"Silence, Prayer, Meditation and Contemplation blend into each other harmoniously." -Flower A. Newhouse

Finding Your True North

Entering the Light - Lesson 3

"In this past week I've been thinking of various techniques, some of them very, very simple and others not so simple, that are important for us all to use so that consciousness is not low-grade, but the consciousness we use is of a higher level of unfoldment than would be natural if we were not continuously aware of the presence of God."

"The easiest and simplest of all things to do when you feel irritable or sullen or very unhappy and you know very well that you are in a self-centered basis of response to life and motivation, then put on one of your musical recordings, great music it needs to be."

"There needs to be spiritual and intelligent oneness with the music and if there is that then there will be change, and you will completely escape the hard or heavy or binding conditions that was present before you raised your consciousness."
–Flower A. Newhouse, Inspiration Through Consciousness Raising

Click to hear Flower A. Newhouse speak to this keynote

What experiences and techniques have you discovered for yourself that lift your consciousness Godward?

Click to hear Flower A. Newhouse speak to the vehicle of music

Let us take a moment and listen to a great piece of music. I encourage you to find your own or you can listen to the music link below. Be sure to close your eyes and let the music be your focus. As Flower said, "Don't hum it to yourself, don't think of the melodic phrases that are familiar to you, but think instead of the richness of tone, of the colorful music, of the beauty of the construction of this concerto or symphony and appreciate it."

Click to hear a selection of music

What did you visualize as this music played?

How different do you feel now as compared to before the music began?

Flower has described this as positing the consciousness-putting it forward or positioning it with God. With our consciousness in this position, we have access to the full range of functioning power that comes from God. The next meditation we are to practice will work to develop this in our attunements.

GIL, pp. 57-59 (In your kit, read from the book Gateways Into Light)

Journal your impressions of these four attributes of God the Whole that Flower introduces:

  • Divine Presence of God - Insights from S7 and M7
  • Divine Intelligence - Insights from S12
  • Divine Love – How has God's love manifested itself in your life? Do you see it in God's creativity? "Oh how mighty Thou art, God."
  • Divine Ability – Flower would even call upon this part of God even when trying to open a jar. Nothing is impossible with God.

Practice

M11 Find the card entitled Drawing Closer to God in the green section. Practice this meditation to expand your thoughts on these functioning powers of God.

As one Perfected Soul said, "Come moonbeams or sunbeams, come night or day, the Light of the Eternal is constant ." May your days be active in that Light.

A great and powerful invisible world surrounds us, a world from which we originated and belong, far more truly than to the outer world. We often forget about this invisible world-the source and reservoir of power from which we may draw great energy, inspiration, and revelation. There are so many powers and pressures to distract us from the inner worlds and keep us focused on our temporary existence in the outer world. Our purpose and goal in this incarnation is to learn to live on the visible plane, while keeping our conscious affiliation with the Divine world of Spirit to which we belong forever.
-Flower A Newhouse

The musical selection was Alleluia by Randall Thompson. For more information see wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleluia_(Thompson).

It can also be purchased and downloaded at itunes or amazon.com for $0.99.

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Resource Kit - Table of Contents

Unit 1: Entering the Light
Preface . Lesson 1 . Lesson 2 . Lesson 3 . Lesson 4 . Lesson 5
Lesson 6 . Lesson 7 . Lesson 8 . Lesson 9 . Lesson 10 . Lesson 11

Unit 2: The Touch of God
Lesson 1 . Lesson 2 . Lesson 3 . Lesson 4 . Lesson 5 . Lesson 6
Lesson 7

Unit 3: The Armor of Spiritual Life
Lesson 1 . Lesson 2 . Lesson 3 . Lesson 4 . Lesson 5
Lesson 6 . Lesson 7 . Lesson 8

Additional recommended reading and audio recordings are available on our Meditation and Prayer page.

Sample Kit Content

Our Seven Bodies
Our Seven Bodies 		Gateways Into Light
Gateways Into Light 		The Way to Within
The Way to Within

About Flower A. Newhouse

The life and writings of Flower A. Newhouse are those of a Christian mystic, and her insights into the inner realms of life provide us with a path to wholeness that she called "Living the Life." These teachings are not doctrine, but a practical guide to the direct, immediate experience of God. Flower's mission was also to reawaken humanity to the reality of angels, a work she began with her first book in 1937, and added to in many published writings and in recorded lectures.