The Soul And The Word - Part II

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" John 1:1

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There are two mighty faculties that are capable of turning your pupilship into candidateship, and that can lead you to victory. They do not need to be conferred upon you, they do not need to be introduced into your system, because they already belong to the system of your monad. However, you yourself  have to release them. Then they will lead you irresistibly to the Ultimate Goal. These two immortal faculties are to be found in the nucleus, the divine-spark of the microcosm. The first is what the prologue of the gospel according to John calls the Word. It is the divine idea, radiated by the Logos throughout eternity. The second is the radiation of the nucleus that corresponds to the divine idea.

By making the heart still, by withdrawing it from all conflict and causing it to enter a state of deep peace, you make the heart sanctuary open for the Soul, the harmonious influx of the light of the monad. When you are vivified by this light, there will be a number of wonderful results, and when these are manifested, one will be able to speak of pupilship in the true sense. Then it will be possible to speak, genuinely and literally, of a deep connection between the Soul and the personality. Then the foundation for restoration, the foundation for transfiguration, will have been laid.

And then the second faculty will be added: the Word. The throat chakra will then function in your system  in a new way and with an increasing intensity. The nerve-centre in your throat will concentrate the new light-power, which needs to be applied by means of the voice.

Consider this wonder: anyone who frees the basis-faculty, the new soul-state, within his being, surrendering the whole heart to the Gnosis and living out of that state, will gain a new, grandiose creative faculty: the Word, with the aid of which all the forces controlling the system can be applied or, if they are harmful, neutralized and eliminated.

Every pupil will receive these two faculties, if only you will withdraw from the conflict of the heart; if only you are willing to enter the profound peace of Bethlehem and eradicate the anarchy of the voice. If only you are willing to use your voice in the proper way, and to overcome the cry of the animal, then the new heaven-earth will open up for you in true, applied pupilship.

From "The Two Immortal Faculties" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis IV - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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This is where detachment and objectivity can assist in the process. By neutralizing our desires, our likes and dislikes, our preferences and our aversions, we still the heart, which is the center of our desire activity. This allows the subtle vibrations of the Gnosis to gain a foothold in the heart sanctuary, where the divine-spark resides. Unencumbered by the usual clang and rattle of our randomly-changing wishes and desires, our spirit-spark atom can finally respond to this divine touch and propel us onto the Path of Return.

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