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Developing your talents

New Year\u2019s eve, the transition from the old year to the new, is
celebrated in many cultures and traditions together with family or
friends. By preparing special food and fireworks celebrations the
atmosphere is cleansed from old forces to make new developments
possible.

The name of the first month of the calendar year,
January, is derived from Janus, the Roman god of antiquity. Janus is
associated with change, transition and progress and is usually depicted
as a head with two faces: one face looking to the left (symbolizing the
past) and one face looking to the right (symbolising the future).

The
turn of the year is a time not only for looking back at the old year to
draw the necessary lessons from it, but also a time for previewing the
coming year in order to live with new perspectives and new dynamics.

Intention and behaviour

Many
people start the year with good intentions. In practice, these plans
appear to be pointless because of the yawning gap between our intentions
and our behaviour. An intention can change fairly quickly and easily.
Changing our behaviour, however, usually requires considerable effort.
But once certain desired behaviours do become a habit, it is no longer
difficult to persevere.

Integrating desirable habits into your
personality will certainly yield fruits. The writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) gave some good advice to help achieve that shift. He wrote:

Sow
a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a
habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

From
our childhood, we are trained to become individualised personalities
and to understand and judge everything as such, to reason and control
everything and particularly to stick up for ourselves. Quite a number of
seeds are sown in us.

You can truly talk about a spiritual turn
of the year when, at some point in your life, you decide to be a
disciple of the soul on the basis of a soul consciousness that
transcends space and time. The personality then makes itself subservient
to the soul, it becomes an instrument for the soul.

Old and new

This
transition from Old to New, therefore, forms a difficult phase on the
spiritual path. At this turning point, the personality should
consciously surrender to inner guidance by the soul. This surrender
requires an entirely new attitude toward yourself because you have
arrived at this point with everything that you currently are, with
everything that has ever been sown in you. And you become aware that
from that moment on, you yourself are going to play a different role in
your own life.

Having arrived at this point of surrender, you can
only say 'yes' to what comes your way and be inwardly silent. The outer
life goes on \u2013 all civic and social obligations are conscientiously
fulfilled while deep inside your inner development takes place.

If
you experience something of the beneficent power of the new soul within
yourself, then you might feel an inclination to focus all your
attention on that and to regard that feeling as the goal of the path.
But that would cause the inward orientation to slip away. Soon this
inward orientation could be extinguished and dissolved by the natural
tendency of the personality to be outwardly directed.

It is a
classical paradox on the spiritual path that the soul must grow and
become more powerful without being encapsulated by a personality that is
drunk on itself. The soul can express itself only via the personality,
and that, by means of a dynamic mode of life arising from love and inner
knowledge. In other words: \u201cSow a new thought and you reap a new
action\u201d.

You can only react to the impulses of the soul insofar as
your nature allows. Your reactions should, therefore, be completely
authentic. Much of the inner work is done invisibly. If people on the
spiritual path use their individual talents cooperatively, then, despite
great diversity, they will work together harmoniously from a basis of
unity, freedom and love.

Unity of all existence

In
chapter 28 of The Aquarian Gospel, Jesus the adult man, gives an
address to Hindus in Benares, India. He speaks about the importance of
being aware of the unity of all existence. He says, among other things:

The
universal God is one, yet he is more than one; all things are God; all
things are one.\u2028By the sweet breaths of God all life is bound in one; so
if you touch a fibre of a living thing you send a thrill from the
centre to the outer bounds of life.

\u2028The
God I speak about is everywhere; he cannot be compassed with walls, nor
hedged about with bounds of any kind.\u2028All people worship God, the One;
but all the people see him not alike.
\u2028A man's ideal is his
God, and so, as man unfolds, his God unfolds. Man's God today, tomorrow
is not God.\u2028The nations of the earth see God from different points of
view, and so he does not seem the same to everyone.

\u2028You
are, each one, a priest, just for yourself; and sacrifice of blood God
does not want.\u2028Just give your life in sacrificial service to all of
life, and God is pleased.\u2028

Jesus could have spent his entire
life in the temple of Jerusalem studying, teaching, meditating and
praying. But he did not do so for that would have been in conflict with
his mission for the world and humanity. In order to further develop
himself, he travelled the world to meet with the greatest sages and
thinkers and with representatives of existing religions.

The
concept \u2018world\u2019 is a symbol for our personality. There are many stories
about Jesus healing the crippled, the lame, the blind and the sick. He
argued with priests about the withered and degenerate aspects of their
religion, which was no longer religion in the original sense of the
word.

Reconnecting

Religion means
'reconnecting'. True religion, therefore, aims to re-establish the
dynamic, living connection between human beings and the divine. This
living conn

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