Heaven And Earth Will Unite - Part II

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But now, let us go further. Let us suppose you are approaching Tao, the Original Foundation of all things, and that as a result the soul is growing in you. Let us assume your approach to life is attuned to Tao, right down to the finest detail, so that your whole existence is becoming open to the spirit. The result will be that your radius of action and your state of consciousness will gradually expand, and in this way, you will be guided further and further along The Path, day by day.

Clearly this is bound to have a profound effect on your mental activity. The time will come when you will think in quite a different way than others do. What is of great interest to them will not be important to you. You will even lose the ability to concentrate on such things. Perhaps you have experienced
 that already, in which case it is proof that you have died to that part of the reflection-sphere we call the mental sphere. It is as if you have bored a kind of shaft through the mental part of the reflection-sphere. Then you can pass through the mental sphere without being a part of it. Or, to use terminology of the gnostic gospel of the Pistis Sophia, you can travel through it, without the powers and aeons of that sphere being aware of it.

The next indication of your progress on The Path will be a transformation in your desire-life.  Many pupils worry about their desires. However, if you are genuinely focused on Tao, in the deepest sense of the word, your desires will change fundamentally, so fundamentally that in this sense, too, you will become unworldly.

This alteration involves not only your inner orientation and soul-development., but also your physical well-being. Your bodily needs will change, too, and if you do not adapt yourself to these changes, your body is likely to become ill. So if you have any physical problems, it might be worthwhile to consider them from this angle.

All this is proof that your astral body is changing in a fundamental way, so that the chakras no longer rotate in the same way as they did before. Instead of turning from left to right, all the greater and lesser wheels of the chakra system have started to turn in the opposite direction, from right to left. When that happens, you can pass through all the astral planes of the reflection-sphere, without the forces of those spheres being able to influence or restrain you. Indeed, they will no longer even be able to perceive you.

The same process takes place in the etheric body and the etheric sphere, so that ultimately you will have bore a shaft right through all the dualistic etheric spheres, and your threefold self of spirit, soul and body will have become a unity.

That is the fundamental principle of gnostic magic: making yourself personally free from the etheric spheres of ordinary nature. How does one do that? By being exclusively focused on Tao, and accepting all the consequences. As a result, your needs and interests will change fundamentally, and you will bore a shaft through all the domains on the archons and the aeons of the reflection-sphere.

Then, as we said just now, a unity will arise between the threefold spirit, soul and personality-state, and, through that unity in you, the Spirit will be connected with humanity, with the world, in its hour of desperate need. From that moment onwards, the lower nature will yield to the governance of your renewed, true Self. Then you will be able to apply gnostic magic, for you will have become capable -- if we may put it in a somewhat old-fashioned way -- of practicing the highest yoga God has given to His children.

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Excerpted from "Heaven and Earth Will Unite" - The Chinese Gnosis - Jan van Rijckenborgh, Catharose de Pietri
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