Supreme Art
Reflections On Observing A Set Of Master's Celestial Jewelry Entitled "The Hidden Force Connection"

The Hidden Force Connection

Narrated By Brother Initiate Taiyi Chen, Taoyuan, Formosa
Recorded By Sister Initiate Hsiuching Wang, Taipei, Formosa

When ancient Masters tried to describe the Truth, they usually explained it through words and language. Few of them did it through celestial jewelry, celestial clothing and paintings as Master does. In this way, Master has turned the Truth into a visual art, made it easier to understand and apprehensible at a glance, and related it closely to daily life. Therefore, appreciating Her celestial jewelry is like reading the Buddha's scriptures.

Master's teachings coincide with those of all past and present Masters who have attained the Truth. All of them have mentioned that through spiritual practice, one can find one's inner Kingdom of God, Buddha Nature or True Self and one can rid oneself of greed, anger and infatuation, and regain the ethos of the precepts, meditation and wisdom, which are from the Kingdom of God or Nirvana. After a comprehensive study of this issue, I have realized that when we attain the inner Kingdom of God or Nirvana, we must practice from inside out, and from the upper to the lower. Only in this way can we attain perfection.

What do I mean by "from inside out" and "from upper to lower"? In "The Key of Immediate Enlightenment (Volume I - Chinese)," Master mentions, "A human being has seven bodies." The True Self is in the very core of our being. One must first attain the "Hidden Force Connection" in order to develop inside and outside as well. This is what I mean by "from inside out."

Master has also said, "The part of our body above the wisdom eye is the pure land, the Buddha's land, and the rest is the impure land." As stated in the "Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment," the course of spiritual practice is to progress from the purification of thought to the purification of physical organs, and then to the purification of visual perception. This is what I mean by "from upper to lower."

The set of celestial jewelry entitled "Hidden Force Connection" has a crescent moon that looks like an abstract design of a person looking over another person. Three pieces of opal are inlaid in it. The middle one represents the wisdom eye and the other two pieces on the left and right are like two physical eyes. Another two pieces of opal tied to the crescent moon by gold chains represent a body and four limbs. So I can extend the meaning of Master's design as follows: When one finds the inner Kingdom of God, God's Light will continuously illuminate one's whole body through one's wisdom eye.

I can also interpret this in another way: When we are connected with the great energy of the universe, God's Light and love will bless the whole world through us. Just as Master says, "Changing ourselves is changing the world." As long as we are "connected with the hidden force" every day until we attain complete enlightenment, our souls will be purified gradually and our world will enter a brand-new Golden Age.