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 Laws
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...
Morality & Higher Planes of Consciousness – How We Receive Higher Knowledge
The spiritual perspective of personal growth and development is based on intelligence and morality, rather than physical accomplishments and worldly achievements. Naturally, many who live out of a separatist mentality have an attitude of separating the intellect (mind) and feeling (heart), usually posing them against each other as one...
What is Consciousness?
Consciousness is still one of the most mysterious and elusive ideas in both the scientific and philosophical communities, because it’s not a single idea that can be described using basic terminology. Like all words that represent ideas and concepts, the term “consciousness” can mean something different to each person...
Moral Fiber and the Nature of Corruption
In order for a system to self determine by setting standards of operation based on ethics, morals and values, they must be followed and upheld at all times in order to maintain the integrity of the system. If we allow or tolerate less, then the system’s integrity is compromised...