The Great Work: Obtaining Inner Power and Virtue

By Clayten Tylor

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Everyone wants to feel loved, but most of us seek it from others. This book takes us on an inner journey to obtain love in a different way, a different kind of love. It is Divine love, which is power and virtue, the power to rule over our thoughts and emotions, and the virtue that enables us to receive this love as the life and light of understanding. This is happiness and delight from doing what is good.

Obtaining the will for good and the understanding of truth is essential to be free of the pull of the mass mind that brings pain and suffering to mankind. The will for good is the feeling of delight, and the understanding of truth is the light offaith, which is awareness and enlightenment.

The conjunction of love and faith in the body is warmth and light, and both are perceptible substances to a transformed mind. If you are reading this, then you are ready for change. If you are suffering, you are ready for healing. These two substances, the warmth of love, and the light of truth are pleasurable sensations that change and heal the body. And because they are spiritual they allow you to enter the affections of others, which brings understanding. Take this journey to a new intellectual light derived from charity called the Great Work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781794899407

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Table of Contents

The Great Work

Copyright © 2021 Clayten Tylor

Degrees of The Human Mind (Diagram)

Dedication

Acknowledgment

Preface

Exercise #1 Seek & Find:

Introduction

Exercise #2 Acknowledgment as Worship:

Chapter 1: Soulful Feeling

Exercise #3: Mercy

Adoration

Exercise#4 Mutual

Chapter 2: In Search of the Soul

Exercise #5: Moderation

Chapter 3: The Source of Imagination

Exercise #6: Temporary Vow of Celibacy

Chapter 4: How to Feel Good

Vivification Exercise:

Exercise #7: Using a Mirror for Self Healing:

Chapter 5: Perceiving Good

Exercise #8: Kundalini Rising Practice

Chapter 6: The Mystical Marriage

Exercise #9: Meditate for Thirty Years

Abbreviations & Bibliography

The Great Work

Obtaining Inner Power and Virtue

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Clayten Tylor

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Degrees of The Human Mind (Diagram)

Aspects of the Human Mind

Swedenborg's concept of The Human Mind by Hugo Lj. Odhner

(includes changes made by Clayten Tylor)

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the many Swedenborgians who worked tirelessly for two hundred years to translate the writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772).

Acknowledgment

I acknowledge a higher power —

Preface

The subject of this book is the human mind. I dedicated it to the people who translated the writings of Swedenborg, because the process of translation is a good example of how to access the higher levels of the rational mind. When it is used as a meditative practice, it can also help to access the spiritual realm of abstract thought.

Swedenborg used a similar practice to get intuitive answers, to what he called, ultimate questions. His intensive inner-search process culminated in his own spiritual awakening. We will use a similar ask and receive process to guide us on this inner journey into the human mind. This is The Great Work — our own spiritual awakening.

Of course, the human mind is the home of personality. And entrance into the mind of the personality is through its memory. The intelligence aspect of personality is formed from the accumulated facts that it memorized. It thrives on accumulating knowledge. We want to encourage it to continue to seek knowledge and to grow wise. We also want to develop the ability to silence the mind and to perceive the realm of abstract thought.

The human mind when silent, is the home of the spiritual self, the realm of abstract thought. The spiritual self too has a memory, which is the doorway to the soul of the spirit. With guidance the spiritual memory becomes transparent, which lets the truth shine through as spiritual light. The personality experiences these fleeting moments as an inner knowing. In this way the personal memory is slowly transformed while it also acts as a receiving station for the spiritual mind. The goal is to maintain a continuous spiritual awareness of the mind at this heightened level of Knowing.

The further process needed to access the higher feeling-levels of abstract thought is by turning within, and asking a question. First we define the search terms or problem, and then we seek a solution. Yet, we also want to develop an intuitive perception of spiritual thought, by training our mind to stay receptive for a few moments after.

The most important thing to understand about the process of turning within and asking a question is that this process is the beginning of all science, of all success. It is the mind learning to seek and to find. When we apply it to some specific area of interest in our own life, something that interests us deeply, it can stir strong emotions — and preferably good ones like dedication and love. Then we surrender the question to our subconscious mind as a suggestion, by letting go of it until it is answered.

If we apply the same spiritual process of asking and receiving to a personal problem, then this is the beginning of reason. We define the difficulty by forming it into a question. This is how we can access the higher levels of the rational mind. Therefore, use this time to also solve your personal problems as well. The practice of defining our difficulties into a question thrown out to the universe to be resolved, will help us to improve how our mind works when we access the spiritual realm of abstract thought.

As an example, if you were to ask yourself why you are not happy, you would see a million reasons. But if you were to ask yourself what you could do to be happy, this is the kind of suggestion that the subconscious mind gets pumped-up over. We want to suggest our dedication by composing the right questions