Day 1: 8^th Beatitude (Christ impulse in the Manas)

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Mt 5:10, Lk 6:20)

The higher emotional centre (Manas) is to be found at the level of the heart, and the higher intellectual centre (Buddhi) at the level of the head. Their functions are different. In the Tradition they are sometimes called the eyes of the Soul. Thus, St Isaac The Syrian said: “While the two eyes of the body see things in an identical way, the eyes of the Soul see differently: one contemplates the truth in images and symbols, the other face to face.”

Turns suffering — the quality of the 2^nd Beatitude — into a creative activity.

The evil in nature is to be called forth out of the realm of dream into the waking world.

Temptation: To proletarize Christianity, making it exoteric and severed from the Mysteries.
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Meditations: The nine Beatitudes: Mt 5:1-12, Lk 6:20-23

This verse will require two weeks. The beatitudes awaken the Christ impulse in the various centres of the human being.

The nine beatitudes are the nine activities of the Comforter, the Paraclete, and are oriented to the perfect human being of the future. That is, they relate to the spirit-imbued human being.

The Sermon on the Mount is not concerned merely with human beings preserving their true natures in the face of natural evolution, nor even with them simply obeying the divinely revealed law, but that, in accordance with their archetype—“the image and likeness of God”—they become as God. “Be ye perfect therefore even as thy Father in heaven is perfect.” This central statement from the Sermon on the Mount is a call to ascend from the kingdoms of nature and the human being to the kingdom of God. (Lazarus)

Jesus based Baptized in complete emptiness in the Jordan.
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Week 2: Our Father who art in Heaven

Reading: Gen 3: 1-24

Day 1: 1^st curse of the Father

Meditate on the connection between disobedience (verse 6) and the necessity of toil (verse 17).

And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat. (Gen 3:6)

And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. (Gen 3:17)

From MotT:
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil has had a triple effect:
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Week 1: First Reading

Day 1 Our Father who art in Heaven

Reading Genesis 3:1-20 The Story of Paradise

Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.
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Table of Contents

Preparation

• Daily Spiritual Exercises
• Guide to Meditative Reading

First Reading

• Week 1: First Reading

Second Reading

• Week 2: Our Father Who Art in Heaven
• Week 3: Hallowed be thy Name
• Week 4: Hallowed be thy Name 2
• Week 5: Thy Kingdom Come
• Week 6: Thy Will be Done
• Week 7: Thy Will be Done 2
• Week 8: Give Us this day our Daily Bread
• Week 9: Forgive us our Trespasses
• Week 10: Lead us not into Temptation
• Week 11: Deliver us from Evil

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