose and one goal. Your life is simple because it is in harmony and
in balance. Knowledge will indicate all things that must be done for you —
physically, emotionally and mentally—to develop this balance and to maintain it
in your current circumstances. Think not that any vital aspect will be
overlooked or left undone.
CONGRATULATIONS
FOR YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENT thus far. Review the past six days of practice and
gauge your understanding of your progress appropriately. Allow yourself to be a
beginning student of Knowledge so that you may receive the very most. You will
proceed on from here with greater certainty and speed and greater involvement
as well as you learn to utilize all things for your benefit.
PRACTICE
140: One long practice period.
Yes,
20 weeks – there are 52 in the year. We can recognize progress and look ahead.
In
“Living the Way of Knowledge” the journey is compared to climbing a mountain: “You
must take the steps that take you to that vantage point on the mountain of life
where you can see clearly and understand where you are on the path and where it
has taken you, and to gain an appreciation of what is ahead and what it will
require.” This imagery
has been and remains helpful to many students.
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Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link
to the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge - Working file
If this is your first time seeing one of the “Steps to Knowledge”,
then welcome. There are 365 Steps, daily spiritual practices if one seeks to
complete them in a year, but that is not necessary. They can be used by people
of any religious tradition or no religious tradition. They will help one to
become mindful in the world.
The Step today is from the book: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing. The practices were
brought to the world through Marshall Vian Summers, The Messenger for The New
Message From God. Important background for the Steps is in: “Greater Community Spirituality” and the “Wisdom Books - I and II”.
Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store. The
Society for the New Message from God also has a Free Book Project. If you need
the books now, PDF files can be found here: http://goo.gl/RJuuGP
Keeping a journal is recommended. If you have a Steps book,
write your reactions and comments, highlight or underline points that strike
you, and date the note. In this way, your Steps book can be a partial journal.
Using the PDF, you can print out pages as you need them, or use
the software to maintain a digital copy where you can enter notes and highlight
text that stands out.
Other modern methods of keeping a journal include having a
document on your PC or phone to keep notes. You could send yourself an email or
use the voice recorder function. It is important to capture insights and
reactions because it is by this means that you can understand change. Sometimes
it may just be a word or short phrase, an image or a scene.
To end this post I again offer the blessing: "May the presence
of the Teachers be with you." In the invocative language of Knowledge this
blessing is: "Nasi Novare Coram" (pronounced NAH-see no-VAHR-ay
co-RAHM)
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
NNC
P.S. Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps once. For
this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference how fast
you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts linked below provide
a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One
may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps
students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as
a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys.
Doing Steps with only the texts, messages and your life
experience, including what you may have studied and practiced is your journey.
I’m showing Step comments after the Step, so as not to influence anyone in
advance. It is a wilderness trek to be left to your own wits, but then you can
also listen more closely for guides, angels and teachers, always first saying:
“I surround and protect myself with the Love and the Grace of God.” Thankfully,
I was taught this practice in 1989.
