A New State-Of-Being

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Once a human being has drunk deeply enough from the cup of bitterness, and has eaten long enough from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, a new inner need develops, a powerful urge to discover the purpose of life, the plan that lies at the foundation of his existence.

The more he understands that plan, and the more his desire, his heart, is fed with that understanding, the more his heart becomes accessible to the light of the Gnosis. This is the state of illumination, which opens the way to the miraculous fulfillment. The rose begins to flower and the higher human being, which encompasses the pupil as a microcosm, begins to speak to him. In this way the candidate enters what we, along with many of the ancients, refer to as the phase of mystical illumination, of the nurturing of the plan touching him.

In that fundamental, new state of being which is now emerging, the person's attitude to life will change; the standards by which he evaluates things will alter. Everything which, until now, he considered important, will fade into insignificance in the light of the New Day, because a new rational-moral faculty is being set free within him. We call it 'rational' as well as 'moral' because, now that this change is underway, the head sanctuary, as well as the heart sanctuary, can begin to perform its true function again. So head and heart, heart and head, work together in an illumined, rational-moral state of being. Now the Great Work can begin. After knowing oneself, one must embark on the process of overcoming oneself. What does that mean?

The human race is standing at the beginning of the Age of Aquarius, which means that the ages of Aries and Pisces now lie behind it. This means that, since your microcosm takes on a new personality once in every 700 years on average, it has experienced around six lives in the last four thousand years, and is now in its sixth or seventh life since the beginning of the Aries era (g: each zodiacal age spans 2,160 years). So in the sense of your material existence, you must already have received and experienced the message about your vocation, far back in the past. Subsequently, the way to follow that path of salvation must have been illustrated and exemplified for you. That is why it is time, now, for you to put that mighty task into practice.

What we mean to say is that, until now, the pupils of our School (g: this goes for you, as well) have not fully utilized the countless opportunities for liberation given them during the past periods of existence. Perhaps they even knew some of those great forerunners and their servants personally, and heard them speak, but without making any use of that opportunity. Perhaps, during their last lifetime, it was the mighty movement of the Cathar Gnosis that called them.

Throughout that whole series of past existences, they may not yet have been mature enough to follow the Path of Victory. Let us assume that you are determined to follow that Path -- because that is the most important thing! If only you are willing to persevere, you will be able to accomplish everything, for all the necessary abilities are present within you. Then all you will need to do is make sure that your head and heart remain in that new state-of-being. You will need to keep your heart and head 'in the light', as we often put it, and not allow yourself to be handicapped by the grip of nature. Then you will be able to accomplish the process.

If you keep your heart and head in the light, in that state of illumination, this will create the optimal conditions for connecting the microcosm with the personality. The connecting power, the uniting element, will then manifest the soul. In other words, when the microcosm and the personality  are connected, the soul arises in between the two, as a new body.  For when the personality-system is kept in the light of the Gnosis, its radiation is able to connect more and more closely with that of the microcosm, and in this way, together, they weave the living soul. That soul-body has an existence which is in the world, but no longer of the world. So by bringing the soul into existence, the human being is able to enter the Path of Transfiguration.

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From "He Who Overcomes Himself Is Omnipotent - The Chinese Gnosis - Jan van Rijckenborgh, Catharose de Pietri

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