If you want to live a life of genuine spiritual freedom, maturity and confidence you must cultivate your own inner-light and your own interior-spiritual powers. The self-reliant, illuminated and realized person enjoys ever increasing confidence, certainty, stability and assurance.
One should not make oneself DEPENDENT on someone else’s inner-light. One should not make oneself dependent on the interior-spiritual powers and graces of others. One should rely upon ones own discovered and cultivated inner-light and interior-spiritual powers. One should rely on ones own actualized interior spiritual powers. Whatever you make yourself dependent upon by that you will be regulated, controlled and limited. If you make yourself dependent on someone else’s degree of light and some else’s degree of interior spiritual unfoldment then by that will your life be regulated, circumscribed and determined.
When you cultivate your own interior-light and interior-spiritual power you attract to yourself the assistance, protection and guidance of the protective and guardian deities of creation. When you cultivate your own interior-light and interior spiritual-power you nourish and activate the protective functions [and guardian deities] of creation and you simultaneously attract them and cause them to work on your behalf and for your benefit. There is nothing wrong in receiving light, assistance and benefit from someone else but it will be a great mistake to make ourselves dependent on that person, and it will also be a great mistake to restrict our outlook, growth and unfoldment based on the unique outlook and understanding of someone else. Accept no one else as a master. Consider others as mature spiritual friends and fellow companions on the path. Only one who is perfect, accomplished and fully mature can exercise the grace of masterhood. Masters are truly humble and unassuming and they never call themselves or think themselves to be anyone’s master. They don’t think or feel themselves to be better than or superior to anyone. Such accomplished human spiritual masters are a rarity in this world. This is why it is better to not accept another human being as one’s master. Accept your own inner-light and your own unfolding spiritual intelligence and your interior spiritual powers as master. If you need and want to accept another person as your spiritual master then accept Ori, Obàtálá, Òrúnmìlà and Èlà as your masters because they are humble, perfect, unassuming and mature. Accept Ori, Obàtálá, Òrúnmìlà and Ela as your masters because they will not ‘lord it’ over you. They will come alongside you as good friends and companions. Ori, Obàtálá, Òrúnmìlà and Èlà do not think or feel that they are better than or superior to you. Ori, Obàtálá, Òrúnmìlà and Èlà have a knowledge, experience and understanding of things much greater than our own, and they also have a sublime view and complete understanding of things therefore they are in an ideal and special position to benefit us as no one else can.
Discover, develop, realize, cultivate and perfect your own inner-light and your own interior spiritual powers. Have faith in this inner light and power and no one will be able to misguide, manipulate and mislead you. You will be able to see, deeply perceive and understand things and people with a discernment that is more accurate and penetrating than the x-ray! Learn how to trust and rely on your inner-root and foundation. Be established in the core of your essential being and find [experience] Enitolodun, the supreme truth, energy and guiding power who resides within you as the Spirit of your spirit.
Until one discovers and abides in this inner-light and power ones life will be ruled by uncertainty, instability, doubt and lack of assurance. True self-confidence will be lacking in one’s life if one is seeking to live one’s life by relying on someone else’s spiritual knowledge and power. Find out for yourself how to rightly direct and govern your own life. Why live a directionless life by depending on others whose true inner spiritual condition and qualifications are not known to you and cannot be known to you until you have first discovered and become established in your own inner-light and power? Why allow yourself to be led, guided and directed by immature and unqualified people who are themselves in great need of being led, disciplined, educated and rightly instructed? How can someone who has no true spirituality, no true foundation, no true spiritual power, no true spiritual vision and no true spiritual knowledge help you? How can you vouch for another or attest to the inner potency of another if you have not yet been able to vouch for yourself and have yet to exhibit your own inner light and power?
Humility is not gullibility. Being an opened minded person is not the same as being a naive person. Being gentle and kind does not mean that one is powerless, weak and without efficacious means. Trusting in others does not mean that we stop trusting in ourselves. Having faith does not mean turning off our intelligence, common sense and ignoring our intuitive perceptivity. I share these truths and keys of knowledge with you so that you are safeguarded from the manipulation and deceptive ways of pseudo-spiritualists who would like to pose as great guides and masters only to take advantage of your credulity and sincerity.
To believe means to have the ability to receive, but we cannot believe in all people and in all things. We can only receive light and power when we are believing in a genuine holder and communicator of this light and power. We can only receive light and power by receiving this light and power directly from the root sources of spiritual light and power.
The power to believe and/or receive that we call faith also known as the power of receptivity [spiritual sensivity or perceptivity] arises from the center of truth, beauty and purity that is within ourselves, and this power of faith [spiritual receptivity and affinity] can only be directed towards something that is true [actual and factual], beautiful and pure, exactly like its own source and root.
So where do we begin if we want to discover, cultivate and perfect our own interior-light and interior spiritual powers? How can we become established in our own spiritual root and foundation of certainty, confidence and assurance? How can we become genuine blessings to ourselves and others? From where is Òrúnmìlà getting his knowledge, wisdom, understanding and power? How is he achieving this? How can we receive and achieve just like Òrúnmìlà? From where is Èlà getting his knowledge, wisdom, understanding and power? How is he achieving this? How can we receive and achieve this? How can we receive and achieve like Èlà? The same can be said of Ori, Obàtálá, Edan, Mother Odu, Elegbara and all irunmole-orisa, divine-powers, guardian-deities, protective-functions of nature and divine spiritual-intelligences.
Ifá spiritual science teaches us that the root and secret to acquiring and manifesting the interior divine light and power is to first of all to fearlessly pursue one’s own inner spiritual affinity and inspiration. Ifá spiritual science teaches us that what follows naturally from the above truth is that without compassion, truthfulness [rectitude] and moral-spiritual cleanliness we cannot devote ourselves to the spiritual sciences, and without being established in compassion, truthfulness [honest living] and moral-spiritual cleanliness we cannot endure, experience, cultivate and perfect the intense brilliance, splendor and radiance of the divine light and power that is within us.
You cannot build an edifice without first laying down the strong, firm and abiding foundation that will support and preserve it. Many would-be adepts want to go straight to the high-level of acquired light and power without any prior preparation, cultivation, dedication, discipline and study! These misinformed, immature and deluded people have failed to acknowledge and accept that the root and source of the acquisition and successful development of the interior light and power is totally dependent upon self-control, orderliness, patience and discipline.
When we refuse to adopt self-control, humility, respectfulness, discipline, compassion, truthfulness and moral-intellectual-spiritual cleanliness we fall into the category of those who are selfish and therefore unqualified for training in the reception of the interior light and power. Without the above qualities one cannot transmit and manifest the power of love, virtue, inspiration and compassion to others. Without the above qualities one is unfit and incapable of receiving divine light and divine powers. The practice of the above principles serves as a catalyst for the release and manifestation of ones interior light and powers.
Power, authority and influence are a dangerous thing in the hands of an undisciplined, immature, dishonest and angry person. Anger, erratic behavior and irritability in a spiritual aspirant or spiritual practitioner are a sure sign of lack of self-control, lack of discipline, instability, laziness, powerlessness and immaturity. Where there is compassion, truth, zeal and cleanliness there is self-control, discipline, mastery, deep understanding and true power.
It requires a peaceful, clean, joyous, focused, sane and wholesome mind to discover, cultivate and perfect the inner-light and power. An immoral, dishonest, lazy, foundation-less and undisciplined person cannot possibly have and enjoy a peaceful, clean, joyous, focused, sane and wholesome spirit and mind.
When we practice with zeal the foundations of true spirituality our interior powers, light and intelligence become harmonized and unified. A desintegrated and deteriorated edifice is unfit and dangerous to live in. A person who has and cultivates a desintegrated, fragmentized and deteriorated spirituality cannot be a fit dwelling place and receiver of the divine light and power. It would be harmful and dangerous for the person in this condition to attempt to do so.
The true wise ones [ogbon-i] are the ones who with intelligence, humility and patience qualify themselves to discover, receive, cultivate and perfect the manifestation of the divine interior lights and powers. Once these divine lights and powers arise in the genuine aspirant and practitioner, these lights and powers will themselves guide, illuminate, protect, empower and lead the humble sage student. These manifested interior divine lights and powers will be our true and sole masters, mentors and reliable companions. We will be blessed so that we can be a true blessing to others. You have been created for freedom and not for slavery of any kind, shape and form. Maintain, uphold and defend your spiritual autonomy and freedom. Let no one limit you. Allow no one to bind you with the ropes of ignorance, foolishness, arrogance and nonsense.
See beyond the appearance and perceive the reality of what is before you! Rise above and transcend the moral-spiritual mediocrity, double-dealing, game-playing, foolishness and hypocrisy that surrounds you. Do not imitate others. Find, cultivate and perfect your own original spiritual path. To others their own path and to you your own. The measure of others is only for themselves and not for you. Have no limit or restriction in your spiritual growth, potential and spirituality. Let no one limit you. Do not limit yourself. Ignite the fire of true faith and confidence in yourself. Acknowledge, respect, honor and cultivate your own interior-spiritual light and power and refuse to allow others to rob you and manipulate you. Refuse to be an imitation or a limitation of others. Be original. Be true to yourself. Be your [true] self.
This teaching is a profound and deep teaching. The wise will understand and see the great value and mystery of what has been written and the wise will understand and see the great value and unexcelled mystery of what has been revealed ‘in-between-the-lines’. There are many secrets, blessings and powers hidden and encoded into the above instruction. Those for whom this teaching is intended will see, marvel and gather them all.
By Awo Òrúnmìlà Mark Casillas /!!!\ A.O.M.C. /!!!\
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