Synthesis – a blending, a working together.
Lighting our candles.
Lighting our candles together tonight.
Hanukkah & Advent candles.
Hanukkah – 8-day Jewish Festival of hope & miracles.
Lighting our candles together.
The first light on the Menorah (Jewish holder of candles).
And our 4th Advent candle.
The 4th week of Advent recognizes the human kingdom.
Now all the kingdoms are together.
there is one last light.
the white candle at the Center of the wreath.
This is the light of the Soul & the Spirit.
Lit at midnight on Christmas.

Lighting our Candles Together
Rekindling light in this ever increasing darkness of the Kali Yuga.
Soon the new light is revealed at Winter Solstice.

Today/tonight –
The Fourth Sunday of Advent.
We light our 4th violet candle tonight.
At the first sighting of the first star in the sky, Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of Light begins tonight.
Lighting our candle together.

Libra moon today till 2:35pm. V/c till 7:31pm.
Then the moon enters Scorpio.
Sun in Sagittarius (the journey & the way ahead to the foothills of Capricorn (initiation, Light supernal, mountaintop, midnight Sun).
Mercury & Venus in Capricorn.
Mars retrograde. On the 29th Mercury retrogrades too.

Political activism & politicla change.
Not for indiv to flourish but to change the system.
Synthesis between individual & community.
Bring changed self into the system.
For the system to change.
Synthsis if political & psychologicla work.

Disciples in the world – Activism & Psychology.
Political activism & political change.
Understanding the psychology of the system & the psychology
of the individual & the psychology of the masses.
Activism –
Not for individual to flourish within the political system.
But to change the system.
To change the system from without.

Bucky Fuller’s quotes.
“We never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”. B. Fuller

“We are the architects of the future, not its victims.”

“God is a verb not a noun.” (We are the Sons & Daughters of God, the Creator).

“We can never learn less. We always learn more.”

“I look for things to be done. That is how the universe designs itself.”

“Search others for their virtue.”

Synthesis between individual & community.
Bring changed self into the system.
Standing within the system observing.
Working outside of the system creating.
Needed for the system to change.
This is Synthesis of political & psychological work. Risa

Psychology of the Soul – in Aquarius.  
A deep study today – Saturn’s day. The Teacher teaching us.

Roots of Psychology – to make all things new.
Conflicts on kama-manas (emotional/mental) eased, understood.
Provide answers to challenges confronting humanity.
Must acquire perspective of a higher plane. That of the Soul.
The Soul. The psychological life of disciples becomes very simple when the Soul directs the personality.
How?
Recognition that the many become the 7, then the 3 then the One.
Spiritual psychology recognizes the reality of the Rays of a person, their Astrology to Know the self/Self – thus a celestial synthesis occurs.
Living in harmony with one’s Rays structure, knowing the self (thru study of astrology & Rays).
Culture them flows into a state of understanding, happiness & Joy.

Identification w/ a higher ideal lifts us from imprisoning thoughts & feelings. A light is then shone on the Path & man is released from conflicts. Society can be transformed from these reflections.

Will (Ray 1) has a thread of Sacrifice – which is the Make Whole.
Spirit of the Will to Good – the true nature of the Will. To make things sacred.

Seven Rays – Roberto Assagioli (Psycho synthesis) referred to the Seven Rays via what he called the Seven Types. There is a small book called the Seven Types.

Knowledge & Change
If one person shows the seed of change, then the entire system changes.

Paracelsus – first modern scientist. Faith must confirm the imagination, perfects the will. Man must have perfect imagination be certain of their power & possess true knowledge”.
“This is the secret” says Blavatsky – “the challenge of modern psychologists is to rent the veil hiding truth & the reality.”

Patanjali – the doctrine of opposite thinking leading to harmony. Which is Ray 4.

New Word –
Learning a new word today – reflecting Sagittarius.
Kavanah – the new word. Integration.
The idea of separatism & synthesis.
We begin w/ polarities first. Then we come into synthesis.
Harmony Through Conflict is the Way humanity learns.
A study today of Psychology – & the Will (willingness).

Saturn, the Teacher. Today is Saturn’s Day.
Ray 3 day – Divine Intelligence day today.

Today – Saturday, December 17, 2022 –
This is the Month of Universal Human Rights.
And the Week of the Bill of Rights.
Do we know what the Bill of Rights are?
It’s important to know these things.

Sun in Sagittarius – the disciples with a focused goal oriented mind.
And so….a new word –
Kavanah – A Hebrew word – it means intention, inner intention. As in “A prayer w/out intention (kavanah) is like a body without a Soul. The body is empty.”

Kavanah – concentrating the mind – a focused mind that has intention, a goal, a sense of direction.
This reflects the experience of Sagittarius.

New ideas introduced for the new era.
Multiple interpretations come forth in terms of where one
is in their consciousness. Those who only see the lowest levels, they would take the new realities into a state of greed. Those on the higher level, take the new realities in terms of the Plan of God.

Happiness, Joy, Bliss.
Let us know – three levels –
Happiness is the personality experience.
Joy is the experience of the Soul. This is a very creative state of being.
Bliss is the experience of Spirit.
Humanity needs happiness first.

Right angles adjusted. Accounts squared up.
The Soul directing the personality.
When the soul directs the personality….
Life plan changes when the Soul directs the personality. The individual merges into the Divine. The planetary aspects of the horoscope is adjusted. Planetary cooperation & adjustments take place. Soul orientation allows the square upon which levels are set.
Disciples interacting with others in the world.
Integrating the other’s state of being. Meeting them where they are…
Disciples interact w/ children as a child, with adults as an adult, with the wise as wise, with intellectuals as intellectuals, w/ diplomats as a diplomat, with defauters as a Ruler, with devotion at their God/Guru, with friends as a friend.

Levels are set as to others. The disciple has no level.
The disciple erect fresh structures of life, establishing right angles, lovingly helping others.
The life of a disciple, like a Bodhisattva, is to help others adjust to the Light.
So… time tables turned, planetary adjustments, levels set in squares, right angels adjusted, accounts squared up. Om

We live on a spectrum of different degrees & polarities.
Humanity is looking for synthesis.
The search for synthesis for some this is difficult.
For others it’s easier.
A true psychology – how the Soul manifests thru human nature.
From polarity & conflict to integration & synthesis – Ray 4.
We search synthesis thru the opposite & harmony through conflict. The keyword is ‘THROUGH.”
We look at all the difficulties in life as ways towards liberation.
Wisdom teachings are blueprint of long journey from conflict to harmony. This manifests who we are, going thru the difficulties. Seeking integration in our long journey.

The journey is long. The Wisdom Teachings help us along & they are the seeds of the new psychology. We are to welcome all manifestations of life & livingness, see limitations & potentials as opportunities. And seek that which is synthesis.

Then a true psychology emerges as the conditionings of the Soul. The Wisdom Teachings again are a blueprint for Soul contact. When we have enough Soul contact, sensitive to the Whole, we hold the blueprints as magnetic points, the ideal, not be afraid of difficulties, live opposites, live the conflicts so we can reach harmony. Then we become the magnet that humanity looks to for healing.

Helping people be able to contain the Light.
A Disciple’s work. A Bodisattva’s work.

Psychological News & Notes (useful to some)
Many levels to psychology today.
Psychology is a very noble profession.

We need to consider psychology today is a young science.
120 years old. It took other sciences many more years in their development. The Soul principle introduced into psychology is also a new principle. Things emerge out of opposites. Harmony emerges from conflict.

Psychology the Science of Aquarius age. Electricity, Science of the Piscean Age. We have just entered the Aquarian Age.
So the study of psychology is important now.

There is a great need today for humanity’s psychology development.

Books-
Will Power – Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (by Baumeister & Tierney)
Will used to be a word not allowed to be used. Will was too moralistic. All psychology used only moralistic principles.

Act of Will – Roberto Assagioli.
Rollo May – Love & Will (early 70s).
Your Inner Will – by Piero Ferrucci

Christopher Bollas (British psychoanalistic theorist & author) – he speaks of the God within each of us. Writer of “The Shadow of the Object: The Unthought Known”. The Child & the objects around. How the child & those around the child affect each other.

Assagioli, Roberto (Pisces psychoanalyst) – Realization of the higher self (the Soul), directing the personality. This is the true spiritual psychology.

When considering the human being we are really considering energy & forces, related units of energy functioning in a field of energy we call the Soul which absorbs man, absorbs the lesser energy, called the personality. p. 424-5 – Treatise by the Tibetan.

Transform, transmute, sublimate.
10 Psychological Laws – the Active Will, p. 60-65.
The Will is the center of psychology & life.
The will/Will is beginning to be of interest to psychologists.
A previously forbidden subject.
Best seller (about the will), NYT – Will Power: the Greatest Strength (book by Baumeister & Tierney)

Psychology externalizes the Soul Principles.
Psychology as it will come forth will bring forth the Science of the Soul.

A study today – Psychology – balance between the opposites.
A way to learn how to flourish & thrive. Living in the flow. Learning to serve with love/wisdom.
love, Risa