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| − | " | + | "A Spiritual Family is an experience and not a definition.... [Y]our Spiritual Family represents a small learning group that has been developed over a long time. At your stage of development, you work best in small groups. That is why your Spiritual Family represents a small group. Not all of your Spiritual Family live within this world. Some of them exist in the Greater Community. Not all of your development has been in this world because you yourself have had experiences of the Greater Community." |
<ref>''[[Living The Way of Knowledge]]'', Chapter 7</ref> | <ref>''[[Living The Way of Knowledge]]'', Chapter 7</ref> | ||
| − | + | "You have a relationship with your Spiritual Family. This can be experienced, but you must become close to your Spiritual Family. You will become close as you come closer to Knowledge within you because Knowledge and your Spiritual Family are inextricably intertwined. One will remind you of the other." | |
| − | " | + | <ref>''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 17</ref> |
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| − | " | + | "Your Spiritual Family is comprised of both the relationships that you have fully reclaimed thus far in your overall evolution in physical life and those relationships you are meant to reclaim now and in the future. Your Spiritual Family is your learning group. This means that you are not only an individual, you are also part of a group." |
| − | <ref> | + | <ref name="rhp5">''[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]]'', Chapter 5</ref> |
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| − | " | + | "People think it is quite phenomenal that Teachers such as ourselves |
| − | <ref name=" | + | come on the scene. Some people regard our presence as intrusive. Others |
| + | accept it with a sigh of relief. But it is Teachers such as ourselves, indeed | ||
| + | all members of your Spiritual Family, who have made all of your progress | ||
| + | possible." | ||
| + | <ref name="wgcI10">''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 10</ref> | ||
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is God and your Spiritual Family, who are devoted to your spiritual emergence. | is God and your Spiritual Family, who are devoted to your spiritual emergence. | ||
But still, the power of decision must be utilized by you." | But still, the power of decision must be utilized by you." | ||
| − | <ref>''[[Wisdom from | + | <ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 33</ref> |
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| + | "You have relationships with others in the Greater Community of worlds because this world is not your only home. Your network of meaningful relationships exists far beyond humanity because humanity is but one colony of intelligent life amongst many who dwell together in the Greater Community. You have relationships there, and for you these relationships may be very primary because they are relationships with members of your Spiritual Family." | ||
| + | <ref>''[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]]'', Chapter 15</ref> | ||
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| + | "You have known each other from before. Yet your experience of one another is not born of past life experience, but of creation beyond the physical reality entirely. You have had past life experiences with many individuals who are not part of your Spiritual Family. Your Spiritual Family is a small group. Yet you have had past life experiences with thousands and thousands of individuals." | ||
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| + | ==Directives== | ||
| + | "Be glad that you are part of a Spiritual Family, for this gives you the discernment necessary to seek out those individuals with whom you must learn and with whom you are meant to become engaged." | ||
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| + | ==The search for connection== | ||
"People are always seeking their Spiritual Family. They seek it in personal | "People are always seeking their Spiritual Family. They seek it in personal | ||
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you are not alone. Before you came into this world, you were not alone, | you are not alone. Before you came into this world, you were not alone, | ||
and those who were with you then are with you now." | and those who were with you then are with you now." | ||
| − | <ref>''[[Wisdom from | + | <ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 1</ref> |
| + | ==The experience of presence== | ||
| − | "Your Spiritual Family is | + | "Your Spiritual Family beyond the world is supporting your spiritual development by communicating to you through the Mental Environment. " |
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| + | ==The return after this world== | ||
| + | "When you return to your Spiritual Family after you leave this world, they will look at you to see if you have accomplished your task, if you made the deeper connection. And you will know if you have or you have not. There is no judgment and condemnation, only recognition here." | ||
| + | <ref>The Engagement (April 16, 2011)</ref> | ||
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| + | "When you leave the world, you go home to your Spiritual Family. You go home to inherent reality, | ||
| + | with either your mission completed or your mission left undone." | ||
| + | <ref name="ltwok6">''[[Living The Way of Knowledge]]'', Chapter 6</ref> | ||
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| − | + | "You have come into the world to serve your Spiritual Family. Some members of your Spiritual Family are in this world at this time, some of them are in other worlds and some of them are not in physical reality at all. You have come into the world for your own advancement and for the advancement of your group. As your group advances and expands, it will be able to join with other groups, and then, like rivers joining with one another into greater and greater flowing bodies of water, you will find your way home to God, which is the source and destiny of all relationships." | |
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Revision as of 01:44, 1 April 2012
Identifications
"A Spiritual Family is an experience and not a definition.... [Y]our Spiritual Family represents a small learning group that has been developed over a long time. At your stage of development, you work best in small groups. That is why your Spiritual Family represents a small group. Not all of your Spiritual Family live within this world. Some of them exist in the Greater Community. Not all of your development has been in this world because you yourself have had experiences of the Greater Community." [1]
"You have a relationship with your Spiritual Family. This can be experienced, but you must become close to your Spiritual Family. You will become close as you come closer to Knowledge within you because Knowledge and your Spiritual Family are inextricably intertwined. One will remind you of the other." [2]
"Your Spiritual Family is comprised of both the relationships that you have fully reclaimed thus far in your overall evolution in physical life and those relationships you are meant to reclaim now and in the future. Your Spiritual Family is your learning group. This means that you are not only an individual, you are also part of a group."
[3]
"People think it is quite phenomenal that Teachers such as ourselves
come on the scene. Some people regard our presence as intrusive. Others
accept it with a sigh of relief. But it is Teachers such as ourselves, indeed
all members of your Spiritual Family, who have made all of your progress
possible."
[4]
"What gives you the strength and the power to make decisions
is God and your Spiritual Family, who are devoted to your spiritual emergence.
But still, the power of decision must be utilized by you."
[5]
"You have relationships with others in the Greater Community of worlds because this world is not your only home. Your network of meaningful relationships exists far beyond humanity because humanity is but one colony of intelligent life amongst many who dwell together in the Greater Community. You have relationships there, and for you these relationships may be very primary because they are relationships with members of your Spiritual Family."
[6]
"You have known each other from before. Yet your experience of one another is not born of past life experience, but of creation beyond the physical reality entirely. You have had past life experiences with many individuals who are not part of your Spiritual Family. Your Spiritual Family is a small group. Yet you have had past life experiences with thousands and thousands of individuals."
[3]
Directives
"Be glad that you are part of a Spiritual Family, for this gives you the discernment necessary to seek out those individuals with whom you must learn and with whom you are meant to become engaged." [3]
The search for connection
"People are always seeking their Spiritual Family. They seek it in personal relationships. They seek it in political causes and in religious causes. They seek it in peace, and they seek it in war. They do not know what they are seeking, but to be alone in this world is a terrible destiny. Yet, you are not alone. Before you came into this world, you were not alone, and those who were with you then are with you now." [7]
The experience of presence
"Your Spiritual Family beyond the world is supporting your spiritual development by communicating to you through the Mental Environment. " [8]
"Your Spiritual Family is with you now. Those who are not in the physical reality are with you now and you can experience their presence. This will be your experience of spiritual presence. Your Inner Teachers will help to cultivate and nourish these growing associations so that your experience of spiritual presence and your ability to experience affinity with other people may grow."
[3]
The return after this world
"When you return to your Spiritual Family after you leave this world, they will look at you to see if you have accomplished your task, if you made the deeper connection. And you will know if you have or you have not. There is no judgment and condemnation, only recognition here." [9]
"When you leave the world, you go home to your Spiritual Family. You go home to inherent reality,
with either your mission completed or your mission left undone."
[8]
Metaphors
"You have come into the world to serve your Spiritual Family. Some members of your Spiritual Family are in this world at this time, some of them are in other worlds and some of them are not in physical reality at all. You have come into the world for your own advancement and for the advancement of your group. As your group advances and expands, it will be able to join with other groups, and then, like rivers joining with one another into greater and greater flowing bodies of water, you will find your way home to God, which is the source and destiny of all relationships." [3]
References
- ↑ Living The Way of Knowledge, Chapter 7
- ↑ Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 17
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 5
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 10
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 33
- ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 15
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 1
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Living The Way of Knowledge, Chapter 6
- ↑ The Engagement (April 16, 2011)