Mastering Life E-Book

Peter Gruenewald

• Herausgeber: Clairview Books
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

How can we best achieve our personal goals – not just to benefit ourselves but also our loved ones and wider communities? Mastering Life introduces comprehensive and effective methods to transform the self, enhanced by the meditative use of magical symbols and sacred words. These help us identify our aspirations, combining goal contemplation, visualization and meditation techniques. Through these processes, we can gain control over spiritual forces that work within our destiny, attracting favourable outer circumstances in everyday life. Dr Gruenewald offers a set of practical tools: A spiritual symbol and mantra for meditation that can enhance our capacity to manifest harmonic goals. Contemplation – courageous conversation with our resourceful self – to enrich imagination and willpower. Resilience-building techniques, active listening, mindful nature observation and transformation of negative emotions. Harmonization of our goals with the developmental needs of others, in freedom and love. Contemplative work with the initiatory Temple Legend narrative (featured in the book). In this accessible handbook, the author shows how we can call upon the assistance of spiritual beings and masters who serve the development of humanity – including Christian Rosenkreuz, whose pupils have long used magical symbols and verses for meditative and ritualistic work.

Leseprobe

MASTERING LIFE

Rosicrucian and Magical Techniques for Achieving Your Life’s Goals

Dr Peter Gruenewald, MD

Clairview Books Ltd.,

Russet, Sandy Lane,

West Hoathly,

W. Sussex RH19 4QQ

www.clairviewbooks.com

Published by Clairview Books 2022

© Dr Peter Gruenewald 2022

This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Inquiries should be addressed to the Publishers

The right of Peter Gruenewald to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 912992 45 4

Cover by Morgan Creative

Typeset by Symbiosys Technologies, Visakhapatnam, India

Images on pp. 28 & 43 by Mina Gajovic

Printed and bound by 4Edge Ltd, Essex

A Note to the Reader

The meditations and instructions in this book are not a substitute for advice, treatment or counselling from a registered health professional or therapist. A health professional or therapist should be consulted in the case of suspected physical or mental illness. If in doubt, always consult your healthcare professional or therapist.

Acknowledgements

My special thanks go to my publisher and editor Sevak Gulbekian, and to Tom Ravetz and Angus Jenkinson, without whom this book could not have become what it is now. They have refined it with practical advice and encouragement.

I am also grateful to my wife, Bereke Dzhantelieva, whose patience, support and understanding has majorly contributed to the completion of this book.

Contents

Foreword by Angus Jenkinson

Preface

Introduction

1.Sun, Tau Cross and ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega’

2.Mastery of Life Meditation

3.Difficulties that can arise during Contemplation and Meditation

4.Self-Exploration and Self-Transformation

5.Creative Goal Exploration

6.Harmonic Goal Manifestation: Empowering the Will

7.Transforming Negative Emotions

8.Active Listening

9.Mindful Nature Meditation

10.Developing Third Eye, Etheric Heart and Etheric Forebone

11.An Initiatory Story: The Temple Legend

12.The Molten Sea and Communities Based on Love

Further Reading

Foreword

The poet John Keats described life as the ‘vale of soul-making’. He articulated the all-too-real difficulties that confront individual aspirations along the course of life. It is these Dr Peter Gruenewald addresses. He is a medical doctor, who also specializes in physiological and mental coherence. Coherence allows healthy self-regulation while also providing the inner ground for an effective life, even in difficult circumstances. Despite – or perhaps because of – the plethora of technological aids to contemporary living, modern civilization has not eliminated stress. It is arguably increasing. Despite better opportunities emerging for some marginalized groups, finding a fruitful path to the realization of one’s own potential is far from straightforward. Very many people feel unfulfilled!

Therefore, I am glad to encourage the reading and use of this book. It is a guide to an inner practice, one that can make a significant difference to how life unfolds and to what purpose. Dr Gruenewald explains how the cultivation of self-mastery, learning to realize one’s own highest potential, may make a positive difference not only for oneself but also for others. Beyond the selfish self is the resourceful self that has much to give. Peter outlines a simple, yet richly organized, meditative practice originally inspired by the polymath philosopher, Rudolf Steiner. The approach, based on freely forming and focusing on inner symbolic content, is akin to others such as ethical individualism, mindfulness, Buddhism, Christian contemplation, even the contemporary practice of many elite sporting celebrities, who build inner pictures to achieve goals. Peter succinctly but carefully guides the reader on this valuable way of self-mastery in the face of the crises in nature, society, and in the situations of very many. It encourages inner truthfulness as a counterforce to fake personality. It stimulates coherence with the needs of others; love and care for the needs of the Earth. It bolsters attainment of good goals.

In this respect, a short note on the reference to Christ within the text may be helpful. As Peter outlines it, this refers not to the image cultivated in various religious denominations, but instead to what might be called the universal Logos, a sublime principle of creativity and love that belongs in every heart and is needed in every situation. This universality is evidenced by the fact that the core of the meditative practice stems from Egyptian civilization. It is modified for modern humanity, but it testifies to the timeless search of the individual to know themselves, and in doing so know the world in all its wonder. What is then discovered will astonish.

Angus Jenkinson

Moreton-in-Marsh, Cotswolds, May 2022

Preface

Using magical symbols for the achievement of goals and success is not only empowering but also fraught with risks. It should therefore be practised with caution. A magical mastery of life needs to go hand in hand with mastery over oneself as well, including personal moral development. Exerting power without enlightened moral development can easily lead to an abyss of abuse and destruction. However, these risks should not hold us back from seeking to master ourselves and life, in close connection with those spirits that serve the ascendance of humanity.

This book is a guide that helps identify our life goals in harmony with the goals of the ascending evolution of humanity – the development of inner freedom and selfless love. These harmonic goals are supported by the spiritual world, serving the development of everyone. They are enhanced by the meditative use of magical symbols and mantras. In this inner work, we can call upon the assistance of spiritual beings and masters, including members of the hierarchies of angels that serve the ascending development of humanity towards inner freedom and love. As we will see, one of these masters is Christian Rosenkreuz, whose contemporary Western, Christian path of initiation has influenced civilization in often unrecognized ways. For many years, his pupils have used Christian magical symbols and mantras for meditative and ritualistic work. As we will also see later in this work, the methods for the practice of Christian magic given in this book are closely connected with the ‘Temple Legend’ of Hiram and Solomon. This legend was important to high degree freemasonry as well as Rudolf Steiner’s Esoteric School.

This book is a practical guide that introduces a comprehensive and effective training to better meet our spiritual and personal developmental needs, including the needs of family, friends, society, humanity and nature. A spiritual symbol and a mantra for meditation are introduced that can enhance our personal and spiritual development and speed up our capacity to manifest our harmonic goals through strong action and the attraction of favourable outer circumstances.

Combining goal contemplation, visualization and symbol and mantra meditation can lead towards the development of – and control over – spiritual forces and skills. These work within us, in nature and in our destiny.

Using contemplation (courageous conversation with our resourceful self), meditation and spiritual symbols to enhance imagination and willpower, in order to ask spiritual beings and their forces to assist in goal achievement, is a path of practical magic.

To harmonize one’s own goals with the developmental needs of other people and humanity (harmonic goals) is an important process to safeguard against the abuse of occult power. Use of occult power for purely selfish means or to harm others is a path of black magic that ultimately guides us away from the developmental goals of inner freedom and love, and into the abyss of dependency to dark occult powers. The path described here, on the other hand, intends to strengthen the development of wisdom, beauty and goodness within ourselves and others. Unfortunately, any gain in power can also be abused for dark purposes.