Deep within ourselves, frequent struggles arise among our multiple inner worlds. These produce questions like: Where do I come from? Why do I behave as I behave? And where am I going now?
Often, I perceive the divine essence of my spirit emitting a cry, “Raise yourself!” The cellular body orders me to “Settle yourself!” The ethereal soul reminds me to “Balance yourself!”
The Cosmic Play of Forces
Each inner world manifests as a first force or resisting second force. But from which world does balance arise within? What is the reconciling or neutralizing force?
At school, over the years, the knowledge I receive affects me emotionally. I perceive the Greek pantheon, as laid out by the ancient poets Hesiod and Homer, as a gift for awakening. The ancient gods teach us how to command the three worlds or three forces that arise in our lives.
However, the meanings of the Holy Scriptures transform my intellectual emotion into a kind of emotional intelligence. Christ teaches that it is one thing to trust in knowledge, and another to experience it throughout our whole being.
Later in life, to develop stoicism and work against narcissistic egoism, I discover the Fourth Way system of awakening. I benefit from studies on cosmic laws and our physical structure. In time, by practicing this system, I understand more about our cellular body. It is embraced by seven communicating etheric fields. Throughout them, I begin to perceive the seven main energy centers (chakras, in Hindu philosophy), and how they vibrate and draw on the everlasting energy of uncreated light.
My primary duty is self-observation and enlightenment. Spectrometry confirms that, in order to describe the phenomenon of light, one must draw on both the concept of the particle and the concept of the wave. I understand that we emit light without consciousness.
To gain consciousness, we have to sincerely discriminate and evaluate six processes in ourself. They are recognizable as growth, refinement, elimination, corruption, healing, and regeneration.
Our observations and understanding of each inner process can bring balance among the four lower centers. The balanced vibrations of the lower emotional center can reach out to the fifth etheric field, the energy with which our ethereal soul vibrates.
Developing the Higher and Taming the Lower
An awakened soul can absorb consciousness from our everlasting higher emotional and intellectual centers.
We use countless sequences of wise steps to develop emotional intelligence. In the Fourth Way, this is the ‘steward’ close to the awakened soul. The steward is able to receive conscious knowledge from our higher emotional center, through the fifth etheric field, in time. And, through the steward’s knowledge, our lower centers are tamed, just in time.
Now, I can see: the body and uncreated light are forever interconnected.
Fourth Way methods rely on knowledge about cosmic laws, human history, and conscious art. My awareness evolves through the conscious collaboration of enlightened teachers, specialized guides, and sincere volunteers in a place where those in a school exchange divine light.
Realizing from which world I come, into which world I plunged, and from which world I am arising, I verify that my wings remain wings, enabling balance, unity, and presence.
(Dedicated to all childlike souls).
Natassa Cavalli is an artist living in Athens, Greece, and a frequent contributor to FourthWayToday.org. For more articles by this author, a long-time student of the Fourth Way, see: https://fourthwaytoday.org/author/natassa-cavalli/.