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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