The World Of The Virgin Spirits

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The 'World of the Virgin Spirits' actually exists, but the entities that dwell there are not virginal as regards Knowledge, experience and spiritual development, they are only virginal as regards sin, crystallization and death. The 'World of the Virgin Spirits'  is the Original world of mankind, as intended in the Divine Plan. It is the order of God, the Kingdom of Heaven (certainly not to be confused with the 'heaven' of exoteric Christians or the 'summerland' of the spiritualists, which we will explain later when discussing the reflection-sphere).

The 'World of the Virgin Spirits' is situated within one of the realms of the planetary cosmos. This cosmos is composed of seven realms of existence which together form one great Sphere. Our world is one of those seven realms.

The Original World of mankind is an everlasting glory. There, mankind fulfills the Divine Plan underlying world and mankind in perfect obedience, which should not be understood in the sense of blind docility or obedience, but as voluntary, conscious cooperation in a free binding of love with God. The dynamic human will, in which the Divine Fire is potentially present, is in harmony with God's will. In this state-of-being man does not wish to use his will power experimentally, speculatively or forcibly. Just imagine the state in which man is in possession of his Original, Divine faculties, so that he is able to speak the Creative Words: "he speaks, and it is so; he commands, and it is".

These faculties are glorious if they develop within the framework of a free binding of love with God, by God's hand. However, if anyone were to use these Divine faculties experimentally, speculatively, or forcibly, a disaster would develop, affecting the whole Universe. A tragedy of this kind is developing now that man, in an experimental urge for self-maintenance, is splitting the atom and thereby misusing the cosmic building materials in an effort to make them subservient to his self-willed objectives.

In using his will in this way, whether unconsciously or in negation of every cosmic tie, man is like a child playing with a hand-grenade. When we realize this we can understand something of the catastrophe brought upon us by the Fall. Man began to use his Divine creative faculties experimentally in self-will and in this way the human will became unbridled, the free will became a misused will: the forces unchained escaped human control.

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From "Involution - Evolution" Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The Great Initiation

This is a re-post. The original post is dated 9 June 2009. Highlights and italics added by this writer. 

From "Secret of the Andes" Brother Philip. G. W. Williamson

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And now we enter this great period of Initiation. The skies of Earth will become fantastic. Through many prophecies that have come to you from other people working throughout the world, you feel that you have an insight into what shall take place; and yet I say verily that pen has not recorded nor voice uttered that which shall become a great sign and display in the skies of Earth, for the Elements themselves will have control for a short period of time. There will be great rainstorms and floods. You have heard how it rained forty days and nights. That is nothing compared to what it will rain. Perhaps it will be forty months. The entire face of the Earth will change. It will be unrecognizable.

Strange creatures shall appear from the depths of the Oceans to the wonderment and bewilderment of Man, creatures many times larger than the largest ocean liners. There shall be plagues and famines. Beasts and creatures unknown shall appear.

The Earth is about ready to become a 'sun' -- not like the Sun of your System -- but it shall be surrounded by a golden corona. It is stepping into a higher rate of vibration. You are going from a three dimensional to a fourth dimensional world. No longer will others be able to see you or your world. This must necessarily take place as you pass through the heart of the great Cosmic Cloud. And then shall the prophecies, as recorded by Joel and many of the others, come true: when the Sun shall turn blood red and the Moon shall be red as the ruby, and the day shall be gone and it shall be dark upon the Earth for a period of two weeks. There shall be much Confusion. And the oxygen will be reduced upon the Earth for a short period, followed by periods of great moisture, baking heat and parched areas alternating with great moisture. Almost everything upon the face of the Earth will be destroyed.

When is this time coming? We are now in it. Each day it grows in Intensity. More of your craft that fly in the air are coming down. Every day you hear of it. More tornadoes! More floods! The Polar caps melting more each day! The water levels rising! Increasing earthquakes!

The Governments of the world are in panic, yet they do not show it outwardly. Beneficial bacteria upon the Earth which you depend upon are dying at a rapid rate, so that you will be exposed more and more to that which is detrimental to your physical form.

As you see that which decays and dies before your eyes, it is because all is being made New. Rejoice that you see these things, for it is your Salvation that draweth nigh, and not your Doom.

And therefore you must tell your fellow-man that the Catastrophes will come, but that they are your Salvation. Rejoice! for the Old passes away.

If Man can release the Old, then he can glimpse a more glorious New. Those who cannot release the Old will have to start again at the Beginning. They shall place their Soul progression back several million years, and once again will have to come up through various forms of Cave Men through thousands of years, even millions, until they develop to this very stage again. And then they shall have the chance once again to accept the new and, if they cannot accept the new, they will go back once again millions of years.

This is not retrogression as it would appear. It is retrogression in the Physical, yet it is progression from the standpoint of Spiritual evolvement, for in the Father's realm, there is no retrogression -- only continual expanding Grandeur.

Yes, those who say Catastrophe comes are true; they speak with Truth; but the Earth shall not end. It shall become new, as it is written. It does not say that the world will end. It says there shall be a "new heaven and a new earth", not a new Earth from the destruction of the old, but a new Earth -- the old made new.

So, tell them the words with which the Elder Brother wishes you to feed his flock. It is the way of the Father. Catastrophe comes so that Man might learn from the Experience. But only the Great and the Beautiful and the Good shall be inherited from it. Out of it, Mankind shall arise Phoenix-like unto his own Golden Glory.

God wishes Man (man that He created) to Rule over his celestial Worlds. He wishes each man to take charge of His worlds. Recognize that each one of your Fellow-men that passes you during the routine of the day -- recognize him as a potential god. For some day, each one, no matter whether they are in your institutions of correction, whether they have gone to your gas chambers, or to the hangman's noose, some day that Soul shall command a Planet, and then a System and then a Galaxy. We are all on the road to that Legacy.

Do not become weary from the routine of the day. Always keep the Goal before you, not the eternal goal, for there is no eternal goal, but keep the Goal of the Moment which shall be an eternal goal, in a sense. Keep it before you, ever shining like a great, golden sun. Turn not your face from its radiance nor its warmth. Stay within it. Let it enshroud you in its Warmth. Go where the Father doth lead. Do what the Father feels is best for you.

For this is the time that you have died Countless times over, for which you have been Crucified, whether you were a man or a man on a Throne.

Accept now your Graduation, and prepare for The Great Initiation.

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~ g
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Archaeocryptography

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What is archaeocryptography? It is a new science, only about 20 years old (~ g: written in 1998), which plots the ancient global positioning of pyramids, earthworks, mounds (I believe you call them moulds and barrows on your side of the Atlantic), temples and henges around the world.

"Archaeo" = prehistoric and "Cryptography" = codification. Yes, I DECODE Pyramids.

Archaeology, since its inception, has been searching for the roots of mankind, with all of its speartips, broken pottery and other hand-made and hand-held artifacts, believes that it has the answer: our ancestors were primitive half-savages.

What I have found is just the opposite: we have been preceded by genius! The fallacy of archaeology is that it relies on written records and when they search back beyond writing, they find nothing. Hence, all earlier peoples were ignorant.

But there is another way of expressing human intelligence...

NUMBERS rule the far side of history!

If that causes fear or doubt, it is understandable. We "moderns" are not conditioned to numbers or simple arithmetic as a viable means of expression. We use writing, French, English, German, Italian, Russian, Bosnian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and all the rest. Quite a mess.

As a result the French cannot understand his moulds, the British his tumuli, the Russian his barrow, the American his mound, the Ecuadorian his tola or the Egyptian his pyramid. Yet, the fact that these ancient monuments occur on a world-wide basis suggests a common language and that common language could only have been numbers, arithmetic or mathematics; the common language of the Universe. Indeed, God's language.

Does anyone remember this ancient arithmetical language? Have we ever found it written down? Only on very rare occasions and when we do, we cannot recognize it because it makes no sense to anyone. We and our progenitors have a language barrier, a very serious one.

Let's begin with England's Stonehenge, which most people are vaguely aware of. History asserts that the Druids built it - because they still use it as a temple. Yet, were the Druids around 10,000 years ago? That's the new formal date awarded the Stonehenge site in the June 1997 issue of English Heritage. Immense antiquity.

What DO we actually know about Stonehenge? Surely, it is a ruins, a complete wreck, with many of its Sarsen stones toppled, broken or missing, and few of its lintels intact. But English archaeologists have verified (from depressions in the ground) that there were originally a total of 30 Sarsens - on top of which there were 30 flat stones (lintels).

That is a grand total of 60 stones on its perimeter, and presented in a perfect 360-degree circle. What did it mean?

By aligning certain of its stones towards the heavens, archaeoastronomers insist that it served as a primitive clock or calendar, and this may indeed have been one of its functions. But, if they had asked its numbers, they would've found something far more awesome!

Did the builders know what "60" meant? According to existing thought, probably not.  People back then were stupid and had no knowledge of numbers - much less arithmetical process.

Were they aware, as we are, that circles (in stone or anything else) comprised 360 degrees of arc? No. They were just circles. Ask yourself that same question. Chances are you won;t believe it's possible either.. After all, you've been taught that such primitive knowledge simply was not available.

Enter archaeocryptography - which doesn't search for the tools of our scratch-building ignorant ancestors but rather indications of intelligence. Here's what it find...

(1)   STONEHENGE:   Take the 60 and 360 and multiply them:

60    x      360    =  21,600



 (a)   Now notice the latitude of Stonehenge as it appears on our own modern maps, specifically the British Pathfinder series of topographical maps - the best we have. Notice that a parallel of latitude bisecting the very center of Stonehenge yields a position of 51 degrees, 10 minutes and 45.35 seconds (51 10' 42.35").

(b)    Notice also that the previous figure, presented by the structure, ENCODES this latitude:

21,600      :       51       :       10'     =   42.35294117"

~ g: The above implies dividing 21,600 by 51 by 10. Now multiply 51 x 10 x 42.35294117 and see what answer you get.

How numbers can speak! There isn't a word written at Stonehenge and yet, there it is: Its numbers speak  -- and very specifically -- to the common language of mapping: degrees, minutes and seconds.

What has Stonehenge explained through its arithmetical language?

(c) That its builders

--  Knew EXACTLY where the equator was located, and still is,
--  Where the true North Pole was - and still is,
--  That they had mastered the science of mapping,
--  That circles did indeed comprise 60 degrees of arc,
--  That they could not only count to sixty but,
--  Could handle the multiplication of numbers,
--  And that if they ever had a written language, they saw no need for expressing it in their monuments.

And it wasn't necessary anyway, was it? We DID find the message!

It sure looks awesome on paper, doesn't it? Genius from a time before time -- in pre-Celtic England, no less.

From "Preface" - Whispers Before Time - Carl P. Munck

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It is the monuments themselves that encode this information. In this example, it was encoded in the number of stones and their geometry. In other monuments, it is the geometric shape, number of sides, stairsteps, etc. that can be used to determined latitude.

The above post deals with encoding and decoding latitude (east-west). Determining longitude (north-south) requires an extra step, as the Prime Meridian of the ancients was not the same as the one recognized today in Greenwich, England. The following is taken from "Code of the Ancients"

"One of Munck's major discoveries was his re-discovery of "our" (?) original prime meridian for longitude measurement. He determined that the prime meridian for this 'geomath matrix' passes directly through the center of The Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt. So, we adjust our longitude (east or west, according to the site we are working with) by 31 deg 08 min 0.8 sec . . . the exact longitude distance between the current Greenwich, England prime meridian and the center of The Great Pyramid ".

This 31 degree variance must be used when calculating longitudes for ancient monuments, as you will see in the excellent examples presented below:

Kukulkan

The Nazca Lines

The Bent Pyramid

The point of posting this is to share with others something this writer came across many years ago in the early stages of seeking. It indicated several things:

a. at least a portion of ancient humanity were not "ignorant savages"
b. a very high intelligence existed on earth in deep antiquity
c. present-day archaeologists are either fools, incompetents or are purposely suppressing this information

The origins of these high intelligences were not "extra"-terrestrial -- at least not in the manner in which that word is understood by today's humanity. Perhaps more on that later.

This information doesn't serve to bring anyone closer to Final Liberation. It's just one of those little-known secrets kept from us that deserves to be shared, for whatever it's worth.

~ g
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The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception

Written by an inspired Max Heindel at the turn of the previous century, this book is almost required reading for the true Seeker. Affectionately known as The Cosmo, it provides information essential to understanding all realms of the physical world, from the gross to the subtle.

Although the ultimate goal is to leave this nature-order, it is always helpful to expand one's knowledge of certain aspects of it. That said, the links below are provided without obligation. You, yourself will be the judge of what is presented. You will decide what to do with the information provided.

In general, The Cosmo endeavors to answer the following questions:

Whence have we come?

Why are we here?

Whither are we going?

If the book is approached with a clear and open mind, you are guaranteed to derive significant and lasting value from it. Keep in mind that the book was written in the early 1900's, so there are items that are presented in a veiled state, primarily because the average human-being of that time was not at a level of development that would allow him or her to be confronted with certain truths in their raw form. Still there is much here that is informative and helpful. Many of the diagrams used in this blog ("The Seven Worlds", "Average Life-Cycle of a Human Being", "777", etc.) are taken from the Cosmo.

In closing, the cosmology chronicled by the Cosmo was not invented by Max Heindel, nor does it "belong" to any one group. It is as old as humanity. Heindel was chosen to disseminate it to the Western world in his era, just as others were chosen to spread the word in the epochs preceding him and in the century that succeeded him. The Knowledge is constant, only the messengers change.

Two links are available, a hyper-link and a .pdf link. Both contain the full Cosmo.

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (web version)

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (pdf version)

all love,

~ g
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The Etheric Region Of The Physical World



The Seven Worlds

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The Four Ethers

To the trained clairvoyant, ether is as tangible as are the solids, liquids, and gases of the Chemical Region to ordinary beings. He sees that the vital forces which give life to the mineral forms of plant, animal and man flow into these forms, by means of the four states of ether. The names and specific functions of these four ethers are as follows.

(1) Chemical Ether

—This ether is both positive and negative in its manifestation. The forces which cause assimilation and excretion work through it. Assimilation is the process whereby the different nutritive elements of food are incorporated into the body of plant, animal and man. This is carried on by forces with which we shall become acquainted later. They work along the positive pole of the chemical ether and attract the needed elements, building them into the forms concerned. These forces do not act blindly nor mechanically, but in a selective way (well known to scientists by its effects) thereby accomplishing their purpose, which is the growth and maintenance of the body.

Excretion is carried on by forces of the same kind, but working along the negative pole of the chemical ether. By means of this pole they expel from the body the materials in the food which are unfit for use, or those which have outlived their usefulness in the body and should be expurgated from the system. This, like all other processes independent of man's volition, is also wise, selective, and not merely mechanical in its operation, as seen, for instance, in the case of the action of the kidneys, where only the urine is filtered through when the organs are in health; but it is known that when the organs are not in health, the valuable albumen is allowed to escape with the urine, the proper selection not being made because of an abnormal condition

(2) Life Ether

—As the chemical ether is the avenue for the operation of the forces the object of which is the maintenance of the individual form, so the life ether is the avenue for the operation of the forces which have for their object the maintenance of the species—the forces of propagation.

Like the chemical ether, the life ether also has its positive and negative pole. The forces which work along the positive pole are those which work in the female during gestation. They enable her to do the positive, active work of bringing forth a new being. On the other hand the forces which work along the negative pole of the life ether enable the male to produce semen.

In the work on the impregnated ovum of the animal and man, or upon the seed of the plant, the forces working along the positive pole of the life ether produce male plants, animals and men; while the forces which express themselves through the negative pole generate females.

(3) Light Ether

—This ether is both positive and negative, and the forces which play along its positive pole are the forces which generate the blood heat in the higher species of animal and in man, which makes them individual sources of heat. The forces which work along the negative pole of the light ether are those which operate through the senses, manifesting as the passive functions of sight, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling. They also build and nourish the eye.

In the cold-blooded animals the positive pole of the light ether is the avenue of the forces which circulate the blood, and the negative forces have the same functions in regard to the eye as in the case of the higher animals and man. Where eyes are lacking, the forces working in the negative pole of the light ether are perhaps building or nourishing other sense organs, as they do in all that have sense organs.

In plants the forces which work along the positive pole of the light ether cause the circulation of the juices of the plant. Thus in winter, when the light ether is not charged with sunlight as in summer, the sap ceases to flow until the summer sun again invests the light ether with its force. The forces which work along the negative pole of the light ether deposit the chlorophyll, the green substance of the plant and also color the flowers. In fact, all color, in all the kingdoms is deposited by means of the negative pole of the light ether. Therefore animals have the deepest color on the back and flowers are deepest colored on the side turned towards the light. In the polar regions of the earth, where the rays of the sun are weak, all color is lighter and in some cases is so sparingly deposited that in winter it is withdrawn altogether and the animals become white.

(4) Reflecting Ether

—It has heretofore been stated that the idea of the house which has existed in the mind can be recovered from the memory of nature, even after the death of the architect. Everything that has ever happened has left behind it an ineffaceable picture in this reflecting ether. As the giant ferns of the childhood of the Earth have left their pictures in the coal beds, and as the progress of the glacier of a bygone day may be traced by means of the trail it has left upon the rocks along its path, even so are the thoughts and acts of men ineffaceably recorded by nature in this reflecting ether, where the trained seer may read their story with an accuracy commensurate with his ability.

The reflecting ether deserves its name for more than one reason, for the pictures in it are but reflections of the memory of nature. The real memory of nature is found in a much higher realm. In this reflecting ether no thoroughly trained clairvoyant cares to read, as the pictures are blurred and vague compared to those found in the higher realm. Those who read in the reflecting ether are generally those who have no choice, who, in fact, do not know in what they are reading. As a rule ordinary psychometrists and mediums obtain their knowledge through the reflecting ether. To some slight extent the pupil of the occult school in the first stages of his training also reads in the reflecting ether, but he is warned by his teacher of the insufficiencies of this ether as a means of acquiring accurate information, so that he does not easily draw wrong conclusions.

This ether is also the medium through which thought makes an impression upon the human brain. It is most intimately connected with the fourth subdivision of the World of Thought. This is the highest of the four subdivisions contained in the Region of Concrete Thought and is the homeworld of the human mind. There a much clearer version of the memory of nature is found than in the reflecting ether.

From 'THE ETHERIC REGION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD" - The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception - Max Heindel

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Solids, liquids and gases are tangible physical substances that we can see or experience with our physical senses. However, subtler than the lightest gas is the substance known as ether. It's existence has been denied for centuries by the "scientific" community. All the better to keep mankind fettered in chains of abject Ignorance.

The existence of these ethers are a fact that can be ascertained by anyone who independently and objectively studies the matter. What's more, there are cosmic substances even more subtle than these four ethers, but perhaps it is best to first crawl before walking.

Next: The Cosmo

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The New Call - Backup Website

The New Call group was the most recent, sincere and earnest effort to spread the ancient Gnostic message at the end of this current Age. Unfortunately, the group is no longer active. Their website was taken down a couple of years ago. i came across a backup version of the website at www.archive.org not long ago. You may gain access via the hyperlink below.

The New Call

Key points of interest are:

Q & A Section (a must-read)

Rare Insights (necessary insights into the mankind's true state-of-being)

e-books ('The New Call", "Servers of the Divine Plan")

Some parts of the archive may not be accessible. However, most of it appears to be there.

all love,

~ g
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Someone Famous Died Today

It happens every day, everywhere in the world. Someone famous, wealthy, powerful or notable dies. Obituaries, biographies and testimonials pour forth. The deceased is remembered in the most favorable light, if at all possible.

Heads of state, popular entertainers, sports figures, politicians, scientists, religious and cultural leaders, etc. Every day, human beings who have accomplished "great" things by human standards pass on from this world.

Tragic? Depends on your definition of tragedy. Is it tragic to earn earthly fame and accolades, only to leave it all behind? Perhaps. Is it tragic to spend one's life chasing the earthly rabbits of wealth, fame, power and love, only to have it all crumble to dust in the end? Perhaps.

The ultimate tragedy is for anyone, great or small, to die without having obtained the One Thing Needful - Gnosis.

Thousands of people will die today. Tragically, they will die in Ignorance, doomed to yet another incarnation in the earthly vale of tears.

Do not allow this to become your fate, as well. Grasp this opportunity to break the cycle of ignorance so that when you transition, you will not return to the sham-heaven of the reflection-sphere, but will journey instead to the Realm of Light, the True Reality, where a place has been prepared for you.

~ g
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The Coming New Man

 

 

Get this book. Less than twenty dollars (US) on Amazon. You've spent more on less.

 

Below, an excerpt from the opening of Chapter One. Highlights and italics are mine.

 

~ g

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Perhaps you are familiar with various occult or ethnological speculations concerning the advent of a new human race on this earth and the nature and character of this race. Indeed, new human races have repeatedly emerged and disappeared over the course of millennia of years. Future dualistic manifestations (i.e., material worlds) will certainly prove no exception to this.

There are regions on our planet which can quite rightly be termed melting-pots of peoples. It is from such melting-pots that new races emerge in 'time' after undergoing much cleansing.

When cosmic revolutions occur (i.e., the end of a major world cycle), whole continents disappear and many other catastrophes terminate the lives of countless people, there are always individuals who escape and in some cases are deliberately brought to safety in advance: that is to say, they are transferred to safe regions. It is from such 'last remnants' of dualistic mankind that new races are cultivated. They offer all who perished in a cosmic revolution an opportunity to reincarnate.

No doubt you will have read fragmentary accounts of re-populations of our globe after its cleansing. Myriad legends and myths deal with this. We need to recall the story of Noah who, after escaping the flood, finds solid ground on Mount Ararat and along with his family, lays the foundation of another world-populace. We find the tale of Noah, in one form or another, in the myths of nearly every people.

Thus, the wheel of time revolves through the years, centuries and aeons; and Ecclesiastes rightly says: 'Is there anything of which one can say, See, this is new? It has already been, in the ages before us'; the same is true of the coming and going of human races. These are not essentially 'new', in the literal sense, but are older races or mixtures of them which return.

It is always the same things, facts and people, which in the constant revolutions of duality, measure up to current events. When we speak to you about the coming new man, you will immediately sense that we have no intention of informing you about a coming dualistic human race. As already stated, in its dualistic manifestation every new race already existed in bygone ages, so it is folly to call them 'new'. Even if they were new, such a racial manifestation would be meaningless to us. For we strive after liberation from the endless peregrinations through 'time', for the original life of the Kingdom of God which is not of this world.

We draw your attention to the fact that the pure, absolute Holy Language, too, contains statements relating to a new human race, in a special sense. This new race is known by various names. Sometimes we read of the coming of the people of God, sometimes of the Una Sancta, a Holy Brotherhood, etc. You will know all this but it is necessary to understand it correctly to avoid all sorts of errors.

There is a Holy Brotherhood, the Universal Brotherhood, the Brotherhood of the Original Kingdom, but the above-mentioned allusions in the Bible do not apply to this Brotherhood. No, our attention is drawn to the formation of an entirely new Brotherhood, an entirely new Una Sancta.

In order to obtain the right idea, let us consider the relevant problems from the point of view of time and space. We then see the dualistic-material world and mankind on one side, and the Kingdom of God with its inhabitants on the other. Separating these two worlds is a gaping chasm unbridgeable in time and space. Flesh and blood of the ordinary dualistic-material nature cannot cross this abyss. This is why, in the dualistic world-order, everything rotates like a wheel, continually returning, incessantly repeating.

We know that the Brotherhood of  'the other Kingdom' continually struggles to redeem fallen and captive humanity. Many people in this world react seriously and devotedly to the suggestions of the Universal Brotherhood. We do not know the exact number but they certainly exist. We do not know in which countries they live or to which peoples and nations they belong, but it is almost certain that people who thus react are to be found in practically every country.

All these people, from that immense variety of countries and nations, will, at a certain moment in world history, be drawn from those countries and from all directions, to form one community, a very special, exclusive race. It will not bear the characteristics of some region of this earth, but be lifted from the doom of the dualistic-material rotating wheel and achieve the miracle of leaping the unbridgeable abyss to the lost Fatherland. It is to this new community in genesis that the Holy Language refers.

Since the moment for the formation of such a race has come in our time, it is our duty to draw your attention to the fact. We must establish how all this will be accomplished and study various aspects of this wonderful development. We firstly intend to approach this exceptional wondrous manifestation and development of a totally new, non-dualistic type of man in this dualistic-material world from the mystical-philosophical angle. We shall then investigate how all this can be realised and which consequences we may ultimately expect.

From "The Coming New Man" - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The Spiral Path

With the rollover to a another 365-day cycle, man looks ahead expectantly, at least for a moment. He dreams of all the things that he wishes to accomplish in the new cycle, and tries to imagine what will be different this time around. What does earth-life have in store for him? Can he make his earth-bound dreams a reality?

Before answering those questions, it will perhaps be helpful to understand what a cycle is. In layman's terms, a cycle is a full 360-degree revolution which ends where it begins. An expansion on this can be found in man's definition of a cycle:

cycle

- any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated
- a round of years or a recurring period of time, especially one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.

Did you detect a theme in the above definition?

Our years are simply 365-day cycles that repeat themselves over and over ad infinitum. Nothing really changes. The seasons will turn, on schedule, with each alternating solstice and equinox. Man's routines will remain the same: planting in spring, growth in summer, harvesting in autumn and hibernation in winter. He will do the same things on the same days at the same time of year as in years prior. Rising, shining and fading will proceed with clockwork precision and predictability.

The thing about a cycle is that it is a closed circuit. There can be little or no change manifested by something that revolves in an endless circle. Using a bicycle tire as a crude analogy, we'll find that the only thing one can expect from millions of turns of the wheel is a constant wearing-down that leads to a structural weakening of the tire, eventually ending in a blow-out.

So what can man expect of the "new" year? More of the same, unfortunately. Oh, there my be some microscopic growth in the life of the individual, but it will be almost hard to detect.  One may get a new job, new car, new house, but that is not true growth. What of the person? Has the entity made any progress in pursuit of the One Goal of Humanity?

Perhaps now would be a good time to look at the definition of a spiral.

spiral

- coiling around a fixed axis in a constantly changing series of planes; helical.
- to advance or increase steadily; rise

Again, there is a theme here, one that is in complete opposition to that found in the definition of a circle.

A spiral is a path of growth. Like a circle, it is a revolution around a fixed point. Unlike a circle, it is not a revolution on a flat plane. Each point in a spiral is plotted just beyond the preceding point. This results in an forward-upward movement. A key feature is this: the spiral also has a start-end point, meaning that it ends where it began, but due to the helical motion mentioned above, the new spiral always begins on a higher plane than the previous spiral.

So how does one pursue this spiral growth? He or she must embark on a new Path. Not one that revolves in constant repetition, but a Path that leads one from power to power and from glory to glory. Most human beings are content with the cyclic path, the path of the masses, as it offers no surprises. They know what to expect, more or less. They can pursue their desire to experience the same things over and over again. Let's face it, how much does Christmas or New Year's change over time? Man does the same things every year, like a cuckoo wired to pop out of a clock when the hour strikes. That is not living. It is a zombie-like existence, masquerading as "life".

When one begins to seek The Way Out, he approaches the Spiral Path. When one discovers and understands the doctrine of the two nature-orders, he stands at the doorstep of the Spiral Path. When one makes the voluntary decision to forsake the material world, choosing to be in the world but not of the world,  one can begin to walk the Spiral Path, the Path of Liberation; the Path of Return.

Resolve this year to abandon the cycle of death and climb aboard the Spiral of True Life.

~ g
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