Introductory Spiritual Exercises – The Orange
Today I will be sharing with you why we use spiritual exercises. Spiritual exercises are used in addition to your meditation practice.
As part of our training in the Holy Order of MANS, we were given spiritual exercises designed to develop latent faculties in our thinking, feeling, and willpower. Just as an athlete has a workout routine, you will have an inner routine, one that will prepare you for the enhanced experiences you will have as you progress along the path.
Bear in mind that just as an athlete’s exercises don’t necessarily resemble the activities they’re designed for, neither will these exercises always appear “spiritual.” A runner, for example, might do squats, even while holding weights, but this isn’t anything like actually running around a track. The main thing is that you perform these exercises with the same discipline and attention to detail that professional athletes perform theirs. Spiritual exercises will change your cellular structure. Practice, practice, practice.
“Preparation is everything!” Follow the instructions for the exercise explicitly. They are carefully designed to give you results. So perform them carefully. The more faithful you are in their execution, the better your foundation will be. This exercise should be repeated daily until you are successful, possibly by a few months from now. Then use it weekly.
Today’s spiritual exercise is called a concentration exercise. For those of you who may have used the Orange Concentration Exercise before, but haven’t done it in a while, now would be a great time to use it again! Reminder, use a real orange! Don’t be fooled! There’s more going on here than just developing concentration. You are beginning to set up a practical pattern of contact with the Mind of Creation. Please read the whole exercise before beginning.
Orange Concentration Exercise
Sit quietly in a hardback chair and just take it easy for a few minutes, letting your thoughts slowly come to a halt.
Looking at the orange that you have placed on a stand or clear table in front of you, about 1½ feet away, examine slowly and completely the surface of the orange.
Letting your eye slowly drift to the center of the orange, look within it as if you are imagining it as it is on the inside. But not really, for you ARE actually looking within it.
Hold your eyes steady as you look within it and examine the various segments, shapes, colors, and sizes of the pieces and the seeds within the orange.
Then, after you have done this for a few minutes, examine a seed and take it down to its shell and examine its many layers.
Looking at the seed, see how it would look placed in the ground, then sprouting, bearing roots, and finally growing to a small bush, then a tree, and then bearing a blossom, which blossoms into a fruit. You again have the orange. Let this be your exercise.
Remember that this simple exercise represents your universe and that Jesus, after he had taken on the Christ aspect, said, “Only through me shall ye see the face of the Father.”
This orange is round like the Sun. It is also the path to the Father because it represents in form and symbolism the shape of the Father—this Solar System.
It is also subdivided into segments, the same as the segments of the solar system, and its divisions for the calculation and the divining of the natal astrological chart. So the seeds of the orange are in symbolism the planets of the solar system in the different houses of the Zodiac.
Under the influences, you gain control of mind so that you may reach the Mind of the Father, so that you may reach the SELF within, which you are seeking.
So we see that in this simple concentration exercise, which is more than 4,000 years old, we have the symbolism of the Father, the symbolism of the Son/Sun, and the symbolism of this solar system and life eternal.
If at any time during the exercise you stop and a thought slips in, or your attention drifts momentarily at any time, STOP IMMEDIATELY and go back to the beginning, letting your thoughts drift out and slowly stop and then begin again.
DO NOT DO THIS MORE THAN 3 TIMES AT A SITTING AND NO MORE THAN 2-3 TIMES A DAY.
The completed exercise should take 10 to 15 minutes. If you wish, at some point you may do the entire exercise with your eyes closed.
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I told myself this morning I should take/find/use a more serious way of meditating, because there was no constant use of it in my daily early morning routine!
And there was your message today. I will try the orange meditation, definately! I feel blessed with this info at just the right moment.