The Awareness of Metaphysical Laws and Principles Part 2

motivation and inspiration creates unpleasant circumstances as well as the grotesque, obnoxious and repulsive sights and sounds that we see about us. Let us take “self-expression,” for instance, as applied in the philosophy and cultivation of art. Every artist is more or less aware of this term. But the “self” they believe in and refer to is simply the content of their subconsciousness, which more often than not, is filled with psychedelic images, gruesome forms, phobias, neurosis, and unresolved energies. Most critics of the art world hold such “self-expressions,” so-called artistic works in high regard. The standard of divine beauty it would seem–the expression of the true uniqueness of the Monad, as a facet of the Supreme Being, as was known in ancient Greece–has practically been forgotten by modern man who is materialistically-oriented. We can see from this that the aesthetical sense of a large portion of humanity has been degraded by ignorance of the true Self coupled with an impure subconscious and conscious mind.

Putting off the old man, the false ego, and putting on the new, the Higher Self, becomes a necessity if a utopian-consciousness is to be made manifest in man’s mind and to appear as Heaven on earth. This is the Christian’s long awaited Kingdom of God in which the vigil and the waiting are observed but not the laying of the foundation. It is the fact of man’s dual nature that caused the Nazarene Master in the Aquarian Gospel to quip that,

“Man is the Truth and falsehood strangely mixed.” (22:12)

It is incumbent upon the metaphysician to point out to the seekers the manner in which this may be achieved, in which the synthetic image of man may be shed, for most if not all of our

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