Greetings All –
I
receive all those who are my Spiritual Family today. Step 300 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from
Drive – Step PDF also.]
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| I receive all those who are my Spiritual Family today. Step 300 |
REMEMBER
THIS UPON THE HOUR TODAY. In your longer practice periods, engage your mind
actively in attempting to understand the message that you are given today. Try
to understand what Spiritual Family really means. Try to understand that it is
intrinsic to you. You did not choose it. You are simply born of it. It
represents your accomplishment in Knowledge thus far. All accomplishment in
Knowledge is the reclamation of relationships, and your Spiritual Family are
those relationships that you have reclaimed thus far in your return to God.
THIS
WILL BE BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION, but your Knowledge will resonate with the
message for today and the invocations that you have practiced in previous days.
Knowledge will reveal what you must know and what you must do. You are not
meant to be burdened with attempting to understand that which is beyond your
comprehension. But you are given the responsibility to respond to the
communication that is being given to you from the mystery of your own life and
from the power of God in your life.
YOU
ARE PART OF A SPIRITUAL FAMILY. You receive this through your experience, an
experience which will confirm your participation in life and the great purpose
you have come to serve.
PRACTICE
300: Two 30-minute practice periods
Picture: Inner
City Parish Church, founded in 1046, Budapest, Hungary.
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. The 1x and 2x links above 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.
