Purification Of The Heart

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When we awaken in the new, gnostic morning, the purification of the heart must be taken in hand in a very serious way from that moment on. Therefore, it is worthwhile to describe the average pupil of the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross. One can say that nearly every pupil is engaged in drawing the astral self up into the heart. In this way, he draws the drape from a window, as it were, where he can see a new light, shining as a rising dawn.

As soon as the pupils are able to look through the window of the heart, they come to know that real inner happiness can be found only on an entirely different spiral of life. The Rose of the Heart begins to speak because a new state is entered, the Gnostic Light has penetrated into their blood and developed entirely different motives in their system, so they stand at the gate of an entirely new process of development. Or, speaking in the language of the gnostic gospel of the Pistis Sophia: they stand before the gates of the Thirteenth Aeon.

If you are in this situation, the old process of development has not yet left you. At least, the old life has left its marks deeply in your heart sanctuary and that is why it must be purified. As long as the heart has not become pure according to the standards of the Gnosis, the new direction you gave to the astral consciousness will be only partially possible. The latent possibilities of the heart sanctuary cannot yet be freed; the old state of life continues to play an important part in your life and the consciousness, during sleep, returns to the astral sphere of the nature-of-death with all the ensuing consequences.

So you are, to a great extent, by virtue of your state-of-being, subjects of interference to the reflection-sphere, even to a higher degree than might be considered normal, because its inhabitants know that they are about to lose you. It is obvious that your life, for the moment, is more difficult, because in this situation both the Gnosis and nature have a role in your life. It is clear that the inner conflict may become more acute. You can read of these things in the Pistis Sophia, which is completely inspired by the experiences of the pupil who wakes up in the heart and seriously considers the consequences of it.

Whoever draws the astral consciousness up into the heart, penetrates into the holy halls of the universal Gnostic Brotherhood. However, the candidate, just as the Pistis Sophia, is sent back to purify the heart from numerous stains in various stages.

Pupils of the Spiritual School seek the Pure Light, the Liberating Life -- and because you have drawn your consciousness up into the heart, you know from within that the Pure Light exists. It is the pure, Original sidereal substance, the Pure Astral Force, just as it exists in the universal Gnostic Chain. The important thing now is that you reform the sidereal body -- the desire, or astral body -- in accordance with the standards of the Gnosis. What each pupil must achieve is the transfiguration of the astral self. It must be made pure, just as the Gnostic Light is pure. According to inner Knowledge you can cherish the hope of achieving this necessary purification, the first aspect of Transfiguration.

Therefore, you must now radically take yourself in hand, yet without forcing yourself, for that only causes extra tensions. Then the grand and glorious process, of which we have spoken in detail, develops. In the purified heart, the Immortal Soul is born, the basis for an entirely new type of man. This soul-basis consists of four principles of consciousness: the new material, the new etheric, the new astral and the new mental consciousness. First the astral consciousness must develop, then the mental and finally the etheric and material consciousness.

In this way the new soul-state will make itself felt in the blood and the nerve-fluid and, further, will manifest itself powerfully in the astral fluids of your being, upon which you new birth depends. Finally, on this basis the renewing principle begins to establish the new mentality with which the new state-of-consciousness has become complete. This entire process is indicated as the new sidereal birth.

From "The Way To Alienation" The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. 1 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The heart is home to the sleeping Divine Spark. It must be purified, i.e., raised in vibration, in order to provide proper conditions for the Rosebud to bloom. It is from this sleeping Spirit-Spark Atom that the New Man will be re-born. But first, the heart of the candidate and eventually the entire astral body as well, must be purified.

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