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A mandala is the product of the soul's medallion. To create a perfect mandala, one must be at one with his soul's pulsation. The process of making a mandala stills the emotions and the thoughts, and enables the conscious mind, the subconscious mind, and the superconscious mind to be at one, thus clearing the field of karma. A mandala portraying the sun enables its creator to open the third eye within, setting up a process of light in the mind over-directed by the soul. In ancient times, the sun was thought to be the eye of God. Men worshipped the light proceeding from the eye of God. Light is the vehicle for meditation and revelation. This
mosaic mandala created by Jonathan Murro, portraying the sun's effulgence,
is an initiatory seed-mantra disc. A seed-mantra contemplation gives steadiness and
control of the mind; it also opens creativity, and union with the soul....
This painting, called "A Solar Archetype," describes the spherical Archetypal-Light action. The projection of light in color portrays the raying spherical light spectrum of the Christ. The blue form in the center portrays the Archetone or the Holy Ghost sounding His Vibrational action, setting free the great Archetypal Hum or Word of God. To understand and to respond to the Archetypal System of instruction is to be free. We who walk the Path today are more than mystical novices in light. As scientists we must look to Jesus, the great Manifestor, who used the mighty Archetypal ideas and powers to manifest the Will and Mind of God to the world. When we see Jesus and His miraculous powers within
the frame of the Greater Archetypes, we can see that He truly did make the
Word flesh in us through His mighty channeling of the Word of God. Since His
coming, we are destined to increase our soul expansion and our minds' light,
becoming more aware in each age of the Word through Him. With a great age
such as we are now experiencing, we are looking beyond the storm of chaos,
determining to hear His voice above all others speaking for the Word of God.
Holy Ghost sounds the tone that men be stirred in acceptable times. Under the Will of God, man responds and moves. Christ reveals, when man matures. Charity under the Christ sees man yet in the state of maturing, rising, ascending. All shall rise under Him who came to lift men and to bring the Light. Holy Ghost as a Being and Comforter is known by the Father and Jesus as 'The Spirit of Truth.' Holy Ghost, working with the Alpha Hum and Omega Tones of the earth, animates all life with the Word or Spirit of Truth. Holy Ghost as the Spirit of Truth is in command of equation. Ho.,y Ghost auric vibrational tone sounds can erase or manifest. The Will of God uses the Holy-Ghost sounding to renew men and to decrease men In the present time, the
sounding of the Holy Ghost is producing a new charisma in the world. Man
exists in a state of chaos, that he may open the eternal atoms of his higher
mind, and thus stand more upright for God.
The symbol of a turtle seen in a vision or dream or used as an identifying figure in a color freshet means TO GO SLOW, or to maintain one's equilibrium and poise. The turtle having another turtle on its back signifies that the one involved in the painting must share his spiritual life and instruction and must carry a lesser initiate or "turtle" on his back. The path shaped in the form of a fleur-de-lis shows that one can be led to the left or the right in the slow path. To the left, the field offers the temptation of relaxation and rest. To the right of the turtle, the pool of blue water indicates the indulgence of the emotions or the enticing immersions into emotional affairs. Ahead of the path is a crossroad which the turtle or
initiate must next encounter. The symbology indicates, however, that the
turtle's sight is fixed on the centered point of light beyond the
crossroads. This is his goal and even though ladened with a
lesser initiate on his back he is striking out with his right foot, showing
that he will not be misdirected or misled by any of the enticements on
either side. His goal is the central sun, a golden disc centered upon the
horizon.
This freshet painting by Jonathan Murro, painted in January, 1953, was one in a series of initiatory paintings. The unusual facet of this painting was that Jonathan had had no previous metaphysical or philosophical training in this life. The painting relates to initiation into the Hall of Learning in which one must enter and gain mastery over two portals or doors to spiritual consciousness. The black and white floor represents the great alternates that the initiate must master before entering triune doors of consciousness. The alternates represent the duality laws of the earth and the necessity to master the dark and light forces within his own nature. In certain teachings they are called the feminine and masculine principles, the yin and the yang. In the scientific world of the West these forces are called the dark and the light. Every white square represents a white or pure aspect
of action. Every black square represents the adversary and the unmanifest to
be mastered by the initiate.
Black background - the one who asked Jesus the question - the after-death state to him is a black mystery. The woman is virtuous, and withdrawn - standing on her own rights in Heaven, she sees each man as he thought he was. The one in beige-pink was pious and thought he was an angel while living, so he thinks now he is an angel in heaven. The next brother in blue, was a just man, kind. The one to the right with upturned nose was a muscled body and a cunning mind. The one with the white beard was a leader. He had a vaporous mentality, always curious and wondering about the man over the hill, wasting his thoughts upon things he wondered about. The woman is saying, "You didn’t ever know me - any of you!" The one in the brown in the lower right was a virtuous man, helpful, a kind husband; he died too young to suit her. The one in green is still moldering in the grave, but she looks on him as one who gave favoritism to the half-brother who had died before him; as he held him up in the physical world he feels he must now hold him up in the after-death state. The one in the orange was a "half-brother" among the seven. He was a mere boy when she married him and was unable to fulfill his conjugal duty. The woman is saying, "Here in heaven, I belong to myself and to God. What you were in my life, does not touch me now. I was a good wife; I am insulated from you by my virtue which is intact in heaven."
A painting of the Lord Jesus as He appeared in His etheric body immediately after His resurrection. . . .The look in His eyes reveals infinite sadness and compassion for the sufferings in the world.
During several years, I was guided to make a series of mosaic mandalas. This mandala is titled "Divine Mother," and it shows the Mother of the World looking down on the solar system -- the sun and the planets. Behind her are a company of angels who work with her. There are 88 angels in the mosaic.
The Angel on the left is the Angel of Grace. A devotee on the Path first comes under this great Angel and receives instruction through the heart initiation. The second Angel represents the recording Angel who presents him with his soul’s record. The Angel in the mosaic is holding the book of his soul’s record. Then the probationer ascends the stairs during the initiatory process and enters the great door to the higher world's mysteries and secrets. The third Angel opens the door of illumination through the portal between the eyebrow center, and initiates him into the temple of the soul where he makes union with God. The great Angel is handing the initiate the atom of illumination as a gift of God’s inheritance for him.
A STUDY IN TRIANGLES." by Jonathan Murro
White: Spirit of God. 8-Pointed Star: Christ Jesus, sacrifice, renunciation, resurrection, illumination. Four chalices of grace: Prayer, Meditation, Fasting, Tithing. Holy Dew: Spirit of God pours into open chalices through mediation of Jesus. (Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 6, refers to each of the four chalices or four cornerstones of the higher life.)
Solomon: "A word aptly [fitly] spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." (Proverbs 25:11)
Comments by Jonathan Murro: "Pyramid
Initiation," painted by Ann Ree Colton around her twenty-sixth year, shows
the kabalistic correlation between the physical brain and the pyramid. The
triangular shape of the pyramid is the universal symbol for the individual's
initiatory ascent toward Spiritual Illumination. ©2010 Ann Ree Colton Foundation of Niscience, Inc. All
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