The Mystery Of Speech And Sound

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He who speaks little is spontaneous and natural

Tao Te Ching

Much always lays hidden in Lao Tzu's so very concise language. One single word of his often lays open to us the whole of gnostic philosophy.

If we want to try to fathom the full depth of what Lao Tzu means here, we will need to unveil the mystery of speech and sound.

The first thing you need to bear in mind is that human speech is always closely connected with two processes: the process of breathing and the process of thinking. Unless you breathe you cannot speak. Without a properly functioning mind you cannot express any language in sound. The larynx -- the organ with which you bring forth articulated sounds -- is of relatively minor significance compared to the respiration and the thought processes.

When various authors state that the human being can speak and is distinguished from other animals because he has a perpendicular larynx, this is only a partial truth. For all the organs of the material body are necessary if we are to function properly in matter.

In both animal and human heads are several minute organs which connect them directly with the astral spheres. With many species of animals and human types it is not so much the heart as the solar plexus which plays a large part in that process. This fundamental connection between the living, material being and the astral sphere determines the quality the whole nature of the creature concerned.

The astral plane is not uniform throughout. It is made up of countless domains, each one qualitatively different from all the others, and in each one of these astral domains, countless possibilities and situations are manifested. So it is easy to understand that every human being possesses an individual astral type, a personal astral key. This key is expressed in every aspect of his being, and is present not only within him but also round him. On this factor rest the whole nature and quality of a person's breathing.

By this we mean to say that, even though we all live in the same respiration field, in the same atmosphere, each of us still possesses a highly individual, personal respiration-field, which is formed and prepared by our personal astral condition.

So with every breath we take, both the head and the heart will function in a way determined by our astral condition at that moment. In this way, life really does  arise from breath, in more than one sense. From our breath arise not only our mental activities but also our desires. There is an inner, astral basis which arises via the chakras, and there is an outer astral activity, which connects with the inner, astral basis via the breath.

Whenever a thought is produced by the brain or a desire is born in the heart, these emanate from the head and heart and project themselves into the astral substance that surrounds us on all sides, in the same way as a fish is surrounded by water. These projections are then reflected back and in this way our fundamental astral nature, our respiration field and our breath , as well as our thought-life and our desire-life, are kept within a certain framework.

Now imagine that thoughts and feelings are aroused in you which do not correspond to your fundamental astral type; they are alien to it. Then they will always have been caused by some influence on your respiration-field, for the other route, via the chakras and the etheric body, is too heavily obstructed by the blood, the nerve fluid and the endocrine system. So how do these influences and their subsequent results penetrate into your respiration-field? Well, that happens through speech. When a person speaks, he does so during an exhalation. One does not speak when one is inhaling. You can only do that in a forced way -- artificially -- and only for a few brief moments, and your voice will sound very un-natural.

When you inhale, the astral substance in your respiration field enters your head and impels you to some sort of mental activity. Then, on the outbreath, you use your voice. By speaking, you activate the image, the power, the vibration which the inhaled substance conveyed to you. You convert the astral values into a living reality, which is magically active. So speech becomes a creative act by means of the air exhaled.

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From "He Who Speaks Little Is Spontaneous and Natural" - The Chinese Gnosis - Catharose de Petri, Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Fishbowl

Imagine that your microcosm is a globe-shaped fishbowl with you, the personality, in the center. You are surrounded and inter-penetrated by astral fluid, just as a fish is surrounded and inter-penetrated by water. As the quality of the fish is determined by the quality of the water that surrounds it, so the quality of the human personality is determined and conditioned by the quality of the astral fluid that surrounds him or her.

Our thoughts are living creations. When we think a thought, a particular vibration is sent into the surrounding astral field. If our thoughts are impure, evil, selfish, fearful, critical, judgmental, vengeful etc., the thought-vibration we send forth will color our astral field accordingly. The emotional body is conditioned by those mental emanations and the ethers that compose the etheric body are also extracted from those astral vibrations. The etheric body, as we know, vitalizes and conditions the physical body.

From the foregoing, one should be able to see that what we think dictates our desires and eventually manifests itself in the health or disease of the physical body. Man lives in a fishbowl. Our astral creations - our thoughts - surround and inter-penetrate all four vehicles of our human personality. If, via wrong-thinking we pollute our respiration-field, the astral field that surrounds us, we have to understand that there will be consequences to deal with and a bill that must be paid.

We are what we think. When we look in a mirror, or examine our desires, or take note of our physical condition, we are seeing our thoughts being reflected back to us.  If we do not like the reflection there is but one thing we can do:

Purify our thoughts. Clean up the fishbowl.

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Follow The Prototype

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We would like to explain how gnostic magic is applied, and to show how worthwhile and necessary it is, for it is the only means of saving the world and humankind.

So we will begin by considering, again, the figure of Jesus Christ, The Son of the Father, whose followers we all need to be. If we choose Him as our example we will see that He was man and God, which means to say He was a nature-born human-being and also, in the true sense, a soul-born human-being. Everything in His life proved that He was completely free as to the soul. As far as His soul is concerned, He was a free citizen of the heaven-earth, while as a nature-born human-being He made The highest state attainable in nature His own. For, as to nature, He was completely transfigured. So in that respect, He was completely in the world, while as a soul-being, he was not of this world.

As such He was capable of expressing Himself in all aspects of our cosmos. He was one with the Earth Logos and one with the Earth Spirit. He ascended into heaven and descended to the earth, which, as the  Gospel puts it, is the Divine footstool. So His sovereignty was complete throughout the cosmos, and to Him was given all power in heaven and earth.

But you need to see this entity as the prototype for your own imitation of Christ. You need to realize that He Himself is inviting and urging you to become like Him, because you have the ability to do so -- if only you are willing to stop seeing Him as an unattainable idol, or as a fairy-tale -- if only you would begin to understand the imitation of Christ as the high vocation all of us are called to pursue. For then, as a participant in a gnostic Spiritual School, you would see the entire process of gnostic magic opening before you.

If you reflect on this, you will realize that it is not a state which arises from one moment to the next, but that there is a process of growth, a Path, which everyone will be able to follow at their own pace. And even if progress on the Path is very gradual, there will still be a daily increase in grace, power and Divine Love, if only you are willing to let go of all the fairy-tales the church has suggested to you  and which have burdened you from your youth onwards. You need -- if we may repeat it once more -- to see Jesus the Lord as the prototype of the One True Human-Being, who you, too, must become.

So do not task, 'Where must I begin?' Begin at your own beginning, in the circumstances life offers you at this moment. Make your paths straight, wherever you live, wherever you are. In all things -- which means, in everything that lies within you personal range of action -- become like John. That is the fundamental requirement.

One person's radius of action may be larger than another's. But remember, if someone with a larger radius of action than yours does not utilize it, whereas you, with perhaps a smaller one, do use it, you will still be greater than he is.

So we can begin our imitation of Christ straight away, here and now. If we do so, together, we will be able to form one group, united in the most complete and perfect sense, and filled with the greatest possible respect towards each other. We will form one, steadfast multitude, a community of John, walking a straight Path through the desert, to the One Goal. Thus we will be among those who have been baptized with the Living Water, the Living Water of the World Soul, which surrounds us all.

We need to stress that the entire fallen cosmos is encompassed by the World Soul, and that everyone who is even slightly open to it, everyone who forgets his own ego, even if only for a moment, will receive the radiation of the World Soul in his system.

Clearly, it is not enough merely to say this, or to focus on it in a mystical way. It is not enough only to attune oneself inwardly to that path. The primary necessity, right from the outset, is the adoption of a concrete, radically different approach to life. That is what is required of you. If you can sense the World Soul's serenity, if its radiation-values penetrate right into your innermost being, choose an approach to life which is in harmony with that. Such an approach to life will naturally differ in every respect from the approach of those who are still ignorant of the One Goal of human life.

Pupils of a gnostic Spiritual School have proved, by the very fact of their pupilship, that they have been seeking a different level of life. Why else would they have become pupils?

But here, a warning needs to be given: let no one climb too high. Climb only to a level at which you can remain without falling or behaving in a way which is a parody of the real thing. Do not say: 'I am standing on this level', while in practice you are far below that level.

Climbing to such a new level and maintaining oneself there is called 'climbing the mountain'. Only on that new level can the prototype of the noble, True Human-Being be met.

From "You Are The Salt Of The Earth" - The Chinese Gnosis - Catharose de Petri, Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The legacy of Jesus has been completely misunderstood, to the detriment of all humanity. He was The Prototype, the Mighty Example set for the benefit of those who wish to walk the Path of Return. That was what He meant when he said "be my followers".  He was imploring future generations to follow His example, to study the life of The Prototype and make it our own. Those who are able to do so will place themselves well on the road to immortality and freedom from death.

Understand this. The mold has already been formed. The blueprint has been prepared. The truth of Transfiguration was proven to mankind in real-time over two thousand years ago. In that day, there was but One Man who was able to accomplish it. Today, at the dawn of the Aquarian Age, with the world and humanity in the midst of a cosmic revolution, all who dare have the opportunity to do the same.

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Dealing With Temptation

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As we said in the last chapter, the Path to the Original Kingdom involves the application of the fivefold Gnosis:

insight
yearning for salvation
self-surrender
new attitude of life
transfiguration

Those who are not yet walking the Path and have therefore not yet found the thread of Tao often demonstrate moral dis-equilibrium and mood swings due to the turbulent sea of their emotions. One moment they are cheerful, the next, very miserable. One moment they are very purposeful and positive, the next they are filled with despair and feel as though they might as well give up everything. One day they are strong, the next day quite the opposite. We are all familiar with these oscillations. They characterize dualistic nature.

You can read about this in the works of Chuang Tzu. They portray a pupil who is earnestly trying to make something of his life in the sense meant by our School. All day long he agonizes over how to rid himself of what torments him and to cultivate what he loves, but success eludes him.

Lao Tzu says to him: 'You must purify yourself completely, but I see by your sadness that something is stopping you still'. He then advises:

'If the hindrances from outside become too great, you must not attempt to overcome them by fighting against them, but you should shut your mind to them. If they come from within, you must not try to repress them, but rather, keep yourself out of the way of temptation. If even a master in Tao and virtue is incapable of resisting these two influences in combination, how much less can one who is striving after Tao'.

Happily, there are many pupils in the Spiritual School who are striving after The New Life. They are trying to make the essence of the Gnosis into a virtue in themselves. Through the intermediary of the Mystery School, such efforts always result in a link with Tao; something of the magnetic current of the Gnosis is imparted to the pupil's being. The pupil is being brought close to the thread of Tao, and now he is advised to hold onto that thread, so that he may possess it.

Clearly, any pupil who attempts to do this will find himself in a difficult situation, in which the magnetic currents of two realms are being transmitted to him: the current of the New Nature and the current of the old nature-of-death, by which the pupil lives. This results in tremendous inner conflicts. Great, unbridgeable antitheses are felt, and it cannot be otherwise. If someone is fundamentally of the darkness, and he is placed in the Light, he will feel terrible. His own darkness will be revealed to him more than ever before. In addition, his microcosm, in which he is the current personality, has an immeasurably long past in the world of time and space, and his blood and his soul are conditioned by that past. So there is a total equilibrium between the past and the present, and together they determine his future.

This natural process -- and it is nothing more than that -- conditions one's whole life and character, and is experienced by the pupil as darkness, as a great burden, as temptations that hinder his pupilship. He starts talking about "the devil", or about being influenced by the reflection-sphere and so on. But you need to realize that such influences are always side-effects, and never first causes. In reality, the dualistic influences affecting the personality from the outside originate from the other parts of the microcosm, while the influences affecting the personality from within originate in the blood. These are the temptations from outside and from within.

Lao Tzu advises: 'Do not fight against these natural processes, and do not try to get the better of them in that way, for you will never succeed'. As regards the influences from outside, he says, 'close your mind to them', and as regards the influences from within, his advice is to 'keep yourself outwardly out of the way of temptation; do not act on those influences'.

You may not always be able to tell straight-away whether an influence is coming from outside or from within; whether it originates in the magnetic-sphere of your being or in the blood. But that won't matter. All you need to do is cultivate the following approach:

As soon as you notice that a particular influence is tending to disturb the steady unfoldment of your pupilship, divert your thoughts immediately, or try to dispel the influence by engaging in some intense activity. Do not give it a second's attention. If the influence arises from your blood, and all kinds of inclinations are stirring and boiling within you, just let your blood spend itself and avoid any outer action, whether in reality or thought.

If you apply this two-fold method, you will notice that your strength as a pupil will constantly grow, and that you can grasp the thread of Tao more and more firmly. If you fail -- and there is no reason why you should -- you will find you keep on having to start all over again from the beginning, which will weaken your body, increase your burden, and make your life hell.

So we hope you will take this ancient, classical advice to heart.

From "The Thread of Tao" - The Chines Gnosis - Catharose de Petri and Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Remember that "energy follows thought, what is focused upon grows".  Thoughts are things. Literally, our thoughts are our creations. Cosmic law holds that all creatures are bound to their creators. So our thoughts, even if not immediately acted upon, will remain within our magnetic-sphere. The thought will continue to present itself to us until either of the following happen

(a) we increase its strength by focusing on the thought, thereby giving it energy, eventually resulting in some type of action, or

(b) the thought gradually fades away as it dies of starvation from lack of attention.

Therefore we are advised to take on an attitude of indifference or inattention when undesirable thoughts or impulses attack us from without or within. Do not attempt to fight them. Even attempting to resist thoughts or desires will only strengthen them. This is true because by doing so, you are still focusing on the thought or desire. And, as stated above, what is focused upon, will grow in strength and intensity.

We are creatures of this nature, built to respond to the infinite stimuli emanating from the nature-of-death. However, we are also candidates on the Path, who are attempting to free our microcosm from this nature by following the thread of the Gnosis back to the Divine Kingdom. We have a foot in both worlds, so to speak. Because of this, until we become strong enough in the Gnosis, from time to time we may become susceptible to the temptations of this nature. This is a recognized part of walking the Path. We are offered the advice above to assist us in overcoming these hurdles.

This writer has taken the twofold advice to heart and put it into practice. It does work, if one is diligent about its application. That is encouraging news for all because with the myriad invisible forces arrayed against the serious candidate, any advice that can protect us from stumbling is welcome advice indeed.

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Why Quote The Works Of Others?

The reason that certain authors are quoted here is because those authors have been able to properly interpret certain gnostic teachings. There is nothing that this writer can offer that would exceed the benefits offered by these teachings. This writer is simply a candidate on the Path who happened to find something and now wishes to share that which was found, nothing more, nothing less.

The works that are quoted here are largely unknown to most. What Westerner outside of Europe has ever heard of Jan van Rijckenborgh or Catharose de Petri, Max Heindel or Helena Blavatsky or Hermes Trismegistus, even? These people are not known to the masses of humanity.  There are no movies or documentaries made about them. No songs, no statues. This is not by accident as there is no way that the aeons of this nature would want to give these great messengers any type of exposure at all. So we must seek them out.

Who ever heard of The Corpus Hermeticum, the Pistis Sophia, the Tao Te Ching? Who knows of the Fama Fraternitatis or The Confessio of the Brotherhood of the Rosycross? Who knows of the Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross, the great allegorical work by Johann Valentin Andreae? Even if one knows of these works and tries to read them, some of them are almost indecipherable without the Gnostic Key. Try reading the Pistis Sophia one day. You'll only be able to make out bits and pieces. But if you read "The Gnostic Mysteries Of Pistis Sophia" the analysis written by van Rijckenborgh, everything becomes crystal-clear. Same with The Corpus Hermeticum. Difficult to read cold, but explained beautifully in four volumes of "The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis" by JVR.

All messengers are gifted in some fashion. This is by design as they must possess certain talents in order to carry out their function here in the nature-of-death. Van Rijckenborgh and de Petri had the ability to interpret and transcribe these ancient texts so that they could once again speak clearly to the candidate on the Path in the present time.

Although aware of certain things, this writer is by no means an expert, a teacher or a guru. He is a seeker, just as you are. He is one who has, after long years of searching, found the Golden Thread and is determined to follow it to its Glorious End. As others are not aware of these teachings (this writer himself was not aware of any of this ten years ago) it is only fair and proper that they be given exposure so that those who seek tirelessly might one day come across them and perhaps feel the Touch.

The authors who are quoted here are not just hacks off the street. They're not your run-of-the-mill YouTube gurus or New Age "masters". They were candidates on the Path, just as we are. Perhaps they were a little farther along than we are, but with a shared awareness of the power of the Spark we all carry within our heart and determined to spread the Doctrine of Transfiguration to as many as will listen.

There is no need for this writer to talk about himself or his experiences on the Path. Truly, they will probably closely resemble your own. Although each of us have different life experiences, various difficulties and challenges, all springs from the same fount. We are all victimized by the same nefarious energies. We are all struggling to get out from under the influence of the archons and aeons of this nature. The entire nature-of-death, with its twin spheres (material-sphere and reflection-sphere) works non-stop in its quest to drag us all deeper into the pit, by any means necessary.

Messengers sent before us have worked tirelessly and at great personal sacrifice to provide us with the important and valuable information needed to effect Liberation from this world of sorrows. They left these writings for a reason. That reason is you.

Let their work not be in vain.

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The Emptiness Of The Intellectual Approach

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In the ordinary nature a thinker is a philosopher, a person who uses his intellect to make observations and collect data, and on that basis formulates a range of hypotheses, for instance about the origin or meaning of life, or about God, the universe, and so on.

You are probably familiar with many such products of philosophical thought, formulated by nature-born egos. But this kind of thought never  goes further than the seeking phase. It is largely speculation. There have been many clever thinkers. There still are, and many more, no doubt, are yet to come. Many of them write thick books about their theories, and their ideas help countless seeking people to go further in their search. In this way, the mental capacities of many people are trained -- albeit in a purely intellectual sense -- and the result is that, ultimately, they realize they are lacking some fundamental missing link.

In the beginning, logically enough, the seeker thinks it is simply the problem of not knowing enough as yet; he thinks his cerebral apparatus just needs to be trained more, that he must accumulate still more facts. At long last, however, the awareness will dawn on him that the deficiency lies not so much in what he is capable of knowing, as in what he is capable of doing. The mental apparatus of the brain is meant to be an instrument of the thinking faculty. But the real thinking faculty is of quite another nature and essence. It is meant to be the fourth vehicle of the human personality, but it is only in an embryonic state in nature-born human beings. And it will remain so as long as the human being remains in his nature-born state.

It is very important to realize this, because there is an immeasurable difference between intellectuality and Wisdom. Intellectual knowledge may sometimes be useful to the nature-born person, but it has no value at all as a means of penetrating to The Great Reality.

You may find this somewhat unacceptable, but we hope you will try to understand it. People who are intellectually-trained and whose heads are full of intellectual knowledge, are not interested in the Wisdom of the New Life, which only arouses in them a feeling of mild contempt or the inclination to laugh. The sage, however, regards the purely intellectual approach as a dangerous course which leads only to delusion. The intellectual approach does not give access to Wisdom's inner depths, nor even to its first glimmerings.

From "The Sage Always Excels In Caring For People" - The Chinese Gnosis - Catharose di Petri, Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The Foolish And The Prudent

Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.

Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep. But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the prudent, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the prudent answered, ‘No, there will not be enough for us and you too; go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’

And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut. Later the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open up for us.’But he answered, ‘Truly I say to you, I do not know you.’ Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

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Proof Of That Which Cannot Be Proven

This is a response to a recent comment from a reader. i knew that the response would be lengthy, and so the decision has been made to post it.

Dear Anonymous: First off, i never take anything "personally". There is no longer anything one can say or do that would "hurt my feelings" or "make me" angry. That ship sailed long ago.

i will break up this response into segments.

Anon: "My contention is this, you are quoting a vast amount from the written works of 'others', do you have any personal experience of the ecstatic liberation that you are speaking of here?

Answer: Here we have a request for proof. "Prove what you say. Show me proof of the transfiguristic process and of the existence of a Divine Kingdom and then I will believe". Like Thomas the Apostle, you need to "stick your fingers in the nail-holes" before you can accept what has been revealed to you as being true. Jesus was able to accommodate Thomas. i will not be able to do the same for you.

This is not because i don't want to, but because i cannot. i, and others, are currently on The Path, working towards the One Goal. We have not reached the point of transfiguration, and if we had, we would no longer be visible or present on this plane to tell you about it.

The latest form of documented "proof" that we have was given to us at the beginning of the Piscean Age through the life of Jesus, the Christ. There were no TVs, radios or Internet when He walked the earth, but His life and deeds were witnessed by tens of thousands of people. His daily activities were meticulously documented in order to preserve a living record of the Process of Transfiguration for future generations. So many people witnessed the life and activities of this Avatar that the memory of Him could not be erased. Thousands upon thousands turned away from the Pharisaic religion (now cleverly re-branded as "Judaism")  and began to walk the fivefold Gnostic Path. Of course, the Pharisees were furious about this and their efforts to shut down and discredit Him are well-documented.

What many do not realize is that these efforts did not end with the ascension of the Christ, but continued on well into the 4th century until, at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D., "churchianity" was codified and the entire message of self-freemasonry (doing the work required to go the Path) was perverted into a ridiculous fantasy of "salvation-by-proxy" and some guy "having died for our sins". People now laugh and  ridicule the New Testament, the very testimony that was intended to provide man with the means to escape his prison.

The four gospels were allowed entry into the Bible after undergoing strategic mutilations, but documents such as the Pistis Sophia, which the Christ dictated to His apostles and select disciples during the 11 years He remained with them after the Resurrection, were purposely excluded from the Bible. Why? Because in it, the Christ exposes the activities of the aeons of this nature and their human minions here on earth. In the Pistis Sophia, He explains what happened to Him after he "died", of His travels to "hell" (so-called) and back. How he went through all of the spheres of the reflection-sphere (the so-called 'heaven-worlds") and disarmed the archons and the aeons of a third of their power. This was done in order to loosen their grip on mankind and afford future generations a fighting chance to approach The Path prior to the commencement of the Age of Aquarius, two thousand years beyond His time.

Anon: You responded with smugness and self-righteous indignation of someone who seems to 'know' some of all therefore let me extend my apology if you found my post offensive.

Answer: Your interpretation of my answer is your interpretation. Again, i repeat, nothing that anyone can say to me or about me can cause me to "take offense". Part of surrendering the self is to do the work of de-activating all those aeonic connections that stimulate us in a knee-jerk fashion to think that we are the center of the world, that we must be "respected" and that those who are against us are our enemy. You are my brother. i understand where you are coming from. i have been where you are now.

Anon: To borrow your own analogy of sticking a knife, what is attempted here is akin to trying to describe an orgasm to a person who is not even aware of his sexual organs. One needs to experience it to know the throes ecstasy and sweet pain/agony of that indescribable sensation. So do you speak from experience or are your merely parroting the 'teaching' of others?

Answer: This analogy is correct. It is impossible for a human-being immersed in this undivine nature-order to be able to explain the first thing about the Divine nature-order, a nature-order which is not-of-this-world and inaccessible by our current set of five senses. Again, i do not know, remember what it feels like to be Liberated. But i am devoted to doing the hard and difficult work that is necessary in order to find out.

As for 'parroting the teachings of others', i will say this: the reason that i post the 'teachings' (your quotes) of others is so that what needs to be transmitted will be transmitted. If you are referring to Jan van Rijckenborgh, Catharose de Petri, Heindel, Blavatsky, the New Call group, etc, these "others" did not 'make up" these teachings out of whole cloth. The teachings have always existed, although they were masked, veiled from the profane. These "others" found the Key required to correctly interpret the teachings of Hermes, Lao Tzu, the Christ, etc. and worked to pass this Knowledge on. It is not "their" Knowledge. They are but messengers. The Corpus Hermeticum, The Tao Te Ching, the New Testament of the Christ all spring from the same fount of Universal Gnostic Wisdom. All of those works were created to serve the humanity of its time. They all relate the same Truth. Two thousand years from now, there will be other manifestations of the Gnosis, but they will still be the same Universal Gnosis.

No one on this blog has ever been asked to blindly "believe in" what is posted here, or to "follow" anything proposed here. i've spent the last thirty years sifting through a mound of metaphysical, extra-terrestrial and New Age material. Some of it was compelling, much of it was misleading, all of it was ultimately not the Whole Truth. Why did i bother? Because i was searching for the Truth, the Thread, the Thing that was being kept from me. After diligent and one-pointed seeking, i found It. What was being kept from me, and from all of us, is that we are exiled and imprisoned in a nature-order that is not our Original Home. More importantly, we are unaware that there is a "way out" and the particulars of that "way out" have been hidden from us by our controllers, who need us to remain here (energetically and vibrationally-speaking) in order for them to live.

Anon: I know how you are going to respond, you are not here to save my soul but only offering the liberating knowledge to free myself.....does that mean I can't express an opinion. "Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday". Yes, we are here so I'd rather be alive in the moment.

Answer: At the end of this Day of Manifestation, all microcosms will return to The Father, for that is The Plan and the glory of God's plan is unassailable ("Dei Gloria Intacta"). If we take a look at the current state of the world, it may appear to the unknowing that The Plan is not working, but it is. There are two ways to go about obtaining Liberation and regaining immortality:

1. wait until the end of this current Great Day of Manifestation, a period spanning several hundred trillions of "illusory" earth-years or,

2. 'take Heaven by storm" by grasping the Thread of the Gnosis which has wound its way since antiquity throughout all ages of man, unseen and un-noticed by so relatively few, and following that Thread to its Glorious Conclusion.

In layman's terms, it is like this: we can take the Local train to our destination, or we can take the Express. You have chosen the former. i, and others, have opted for the latter. There is no wrong choice. You are welcome to take as much time as you need. Personally, i've seen enough of "earth experience", thank you very much. It is time to move on, to move upwards.

Anon: Speaking of rules, order and process......I am sick of putting up with those on the earthly sphere, imagine having to content with it in the divine realms. I prefer annihilation to this.....according to you 'I' may yet get 'my' wish. You said "Our consciousness is cut off".....can you tell me what consciousness is?

Answer: When i spoke of "rules", i was referring to the Laws that govern the Path, not the Divine Kingdom. But now that you have mentioned this, allow me to say the following:

The Universe of The All is governed by Universal Laws. How could it not be? There must be Cosmic and Divine Laws in order to bring order out of chaos. Man's laws are flawed and ineffective. Why? Because they disregard and ignore God's Laws. We are like children playing in our parent's closets, thinking that we are upholding order when, in fact, we are only perpetuating the swing of the pendulum and keeping duality in existence.

In the Divine Kingdom, the kingdom that is not-of-this-world, it is God's Laws that are obeyed. God's Laws are not designed to restrict or constrain any entity who chooses (chooses!) to follow them. On the contrary, His Laws are designed to offer us every freedom possible  as we explore, experience and create in His Omniverse. Hell, that is why we are here now, because we abused our freedom and, as a result of that abuse, fell into this material creation that we were ordered not to "involve" ourselves in. We were to experiment and create, but not to "I"-dentify with our material creations. Now we're stuck here and have to be rescued. That is the aim of the Divine Plan of Salvation.

Anon: No one, at least no human has known, knows or will over know completely what this all about. We are not in charge. We never were and we never will be. Only the Creator is in charge, and only the Creator creates anything at all. The only place “free will” truly exists is with the Creator...all we can hope for is grab on while this particular epoch of creation expands and then finally retracts..then begin all over again.....the breath of God.

Answer: The majority of this statement is categorically wrong. We are in charge. To ascribe to your way of thinking is to accept what the lying churches have been spoon-feeding humanity for the last 2,000 years. "It's all in God's hands". Such flawed thinking de-activates one's God-given free-will and makes one an unwitting slave to the aeons of this nature, who are more than happy to step in and pretend to be your 'Higher Power".

The All endowed His creations with the Freedom to do whatever we wished, as long as we did not aspire to retain any power or glory for ourselves. Our job was (and is) to do God's Will, period, end-of-story. Instead, we have become stubbornly self-willed, and endeavor night and day only to benefit ourselves, at whatever cost. When a life-wave ceases to be "one with God" in this way, a separate universe is created for them where they can wallow, frolic and play in their miserable, self-created, sham universe for as long as they wish to do so (again, free-choice). They are segregated from the Divine Kingdom in order to keep their counter-natural way of thinking-willing-and-feeling from contaminating any of the Pure Spheres of the Divine Universe.

We are currently experiencing in such a segregated universe, a universe characterized as an "abortion" as some gnostic scriptures have described it (ladies, please excuse the terminology used). We are free to stay here for as long as we enjoy pretending to be helpless pawns on the chessboard of Creation or we can get off our asses, seek Right Knowledge and through Right Thinking, Right Feeling and Right Actions, blaze a trail through the Wilderness that will lead us Back Home.

Anon: No ~g, I am not given to prideful thinking, I am only sad that the ripple of my awareness moved so far away from the ocean that I don't remember much of who or what I am. On the other hand...maybe the creator never intended us to return to it...we are each the seeds dispersed in the universe to forever forge our own universe. Just a thought.....or then again maybe not because it all begins with thought...Greeting from this fellow voyager!!!!

Answer: Again, this is a defeatist mindset, born out of an exhaustion. We have all encountered this feeling. Inwardly, we are frustrated with the apparent, visible futility of this existence. We are exhausted by the myriad dead-ends we encounter when attempting to find "the Truth". We feel that "all is for naught". This is beneficial in that it is when we reach this nadir that we can become susceptible to the touch of the Gnosis, the vibratory emanation that is not-of-this-world.

You see, we, as nature-born beings, have no memory of what was. But our microcosm, in particular, the Divine-Spark, the Spirit-spark atom positioned in the center of our microcosm, It remembers! It remembers because it is not-of-this-earth, it is a stranger in a strange land. Buried like a diamond under mounds of unyielding earth, still, like a homing beacon, it issues forth a continuous Call to each and every human-being. Most are unable to "hear" this Call, and thus go to their grave thinking that existence was a fruitless waste of time.

However, those who can hear the Call are fortunate beyond belief as, once touched by this Divine Power, they can begin to obtain True insight into their condition and perhaps begin to yearn for that which goes against everything nature-born man aspires to. Nature-born man aspires to "make this world better", no matter what it may take. The Divine human-being in the making, The Coming New Man, aspires to leave the world behind forever.

My friend, you are free to think and will as you feel. We all have our Path to walk. Currently, your path does not coincide with the Path i have chosen to walk, and so, there appears to be conflict in our positions. However, as you probably already know, this is not true. All paths lead to the One Goal. It comes down to a question of whether we take the winding, scenic route or the shortcut through the brambles.

You appear to have chosen the former, i, the latter. Even if i and others should obtain Liberation before you, we are duty-bound to delay our ultimate exit from this nature-order. We will turn to offer our hands to our brothers still enchained, just as those hands were extended to us. We shall not leave our straggling brothers and sisters behind, for God's Law mandates that we must all obtain our Final Liberation as a unity, as a single life-wave, in group formation. We fell here together, we leave together. At the end of this Great Day of Manifestation, all of humanity must walk arm-in-arm together through the Door of Freedom, triumphantly, as One.

See you there.

all love,

~ g

The Thread of Tao

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If you think all this over carefully, you will surely sense that behind this Spiritual School there is a tremendous power. In your own way, you will surely have experienced that power. Now the most one can say about this, is that is the thread of Tao, the Thread of Ariadne. How did we get hold of that thread? We will gladly tell you.

Is the thread we hold the beginning? No, for there is no beginning! You do not see its beginning and you do not see its end. Just like you, we too searched through dualistic nature. We were able to do that because we are of this nature. With our I-being we were able to try and test everything this world had to offer. And lo and behold, everything was trouble and sorrow. We found out that this nature is a nature-of-death, and we had no desire to jubilate with the 'blessed' before the throne; neither did we want to strive to make this accursed order acceptable in any way whatsoever. After years of trying and testing, we came to the conclusion that this could not be the true meaning of existence, and that it would not be good to go on having any part in deluding people in the nature-of-death.

One can draw such conclusions, but afterwards, one has to make a decision. The time must come when one must 'govern one's present existence'. So we had no option but to fathom the Tao of antiquity, not with the aid of authorities, but objectively. Can such a thing be done? Yes, oh divine rapture, it can, although we soon found that on all sides, everything was (and is) being done to hinder these discoveries. Many sources had been ruined; others were inaccessible, because they had been locked away in deep cellars beyond human reach. The rest, without exception had been terribly mutilated.

We began with the few fragments of the holy language that had survived. From these, it became clear to us that there exists an Original Kingdom, another Order of Nature, a Realm far beyond the highest nirvanic plane, a Realm quite separate from the nature-of-death and its two spheres.

Once we had realized this, we set out to discover whether there had been people, or groups of people, who had striven to find that Other Realm, what their lives had been like, and what features distinguished them from others. We tried to find out whether such people, although widely separated from each other in space and time, had followed the same pathways. We discovered that the efforts of all these people and groups followed the same basic pattern. We hoped to make contact with those who had gone before us, and in our efforts to do so we exhausted our entire arsenal of magic capabilities -- but not one faint glimmer of the Brothers did we obtain in response.

Now we can laugh at all those attempts, for were we not seeking the image of the imageless, the form of the formless? If the Brothers had revealed themselves, they would have been de-throned. They would have been inhabitants of the reflection-sphere. But they had disappeared forever; they had not died. Countless were the invitations we received during that period, invitations from numerous brotherhoods: 'Come and join us, and give up your useless efforts'.

Then we immersed ourselves in self-freemasonry, because: he who knows the beginning of the Original has the thread of Tao in his hands.

What is the beginning -- not of the Original, but what is the Beginning that leads to the Original, the Beginning that all our predecessors had found? What else could it be but the practice of the fivefold universal Gnosis:

insight
yearning for salvation
self-surrender
the new way of life
and through it, fifthly,
revelation, the thread of Tao.

Not a communication in the personal sense, but an electromagnetic connection with the Gnosis through which the soul, the wholly Other One, is awakened and becomes conscious. That is the thread of Tao. That is what it means to be linked with the chain of the Universal Brotherhood. Anyone who holds that thread in his hands will proceed from power to power and from glory to glory, and he will be following in the footsteps of those glorious, Divine Brothers who have vanished from the earth.

Such a person will then begin to invite others to take hold of the same thread, to follow the same method, to build with him, according to the design of the Original Beginning. And together, all the companies who join in and take up the thread form a new brotherhood, a Living Body, and all bear the magnetic sign of the Son of Man on their foreheads.

The first Gift of Grace received in this state-of-being is the experience of being able to 'govern one's present existence'. Such people have been freed. They are strangers on earth, travelling to the true Fatherland. What is hidden to the 'wise and understanding' of this world is revealed to the children of God.

From "Look At Tao And You Do Not See It" - The Chinese Gnosis - Catharose de Petri, Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The Role Of The Sternum

 

"The Breastplate Of Righteousness"

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Esoterically-speaking, the sternum, or breastbone, is a magnetic field. It has three attributes:

i) a radiative faculty,
ii) a power of attraction, and
iii) a neutral, observing faculty.

The sternum is also made up of three pieces of bone. As a result of the first attribute, the sternum radiates what the person is. His actual state of being can be read and observed in the area of his heart, from where it radiates outwards. On this basis, and with the aid of the second faculty, the sternum attracts compatible magnetic energies with which the system can be nourished. The third faculty reveals those matters, influences and forces to which the person is entirely indifferent and to which he is therefore insusceptible.

For example, if the third faculty clearly demonstrates that a person is indifferent to the world of duality, or to a certain aspect of it, it is quite impossible to attract magnetic forces from that world with the second faculty, and so it is impossible for such forces to enter one's system. So the third faculty of the sternum can rightly be called a breastplate, offering protection from the delusions of the fallen world if used wisely. This breastplate therefore becomes a decisive factor in the qualitative functioning of the other two faculties.

It follows, then, that the process of "hardening the heart", previously mentioned, also has to do with the third faculty of the sternum. The increasing hardness of our heart would mean our increasing indifference to the Gnosis, to the divine Life, as a result of which we would no longer be able to inhale the Gnosis via the sternum as a form of magnetic nourishment. All that would remain would be the ability of the consciousness to perceive via the very limited head sanctuary. Then the only assimilation that could occur would be intellectual, so that in essence, we would really have understood nothing. We would see, but not perceive; we would hear, and yet remain deaf, for true Knowledge and Right Understanding may only arise from the moral stirring that is the potential result of the rational touch. We must reach understanding via the experience that goes hand in hand with the moral stirring.

So it is important to determine the condition of our threefold sternum-activity, and in particular the condition of our breastplate, the third faculty. And it can hardly be otherwise than that we will observe a number of uncertainties with respect to ourselves. For however familiar we are with the Universal Doctrine, we are often still largely involved in the primary processes of the moral stirring. Just like so many other pilgrims who are faced with the inevitable trials to be found upon the True Path, we oscillate between hope and fear, for the most part observing nothing but unworthiness and wrong reactions. And this whole process of rational-moral stirring, this intense storm, is reflected in the activities of our sternum.

Many naïve seekers in the world today judge as to what is true and holy by how pleasant it makes them feel. However, it is out of the question that tranquility will descend into the heart of a fallen and damaged microcosm that comes into contact with the Gnosis for the first time. As long as there is no blood-certainty and the person concerned cannot therefore gird himself in the Truth, whatever seems best to the blinded consciousness of the person at that moment will be attracted or repelled by the sternum on purely speculative grounds. Generally speaking and initially, the vibration of the living Truth will definitely not be experienced as pleasant by the typical fallen microcosm in the nature of death!

We are exposed to many alternating voices owing to the conflict being fought out within us, the conflict between the state of death in the fallen world and the living State of the Spirit. Just as so many spiritual aspirants experience upon the Path, at one moment praising God, and the next moment cursing one's own fate and situation, without possessing a grain of certainty, so it is for ourselves amid the flashing, magnetic interplay of the dualistic sternum-activity. As long as this continues, one cannot speak of a breastplate of righteousness.

We know how it is with the human norms of right and wrong; they are subject to duality. They alternate - day and night, hot and cold, good and bad - and it is endless. What one person considers to be right and proper, another person vehemently rejects. Every human being is dragged along in the current of events, in the interplay of the pairs of opposites, and the wrong use of the breastplate, the third faculty of the sternum, is the cause of this. In the fallen world we constantly have to make adjustments to the dualistic state present within our microcosm. Tremendous amounts of human energy is tied up in this way, creating ether-bleedings that feed the archons and aeons, thus keeping us in chains.

So perhaps it is time for us all to ask, just as the biblical figure asked, "What is truth?", and we may similarly ask, "What is righteousness?" We may ask others, while confining ourselves as far as possible to the minimum requirements necessary to assure us of a positive result at the Harvest Time. But people cannot tell one another what divine justice is; they cannot speak about the essence of righteousness as it exists in Christ. They will never understand each other and will never achieve unanimity.

The true, divine Righteousness can only be approached and therefore comprehended via the process that we have discussed. Of course, one can approach divine righteousness philosophically to a certain extent. For instance, one can speak about the direction in which one ought to seek. We may say, 'This aim necessitates a certain way of life, a life of absolute action', and so approach the Path from an intellectual standpoint. Yet a life of unconditional purity in action is required of the person who is following the True Path. If such a person were to understand divine righteousness completely from within, he would then be able to perform this action. His inner realisation would enable him to forge the breastplate of inviolability.

But how and with what must he begin? He must commence by overthrowing his feelings of superiority. He must say farewell to the delusion that, 'I know it, I see it all quite clearly, I am doing it so well!'. He must realise with absolute certainty how opposites are constantly interchanging within him, and he must experience to the full the resulting inner distress, just as every pilgrim must do. And once he has dethroned his imaginary I-assurance, finding in himself nothing but uncertainties, no alternative will remain for him - when the cry of the blood drives him to it - than to thirst intensely, to hunger for divine righteousness. He will then have begun to gird himself with the Truth.

From "The New Gnosis"

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The sternum fills an important role in the awakening of the Rose of the Heart. When one has acquired sufficient insight into the reality of the two nature-orders and grasped the overwhelming futility of  existence in this fallen, physical realm, a strong sense of yearning for escape should develop. A cry from within will well up and radiate from the seat of desire - the heart. This desire for Truth, for Liberation will be radiated outwards by the first faculty of the sternum and, because like attracts like, these desires, which are not-of-this-world will attract the touch of the Gnosis, which is truly not-of-this-world. It is this Touch that will stimulate the thymus to begin secreting a special hormone that will infuse the blood with the electromagnetic vibration of the Gnosis. That is how it begins.

The third faculty of the sternum - that of indifference - increases in importance as the candidate attempts to move forward on the newly-found Path. As he or she undergoes the endura, living each day in self-surrender, the things of the world which were once so important will gradually begin to lose their allure. The impulse to do certain things will continue to poke at the candidate, but, if he or she is traveling the Path in humility and sincerity, focusing only one the One Goal, those impulses will slowly lose their ability to gain entry into the personality-system. They will be met with indifference and die from a lack of attention. That is the power of the third faculty of the sternum, the  Breastplate of Righteousness.

"Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with Truth, and having put on the Breastplate of Righteousness" Ephesians 6:13-14

The human body has a high purpose. It was designed for a specific function. This is why it is a crime for people to abuse it the way they do. It is the height of ignorance. It is as if a man stranded in a life-raft, on high seas, were to take a pen-knife from his pocket and begin to idly poke holes in the raft. The only difference is that such a man would be insane. Humans are not insane, just ignorant.

"My people are lost for lack of Knowledge" Hosea 4:6

~ g
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Know Your Enemy

This response to a recent comment by jd, is being posted for wider viewing.

Comment: "I like your comments about the churches, temples and such. I like to call these the Principalities of the world that Paul wrote about in Ephesians 6:12".

jd, you are not far off.

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places". Ephesians 6:12 KJV

Paul was communicating an urgent warning to those who were on the brink of going the Path ("Ephesian" means "border-dweller") that they must always recognize their true adversary. It is not human opposition that man, on-or-off the Path will struggle against. The human adversary is actually the last link of a long chain. Man's struggle is against unseen, invisible energies which conspire to control and confine humanity. Among them are:

- the vibratory emanations of the twelvefold Zodiac,
- the archons and the aeons of this nature,
- reflection-sphere entities such as light-spirits which constantly attempt to influence man,
- the entities known as "shades" (the dead who have not moved on, but, in etheric form attempt to remain close to the material earth so they can leech certain energies from physical humanity).

There are a legion of invisible adversaries organized and arrayed against mankind, influencing every thought and emotion. Until we come to grips with this knowledge and understand that we are mostly not in control of what we think or feel, we will continue to be victimized by these unseen energies. In order to walk the Path to a Good End, we must reverse this state-of-affairs. Hence, Paul's warning to the Ephesians is a warning to all who would follow the Path: the 'battle' we will have to engage in is against an adversary that cannot be seen. Let's be clear on this.

There is an Invisible War on Humanity that is being waged. We must recognize who the 'combatants' are and what 'weapons' are at their disposal in order to avoid being conquered and controlled by these subtle but extremely powerful and effective vibratory emanations.

In this post certain items have been hyper-linked for the convenience of those who may wish to become more familiar with the characteristics of the powers, principalities and rulers of the darkness of this world.

We'll close with the following quote from Sun Tzu:

"So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.

If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.

If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself."

Know your enemy.

~ g
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The Divine Attritbute - Conclusion

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From the heart of Tao flows the Divine spiritual essence, the Divine Voice, the Divine Word. This Voice, this Word, contains the entire plan.

The characters of the Divine Word consists of images, of concrete impressions. From the central principle of the microcosm, the Rose of the Heart, there emanates a radiant light-power, which bears within it a treasury of images of The Great Reality which will have to be realized in and by the human-being. Just think of how radio and television work. Though a very crude analogy, it will help you to understand what an enormous wealth of images and sounds are transmitted by the heart of Tao, so that they can be perceived by any human-being whose instrumentarium has been attuned to them.

The Divine picture-language is being spoken to you all the time; it is being transmitted constantly, from the Heart of  things. The same Divine language speaks in all of us, which gives us a means of comparison, of authentication. This language is spoken to us by the Planetary Logos (remember, not the Planetary Spirit). In short, this Word,  this speech, is being transmitted to you from countless directions.

This Word contains all True Knowledge. And, as Lao Tzu says, it conveys an infallible testimony with respect to the genesis of the entire All, explaining how this genesis needs to unfold, where it is going wrong, and how it can be put right again. The solution to every problem you place before the inner tribunal of the microcosm, cosmos and macrocosm, is transmitted to you in multi-dimensional images, which are then transmuted into images you can recognize and understand.

Everyone who, in this way, approaches the Lord in the Midst, participates in the university of the Divine World. Only the Knowledge acquired there constitutes an infallible testimony. That is why Lao Tzu says in chapter 20: "Free yourself from knowledge, your worries will cease". Only Divine Knowledge, put into practice, will benefit the world and humankind and be of service to the Plan.

Can you now see why we are urging you to do everything possible to allow the Spiritual Being within you to speak, so that the light of Its infallible testimony can shine? It is a testimony from the most ancient past, and it will last forever. It is a power through which the True Creation can be brought into existence. This Creation is produced in a completely natural, scientific way, by means of a process which can be followed to the letter by the candidate or the holy science, because the entire process of Rebirth has its origin in Tao. And Tao is in your innermost being, imparting to you Its power and enabling you to understand It by means of Its image-forming capacity.

From "Tao, The Great Power At The Heart Of All Things" - The Chinese Gnosis - Catharose di Petri, Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The Divine Attribute

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Throughout the entire All-Manifestation, throughout the whole of Creation, Tao, the divine One, is immanent. In this unfathomable space countless astral field s exist, all of them very different from one another. And with respect to every bit of this diversity, all of it included in the Oneness, it must be said that 'Tao is present at the heart of things'.

That fact alone is very significant and comforting. But it is even more important to be able to state that emanations radiate from this Divine power 'at the heart of things', emanations whose majesty permeates the whole of unfathomable space.

The significance of this becomes even more striking when one realizes that all those myriads of celestial bodies, from the largest galaxy, zodiacal system or solar system down to the smallest planetary body, possess Tao at their center, in the most literal sense.

Every planet, every sun, every system is surrounded and interpenetrated by the spiritual essence of Tao. That essence is brought to a focus at the heart of each if these heavenly bodies and systems. So the planet we inhabit carries Tao in its heart, in the most absolute sense. That is why it is said that the Christ-Spirit dwells in the central stratum of the planet. Having said this, we need to clarify the distinction between the Planetary Spirit and the Planetary Logos.

The Planetary Spirit is the expression of the dualistic aspect, the image-bearer of the planetary nature-of-death. We could compare the planet we know as Earth with the personality of the human-being. The Planetary Logos, however, is the in-dwelling Tao-existence, the existence of the True Earth, born of God, which can be compared with the microcosm. It is the Heaven-Earth referred to in the Apocalypse (Revelations), a planet which is quite different from the one known to us, and which is nevertheless very near to us.

A still more amazing fact is that Tao is present not only at the heart of every cosmos (planetary system) and macrocosm (solar system), but at the heart of the microcosm (human system), as well. Remember the Hermetic axiom, 'as above, so below'. Tao is also present at the heart of the microcosm. concentrated at a point which coincides with the physical heart. At this point, the emanations of Tao are very clearly distinguishable.

So we have shown you, at least in brief, the nature of Tao. Tao is everywhere, at the heart of everyone and everything. That is the great miracle of Tao. This great, living, Divine power speaks and lives and radiates in the heart of everyone and everything. So that is the wonderful mature of Tao, the Divine Attribute.

'Then why', you may ask, 'is the voice of Tao so vague within me? Why am I confused about it?'.

Because Tao is indeed in you, but it is not of you. Tao is not embodied in you; it has no part in your material existence. Your existence, your personality, has its own consciousness, its own voice. You are from another nature, and the Divine nature is only distinguishable in you as a voice, a radiation. It is the Word, which was, and is, from the Beginning.

If a person is focused exclusively on this nature, if he is satisfied with that, if he is only absorbed in that and does not even know about the possibility of another Nature, whose Voice resounds in him, then it is logical that he will not understand that Voice and will only find it confusing.

If someone does know about the presence of The Other Nature, but does not adapt himself to it by changing his approach to life, he will find Tao not only confusing but also extremely elusive. In such a situation, the Light, the Word, has appeared in the darkness, but the darkness cannot or does not want to comprehend it. Do you see how explicit the prologue of the Gospel of John is?

If you want to free yourself from this confusion and  turn Tao's elusiveness into clear light, you may never forget that throughout the All-Manifestation there are always two natures: the Absolute Nature, which is Tao, and a nature in genesis, whose development may well have stagnated -- as yours has -- and consequently keeps on being brought back to the point of departure: the Wheel of Death-and-Rebirth.

And remember, if there are two natures, there must also be two separate states of consciousness, that of the nature in genesis, and that of the Absolute Nature: the consciousness of the personality and the consciousness of the microcosm.

The lower state-of-consciousness must make room for and merge into the other one. This particularly applies to the state-of-consciousness of any being which exists in a stagnated nature, in a nature which has become evil. His state-of-consciousness must be broken up, in order to make room for the Divine Nature, so that one day the liberated entity may pronounce the words: 'My Father and I are one'.

We are telling you things you have probably known for a long time, but our aim is to make them truly alive for you at this moment. We want you to realize that the Lord of All is to be found -- at this very moment -- in your innermost being, in the stable of your dualistic self; it is to be found not only in the midst of this temple, but also at the heart of your microcosm.

In the past you may have lost yourself in the labyrinths of vagueness and confusion. So now, let yourself understand the words of Lao Tzu:

Yet, at the heart of Creation, all images are contained. Oh, how vague, how intangible! Yet, at the heart of all things, the Spiritual Being is present. This Being is of the utmost reality and contains the Infallible Testimony.

From "Tao, The Great Power At The Heart Of All Things" - The Chinese Gnosis - Catharose di Petri, Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Tao, Gnosis, Christos, all represent the same thing, a Universal Divine Principle that emanate from The Father, The All. This Divine Principle pervades all nature-orders, all planes of existence. Even while we experience in this undivine nature-order, a nature-of-death, this Divine Principle still lives in the center of our microcosm. It contains the archetypal image of the Divine Other One, an image that can and must be awakened and re-animated.

We are the caterpillars that can become Butterflies. In order to effect this transformation we must first realize that such a transformation is possible. Then we must come to know that we carry the Spark that can ignite the Fire, and finally, we must learn how to bring this glorious process to a Good End.

"And the same light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it". John 1:5

~ g
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