The master key that you have within you is the Christ, the Christ Consciousness, or the spiritual power of the Divine Will which is in everyone.
We are endeavouring by slow degrees to help humanity realise that the spirit life interpenetrates the physical and there is no "here" and "over there" in the way that you think. There is no impenetrable barrier between matter and spirit, but an interpenetraton, and the time comes soon when all will be touched by the magic and secret power which is spirit. This is already happening to some extent. The first step is being taken -- in other words , the whole world is going through an initiation -- a raising and an expansion of consciousness.
In this, it is good to make a habit not of dreaming your way through life, but of becoming very conscious at all times of the divine will and divine presence in the heart. It is easier to realise the presence when you train yourself to be tranquil in mind, to control the emotions and direct them wisely; not to repress them but to raise them onto a higher plane of love and service and kindness.
Let us take a moment for a word about kindness; having some spiritual knowledge, can you be sure that you weigh your words carefully?? Do you consider the feelings of others when you speak and act, not only in the big things of life, but in everyday conversation?? Kindness must be spontaneous; the lips must be controlled by kindness, and always the thought, "Will it hurt?" should be foremost. We can be cruel without knowing, without meaning to be cruel. The Masters have always said that cruelty is a great sin. If we are cruel in little things, can we wonder at the great outside world being savage and cruel??
So now you see the importance of a daily meditation, the preparation for the day which sets you up in thinking before you speak and act, the importance and the control of one´s temper and emotions. This is the way by which you unfold the powers of clear vision and clear hearing.
The power is then controlled in the solar-plexus; it is stimulated in the heart, the throat and the head; it is directed at all times by divine will -- and you must cling with all the power of God to love, and all the qualitites of the Christ spirit. Then you will not be deceived; then you will not be inaccurate in what you see and hear. Your sixth sense is in the process of growth, and in time, even a seventh sense will be developed. Now you have five senses which connect your soul with the physical plane; but the sixth sense is the first sense which connects your spirit with the physical plane. This is what you are striving after in your development, which must start with meditation.
You have heard us say before that the human body can be likened to a temple. Within this temple there is an altar, on which burns a bright, clear flame. In your meditation seek this altar; try to imagine it, and bow your head in surrender before the altar flame within your own temple. You yourself are creating this golden glowing altar and the light upon it. It is real, for it is being generated by you, is arising in you; and thus you see it in the form of an altar blazing with light.
This is not your imagination; it is what you are actually creating by your aspiration, your will, by concentration and direction of thought. The flame which you see upon the altar may take the form of a rose with a brilliant jewel of light shining in its centre. If you see this in your meditation, remember that you are gazing upon your own heart chakra. Or, when you see the form of a lotus with its many petals, remember that you are gazing upon yet another of your own chakras. As you pray and meditate, as you kneel in devotion, you are causing the light to quicken in the chakras in your being, and causing them to open like the lotus.
(Excerpt and teaching from "The Light Bringer".)
