The Great Play II

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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.

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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.

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