Bravery
Fear holds us back. It prevents us from becoming the people we were meant to be. The key to freeing ourselves from fear is knowledge, since “knowledge of the right kind dispels fear.” If we have the right kind of knowledge, we can change our mental outlook from one of fear to one of fearlessness. We can also combat fear by improving our karma by helping others. Another key to rising above fear is detaching from the limitations of our ever-changing environment. This does not necessarily mean physically leaving our environment since we may be needed there in service but rather that we should strive not to let environment have a negative effect on our state of mind. Note that fearlessness should never be confused with foolishness there is nothing fearful about taking due care or necessary precautions. Bravery could in fact hardly be more different from foolishness being, as it is, a key step on the path to wisdom. As I always say “There are no real fears, except what’s inside ourselves”.
Love
This is much more than just the emotion which many people think of as love. It is described as a “natural energy, all pervasive, greater than mind”, and as a “state of whole being”. We cannot experience this kind of love love in its higher sense until we have a degree of bravery, and this love, as it grows, will in turn spur us onwards to ever-greater degrees of bravery. Being Generous Towards Others. A willingness, or even desire, to help others and better the world, no matter the cost to your personal self. The path of a graceful and noble spirit. The “Good Samaritan” is this virtue personified. Generosity, charity, self-sacrifice; the term should not be confused with the more restricted modern use of the word charity to mean benevolent giving. In Christian theology, charity—or love.
Service
Service is described as “love in practical action”. If we have a real, deep, genuine love for others, we will of course want to help them – and if we really want to help others, we will get the opportunity to do so. Service also requires bravery of course – and service is indeed the best possible application of bravery. And the more service we perform, the better our karma will be, which will in turn make us braver still, and give us greater understanding of, and mastery of, the wonderful power of love energy. Freedom from ignorance can be brought about by all who are willing to expend sufficient energy to bring about elevated and ascended states into being. Bravery, dispensation of pure love and service can help any aspirant to bring Enlightenment into being.
The First Three Freedoms – each intimately linked with the other two lead to the Fourth Freedom of enlightenment.
Enlightenment
Enlightenment is much harder to attain than many may realize, and much greater than any of us can really imagine – unless we are already enlightened! It is a wonderful, glorious and very holy state – far deeper, and far more mystical, than just basic peace of mind, or even advanced psychic vision.
It is the fourth of The Nine Freedoms – and as such is the result of bravery, love and service – the first three Freedoms. In this profound yet also very practical text, Mars Sector 6 explains that we should first put our physical and mental abilities to correct use, and that if we then develop and correctly apply our psychic abilities, this “will begin to open the door of enlightenment.”
The spiritual path, like any profoundly important journey, is full of twists and turns. You will have wonderful, liberating experiences along the way but you will also have some tough times. Despite what some people now proclaim, Enlightenment does not happen in a flash. Enlightenment dawns through determination and an indomitable will; through the creation of inspired works, great Love and the giving of Service to others. All of these things require breaking away from materialistic conditioning – and this requires great courage. Enlightenment cannot possibly be a quick fix because it is a process of unraveling all the ties that bind us over the lifetimes. Every negative word, jealous thought and petty action ties us more surely to our lower natures; whereas Bravery, Love and Service liberate us. Today, the way of Enlightenment is not about retreating from the world into a cave in order to find inner bliss. It is about living, loving, praying, working, and giving healing and other forms of Service in the world wherever this is required.
The next step is “the transmutation of mental energies upon the plane of inspiration, called high intuition.” At this stage the spiritual aspirant is capable of meditation, and by practicing meditation “opens the door, even wider, so that the brilliant, everlasting vibration of enlightenment may forever surround him” (or her).
This may sound complex – but this is only because it is unfamiliar to us. Ignorance is the result of the complication devised by terrestrial man, therefore, enlightenment is simplicity.” It is materialism which is complex; whereas Divinity is infinitely simple. By surrendering to this simplicity – we will attain enlightenment.
Cosmic Consciousness
Cosmic consciousness is the fifth of The Nine Freedoms. As such, it is above enlightenment – or, to put it another way, it is an even higher degree of enlightenment than that described in the Fourth Freedom. Some people have glimpses of this state prior to enlightenment, as described in the book Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Maurice Bucke.
Cosmic consciousness is explained as a full rise of the mystical power of Kundalini up the spine to the crown chakra. a tremendous compassion for the Mother Earth will arise can inspire more than ever to be of service – all the more able to be of service, of course, for having had this elevated experience. Kundalini Awakening can be spontaneous or subconscious awoken or consciously awoken through meditation and prayer. It is the most profound awakening a human being may have in their body. It is a very important aspect of metaphysics that, once a great state has been attained, the spiritual aspirant should be able to detach from it to help others, as opposed to just concentrating on his or her own bliss and advancement. There comes a point within this stage when at once the consciousness of the individual soars to mighty heights, it is unlimited and unbounded by the mind. High into the realms of intuition and of Divine Inspiration is moves through Space where time stands quite and still, non-existent and immobile. Cosmic Consciousness , like the flower of God, breaks from a bud into a full and lasting bloom.
Ascension
The next step in the sixth of The Nine Freedoms is Ascension. This is freedom from the cycle of reincarnation, also known as the “wheel of rebirth” – and could therefore be described as a state of immortality. An Ascended Master may change his or her body from time to time, but would do so consciously – without going through old age or childhood. And they would, it would seem, not have to do this anything like as often as we do. The Ascended Master Saint Goo-Ling, for example, has been in the same physical body for some 2000 years.
To attain this Freedom, the Master has to not only have experienced cosmic consciousness, but be able to enter this state at will, which, we are told, is very much more demanding. Ascension cannot be gained by the average person in one life; it takes many lives of sustained spiritual effort – but, nevertheless, however distant it may seem, it is the birthright of us all to one day reach this spiritual goal.
Interplanetary Existence
This is the seventh of The Nine Freedoms. Once an individual has learned all the lessons that reincarnation upon Earth can teach them, if they do not remain on Earth as an Ascended Master, then they begin life as a Cosmic Master in another dimension outside our 3D realm. The Ascended Masters do not need to remain on this planet at all – but they choose to do so, working mainly behind the scenes as it were, in order to help the rest of suffering humanity.
It should be noted, however, that this does not of course mean that all Cosmic Masters originate from Earth. Cosmic Masters exist on higher material planes of their respective planets. So the fact that Mars, for example, may appear barren and uninhabited on the plane of existence which we are able to observe, does not mean that it is uninhabited on a higher plane, also known as a “higher realm” or “higher frequency of vibration”. However, Cosmic Masters can also move from one plane to another, including this plane on which we live, if they so choose.
Saturnian Existence
This is the eighth of The Nine Freedoms. Once experience of the life cycles of other planets in the Solar System has been mastered, the intelligence begins life on the Saturnian plane, which, again, would of course exist at a higher frequency of vibration than this physical plane. Saturn is the most advanced planet in this system – and is where the Lord Babaji, and the Cosmic Avatar Sri Krishna, who gave the Bhagavad Gita, came from. Saturn is the spiritual planet of the Parent. In the spiritual ascension process the soul child returns home after a lifetime of learning to extend their wisdom and to integrate into a higher vibrational realm.
Solar Existence
The last of The Nine Freedoms is Solar Existence, when the intelligence becomes a part of the mighty Sun itself. Needless to say, this is millions upon millions of lives away – and is a state so advanced as to be beyond our comprehension. Some may call this Heaven, a brilliant and tantalizing glimpse of this exalted state is represented here on Earth through the Angelic Realm – a state which is the destiny, however distant, of us all. Spiritual advancement is all about service. And the Sun is the living embodiment of service – giving light, and life, to the whole of the Solar System. Hence, however strange it may seem at first glance, this Freedom does in fact make perfect metaphysical sense. It is the brightest and purest of all the expressed freedoms and one of which the soul vibrates at the highest and most profound expression.
This is not the end
Spiritual evolution goes ever onwards, ever upwards, to ever-greater heights of awareness and service – until total absorption back into the Divine Source – from which we all came in the beginning.
