🔵 By Charles Mason Monroe. Photo by lauragrafie.
Dear Reader,
It is important now that I make each Entry in reflection of the internal transformation which has been unfolding within my Self. Herein I emphasize, that TRUE TRANSFORMATION OCCURS WITHIN. Only from within may one achieve true realization, as ALL TRUTH LIES WITHIN.
2.
By the Grace of The Father of the Universe this Self metamorphosis is rapidly underway.
I have submitted to his Mercy and it has been a beautiful thing.
The sum of my thought has heightened.
The sum of my understanding, deepening seemingly with each day.
Nonetheless, here I offer you example of weakness and prayer for strength.
I have Self initiated a fast.
7 Full Days.
Only Water.
Due to improper prioritization I had not taken the prior week to prepare my Self as I should have.
Twas two days prior to now, upon the morning of The Day of The Moon, that this fast had been initiated.
It was by just last night however I found that I had been starving – this is, within my own mind – and had been tempted to give in to weakness.
3.
The weakness at hand had been regarding a tiny oatmeal pie.
Spouses of the infamous sweet tooth know well the desires one entertains for this spouse.
Generally enough.
Still, while nearing forty eight hours of zero food twas as though this pie itself began speaking unto me.
‚I am but a small treat?‘
‚Eat me then, and return then unto your fast.‘
‚God will understand your weakness.‘
These are the things it had said, metaphorically of course.
4.
In fact it is so, I am certain The Father would have understood.
Yet at what point does an individual take the burden upon themselves to stand firm upon purpose?
5.
The Moral and Philosophical lessons contained herein are quite simple.
Morally:
Mind your commitments.
So long as a thing is good and productive, any commitment must be followed through with, less your will be proved faulty and unreliable.
Philosophically:
‚Don’t speak unless you can improve the silence.‘
The point is Mind your words.
If you say a thing, so long as it is good and productive, the thing which was said must be validated by subsequent action.
If the words be not words of action but of personal expression then consciously assure said self expression be reflective of truth and authenticity.
These things applied willfully activate conscious intention and conscious speech.
THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THIS STANDARD IS THAT A THING FALL OUT OF ONE’S CONSCIOUS CONTROL, or THAT A THING ONCE CONSIDERED AUTHENTIC TO SELF IS NO LONGER HARMONIOUS WITH SELF VIEW.
Otherwise be proved a hypocrite.
With these affirmations in heart, I humbled my Self and prayed.
The sum of this prayer was that The Father may strive with me as I strive, and walk with me in my steps toward self mastery.
That he activate strength upon my weakness, and discipline upon my will, as with him all things are truly possible that are sought in Good Faith.
Many would dismiss my saying that within but moments of this prayer, the entirety of this craving had Ceased.
I do not tell lies.
Still, it is your own choice to believe or not to believe.
6.
It may appear as frivolity that one make a prayer about a snack, or that I may hold my self to such a standard in the name of a perhaps ‚humbug‘ fast.
I assure you though the truth is much to the contrary.
A Plant is begun with but a Seed and a Garden with but one Plant, Amen?
Saying this, know then that in gaining control over one’s excess in appetite is yet but a Small Seed.
Yet when properly cultivated the familiarity with discipline may be employed unto a number of other areas.
Also, any hints of hypocrisy must be eradicated.
This is an internal goal of mine.
I have many times in my past been a hypocrite, as a fair portion of hypocrisy is often committed without conscious awareness.
I EMPHASIZE HERE, THAT SPEAKING A THING AND NOT LIVING BY THAT WHICH IS SPOKEN, IS HYPOCRISY.
There is no exception to this.
How then, may it be fruitful to others that I build the stucture of the community of Freedomtown that its members may achieve growth in the ways of Harmony, Self Discovery, Discipline and Self Mastery if I its Leader cannot make uniform progress in knowing and excelling in these things?
I have no intention of offering forth any example of method or of lifestyle that I have not experienced first and have not first become accustomed to live by.
How then may I speak Peace and Harmony without having become acquainted with these things my Self?
How may I suggest any fellow student of mine discipline themselves even one day if I have not first done so for 7?
Having said that I would, I must suffer another five days.
In any weakness I will call upon God and I will overcome
7.
As my methods of application are evolving as rapidly as my Self, It is necessary furthermore that the sum of the remainder of my entries on this blog will be in likeness to this one.
Authenticity.
Transparency.
A sort of diary if you will.
That you Dear Reader, may know me through truth and not false perception.
That perhaps in one thing or another that I may share here, one of you may find familiar Air, and may find motivation or inspiration or the likes pertaining to your own personal growth.
That will now be the sole purpose of these entries.
That all may see.
All may grow.
All may come to share Sharper Clarity in Understanding.
I must admit I had written the Poems of Entry#1 and Entry#2 in Vanity.
I have lost all interest in achievement of secular matters.
May the world never know my name, so long as I may reach one who may come to help themselves as I have helped my Self.
Who may begin awakening as I have begin awakening, knowing now the grand purpose of this life of Earth and having discovered the path unto tangible Salvation.
There is no Religion higher than Truth.
And there is no purpose more worthy than the will of God.
In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
May these words cause tingling in the heart of just one.
Eternal Glory to The Father of All.