"The Only-Begotten" - Conclusion

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When we begin discussing the fourteenth book of Hermes, we will be guided onto a mountain; we will be listening to a sermon on the mount. And the first piece of advice Hermes gives there is to observe silence. The signature of the Soul is silence, and activity through power: Power, Activity and Eternity. If we do not pay attention to this, if we do not take it into consideration, then the term 'Christian' or 'Rosicrucian' becomes a caricature, as has so often been the case throughout history. So should one spurn the personality, as some yoga systems do? No, certainly not: this personality needs to be transfigured.

The fourteenth book of Hermes also fulminates against intellectualism. The personality-being thinks he knows everything. But Hermes asserts that he knows nothing, and indeed is incapable of knowing anything essential.

That is why all chatter should cease, and one should enter into silence. May we warmly recommend this to you yet again? For in chatter lies the greatest danger for the pupil.

The personality needs to be transfigured. But do not understand this in the wrong way: he does not transfigure himself; only the Soul, the only-begotten Son of the Godhead, performs this miracle. For the Son is one with the Father. As far as the personality-being is concerned, no one is good, not even one, as Jesus says. Only the Son of God is absolute; only the Soul and the radiance emanating from It are good. A multiplicity of forms and manifestations are present in corporeal nature. If only that multiplicity becomes perfect through the law of the Spirit, or is able to comply with that law, then the Soul, which is of God, will be able to make and achieve whatever It wills; if only you comply with the only-begotten One within you.

If you release the power which lies sunken in the Primordial Atom by surrendering yourself in inner silence and calm; if, in this way, the 'fragrance of the Rose' can find expression, then the Soul, which is of God, will be able to make and achieve anything It wills. If, regardless of his current state-of-being, the personality-being places himself completely under the wings of the Soul, then from power, activity and eternity the only true human form will arise.

That is why humanity needs to understand these things. And that is why we are talking about them now. For, as the Bible laments, 'My people, my brothers and sisters of the Soul, are lost for lack of knowledge'. And that is why the Brotherhood of the Rosycross reveals the science of liberation, the knowledge of salvation. But if you absorb this knowledge intellectually, and hold onto it as a mere intellectual concept, it will go wrong; then you will never reach your Goal. That is why people must be given the understanding necessary to enable them to cooperate with the process, consciously and in the right way.

Now you might say: 'I already knew about that; it is like this, and it is like that, and I must do this, and I must do that...', but you must do nothing! Only surrender, in inner stillness, to the God within you. Do, please, understand it: within your microcosm burns the Light, the Central Heart; and it is to that you must turn.

The Central Heart must grow, but you must perish. And since you must perish, you will need to understand the process. That is the reason why the knowledge is given to you. Not to cram your head with it, so that you can say 'now I know it all', but to enable you to walk the Path of Liberation. Church Christianity knows nothing of the liberating Truth, and that is why it can so easily be misguided  by the various authorities. In verse seventeen of our text is is therefore said to Tat:

'If you pull aside all contention over words, you will find, my son, that the Spirit, the Soul of God, truly has dominion over everything: over fate, over the law, and over everything else, and nothing is impossible for it. It is able to exalt the human soul above fate, but equally, to subject it to fate if it has fallen into error'

Hermes could not have put it more positively. This passage implies that, though nature-born man may have transgressed and sinned most grievously against the elementary laws of life, provided he surrenders and entrusts himself to the only-begotten Son within him, to the immortal Soul, this immortal Soul will be able to break through even the most fatal, self-invoked doom; this is the only 'forgiveness of sins'. That is why we read in the Bible, for instance with respect to the penitent adultress who had turned to the true Soul: 'Let him among you who is without sin cast the first stone'.

Pupilship must be shown in a concrete way, and carried out demonstrably. The  doctrine of guilt and the forgiveness of sins and grace is a classical hermetic teaching. It fills us with joy to be able to tell you this and to be able to prove it with the aid of the gospel of the Arch-Gnosis, which is so many thousands of years old. This great and glorious consolation comes to us in this passage from the thirteenth book with the assurance that the True Soul is higher and more powerful than any fate. This consolation is also given to us in more familiar words from the Bible:

' Though your sins be as red as scarlet, they will become white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they will become white as white wool'.

He who speaks these words is the living Soul, who dwells within you. Where there is guilt, there must also be repentance. And where there is repentance in the only possible way, there is the Soul, to redeem and save. And likewise, it is the Soul who stands ready to embrace in love and joy hid brothers and sisters, who once fell and yet have been saved. Hence the words: 'There is joy in heaven over one sinner who repents'.

May you welcome this very ancient saying in an entirely new way, in the hermetic light, and may you draw from it the stimulus it contains.

"The Only-Begotten Son of God" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. IV - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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No one is un-worthy. All sins can be forgiven. All karma can, and will be be erased when one's Divine Spark is broken open and the living Soul within, the only-begotten Son, is allowed to increase.

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