29 - The Golden Path

Thou Allah! Thou Gracious! Thou Merciful! Thou Beloved!

1. There is naught but the Divine.
2. There is no origin, there is no termination, there is no end to origination, no end to termination.
3. A seed always yields fruit according to its kind and nature. It manifests in its own season.
4. There is no absolute other than the One, the Divine.
5. The Divine is directly experienced by the liquid state of energetic samadhi.
6. Quiescent samadhi is a precondition of energetic samadhi.
7. Divine Love is the spark that enlivens quiescent samadhi and yields energetic samadhi.
8. Energetic samadhi transcends the order, appearence and nature of time and position.
9. Matter and energy are illusions, echoes of reality, energetic samadhi casts a light on these illusions.
10. No act is in isolation. All beings, woven of the threads of Divine play, are upon the same tapestry. The tapestry is not other than the Divine.
11. We are not called to be servants of the Divine, the Divine has no need of servitude for there is nothing that the Divine does not posess, thus nothing that we can offer.
12. We are called to be servants of creation. We are brothers of the stone, the wind, the flame, the winter storm, the flow of life. We are to protect, guard, cherish, guide and defend.
13. We are not to despise our weaknesses, nor vaunt our strengths: they are tools, not possessions. You would not run house to house showing off your new hammer. These tools must be used to polish the stone so our brothers may see their reflections; so that we may recognize the luminosity of our true nature.
14. Imagination leads reality.
15. Petty thoughts, petty deeds, petty words deepen our own darkness and that of those around us. They cast stones in our paths and serve no purpose but to make more difficult our path and that of all others.
16. False praise and flattery lay burdens on the backs of all who travel.
17. Words and deeds that are freed by Divine love, that are gentle and true cast light. Because the way is dim, an often as possible we should act from energetic samadhi and illumine the way.
18. There are paths that are dark, though they speak of the light. While a cricket may live within a closed fist, it will only sing when it is free. Resist, chastise, oppose those who close the fist over the cricket of your soul. These are your brothers, love them by denying them their violence against the divine.
19. When we are little, the light must be carried for us by those that surround us, known and unknown. When at last we can carry the light ourselves, then we may take up the fullness of the task. Each differs in the time when they can take the light to their own soul.
20. To those that carry the light, love, as you may, all who carry their own light. When you join in body you come as close to union with the Divine as can be done in the physical form. It matters not the physical form, the multiplicity, or the details. It matters only that light meets light, and that it is a mutual union.
21. We are physical, we are souls, we are light. We are none and yet all of these things. The knowledge of the world is not to be ignored for belief.
22. Belief must be subject to the inspection of knowledge, pursued by science, rationality and experience. The tools of logic, experimentation, science and discourse free us of weighty illusions and keep us from becoming slaves to misperceptions of a world all together real and all together illusory.
23. Do not be bound by the tools of science, rationality, experience and logic. Transcend, but do not deny them.
24. Throw away all rules that are not in accord with Love, that do not lead to freedom, that do not express the true nature of the Divine. You
25. do not need a list of attributes. Your list is written in the magnificence of energetic samadhi.
26. Actively oppose ignorance, but do so in the bosom of the Divine. Oppose ignorance not to punish; do not seek to pursuade or cajole. There is no negotiating with ignorance. The light of truth is but glare to those who cling to hatred and hostility.
27. A master may lead you on the path. They are masters because you recognize and love them. Their purpose is to guide you on your path, to walk along side you for a time. It is your duty, your goal, to surpass them. Love them fully, for you would be alone without the sounding of the distant horn.