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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PART III
61. The Ups and Downs of Life and the Spirit Law of Tithing Explained 62. Techniques of Spirit Communication 63. Explaining the Great Age of Aquarius 64. End of the World Explained 65. Explaining ESP and Hypnosis 66. Sainthood and Communion of Saints Explained 67. Explaining the Ritual of the Mass 68. Explaining the Immaculate Conception and Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary 69. The Blessed Trinity Explained 70. Why Churches Fail in Their Mission 71. The Christ-Way to Salvation: Prayer, Fasting, and Meditation 72. Seven Postulates of Spiritual Perfection < Part I Table of Contents > < Part II Table of Contents > < Home > |
THE CHRIST-WAY TO SALVATION: PRAYER, FASTING AND MEDITATION
Here in capsule form is a preliminary exposition of the Christ-way to Freedom --- the true, tried and tested, and surest way to Material Mastery and Spiritual Perfection.
Prayer
Make it a habit to pray. Pray short but often. One need not say the rosary. He can pray in the bus. He need not make the sign of the cross when he prays. But the thing is he prays. He can pray the "Our Father" on and on, as it has been prayed trillions of times such that it has been etched in the ethers that anyone praying will automatically receive pranic energy. One can also pray the rosary by installment to avoid loss of concentration during the 15-minute prayer.
Man, in short, is at liberty on how he prays. Even the position depends on him. But there are certain positions applicable to the body of a person which will make it more conducive for him to receive the pranic energy. For example, for fat people the lotus position or Buddha pose is recommended, whereas for thinner ones the kneeling position. The person, after trying several positions, will be able to determine the best position for him. Even the position of the hands and fingers matters. If he has spirit communication, he can ask the spirits for the best position for him. One thing, it should promote in him reverence and after praying he should feel more energetic.
The place, again, depends on him. But the best is inside the church where there is a highway between Earth and heaven for pranic energy to travel. The home will be an ideal place where you and your family pray together. It is the duty of the parents to teach their children especially at the tender impressionable age of 3 to 7 years old to pray. They teach by example and should not delegate to maids except under emergency cases. Remember, they have been paid by God in advance for such a job. The erotic pleasure, the glimpse of heaven, they got while procreating the child several years ago was the payment. So they have to perform the end of the deal.
Another aspect of praying is the time. When should one pray? After waking up, to thank the Lord for a peaceful rest. At sunrise, where one says an "Our Father" for his Guardian Angel and requests him to deliver the next prayer, an "Our Father" again or any other established prayer like the "Apostle's Creed ... .. Hail Mary," or "Glory Be," as part payment for one's karmic debts. By doing so the individual lessens his chances of receiving misfortune, disease, which the lord karma sends to him from time to time to collect karmic debts. At 9 o'clock. At high noon. At 3 o'clock. At sunset. And finally before one sleeps. Make this a habit. An "Our Father" each time will do. He can offer it to his Archangel to energize him so that his Guardian Angel would be in a better position to help.
And finally, praying together is better than praying alone because of synergy. Hence, when one is hearing mass, he should not pray the rosary but instead pray with the priest and the parishioners. The mass is a prayer! A very powerful prayer. And during communion, he should receive it as much as possible as pranic energy is embedded in the host when the priest says, 'This is my body..." There are other ways of getting that pranic energy aside from direct communion. One has to study, research, and use his imagination.
And one thing more, prayer should not be too long as to prevent one's sacred mission of perfecting oneself in Will Power, Intelligence, and Love so as for him to attain that integration of all duplicates that will hasten his being one with God. It is not really the length that counts. It is the power of your prayer based on the concentration, the timing, the location, your position, the kind of prayer, which determine the amount of energy you receive from God.
As for prayer of supplication or asking favor, one has to do it the more efficient way. If it is a big favor, one has to pray consecutively nine times and stop. This is the novena. The power of the novena lies in asking favor from the different duplicates of the saints, Jesus Christ, or God. Why nine? Because when it is granted, the lord karma may take away its granting as part payment of one's karmic debts. Only at the 9th, he is forced to let go. This is spirit law. Why say it in church? It is more powerful in a church because of among other things synergy, although one can say it at home.
In fact, he can make a church of his home if he consecrates an altar or a room on a sunrise, or at high noon, or during good astrological aspects, and invokes God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit to come and to send any right spirit to consecrate his altar. From then on, he makes it his altar of prayer, or meditation room. He burns incense and lights a candle as he prays. He can put on top of the altar white cloth facing the east, yellow cloth - west, green cloth - north, and red cloth - south. He can arrange his altar with the images facing west such that when he prays he faces the east. The clothes should form a pyramid on top of the altar. With this arrangement, his prayers are better heard in heaven. It is like addressing the audience with a microphone. And he can use this color pyramid set-up for meditation.
Fasting
Why fast? It weakens one's subconscious --- the left spirit or devil in him who is attracted to material things like gold, sex, and belief in oneself. One cannot elevate his vibrations if he is attached to material things. The gravity will pull him down to Earth and slow down his vibrations. So one has to detach oneself from material things. Be indifferent to the things of Earth like riches, extravagant houses, pleasures, honor, leisure, etc. And to attain this is not easy if one's desires are strong, if one's basic appetites are strong. So to weaken or reduce one's appetite, he should fast. Fast short but often. He does not take meals, solid or liquid. He takes only water and a little honey so as to prevent ulcer. But as he fasts, he should pray lest he starves to death. He is in effect partaking of the food of the spirit, the pure pranic energy. And the subconscious is forced thus to partake of the pranic energy which lessens the hunger of his left spirit for material things like sex, wine, fine clothing, socials, leisure, pleasure, glory, and so on. And one thing about fasting, it is an effective way of slimming. So fast as you reduce weight and become healthier --- physically and spiritually.
And as you fast short but often, little by little, change your diet. Refrain from eating fatty foods. Later, avoid pork. Later beef. Then fish. Till finally you become a vegetarian. This will lessen your animal appetite when you shift to vegetable diet as the food you eat is purer. Look at the yogis of India. The friars failed in the Philippines because of too much pork with onions in their diet, which promoted their hunger for sex, and eventually for power.
Meditation
The first aim of meditation is to examine oneself if he is on the road to perfection of Will Power, Intelligence, and Love. If not, then the one meditating finds ways of how to attain this. He can learn various ways of energizing to be able to increase his Will Power and overcome obstacles in his attainment of goals and job output. He can embark on study and research to learn more of the things of God. He can allocate one hour at night for his spiritual study, like reading the Bible and other occult books. Then he plans on his limited way of going on apostolic work. And he should avoid making any enemy out of anybody. He should avoid oppressing anyone.
Then he looks at himself. Is he a pessimist or an optimist? If he expects the worst of things to come then he should definitely change that. He should think positive. He should avoid all negative thoughts and feelings like anger, envy, hate, etc. Instead, he should put Love in his heart for everyone. If he is argumentative, then he should stop arguing. When it arises, he should control himself. Nothing comes out of it. Arguments are a battle among intellectual pride. One has to be humble. Before sleeping, one has to will his resolution to reform so as for his subconscious to learn.
Another technique of meditation is to think no thoughts. He stops thinking, just closes his eyes, and remains semi-sleep and semi-awake. Here, he is letting the vibrations of his conscious spirit and subconscious spirit to merge, or at least little by little approach or meet each other. This merging is essential for one's attainment of perfection.
A sign that he is nearing his goal is if, when he meditates with eyes closed, he can brightly see objects beyond. That means he has already succeeded in opening his third eye.
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