The Getting of Wisdom

By El Morya and Sophia Ovidne

Ascended Master El Morya has channelled, through Sophia Ovidne, seventy discourses containing his enlightened wisdom, on topics as diverse as overcoming tiredness and overwhelm, to what Hell really is, to becoming an orchid heart. His poetic prose and warm humour touches the soul, provides new understanding, and uplifts the heart, especially in times of dark thoughts and stuckness. El Morya shows us helpful ways to create a joyful, fulfilled, and loving life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jul 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499012279

El Morya

Sophia has been a ‘messenger to the Masters’ for many years, channelling their wisdom and guidance for the benefit of humanity. She has written many spiritual books and regularly presents transformational workshops. Her passion is understanding consciousness and how it can be utilised to bring love, hope, and happiness into this world. English by birth, Sophia now lives in Queensland, Australia.

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1

Wisdom

Chapter 2

Non-Belief

Washed Up

Going with the Flow

Bullshit

Absence of Love

Chapter 3

Leaves

Dream Scripts

Eyes

Asides

Pages

Chapter 4

We are Family

Wedding Bells

Designing the Future

Chapter 5

Synchronicities

Altruism

Estates

Fences

Chapter 6

Knitting

Heat

Neurons

Craziness

Rushing

Sitting Still

Chapter 7

Shells

Slippage

Trains

Eskimos

Ladles of Love

Chapter 8

Getting Organised

Cows

Tracks

Light Bulbs

Peacocks

Credit Cards

Chapter 9

Train Tracks

Orchids

Roses

Opposing Teams

Cherries

Chapter 10

Rakes

Traces

Hedges

Hutches

Chapter 11

Your Mission

Hell

Lambs

Letting Go

Chapter 12

Ebony

Hercules

Easement

Bridges

Chapter 13

Exactment

Rectitude

Victory and Success

Tiredness

Travelling

Chapter 14

Birds Eggs and Eggshells

Trenchcoats

Trampolines

Air

Chapter 15

Hats

Towing

Readiness

Torque

Chapter 16

Grazing

Tracking Your Progress

Hare and Hounds

Peaches

Applause

Endnotes

Also by Sophia Ovidne

(Non-fiction, under her name ‘Ovidne’)

Meet the Masters

Ascended Masters Today Volume 1

Ascended Masters Today Volume 2

Ascended Masters Today Volume 2

Lady Sedna’s Ascension Handbook

(Fiction, under her name ‘Paula Hartwood’)

The Celestial Crossroads

Secret in the Circle

The price of wisdom is above rubies.

Job 28:18

"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man:

to know what he ought to believe;

to know what he ought to desire;

and to know what he ought to do."

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Dedication

To my Divine Family who shine like stars on the darkest of nights

and who provide the Light for me to find my way.

Introduction

El Morya is an Ascended Master who resides in the spiritual realms. I have been receiving messages from him for over a decade, and he has guided my life with wisdom, love, and a fatherly concern for my welfare and my journey through this earthly lifetime.

Morya, as he prefers to be called, rhyming with ‘warrior’, has been a human himself many times, so he knows the ropes and understands a thing or two. Often playing out his lifetime as a politician or statesman, he has been Abraham, Alexander the Great, St. Thomas Becket, Sir Thomas More, Akbar the Great, and the first U.S. President, George Washington. Lest you imagine he is all masculine power with little feminine balance, he has also been the Roman poet, Ovid, whose work ‘Metamorphoses’ is an epic treatise on Greek and Roman gods and goddesses.

Of course, there were many more ordinary lives in between as well. All Masters go through every kind of human embodiment in their journeys to ascension, some high-status and powerful, some beggarly and poor, but all rich in experiences that provide the wisdom which they now teach.

I can recall memories of several past lives where I knew Morya. I was his daughter when he was Ovid (hence my name Ovidne which means ‘daughter of Ovid’), and also one of hundreds of his wives when he was Akbar, the great Mogul Emperor of Asia. We have worked, and played, together many times.

And so here we are once more, collaborating as a team, to bring his wisdom and his gentle, mischievous humour to the world. We can revel in the poetry of his words, and understand his meaning at many different levels of our human mind and soul. He speaks to all of us, heart to heart, as if he is in the room with us, and we can’t fail to be uplifted, moved, or challenged by his messages, each which seems designed for our ear alone in the moment of our need.

Enjoy your journey through this book with Morya. As you read and ponder, he will be by your side, listening to your thoughts, feeling the emotion in your heart, and standing strong, ready to guide you if you should ask. There is no more delightful mentor than Morya, to my mind, with his elegant advice, witty puns, and insightful observations. Collaborate with him, too, for he welcomes your friendship, your questions, and your commitment to the journey.

I feel especially blessed to have had the honour of channelling this divine wisdom. May Morya touch your heart as he has touched mine.

Sophia Ovidne

1

Wisdom

(atoms, attachment, deviation, experience, journey, guide, life purpose, limitation, love, path, persona, shape-shifting)

I am on a journey, a long journey, through space, through time. I touch down now and again on this planet or that one, on this star or that, for I am always shape-shifting, changing form, for my atoms allow me to do that, to coalesce into this shape and then again something quite different. There is no limitation as to what I might be. With each shape or formation comes experience, and that is what this journey is all about, gaining experience, gaining wisdom. And it is a never-ending journey that started eons ago and will continue into eternity.

Am I wise yet? That depends on the context and scenario. Sometimes things work out for the best. Other times they don’t seem to do so. Have I failed? No, it is just another experience that teaches me wisdom.

What is remarkable is that most people have not yet figured out what this journey is for. They take on the persona they are currently playing out and they wear the hat too well and get into character too deeply. And then they are emotionally attached to all kinds of things in their environment and it limits them from bouncing on, playing other cards and other games, when it is all about the getting of experience, not how much money you can make, how famous you can be, how great a lover you are, nor even what you do to change the world in remarkable ways. These are side issues.

And the point is the getting of wisdom.

Ah, you might argue. I thought it is all about love and the getting of love, and here you are telling me not so, it is about the getting of wisdom. But I say to you, if you are wise you will be all about love, but if you are love you are not necessarily wise.

And so, yes, wisdom shall encompass love. And when we are wise we shall have learnt to have loved all around us and all inside us. So let us speak about the getting of wisdom from that platform and know that is where we are headed on this journey, to learn the wisdom about the getting of love.

You would think everyone would want to be love and have themselves surrounded by love, but not everyone is wise.

So let us begin this journey to the getting of wisdom and understand how we may go about it.

There are several traps we will need to avoid, several sinkholes in our path. And there are likely to be many deviations too, wanderings in the bush or the desert, before we find ourselves back on track again and able to continue our journey.

I have designed this book so you may be able to judge if you are off track or on the right road. Come, let us take this journey together. I will be your mentor and guide and see you safely to your destination.

2

Non-Belief

(beliefs, consciousness, courage, flow, heart, intuition, leadership, magic, open mind, politics, possibilities, truth, science, universe, values, wisdom)

So let us get on, to how we shall get wisdom. There are several degrees of difficulty, so let us go through them one by one.

The first degree of difficulty is that people don’t believe. If you are to be wise you will need an open mind. You will need to allow for new possibilities, new potentialities. And so wisdom will come about when you allow yourself to believe that things can happen which you cannot imagine or explain away. You will have to believe things you cannot see. You will have to believe things that cannot be proven, not yet anyway. And you will have to not believe some things you are told and taught. You will have to undo the belief that seeing is believing. For there is much more to this world than the eye can behold or that the mind can grasp.

And so, if you are to be wise, you must recognise that there is a larger universe around you, most of which has not yet been explored and certainly has not yet been identified and documented as fact. Where would we be if all were explicable? How boring would be our lives, that all was done and dusted in the realms of knowledge and science and psychology, that we had explained away every last detail. Where would be the passion for searching for the truth? Ah, there are realms upon realms yet to be explored.

And so, do put your beliefs on the side burner and be prepared to add or take away

Reviews for The Getting of Wisdom

[lisamorr · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This Virago Modern Classic is about a twelve-year old girl sent to boarding school from her home in the country where she lived with her Mom and sister and two brothers. The title is a bit of an oxymoron in that boarding school doesn't teach her to be wise at all, but to fit in. Kind of sad.

[tzelman_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Wisdom as conditioned stuffiness--Obsessive Laura is appealing nonetheless, but this novel doesn't know where to go

[chris486_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

How I love this book… just as much now as when I read it for the first time as a teenager! Set at the turn of the 20th century, it is the story of Laura Rambotham, a clever and spirited child, who leaves home to attend a prestigious Melbourne boarding school for young ladies at the insistence of her mother, even though it is a financial struggle for the family. Laura finds herself in a social setting that she neither understands, nor that understands her. She is a misfit who struggles valiantly to blend in and win friends—to be like the others—but never quite succeeds. This creates some sad, but also amusing incidents. Ultimately, the book is a celebration of the freedom that comes from being yourself—a poignant, timeless lesson for us all.

[veracite · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Very much enjoyed this story of a bright, imaginative, bossy girl running smack into a society she doesn't understand and continues to fail to understand, hard as she tries to win friends and influence people.

[mbmackay · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book was mentioned in Dictionary of Lost Words and I took the hint.Published in 1910 it tells the semi-autobiographical story of a girl from rural Australia going to boarding school in Melbourne, and her growing maturity in thought and action.The writing is good, and the lead character is very 'alive', making the whole thing an enjoyable experience. More than 100 years old now, I was taken by both how much the world had changed, and how so many things were much the same. Thought provoking.

[thesmellofbooks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I am gobsmacked.The novel begins as an entertaining tale of a headstrong young Australian girl going to meet the world at boarding school. It gradually evolves into a subtle, simple, and stunningly real observation of the pressures of conformity and the intolerance of naïveté, which, when paired with a strong desire to be accepted, can lead to many and often rending responses in an imaginative young person.Yet it is not a tragedy. I am left moved, affectionate, a little worried about the future, and yet joyful at the intactness of the protagonist's resilient soul.It is the rare sort of book that provokes deep self-reflection and a nudge in the direction of peace-making with self and life, and in this way brings to mind [[George Eliot]]'s [Middlemarch].Bravo, Ms Richardson.

[kayclifton · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Can't believe I gave this books 5 stars on first reading. I could barely finish it on reread. Unrelenting dreariness which I kept expecting to let up and it continued till the end.

[thorold_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is one of the classics of Australian literature, a hectic, ironic description of a young girl's experience at a classy but morally and intellectually stultifying boarding school in Melbourne somewhere around 1900. She arrives there lively, spontaneous and imaginative; when she leaves four or five years later she's turned into a calculating, rather snobbish hypocrite. In the meantime she faces humiliation from classmates finding out about her family's relative poverty (her mother is a widow who works to support the children) and she goes through all the classic boarding school experiences: "crushes", jealousies, deceptions, religious and literary enthusiasms, bullying and being bullied, etc. But it all happens at a breathless pace, and we really get the feeling that poor Laura has no time to draw breath and grow up in peace.It's a formidable attack on contemporary notions of what middle-class young women were supposed to grow up into, as well as on the low quality of the education available to them. And by the standards of the time, it's also pretty outspoken about things like the total lack of sex-education. No wonder that H.G. Wells admired it (although one suspects that H.G. Wells would have enjoyed any book that featured teenage girls in an atmosphere of hothouse sexuality...). Despite being very political, it's always light and often very funny in tone, and it even has something very like an optimistic ending. If you think about other campaigning novels about education set about the same time - Young Torless and The child Manuela were the two that sprang to my mind, for instance - that's quite something.