Of Special Child Syndrome:
A good enemy of mine taught me about the psychosis of SCS, the hard way, and became a hammer of God to humble me.
Crystal, Indigo, or Sapphire Children… In my experience and observation, these are often spoiled and unruly children, crowned with specialness by permissive parents, and taught to possess an inflated and exaggerated sense of their own entitlement and too regard every word from their own mouths as golden. I have rarely met a New Ager who did not think of him or her self a god, goddess, angel, messianic figure, or an otherwise great spiritual entity. It is, thereby, logical for such people to believe that their offspring must be truly profound creatures. Reading lots of books about how special you are, looking at lots of spiritual websites about how to become more special, meditating on your own special uniqueness in the universe, and being told by Gurus how you are chosen for special purposes—makes one feel… well… special.
In Urianism, everyone is chosen, called, and anointed to serve God. Everyone is called, but not everyone chooses to listen. Everyone is chosen, but few choose to rise to the occasion. Your works on behalf of God and God’s Kingdom are what make you special.
Not every dream is a vision, nor is visualization a message from God. You can visualize anything, but it does not make it inspired by Spirit, and most dreams are communications between the subconscious and the conscious mind. Having a white streak in your dark hair does not make you a goddess, and having great abs does not make you a god. Physical beauty is fleeting and material success is often the road to spiritual death.
The rare prophets of Urianism will strengthen and straighten, clarify and reproof, rebuke and enrich the Way of the Spirit; while falseprophets will seek to confuse, defuse, delude, alter, and pollute the Path, introducing controversy, turning you aside to the worship of angels and idols, creating gods and goddesses of veneration, and glorifying themselves.
A master who wants to be called master is not a master, for such ones set themselves up as demigods to distract you from the vision of God. Do not obey those who change the laws of Urianism, which are laws every archangel has blessed and God him/it/herself has ordained from of old.
Amen
Monologue 55: Many Mansions (Priestly Training VIII)
Learning who you are, your true loves, desires, and motivations, in complete honesty is essential to serving as clergy in the Way of Truth.
Returning to the void, become the star, and look out upon the emptiness before you. Within the emptiness create a blank sphere of clay-like grayness.
Stop for now and end your meditation.
In the next meditation session, form the clay into a landscape, carving out geographic features, such as seas, rivers, oceans, mountains, plains, vegetation, forests, etc.
End your session, and begin to write down what you have created, even fashioning maps and drawings if you wish.
In the next period of meditation, begin to populate your world with living creatures, either drawn from earth or from pure imagination (or both). Start with small creatures, populating the forests, the plains, the waterways, and every environment you have created, and begin to ponder the interactivity of life. What does each creature eat, and what feeds those who are fed upon?
Again, stop, and write down what you have done. Feel free to spend many sessions fashioning just the geography and many more fashioning the life forms. Do not write in an organized fashion, but just write down your ideas and brainstorm.
In subsequent returns to the not so empty void, look upon your world, and consider its weather patterns, and spend time focusing on the primitive life forms you have fashioned, even to the point of visualizing being those life forms.
DO NOT HURRY! DO NOT CREATE HIGHER LIFE FORMS OR CIVILIZATIONS AS YET. Rather, turn your attention to the vast expanse of darkness beyond your light and your world.
Does your world have a moon? Maybe there are many moons? Does your planet have rings like Saturn? Are there other planets besides the one you have formed? Are there stars? Is your world only one of many worlds in a solar system, and is your solar system within a galaxy? There are, indeed, other galaxies, but do not go beyond one (placing the Cosmic Temple at the heart thereof).
In between meditation sessions, write down and note all that you dream up.
Return to your original creation. Having put in place the starry hosts above, fill in the details, tweak this and that; and only then create a primitive sentient species, or even several parallel species. You might pattern them after Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, or almost-modern humans; or you might fashion them in a radically different way, say from reptiles or aquatic life forms, or from birds.
If there is more than one higher life form, do they interact with each other, and how do they interact? Are they peaceful or in competition for resources?
Having written all these things down, when next you return to your world behold what you have done. Consider it well and take time to truly ponder the works of your mental hand, weighing as to whether it is really what you want it to be, or if it is complete.
Only when you have laid all the foundations of a new planet, should you then speak aloud a name for that world, within your meditation. The name should come from deep within.
Now you may fast forward the clock, writing of the ages and passage of history. Civilizations arise, civilizations fall, and the sentient races evolve or fall, and are replaced by others.
Are there wars, disasters, plagues, and upheavals? Are all people united, or are they separated into tribes and nations?
Ponder this also: Are there heavens, hells, invisible realms and unseen species? Are there deities, powerful spirits, angels, demons, elemental life forms, and where does the Supreme Being fit into your design? Is God a silent watcher or a subtle influencer, or intimately involved? If there are heavens and/or hells, how do the people of your world wind up in either one?
Does evil exist at all, within your world? Perhaps your planet is a perfect and utterly peaceful paradise.
Do not feel ashamed, write the world you want to write, and fashion it in the secret place of your heart and mind, bringing forth what you would truly wish it to be.
What are the challenges for yourself and mortals? What are the goals and the meaning of existence? How can people obtain ascension to the higher levels of being, and do some (by evil) earn eternal damnation or oblivion? Is reincarnation a factor? What happens to a mortal's personality, if their spirit (or core nature) is reincarnated?
Ponder the ramifications, the falling of the dominos, the patterns of cause and affect, for each thing you make or do not make.
More than this, having advanced the clock, you have created time, and when you reach the time or stage of development you most favor (having written the entire history of your planet before hand, if in vague terms), now contemplate for yourself a role in your new world. Are you the mightiest angel? Are you God's own primary representative in your new reality?
Maybe you have your own little heaven or spiritual realm within your new system of things, where you just live and watch, and keep to yourself, allowing things to play-out, as they will?
Perhaps you are not a spirit being at all, but have an immortal physical form that is nearly all-powerful? Better yet, perhaps you are limited in some ways, or are just like every other mortal on your planet (save having the knowing); living out your life anonymously, dying just like other mortals, and moving to a new host body?
When all is completed, when many notebooks have been filled, pictures drawn, and numerous hours have been spent mentally constructing your personal reality, take your note pads and begin to type them out, or rewrite them in a very organized fashion, creating what is called an, "Anthology."
When all is organized, take your work before the One, laying your design upon the altar as you kneel in submission to God's will and power.
Say, "I give into your hands, Infinite and Eternal God, this work of my heart and mind, (insert name of world/realm). By your will and your word may it be perfected and manifested in accord with your purposes. By the power of your master craftsmanship make real my dreams; and give life and being unto these fond imaginings of my unified soul and spirit."
Visualize the light of God shining down upon your written works and transforming paper into sheets of illumination, the letters and drawings into fiery script and radiant images.
Lastly, take your book to a sacred place and burn it there (safely), transforming matter to energy and releasing the spirit of your creation to God. Bury a second copy near where you live, without anyone seeing you, and scatter the ashes of the burnt copy over the grave of the second. In this way, you have bound it on earth and loosed it in heaven. A third copy may be kept as manifest testament.
This entire labor may seem strange, and rather outlandish to more logical Urians. I tell you true, that many things shall you learn from what I have instructed herein.
Those who lack imagination will grow an imagination, as the power of dreams (when combined with faith in God and a strong personal relationship with the Most Holy One) can have marvelous results.
You should also gain a greater understanding of the so-called real world, as you are led to research the earth and the cosmos in order to better fashion your own personal realm. A thorough world builder may have brainstormed politics, sociology, the history of the planet earth, even, perhaps, physics and astronomy.
In building your own imaginary planet you are led to a greater understanding of how life itself is interconnected and inter-dependent.
Moreover, the act of mental creation may lead you to more than a few questions about the nature of the current realm you physically dwell within. How long has the universe really existed? How much of the history of mankind, the earth, and the universe actually happened, and how much of it is fiction fashioned for the benefit of unwary humans? Is God merely the author of this story? What role did he/it/she write for himself within our story?
Lastly, and most importantly, building an imaginary world and galaxy connects you to the Creator, for the Creator's children are creators. All things exist within the mind of God; and so your imaginary realm exists within you, as you exist within God.
I would now encourage each clergy member to research and seek out a type of fictional writing, known as a "Choose Your Own Adventure," story. In such works is the answer to the debate of free will vs. pre-destination.
The 8th Degree is never completed, not while you live in a material form. You may progress with the training after having finished a basic or general description of your imaginary realm, and should then return to it again and again throughout your life. In a sense, it is like a Doctoral Thesis for every member of the clergy.
In creating an actual manifesto or thorough anthology, visualize that your galaxy exists within a vast universe (indeed within a multiverse), beyond the universe of the earth. That universe of imagination is to be called, "(1) Pryzmea." Every imaginary world and galaxy created by the "clergy" of the Way of Spirit and Truth is added to Pryzmea. Nothing you create will effect or should be written to affect the universe as a whole.
You may add to your world, solar system, and galaxy as you see fit, throughout your life on earth. It can be as simple or as complicated as you wish.
In those days when there is a true church established, an archive might be created where each world-builder may send a copy of their manifesto to be stored for posterity.
No matter how I say this, it will seem strange to some, but it is no less a truth: What is impossible for mankind is as easy as daydreaming for God. Yet without a close-personal bond with God, nothing you write or imagine will be brought into actual being in a permanent and tangible way.
Clergy may share their visions and co-author such dreams with their students, if they wish. Dare to dream, dare to create, and dare to believe; and, in crossing the final barrier in the planes beyond flesh and blood, you may well find that your dreams have become far more real than the reality that you now consider a fact.
Note 1: Prizz-me-awe is a term referring to a collective Urian vision of an alternate or parallel universe, which is far larger and far stranger than the realm we dwell within. Prism is at the heart of the word, for it is a place of rainbow light and many expressions in harmony and balance. In one view, it is the Heaven of Urianism, or, in Gnostic terms, it is the Aeon of the Light of God. It exists for those who believe it exists, and your personal solar system or galaxy will exist there also, if you truly believe and dare to present it to God. It is offered to God, because no mortal brain has power to perfect and fill in every detail that would be necessary to actually manifest such a thing as a tangible reality. Faith, Hope, Love, Truth: these can make possible the impossible. Pryzmea is, in actuality, the real universe, and ours is a box within it.
The Elyon Page 224
A leader ho glorifies himself and boasts of God's anointing, is inferior.
The Elyon Page 221:
I call you not only to labor together and pray together, but to play together also. Go to movies, meet for coffee, create your own sports teams for casual fun, and live your lives as one community. When your time of group devotions is concluded, why not linger and watch a game or a rented show? Or why not turn prayer meetings into picnics and hiking trips?
The Elyon Page 148:
In authenticity is salvation.
No righteous deed saves you from the cycle of rising and falling.
No righteous speech will deliver you from soul-death.
No god or goddess, angel or demon of the world, can grant you entry into the Limitless.
Only truth can unlock the mansions of eternity.
The Elyon Page 154:
Let none say, however, that I have said that you cannot enjoy sports, or have sex with your spouse, or that I have told you not to eat food, or that I command that you must not prosper, or vote, or enjoy the pleasures of material life. By no means have I instructed such things! Rather, I have merely instructed that no thing of the earth should come between you and your goal of Eternal Life. When you sellout your values and your ideals and your destiny, for some cheap and temporal thing, you prove yourself foolish, and demonstrate that you belong on the earth and are not ready for an existence in higher realms.
I feel like this passage is a bit harsh - as we all start out on this path with our own dreams of grandeur... And in the first part of the book Uriah talks about how everyone hated on him at first and thought him nuts, for believing he was speaking to God and/or Uriel.
We're also taught in Many Mansions to create our own worlds - within a Urian universe/multiverse/omniverse no less... That's pretty grandiose. Though, similar to what Mormons are taught in the inner-sanctum, about inheriting their own worlds and filling them (via spirit-wives) with life.