SPIRITUAL KNIGHTHOOD
Spiritual Knighthood and Personal Christhood are archetypal siblings, practically the same phenomenon seen from different angles of a single diamond.
A Knight can be either Man or Woman, but this proclamation speaks to Male Knights.
STANDARDS
A Knight holds himself to standards that are, perhaps, too high.
But a Knight knows that each time he falls short of them, it’s worth picking himself back up — and aiming high yet again.
It is better to fall short of a standard worthwhile than it is to excel at something not worth one’s life.
Standards are not trophies, but north stars which steer each moment.
VALUES
Values are the compass of a Knight’s efforts and achievements in the world.
And that compass, although it does not negate the needle of oneself, inevitably points to others — to being in service to Humanity, in whatever way the Soul dreams of, in collaboration with the grand harmony of God.
POWER
One’s consciousness is made in the image of God’s Consciousness.
Therefore, a Knight is endowed with Eternal Power and is delegated responsibility with that power.
All Souls are endowed with Eternal Power — but many Incarnates forsake it. The foundation of Knighthood is in claiming this Power rather than rejecting it.
A Knight strives to own, embody, and polish his Godborn Power in order to wield it wisely. A Knight respects his Power in the world, and in service to the world, and does not belittle, demean, or diminish his Power for those who would benefit from a world without Knights and what Knights stand for.
Evil has abused the reputation of Power with its façades of force, leading many people to be weary of, frightened by, or hateful toward those who are powerful. In such cases, a Knight must be gentle and considerate to prove Power’s true allegiance, and inspire the reclamation of Power in those who have been exploited by falsehoods.
WISDOM & GNOSIS
Wisdom and Gnosis are the stripes which one’s consciousness has earned.
Going far beyond knowledge and intellect, Wisdom and Gnosis are what has accreted into one’s DNA across lifetimes (even if only the current lifetime can be recalled) and are what establish Spiritual Rank.
These accretions cannot be shed nor truly shared. They are unique and form the rank and constitution of one’s unique consciousness.
RANK
One’s stripes culminate into one’s Spiritual Rank.
All who live are made in the image of God’s Consciousness. In that regard, all are equal — even for the average person who forgets it, and even Evil who usurps it.
But not all have desired or attained the same level of consciousness accretion.
In many ways, a Knight will outrank those who surround him — those who are still innocently nascent in their development, and others who have shortchanged themselves of their own existential potential.
A Knight is not shy of his Spiritual Rank. He owns it and employs it in service.
CULTIVATION
A Knight cultivates himself and his character.
The failures of his past are not negations of his potential.
The achievements of his past are not excuses to halt his future.
He is aware of what serves his Power, Innocence, and Purpose — and what detracts from those principles. With moderation, wisdom, determination, and compassion, he strives to minimize detractors and surround himself with only that which reinforces and expands the potency of his consciousness.
The ultimate self-cultivation in this world is Personal Christhood — the universal birthright opportunity that Jesheua represented and encouraged.
OWNERSHIP
A Knight knows what he is, stands for what he is, and owns what he is.
Although it is a virtue to be humble and non-boastful, false humility has no place for a Knight. There is no wisdom in belittling oneself into appearing, being, or feeling ‘less’ than what one Is. That is self-desecration.
To desecrate one’s consciousness is to desecrate God’s Dream for oneself. Made in the image of God’s Consciousness as we are, God dreams of us being fully sovereign, empowered, actualized beings — just as God is.
God hides nothing of his royalty, and neither shall a Knight hide his nobility.
A Knight does not forsake his fundamental constitution to play small, nor to appease others’ resistance to seeing God’s majesty incarnated as Man.
CONSCIOUSNESS EQUIVALENCE
A Knight has chosen an elevated path in life, but this superiority applies only inward to his own character and aspirations, not as a contrast to other people.
Since all people are made in the image of God’s Consciousness, a Knight knows that the consciousness in himself is equivalent to the consciousness in another.
Respect for Spiritual Sovereignty and the potential for Spiritual Self-Actualization is even extended to and acknowledged in those who, contradictorily, cling to false authority and diminish their own existence. With such a person, a Knight strives to remind them of their Godborn Power, Purpose, and Innocence so that they may be inspired to uplift themselves and take reign of their life.
A Knight elevates others to his level, through deed and through presence.
Achievements, accolades, and choices which appear superior to others are just the costumes our incarnates play in. A Knight’s choice for Knighthood is a self-reflection, and does not make him innately superior to his peers whom he’s inevitably in service to, though it often lends him higher Spiritual Rank.
GOD & CHRIST
A Knight is never alone in his solitude.
God is his best friend.
God is accessed directly through the Heart Portal; not distantly through prayer, hope, or faith. Those lacking intimate connection to The One True God are at risk of being tricked by sundry False Gods.
A Knight strives to learn and discern the difference between True God versus the False Gods who masquerade as God, who siphon the power of the Human Spirit.
Christness — not some faraway man but one’s Higher Self actualized to its supreme — is a Knight’s foremost personal guide.
The Height of one’s Higher Self is Christ.
Christhood and Knighthood walk hand-in-hand and stand back-to-back.
SOVEREIGNTY
Archetypally, a Knight serves a King.
But today’s Knights find themselves in a world whose Noble Kings — leaders, heroes, and role models — have been attacked, tortured, and usurped. A True Knight swears no allegiance to False Kings, for such allegiance is not Knighthood but spiritual peasantry.
Lacking True Kings, the spiritual chain of command reverts to God As King.
True Sovereignty is a paradox, for it is always anchored in The One True God who bestowed that Sovereignty. “Sovereignty” without God is merely False Authority.
A Knight never bends the knee to False Authority.
SACRIFICE & SUBSISTANCE
A Knight does not sacrifice himself casually.
There is no honor in winning cheap accolades of approval or gaining needless medals of martyrdom.
The world needs Knights who survive battles when they occur — and who are fit for fun and growth when not at war. A Knight must always strive for maintaining his own existent perpetuity in tandem with guiding and safeguarding others — not foregoing it casually, not even in a proverbial or energetic manner.
For a world without Knights is a world whose Freedom will be vanquished. The ransacked world we inhabit cannot afford Knights who play hero by throwing themselves into self-destructive surrender at each conflict. A Knight must not exhaust himself to prove a sense of worthiness that only God can grant.
In truth, the notion of self-destructive sacrifice comes from Evil, who directly benefits from convincing Knights to destroy themselves for a mirage of honor — thereby annihilating those who can See and supersede Evil’s very machinations.
For if a Knight sabotage himself, Evil need not lift a finger to achieve its aims. Self-sacrifice plays right into Evil’s hand.
True Sacrifice, and only as a last resort, is saved for conflicts in absolute opposition to The Treasures.
Every other conflict can be resolved in one way or another, which a Knight strives to intuit and assist where able and appropriate.
KNIGHTS FOIL EVIL
Evil seeks to siphon from, if not outright destroy, the Forms & Flows of God which constitute The Treasures. Evil hunts down men, women, and children and connives them into its agendas, or violates them in order to lay siege to the sustaining power of Love, Truth, and Innocence which Evil has itself forsaken.
Evil seeks access to The Treasures with ironic reasoning: Evil has forsaken God and the goodness that derives from God, in particular Life. Yet Evil requires exactly those Treasures to sustain itself on its chosen path of the downward spiral toward Death.
This is why Evil is evil: it refuses Death, which is the consequence of its deeds, then strives to live off the Living, in violation of our Sovereign Innocence.
But a Knight is allegiant to only those Treasures and nothing else truly.
Therefore, even if a Knight is killed by Evil, Evil will not have truly gained what it sought from the Knight.
When a Knight dies, a Knight takes with him precisely what Evil fought for: The Treasures that would have sustained Evil against Death for a moment longer.
Against a Knight, Evil fights a self-losing battle: making no gains, achieving nothing but suffering, and exhausting itself further.
So Evil may kill a Knight. But when a Knight sacrifices himself for The Treasures, those Divine Hallows remain secure and unobtained, and Evil remains worse off without gain. It may have thwarted its obstruction, but loses what it could not take.
Spiritual Knighthood is the everyday antidote to Evil’s conquests in this world. Everything Evil seeks for itself, Evil will never obtain, because a Knight protects God within himself and others, out of Evil’s desperate reach.
A Knight takes God to his grave, knowing a life without God’s Treasures is not worth his name.
In this way, a Knight’s sacrifice is not “death,” but LIFE maintained.