Sunday, December 30, 2018

12/31/2018

Date: 12/31/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 8

Salutation:
....morning: 07:19
....afternoon: 12:00
....evening: 16:53

Meditation: mindfulness
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Saturday, December 29, 2018

12/30/2018

Date: 12/30/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:21
....afternoon: 12:06
....evening: 16:50
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 12:45
....duration: 45 minutes
....results: lots of small physical pains. Haven't been to the chiropractor in about three weeks.
Meditation: (7) That when all the pre-existent Souls who have been incarnated here have arrived at
perfection, the Evil Angels are also to be raised, and all lives will be merged into The
Deity by the Kiss of Love from the Mouth of the Holy One, and the Manifest Universe
shall be no more, until again vivified by the Divine FIAT.
....time: 13:55
....duration: 10 minutes
....results:
Are there a finite number of souls created at one time?
It was said in a previous statement that perfected souls are absorbed into Deity.
This means the souls "die" and are not truly immortal. I would think that what dies must have been born. I'm assuming here that "merged into The Deity" indicates dissolution.
Again, as in a previous lesson, does the animus mundi (soul of the cosmos) die?
Cosmologically, this is an important question.
I suspect that if the cosmic soul "dies", it would die at the end of time itself.
It's odd for me to conceive of the "end of time".
My assumption here is that there is a level of cosmology where time does not exist. I would call this Eternity. The Platonic realm of the Mind and Forms. The roots of Deity exist within this eternity. Neoplatonically, one could conceive of souls being re-absorbed into the cosmic soul and perhaps others being born. It would be VERY odd to say that time would end. There are two levels of the temporal universe in Neoplatonism. First there is a temporal realm without space. Then there is physical reality. Perhaps there is a realm between them called nature. Souls are rooted within this upper temporal, non-spacial realm. Their various layers of vehicles or sheathes allow them to experience natural/spacial reality. It's much easier for me to conceive of the spatial universe ending and being reborn than it is for me to conceive of the temporal, non-spatial realm to come to an end.

What is "evil"?
For me, evil is a deliberate turning away from the Source and demands that its own individuality take priority over others. This is usually accompanied by a declaration that there is no underlying Unity/Deity/Ground-of-Being. If the existence of Deity is acknowledged then it is thought of as being completely ontologically separate.
Are "Evil Angels" really evil or are the fulfilling a cosmic, evolutionary function by providing temptation to us so we can grow beyond it. Muscles don't grow without weights to work against.

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Friday, December 28, 2018

12/29/2018

Date: 12/29/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:20
....afternoon: 12:25
....evening:
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: (7) That when all the pre-existent Souls who have been incarnated here have arrived at
perfection, the Evil Angels are also to be raised, and all lives will be merged into The
Deity by the Kiss of Love from the Mouth of the Holy One, and the Manifest Universe
shall be no more, until again vivified by the Divine FIAT.
....time: 13:15
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: "Salvation is inevitable"
When the manifest universe ends, is it then created again?
Does Deity "breathe" the universe into existence on Its in-breath and does it end on It's out-breathe?
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12/28/2018

Date: 12/28/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7

Salutation:
....morning: 07:17
....afternoon: 12:05
....evening: 17:50

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 10:00
....duration: 45 minutes
....results:

Meditation: (6) That one human life is seldom sufficient; that two earth lives are necessary for almost all to pass; and that if failure result in the second life, a third life is passed linked to a stronger soul who draws the sinner upward into purity: this a form of the scheme of Reincarnation, Transmigration of souls, or Metempsychosis.
....time: 17:40
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: Spirals within spirals, cycles within cycles. Does the animus mundi (soul of the world) die and reincarnate?

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Wednesday, December 26, 2018

12/27/2018

Date: 12/27/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:19
....afternoon: 12:01
....evening: 17:05
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 20:45
....duration: 45 minutes 
....results:
Meditation: (6) That one human life is seldom sufficient; that two earth lives are necessary for almost
all to pass; and that if failure result in the second life, a third life is passed linked to a
stronger soul who draws the sinner upward into purity: this a form of the scheme of
Reincarnation, Transmigration of souls, or Metempsychosis.
....time:17:30
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: I find myself in complete agreement with the concept of reincarnation. The concept of being linked with a stronger soul is new to me and interesting. For some reason, I find the idea of it taking only two or three lives repugnant. My feeling is that I've been going for dozens of lives at least. Even if I disagree, why would I find the idea so a soul only getting a couple of lives so negative. Perhaps because I feel like I still am so very far from "getting it right".
Daily-life: Still on xmas holiday. Today was Nettie's birthday. I went to visit her at her sister's today.
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune
Other:

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

12/26/2018

Date: 12/26/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:20...
....afternoon: 12:00
....evening: 16:50
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 17:30
....duration: 45 minutes 
....results:
Meditation: (5) That every soul after earth life or lives must at length be so purified as to be re-
absorbed into the Infinite God.
....time: 12:03pm
....duration: 10 minutes
....results:
Everything within time....cycles within cycles....spirals within spirals....
"We all come from the Goddess....and to Her we all return, like a drop of rain.....flowing to the ocean."
I need to understand where, in the system of the four Qabalistic worlds, time comes into existence. What is eternal and hence unchanging?

Daily-life: On xmas break this week.
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" - Dion Fortune
Other:

12/25/2018

Date: 12/25/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7

Salutation:
....morning: 07:20
....afternoon: 12:45
....evening:

Meditation: mindfulness
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Monday, December 24, 2018

12/24/2018

Date: 12/24/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:19
....afternoon: 12:05
....evening: 16:50
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 12:10
....duration: 45 minutes
....results: Could it be that the people with which we have significant relationships are like our incarnational "class mates"?
Meditation: (5) That every soul after earth life or lives must at length be so purified as to be re-
absorbed into the Infinite God.
....time: 16:21
....duration: 10 minutes
....results:
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Sunday, December 23, 2018

12/23/2018

Date: 12/23/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:19
....afternoon: 12:01
....evening:
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 09:00?
....duration: 45 minutes
....results:
Meditation: (4) That human souls before incarnation dwell now in an Upper Hall or Treasury, where the decision is made as to what earth body each soul or ego shall
....time: 10:37
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: What criteria is used to determine into what kind of body/personality the soul will incarnate? Let's assume it is to equilibrate or purify something. What is this something? It shouldn't be the personality as that is not trans-incarnational. It must be part of the soul. Can we assume that the current nature of the soul determines the quality (strengths and weaknesses) of the personality during incarnation? Is the purpose of this process to produce a more perfect personality and if so, to what purpose? Or is it only to produce a more perfect soul?
Daily-life: Lazy holiday vacation spent at home. I always struggle with the ability to sacrifice immediate comfort and gratification, on a daily basis, to perform the work. Oh, Mighty Saturn, whose governance is discipline, help me to persevere into this work on a daily basis. Help me to devote myself to you and this work.
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune.
Other:

Saturday, December 22, 2018

12/22/2018

Date: 12/22/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:13
....afternoon: 12:12
....evening:
Meditation: mindfulness
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Friday, December 21, 2018

12/21/2018

Date: 12/21/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:15
....afternoon: 12:00
....evening: 16:50
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 23:15
....duration: 45 minutes
....results:
Meditation: (4) That human souls before incarnation dwell now in an Upper Hall or Treasury, where the decision is made as to what earth body each soul or ego shall enter.
....time: 24:12
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: I don't have to take my defects so personally. This personality and body and circumstances were chosen so I could learn something. I just need to learn how to focus on the karmic lessons and not on my fear of how inadequate I am.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

12/20/2018

Date: 12/20/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7

Salutation:
....morning: 07:15
....afternoon: 13:45
....evening:

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
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....results:

Meditation:
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Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
30 minutes on Threshold 4 goal.

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

12/19/2018

Date: 12/19/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:15
....afternoon: 15:30
....evening: 16:44
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: (3) That human souls were pre-existent in an upper world before the origin of this
present world.
....time: 21:30
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: "Every man and woman is a star" - Aleister Crowley.
Are the roots of human souls in Briah or Yetzirah......or even Atziluth?
Is there a difference, in this context, from the human "soul" and it's "Divine Spark"?

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" - Dion Fortune
Other:

12/18/2018

Date: 12/18/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning:
....afternoon: 12:54
....evening: 17:11
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: (3) That human souls were pre-existent in an upper world before the origin of this
present world.
....time: 22:15
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: For me, the primary question is whether the word "before" above indicates ontological priority or temporal priority. Neoplatonism definitely supports the idea of ontological priority of the "upper worlds" but definitely not temporal priority. In most of neoplatonism, the manifest world has no beginning or ending.
I imagine that each incarnation is as a leaf on a great tree. The human souls are life the twigs and/or branches that produce the leaf.
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Monday, December 17, 2018

12/17/2018

Date: 12/17/2017
Current lesson: Threshold 7

Salutation:
....morning: 07:16
....afternoon: 12:01
....evening: 16:50

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
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Meditation:
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Sunday, December 16, 2018

12/16/2018

Date: 12/16/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:16
....afternoon: 12:00
....evening: 16:50
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 18:50
....duration: 30 minutes 
....results:
Meditation: That all we perceive or know of is formed on the Sephirotic type.
....time: 11:00am
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: I am reminded again that the qabalah is a system of thought, a method of thinking.
I saw the sephirot at a group of colored lenses. Each lens showed a different aspect of a thing. Let's take an animal, for example. One lens shows the outer covering and colors. Another lens shows the bones. Another shows the blood vessels. Another shows the lymph glands. Another shows the digestive tract. Another shows the nervous system and brain. Each lens shows a different aspect of an interlocking system.
Daily-life:
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune.
Other:
20 minutes on Threshold 4 goal

Saturday, December 15, 2018

12/15/2018

Date: 12/15/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:12
....afternoon: ??
....evening: 16:52
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 09:30
....duration: 45 minutes
....results:
Meditation:That all we perceive or know of is formed on the Sephirotic type.
....time: 18:45
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: This is a difficult one. What I got was that because the qabalah is a system of mentation (Dion Fortune - Mystical Qabalah), that it can be used to analyze anything and everything deeply. The qabalah is a map of both the macrocosm and the microcosm. Therefore, everything falls under its microscope. I think the qabalah, in this context, also means the interlinking of astrology, tarot, and alchemy, and qabalah into a single coherent system.
Daily-life:
Books-being-read: Mystical Qabalah - Dion Fortune
Other:
30 minutes on Thresold 4 goal

Friday, December 14, 2018

12/14/2018

Date: 12/14/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7

Salutation:
....morning: 07:12
....afternoon: 13:11
....evening: 17:13

Meditation: mindfulness
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....results:

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Thursday, December 13, 2018

12/13/2018

Date: 12/13/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning: 07:15
....afternoon: 12:05
....evening: 16:47
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 20:30
....duration: 40 minutes 
....results: difficult to relax
Meditation: "That God, ... the Supreme Incomprehensible One, ... was not the direct Creator of the World, but that all things proceeded from the Primordial Source in successive Emanations"
....time: 19:40
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: We are a fundamental mechanism of how Deity contemplates itself on the level of Assiah and Yetzirah.
Daily-life: sick, lots of fatigue.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

12/12/2018

Date: 12/12/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7

Salutation:
....morning: 07:15
....afternoon: 12:33
....evening: 16:52

Meditation: mindfulness
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....results:

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Monday, December 10, 2018

12/11/2018

Date: 12/11/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7

Salutation:
....morning: 07:12
....afternoon: 12:20
....evening: 17:01

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation:
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12/10/2018

Date: 12/10/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7
Salutation:
....morning:
....afternoon: 13:33
....evening: 18:13
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 14:30
....duration: 45 minutes
....results: definitely needed it.
Meditation: "That God, ... the Supreme Incomprehensible One, ... was not the direct Creator of the World, but that all things proceeded from the Primordial Source in successive Emanations"
....time: 21:30
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: I had trouble concentrating tonight. I am quite familiar with Neoplatonism. I find that Hermetic Qabalah and Neoplatonism blend in a very synergistic and interesting way. I did, imagine, however, a stone dropped into the center of a circular pond. The wave went out, bounced back from the edges and went back into the center.
I performed the lustration before the ritual as described in Threshold lesson 7. I did, however, forget to perform the adoration after the meditation but before releasing the wards.
Daily-life: starting to get sick with a cold or something. exhausted today.
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune.
Other:

Sunday, December 9, 2018

12/9/2018

Date: 12/9/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 7

Salutation:
....morning: 07:11
....afternoon: 12:01
....evening: 16:54

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 14:30
....duration: 45 minutes
....results:

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
30 minutes Threshold 4 goal

Saturday, December 8, 2018

12/8/2018

Date: 12/8/2018
Current lesson:

Salutation:
....morning: 09:13
....afternoon: 12:30
....evening: 16:50

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
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....results:

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Thursday, December 6, 2018

12/7/2018

Date: 12/7/2018
Current lesson:

Salutation:
....morning: 09:02
....afternoon: 11:46
....evening: 17:20

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
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....results:

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12/6/2018

Date: 12/6/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6

Salutation:
....morning: 06:45
....afternoon: 12:00
....evening: 17:15

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation:
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018

12/4/2018

Date: 12/4/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning: 08:00
....afternoon:
....evening: 17:20
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 21:50
....duration: 45 minutes 
....results: I have not done this in a few days. Had a very difficult time. But I perceive that I still got some benefit.
Meditation: "The Kingdom of Spirit is embodied in my flesh"
....time: 20:10
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: 
1) The body is a temple, treat it accordingly.
2) Part of my spiritual mission is to express my spiritual aspirations in material form. Without this, what's the use?
3) It's flesh is the material world.
4) I envisioned myself in the same forest as before but this time I'm a tree. When I say the statement above, "The Kingdom of Spirit is embodied in my flesh", then suddenly acorns start falling steadily from my branches, almost like rain.
5) I imagine the Wheel of Fortune Tarot card. Keter is suddenly in the middle and Malkuth is the very outside edges of the wheel or perhaps that's Yesod and Malkuth is the outside of the wheel entirely. Energy flows from the center, Keter, outward towards Malkuth as the wheel spins via centrifugal force. Yet, by some secret channel, the energy then flows back into the center of Keter.

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Books-being-read:
Other:
20 minutes on Threshold 4 goal

Monday, December 3, 2018

12/3/2018

Date: 12/3/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning: 09:32
....afternoon: 12:19
....evening: 17:08
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: "In thought and word and deed, I rest my life, from day to day,  upon the sure Foundation of Eternal Being. "
....time: 21:05
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: I imagined myself sitting on a tree stump beside where I'm buried in the Netzach meditation and over which the cave is in my Hod meditation. I think of the words and it comes to me that I need to pay attention to how not only my deeds, not only my words, but also my very thoughts relate to my quest for spiritual progress. Then a phrase from my twelve step work comes into my mind, "Truth at all costs". If I am to rest my life upon the Foundation of Eternal Being, then I become willing to see the deepest truth, no matter how disturbing, about both myself and the universe. This means trying to let go of my fears and the delusions that I use to hide from them. Very hard work indeed!

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other: 30 minutes on Threshold 4 goal

Sunday, December 2, 2018

12/2/2018

Date: 12/2/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning: 07:32
....afternoon: 11:30
....evening:16:40
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: "I look forward with confidence to the perfect realization of the eternal splendor of the limitless light.
....time: 16:30
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: I imagined meditating in lotus position on the grass in the forest in which I was buried in the previous Netzach meditation. The other copy of me was still buried in front of me. I then entered the ground somehow into a small cavern below where I was buried. Crystals started growing out of the ceiling and walls. Some of them channeled in light from the surface. I ran my hands along the ceiling and whispered "I love you, brother" to my other body buried just above me in this cave.
The next thing that happened is that Darth Vader appeared before me with his light saber lit. We approached each other in silence. He turned off his light saber and we sat down on the floor facing each other, both in lotus position (padmasana). We sat on the floor facing each other meditating.
Daily-life: I usually struggle more with laziness on the weekends than during the week. I'm struggling with laziness today too. This is why it's so late for me to get started on my studies.
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune.
"Hod is intellect, concrete thought, the reduction of intuitive knowledge to form"
Other: 20 minutes on Threshold 4 goal

Saturday, December 1, 2018

12/1/2018

Date: 12/1/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6

Salutation:
....morning:
....afternoon:  12:10
....evening: 17:00

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
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....results:

Meditation:
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Friday, November 30, 2018

11/30/2018

Date: 11/30/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning:
....afternoon: 12:02
....evening: 17:39
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: "Living from that Will, supported by It's unfailing wisdom and understanding, mine is the victorious life"
....time: 20:00
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: The initial phrase "Living from that Will" really vibrant. I imagined suddenly Tiphareth turning into a flower. I then imagined myself dead and buried in a deep forest perhaps just a few inches below the surface. I imagined a flower growing up out of my lower abdomen. I then wondered what if the flower was a rose and it grew out of my chest. The flower from my lower abdomen changed into a rose but it didn't move to my chest. Then, I had lots of roses growing from many parts of my body. I then speculated that maybe the bulb from which the flowers grew was Tiphareth and the top of the soil was the Veil of Paroketh.
Daily-life:
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Other:
20 minutes Threshold 4 goal

Thursday, November 29, 2018

11/29/2018

Date: 11/29/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning: 07:03
....afternoon: 12:20
....evening: 17:00
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: "In all things great and small, I see the beauty of the divine expression"
....time: 21:00
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: "all things needful, both spiritual and material" = "manifestation of the undeviating justice" = "In all things great and small".  "all things needful" also means circumstances and not just spiritual and/or material objects. How do I apply this to Hitler and the Jewish Holocaust? I cannot help but conclude the the "undeviating justice" is not really punitive in nature but simply what is needed for our spiritual progress. I wonder how the Jews murdered by the Nazis benefited spiritually. I'm being sarcastic but also am truly asking the question. If all things and all circumstances come from It, then everything and all circumstances must be "divine expressions". The Buddhists say that pain is inevitable but suffering is not. It's easy for me, as a privileged white male who has never undergone any real hardship, to say these things. I may never truly understand hardship. I find myself hoping that I never do. Is that being spiritually immature?
I imagine a yin-yang symbol made up of blue and red, instead of black and white. It starts to spin and the blue and red start to bleed into one another. As it spins faster and faster, it gets brighter and brighter until it suddenly explodes into the bright radiant yellow of Tiphareth.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
20 minutes for Threshold 4 goal.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

11/28/2018

Date: 11/28/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6

Salutation:
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 12:00
....evening: 16:51

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 05:30
....duration: 45 minutes
....results: good.
Started to fall asleep.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

11/27/2018

Date: 11/27/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning: 07:01
....afternoon:
....evening: 16:54
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: "I recognize the manifestation of the undeviating Justice in all the circumstances of my life."
....time: 20:15
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: There is a very dynamic link between the "all things spiritually needful" from Chesed and "undeviating Justice" from Geburah here. I think these two might be identical.  Energy from the two statements in their sephiroth seem to flow back and forth into each other. Undeviating Justice is evidently a primary component in "Beauty of the divine expression" of Tiphareth.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune
Other:
30 minutes on Threshold 4 goal.

Monday, November 26, 2018

11/26/2018

Date: 11/26/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning: 08:15
....afternoon: 13:34
....evening: 17:20
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 13:50
....duration: 45 minutes
....results: decent. Needed it.
Meditation: "From the exhaustless riches of It's limitless substance, I draw all things needful, both spiritual and material"
....time: 17:30
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: Since all things are made of It's limitless substance (i.e. There is nothing which is not God), then it follows that whatever you acquire or are given is drawn from It's limitless substance.
Is this an affirmation or a statement of fact, or both?
What about someone who is starving?
If I look at the constellation of this statement in Chesed with the statement in Geburah, "I recognize the manifestation of the undeviating justice in all the circumstances of my life". To me, this means that we are always provided with what we need. If we're starving then the higher self has put us into that situation for a spiritual purpose (undeviating justice). In this case we are receiving the I am drawing all things needful, spiritual.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune
Other: 30 minutes Threshold 4 goal

Sunday, November 25, 2018

11/25/2018

Date: 11/25/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning: 08:23
....afternoon: 12:45
....evening: 17:30
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: "Filled with Understanding of It's perfect law, I am guided, moment by moment, along the path of liberation".
....time: 13:30
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: This time I received a set of imagines: A bucket was being filled with a black fluid. The bucket overflowed and onto the porch of the house, and then overflowed over the porch and into the foundations. Then the black fluid flowed down the well deep into the earth. It then was flowing into an ocean of the black fluid deep below the earth. Then the phrase "The ocean flowing under reality". So was the bucket filling the ocean, or was the ocean actually filling the bucket?

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune
Other: 40 minutes on Threshold 4 goal. 

Saturday, November 24, 2018

11/24/2018

Date: 11/24/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning:
....afternoon: 12:05
....evening: 16:54
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 15:00
....duration: 40 minutes
....results: difficult to relax.
Meditation: "Through me It's unfailing wisdom takes form in thought and form"
....time: 19:40
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: 
"I" am but a lens of Deity.
"My" purpose is to provide a vehicle for It's expression, to manifest It's wisdom.
For me, "thought" and "form" are aspects of astral reality, which is much lower than Chokmah.
Why are they mentioned here? It seems that these statements are from the perspective of the subjective life of the ego-personality. Yet I still need to ask how they relate from the perspective of "It".
Notice that "thoughts" and "words" are also mentioned all the way down in the statement for Yesod.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune.
Other:
30 minutes on Threshold 4 goal.

Friday, November 23, 2018

11/23/2018

Date: 11/23/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:
....morning: 10:10
....afternoon: 12:10
....evening: 16:57
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 12:15
....duration: 40 minutes
....results: difficulty relaxing
Meditation: "I am a center of expression of the primal will-to-good which eternally creates and sustains the universe".
....time: 20:40
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: "We're all hand-puppets of Deity, so stop taking things so personally."
The phrase "I think therefore I am", is still valid, but it says nothing about "who" or "what" I am. It also does not indicate whether I am an entity who is distinct from other entities.

Daily-life: Day after Thanksgiving. Nice, slow day.
Yesterday, I had a really hard time emotionally. I saw a child hood bully on facebook and it sent me into a VERY, VERY dark place for hours. The "hand puppet" statement above seems to address my  feeling so intensely inadequate and inherently broken.

Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" - Dion Fortune.
Other:
18:40 - 30 minutes on Threshold 4 goal.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

11/22/2018

Date: 11/22/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 6
Salutation:  I'm now using the 3 salutations from "Appendix to the task of the neophyte" Explanatory Lecture No. 1A
....morning: 06:57
....afternoon: 13:25
....evening: 19:02

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 08:30
....duration: 40 minutes
....results: difficult for a long time but then finally settled down. Feeling oddly frightened and uneasy.

Meditation: "All the power that ever was or will be is here now."
....time: 10:50
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: "There is no reason to hurry, yet no reason to delay. Make haste slowly."
Unity is like the background radiation of the universe. It is infinite.

Daily-life: It's Thanksgiving day. I find myself afraid of a lack of perseverance. I pray that I will be given the tenacity that I need.

Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune

Other:
13:08 30 minutes on Threshold 4 goal

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

11/21/2018

Date: 11/21/2018
Current lesson: threshold 5

Salutation:
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 12:29
....evening: 18:33

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
19:37 practice Cross of Light

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

11/20/2018

Date: 11/20/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 5

Salutation: from initiation packet
....morning: 06:52
....afternoon: 15:03
....evening: 17:22

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 14:15
....duration: 40minutes
....results: difficult but still helpful

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Practiced Cross of Light

Monday, November 19, 2018

11/19/2018

Date: 11/19/2018
Current lesson: Threshold 5

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 06:50
....afternoon: 12:02
....evening: 16:59

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 22:02
....duration: 40minutes
....results: pretty good.
Considering the Calvary Rose Cross, is the rose what's at the center when the cube unfolds. Is the rose what's hidden in the center of the cube of space? Is the rose on the rose cross,  the universe tarot card?

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
30 minutes on Threshold 4 goal

21:42 practiced Cross of Light

Sunday, November 18, 2018

11/18/2018

Date: 11/18/2918
Current lesson: Threshold x5

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 09:11
....afternoon:
....evening:

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Saturday, November 17, 2018

11/17/2018

Date: 11/17/2018
Current lesson:  Threshold 5

Salutation: adoration
....morning:  07:37
....afternoon: 15:07
....evening:

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

I'm sitting in my car in the parking lot of the South San Francisco Francisco temple waiting for my initiation at 16:30.
I'm nervous, which is appropriate.
I hope this initiation takes deeply.
I don't want to lose my job or my family though. But if that is the will of my higher self,  then so be it.

Friday, November 16, 2018

11/16/2018

Date:  11/16/2018

Current lesson: Threshold 5

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 06:34
....afternoon: 15:03
....evening: 17:29

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Thursday, November 15, 2018

11/15/2018

Date: 11/15/2018

Current lesson:  Threshold 5

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 06:45
....afternoon: 12:00
....evening: 16:58

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation: Cross of Light/ rhythmic breathing
....time: 21:52
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: difficult settling down. I often forget myself and lose the rhythmic breathing. I obviously need more practice.

I thought of the third element in the Pattern on the Trestleboard: "Through me it's unfailing Wisdom takes form in thought and work". Is this an aspiration for me desiring to become wise. Or is this a statement that no matter how wretched or misguided I might be, what I express is It's hidden wisdom in spite of myself. This would imply that even pain and suffering is part of It's wisdom. HHhhhmmm.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune.
Other:
21:26 20 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal.

I'm noticing that I'm dragging my feet regarding starting Lesson 6 where I meditate on specific concepts. I wonder why.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

11/14/2018

8Date: 11/14/3018

Current lesson: Threshold 5

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 06:02
....afternoon: 12:02
....evening: 16:32

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 08:40
....duration: 40 minutes
....results: pretty good
I envisioned a garden in which rose vines climb a cross shaped trellis.
Balanced sacrifice is the framework on which spiritual progress can climb.

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune
Other:

09:30 20 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal.

22:28 practiced Cross of Light Banishing

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

11/13/2018

Date: 11/13/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 07:05
....afternoon:
....evening: 19:39

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation: rhythmic breathing with Cross of Light
....time: 20:30
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: good.
When performing the initial adoration before the cross of Light,  I imagined the all seeing eye getting bigger and bigger and bigger. It started to become a bit overwhelming.

Today,  while day dreaming,  I was on a plain of sand and gravel. I saw a tree dump that was burnt and blasted by lightning. Out of this stump was growing another much smaller tree that was in the shape of the cross. Around this smaller tree grew vines of roses. I speculate that the blasted tree stump represented a sacrificial altar. The sacrificing of the ego or lower personality so the rose cross could grow.
I imagined this again during today's meditation.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune
Other:  20 minutes on Threshold lesson 4goal.

Monday, November 12, 2018

11/12/2018

Date: 11/12/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 09:30
....afternoon: 14:43
....evening: 18:50 - with practice of Cross Of Light

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life: Not feeling well today. Having asthma issues when at home for the last three weekends. Might be also fighting off an illness.
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune
Other:
I'm noticing explicitly that when I banish the cross of light circle, I'm imagining them turning into smoke and either dispersing or I breathe them back into myself. This is true of the circle as well as the crosses. I'm not sure which one is more appropriate, if either.

Sunday, November 11, 2018

11/11/2018

Date: 11/11/2018
Salutation: adoration
....morning: 06:30
....afternoon: 12:00
....evening: 17:46
Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 16:30
....duration: 40 minutes
....results: Ok. Sleepy
Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....time: 19:10
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: tried metronome this time.
Fairly difficult.  I probably have a naturally rectangular breath instead of a square one.
Tonight, I saw the crosses as sculpted in smooth stone in the four directions of a round room with a circle on the wall around them. The lights went down and lights behind the crosses lit up with the crosses themselves in shadow.
I think this meant to draw my attention to the power behind the crosses of light.
Daily-life:
Books-being-read: "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune
Other:
18:00 16 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal.

Saturday, November 10, 2018

11/10/2018

Date: 11/10/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning:
....afternoon: 13:06
....evening:

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 20:10
....duration: 40 lines
....results: decent.
I'm surrounding this decision with the Cross of Light banishing ritual.

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Friday, November 9, 2018

11/9/2018

Date: 11/9/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 07:21
....afternoon: 19:24
....evening:

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 08:15
....duration: 40 minutes
....results: decent
Day dreamed that blue rose crosses became stick figures and begin to interact with me.

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Thursday, November 8, 2018

11/8/2018

Date: 11/8/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 06:27
....afternoon:
....evening: 18:32

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation:
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
19:45 practiced Cross of Light ritual.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

11/7/2018

Date: 11/7/2018
Salutation: adoration
....morning: 09:45
....afternoon: 12:32
....evening: 16:35
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....time: 21:50
....duration: 15 minutes
....results:
After I cast the Cross Of Light circle, the circle-crosses became almost as independent beings that were dear friends. They encircled me and put their hands on my chest. I leaned my head forward and started to tear up. They truly loved me for who I was.
When I banished the circle, each cross reached out and took my hands before fading.
When meditating, my breathing was somewhat better than usual.
I recited the Pattern on the Trestleboard.
When reciting "Fill with understanding of it's perfect law, I am guided, moment by moment, along the path of liberation", I got the impression that "it's perfect law" was a living presence in and of itself.
"From the exhaustless riches of its limitless substance ...": "its limitless substance" is also alive. Not only to I draw all things needful. I am made of this limitless substance on all levels.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
09:00 around 20 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal.

When I perform the adoration, I visualize and "All Seeing Eye" in the triangle floating above a King and Queen, who are sometimes embracing. The eye then often expands more and more until the King and Queen are within it's pupil. If I don't see the King and Queen, I can then ask the Eye to be feminine and it often will be. Or I can imagine it as masculine and that happens easier. I find that it's emotionally important for me to achieve some masculine/feminine balance when performing the adoration. The term Lord throws me somewhat but I'm compensating for it with the above imagery.
Sometimes, I also see the eye in the middle of the Yin-Yang symbol.

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

11/6/2018

Date: 11/6/2018
Salutation: adoration
....morning: 07:05
....afternoon: 13:20
....evening: 19:33
Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:
Meditation: cross-of-light:rhythmic breathing
....time: 09:30
....duration: 15 minutes
....results:
Performed this meditation outside this morning.
Heard a rooster crow next door. *snicker*
It occurred to me that when I saw the cross in a dilapidated building, that the trashed, forgotten settings represent my subconscious mind. The phrase "balanced sacrifice" that occurred in an earlier meditation on the cross, might be phrased "balancing sacrifice" being applied to the contents of my subconscious material. Love this!

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: finishing WEB "Lords of Life" so I can begin "Mystical Qabalah" by Dion Fortune.
Other:
Read Threshold lesson 6.
I need to send the URL for this blog to FLO folks.

08:30 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal

Monday, November 5, 2018

11/5/2018

Date: 11/5/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 07:05
....afternoon: 12:11
....evening: 19:03

Meditation: mindfulness
....time:
....duration:
....results:

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....time: 19:30
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: decent

I've been calling the "Cross of Light" ritual by the wrong name,  "Rose Cross banishing" .

Adoration
Cross of Light
15 minutes of rhythmic breathing
Fade crosses of Light circle
Closing adoration

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
20 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal

Sunday, November 4, 2018

11/4/2018

Date: 11/4/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 13:30
....evening: 19:25

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 14:30
....Duration: 45 minutes
....Results: okay. Pain in my side hindered focus.

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....time: 15:30
....duration: 15 minutes
....results: same pain hindering focus but not too bad. Rose cross banishing ritual surrounded meditation.
1) muscle tensions and relaxations
2) adoration
3) Rose cross banishing with "shalom"s after each quarter
4) a) (touching forehead) "Thou, Oh Lord"
    b) (touching chest) "art the kingdom"
    c) (touching right shoulder) "and the power"
    d) (touching left shoulder) "and the glory"
    e) (clasping hands in front of chest) "forever, amen."
5) Sitting upright on chair, thighs level, hands on thighs. rhythmic square breathing pattern.
    This one is still pretty tough for me. It always has been. I find that I can get closer by delaying my out breath after breathing in and the rest tends to follow naturally. I'm trying to to obsess on whether my breathing is "square" enough. If I do that then I get tense.

Daily-life:  Depressed today. Feeling like I'm "inherently" inappropriate. I struggle a great deal with that one.
Books-being-read:
Other:

Worked on Threshold lesson 4 goal for 30 minutes. 

Saturday, November 3, 2018

11/3/2018

Date: 11/3/2019

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 07:03
....afternoon: 13:30
....evening:

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 21:09
....Duration: 15 minutes
....Results: good. Didn't want to stop.
Performed the rose cross banishing around this meditation.

Daily-life: depressed.
Books-being-read:
Other:
17:20 practiced rose cross banishing ritual
20:37 spent 40 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal.

Friday, November 2, 2018

11/2/2018

Date: 11/2/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 12:15
....evening: 19:15

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

19:06 spent 40 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal.

Thursday, November 1, 2018

11/1/2018

Date: 11/1/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 07:01
....afternoon: 15:26
....evening: 19:14

Meditation: none
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

I am looking at a cross shaped bird feeder in the back yard of my coven high priest and priestess. It's not intented to be shaped like a Calvary cross. I notice how the two arms each have bird food stuff hanging off of them. They are balanced. The phrase "balanced sacrifice" came to me. The calvary cross may indicate "balanced sacrifice" among other things.

15:25 : Spent 40 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal.

19:50 practiced rose cross ritual but did not do meditation.

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

10/31/2018

Date: 10/31/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: 07:09
....afternoon: 14:05
....evening: 19:00

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 14:10
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: very sleepy today

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
07:20 Worked on Threshold lesson 4 goal for approximately 20 minutes.
07:45 Practiced Calvary Rose Cross ritual.
When I do the adoration, I usually see an eye in a triangle floating above a naked male and female couple wearing crowns facing each other with hands joined. I address my adoration to the non-gendered eye in the triangle.
This time, I then saw the triangle and eye expand so tht the male and female figures were inside the triangle and then inside the eye. Very interesting indeed.

10/30/2018

Date: 10/30/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 13:36
....evening: 19:44

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 09:00
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: decent

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
.... time: 21:45
....duration: 15 minutes
....results:
1) Adoration
2) Starting in the east, draw rose cross in blue light, entone shalom, quarter circle to next quarter proceeding deosil.
3) "Thou, Oh Lord (forehead while imagining brilliant white light above crown of head)....are the kingdom (touch chest, kingdom in Tiphareth or Malkuth here?)....and the power (right shoulder, Geburah).... and the glory (left shoulder, Chesed).....forever (hands clasped in front of chest), amen.
4) Rhythmic breathing for 15 minutes.
Difficult to focus and breath at first as I was in a bit of pain and had eaten too much. Then things got better. I imagined a 20 feet tall Calvary Rose Cross  in a dilapidated hotel building in a large city. The roof was leaking and there was garbage on the floors. I then found myself 20 feet tall and walking up behind the cross and stepping up into and through it. I then stood with the cross inside me with my arms extended out to my sides. The cross and I were glowing with golden light and we in an aura of flowing golden light.
5) Starting in the east, absorb rose cross and circle line proceeding widdershins.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
10:05 - practiced rose cross ritual outside. I think I got it right this time. I didn't do any meditating. I just practiced the ritual itself.

20:45 - worked on Threshold lesson 4 goal for around 30 minutes.

Monday, October 29, 2018

10/29/2018

Date: 10/29/2018

Salutation: adoration (original correct)
....morning: 08:03
....afternoon: 14:07
....evening: 19:17

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 14:20
....Duration: 25 minutes
....Results: decent but started falling asleep.

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 20:30
....Duration: 15 minutes
....Results: good
Francois indicated that I should follow the script. I've decided to follow his wisdom and do just that.
0) tense and release relaxation
1) adoration
2) draw calvary rose cross to the east and vibrate shalom. Saw cross emanating blue light...flowing energy. Visualized red rose at center of cross.
3) draw quarter circle to the south
4) repeat 2 and 3 for each direction
5) 15 minutes of seated rhythmic breathing. Saw blood stained wooden cross in forest grove overgrown with roses. Understood that it was where sacred kings had been willingly sacrificed for their people. Helps me see the meeting place between my paganism and this material.
6) Forgot to do incipient pre-qabalistic-cross here.
7) stamped foot
8) absorbed blue circle and blue calvary rose crosses into myself.
9) adoration
10) Remembered to do the "Thou, Oh Lord", pre-qabalistic cross.

Daily-life: allergies/cold/fatigue - not too bad though
Books-being-read:
Other:
"Action expresses commitment"
I really want this to work.
Day-dream during meditation suggests that I need to read more of Harold Willoughby's material. He might help me bridge my neopaganism to this qabalistic judeo-christian material.

Spent about 20 minutes on Threshold lesson 4 goal.

Sunday, October 28, 2018

10/28/2018

Date: 10/28/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:06
....afternoon: 13:30
....evening: 19:03

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 11:25
....Duration:  13 minutes
....Results: decent.
I'm on Threshold Lesson 5 now.
So I'm incorporating the Rose Cross banishing ritual now.
I forgot to start with the adoration.
I performed the Rose Cross banishing ritual as described. I found myself really wanting to use an equal armed cross instead of a Calvary Cross, as described. This is due some aversions to some forms of Judeo-Christian symbolism. I have hopes of overcoming these at some point.
Intoning shalom went much better than I expected. It seemed to resonate quite well.
I forgot to do the "Though, Oh Lord..."as well. I would like to substitute the word "One" for Lord here. Are these kinds of substituted acceptable? I'll check with Francois.
I practiced the ritual properly again.

Meditation: mindfulness
.... time: 12:30
.... duration: 45 minutes
.... result: better

Daily-life: youngest daughter asked me to watch some cartoons with her that we both enjoy. I didn't engage soon enough and now she's doing something else. I'm sad now. Missed opportunity.

Books-being-read:
Other:
Finished reading Threshold lesson 5.

Worked in Threshold lesson 4 goal for about 30 minutes.

I was watching a performance of Hans Zimmer and an orchestra of the SoundTrack of the Batman Dark Knight movie on Youtube the other day.
They displayed the following quotes from the movie:
    Energy follows thought
    Action expresses priorities
    He is able who thinks he is able.
I find myself particularly drawn in by the second one at this time, "Action expresses priorities". I think of this when I'm too tired or don't want to do this work in favor of something more rewarding in the short term but useless in the longer term.

Saturday, October 27, 2018

10/27/2018

Date: 10/27/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 13:00
....evening: 23:17

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Friday, October 26, 2018

10/26/2018

Date: 10/26/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 14:00                     
....evening: 19:40

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 19:45
....Duration: 10 minutes
....Results: pretty good. I'm becoming more familiar with my breathing. Letting my body tell me the square or rectangular rhythm it wants.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Thursday, October 25, 2018

10/25/2018

Date: 10/25/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 13:03
....evening:

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life: Gardnerian coven esbat tonight at Glenn's house.  No time for additional work.

Books-being-read:
Other:

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

10/24/2018

Date: 10/24/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 09:50
....afternoon: 14:05
....evening: 19:03

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

10/23/2018

Date:  10/23/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 13:00
....evening: 18:39

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 20:10
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: I didn't do this yesterday and I can feel the increased level of agitation Tuesday. I'm still agitated but less so.

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
.... Time: 20:55
.... Duration: 10 minutes
.... Results: lost concentration on rhythmic breathing for 4 minutes or so. Then regained it.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Monday, October 22, 2018

10/22/2018

Date: 10/22/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 09:02
....afternoon: 13:00
....evening: 18:57

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 19:00
....Duration: 10 minutes
....Results: maintained rhythmic somewhat.
Recited Pattern on the Trestleboard inwardly.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: WEB Lords of Light
Other:
20:10 Spent about 1/2 hour on my lesson 4 goal.

Reading Threshold lesson 5

Ate lunch with Diane Zingale today.
We talked about it being okay to modify the praxis in some ways to make things more palatable,  like changing the cross in the rose cross ritual to be equal armed so as not to trigger Christian religious abuse baggage initially.

Told her how helpful and comforting her comment, "When is doubt, do nothing.", was.
She had said it on our first lunch date.

Sunday, October 21, 2018

10/21/2018

Date: 10/21/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:05
....afternoon: 13:00
....evening: 19:00

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:  30 minutes lesson 4 goal

Saturday, October 20, 2018

10/20/2018

Date: 10/20/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: didn't
....afternoon: 15:00
....evening:

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 16:10
....Duration: 10 minutes
....Results: decent. not sure how square my breathing was though

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 16:30
...Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: Decent. Dog got in the way until I figured out how to take charge gently.

Daily-life: realizing that it's much better to accept my karma than to attempt to run from it. "When in doubt,  do nothing."

Books-being-read:

Other:
15:52: I just did about 40 minuted work on my lesson 4 goal. I'm wanting to combine my proficiency in my shorthand and my 12-step work.

Thursday, October 18, 2018

10/19/2018

Date: 10/19/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 09:00
....afternoon: 12:20
....evening: 19:27

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 19:28
....Duration: 10 minutes
....Results: had a hard time staying focused

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: WEB Lords of Light
Other:
Worked on my lesson 4 goal for about 20 minutes or so.

10/18/2018

Date: 10/18/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 09:22
....afternoon: 14:??
....evening: 22:26

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 10:00
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: decent. Difficult to settle down

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:
I've been dragging my feet regarding the assignment in lesson 4 of the FLO threshold course.
This is where we are to declare a goal that can be achieved with a year.
Well, here's mine:

I will apply all my powers to achieve   writing out "A Gentle Path Through the 12 Steps" by Patrick Carnes" in my shorthand. This will include my responses to the exercises as well as the text of the book itself.
So mote it be!

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

10/17/2018

Date: 10/17/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:09
....afternoon: 13:05
....evening:

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 13:07
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: better

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

10/16/2018

Date: 10/16/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:09
....afternoon: 13:58
....evening: 18:40

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 09:30
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: decent

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: WEB Lords of Light
Other:

Monday, October 15, 2018

10/15/2018

Date: 10/15/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning:  did not do it
....afternoon: 13:50
....evening: 19:10

Meditation: basic mindfulness
....Time: 15:00
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: Decent. Found some great music.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Sunday, October 14, 2018

10/14/2018

Date: 10/14/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:05
....afternoon: 14:17
....evening: 19:20

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 14:20
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: Decent but still wanted to stop. When I don't want to stop, then I know I've really succeeded.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Saturday, October 13, 2018

10/13/2018

Date: 10/13/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: didn't
....afternoon: 13:03
....evening:

Meditation:
....Time:
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Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Friday, October 12, 2018

10/12/2018

Date: 10/12/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:19
....afternoon: 13:32
....evening:

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Thursday, October 11, 2018

10/11/2018

Date: 10/11/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:19
....afternoon: 13:18
....evening: 18:35

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 21:00
....Duration: 15 minutes
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

10/10/2918

Date: 10/10/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 06:54
....afternoon: 13:30
....evening: 19:02

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 13:40
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: decent

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: WEB Lords of Light
Other:

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

10/9/2018

Date: 10/9/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: didn't
....afternoon: 12:10
....evening: 19:03

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 21:53
....Duration: 15 minutes
....Results: Decent. Whispered the Pattern on the Trestleboard in my mind. I find that fairly fruitful and relaxing.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: WEB Lords of Light
Other:

Monday, October 8, 2018

10/8/2018

Date: 10/8/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 11:25
....afternoon: 13:00
....evening: 19:58

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 12:30
....Duration: 30 minutes
....Results: so so

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Sunday, October 7, 2018

10/7/2018

Date: 10/7/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: worked all night
....afternoon: 13:00
....evening:

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Saturday, October 6, 2018

10/6/2018

Date: 10/6/2018

Salutation: Modified adoration
....morning: 09:21
....afternoon: forgot
....evening: 20:39

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 20:40
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: Better than usual. I didn't want to stop,  which means I succeeded in going deep enough.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Thursday, October 4, 2018

10/5/2018

Date: 10/5/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 08:25
....afternoon: 13:05
....evening:

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

10/4/2018

Date: 10/4/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:00
....afternoon: 13:00
....evening: 19:00

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

10/3/2018

Date: 10/3/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 10:07
....afternoon: 14:10
....evening: 21:30

Meditation: mindfulness
....Time: 17:00
....Duration: 40 minutes
....Results: so so

Daily-life:
Books-being-read: WEB Lords of Light
Other:

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

10/2/2018

Date: 10/2/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: forgot
....afternoon: 13:20am
....evening:

Meditation:
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Monday, October 1, 2018

10/1/2018

Date: 10/1/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 09:49
....afternoon: 13:24
....evening:

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time:
....Duration:
....Results:

Meditation: mindfulness
.... Time: 14:10
.... Duration: 40 minutes
.... Results: decent

Daily-life:

Books-being-read: WEB Lords of Light

Other: Wrote out the Pattern on the Trestleboard in short hand.

Sunday, September 30, 2018

9/30/2018

Date: 9/30/2018

Salutation: modified adoration
....morning: 07:35
....afternoon: 13:35
....evening: 19:20

Meditation: rhythmic breathing
....Time: 19:22
....Duration: 10 minutes
....Results: Difficult to relax by still did some. Silently recited the Pattern on the Trestleboard.

Daily-life:
Books-being-read:
Other:

Saturday, September 29, 2018

9/29/2018

Date: 9/29/2018

Salutation: adoration
....morning: forgot
....afternoon: 14:00
....evening: 20:10

FLO lesson: Threshold 4

Meditation: Rhythmic breathing
....time: 18:45
....duration: 10 minutes
....results: dogs kept bothering me

Meditation: mindfulness
....time: 18:55
....duration: 23 minutes
....results: not as deep as I would like but somewhat effective

Daily-life:

Books-being-read:

Other:
I've modified my salutation to a slightly different version of the Adoration:
    Holy art Thou, Source of the universe.
    Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed.
    Holy art Thou, the vast and the mighty One.
    Source of the light....
    and of the darkness

If the value of the journey far exceeds that value of the destination, then can the ends ever justify the means?

I've often thought if one were to pray to Satan with the same quality as Christ, then you're essentially praying to Christ. If you pray to Christ for self-aggrandizing purposes, then you're essentially praying to Satan. If you pray to Satan for authentic spiritual progress, then you're actually praying to Christ.
I honestly think the intention behind the prayer is more important then the target to the prayer.
We could think of prayer as part of the journey and who is being addressed in part of the destination.
Focus on the journey and not the destination.

9/28/2018

Date: 9/28/2018
Time of Meditation: 08:20
Duration of Meditation: 40 minutes
Salutation-morning: 08:00
Salutation-afternoon: 13:02
Salutation-Evening:
Meditation: Rhythmic breathing, mindfulness
Results:
Daily-life:
Books-being-read: WEB Lords of Light
Other:

9/27/2018

Date: 9/27/2018
Time of Meditation:
Duration of Meditation:
Salutation-morning: forgot
Salutation-afternoon: 13:30
Salutation-Evening: 19:15
Meditation:
Results:
Daily-life:
Books-being-read: W.E.B. Lords Of Light
Other:

7/13/2019

Date: 7/13/2019 Current lesson: Threshold 9 Salutation: ....morning: 05:50 ....afternoon: 13:12 ....evening: 20:24 Meditation: mindful...