Greetings All –
I have come to the world to serve. Step 139 (MP3)
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| I have come to the world to serve. Step 139 |
YOU
HAVE COME TO THE WORLD TO SERVE, but first you must receive. First, you must
unlearn what you have taught yourself so that you may reclaim that which you
have brought with you. This preparation is essential for your success and for
your happiness as well. Do not think that through understanding alone you will
be able to recognize and give your true gifts. Your participation is your
preparation, for you are being prepared to participate in life. Thus, we draw
you more and more into the mystery of life and the manifestation of life. In
this way, you will be able to treat the mystery as mysterious with wonder and
you will be able to treat the manifestation of life practically and with
objectivity. With this, you will be able to be a bridge from your Ancient Home
to the manifest world. Across this bridge the Wisdom of Knowledge may express
itself, and you may find your greatest fulfillment.
PRACTICE
YOUR RAHN MEDITATION TWICE TODAY with great depth and concentration, and
remember your idea upon the hour so that you may utilize all occurrences today
on your own behalf.
PRACTICE
139: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Note the challenge: “First, you must unlearn what
you have taught yourself so that you may reclaim that which you have brought
with you.” This is the process underway now in the Steps. Is it to your
benefit? It was for me – that is my witness. Is life perfect? No, but it has
become much better.
Picture: Ladder
truck extending help in Glasgow , Scotland.
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.
