Spiritual Power: How It Works - Softcover

Vaughan-Lee PhD, Llewellyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890350117 ISBN 13: 9781890350116

Publisher: The Golden Sufi Center, 2005

Synopsis

Asking the question How can we use spiritual power to help heal and transform the planet? this visionary book contrasts spiritual and worldly power, and introduces an esoteric tradition that needs to be reclaimed. This vital knowledge, held in trust by spiritual masters, shows how spiritual power can work in the world, and how each person can make a dynamic contribution to help the world evolve.

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About the Author

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujadidiyya Sufi Order. He is the author of many books, including The Bond with the Beloved: The Inner Relationship of the Lover and the Beloved, Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology, and Sufism Transformation of the Heart. He lives in Inverness, California.

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Spiritual Power

How It Works

By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The Golden Sufi Center

Copyright © 2005 The Golden Sufi Center
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-890350-11-6

Contents

Introduction, 
1. Sources of Power, 
2. The Power of the Real, 
3. The Light of the Soul, 
4. The Magic of Life, 
5. The Energy of Awakening, 
6. The Foundations of Life, 
7. The Language of Love, 
8. Love and Laughter, 
Notes, 
Bibliography, 
Index, 
Acknowledgments, 

CHAPTER 1

Sources of Power

That boundless Power, source of every power, manifesting itself as life, entering every heart, that is Self.

THE VEILING OF SPIRITUAL POWER

In the heart of the world there are sources of power needed for the evolution of humanity and the whole of the planet. Without this energy we will remain stuck at the dawn of the coming era, unable to step into the sunlight of the future. At present, the doors to these places of power are closed, inaccessible. And we remain distracted and dominated by the dynamics of physical and economic force.

Real power does not belong to humanity. It is a gift from the inner worlds and carries a stamp of the divine. It is given for the sake of the whole, not for our own personal gain. The next step in our evolution includes accessing this power, and using it to assist in the tremendous changes taking place in our world.

In order to access these places of power, we first need to understand why they are hidden. There are many reasons that power is hidden from humanity. Often it is to protect it from being used for the wrong reasons or by the wrong people. We know of the danger of the dynamics of power and domination, how easily power corrupts and is corrupted. Spiritual power, power which belongs to the nonphysical realm, is as corruptive as worldly power, and often more dangerous because it is invisible and not so easy to recognize or defend against.

Traditionally, only initiates have access to frequencies of spiritual power; the greater the power the more demanding the initiation. Supposedly these initiations rejected those who were not pure enough, only giving access to those who could not be corrupted. However, such safeguards are rarely perfect, and human nature is too complex for any safeguard to be fully effective.

Because our present culture's focus is on the physical world, we are familiar with the misuse of power that belongs to this dimension; we have little awareness of spiritual power or its misuse. We see economic and political corruption around us, as well as the underworld forces of drugs, prostitution, slavery, and other forms of human exploitation. Our history, present and past, tells stories of military power that has been used to dominate and enslave. There is also the dark history of religious power, including the Catholic Inquisition and other forms of religious intolerance. But all these forms of power still belong to the physical, material dimension. Even psychological manipulation mainly has its end in physical or material gain.

Spiritual power belongs to a different dimension, and is invisible to someone who sees only the physical world. But this power is real and has a vast range of possibilities. Traditionally it can be used locally, to heal an individual, or in communities, for example to help the rains come. Or it can have a global dimension, involving the well-being and evolution of the whole. We can see the remains of past cultures that used spiritual power in the pyramids of Egypt or the stone circles of England. We may have lost the knowledge of how spiri

Edition details

• Publisher: The Golden Sufi Center
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890350117
• ISBN 13: 9781890350116
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192