When we look into the face of the world we’ve built, it can be pretty ugly at times. An upswing in homicides. Yet another school shooting. Climate disasters. Hateful politics. Hunger and homelessness. Oh. And then there’s the pandemic. To name a few.
I’m probably feeling a bit sinister. We’ve been sick here with some sort of flu. It hit us a day or two after Thanksgiving and doesn’t seem to be letting up. Yet, I am grateful, daily, that it isn’t a chronic illness that so many people suffer from.
What I’m getting at is that things can seem pretty glum in our lives at times. Be it on a personal scale or the broader realm. The news will remind us, time and time again, just how miserable it all seems.
But it doesn’t have to define us. In fact, we shouldn’t let it be a determinant in our hearts or our minds.
We — each one of us — are glorious human beings. We have in us a deep sense of peace and sanctity that has been there since the moment we were born. We came into this earth as loving, trusting, caring creatures. So that place of beauty stays seeded within us.
We only need to spend time with it, care for it, nurture it and let it grow. There is no wrong or right answer in our methods for this. But the point is to focus on the goodness that resides in each of us. However, that may be.
It is my postulation that we need to keep making the good to counter-balance the bad. Or outweigh it completely.
Today, I saw that this the birthday of Dion Fortune, an Occultist, and Author from Great Britain.
She was born on December 6, 1890, and stayed around until January 8, 1946 (aged 55).
At any rate, she wrote several novels and many treatises on magical subjects. Among these were such colorful titles as The Cosmic Doctrine and The Mystical Qabalah. And more. The Psychic Self-Defence and The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage. She had no trouble naming her works, that’s for sure.
Anyway, old Dion Fortune claimed to possess magical abilities of clairvoyance, clairaudience, astral travel, and contact with perfected beings. And who am I to doubt her?
But. She seemed to be focusing on expanding her inner spirit and manifesting goodness in life. It seems okay to me.
Not only that, there was this.
During World War II, she participated in the “Magical Battle of Britain.” This took place when a group of British occultists attempted to magically aid the war effort and prevent the landing of German troops on British soil. So they did what they did in the “Magical Battle.” But apparently, the real battle was eluded. Perhaps their efforts worked.
My point? We do what we do. Maybe we go out and work in a soup kitchen today or bake delicious gooey cookies in our ovens. Maybe we play with our dogs or donate $5 to a charity. Or even if we take part in things such as the “Magical Battle of Britain.” Whatever the thing of goodness we bring forth today, be filled with the magic of within. Be the good today. Be the good.
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“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“Every act of goodness is charity.”
— Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)
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“Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
— Desmond Tutu
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Finding the peace within. You pick.
