The Testament Of
Secrets November 1991 Chapter 17 The Heart Itself Must Exceed Every Stage, Until The
Seventh Is Perfected As Itself In Truth, The Way Of The Heart Begins At birth and
Progresses Through (or Otherwise Directly Beyond) Each Of
The Seven Stages Of Life, Until Divine Translation. Individuals who Are Not born Into The Formal Community Of
True Practitioners Of The Way Of The Heart Generally Come To
The Way Of The Heart At an adult age. Such individuals Have
Already Passed Through the years Of Growth that Are
Naturally Associated With The First Three Stages Of Life.
Even So, they Invariably Exhibit The Signs Of Patterned
Un-Happiness That Characterize The Failures Of functional,
practical, and relational Adaptation In The Context Of The
First Three Stages Of Life (and That Retard The human Work
Of individuation, socialization, or relationalization, and
integration). Therefore, The Way Of The Heart Requires An Ordeal Of The
Heart. Even From birth, and Even In The Context Of Each Of
The First Three Stages Of Life, The Heart (or The Power Of
Inherently Free Being, Consciousness, and Love-Bliss) Should
Be Awakened (By Grace, and In The Manner Appropriate To Each
Such Stage), or Else human Adaptation and Growth Will
Necessarily Be Retarded and Made Un-Happy By The
self-Contracting Efforts Of egoity. It Is Free and Effective Heart-Feeling (or The Free Power
Of The Heart) That Enables human beings To Grow Beyond
self-Contraction To Ultimate (or Inherent, and Inherently
Perfect) Realization Of God (or The Divine Self-Condition),
and If Free Heart-Feeling Is Suppressed (or If The Free
Power Of The Heart Is Not Awakened and Made Steady, Stage Of
Life By Stage Of Life, In The Course Of human Development),
human beings Cannot Grow Beyond The Un-Happy Settlements Of
The First Three Stages Of Life. The Heart Is Mine. The Heart Is The Domain Of All My
Work. The Heart Is Always In God, but Reaction To the
conditions Associated With Apparent birth into the Cosmic
planes Produces The Apparent conditional Destiny Of Retarded
Growth and All The Suffering Of self-Contraction. Therefore,
This self-Contracting Reaction To conditional or phenomenal
states Must Be Transcended In The Context (or Otherwise In
The Effective Transcendence) Of Every Stage Of Life. The
Heart Must Awaken At (or In Relation To) Every Stage Of
Life, and the individual being Must Grow To Be Attracted and
Distracted By The Forms Of God, and Thus To Feel Beyond The
Bond Of conditional events (or all that limits and Retards
the conditionally Manifested being In God), and, Ultimately,
To Feel Beyond (and Perfectly Prior To) all that is Not The
Realization Of Divine Being Itself. In The Context Of The First Three Stages Of Life (Which
Are To Be Developed Within The “Original”, or Beginners,
Devotional Context Of The Fourth Stage Of Life) In The Way
Of The Heart, The Hearts Free Urge To Perfectly
self-Transcending God-Realization Must Be Very Fully
Awakened (and Made Active and Effective) By A Growing
Response To My Heart-Revealing Realization-Sign, and My
Full-Given Word Of Confessions, Arguments, and Questions,
and All My Heart-Instructing and Heart-Blessing Leelas.
Therefore, those who Grow By Such Response Are Gracefully
Inspired, and Constantly Instructed, and Always Directly
Helped (and Quickened) In their Growth, By My Free Person
(or My Revealing Bodily Human Form, and, Tacitly, My
Spiritual, and Always Blessing, Presence and My Very, and
Inherently Perfect, State) and By All My Storied and
Heart-Liberating Work. In The Fully Established “Basic” Context Of The Fourth
Stage Of Life (and In The Possible, or Potential, “Advanced”
Context Of The Fourth Stage Of Life, and Also In The
Possible, or Potential, Context Of The Fifth Stage Of Life)
In The Way Of The Heart, The Heart Must (By Grace) Be
Established In Full (and Either Technically “Elaborate” Or
Technically “Simpler”, or Even “Simplest”) Heart-Response To
My Revealed Spirit-Presence (As Well As To My Bodily Human
Form, and To My Ever-Speaking Word, and To My Storied Leelas
Of Teaching and Blessing). In The Context Of The Sixth Stage Of Life In The Way Of
The Heart, The Heart Must (By Grace) Be Established In (and
As) The Transcendental (and Inherently Spiritual) Self,
Realized On The Basis Of The Previously Established Response
To My Grace-Given Bodily (Human) Form, and To My Gracefully
Revealed Spirit-Presence, and On The Grace-Given Basis Of A
Direct and Heart-Realizing Response To My Very (and
Inherently Perfect) State. And In The Context Of The Seventh Stage Of Life In The
Way Of The Heart, Based On All That Was Gracefully
Established and Realized In The Context (or Otherwise In The
Transcendence) Of The First Six Stages Of Life, The Heart
Must (By Grace) Be Established In The “Bright” (or
Inherently Spiritual, and Transcendental) Divine Self,
Inherently, Immediately, Spontaneously, and Divinely
Recognizing (and Thus Divinely Transcending) all Apparent
conditions (and Even The Divine Star That Is their
Apparently Ascended and Apparently Objective Source). In The Way Of The Heart, Even Every Stage Of Life That Is
Entered Is A Circumstance In Which I Call My Listening
Devotee, or My Hearing Devotee, or My Seeing Devotee At The
Heart. Even From The Beginning, The Way Of The Heart Is A
Call To Grow Toward The Only One Who Is (and Thus, By
Growing Beyond the ego-“I”, To Become Established In Every
One Of The Forms Of God, Truth, or Reality). The Way Of The Heart Is, From The Beginning, A Response
To The (By Me Given) Call To Realize The Inherently Perfect
Fullness Of The Divine Person. Therefore, Even The
Inherently Perfect Happiness Of The Seventh Stage
Realization Of The Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and
(Necessarily) Divine Reality Must Inspire (and Also
Progressively Characterize) All The Stages Of Life. And It
Can Be So, If Every Stage Of Life Is Lived (or Otherwise
Transcended) In Response To (or In The Impulse Toward) The
Great Person (or The Great Reality Itself). If There Is self-Transcending (or Ecstatic) Communion
With Me, Then The Divine Person (The Only One Who Is ) Is
Realized As I Am (and Thus, Tacitly, and Ultimately, As The
Inherent or Native Feeling Of Being, Itself). Because Of
This, Whatever his or her Stage Of Life In The Way Of The
Heart, My Listening Devotee, My Hearing Devotee, or My
Seeing Devotee Will Tacitly Receive Even All The By Me Given
Forms Of The Divine Person (At First In Simplest Feeling,
but Effectively, and Then, As The Stages Of Life Progress,
More and More, Until That Great Reception Is Perfect,
Ultimately). Therefore, The First Three Stages Of Life (In The
“Original”, or Beginners, Devotional Context Of The Fourth
Stage Of Life) In The Way Of The Heart Must Become
Associated With Participatory (and Even Faithful) Dependence
Upon Me (and, Thus and Thereby, Upon The Divine Person and
Condition) Via The Left Side Of The Heart, but The Middle
Station Of The Heart and The Right Side Of The Heart Will
Also (Tacitly) Be Established In Me (and, Thus and Thereby,
In The Divine Person and Condition), If My Devotee Really
and Truly Enters Into self-Surrendering, self-Forgetting,
and (More and More Effectively) self-Transcending Communion
With Me (and, Thus, and By Grace, Spontaneously and
Progressively Realizes The True Devotional Disposition, and,
Eventually, The Spiritual Fullness, Of The Fourth Stage Of
Life). And Even Though The (Developing) Fourth Stage Of Life and
(Also) The Fifth Stage Of Life Are (In The Way Of The Heart)
Associated With The Developing Response To Me (and, Thus and
Thereby, To The Divine Person) Via The Middle Station Of The
Heart (As Well As The Left Side Of The Heart), Any Devotee
who Truly Enters Into Such (and self-Transcending) Communion
With Me Will (Surely, By Grace, and In Due Course) Realize
The Witness-Consciousness (Even Via The Right Side Of The
Heart), and So Be Moved (By Grace) To The Inherently Perfect
Practice Of The Way Of The Heart (In The Context Of The
Sixth Stage Of Life). And Even Though The Sixth Stage Of Life Is (In The Way Of
The Heart) Associated With Perfect Feeling-Contemplation Of
Me (and, Thus and Thereby, Of The Divine Person) As
Consciousness Itself (and Thus With Grace-Given Direct
Identification With Consciousness Itself, Via The Right Side
Of The Heart), My True Devotee Will (Surely, By Grace, and,
In Due Course, Suddenly) Awaken To Me (and, Thus and
Thereby, To The Divine Person) Most Perfectly (Even,
Thereby, Including The Middle Station Of The Heart and The
Left Side Of The Heart), and Entirely (or Most Perfectly, or
Inherently) Free, and (Therefore) Even Free Of The Motive To
Exclude the (Apparent) body-mind and its (Apparent)
relations. In This Manner, My True Devotee Will Enter Into
The Seventh Stage Of Life, Wherein the (Apparent) body-mind,
Founded In The Totally Awakened Heart, Is (Inherently, and
Inherently Perfectly) Resolved In The Self-Radiant (or
Inherently Spiritual) and Self-Existing (or Transcendental)
Divine Being, and My True Devotee (Thus, Most Perfectly,
Awakened) Will Surely Come To The Divine Self-Domain, Via
The Divinely Self-Revealed Doorway (or Infinite
Self-Radiance) Of The Heart (Realized As The “Bright”
Itself). The Truly self-Surrendering, self-Forgetting, and
self-Transcending Response (or Responsive Impulse) Of The
Total Heart To (or Toward) My Bodily (Human), Spiritual,
Transcendental, and Divine Revelation Is The Great Gesture
To Which I Call My Listening Devotee, or My Hearing Devotee,
or My Seeing Devotee At Every Stage Of Life. Only Listen To
Me, and Hear Me, and See Me. And If You Are Listening To Me,
or Hearing Me, or Seeing Me, Then Love Me Now, In My Bodily
(Human) Form (Now and Hereafter Ever-Given As My Sign). And
Whenever You Truly Acknowledge and (Through Formally
Acknowledged Practice) Embrace Me As Your True Heart-Master
(Even In My Function As The Adept Teacher Of The Heart), You
Will (or, Surely, Must) Presently Enjoy A Revelation Of The
Very Divine Person, and A Tacit Awakening To All The Forms
Of God, Truth, or Reality. Even So, This Heart-Responsive Awakening Should (and,
Surely, Will) Be Expressed In A More and More Mature and
Fully Conscious Fashion As My Listening Devotee (who Grows
To Hear Me and See Me) Moves Through The Stages Of Life In
The Way Of The Heart. Every moment Of Practice (As Well As
Each Advancing Stage Of Life) In The Way Of The Heart Will
Be A Testing School For My Listening Devotee, My Hearing
Devotee, or My Seeing Devotee. And The Measure That Is
(Ultimately) To Be Schooled and Tested Is My Devotees
Heart-Response To Me (and, Thus and Thereby, To The Divine
Person). Therefore, each moment Of Practice and Every Stage
Of Life In The Way Of The Heart Will Require Increased
Responsibility For The Gift That Is Practice Itself, Because
Growth In Practice Is Always Based On A Progressively
Unfolding Disclosure (or A Magnification Of Awareness) Of
The human Design, and A Coincident Increase In The Level Of
Participatory self-Submission Required By Every New Stage Of
Revelation. Even children and young people Practicing and Developing
In The Natural (early-life) Context Of The First Three
Stages Of Life Within The By Me Given Wisdom-Culture Of The
Way Of The Heart Are Called To Respond (From The Heart) To
Me (As True Heart-Master, or Hridaya-Samartha Sat-Guru, and
Especially In My Function As Adept Heart-Teacher), and (Thus
and Thereby) To Commune With The Divine Person (and
Self-Condition) As I Am (In and As The Simple Felt-Mystery
Of Being That Is Inherently Associated With Natural and
human Existence). They Are Called To Commune With God,
Truth, or The Mystery Of Reality Via My Help (In and As My
Sign, and Via My Word and My Leelas), and (Thus and Thereby)
To Commune (In The early-life Devotees Rudimentary, Simple,
and More General Fashion) With God, Truth, or The Mystery Of
Reality As The Universal (or All-Pervading)
“Spirit-Presence” (Simply As Implied, or Naturally
Suggested, By their experience Of The Universal Field Of
Natural etheric energy, and By The Natural Heart-Feeling Of
Happiness and Love), and As The (Possibly, Naturally
experienced) Apparently Objective “Divine Star”, and As The
“Transcendental (and Inherently Spiritual) Self”
(experienced Naturally, As The Mysterious Being-Feeling
Inherently Associated With Natural and human Existence), and
Even Altogether (According To their Ability, or The Degree
and Quality Of their Awareness) As The “Bright” and Ultimate
Mystery Of God (Revealed By and As My Sign, and By All My
Revelation-Work). Because Of This, they Will Surely Grow
Toward adult age Served By My Living Wisdom At The Heart,
and, For This Reason, they Should Be Able To Pass More
Readily (As adults) Through The (Further) Listening and
(Then) Hearing Process To Real Practice In The Seeing
Context Of The Fully Established “Basic” Fourth Stage Of
Life. Those who Come To Me At an adult age Are First Called To
Listen To Me (In The Beginners Devotional Manner) and To
Hear Me, and Thereby To Awaken (Eventually) To Fullest
Devotional Response To Me (Full Of The Capable Motive Of
self-Transcendence and The Capable Impulse Toward Perfectly
self-Transcending God-Realization). And That First Period
(Of Listening and Hearing) Is (Like All Subsequent
Developmental Stages In The Way Of The Heart) To Take Place
Within (and By Right Participation In) My Formal (and
Formally Acknowledged) Sacred and Cultural and Cooperative
Community Of Devotees (Which Includes Even every individual
who Is A Formally Acknowledged and True Practitioner Of The
Way Of The Heart). All adult Beginners In The Way Of The Heart, whatever
their age, Are (Naturally) Still functioning (Basically) In
The Context Of The First Three Stages Of Life. However, As
Soon As such individuals Begin To Listen To Me (In The
Context Of The Devotional Relationship To Me, As True
Heart-Master, and Especially In My Function As Adept
Heart-Teacher), they Have Already Begun To Develop The
Orientation That Is The First (or “Original”) Characteristic
Of The Fourth Stage Of Life. And After Such Listening
Devotees Awaken To True Hearing and Basic human Equanimity
(Through The Ordeal Of Most Fundamental self-Understanding,
Whether Primarily By Devotional Feeling and Insight Or
Primarily By Devotional Feeling and Faith), and As Soon As
they (As My Would-Be-Seeing, or Progressively Seeing,
Devotees) Grow To Actually and Truly See Me, they Will (and
Must) Begin Practice Of The Way Of The Heart In The Fully
Established “Basic” Context Of The Fourth Stage Of Life (In
Spiritually Activated Devotional Relationship To Me and,
Thus and Thereby, In The By Grace Revealed Spiritual
Presence Of The Divine Person, Who Is Attractive and
Love-Blissful At The Free-Feeling Heart). For All adult Practitioners Of The Way Of The Heart, The
Student-Beginner Stage Of The Way Of The Heart, The First
Three Practicing Stages Of The Technically “Fully
Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart, and The Listening
Stage, The Hearing Stage, The Would-Be-Seeing, or
Progressively Seeing, Stage, and The First Actually Seeing
Stage Of The Development Of The Technically “Simpler”, or
Even “Simplest”, “Lay Congregationist” Form Of The Way Of
The Heart Involve The Practice Of Disciplines Which Are
Associated With The First Three Stages Of Life, and Which
Are Progressively Associated With Heart-Surrender Into The
(“Original”, and Then The “Basic”) Context Of The Fourth
Stage Of Life. Therefore, Practice Of The Way Of The Heart
In The Context Of The Fourth Stage Of Life Begins (In A
Progressively Devotional Manner) In The Student-Beginner
Stage, Then (Unless Practice Continues In The Technically
“Simpler”, or Even “Simplest”, Manner Of A “Lay
Congregationist”) It Develops Responsively (In The Beginners
Responsible Devotional Manner) In The First Practicing Stage
Of The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The
Heart, Becomes Full (or Spiritually Active) In The Second
Practicing Stage Of The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form
Of The Way Of The Heart, and Develops (Most Basically) In
The Third Practicing Stage Of The Technically “Fully
Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart. And, If An Early
Transition Is Not Made To The “Perfect Practice” Of The Way
Of The Heart In The Context Of The Sixth Stage Of Life, The
adult Practitioner Of The Technically “Fully Elaborated”
Form Of The Way Of The Heart Should Continue Practice In The
(“Advanced”) Context Of The Fourth Stage Of Life By
Transitioning To The Fourth Practicing Stage Of The
Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart,
Wherein and Whereby The Transition Should Eventually Be Made
Either To Practicing Stage Five Of The Technically “Fully
Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart (and To
Transitional Practice Of The Way Of The Heart In The Context
Of The Fifth Stage Of Life) Or, Even More Directly, To
Practicing Stage Six Of The Technically “Fully Elaborated”
Form Of The Way Of The Heart (and To Practice Of The Way Of
The Heart In The Context Of The Sixth Stage Of Life), Before
The Final Transition Is Made To Practicing Stage Seven Of
The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The
Heart (and, Thereby, To The Demonstration Of The Way Of The
Heart In The Context Of The Seventh Stage Of Life). Even Though All adult Practitioners Of The Way Of The
Heart Must Necessarily Begin their Practice In The Domain Of
The First Three Stages Of Life, The Process Of their
Discipline Should In Fact Also Constantly Develop
(Progressively) Within The (“Original”, and Then The
“Basic”) Context Of The Fourth Stage Of Life. Therefore, For
All adult (and, Likewise, All early-life) Practitioners Of
The Way Of The Heart, The Fourth Stage Of Life Is To Be
Progressively Entered, Through An Urge and A Process That
Are Embraced At The Very Beginning Of The Way Of The Heart
(and Even From The Beginning Of The Formal Approach To The
Way Of The Heart), but Full Entrance Into The (“Original”,
and Then The Fully Established “Basic”) Context Of The
Fourth Stage Of Life In The Way Of The Heart Must Develop
Progressively, (First) Through The Preparatory (or
Student-Beginner) Period Of First Study-“Consideration” and
First Devotionally Responsive Practice Of The Way Of The
Heart, and (Subsequently) Either Through The First Three
Practicing Stages Of The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form
Of The Way Of The Heart Or Through The Technically
“Simpler”, or Even “Simplest”, Process Of Listening,
Hearing, Would-Be-Seeing (or Progressively Seeing), and
First Actual Seeing In The Practice Of The “Lay
Congregationist” Form Of The Way Of The Heart. The Student-Beginner Of The Way Of The Heart Should Be
Freely Moved To Acknowledge and Honor My Grace-Given Person,
and Word, and Leelas, Through The Consistent Offering Of
attention (and the human Feeling-energies Of Serious
Response) To My Now and Hereafter Ever-Given Bodily (Human)
Sign, and My Recorded and Ever-Speaking Word, and My
Recorded and Ever-Living Leelas. Therefore, Even Though The
Student-Beginner Of The Way Of The Heart is (At First, and
By Tendency) Most Likely a Relatively limited (or Reactively
Patterned), Religiously Undeveloped, and Spiritually
Un-Awakened character, who is (At First, and By Tendency)
Defined By The Signs Of Failed Adaptation In The First Three
Stages Of Life, and who is (At First, and By Tendency)
limited (Through Adaptation Itself) By the ordinary purposes
(or desires) Associated With The First Three Stages Of Life,
The Fundamental Motive Of self-Transcendence and The Great
Impulse Toward Perfectly self-Transcending God-Realization
Can (and Must) Very Fully Awaken At The Heart In and By The
Profound Process Of The Beginnings Of True Listening.
(Indeed, Even Though The Student-Beginners
Listening-“Consideration” Works To Confirm The Motive Of
self-Transcendence and The Great Impulse Toward Perfectly
self-Transcending God-Realization, and To Thoroughly
Establish That Motive and That Impulse As A Real Practice,
The Motive Of self-Transcendence and The Impulse Toward
Perfectly self-Transcending God-Realization Must Necessarily
Be Already Established, As A Real Workable Commitment, Even
As A Basis For Engaging The Student-Beginners Practice
Itself. Therefore, A Preparatory Period Of Listening, or
Initial, and Actively Responsive, Feeling-attention To My
Revelation-Sign, and My Full-Given Word, and My Storied
Leelas Of Teaching and Blessing, Must Necessarily Precede
The Right Formal Engagement Of Even The Student-Beginners
Practice Of The Way Of The Heart.) In The Progressive Course Of The Formal, and Formally
Acknowledged, Practitioners First (or Student-Beginners)
Period Of Embrace Of The Beginners Devotional Relationship
To Me (Especially In My Function As The Adept Teacher Of The
Heart), and Of (Thus) Responsive “Consideration” Of My
Full-Given Word and My Storied Leelas, and Of (Thus)
Responsive (and Experimental, or Exploratory and
self-Testing) Application To The By Me Given Forms Of
functional, practical, relational, and Cultural
self-Discipline Associated (From The Beginning) With The Way
Of The Heart, and Of (Thus) Responsive (and Experimental)
Practice Of The Two Devotional Ways (Of Faith and Of
Insight) Of The One Great Way Of The Heart, The
Student-Beginner Must Eventually (and Truly) Choose To
Practice One or The Other Of The Two Devotional Ways (and
All The By Me Given Original Gifts, and Callings, and Basic
Disciplines) Of The One Great Way Of The Heart. By Means Of
This Total Course (and As A Result Of The Necessary Choice
Ultimately Made Within It), The Acquired Un-Happiness (Of
Separation and Separativeness) Relative To The Work Of
individuation (Characteristic Of The First Stage Of Life)
Should Be Significantly Released (and the activity of the
body-mind Should Thereby, or As A Demonstration Of That
Release, Become Conformed, or Responsively Directed Toward,
The Way Of Happiness Itself). Indeed, the Inherent (and
Otherwise Acquired) limits Of Even All Of The First Three
Stages Of Life Should Become (To A Significant Degree)
Obvious In That Earliest Practice (or Student-Beginner
Sadhana) Of Listening. Therefore, When The Student-Beginners Original
Heart-Motive Toward Perfectly self-Transcending
God-Realization Is, By Grace, Very Deeply Confirmed and More
(and Very) Fully Awakened (Via Truly self-Surrendering and
self-Forgetting Devotion To Me, and Via Really Effective
“Consideration” Of The Way Of The Heart, In Practice), and
When That Student-Beginners Active Feeling-Contemplation and
Responsive Devotional Acknowledgement Of My Now and
Hereafter Ever-Given Bodily Human Sign, and Also his or her
Study and Real “Consideration” Of My Word and Work, Have
Become his or her Thorough and Consistent Demonstration Of
All My Original Gifts, Callings, and Disciplines (Including
The Primary Gift, Calling, and Discipline Of
Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga), and When and If (By All Of That)
the individual Is Prepared (and Happy) To Be Made
Increasingly Effective In The Real Practice Of The Way Of
The Heart By The Ever Thereafter Continued and Magnified (or
More and More Detailed and Comprehensive) Application Of The
Total Range Of functional, practical, relational, and
Cultural Disciplines and Obligations Given By Me To
Practitioners Of The Way Of The Heart (For The Sake Of,
Ultimately, Inherent, and Inherently Perfect, and Inherently
Perfectly self-Transcending, God-Realization), Then he or
she Should Move On Either To “Lay Congregationist” Practice
Of The (Technically) “Simpler”, or Even “Simplest”, Form Of
The Way Of The Heart Or (If he or she Is Demonstrably Apt
and Capable) To The First Practicing Stage Of The
(Technically) “Fully Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The
Heart. In The First Practicing Stage Of The Technically “Fully
Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart (or, Otherwise, In
The Course Of Beginning “Lay Congregationist” Practice Of
The Way Of The Heart), The Practice Of Right Relationship To
Me (Especially In My Function As Heart-Teacher, and As The
Adept-Source Of The Ever-Speaking Word and The Storied Work)
Is To Be (Further, and Formally, Rather Than Experimentally)
Enlarged Through The Voluntary, Intentional, Intelligent,
and Consistent Application Of functional, practical,
relational, and Cultural Disciplines (Whereby the
self-Contraction Is More and More Fully and Exactly
Revealed). Therefore, During The First Practicing Stage Of
The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Course Of The Way Of The
Heart (or, Otherwise, In The Course Of Beginning “Lay
Congregationist” Practice Of The Way Of The Heart),
Progressively More Profoundly self-Surrendering,
self-Forgetting, and (Truly Effectively) self-Transcending
Feeling-Contemplation Of (Especially) My Bodily (Human) Form
Should Develop, and “Consideration” Of All My Fundamental
Teaching Arguments (Especially Relative To “Narcissus” and
Divine Ignorance) Should Become (Increasingly) Profoundly
Effective, and (In The Case Of those who Practice The
Devotional Way Of Insight) Both Random and Formal
self-Enquiry (In The Form “Avoiding Relationship?”) Should
Become Profoundly Effective, or Else (In The Case Of those
who Practice The Devotional Way Of Faith) Both Random and
Formal Sat-Guru-Naama Japa Should Become Profoundly
Effective (or, In The Case Of “Lay Congregationists” who
Practice The Technically “Simplest” Feeling-Contemplation Of
Me, With Random Invocation Of Me By Name, That Technically
“Simplest” Exercise Of The Devotional Way Of Faith Should
Become Profoundly Effective). All Of That, Including
Inspired Response To My Historical Play Of Teaching Work and
My Eternal (and Always Present) Play Of Blessing Work, and
Also Including Regular Participation In Sacramental,
Ceremonial, and Other Formal, or Informal, Occasions Of
Celebration Of Me, Serves (or Must Serve) To (More and More)
Awaken The (“Original”, and Then The “Basic”) Fourth Stage
Response. That Total Process (Culminating In The Fully Established
Awakening Of The Spiritually Activated “Basic” Fourth Stage
Response) Truly (or Most Fundamentally) Releases (or Must
Release) The Un-Happy First Stage Motive Toward Separation
and Separativeness (or The “Problem” About individual
Existence). And The Dramatization Of The Un-Happy (or egoic)
Second Stage Motive Of Rejection (By and Of others) Is Also
To Be (Most Fundamentally) Released By These Same Means.
Therefore, Before The individual Practitioner Of The
Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart
Makes The Transition To The Second Practicing Stage Of The
Way Of The Heart (or, Otherwise, Before The “Lay
Congregationist” Practitioner Of The Way Of The Heart May Be
Said To Be Demonstrating All The Necessary Effective Signs
Of True Hearing), the Basic limitations Dramatized In The
Context Of The First Three Stages Of Life Must Be Released
(or Become A Matter Of Direct Responsibility) Through Most
Fundamental self-Understanding (or True Hearing), Such That
the frontal personality Thereby Fulfills The Third Stage
Necessity Of human integration (or The Realization Of
ordinary and Basic human Balance and Wholeness). My Spirit-Baptism Awakens Signs In and Of The Middle
Station Of The Heart (or the deep psychic being) In My
Devotee. In The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Course Of The
Way Of The Heart, That Baptism Is To Occur, To Real Effect,
During The Second Practicing Stage. At That Stage (or,
Otherwise, Whenever Both The Evidence Of Truly Effective
Hearing and The Signs Of Readiness For True Seeing Awaken In
The Course Of The Technically “Simpler”, or Even “Simplest”,
“Lay Congregationist” Practice Of The Way Of The Heart), The
Spiritual Basis For The Lovelessness That Was egoically
Associated with The Second Stage Of Life Is To Be Directly
Transcended Through The Grace-Given Spiritual Conversion To
Love (or Grace-Given Conversion To The Spiritual Reality,
Which Is Love, or Love-Bliss, Itself). That Is To Say, By
True Seeing (or Fullest, and Spiritually Activated,
emotional, and Total psycho-physical, Conversion To
Love-Communion with The Living, or Spiritual, Divine), the
frontal personality Is (In The Way Of The Heart) To Be
Released From the Spiritual limitation that Diminishes Love
(or The Inherent Radiance Of Being Itself), and the Truly
Spiritual socialization (or Spiritual relationalization) of
the frontal (and Truly human) personality Through Love (or
The Infusion and Demonstration Of Inherent Love-Bliss) Is
Thereby To Be Set In Motion. The Third Practicing Stage Of The Technically “Fully
Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart Is The Most Basic
(or Fully Prepared) Technically “Elaborate” Practicing Stage
Associated With The Fully Established “Basic” Context Of The
Fourth Stage Of Life. During That Stage Of The Technically
“Elaborate” Practice (or, Otherwise, In The Context Of Truly
Both Hearing and Seeing “Lay Congregationist” Practice Of
The Way Of The Heart), the individual Is To Complete The
Work Of Growth Beyond the ordinary limits Of The First Three
Stages Of Life By Fully Integrating the frontal personality
With The By Grace Revealed Spiritual Reality. Therefore, In
The Context Of The Third Practicing Stage Of The Technically
“Fully Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart (or,
Otherwise, In The Context Of Truly Both Hearing and Seeing
“Lay Congregationist” Practice Of The Way Of The Heart), the
frontal personality Is To Be Spiritually Purified,
Spiritually Balanced, and Made Full Of Spirit-Life, Through
The Ecstatic Yoga Of (Spiritually Activated) Devotional
self-Sacrifice, In Which The Frontal Line Of the body-mind
Is (or Must Be) Spiritually Converted To Divine
Love-Communion By The Constant Exercise Of The Spiritually
Awakened Heart. The Fourth Practicing Stage Of The Technically “Fully
Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart Is The (Technically
“Elaborate”) Stage Of “Advanced” (Rather Than “Original”,
and More Simple, or Otherwise “Basic”) Practice In The
Context Of The Fourth Stage Of Life. And The Fourth
Practicing Stage Of The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form
Of The Way Of The Heart Is The (Technically “Elaborate”)
Stage Of (Potential) Transition From The (“Advanced”)
Context Of The Fourth Stage Of Life To The Fifth Stage Of
Life. The (Possible) Transition From The Third Practicing
Stage Of The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form Of The Way
Of The Heart To The Fourth Practicing Stage Of The
Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart
Is The Transition From “Elaborate” Technical Practices
Predominantly Associated With The Frontal Line and the
frontal personality To “Elaborate” Technical Practices
Predominantly Associated With The Spinal Line and
Evolutionary self-Transcendence Through Devotional Ascent.
Practice During The Fourth Practicing Stage Of The
Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart
Must Continue, In the ordinary daily circumstance, To Submit
the frontal personality To Divine Communion, but The Primary
Practice To Which My Devotees Are Called In The Fourth
Practicing Stage Of The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form
Of The Way Of The Heart Is That Of Devotional
self-Submission (In Ascent) From The Anahata Chakra (The
Middle Station Of The Heart), Which Releases The
Spirit-Current Up Into The Spinal Line and To The Ajna Door
(or Ajna Chakra). And The Fifth Stage Of Life Has Begun (or
May Begin) When Devotional Concentration, or Ascending
Feeling-Contemplation, At The Ajna Door Is Steady In daily
Meditation Practice. (And, Likewise, Practice In The Truly
Both Hearing and Seeing Context Of The “Lay Congregationist”
Form Of The Way Of The Heart May, If Necessary,
Spontaneously Demonstrate, By Grace, and In Due Course,
Advanced Signs and Processes Of The Ascending Type, In The
Context Of The “Advanced” Fourth Stage Of Life and, Perhaps,
Also The Fifth Stage Of Life, but, Even In That Case, “Lay
Congregationist” Practice Itself Must, In Its Fundamental
Details, Remain, As Also In The “Basic” Context Of The
Fourth Stage Of Life, The Technically “Simpler”, or Even
“Simplest”, One That Developed In The Full Course Of
Student-Beginner Practice In The “Original” Context Of The
Way Of The Heart.) The Transition Is Made (or May Be Made) To The Fifth
Practicing Stage Of The Technically “Fully Elaborated” Form
Of The Way Of The Heart (or, Otherwise, To “Lay
Congregationist” Practice In The Context Of The Fifth Stage
Of Life) When Devotional (and Spiritual) Concentration (In
Meditation) Is Regularly and Easily Steadied At The Ajna
Door. Likewise, Transitions To The Ultimate Practicing
Stages (or To The Sixth Practicing Stage, and Then To The
Seventh Practicing Stage) Of The Technically “Fully
Elaborated” Form Of The Way Of The Heart Are Also To Be Made
In Due Course, As I Will Describe In This Testament, (And
Practice In The Truly Hearing and Seeing Context Of The “Lay
Congregationist” Form Of The Way Of The Heart May Also, By
Grace, In Due Course, Spontaneously and Altogether Really
and Truly Demonstrate The Sixth Stage Signs and Processes,
and Then The Seventh Stage Signs and Processes, Of The
“Perfect Practice” Of The Way Of The Heart, but, Even In
That Case, “Lay Congregationist” Practice Of The Way Of The
Heart Must, Fundamentally, Remain The Technically “Simpler”,
or Even “Simplest”, One, Made Inherently Perfect, By Grace,
Through Mere, or “Simple”, or Even “Simplest”,
Feeling-Contemplative-Identification with My Very, and
Inherently Perfect, State.)
Of The Divine World Teacher
and True Heart-Master,
Da Avabhasa
(The “Bright”.)
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