Commitments are
important because without them we have no spiritual structure. Making a commitment
helps you to hold yourself to your higher Self, to the part of you that knows
you are part of something much greater than yourself. There is a place within
you that naturally wants to find the key that will unlock the gateway that your
Soul is always striving and searching for within. It is the quest, the golden
key, the golden door, the Holy Grail—it is all of those places.
The divine light that we
always talk about is real. But what does it take to keep the commitment, to
pass the test, to go over the threshold, and to go to the next step? We in the
Western world are very familiar with how to progress on the level of outer
achievement. We like to do something that gives us some sense of accomplishment
because other people will acknowledge it and make us feel like we’re okay or
that we’re smart. But that outer level is often detrimental to our progress as
a Soul. The Soul does not get any accolades. The Soul achieves degrees, but
they are inner degrees. They are not the outer degrees that you can hang on the
wall; they are known only to you.
When was the last time
you made a commitment and what was the nature of that commitment? At the
Sanctuary we used make a commitment once a year that was called Credo a Templum. We thought about it
very deeply, asking ourselves, Where am I
going, what is my Soul wanting, and how do I follow my Soul’s desire for a
year? Everyone found places within themselves that they wanted to nurture,
shore up, and bring forward. The Credo a
Templum was a promise to your inner temple. It was not something that you
did for someone else; it was done to hold yourself to an inner commitment.
When we talk about
commitments, we are talking about fulfilling the primary contract that you made
as a Soul and that brought you into this dimension. Everything you think, do,
and say has an effect. You have the power to give your energy to those things
that matter in a beautiful way. As a conscious human being, you should be
meticulous with yourself and your commitments. The purpose is not to have an
arduous task to fulfill; the purpose is to enable you to drink the divine
nectar. The nectar is there; all the powers of love and beauty are all around
us, all of the time.
Those powers are all within
you, but you have to take the golden key and unlock the door to your own heart
in order to realize them and become a fulfilled soul. When you do that, you are
able to anchor the light in a soulful, healthy way so that the container of
your life has enough vibrancy and light to be shared. What is your inner
experience? Do you have a reservoir of light to sustain you when you need
it? And when you are feeling full of
that light, can you remember then to emanate that light and bring it out?