The 7 Mysteries

The 7 Mysteries of Life

Choice of Perception The volume of sensory data available to us in any moment is way beyond what we can consciously absorb; we need to filter out most of it to focus our attention on what we choose to register. Then, what we perceive is interpreted according to our entrained attitudes learned from others, our remembered experiences, and our personal preferences and philosophy. No two people experience reality the same way and we create our own unique life experiences from our choices.
Experience Our experiences are life’s input material of our lives, arising according to how we direct our attention.
Learning This comes not only from the exercising of mind, it requires the deepening of engagement to develop enthusiasm and love.
Action Evidence of significant change, arising from what we have learned from our ‘good’ and ‘bad’ choices, comes through taking steps to begin, to further, or to end a particular involvement.
Growth People grow in consciousness when their lives enact their learnings through collaborative projects, ideally in symbiosis so that our vision is furthered as we further someone else’s.
Reflection Outwardly, life circumstances mirror our inner condition; inwardly the mind deepens wisdom by reflecting upon events.
Transcendence and Forgetting. To rise above worldly concerns in order to know of cosmic realities requires us to let go of our investment in self, to forget who we are. Paradoxically in Sufism this is a practice called remembrance.

Training the Mind to Perceive 7

We have chosen to adopt the number 7 as the most mystical symbol of all numbers and decided to examine its qualities in depth. By doing so we train the mind to shape its perceptions accordingly and find that it is meaningful to look for, and find, that each and every dynamic system is well understood as having 7 components which are each necessary and together sufficient to describe and define it.

The mind is central to all of our perceptions and experiences so, as we increasingly employ this methodology of 7 in our thinking process, we tend towards creating a life of mystery and fullness. Also we learn to think more clearly and strategically, and so improve our understandings and our attainments. We can quickly and easily grasp an amorphous bundle of data, opinions, feelings and aspirations and bring this confusion and potential overwhelm into a clear and familiar form of the 7 archetypes. This offers a specific path of analysis and planning and often exposes errors of omission.

The more frequently we employ this system of perception, the more it becomes embodied within us and informs our intuitive responses. Having our strengths and weaknesses identified and named promotes the furtherance of balance and personal growth so we progress both spiritually and in worldly competency. These two polarities then tend to marry up more closely and we learn that excellence in earthly attainment promotes spiritual growth and vice versa. Also the fact that we study all this in the company of kindred spirits is extraordinarily helpful – a real boon.

Correspondences, Landscapes and Qualities

We will find great value from the study of correspondences. We think here of 7 Planes of Consciousness, the 7 Words System, the Elven Star of each of the planets of astrology, also applications within the Sabian Alchemy Process, 7 Ages of a Seeker, 7 Life Principles, 7 Steps of Soul Resonance, and a good number of q21 topics as questionnaires which can immediately identify our own points of optimal personal inquiry and the primary issue to discuss with any client.

​We go into greater depth as we learn to see the 7 archetypes as 7 realities, worlds with landscapes and qualities, which we both feel and understand conceptually. Our purpose is to stretch the mind to embrace more variables than it usually does. As we become competent in the application of these 7 principles, we will evolve spiritually, develop a sharper ability of analysis, and relax into a sense of self expressing much more richness, subtlety and depth.