William Blake used these words to identify the “Star Child” quality we see in this photo, “we all come in trailing clouds of glory.

Brothers Anselm and David spoke about this in their “Faith beyond Belief” re the “Spirit-Soul-Body connection” …Page 146….quoting 1 Cor 6:19 “the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit” …and Br Anselm, ” The human being radiates from her body. When we look at a person we experience the ( Holy Spirit ) in the body. Only when Soul and spirit stream through the body can we experience them.”

So the obvious question is why do 99.999% of humanity some how lose their “Star Child” quality , even after the God-Man Joshua Emmanuel the Christ appeared on earth to demonstrate all the powers we as Human Beings potential have but some how they go dormant?

yes the Re-birth of the Beautiful Brilliant Star Child is what is required , because that is why and what we are here to do and experience fully again and behind that.

Be Well Be Present and stay safe

EdS

At the risk of sounding arrogant to those not practicing a Christianity along the methods of The Catholic Church or the Essene Christian tradition, but I have reply this way because it quickly answers of, “who supports me “support my best self”.” This is a “source” which is both limitless in time and number of “Helper” beings ( and I consider them to be “persons” because they are human in form although not visible to the corporeal eyes) and their presence exemplifies the potential WE Humans are.

Keeping it as simple as possible …… I defer to Brother David’s overview of the Apostle’s Creed …specifically the “Communion of Saints”….as to where this “source” is ……….

Quote “the Communion of Saints can mean a community of holy people (holy not necessary because they have achieved moral excellence, but because they are consecrated to God, like a holy Temple) in this sense the term is synonymous with ‘church’, but it emphasizes those aspects that go beyond the churches visible manifestation. Most of those who pray the Creed today have this meaning in mind your Christians refer to all members of the church as Saints” ….and further on ……”This community links not only different parts of the world but since the essential bond between its members is the life of Christ hidden in God’s eternal now, it transcends time and links all periods of history. According to St. Augustine, the church belongs with Adam and Eve and endures to the very end of time. The upshot is unlimited belonging.”

That “unlimited belonging” definitely get beyond 2or 3!!!!!

I wish to fully support this initiative and go one step further and suggest that Brother David’s 2010 publication. “Deeper Than Words” be the first shared reading. It fits perfectly with the criteria stated above, “reflect a diversity of approaches to grateful living, and illustrate a richness of context for our learning” and contains all the ESSENTIAL understanding / ( or as Brother David aptly phrases it “standing-under”) of the teaching of the God-Man, Joshua Emanuel the Christ, so critically needed for the current state of the Western (so called “Christian”) World.

As St John the Baptist said …I Baptize with water but he who comes after me will Baptize with fire”. The candle is the central representation of the “fire” / teaching brought by Joshua Emanuel the Christ to help us understand who we as Human beings ARE. Used correctly through the practice of Visualization the fire ( which can be any combination of Archangel Michael, Urial, Gabriel, and Rafael and the Holy Logos ) is symbolized as the fire within the Holy Heart. As the Sufi say( it “visualization is indeed heaven”. Why? because it is the direct application of Mind Super-substance ( this is the substance referred to within the Lord’s prayer’s “give us this day our daily bread” ) and we Humans are blessed with the ability to apply this “Mind” as flame/fire to clean our Etheric bodies and become perfect reflectors of “Mind”. That is the lesson of the Prodigal Son and so must every human being learn it so they have full ownership of “The Kingdom of Heaven”.

Indeed infants are referred to as the “Wise old Souls” because they still have their light or “Clouds of Glory” with them, brought with them from the Source.

But Br David and Anselin Grin prepared a wonderful handbook for Adults to review and contemplate on how they can get their “Clouds of Glory” back in their current life time. (I am now thinking this would be a very appropriate for the up coming American Thanksgiving because it connects Joy with gratitude. )

From ‘Faith beyond Belief: Spirituality for our Time’…..Brother Davis and Anselin Grun

The connection between joy and gratitude is a fact of experience. We all know people will have everything they need to be happy and still are miserable, because they end the others, online something different, or want more of the same, and so on. But we also know people have very little or have to fight their way through life with great difficulty and yet they radiate joy. They don’t have any luck, but they have Joy—even in unhappiness.

If we look carefully at the difference between the miserable and those who enjoy life we see that it is gratitude. The unhappy rich unhappy because they are not grateful for what they have. The happy poor are joyful in their misfortune because, in spite of everything, they are thankful. Gratitude is the key to Joy, and Joy is the happiness that does not depend on whether something makes us happy or not.