Greetings All –
Remember that Knowledge is life itself… Review Step
308 (MP3)
[Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive –
Step PDF also.]
IN
YOUR LONGER PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY undertake the Review of the past two weeks of
training according to our previous instructions. This is a very important
review period, for you will be reviewing the invocations that have been given
to you, and you will be reviewing as well the potency of the task that you are
undertaking as a student of Knowledge. Recognize in these past two weeks your
own fear of Knowledge. Realize your own fear of the mystery of your life.
Recognize any attempts that you might have made to re-enter illusion and
imagination. Recognize this contrast in learning which is so essential to your
understanding.
REVIEW
THIS WITH OBJECTIVITY AND COMPASSION. Know that your ambivalence towards life
must be realized and that it will continue to express itself with ever
decreasing potency as you come closer and closer to Knowledge. Remember that
Knowledge is life itself, the very essence of life. It is changeless and yet
expressing itself through change constantly. To experience it, you must
strengthen your participation as a student of Knowledge and remember that you
are a beginning student of Knowledge so that you cannot rely upon your
assumptions. You must receive the curriculum and be guided in applying it. In
this way, you will be safe from all misapplication, all misinterpretation and
thus safe from error.
THIS
REVIEW IS VERY IMPORTANT, for you are now reaching a great turning point in
your participation as a student of Knowledge. Knowledge is beginning to have
potency now. You are beginning to feel its power. You are beginning to realize
its total importance to you. You who have been partial with life in the past
are now realizing that life is completely with you and will require that you be
completely with it. This is your salvation and your redemption, for here all
separation, fear and misery are dispelled. What can you possibly lose to
receive such a gift? You lose only your imagination, which has haunted you,
threatened you and frightened you. Yet, even your imagination will be given a
greater purpose with Knowledge, for it is meant to serve you in a different
way.
CARRY
ON YOUR REVIEW WITH GREAT DEPTH AND SINCERITY. Do not be concerned how long
this takes. Your time cannot be better spent. Review the past two weeks so that
you may observe the advancement of Knowledge within yourself. You will need
this understanding if you are to support others in the future in reclaiming
Knowledge for themselves.
PRACTICE
308: One long practice period.
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.
