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If anybody asks you, "What religion is this?", you may
answer, "This is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the most
important thing is to seek God in the heart of mankind." There are
three ways of seeking God in the human heart:
1. The first way is
to recognize God the divine in every person and to care for every person
with whom we come in contact, in our thought, speech, and action. Human
personality is very delicate. The more living the heart the more sensitive
it is; that which causes sensitivity is the love element in the heart, and
love is God. He who
takes notice of the feeling of another person with whom he comes in contact
practices the first essential principle of worship.
2. The next way of
practicing this religion is to think of the feeling of the person who is not
at the moment before us. One feels for a person who is present, but one
often neglects to feel for someone who is out of sight. One speaks well of
someone to his face, but if one speaks well of someone when he is absent,
that is greater. One sympathizes with the trouble of someone who is before
one at the moment, but it is greater to sympathize with one who is far
away.
3. The third way of seeking God in the human heart is to
recognize in one's own feeling the feeling of God and to realize every
impulse that rises in one's heart as a direction from God. Realizing that
love is a divine spark in one's heart, one blows that spark until a flame
may rise to illuminate the path of one's life. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
C1: Worship in the Religion of the Heart
"The religion of the future will the religion of the heart.
The book of nature will be its scripture; music its liturgy."
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Learn and practice how to create a sacred space, fill it with presence,
and convey spirit to the participants.
(Prerequisite: 108)
C2: Ceremonies and Rituals of the Heart
Celebrations of the great stages of the path of the heart, for example,
Awakening, Discovery of the Soul-Mate, Marriage, Conscious Conception,
Birth and Death Transitions, the Dark Night, the Breakthrough of Unity,
Surrender of the Heart, Discovery of the Purpose of LIfe, Unity
Consciousness at-will, and Illumination.
(Prerequisite: 108, 206)
C3: Retreat Guide Training
Learn to guide individual, private retreats through the nine steps of realization
and the five stages of mystical experience. This is the most advanced training that
IAM offers, for it requires a personal experience of the nine steps as well as a mastery
of the methods of transformation at each step.
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Also Required:
All the 100 Level courses
Courses 202, 203, 206, 207, 208
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