SL04-04-NewYearsEve-FromEndingtoBeginning
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Christmas may have come and gone almost a week ago, but liturgically at least, we are still in the Christmas Season until Epiphany on January 6th. As this is being recorded on New Year’s Eve, I thought I’d share a simple meditation of some beautiful Epiphany prayers to closer out our earthly remembrance of the year 2022 and to embark with surer footing on that path to Epiphany this year where we ask to be like the Magi, transformed, enkindled, renewed by God’s manifestation of the Light of the World within and through our own lives.
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SL04-03 From Love, Of Love, For Love
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For those of you who observe Lent and Easter, I hope that yours was a blessed Lenten season and Easter celebration. I hope that all listeners have had a blessed Winter and the budding leaves and flowers and green of Spring instills hope to the beauty of this year that lies ahead. During Lent, I came across this quote from David Benner which really spoke to my soul: “We are created from love, of love, for love. Our existence makes no sense apart from Divine Love.” — David G. Banner It is so easy in the hustle and bustle of life to forget this. It is...
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SL04-02 Gathering in the Sanctuary of the Soul Before Gathering Thanksgiving
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My thanksgiving prayer for you is that you too may transcend the moment at your gathered tables, transcend any tension, any worry, any resentment, any hurt and tap into your own heart energy and be aware of the memories being made, the love being shared, the love present, the affection felt. Love is eternal. It is in those moments of love, we leave our presence in this world. It is in those moments of love, we are still felt after we are gone and we likewise still feel those who have passed.
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SL04-01 Beyond Seeking and Receiving the Light of Hope to Broadcasting it To All
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In the July, 1937 issue of The Inner Life there is an article entitled, “A Challenge to Metaphysicians” the author asks siblings in spiritual ministry to consider developing the Christ Consciousness by starting their meetings with his invocation and prayers. What follows is my adaptation of his invocations as an imaginal prayer exercise, helping us to invite that Light of the Christ consciousness within so that we in turn may broadcast that Light, that Love, that truth out to all in these trying time
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SL03-12 Nourishing the Soul
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I recently came across the Gnostic influenced Manichaean writings that really seemed to speak to my soul. Manichaeism would be condemned by the Latin Church as a heresy, the Manichaean writings provide a richness that speaks more true to the human condition as a soul embodied, incarnated in this physical body we live and experience this earthly life than most of the Christian spiritual writings ever shed on the soul. I hope you too find it just as enriching as I did.
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SL03-11 Imaginally Exploring The Dimension of Love Through Scripture
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In this age we live in with so much dissension and rhetoric dividing humanity across the globe, I thought it important to remind ourselves of the mandatum Christ left his followers, “To love one another as I have loved you.” The love that Christ was speaking about and instructed and lived out by example is not solely a feeling, or an emotion, rather, it is a dimension with which to live your life. The dimension of love connects you to the divine in a way that no other dimension can.
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SL03-10 Remembering 2020 and Welcoming 2021 With The Great Invocation
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A year ago, we closed out 2019 and welcomed 2020 by offering our minds, hearts and wills to allow the Light, Love and Purpose of the Mind of God to enter us through praying the Great Invocation revealed to Alice Bailey.
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SL03-09 Anima Mundi All Souls' Day Novena - Day 9 - For Freedom and Liberty
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Welcome to Spei Lumina and day 9 the conclusion of our Novena honoring the Anima Mundi for All Souls day. Today is all souls day — a day set aside by the church to remember all the faithful departed throughout the last year. In the United States, 235,460 people have died from COVID-19. Let us remember the souls of all lost to this pandemic and those left to grieve their loss as we conclude our novena prayer to the Anima Mundi Day Number 9. Our intention today is for Freedom and Liberty.
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SL03-08 Anima Mundi All Souls' Day Novena - Day 8 - For Justice
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Today, Sunday November1st we continue our Novena Prayer to the Anima Mundi Day Number 8. Our intention today is for Integrity.
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SL03-07 Anima Mundi All Souls' Day Novena - Day 7 - For Integrity
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Welcome to Spei Lumina and day 7 of our Novena honoring the Anima Mundi for All Souls day. Today, Saturday October 31st we continue our Novena Prayer to the Anima Mundi Day Number 7. Our intention today is for Integrity.
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I don’t know about you, but I hurt. I hurt seeing an America so divided. I hurt seeing an America stirred to react out of fear. So stirred to react in bigoted ways. So stirred to react in unloving ways, to act out of hate and spite. I hurt seeing Americans throw their support behind a leader who shows no remorse for the ways his words and actions divide, kill, and harm Americans and America. As the rhetoric, fear mongering, and polarity heats up seeking to sew only dissension and division during this election cycle, may we remember we are not called to live in fear, nor anger, nor to be divided from our neighbor and our brother and sisters. We are called to walk in love.
In his book, The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis describes the four loves found in scripture. — storge, philia, eros, and agape.
First, there’s storge — the affectionate bond that grows between parents and children, brothers and sisters, and family members.
Second, philia the powerful emotional bond experienced between close friends; the most general love found in Scriptures that includes the love for fellow humans, care, respect, and compassion for those in need.
Thirdly, there’s eros the sensual romantic love between two people celebrated and enjoyed as a blessing from God.
All three of these loves carry a spark of the Divine, of Source and when freely shared and experienced between and among all of God’s children, each and every one of us these loves reflect and shine a glimpse of the Divine Light, of Source upon the cosmos. That healing love reflected on the cosmos unites, heals, and restores our souls but no love does all of this greater than the last and greatest of these loves — agape.
Agape is the immeasurable, incomparable love for all of creation. It the perfect love, unconditional love, sacrificial love, and pure love from Source.
Love is the most powerful, transformative, upbuilding, healing emotion that humanity can experience, express, and share with others. Love is the closest emotion, force, action, behavior, influence that animates us which makes us as close to God as possible. Love is the most unifying force that brings us in unity with Source, with God, with our creator.
I thought imaginally praying with the four loves of scripture and basing our meditation on the universal power of LOVE, we can heal our souls and the souls of our brothers and sisters during this peri-coved 19 highly polarized 2020 Presidential election cycle we are about to wrap up in the next few months. I hope you will join me.