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Mind, the Greatest Influence on the Body
Yes, we have the records of the soul
and witnesses gathered.
Now, to the building of
influences which have manifest in this lifetime,
we would have you look at this: There has ever been on your planet, since
the time of the Manu, the Great Ones who came to
teach and to awaken the souls on the planet.
There has ever been some vestige of the great
temples that they built and initiated.
As an example, the work of what
was called the Temple Beautiful continues in
some forms, even today, as there is the impulse
in the heart of man to form things of great
beauty, which attempt to express the energies and
the Presence of God in the world. Whether these
are of the great stained glass windows or in forms of temples. Whether they come from the simple painting of the body, as
is so commonly done in primitive cultures, by
applying the clays and the influence of plants,
of white paint, and the paints of colors in
patterns about the face and the body. These masks, body painting and face painting as such, ever attempt to express the
flow of force, or Divine energy through the body,
and attempt to have influences upon the direction
of those energies within the body.
Now, these things are practiced, whether in primitive
cultures, or in sophisticated cultures where
there is the use of color and design in
clothing, and in make-up, as you would call it. These applications of color, form and
style are the result of soul memory of the
teachings of these ancient priests which attempt to say
that you can use the subtler energies of color,
of music, of design and form to influence both
your health and your thinking, the mind and the
body.
For this soul to whom we speak,
you were one of those given to the practice of the
arts, the science, for it was a science, the
earliest expression of sciences among men. The
science that encouraged the evolution of
consciousness by the influences of diet, health, exercise, rhythm, music and color.
The understanding from this ancient
time remains today in your heart in a sort of
realization that what is called science today, or
the limitation of science today, is a false
limitation. So the heart and the mind are
attracted to the forms of science which encounter
the subtler forces. Subtler forces as some
think of as magic, or even religion, but these
sciences attempt to make a whole person
harmonious and as powerful as a person can be.
So the heart is intrigued with the work of
those who have been the mystics, the occultists, who know for a certainty that the
harnessing of the energies and the powers of the
mind influence the body, and that the body's
limitations can be overcome by enlightening the
mind.
Then, to speak of times of return, you have been involved in this early time in both the Temple Sacrifice and the Temple Beautiful. You need not understand to a great degree
the working of these temples except to say this: In the times of return, since those early
experiences which were both in Alta and in
Greece, and times in the East as well, in those
influences you set a soul pattern so that the
soul became concerned with the perfection of the
body, or health. But not so much through physical
applications, or medicine, but through right
thinking. And even more, the soul has been given
to the influences of color, of those
influences of meditation, and the attunement of
the mind which causes results of harmony in the
body.
The soul has the ability to understand
that while the factors of diet, exercise and
lifestyle influence the physical body, the
understanding goes further to know that the way
the mind thinks is the greatest influence. A confusion of the mind, or disharmony in
the mind and thought, will lead the body to eat
from the wrong balances or substances, thus
producing difficulties in the physical body.
But it is the nature of your heart to
understand that it is not the elements of the
diet that are the original cause of the results
in the body, but elements in the thinking
patterns, or the mind which lead the appetites to
wrong substances and subsequently affect the
body.
Now, we speak of these influences for this
reason. That in this lifetime you have a need to develope the application, or the
discovery, in the bringing out of beauty in
women, directed toward making women feel better
about themselves, thus lifting the spirit. This
is the function of a priestess of the Temple
Beautiful.
And if it can be understood as a sacred
ministry, then the work-a-day tasks become
thought of in a new and different way. And you
initiate yourself as a priestess in this time,
seeing the opportunity for a holy work.
Now, there was a time in ancient Greece when
your activities with this same sort of ministry
was in a sense more complete, in that there was
established there a resort, if we might call it
that. It was given to the purpose of making a
new person, or making a new woman. So that a
woman brought to those environs was led through
times of exercise and play.
The diet was directed and taught. Thinking
patterns were communicated so that the emotions
and the consciousness were lifted, harmonized,
attuned. And then she was introduced to the
colors most harmonious with her body and thought.
And the designs and styles came together so that
one left this temple, as it were, feeling new and
having been made new. A new start in life, as it
were.
The functions were of healing, beauty and thought. So that even in that
later time in Greece, thousands of years after
your first experience in Alta with these sacred
temples, so still was there a rather effective
resort, or spa, or temple established among the
Greeks at the Hill of Aphrodite, or Acra Corinth,
and the environs about that. The portions of
this temple, or school, were to be found at
Epidourus and Eleusus.
And the three of these together, the temple
of Aphrodite being of the physical and beauty, Epidourus of the healing, and Eleusus of the
training of the mind and creativity. So that
here again in this much later period we find the
clustering of the three temples.
#9256, 4/29/88
© 1994, Paul Solomon Foundation
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