Greetings All –
I must learn how to reveal greatness in the world. Step
360 (MP3)
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| I must learn how to reveal greatness in the world. Step 360 |
RECOGNIZE
THUS FAR HOW AMBIVALENT YOU HAVE BEEN regarding your life and regarding this
preparation. Realize that for this reason, this preparation has been given to
you in very incremental steps, one step at a time, day after day. One step at a
time, you learn to develop and to accept your desire and capacity for Knowledge
and you learn to express Knowledge as well. Being a student means you are here
to learn, and as you learn you will demonstrate, teach and produce the great
results that Knowledge wishes to produce. Yet, Knowledge cannot exceed your
limitations because Knowledge cares for you and protects you as its vehicle.
Because you are a part of Knowledge, you will wish to care for your vehicle as
well. That is why you must take the utmost care of your mind and body as you
proceed.
TODAY
IN YOUR DEEPER PRACTICE PERIODS, allow yourself to be instructed in how to
reveal greatness in the world. Realize that the world is ambivalent and accept
this, for this is the current state of the world. Realize that you must give
with Wisdom and discernment. And realize that you must let Knowledge give of
itself and not try to give from your own ambition or need to avoid a sense of
inadequacy. Allow your giving to be true and your giving will be true. Your
giving, then, will give of itself in a way that is appropriate, that will
preserve you and that will honor those who receive your gift. This will bring
them out of their ambivalence, as you are now being led into the light
yourself.
PRACTICE
360: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Picture: DFW
– Dallas-Fort Worth airport terminal.
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.
