KNIGHTHOOD, or "Who is Gallant?"

Knighthood



It is as evil to submit to slavery as to be a slave master.
Only with experience as a person living in a world of people will you come to know what you are to lead mankind from. The world you wish to create is a desperate relief from what it is now.

All religions are lost in error, but they can inspire faith, and have brought Christ Consciousness into western civilization.

The hypocrisy of Christian leaders and their flocks is monstrous. But it is better to suffer Churches than to abandon the world.

Religions can shackle the spirit.

One must understand the atmosphere in which the spirit of Christ struggles.

In being offered KNIGHTHOOD, or Kn-I-ghthood, you take your chances, or run away.

In running you may embrace a peaceful, trial-free life. You'll also be impotent. Still, it's your cho-I-ce.

Could this be the test of self-sufficiency? When problems arise, do you turn inward for solutions, or do you hand your power completely over to others? (For example, doctors often try to cure problems, whether they understand them or not. They are of little use spiritually.)

Do you tap inner strength, or do you expect others to take care of you? Do you enjoy being a victim? Only you can answer that.

In pondering this, you don't have time for the ecstacy of humiliation, nor of arrogance, nor for whimperings of self-pity. All will leave you with your psychic defences down.

If you request Knighthood, you request battles.

Knighthood is not for the faint of heart, but offers are seldom made to runners.

And remember, choosing Knighthood is like signing a blank check -- you'll never know the price you'll have to pay. Sometimes one has to write said check with one's own blood.

At present, while in experiential poverty, you may not understand. Eventually a Knight is purified into sustained conviction. His life - his very soul - may depend on the certitude of his convictions.

Still, at the end of the day, you always have cho-I-ce.

As you think, so you are. As you BE-lieve, so you BE.

Embrace each new moment, writing your own Never Ending Story, through eternity, creating forever your own real-I-ty in the eternal now. You have the potential for potency.

Consider the following words from Nelson Mandala's 1994 Inaug-U-R-al speech [taken from a book called "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Weask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, georgous, talented, and fabulous? Actaully, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Remember: The Blessed Virgin within you has given (or will give) birth to the Christ Consciousness, which was Immaculately Conceived (or will be conceived) at the time of your initiation into the Mysteries. May the Three Mothers of Incorruptibility, Aspiration, and Renunciation bear witness to the most Holy Event of your cho-I-ce.