Post by WalksInSpirit on Jul 24, 2005 18:55:33 GMT -5
Search For God - Book One Study: 07-18-05
"Meditation And The Glands"
(Bill) last week we started preparation for meditation this evening i'll give you some info on the galnds then we can discuss it and if time permits get on with vibrations
(Bill) When we quiet the physical body through turning the mind toward the highest ideal, there are aroused actual physical vibrations, as a result of spiritual influence becoming active on the sensitive vibratory centers in the body, stimulating the points of contact between the soul and its physical shell. Let us trace this activity.
(Bill) When we attune ourselves to the Infinite, the glands of reproduction may be compared to a motor which raises the spiritual power in the body. This spiritual power enters through the center of the Lydigian glands (located in the genitive system).
(Bill) This Lydigian center is like a sealed or open door, according to the use to which it has been put through spiritual activities. With the arousing of the image, or ideal, this life force rises along what is known as the Appian Way or the silver cord,
(Bill) , to the pineal center in the brain, whence it may be disseminated to those centers that give activity to the whole of the mental and physical being. It rises then to the hidden eye in the center of the brain system (pituitary body), which is just back of the middle of the forehead.
(Bill) Thus on entering meditation there arises a definite impulse from the glands of reproduction that passes through the pineal to the pituitary gland. Whatever the ideal of an individual is, it is propelled upward and finds expression in the activity of the imaginative forces.
(Bill) If this ideal is material, there is builded more and more into the body a love for, and a tendency towards, things of the earth. If this ideal or image is of a spiritual nature there is spiritual development. Psychic forces are only an awakening of soul faculties through activities in these centers.
(Bill) . If an anatomical or pathological study should be made for a period of seven years (which is the cycle of change in all body elements), of an individual who is acted upon through the pituitary gland alone, it would be discovered that such a person trained in spiritual laws would become a light to the world.
(Bill) . One trained in purely material things would become a Frankenstein, without a concept of any influence other than material or mental. *See 262-20.
(Bill) During the rising of the currents along this silver cord and in these centers, a body may become conscious of distinct vibrations. There are three principal motions that correspond to the three-dimensional concept of the conscious mind: namely, the backward and forward, the side to side, and the circular movements.
(Bill) These sensations may be very real. They may cause an apparent vibration or motion in the body itself that is simply a movement within the body, without outward effect. Another very common sensation is that of the current or vibration passing up the spine or through the body from the feet upward, or vice versa.
(Bill) . These may also be accompanied, or followed by a lightness, or slight dizziness. It may also be pointed out here that the reactions within individuals may differ, for the composite vibrations of a body acted upon by spiritual thought differ in various individuals. The important point is that a definite, physical reaction, in sensitive centers, takes place.
(Bill) Before entering further into the discussion of meditation, it will be well to outline a few elementary principles of vibration which will enable us better to understand many of the terms used, and some of the experiences we may have. Science teaches us that all matter is in motion, and that the difference in various forms of matter is due to the difference in the rates of vibration.(Bill) . For example, we know that by increasing the molecular activity of water by heating, we can produce another from of matter called steam; that is, the particles of matter in the steam are vibrating (moving) at a faster rate of speed than the particles in water. Now, our bodies are made up of particles of matter which have been taken into them, as food, air, et cetera.
(Bill) Various parts of our bodies are composed of different types of matter, vibrating at different rates of speed. The nervous system, for example, is highly sensitive. Our bones are of denser structure than our blood, muscular tissue denser than membrane, and so on.(Bill) . The combination of the vibrations of all of these different parts forms a general rate of vibration for the body. This is constantly changing. Illness of any kind causes discordant vibrations. The higher the rate of vibration, the more sensitive the body is to influences of any kind.
(Bill) As we go deeper in the study of meditation, we become conscious, through application, of these various vibrations in and through the body and mind. As we attempt deep meditation, spiritual forces within and without the body-mind will at first be limited by the five senses of perception, for only through these can we recognize any manifestation in this plane.
(Bill) Even when we have learned to lay the physical aside entirely and explore wider realms, the concepts brought back with us must be clothed in three-dimensional terms to be consciously understood.
(Bill) Vibrations which are emanations of life from within are material expressions of a spiritual influence, a force that emanates from life itself. When a vibration arises, it may act only upon centers within the human body that are sensitive to vibrations, else they may not become apparent.
(Bill) These, spiritualized, are emanations which may be sent out as thought waves, as a force in the activity of universal or cosmic influence, and thus have their effect upon those toward whom, be suggestion, they are directed.*See 281-7, A -14. 281-12, A -12.
(Bill) Let us consider the effect of thought upon the body in relation to vibration. All thoughts are constructed at different vibratory rates. As the food we take into the body is important from the standpoint of structure, so thoughts are important as factors that build up the mental pattern.
(Bill) . Mind is the builder. It is the construction engineer that molds even the actual physical matter in its higher vibratory forms. We should therefore never use thought vibrations by attempting to make ourselves other than a channel to help others.
(Bill) Q-2. How can I use the astronomical, the numerical, the environs of the creations in the vibrations from mental, from stones, which influence me, to advantage in my present life?
(Bill) A-2. As these are but lights, but signs in thine experience, they are as but a candle that one stumbles not in the dark. B ut worship not the light of the candle; rather that to which it may guide thee in service. So, whether from the vibrations of numbers, of metals, of stone, these are merely to become the necessary influences to make thee in attune, one with the Creative Forces
(Bill) ; just as the pitch of a song of praise is not the not the message there in, but is a helpmeet for those that would find strength in the service of the Lord. So, use them to attune self. How, ye ask? As ye apply, ye are given the next step. 707-2
) (Bill) You are in a material world. You are subject to the laws of same. When you are moved by full accord, use the intonations, the breathing, the posture, but let this be rather as an outgrowth of attunement than the purpose for attunement. 281-35
(Bill) Associated with the seven ductless glands of the body's endoctrine system are seven spiritual centers, often refered to as chakras.
(Bill) According to Cayce readings , a sourrse of energy (refered to as the kundilini) normally rests at one of the lower of these centers in the male testes and female ovaries.
(Bill) during meditation, this energy is aroused so it will flow upward to a center at the top of the head, from which is flows to another center in the head, and back down through the other centers beween the throat and the groin.
