In one of the esoteric teachings, the following meditation phrase is given:

“I build a lighted house and therein dwell”

The aim of a disciple is to build a lighted house and dwell in it. But to build such a house, the best materials are needed. Essentially needed are the substances of Love, Intelligence, and Good-Will. These substances were presented in the three previous full moon periods. As well, all of the higher spiritual Virtues will become the building blocks for this house. The house referred to here is made of all our lower and higher bodies, which we can think of as stories or levels of the house.

Our house is where we live, which are our bodies. We have responsibility to build our three “lower” bodies, the physical, emotional, and mental. We can build a healthier physical body with good food and exercise. But also important to work on are our emotional and mental bodies. Our emotional body is built or shaped by the emotions we consistently remain in, either positive or negative, so our work is to live in higher positive emotions. Our mental body is built of the thoughts we dwell in. So with conscious intention we can choose thoughts with truth and goodness to build, or rebuild, our mental house. In all these levels of oneself, it is best to use the energies of love, truth, goodness and beauty. Also important with this building process is knowing the Spiritual Purpose for doing so, and having a sense of need and desire to work on this.

Our three lower bodies, the physical, emotional and mental, become built somewhat by unintentional processes. In other words, with good food and exercise our physical body grows naturally without much thought or intention. Our emotional and mental bodies somewhat grow naturally as well, if one grows up in a healthy emotional environment and develops the mental body with education and intelligent thinking.

Yet, the intuitional body, or what could also be called the soul body, or light-body, requires more intentional effort, and also required is cooperation of the lower three bodies -- which comprise the personality vehicle. So, another level of meaning in this keynote of “building a lighted house” is to build our light-body, which is a higher level of building. This is our soul-body, which is also known as our light-body or intuitional body.

We develop our spiritual soul with the energies of spiritual light and higher consciousness. In doing so, we are building our house of light. When we hold our mind steady in pure spiritual light, or in pure consciousness, then we are building this soul body made of light.

As our Intuitional-soul temple is developed, there is a gradual increase in our capacity for continuity of consciousness, realization of immortality, awareness of the hierarchy, and contact with Christ or with our particular Master-Guide. In relation to the hierarchy, realize that it is like a great mansion built from very bodies of the Masters.

The dwelling place of souls is the Buddhic-Intuitional plane. So by building our lighted house, our light-body, we are building our soul body. Our soul has immediate knowingness of its Spiritual Being and spiritual qualities. We each already ‘have’ a soul, but every soul is in further progress towards greater realization or being a greater expansion of light. And thus, there is an opportunity here to build a more permanent and stronger soul-consciousness – with clearer connectivity to our mental, emotional and physical bodies – infusing greater Light into the lower bodies and then into the whole world.

“On the Buddhic plane, or what is also called the Intuitional plane, there is the light of consciousness and also a greater light of intelligence. As the pilgrim enters into this zone of beingness,… He begins to know through direct knowledge.” Also, there is Real Love at this level, and this 4th plane is actually related to the heart, so we might also experience this as the light-consciousness of the heart, which is another key in building our lighted house. “When we speak of the heart and the direct knowledge of the heart, we are speaking of the intuitional awareness, which is the dispeller of all illusion [T. Saraydarian, Science of Becoming Oneself, p. 82-83].”



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