The concept of co-measurement is something that may not be familiar to many of us, but it is something of vital importance to our spiritual lives, particularly for those of us walking the Path of Personal Christhood as modern day mystics. What do we mean by the term ‘co-measurement’? And what does it have to do with community?
I was contemplating this idea of co-measurement as the foundation of community as I reflected on all the chaos that is manifesting in the world today. The basic unit of society, the family, is under constant and unceasing attack. Our sense of community is being lost as more and more we isolate and insulate ourselves from each other, living our lives in a virtual world of social media and artificial intelligence. We just have to turn on the news or scroll through our social media posts to witness this destruction that is happening on a planetary scale. It seems like we are swimming in a sea of darkness, and the tide keeps rising as we struggle frantically to stay afloat, with no sign of a safe harbor in sight. How can countries remain intact if at the foundation, there is utter chaos and destruction?
The Chinese sage Confucius quite eloquently stated, “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” This is the essence of co-measurement as the foundation of community. When we are able to see ourselves and each other as divine beings, we begin think and act differently. We begin to, as Mother Theresa implored us, “see the face of Christ” in everyone that we meet. We begin to “come-ye-into-unity“, which is the true meaning of ‘community’ and we create the space for the community of the Holy Spirit to grow and thrive.
What is co-measurement?
We can think of co-measurement as the ability to understand our relationship with the guru, our beloved El Morya, “…against the backdrop of time and eternity, space and the Cause.” In the eastern tradition, a guru or teacher, means ‘one of steady wisdom’. “Gu” means “darkness” and “ru” translates to “remover”. The guru is the Self, the Divine Self, that is within all of us. It is the Self that has equanimity. The guru is not our human self. It is not the human ego, not the man nor the woman. It is the God-Self that is within us.
So, when we call someone the ‘guru’ we are not talking about the physical body, the person, or their intelligence. We are talking about their Higher Self or their God-Self. And the guru is simply the one who removes our ignorance of the Self within as God. The external guru, the teacher we follow, simply removes the veil of ignorance separating us from our Higher Self so that over time, we no longer need the external guru because we have become one with our inner guru. The external guru is a mirror that reflects the Self back for us to see and is needed only until we ourselves, become the guru.
Beloved Gautama Buddha teaches us in Pearls of Wisdom Vol. 31 No. 2 published by The Summit LighthouseⓇ, that co-measurement is “…the measuring [of] your Self in its highest manifestation of Christhood against the measurement of the man, the woman [or] the child that you are today.” What this means is that when we look at ourselves, we must measure ourselves in the context of our divinity. Since we were created “in the image and likeness of God” and endowed with a spark of His divinity, as we look into the mirror of Self, what we see (or should see) reflected back at us, is our Divine Self.
When we see ourselves as divine beings, rather than mere human beings, we are better able to apply our faith, to think and feel and act from a higher level of consciousness. We realize that of our own selves, our human selves, we can do nothing. We realize that what we can, and must do, is call upon the LORD to assist us in overcoming the rising tide of darkness. We must hold on to this truth as steadfastly as we can, that our God is with us and in us! Thus, co-measurement, according to Gautama Buddha, requires us to measure ourselves against the divine being we are and are in the process of becoming. It requires us to pause and take stock of ourselves.
We ask ourselves the tough questions and we answer them honestly: Where am I on this Path of Personal Christhood? Am I further along than I was yesterday? Or last week? Or last month? Or when I took the first step along this path? Then we look at our closeness to the Masters and we ask: Am I closer to the guru, beloved El Morya, than I was before? Am I closer to my Holy Christ Self? My Mighty I AM Presence? Am I filled with the Holy Spirit? The path is ever in front of us, and we follow it where it leads us, knowing that when it comes to an end, we would have reached the final destination, the highest heights. And when we look back and see how far we have come, we realize, as El Morya says, that the trek upward was worth all the inconveniences that we encountered.
This, says, Gautama Buddha, is the sense of co-measurement that we must have–the measure of how far along the path we have progressed and not focus on if we are doing a great job or how great a job we have done. Rather, our focus “must be on WHAT is the job that we need to accomplish and HOW will we attain to the fulness of the stature of our Christhood.” Of course, this is much easier said than done, but it is something that must be done if we are to claim our Victory over our human selves and forge the community of the Holy Spirit which will be the saving grace of our planet.
How we cultivate this sense of co-measurement will be the subject of my next post. Until then, let us continue to move onward and upward!
In Peace!
Modern Day Mystic 