Awareness
ACROSS THE GOLDEN
BRIDGE
Introduction Mystical Traveler
John-Roger (1974)
Across the Golden Bridge is a unique book written by 62 different people
about their personal experiences on the spiritual path. Their expressions
are as varied as people themselves, and yet are all unified in that these
people have found that the "Light," the Mystical Traveler Consciousness,
and the teachings of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness are
helping them to understand and realize their true destiny on this planet.
This is only a handful of people out of so many who are active in the
Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Yet their experiences represent
many levels of consciousness and points of view. Some the reader may
recognize as similar to his or her own experience and thus may be able to
learn more about oneself. Other experiences may be quite different which
will increase one's awareness by expanding one's consciousness of the
life experience. These experiences are brought forward in a
consciousness of love and Light honestly and sincerely in the hope that
they may help to awaken others and support them spiritually on their path.
Accepting them in this Light does not mean that a person has to blindly
believe in these things, but merely that they are points of view of
individuals as they see their experience. The readers are encouraged to
check their own experiences in order to discover the validity of any
principle or technique, so that they may find their own truth and way
across the golden bridge.
Everyone is moving in their spiritual inner awareness, for life is change,
growth, and movement. We all are attempting to understand our
experience, and in searching for the answers to our questions, we come
across the idea of God, or Spirit, or whatever we call the reality that is
greater than ourselves. Ultimately each one of us moves into a quest to
become more aware of Spirit, or the true essence of life. The Movement
of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA, pronounced "Messiah") offers
conscious pathways in Light and Sound of the timeless knowledge of Soul
Transcendence. This fellowship of Living Love recognizes the
brotherhood of man in the Father-Mother God, and came into being in
answer to many souls living here on Earth who have cried out to some
source higher than themselves for help. The focal point of MSIA is the
Consciousness of the Mystical Traveler and Preceptor, which exists
simultaneously on all levels of consciousness in total awareness, and
demonstrates the ability to work with individuals on all their levels from
the physical to the soul and God realms. Anyone who asks for spiritual
assistance may receive the guidance of this Consciousness in the
perfection and protection of soul consciousness.
As Editors of Across the Golden Bridge, we are consciously endeavoring
to help build a Golden Bridge to the new age of Living Love by
facilitating individual Light expression of movement into this new
consciousness. We are hopeful that this work may inspire and inform the
reader, and we support you with our love and Light. Starting January 1
and continuing through 1973, we interviewed many people who are
consciously working in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness and
received a few letters, selected and edited the contributions, and arranged
publication. The experiences that are presented here do not represent any
group or organization, but are solely individual expressions. Our remarks
concerning each chapter appear at the beginning for general clarification
and for explanation of terms that may be unique to the Movement of
Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA). We encourage the reader to go
beyond the word level, as the validity of these expressions is in the
experience. We are grateful to all those who have contributed their efforts
in sharing these heart-felt and sacred realizations and events in their
lives. We always give thanks to the Mystical Traveler Consciousness and
the Light and Sound of the Holy Spirit for guiding and sustaining us.
November 1973
The Editors
Los Angeles, California
Preface
The Golden Bridge is a symbolic expression of God consciousness,
Christ Consciousness, the Living Love. To move across this, there are
precepts - acceptance, the first spiritual law, cooperating with what is
accepted, gaining understanding with the cooperation, and then building
enthusiasm. Look, listen, think, and do. Other Light-bearers can help
support a Golden Bridge by looking the same way. Enlightenment is
gaining knowledge, and illumination is having total spiritual flow. An
illuminated one can illuminate the bridge, but will not walk it for another.
Too many will want to walk it for others. The fun of the whole thing is
walking it. The Golden Bridge has been called the true self, cosmic
consciousness, the oneness or allness depending upon which group,
conditioning, and environment. It is unique to each person and interpreted
individually. Yet people can agree on a group understanding. Followers
of Jesus would say Jesus. Inside of them, who knows what Jesus they are
referring to - the Jesus with the short hair, the long hair, on the cross,
cleansing the temple, coming into Jerusalem triumphantly, being baptized?
Which Jesus? These are all different Jesuses, but they would all agree
that he lived two thousand years ago in Jerusalem. Each one inside of
them would look to him in a different way.
In moving across the Golden Bridge, one must have reference points of
his progress - inside and outside to help bypass the inner and outer
illusions. The one who is the reference point outside must be relatively
free of illusions. He can't be totally free, because he has a physical body,
which is an illusion. The inner must be able to function both as an Inner
Master, and as an outer Mystical Traveler, or whatever term is used. To
go to one teacher for the outer and another for the inner would be
conflicting, because of the illusions of the outer vocabulary. Finding one
who can do both the inward and outward, gives a stability and a line of
flow. When one reaches his own stability, he becomes that same person
who is doing the inner and the outer, even though it's a different body.
One may take this idea to another group, use different words, but it's still
the same thing. Groups have to be careful not to fight each other over
semantics. There is no difference. When one says, "We are the only way"
or "I am the only way," it means this is the bridge. The only way we can
go is both inward and out.
Do everything perfectly today. When done perfectly the past reflects back
into the present. The Golden Bridge is now - activated now and
perceived now and worked now. A year from now will still be now. The
bridge is infinite; it goes from beginning to beginning, or from ending to
ending, or from alpha to omega. Travelers crossing the bridge always lift
to new levels, though at different points on the same bridge. "As above,
so below, and as below, so above" applies up to soul realm. From soul
realm and above, there are no reference points, because it just is.
John-Roger
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