“We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn.”
~ J Todd Ferrier
Ennoblement is the process by which a person comes to inhabit their niche consciously, and realizes that the natural obligation of expanded consciousness is Awareness…
Thus Ennoblement could really be anything, any process or system, which assists an individual to generate Awareness.
Entry into the Actuality of a conscious, vital Universe occurs first through awakening ourselves. For the reason that, as we become more expansive in our conscious-awareness, we are likewise able to become more perceptive of, and participant within, the Webs of Life. Ennoblement of the character and behavior truly becomes the responsibility of any who are intent on rising (vibrationally) into a higher state of Being.
Once it is realized that increasing (or evolving and expanding) the vibration of consciousness necessitates a grander scale of accountability, Freedom and Liberty also reveal themselves in a new Light. Instead of self-centered, self-entitled notions of Liberty, and Freedom inverted into the right to unbridle desire and let loose self-serving urges of Free Will, a person is able to see that the truest guises of Liberty occur through acting in some manner of conscious cooperation with other energies in non-discordant ways.
Only with this intent and behavior - through refined and Aware restraint, through intentionally shouldering a greater measure of responsible activity – does an individual achieve a Divine Field of Action. For only when an individual dances their role effectively, with clearly manifest intention, are they dancing in conscious harmony with the Universal orchestra.
“I need my conscience to keep watch over me, to protect me from myself;
So I can wear honesty like a crown on my head, when I walk into the Promised Land...”
Brenden Perry, Dead Can Dance
Now let’s change track for a moment; we want you to consider something. Which is this – the very spine of the Mystery Schools is, at the most basic, the willful pledge of the initiate to prescribe to a certain formula of conduct, leading to Ennoblement. And this formula largely entails keeping within a specifically defined vault or parameter of intentional behavioral choices that ultimately work to refine the character and propagate Awareness. Ultimately, the Mysteries regard the experience and application of Knowledge to become more effective and less suffering in our lives.
Now, where the character is refined, so is our energetic dignity. The vibration is raised, “step-by-step”, moving ever closer to the frequencies of Light. This is why it is said that the byproduct of the Mystery Schools is Light.
It seems high time that this spine of behavior once again becomes the backbone of civilization. For this is the time of Knowledge pouring free to become accessible to All.
Yet each can only receive and produce in accord with their kind; in accord with their vibratory nature. The field of action will never open to the heedless bull or vengeful scorpion; not in punishment, but simply because the functions of the laws themselves prevent it, like mighty Angels guarding the gates.
Thus it can be said that the “pouring free” of True Knowledge is, in fact, facilitated by taking the spine of the Mysteries as our own, and deciding as a New Culture to unify beneath a vow to collectively uphold a certain parameter of behavior.
“There are two sorts of Law -
That imagined by the Human's preference of Mind,
And that which the Imaginative Power itself is contained by.”
Soror XNC
In an evolving social order, the vow of consciously developing our Awareness is the Truest Pledge of our Allegiance. It is what evokes Synergy and leads to Liberty. It is what places us into Right Relationship with the living universe and with one another.
Thus the New Culture must be – foremost – a culture of intentionality. And to preserve and facilitate our intent, we have been demonstrating how to generate a backbone to hold any collective body purposefully upright.
Consider that what is likely most familiar to us is an unspoken contract; some sort of arrangement where we are expected to stay
Aware of the laws of our land to remain free and unpenalized. However, even when this arrangement is understood, it tends to merit little more than a moderate level of respect or hold much depth of meaning save for those who associate patriotism with following the government unquestioningly.
As a whole, people are commonly inclined to find ways to sidestep laws that don’t suit them. This is because most people have an intuitive sense regarding what’s beneficial for themselves and others, and what isn’t; even if our logic tries to justify otherwise. We can end up feeling imposed on, if not altogether imprisoned, by all the variables and specifics of too many laws… especially those that intrude into one’s own personal space. Most know, intuitively, that this is somehow against the very laws and truths of Nature.
As with employing an abundance of artificial rules, there is also a glaring problem with employing artificial consequences as the primary incentive for keeping an agreement many feel disassociated from. It is difficult to respect a rule one feels they have no clear Voice in, no real Power to change or that more or less feels irrelevant to an individual's Heart. For example, a rule to Love within a certain religion or caste doesn't always mesh with the Actualities of a person's feelings. And opposite of what seems to have been reasoned otherwise, it is even more difficult to take into account artifical consequences that don't easily register to a person's mind as "sense".
In the New Culture, then, we suggest that the social contract be spoken and spelled out, advancing the social order to the level of a conscious, contractual agreement.
What society needs is aware participation and intentional progress toward the depth of Purpose and the expansion of Potential. So the New Culture asks of any who are participant in an embodiment of the Plan to pursue their own Self-Mastery and function at a certain level of Awareness. Participants of a body pledge an allegiance to unfolding the Ideals and Aims of their collective body, and upholding the agreed model of conduct.
Where this model of conduct is concerned, the key is keeping it simple and reflective of those certain few principles which orchestrate the Universe and are modeled in Nature. A model of conduct, which we’ve already discussed at a greater length in previous documents, can be something as simple as “to consider, with forethought, the outcome of any choice and act in accord with accountability to the greater, surrounding Web of Life.”
Now, what the individual needs and receives in return, in addition to an equally empowered “Voice” capable of affecting change, is an environment where the exploration of Self-Mastery can reasonably occur. The collective environment needs to carry a certain spirit of Abundance and an agenda of thriving instead of the hard work of basic survival. Perspective might make this sound “impossible”, but that is because a shift in perspective is what’s required.
Also, responsibilities and rights go hand-in-hand. As nearly every teenager has been told, the more one is responsible, the more Liberty is bestowed. It’s a simple, Universal Truth.
So then, the added, natural return to upholding the agreed model of conduct is Liberties within the collective body. This could simply include access to the bodies’ amenities and the primary right to “make any independent choice which, by affect, applies to the individual and personal environment alone.”
There is also an overarching reward in this manner of allegiance. That is, through a conscious amalgam of intent, there is a very literal alchemical enhancement to any collective’s combined affect. This is because the synergy that is derived from symbiosis and cooperation will always have a product greater than the sum of individuals acting alone.
Through Conscious Cooperation we are truly free.
© 2011 The LIFE Movement
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