Moral Strength – The Power of Being Willfully Directed
Strength is a virtue that’s employed as the means for subduing and bringing your lower, instinctual nature under your control so it can be utilized as a vehicle for higher forms of self-expression. It’s the moral strength and discipline you exercise by using your ‘will’ to control your own...
Self-Empowerment – The Relationship Between Choice, Will, and Creation
This idea can seem confusing in terms of being able to actually employ it at the practical level because it involves different functions of different aspects of our own mind working in harmony with each other to produce the same outcome as an experience of reality. We have to...
“11” – Universal Justice, the Law of Cause and Effect, and the Nature of Karma
In occult sciences the number 11 represents the principle of universal justice as the equilibrium of complementary opposites to establish balance and harmony. It’s symbolic of what’s commonly called karma as the absolute law of cause and consequence, also referred to traditionally as the golden rule. Its purpose is...
Developing a Moral Code of Conduct as the Practical Application of Universal Law in Order to Regulate Yourself
One of the most profound practices that have been largely abandoned in our modern era is the practice of developing a moral code of conduct as standards that we hold ourselves to as the means for governing ourselves through all kinds of situations. While many have been taught to...
What is Consciousness?
Like all words that represent ideas and concepts, the term consciousness can mean something different to each person using it, and based on the context in which they’re using it. One of the most fundamental ways that we miscommunicate without even realizing that’s what we’re doing, is by assuming...