Discovering Your Divine Relationship 1. You are the Divine Spark, your unique expression in Life is your purpose. 2. You have the possibility of direct relationship with the Divine. 1. We are the created spirit and soul in relation with the Creator 2. And in that we have the possibility of communion with the Absolute as the Divine Being. 3. That experience is Joyful, inspiring, uplifting; This is actually a reunion and the completion of an important stage of Awakening and it is a deep Enlightenment about the Nature of Divine Life and Reality. Two approaches depending on the preference of each student 1. Those with a devotional preference. .. Spiritual Heart - Love - Radiance 2. For those with a more philosophical bent. Spiritual Intuition - 3rd Eye Opens them into the Direct Knowing of the Divinity Within and Around us. In time one may merge both approaches into a mystical practice. In time, we come to understand that this Divine Relationship is being Revealed to us in answer to an inner calling. (from the Divine or from the Soul) We realize this is my True Self in expression. Radiance Radiance is the awareness of the effulgence of the Divine and serves as a means of a direct, personal relationship with the Infinite. Radiance - Experiencing the Presence of God through the refinement of the subtle-senses (the Spiritual Sense). On this path we use presence, reflection, meditation, contemplation and these lead to Revelation, which is a direct cognition of Truth and that which transforms and uplifts us on our way. These practices also allow us to more directly know the Divine Spark, which is our very innermost nature. Through the practice of Radiance, the nurturing energy that grows the Divine Spark, will transform that Spark into the Divine Flame. That nurturing radiant energy is Love and it is fostered by a direct relationship with the Divine (The Absolute, The Supreme Being, Reality, The Ultimate Source. or God) And we will experience much of this in this group. So this is a celebration of Light and Love and of the greatest Joy, Gratitude and Dedication to the upliftment of all of humanity. ________________ Invitation: The Promise of Mysticism, The Divine Life Will you proclaim by your existence the grandeur, the beauty, the intensity, the living wonder of that Eternal Reality within which you stand? If you live up to your full spiritual potential the complete group-consciousness of humanity would be changed, uplifted, brought back into conformity with the Transcendent; and the spiritual world would be actualized within the temporal order at last. That world of false imagination, senseless conflicts, and sham values, into which our children are now born, would be annihilated. The whole race, not merely a few of its noblest, most clear-sighted spirits, would be in union with God; and every person, transfused by Its light and power, direct and willing agents of Its Pure Activity, would achieve that completeness of life which the mystics dare to call “deification.” This is the substance of that redemption of the world which all religions proclaim but which is only imagined in the dreams of the prophets and seers. It is the true incarnation of the Divine Wisdom: and you learn to see the pains and disorders of creation—including your own pains, efforts, and difficulties—as incidents in the travail of that royal birth. ________________ Communion Radiance is the awareness of the effulgence of the Divine and serves as a means of a direct, personal relationship with the Infinite. A guided means of communion with God. The practice: Set Intention - Presence of Listening and the Revelation. Contemplation - This is not intellectual, but be receptive to insight. INTENTION STATEMENT This is my True Self, the Divine Relationship is Revealed to me. Set Intention - in the heart. Contemplation: reflect on the passage. (Allow insight, intuition, revelation,.) Affirmation:. Release to the Divine. (We are offering it in gratitude, letting go, and appreciating the integration.) Receptivity - return to presence, simply sit with the Divine Presence Silence. Radiance (Presence of Revelation)