Disclaimer: This poem was originally written by Prof. Inayat Khan in the early 1900’s.

Truth

The face of truth is open
The eyes of truth are bright
The lips of truth are ever closed
The head of truth is upright

The Breast of truth stands forward
The gaze of truth is straight
Truth has neither fear nor doubt
Truth has patience to wait

The words of truth are touching
The voice of truth is deep
The law of truth is simple
All you sow you reap

The soul of truth is flaming
The heart of truth is warm
The mind of truth is clear
And firm through rain and storm

Facts are only it’s shadow
Truth stands above all sin
Great be the battle of life
Truth in the end shall win

The image of truth is the cross
Wisdom’s message is it’s rod
The sign of truth is Christ
And the soul of truth is God

The life of truth is eternal
Immortal is it’s past
The power of truth shall endure
Truth shall hold to the last

Here is a synopsis:

“When entering a Temple, the initiate had to know how to leave the lower ego behind, while he connected to the divine cosmic energies. Health in the glands and chakras were paramount.Their symbols in art all depicted the male and female aspects in ritual. The half-human and half animal figures show their shamanic culture and may have used psychotropic plants. Thus the 360 senses (multi-dimensional) were used. With this super-natural practice, they had immense knowledge and power.”

Be mindful of what you worship. False Idols, Deceptions and Lies.

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“Decide for yourself?”

The clock in the steeple of time has struck the hour for a great struggle in all the civilized world. Politics, Capital and Labor have declared war. The mental world is being convulsed from centre to circumference. The question arises in the minds of all : ” What position shall I occupy in this matter ? ” for none can wholly escape its influence. There is a great people who have in word or in fact, dedicated their life to God and humanity by virtue of the maturity of their souls, —though they may be unconscious of it,—aim being to unite the leading minds of all departments of advanced thought in a concerted, practical effort to increase light, multiply knowledge, and intensify soul-life, to the end of making the individual superior to earthly conditions and mortal environments, thus hastening the triumph of mind over matter through experimental knowledge and personal conjunction with God as the true Omnipotent and Luminous Soul of the Universe.

When there are a number of such human instruments that have ultimate possession of these higher attainments so that God’s mind can find perfect expression through their organism, then God’s will, that rules all things, will also find perfect expression through them ; and they, having come into order and harmony with the Divine law, God will, through them, bring order out of disorder and harmony out of chaos.

Let it be one, two, three, four, or a hundred and forty-four thousand—the number given to John at Patmos, that “would be the first ripe fruit of the earth.” —Ripe fruit implies growth, development, unfoldment and
maturity.

But though we understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have not love,” we ” are nothing.” Love ” bear-eth all things and undoeth all things,”(if thereby a great good is to be accomplished,) but “whether there be tongues they shall cease ; whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away.” Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts.” Attainment in love, and the creation by love of an earth manifest in a spiritual life or social order, is the highest goal of human attainment for divine humanity. It is not desirable that we should multiply words of hate, fear and ignorance.
It is needful that we make of ourselves reservoirs of boundless sympathy and active good will,—a good will that will penetrate even the hardness of chaos, suffering and deception, indifference, greed and selfishness. To live in peace and hope is not only within the individual spirit, and it is not only our highest wisdom to unfold it within each of ourselves, individually, but we can have no better nor higher aim than to work for its actualization in society for the sake of the divine.

How we can best do this work, each individual must decide for each one’s self?

Birds and the Flowers

“I can see how a person who is suffering, or in sorrow, or in need, would benefit from the teaching of the Order, but I do not see what a perfectly contented with life has to gain. In a world at war, it is natural that we try to point the way to peace. In a generation of sick souls, we try to point the way to health. In a materialistic age, we try to reveal the beauty of the spiritual life. When so many are astray in the wilderness, we feel our duty to point out the way the truth and the life. Ambition is foreign to their nature. They have no longing to excel, to do great deeds, to raise themselves above their sphere. They live in the immediate present and they are content just where they are. We can not live unconsciously as the birds and the flowers do.”

(excerpt from the Eastern Star published between 1890-1897)

appropriation

“Issues that gravely affect divine humanity can not take a back seat to “color swatches, lip injections and hair extension.” – KG

(image credit: motherwiselife.org)

I came across a version of this on @blakelively’s instagram