Daily Meditation: Monday, September 20, 2004

Humility - is the universal solvent of the alchemists

09/20/2004

So many murky layers lie between our ordinary consciousness and our divine consciousness! This is why our most important work is to apply the methods that will enable us to break up the deposits within us, the slag which blocks the manifestation of wisdom, strength and divine love in us. The alchemists of the past sought the universal solvent. Why? Because they wanted to dissolve the dark matter within them, the negative instigator and dangerous conductor which blocks our union with God. And do you want to know what the best solvent is? Humility. But this solvent acts effectively only if we know why and how we must be humble; it is not by diminishing and disparaging ourselves without discernment. When it is misunderstood, humility can cause as much harm as pride. True humility enables us to dissolve our lower nature in order to identify with the Divinity.