—[e]—COHESION, the Fourth Principal, applied to the PSYCHIC PLANE, helps you to hold on and be firm in your convictions and not to be "turned about by every wind of doctrine," (Eph. 4:14.) It helps you to know what you know and be firm about it. If you have followed the instructions in the preceding paragraph on Order, you will know by now the sweet peacefulness that comes after a firm decision to stay by one thing. Here also you gain STRENGTH in the application of COHESION for you attract around you others who will have experienced things of the higher nature like yourself.
—[f]—DISCARD, the Fifth Principle, applied to the PSYCHIC PLANE, gives you the ability to "try the spirits, whether they are of God," (1 John 4:1.) It gives you the gift of "discerning spirits," oftentimes to a great degree. (1 Cor. 12:10.) You may know that you are exercising DISCARD on the Psychic Plane when your sleep is untroubled, yet pervaded by a sense of closeness of the Lord in your Soul; when you seem able to send gloomy thoughts away at will. Then you have DISCARDED the undesirable on the Psychic Plane. You have come over into the sunshine and away from the shadows.
PSYCHIC PLANE
—[g]—TRANSMUTATION, the Sixth Principle, applied to the PSYCHIC PLANE, leads you to see the beautiful beyond. Sometimes this develops so far that you cannot express it. Then you learn to apply the other principles previous to this one, from the force of being misunderstood. When you make this application you voluntarily shut yourself out from much of the world, you cease to care for many of the common things you once loved. This is the true and deliberate conversion, the real conversion, for it does not depend on the emotions of some great preacher or evangelist, but takes place silently, quietly, but quickly within yourself, when you apply TRANSMUTATION to your Psychic nature and partake of the GLORY that is yours.
—[h]—Now you come to the first of the REAL BLESSINGS, the BLESSING that comes from the application of SPIRITUALITY to THE PSYCHIC PLANE.
—[j]—SPIRITUALITY, the Seventh Principle, applied to the PSYCHIC PLANE, leads you into a dream state of blissful contemplation. It is a state to be attained only after you have applied all seven of the Principles to all four of the Planes up to this point. Now you begin to see the plan of all things, now your life has advanced till you are almost beyond the earthly. You may even be called "super-human" by some from your powers of discernment. Your observation will be amazing, your memory prodigious.
—[k]—The chief way to attain this is not only thru meditations and many ventures into the Silences; it is also by the way of service to others who are ready to advance a step to where YOU are. You must be a faithful teacher to THAT one, to go on yourself, IT IS THE TEST. You must be aloof only to those who would oppose or spoil you. You must be HUMBLE to the seeker. You must be humble WITHIN, yet bold without.
AQUARIUS