ON RETIREMENT

ON RETIREMENT

Erle Frayne Argonza / Ra

Why dream of retiring at age 60 or 65?

Has life not gloriously revealed

The exquisite beauty within you

That shines all the more

With each day of doing?

Will retirement not compel you

Into dark dens of nothingness

Push you to the brink

Of cancerous boredom that kills

In every second of its conquest?

Continue to share to all fellowmen

The sublime makings of your trade

Be these in simple or intricate form.

For Life has endowed you

With blessings aplenty

Since the first day that you saw

The undying Light of the sun.

[Writ. 04 June 1988, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila.]

REFLECTION

We live in a world of ‘rat race’, working in order to gain money and ensue with daily survival. After decades of laboring, work itself becomes a drudgery rather than a matter of joy as we ought to be living a life as co-creator of the Almighty Providence. At the age of late middle age, the ‘retirement syndrome’ seeps through the psyche, sapping the energies and morale of the person.

That is how bad the situation is on 3^rd dimensional Terra. But that situation will end very soon, as Terra ascends to a higher realm, to stabilize finally at 5^th dimension where she was originally in primordial times. As a prerequisite for the ascension, we ought to have grasped the virtue of labor, as I’ve said in a previous note.

Retirement syndrome will be a thing of the past in the New Earth. Formal work as we know it today will only be for four (4) hours or so, thus leaving the person ample time to engage in spiritual work (including a conscientious study of the Teaching), artistic work, and enjoy family life as well. Nocturnal rest will only need four (4) hours of sleep or so, and by the time the person wakes up s/he will meditate as prana or chi will be the chief source of energy to propel one to last the day.

Thus, there will be room for pursuing everyone’s creative passions and feel the joy of family life—with angelic babies & tots to child-rear—as well. Who will ever again think of retirement in the new world? Rather than think or retirement, look forward to your ascension into a Self-realized ‘master of wisdom’, hence fully evolving into a cosmic being.

Ra

March 2011

SONGBIRD’S MELODY

SONGBIRD’S MELODY

Erle Frayne Argonza / Ra

Songbird of the country

Please sing your tunes tirelessly

On valleys and hills

Sing afloat your theatre of amusement!

You are forever rewarded

With rice, shelter, care

By humble folks who truly cherish you.

Sing!

Sing for them! – the poor and wretched—

They who were left forlorn

By trusted lords

By false guardians of welfare

By deified magnates;

They who are now casting

New lives for themselves

New hopes toward betterment.

O! Songbird so dear!

Lift them up from slumber!

[Writ. 26 May 1988, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila.]

REFLECTION

I never ceased to marvel over songbirds perched on trees nearby my residence, their songs serving as balms that can sooth inner wounds. As part of divine grace on Terra, we are o! so blessed with so many songbirds. In the early morning, they role-play as my alarm clock, wakening me through their sweet melodies.

Aspirants in the Path ought to meditate on the sublime meanings of the songbird. Upon advancing in the Path and striving to contribute to the Work, the Aspirant better face people like a songbird does to the folks. It is necessary to provide service to those who are in need, as well as to those who thirst for knowledge and wisdom, service being the 6^th Ray of divinity.

Be like unto the songbird, who dedicates melodies so unselfishly to those who can hear, especially the marginalized peoples. Those deified magnates who quack service by engaging in humanitarian pursuits for posterity and fame, those who are undeniably Service-for-Self or SFS persons, will be taken out by Gaia from Terra post-2012, and will be transferred by the Spiritual Hierarchy to a world that befits their egoistic nature.

Ra

March 2011