Spiritual Character Building: Love
Divine love is more than just a fleeting emotional feeling or romantic inclination. It's a deep, abiding commitment rooted in Divine character, emphasizing action, sacrifice, and loyalty.
Spiritual Love is unconditional; this selfless, sacrificial love is given freely without expecting anything in return.
Spiritual Character Building: Brotherly Affection
Brotherly affection, often referred to as "brotherly love", is a deep, familial love and affection that should exist among those who are of the family of the Divine.
It is feeling such a love and respect for others that one considers almost everyone a "part of the family." It's a reflection of Divine love and is characterized by compassion, care, and mutual support, mirroring the natural bond between siblings.
Spiritual Character Building: Godliness
Godliness refers to a life that is pleasing to God, to the Divine.
The Divine has standards characterized by a commitment to living according to divine wisdom and with reverence. It involves both an inward devotion and an outward expression of that devotion through righteous behavior.
Essentially, godliness is about being like the divine in thoughts, feelings, desires, and actions; a mighty tall order for mere humans.
Spiritual Character Building: Endurance
Spiritual self-endurance, often discussed alongside perseverance and patience, refers to the ability to withstand trials, hardships, and temptations while maintaining faith and integrity.
It's about remaining steadfast in one's commitment to the divine and divine teachings through difficult circumstances. Spiritual endurance is not merely enduring hardship.
Spiritual Character Building: Self-control
Self-control, or temperance –the quality of moderation or self-restraint – is defined as the ability to restrain one's desires and impulses, mastering one's actions, thoughts, and emotions, especially in the face of temptation.
This characteristic helps spiritually faithful to resist temptation and avoid harmful behaviors. It involves making conscious choices to align one's behavior with the divine's character. It extends to thoughts, feelings, and internal states.
A Co-Creative Partnership Between Science and Nature
Have
you ever wondered what allows us/humanity to come alive?
What if.... all the answers we could ever want were right here within our awareness? How might this be possible?
As I desired to know more.... I have been guided to understand and interact with the “unseen” world. First.... through metaphysical books and spiritual authors/teachers and then through studies of mediumship (communicating between the seen and unseen worlds). I have discovered through personal experience that there are many things that are not visible to our human eyes.
Spiritual Character Building: Knowledge
In a spiritual context, "knowledge" encompasses more than just factual information. It signifies a deep, experiential understanding of the divine, the divine's character, and the divine's guidance, often involving a personal relationship and adherence to that guidance.
It's not merely conscious awareness, but also an experiential spiritual application of truth in daily life. This knowledge is often gained through personal experiences, meditation and prayer, and studying wisdom literature, history and scripture. It involves discernment, perception, and the ability to apply truth to life situations. For instance, knowing that a tomato is a fruit is knowledge, but wisdom dictates not putting it in a fruit salad. True knowledge involves understanding what to do with information.
A Dawning of New Living Potentials
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It has now begun.... the sun is rising and revealing itself more and more.... the tides are turning and humanity is riding the waves and currents with ease; steadfast, strong, and confident in bringing forth the best of who we are. Releasing the past and keeping the memories as signposts and flags of remembrance as to where we have been as well as guidance for a brighter future.
We are learning the vastness of who we are and the value of our life experiences. Resolving past conflicts with ourselves and with others is near and in our awareness now.... as we now can “see” the outer world scenarios that reflect our own inner turmoil.
What now? As we look around.... listen carefully.... and become aware of a deeper realm within us that calls us to forgive ourselves and others, decide a new direction, and choose methods, concepts, and skills that promote and perpetuate a healthy foundation built on Integrity, Truth, and Divine Love.
Spiritual Character Building: Goodness
Spiritual goodness signifies a moral quality of being virtuous, righteous, and benevolent, aligning with divine guidance and reflecting divine nature. It encompasses actions, intentions, and character that are considered praiseworthy and beneficial to others. Goodness is also seen as a fruit of the Spirit. It is a characteristic that spiritual believers are called to cultivate and exhibit in their lives as one would cultivate other fruits.
Goodness is a core attribute of the divine, reflecting a character of love, kindness, and generosity. But spiritual goodness goes beyond simply feel good emotions or presenting an image of goodness to the world; it involves actively choosing and doing what is right, both in terms of behavior and character.
Spiritual Character Building: Faith
Using AI, the following spiritual definitions and characteristics are explained and expounded for your consideration.
All eight characteristics will be shared over the coming weeks and will be linked together for your reference.
An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East
The term "Great Master" typically refers to someone who has achieved exceptional skill or mastery in a particular field, especially in the arts or spiritual pursuits. It can also denote a revered figure, like a spiritual teacher, or to a work of art considered to be a masterpiece.
Understanding Your Energetic Self
Characteristics ~ Emotions / Behaviors ~ Beliefs ~ Energy
The following information will assist you in becoming familiar with each chakra system according to their functions, emotions and behavior patterns. Taking time to contemplate the questions associated with each chakra will enhance your connections, communications, and relationships in all areas of your life.
Rabbit Trails of Light, Part 2
A diagram at the end may help to pull it all together.
So lets start at the beginning. Many are familiar that Genesis 1:1 says, in part, "In the beginning, God...." From this viewpoint God existed before ANY of the universe existed.
Science is currently somewhat in favor of the "Big Bang Theory" which holds that the universe as we know it, ALL of its energy and matter, was compressed into a single point of energy; a singularity.
Genesis 1:1 concludes that from this single point of energy was brought forth into existence everything that is. God is in that single point of energy and everything that is came forth from this single dimensional point of energy.
Therefore, as we begin this investigation of A Tree of Life, at the very top of the tree, or even above the top of the tree shedding light onto it, is the first principle:
A Sailing Ship Analogy
Referenced by many as the Divine, this “Shining” from the heavens (what the word divine references) is everywhere all at once, all the time, kind of like the atmosphere around our planet.
Each of us reading this is a “co-creator” with the divine and may utilize these energetic, animating, moving forces. Like a sailing ship, we may use these forces to “sail” us through the life that we have chosen.
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Rabbit Trails of Light
Have you ever awakened with a dream that seemed to make so many things clear to you? I had one about a year ago and I managed to get it written down before it faded away.
Let me see if we can hop down this rabbit trail of light before it gets too tangled in the bushes. I’ll list these as bullet points with a brief explanation. Our SOW article Photons, Light and God/Source/Energy is also a good summary of a lot of this information.
Photons, Light and God/Source/Energy
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Calculations enabled scientists to compute this image of a photon from this article: https://www.sci.news/physics/photon-shape-13438.html
The article below is an excerpt of a letter to the editor by David James Lindeman of Nevada, and published in The Epoch Times, Southern Edition; April 23-29, 2025, Page A20, reproduced here for fair-use educational purposes.
This is in support of your article Your Body Creates and Eats Light, by Sina McCullough, that ran in the April 2-8, edition. The article discusses photons in our bodies. I am a photon freak, so here's the theory.
A photon is a magnetic field. It measures zero in each of the three dimensions of space. It has no mass. Since it is traveling at the speed of light, it experiences no time. Despite its name, a photon is not a little lightbulb.
Photons are always flying around us, within us, and through the air, such as radio waves. We only perceived photos when they fly into our eye at a frequency of 400 trillion to 800 trillion per second. This is the visible light spectrum. If we could detect other photon and magnetic fields, we would be vastly overwhelmed.
Everything in existence is entirely made of photons. Every element in the periodic table is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons, which are each entirely made of photons. Since photons are magnetic fields, they have a positive charge and a negative charge. There were only three choices of charged particles possible: positive, negative or neutral. Thus, the proton, electron and neutron
Happy Beltane!
Today, May 1st, is Beltane. Happy Beltane!
Beltane celebrates the transition between Spring and Summer. As the beginning of the Summer months Beltane is one of the four major ancient Gaelic seasonal festivals, alongside Samhain (marking the start of winter), Imbolc (welcoming spring) and Lughnasadh (honoring the harvest season).
Beltane also sometimes goes by the name May Day. Beltane is often associated with the Celtic god Bel; the word Beltane literally means fire of Bel. Beltane rituals include bonfires, often with cattle being driven between them for purification and protection, and dancing around or leaping over the flames.
RANDOM QUOTES: The Body, the Mind, and Learning
“The mind, however, can bring its illumination to the body by recognizing that it is not the learner, and is therefore unamenable to learning. The body is, however, easily brought into alignment with a mind that has learned to look beyond it toward the light.”
A Course in Miracles, T-2.V.6.
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