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Edna Miriam Lister Eightfold Path of Buddha Eight Great Powers of Being Following is the highest possible interpretation for the Eightfold Noble Path of Buddha, containing the original teachings from the Sources. Jesus taught the rhythms of seven in the Seven Degrees, and eight great Powers of Being. The Powers of Being of are eight phases of the Logos Emanation of Power and Energy, which we use in our healing work. Gautama Buddha (483-563 BCE), the "enlightened one," founded the philosophy of Buddhism in India. He taught a doctrine of "Four Noble Truths": Existence is suffering, the cause of suffering is desire, there is an end to suffering, called transcendence, or Nirvana, and a path to the end of suffering, the practice of meditation on the Eightfold Noble Path. The Eightfold Path never completely succeeds because the soul climbing on it cannot pass beyond the third Adept Degree, for even at the eighth point of Ascension they are still adepts. Modern versions of the eightfold path seek self-control, but they usually fail to sublimate personal Will and Desire. The Via Christa is the way of complete Ascension, to become as perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect.
Neophyte: Law of Acceptance "I accept all that comes to me as mine. I earned it in past lives, created it in this life, or it is something of darkness that only I may lift for my Father; therefore, I do accept and lift all that comes unto me. I now accept my responsibility to lift all that comes to me, which entails these three things: Assuming all responsibility for all darkness around me, responsibility to sacrifice self, and the responsibility of full surrender to be the servant of all Power. I now observe every detail of my life. I am alive and alert to observe above and below. As I use observation in my outer life, according to my practice of observation, exactly so shall I see and hear in Heaven." Only under Acceptance can the higher mental faculties open: Logic, Reason, Discrimination, Discretion and Discernment. Rebirth is the Mystic Brotherhood Initiation of the Via Christa. Jesus emphasized this: "Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." A Rebirth breaks the shackles of the subconscious with all its old ideas, opinions and prejudices. We must be reborn in consciousness to control, let alone to master the "little self." A Rebirth makes us childlike in the simplicity of our Acceptance. "Whoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein." Right Understanding is the knowledge of the Four Noble Truths. In other words, it is the understanding of one’s self as one really is. Self-control is the first Buddhist path. Control is the first step in conquering self, and it begins with bridling the tongue. Stop using idle words, especially "I’m trying." Buddhism calls this "right understanding," or knowledge, and teaches that we must speak no ill or injure anyone. Self-control is under adeptship on the Via Christa and we call it self-mastery. We apply Discrimination, which is the mental faculty of differentiation, being able to make an exact distinction between different ideas and actions. Discrimination is how we decide what is right and what is wrong. Hatha Yoga, the yoga of physical control, is under self-control, and is part of the five great Laws of the Neophyte: Breathing, water, diet, rest and exercise. Rest includes sleep, recreation, diversion and all activities that inspire and quicken, including reading and painting. When we coordinate and apply these Laws in their proper relationship, we balance ourselves physically. The first Power of Being is Conquering the Forces Working in the Lower Self subconscious or subsoul, which comes under Acceptance and self-mastery. We already have the powers to conquer subsoul, so why work for just self-control? Buddhism works for twenty years to control self under Hatha Yoga, while we do all this plus Rajah Yoga, which is the Royal Path to Illumination.
Disciple: Law of Surrender All Power comes from above. "Not I, but my Father does the work." Here we Surrender our self-will and self-desires to become the servant of all Power. To Surrender is to let go. By letting go of self-credits, self-doubts, all thoughts of self, we conquer through obedience to the Law of Surrender, knowing that the Power does the work. The Buddhist path is Control of Actions and it involves "right thought," or intention, which they teach as controlling all actions. We rightly direct all outer expression under the faculty of Discretion, which is the power of deciding or judging. Discretion, the faculty that governs knowing when to speak and when to remain silent, is a Law of Surrender. Baptism by Water is the Mystic Brotherhood Initiation. The Disciple stabilizes emotions ("water") into the Christ-life by surrendering emotional "jags" and reactions. Emotional reactions include opinions, preju-dice, resentment blame, guilt and all old, worn-out memo-ries. The second Power of Being is Command of All Inner Forces under the process of growth. The inner forces of the "process of growth" deal with the Principles of Expansion and Contraction. Expansion and growth come under Acceptance and Surrender. Condensation and crystallization come under Contraction and Repudiation. We earn command of all inner forces by stabilizing our emotions until all healing Power moves through us to raise or lower the rate of vibration of Substance. This is the power of healing. If we work for self-mastery, we already have self-control. "I arise and go into my Father’s house." Jesus said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." The Law helps those who help themselves. We must work out our own problems and salvation.
Adept: Law of Obedience "Obey the Law and live." The Law of Obedience covers all Law, for if we break the least Law, we have broken the whole. Balance of the mental life is the Adept’s responsibility. Baptism by Fire is the Mystic Brotherhood Initiation. The Flames of the Holy Ghost, pure, unadulterated atomic fire of the Holy Breath as Love, pour upon us at any hour after Surrender until only Love is left. Baptism by Fire always brings us a choice of Love or hate, positive or negative. Love brooks nothing but Love. Treat one who hates by declaring, "Father, raise this beautiful Substance of Love sent to me. Ascend, purify and restore Love to Mary." Use this to redeem the lost soul substance of those who criticize and curse. Stand in a circle of Love, gird your loins, cross your arms, declare the curses are Love, and thank God for them. The Buddhist path is Cultivation of Perseverance, which is steadfastness. All obstacles become a challenge for the initiate to practice steadfastness and perseverance. This path includes "right speech," which means wise, careful words. What do we declare? "I am a swine" or "I am good"? One "Let there be Light" sets the whole eightfold path into action without having to consider each Law. The third Power of Being is Command over All Outer Forces. One can command only himself, and only under complete Surrender. Use the gesture of a Creator to "gird up your loins." Contract the abdominal muscles to draw all magnetic currents to the solar plexus center. Hold them there and draw the etheric currents on a deep breath. As magnetic and etheric currents meet at the solar plexus, an explosion follows, which is Light "watering" the glands. This makes one a "pillar," an instrument of the Living God. Three is the number of perfected personal expression. To do the "greater works" that Jesus did requires clear Thinking, a vivid Imagination and flaming Desire. We can do only by letting Power use us, which is standing steadfastly and letting God do the work as us with no force of the self-will. We may not use Power, but let Power use us. Standing is conquering by becoming the Power released to go forth and do the work. We "overcome" and "overlook." To overcome is to come up over all ideas of self and limitation. To overlook is to look up over the outer appearances to see God’s Reality.
Mystic: Praise The Mystic serves God day and night, inwardly singing "holy, holy, holy." Praise frees us to pray with fervor at the heart center. The heart center is the respiratory rate of balance among the three lower and three higher chakras. Transfiguration is the Mystic Brotherhood Initiation. Transfiguration is drawing the physical lifesparks in, and ascending them to the desire and mental body. We can transfigure ourselves only under service to God. Four, the number of service, represents the pineal gland of Wisdom and Illumination. The Buddhist path is Cultivation of Tolerance and "Right Action," or conduct. Buddhism cultivates tolerance through contemplation and seeking comprehension of the "all." This is not enough. To apply Tolerance, we must live in the world and learn how to agree and adjust. The fourth Power of Being is Setting Aside Gravitation, becoming too light to be held by earth gravity. It is walking on Light-beams, a raised and indrawn atomic mental body vibration, which is transfiguration. Emotions must be sublimated to levitate or walk on water. The ALL lifts the "little self" into I AM consciousness under Praise, Thankfulness, Gratitude and Devotion. Acceptance, Surrender, Obedience and Praise are the paths to Transfiguration and levitation.
Master: I AM Good Good is the Father’s name on earth and the name of every lifespark, atom, molecule and cell on earth. "I AM good" lets God use us because it recalls us to our Oversoul. Call upon "I AM good" to rise above every negative circumstance. We apply the Law of "I AM Good" from the heart center, above the meridian [diaphragm]. "I AM good" is our identity with God, so fasten yourself to Him. Stand, shout "I AM good," draw the magnetic and etheric currents in, and hold them at the abdomen to cover the lower centers [sacrum, splenic and solar plexus]. This forms a sheath of protection for the solar plexus against shocks and "world" blows. The Girdle Aphrodite, our gift from the Father, holds us undaunted. Crucifixion of the self-will is the Mystic Brotherhood Initiation. When we crucify self-will, we mate Desire with Will to become "I AM" consciousness. "I AM good" causes Desire to mate with Will in a Marriage of the Lamb, which opens the pituitary gland as Intuition and the pineal gland as Illumination.
The Buddhist path is "Right Livelihood." To us, the Cultivation of an Impersonal Attitude is becoming too "simpleminded" to take offense. Strength comes with Ascension, finding and holding our new relationship with God and man, agreeing and adjusting in Harmony with the River of Life. Think of how many people go through life wanting Harmony to adjust to them. "I AM good" is good management of your life and Faith. Learn to go to God first, and pour Love upon your neighbor. Lift the situation and stand in the Light to adjust in Harmony. The fifth Power of Being is Becoming Too Heavy to Be Moved, which is exhaling and invoking the Power on the fifth atomic breath to become too heavy. We apply the Law of Condensation to Substance to lower its rate of vibration and precipitate under the Law of Gravitation for protection. Both Laws operate under the Principle of Contraction, which gives us the absolute ability to stand unshakable, immovable by any darkness. We become too heavy to be moved from the Light. Breath is the whole Substance of Life throughout the universes. We precipitate a visible body by breathing under the Laws of Condensation and Gravitation.
Priest: Law of Becoming The Priest works under the Law of Becoming all the Law he has learned by Transmutation or Sublimation. The Priest’s is the "lonely path" because we walk it "alone" as we string our lost pearls of wisdom, separate wheat from chaff, and keep only the good. Resurrection is the Mystic Brotherhood Initiation. We resurrect Love, the emotional life and Wisdom, the mental life. To do this we apply a just appraisal in three steps, Surrender, Praise and Lifting. We Surrender self under the Laws of Forgiveness. Praise all previous good. We lift all to the Father, knowing that He does the work. As we resurrect ourselves from old ways of thinking and emotions, we move into all life as the Father-Mother Principles of Wisdom and Love. The Buddhist path is "right conduct," which is Balance and Equilibrium. One becomes a teacher and protector when one leaves the pendulum of self and stands in equanimity on the Hub of the Wheel. The sixth Power of Being is Becoming Invisible, to clothe ourselves in Supreme Light and make ourselves invisible to darkness. Lost articles become invisible when we are irritated, upset or blame another when they disappear. We cannot blame and invoke Supreme Light. "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength," as we make things visible in the Golden Silence of our soul under the Law of Becoming.
Christos: Law of Absolute Responsibility Ascension is the seventh Mystic Brotherhood Initiation. To ascend is to climb or go up to a higher position, to rise by process of growth. It means to proceed from the inferior to the superior, to rise in degree of characteristic quality. To ascend is to ascend to a higher point in consciousness and conquering. Ascension is continually moving up in consciousness, continually growing in awareness, continually increasing the rate of vibration and continually expanding the aura. The Buddhist path contains the six attributes of the Priest: 1) Face life with no running from self or others. 2) Bridle the tongue, will and imagination. 3) Synthesize the five senses into Apperception. 4) Seek full use of our mystic eyes and ears. 5) Translate life’s experiences into soul ascension. 6) Balance Love and Wisdom, expressing in the world as Compassion. The seventh Power of Being is to Create or to Invoke Life by the spoken Word, first for others, then for ourselves. We reach this by complete surrender to become the servant of all Power. This is standing in the Light as Light. Under the Law of Responsibility, we assume all blame and responsibility for all about us, wherever our name is used.
Eighth Power Degree: Joy Immortality is the Mystic Brotherhood Initiation. Joy lifts, ascends, heals and cleanses. Immortality means to live now in Eternity as an immortal being. The Buddhist path is the Final Discarding of the "Husks" of Consciousness. To ascend, we discard the husks of self, opinions, prejudices and old forms. We return to the beginning and add Rajah Yoga’s illumination to the Hatha Yoga of breath and Karma Yoga of earth living. We pick up our pearls, life experiences, everything of Love and Wisdom we cast aside in the past during our descent into matter and past incarnations. The eighth Power of Being is Overcoming Death by becoming Law and Comprehension, casting off the grip of earth gravity, responding only to Paradise Gravity. The physical ascends into the desire body, the desire draws into the mental body and we walk in an atomic body. This marks the final Ascension of Imagination, Thinking and Desires.
First Ascent on the Wheel of Terrah: We ascend through the lesser steps of the great Seven Degrees. The first ascent contains 144 through 7 x 7 = 49 Degrees of Initiation, or twelve times around the first Wheel of Ezekiel, the Wheel of Terrah, acquiring twelve Virtues per sign. Even while incarnated in one sign, we are still polishing the Virtues of the other eleven. We never operate under just one sign, but always under all twelve. If we neglect polishing the Virtues of our sign in an incarnation, our debts pile up until we "catch up." The first ascent awakens the optic chiasm of the thalamus, where Light enters and shines through the mystical "third eye" in the forehead, which is the three Windows of the Soul open toward Jerusalem. These 144 steps equal 33 Via Christa Degrees as we make the rounds of the signs twelve times. Second Ascent on the Second Wheel of Eve: When we step to the Hub of the Wheel, we open a new round of twelve times through the signs. We are higher, but are still polishing the conquering left undone. On this second ascent, we begin the thousand burnt offerings, a thousand days of selflessness to open the mental body lotus petals. We complete one day of burnt offerings by being as perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect. Thank God, smile and say, "I love you, Father" a thousand times an hour. |
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The symbol of a fully opened pineal and pituitary is 144,000, the name
of the Elect on earth. "I AM good" tunes us into the River
of Life that cleanses and purifies us, as we move with it. Tune in the
vibration of the Faith of all Ages rather than the world vibration.
We can apply it twenty-four hours a day.