I’ve read pretty much everything written by Emmet Fox.  This book I am referencing just happened to be calling out to me this morning to pick it up again.  This is a blog I’ve written, but wanted to share it here, to stress the importance of these treasures; the timelessness of truth and how we are indeed ever evolving; how something can speak one thing to us today, and low and behold several weeks or months later, we see something, we hear something, totally different.  When I was reading Fox, I was no where near where I am on this spiritual quest, this unfolding of who I am.

The book is an easy read and filled with simple words that will inspire and uplift and encourage you, as with all of Fox’s writings. The following is what I wrote for my blog – using this book as an impetus to write along with the thoughts that flowed like the tides during my early morning meditation.

In my meditation time this morning, on the seashores of a place I can’t locate in linear time, I was once again sitting with my friend Yahshua.  Without words I was told to watch the tide and as I did so I saw great power at a distance and by the time it reached my toes, it was but a gentle tickle and it retreated.  I noticed the rhythm of the waters; the strength that became weak and feeble as it reached its destination.  That was about four hours ago and since then I’ve been writing, cleaning and relaxing.

Venturing into my bedroom to get something off the book shelf my eyes caught a book by author Emmet Fox called Fari Vian Vivon Inda. I happened to get hooked on him a lot of years ago; in fact the inscription in the cover of this book is dated 1986 – the date I purchased it!  As in all books that I purchase, these are timeless treasures and truths and every time I pick a book up, it is because the message to be received is new.  My reason for picking the book up at this time (or so I thought) was to see how many pages made up that book, for you see I have a mandate of 200 pages before I start sending out my book for publication.

Opening the book, a book written in much the same style as the book I am putting together; a book of thoughts and revelations about various and sundry things that unfold in life, it opened to an article called, “The Tide Flows In And Out”.  I am too far beyond thinking this is a coincidence and so I took the book with me and sat on the balcony to read it in the warmth of the sun.  It speaks of our spiritual journey, the flow towards and the retreat caused by obstacles etc.  I wanted to share some of this with you, as an encouragement as it has been for me.  It is the opening paragraph of this article, and reads:

“We do not make our spiritual unfoldment in a steady straight line.  Human nature does not work in that way.  No one moves upward in a path of unbroken progress to the attainment of perfection.  What happens is that—if we are working rightly—we move upward, but with a series of ‘downs’ as well as ‘ups.’ …These setbacks are not important as long as the general movement of our lives is upward.  If each year finds us with a definite advance in consciousness, the temporary setbacks in between are unimportant; … The tide flows in and out. …”