Theos-Talk Archives (October 1997 Message tt00015)

> If purity and love can both exist simultaneously, then a battle
> has been won.

Of course they exist simultaneously, everything exists together
with itself and all other things.  This is axiomatic.  It is
dialectical/Aristotelian thinking which creates separations.  It
must be either or.  Why not both.  It seems to me that pure-love
is not the illusion, but this idea that there must be separtness.
Union with the Absolute is rather matter of factly purity and
love manifest in our living flesh.

> Many times we would gladly sacrifice our purified "ivory tower"
> to enter and influence a world where goodness has strayed.  This
> would be the love within us yearning for the contact with other
> divine sparks.

"goodness" is always straying, but Goodness is pure.  There I
believe are no towers of ivory, particularly if you mean by this
a place to escape the lack of "goodness." There is no escaping
the manifold of values in which we live.  This is where we are,
and this is now.  What else? Purity, Goodness, Love and simply
vehicles, sometimes of an interpersonal nature, sometimes of a
personal nature which are a finger pointing at the moon.  If you
watch the finger, you never seen the moon.

> Whether it is purity or love we crave, who is doing the craving?

What is craved and who craves? Dichotomy, no! Dualism, No! The
Glory of all things is God...Source of the things that are is
God, who is both Mind and Nature, Nature, Energy, Necessity, and
End, and Making new again.

> I didn't feel myself pure in body, nor in spirit, when compared
> to the great beings who instruct us.  So purity, and all
> associated activities of producing purity, became for me an
> ascended master activity.  THEY are what's truly pure in my life.

The immortal ones are honored with the name of God, and spoken of
as gods; but God is Good not out of courtesy but out of nature.
For that God's nature and the Good is one; one of the kind of
both, from which all other kinds proceed.  The Purity is the
Father-Mother God who gives all things and naught receives.  They
then are the giver of all things.  The Father Mother God then is
Good, Pure and not separated from you or me.  Nor are we
separate.  We must continually rethink our symbols and self
expectations.

Ananda,
Michael