The Hermitage

As Harmonists, we:

 ~ live in harmony with the earth and its creatures as

incarnations of the spirit.

 ~ see the fusion of our founder Christian Renatus with

Christ as unifying the physical and the spiritual which was

 fulfilled when he became an ever-flowing spring.

 ~ live in the garden to create beauty, harmony and

wholeness.

Our spiritual life is a reality within us. Nature lives in an unconscious oneness.    Our physical mission is to be conscious, to live in awareness of the moment. Through this consciousness we guide and plan future events to bring a balance of harmony to the manifested world. We realize we are all part of one whole and desire to know ourselves. We become conscious of ourselves while we create and experience form without losing oneself in it. Indeed, there is nothing to lose as we transform into a larger self. We become conscious participants in this creation of form, not helpless victims. Our action becomes guided by our consciousness.

 Our job is to reconcile the formless with the form, to match being with doing, to awaken an unconscious world.

 Our spirituality is the elimination of psychological, linear  time to gain the awareness of a timeless presence that guides our temporal lives and reveals a core of inner peace incorporating yet transcending daily events. We awaken within life to transform it.

How to Develop, Maintain and Enhance a State of Inner Presence

 1. Sense an inner stillness apart from daily events.

 2. Be still and present, as still is the core of ourselves, space without form.

 3. Be aware of breathing; it is our most obvious connection to the infinite.

 4. Be aware that the present moment is eternity.

 5. Develop nonresistance to events. Resistance gives events an illusory feeling         of power and permanence they don't deserve.

 6. Realize form is a passing illusion; you are nothing but awareness itself.

 7. Labeling everyone and everything destroys a sense of oneness.

 8. Our sense of reality is an illusion.

 9. Form is limiting.

 10. Keeping the mind still allows the true self to emerge.

 11. Your experiences will be determined by your present state of consciousness            as your state of mind creates your world and consciousness turns into form.

 12. Experience a center of peace in the middle of activity by focusing on                         breathing and the moment.

 13. Most of your consciousness remains formless, staying grounded in the                     infinite.

 14. Our effect in the physical plane is more power and last than it appears                       through fame and recognition.