(12-01-2018, 06:14 PM)Bring4th_Plenum Wrote: [ -> ]1) do you think you've personally experienced Grace at some point in your life?
2) how does one 'actuate' grace? An attitude of gratitude, receptivity, and mutual honoring? Does it become pretty much automatic, when the mind is truly appreciative of each and every circumstance?
3) does Grace have an intermediary? Ie, the Holy Spirit, or the spirit complex? Does it even matter if it does?
4) how does the word/concept of Grace fit into the Law of One framework?
I would describe "grace" as the "latitude" or "leeway" granted to the fool on the
Fool's Journey,
precisely because they are a fool (in the archetypal sense).
Is the Fool brave or are they just stupidly naive? Or are they some combination of both to some extent?
That is one of the many questions to be answered on the fool's journey to know itself, but because the fool is the one infinite creator -- a being of infinite worth -- they are granted "grace" in their journey to the degree that they are not wise. This simply means that to the degree that they are not able to appreciate the nature (we might even say "the danger" or even "the benefits") of the realm through which they travel, there is a degree of balancing that comes into play from the universe at large. This balancing might be termed "grace". Not to be confused with the balancing called "karma", which is a far more specific, and individualized, calling out to the universe, through the spirit complex, for those lessons, or balancing experiences, which allow one the opportunity to potentially release distortions and rise to a higher vibrational vantage point.
In other-words, grace is granted to all souls in their quest for truth, to the degree to which they are sincere in that quest. A more frivolous search results in a more frivolous vibration (and a correspondingly less vivid experience). This also determines the purity of the transformation in both the negative and positive sense as the catalyst is used and refined, alchemically, by the self to transform the self and open the gateways/greatways of mind, body, and spirit.
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There are those whose lessons are more random due to their present inability to comprehend the nature and mechanism of the evolution of mind, body, and spirit. Of these we may say that the process is guarded by those who never cease their watchful expectation of being of service. There is no entity without help, either through self-awareness of the unity of creation or through guardians of the self which protect the less sophisticated mind/body/spirit from any permanent separation from unity while the lessons of your density continue."
From another section:
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The balancing is from dimension to dimension. The attempts of the so-called Crusaders to interfere with free will are acceptable upon the dimension of their understanding. However, the mind/body/spirit complexes of this dimension you call third form a dimension of free will which is not able to, shall we say, recognize in full, the distortions towards manipulation. Thus, in order to balance the dimensional variances in vibration, a quarantine was set up, this being a balancing situation whereby the free will of the Orion group is not stopped but given a challenge. Meanwhile, the third-density group is not hindered from free choice."
And from another section:
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Those who were destroyed, not by radiation, but by the trauma of the energy release, found not only the body/mind/spirit complex made unviable, but also a disarrangement of that unique vibratory complex you have called the spirit complex, which we understand as a mind/body/spirit complex, to be completely disarranged without possibility of re-integration. This would be the loss to the Creator of part of the Creator and thus we were given permission, not to stop the events, but to ensure the survival of the, shall we say, disembodied mind/body/spirit complex. This we did in those events which you mention, losing no spirit or portion or holograph or microcosm of the macrocosmic Infinite One."
Or at least, this is my
interpretation of grace. Like the old aphorism goes, "The creator works in mysterious ways." And through these "ways", the creator makes the playing field "fair", in some strange sense. Though, often precisely because the ways are so mysterious (we are fools after-all and know not what we do), we sometimes don't see the fairness, and assume life is nothing but a nihilistic and deterministic crapshow of injustice piled upon injustice, played out in an uncaring world of unconscious matter/energy. The law of confusion grants us the right to free will for we, as archetypal fools, to variously see, or interpret, the catalyst in terms of either purposefulness or purposelessness.
Another nice quote:
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Consider, if you will, the path your life-experience complex has taken. Consider the coincidences and odd circumstances by which one thing flowed to the next. Consider this well. Each entity will receive the opportunity that each needs. This information source-beingness does not have uses in the life-experience complex of each of those among your peoples who seek. Thus the advertisement is general and not designed to indicate the searching out of any particular material, but only to suggest the noumenal aspect of the illusion."
The movement from innocence to wisdom, necessarily involves the gradual, and sometimes dramatic, loss of said innocence (so eventually you can no longer say, "I know not what I do"). In an ideal circumstance, this transformation, or shattering of innocence, happens "gracefully" (or we might variously call that "lovingly"). A gradual walk up the steps of light until the light becomes too glaring to continue or until full illumination is achieved.