Ten Steps To Self-Fulfillment Step # 6

The Second Mystical Law: Control Your Cycles,

The Law of Cycles

Life is impossible without cycles. The Biblical account of creation is the story of a cycle. The first chapter of the Book of Genesis is the condensed and abbreviated diary of Divine Creative Activity. Perhaps the universe as we know it was merely re-formed instead of actually being created, and will be re-formed again some millions of years from now.

The cycles of night and day, the cycles of the seasons, and many others are obvious. Others are not obvious at all, yet they must exist, for mankind cannot point to anything existing outside the law of cycles.

Even your awareness of the God presence in you is cyclic. The Gospel According to Thomas reports a conversation between Jesus and His disciples. "What is a sign of the Father in you?" And He answered, "It is a movement and a rest."Each minute cell of your body body fluctuates in cycles. Each cell contracts and expands with rhythmic regularity. This is a bio-cycle.

In a much less observable way there is a rhythmic cycle to the ebb and flow of your emotional nature and to your mental expression. We live in a vast sea of cycles, and cycles within cycles Why do cycles occur, why and how do we react to them, how can we change them if they are detrimental, how can we emphasize and improve them if they are beneficial?

These are questions to which mankind has paid but little heed, yet they might be the very key that unlocks the final door to entrance into the Golden Age of peace and prosperity for all humankind.

What cycles are and how you can use them. A cycle is an occurrence or behavior that repeats itself with reasonable regularity. As a student of the Self, as a student of the spiritual, the mystical and the esoteric, you willprobablydiscover that the cycles in which you are most interested are one of two general types:

1. The cosmic cycle of the ages, to which you react in a general way.

2. Personal cycles, to which you react in specific ways:

a. physical;

b. emotional;

c. mental;

d. spiritual.

The physical cycles pertain to your health and general well-being. The emotional and mental cycles relate to your moods, personality, reactions to situations, productive work schedules, creativity, study periods, etc. Spiritual cycles influence your higher aspirations, Self-realization, oneness with the Infinite, etc.

The cycle of the ages. There is a 26,000-year cycle which students of the arcane designate as an age. Each age is inherently different in its nature. The age or magnetic field, which we are now leaving, is known by the astrological term , the Piscean Age. The astrological sign of the Piscean Age is the fish, a water sign. The Piscean Age has been a period in which water power predominated. The religious histories tell of great floods. Navies have ruled the world.

But now a new influence, resulting from the new magnetic field into which our system has travelled, is holding sway. The new age is the Aquarian Age. The sign of this age is a m an in the sky emptying a pitcher of higher cosmic influence upon humankind. It is an air sign. Atomic energy, space travel, the science of electronics, are now predominating forces. Even our minds have changed radically to accept and use the predominating influences of the Aquarian Age. The mind is being liberated to the point where it can accept new concepts. Thus we are in the age of mind and spirit and it holds the promise before you that you now have the opportunity for Self-fulfillment in the greatest possible way.

Just what is your opportunity in the Aquarian Age? Remember that the word cycle means a ring. You have the opportunity of making the cycle a spiral. Each time it returns it should be at a higher level. Life should be a spiral of attainment. Many students of the arcane say that in your lie there is a seven year cycle beginning at the time of your physical birth. The first seven year cycle of your life was the cycle of babyhood. The second seven year cycle was the cycle of childhood. The third seven year cycle period was the cycle of adolescence, when physical growth was nearly complete, emotional growth was predominant, and mental growth was under way. From 21 to 28 is the cycle during which the inner Self really begins to emerge if it is allowed to do so.

It is probably during this fourth cycle that you have the first opportunity to begin fulfilling your Self in a productive way, and each seven year cycle thereafter offers greater opportunities in this respect.

Survey your personal cycles. Learn when you are most productive and least productive and schedule accordingly.

The three basic causes of cycles:

1. biological---when are your "good"days & "bad days"

2. planetary---proximity to electromagnetic fields & cosmic radiations of celestial bodies.

3. emanations from the Infinite---radiations from the Cosmic Mind, in rhythmic fashion, the energy which is an aspect of God. We react to these radiations.

Three Ways to Improve Your Cycles.

1. You can offset the low points by focusing on the high points

that will follow in the cycle.

2. You can further improve them by more intense concentration

and effort upon activities that will counter the low points.

3. You can also extend the high points over longer periods of and the low points over shorter periods till the pattern

develops and becomes automatic.

Breathe Better Cycles

For most persons, breathing that is more deliberate (slower) and deeper works wondrous changes in the way one feels physically, the control of emotions, alertness of mind, and achievement of spiritual aspirations.

Change Cycles to Spirals

The most important result of regulating and controlling your cycle is that you change the wheel (the return to the exact place where the cycle began) to a spiral (the same point of return but at a higher level). Every cycle can be improved when you make a conscious effort toward this goal. Every cycle can become a spiral when you exert the effort necessary to improve yourself---to walk the high road.

The Seven Basic Life Forces

1. hunger (including thirst);

2. breath;

3. metabolism (building living matter in the system to supply

energy);

4. sex (expression of physical and emotional creativity);

5. consciousness (expression of mental creativity and the desire

to acquire and express knowledge);

6. altruism (expression of oneness with the human family and

all other living thing);

7. spiritual aspiration (expressing oneness with God or the

Infinite).