The Fetters Of The Blood - Conclusion

[QUOTING]

How can one escape from the grip of one's own blood-type and the ensuing clouding of the consciousness? Hermes' answer is:

"Therefore, do not allow yourself to be carried along by the violence of the stream, but let those among you who are able to reach the harbours of salvation make use of the counter-currents to put into port.

Look for Him who will take you by the hand and lead you to the gates of the Gnosis, where the clear light shines in which there is no darkness, where no one is drunk, but all are sober and look up to with their hearts to Him who wishes to be known.

But listen well: His Voice cannot be heard and His Name cannot be pronounced, nor can material eyes view Him. Only the Spirit-Soul is capable of so doing.

That is why you should first tear up the garment you are wearing: the fabric of ignorance, the basis of malignity, the fetters of corruption, the lightless prison".

Are we then to look for a teacher, for a master or an adept who will accept us as pupils, as is customary in the world around us? Are we then to enter into personal ties? Are we to look for someone we can follow as an authority?

No! The text refers to Him whom we can see only with the Spirit-Soul. The text refers to Him whose Voice cannot be heard with the physical ear, whose Name cannot be pronounced with the physical organs of speech and who cannot be seen with the physical eyes. The text refers to Him who will not reveal Himself through one or another reflection-sphere method. The text refers to Him who is called Pymander, or alter-ego, The Other One, the Spirit. You will have to seek the Guide who is not to be found on the horizontal level of duality. This Guide wishes to take you by the hand. You will only be able to experience this Other One in a very special way; with the Spirit-Soul, the unity of the spiritual consciousness and the heart that has been purified by the Gnosis.

If you open your heart for the Light of Lights, the Rose of the Heart will open and the color and scent of the Rose will console you. If you follow that Light, in accordance with its aims and essence, and if you cause it to circulate in your system, right through all the obstacles and against the intoxicating stream, you will be able to fix the nucleus of the Light in the head sanctuary, in the open space behind the frontal bone. Then you will prepare the Upper Room and Pymander (Spirit), having arisen from his sleep of death, will ascend his throne in the Upper Room and celebrate with you the Lord's Supper.

To celebrate the Lord's Supper will make real sense only if it can be received in the Upper Room. Pymander, the God within you, will then guide you to the gates of the Gnosis, to the gates of the Golden Head, where the bright Light shines, where there is no darkness, where no one is intoxicated but all are perfectly sober.

If you want to pass through these gates, if you are willing to liberate this Kingdom within you, you will first have to tear up the garment of ignorance, the garment of daily denial. This is the core pupilship of the Spiritual School. This will keep you busy everyday, if you take it seriously. You will have to nullify your blood-type, your blood-culture and thus, the dualistic individualism out of which your entire character and conduct are to be explained, so that you change daily.

Through your ordinary, everyday habits and behavior, which are to be explained out of your blood-type, you deny the God within you. We are not alluding to exceptional behavior, to exceptionally bad or evil things. No, we are emphatically aiming at your everyday attitude to life, as determined by your character and blood-type. This attitude to life is the central power of sin, the cause of what is most monstrous, Hermes said. If, in the School of the Golden Rosycross, we talk about the endura, about the abolition of the natural self and the transfigurating ascent into the Other One, this is not merely superficial, academic knowledge transmitted as a means to an end, but it has profound meaning which seizes the entire blood-being. One cannot cast off the evil of denial by a resolution of the will: "I will never do it again". No, it requires an intense struggle, for your blood-type is completely one with the dualistic universe, the fallen nature-of-death.

The evil of ignorance, of denial, is atmospheric, it is one with the essence and the inherent law of the dualistic universe.If you want to escape your fate, you will actually have to go the Way of Redemption. You will need to begin to rend the garment of ignorance, to annul your blood-type, for it contains the cause.

The universal Path of Redemption is again shown to you. Therefore, walk this Path! Rend the garment of daily denial that you are wearing. If you do so, you will begin to make peace with Karma-Nemesis, with the goddess of avenging justice.

"Karma-Nemesis and the Way of Redemption" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

[END QUOTING]

To walk The Path requires that we make a fundamental reversal in our state-of-being, that we develop a new attitude of life. Not only must we nullify the major flaws in our character, but also the small everyday thoughts and behaviors that normally go unnoticed by us. These are just as big , if not bigger obstacles to our obtaining the Good End.

The Path takes work, as we attempt to dismantle the tomb that has imprisoned our spirit-spark for so long. Thankfully, the Light of the Gnosis is there to help us to navigate whatever difficulties may arise, as long as we seek it out and open our hearts to it.

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