Sageionary: These are common terms in the Sage World.
Abilities: the process by which our spirit’s will is
expressed and exercised upon our
lives; the platform of a physically based operating system; the
foundation
of understanding by which skills and talents are built
Affirming: when the spirit is reassured by physical or verbal
actions
Agency: the freedom to choose how individuals will exercise
their wills upon the
environments they form or occupy; supremely manifested when we choose
between good and evil
Attitudes: the instruments of our behaviors that witness
to the world what we believe
and how we think about life; unfortunately, they are often erroneously
formed by
people and circumstances, rather than being shaped from within through
the
relationship of our spirits to our intelligences and bodies
Authentic: a characteristic that is spiritually formed and
recognized as such, thus
profoundly impacts those who experience it
Auto Pilot: a method of functioning that does not involve
conscious thought; it often
reveals our default personal operating system
Awakening: becoming spiritually aware or touched by intelligence
that either was not
previously known, or is just being rediscovered
Capacity: the breadth of our known spirit; for all intents
and purposes, is unlimited and
only governed by our discovery efforts
Change: the process of becoming different; preparation for
change may take a long time,
but actual change itself happens instantaneously
Charity: the seventh and culminating virtue; one of the pure
languages of love, the other
two being hope and faith; the involvement of the mind, body and
spirit in giving
of our complete selves – time – to others
Coaching: guided nurturing, assisting and mothering of others
Codes of Conduct: the patterns that dictate the way one
acts within his or her environment
Common Intelligence: the foundation upon which everything
is formed; it binds us to
everyone on this earth because we all have it within us; but we
are all different
from everyone else because of the unique “pool” we all
possess
Control: the assuring feeling that results when our spirit
has power over the
circumstances, people or environments of our lives
Direction: the physical manifestation of order
Discover: to find, reveal or recognize intelligence that
one may or may not already
consciously know of and understand; may also include knowledge that’s
been forgotten or denied
Empowering: to gain spiritual strength and/or ability when
one’s spirit is authorized to
control actions and thus dictate behaviors and conduct within a
chosen
environment
Essential Foundations: thirteen necesAFy supports that satisfy
fundamental needs and
develop FaithSkills; they are organization, order, purpose, balance,
opposition,
intelligence, spirit, body, laws, agency, action, the harvest, and
commitment;
act as doorways for our physical actions to fulfill our intangible
dominant
fundamental needs; often referred to as The True North of the Sage
world; sometimes called The Missing Links
Faith: a personal power we all possess; first manifested
as a skill that
orchestrates a relationship between our spirits, minds and bodies;
actual purpose
is to empower us to govern this physical life by our spirit’s
needs and thus allow
our spirit’s will to be exercised upon our physical life; forms
beliefs,
paradigms, motivation, and thus directly or indirectly governs all
of our
physical actions; inspires and motivates from the inside when all
other external
attempts fail; one of the three languages of love, the other two
being hope and
charity
Faith in Yourself: the act, or process, of consciously exercising
our spirit’s will upon
our physical life, without the influence of external forces dictating
the nature of
those actions
FaithSkills: a powerful skills set that facilitates progression
from physical abilities to
intellectual skills to faith-based talents; includes thirteen practical
talents,
namely stewardship, obedience, devotion, cooperation, fearlessness,
reflection, humility, discipline, honesty, valiance, authenticity,
cultivation and
faithfulness; form the foundation of a spiritually based operating
system;
each talent is associated with one of the thirteen Essential Foundations;
often referred to as the compass of the Sage world
FaithSkills Personal Operating System: satisfies Fundamental
Needs through the
development of the FaithSkills talents and virtues; developed on
a personal
level once one has adopted and adapted the talents and formed the
virtues of true leadership; the basis for permanent success
Foundations: strategic points of reference that facilitate
the relationship of our
intelligence, spirit and body in this physical world
Fulfillment: the physical sensation we experience when our
spirit communicates
verification of the completion of its objective
Full Measure: an expression that describes the point when
our spirit is fulfilled to its
capacity, something that is constantly expanding
Fundamental Needs: seven basic needs that originate in the
spirit; these are acceptance,
knowledge, harmony, identity, direction, empowerment, and fulfillment;
every human being has the same needs; must be satisfied, in the
order stated,
if real enduring fulfillment is to occur
Governing laws: those that control or have responsibility
for all successes and failures in
life Habit: the result of a physically based personal operating
system; when the body has
established a physical default system that acts upon the spirit
through the mind
Harmony: when the spirit has a sense of balance in life
Heart: an expression that represents the spirit and/or its
desires
Hope: the power of the spirit and the fuel of faith that
is expressed in acts of faith; the
first of the three languages of love
Human: the term that describes the organization of our matter
with the matter of this
Earth; the environment in which the spirit, mind and body fully
interact; the
only combination of matter that can reason intelligence into knowledge
while
filtering it through a spiritual realm
Identity: the intellectually based term that describes the
intersection of intelligence,
spirit and body
Influence: an attribute, or power that our spirits possess
and regularly exercise to both
communicate and interact with other spirits
Inner Confidence: verification that comes from the spirit;
recognized by the spirits of
others
Intelligence: the sixth of the thirteen Essential Foundations;
together with the
foundations of spirit and body, it satisfies the fourth fundamental
need,
that of identity
Joy: the physical sensation that occurs when the spirit,
mind and body are fulfilled
Knowledge: intelligence that’s been converted into
this physical realm; the only
possession we have in this life that will go with us into our next
step of
progression; valuable because it is formed from, and in, this physical
world;
manifests spiritual elements that we were unable to understand until
the
conversion occurred here
Leadership: guidance or direction based on FaithSkills talents
and the virtues
they develop; an on-going process of inner development and external
exampling
Liken: taking the experiences and/or knowledge of another
person and relating them to
yourself in order to heighten and accelerate the process of accumulating
wisdom
Likening: the individual and personal process of taking someone
else’s experiences
and/or knowledge and relating them to yourself
Mortality: intellectually based term that represents the
spirit being joined with a physical
body in this world
Mortal Life: the journey by which we exercise our mortality
Mother Nature: God’s perfect example of patterns
Natural: from the spirit and recognized as such; often referred
to as “real”
Opposition: the verifier that validates our actions
Pattern: a specific method, or blueprint, of organization;
everything in this world is
formed according to one, including success
Personal Identification: the purpose of this journey through
mortality
Permanent Success: a state of being attained and maintained
by living a spirit-driven
life
Permanent Positive Change: change that comes from the inside
out; lasts over the
long term, usually permanently; can occur only when the
spirit is involved
Power: the ability to have influence
Practical faith: the act of physically manifesting our spirit’s
will upon our bodies in
basic ways; a set of thirteen FaithSkills that can be developed
and
applied in life to reach one’s desired goals; faith in oneself;
discovered
and developed through the skill of reflection
Proactive reflection: developed through the process of thinking
through the spirit;
putting oneself into a situation and experiencing associated sights,
sounds
and feelings, without actually being involved
Programmed to Succeed: an expression that describes the spirit in
which we were
organized and thus created
Quality of life: determined by the degree to which one’s
fundamental needs have been
fulfilled
Reflection: pondering on a given circumstance to determine
what can be learned from it
Resonate: the description of how the spirit sometimes verifies the
truth of what it has
heard
Sage: to be wise from reflection and experience; usually
exemplifies tremendous
practical understandings
Sage Attitudes: thirteen attitudes that are the tools of
behavior; there is one associa
with each FaithSkill and its related Essential Foundation; manifests
to everyone
our core personal operating system
Sage Moment: a period of time when reflection creates experience
and increases
one’s knowledge and/or capacity
Self-esteem: recognizing and accepting our spiritual being
Skills: one’s capabilities, or method of operation,
within an intellectually based operating
system
Spirit: the seventh of the thirteen Essential Foundations;
together with the foundations of
intelligence and body, explains who we really are; all of our Fundamental
Needs originate here; the progression of our intelligence in this
physical, mortal
existence
Spiritually Familiar: the spirit’s recognition of pre-life
knowledge
Stewardship: a leadership approach that encourages working
together for the common
good; uses a coaching, mothering, style; also, the first of thirteen
FaithSkills
talents; does not take ownership of actions, people or environments
Success: a needs-filling process that’s ever moving
because we ourselves are progressive
and so are our needs
Success Building: the process of organizing people, circumstances
or behaviors to
fulfill our fundamental needs
Successful treadmill: the process of accumulating things
or status from this physical
world as an indication of one’s success in life; ignoring the
needs of our spirits that actually drive all of our needs to achieve;
always leads to dissatisfaction
Talents: one’s method of operation and capabilities
in a spiritually based operating
system; also referred to as FaithSkills talents; represent the complete
satisfaction
of our Fundamental Needs
True leader: one who develops his own FaithSkills operating
system and examples it to
benefit the lives of others
True leadership: the result when one develops the FaithSkills
talents and associated
virtues and effectively applies and examples them in his or her
life
Virtue: an act upon someone’s spirit that comes from
the spirit of another; action on a
spiritual plane; there are seven, namely, discernment, self-reliance,
patience,
integrity, honor, influence, and charity; often spoken of as spirits
(eg) the spirit of
charity
Why: most powerful word in the English language; constant
in its meaning in any
and all other languages of this and previous worlds; the physical
communicator of
a desire to gain knowledge
