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- Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Sprache: Englisch
Experience the life-changing power of U. S. Andersen with this unforgettable book.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020
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The Secret of Secrets
U.S. Andersen
THE SECRET OF SECRETS: SEEDS OF DESTINY
Each of us carries within him the spiritual causes that determine his destiny. Sometimes these causes are not so much spiritual as psychological “prompters,” [memories of pain] and when they become twisted through fear, hate, bitterness, or resentment our lives can be driven calamitously. But psychological prompters, no matter how deeply buried in the subconscious, can be overcome by spiritual understanding.
This understanding may be arrived at by intellectual grasp, by suffering, or simply by humility, very often by all three, but once arrived at it is as a new birth of the soul. That which you fancy yourself to be you never have really been, for it is a thing that changes with the seasons and alters with the tides. What you truly are is a permanent thing, changeless, with its foundations planted in eternity. To let go of the old self and cleave to the new is the essence of spiritual growth. This new birth, without which, Jesus said, a man cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven, completely alters the world. [“You must be born again.”]
He who views the world through the ego sees all things as existing outside himself. He feels separate, isolated, and the world appears to him as a series of unrelated things and objects all possessing certain inherent dangers to his own being. He feels small, harassed, unloved, to him the world seems cruel and unjust. Yet when he awakens to his true spiritual self, all the old fears and hates and resentments dissolve.
He then sees his kinship with all things, attains to spiritual identification with them, grows into a spiritual oneness with all creation that no longer leaves room for his personal ego and its wounds and vanities.
By letting go of his small self he attains to a vast self, a self that encompasses all things. Then at last he recognizes with Walt Whitman, “The whole theory of the universe is directed to one individual… namely to You.”
SPIRITUAL REBIRTH
It is through spiritual rebirth that we overcome all things. It is through our growth into the spiritual image of God that the purpose of life itself is fulfilled. For that purpose did spirit first become involved in matter, to that end shall it one day be free.
STEPS TO MASTERY
These then are the steps in the method for mastery over life. (1.) Consecration… a complete focusing of one’s self inward and upward, an absolute concentration of the individual on his God, on his relationship with the Divine. (2.) Surrender… a complete and utter giving of one’s self, works, thought, and will to God, an absolute yielding and submission to the will of the Divine. (3.) Sacrifice… an offering to God of one’s every act, every thought, every desire, in constant reminder of the relationship that the Divine holds with each
created existence. (4.) Love… abandonment of self in a longing for union with the Divine, an all-pervading and governing attraction to God in all His forms, works, and ways, a fusion, a oneness, a wholeness with the Supreme. This method applied to all works, all knowledge, all human relationships will carry the individual higher and higher in a divine self-exceeding, lead him to perform far above his normal human capabilities, develop depths of intuition and divination. The psychic being then will slowly emerge.
