On the Secret Harmony
Between
Eternity and the Present
Moment
Carlos Cardoso
Aveline
Om.
I will think now of the spirit of the
cosmos and the universal law.
There are no boundaries in space or
time. I’m an abstract nameless point and have no dimensions. I live in a small
solar system in the Local Group of galaxies. My permanent address is the
totality of existing things.
As a perception of the omnipresent
Law expands, the personal idea is left aside and one’s will becomes stronger in
natural ways. Now the unutterable peace of the One Life can be perceived, free
of every form or image.
Across aeons of planetary lives, each
soul inhabits the infinite space-time and does so according to Law.
Physical
existence is intermittent: real life is eternal.
While
fulfilling his daily duties, the pilgrim dwells in the permanent aspect of
peace.
In
the temple of one’s conscience, the sense of “I” is not separated from anything
and feels attached to nothing. Each individual is an anonymous invisible center
of self-responsibility. The
law of mutual help gathers all beings together.
Forgetting oneself is an act
of liberation: a union with the Law is achieved in the realm of non-self.
The feeling of impersonal duty stimulates a direct
consciousness of one’s unity with the universe, and reveals the substance of
eternal contentment. One can always dwell
in the inner harmony between eternity and the present moment.
Om, Shanti.
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The above prayer can be practised anywhere at any time, individually and collectively. The easiest way to practise it is to calmly and slowly read the text - making short pauses, so as to silently experience the inner meaning of each sentence.
An initial version of “The Draft of a Prayer” was published in the October 2014 edition of “The Aquarian Theosophist”, pp. 1-2. It had no indication as to the name of the 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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