Evolving Consciousness

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There seem to be many students of the ancient teachings, that can repeat what they read, but are not really mature enough in evolved consciousness to understand what the information actually means to their existence.

For instance there are many monks, having been born into Buddhist traditions, that are fully capable of reciting their scriptures to the letter, and who meditate deeply and live a very dedicated lifestyle, and yet due to the particular degree of the level of evolved consciousness, they are not as adept at understanding their faith as more evolved consciousnesses may be.

Is there something to be said for social establishment that acknowledges this and devises stages of learning and development? And is there any danger to being given too much knowledge before one is evolved enough to grasp it?

**The higher powers offer to all, each takes what he can. In Love, we allow each other to learn at the pace requisite for each without judgment or coercion. In my experience, we only "hear" what we can "take" anyway. It is like being in school learning complicated math equations: One child sees the big picture of the way numbers relate and another learns to do FOIL. The child doing FOIL is working by formula, similar to participating in the right-hand path you've described elsewhere. When the child has worked the formula enough, and then had more life experience, s/he may begin to see the bigger picture, and may remember pieces given earlier--because all is registered by the unconscious whether the conscious is able to focus on it or not.

I always expose students to material that may be beyond the average--and I'm often surprised when the least likely student is the one that comes up with the most perceptive answer. Of course, others need "tutoring"...just like we do. Sometimes we need to experience catalyst over and over again until we master our lessons.

I was reading Qu'o this morning and found this bit that seemed to pertain to the beginning of this thread as well:

Let us go back to that Lightning Struck Tower and look at its significance again. Within your next decade or two this transformation will have taken place. This is the time to acknowledge fully the need to learn the ways of the self, to become more and more familiar with the thoughts of the heart with an eye to working with these thoughts, to accentuating the tendency towards positivity, towards compassion, towards tolerance, towards creativity, towards hope and faith. For that which has crashed your tower of the physical world and brought it down is a very literal symbol of an archetypal process. The Matrix of the Spirit in this tarot system is called the Devil. And the Lightning-Struck Tower is the Potentiator of the Spirit. The Matrix of the Spirit is called this because those who bring light have always had a bad reputation. Lucifer is one of the names that is most telling that is used for the Devil in your culture. The roots of this word mean “light-bringer.”

The lie of your metaphysical dynamic is concerned with the value of wisdom in spiritual seeking within third density. Knowledge and wisdom, in the spiritual sense, can be seen to be highly negative when unlit, unillumined, by love. That is why love is learned before wisdom. That is why love must be learned before wisdom. For when wisdom is learned first it is fair to the taste and so smooth within the intellectual digestion, and so handy and useful in the intellectual display of personality and intelligence that it is often not clear, for lifetimes at a time, that without love, wisdom is utterly devoid of content. No matter how many fine thoughts roll around inside of an intellectual system, if it does not come into the heart and become grounded by what this instrument would call good works, good living, it will not abide in the sense of being spiritually useful for the evolution and the maturity of the soul. from http://llresearch.org/transcripts/issues..._0916.aspx

**I also saw a discussion on the thread about the 7/12 chakra system--I was hoping that someone here could help me look at this with regard to densities or planes--I'm thinking Ra was essentially saying that there were 7, then in other places I've heard 12-Does anyone have any idea of how these equate?

Another interesting part of the thread was about simplicity--but I'd like to offer the idea that "simplicity" may not quite be the right word--I'd rather use "synthesis".

"Unification is the final synthesis--simplification is the ultimate analysis or return to type. One is advancement to completion, the other a regression to the commencement" (The Cosmic Doctrine by Dion Fortune).

What this means is that we venture forth from the Centre point, the One, containing the potentialities of the One, but not the actualities--we are not "Gods" yet. We descend into matter (involution) to master it, cross the nadir of materiality (here we are right now), and begin the ascent (evolution) which will return us, with all of our potential fully actuated, to the One.
We all have choice, but going backwards leads to disintegration, not union.