The Awakening Of The Soul II

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Self-Sanctification

Many millions of people are standing before this Gate; throughout the ages people have been yearning for a true, liberating life. The result is that these millions have also created an aeon, which the gnostic writings call the 'thirteenth aeon'. Between this thirteenth aeon and yearning man an interaction came into being, because of which the fire of desire became ever greater and the realization of the state of confusion increased.

Mere yearning for salvation is not sufficient; the astral self will continue to reside in the astral sphere of the nature-of-death during the nocturnal hours and will return from it the next morning robbed of its light-force in such a way that the disorder is greater than ever before. This is the reason for the ever-recurring penetential songs of the Pistis Sophia.

So we understand that, next to yearning for salvation, self-purification is also necessary. One who truly desires to be sanctified will try to do everything possible and even everything impossible to approach this sanctification. You will realize the logic of this. A vigorous self-activity should always prove that the fire of yearning for salvation is chastening. This self-activity will always emanate from the heart and will influence the entire state-of-life. That is why in the School of the Rosycross the necessary purification of the heart is always discussed.

You know of the dismal, negative cravings of those who keep crying for help and praying for assistance for anything and everything in the household of duality. However, man should understand that to reach true Salvation he will have to sacrifice himself and his entire state-of-being. Next to yearning for salvation, the self-sanctification needs to develop.

The Birth of the Soul is, in the first place, the birth of a new astral being. A Soul-being is an astral being that, after having been born, communicates to the blood, the nerve-fluid, the internal secretions and the mental faculty. As soon as something of this new Soul-being enters you a new quality comes into existence. A new Force then circulates through your entire being and influences all your normal human faculties.

The fourth step lies entirely within your reach: to hand over the guidance of your life to the new possibilities within you. That is, you surrender no longer to your ordinary nature, but let the Soul rule your life. A completely-equipped new astral body will reveal itself and the old desire-being will disappear.

In this phase, you are already engaged in Transfiguration. To the same degree that the new development continues, you are dying to the astral sphere of the nature-of-death and at a given moment you no longer even have access to it. You will find no place for your new astral self there. Then the new astral field of the Living Body opens: the stranger in the earthly regions is welcomed into his New Home.

Our previous discussions were particularly meant to explain that such a New House exists, especially-prepared for the young Gnosis through the exertion of many. Consequently, there is no question of a speculation on a 'future' salvation or perhaps an 'imminent' liberation. No, a Home of Liberty exists and everyone can enter it, if only you are willing to use the required Keys and to face the Consequences.

The condition is the possession of the True Soul, demonstrated during your daily-life, a life of consistently applied, practical pupilship, borne by the unmistakable love of mankind.

Every Soul-born man, after having completed his daily tasks, should place his life completely in the sphere of the Soul and consequently, before going to sleep not be pre-occupied with the aspects of duality. In this way the sleep of the body becomes the soberness of the Soul. He who goes to sleep Soul-directed awakens the Soul, makes it conscious. The vibration of the astral self, when going to sleep, determines the nocturnal life and the ensuing day-life.

Those who enter the New Astral Field prepared in this way experience daily, with ever-greater clarity, that the sleep of the body means the awakening of the Soul, involving a true Seeing, and posits a new development that is crowned by the new state-of-consciousness, called in the holy language the 'unfading Crown of Glory'.

From "The Awakening of the Soul (II) - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. 1 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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With these last several posts, you have been offered an important Key. This Key, if diligently applied, will assist and enable the growth of the New Soul that is struggling to be re-born within you. The Divine-Spark has been awakened. It now wishes to complete a divine metamorphosis that it comes by naturally. We can aid this mighty development by putting into practice what we have learned:

By day, live a Soul-directed life. By night, during sleep, bathe in the purifying light-force of the New Astral Field.

A final note: by the "love of mankind", we mean everyone, even those whom one may believe it is alright to "hate" or "not-like". "Love of mankind" means exactly that. The I-being could never love in this way, as it sees itself as separate from all others and "loves" based on what is best for the "I". The Soul-being knows no other way to Love, as it recognizes the sublime truth of the Oneness of Humanity.

~ g