The Retrograde Movement

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The retrograde movement should begin in one's thinking. Your thoughts, your intellectual brain-consciousness, must be purified and brought into equilibrium with the Fundamental Idea. Everything confusing, everything impure, everything critical, everything earthly in your thinking must disappear from the mental, functional organ in your head sanctuary. On the basis of such purified thinking, the retrograde movement can then begin.

If you think in a pure way, as indeed you are called to do, your astral body will be ignited in a way that is in keeping with your head mentality. The astral body reacts in a fraction of a second to every one of your thoughts. Like a flash of lightening, every thought gives rise to a mighty, measureless fire in your astral body. Via the astral body, the etheric body is then brought  into a condition which corresponds with the astral body's state. Ethers are liberated and and penetrate your entire physical organism, affecting all its organs and fluids, up to and including the blood. And when the blood is thus laden with the results of your flash of thought, it flows back through all the brain-cells and brings what you yourself have unleashed back into the intellectual brain-consciousness again.

Are you aware of this retrograde movement? Thinking, astral body, etheric body, physical body, blood, and then back again, via the blood, to the head sanctuary. This is the course along which the retrograde movement circulates. And if your thoughts are directed entirely towards the earth, the result can be a prison wall, an impenetrable dungeon. However, if you purify your thoughts, if you learn to think in a pure way, in harmony with the Fundamental Nature, you will knock down the prison walls. The walls will collapse and you will stand in total freedom. Then, as you step outside your prison, you will behold the glory.

You were not given a brain -- that wondrous organ of your cerebral system -- so that you could concentrate on the earth and cram your head with all those worthless things of the dualistic nature. You were given a brain so that it could serve as a basis for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, to fulfill the fact of pentecost. Do you understand that? Anyone who has purified the retrograde movement within his system and thereby opened himself to the Fundamental Nature, will enter into sensory contact with that Nature. And he will be able to behold the inner, True Nature in exactly the same way as we are able to see the outer nature with our eyes. And of course you will understand that this kind of vision has nothing at all to do with being able to see into the reflection-sphere, for the reflection-sphere is nothing but a sewer, the refuse bin of dualistic nature.

The establishment of an intimate relationship with the twin forces of the Fundamental Nature is always accompanied by the immediate awakening of new, inner senses. That is the signature of pupilship, of the discipleship of the Only Good.

Would that we too, might attain to it!

From "The Sancta Democratio" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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As a man thinketh...

The foregoing is a clear explanation of how one's thinking determines one's entire state-of-being, inside and out. It is one's thoughts which determine the condition of one's astral / emotional body and one's etheric double. The etheric double, in turn, determines the state of the physical body. Perhaps now you can begin to see what is the root cause of all illnesses -- it originates with our consistent wrong-thinking.

End this cycle of destruction. Purify your thinking, consciously, daily, minute-by-minute. The results will make themselves evident to you in so many ways, you will wonder why knowledge of the retrograde movement is not more widely known.

A state-of-consciousness is a state of life. Change your thinking, change your life.

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