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Ann Davies Sunday Service
October 25, 1959


                     TAROT: THE KEY TO MENTAL MASTERY

Gospel of Romans, chapter 8 -

1.   There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in
Christ Jesus, who walked not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

2.   For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me
free from the law of sin and death.

3.   For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and
for sin, condemned sin, in the flesh:

4.   That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

5.   For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the
flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the
Spirit.

6.   For to be carnally minded is death; but to be Spiritually
minded is life and peace.

7.   Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not
subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

8.   So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

9.   But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you.  Now if any man hath not the Spirit
of Christ, he is none of his.

10.  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but
the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

11.  But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by the Spirit that dwelleth in you.

12.  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
after the flesh.

13.  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

14.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons
of God.

15.  For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear;
but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, ABBA,
Father.

16.  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are
the children of God.

17.  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs
with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified together.

18.  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

19.  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the Sons of God.

20.  For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly,
but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope;

21.  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of
God.

22.  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now.

23.  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, even we are ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our
body.

24.  For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:
for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

25.  But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience
wait for it.

26.  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know
not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself
maketh intercessions for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

27.  And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of
the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according
to the will of God.

28.  And we know that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.

29.  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren.

30.  Moreover, whom he did predestinate, then he also called: and
whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them
he also glorified.

31.  What shall we then say to these things?  If God be for us, who
can be against us?

32.  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also give us all things?

33.  Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?  It is
God that justifieth.

34.  Who is he that condemneth?  It is Christ that died, yea
rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God,
who also maketh intercession for us.

35.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword?

36.  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37.  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him that loved us.

38.  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to
come,

39.  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able
to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.





Our sermon for this morning is "Tarot: The Key to Mental Mastery".
Now, the first thing we should consider is what do we mean by
mental mastery?  Of course we have many very brilliant, trained
mentalities in this world today who feel that mental mastery
consists in the ability to concentrate in the chosen or specialized
field, and the ability to utilize this mental mastery, or this
ability in a chosen field, for such things as research.

Well, of course one of the great problems is that most people
misunderstand just what is meant by mind, and seem to feel that
mind is separated from emotions, or that the self-conscious mind is
something other than the sub-conscious part of the mind.  Here in
the gospel which we read I think we were given many hints as to
what a true key to mental mastery may be, but we will elaborate
this in terms of the principles of the Tarot and Qabalah to show
that this is one of the most profound Qabalistic chapters that we
have in the Bible, though we have so many of them.

For example, in Qabalah I feel we should all understand that when
the word Christ is used, it is a assigned on the Tree of Life to
the central part of the Tree.  It is assigned to the ideas of Sun,
Son, the Son of God, Adam, Generic Humanity, to the ideas of beauty
and of the image-making faculties of consciousness.  Now, when it
speaks in the Bible about Christ crucified, for example, this is
not to say that we do not feel there was truly a human being who
existed some two thousand years ago by the name of Jesus, who
experienced the many historical things we have been told.  We feel
that all that which has proof in the spirit, and the symbolic
evolving consciousness of the One Life, has its correlate in what
we choose to call the physical aspect of the universe.

Nevertheless, Jesus, remember, was Jesus of Nazareth.  Until he
experienced a certain state of awareness, at which time, in
accordance with Qabalah, he was consciously one with the Father.
Now, if we remember that in Qabalah that same aspect on the Tree of
Life is called Adam and Generic Humanity, we certainly then should
understand that what was true for Jesus the Christ, if it is not
also to be true for us, becomes rather meaningless as a guide, as
an aid and as an inspiration in our lives.

The great exception cannot be the great example, and so in Qabalah
it is generally recognized that the one and primary job that
Generic Humanity has, and Generic Humanity is the son of God, is to
work, concentrate, pray and do anything and everything possible in
order to attain the consciousness, the awareness, which was shown
forth by he who attained, he who loved, he who became a complete
and true Son of God in self-conscious awareness, that is, Jesus the
Christ.

Remember, my darlings, that the Bible was written by Qabalists.
Those who interpret things too literally do so because they are not
familiar with the actual ancient texts, nor are they familiar with
the language in which the Bible was originally written.  All the
great prophets in the Bible were trained in the mystical aspects of
the Hebraic religion, and the mystical aspects of the Hebraic
religion were and remain Qabalah.  Qabalah, in a sense, might be
called that esoteric training in this manner that when Jesus walked
on the Earth he spoke to the masses in one way, in parables, but to
the twelve disciples he gave deeper truths.  In the same manner, in
this day and age, but so much more extended, the masses interpret
life in one manner, and yet there are always the few who have
achieved the evolutionary state, who are able, who have the
capacity to learn how to see and deal with the esoteric truths
which have been given to us in this magnificent group of writings
by prophets who were trained, and rigidly trained, in mastery of
the mind.

Let's give a few examples of what mastery of the mind might be, and
it will help us to understand how we can more fully utilize some of
these principles to help us as we moan and groan in our travail.
Surely we all realize -- don't we?  or do we? -- that we are Christ
crucified.  Can we be something separate from the One Life?  Are we
not aspects of this involving, growing consciousness?  Do we not
weep?  Do we not suffer frustrations?  Do we not walk around a good
deal of the time with hearts that are heavy?  Do we not suffer
pains and remorse?  Although truly also we enjoy laughter in so
many ways, and we could enjoy so much more if we knew how, and of
course in a work like ours the aim is a burning how.

Mastery of the mind, basically, to put it in very simple terms,
really means learning how to have the same mind in us which was
also in Christ Jesus.  Not that we haven't, but until a thing is
self-conscious it is not ours to utilize and direct.

How do we use the forces of our mind usually?  Many people say they
don't know how to concentrate, or they have a problem with
concentration.  We remember that Dr. Case used to ask his classes,
"Tell me, have any of you ever had a problem with, for instance,
keeping concentrated on worries or anxieties?"  In all the years
this question was asked, never once did anyone say that they ever
had any difficulty in this kind of concentration.

This is utilization of the mind.  The mind is pointed.  The mind
hangs on to an idea, it can't be let go, it is almost like it is
hypnotized.  It fears, and it trembles, and it clutches, and it
suffers, and then the body becomes quite responsive in what we
usually call negative ways.  The nerves go to pieces, and yet we
cling.  It is truly as though we ourselves, and perhaps this is
more true than we know, we ourselves use the mental mastery which
we have to keep crucifying ourselves for whatever reasons we have,
and unfortunately most of the time we do not know why it is that we
are doing these things, and until we do know, we're going to
continue to do it, and even after we know, we're going to continue
to do it.

Don't be discouraged, because it's pretty much like a muscle.
Strength is not developed merely by understanding the principles of
developing muscular power.  You can sit and become very enamored
for hours on end with the marvelous methods of muscular development
and calisthenics, but your muscles will not develop.  Even though
you may have a wonderful time, thinking how right you are to
understand the various details and elements that are involved, we
have to prop this, and of course this is difficult.

Again, in our reading from the gospel we showed what is meant in
Qabalah when it speaks about the carnal mind.  You see, unhappily
exoteric religion has so often misinterpreted this basic idea, and
the result is they have learned to despise one of the greatest
miracles that we could begin to fathom -- the miracle of the
physical universe, the glory and beauty of it -- they have
misinterpreted this idea and in their minds made the body or
physical things synonymous with evil and carnal mindedness.

This is not what Qabalah meant, as anyone who studies Qabalah --
and I hope that all of you are taking the lessons and becoming
familiar with the true principles of consciousness as meant to be
understood by those who have written these marvelous wise things
for us and left it to us.  We certainly hope that an understanding
of these basic ideas of Qabalah will help to wash away -- and it
will not do it overnight, it really can't -- to wash away the
misinterpretations we have made of what is meant by carnal
mindedness, physical planes, bodies, and so on.

In Qabalah there is a beautiful Hebrew word which means the
physical manifestation, and it is called GVF.  That is the Hebrew
word.  From this has come the English term "goofy", incidentally.
Dr. Case used to love to bring this out.  The ideas of "goofy" were
really related to the idea that a person thinks he is only a body.
You see, it isn't that there is anything wrong with the body, it is
thinking that we are only the physical aspect of the body which
gets us into a lot of trouble, though there are other things which
we do with our consciousness.  There are other ways in which we
have mastered our minds in reverse, for utilization of our
problems.  That is, in order to make for ourselves as many problems
as we can.

Apparently, human consciousness is so staggeringly creative that it
can consistently and continuously create problems and sorrows, the
tears, frustrations, rejections and so on -- can do this to us
continuously, and it doesn't realize that the very same principle
can be made to work in reverse once we understand the principles
and learn how to utilize them.

In a sense we might say it isn't so much that we must learn mental
mastery, because we are tremendous masters, really.  What we need
to learn is how to redirect the current of our mental processes by
learning to understand the principles and using the devices given
to us by those who have gone before us in order to help us become
what we all sooner or later are destined to become.  True conscious
co-creators with God, minds in us which were and are in Christ
Jesus.

How do we go about such a little chore, we might say?  It sounds
easy to many people, and of course when they start exercising they
find that it isn't so easy, and unfortunately people get
discouraged.  Again, we might point out that to get discouraged is
mere laziness, or the heart and the emotions are not in harmony
with the mind.

The first thing we must understand is this:  The mind will not go
where we direct it unless the emotions are working with the mind.
For instance, if our emotions are bent on feeling rejected, the
consciousness is not separate from feeling.  They are all of a
piece, and this is what we learn when we study Tarot and Qabalah
and we work with the techniques, we discover it by direct
perception.

First of all then we must recognize that no matter how often we say
to ourselves mentally, "I wish to do this" or "I wish to accomplish
that" or "I wish to understand the other", if the heart isn't with
it then we are a house divided, and we are not supplying the mind
with the energy to work.

The mind works with only one energy.  In the Eastern thought it is
called Kundalini.  In the Western thought it is called the Basic
Life Force.  In modern psychology, which misunderstands it and
misinterprets it completely, it is called libido.  There is one
energy, and this energy, when it is functioning in one way, it is
the mental aspect of our livingness.  When it is functioning in
another way, it is the emotional aspect of our livingness, and it
does not function one or the other way, they cannot work separately
because there is no such thing as separation.  There is no energy
with which to think unless the emotions are feeding the energy to
that part of itself that does the thinking.

Of course, in Tarot as we bring out in our Thursday night classes,
we take each principle and go into it in much more detail in order
to show how we could utilize these a little more effectively.  If
we haven't got our emotions strongly and intensely centered in
whatever mental determination we have made, nothing is truly going
to happen except that we will at least sometimes feel that, well
whatever other failings we have we at least have a very good mind
because our minds can go click-click-click-click-click, but then
that doesn't get us anywhere.

It is well known in modern psychology, for instance, that in order
to get to know about a thing we have to start wooing an interest,
and the more interested we become, the more our minds remain
focused on that which we want to know about.  Of course, in
relation to the worry, as we were discussing it, our emotions do
feed this mental process.  Why?  Because we're interested!  The
moment we're interested our energies are being fed into our image-
making faculties, and we do it without due thought.  We do it
without trained disciplines.  We do it without insight into what it
is we are doing.

For example, let's take a few amusing examples of the powers of the
mind and emotions as they work together and see what happens to us
physically.  I know someone who had to do a great deal of heavy
typing on a very heavy machine that had a heavy carriage.  This had
to be done hour after hour after hour for weeks and months on end.
Although she liked the work, and loved the work, and believed in
it, still this was kind of hard work and she would get a little
weary, and she'd say "Oh!  Having to do all that typing gives me a
pain in the neck."

Well, this person also had a very strong neck, but not for long.
Not for long.  Look at what she was doing with her consciousness.
She continuously -- and as she did it more and more often -- she
continuously fed an image of hardship, of heaviness, of disability
and of a pain in the neck and she developed a chronic bad neck,
which of course the world and the doctors alike blamed on her
having to work on this machine so long, and they called it an
occupational disease.

My darlings, was it?  Or was it the power of the mind with the
emotions feeding it because of this "Ohhh!" sort of feeling.  You
know what we do?  "Ohhh!  I have to do this!" or "I have to do
that" and we do not know what magnificently powerful creators we
are.  We do not realize what it is we are continuously doing, and
the point is, even when we realize it, we find ourselves sort of
trapped in this habit pattern of reaction.  If you let a trickle
keep running along, it will deepen and deepen and deepen and
finally you'll have a roaring river, and this is what we have done
with our powers, with our mental masteries, we have made rolling
rivers, rolling and pouring and bubbling toward results that a part
of us does not want.

I'll tell you a secret.  A part of us wants it -- though it's hard
to believe, isn't it -- or we wouldn't be doing it.  Of course the
part that wants it is perhaps the part that wants to gain so much
insight and understanding into the vagaries of consciousness so
that someday, after the situation has been reversed, there will be
the knowledge and the wisdom and the understanding which is part
also of having that mind in us which was in Christ Jesus, and
taking our attention away from the corruptible into the
incorruptible.

Then we come to the problem that we all have patterns that we have
set of the way our minds run and the way our emotions feed these
meanderings.  We come up against this.  What, then, shall we do
about it?  There are some of us who still hold these sorrows and
anxieties and rejections because when we were little we had certain
unhappy experiences.  There are some of us who hold our sorrows and
rejections because our husbands or wives or sweethearts betrayed
us, or sometimes it is our children, or members of our families,
and we hold these sorrows in our hearts.

Now everything we hold in our hearts feeds our mental imagery.
Everything that isn't the slightest detail which can be absent --
the Universe is all one piece -- and so we need, very seriously, to
learn how to stop feeding these emotional reactions into the mind,
and since there are many, many people who because they feel that
basically they are not really as loveable as they want to be, have
to sound like they're very important, because they figure since no
one -- and this is all underneath, you see, in the emotional
nature, this is the problem, that's where the real key to mental
mastery comes from, although it takes the conscious mind to help
direct it -- and so there are many people who because
subconsciously feel, "Well, I'm not really very loveable", they
will do things and they will make things seem terribly difficult in
various things that they do, even though it really isn't.  To them
it is, because they want to feel it.  If they feel they're doing
something difficult, and they're making sure that everyone around
them knows that they're doing very difficult things, like
sacrificing themselves or working too hard, and I bet you can think
of many examples on your own of these basic principles.

What they are doing is feeding into themselves and into their
environment the basic idea that "I must work and labor and be a
martyr in order to show that I'm worth having around, even though
I'm not loveable."  Consciously, people would not recognize they do
this, but they do.  Good examples of how these things work often
teaches more than anything else, although after that we still need
the techniques, you know.

There are many individuals who treat themselves and everyone around
them pretty miserably, feeling this is their security, not knowing
that, like Job said, "That which I feared has come upon me" is what
they are really doing.  Again, here is the key to mental mastery.
"That which I feared has come upon me."

You see some people, for instance the example that I wanted to give
you.  I know someone who felt that there was a situation he was in
which made him feel utterly helpless.  He couldn't do anything
about it.  He said "I cannot handle this situation, I am helpless,
I cannot handle it."  You know what?  He became helpless in bed for
quite a long time, until he found out what he had been doing.

The point is that feeling helpless, using our powers and our mental
masteries in these negative ways, we do this -- you know why?  We
haven't got faith in God.  We haven't got faith in Christ, the true
and rich and glorious meaning of Christ.  We haven't got faith in
the very powers we use to destroy ourselves with, even though if we
look we will see that we are using them and have used them every
single day of our lives.

The problem comes down, then, to one of faith.  And yet, there are
many people who say they have faith, and perhaps some of these are
the most deceived.  In actuality, we do not only carry these mental
streams of direction from our own experiences; we are part and
parcel of humanity.  We carry that which is in all of life, and the
reason we carry it is because, after all, we're still evolving
souls.  We haven't achieved yet that complete perfection.

Nevertheless, to be carnally minded is to try to do it with our own
personalities, and our own personal thinking faculties, and our own
personal emotions, and as long as we do this we may have success
for a day or two, but if we do it's unusual.

Again, mental mastery, what does that consist of?  If we figure we
have to do it with our own powers, something in us knows that the
personality power -- and when we are talking about our own powers,
we are identified, remember, with our personalities, instead of
with our true center of being -- and so we are saying to ourselves
subconsciously, we are using our mental abilities with which to say
without knowing that we're doing it that we have only our own
abilities and disciplines and concentrations to work with.

Well, that doesn't give us very much to work with, but when we
align ourselves -- and of course Tarot is what helps us to do it,
we need help, this is the reason that Tarot was given to us by the
marvelously wise adepts -- we need help to retrain this sense of
identification.  When we can work at retraining what we mean by
"I", by feeling the Higher Self, or God, or the Lord of Life, or
the Lord of the Universe, or Christ -- you know, it doesn't matter
what term you give it, it's very unimportant what name it is
called, because again it is the emotions, it is the recognition
that all the powers of the universe are there to help us change it.
If we open ourselves to it, one of the vital aspects, one of the
most important things that must be learned is order to master the
mind.  One must train one's consciousness to not once in awhile but
continuously be reaching for the universal powers with which to
help modify the old patterns of our thinking and our feeling.

Of course there are various Tarot keys that are utilized for these
various rooted developments.  I know that with myself there was a
period after I had been through the Tarot training for quite awhile
and understood the principles of each one and had tried to work
with it, I still became more and more aware of the fact of these
old habit patterns of response, that this was the thing that had to
be changed, and of course mastering the mind is so dependent on it.
The thing is, we have to master our mind in one way in order to
master it in another!

What I did was take the fourteenth Tarot key, which is a symbol for
the Higher Self, the Holy Guardian Angel, working on the
personality.  I put that out in front of me wherever I went.  If I
washed dishes, it was in the kitchen.  If I was working at a
typewriter, it was by my typewriter.  If I was sitting on the
couch, it was up on the mantle in front of me.  I kept it before my
eyes and in every in-between moment I kept reminding myself -- in
other words, this is developing the spiritual muscles -- that the
Higher Self is doing, thinking and feeling through me, and is quite
capable of changing all the reactions that require changing in
order to truly grow out of being carnal minded.

You see, we look at physical results, we look at physical things
and conditions, and we are so hypnotized by them that we do not
realize that we are looking at is the final effect, the cause is
never in what we see and experience physically.  Never!  This is
always the effect.  These things have to be recognized in terms of
mastering the things we do with our minds.  Causation lies -- in
religious terms we can say the will of God, of course, but then if
we take the various ways in which we can sort of understand what
the will of God implies, causation lies in the level of
consciousness which is the thinking-feeling combination of
consciousness, just like we gave you the example.  The person who
felt helpless and kept saying he was and feeding it with the
emotions so became.  The person that kept saying that doing
something was a pain in the neck got a beautiful pain in the neck.

We do the same thing with people, you know.  You keep telling
yourself that some person is a pain in the neck or an annoyance or
an agony, and you know you help that person become evermore
obnoxious toward you.  We don't say -- and of course some people
make blanket and absolute claims -- we do not say that if you
consistently see a specific individual acting in certain ways
toward yourself that this will be so.  This isn't the way the
principle works.  Like a radio transmission station, people will
pick up and transmit that to you only that which they are in tune
with.

If a person who happens to be obnoxious has a level in his
awareness or her awareness that can tune in to your loving
expectation, if you can hold it steadily enough, then on that level
we'll start reacting toward you more often.  You do not change
other people.  All you can do is modify your own mental and
emotional processes.  What does happen is this:  When we truly
refuse to let our mental mastery concentrate on the unhappy, the
frustrating, the limiting aspects of our relationships, when we do
that then if a certain individual is, vibrationally speaking,
unable to come in harmony with your more positive development of
your spiritual muscles in that field, life will take them out of
your environment sweetly and harmoniously.  If they can change, if
it is in them to respond to that level in you, then they will.

The same, of course, applies to the various things we do with
ourselves, to ourselves, both physically and in other ways.  If we
get up in the morning and we sigh and we say "Another day..." think
what we are creating.  In Tarot we are given as our very first
Tarot key the Fool.  The Fool is assigned to ideas of gaiety.  We
mentioned this very strongly and took it up rather profoundly in
our last Thursday night class which just started.  The Fool is the
free spirit of life, starting off on its next journey with gaiety.
Therefore one of the first things we need to train ourselves if we
wish to develop to mental mastery -- when we wake up in the morning
to learn how to catch those first instants of thinking, and to call
on the universal powers whatever we want to call them, whether its
Jesus, or Christ, or God, or Holy Father, or Lord of Life, to call
on that to help us, to remind us as often as is necessary not to
let our thinking and feeling processes fall into the "Ohhhh!  Now
this and now that and now the other..." because this is what we'll
have.

Being joyous is not a state of outer conditions.  Being joyous can
only come from within.  As we develop it from within, it will come
to the without evermore, as Jesus said, "Consider the lilies of the
valley."  They don't have to toil.  We don't have to toil.  We do
have to toil in a special way, to develop the modifications of the
mind as Patanjali said, in the Yoga Sutras, we have to utilize the
opposites.  Yet, as long as we try to train, teach us our own
personal efforts.  We must train ourselves then first and foremost
to continuously call on the help of the higher powers, the benefic
Brothers of Light, to help keep us focused and concentrated.
Therefore, wake up in the morning and try to train yourself to
remember to remember, to call on God to help you hold the mastery
of the mind which is more in harmony with true spiritual
brotherhood.  If we're emanating persecution, martyrdom, boredom,
unhappiness, sorrow...

Oh my darlings, look what we're pouring into the world, and it's
got so much of it.  Its up to the few, like ourselves, and there
are so few, to start turning the tide a little more.  It can only
be turned by mastering the mind and the heart into the areas of
thinking, feeling, reacting and responding which are more in
harmony with the spiritual beingness -- and this does not mean that
the physical life is not spiritual -- but remember the Kingdom of
Spirit is embodied in my flesh, which is the last statement on the
Pattern on the Trestleboard.

Only as we master our minds, the true key to mental mastery has to
do with changing the physical structure of our vehicles, and it
changes by what we think and feel.  Every little cell is a
consciousness that is radiating and broadcasting.  Every atom in
the cells radiates out into infinity.  That's us!  We are miracles
of power!  We do not need to learn how to master our minds as far
as learning how to concentrate, as we have mentioned.  We do have
to learn where to concentrate, and this is a rough job.  This is a
crucifixion, indeed, and yet there is the resurrection.  We can
have no resurrection unless you're willing to crucify the old.  We
want to kill off and redirect these energies by killing off -- we
just mean melt down -- and redirect these energies where they
belong because humanity needs it, it needs us.

Remember, every human being able to emanate out even one more
positive thought or feeling is adding that much more to the help
that the world needs as it moans and groans.  One transmutation of
a hate is taking away that much of the conflicts and the killings
and the aggressions that exist in life.  Every little thing is a
great accomplishment.  Nothing is really little.

The key to the mastery of the mind is to develop such a need, and
an emotional desire, and indeed a compulsion to keep bringing God
in on everything we're trying to develop.  Not in the way that some
unhappy aspirants do.  They say "Well, I trust God" and then they
sit down.  This is just escapism.  There are a lot of people who
escape truly working with themselves and mastering the directions
of the flow by telling themselves they have faith and they trust in
God, and that's that.  It isn't that, because we are made in the
image and likeness of God and we are co-creators, and these people
who want to sit around and do nothing, who are not willing to go
through the disciplines of changing the flow of the mental-
emotional imagery, these are the escapists, these are the deadwood,
these are the dead that were mentioned in the gospel.  These are
the truly dead, because they are not utilizing their fire and force
and flow, the miracles of awareness and consciousness and emotions.
They are not utilizing it to become something more, that is,
something more in terms of directing in proper areas.

Try to wake up in the morning calling on the higher powers.  Of
course, as you work with your Tarot you'll find that the insight
into what you've been doing with your own personal flow of
consciousness will come to you evermore.  As you gain this insight,
the Tarot will also help you to recognize in what areas you need to
do some of your primary concentration for redirection, and take it
step by step.  It's amazing how strong these mental-spiritual
muscles can become as we go about it in proper order.

So wake up in the morning, my darlings, and call on the Higher
Self.  In fact, don't just call, announce!  After all, we are
kings.  We don't have to act like groveling non-entities.  We call
with assurance on the powers that are there, and are ours, that we
have been using anyway.  We announce to ourselves that these are
the powers we invite to help keep our minds and our thoughts in a
direction that goes opposite to those which have learned how to
flow negatively.  Incidentally, it helps even more if before we go
to sleep at night we tell ourselves that when we wake up in the
morning we're going to remember to call on it, because when we fall
asleep things can work while we sleep.  The consciousness never
stops.

Perhaps we should say:  go to sleep at night telling yourself that
when you wake up in the morning the first thought you're going to
grasp is "I reach out to the Higher Self, I reach out to God, I
reach out to the Benefic Powers, I reach out to the Masters of
Wisdom, to the Adepts, to the Benefic Forces, to help keep me
reminded that I wish to direct my thinking-feeling processes in
pictures and emotions that are opposite that which brings sorrow to
myself and to life."

Of course, you'll have to take one by one.  You cannot just do it
as a general thing.  If you try to do everything at once you get
nothing done.  I think that we've given you a partial insight into
the true you; there's so much more.  Perhaps this will help us to
become a more loving, consciously co-creating aspect of the One
Life, helping to lift the sorrows and the frustrations in the
world.




(c) 1994 Builders of the Adytum