There is but one thing that we are here to do, and that is achieve Mastery.
Flower A. Newhouse, The Christward Way

The Way of Discipleship

Enlightenment, Illumination, Initiation and Mastery

The Immortal AscentThe way of discipleship is a way of attainment. It is a voluntary surrender of the entire self to the work or the service of God. It requires great attention to spiritual realities and goals which inspire us toward inner growth. We enter Discipleship when our greatest desire is to touch Eternal Truths and mystically experience the Loving Presence of God.

Christianize Your Thoughts
Flower A. Newhouse, Emmanuel: God With Us

The Christ constantly endeavored to teach everyone to remedy, transform, recreate, and master himself. Man's path to perfection lies in the directing of his thoughts, energies and desires toward their highest good, and toward the support of the edifying Divine Reality and the Divine Plan.

When the desire for God is equaled by the willingness to change and grow spiritually, the individual is slowly and watchfully graduated into the state of discipleship.
Flower A. Newhouse, Disciplines of the Holy Quest

His mastery of the human self and human circumstances manifests through the practice of continual conscious alignment with the Divine Spirit. In this endeavor he should be intelligent, balanced and joyous in outlook.

This path we consciously travel from creation to resurrection passes through the large country of discipleship.
Flower A. Newhouse, The Quest

Flower on Discipleship

The center of a disciple's deepest testing lies within the jurisdiction of his own free will.
Flower A. Newhouse, Disciplines of the Holy Quest

The seasons are overripe for your becoming acquainted with eternity and your finding contact and certainty through it. There are prizes and you will earn them; there are harvests and they will be gained when once you are true.
Flower A. Newhouse, Wellsprings of the Holy Quest

Discipleship requires unselfishness, surrendered obedience, integrity and the ability to sacrifice oneself for the greater good.
Flower A. Newhouse, Wellsprings of the Holy Quest

Discipleship undertakes to enter that state where God is loved and known. To enter higher consciousness requires true humility and depth of devotion.
Flower A. Newhouse, The Quest

There is but one thing that we are here to do, and that is achieve Mastery. That is our paramount mission. Our task, our service to the world, is secondary. Fidelity to the first requisite–our development of mastership–will bring us into the line of our service as a natural sequence. We must never forget that mastery has precedence over service, even though each of these expressions complements and strengthens the other.
Flower A. Newhouse, The Christward Way

The most important phase in the training for discipleship, is the work of character preparation. This work consists of teaching the spirit, mind, emotions, and body to be one in their efforts towards realization.
Flower A. Newhouse, Here Are Your Answers, Vol I

Reverence, gratitude, love and humility are the greatest qualities that we need to approach God, as we grow to be sons and daughters of God, as we grow to be masters. Then other qualities take their foreground place in our lives and consciousness. But these are always exercised.
Flower A. Newhouse, In Everything Give Thanks

The Christ constantly endeavored to teach everyone to remedy, transform, recreate, and master himself. He spoke out of the ancient archives of wisdom that have nurtured Him in long seasons past. He spoke as every great soul who achieved masterhood speaks, and will speak. That evolution is working on us, chiseling and refining us, bringing all its tools of experience to bear on us.
Flower A. Newhouse, The Path of the Masters

You too must take upon you the garment of holiness and weave your robe of mastery. You too must climb the ancient straight and narrow path to the mountain of your own self-conquest. Every word and every impulse that can be given to you from the great who have achieved this climb and surmounted it, will be as spurs on your heels, and with the fire in your souls anointing you.
Flower A. Newhouse, The Path of the Masters

God consciousness is the need and goal of our existence.
Flower A. Newhouse, The Christward Way

What is character but the quality of consciousness made manifest.
Flower A. Newhouse, The Accomplishments of Mediation

The finest gift you can give mankind is the spiritualizing of your entire being--your character, your mind, your emotions, your energies, and your physical body.
Flower A. Newhouse, Mankind's Great Goal