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Shiva’s role parallels that of the Holy Spirit in the Western Trinity. Shiva teaches that the [[Special:MyLanguage/threefold flame|threefold flame]] in your heart is the personification of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. He says:  
Shiva’s role parallels that of the Holy Spirit in the Western Trinity. Shiva teaches that the [[Special:MyLanguage/threefold flame|threefold flame]] in your heart is the personification of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. He says:  


<blockquote>You can see those three plumes as ourselves personified. Then you may talk to us. We are not a three-headed god, but Three-in-One, for we also have a threefold flame....</blockquote>
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You can see those three plumes as ourselves personified. Then you may talk to us. We are not a three-headed god, but Three-in-One, for we also have a threefold flame....


<blockquote>It is well for a time to visualize us personally rather than simply as an impersonal flame that is burning. Meditate upon us not as statues or pagan gods but as the very fire and the replica of the Godhead that has been placed in your heart.</blockquote>
It is well for a time to visualize us personally rather than simply as an impersonal flame that is burning. Meditate upon us not as statues or pagan gods but as the very fire and the replica of the Godhead that has been placed in your heart.
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Shiva says that he is always near at hand to answer your prayers.  
Shiva says that he is always near at hand to answer your prayers.  
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Lord Shiva encourages us to try an experiment for overcoming negative habits. He says:  
Lord Shiva encourages us to try an experiment for overcoming negative habits. He says:  


<blockquote>Give yourself a cycle to rise to a plane of greater dominion. Make a God-determination. Think now of a very certain condition within your consciousness that you know absolutely must go. Think of that human consciousness. Think of that problem or habit that has gnawed at you and kept you from your eternal salvation.</blockquote>
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Give yourself a cycle to rise to a plane of greater dominion. Make a God-determination. Think now of a very certain condition within your consciousness that you know absolutely must go. Think of that human consciousness. Think of that problem or habit that has gnawed at you and kept you from your eternal salvation.


<blockquote>Now, beloved ones, I ask you, be a scientist of the New Age and try this one experiment for the next forty-eight hours: Each time you face that momentum—that memory, that consciousness, that habit or that desire, whatever it is that you long to see put into the flame—each time it crosses the line of the mind, the desire body, or your big toe, each time it comes into the memory, speak into it with the full ferocity of your voice: “Shiva! Shiva! Shiva! Shiva!”<ref>Lord Shiva, “The Touch of Shiva: The Initiation of Love,” Part 2, {{POWref|21|47|, November 19, 1978}}</ref></blockquote>
Now, beloved ones, I ask you, be a scientist of the New Age and try this one experiment for the next forty-eight hours: Each time you face that momentum—that memory, that consciousness, that habit or that desire, whatever it is that you long to see put into the flame—each time it crosses the line of the mind, the desire body, or your big toe, each time it comes into the memory, speak into it with the full ferocity of your voice: “Shiva! Shiva! Shiva! Shiva!”<ref>Lord Shiva, “The Touch of Shiva: The Initiation of Love,” Part 2, {{POWref|21|47|, November 19, 1978}}</ref>
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== Feminine counterparts ==
== Feminine counterparts ==
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