{"id":109201,"date":"2026-03-18T17:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=109201"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:15:55","slug":"fostering-the-qualities-of-mastership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/109201-fostering-the-qualities-of-mastership","title":{"rendered":"Fostering the Qualities of Mastership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breathing is the simplest meditation.\u00a0 When life starts falling apart all around you and you don’t even have time to call in the Light, just take a deep breath.\u00a0 Breathe in the positive and breathe out the negative.\u00a0 <\/em> – John-Roger<\/p>\n

This article by John-Roger was originally published in the Movement Newspaper in October 1982.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no way to deceive God.\u00a0 As you demonstrate your ability to discern truth, to sacrifice the lesser worlds for the greater Spirit, to live in faith and creativity, to make your intelligence and will useful to you, and to be devoted and disciplined in loving service to all, you have anointed yourself in mastership.\u00a0 Others can only reflect to you that you are there.\u00a0 And if you are there, of course, it does not matter what anyone else says or thinks.\u00a0 So ultimately it comes right back to: “To thine own Self be true.”<\/p>\n

I talk about the Spirit and tell you of the God within and the higher realms of Spirit as a means of awakening you to those greater levels.\u00a0 You might say, “What good does it do to hear your words if I don’t know them for myself?”\u00a0 If I didn’t keep putting out the message, you might not turn in this direction for a long, long time.\u00a0 You might become so caught up in the illusions of the world you wouldn’t look toward Spirit for eons.<\/p>\n

I love you and want to share the joy of Spirit with you.\u00a0 You can learn through joy.\u00a0 You can learn through upliftment.\u00a0 You can also learn through pain and anguish, but why make those choices if you have others?\u00a0 Pain is not a negative process; it lets you know you’re awake and alive.\u00a0 Pain can be a strengthener.\u00a0 Grief can be a strengthener.\u00a0 Feelings of intimidation, worry, confusion \u2013 they’re all potential strengtheners.<\/p>\n

Suppose you have a piece of gold which you want to make into a beautiful chalice, but you don’t know how to do that.\u00a0 So you take it to a goldsmith who has the skill to make the chalice.\u00a0 You give him the gold and you release it.\u00a0 You don’t care if he melts it, hammers it, molds it, shapes it, or even throws away the parts that contain impurities as he makes it into a beautiful chalice.\u00a0 You don’t care about the process of transformation as it goes from a rough piece of gold to the golden chalice.\u00a0 The result is worth it.\u00a0 The beauty of the final product is worth everything that has been part of the process.<\/p>\n

When you move toward God Consciousness, you give your consciousness over to God and ask him to make you into the golden chalice.\u00a0 God will do it precisely the way that is perfect for you.\u00a0 What do you care if you have an ache or a pain along the way?\u00a0 What does it matter if you’re a little depressed one day or a little confused another?\u00a0 If you were already perfect, you would have already reached God realization.\u00a0 You must bring yourself into line with spiritual direction.\u00a0 When things disturb you, move to the higher perspective and see where it might fit in the larger picture.\u00a0 If you complain about the work that Spirit does with you, Spirit backs off.\u00a0 Then you complain, because God is molding you into the golden chalice and is separating out the impurities from the gold.\u00a0 When the chalice is completed, Spirit will come along and give you jewels to add to it and enhance its beauty.<\/p>\n

You can build strength through every situation that appears to you.\u00a0 If someone comes up to you with some marijuana and wants you to join him in smoking it, you can go with him, roll it, get it all ready, and then put it down and walk out.\u00a0 You’ll build strength.\u00a0 You can go to your cupboard and take out the liquor bottle and pour the booze down the sink without taking that final drink.\u00a0 If you’re overweight, you can cook a beautiful steak and throw it in the garbage disposal.\u00a0 Or you can go to a restaurant and order a wonderful meal but not eat it.\u00a0 Yes, I agree, it’s a crazy point of view, but watch the strength you’ll build.\u00a0 You build integrity.\u00a0 You build character.\u00a0 You build your own trust in yourself as you learn to keep your word and be true to yourself.\u00a0 Integrity is an indicator in the physical world of spirituality.<\/p>\n

Your word should be like the North Star which remains constant.\u00a0 Once you have given your word in a sincere or spiritual way, it should remain constant.\u00a0 If you change it, you are not really following a path of upliftment.\u00a0 You’re following a path of manipulation, attempting to manipulate people in their relationships to you.\u00a0 Usually your attempts to manipulate are based upon your emotions, your thoughts, or imagination which create all sorts of illusion and delusion.<\/p>\n

Take care of this physical level.\u00a0 It’s important.\u00a0 You create your habits here.\u00a0 You serve yourself well if you create good habits.\u00a0 My mother used to get after me to make my bed every morning, and I couldn’t understand why because every night it would become unmade again.\u00a0 In her own way she explained that making the bed, cleaning my room, showering, brushing my teeth \u2013 all those mundane levels of living \u2013 were part of demonstrating respect and love for the God that dwells within me.\u00a0 We each are a part of God, very specifically and literally.\u00a0 We honor the God within by doing good things both in this world and in the higher worlds.<\/p>\n

You cannot neglect this level and call yourself spiritual.\u00a0 If you want to be eccentric and get away with it, it’s also important to maintain a certain amount of practicality.\u00a0 If you have your life together, have a good family life, are holding a good job, making good money and paying your bills, you can rant and rave and roll around on your living room floor, and everybody says, “Yeah, but everything else in his life is fine, so it must be okay.”\u00a0 If you’re an undependable “slob”\u00a0 who borrows money from everyone around and acts weird, they lock you up.\u00a0 If you want to be eccentric (which can sometimes be another word for free), get your life together.\u00a0 Then you can do some eccentric things if you want.<\/p>\n

Maintain the mundane levels.\u00a0 That may come down to simply breathing in and out when the going gets rough.\u00a0 Breathing is the simplest meditation.\u00a0 When life starts falling apart all around you and you don’t even have time to call in the Light, just take a deep breath.\u00a0 Breathe in the positive and breathe out the negative.\u00a0 If your emotions are kicking up on you, just take in a deep breath, gather your emotions up into that breath, and then release them as you breathe out.\u00a0 And if you need to, do it again and again.<\/p>\n

You have dominion over yourself and your expression.\u00a0 Ask for the Light to be with you.\u00a0 Focus on the Light.\u00a0 Recognize yourself as a child of God who deserves all that is good.\u00a0 As you hold that focus inside of yourself, you’ll create it.\u00a0 You can create good feelings, happiness, joy, and a quality of peace within you.\u00a0 When you start to experience bliss, you know you have tapped into the Soul level energy.\u00a0 When you start to experience the loving inside, you’ll know your path.\u00a0 There will be no way to deny it.\u00a0 When you realize you hardly notice what used to drive you into negativity, you’ll start to know the value of the spiritual path.<\/p>\n

Take the time in your life to consider your path.\u00a0 Make your choices based upon the best and most accurate information available to you.\u00a0 Don’t rush into changes.\u00a0 Meditate upon your life’s path.\u00a0 Ask for Spirit’s guidance.\u00a0 If you are involved in something you would like to change, ask Spirit to take the old pattern from you, and then let it go.\u00a0 It sounds simple, and it is.\u00a0 It is not necessarily easy.\u00a0 When you are willing to let go of those things which have not worked for you in your life, ask Spirit to take them.\u00a0 And then just move forward on your path.<\/p>\n

Be willing to drop the criteria of the physical, mental, emotional and financial levels and move to the spiritual.\u00a0 Be willing to sacrifice the lower levels to gain the Spiritual.\u00a0 If you want to travel the path of the Sound Current initiations of the Traveler, you must be willing to reach beyond the limitations of the material worlds in order to gain the awareness of your life in the spiritual worlds.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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