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~ answering the Call of the Soul ~

The creed of happiness begins with the following statement of wisdom:

“I shall begin each morning, unafraid. I shall see the wonderful gifts that the day will bring. I shall be guided by intelligence rather than belief. I shall see truth and ignore no fact. I shall control my thoughts and guide them into the highest realms, holding my cherished ambition and sacred ideals uppermost in my mind.”

I value my inner development above all else. The first entry in my spiritual journal, which I started writing more than ten years ago, was : The Creed of happiness” This powerful Rosicrucian insight was a true guiding light for me in my life of self discovery. I believe firmly that the true source of my happiness is to cultivate noble thoughts and wilfully manifest them into action, into my reality. It took many years of practice and awareness to slowly make progress on the path of training my thinking patterns to establish more balance, coherence, and integrity in thought and in action.

I hold on to the Stoic maxim that succinctly instructs that our thoughts and actions should be aligned at all time. I found this to be true as well in the Havamal’s Runatal saying: “Word grew word after word, deed shaped deed with deed.” Indeed, the only true satisfaction in life is to have a mind that is at peace with itself. Peace fostered as noble thought is realized through action. Mind and body collaborating to the attainment of a common destiny of being.

I am not talking about positive affirmations, although they might assist. Nor am I talking about the illusion that denies reality with all it’s desires and hazards. I talk about the wisdom to realize what a noble thought is and the intentions to bring those noble thoughts into reality, and deep into our paradigm of reality. Enabling noble thoughts edifies character and brings calmness and strength. A willfull consciousness striving to bring harmony and compassion into a daily practice with consistency.

Virtue is the ultimate source of happiness because virtue has no guilt and virtue has no failure or criticism. One can be poor and without friends and still virtue will bring comfort because we are designed to strive to be the best we can be. This is not the call of flesh and blood but a call from the soul. This is a call deep from being Arman, the inner being awakened to guide our evolution and growth towards our destiny. This is the inspiration of ARHAHARI: Divine intelligence of virtue penetrating all space-time to establish the law of what is right within all forms of consciousness.

© Jurgens Pieterse, 2023, All rights reserved.

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Happiness

Stoic Week 2018 is upon us and I am as usually attempting to participate. The timing of this week is usually a bit difficult becuase it seems that this is usually a very busy time of the year for me.

The theme is on happiness this week. The question to ponder: “What do you think about the Stoic idea of happiness as a framework for holding your core values together and giving them coherence? Can you see how their pattern of thinking links up with yours? Is there anything you see as missing in the Stoic view – or something new but helpful in the Stoic idea?”

It is one of the ideas where I tink Stoicism differs radically from Budhism in that it does not sit suffering at its core but it actually places happiness at its core. Rosicrucianism does a similar thing. Seneca warns: “You need never believe that a man can become happy through the unhappiness of another” in that sense happiness as a central theme or base is not just about happiness as an individual but happiness to society. We cannot find our happiness in the unhappiness of another person. Such an approach will simply lead to a critical judgement that serves no value in itself.

Seneca further explains that: “The sum total of our happiness must not be placed in the flesh; the true goods are those which reason bestows, substantial and eternal. ”  which means mere greed to satisfy bodily desires will not lead to complete happiness. A Stoic acknowledges the dual nature of man as having both a body and spirit or the temporal and the eternal. It is only when both aspects of humanness is addressed that happiness becomes an achievable goal.