The Ten Virtues
Subject : Preface
Preface
The virtues that will be discussed here will mean: Effective force or power. Effective meaning; Having an intended or expected effect: Effect meaning result. Operative, meaning: Being in effect: Having force: Functioning effectively. Force meaning: Active power: Intellectual power: The exertion of such power. Power meaning: The ability or capacity to act or do something effectively. A specific faculty. Faculty meaning: An inherent power or ability.
So your Ten Virtues are of your inherent intellectual powers or abilities to act and do something effectively that must be put into force to assist you in applying the The seven Principles of Whole truth. Of particular importance are the principles of mental, Physical, and Spiritual Gender, Cause and Effect, Rhythm, Polarity, Vibration, and correspondence which are to be used in conjunction with one another in renewing your mind and spirit and reconciling yourself with God and Goddess, whose image and likeness we are created in, to free yourself from difficulty and evil, help others, make a better world and future and attain your godhood and goddess hood.
Becoming consciously aware of The Ten Virtues and effectively utilizing them to renew your mind and spirit and to reconcile yourself with Good to be of one accord while maintaining your individuality, free will, and choice is necessary to our
future. If you do not learn to apply them, as explained in The Kybalion Reconciled, you will remain ignorant of higher degrees of yourself, higher God and Goddess like abilities, and the higher reality and continue to be a pawn on the chess board of life moved about by evil, wills, influences, and forces stronger and greater than your own both Good and Evil, knowingly or unknowingly, willingly or unwillingly.
Subject: 1 Control of Thought
The Virtue of becoming in Control of your Thoughts is the primary virtue that you must learn to master because of its power and the way in which the mind, body, spirit, and universe is made up, functions, and relates to God and Goddess. Relate means: To establish or demonstrate a connection between.
Thought is and means: The process or power of thinking; An Idea; consideration; attention; Intention; expectation. process means; Prescribed procedure., prescribe means; set down as a rule., procedure means; a way of doing something., power means; the ability to act or do something effectively., and thinking is to have or formulate in the mind. to ponder or decide, to believe, suppose, to imagine, to devise.
So if you are not in full control of your thoughts, which most people think they are but actually are not, you are not in control of your thinking, of what you have and formulate in your mind, and what you ponder or decide, because they are being controlled by outside causes influences. Formulate means: Devise, plan or arrange in the mind. As a consequence you are not in full control of your ideas, an idea is an opinion, conviction, principle, plan, purpose or goal., of what you consider, meaning factors to be considered., your attention, meaning, the act of dealing with someone or something., your intention, meaning; An aim that guides actions., your expectations, meaning, the act or condition of expecting what you look forward to occur. You are also not in control of what you ponder or decide, believe, suppose, and imagine regardless of what you think. You are thus the product of the Devil's thoughts, manipulation, and exploitation of your mind, body, and spirit being carried out by all kinds of means through others knowingly or unknowingly, human beings or spiritual beings, terrestrial or extra-terrestrial.
Note: More will be discussed on Thought in the section xvi subject 1 on The Mind.
#2 Identity with the Higher Ideals or Spiritual Orders
The fourth Virtue is Identity with the Higher ideals and Spiritual Life. Identity means; Condition of being a certain person or thing; The set of characteristics by which an individual is recognized; The quality or condition of being the same as something else., Same means; similar or corresponding., Similar meaning; Having a resemblance in nature; alike though not identical., Identical meaning; Exactly equal and alike., The awareness that an individual has of being a distinct, persisting entity., Persisting meaning; Holding steadfast to a purpose or undertaking., Ideals are ultimate or worthy objectives; goals., Concepts of something as perfect., Spiritual life meaning; Relating to Divine Spirit as opposed to matter., Spirit meaning; Supernatural being., God and Goddess, Supernatural meaning; Having existence outside the natural world., A force or principle believed to animate living beings., The part of a human associated with the mind, will, and feelings.
So the Virtue of Identity with the Higher Ideals or Spiritual life is the condition, meaning; the mode or state of being., of being a certain person, that certain person being the son or daughter of God and Goddess manifesting characteristics that are recognized as having a resemblance in nature, alike though not identical, Identical meaning; Exactly equal and alike., to God's and Goddess'. And that you hold steadfast to the purpose or undertaking that you chose for yourself to contribute to the betterment of the world, transformation of the universe back into the paradise of a cosmos, and The greater Good which are our higher, ultimate, and worthy objectives. The concepts of perfection and animating forces or principles that are associated with our minds, wills, feelings, and very nature of being Godlike and Goddess like.