Breastplate

Upcoming Show 3-16-26! Wearing the Breastplate of St. Patrick.

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Breastplate:

Hostess Lisa Winton and Swami Jayananda will talk about the prayer of St. Patrick which seems to be called the breastplate, especially where he refers to the Christ within. In this episode they will focus on the Christ as the interface between heaven and earth. Listen as they uncover the function of the Divine Principle as it undergoes three stages of growth– Realization, Sanctification, and Revelation.  Welcome to the Voice of Yoga; we are talking consciousness! Join the Kriya Yoga Spiritual Advance to get the Light in your soul and be Christ.

Notes:

1. This show airs on March 16th and the next day is St. Patrick’s Day and as a young boy I was influenced by the Life of St. Patrich and chose the name Patrick for my confirmation. We can begin with the Prayer of St. Patrick. From: https://mycatholic.life/catholic-prayers/breastplate-of-saint-patrick/
   
   I bind this day to me for ever. By power of faith, Christ’s incarnation; His baptism in the Jordan river; His death on Cross for my salvation; His bursting from the spicèd tomb; His riding up the heavenly way; His coming at the day of doom;* I bind unto myself today. “I bind unto myself the power Of the great love of the cherubim; The sweet ‘well done’ in judgment hour, The service of the seraphim, Confessors’ faith, Apostles’ word, The Patriarchs’ prayers, the Prophets’ scrolls, All good deeds done unto the Lord, And purity of virgin souls. I bind unto myself today The virtues of the starlit heaven, The glorious sun’s life-giving ray, The whiteness of the moon at even, The flashing of the lightning free, The whirling wind’s tempestuous shocks, The stable earth, the deep salt sea, Around the old eternal rocks. I bind unto myself today The power of God to hold and lead, His eye to watch, His might to stay, His ear to hearken to my need. The wisdom of my God to teach, His hand to guide, His shield to ward, The word of God to give me speech, His heavenly host to be my guard.
   Against the demon snares of sin, The vice that gives temptation force, The natural lusts that war within, The hostile men that mar my course; Or few or many, far or nigh, In every place and in all hours, Against their fierce hostility, I bind to me these holy powers. Against all Satan’s spells and wiles, Against false words of heresy, Against the knowledge that defiles, Against the heart’s idolatry, Against the wizard’s evil craft, Against the death wound and the burning, The choking wave and the poisoned shaft,
   Protect me, Christ, till Thy returning. Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me. Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
   I bind unto myself the Name, The strong Name of the Trinity; By invocation of the same. The Three in One, and One in Three,
   Of Whom all nature hath creation, Eternal Father, Spirit, Word: Praise to the Lord of my salvation, Salvation is of Christ the Lord. Amen.

2. To understand Christ as the Divine Principle, the saving aspect of Truth. Christ is what makes the Divine Creation comprehensive to human consciousness. To initiate the developmental process we can look to the bible and the representation for born of woman, born of man, born of Spirit. The progression of belief to faith to understanding which is experienced when identity shifts from a mental-material basis to a Spiritual basis. We have this from Gilbert Carpenter, Her Spiritual Footsteps, chapter 20: Soundbite “It might be said, that there is a point at which we follow the Christ in another, a point where we catch up with Him, and finally a point where we embody Him. Jesus called that embodying of the Christ, eating his flesh and drinking his blood. It is as if a man, weak with hunger, were being drawn in a cart by an ox. Finally, he kills the ox and eats his flesh. Then he finds he has gained the strength to pull the cart himself. From this, we can describe the crucifixion as symbolic of the point where Christ is taken away as something that can be followed, only to reappear and come to life again, as something to be embodied by man. It dies as something apart from man, and comes to life as his own true selfhood. This might be taken as a warning to students of today, that if they feel suddenly bereft, as if they no longer received the help they expected, from those to whom they have been accustomed to turn, that indicates that the time has come for them to embody the Christ for themselves, which means to recognize within themselves the ever-enlarging spiritual spark.”
3. Divine Science is of Heaven and Christian Science reveals It to earth. Gilbert Carpenter, 500 Watching Points, #6 “The Father and son working together would symbolize divine Science and Christian Science, one the truth in heaven, and the other the truth brought to earth. See Science and Health, 471:29.” In the Lord’s Prayer, it is said, “in earth as it is in Heaven.” The more the Christ is impersonalized and understood as the Messiah– the Eternal Principle and not merely Jesus. The more effort is put in the development of the faculty capable of receiving Divine inspiration or the Mind of Christ– the sooner humanity will collectively graduate from sense to Soul.
4. The difference between the orthodox religious approach to Spirit and the Divine or Scientific approach which is very different because the Scientific approach begins with the Principle that Spirit is all and there is nothing else. How one works and the other doesn’t.