Walking on Earth While
Living in the Sky
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
Carlos Cardoso Aveline
The student of
philosophy may feel that he is “one”: he is not.
He is one and many. Even his vision of himself changes
more often than he perceives. He has contradictory thoughts and feelings about his
own being, on various levels of perception and across the different moments of
life.
All states of mind, emotional factors, physical
habits, circumstances and aspects of his karma are interconnected in an
immediate way. “He” includes them all.
In this sense he is one.
Yet being “one” in such a context does not mean he
exists as a separate being. The feeling of individual separation is a wild, if
not hilarious, sort of illusion. The student is one with the universe: he is
unique, but not separate. He is an individual, and yet exists in a living,
dynamic unity with his solar system and the Milky Way. Mercury, Saturn and
Jupiter are alive in his soul together with other celestial gods. And he is the
Earth and the sand, too. He is the soil, and the sower. He must plant Good in
himself and others, as he learns to practice the ancient science of divine
Agriculture. Saturn, the celestial Master, teaches students to have respect for
the soil.
It is unnecessarily dangerous for students to search
too much for the nameless sky of contemplation. To each step towards the
abstract realms of celestial Nature, there must be one step in
self-purification, self-knowledge, humbleness and self-responsibility in the
earthly aspects of one’s soul.
Quietism, theosophical or not, is not the way. The
student must act. His outward work should be dedicated to the goal of
Contemplation, and the other way around: his contemplative moments must be
submitted to the daily commitment to right living on the lower planes of life.
There can be no divorce between Earth and Sky in his
consciousness. There is no opposition between the soil and the stars. Our
planet has always been part of the cosmic Ocean. It is a feminine celestial
body in the making, who travels with her co-disciples and their Master, the Sun,
through the amazing center of a little known galaxy. Our true self is part of
the Sun, and the Sun gives life to all beings in our system.
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The article “A Plurality of Integrated Steps” was first published in the
September 2014 edition of “The Aquarian
Theosophist”. It had no indication as to its author.
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On the role of the esoteric movement in the
ethical awakening of mankind during the 21st century, see the book “The Fire and Light of Theosophical Literature”, by
Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
Published in
2013 by The Aquarian Theosophist,
the volume has 255 pages and can be obtained through Amazon Books.
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