Greetings All –
The world is emerging into the Greater Community of
Worlds. Therefore, I must be attentive. Step 325 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from
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THE WORLD IS EMERGING into the Greater Community of Worlds. How can you recognize this if you are preoccupied with your own concerns, your own hopes and your own ambitions? How can you recognize what is happening in your world? How can you see those forces that are influencing your outer life and that govern your affairs to such a great extent? Part of becoming strong with Knowledge is becoming attentive. You can only become attentive if your mind is not preoccupied with its own imaginings and fantasies.
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| The world is emerging into the Greater Community of Worlds. Therefore, I must be attentive. Step 325 |
THE WORLD IS EMERGING into the Greater Community of Worlds. How can you recognize this if you are preoccupied with your own concerns, your own hopes and your own ambitions? How can you recognize what is happening in your world? How can you see those forces that are influencing your outer life and that govern your affairs to such a great extent? Part of becoming strong with Knowledge is becoming attentive. You can only become attentive if your mind is not preoccupied with its own imaginings and fantasies.
THE
WORLD IS PREPARING TO EMERGE into the Greater Community of Worlds, and this
underlies its evolution and all of its advancements now. That is why conflict
is erupting in the world, because those who oppose the evolution of the world
will fight against it. Those who wish to further the advancement of the world
will attempt to fortify the goodness of humanity and the sense that humanity is
one community that must nurture and support itself beyond all division of
nation, race, religion, culture and tribe. Thus it is that you who are becoming
a representative and recipient of Knowledge will fortify peace, unity,
understanding and compassion in the world. All this is part of the preparation
of the world to emerge into the Greater Community of Worlds, because this
represents the evolution of the world. This represents Knowledge within the
world.
KNOWLEDGE
WITHIN THE WORLD does not foster conflict in any way. It does not promote
hatred or division. It does not promote anything that is divisive or anything
that is cruel or destructive. It is the collective experience of Knowledge in
the world that moves the world towards union and community. Because your world
is part of a Greater Community, it is moving towards union and community
because of its own evolution and because it is responding to the Greater
Community of which it is a part. You cannot know the importance of this idea
unless you can be attentive to the world, and you cannot know the importance of
this to you who have come to serve this emergence unless you become attentive
to yourself.
REMEMBER
ONCE AGAIN that you can only lose contact with yourself if you re-enter
imagination or fantasy, because this is the only alternative to being attentive
to yourself and your world. Awake from your dreams, then, and become attentive.
Remember upon the hour to look upon the world without judgment, and you will
see that the world is attempting to become one community, for it seeks to
extend itself into the Greater Community. The Greater Community represents a
community that is calling upon humanity to enter and to participate. You cannot
understand the mechanism for this, for it is far too great for your eyes and
for your mental capacity now, but the movement of this is so obvious and
apparent if you will but look.
UPON
THE HOUR LOOK, and in your deeper meditation practices, actively engage your
mind in considering this idea. Today’s practice is not a practice in stillness,
but a practice in active and useful engagement of your mind. Consider your own
response to today’s idea. Take note of your thoughts for and against it. Take
note of your anxieties, especially concerning the world becoming one community
in its emergence and participation in the Greater Community. Take note of these
things, for here you will understand that within yourself which supports your
advancement and that which denies it. As you learn to look upon these things
without condemnation but with true objectivity, you will understand why the
world is in conflict. You will understand this, and you will not see this with
hatred, malice or envy. You will see this with understanding and compassion.
This will teach you, then, how you must learn to work in the world so that you
may fulfill your purpose here.
PRACTICE
325: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly
practice
Picture: Buddhist monks
making a Mandala at the
October, 2015 Parliament
of World Religions. This interfaith group has as its defined mission: The
Parliament of the World's Religions was created to cultivate harmony among the
world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with
the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and
sustainable world.
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. 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.
