Under the Influence

Under the Influence

If you’ve been reading recent posts, then you know that our newest subject is A, B and C influences. A influences are the pull of all things worldly. Family, friends, career, prestige, money, housing, etc. No higher consciousness is needed to acquire any of the above.

B influences, as you’ve probably already read about, are conscious in their genesis, and stand apart from the worldly influences. An appreciation of and being drawn to certain types of art, literature, or music or any art form and the experience of unfathomable emotions that are experienced when exposed to such. This is the birth of the magnetic center.

C influence is conscious in its genesis and promulgation. When the time is right, when enough B influences have permeated the individual and he or she begins to search for a more meaningful existence, then meeting and recognizing a living conscious principle is possible.

Rembrandt’s St. Matthew and the Angel seems to depict the moment a man hears the quiet voice of a higher consciousness, whispering the message of awakening to him. Indeed, this is one of the hallmarks of C (or conscious) influence; it is transmitted directly. Even so, a passive reception is not enough. One must verify C influence to understand its value.

A man may find something which he will give up everything else for—something which absorbs him, possesses itself of him, makes him over into its image: it may be something regarded by others as being very paltry, inadequate, useless: yet it is his dream, it is his lodestar, it is his master. That, whatever it is, seized upon me. I had to pay much for what I got, but what I got made what I paid for it, much as it was, seem cheap. I never weighed what I gave for what I got but I am satisfied with what I got. ~ Walt Whitman

Written by our friend Charles R.

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St. Matthew and the Angel, Rembrandt (c. 1661), The Louvre Museum, France