Many Are Called...

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The Universal Brotherhood*, working for fallen mankind, never approaches us with the electromagnetic potential of the cosmic septenary. Above all, because this influence would be a danger to the whole fundamental being of the dualistic state and thus The Goal could not be attained, as the people concerned do not in any way possess a suitable organic disposition to merge into another state-of-being. Secondly, a magnetic influence proceeding to a person fundamentally unable to respond to it always contains a factor of coercion, of dominance and will therefore give rise to actions which do not accord with his inner state.

The Brotherhood demands nothing from you of which you are incapable; it does not want to exercise any constraint on you or force you, and that is why it 'calls' you. It calls you to self-freemasonry and it may and can help you only to the extent that you proceed to breaking up the self. If you go one mile with the Brotherhood, it will give you light and strength for the next mile. But remember that for the sake of his own salvation nobody can be exempted from self-action.

The work of calling by the Universal Brotherhood*, concerns a wonderful radiation in our field of existence. It is a radiation wherein, and we emphatically repeat this, all magnetic elements, all factors of compulsion are absent, and yet this radiation does not leave any Spirit-spark entity at rest, because the Spirit-spark atom possesses a polarity with this radiation. Therefore this action causes a continual stirring, a permanent feeling of being called, awakened.

Just as a radio set can be tuned to a certain wavelength and reproduces what is broadcast, so the Spirit-spark atom, by virtue of its nature, is continuously tuned to these cosmic vibrations of the Brotherhood and reproduces them within its own system. These vibrations are present everywhere in the nature of our isolation field, speaking a special language to everybody open to them. In every age, brothers and sisters have gone out to mankind to translate this language, to make it comprehensible, to explain the sense of the Calling Light and, thereby, concurrently to reinforce the effect of these cosmic rays.

Thus you will be able to imagine that many millions of people in this world are 'called' in the full sense of the word; most of the pupils of the Spiritual School experience this call consciously. To be called, to know that one is called, to experience this in every fibre of one's being, of course brings with it, alongside all the other things, an intense bliss and a great certainty, namely the certainty of possessing a Spirit-spark atom. There is, however, at the same time a great danger in all of this, the danger of developing a false mysticism and of the enormous delusion which can be the result thereof.

Let us suppose that you know you are called. Experiencing The Call, however rejoicing it may be, is in itself not yet redeeming. It points only to a typical organic condition in you personality. You possess the Spirit-spark atom, this exclusive hydrogen principle, in your heart-sanctuary and therefore you must react to the respective cosmic rays. There are countless people who oppose it for incarnations, denying their True State and clinging to dualistic nature. But there are also countless people who lose themselves in false mysticism as a reaction to that which moves them. How should we understand this?

Suppose that you experience God's Call and you talk about it, sing, write poems and otherwise give evidence of it, but for the rest remain exactly the same person as you were before. That is false mysticism! When you continuously say: 'the Lord has called me', but take care to remain in the same old spot.

When a pupil speaks effusively about his being called, or talks about the Brotherhood with a serene smile regarding what he feels in the heart, about the insight he receives but, at the same time does not show the slightest change in his mode of life, this is false mysticism! Just as a purring cat suddenly extends its claws in self-defense, viciously digging its nails into the victim's flesh, so many a person indulging in false mysticism will lash out and protest full of refusal and indignation when he or she is told that 'being called' presumes a going of The Path. The Gnosis demands your entire self, the forsaking of your entire attachment to this nature. In response to its Call it requires the offer of your "I" and the actual proofs thereof. False mysticism makes the grave error of imagining being called to be the end of the process but being called is only an organic beginning, a kind of organic predisposition for the cosmic rays concerned.

If, when called, one refuses to go The Path, one inevitably falls prey to the countless negative currents attempting to shackle mankind permanently to the Wheel. Every natural religion shows this characteristic and nourishes the ego-drive. Now you can grasp the words of the Lord Jesus when He spoke: 'Many are called, but few are chosen'.

Only when a called person goes The Path consistently on the basis of his or her fundamental state-of-being, and when the Calling Light, as we said, becomes a lamp unto one's feet, does the moment come for the First Contact by the electromagnetic field of the cosmic septenary. Only then does one begin to be drawn, seized, chosen, i.e., one enters a new metabolic process. This too is neither a compulsion nor a danger nor a premature birth in the New Life, but rather the fulfilment of the parable saying: 'And the father went out towards his son, and embraced him, and kissed him'. Then the Prodigal Son has returned home. He had to go the two Paths of the Rosycross: the path of dissolution and of resurrection. The precious Jewel in the Lotus radiates in the full brightness of a New Morning. The candidate is resurrected in the New Life. Every Spirit-spark entity is called to this resurrection.

In closing, a few words regarding Revelation 17. There we read about the cosmic revolution, the agitation concerned therewith and the victory of the Lamb. In the 14th verse we read that victory will be shared by the Faithful, those Called and those Chosen. The Faithful are those who, although called, are not yet completely conscious of this fact but still react spontaneously by approaching the Spiritual School out of their innermost being. Those Called are the ones who become conscious of their state-of-being and, awakening, make the decision to Return. Those Chosen are the ones who go the Way of the Cross and awaken Reborn in the New Morning.

No matter on which of these three steps you stand at the present moment, if your motives are pure, your attitude in harmony with the demands and your reaction accords with the Great Law, you will stand on the side of Freedom during the progressive division in this world.

We pray that you may share in this Freedom that surpasses all understanding.

From "The Inevitability of the Way of the Cross" - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The Call is a vibration that surrounds us all, it encompasses the entire world. It is not noticed by the mass of humanity, as they have not tuned to its Frequency. When we Seek the Gnosis and allow it to touch our heart, we place ourselves in contact with this Divine Vibration. From there, The Walk begins or ends, depending upon our state-of-being.

Faithful, Called or Chosen. To which do you aspire?

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* Universal Brotherhood: the Divine Hierarchy of the Immovable Kingdom. It forms the universal body of the Christ and is also known by many other names, such as: the invisible church of Christ, The Universal Gnostic Chain, the Christ-Hierarchy, and the Gnosis.

In its activity on behalf of fallen mankind it appears, among other things, as the Tri-unity of the Light and the Brotherhood of Shamballa .
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