Motah Chronicles

by El Morya/Mark

Editor’s note: Scroll down to the end of this article and listen to El Morya/Mark’s original podcast, recorded extemporaneously in 1974.

MAN SPENDS FAR TOO MUCH ATTENTION, thought, energy, money, time, supply, resources, products on completely unnecessary and frivolous things. This applies to material objects as well as thoughts and actions. Let us work together to create some new images for man of Earth regarding more productive creative and spiritual thoughts and things for the rest of this Latter-Day period of time.

This topic doesn’t apply just in man’s daily activities but also in the things he collects. Look around many homes, for example; or, better yet, look in many stores. What is the real purpose in having such a great variety and quantity of so many things that really are completely unnecessary?

We are not suggesting that we become spartan in our existence or that we cut out all luxuries or the niceties of life. But reexamine what is accomplished by accumulating novelties, knickknacks, bric-a-brac with which we fill our homes, our businesses, our lives; creating the need for unproductive attention, thoughts, conversations and activities.

Again, this isn’t to say that we shouldn’t have some of these things to give our life a little brightness. But have you ever given much attention and thought to the many unnecessary items that are offered for sale today, and the things that people buy? For what? What is it really accomplishing in their lives, in so many instances?

Reevaluate Our Natural Resources

We might say that the production and the sale of these items give work and pleasure to many people. Perhaps this is so. But aren’t we living in a time when it is indicated to us on all sides that natural resources are running out, that we are suffering from lack of employment, that we are greatly in need of food and the essentials of life, and that in some nations people are leaving the Earth because of the lack of food and other necessities of life?

Therefore, doesn’t it mean that we should have additional thought about the amount of money, the wasted effort of all kinds, that goes into the production and the purchase and the use of things that really have absolutely no meaning in our lives; especially since we know that man of Earth should be thinking in spiritual terms in this Latter-Day period, when he should be eliminating unnecessary material objects in his life, or at least reevaluating and putting them in their proper place, eliminating some and giving more attention to others?

Above all, we should be devoting more time to the eternal things of life; which means spiritual thoughts and actions, getting out of this third dimensional realm and into the higher planes where we don’t have this great concentration on the wasted items in a material existence.

Therefore, doesn’t it make sense that a lot of this energy, a lot of this employment and money and resources, that are being spent on completely unessential things would be put to far better use in producing the necessities of life? It is said that one of the great causes of inflation these days is the inability to produce enough of what people want. Let’s produce what people need, in the material aspect.

Let’s concentrate on creating this new image: Man shall dedicate his resources, his ingenuity, his thoughts, his deeds, his money, his supply, his productive capacity of all kinds to producing that which man really needs to maintain the material existence on Earth; but he not become dedicated, bound, imprisoned by the material things, so that he will have more time to devote to thoughts of spiritual things, to reattaining his spiritual nature and heritage and powers.

The Mark-Age organization goes through a procedure at headquarters at least twice a year, spring and fall, where we go through all of our personal possessions, all of our possessions in the home and in the Center, and give away or throw out that which no longer is useful and which we feel never will be useful, that which perhaps we enjoyed at one time but which is not necessary now, or that which perhaps someone else can use.

Reevaluate Your Thoughts

The same thing applies in the mental realm. How many of us have many unnecessary thoughts still hanging around in our memories, things that we would be better off without? You could name many things that just fill up our time of thought that are completely useless, that we know are useless; and yet we entertain them just because it is the way we have thought for a long time.

In our new image for man’s productive thoughts and things, we visualize these ideas: Stop wasting thoughts and time spent in talking and writing to one another about the trivial things in life, the things that really don’t have much meaning. Concentrate on eliminating the things within our consciousnesses that are outworn, or that we just let hang around because it’s the usual thing to do, or because we’ve been doing it all along, or our friends and relatives do that.

Let’s examine our thoughts and our actions and our words and see just how much time we are wasting. If we are wasting a great deal of time with these unnecessary things in our consciousnesses, let’s get rid of them. We will have a great deal more time for the really important things; which are God, our own spiritual Self, our spiritual evolution, demonstration, manifestations and evolvement.

Can’t we concentrate on this whenever we think about it, and make the resolve to eliminate a lot, even if not all, of the unnecessary things in our material possessions, in our thoughts, in our words, in our actions; and instead utilize that time, that energy, those resources in imaging, projecting, creating, manifesting, demonstrating, using that which is spiritually fruitful?

We don’t mean to imply that the complete day be filled just with pious thoughts, or to equate everything in terms of spiritual principles and laws. Indeed, we should enjoy ourselves, but in the proper way, in a way that doesn’t waste our energies, in a way that allows us to enjoy far more of the real things of life that the spiritual Self can show, that God is manifesting within us at all times; time to have enjoyment of the real things in the world about us; to communicate not only with Spirit and our own high Selves but also with those on the same plane and in higher planes about the really important things in life.

So, will you join with us in examining your own consciousnesses and in deciding if you have too many extraneous thoughts that are wasting your time, your energy; taking up space in your consciousness, in your thoughts, in your actions and deeds, your words? Do this in the course of a day, a week or a month and see what you can utilize and save. Then let’s do the same things in our homes, in our businesses or wherever we work, whatever we do, and see just how much of the things we have around us in a material sense are really necessary or are completely unnecessary.

Let’s reevaluate ourselves as to what we really want to keep in our atmosphere materially and mentally and emotionally from this point on. You will find that you have so much more time and energy and resources of all kinds to spend on the things that really are worthwhile in life.

So, will you image this now? And man of Earth, will you please respond to our visualizations that you too make this analysis, and eliminate that which is completely unnecessary and cut down on some things so you can devote your time to the spiritual realities and necessities of your life?

Revised from Mark-Age Meditations audio broadcast #65B, released in November 1974.

LISTEN TO PODCAST: Click on the “Play” button below to listen to El Morya/Mark’s original recording of “Accumulate Productive Thoughts.”

Photos: (1) El Morya/Mark, 1962, Mark-Age Archives. (2) El Morya/Mark and Nada-Yolanda, 1969, Mark-Age Archives. (3) Line drawing by Owen Morrison depicts materialization of divine power as and through El Morya; Mark-Age Archives.