CALISTHENICS NOVEMBER 1981
LIVANCE –PRESENCE OF THE CHRIST –SOUNDING – MAKE WHOLE
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As you know by now, the work we do with you, all of it, is above the consciousness, and the only way you can participate is in the fullness of livance . Stay with what you live ( livance ) however small that livance is.
You have to be fully aware, even on the conscious level, that what your mind and your perceptions tell you can only be a reflection, and a reflection is only a small part of what is going on; it is never "it". You will notice, as you go on, that there is a wholeness in what is happening that your consciousness cannot reflect. This does not mean the consciousness is useless; it does mean that in an untrained condition, as you know it now, it is of no use. It will be of use the moment you are able to bring livance throughout the consciousness. This is what you have to do, but what we do together is way beyond that.
As an example we are going to play the same piece of music again, but this time you will live it in beauty. Now be careful, as expressions go, we can say that a crystal is beautiful, or that roses are beautiful -- this is not beauty, this is reflected beauty. beauty has no shape whatsoever.
Live beauty during the whole of the music, and, as you live it, you will notice changes going on in the room and in everyone here, including yourself. Train yourself to live the changes; not notice them with your mind or feelings, not perceive them, but live them. You will perceive a few things automatically, but stay with the livance . It's very important. Any perception gives you an angle and is a reflection -- it's something working through (per means through) a device. Stay with the livance , and, as it goes on, you can look around. And looking around is done livance -wise, not perception-wise. Live what you see rather than perceive it. It's a fullness of life that pervades the whole room -- live that. You don't have to tell your mind to stop working, you are simply livance -centered. Side noises will happen, just continue to live the fullness of what is going on.
Now let's play the music again. Beauty!
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Now obviously you live a condition that is somewhat different from the previous one. The simple fact of dwelling in beauty changes everything.
Now I have to remind you of the teaching that goes with the hologram: When the Pilot dwells in the all-encompassing beauty, He is said to be the Doer. Check for yourself, see how everyone stands out, stronger than before. You might think that beauty would make you weak and delicate, but this is just not the case.
You will notice that when you look around from the angle I have given you, the condition is one you could reach with any type of training (provided the intention was to lead you there); in other words, the specific note of the work going on is not there -- the special note that has directly to do with the Pilot. The Pilot is the Christ.
In the hologram, the Pilot comes from nothingness and creates the hologram, the whole creation. He cannot be defined by any standard of creation; it has no shape, but it has a note of its own.
We are going to play the music again, this time including the Christ as presence, as impulse. It has no shape, so words are inadequate , but you will live a change. when you live it be aware that it fills the whole place, whatever the "place" is (it is certainly much more than it seems to the senses) -- that presence fills the whole. There is a wholeness in it, but there is also the specific note in which we work. I give you the opportunity to live both conditions -- beauty, and beauty with the Christ in it. Follow very closely.
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Quite obviously there is a difference -- a big difference. Stay with the livance . We will follow with a sounding, a piece of monotone we have already played. Please don't try to use your consciousness to make a sounding. A true sounding sounds a note directly related to the Christ. Your consciousness quite honestly cannot do it -- it does not know what the Christ is. If you try to sound it will mean that you are conscious of wanting to sound and it won't work . If you doubt that it won't work, try to sound, starting from your consciousness (with wishfulness or willfulness), and you will miss both soundings , yours and the one we do. So be careful.
Live what happens during the sounding and you will notice changes, changes within the same note you are already living. You will notice that something happens above the head of everyone that doesn't now show, or only very faintly, and possibly, little by little you will realize that we are following a very specific sequence that is not known on the mind level.
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If you look around you will see a kind of verticality, and we still have that specific note related to the Christ. If you are true to your livance you will notice that you live yourself differently, meaning the standard of your senses is no longer fully valid. Learn to respect that livance . When I say "learn", I mean your mind has to learn to respect that livance . When you work rely on livance , not on your consciousness.
As steps go: the first piece of music was a tuning in, the second was beauty, and the third was beauty and the "presence" of Christ. I quote presence because to the mind presence is a something, it has a shape -- presence of Christ has no shape, but it can still be felt as a presence. With beauty we set the field of activity, with presence we have the core activity related to the Christ activity we are dealing with. When we sound, which has to do with the Logoic function, the core activity is made more concrete, and this shows in the activity you can feel/live, symbolically, above the head.
Now we go into the play. We have the soloist, Boris Christoff , and the song of the choir -- both field and core activity in which you have all that has been set into play tonight. You will notice a further evidencing.
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We are going to play another piece of the same, and I want you to be conscious of a point: when you hear the work " Gospodi " (Lord), it refers to the Christ. If the Christ become a reality for you, you might go through a period during which every time you hear the word " Gospodi " you experience shivers all along your spine. This implies a condition that is often forgotten today: your heart and your soul. You will discover in yourself a deep, deep love for the Christ that your consciousness, possibly your whole personality, does not acknowledge . When this is awakened you will experience shivers in many forms because it hits a note that is tremendously true for you. Remember: When the Pilot dwells in all-encompassing love, He is said to be the Knower. Your consciousness knows love, love of 'objects, and like beauty, all-encompassing love does not imply objects -- does not ex-ply either. Learn to dwell in love as you dwell in beauty. True beauty is not without true love.
So, we will play the piece again, and every time you hear " Gospodi " there is that deep, deep soul love -- well soul is not really sufficient because soul is understood or conceptualized nearly as an object -- but still, it is said: "You will love the Lord with all your soul, with all your heart, with all your thoughts, with all your might"...
Now, when you hear the music, forget the last sentence because you will start doing that which your mind understands, and we are not speaking of that.
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Now we will conclude with one of the three pieces of music we use for healing. The word "heal" means to make whole. You will notice that every time you live what we did tonight you live yourself as whole. You live that very self as an aspect, an expression, an event in the dynamics of the whole over which the Christ presides. "Him in Whom we live and have our being". It's a small sentence, I didn't invent it, but it's absolutely true, and very little understood.
So now, let's play healing, which implies the all-encompassing condition of the Seer, the all-encompassing love of the Knower, and the all-encompassing beauty of the Doer -- all three together. Live this.
I am fully aware that we make the task difficult for you because you are going to meet after and possibly lose what you are living now, but it is for you, and I mean all of you, to continue with that life. And, if you lose it, be aware that you cannot "reach" it. You simply have to change the activity in the mind and it is still there. The fact that it is present and then absent is an illusion of the mind. Don't follow the illusion. You have lived this condition, you are able to live it ., there is no reason why it should stop. If you stay with the livance it does not stop, not ever.
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