"Silence, Prayer, Meditation and Contemplation blend into each other harmoniously." –Flower A. Newhouse
Finding Your True North
The Touch of God - Lesson 3
Conscious Participants
Flower wrote, "The more forgetful of self we are, the clearer becomes our understanding of the tremendous Cause of the Christ."
This requires us to become conscious participants in this endeavor. Our life rules are certainly a step in this direction. How we utilize them is certainly the journey we have before us.
Read the highlighted section of this article and then reflect and respond to the questions below.
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"Christ Love is the leavening power."
"Our love for Christ and for the world should be like wholesome yeast, ever endeavoring to raise the whole loaf of civilization by His leavening Spirit within us."
"The more we act on the suggestions the Christ Spirit reveals to us within, the more will the Christ Dispensation be expressed in our times and before our eyes."
"a universal love motive"
- Flower A. Newhouse, "The Holy Gift", Inspiration 1946
Leavening has to do with an element, influence, or agent that works subtly to lighten, enliven, or modify a whole. Christ's love helps us in this way rise from self.
 | Can you remember a time where your love of others helped you draw closer to the Christ and His Cause flowing through this world? What was that like? |
The Great Ones say in Disciplines of the Holy Quest, "to love all in such a way that humanity itself is given insight into the love of the Spirit of man. In your higher bodies you observe each other with deepest and highest approval and with gratitude that your lives were linked."
This is the realization that is active in the inner planes that becomes part of us and active through us in this plane as we express this regard for all. It is Christ's love functioning through us to others.
May it ever lead us upward!
Reviewing Your Life Rules
 | I3 Review Activity 4 on the back of Creating Your Life Rules Information Sheet (I3). |
This is the time to begin shaping your life rules into phrases that give you more clarity to their purpose for you. For example, I had the rule come to me that I needed to love more. This felt so big it was difficult to picture. As I pondered it's meaning for me it became clearer that I needed to learn to love all individuals. I added "see their highest good" to make this rule active for me.
Take some time now to go through all your life rules and work with them in this way to bring forth their true purpose for you.
 | When done, play Track 10 of your Life Rules CD in your kit, or click here to listen to Flower online on what life rules bring you. |
| Journal any insights and impressions that come. |
As we work with these life rules to spiritually improve and awaken our true purposes, we are beginning to let God Within be in action.
| Play Track 13 of your Life Rules CD in your kit to hear Flower share this in greater detail, or click here to listen to Flower online on Flower on letting God Within becoming active. |
| Journal any insights and impressions that come. |
Practice
 | M9 The Question and Answer section below addresses the endeavor before us as we aspire to put these life rules in action. M9 is a planning meditation that utilizes your new life rules. Practice this meditation each morning to help you creatively and divinely approach your ideals. Flower gives us this meditation as a beginning place. Feel free to approach it creatively and modify it as needed to find what works for you. The key is that you are meditating on your ideals. |
Envelopments of Light to you!
Questions and Answers
Questions and answers with Flower A. Newhouse (excerpted from Here Are Your Answers, Volumes I, II and III)
 | Could you give some guidelines for living the life? |
 | Keep asking, "How well am I doing, how much am I improving myself this day, this hour, this moment?" There is nothing else in life as important as proving for Whom you stand, Whom you worship, and how useful your life will be through that worship. Consider the power of idealization in meditation. Remember the ideal and give it creative thought. The ideal is one's guiding star. It is the molder, the shaper of your feelings, thoughts, and actions. Next to reverence for God and our Lord, perhaps meditation-rightly motivated and devoted to the right thoughts-is the most important thing. From meditation go to action, then to service, and then to giving unselfishly. The ideal will infill and challenge you to always become more. One of the Masters has said, "We have one word for all aspirants: try." (HAYA III, p. 36) |
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Online Lessons
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Resource Kit - Table of Contents
Unit 1: Entering the Light
Preface .
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Lesson 11
Unit 2: The Touch of God
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Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Unit 3: The Armor of Spiritual Life
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Lesson 17
Additional recommended reading and audio recordings are available on our Meditation and Prayer page.
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.
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Audio recordings of past sermons.
Apr 7 I have come to bring fire on Earth: Christ Our Enlightener
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire
Apr 14 The I Ching: Ancient and Modern Wisdom
Rick Plant
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Rev. Lucy Wold
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Rev. Blake Isaac
May 5 Living a Christ-filled Life
Rev. Hal Lingerman
May 12 The Many Expressions of Motherhood
Rev. Elizabeth Wood
May 19 Expanding Our Perception: Learning to Listen
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire
May 26 The Continuity of Life
Captain Dan Willis
Jun 2 The Importance of Spiritual Travel
Rev. Blake Isaac
Jun 9 Expanding our Understanding of the Healing Ways of Jesus
Rev. Miara Wiltshire
Jun 16 Christ's Beatitudes: Finding Harmony of Male and Female
Rev. Hal Lingerman
Jun 23 Vernal Retreat: Expanding Our Perception: Learning to See
Rev. Jonathan Wiltshire
Jun 30 The Law of Freedom
Rev. Myrna Triggs
Jul 7 The Inner Influence of Our Zodiac Signs
Rev. Blake Isaac
Jul 14 Life's Lessons and Legacies
Richard Wold
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Rev. Hal Lingerman
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