Starting today, Monday, February 8, 2021, and for the next seven days, we are going to focus primarily on the I Am power of strength-stability-steadfastness. This power is represented by Jesus' apostle Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter who portrayed the faith faculty. Simon Peter was the first apostle to be called by Jesus, followed quickly by Andrew.
Faith-Peter, which manifests via the cerebrum of the brain, functions as the positive, active, Father polarity of this pair of spiritual qualities; whereas strength-Andrew, which expresses physically as the spinal cord and nerves, enacts the negative, receptive, Mother polarity of the two powers/apostles/body organs and systems. Together, in common anatomical terms, the cerebrum and the spinal cord and nerves, along with the thalamus, hypothalamus and medulla oblongata at the base of the brain, comprise the nervous system.
The color corresponding to, and carrying the vibration of, faith and the cerebrum is royal blue; thus it comes under the auspices of the First Ray of Will and Power, whose color is blue. The color that correlates with strength and the spinal cord and nerves is lemon yellow (see color sample to the right); therefore it comes under the auspices of the Second Ray of Understanding and Wisdom, whose color is yellow. (As with the color royal blue, Yolanda first saw this yellow color in a vision, then used a color chart of a range of yellow colors to name it "lemon yellow.")
Trees of Knowledge and Life
As the active, positive, Father principle, the cerebral computer issues affirmations, decrees, pronouncements and computations. As the receptive, negative, Mother principle, the spinal cord and nerves (see drawing to left) receives and carries carry these cerebral directives via bio-electrical nerve impulses to the rest of the body; and relay back nerve signals from the body's sensory organs to the cerebrum. The spinal cord exits through an opening of the skull at the base of the brain.
Twelve pairs of cranial nerves pass through other openings in the skull. They transmit impulses from the brain to organs in the head, neck, chest and abdomen; and from these areas back to the cerebrum.
Therefore, the spinal cord and nerves serve as the mother matrix for the whole body, which "wires together" and integrates every organ in the physical form with every other organ and physical system; and connects all of them to the cerebrum, the central computer. As a matrix, nerves are found throughout the entire body.
In symbolic terms, in the allegory of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2,3 which depicts man's origins on earth, the spinal cord and nerves are called the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life.
Knowledge of good and evil comes under the Second Ray of Understanding and Wisdom--at the mortal level, we understand and know about all the components of good and evil in third dimensional life, into which part of mankind fell eons ago; but we transmute this limited knowledge and lift it into the spiritual wisdom of our I Am Self and fourth-dimensional light body.
When we are spiritually wise, we are a tree of life: In our I Am or Christ mind we see, feel and do only that which is good and expresses divine, cosmic laws and principles; which enhances life, light and love in us and others.
We no longer are enticed by the serpent in the garden to partake of the forbidden fruits of the third dimension and its mortal consciousness, those fruits of the so-called tree of knowledge of good and evil. Rather, we remain strongly centered in our light body, wherein we are wise as a serpent, and pure as doves. (Matthew 10.16 Lamsa). We are in the world even though we are not of this mortal, physical world.
Be a Tree of Life
How do we develop and express wisdom? By refining and mastering our I Am power of strength, stability and steadfastness! Strength denotes endurance, courage and stamina; to have the strength of our spiritual convictions. Stability indicates permanence, durability and calmness. Steadfastness portrays determination, loyalty, reliability, persistence and firmness.
(By contrast, in common slang, someone who is weak, wavering and ambivalent, who is tempted to give into his/her faults and shortcomings, or actually does so, is said to be "spineless" or to have no "backbone.")
Our goal is to become a tree of life, to birth our light body on Earth. Symbolically, our spine/spinal cord is like the trunk of a tree, our arms and hands are like the branches of a tree, and our legs and feet are like the roots of a tree.
Whereas in the first book of the Holy Bible, Genesis, there is a tree of knowledge and a tree of life, by the last book of the Bible, Revelation, there is only a magnificent tree of life in the center of the New Jerusalem. This represents our gradual, step-by-step evolution of mortal to immortal consciousness via seventh major initiations; from our third-dimensional four lower bodies (mental, emotional, soul-astral, physical) to our fourth-dimensional light or electric or etheric body.
This tree of life is described in Revelation 22:1-2: "The angel also showed me the river of the water of life, sparkling like crystal, and coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb [Sananda-Jesus] and flowing down the middle of the street. On each side of the river was the tree of life, which bears fruit twelve times a year, once each month; and its leaves are for the healing of the nations."
The river of the water of life is analogous to our spinal cord. Just as the tree of life is on each side of the river, so do spinal nerves exiting from the spinal cord go to both sides of our body.
The twelve fruits symbolize the twelve I Am powers of faith, strength, love, wisdom, etc. The green leaves represent the whole range of effective holistic healing modalities, used to heal the whole (holy) person; and to heal all peoples and nations worldwide.
Follow the Straight and Narrow
On September 4, 2008, I had the following dream: "I was trying to fit myself inside the trunk of a huge, tall, magnificent tree. The trunk of this tree was just wide enough that I could walk through a doorway in its bark and stand inside of its hollow interior. However, I had trouble fitting inside it because my spinal cord was not straight; rather it bulged outward a foot or so in front of me. Starting at the base of my skull, my spinal cord curved forward until it was about a foot in front of my heart center, and then slowly curved back until it was positioned in my lower back, where the vertical spinal cord normally ends.
"Therefore, when I attempted to place my body inside the tree trunk, because my spinal cord curved so far out in front of me, it hit the side of the trunk and I did not fit in the available space. Watching me, several men who wanted my job gleefully pointed to my difficulties, and claimed that they were more qualified that I was; even though they were deluded in their egotistical assessments. Irritated, I told them to back off, that I was the right man for the right job."
As the dream indicates, rather than stay calm, centered and aligned with spiritual laws and principles, at times we allow ourselves to get pulled out into worldly temptations, desires and actions, the things we love as a mortal personality.
Thus, we may get all excited and wound up in some creative project and try to go too fast in completing it; or do something or have relationships with others that are personally enjoyable but bear no spiritual fruit.
Perhaps rather than being cautious and careful, we may get caught up in our dreams, visions and inspirations, and do not realize that to some degree we are subtly distorting them, misinterpreting them, or even making them up out of our personal/soul desires. We do not take sufficient time to properly discern what our dreams and intuitions truly are revealing to us. Therefore, we "get ahead of" or "out in front" of ourselves, and go where angels fear to tread.
More than likely, at some time we may be tempted by our desire to be loved by others. Who wants to be alone, unloved, not appreciated? But if we do something to please and impress others that is not spiritually balanced, or try to get some person or group of people to love us, we lose sight of the fact that we are here more so to love than to be loved. In fact, no one is universally loved, accepted or understood. We only can rightly love others when we are centered in the bright yellow light and strength of our I Am Self.
One of our hardest lessons is realizing that even some spiritual students on the path to I Am consciousness can be jealous of us, act as our competitors, speak negatively about us behind our back, and try to supplant us. We have as graphic examples Jesus' apostle Judas who betrayed Jesus, and the allegory of Cain slaying Abel.
In my dream, my tempters who alleged that they were more qualified than me represent my own fears, doubts and worries that I do not have the strength and stability to grow into and birth my light body, and to fulfill my holistic healing functions.
However, these dream tempters also symbolize my spiritual brothers and coworkers at lesser levels of spiritual evolution (on Earth and in the higher astral planes), who test and torment me, and actually try to deny me my rightful, and well-earned spiritual role and mission.
I have to have the faith and strength of my I Am Self to not let this happen; to not give up, to give in to their negativity or to self-destruct in lieu of their opposition and competition. Furthermore, rather than be irritated, annoyed and return unkindness for the unkindness they show me, I am to love and forgive them, which facilitates their own healing as well as my own.
We have all kinds of other ways in which we get "bent out of shape." For example, in the last year, it has taken all our strength not to get caught up in, and adversely affected by, the hysteria, fear and anxiety due to the covid-19 pandemic. We have had to be especially persistent to remain centered, to stay strong in the light, to be calm and balanced and stable. And that challenge remains, and will remain until the vaccination program is successful.
MEDITATIONS & VISUALIZATIONS
In your meditations this week, call upon Spirit and the higher plane agents of Spirit to guide you in assessing and transforming your power of strength-stability-steadfastness. Link with the apostle Andrew; with Kut Humi, Chohan or Director of the Second Ray, and Archangel Jophiel of the Second Ray. Link also with space visitors from Mercury (the Second Ray planet in this solar system), and with your higher astral plane guides to aid you in your strengthening focus and work to transmute from a tree of knowledge to a tree of life; to cross out the errors and weaknesses in your four lower bodies and to resurrect your light body.
Ask Spirit to reveal your residual weaknesses and lack of spiritual convictions, your unsteadiness and instability. Once these are shown to you, call upon those in the higher planes, in conjunction with your own I Am Self, to show you the way to correct, transform and heal these nerve imbalances.
Visualize a crystal clear river of life pouring down upon you from the etheric and celestial planes through the higher astral planes. It descends into your crown chakra/cerebrum, your faith center, and then down to your spinal cord that exits from the base of your skull. As it flows in and through and around your spinal cord, it turns into lemon yellow liquid-light that travels via your nerves to every part of your physical form and auric field. You become a vivid flame of lemon yellow light-energy-strength-stability-steadfastness.
If you do not see visions or colors, then rely more so on affirmations and decrees. Affirm: I am strong, stable and steadfast. Decree that Mother God strengthens and stabilizes your spinal cord and nerves. Know without a doubt that you are a glorious tree of life, focused on the good within all other sons and daughters of our Mother-Father Creator. Be I Am strength in action, centered and unwavering in all that you think, feel and do.
Steadfastly promote the positive, the good, the light within yourself and others. Repeatedly and consistently proclaim the reality of the Second Coming program, the rebirth of I Am or spiritual awareness in all on Earth and in the astral planes, and the redescent of Sananda-Jesus in his light body. What an incredible tree of life he is!
Heal Your Spouse
When you have finished concentrating on yourself, then shift your focus in this or later meditations this week to your spouse or former spouses. Last month, we worked for the healing of our relationships with our personal father, mother and siblings. This month, we will continue to work with those in our family tree, starting with our spouse(s).
See your past or present spouse a few feet before you, such that the outer edge of your aura touches and meshes with the outer surface of his or her aura. Call upon Spirit to fill you with lemon-yellow light that flows through your spinal cord and all the nerves of your body and out into your auric field that extends 1-2 feet from your physical form. Then, see this light flowing into your spouse or ex-spouse, lighting him or her up with the lemon-yellow light of strength, stability and steadfastness.
Stand back inwardly, stay centered in your spine, keep calm and composed whenever memories of past conflicts, disagreements, difficulties and upsets with your spouse surface within you. Let these feelings and memories go; turn them over to Spirit for transmutation: be determined to move forward. If you have gone through a divorce with this spouse, such memories may be particularly painful and difficult to cleanse and heal. Call upon our Father-Mother Creator to forgive him or her through you.
Be a tree of life. Rather than focus on the evil within your spouse or ex-spouse, see only the good or God Self within him or her. Steadfastly hold to your image of him or her growing into his own indwelling strength and stability, such that in the fullness of time the two of you will have a loving, balanced relationship; in this life or even in a future life. Give thanks unto Spirit for this strengthening of mind, body and soul within you and him/her.
World Projections
Project and radiate strength-stability-steadfastness to all husbands and wives, or former spouses throughout the planet. The 144,000 elect will be especially receptive to your affirmations, decrees, visualizations and realizations. See the whole world surrounded and aflame in lemon-yellow light. See the 144,000 interconnected by "spiritual nerves" that link them together and that strengthen and stabilize them in one spiritual family of lemon-yellow vibrations. Let "steady as she goes" be your mantrum.
As we see it, so shall it be.
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Please read the chapter on "Strength" in our Mark-Age text Birth of the Light Body for additional explanations and descriptions of this spiritual power; and a visualization to use when working with the lemon yellow light.
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