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THE USE OF DESPAIR

(L/Leema, September 22, 1985)

We have been asked to speak upon the subject of despair, its form, its function and its use. We would divide our speaking into three categories: the despair of the mind, the despair of the body, and the despair of the spirit.

The despair of the mind is an empty thing, full of no virtue except that of self-destruction. Within the mind there are limitations which have been given to the self by the self. Some of these limitations are those called limitations of intelligence. One of the burdens of increased intelligence is an increased capacity for despair. And what, my friends, is that of which the mind despairs? The mind despairs of its very limitations. In truth there are no limitations. There are only challenges, lessons and glory. Yes, we say glory. For the stronger the despair, the more glorious the battle which may be waged to outlast the feelings of helplessness, doom and foreboding, uselessness, boredom and disinterest that altogether add up to the definition of despair. The despair of the mind is that which is not, standing in the face of that which is. Therefore the state of mental despair is folly and almost always unproductive. However, the dynamic of despair; that is, midnight as opposed to noon, is available to everyone, every spirit that lives in mind and body in your illusion, at some time within the incarnation. Therefore, although it is useless, it is a common experience. In the grand scheme, the very uselessness of despair is that which limits man’s ability to feel it. It is, rather, a dynamic against which one plays out one’s incarnation, the other dynamic being pure joy. It is between those two poles that one may analyze one’s true position with regard to the learning of the one great original thought of Love.

Therefore, that which is useless is rather a constant, an undertone within the life experience always available, in which the mind knows nothing. Mental joy is the opposing dynamic in which the mind knows all. These are the limits within your illusion of that which we call love.

The despair of the body is a reflection of the despair of the mind. When an entity is in possession of mental despair and has not moved from that dynamic into a productive mode of thinking, analyzing, feeling and acting, that despair becomes incorporated within the body complex. Thence comes disease and ultimately death. Therefore, the wages of continued despair are the death of the body and, therefore, the death of the intelligence which informs the body. There you have form and function, form, as always, following function.

Spiritual despair on the other hand, is an absolute necessity. It is, rather than being a zero, a moving dynamic within that which informs the growth and evolution of spirit. It is only metaphysical despair, that is, the recognition that one knows nothing, that one has lost control of everything and that one is faced with complete darkness of soul, which forces that great sliver or portion of the One Creator which is your consciousness to turn, transform, and begin anew, not having left behind that which is old in the soul, but adding unto it, accreting more wisdom, more compassion, and more and more of a feeling of unity which one can receive only when one has become desperate enough to release oneself from the expectation of any knowledge whatsoever.

There is a way in which one may use mental despair and its reflection in the physical body complex to best effect. That is to transmute mental despair into what this instrument would call the dark night of the soul or spiritual despair. One cannot analyze despair and rise transformed. One cannot act out despair by illness and rise transformed. One can, however, seek the grace and comfort that is your birthright in transmuting that which is lower into that which is higher. For as you know, one portion of the creation is a holograph for all else in the creation; thus, mental despair may-as alchemists change lead to gold-be changed into the dark night of the soul, burnished and shining. This spiritual despair, then, may transform itself into great revelations and positive and forward changes within the spirit.

The spirit is always the same. It is not a portion of your illusion. However, your perception of the spirit can only grow. All that you have learned before is still yours and all that is ahead of you shall be learned because of turning from despair. It is rare that one enters into or graduates from any initiation without the impetus, the pain and the challenge of spiritual despair. Therefore, if your soul is in agony, rejoice. For it is from this point that all good comes. Despair is the great opportunity to endure, to show strength, to indicate faith and to exercise the will, not just the will to think but the will to do.