Be As Little Children

2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven".

Remember when you were a child? When everything was new and amazing? When every stranger was your friend? When you believed what you were told because you trusted those who taught you?

We all know how that turned out. What was once new, became routine. A stranger became just another potential threat to our existence. We learned later on in life that those who taught us, in whom we had innocently placed our trust, were wrong on just about 100% of everything they'd taught us. This was not purposely their fault, as they had only been passing on what they themselves had been erroneously taught.

Now, mankind is poised at the dawn of a New Age. A migration to a Kingdom which is not of this world -  the true "Kingdom of Heaven", not the reflection-sphere imitation. Because it is not of this world, it cannot be explained in relation to the natural world. It is completely foreign to this nature, the material world that we are used to. We cannot imagine it, therefore, it must be revealed to us.

Those Servers who have incarnated in this age to show us The Way have taken up the duty and responsibility to lead those who are ready and willing, out of the darkness and into the light. What they offer mankind is the Truth and the Light. It is an offer, which implies acceptance or non-acceptance on our part. All of the concepts put forth regarding man's present condition and the state of the New Kingdom will sound ultimately fantastic to the ordinary man, because these concepts have not been shared with humanity for long ages of time. If we accept and live these concepts, we will be paving the road to the New World. If we doubt and deny these Universal Teachings, we will have sealed ourselves for an eternity in darkness.

Therefore, we must "be as little children", wide-eyed, astonished, sponge-like and thirsty for True Knowledge as we approach each new concept with wonder and without prejudice. This time, the Teachers bring with them Truth. We must aspire to become a part of something that is New (in relation to this world) and will never get "old". We must be ready to realize that every "stranger" is our brother, our sister, walking the same Path as we, perhaps a little further ahead, perhaps a little behind. We must begin to live our lives in a new way, with a new state of consciousness, with a new desire to reunite with the Whole ("whole-y", "holy"), and resume our true Evolution.

We must recognize that we do not know anything regarding what is required for us to attain our salvation from this world. Just as we did when we were children and this world was the foreign one, we must pay close attention to our new Teachers. The Teachers of Love, the Servers of the Divine Plan. If we are good pupils, our Reward will be assured.

This is the meaning of the words of The Christ, recorded in Matthew 18:2-4.

~ g
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Re: The Great Play

To all:

The original plan was to post The Great Play here. However, it is 29 pages long. The decision has been made to simply offer the document to those who may be interested.

If any are interested in reading The Great Play in its entirety, send an email to gpn1975@yahoo.com with the words "Great Play" in the subject line.

all love,

~ g

The Great Play II

[QUOTING]

Today, in these "end times", the servants of Christ are again struggling with their voluntary work of Salvation. Throughout history and during the growth of every Gnostic order, there were periods of such a nature; periods when, with success seemingly at hand, the greatest difficulties arose from outside just before the very moment of attainment; times when serious obstacles and delusions threatened to prevent victory. Humanity still possesses the records of some of these events in the form of legends and tales that contain a hidden meaning.

The exigencies with which the past successive Gnostic groups were faced were, in each instance, quite different, being always determined by the ever-varying radiations and tensions of the planetary and zodiacal influences of the particular sidereal year. (A sidereal year is a period of 25,000-26,000 years).

As is always the case, the successive Christine Fellowships on Earth, during the specific periods of their development, had to suffer intensely cruel persecutions by hostile aggressors, and this has been the repeating situation with various groups of servants of Christ during the past three thousand years, including the Cathars, Manicheans and classical Rosicrucians. All such persecutions were inseparably connected with the cosmic and atmospheric trends of their times.

In other words, it can be stated that the principle which is at the root of any truly Gnostic experience on any planet ruled by ignorance is invariably the same. While the succession of events and the surrounding circumstances differ in each period, nothing can develop that has not already occurred in the centuries past. The ceaseless revolutions of the sidereal years make this an absolute certainty.

Perhaps you are beginning to appreciate why, at this special time of the no-fail global mission of world transfiguration as directed by the Logoic* Redemption Plan, the new Gnostic Fellowship on Earth is working subjectively and not in large, overt groups. Any large organisations or groups who are advertising themselves successfully in the public arena today will certainly NOT belong to the New Link in the Gnostic Chain.

* The Logos is the prime creative and directing Intelligence of a planet, solar system, galaxy or universe.

There is, however, quite a different aspect of the matter that is directly related to the forthcoming world events and which we shall now discuss.

The dualistic universe, as a system, a cosmic field within the divine Mind, is self-evidently part of a vaster field, a greater Cosmos, upon which it is necessarily dependent. Inasmuch as it forms a separate whole, cut off as it were from the rest of the Omniverse - because in essence it is diametrically opposed to the Divine Plan of Evolution - the dualistic field, being a segregated cosmos, periodically undergoes correction by the Logos of the system and is cleansed of all disharmony and negativity perpetrated within its sphere, and, each time anew, this necessarily threatens to make the dualistic field a temporarily unfit dwelling place for all life.

It is the most tragic fate of all the archons*, aeons, their forces and satellites that, due to their natural state, they will revolt against the Logos, opposing Him in His corrective processes. This is because every dualistically-born creature tends both to maintain and protect itself. When corrected in any manner or for any reason while following its natural course, the fallen entity will make a stand against the Corrector and will tend to resist any process that threatens self and its familiar world.

* Archon is a Gnostic term given to an entity in the reflection sphere who perpetrates evil. The archons are incorporeal beings who are bent upon world domination and control. They have victimised humanity from the hidden side of life for long ages. Their collective evil constitutes the plan of the 'antichrist' since they willfully oppose the Divine Plan of Salvation, which is implemented by the Christ-Hierarchy. The Archons are rulers of the aeons; the hierarchic group who dominate time and space. The archons and aeons constitute great metaphysical powers which are fed by fallen mankind and which abuse all of fallen nature including mankind, driving them to an unholy activity for selfish benefit. At the cost of appalling human anguish, these entities have acquired freedom from the wheel of birth and death; a freedom which they, in their boundless self-maintaining need, can only retain by unrestrictedly increasing and maintaining the suffering of the world. In their collectivity, they are sometimes also designated as the dualistic hierarchy, or 'the prince of this world'. The vast majority of psychics, mediums (channellers) and 'spiritual' people in the world today receive impressions and 'guidance' from the dualistic hierarchy and not, as most prefer to believe, from the Fellowship of Christ, the holy Planetary Hierarchy.

So, the Logos calls us by means of the all-pervading Light Power of Christ; and, if we respond to the Call by going the Path, we immediately encounter alienation and animosity in the fallen world as we seem to acquire many enemies. Our lot will then be similar to that of all servants of Truth. As stated, the Logos, in the revolution of the sidereal years, will periodically intervene with the whole tide of dualistic events, in order to cleanse and purify, always prompted by the Eternal Love that upholds the All, and consequently also duality. But immediately, all that is created in duality will oppose the Logos. This it is bound to do because it cannot do otherwise on account of its dependence upon the laws of fallen nature. It is thus that all life-under-the-law should be understood.

This is the fate of the Evil One who has been depicted throughout the centuries by so many thinkers, poets and seers:

I greet Thee, Thou Light,

pervading my domain.

I greet Thee, Thou who walks the ways

which I combat with bitter hatred.

I know, Thine is the victory, O Lord,

and yet I revolt against Thee!

Such is my fate

until I die, until the very last hour,

I shall resist Thee, O Lord.

* * *

Now, we are all aware that humanity is living in an era in which not only are the servants of the new Life-Field about to escape the grip of the fallen world and, consequently, shall be confronted with human resistance according to the laws of duality, but in which the Earth has also entered a period of world-correction by the Logos, as a consequence of which all the aeons of fallen nature, their forces and vassals will also join in the combat against the course of events. This is why our present sphere of living is so full of complications and tensions. It is because a well-nigh overwhelming resistance is developing against the atmospheric cosmic revolt, the Logoic Redemption, as well as against a widespread Gnostic movement that is presently unfolding, mostly 'underground'.

The foundations of this dualistic world are shaking. At the same time, an intense opposition against the ways of the Logos is manifesting itself. Now, since we, being a Gnostic group, are one of the parties to these great happenings, it is clear that we shall have to ponder most seriously upon all that is going to happen if we want, first of all, to be able to hold our own in the midst of the oncoming tempest, and secondly, to serve the Great Cause as best we can.

In entering upon such reflections, we should not by any means start from the premise that this struggle, this resistance, will take shape in one of the ways familiar to us, or will in any aspect be like the usual human armed conflict (although such symptoms usually accompany the greater battle). Rather, at least during the earlier stages, the weapons used by the forces of darkness are always the weapons of imitation, the weapons of fakery, treachery and theatrical effect.

These weapons are already today being used with tremendous ingenuity, with the most thoroughly scientific knowledge, applied in a perfectly practical manner. They are so astoundingly all-embracing and effective that, as humanity is confronted with them, it finds itself completely unable to recognise the deception and so is essentially defenceless. Such is the intelligence and meticulous orchestration behind the long-prophesied play of the great delusion that mankind cannot but believe in it, put its entire faith in it; and thus nearly 6 billion deceived individuals will follow after that which is falsely and surreptitiously revealed to them.

It is for this reason that all Holy Scripts contain warnings against the appearing of the antichrist; as, for instance, in Matthew 24, wherereads:

"False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect. Behold, I have told you beforehand".

Of what nature these signs and wonders will be we ought to thoroughly investigate and understand, for the time has now come when they are presenting themselves to the whole world, forcing themselves upon us and consequently, just as prophesied in the scriptures, thus far, the majority of spiritually-disposed human beings are being led far astray from the True Path.

[END QUOTING]

End of Introduction and Chapter 1
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The Great Play

[QUOTING]

The Great Play

A series of forewarnings regarding

the shadow of coming events

Introduction

Impelled by the gravity of our present time and also its great spiritual opportunity, and desiring to help mankind to the very best of our ability, we wish to reveal some urgent and pressing facts that we would beseech all true hearts to seriously consider sharing with as many intelligent and open-minded people as possible in a way that may be comprehended without causing alarm.

We are here concerned with completely bypassing the veils of appearances which, in this, our illusioned existence, serve to hide the reality of things from our eyes. The following disclosures are intended as both a helping guide and a warning for everyone who, upon recognising the signs of the times, in repentance and inner spiritual maturity, wishes to take account of their responsibility toward Christ* and suffering humanity.

* There are two Divine Plans: the Divine Plan of Evolution and the Divine Plan of Salvation. The latter Plan assists all life within the fallen, undivine world. This Redemption Plan is lovingly furthered by the voluntary members of a great Body of Liberated Souls who have been called the Christ-Hierarchy.

The full weight of the motives that induce us to present these revelations lies in the absolute necessity of voicing an urgent admonition with regard to the now imminent and inevitable onslaught to which mankind's blind course of life has led, and of unprecedented events in the near future that are inseparably connected herewith and which pose a challenge as well as a spiritual test of utmost importance for the whole of humanity.

By this appeal, it is our prayer that many may be saved from the fatal grip of the unfolding great delusion perpetrated by the hierarchy of the reflection sphere*, and that more individuals may see the light in good time and so make a timely embarkation upon the Path of Liberation. May the harvest be greater than before.

* There are two spheres or fields within the fallen, dualistic universe. The material sphere is the region in which we live as physical beings. The reflection sphere is the region in which, among other things, the process between physical death and reincarnation ensues. Therefore, the reflection sphere is the temporary abode of the 'dead'.

The dualistic order is a nature of death, consisting of two main spheres: the material sphere, which is the domain of existence of man born of matter, and the reflection sphere, which is the realm of the 'dead'. In the undivine, dualistic nature order - which is characterised by its ceaseless variability of all things - all microcosms, in a circulatory process of rising, glimmering and fading (what humanity calls living and dying), are, in turn, being animated and emptied. This means that again and again they are supplied with a new personality which, after its course through the material sphere is completed, vanishes again. Hence, the material sphere is the field of life of the personality, whereas the reflection sphere is the field where the microcosms are emptied.

In the course of this uninterrupted rotation through the two spheres of this nature of death, a sum of experiences, a memory, a total result of all manifestations of various personalities is registered in every microcosm, until finally it will be possible to obtain in a microcosm a personality that, by virtue of experience and microcosmic maturity, is able to make the resolution and produce the strength to depart from this nature of death to the regions of another cosmic Order. This does not mean a departure to the reflection sphere as a consequence of corporeal death, but a victory over death and a negation of the reflection sphere as well as the dense material world.

For a growing number amongst humanity, something of the New Christine Kingdom is today becoming a reality. A very small percentage of the human population have already been led to the borders of the Promised Land; the preparatory wandering through the desert of so many lifetimes is almost a thing of the past, and some are now awakening the proper consciousness for their imminent entry into the Ark of Christ, which is today preparing for its long-prophesied voyage into the New World. It has become an urgent necessity, therefore, to inform as many receptive people as possible about a number of correlative phenomena that are arising in the world today. If we are not informed about these matters and do not have a clear insight into what is behind very many unfolding and forthcoming events, we shall doubtlessly be misled. With the best of intentions, we shall turn into ways leading away from the True Path, and become entirely lost for the Harvest.

In order to be able to correctly understand the psychological background of the coming events, it should be borne in mind that all entities in the dualistic world, by virtue of their state of birth, are bent on self-maintenance and self-protection. Apart from this pattern being in complete accordance with the fallen universe, it is also a natural 'duty', a natural impulse or instinct that makes it absolutely impossible for fallen souls to act otherwise. Whoever identifies with the I-state, whoever is bound to the I-state of birth according to fallen existence will, of necessity and from this very I-centred disposition, consider as an enemy, or at least as a danger, anyone who wants to dissolve this fallen state or to be liberated from it.

Since mankind is born according to the laws of the fallen world and is essentially one with the dualistic universe, it is clear that when Gnostically-inclined persons are turning themelves in the direction of the divine Kingdom, they undermine the foundations of duality to which they are tied, thus disorganising and weakening it. Hence, no sooner has the sincere aspirant entered upon the True Path of Return than the aeons*, with all their powers and their satellites, become one's sworn adversaries, with complete disregard for all sentimental considerations and civilised practices!

* The aeons are semi-intelligent, monstrous formations of unholy powers which, in the course of time, were called into existence by the ignorance and fear of mankind. They are irresistible powers of self-maintenance urging humanity to continue upon its self-created, wayward paths, thus securing mankind's binding in duality to the ever-turning wheel of birth and death.

He, therefore, who is turning towards the Salvation that is hidden in the Light of Christ and who is conforming his way of living thereto, is immediately confronted on all sides with enmity on Earth. This enmity, then, is a natural reaction, a natural self-protection, viewed from the angle of this dying world order. This is why the way of anyone who starts to earnestly walk the Path will be found extensively blocked and strewn with all kinds of obstacles. He immediately becomes a stranger on Earth whose very existence is begrudged him, and who meets with opposition day and night, exactly as we find it described in the historical accounts of many other great world Servants. When a man becomes truly spiritual, the fallen world rejects him, as he must reject the world. True servants of Christ have always been opposed and fought due to their very threatening state of being and their mission. However, in understanding the psychological driving forces behind those who resisted Divinity, and being solely motivated by an intense love for the soul of mankind, they did not retaliate, but responded with detached compassion and absolute abstinence from any form of violence, subtly in thought, or otherwise.

Their only weapon - if this term may be used at all - was the fact that they were entirely focused upon the current of Grace, on the electromagnetic lines of activity, directives and forces emanating from the divine Kingdom. This gave them complete safety, while by their non-reaction, they avoided any conflict that would otherwise have involved them.

[END QUOTING]
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IN The World, But Not OF The World

"Be in the world, but not of the world"

Difficult? Yes, it is hard...at first. If it were easy, the entire planet would have ascended ages ago. Speaking from experience, once we dedicate ourselves to that object, it gets progressively easier until it eventually becomes a new attitude of life, replacing the old almost effortlessly. Again, this writer speaks from personal experience. i, too, was once trapped (perhaps 'anchored' would be a better word for it) in the muck of duality, firmly so.

It is akin to asking a man to permanently walk backwards from this moment on. But anything can be learned, if one desires to learn it. This is where steadfastness comes in. We must be steadfast and one-pointed in our determination to seek out and employ those things that will result in Soul Rebirth. An objective, dispassionate, neutral attitude towards the phenomena of this world is a primary requirement.

Remove ourselves to the caves? Certainly not. Jesus went to weddings and celebrations, after all, He lived IN the world. But did He go to celebrations for the sake of celebrating? No. While there, He'd teach, or heal, or assist the host in some matter. By this example, He showed us that the object should always be to be of Service to our fellow man, no matter what the situation. If you have to be somewhere, or if you have to perform some earthly duty, then do it with Love and Service as the goal, not self-gratification. Then you are not OF the world, which, by nature, is selfish and self-preserving in its objectives.

The difference between simply attending an event and thoroughly anticipating, reveling in and reminiscing about an event, is huge. In the former, we attend, but do not attach ourselves to the trappings or the outcome of the event. In the latter, the event becomes everything to us, and we crave more of those sensations, those earthly vibrations. Our desires thus fueled, we bind ourselves even more firmly  to the material world.

Not all will be able to see this through. The task will prove to be too hard. It has to be, as the Elect are being chosen. As such, there will be The Few who will try with all their might to do whatever in Truth is necessary to extricate themselves from the grip of the very alluring, attractive, hypnotic and fascinating illusion of life we are now mired in.

"Many are called, but few are chosen".

~ g
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All Is Fallen

This writer once asked of one who had a sound understanding of the Universal Teachings, the following question:

"Is there anything that is not fallen in its nature?"

The reply was "No".

"Man"?

Fallen.

"Earth"?

Fallen.

"Other planets and galaxies"?

"Fallen and Fallen".

"Surely the higher dimensions are constructed of a higher material?!"

"Yes. Finer fallen material".

It was then that a light came on. Realization struck like a bolt of lightning. The realization was that nothing here on (fallen) Earth worth is worth clinging to, or worth saving. This goes for both the so-called "good" and "bad" experiences. Not one of the so-called higher, or 'beautiful' things of the world are of any lasting value. Even the pursuit of the human emotion named "love" is a useless, vain and wasteful endeavor.

The only intrinsic value that our experiences and relationships have is evidenced by their ability to provide us with situations that will lead us one step closer to realizing that we ought not be here, that we are Strangers far from Home, marooned in a strange land. Recognizing this is what helps to stop us in our dualistic tracks, pulling us out of our robot-like routines and forcing us to ask the questions:

"What is the purpose of all this suffering and strife?"
"What should I be doing?"
"How do I get off of the merry-go-round Wheel of Death-and-Rebirth?"

First, you must stop neglecting your Spiritual life. It is the Life inside of you that matters, not the physical shell you see in the mirror with its hundreds of harmful and destructive fears and desires. We, as image-bearers of God, are living Temples for divinity. Literally. Sadly, the Divine Spark within most men burns low. It is our job, our mission, our purpose to obtain True Knowledge, fan that Spark to life, strike our tents, take up our kits, and begin the walk Home.

This is why humanity is so inexplicably unhappy. We know that there is something that we should be doing, but we can't remember what it is. Therefore, we fear 'death', because deep within, on a Soul level, we know that dying without completing The Mission will amount to a failure of the personality to liberate the microcosm (the Soul). This feeling is bred into us due to thousands of previous incarnations that have ended in the same, exact failure. So most erroneously spend their time in innumerable wasteful endeavors, striving in vain to find happiness here on earth, where a true and lasting Happiness can never be found.

The times that we are now in - the end of a major world cycle - present a SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY,  for all who are able, to gain answers to the three questions above and to successfully complete The Mission. But, we must first extricate ourselves from the grip of the lower worlds. We do this by ceasing to pay attention to it. All of it! Even the so-called "good" parts. Participate, if we must, but we cannot get bogged down in RESULTS. All activities must be viewed from a position of neutrality and dispassion - do not take sides, do not take things "personally". Be IN the world, but not OF the world.

Situation: There's an "OCCUPY" movement taking place around the world?
Our response: Um, okay.

Situation: Revolutions in various and sundry nations?
Our response: And so it is.

Situation: So-and-so hates your guts and wishes you the worst?
Our response: There goes a tortured Soul.

Don't join anything, don't commiserate over anything, don't take offense to anything.

If we are unable to release our natural attraction to the things of the natural world, it will be incredibly difficult to attain the spiritual condition necessary for us to leave it. Why do you think there is so much going on in the world? Because the Dark Prince wants to keep you fascinated, transfixed to the very end by the flashing lights, the intoxicating sounds, the streaming colors of his false realm. Then when 'the door' shuts for good, those Souls who were hypnotized by the display will finally realize that they were fooled, that earth-life was all a show and that they are now trapped in a Dungeon of Misery for a very long time. It won't be forever, but it will be for a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry long time, indeed for an eternity (which is not the same as infinity).

Meanwhile, those mature Souls who had the insight, intelligence, drive and Remembrance to cut their ties with the material nature-order and pledge themselves to the original divine-order will find themselves rewarded beyond anything that could've ever been imagined while imprisoned here on this planet of mixed vibrations. The struggle to free ourselves from the grip of the dark cesspool of matter will be worth it beyond all belief, trust in that.

The opposite of fallen is Divine.

Let's get There.

~ g

Image-Bearers

[QUOTING]

We are created as bearers of God's image; therefore we are not divine beings at birth, but images, reflections or representations of divine beings. Until the process of transfiguration is complete, we are intelligently- and purposefully-formed imitations of the original divine Man. As fallen microcosms, therefore, we are Called, and by going the Path it is possible to assimilate into our systems the original divine radiation Power that is present everywhere, to allow it to work in us and so to prepare ourselves for Deliverance.

Suppose, like the vast majority of human beings on Earth, we do not go the Path, because we do not understand it, or because we are not willing to take this course owing to various aberrations and obstructions in our fallen state. Then we shall be neglecting the one great Task to which we are all Called. For we have been created solely to realise, to make real God's image in ourselves by following the Path under the auspices of the Divine Plan of Salvation. Each moment that we forsake this Calling, every moment that we deny it for whatever reason, a cause is set up that produces a corresponding karmic effect that further binds us to the fallen world and its fear-matrix, and at every moment that we repeat such dualistic activity, in thinking, feeling or action, we immerse ourselves more deeply in the great stagnant pool of suffering and sorrow.

If a being, created for a certain task and equipped with the necessary abilities, does not take up that task, a reversal of values must arise, and the emergency order of duality will begin to take on a different character to that which was originally established long ago: a character we all know so well today. The emergency order, which was once a Garden of Eden, requires that either the image-bearer of God must die in Christ, to be resurrected into the original divine State, or alternatively he must eventually die the once-only death of personality destruction. He must either die in order to win Eternity, or he must undergo the death of finality and annihilation.

[END QUOTING]

Excerpted from "The Self-Surrender of the I-Man"  - The Gnosis In Present-Day Manifestation - J van Rijckenborgh (1980)

It bears mentioning that it is the soul, the microcosm, that incarnates over and over. For each new incarnation, a new personality is created. Right now, the personality being utilized by your microcosm is you. In the previous incarnation, it was someone completely different. The same goes for the life before that, and the life before that, going back hundreds of lives. To be clear, when the man dies, the personality, the "you" that was, will slowly cease to exist. Physical body, etheric double, astral body and mental body, will each, in turn, gradually disintegrate until all that is left is the emptied microcosm. This is 'the second death' that is referred to in Revelations 20:6.

The personality, with its four vehicles of expression, is a tool, or, as stated above, an image-bearer designed for use by the microcosm to accomplish The One Goal: liberation of the soul from this endless Cycle of Sorrows. However, if one can awaken in time to take even the very first step on The Path, then upon that one's transition from the physical plane, he will not head for the reflection-sphere 'heaven-worlds' and gradual disintegration of the personality. Instead, that one - in full possession of all his/her vehicles - will be taken up in the New Life-field on the other side of the veil, where the work that was begun on the physical plane can be continued in an atmosphere of peace.

This is what it means "to die in Christ". It means that one has made the decision while in the physical to go The Path of Return. His heart has responded to the Call of the gnosis and he has made the effort to find out what is expected of him. He has made a fundamental change in his mode of Thinking, Feeling and Willing. Those who have earnestly and sincerely started on The Way will have nothing to fear from the 'second death'.

We have two choices. Continue to serve 'the beast' (a.k.a. "the matrix") and stumble to oblivion having failed in our mission, or, embrace the gnosis, give up the things of this nature, and triumphantly deliver our microcosms safely across the veil to Shamballa.

It's either-or, one or the other. Remember, no choice is still a choice. In light of the foregoing, there can only be one sane choice.

~ g

The Ark

[QUOTING]

In the development of a transfiguristic Group, progress begins by means of a fundamental radiation of the Gnosis. This radiation is to be found everywhere in the world - there is no place where it is not present. While it is world-embracing, it emanates from the magnetic body of a Brotherhood which entered into liberation in the centuries behind us and which radiates its Glory into the dualistic life field in full splendor. It is of extraordinary significance to dualistic mankind that the universal gnostic light is transmuted by means of such a Brotherhood, for, if that were not the case, the fundamental radiation could not be intercepted by the night-dwellers.

Due to the presence of the fundamental gnostic radiation the work of the Group can begin. The Group knows how to make a link with it by means of group unity and directedness of purpose. By bringing this radiation into rotation, a force-field will come into being around the working-field of the Group. Then, the fundamental radiation, which vibration is entirely attuned  to the force-field and the Group, will finally divide into seven rays. This division of the force-field into seven rays is called 'the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit'. This means that the seven powers manifest themselves in all those who live in the force-field. It forms itself into a light-field, into a magnetic sphere, into a new earth. All those who are connected with it will change fundamentally, structurally, they will transfigure.

This new development takes place very gradually, very methodically and entirely harmoniously. But notwithstanding all of this, it takes place with an irresistible tempo. Whoever are willing to live in the magnetic field of the Group should take into account that they will be taken along in that tempo; either to a resurrection or, in the case of those who prove to be recalcitrant, to a fall. When this Great Renovation starts, a journey for all those who are separated into the New Life-field begins, while the remainder of mankind stays behind in the ordinary magnetic body of nature. A change sets in and throughout the ages, this change has been described as a journey. So there is a question of a farewell. The two groups drift apart; the night-dwellers stay behind. Those who seek the New Morning are going away on a journey.

The change of those who separate will, at a given moment, have progressed so drastically that both worlds disappear from each other's sights. Long before this disappearance, a moment has arrived when beings from the old world-order will no longer be able to step over into the new order. The distance has then become too great, the difference too drastic. It is self-evident that the Group should exert itself to the utmost to make this transfer happen to the greatest number of seekers for as long as possible.

This is the classical task of the ferryman who has to lead all the pilgrims across the Styx, the separating river. The work of the ferryman, the harvesting of as many souls as possible out of the sea of life, will take place exclusively on the basis of the new fundamental radiation which calls and awakens all over the world. This activity will have to be supported by the workers who do the work through the Sevenfold Spirit. This work will be done by the fulfilling New Life itself that has touched the workers concerned. They will then say to all those who are still in the field of the night:

"Behold, I am still with you, but the time will come soon that this will no longer be the case. Now the ark, the new magnetic body of the Group, is still with you and if so desired, you can fulfill the conditions and enter. But if, seen from the point of space and time, the separation between you and us becomes unbridgeable, that entry will not be possible anymore. The Gnosis will close the door of the Ark".

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Excerpted from "Faith, Hope and Love" The Gnosis In Present-Day Manifestation - J van Rijckenborgh (1980)
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The Redemption Of Man

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Here we are now entering on new and great mysteries worthy, I entreat you, of your most earnest attention.

When, according to the Wisdom and Justice of God, it was resolved to save the fallen human race, the Wisdom of God had to choose the method which afforded in every aspect the most efficacious means for the consummation of this great object.

When man became so thoroughly poisoned by the fruit of evil, carrying in himself henceforth the ferment of death, all around him became subject to death and destruction, therefore, divine mercy was bound to establish a counter remedy, which could be partaken of, containing within itself the divine and revitalising substance, so that by taking this immortal food, poisoned and death-stricken man could be healed and rescued from his suffering. But in order that this Tree of Life could be replanted; it was requisite beyond all things that the corruptible material in the centre of the earth should be first regenerated, resolved and made capable of being again one day a universally vitalising substance.

This capacity for new life, bringing about the dissolution of corruptible essence which is inherent in the centre of the earth, was,however, possible to no other matter than divine vital substance enveloped in flesh and blood which could transmit the hidden forces of Life to dead nature. This was done through the death of Jesus, the Christ. Tinctural force which flowed from His shed blood penetrated to the innermost parts of the earth, raised the dead, rent the rocks,and caused the total eclipse of the sun when it pressed from the centre of the earth where the Light penetrated the central darkness to the circumference, and there laid the foundation of the future Glorification of the world.

Since the death of The Christ, the divine force, driven to the earth's centre by the shedding of His blood, works and ferments perpetually to press outward, and to fit and prepare all substances gradually for the Great Cataclysm which is destined for the world.

But the rebuilding of the world's edifice in general was not the only aim of Redemption. Man was the principal object for the shedding of Christ's blood, and to procure for him already in this material world the highest possible perfection by the amelioration of his being, Jesus, The Christed One, submitted to infinite suffering.

He is the Saviour of the world and of man. The object and cause of His Incarnation was to rescue us from sin, misery, and from death. The Christ has delivered us from all evil by His 'flesh', which He sacrificed, and by His 'blood', which He shed for us.

In the clear understanding of what consists this 'flesh' and this 'blood' of The Christ lies the true and pure knowledge of the real regeneration of man.

The mystery of being united with The Christ, not only spiritually also corporeally, is the greatest aim of the Inner Church. Become one with Him in spirit and in being is the fulfilling and plenitude of the efforts of the Elect.

The means for this real possession of God is hidden from the wise of this world, and revealed to the simplicity of children.

Vain philosopher, bend thyself before the grand and Divine Mysteries that thou in thy "wisdom" canst not understand, and for the penetration of whose Secrets the feeble light of human reason, darkened by sense, can give thee no measure!

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Excerpted from Letter V of  "The Cloud Upon The Sanctuary" - published 1802 - Karl von Eckartshausen

Please note that the mission of The Christ was not to "forgive sins in advance" as clerics and laymen alike have erroneously claimed for centuries. Through direct penetration of the planet and the transmutation of the substances of the earth - the substances of which man is made - a foundation was laid. A way was provided that would afford future humanity a greater opportunity to awaken their divine sparks, purify their microcosms and achieve permanent liberation from the Wheel.

To use an analogy, if a person is dying from an infection or a virus, a topical treatment will not do. Medicine will have to be injected directly into the body in order to combat and eradicate the infection or virus. Remember, all dis-eases or dis-orders originate from within. As above, so below. As with man, so with the Earth.

Since our gross physical body and our three subtle bodies (etheric, astral and mental) are all created from the Earth's own gross and subtle bodies, any cleansing of the Earth's vehicles naturally results in finer substances for man to build his future bodies from. Over the centuries, with guidance and nurturing from the hidden realms, humanity has been slowly and purposefully guided to this point in time. If it were not for the work of The Christ those centuries years ago, man would not have the ability to respond to the Aquarian energies in significant numbers during this present period. Because of the sacrifice this Great Being made, we now have a better chance at escaping this prison, but only if we take advantage of the Grace that is being offered to all of humanity during the close of this major world cycle, which is now upon us.

The magnitude of what took place on this planet 2,000 years ago cannot be emphasized enough. The titles of Saviour and Redeemer are truly fitting. God does not forsake the work of His hands. It was to that end that Mercy was granted to mankind, and Divinity incarnated on Earth.

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The Salvation Of Man

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Before the Fall, man was wise, he was united to Wisdom; after the Fall he was no longer one with Her, hence a true science through express Revelation became absolutely necessary.

The Revelation was the following:

The condition of immortality consists in immortality permeating the mortal. Immortal substance is divine substance, and is no other than the magnificence of the Almighty throughout nature, the substance of the world and spirits, The Infinity, in short, of God in Whom all things move and have their being.

It is an immutable law, that no creature can be truly happy when separated from the Source of all happiness. This Source, this 'in Whom', is the magnificence of God Himself.

Through the partaking of destructible nourishment, man himself became destructible and material; matter, therefore, as it were, places itself between God and man, that is to say, man is not directly penetrated and permeated by divinity, and, in consequence, he is thenceforth subject to, and falls under the dominion of, the laws regulating matter.

The divine in man, imprisoned by the bonds of this matter, is his immortal part, the part that should be at liberty, in order that its development should once again rule the mortal. Then once more does man regain his Original Greatness.

But a means for his cure, and a method to externalise what is now hidden and concealed within, is requisite. Fallen and unwise man of himself can neither know nor grasp this expedient; he cannot even recognise it, because he has lost pure Knowledge and the light of true Wisdom; he cannot take hold of it, because this remedy is infolded in interior nature, and he has neither the strength or power to unlock this hidden force. Hence, Revelation to learn this means, and strength to acquire this power are necessary to man.

This necessity for the salvation of man was the cause of the determination of Wisdom, or the Son of God, to give Himself to be known by man, being the pure substance out of which all has been made. In this pure substance, all power is reserved to vivify all dead substance, and to purify all that is impure. But before that could be done, and the inmost part of man, the divine in him, be once more penetrated and re-opened again, and the whole world be regenerated, it was requisite that this divine substance should incarnate in humanity and become human, and therein transmit the divine and regenerative force to humanity. It was necessary also that this divine human form should be killed, in order that the divine and incorruptible substance contained in the blood should penetrate into the recesses of the earth, and thenceforth work a gradual dissolution of corruptible matter, so that in due time a pure and regenerated earth will be presented to man, with the Tree of Life growing once more, so that by partaking of its fruit, containing the true Immortal essence, mortality in us will be once more annihilated, and man healed by the fruit of the Tree of Life, just as he was once poisoned by the partaking of the fruit of death.

This fact is the first and most important revelation and it embraces all, and it has been carefully preserved from mouth to mouth among the Chosen of God up to this time.

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Excerpted from Letter V of "The Cloud Upon The Sanctuary" - published 1802 - Karl von Eckartshausen

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The Fall Of Man

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... all mere moralizing with words is of little use when real means are necessary.

We have been moralizing in varied words for centuries, but the world remains pretty much the same. A doctor would do but little good in talking only of his remedies, it is necessary for him actually to prescribe his medicines; he has, however, first to see the real state of the sick person.

The condition of humanity - the moral sickness of man - is a true case of poisoning, consequent upon the eating of the fruit of the tree in which corruptible matter had the superiority.

The first effect of this poison resulted thus: the incorruptible principle, the Body of Life as opposed to the body of sin or death, whose expansion caused the perfection of Adam, concentrated itself inwardly, and the external part was abandoned to the government of the elements. Hence a mortal matter gradually covered the immortal essence, and the loss of this Central Light was the cause subsequently of all man's sufferings.

Communication with the World of Light was interrupted, the interior eye which had the power of seeing Truth objectively was closed, and the physical eye opened to the plane of changing phenomena (the material world).

Man lost all true happiness, and in this unhappy condition he would have for ever lost all means of restoration to health were it not that the Love and Mercy of God, Who had no other object in Creation but the greatest happiness for Its creatures, immediately afforded to fallen man a means of recovery. In this means, man, with all posterity, had the right to trust, in order that while still in his state of banishment, he might support his misfortune with humility and resignation, and, moreover, find in his pilgrimage The Great Consolation: that every corruptible thing in man could be restored perfectly through the Love of a Saviour. Despair would have been the fate of man without such revelation.

Man, before the Fall, was the living Temple of Divinity, and at the time when this Temple was destroyed, the plan to rebuild the Temple was already projected by the Wisdom of God; and at this period begin the Holy Mysteries of every religion, which are all and each in themselves, after a thousand varying modes, according to time and circumstances, and method of conception of different nations, but symbols repeated and modified of one solitary Truth, and this unique Truth is - The Re-union of Man with God.

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Excerpted from "Letter V" of  The Cloud Upon The Sanctuary - published 1802 - Karl von Eckartshausen 

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Apocalypse: Revelation Of "The Unknown-Unknown"

Quick interruption here to discuss the meaning of an oft-misunderstood word:

Apocalypse

In modern times, this word has come to represent "cataclysmic destruction", "end-of-the-world", etc. This is hysterically incorrect. The following definitions were taken from the Online Etymological Dictionary, which is where one goes to find the sources and original meanings of words which exist today devoid of their true meaning.

apocalypse

late 14th century, "revelation, disclosure", from Church Latin. apocalypsis "revelation", from Gk. apokalyptein "uncover, disclose, reveal," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal" (see Calypso).
 
So, an apocalypse is that which discloses or uncovers that which has been concealed. It is a revealing. Which brings us to
 
revelation
 
circa.1300 A.D., "disclosure of information to man by a divine or supernatural agency," from O.Fr. revelacion, from Latin revelationem (nom. revelatio), from revelatus, pp. of revelare (see reveal).
 
Readers are asked to keep the above in mind, going forward.

Some of the things that are outlined in this blog may appear strange, out-of-the-ordinary, fantastic and utterly hard to believe. That is because these things have been hidden, concealed from humanity. To us, they are unknown unknowns. The result of mankind's Fall from Grace was a loss of inner vision ("in-sight"). Because the overwhelming portion of mankind is completely unable to apprehend Truth on our own while existing in this fallen state, the Truths that we need in order to be able to achieve liberation from this world of death and decay can only be made known to us by way of apocalypse -- it must be revealed to us. That has been the sole mission of all the divine avatars (Krishna, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus The Christ) and their messengers for thousands of years.
 
Here at the culmination of this major world cycle, that mission still lives in earnest.

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know that there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones where we don't know that we don't know.” -- Donald Rumsfeld

Rumsfeld's no poetic genius but he is, apparently, well-read. His words were actually a paraphrase of an ancient Persian poem explaining that there are Four Kinds of People:

'One who knows and knows that he knows... His horse of wisdom will reach the skies.

 

One who knows, but doesn't know that he knows... He is fast asleep, so you should wake him up!

One who doesn't know, but knows that he doesn't know... His limping mule will eventually get him home.

One who doesn't know and doesn't know that he doesn't know... He will be eternally lost in his hopeless oblivion!"

- 14th century poet Ibn Yamin
 
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The Corruption Of Man

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You must know, my brothers, that there is a dual nature: one pure, spiritual, immortal and indestructible; the other impure, material, mortal and destructible. The pure nature was before the impure. This latter originated solely through the disharmony and disproportion of substances which form destructible nature. Hence nothing is permanent until all disproportions and dissonances are eradicated, so that all that remains is harmony.

The incorrect conception regarding Spirit and Matter is one of the principle causes which prevent many verities of faith from shining their true lustre.

Spirit is a substance, an essence, an absolute reality. Hence, its properties are indestructibility, uniformity, penetration, indivisibility and continuity. Matter is not a substance, it is aggregate. Hence, it is destructible, divisible and subject to change.

The metaphysical world is one really existing, perfectly pure and indestructible, whose centre we call Christos, and whose inhabitants are known by the names of Angels and Spirits.

The physical world is that of phenomena, and it possesses no Absolute Truth. All that we call truth here is but relative, the shadow and phenomena only of truth.

Our reason here borrows all its ideas from the senses, hence they are lifeless and dead. We draw everything from external objectivity, and our reason is like an ape who imitates what nature shows him outwardly. Thus the light of the senses is the principle of our earthly reason, sensuality the motive for our will, tending therefore to animal wants and their satisfaction. It is true, however, that we feel higher motives imperative, but up to the present we do not know either where to seek or where to find.

In this world, everything is corruptible. It is useless to seek here for a pure principle of reason and morality or motive for the Will. This must be sought for in a more exalted world - there, where all is pure and indestructible, where there reigns a Being of All-Wisdom and All-Love. Thus, the world neither can nor will become happy until this Real Being can be received by humanity in full and become its "All in All".

Man, dear brothers, is composed of indestructible and metaphysical substance, as well as of material and destructible substance, but in such a manner that the indestructible and eternal is, as it were , the destructible matter.

Thus, the two contradictory natures are comprehended in the same man. The destructible substance enchains us to the sensible, the other seeks to deliver us from these chains, and to raise us to the Spiritual. Hence, the incessant combat (within and without) between good and evil.

The fundamental cause of human corruption is to be found in the corruptible matter from which man is formed. For this gross matter oppresses the action of the transcendental and spiritual principle, and is the true cause, hence, of the blindness of our understanding and the errors of our inclinations.

When we examine the causes of the obstacles keeping the natural man in such deep abasement, they are found in the grossness of the matter in which the spiritual part is, as it were, buried and bound.

The nerves and fluidity of the brain can only yield us rough and obscure notions derived from phenomena, and not from truth and the things themselves; and as we cannot, by the strength of our thinking powers alone, have sufficient balance to oppose representations strong enough to counteract the violence of external sensations, the result is that we are governed by our sensations, and the Voice of (pure) Reason which speaks internally is deafened by the tumultuous noise of the elements which keep our mechanism going. Reason, which should be an absolute legislator, is continually slave to Sensuality, which raises itself as regent and, governing the Reason that is drooping in chains, follows its own desires.

If man wishes to be led to the True in such manner that we can only act after the laws of Reason, and from the purified Will, it is absolutely necessary to constitute the Pure Reason sovereign in man. But how can this be done when the matter out of which many men are formed is more or less brutal, divisible, and corruptible? Hence, misery, illness, poverty, death, want, prejudices, errors, and vices, the necessary consequence of the limitation of the Immortal Spirit in the bonds of brute and corruptible matter. Sensuality is bound to rule if Reason be fettered.

Thus, the best man is exposed to error and passions; the best man is weak and sinful; the best man is not a free man, and, therefore exempt from pain and trouble; the best man is subject to sickness and death, and why? Because all these are natural inevitable consequences incidental to the qualities of the corrupt matter of which he is formed.

Therefore, there could be no hope of higher happiness for humanity so long as this corruptible and material forms the principal substantial part of his being.

The impossibility of mankind to transport itself, of itself, to true perfection, is a despairing thought, but at the same time, one full of Consolation because, in consequence of this radical impossibility, and because of it, a more exalted and perfected Being than man permitted Himself to to be clothed in this mortal and destructible envelope in order to make the mortal immortal, and the destructible indestructible; and in this object is to be sought the true reason for the Incarnation of Jesus, The Christ.

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Excerpted from "Letter IV" of  The Cloud Upon The Sanctuary - published 1802 - Karl von Eckartshausen

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A State Of Consciousness Is A State Of Life

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A state of consciousness is an electromagnetic state. Our consciousness is composed of seven centres, filled with magnetic fluid, with astral fluid, to be found in the head-sanctuary in the seven cerebral cavities. They are fed by the respiration process of the magnetic system in our brain that attracts the astral fluid of the intercosmic magnetic field. Consequently, your own state of consciousness depends entirely on the quality and the workings in the intercosmic field around you. Thus, it becomes clear in what way new periods come into existence. Changes within us are caused by changes in the intercosmic field around us. Such changes almost immediately bring about changes in manifested life and also in our lives.

The intercosmic magnetic field consists of twelve streams. These twelve streams manifest themselves, among others, in us. A plan that manifests itself in a period of time underlies these twelve streams. From all this, it appears that these twelve electromagnetic streams are controlled by other, stronger magnetic systems. Consequently, there are many magnetic systems that interact, either stronger or weaker. The magnetic field which brings duality into realization develops a series of periods and a course through time and space by mankind. In this course through time and space nothing can be decided by dualistic man. There is no independent choice in him to do so, Everything is decided for man. Mankind is being directed because a magnetic state is a state of consciousness and a state of consciousness is a state of life. Whatever exists in the electromagnetic field projects itself in our brains and manifests itself as consciousness; that which exists in us as consciousness, propels towards manifestation of life. Therefore, according to nature, we are completely directed. We have nothing to decide. Everything is decided for us.

Man is part of a magnetic process. Each man is part of a great body. Thus, a development comes and a development goes. The organism works like a clock. The hands keep turning and consequently, this entire plan, this complete course can also be known beforehand, can be ascertained through time and space by several data. This can be also ascertained when we take into account the relativity of time. The twenty-four hours of one day can last longer or shorter than those of the next, but still they remain twenty-four hours. Therefore, relativity does not detract from the order of time and space.

It would be nonsense to say: "Let us now...decide on this or that attitude of life by virtue of our state of consciousness". For we saw that in the order of time and space, nothing can be decided: we are lived. We know that the order of time and space, with its course of mankind, also leaves a susceptibility to yet another magnetic field of the Gnosis. Once we are connected with that other field we are lived by that field and undertake a compulsory course in it.

We only want to make clear to you that when we stand in a particular magnetic field, we are directed by that magnetic field.  We are then, as it were, compelled to live in accordance with the laws of that magnetic field. When we have the choice between two magnetic manifestations, it is clear that we have to direct ourselves either to the course of one field, or to that of the other.

In summary, we determine that there are two magnetic fields, one of which operates on mankind by the virtue of our natural state and the other under certain conditions. Seen from the point of view of time and space, both fields work along the same lines of development for a certain time; however, the moment arrives when they part. Consequently, two groups of men come into being, each belonging to a different field and being dispersed totally within those fields, according to their bodily dispositions and to their moral and spiritual states.

Let it suffice to confirm that such a moment in world history has now begun. The two magnetic fields existing in our nature-order have been drifting apart since a certain date we have already passed. Therefore, we shall see particular groups of men and women completely change with regard to the ordinary dualistic type. One group goes the ordinary course of mankind, the other goes the course of the exceptionals, the course of The New Race. In this respect, consciousness determines the group-state and the personality-state.

If according to your state of consciousness  you belong to the latter group, orientate yourself to this great and glorious moment in world-history and join in a new attitude of life. That will not cause you any trouble because a state of consciousness is a state of life. If you are conscious of the new period, there is only one solution for you: that your state of consciousness projects itself into a state of life.

So we join in a new attitude of life, not out of theory, but out of necessity of life.

"A State Of Consciousness Is A State Of Life" from The Gnosis In Present-Day Manifestation - JVR

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A Great Separation is now taking place, a separation of the sheep from the goats. It is a fact that no man can serve two masters. Therefore a choice must be made. The time has come to decide which field of life do we wish to belong. Will we choose to continue to be lived by the old, decaying nature-order, whose death we are now witnessing? Or will we choose to link up with a new life-field that has been prepared as an Ark for those who are ready to live in a glorious, immortal new state of life? 

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Untitled

"To men, Truth is revealed according to their capacity to receive it"

"Let not him who seeks, cease until he finds, and when he finds, he shall be astonished; astonished, he shall reach the Kingdom, and having reached the Kingdom, he shall rest"
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** The Coming New Man II **

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In the first letter to the Thessalonians [1 Thess. 4:13-47] Paul says with regard to the New Race:

"But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have passed away, that you may not grieve as others do, who do not understand these things.

For since we know that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Christ, God will bring with him those who have passed away. For this we say to you by the very word of our Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of our Lord shall not overtake those who are dead.

The Lord will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And those who died in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, who are left in the material sphere, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord'.

These mystical-transfigurist words, preached to death, so to speak, by ages of natural-religious practice and mis-used by countless people as if they were private property, contain the complete genesis scheme of the new Ecclesia.

In the first place, they show that Paul does not regard the regions of life in and of the reflection-sphere to be the heavenly domain. This is completely in accordance with transfigurist philosophy. The reflection-sphere and the material sphere of duality are but temporary domiciles. Therefore, everybody who has entered the process of the new genesis in the real, transfigurist sense (even if only in the elementary stages) should banish any shred of sorrow or feeling of loneliness. Such modes of behavior, considered quite normal for ordinary natural man, are a profound illusion for those liberated in the Light of Christ.

Of course, every process has its starting point. When you reach the point where you clearly see how much the process of sanctification physically affects the entire human microcosm and to what extent this process biologically and structurally is established in every fibre of our being, you will be in no doubt that the very start of this process must already be liberation. Awareness  of separation, experiencing standing alone, is quite normal in ordinary nature but in the Light of renewal it is highly abnormal.

When we know this, we likewise understand that, as soon as the connection to absolute freedom has been attained, it does not matter on which side of the veil of death we live and exist. Whoever leaves the material sphere without this connection will have to return to incarnation, but whoever does possess this binding have nothing further to fear. The wheel of duality can no longer drag him back and no influence of the reflection-sphere can deceive him.

The Brotherhood is also active behind the veil of death and there, too, takes care of its pupils. A great many difficulties encountered here do not exist there, because the situations and conditions are totally different. There, in undisturbed peace, the pupils can continue the process they began in the material sphere. We shall certainly meet soon again after leaving our present sphere.

It is necessary to know these facts and consequently show no trace of sorrow at the death of one of our friends (g: those on The Path), as do others, who understand nothing of these things. On the contrary, we should be very happy when we see one of our serious fellow pupils pass the threshold of death earlier than we do. They are called: 'those deceased according to nature'.

Somebody deceased according to nature is not merely a man who has discarded his material body but who is already removed from every dualistic-natural effect and influence. Such a person, on leaving the material sphere, is led to a region which -- in essence and vibration -- lies beyond the reflection-sphere. This is what the expression 'deceased in Christ' means. But note: 'deceased according to nature' does not yet mean 'raised from the dead'! The resurrection comes only at the end of the process in which the 'deceased in Christ' finds himself.

We must state here that the state of being 'deceased according to nature' can also be attained while still living in the material sphere. It is the state of total I-dissolution. The advantage of 'being deceased' as opposed to the I-dissolution  in the material sphere is clear. For the 'deceased in Christ' is free of the material body with its etheric double and can calmly continue building on the principles of renewal he has received, while the I-detached person in the material sphere must constantly acknowledge the presence and demands of a material organism belonging to the nature of death. It is also clear that, in the process of renewal, the deceased will precede the pupils still in the material sphere, as Paul says, because they are able to complete this process more rapidly.

We intended in this chapter to acquaint you with the fact that, in the midst of ordinary mankind, a new people from all countries and nations of the earth will emerge, a people of God, a countless multitude. This people, manifesting itself in and proceeding from the material sphere, has nothing to fear of death. On the contrary, death is an advantage for it. This people is prepared for a very special voyage, indicated by Paul as 'meeting the Lord in the air'.

This is a universal expression referring to a second and further process, pertaining to a progressive change from new-soul being to spirit-being: it is the voyage to the original, Immovable Kingdom.

You know, of course, that mankind as a whole, too, is subject to rotation, beginning at the dawn of another period of dualistic manifestation, ending in a cosmic revolution, repeating the path again and again. Near the close of a Cosmic Day, the situations and vibration conditions become such that no further beings can be saved and liberated until a new day of manifestation has dawned. Once the last person receptive to such a possibility has entered the process of  liberation, the 'last trumpet' sounds. This means that all those, who have been liberated, are really taken from this dualistic field of life with both its spheres (material, reflection) and begin a glorious homeward journey.

The new Brotherhood, the new Una Sancta, has then been formed: It goes out to 'meet the Lord in the air'. It is the group freed of bondage from this earth. Its members were firstly ignited by the Spirit of God while they were still seekers, secondly, they 'passed away in Christ' and, finally, they have been taken up into the process of rebirth to become sons of God by the Holy, Universal Spirit.

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This concludes Chapter 1 of The Coming New Man. 

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** The Coming New Man **

[QUOTING]

Perhaps you are familiar with various occult or ethnological speculations concerning the advent of a new human race on this earth and the nature and character of this race. Indeed, new human races have repeatedly emerged and disappeared over the course of millennia of years. Future dualistic manifestations (i.e., material worlds) will certainly prove no exception to this.

There are regions on our planet which can quite rightly be termed melting-pots of peoples. It is from such melting-pots that new races emerge in 'time' after undergoing much cleansing.

When cosmic revolutions occur (i.e., the end of a major world cycle), whole continents disappear and many other catastrophes terminate the lives of countless people, there are always individuals who escape and in some cases are deliberately brought to safety in advance: that is to say, they are transferred to safe regions. It is from such 'last remnants' of dualistic mankind that new races are cultivated. They offer all who perished in a cosmic revolution an opportunity to reincarnate.

No doubt you will have read fragmentary accounts of re-populations of our globe after its cleansing. Myriad legends and myths deal with this. We need to recall the story of Noah who, after escaping the flood, finds solid ground on Mount Ararat and along with his family, lays the foundation of another world-populace. We find the tale of Noah, in one form or another, in the myths of nearly every people.

Thus, the wheel of time revolves through the years, centuries and aeons; and Ecclesiastes rightly says: 'Is there anything of which one can say, See, this is new? It has already been, in the ages before us'; the same is true of the coming and going of human races. These are not essentially 'new', in the literal sense, but are older races or mixtures of them which return.

It is always the same things, facts and people, which in the constant revolutions of duality, measure up to current events. When we speak to you about the coming new man, you will immediately sense that we have no intention of informing you about a coming dualistic human race. As already stated, in its dualistic manifestation every new race already existed in bygone ages, so it is folly to call them 'new'. Even if they were new, such a racial manifestation would be meaningless to us. For we strive after liberation from the endless peregrinations through 'time', for the original life of the Kingdom of God which is not of this world.

We draw your attention to the fact that the pure, absolute Holy Language, too, contains statements relating to a new human race, in a special sense. This new race is known by various names. Sometimes we read of the coming of the people of God, sometimes of the Una Sancta, a Holy Brotherhood, etc. You will know all this but it is necessary to understand it correctly to avoid all sorts of errors.

There is a Holy Brotherhood, the Universal Brotherhood, the Brotherhood of the Original Kingdom, but the above-mentioned allusions in the Bible do not apply to this Brotherhood. No, our attention is drawn to the formation of an entirely new Brotherhood, an entirely new Una Sancta.

In order to obtain the right idea, let us consider the relevant problems from the point of view of time and space. We then see the dualistic-material world and mankind on one side, and the Kingdom of God with its inhabitants on the other. Separating these two worlds is a gaping chasm unbridgeable in time and space. Flesh and blood of the ordinary dualistic-material nature cannot cross this abyss. This is why, in the dualistic world-order, everything rotates like a wheel, continually returning, incessantly repeating.

We know that the Brotherhood of  'the other Kingdom' continually struggles to redeem fallen and captive humanity. Many people in this world react seriously and devotedly to the suggestions of the Universal Brotherhood. We do not know the exact number but they certainly exist. We do not know in which countries they live or to which peoples and nations they belong, but it is almost certain that people who thus react are to be found in practically every country.

All these people, from that immense variety of countries and nations, will, at a certain moment in world history, be drawn from those countries and from all directions, to form one community, a very special, exclusive race. It will not bear the characteristics of some region of this earth, but be lifted from the doom of the dualistic-material rotating wheel and achieve the miracle of leaping the unbridgeable abyss to the lost Fatherland. It is to this new community in genesis that the Holy Language refers.

Since the moment for the formation of such a race has come in our time, it is our duty to draw your attention to the fact. We must establish how all this will be accomplished and study various aspects of this wonderful development. We firstly intend to approach this exceptional wondrous manifestation and development of a totally new, non-dualistic type of man in this dualistic-material world from the mystical-philosophical angle. We shall then investigate how all this can be realised and which consequences we may ultimately expect.

The Coming New Man - JVR

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Stay tuned.

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The next few posts are extremely important. What is about to be communicated to you is of a very high nature. May your hearts be open, willing, and able to receive and respond to these transmissions.

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Seek More Light

…And as they were speaking, Jesus appeared in their midst and said: ’Truth, one and absolute, is in God alone, for no man, neither any body of men, knows that which God alone knows, who is the All in All.

To men is Truth revealed, according to their capacity to understand and receive. When one climbs a mountain and attaining one height, he says: 'This is the top of the mountain, let us reach it', and when they have reached that height, lo, they see another beyond it.  So it is with Truth.

Therefore condemn not others, that you be not condemned. Be faithful to the light you have, till a higher light is given to you. Seek more light, and you shall have abundantly; rest not, till you find.

From: The Gospel of the Holy Twelve, chapter 90
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Beyond Our Perception

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The range of action of our perception is enormous. We look over distances of light years into the starry skies; from afar, we hear the wind rushing up; days and weeks in advance, we sense a threatening earthquake, and we experience the shiver of a tension field. But the silent grief of the man standing next to us in the streetcar wholly escapes us.

Perception is limited by a natural, innate faculty that we call ‘consciousness’. What falls outside it, doesn’t even exist for us, or at best, we only vaguely imagine it. Nevertheless, we have a very high opinion of this consciousness, due to the range of action of our seemingly immense field of perception. This is not wholly unjustified, at least considering the line of development of the personality, but it is and remains self-consciousness; it actually only looks around in its own small world, into everything that concerns itself.

We have built a wall around our private universe: this is I! Through time and within this world, a considerable potential of knowledge, experience and insight may have been assembled, but we actually have hardly any idea about where we are, who we are and what we have come to do here. Virtually daily, we are confronted with incomprehensible, impossible, and absurd situations and events that we accept grudgingly. We live in a kind of dream state, in which the moment of awakening is continuously on the brink of occurring, but is time and again postponed.

This dream keeps us within the borders of a realm that is described as ‘locked within itself’ or as ‘the ring pass not’ by those who were allowed to cast a glance past this border. Then we see this enclosure, this limitation almost as a geographical fact, and we understand that it is not ‘the sky that is the limit’, but rather our consciousness is. And we somehow know this. Our wondrous human brain has discovered that what it thought to be unlimited access to all knowledge and understanding is, in fact, its very limitation. This insight must once have generated the concept of ‘consciousness’, in dictionaries described as ‘the awareness of oneself and one's environment’, a definition that does not suggest such a wide view.

Yet, in this environment, invariably persistent rumours and suspicions crop up that there is more between heaven and earth than what our perception causes us to surmise. This refers to another reality that lives in us, but which we are not (yet) allowed to behold with images and suggestions from a realm which our mind is unable to grasp. These images and suggestions, consequently, will remain moot points forever – like the existence of a supreme being and a corresponding hereafter, populated by historic-legendary entities. It is the intangible vista of the remote corners of our perception with archetypes and symbols that, surpassing intellect and proof, incessantly keeps the memory of another reality alive. To some people it is real; others believe in it; the majority laughs it off as food for simple souls.

He who nevertheless would like to explore this "hereafter" and everything around it, sticks to the existence of a fourth dimension. However, reality does not stop at multidimensional theories. Reality is a single unity; it is what is. Sometimes it is also called ‘the All’ or ‘the Word’, without apparent form or place, yet all-pervading and omnipresent. There is – beyond our perception – an unimpeded interaction between the world of matter and the world of the spirit. After all, they were never really separated; the wall that we imagined around our own world appears to be an optical illusion, nourished by the overwhelming supply of matter that hides the reality from our view like a veil. As long as we are not aware of it, we continue to comb our little kingdom for something new, for something of true value, for an experience of ‘that is it’. We can keep this up for a long time, but ultimately, it will time and again ‘just not be it.’

By the way, in our stage of development, this is the ordinary course of events, including disbelief, doubt and mockery. According to universal cosmology, the earth period is only the initial stage of construction of self-consciousness, a stage in the human development that enables us to discover a new phase in our development behind the delusion of this world. It is a lengthy and tiresome process through the temptations of matter to a new, higher form of life, the path to our true destiny. This is also true for our consciousness: behind matter, the Spirit stands; behind our old consciousness, the All-Consciousness stands, also called Cosmic Consciousness.

One day, the cup of our experiences will be full and we will be tired of this world: nothing is what it seems to be, nothing is permanent, and everything comes and goes in never ending repetition. This turning point may lead to resignation or bitterness, but it may also lead to an Awakening, a shift in our attention from the familiar possession-honour-power, the attributes of the old ego, to the silent signs from the borderland of our consciousness, which had been drowned out by the noise of the earth for so long. This is also a shift from ‘I’ to ‘we’, by which our little ego gradually loses itself, and rediscovers its place and purpose in the great Ego, the basis of our true being. Expressed mystically: it becomes a self-consciousness that can be transformed through love.

What was vague conjecture before, now crops up in the human heart as a living reality. Although we seem to be robbed of any perspective, a new perspective awaits us. Primordial images appear and merge into a Light, in which the delusions of our old consciousness gradually disappear. Walls crumble, borders fade and in a great vista, the old and the new consciousness pass into a radiant morning.

Vistas - LRC

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Just beyond our ability to perceive, lies an entire universe of absolute Permanence, absolute Love, absolute Peace. We but need to 'turn the dial' of our consciousness just a small bit in order to be able tune to this divine reality. There are steps that are required in order to be able to do this...the first is to be able to shut out the noise of your 'self' and this world. This may take some effort. One must reach the point of abject surrender, so fatigued with the folly of responding to the desires of lower self, so utterly "used-up" by the suffering and sorrow of earth 'life', that one is finally ready to lift one's head and cry out for Redemption.

It is then that the traveler becomes the Seeker, and the task of achieving a fundamental reversal in one's attitude can begin.

When this happens, the hand has reached for the dial.

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