Divine Mysteries: Love-Life-Light

By John Todd Ferrier

This is a selection of 38 of the writings of John Todd Ferrier. They have been selected to show the profundity and scope contained in his writings, nearly all of which were spoken to groups of friends between 1918 and 1943. Though given many years ago, they are timeless and connect to all truly mystic teachings through the ages and the universal laws that underlie them._x000D_
In the Foreword we read:_x000D_
Divine Mysteries is a book for those who acknowledge their spirituality and who are seeking a deeper understanding of the mystery of life. It is for those who feel deeply inspired and committed to discovering the Divine – God – the Father-Mother – the Source – the indefinable essence of all life within themselves, the finding of which brings a sense of coming home, of peace and one-ness with all that is beautiful in creation._x000D_
Topics covered include:_x000D_
Meditation, Angels, our connection to the Universe and all of Life; the nature of the Soul, of truth, of consciousness, reincarnation and life in the beyond, a deeper understanding of colour and music and their relationship._x000D_
All of these teaching show aspect of the message of Love, which Todd Ferrier brought through from higher realms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Order of the Cross
• Release date: Sep 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781909504103

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Contents

Foreword

Preface

The Luminous Cross

      PART 1

Divine Realities

The Mysteries of Love: Life: Light

The Truth: How we may know it

Our Divine Childhood

      PART 2

The Promise of Life

The Ministry of Angels

The Soul’s Vocation

The Human Soul

Man’s Place in the Universe

The Passing of Souls

The Place of Music in Life

Colours

Tinctures

The Auric Glory of the Sun

The Divine Law of Motion

O Love of GOD!

      PART 3

The Fold of GOD Wherein are Many Folds

Psalm 23: The Divine Shepherdhood

A Meditation on GOD

When Ye Pray

The LORD’s Prayer

A Meditation upon Remembrance

Logia: The Stilling of the Storm

Amid Troubled Waters

Healing

The Magnetic Plane in Ourselves

      PART 4

The Significance of the Touch of GOD

O Love Divine!

A Meditation on The Beloved

Guardian Angels

      PART 5

The Infinite and The Finite

The Science of Being

The Cosmic Consciousness

The Divine Omniscience

A Prayer of Consecration

The Triune GOD

Psalm 121: Unto the Hills

Unto the Great Silence

Bibliography of Contents

FOREWORD

DIVINE MYSTERIES is a book for those who acknowledge their spirituality and who are seeking a deeper understanding of the mystery of life. It is for those who feel deeply inspired and committed to discovering the Divine – GOD – the Father-Mother – the Source – the indefinable essence of all life within themselves, the finding of which brings a sense of coming home, of peace and one-ness with all that is beautiful in creation.

John Todd Ferrier’s vision of life was truly inspired and prophetic. He advocated living a pure and compassionate life, without cruelty or bloodshed, as a foundation for raising spiritual consciousness and living in peace and harmony. Following an inner calling he left his ministry in the Congregational Church and founded an informal spiritual fellowship ‘The Order of The Cross’ in 1904. He went on to write and teach for a further forty years. This book is a selection taken from the many volumes that are available today. Accepted concepts are challenged and the history of mankind takes on new meaning as soul evolution, karma, reincarnation and the spiritual constitution of man are described. A profoundly deeper level of meaning to the Christian story awaits those who can transcend traditional interpretations to reveal symbolic, mystical and universal meanings, for One Divine Mystery, although differently expressed, underlies all Great Religions. The Cross itself is a symbol of the balance of universal energy expressed in dynamic relationship in all forms of life from the snowflake to the human being and even to great galactic systems. The Divine Mystery is at the heart of all creation giving it a pulse of life and is expressed through love, resulting in light, happiness and radiance. Sadly this great mystery is frequently overlaid, perverted, misdirected and misused, but here a way is shown that can not only help us to understand why this may be so, but lead us to union with the Presence.

Learning how to live a life that is individual and unique in absolute freedom, because it knows and reflects the one universal source of creation, is a wondrous awe-inspiring mystery and the fundamental theme that flows throughout this book. It is designed to be read meditatively, allowing heart, mind and soul to rest in its atmosphere, letting the message it brings touch, inspire and even awaken souls to live the most loving and balanced life they can. It presents an enlightened way of living and being that is ultimately life-transforming and healing. To follow it is to be gently led to a state of consciousness that expresses compassion and care for the diverse ecosystem of manifold life on this beautiful planet earth.

PREFACE

The DIVINE MYSTERIES of the universe are so profound that words can only point the way to a full understanding of them. An intuitive understanding of the vision given in this volume illumines heart and mind and soul; Light streaming through into every part, illumining yet further the beauty in this amazing universe; an ever expanding and deeply loving state of consciousness of Being. The translucent prose, which describes the wonders of the spiritual realms, angelic, cosmic and Divine, can lift one into these higher and more expansive states of consciousness and show in a very practical way how to access these realms. That way is the way of Divine Love, its radiant Light reflected in every aspect of life, embracing all in the energy of Love.

It is an awakening to the Source; Love at the heart of the universe, and the heart of the soul, and how that Love flows through all creation as a stream of Eternal energy manifesting as Life. We become more aware of the Angelic love and beauty in human love, the majesty of a tree, and even the tiny flower of the field.

As we receive that stream of energy from the Divine world, so are we strengthened and filled with the power to radiate blessings of love, compassion, gentleness and kindness to all.

THE LUMINOUS CROSS

The Luminous Cross is GOD’s great Gift to all His Children.

It lies deep in the foundations of every Soul;

for it is by means of its indwelling Mystery

that each one may become crowned

with the Radiance of GOD.

The Cross is at the Heart of the Divine Mystery,

and is at the Centre of the Universe.

The symbol of the Cross with its three steps,

and its White Ray, and its sevenfold colour,

is the symbol of the Luminous Presence with us,

and of the ministry of that Presence.

Part 1

Divine Realities

The Mysteries of Love:

Life: Light

The Truth:

How we may know it

Our Divine Childhood

Divine Realities

DIVINE REALITIES

OF THINGS UNSEEN

Amidst the motion of the multitude of things that are seen, it is not easy to dwell in the consciousness of Divine Realities as the objects of the objective world pass before us making their claim, arresting and holding the vision, and drawing forth into activity the powers of the inner Being, even to the absorption of all their energy.

It is no light task that a Human Soul finds set before it, to turn inward and hear other voices calling, and see other visions passing, and to enter into rapport with all that those visions speak of, and unto which the voices call.

So tremendous have been the demands made by the pageantry of the outer life, that the children of GOD have almost lost the power to visualize and understand the glorious procession of Divine Events ever in motion in the Unseen. For when these events conglomerate, they make up such Divine Pageantry as arrest and hold, enamour and rejoice the Soul who truly seeks to touch the Inner Realms.

The Comedies, Dramas, and Tragedies, by means of which the objective passing-show expresses itself unto everyone, unto most have made life in the objective world so absorbing, that men and women have come to feel as if these things were in themselves life in toto. Whilst thus absorbed they dream but little, if at all, of the great spiritual realities associated with all that is really vital and abiding; verities also which are for those who can see and hear them, understand and interpret them.

These great Truths are expressed in and through Divine Comedies wherein the laughter of the Gods is heard, and joy supreme fills all who witness; and also in and through Dramas whose spectacular exceeds in greatness and glory any earthly show, and whose scenes and acts and motion set forth to the beholder blessed, Divine Enactments.

In these latter there is the procession of Divine unveilings of the Mystery of Life individual and cosmic. And worlds, which though seeming to be solitary members in the great universe, have their embodiment, and their motion, and their ministry, as individual members of a vast multitude named the Congregation of the Gods, each member contributing to the accomplishment of the Divine Purpose.

VISIONS GLORIOUS

On our way through this Unseen Universe of Being, we meet with Souls perfected after their order and the degree of their realization in embodiment; Angels in varying degrees of glorious embodiment of spiritual attribute and omnipotent endowment; Archangels, the great Angelic Patriarchs, the Archfathers and High Priests of Celestial mediation; and so enter the Realms of the Gods, sharing something of the Divine glory which they embody and radiate, and in their motive-ministries express.

For, on our way thither to the Royal Seat of the Eternal Mystery, we are shown of these Realms and the glory of them, and learn as we ascend from World to World, from Sphere to Sphere, from Kingdom to Kingdom and from Realm to Realm, of the exceeding Majesty of HIM Who is the FATHER-MOTHER. We glimpse all the way on our journey HIS Sacred Motion and Revealing, acquiring, as we ascend, ever increasing vision through apprehension and comprehension of HIS sublime Mystery, even until we stand in the midst of the innumerable throng of Divine potencies and potentates, powers embodied expressing the Mystery of the FATHER-MOTHER, and feel our own Divine Heart throbbing, pulsing in its sacred motion in glorious unison with the Divine.

WHERE SECRETS ARE KNOWN

Into these Realms we would pass in consciousness. We would again behold and know the Divine Secrets expressed in creative acts and exquisite embodiment. We would again understand anew Life’s Divine Comedy, witnessing the inner significance of things, and sharing again the laughter of the Heavens. We would understand anew the real Drama of the Soul, and know the meaning of its ever-changing scenes and acts, its motion and its emotion, and have the full assurance that these marvellous things are not simply kaleidoscopic, the results of chance-motion and commotion.

Once more would we grasp, unto the holding of for evermore, the Eternal Truth of man’s divinity, and of the sublimity of his constitution and the motion of his Being, and all the attributes of GOD with which he has been endowed. Thus would we understand the realities of the Unseen Universe expressed microcosmically within man, in his constitution, in his fashion, in the motion of the elements within him, and in his attributes. In this way alone can the Unseen Universe become a glorious multiple Realm of Being, seen, felt, understood even unto great comprehension of its Divine Mystery. For the way to the realization of the Divine universal is through the Divine individual. Until a Soul becomes one in and with and for the macrocosmic Mystery, it has to learn through the realm of the microcosmic embodiment.

Thus the process of a Soul’s venture into the Unseen Universe, wherein it gathers knowledge of the Divine Mystery unto that degree wherein the knowledge passes into realization of that Mystery, is through the expansion and deepening and altitudic motion of the microcosmic expression of the Mystery within it. And this latter is accomplished through the atoning and unifying of all its elements, substances, attributes and motion, till these are one with the Divine Mystery in HIS most sacred Purpose.

The Mysteries of

Love, Life, Light

THE MYSTERIES OF

LOVE, LIFE, LIGHT

In the sacred gnosis there are three key words: Love, Life, Light: they are a Divine Trinity. Of them is Being built up.

THE MYSTERY OF LOVE

In the sacred Mysteries this was expressed by the term Agapê. It was a word signifying the Divine Being as Love. And in the human Being it is the Divine Principle whose action gives individuated consciousness as a living Soul, and enables that Soul, when unfolded, to apprehend GOD the Divine Mystery, and even to comprehend that Mystery as to its nature.

Love is the magnetic pole of the Being, corresponding in the individual to the true magnetic pole of the earth, by which the Soul is influenced, attracted, held and impelled in its motions. It is the centre through which the divine world acts upon the Soul. As the heavenly Principle, it is the Arche, that sacred word which is translated ‘’beginning," but which means that Principle out of which life becomes; and it is in its nature by the law of its relation to the ever most Blessed Eternal ONE, the Amen, or fulness, or perfectionment of Being when fully unfolded.

Love is, therefore, the Divine Mystery in the individual life. From it a Soul has motion, consciousness, volition, will in the sense of choice; the Divine attributes in miniature. It is thus a Soul grows likest GOD when its love-principle is acted upon, held, directed, intensified in its motion towards divine things from the divine world. For GOD is Love, and they in whom Love becomes the mighty divine force of Being, in that measure embody, realize and manifest GOD the Divine Mystery, they themselves rising up into marvellous degrees of comprehension of all that that Mystery implies.

THE MYSTERY OF LIFE

The magnetic state known as Love produces Life. The ancient beautiful Greek term Zöë we use to denote that Life which is begotten of the Love. It means Being as distinguished from existence, which latter would be expressed by the word Bios. Life is thus the expression of the Agapê or Divine Love. It is Life related in its attributes to the harmonies of the Angelic, and even the Divine Worlds. In such Life there is made concrete, whether it be on the more substantial outer planes, or in the more etheric inner planes, the meaning of the Mystery of GOD in us. In such Life the way of Love is always divine in its manifestations; indeed, the manifestations comprise the expression of the Life resulting from the magnetic energy or power of the Love. Divine Life, therefore, in its manifestations is beautifully concrete, ever harmonious, rhythmic in its motion, most beautifully substantial in the manifestation of its Being, but ever spiritual whether its manifestations be in the inner planes or on the outer planes. GOD is Love. GOD is as the Love-Principle, the Mystery within us. In HIM is Life, that is, Being, for Love is Life: and the Life is the Light within.

THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT

What is Light? The Light that is begotten of the Life which has been begotten of Love, is a radiance: it is the radiance within a Soul. Light is the effect of magnetic action; it is a manifestation of magnetic power. The light that travels from the sun to this earth comes not in light streamers, as many suppose, but in magnetic rays which are invisible, and have no objective presentation to the human vision until they reach the earth’s magnetic plane, falling upon which they are turned to light within its atmosphere; and that light is reflected and refracted by the conditions of the magnetic plane and the earth’s atmosphere; so that the light we receive is conditioned by the state in which the atmosphere and the magnetic plane, in which the atmosphere is, happen to be at the time. The light is the effect of the sun’s magnetic rays upon the earth’s substances.

Herein we have an illustration of what the Divine Light is within a Soul. It is the radiance of the Life, or Being, when the Love-Principle is in action and especially when acted upon from the Divine World. The Light is the effect of the Divine magnetism upon the heavenly Principle of the Soul’s Being. The degree of the radiance within a Soul, therefore, depends upon the degree in which its magnetic pole is affected from the Divine World, and the state in which the reflecting substances spoken of as the mind, are to be found. The Divine Light within the sanctuary of a Soul is begotten from the Radiant Presence there who is the LORD of Being, the Soul’s sun, in proportion as the Soul’s Love-Principle is affected from HIM and the mind capable of receiving HIS transmitted glory. Thus the outpouring of the auric glory of a Soul is dependent upon its realization of the glorious Presence within; and the realization of that Presence is dependent upon the Soul’s status as to its Love-Principle and reflective substances. For it can only radiate in the measure in which it receives power from the realization of that Presence. Thus the Light within a Soul is ever and always the glory of the LORD; but the realization of that glory, and its manifestations in auric power, are dependent upon the Soul.

Thus we have the Divine Trinity expressed – the Mystery of the FATHER-MOTHER and the Holy Guest called Ghost, within the Soul’s system, the creative Love, the fashioned Being, and the auric Light or radiant manifestation.

The Truth:

How we may know it

THE TRUTH:

HOW WE MAY KNOW IT

It is an old question which is ever present; for many still inquire, What is Truth? Most inquirers are too impatient to await the answer, or are so captivated otherwise, that they cannot seek unto its coming.

There are those who ask the question, What is Truth? because in heart and mind they are ever inquiring, and must seek until Truth be found. These are open to receive an answer. Yet many of them believe what they receive, without inquiring, in the sense of examination and weighing what is given. Some are not yet able to sit in judgment, because they have not received illumination sufficient for the discernment of the Truth. And thus they accept things which become beliefs; and they are tempted to rest upon the beliefs as expressive of Truth, until they even come to accept the beliefs as the Truth itself.

If the beliefs held by the multitude, even those accounted most sacred, were true, or if they all spake even concerning the Truth, then surely the world would be full of the glory of Love, and there would be little or no error. And as Truth is of the glory of Love, having the same Source and Ultimate in its manifestation, the world would be a world full of the knowledge of Truth, of the Source of Truth, of the nature of Truth, of the beauty of Truth, of the power of Truth; and thus the whole world embodiment would become an embodiment of Truth in its manifold aspects, but every aspect true and beautiful, and speaking of the Source, of the nature of the Source, of the glory of the Source, of the purpose of that Source.

Truth must never be confounded with other things. Truth must never be confounded with those things that are merely articles of belief. Mere beliefs never bring you into the state of liberty. More frequently they lead into states of bondage. But the Truth makes you free. It gives you the freedom of a Son of GOD. And that really means the power of transcension, ascension, and realization, wherein there is illumination flooding the Being, and giving a glorious consciousness begotten of HIM Who is the Truth.

THE TWO ASPECTS OF TRUTH

Now Truth has two aspects at which we will look. The first is the abstract, and the other is the concrete.

Love itself is an abstract Principle. It is not an intellectual abstraction, but a Principle belonging to the Mystery of GOD, which in the abstract, is Absolute. It fills the universe with its essences, and its motion to find embodiments. And these are concrete expressions of itself, all of which become aspects.

Truth is like Love. It is of the Abstract-Absolute of the Eternal ONE Who is Truth.

But HE is aspected in every concrete expression, Divine formulation, Celestial, Angelic, and Human embodiment, and also out into the lower degrees within the realms of manifestation that we speak of as Nature.

All the concrete embodiments are up-gathered into the Absolute, and all proceed from the Absolute. Every perfect embodiment is a testimony of Truth in its inwardness, that is, in its innermost realm, which is in the Absolute. And although it is difficult to take in (and we are not stating it to you simply as a philosophy in an intellectual way, but as a living Reality of the Being), the Absolute has its correspondence in us. Otherwise we could never touch it nor receive from it, nor apprehend it, nor rise into the consciousness of it, and pass into its glorious realm where we have perfect realization.

Thus Truth is of the Infinite, though it has finite expressions. It is something belonging to the Eternal, and is revealed in the motion of the Eternities; and, through that motion, Truth finds exquisite channels for the revealing of itself. We will look for a little while at some of the concrete expressions of the Truth. For in this way I may be able to help you to apprehend the more inward significance of the sacred Mystery.

If you regard Truth as something that has come to you as knowledge, then you may behold it in the manifest world in what is termed Nature, as well as in the manifest conscious embodiments of the Eternal Mystery we name Humanity, and, higher still, in the Angelic World and the Celestial Hierarchy, and even in the Divine World embodiments – the Theophaneia.

TRUTH IS MORE THAN KNOWLEDGE

In knowledge we may hold the things concerning Truth. But in mere knowledge we do not hold the Truth itself. For instance, in Nature there is a revelation of the great and sacred Mystery of GOD. In HIS majesty and power HE is found in the elements. Man meets with these in his search for knowledge and understanding. He tries to discover the nature of the elements, their distinctive qualities, their combinations, their possible uses, their primary inherent potencies; and he gathers much knowledge about those elements and the uses to which they can be put. Here he has touched a realm of Truth aspected, Truth revealed in the motion and the constitution of the elements.

But he has not discovered the Truth, for that is unseen. It lies behind. It is contained in the Mystery which is the primary cause of those elements in their distinctiveness, their fashion, their potency, and their uses. The Truth can be discovered only when the elements are known in their fulness, understood in their nature and their potency, and in relation to the Source of their potency. For although men and women, through their scientific study of the elements, think they have discovered the secret of them, we do not hesitate to affirm that they are far from having arrived at that. They have only discovered something of that which is aspected. Their knowledge is comparative, and only elementary in its degree.

The Mystery of GOD is in all the elements, and none can understand the elements thoroughly without knowing something of HIS Sacred Mystery.

The Truth lies behind all these things. Yet the knowledge gathered is not to be despised; it is good if it be rightly gathered and used. If the purpose be beautiful, then the knowledge will be of value. Yet it will be only as a handselen to the still larger discovery as the Soul ascends in its consciousness, transcending the lower realms. For though the Soul does not leave these planes, it can transcend them in state and in consciousness, and learn the secret of the things with which it has been dealing, in those realms where alone the Truth is known.

If I spake to you about the nature and constitution of the precious gems, the same would be true. What are they? We can learn much about them. And yet it is impossible to analyse the gems from the without by any chemistric or other scientific process; because in the doing so, the elements of which they are built up become changed in their constituents and manifestation.

SOME DIVINE SECRETS

Now, the gems are built up. They are crystallizations. They are built up and crystallized out of some of the most precious substances and elements and essences of the Divine World. Hence their inherent light. They have the inherent quality of receiving light, which is again refracted through them. And they are embodiments of the glorious elements of the Divine World. But they are only aspects of the Great Mystery found there. Though apparently in lowly estate just now, at one time those elements were not in their present fixed state, but were volatile. They became fixed through the changed Planetary conditions. Even in the crystallized state they hold Divine Secrets, and these have been preserved through the great ages, and will be preserved until the coming of the time when they can be liberated for high service. But the Truth concerning them can be learnt only in the Inner World, for it is of the Divine World. It is concerned with the Mystery of GOD.

Thus, though the gem may be a perfect gem, and the elements may be perfect elements, yet these are only aspects of the Truth.

Following this path of inquiry, you may come up through Nature into the plant life with its flowers and its fruits. There you have embodiments of Truth, and of the things that are true in the Divine World; but they are only comparative expressions of the Great Reality. A flower, after its order, may be a perfect flower. If so, then it is a perfect expression in that lowly aspect of the Truth concerning the Divine Thought, and the