What is faith?

[Sacred Fool]

 
My relationship with faith is something related to what Louisabell describes.  The chakras can be viewed as ascending levels of consciousness: first random, then personal and directed, then corporate, then universal and so forth.  As one reaches from the level in which one is comfortable to a more intense level, it is difficult to navigate.  What can one use as a guide or compass in an as yet unfamiliar realm of consciousness?  The answer is Self, and yet it is, by definition, difficult to know self in a new level of consciousness.  For me, faith is that innate awareness of self at that new level of consciousness, in all of its mystery and confusion.  It's feeling and knowing the veracity of Love, for example, even where there is much confusion and obfuscation about what is what.  Faith is that vague knowing of Self as the Creator, even in the context of disarray and disorientation.  The more one follows that knowing, that faith, and creates pathways of discovery, the more one opens to a more articulated consciousness of Self and of the Creator.

Of course, this is maybe not as easy as I might make it sound.  It takes practice and determination and, I would aver, a notably deep dedication to service. For me, this process is exemplified by the little group which brought forth the Ra Material.