THE BLUE SPHERE
The blue sphere is our Path of Compassion. We decide how much or how little compassion and cruelty we will extend to everything in our sphere of awareness based on how we think about the information we have at our disposal. That information is the thoughts, ideas, words, pictures and attitudes we created for ourselves in our World or Air.
This is the information we use to decide to be compassionate, merciful, loving, kind and nurturing or ruthless, merciless, hateful, unkind and cruel. This is the information we use to decide to be depressed, sorrowful, sad, happy, joyous or ecstatic.
THE PATH OF COMPASSION
The Sphere of Compassion has several other names, including:
- Mercy - The Hebrew word for mercy is Chesed. The ancient Hebrew concept of mercy was justice applied with unconditional love as much as was humanly possible under the circumstances. Their concept of vindictiveness was justice applied with malice and loathing
- Love - This includes caring or not-caring, nurturing or retaliating, and unconditional love or infinite hatred and all other related emotions
- Majesty - Majesty infers justice and mercy.
- Father of all Virtues - The Father of all virtues is the father of Truth, Honesty, Patience, Temperance, Kindness, Graciousness, Leniency, Humaneness, Gentleness, Tenderness, Benevolence, Charitable and Forgiving. The Father of all vices is the father of Lies, Dishonesty, Impatience, Gluttony, Unkindness, Wrath, Pride, Sloth, Lust, Deceit, Greed and Vindictiveness.
- Happiness - Happiness, gladness, joy and ecstasy are the result of being compassionate while sorrow, sadness and depression are the result of cruelty.
- Thankfulness - By being thankful for all we are, all we receive and all the blessings of our lives, we love and accept ourselves and others more and more. We are also happier, more joyful and more loving people. By being resentful for all we do not have, all that we do not receive, and the curses of our lives, we hate and abhor ourselves and others more and more and we become more anxious, depressed and filled with rage.
THE FUNCTION OF THE PATH OF COMPASSION
The Sphere of Compassion is the place within us where we express all variations of all the extremes between absolute hatred and unconditional love. This sphere is where we take all the information from our World of Air and reason it all out on the Path of Reason before we emotionally express our compassion or cruelty as we feel it at this moment and in these circumstances.
The goal of a spiritual warrior is to overcome the "negative" expressions of compassion and express only those considered by society to be "positive." This means most of us have a lot of inner work to do to express the positive aspects of compassion and cruelty in our lives.
We all find it difficult to love a despicable person, like a person who rapes and murders a child or a pre-adolescent, an adolescent, a young adult, a mature adult or an elderly person. Such an act offends most of us and it is difficult for us to see any good in such a person. Most of us find it difficult to find any value of any kind in such a person.
But if we knew such acts were committed only by people suffering a terrible mental disease, we might be more merciful and forgiving. If we knew the perpetrator was under the control of another person, demon or entity, we might be more compassionate.
Our ability to reason through all of our thoughts, ideas, memories, imaginings, intentions and beliefs is what determines our capacity to be compassionate or cruel in any situation at any time. Some prejudiced individuals actually believe that harming other people, the environment or anything in this world is justified. We may not agree with them or understand their thinking, but we have to live in this world with them.
Our personal spiritual journey demands that we become more compassionate and less cruel. But if we want to survive, this world demands that we accept terrible things a kind and loving person would never consider doing most of the time. We accept war but war is based on the negative emotions of hatred, antipathy, vengeance and retaliation. We accept death penalties and incarceration based on these same emotions.
In accepting these things, they become a part of us. This is not an indictment against humanity. It's a statement of undeniable truth. But the good news is that the more we inculcate compassion into our lives, the more compassionate and loving we become, the happier and more joyful we become.
By the same token, the more hateful and cruel we become the more depressed, sad and sorrowful we become. It's entirely up to us. It's a decision we make.
As with all things concerning the Tree of Life we are compassionate on the unconscious, subconscious and conscious levels of our being. On the conscious level we are unaware of many things both our subconscious and unconscious minds know. We can learn a little about these higher levels of consciousness by observing how we express compassion in our lives.
HOW TO BECOME MORE COMPASSIONATE
We all have the ability to become more and more unconditionally loving, more and more compassionate, happier and more joyful. All we have to to is concentrate on the information, thoughts, words, ideas and attitudes that we want to emulate. The reflect on this information and decide how compassionate you want to be in your life.
If we suffer from feelings of hatred, revenge, vindictiveness, deep sorrow or depression, we will continue to draw more and more of these things into our lives until we decide to change our attitudes, intentions and beliefs. We can do that through psychotherapy, hypnotherapy or spiritual alchemy. If you're ready to do this work, we recommend the following two spiritual alchemy fellowships:
THE LAW OF COMPASSION
The more we express compassion, love, virtue, happiness, mercy, joy and thankfulness in our lives, the more we become compassionate, loving, happy, merciful, joyful and thankful we become and the more we draw these things into our lives.
CORRESPONDENCES TO THE TREE OF LIFE
For each lesson concerning the spheres and paths on the Tree of Life there is a reference lesson containing information about how other disciplines interact with the Tree. These disciplines include alchemy, affirmations, astrology, our body, contemplation, creation step, the elemental worlds, meditation, mystery schools, quantum physics, tarot, visualizations and white magic. Correspondences to the Sphere of Compassion.
THE NEXT LESSON
You may now review the previous lessons
- Path 1 - Awareness
- Path 2 - Intentions
- Path 3 - Beliefs
- The First Trinity
or proceed to The Tree of Life - Path 5
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