Greetings All –
Today I am a student of Knowledge. Step 289 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from
Drive – Step PDF also.]
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| Today I am a student of Knowledge. Step 289 |
THEREFORE,
ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE RECEPTIVE TO KNOWLEDGE. Do not allow yourself to be
receptive to the ambivalence that permeates the world. Maintain your distance
from this ambivalence, for you are not yet strong enough with Knowledge to face
ambivalence and to render your gift into an ambivalent world. Do not be
ambitious in this regard, or you will overstep your capacity and will fail as a
result. As Knowledge grows and develops within you, it will lead you into areas
where you are able to serve. It will lead you into situations where you have an
adequate capacity to render it.
BE
A STUDENT TODAY. Do not try to use the learning to fulfill your own ambitions
with it. Do not let your own personal ideas guide you today, but be a student
of Knowledge. When you are certain of something, carry it forth as wisely and
as appropriately as possible. When you are uncertain of something, return to
Knowledge and simply be at peace with Knowledge, for Knowledge will guide you.
In this way, you will become a true and active agent of Knowledge in the world.
Knowledge will extend itself through you into the world, and all that you
receive will be given into the world through you.
IN
YOUR DEEPER PRACTICES TODAY strengthen your ability to enter into the realm of
Knowledge. Today go deeper than you have ever gone before. Today be a student
of Knowledge. Enter Knowledge. Experience Knowledge. In this way, you will
become more and more engaged with its power and its grace. In this way, you
will realize its purpose in the world, which can only be realized through
participation.
PRACTICE
289: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Picture:
When I first did this Step, I wrote out
on the back of a business card: “Tom Christoffel A Student of Knowledge
5/1/2000”. It is in my “Day Runner” calendar, address and to do list pocket
binder. These have been replaced by smart phones for most, but I still keep the
paper calendar – because technology fails. This statement of intent is still
operational and I’m still a beginning student.
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.
