First Steps—Personal and Collective Initiations For Our Times
Report Topics:
- Asking to receive and projecting out the Clear Light of the Divine ONE
- How to create your own personal space and time—the beginning formation of the Outer and Inner World Sacred Space Altars
- Sacred Objects and Affirmations to use with your Altar Tables within and without—the energy connection between the two
- Working toward being interdependent in a fair energy balance with others that will one day lead to unconditional giving
- Does the Spirit of Truth come from within you, or is it dictated to you by others?—standing your ground from your Center of Centers
Full Report:
Personal Initiations
Know that in the Spirit of ONENESS you are about to embark on a Great Journey. But all journeys must begin with the first step. And your first step must be to honor your connection with the Divine ONE, the Creator of the ALL.
Visualize now a Clear Light descending from the Heart of the Universe, from the Heart of the Divine ONE, and entering through the top of your head.
Allow the Clear Light to touch your heart, filling it and surrounding it with its Great Love and Compassion.
Sense and feel that Clear Light now filling and surrounding your entire being, on all levels of who you truly are.
Know that this Divine Light is always present. It connects your Divine aspect of Self to the Divine Reality of the rest of the Universe. It is this Light which gives you PURPOSE and EXISTENCE.
This is your Gift, given freely and unconditionally. There is nothing necessary to receive it except that you recognize it, ask for it and be open to its reception.
It needs no intercessor, no vicarious spirit or human being to offer it to you. It is your intimate, deeply personal and private link with the Divine ONE, which no one else but yourself can give to you, and which no one can ever take from you.
You and the Divine are ONE together. Only you can falsely believe yourself to be separated from it. Only you can accept it fully and forever preserve it within you.
And as it is a Gift that is given freely to you, you also have the choice of giving it freely as a gift to everything and everyone around you.
THIS IS YOUR FOUNDATIONAL ROLE AS A CREATOR YOURSELF.
The Clear Light is the primary expression of the Divine in the act of Creation, offering CLARITY of PURPOSE and EXISTENCE, the REASON for the way things Are and Are Becoming.
And yet the Divine ONE can only express this Clarity through you, through your active participation in the Process of Creation.
Offer now the Clear Light of the Divine Presence from your heart to where you are at this moment, to everything and everyone around you.
As it was given freely to you, offer it freely in silence to all that surrounds you. As it continually flows into you, allow it to flow continually out from your heart. Know that in this Giving is the KEY to Receiving the Wisdom of the Ages in ONENESS.
HERE IS THE FIRST KEY TO OPENING THE MYSTERIES INTO REVELATION.
Every time when you continually ask for and accept the Divine Clear Light into your heart, and every time you freely give it as a gift to all around you, your very soul swiftly travels upward into the connecting beam, and your consciousness touches into the Source itself, the Divine ONE.
Making your Divine connection and sharing it is like plunging heart-first into a vast Ocean of Clear Light. You are instantly overwhelmed by a tremendous upwelling of pure and boundless Love that is indescribable and unknowable to anyone who has not experienced it for themselves. It is like feeling the fullness of Eternity all in one moment.
You will have the urge to try in your own small way to return part of that Love back to the Divine ONE, as your humble expression of deep gratitude and thanksgiving for your existence and your awareness of existence.
Further, as you also feel the urge to give the Divine Love you have received to everything and everyone around you, it will be like getting good news and the joy you feel when you share it wherever you go. The more you consciously give, the greater will the feeling of Love from the Divine ONE grow within you.
WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN IN LOVE FROM THE DIVINE HEART YOU SHALL NOW BOTH RECEIVE AND GIVE FROM YOUR HEART FOREVER MORE.
THIS IS THE FLOW OF LOVE WHICH MAINTAINS ALL THE UNIVERSES AND OPENS ALL TO EVER-UNFOLDING WISDOM IN ONENESS.
Find a special place you can designate as your own private personal space, one that is quiet and where you cannot be disturbed, interrupted or distracted.
Fill your space with a comfortable chair, a good light source and a table. Eventually you will be using this table for making notes in a journal, and as an altar for arranging empowered objects in specific geometric configurations.
Set aside time on a regular basis when you can be in this space, to be utilized for prayer, meditation and visualization.
This shall now become your Outer World Sacred Space in contemplating ONENESS.
Each time you sit down, first close your eyes and go deep within yourself. Visualize a vast Domed Hallway inside an Emerald Pyramid.
You are now within the Temple of ONE All Wisdom, which exists at your Center of Centers in your Deepest Point, and which also exists at the Center Deepest Point of each and every Spiritual Being in the Universe.
The walls of the Domed Hallway or Rotunda arch upward, meeting above in the Diamond Apex of the Emerald Pyramid, glowing in a Crystal Blue White Light.
Immediately below the Diamond Apex, hanging suspended high inside the Dome, is a magnificent Sphere of the Sacred New Earth, Omegaia, with its oceans, continents and clouds, surrounded in an Aura of Pink Crimson Light.
Before you, in the center of the Hallway floor and directly below the Earth Sphere and Diamond Apex, is a Table and Chair that shimmer in Rainbow Light. On the Table in its very center is a magnificent Candlestick and Candle shining with brilliant Clear Light.
What you see here is a Gift from the Divine ONE. The Candlestick and Candle symbolize the Divine Clear Light that now illuminates your Inner World for an eternity. It can never be extinguished, only added to as your capacity to receive it increases in time.
In your Outer World, in the center of your physical Altar-Table, place a corresponding candle-holder and candle, and light it every time you come into your Quiet Space.
Your physical candle is a DOORWAY that allows the Clear Light from the Candle in your Inner World to shine forth to Illuminate your meditations and your daily life in general.
LET YOUR INNER LIGHT SHINE FORTH.
By this simple act of visualization, you have made your connection between the Inner and Outer Worlds, empowering your prayer-meditations by aligning your Highest Consciousness with the Greatest of All Wisdom Source Energies—those of the Divine ONE, the Earth Mother and the Cosmos.
Once you have finished, give yourself some additional time to sit back and contemplate all the implications of what you have just been shown in your meditation-visualizations. What new aspects of ONENESS have been revealed to you?
Close your eyes once again and ask the Many Aspects of Yourself and the Many Aspects of the Universe for additional insights about your experience, particularly as they apply to you personally in your quest for ONENESS.
In future Initiations, during your meditation focus times you will be introduced to specific Revealing Essences who are your Inner Teachers of ONENESS. They will offer you further guidance of their own that will expand on what is being presented to you as part of your ever-expanding Learning and Re-Awakening.
When you sit before your Physical World Altar-Table and light the candle on it before you begin your meditations, offer these words in the form of an Affirmation, which identifies your Intent and Purpose in ONENESS.
In balanced exchange and thanksgiving for what I am about to receive as a Gift from the Divine ONE and the Universe, I offer these Gifts from within me—
From my Body the Energy of Strength.
From my Heart the Energy of Love.
From my Mind the Energy of Intellect.
From my Soul the Energy of Compassion.
From my Spirit the Energy of Manifestation.
To be Fully Receptive for what I am about to receive, I now Prepare myself in all its aspects—
I open my Body to its inherent Stamina and Courage that are needed in the Ever-Expanding Pursuit of Knowledge and Wisdom in ONENESS.
I open my Emotions to the Desire to Learn, and to the Joy of Discovery in ONENESS.
I open my Mind to its Curiosity and its constant Thirst for Comprehending and Understanding the Unknown in ONENESS.
I open my Soul to its Powers of Experience and Creativity in ONENESS.
I open my Spirit to the Divine ONE and to the Fulfillment of All That Can BE, and is the Best Possible Imagined in ONENESS.
I am a Keeper in ONENESS. I am an Initiator in ONENESS. I am a Meta-Creator in ONENESS. I am a Builder in ONENESS.
It is Good. It is Done. So It Shall Be in Eternal Cycles of Being and Becoming.
PEACE TOWARD INFINITE COMPLETION IN ONENESS.
When you envision yourself sitting at the Inner World Table of Rainbow Light and contemplate the Clear Light Flame burning in the Sacred Candlestick, and you realize that your personal connection through the beam of Clear Light with the Divine ONE is forever firmly established, you may feel from deep within you the desire to compose a second simple Affirmation of your thankfulness:
Divine ONE,
I am rich beyond comprehension with the vast treasures you have bestowed upon me.
You are the Bottomless Well of my Love, my Empathy, my Compassion, my Agapé.
You are the Endless Stream of my Empowerment, my Courage, my Strength, my Will of Purpose.
You are the Eternal Fountain of my Well-Being, my Healing, my Regeneration, my Rejuvenation.
You are the Ever-flowing River of my Creativity, my Vision, my Imagination, my Artistry.
You are the Boundless Ocean of my Learning and Experiencing, my Knowledge, my Wisdom, my Illumination.
You are the Infinite Universe of my Beingness, the most Profound and Truest Inspiration of my Mind, my Heart, my Soul and my Spirit.
In these myriad of ways I overflow with your Presence in my Life.
THANK YOU. It is Good. It is Done. So It Now is Forevermore.
PEACE IN DIVINE CONNECTION.
Always be aware that the Spark of the Divine ONE continually exists within you, and that it is permanently connected to the Spark of the Divine ONE at the Heart of the Universe, and at the spiritual core of every human individual. If this was not so, you would not be alive, awake and aware of your own existence.
Even if you were ignorant of it or chose to ignore its being within you, your Divine Essence is still there, ever-present.
What makes you stronger spiritually as well as gives you the power of becoming a co-creator with the Divine ONE is your ability, if you choose, to daily acknowledge and honor your Divine connection by visualizing yourself filled, surrounded and protected by the Divine Clear Light.
From the moment you wake up in the morning to the moment you fall asleep, and even in your dream state, see and feel yourself in the presence of the Divine Clear Light.
When you share the Clear Light given to you by the Divine ONE with everything and everyone around you, do this in silence, offering it as a gift with no thought of receiving anything in return, as an act of unconditional love.
By such a gift you are exercising both spiritual self transformation within yourself and spiritual collective transformation for humanity, for the planet and even for the Cosmos itself.
HERE IS THE BASIS FOR ALL OTHER FORMS OF GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT IN ONENESS.
IF A SPIRITUAL SOURCE OF LOVE AND CREATIVITY DOES NOT FIRST EXIST AND PROSPER WITHIN YOU, IT IS NOT YOURS TO SHARE ON ANY LEVEL OF INTER-RELATIONSHIP WITH ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL, WITH OTHER LIVING THINGS OR WITH THE EARTH OR THE UNIVERSE.
Collective Initiations
One of the many possible challenges a good number of people shall be personally facing in the beginning decades of the twenty-first century will be in dealing with physical needs. The Earth changes, whether tranquil or violent, on both the planetary and human levels will cause many to re-evaluate how they will function in everyday life in order to survive.
Part of your Initiation through these times will be in how well you are willing to readjust to constantly changing situations around you.
The key will be to remain centered within your own Inner and Outer Sacred Spaces, to be calm, and offer the energies of peace and prosperity from your heart to all the world. This will be to neutralize the growing fear and want that will grip many other peoples’ lives in the coming years ahead.
What you will be called upon to do is to help those around you to realize they can no longer rely on large institutions, or governments, or agencies, or economic systems, or religious organizations to solve their problems. You must now become fully responsible for yourselves, and start being self-reliant for fulfilling your needs.
It will not be a question any more of fighting or competing against others for what you think you do not have and ending up with nothing. Instead, it will be necessary to take stock of what you have already and work positively with others in your immediate surroundings to create your own safe and plentiful environment.
Avoid selfishly accumulating beyond your needs, for this creates lack. Share with others in an equal exchange, recognizing that the services people have to offer are often far more valuable than the things they have.
Flexibility, creativity, vision, cooperation, helping others as they help you, fairness in exchanging talents and goods, staying at peace within, honoring each other for who you each truly are—these shall be the critical actions you can all partake in for the near future.
Remember this: When a storm passes through an area, the trees which stand alone are usually the ones that are uprooted. But the trees which stand together and give each other protection and support, brave the harsh weather far better. They are left firm and steadfast when the new dawn finally comes.
On a very basic level, your coming challenge for the near future is in how much you are willing to change your response to new situations, as they confront you in the everyday world.
Ideally it should be for each individual to give unconditionally of themselves, to offer their energies, their Vision, their thought forms, their labor, and their active physical efforts to every living thing which is in need, with no thought of return whatsoever.
However, you must realize that you do not as yet live in an ideal world. Among the Nature Kingdoms, all beings have learned to freely give unthinkingly to each other, which is what maintains life within the planet. In the Human Kingdom too, the day will come when all peoples will become as One, and being superconscious, will instantaneously respond unconditionally to everyone else, as an innate expression of their Higher Selves speaking and acting through them.
But in this present reality, in your world as it exists at the moment, there are many individuals surrounding you who have cut themselves off from their Higher Selves, who respond only as ego-centered, self-ingratiating entities, whose major purpose and drive is to take everything they can with no inkling of what it means to give back in return. To offer all that you have unconditionally to such people is totally exhaustive, even suicidal. If given the opportunity, these beings would drain you completely and leave you with nothing.
In your Inner World inside of you, acting Higher Selves to Higher Selves, you shall be able to fulfill your life purpose of giving unconditionally. But in the physical Outer World, as long as greed and fear reign in the affairs of humans, you must resort to another framework for dealing with everyday situations.
If you look again at Nature, both as it exists on the Earth and in the Cosmos, you will see that a corollary principle to unconditional love is the equal exchange of energies throughout the Universe. The Nature Kingdoms do not think concerning this, for in giving unconditionally they automatically give equally, in balanced exchange with every other being who is giving unconditionally.
Humanity too once exercised this principle without pre-thought, but has since lost the consciousness—the connection to its Collective Higher Consciousness—to perceive its paramount importance.
The prophecy is this: Humanity shall again remember and act accordingly, once more, someday soon.
In the meantime, in dealing with ego-centered individuals in your physical reality, it is essential to establish beforehand what shall be considered by both parties to be in fair exchange, and allow that exchange to take place in harmony and peace. Focus not on the value of things, but on the value of what people have to offer of themselves, of their actions and their willingness and love for serving others. For herein lies the seed for unconditional giving, as it may yet be allowed to blossom forth.
In time, where fairness of exchange is in continuous balanced exercise, and among those who offer what they have with increased pleasure and fulfillment, then it shall be among these that unconditional giving will come into being, as a new way of life. Ego, greed and fear will become obsolete as more and more people see and feel the positive effects of simple giving. And as all shall give, all shall support all, in plenty and prosperity.
Now is the time to cultivate good fair exchange relationships with individuals you can trust, and who deserve your respect, honor and love. As you can surround yourselves with such people, and nurture mutual sharing in exchange with them, you will not suffer want in the years ahead.
And when those who are the perpetual takers of this world have exhausted themselves and each other, they shall be either changed and transformed, or swept away by the Earth as an evolutionary dead-end, a form of mutated life that can no longer co-exist within the all-encompassing Oneness of Being, the newly birthed Planetary Harmony and Cooperation.
Fair exchange leading to unconditional giving shall triumph in the end, for they are the principles upon which the rest of the Universe functions to begin with. All you shall be doing is simply returning to the flow which already exists. Only now you will be conscious of it on a far greater level of comprehension, as you think and act Higher Selves to Higher Selves.
Having lived without it, and knowing and feeling the consequences, you shall all that much more appreciate and exercise it in the Sacred New Earth now dawning.
Another great challenge facing you in the future is in determining what in your life has priority. Where should your focus be? As the concerns for everyday living and survival will be steadily increasing, there shall be the growing temptation to concentrate solely on these, and to become lax in developing your connectedness with other realities beyond your physical world.
There will even be the question raised, which is the more real? Is your Inner World only a fantasy of your imagination, and the Outer World your only real source of truth?
Be absolutely certain of this. It is your Inner World, as it is linked with the ONE Spirit of the Universe, that is the only Reality. Everything else in your Outer World is constantly changing, dying and being reborn. Everything is in flux.
Focus upon this physical realm for how you may live and prosper, moment by moment. But your major concentration should be upon maintaining and strengthening your direct line of communication with the Divine ONE you possess at your very Center Within you, in your Inner World. Here is the source of your strength, your hope, your calmness, your consistency and your true freedom.
Know that as systems of authority are dying and are being swept away, powerful and aggressive forces are amassing within your modern society—within fundamentalist religions, conservative educational establishments, governments and political institutions, as well as from outdated social and cultural pressure groups attempting to survive—that shall either deny each individual’s connectedness within themselves, or will seek to control that inner connectedness for their own ends.
You may be told that your Inner World either does not exist, or that it is dangerous, that you cannot make your own personal spiritual linkage with the Divine ONE. You are to give up your free will and let someone else do it for you. You will be asked not to think, not to feel, not to trust anything which may come through from your Inner World as spiritual guidance.
Instead, you are to only follow someone else’s interpretations of the spirit as it is dictated to you, without question.
You may be ridiculed, vilified, even harmed physically for your beliefs and principles of being. Hold firm, and let your communications remain steadfastly open to your Inner World. For against this one Truth nothing else can prevail. The Divine in you, as ONE with the Divine in the All surrounding you, is the only One Reality of Realities. Everything else that presents only the façade of truth shall melt away before it, for everything else that contains no Spirit is but illusion and delusion that is without true Light of ONENESS.
What is needed most in the world today is a true and honest, complete and total, deep-to-the-core spiritual Transformation within each and every human individual.
By spiritual Transformation we mean a return to religion. This is not religion in the traditional sense, but rather as it was meant in the original Latin—to “reconnect.” You must learn again to reconnect with each other, with all life, with the Earth, and even with the whole of the Universe.
To reconnect is to recognize, honor and respect the sacredness of all things. You are only a part of other parts that all have their place within the greater whole. It is not a question of your ruling over anything, or anything ruling over you. It is developing a special sensitivity, a soul-centered empathy whereby you communicate and cooperate with everything, to find and exercise fully your balance and harmony within the all.
It is important, first, to honor your own sacredness. You have been created in the image of the ONE Creator of the Universe. Therefore you are already children of the Creator. The Spark of the Creator dwells at the very center of your being. Therefore you are already directly connected with the Spark of the Creator at the center of the Universe, and the same Spark as it exists at the center of everyone and everything else around you.
All that you are to do now is simply re-awaken to these connections, further nurture your intimate relationship with the ONE Creator, allow its Spirit to more completely manifest within your life, and work to more fully perfect yourself as a child of the ONE Spirit.
This is where true sacredness begins. For in doing these things, you empower yourself with the Creator’s Love, you empower the Earth with that Love, and you empower everything and everyone around you with that Love.
Through this action you are playing a major role in bringing a new creation into existence—a New Earth, a New Humanity and a New Cosmos. More than honoring the sacredness of others, you exude and infuse the Spirit of sacredness into everything you come in contact with and touch.
If all the problems of the world begin with you, then so do all the solutions. And the primary solution is to take responsibility for your own spiritual Transformation. If you can re-awaken to the Spirit of the Creator within you, then that Spirit can move through you into all the world. You become a true Meta-Creator yourself of the present moment, of the Universe of your own making, as the Love of the Creator flows outward to bring New Creation into being.
In this way your individual spiritual Transformation becomes the source for the Transformation of the world, and even the Cosmos.
It is only a matter of believing this, and living it to its fullest. The choice always begins with you.
The Age of Aries was one of Gurus and Masters, those who dictated their Truths to others, who took on the responsibility of others’ spiritual growth.
The Age of Pisces was the time of Priests and Ministers, who served as vicarious representatives, through whom spiritual Truth could be attained by their examples.
These Ages are now past. The message for the Age of Aquarius is that spiritual Truth can be obtained by each and every individual who opens up their own Inner Sacredness, allowing the Divine ONE to speak within themselves.
The true Teachers of Aquarius are neither spiritual rulers nor representatives. Instead, their work is to simply share techniques of how each person may find their own Divine Connection within themselves, and then let them grow on their own. The Aquarian way is to PLANT SEEDS, THEN ALLOW THE SEEDS TO BLOSSOM.
For those who are Seekers, take caution of those Teachers who would endeavor to tell you what Truth is, or who point to themselves as the only medium through which Spirit may enter and be shared. In these modern days, with so much deception in the world, dependency upon someone else for your spiritual growth can lead to spiritual death.
The Key Word is DISCERNMENT.
You will know a True Teacher by their Fruits.
Is the Focus of their Message on Spirit or on themselves?
Are they the exclusive medium of Truth, or do they encourage you to learn for yourself?
Are you urged to give up who you are and what you have for their sake, or is their Message one of Transforming your own Self into Something New?
Is the Focus of the Teacher on following the Words of their Message, or what the Message has to offer, that you can apply by your own Choice?
What Substance does the Message have? Is it simply words of encouragement, or does it offer Practical Tools for Self Transformation?
Are you being urged by the Teacher to accept their Message as being Truth without question, or are you asked to Test the Message within your own Inner Truth Center?
Is the Message totally “otherworldly,” or can the Message be Confirmed by some form of Evidence or Wisdom from the Physical World?
Be advised that there are many spirits running rampant in the world, who are testing each and every one of you, to see if you will remain true to the Spirit of the Divine ONE that shines within you, in your Center of Centers, your Holy of Holies inside you. This is why it is so important to maintain your Inner Divine Connection.
This is the dawning of the Cycle of Renewal, when it shall be wise to learn from as many True Teachers as possible. But then you must take what is learned, test it and apply what you learn and grow for yourself, without any attachments or dependencies on others.
And, as always, Seek out the Divine ONE as your one and only Source of Truth. Whatever Teacher or Message is presented to you, take it inside of you, to your Inner Sacred Space, and place it within the Clear Light of the Divine ONE who dwells there. If it does not GLOW in that Light, then there is no Truth in it.
[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]




