08/08/2024
Thy Will
Life is a conquest made of patient work, which appears rather long when its cycles are tormented by the ignorance inherent in human erring. Those who, pushed beyond the unfolding of existence strive to express their own style with ideas and tendencies outside the collective chorus. These sacred animals, usually visionaries and mystics, are rare magnets, capable of drawing to themselves the energy and strength necessary to realize deeds, often posthumous, for the common good.
At times, crowds limit themselves to the mere admiration of these men and women, but never long to delve deeper into the origin, the developments, and the trials they had to come through, which were necessary by the work of transubstantiation.
Yet, practicing the art of the Sacred doings is simple. By nature, the impersonal state distinguishes the integrated man, who thinks, from the undifferentiated crowd, which is thought. On this fundamental point, on which we insist so much, impersonal action is the true power that elevates man beyond the concept of ‘sacred and profane’, freeing him from the illusory struggle between ‘good and evil’.
The power to overcome the Life’s challenges is already within us. In this conxiousness, the true spiritual progress of the individual is contemplated. Only by drawing from oneself what is potential and latent, awakening and distilling what one already possesses through Divine lineage, can the path towards the development of one’s being be implemented, so as to actualize one’s own and others’ good.
To know oneself is in essence a process of integration with one’s Divine essence. In this Work, it is of great importance to discern between the things that depend on man, those that depend only in part, and that which is outside his sphere of influence. To implement this precept, the action to be exercised on the things that depend directly or in part on us should always be motivated by impersonal purposes. For that which is outside our sphere of influence, it is simply enough to apply the final rule:
Not my Will, but Thy Will be done.
Never forget: we walk above Hell looking at the Sun; without abyss, there is no peak and Evil, in the end, is the throne of Good.
Hermes
