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The Psychology of the Five Divine Virtues - DRICOCOT
Excerpts from The Psychology of the Five Divine Virtues By Dr. Bhuka B. M. Bijumiro
INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW
There are five divine virtues that correspond to the five spiritual planes, the five fingers on each hand, and the five toes on each foot. In addition, these five virtues also remind us of the five visible kingdoms, and the five elements of creation. Our Muslim brothers are thus reminded of the five daily prayers. However, to the Initiates of the Path of the Saints, the five divine virtues are reminiscent of the five Divine Melodies, their respective five Custodians, and the corresponding five Spiritual Planes. For brevity, I have called these five virtues by the acronym “DRICOCOT.” The word is coined from the five divine virtues to provide a vehicle for quick and easy recall from memory. The student of the Vertical Path or of the Way of the Almodia (Almighty Omnipresent Divine Awesome) must steadily learn to utilize the five virtues and ingrain the same into his or her personality.
Dricocot is a spiritual method of drilling into one’s life, one by one, each of these virtues. It is a technique of concocting them as a medicine that one must take every minute and hour of every day throughout one’s life. These five divine virtues as expounded by the living divine Spiritual Guardians or contemporary Soul-Liberators are:
1. Discernment
2. Righteousness
3. Contentment
4. Compassion
5. Truthfulness
In brief, Dricocot means drilling and concocting the five virtues and imbibing them into your life or personality.
It appears that the individual has to evolve and progress in upward movement on the ladder towards spiritual maturity. Maturity occurs as each one of the divine virtues is gradually ingrained in the personality, both as a natural and spiritual process. Additionally, there are practical conscious steps any person can engage in to invest conscious effort in developing any one of the individual virtues.
There are some virtues that one can easily cultivate and nurture until they become dynamic integral parts of the personality. When we are able to comprehend or realize the nature of the human mind and how it works, we find this to be true. The dweller within the temple (the human body) is your true self. Moreover, that essential, true, pure self is the soul or spirit, which is often referred to as the Individualized Spirit.
Without direct personal effort to cultivate the divine virtues in our lives, the natural process and creation itself become vehicles to transform the personality. This transformation takes place in which, one by one, these virtues are ingrained upon the soul-mind entity. The nature-creation process can be both gentle and merciful on one hand. However, it can also be hard, stiff, and cruel on the other hand. Why this is so depends upon the way and manner, the soul-mind entity uses its freewill. In Nature and Creation, “cruelty” is not in the vocabulary. It is “discipline or justice” and justice is giving what is due – wherever it belongs. By now you know, there are neither accidents nor coincidences in Nature and Creation.
This long and arduous natural process takes place as the spirit within the human body undergoes countless experiences of evolution, in innumerable physical forms or bodies, over billions of years. It is this very process that modern scientists, especially psychologists, call the natural evolution process. However, they use the term without knowing or understanding its origin and basis. It originates from soul or spirit’s existence in the lower worlds when spirit occupies a different physical body at different times in its evolution. This is based upon the Law of Cause and Effect in correspondence with the soul’s use of freewill. Evolution therefore, pertains more to the soul than to the physical body. It is my personal understanding that the evolution of the physical body is dependent upon the evolution of the entity that dwells within that body. In this case, we refer to the spirit or soul.
If man had no choices to make and therefore had no freewill, man would be free from the effects of his thoughts, words, desires, and actions. The esoteric or spiritual psychologist focuses upon how man uses his freewill in making decisions or choices and what effects result from such choices. The development of the five divine virtues and other virtues discussed in this work is an integral part of such focus and use of freewill. Possession of these virtues has a great impact upon how we use our freewill. It influences what choices we make in life and vice versa. That is to say, how we use our free will or what choices we make in life affects the process by which we obtain divine virtues and subsequent or corresponding merits.
In brief, what we do and how we do it determines what divine virtues are ingrained in our soul-mind entity or personality over a long duration. For example, if we substitute anger with tolerance and control of negative impulses, the opposing divine virtue of patience builds within our personality. If we ensure that our life is free of vanity, arrogance, self-centeredness, and self-pity, we build the divine virtue of humility in our personality. In order to build divine virtues, we must first study, learn, or observe the lives of those people who have or had such virtues. This is the very reason contemporary Divine Spiritual Guardians teach and encourage their devotees to study the lives of past and present Saints and the teachings of all Soul-Liberators.
The process of building divine virtues, as taught by true mystics since time immemorial, explains how these virtues naturally grow in the soul-mind relationship as one evolves on the spiritual ladder. It is the duty of the indwelling spirit to impress upon the mind the spirit’s inherent true nature as a divine entity. Such impression cannot take place unless and until the human mind has passed through various stages of growth, experience, and development. The human mind must experience transformation from being a crude mind to becoming a fine mind. This theory and practice is based upon the premise that by nature, the soul (spirit) is divine. Being divine, the soul inherently possesses divine qualities but the mortal human mind has these qualities over-shadowed.
Using the term “fine” mind does NOT mean an academically intelligent or successful mind, as most people would assume. Rather, it refers to the mind that has evolved through mortal experiences in a series of incarnations in “human” bodies resulting in progressive growth that comes to a critical point of self-realization and beyond. The result of such consecutive rebirths (as a mind in association with a spirit or soul in a human body) is to help the crude mind to evolve spiritually because it also possesses a spiritual component to it. This is so because there is “no thing” in the entire universe that is without some element of soul or spirit. Even the invisible atom, whether in metal, plants, rocks, or in the leg of a mosquito, anywhere the atom might be, the atom possesses a component of spirit to it! (See author’s book, Spiritual Genetic Physics).
The evolution of the crude (young) mind into a fine (old) mind has nothing to do with academic knowledge and success, or with the biological age of the person. Rather, evolution of the mind (as used here) relates to the degree of awareness or exposure it has had to its true nature (as mind). It relates to the mind’s association with the soul – wherever the mind may be at any given time. This explains why we find people who are young in body but are old in mind. They have an old mind in a young body. On the other hand, we find many chronologically old people who are psychologically no different from little boys. They are young minds in old physical bodies. (See author’s book, entitled, Imbalukira-Mmiimbani-Maagyi – The Great Spiritual Science for the Born-Fortunate Children)
This is not to deny that the academic process has positive effects upon the evolution of the mind. On the contrary, academic performance and training has an effect upon the mind’s evolution. Why? It is part of that evolution. However, modern academic learning has been divorced from dynamic spirituality and therefore, one can unfortunately say, it is not spiritual. Moreover, because it is not spiritual, many academically successful minds often continually miss the spiritual mark. They miss the spiritual mark because for so long on this planet, the growth of academics has been a one-sided matter. For millennium and throughout civilizations, the human race has only focused on one side of the coin, namely achieving material, academic, and intellectual understanding. They do not realize that soul and mind are tied together by Nature and Creation in one knot. In other words, both the mind and the soul dwell in the human body tied together in one conjoined knot – almost like Siamese twins. Yet, those who have taken spirituality and academic study simultaneously are excellent performers in both subjects. The fact is, spiritual exposure and training greatly enhances academic learning.
Unfortunately, our secular system of education concentrates on the development of the human mind, but forgets or discards the need to study the human soul or spirit. This circumstance endures because modern scientists have persistently denied the existence of the spirit (or soul) which is the real power within man. They have confused mind with soul and soul with mind. They fail to recognize the difference between mind and soul as two entirely different and separate entities. Mind is impermanent and the other, soul or spirit, is permanent.
You might have already observed in the context of this work that we use the words soul and spirit synonymously or interchangeably. There is no doubt that recognition of the divine (spirit) in man supports the argument of intelligent design (God for that matter) to the detriment of the Darwinian theory of evolution. Psyche or soul – the self in man – has its origin in the divine Supreme Origin we commonly call God.
Due to a lack of understanding, the words mind, psyche, soul, or self are portrayed as the same thing. Even some dictionaries define it in that way, namely, psyche is soul or mind. Scientists refer to it as the psyche or mind because they do not know any better. They discard the other part of the equation, which is the soul or spirit and is an entirely different and separate entity from the mind. Currently, a following of scientists consider the part of the equation associated with soul as an integral part and they call it “Intelligent Design.” On the other hand, other members of the scientific community do not wish to associate soul or spirit with its true nature and essence, which is God or Universal Pure Spirit. We would suggest they call IT, Super-Cosmic Consciousness.
Only the mystics clearly make the distinction between the mind and the spirit. They not only explain the difference, but they also clearly show how both mind and soul are knotted together as two different entities. They even go a step further and show how the spirit can extricate itself from of the mind. Mystics of all ages elucidate by saying, “between mind and soul, the soul is higher, much finer, and much more powerful than the mind.” In addition, contemporary mystics also invite us to personally explore this apparent phenomenon until we find the riddle. In order for us to do this, they grant us their impeccable guidance and personal escort in the inner invisible worlds.
This being the case, we go back to where we started, namely, the duty of the soul is to impress upon the mind the divine virtues, which are the soul’s true nature and essence. When this happens, the mind can only follow the dictates of the soul and can therefore never make mistakes. Humans make grave mistakes only because the soul fails to impress what it wills upon the mind. However, for such an impression to occur, I repeat, mind must have passed through innumerable experiences in companionship with the spirit before it can be made to register those impressions. Crude minds do not receive soul impressions that easily. Remember, we already pointed out that one may be an academic success, while at the same time; he may possess a crude mind when it comes to spiritual science.
As long as the mind is crude, inexperienced in the ways of the spirit, it is very difficult for the soul to impress upon it the soul’s own true nature and essence. This explains why the majority of human beings have a deficit of these divine virtues. Their minds remain immature, crude, and un-ripe for the acquisition or cultivation of these virtues. The divine virtues give the spirit its awesome power both in the material world and in the pure spiritual worlds or heavens.
There is a common question: What causes the mind to mature from its crude state?
First, the process of maturing the mind as used by Nature and Creation has the mind and the soul tied together within a human body or form. Once this is achieved, such a mind will one day progress to become a fine mind. A mind that is bound together with the soul is the luckiest mind. The mind never separates from that soul until the soul takes it back to its (the mind’s) origin. For this to take place, the mind must first be cleansed, purified, and directed by the soul. Once the soul/spirit assumes mastership over the mind, mind cannot fall into “sin” as they say. Sin is a product of a crude and un-evolved mind since it lacks the divine virtues necessary to identify and differentiate between good and evil. So today, we have so many academically qualified individuals whose thoughts, words, and deeds reveal how crude their minds are in this respect. They are the ones who have advanced and sanctioned such social evils as homosexuality (gay and lesbianism); same sex marriage; abortion and pro-choice, which authorizes women to commit murder; resolving conflicts by military force; and international terrorism. These practices are sanctioned and championed by many brilliant academic minds.
The term “evil spirit” refers to souls that have failed to master their minds. Unfortunately, this happens to be the state of the largest percentage of human souls on this planet today. This also explains why the great Divine Guardians reveal that many human beings are not really human. Although they are souls wearing the human body, they are overshadowed by evil entities because they remain slaves to their minds. That is the explanation of what an evil spirit or evil soul in a human body really means. Human beings who have not taken charge of their minds are in a way sub-human because they are bound to commit inhumane acts and atrocities against humanity. As long as the soul remains a slave of the mind, the soul does not function in the dynamic state needed to possess divine virtues and divine merits so it can avoid committing evil acts.
Secondly, due to the soul/mind association in the body of man, the soul continually reaps or suffers from the crude thoughts, words, deeds, and desires of the human mind. Remember, the reason we speak of the mind, and the human mind in particular, is because there are gazillions of minds that are not human minds. This is to say, there are many minds that are not tied to souls wearing human bodies. The same is true of the gazillion souls that exist elsewhere in uncountable and unknown galaxies. The fact is there are zazillions of souls that are not wearing human bodies. Uncountable numbers of souls and minds appear in millions of different forms or bodies within the seven kingdoms.
In this work, we focus on human minds and human souls when discussing the divine virtues. One must take note, however, until the human soul or spirit impresses the divine virtues upon the human mind, the human personality’s thought patterns, words and desires, and actions keep missing the mark of the divine. Therefore, the personality indulges in non-virtuous thoughts, non-virtuous utterances, non-virtuous deeds, and non-virtuous desires. This state of affairs causes the indwelling spirit to share in the repercussions of such non-virtuous activity. As a result, the indwelling human soul fails to do its duty, to play its role, to impress its divine virtues upon the mind, to which it is tied within the human body. That is the soul’s felony or crime. The consequence of that crime is that the soul must continually suffer the pains and miseries of births and rebirths until the day it awakens to realize its mistake and begins to strive to impress its divine virtues upon the mind it is bound to.
For this reason, cultivation of the divine virtues cannot be said to be of the mind, because the mind is just a tool. The mind is a machine for the soul to use while in the physical form in this world. When the soul fails to impress its divine virtues upon the mind, the mind behaves like a running engine left unattended by the driver. Therefore, as soul in the human body, you are the driver and the mind is your engine. As long as mind is un-tamed by spirit, mind runs wild. On the other hand once tamed, mind follows the dictates of the spirit and it does so obediently.
By nature, because mind and soul are tied in the same physical form, the mind is already an ignited engine. It carries the soul wherever it is facing no matter what. This is why we find many personalities or human beings falling into all kinds of mistakes in life. Some personalities crash into trees, others crash into fellow human beings, while others have head-on-collisions with solid rock. Depending upon what impact is made; both the mind and the soul suffer corresponding consequences. Oftentimes, the vehicle is beyond repair and both mind and soul quit the body for good. This is called death.
When the indwelling soul realizes its duty, it begins to make a conscious effort to invest time and energy to cultivate divine virtues in its earthly life. It does so by impressing them upon the mind. As we all know, where there is a will, there is always a way. Moreover, the higher one progresses on the Spiritual Path, the more these virtues become evident in one’s personality.
Divine virtues reside within the soul in a dormant or latent state. As one grows spiritually, these virtues become dynamic in one’s personality until their divine energy pervades ones entire life. In other words, some of these virtues may not easily be cultivated consciously by external direct effort. Nevertheless, if we attend to our spiritual programs by concentrating on and living by spiritual principles, precepts, and tenets, eventually, we find that these virtues become dynamic in our personality. They slowly take root and grow.
Some virtues naturally grow, similar to the way certain things grow on our bodies as we physically mature. A female does not need to worry about the growth of breasts nor a male about change in his voice. Such signs of maturation and growth of the physical body are natural consequences of growing up. However, the little girl or boy must have nourishment. If not, growth into adolescence becomes stunted and they may die.
Similarly, when one matures and grows spiritually, discernment, righteousness, compassion, contentment, and truthfulness appear to grow within the personality as well. Spiritual growth is both an art and a science. Certain principles and precepts are essential for spiritual growth and development and for the maturation of the divine virtues.
There is a corresponding spiritual force in our lives. It is a force that wells up to stimulate the development of spiritual virtues. However, the question is, “What level of spirituality are we talking about here?” Spiritual growth begins with the growth of good morals. Having good morals begins the growth of cultural understanding. Cultural growth is borne of the inherent divine fiber deep within the recesses of the dweller on the threshold.
By culture, I do not refer to the many different tribal, ethnic, or racial cultures around the world, as we know them to be today. On the contrary, I refer to the Prime Law of Humanity, which in Africa’s ancient oral tradition is called, the ageless intrinsic Law of Kyenkola bannange ssaagala bakinkole, nga kibi (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you). By culture, I mean the soul’s ability to win over the mind and take charge of its actions. The soul that works in cooperation with its mind within the human body is the cultured soul or personality. Hence, spiritual culture and civility stems from whether or not the soul is in charge of the mind. If the mind is in charge, civilization develops an anti-spiritual culture, often referred to as an anti-Christ Consciousness.
Christ-Consciousness refers to being under the direction of the divine spirit within man as opposed to the dictates of the crude mind. Christ Consciousness never falls into sin and is only reached when an individual attains Self-Realization and transcends the vicious cycle of births and deaths. It takes place when an individual’s divine spirit has merged into divine union with the Almodia - the Ultimate Truth, which is the Supreme Lord Sseggulumanda [ancient title of the Supreme Being as used in the Great Lakes region of Africa]. Divine Consciousness does not mean talking about this Prophet, or that Savior, Redeemer, or Soul-Liberator. To attain Divine Consciousness and merge into union with IT is a conscious practical inner journey each one of us must take to the Infinite Source, the Supreme Being and Lord Sseggulumanda. We must take that journey now, while we still live and shoulder our family and worldly duties and responsibilities, not after death as most people believe. It is neither theory nor mental romanticism where one is lost in the realm of belief and faith alone. All true perfect Soul-Liberators teach that faith must be accompanied by practice, by doing. One such Soul-Liberator said, “Whosoever hears these sayings and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon a rock.”
To undertake this inner journey, one needs the company of a Living Soul-Liberator or contemporary Christ, if you will. The word “Christ” is not a person or personality but a divine spiritual achievement or degree of consciousness attainable by every sincere human being under the guidance and protection of a physically living Divine Guardian. To become one with that Divine Infinite Power of Consciousness, you must merge into IT now while you still live in this world. Achieving such union is the very purpose of a human birth. Only then can you be anointed as an Anointed One, which is the meaning of the word Christ.
Chapter One
DISCERNMENT
Discernment is the divine virtue that corresponds to the physical plane. It corresponds to the physical or material plane because without discernment, no soul can rise beyond the cause and effect of illusion, glamour, and related issues. In order to rise through the world, to be successful spiritually, and to attain the purpose of a human birth, one needs the virtue of discernment. Without discernment, an individual is likely to be entangled by inextricable burdens of kaluma (retributive causes and effects). Discernment is the key that unlocks the prison of kaluma that one would entrap oneself in without that virtue. Discernment is to spiritual development, what water is to life.
The student of the Vertical Path needs to cultivate and nurture the virtue of discernment. The apprentice must weave it into the complex tapestry of his or her personality in order to venture through life as a student of the esoteric sciences. Such a student is on a divine journey to ultimate perfection and everlasting freedom. In brief, discernment makes attainment of infinite joy, happiness, and bliss in divine union with the Supreme Almighty Lord, Sseggulumanda possible. This is provided one is lucky enough to train at the sacrosanct ineffable feet of a contemporary Divine Soul-Liberator.
Without discernment, one easily entangles oneself in undue karmic burdens and unconsciously weaves them into one’s life. As a result, we reap the “fruit” of worry, anxiety, fear, melancholy, pain, suffering, misery, and continued existence on the vicious circle of death and rebirth. Discernment becomes a strong anchor upon which the student of the Path stands in readiness to confront the vicissitudes and incessant tests continually presented by the mind on this earthly journey.
What is discernment?
We shall explain discernment from two perspectives, the material-religious perspective and the esoteric-spiritual perspective, both of which we shall weave into one. Discernment points to a number of things namely:
• The conscious ability to detect possible effects that may arise from our thoughts, words, and deeds from the often unseen and unplanned causes we planted in past incarnations. In order to detect possible results, outcomes, or repercussions, one has to use one’s inner eye, so to speak. It means using the faculty of discernment now, in our daily lives, in the hours, minutes, and seconds in which we presently live. It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong, to discriminate between what is appropriate and what is not. You may call it part of intuition because actual discernment is a momentary sense of understanding that detects trouble, identifies dangerous ramifications and possible problems or challenges, and acts to prevent them. A sense of discernment comes to mind or soul almost instantly in the time of need. It can be used to detect lies, hypocrisy, infidelity, fraud, or con artists trying to deceive us, as well as many other things. There is little difference between intuition and discernment as a warning tool except that discernment makes a distinction between more than one issue at any given time.
In my experience, intuition like discernment can enable one to recognize an impudent person the very first time we see or hear them speak. From the physical features of a person, to their look and gestures; from the way their eyes, lips or nose move, and their speaking voice and tone; or from their body language and carriage; one can discern whether to hire someone or not. We can determine whether to fall in love with a person or if we should associate with that person or not. All of this is discernment at work. It is a revealing insight and understanding of what needs to be identified, noticed, or understood for what it is before we decide whether to proceed or not.
Honesty or deception can be revealed when our faculty or virtue of discernment is mature enough. However, please note, we are referring to spiritual not simply mental discernment. We are speaking of the virtue itself, not the mental or logical application of discernment.
While it is not an easy matter to decide whether someone you have just seen handcuffed is culpable or not, discernment as a virtue offers a revelation of the person’s innocence or vice versa almost instantly. In a case like this, it may be difficult to tell whether it was discernment or intuition. Looking straight into a person’s eyes, hearing them speak or answer questions, focusing on their body language and things of that sort can bring discernment into action. This kind of discernment is affected through physical vision and mental application. Discernment can be of great help in cases when suspects are in the courtroom or in police interrogation sessions. However, true or real discernment, as a divine virtue, is a kind of visionary clairvoyance that does not come to the physical eye or mental faculty. Rather such discernment comes to the human mind when impressed by the spirit within. This kind of discernment delivers one hundred percent correct identification and understanding.
Based upon prevailing conditions and circumstances, discernment can even be employed to see present and future events. As in the case with utilizing facial reading as a tool of assessment, discernment may also be advantageously used as an expanded means to detect or ascertain qualities of dishonesty, tendencies toward conspiratorial thinking, or a proclivity for self-aggrandizement. For example, a person with matured qualities of discernment would have the advantage of having additional information to evaluate a political candidate before making a choice, whereby the majority only later witness very negative characteristics that were detected earlier by a discerning voter.
Discernment consists of a mental and spiritual faculty merging to provide the individual with an immediate solution to a trouble or danger. In every person’s life and experience there may be negative things that lay hidden. It may be a snare, a trap, a mind-conspiracy to tempt one into transgression. Alternatively, it could be a deliberate personal thought, word or decision whose negative repercussion might eventually result in great pain, suffering or misery. Oftentimes, the decision an individual makes causes many others to experience pain, suffering, and misery. Such decisions may even result in death only because the individual did not apply the virtue of discernment.
It is said, when Ugandan Army Commander, Idi Amin Dada decided to topple his boss’s political regime in 1971; he did so to save his own position. For quite some time, he had been at loggerheads with Dr. Apollo Milton Obote, who at the time was President of Uganda. Amin was Obote’s army commander at that time. Obote used earlier Amin to oust the country’s first President, the King of Buganda, Sir Edward Muteesa. More than 400 people died in this crisis. In turn, Amin’s decision to topple Obote in order to save his own position of power resulted in the deaths of 300,000 Ugandans and a number of foreigners, including two American journalists and two Israelis during Idi Amin’s eight-year regime. First, the brutal dictator had to make a decision that would usher him to state power. Was his decision the result of discernment or an act of self-preservation? It was a deliberate scheme that resulted from Obote’s demonstrated distrust of Amin. It had nothing to do with discernment as a divine virtue.
Definition of discernment: Discernment is the ability of the soul to impress upon the personality what the soul knows and sees to be the right, correct, and appropriate thing (to do). The soul is aware of the correct action to take at any given time in whatever condition or circumstance, thus enabling the individual to formulate a proper judgment or make an accurate and appropriate decision.
Soul’s impression upon the personality or human mind is dependent upon the current condition of the mind. That condition exists in relationship to the degree of awareness or evolution attained by the mind in correspondence to the general retributive liability that clouds a person’s consciousness at any given time.
The less karmic liability one has acquired or accumulated directly or indirectly, the clearer and stronger the soul’s impression becomes upon the mind. The heavier one’s karmic liability, the greater the difficulty the soul faces to impress its will upon a person’s personality (mind) and ability to employ the virtue of discernment. This circumstance explains why perfected individuals or liberated souls have clear-discernment personalities. They have personalities with very clear powers of discernment as long as they live in this world and beyond. On the other hand, it also clarifies why the majority of people find great difficulty in comprehending spiritual truths. It explains why many people do not see the reality of circumstances, events and people, but seek the Supreme Sseggulumanda in places where IT is not to be realized. Even when you tell them that their Heavenly Father dwells within their bodies as themselves, they have little or no understanding of what you are saying. They lack the dynamic power with which to discern divine spiritual truths. That dynamic power stems from divine virtues and merits acquired or accumulated by a given individual, in the present, in the past, or both.
The best example is found in the story of Nicodemus of the Bible. He was told by Lord Jesus, unless a man was born again, he could not enter the kingdom of heaven. Like Nicodemus, even today there are millions who have no practical divine understanding of what being born-again really means. It would appear that it goes far beyond possessing mere faith in the name of Lord Jesus. It requires more than discernment because it is a process of application. Once born, the child must feed in order to grow and fulfill the purpose of its birth. If not, that birth is wasted. Being born-again is a divine spiritual mystical secret imparted only to a selected student by a contemporary Divine Spiritual Guardian or Soul-Liberator. It is a divine alchemical secret whereby base metal (mortal man) is transformed into gold (an immortal being) or a sinner into a Saint. Only serious Initiates get to know and comprehend it, as well as watch and reap its results in their own lives.
If it was merely a matter of belief and uttering the words of baptism, Lord Jesus would have asked Nicodemus to “Believe in me and I will baptize you,” but he did not. He simply told him, “Unless a man is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.” Nicodemus even went as far as asking, “How can a man be born again. Can he re-enter his mother’s womb and be born again?” Lord Jesus had the capacity and power to show him how a man could be born again, but he did not. Why? Nicodemus was unripe. He was not ready to receive that rare divine spiritual key–the special instruction by a contemporary Soul-Liberator of his time. Being born again is a sacred divine ceremony whereby the Soul-Liberator reconnects the individualized spirit to its Inner Source by way of the Divine Melody and Inner Light. That particular Soul-Liberator was the Anointed One, the Christ, who appeared in the world at that time in the body of a human being named Immanuel Joshua (Lord Jesus).
Similarly, many who presently think they are born-again have never encountered a contemporary Soul-Liberator to help them be reborn to their divine origin and nature as individualized spirit. They believe in departed Soul-Liberators. As the Supreme Deity did with those of past ages and civilizations, IT still provides Anointed Ones, in every generation and age, with contemporary Soul-Liberators who give the secret of being born again to those who are ripe, ready, and spiritually mature.
The conditions needed to be born-again necessitate that two things must be in place. One, there must be a physically living (contemporary) Soul-Liberator in the world whose purpose for being in the world of men is to salvage those souls that are ready for divine instruction. Secondly, there must be individuals who are both ripe and ready for spiritual instruction. If these two conditions are non-existent, no one can be born-again.
Consequently, being born-again refers to the conditions whereby:
1) The soul first lost contact with its Divine Source or Origin, which is the Supreme Lord, Sseggulumanda. It is the eternal, everlasting and infinite pure spiritual consciousness, pure super-cosmic consciousness known as the Supreme Lord, Sseggulumanda.
2) The nature of the individualized spirit or soul is also as divine as that of the Supreme Being. This explains the reference that God created man in His image. It is not a reference to the physical body, but rather, it is a direct reference to the soul or spirit within the body of each human being. There is a stream of Divine Light and Divine Melody that connects the individualized spirit to its Divine Source. Unfortunately, that connection was detached when the individualized spirit acquired an ego – the “I-ness” – and it became lost in the maze of this world.
3) The contemporary Soul-Liberator’s work and purpose for coming into this world is to turn on the switch that re-connects the individualized spirit to the Divine Stream of Light and Sound Current. The purpose of this stream of light and melody is to lead and pull the soul back to the Supreme Lord, Sseggulumanda. When this happens, the soul merges once again into divine union with the Supreme Deity, its true origin.
Such divine spiritual reconnection enables one to be reborn and once again exist in the Inner Light and Divine Melody. Such a lucky soul later merges into purest divine Super Cosmic Consciousness, which is the Supreme Being in the inner invisible and permanent God worlds.
Re-connection is commonly called initiation into the Divine Light-Sound-Current. The ancient African sacred word for this initiation is called, Bbano-Landi-Ranyi. At the time of initiation, the soul is like a newborn baby. It possesses everything the baby will need to grow into an adult woman or man. Initiation is the process whereby the soul is reborn into the inner heavenly kingdom, but it has to grow to mature in consciousness until it sees and comes to know the Divine Deity from where it originated.
In spiritual history, spiritual and religious writings have referred to the Inner Light of the Lord as symbolized by the element of fire. Moses saw the “Light” of the Lord in the burning bush. The Inner Divine Melody has been symbolized by such terms as the “Word,” and the Greek Logos. In the tradition of the ancient Spiritual Path as practiced in Africa, it has been called Ggambo, or Bbano. This Path has been referred to as Bbanolandirayi. In addition, it is often referred to as the “Music of the Spheres” in many esoteric traditions. Additionally, within the Christian tradition, it is referred to as the “Holy Spirit.” The Bible refers to it where John the Baptist is reported to have said, “I baptize you with water, but He who comes after me will baptize you with Fire and the Holy Spirit.” All true Divine Guardians initiate sincere devotees into this ageless divine principle or stream of everlasting life.
Today, people are baptized with water and the words “In the name of the Holy Spirit...” However, none receives baptism of the Fire and the dynamic Holy Spirit because no one knows how to baptize with Fire, which is the Inner Divine Light and the Inner Divine Melody to which the soul must be re-connected. Only if one is a genuinely authorized Divine Soul-Liberator and perfected contemporary Saint can he or she baptize or initiate you in this sacred, divine principle and Stream. Unfortunately, these divine Spiritual Harvesters are usually very few in the world of mortal men. This is why even Lord Jesus said that the harvest is plenty but there are few harvesters.
Only a perfect Soul-Liberator who must be a dynamic embodiment of all the five divine virtues can accomplish such a future-altering feat because he or she is the Supreme Lord in human form. The purpose of such spiritually advanced beings is to seek out only those members of the human family who are ripe and ready at any given time. Hence, the esoteric saying was developed that speaks to this point, “When the student is ready the Master appears.” This means the psyche must have been long prepared. If the mind is unprepared and therefore still crude in spite of having acquired university degrees, it cannot awaken to the reality of its true nature and divine state–its association with the Spirit of the Almodia within man.
Going back to discernment, the ability of the spirit to impress matters of truth upon the mind enables the personality to exercise discernment in practically all events, episodes, and moments of life. Discernment constitutes the ability to make a distinction and act upon that distinction in matters of opposites.
The effects of spiritual discernment always produce positive results, whether in ones present lifetime or in the future. Mental discernment is usually faulty. There is constantly the likelihood that what was done, based upon mental discernment, often produces negative effects in the future. It is not like intuition.
On the other hand, spiritual discernment can compare to a marksman who aims at a specific target. Once sure of his perfect aim, the marksman lets the shot go forward to reach the target. If the aim was perfect, he will hit the target precisely. The only thing that can prevent him or her from hitting the target is if someone else comes in between the speeding shot and the mark. When we apply the divine virtue of discernment, we are like the marksman who has aimed and released his shot. Nothing can change the course of time because the shot will hit the target no matter what, as long as there is no intervening event.
Now, let us assume that after pulling the trigger, the expert shooter realizes that the target is not what he intended to hit, but it is too late to recall the bullet. Discernment, as a divine virtue, leaves no possibility for an after-thought realization. As a divine virtue, discernment is infallible and impeccable. There is never a mistake in the choice or decision made when rooted in the virtue of spiritual discernment. This is why perfect Saints and Divine Spiritual Guardians make no mistakes. Their degree of discernment is matured and perfect.
Until one attains perfect illumination, one does not possess true discernment as a virtue. Before attaining perfect enlightenment, an individual can possess mental discernment as opposed to the divine virtue of pure spiritual discernment; however, true discernment as a virtue is almost indefinable because it encompasses qualities higher than the mind.
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