Fill The Vase

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Every human being stands at the center of a wheel. Every microcosm and every mortal soul stands at the center of an All-Manifestation. The sun sends its rays to you; all the heavenly bodies send their rays to you. So you are standing at the center of a wheel of fiery rays, and all of them are converging on you.

The wheel is the astral light that drives you. You are the hub of the wheel, because you are the focus on which the rays converge. Lao Tzu says there are thirty of them because thirty primary spokes or rays of the great fire-wheel are often alluded to in the Universal Doctrine. There are three major currents of astral fire, each of which contains a number of lines of force. These thirty rays do not originate from the visible universe, but from the invisible, the void, empty space. The astral fire is invisible.

These rays or channels gather together all the forces and possibilities present throughout the space of the fiery wheel and drive them towards the hub. The wheel rotates around the hub, and the hub carries the wagon, the existence. This existence has a certain purpose, which derives its use or uselessness from the empty space, from the source of energy. That energy-source determines the quality, capacity and potency of the phenomena made visible by it.

Having made this point, Lao Tzu  goes into more detail. He says: "Think of the vase". We have come to know this vase as the Holy Grail, the great Fountain of the Heart. In this Grail cup a principle lies hidden: the Rose of the Heart. But at the same time, the Grail cup represents the whole heart sanctuary, which has such an important role to play in the Grail process.

No one could deny that the heart sanctuary is kneaded from 'clay', from the substance of nature. It can only be of use to the pupil if he fills the empty space in the vase from the empty space of the Gnosis, if he fills the vase with the Living Water of the fiery wheel of salvation. And this, in turn, can only happen if the heart has been purified.

People are constantly trying to build, develop and equip their  dwellings -- their personalities -- in every possible way. They are constantly pre-occupied with the state of the windows and doors, which provide them with a view, and a way in and out. So now you need to ask yourself whether or not the doors and windows of the house you are building face in the direction of the empty space of the Gnosis. In which fire-wheel are you standing? The wheel in which you are standing determines what function you can fulfill. What kind of usefulness does your house offer: is it useful to the nature-of-death or to the Nature-of-Life?

You are the hub on which the thirty spokes converge; they are like thirty rivers, fed by countless streams from the empty space. But in which empty space are you standing?

You are standing in two spaces: the first is that of time and space; the second is that of Eternity, of Omnipresence. So, in an abstract sense, it is as if you can see two wheels of fire spinning 'round you. Towards which wheel do your windows face? Towards which fire do your doors open? Which wheel generated the plan you are following to build your house? Do you understand now that the real usefulness of what is depends on what is not? There is something you are not, and there is something you are, and what you are not you will have to become.

You are being something, you are manifesting something, throughout every second of your life. And what you manifest determines the immaterial sphere, the invisible space through which you live. So as soon as you look at the real results of your life, you will know which of the two fiery wheels revolving 'round you is the guiding factor in your life. The modern Spiritual School is the field in which you are taught to restore the Vase of the Heart, the Grail from which all things must arise, to its proper use, and to build the house of renewal in the right way.

From "There Is No Empty Space" - The Chinese Gnosis - Catharose di Petri, Jan van Ricjkenborgh

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We are what we attract. What we attract, we radiate. Therefore,  if one takes a good (honest) look at himself or herself and the circumstances of the life, one should be able to get a fairly accurate idea as to which side of the fence one is standing on - the nature-born side or the side of those who aspire to return to the Immovable Kingdom.

As you can probably glean from the post above, the human heart is the Grail Cup of legend, if it can be restored to its proper purpose. The heart is where the divine Living Water is mixed with the blood, the soul-fluid of the nature-born human being. The blood is thereby changed and purified, enabling the transport of the Divine Essence throughout the human system.

The heart is also referred to as a Vase that must be filled by the 'empty space' of the Gnosis, the Christ-vibration. The human-being is a mighty instrumentarium, designed for the express purpose of awakening the Divine-Spark and thus making it possible for the Original, Divine Inhabitant of our microcosm to regain its rightful place. The Plan set forth by the Logos is unassailable, no matter how much humanity continues to fight against its fulfillment. Our microcosm will keep coming back and coming back and coming back until at some point it assembles a personality that will, in exhaustion and surrender, let go of the earth-experience and begin to long for That Which Is Not.

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