“And the Truth shall make you free!”

Gospel of John, 8:32,  King James Version

Card messages associated with Illuminated position.

+ Conceptualization

(Truth, Veritas, actuality, principle, rectitude, authenticity, apperception, apprehension)

1. Truth forces liberation from acceptable ignorance. A revelation is coming. What you thought was true will be altered. Is it illumination or a shock?
   
2. “And the Truth shall make you free.” Jesus did not say “set you free”. Religions want you to believe that only they can save you with their doctrine. It takes courage followed by responsibility to live from truth. Have you embraced them?
3. Have you ever noticed when confronted with a truth so profound, so revealing, so undeniable, that tears fall from those honest enough to admit it? Pain is often liberated from being hidden when truth is shed. Tears are the cleansing agent. Allow yourself to notice where you can be liberated and empowered by a simple truth. 
4. An Ah-ha moment opens up an entirely new dimension of thought and realization. It pertains to axioms and maxims that go unquestioned. New insight is near.
5. Better to acknowledge that truth is something you pursue, rather than possess. If there is such a thing called wisdom, it is admitting that there is plenty you don’t know. Yet, facts can be known. Locate the essential ones involved here and you will have taken a wise approach.
6. The power to conceptualize the world has built empires, expanded science, and created beautiful compositions of music, writing and art. Free your mind and imagine. What will you do with it? Here’s one: expand your thinking!
7. You don’t have to recreate the wheel to make things move around. It is perfectly useful to take what knowledge exists and apply it in a new way. Permission granted.
8. Profound simplicity, perhaps paradoxically, is always at the foundation of complex systems. An atom is one thing, And everything is based upon it. From one into multiples. Allow for possibilities that are beyond your imagination to conceive. 

Quotations that Reflect this Pole

• “It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts… For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” Patrick Henry
• “Tell the truth and run.” Yugoslavian Proverb
• “There are trivial truths and great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. But the opposite of a great truth is also true.” Neils Bohr
• “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”  Oscar Wilde
• “We don’t enjoy our lives enough because we are not actually there—we are mindless, not mindful.”  Dr. Ellen Langer

Card messages associated with Shadow position.

– Telepathy

(Projection, transference, expectation, preconception, commandment, delusion)

1. Read the thoughts and control the person. This is the shadow use of this expanded capability that telepathy portends. It makes a communication a quietus action and eliminates response. It is an imbalance of power. Are you trying to gain advantage by reading someone’s mind?
2. Believing that someone should know what you’re thinking is a recipe for disaster. Ask! Ask! Ask!
3. Stupidity is not a sin perse, but it can be a reflection of poor character. Anyone making claims on ideas they can’t substantiate, or there is evidence to the contrary, you might be dealing with either an idiot or a liar. Don’t acquiesce to either, or you will participate in the ignorance.
4. Thinking is one of the few things that set Homo Sapiens apart from all other animals. It is an astonishing disappointment how few people actually indulge it and how seldom they engage it. Crinkle your forehead and really think! (How would you have said it?)
5. Truth is relative to the situation. But to the mind of the accuser wanting to attack or retaliate, for them, theirs is absolute…nonsense!
6. Rome wasn’t built in a day, so the old adage goes. But, part of Rome was build in a day! Bust cliches’ and get specific. Generalities, seldom if ever, express situational truth accurately. Beware that someone is attempting to hoodwink you; or maybe have deceived themselves? A lack of comprehension is present.

Quotations that Reflect this Pole…

• “Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.” Nicola Machiavelli
• “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Leonardo DaVinci
• “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” Willian Shakespeare – Macbeth
• “What, then is truth?… Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.” – Friedrich Nietzsche 
• “I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me. Aaron Sorkin

Relevance in the Michael Teaching

The Higher Intellectual Center,  sometimes referred to as the Conceptual Center, is one of three Exalted Centers. Referring to the 6th Chakra, it is also referred to in some traditions as the Higher Mind.

These distinctions only make sense if you have had the infamous ah-ha moment of realization, or a revelation, or a blinding flash of genius, when some information or concept comes completely out of the blue.

Isaac Newton has such a moment when the apple dropped out of the tree and into history. Albert Einstein had the same revelation when he saw image of a train and realized the light must travel faster because it always preceded the thing…and we have Relativity.

Popular Examples

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Cultural Meaning

One of the most contentious aspects of human thought involves the

Events and Sensations that reflect this Overleaf…

1.  I awoke the other night with an idea that clarified a lot of things for me.

by Stephen Cocconi © 2011, Update, 2024

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