The Safe Way – Renounce Powers – (2548)

Introduction

My goodness we dream just too much of having esoteric powers for all sorts of reasons. With most of them being really stupid, vain and superficial.

Basically, we want those powers for ourselves, to use them as we wish. We want 'to be' someone else, perhaps powerful, mysterious, enigmatic, loved, appreciated, feared etc. But all of those things are not 'to be' of our Being, they are 'to be' someone else.

But is that such a wise choice? Wouldn’t it be better to renounce all of them and focus on developing our consciousness and allowing our Being to be the one who has the powers, and if it be that we ever need a power to be used, may He use it through us.

To renounce is best. That relieves us of several desires that torture us each and every day. We actually do not need them. We have lived life fine until now without them. Plus what good would powers be if we are miserable because we are still asleep and we have the ego making our inner and outer life terrible?

Lady Galadriel – Queen of the Woodland Elves

The scene in the Lord of the Rings where the elven queen Galadriel feels tempted to take the ring for herself even to do good with it but then quickly understanding that it would corrupt her and cause her fall she renounces it.

Here is the text from Tolkein's book:

“And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”

She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad."

After she decides not to take it, she says some magic words, which are:

“I pass the test”, she said. “I will diminish, and go into the West and remain Galadriel.”

Conclusion

See how perfect a lesson, Tolkien shows us that the best thing to do is to remain as we are, in our Being, otherwise as soon as we go out of our Being we end up being corrupted and a fall is close.

Wanting powers is wanting to become something or someone else, and that something or someone else is obviously not our Being. Anyway, the powers all come from the inner Being, so what are we doing wanting powers? It makes sense to want by working to dissolve what separates us from It. 

So it is the safest way is it not? And it brings more peace to us. Be as we are and as we can be in our Being, not desiring to be something or someone else.

End (2548).