Integrity
Integrity resonates to Oneness. It represents the single thread of Spirit. Since Integrity involves focus, tension and expression, it expresses as a consistent and continuous one pointedness of orientation. I consider our integrity to be our purposeful alignment to our source, our Monad or God Within.We usually consider a person who lives his principles to be a person of integrity. In doing so, there is a sense of completeness or perfection in life. The Oneness of Integrity also expresses a complete perfection of Spirit. The symbol of the Sun is a circle with a point in the center. Integrity represents the point through which all of Spirit can express. In expressing Integrity, we become the One of our spiritual nature. Just as the thief must live with ruthless integrity to not get caught, each of us must learn to live in Integrity to complete the potential perfection of our life.Take a Journey through our
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The Outer Plane of Spirit
by Jef Bartow
As with the inner Plane of Love, the systemic Plane of Spirit also embodies characteristics of Spirit. Being outer, the Plane of Spirit embodies seven characteristics including Integrity, Justice, Truth Order, Peace, Beauty, and Innocence. As synthesizing abstractions to our life, these projected points of Spirit are linked with their originating source beyond our systemic, cosmic and inter-cosmic Planes. As ineffable to us in our personality, the Plane of Spirit is the first subplane of the Cosmic Physical Plane, which is the lowest of the Cosmic Planes.As an aside, it is easier for us to connect into the lower Cosmic Planes that it is to connect and embody our highest systemic Plane of Spirit. There is a correspondence and connection between our Mental Plane and the Cosmic Mental Plane, just as there is a correspondence from our Emotional Plane to our Cosmic Emotional Plane. The higher we consciously move in our systemic universe, the easier our connection into the Cosmic Planes become.Since the Plane of Spirit is our highest systemic Plane, I'm going to define and describe its energies from the top down instead of moving from the lowest to the highest. In actuality, I don't believe these characteristics of Spirit our hierarchical, but they do resonate to their numerical correspondence. Let's begin with the first characteristic of Spirit in Integrity.Our articles are available for reproduction for all members. Please give credit to the author.
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Justice
Justice is another one of those terms that may seem easy to understand on the surface, but expresses a complexity that few learn how to live by. Various terms used to define justice include: "impartiality, equitable, dispassionate, principled and proper fitting." Justice is definitely that which through impartial and dispassionate alignment brings a principled proper fitting of like with like and not like with not like. As Aristotle put it, justice consists of "treating equals equally an unequaled unequally, but in proportion to their relevant differences."Theologically, Justice is the sum total of all virtues or "holiness." It is the quality of righteousness or "greatest of excellences." Humans tend to use this to remove the unrighteous from our midst (put in prison or kill) so the rest of us can express God's righteousness. Unfortunately, how many humans do we know that live by all the virtues or express holiness.As a characteristic of Spirit, Justice can bring us the ability to live our virtues and become the greatest of excellences by revealing and transmuting the various parts of us that are not principled or in proper fitting with our spiritual nature. Standing in Divine Justice is a powerful way to remove the injustices in our life. What we typically think of injustice is really just Justice showing us how we are not living with equitable impartiality toward others.Truth
Many believe there is an Absolute Truth. There is only one right Truth. Unfortunately, this is the illusion that humans like to embrace for their security and comfort. Truth, as a characteristic of Spirit, is simply Reality. What we determine is our reality, that is our Truth.Transpersonal psychology helps here in outlining two sides of truth. One is "experience for itself" and the other is: "reference to something undefined or ineffable, an experience that ‘points’ to this mysterious reality." A simpler way to put it is that Truth is "what is."As we broaden our conscious orientation in life, we broaden what Truth is for us. Truth holds us to a new orientation; it reflects an objective synthesis of our ideas and values. When embraced, it reveals our current reality in life and helps us to align with something beyond as our potential reality.Order
Even though order is the best term for Order in our universe, our understanding of order inhibits understanding Order. So let's let go of our concept of order to embrace Order. Order is that which produces a sense of perspective, proportion and symmetry with in our lives. Because of this, Order helps us move from a "division to a oneness" of perception.Our sense of “putting our house in order” usually means structure, neatness with everything put in its place. The Spirit characteristic of Order is what brings balance in our life. It facilitates us moving from a multiplicity of meanings we sporadically see in life to the one-ness of Life itself. By revealing the "hidden variables" or synchronicities behind our relationships and life events, Order provides us the opportunity to govern the outcomes of these events through perspective and balance regarding our events in life. This is how we move from the attachments of our personality to a detached perspective and balanced view of our life.Peace
It is easy to understand peace as a freedom from conflict or agitation. Outwardly, Peace provides a calm and quiet environment, undisturbed by the chaotic agitation of the outer world. It's connection to the Mental Plane naturally makes the first success of meditation a detachment from the mind chatter of daily life.Our center of Peace is where the "spiritual inflowing tides meat." Peace brings us a "synthetic rapport with its resultant cooperation" with our soul group or spiritual nature. Peace, as a characteristic of Spirit provides our "capacity for inclusiveness" and "the perfection of inner poise." Embracing Peace creates the "willed acceptance of all the conditions which God imposes."By surrendering to Peace, we choose to turn our back on the outer chaotic materialism of the rat race of humanity. With it we received an inner Peace which helps us to live a calm quiet undisturbed freedom from conflict or material agitation.Beauty
Beauty is best expressed through our aesthetic orientation in life. It reveals the meaning behind the form. Simply defined, Beauty is the "splendor of form." Abstract Beauty "bears the transcendent." As a mode of goodness, it is the "manifestation of the spiritual force that animates all reality."The best way I learned how to embrace Beauty was to understand that Beauty reveals Spirit in all of its splendor and goodness. The more we focus on bringing beauty (aesthetic expression) to our environment, the more transcendent Spirit can be revealed throughout our life.This does not mean we have to buy expensive things or build palaces to live in. Beauty can just as easily be expressed or revealed in any environment through our aesthetic creativity. A simple definition for aesthetic is: sensitivity to pleasing forms which express meaning in our life.Innocence
Last and of course not least is Innocence. I must say that the expression of spiritual innocence is as difficult as anything on the Spiritual Path. Innocence represents both the latent potentialities before creative manifestation and the perfect expression of Spirit in its totality.Innocence encapsulates each and all pre-manifested essences of Spirit. It is the unifying 12 of wholeness of all characteristics of Spirit. It is symbolized by the circle which includes all other characteristics of Spirit within it.Within our totality, we begin in a state of innocence and end in a state of manifested wholeness, which becomes our innocence for the next cycle beyond humanness. As we create a manifested wholeness of our being we become the Innocence of our spirit, or God Within. What Innocence can do for us is to help bring balance to our beingness, just as Order can bring balance in our manifested life.In describing this highest systemic Plane of Spirit, we complete the outline and description of our objective Planes in our systemic universe. But we're not done yet. We still have the 12 systemic Realms of our Subjectivity. If these first 12 articles on the Planes has been somewhat of a review, I guarantee that the reality of the Subjective in our next set of articles will be very new and enlightening to you.
