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The ‘Mystical System’ can be viewed in an entirely different light as the agent of Will. The current use of the term will, is not different from traditional uses. We speak of a child being willful, i.e. wanting it’s own way. We also speak of someone achieving something by sheer force of will. Both these uses are appropriate here. The only thing that may not gel with conventional psychology is placing will near the top of the tree.
Will in this context might be described as the individual’s intention to make things so rather than accept them as they are. This centre creates our worldview. It is ‘the father of all realities’. The blockage called Will determines whether we create our worldview in line with information received from the Absolute level or whether we construct a worldview of our own.
This links to notions of free will in that we have the ability to create our own reality should we so ‘choose’. I place the word choose in inverted commas since it is rare that people have conscious access to this level and therefore without that awareness there is no ability to choose
Could this be why confession and contrition in the Christian church so regularly fails? Because the person is simply not in control of their actions at this level. They may say they want to change they may feel bad about what they have done, but the will carries on regardless. In this Christian context, those confessing cannot merely admit their sins and say they are sorry, they have to repent. Repentance is from the Latin re-pentare to think again or reevaluate. God may be loving and forgiving, but Jesus cannot take away our sins if we are still grasping on to them. Confession involves not only accepting that we have sinned but also, then, letting it go. This involves an act of will by which our sinful habits have to be given up to a ‘higher power’. It is only by offering them up that we can be freed. Paradoxically, guilt can only serve to bind us to the sin and make it impossible to relinquish.
It is only by making a change at the level of will that we can really change. The solution is not to ‘command the will’ or ‘summon the will’ which would be a nonsense, but to allow the absolute centre to control the sixth centre as it is supposed to do. Not my will but thine Oh Lord.