Post by WalksInSpirit on Jun 29, 2006 23:20:11 GMT -5
Music As The Bridge: 06-29-06
Lesson Six: A Song Unto The Lord
(02:15:36) (Host-Blu) Who will volunteer to open us with prayer?
(02:15:58) (Lynn) I will
(02:16:07) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Thank you, Lynn
(02:16:09) (Host-Blu) Thank you Lynn
(02:16:17) (Lynn) Father God, in the name of Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit
(02:16:29) (Lynn) We come to you now seeking wisdom and understanding.
(02:16:43) (Lynn) Please interpret to our hearts the meanings you have for us
(02:16:50) (Lynn) in the lessons we receive.
(02:17:01) (Lynn) That we may give you better and greater service.
(02:17:07) (Lynn) In Jesus name. Amen
(02:17:11) (Roz) Amen
(02:17:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Nunwe
(02:17:34) (Host-Blu) Amen
(02:17:36) (diane) Amen
(02:17:41) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Beautiful. Thank you, Lynn!
(02:17:42) (ron) amen
(02:17:45) (Host-Blu) Thank you again Lynn, very well said
(02:17:56) (Lynn) Hey, God gave me a gift of words and I´d better use it. lol
(02:18:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Today, we will finish up the series “Music As The Bridge.” I hope you all have enjoyed it and have taken something useful from it. I know I have.
(02:18:06) (Host-Blu) This is the last on the music series folks
(02:18:42) (Lynn) It means a lot to me.
(02:18:52) (Lynn) I do not have the gift of music but I do have the gift of listening.
(02:19:01) (Host-Blu) me too!
(02:19:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Lesson Six: “A Song Unto The Lord”
(02:19:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I call to remembrance my song in the night; I commune with my own heart; and my spirit made diligent search. Psalm 77:6
(02:20:19) (Lynn) It is a wise person who talks to himself, as in this verse, commune with my own heart, which Walks gave us.
(02:20:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. The Word was whistled through the reeds, sung through the trees, and swirled through the chasms of space.
(02:21:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In imitation of this sound man formed the vowels and, according to the Kabala, therein is found the name of God. The readings indicate that there is power in the vowels to awaken corresponding spiritual centers in man.
(02:22:13) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The following reading illustrates the eternal importance of the vowel sounds:
(02:22:43) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “The entity then was in the name Mmuum, or rather those calls that make easy the mysteries of words as related to sounds and rote that bring to the consciousness, in those that have indwelled in those lands, that activity that merits (not the word), that brings, that impulse that urges that those forces from without act upon the elements in whatever sphere they may bring a material manifestation.
(02:23:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This must be controlled within self… Let self, then, be grounded rather in the faith of that which is, was, and ever will be, the source of all spirit, all thought all mind, all physical manifestation - the ONE God, as called in this period. In that period he was called Zu-u-u-u-u; in the next Ohm - Oh-u-m; in the next (now known as Egypt) with Ra-Ta, He was called God - G-o-r-r-d!” – Edgar Cayce Reading 436-2
(02:24:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The chant receives it's power, no so much from the vocalization as from the inner response to the vibrations produced. These vibrations are controlled by deep emotions and thoughts of the chanter.
(02:24:57) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Chanting should produce a vibratory movement through the centers starting at the lowest and reaching the highest. It is not suggested that there be concentration on any individual center. Before activating the deep energies with in the body by the use of chants we should define our ideals and purposes. As we begin to focus on our highest concepts we may think of those we have known who seem to express these qualities.
(02:25:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Ultimately, our contemplation may lead us to the great lights who have channeled spiritual awareness into physical application. Jesus, who became the Christ, expressed this perfectly. The following reading is an example of a type of contemplative meditation which can lead to an outward demonstration of the power in the Name.
(02:26:31) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “As to the abilities of the entity, and that to which it may attain, and how, in the present:
(02:26:31) (Host-WalksInSpirit) First it may be said, study - through that known in self of the spiritual and mental forces active in the experience of the body - to show self approved unto an ideal that is set in the Son, the Christ, knowing that in possessing the consciousness of His love, His manifestation, all is well; for, as is known, without that love as He manifested among men, nothing can, nothing did, nothing will come into consciousness of matter.
(02:27:31) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Not that we may deny evil and banish it, but supplanting and rooting out evil in the experience, replacing same with the love that is in the consciousness of the body Jesus, the Christ, we may do all things in His name; and using those opportunities in whatsoever sphere of activity the entity may find to show forth those commands He gave, "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
(02:28:40) (Host-WalksInSpirit) What, ye ask, are His commandments? "A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another." What, then, are the fruits of love?
(02:29:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The fruits of the spirit; which are kindness, hope, fellowship, brotherly love, friendship, patience; these are the fruits of the spirit; these are the commands of Him that ye manifest them in whatsoever place ye find yourself, and your soul shall grow in grace, in knowledge, in understanding, and that joy that comes with a perfect knowledge in Him brings the joys of earth, the joys of the mental mind, or joys of the spheres, and the GLORY of the Father in thine experience.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 436-2
(02:29:18) (Host-WalksInSpirit) and the GLORY of the Father in thine experience.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 436-2
(02:29:46) (Lynn) that is wonder.
(02:30:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Any questions, comments... anything anybody wants to clear up thus far?
(02:30:41) (Lynn) I have a comment
(02:30:48) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Shoot!
(02:30:52) (Lynn) In magick, high magick, the vowels are very much used.
(02:30:52) (Host-Blu) go ahead Lynn
(02:30:59) (Host-Blu) yes
(02:31:02) (Lynn) even sung
(02:31:08) (Lynn) and chanted
(02:31:21) (Host-Blu) makes sense now on how that works doesn't it?
(02:31:41) (Lynn) aye, eee, I owe you
(02:31:48) (Host-Blu) I think I even read once that Cayce was Merlin in a past life? anyone else hear that?
(02:32:07) (Lynn) new to me ty
(02:32:29) (Host-Blu) well put that in the maybe file cause I don't know where I read that
(02:32:53) (Host-Blu) I want to be sure we understand that reading
(02:32:59) (Lynn) hey merlin, are you at one with Cayce? lol
(02:33:16) (merlin) no ...merlin not in the line of Jesus according to Cayce.
(02:33:24) (Host-Blu) Not that we may deny evil and banish it, but supplanting and rooting out evil in the experience, replacing same with the love that is in the consciousness of the body Jesus, the
(02:33:48) (Host-Blu) That is what I refer to as the Golden Key
(02:33:57) (Host-Blu) you can't just stop evil
(02:34:02) (Host-Blu) you have to replace it
(02:34:23) (merlin) got the list from the readings
(02:34:29) (Host-Blu) To displace and substitute for (another): The word processor has largely supplanted electric typewriters.
(02:34:42) (Lynn) we can move the flows composing the energy, smooth the flows and bring the golden.
(02:34:50) (Lynn) I think
(02:35:00) (Host-Blu) no, not Jesus Merlin, Cayce
(02:35:24) (Host-Blu) Cayce was Merlin in a past life
(02:35:52) (Lynn) Blu, something like using the violet flame you think, deny evil banish it quote?
(02:36:20) (Host-Blu) not sure Lynn, have to re look at that violet flame
(02:36:49) (merlin) the incarnations of
(02:36:53) (Lynn) raise the lower to the higher vibration raise evil, (confusion) to understanding, Jesus love
(02:36:57) (Host-Blu) you can't leave a place empty, because something will refill it, you have to chose to fill it with something good
(02:37:16) (Lynn) pull in the golden love energy
(02:37:31) (Host-Blu) ok, that would work Lynn
(02:37:36) (Host-Blu) exactly
(02:37:45) (Host-Blu) claim a higher ideal
(02:38:03) (Host-Blu) anything else? ready to move on?
(02:39:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The name represents the nature. The nature or character of an individual is shown by the qualities which he manifest. The foregoing reading describes the nature of Jesus as love and says consequently that we must attune to the vibration or attitude of love. Music is a way of attunement.
(02:39:07) (merlin) THE incarnations of Jesus according to Cayce .....amilius, adam , enoch,hermes, melchizedek, joseph, joshua,asaph,jeshua, zend,jesus...........
(02:39:30) (Lynn) got it, merlin ty
(02:39:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Merlin, Blu was talkin about the incarnations of Cayce. Merlin being one of them.
(02:40:41) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Sometimes, with out our conscious awareness, the soul responds to a chant. This was pointed out in a reading given to a young woman who deeply desired the experience of a home.
(02:40:49) (merlin) ohhhhhhhh! confusion here .......i'll have to look up the cayce ones
(02:41:44) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Yet the greater blessings that the entity in its activity rendered the people in that experience were in the building of individual homes.
(02:41:44) (Host-WalksInSpirit) And this will become a part of the entity's experience in this sojourn. For within the next two and a half to three years there should come into the experience that association, the relations with one who was as a helpmeet to the entity during that sojourn.
(02:42:15) (Host-WalksInSpirit) For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - HOME - with all its deeper, inner meanings, is a portion of the entity's desire; to know, to experience, to have the "feel" of, to have the surroundings of that implied by the word HOME!
(02:43:46) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Is it any wonder then that in all of thy meditation, Ohm - O-h-m-mmmmm has ever been, is ever a portion of that which raises self to the highest influence and the highest vibrations throughout its whole being that may be experienced by the entity?” – Edgar Cayce Reading 1286-1
(02:43:59) (Host-Blu) home sounds like Ohmmmm
(02:44:21) (Host-WalksInSpirit) A woman who was learning to sing requested help in establishing the best mental attitude for progress and was told that the scales could be used as a chant to awaken her to the love of the Father!
(02:44:56) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “(Q) What should be my attitude of mind about trying to learn singing in order to progress most rapidly?
(02:44:56) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) This becomes a part, then; if it may be given so as to be fully understood. As has been comprehended oft, there arises in the experience of the self the necessity for the deep meditation with the awareness that His presence is so nigh unto thee.
(02:45:17) (Host-WalksInSpirit) And yet there are those periods when it is the spoken word, even as He gave, ‘Lazarus, come forth!’ yea as He gave, ‘Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.’ Or as He gave, ‘Inasmuch as ye show forth the Lord's death till He come again. For keep this in remembrance till I drink it anew.’
(02:45:47) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Such then the entity finds necessary, in giving forth in song, in the harmonies of same. Just as has been indicated through this channel for many, the entity will find that there are the combinations of that ye call the scale - or those harmonies set to the Ar-ar-r-r----e-e-e----ooo---mmm - that awaken within self the abilities of drawing that love of the Father as shown to the children of men in the experiences of His own, through their activities in the earth.
(02:46:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) through their activities in the earth.
(02:46:27) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Hence we will find that to many, and to this entity specifically, the attempts even - yea, the seeking for the harmonious expression - will bring that which only music alone as set can span; that concept between the finite and the Infinite in its relationships to those that seek to know His presence with them.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 1158-10
(02:47:21) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In this way the attunement becomes the at-one-ment, or atonement.
(02:47:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “(Q) Please give a definition on At-one-ment.
(02:47:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) At-onement may be given even as atonement. At-onement, then, is making self's will one with the Creative Forces that may become the impelling influence in thought, in mind, that is the builder to every act of a physical, mental or material body.
(02:47:47) (Lynn) love that word, at one ment
(02:48:10) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, in making at-onement, the will of an entity, an individual, is made one with the Creative influences in the experience.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 262-45
(02:49:07) (Host-WalksInSpirit) One might ask, "How important is this experience of oneness?" The answer resounds from every reading, in one form or another.
(02:49:23) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Remember, the Lord thy God is ONE! Thy experiences through the earth then are one. The activities of thy body, thy mind, thy soul SHOULD be then as one. And each experience to thine self comes as those influences that make for regeneration, uplift, the experience which if taken into the activities of self becomes as the means for bringing harmony and peace in the inner self.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 1183-1
(02:50:23) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The knowledge of this oneness is within the soul memory of each of us. The attuning of self through the chant releases this awareness in steps which can be applied in helping ourselves and others.
(02:50:46) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This extract illustrates the potency of sound, but points out that there are variations in individual applications.
(02:53:28) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “(Q) [993]: If the spoken word is stronger than thought, why is it I prefer to use the silent meditation?
(02:53:28) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) In each, as has been given in Vibration, there is the SOUNDING, as it were, of those elements as manifest of the spirit in the material activity in each individual. So in self, no fault may be found that this becomes a higher vibration to self than were the word spoken.
(02:53:51) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Neither does it change the fact that to the more individuals it is true that the spoken word makes a higher vibration. Just the condition or attunement of self. Don't find fault, or try to be like someone else - or try to have someone else be like you. Be like Him - all of you!” – Edgar Cayce Reading 281-9
(02:54:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Chanting can express vibratorially the joy and devotion felt deep inside. Practice is necessary because we are often self conscious when we start chanting - even when alone. The sound should not be directed outward, but held within , and experienced as a sensation as well as a sound. As we chant quietly and joyously we draw our attention away from diverting thoughts and feelings.
(02:55:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “(Q) Any method of improving meditation and concentration?
(02:55:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) Just as indicated. This we would keep, but don't be anxious about it. Let it be a necessity to thy better being, rather than giving or having the meditation for better being. It's like whether you are baptized for or baptized to! It's the same application within the inner self.
(02:56:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) You have the meditation because you desire to be attuned with Creative Forces. You don't have the meditation because it's a duty or because you want to feel better, but to attune self to the infinite! and in attuning self, use your own vocal self; as with the oo-ah-ah--um [AUM]; but do your own vocaling.
(02:56:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (Q) What is the correct way of sounding aum?
(02:56:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) That of attuning self by your own vocal cords - not tuning like you are giving vocal orientations.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 1861-18
(02:57:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In some religions the chant is, in itself, the focal point of meditation, and acts as a bridge between the finite mind and the infinite soul.
(02:57:35) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The readings recommend the use of chants as preparation for meditation. Meditation is defined and it's purpose outlined in this reading given for the Eighth Annual Congress of the A.R.E. in the spring of 1939:
(02:58:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “EC: In the mind of many there is little or no difference between meditation and prayer. And there are many gathered here who, through their studies of various forms, have very definite ideas as to meditation and prayer.
(02:58:39) (Host-WalksInSpirit) There are others that care not whether there be such things as meditation, but depend upon someone else to do their thinking, or are satisfied to allow circumstance to take its course - and hope that sometime, somewhere, conditions and circumstances will adjust themselves to such a way that the best that may be will be their lot.
(02:59:15) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Yet, to most of you, there must be something else, - some desire, something that has prompted you in one manner or another to seek to be here now, that you may gather something from a word, from an act, that will either give thee hope or make thee better satisfied with thy present lot, or to JUSTIFY thee in the course ye now pursue.
(02:59:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) To each of you, then, we would give a word:
(03:00:10) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Ye all find yourselves confused at times respecting from whence ye came and whither ye goeth. Ye find yourselves with bodies, with minds, - not all beautiful, not all clean, not all pure in thine own sight or in thy neighbor's. And there are many who care more for the outward appearance than that which prompts the heart in its activity or in its seeking.
(03:00:55) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But, ye ask, what has this to do with Meditation? What IS Meditation?
(03:01:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is not musing, not daydreaming; but as ye find your bodies made up of the physical, mental and spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source.
(03:02:01) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Many say that ye have no consciousness of having a soul, - yet the very fact that ye hope, that ye have a desire for better things, the very fact that ye are able to be sorry or glad, indicates an activity of the mind that takes hold upon something that is not temporal in its nature, -
(03:02:15) (Host-WalksInSpirit) something that passeth not away with the last breath that is drawn but that takes hold upon the very sources of its beginning - the SOUL, - that which was made in the image of thy Maker - not thy body, no, - not thy mind, but thy SOUL was in the image of thy Creator.
(03:02:47) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, it is the attuning of thy physical and mental attributes seeking to know the relationships to the Maker. THAT is true meditation.
(03:03:22) (Host-WalksInSpirit) How do you accomplish same? How would ye as an individual go about learning to meditate?
(03:03:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) For, ye must learn to meditate, - just as ye have learned to walk, to talk, to do any of the physical attributes of thy mind as compared to the relationships with the facts, the attitudes, the conditions, the environs of thy daily surroundings.
(03:03:45) (merlin) the energy of merlin becomes present on earth in times of great transformation an d enlightenment helping mankind use such periods as constructively as possible in achieving higher spiritual aims .
(03:04:37) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, there must be a conscious contact with that which is a part of thy body-physical, thy body-mental, to thy soul- body or thy superconsciousness. The names indicate that ye have given it metes and bounds, while the soul is boundless - and is represented by many means or measures or manners in the expressions in the mind of each of you.
(03:05:01) (merlin) st germain ,, akhenaton , merlin and moses are parts of the same soul stream . merlin was originally thoth in an earlier incarnation.
(03:06:02) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But there are physical contacts which the anatomist finds not, or those who would look for imaginations or the minds. Yet it is found that within the body there are channels, there are ducts, there are glands, there are activities that perform no one knows what! in a living, MOVING, thinking being.
(03:06:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In many individuals such become dormant. Many have become atrophied. Why? Non-usage, non-activity! because only the desires of the appetite, self-indulgences and such, have so glossed over or used up the abilities in these directions that they become only wastes as it were in the spiritual life of an individual who has so abused or misused those abilities that have been given him for the greater activity.
(03:07:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, purify thy mind if ye would meditate. How? Depending on what is thy concept of purification! Does it mean to thee a mixing up with a lot of other things, or a setting aside of self, a washing with water, a cleansing or purifying by fire or what not?
(03:07:37) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Whatever thy concept is, be TRUE to thine inner self. LIVE that choice ye make, - DO IT! not merely say it but DO IT!
(03:09:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Purify thy body. Shut thyself away from the cares of the world. Think on that as ye would do to have thy God meet thee face to face. ‘Ah,’ ye say, ‘but many are not able to speak to God!’ Many, you say, are fearful. Why? Have ye gone so far astray that ye cannot approach Him who is all merciful? He knows thy desires and thy needs, and can only supply according to the purposes that ye would perform within thine own self.
(03:09:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, purify thy body, physically. Sanctify thy body, as the laws were given of old, for tomorrow the Lord would speak with thee - as a father speaketh to his children. Has God changed? Have ye wandered so far away? Know ye not that, as He has given, ‘If ye will be my children, I will be thy God?’ and ‘Though ye wander far away, if ye will but call I will hear?’
(03:10:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) If any of you say, ‘Yes, but it was spoken to those of old, - we have no part in such,’ then indeed ye have no part. They that would know God, would know their own souls, would know how to meditate or to talk with God, must believe that He IS, - and that He rewards those who seek to know and to do His biddings.
(03:10:21) (Host-WalksInSpirit) That He gave of old is as new today as it was in the beginning of man's relationship or seeking to know the will of God, if ye will but call on Him WITHIN thine inner SELF! Know that thy body is the temple of the living God. THERE He has promised to meet thee!
(03:10:40) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Are ye afraid? Are ye ashamed? Have ye so belittled thy opportunities, have ye so defamed thine own body and thine own mind that ye are ashamed to have thy God meet thee within thine own tabernacle?
(03:11:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, woe be unto thee, - lest ye set thy house in order. For as has been indicated, there are physical contacts in thy own body with thy own soul, thy own mind. Does anyone have to indicate to you that if you touch a needle there is pain felt? Ye are told that such an awareness is an activity of consciousness that passes along the nervous system to and from the brain.
(03:11:33) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, just the same there are contacts with that which is eternal within thy physical body. For there is the bowl that must one day be broken, the cord that must one day be severed from thine own physical body, - and to be absent from the body is to be present with God.
(03:12:21) (Host-WalksInSpirit) What is thy God? Are thy ambitions only set in whether ye shall eat tomorrow, or as to wherewithal ye shall be clothed? Ye of little faith, ye of little hope, that allow such to become the paramount issues in thine own consciousness! Know ye not that ye are His? For ye are of His making! He hath willed that ye shall not perish, but hath left it with thee as to whether ye become even aware of thy relationships with Him or not.
(03:13:47) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In thine own house, in thine own body there are the means for the approach, - through the desire first to know Him; putting that desire into activity by purging the body, the mind of those things that ye know or even conceive of as being hindrances, - not what someone else says! It isn't what you want someone else to give! As Moses gave of old, it isn't who will descend from heaven to bring you a message, nor who would come from over the seas, but Lo, ye find Him within thine own heart, within thine own consciousness!
(02:15:58) (Lynn) I will
(02:16:07) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Thank you, Lynn
(02:16:09) (Host-Blu) Thank you Lynn
(02:16:17) (Lynn) Father God, in the name of Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit
(02:16:29) (Lynn) We come to you now seeking wisdom and understanding.
(02:16:43) (Lynn) Please interpret to our hearts the meanings you have for us
(02:16:50) (Lynn) in the lessons we receive.
(02:17:01) (Lynn) That we may give you better and greater service.
(02:17:07) (Lynn) In Jesus name. Amen
(02:17:11) (Roz) Amen
(02:17:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Nunwe
(02:17:34) (Host-Blu) Amen
(02:17:36) (diane) Amen
(02:17:41) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Beautiful. Thank you, Lynn!
(02:17:42) (ron) amen
(02:17:45) (Host-Blu) Thank you again Lynn, very well said
(02:17:56) (Lynn) Hey, God gave me a gift of words and I´d better use it. lol
(02:18:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Today, we will finish up the series “Music As The Bridge.” I hope you all have enjoyed it and have taken something useful from it. I know I have.
(02:18:06) (Host-Blu) This is the last on the music series folks
(02:18:42) (Lynn) It means a lot to me.
(02:18:52) (Lynn) I do not have the gift of music but I do have the gift of listening.
(02:19:01) (Host-Blu) me too!
(02:19:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Lesson Six: “A Song Unto The Lord”
(02:19:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) I call to remembrance my song in the night; I commune with my own heart; and my spirit made diligent search. Psalm 77:6
(02:20:19) (Lynn) It is a wise person who talks to himself, as in this verse, commune with my own heart, which Walks gave us.
(02:20:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. The Word was whistled through the reeds, sung through the trees, and swirled through the chasms of space.
(02:21:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In imitation of this sound man formed the vowels and, according to the Kabala, therein is found the name of God. The readings indicate that there is power in the vowels to awaken corresponding spiritual centers in man.
(02:22:13) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The following reading illustrates the eternal importance of the vowel sounds:
(02:22:43) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “The entity then was in the name Mmuum, or rather those calls that make easy the mysteries of words as related to sounds and rote that bring to the consciousness, in those that have indwelled in those lands, that activity that merits (not the word), that brings, that impulse that urges that those forces from without act upon the elements in whatever sphere they may bring a material manifestation.
(02:23:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This must be controlled within self… Let self, then, be grounded rather in the faith of that which is, was, and ever will be, the source of all spirit, all thought all mind, all physical manifestation - the ONE God, as called in this period. In that period he was called Zu-u-u-u-u; in the next Ohm - Oh-u-m; in the next (now known as Egypt) with Ra-Ta, He was called God - G-o-r-r-d!” – Edgar Cayce Reading 436-2
(02:24:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The chant receives it's power, no so much from the vocalization as from the inner response to the vibrations produced. These vibrations are controlled by deep emotions and thoughts of the chanter.
(02:24:57) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Chanting should produce a vibratory movement through the centers starting at the lowest and reaching the highest. It is not suggested that there be concentration on any individual center. Before activating the deep energies with in the body by the use of chants we should define our ideals and purposes. As we begin to focus on our highest concepts we may think of those we have known who seem to express these qualities.
(02:25:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Ultimately, our contemplation may lead us to the great lights who have channeled spiritual awareness into physical application. Jesus, who became the Christ, expressed this perfectly. The following reading is an example of a type of contemplative meditation which can lead to an outward demonstration of the power in the Name.
(02:26:31) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “As to the abilities of the entity, and that to which it may attain, and how, in the present:
(02:26:31) (Host-WalksInSpirit) First it may be said, study - through that known in self of the spiritual and mental forces active in the experience of the body - to show self approved unto an ideal that is set in the Son, the Christ, knowing that in possessing the consciousness of His love, His manifestation, all is well; for, as is known, without that love as He manifested among men, nothing can, nothing did, nothing will come into consciousness of matter.
(02:27:31) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Not that we may deny evil and banish it, but supplanting and rooting out evil in the experience, replacing same with the love that is in the consciousness of the body Jesus, the Christ, we may do all things in His name; and using those opportunities in whatsoever sphere of activity the entity may find to show forth those commands He gave, "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
(02:28:40) (Host-WalksInSpirit) What, ye ask, are His commandments? "A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another." What, then, are the fruits of love?
(02:29:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The fruits of the spirit; which are kindness, hope, fellowship, brotherly love, friendship, patience; these are the fruits of the spirit; these are the commands of Him that ye manifest them in whatsoever place ye find yourself, and your soul shall grow in grace, in knowledge, in understanding, and that joy that comes with a perfect knowledge in Him brings the joys of earth, the joys of the mental mind, or joys of the spheres, and the GLORY of the Father in thine experience.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 436-2
(02:29:18) (Host-WalksInSpirit) and the GLORY of the Father in thine experience.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 436-2
(02:29:46) (Lynn) that is wonder.
(02:30:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Any questions, comments... anything anybody wants to clear up thus far?
(02:30:41) (Lynn) I have a comment
(02:30:48) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Shoot!
(02:30:52) (Lynn) In magick, high magick, the vowels are very much used.
(02:30:52) (Host-Blu) go ahead Lynn
(02:30:59) (Host-Blu) yes
(02:31:02) (Lynn) even sung
(02:31:08) (Lynn) and chanted
(02:31:21) (Host-Blu) makes sense now on how that works doesn't it?
(02:31:41) (Lynn) aye, eee, I owe you
(02:31:48) (Host-Blu) I think I even read once that Cayce was Merlin in a past life? anyone else hear that?
(02:32:07) (Lynn) new to me ty
(02:32:29) (Host-Blu) well put that in the maybe file cause I don't know where I read that
(02:32:53) (Host-Blu) I want to be sure we understand that reading
(02:32:59) (Lynn) hey merlin, are you at one with Cayce? lol
(02:33:16) (merlin) no ...merlin not in the line of Jesus according to Cayce.
(02:33:24) (Host-Blu) Not that we may deny evil and banish it, but supplanting and rooting out evil in the experience, replacing same with the love that is in the consciousness of the body Jesus, the
(02:33:48) (Host-Blu) That is what I refer to as the Golden Key
(02:33:57) (Host-Blu) you can't just stop evil
(02:34:02) (Host-Blu) you have to replace it
(02:34:23) (merlin) got the list from the readings
(02:34:29) (Host-Blu) To displace and substitute for (another): The word processor has largely supplanted electric typewriters.
(02:34:42) (Lynn) we can move the flows composing the energy, smooth the flows and bring the golden.
(02:34:50) (Lynn) I think
(02:35:00) (Host-Blu) no, not Jesus Merlin, Cayce
(02:35:24) (Host-Blu) Cayce was Merlin in a past life
(02:35:52) (Lynn) Blu, something like using the violet flame you think, deny evil banish it quote?
(02:36:20) (Host-Blu) not sure Lynn, have to re look at that violet flame
(02:36:49) (merlin) the incarnations of
(02:36:53) (Lynn) raise the lower to the higher vibration raise evil, (confusion) to understanding, Jesus love
(02:36:57) (Host-Blu) you can't leave a place empty, because something will refill it, you have to chose to fill it with something good
(02:37:16) (Lynn) pull in the golden love energy
(02:37:31) (Host-Blu) ok, that would work Lynn
(02:37:36) (Host-Blu) exactly
(02:37:45) (Host-Blu) claim a higher ideal
(02:38:03) (Host-Blu) anything else? ready to move on?
(02:39:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The name represents the nature. The nature or character of an individual is shown by the qualities which he manifest. The foregoing reading describes the nature of Jesus as love and says consequently that we must attune to the vibration or attitude of love. Music is a way of attunement.
(02:39:07) (merlin) THE incarnations of Jesus according to Cayce .....amilius, adam , enoch,hermes, melchizedek, joseph, joshua,asaph,jeshua, zend,jesus...........
(02:39:30) (Lynn) got it, merlin ty
(02:39:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Merlin, Blu was talkin about the incarnations of Cayce. Merlin being one of them.
(02:40:41) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Sometimes, with out our conscious awareness, the soul responds to a chant. This was pointed out in a reading given to a young woman who deeply desired the experience of a home.
(02:40:49) (merlin) ohhhhhhhh! confusion here .......i'll have to look up the cayce ones
(02:41:44) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Yet the greater blessings that the entity in its activity rendered the people in that experience were in the building of individual homes.
(02:41:44) (Host-WalksInSpirit) And this will become a part of the entity's experience in this sojourn. For within the next two and a half to three years there should come into the experience that association, the relations with one who was as a helpmeet to the entity during that sojourn.
(02:42:15) (Host-WalksInSpirit) For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - HOME - with all its deeper, inner meanings, is a portion of the entity's desire; to know, to experience, to have the "feel" of, to have the surroundings of that implied by the word HOME!
(02:43:46) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Is it any wonder then that in all of thy meditation, Ohm - O-h-m-mmmmm has ever been, is ever a portion of that which raises self to the highest influence and the highest vibrations throughout its whole being that may be experienced by the entity?” – Edgar Cayce Reading 1286-1
(02:43:59) (Host-Blu) home sounds like Ohmmmm
(02:44:21) (Host-WalksInSpirit) A woman who was learning to sing requested help in establishing the best mental attitude for progress and was told that the scales could be used as a chant to awaken her to the love of the Father!
(02:44:56) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “(Q) What should be my attitude of mind about trying to learn singing in order to progress most rapidly?
(02:44:56) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) This becomes a part, then; if it may be given so as to be fully understood. As has been comprehended oft, there arises in the experience of the self the necessity for the deep meditation with the awareness that His presence is so nigh unto thee.
(02:45:17) (Host-WalksInSpirit) And yet there are those periods when it is the spoken word, even as He gave, ‘Lazarus, come forth!’ yea as He gave, ‘Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.’ Or as He gave, ‘Inasmuch as ye show forth the Lord's death till He come again. For keep this in remembrance till I drink it anew.’
(02:45:47) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Such then the entity finds necessary, in giving forth in song, in the harmonies of same. Just as has been indicated through this channel for many, the entity will find that there are the combinations of that ye call the scale - or those harmonies set to the Ar-ar-r-r----e-e-e----ooo---mmm - that awaken within self the abilities of drawing that love of the Father as shown to the children of men in the experiences of His own, through their activities in the earth.
(02:46:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) through their activities in the earth.
(02:46:27) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Hence we will find that to many, and to this entity specifically, the attempts even - yea, the seeking for the harmonious expression - will bring that which only music alone as set can span; that concept between the finite and the Infinite in its relationships to those that seek to know His presence with them.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 1158-10
(02:47:21) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In this way the attunement becomes the at-one-ment, or atonement.
(02:47:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “(Q) Please give a definition on At-one-ment.
(02:47:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) At-onement may be given even as atonement. At-onement, then, is making self's will one with the Creative Forces that may become the impelling influence in thought, in mind, that is the builder to every act of a physical, mental or material body.
(02:47:47) (Lynn) love that word, at one ment
(02:48:10) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, in making at-onement, the will of an entity, an individual, is made one with the Creative influences in the experience.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 262-45
(02:49:07) (Host-WalksInSpirit) One might ask, "How important is this experience of oneness?" The answer resounds from every reading, in one form or another.
(02:49:23) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “Remember, the Lord thy God is ONE! Thy experiences through the earth then are one. The activities of thy body, thy mind, thy soul SHOULD be then as one. And each experience to thine self comes as those influences that make for regeneration, uplift, the experience which if taken into the activities of self becomes as the means for bringing harmony and peace in the inner self.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 1183-1
(02:50:23) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The knowledge of this oneness is within the soul memory of each of us. The attuning of self through the chant releases this awareness in steps which can be applied in helping ourselves and others.
(02:50:46) (Host-WalksInSpirit) This extract illustrates the potency of sound, but points out that there are variations in individual applications.
(02:53:28) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “(Q) [993]: If the spoken word is stronger than thought, why is it I prefer to use the silent meditation?
(02:53:28) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) In each, as has been given in Vibration, there is the SOUNDING, as it were, of those elements as manifest of the spirit in the material activity in each individual. So in self, no fault may be found that this becomes a higher vibration to self than were the word spoken.
(02:53:51) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Neither does it change the fact that to the more individuals it is true that the spoken word makes a higher vibration. Just the condition or attunement of self. Don't find fault, or try to be like someone else - or try to have someone else be like you. Be like Him - all of you!” – Edgar Cayce Reading 281-9
(02:54:34) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Chanting can express vibratorially the joy and devotion felt deep inside. Practice is necessary because we are often self conscious when we start chanting - even when alone. The sound should not be directed outward, but held within , and experienced as a sensation as well as a sound. As we chant quietly and joyously we draw our attention away from diverting thoughts and feelings.
(02:55:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “(Q) Any method of improving meditation and concentration?
(02:55:52) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) Just as indicated. This we would keep, but don't be anxious about it. Let it be a necessity to thy better being, rather than giving or having the meditation for better being. It's like whether you are baptized for or baptized to! It's the same application within the inner self.
(02:56:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) You have the meditation because you desire to be attuned with Creative Forces. You don't have the meditation because it's a duty or because you want to feel better, but to attune self to the infinite! and in attuning self, use your own vocal self; as with the oo-ah-ah--um [AUM]; but do your own vocaling.
(02:56:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (Q) What is the correct way of sounding aum?
(02:56:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) (A) That of attuning self by your own vocal cords - not tuning like you are giving vocal orientations.” – Edgar Cayce Reading 1861-18
(02:57:14) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In some religions the chant is, in itself, the focal point of meditation, and acts as a bridge between the finite mind and the infinite soul.
(02:57:35) (Host-WalksInSpirit) The readings recommend the use of chants as preparation for meditation. Meditation is defined and it's purpose outlined in this reading given for the Eighth Annual Congress of the A.R.E. in the spring of 1939:
(02:58:11) (Host-WalksInSpirit) “EC: In the mind of many there is little or no difference between meditation and prayer. And there are many gathered here who, through their studies of various forms, have very definite ideas as to meditation and prayer.
(02:58:39) (Host-WalksInSpirit) There are others that care not whether there be such things as meditation, but depend upon someone else to do their thinking, or are satisfied to allow circumstance to take its course - and hope that sometime, somewhere, conditions and circumstances will adjust themselves to such a way that the best that may be will be their lot.
(02:59:15) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Yet, to most of you, there must be something else, - some desire, something that has prompted you in one manner or another to seek to be here now, that you may gather something from a word, from an act, that will either give thee hope or make thee better satisfied with thy present lot, or to JUSTIFY thee in the course ye now pursue.
(02:59:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) To each of you, then, we would give a word:
(03:00:10) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Ye all find yourselves confused at times respecting from whence ye came and whither ye goeth. Ye find yourselves with bodies, with minds, - not all beautiful, not all clean, not all pure in thine own sight or in thy neighbor's. And there are many who care more for the outward appearance than that which prompts the heart in its activity or in its seeking.
(03:00:55) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But, ye ask, what has this to do with Meditation? What IS Meditation?
(03:01:12) (Host-WalksInSpirit) It is not musing, not daydreaming; but as ye find your bodies made up of the physical, mental and spiritual, it is the attuning of the mental body and the physical body to its spiritual source.
(03:02:01) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Many say that ye have no consciousness of having a soul, - yet the very fact that ye hope, that ye have a desire for better things, the very fact that ye are able to be sorry or glad, indicates an activity of the mind that takes hold upon something that is not temporal in its nature, -
(03:02:15) (Host-WalksInSpirit) something that passeth not away with the last breath that is drawn but that takes hold upon the very sources of its beginning - the SOUL, - that which was made in the image of thy Maker - not thy body, no, - not thy mind, but thy SOUL was in the image of thy Creator.
(03:02:47) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, it is the attuning of thy physical and mental attributes seeking to know the relationships to the Maker. THAT is true meditation.
(03:03:22) (Host-WalksInSpirit) How do you accomplish same? How would ye as an individual go about learning to meditate?
(03:03:45) (Host-WalksInSpirit) For, ye must learn to meditate, - just as ye have learned to walk, to talk, to do any of the physical attributes of thy mind as compared to the relationships with the facts, the attitudes, the conditions, the environs of thy daily surroundings.
(03:03:45) (merlin) the energy of merlin becomes present on earth in times of great transformation an d enlightenment helping mankind use such periods as constructively as possible in achieving higher spiritual aims .
(03:04:37) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, there must be a conscious contact with that which is a part of thy body-physical, thy body-mental, to thy soul- body or thy superconsciousness. The names indicate that ye have given it metes and bounds, while the soul is boundless - and is represented by many means or measures or manners in the expressions in the mind of each of you.
(03:05:01) (merlin) st germain ,, akhenaton , merlin and moses are parts of the same soul stream . merlin was originally thoth in an earlier incarnation.
(03:06:02) (Host-WalksInSpirit) But there are physical contacts which the anatomist finds not, or those who would look for imaginations or the minds. Yet it is found that within the body there are channels, there are ducts, there are glands, there are activities that perform no one knows what! in a living, MOVING, thinking being.
(03:06:30) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In many individuals such become dormant. Many have become atrophied. Why? Non-usage, non-activity! because only the desires of the appetite, self-indulgences and such, have so glossed over or used up the abilities in these directions that they become only wastes as it were in the spiritual life of an individual who has so abused or misused those abilities that have been given him for the greater activity.
(03:07:09) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, purify thy mind if ye would meditate. How? Depending on what is thy concept of purification! Does it mean to thee a mixing up with a lot of other things, or a setting aside of self, a washing with water, a cleansing or purifying by fire or what not?
(03:07:37) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Whatever thy concept is, be TRUE to thine inner self. LIVE that choice ye make, - DO IT! not merely say it but DO IT!
(03:09:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Purify thy body. Shut thyself away from the cares of the world. Think on that as ye would do to have thy God meet thee face to face. ‘Ah,’ ye say, ‘but many are not able to speak to God!’ Many, you say, are fearful. Why? Have ye gone so far astray that ye cannot approach Him who is all merciful? He knows thy desires and thy needs, and can only supply according to the purposes that ye would perform within thine own self.
(03:09:36) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, purify thy body, physically. Sanctify thy body, as the laws were given of old, for tomorrow the Lord would speak with thee - as a father speaketh to his children. Has God changed? Have ye wandered so far away? Know ye not that, as He has given, ‘If ye will be my children, I will be thy God?’ and ‘Though ye wander far away, if ye will but call I will hear?’
(03:10:00) (Host-WalksInSpirit) If any of you say, ‘Yes, but it was spoken to those of old, - we have no part in such,’ then indeed ye have no part. They that would know God, would know their own souls, would know how to meditate or to talk with God, must believe that He IS, - and that He rewards those who seek to know and to do His biddings.
(03:10:21) (Host-WalksInSpirit) That He gave of old is as new today as it was in the beginning of man's relationship or seeking to know the will of God, if ye will but call on Him WITHIN thine inner SELF! Know that thy body is the temple of the living God. THERE He has promised to meet thee!
(03:10:40) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Are ye afraid? Are ye ashamed? Have ye so belittled thy opportunities, have ye so defamed thine own body and thine own mind that ye are ashamed to have thy God meet thee within thine own tabernacle?
(03:11:04) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, woe be unto thee, - lest ye set thy house in order. For as has been indicated, there are physical contacts in thy own body with thy own soul, thy own mind. Does anyone have to indicate to you that if you touch a needle there is pain felt? Ye are told that such an awareness is an activity of consciousness that passes along the nervous system to and from the brain.
(03:11:33) (Host-WalksInSpirit) Then, just the same there are contacts with that which is eternal within thy physical body. For there is the bowl that must one day be broken, the cord that must one day be severed from thine own physical body, - and to be absent from the body is to be present with God.
(03:12:21) (Host-WalksInSpirit) What is thy God? Are thy ambitions only set in whether ye shall eat tomorrow, or as to wherewithal ye shall be clothed? Ye of little faith, ye of little hope, that allow such to become the paramount issues in thine own consciousness! Know ye not that ye are His? For ye are of His making! He hath willed that ye shall not perish, but hath left it with thee as to whether ye become even aware of thy relationships with Him or not.
(03:13:47) (Host-WalksInSpirit) In thine own house, in thine own body there are the means for the approach, - through the desire first to know Him; putting that desire into activity by purging the body, the mind of those things that ye know or even conceive of as being hindrances, - not what someone else says! It isn't what you want someone else to give! As Moses gave of old, it isn't who will descend from heaven to bring you a message, nor who would come from over the seas, but Lo, ye find Him within thine own heart, within thine own consciousness!
