Stay Out Of The Churches (and Temples, and Mosques, and...)

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It is relevant to this discussion to dwell for a moment on the dangers of natural religion that may threaten the Seeker. Natural religion applies a certain kind of magic, which is not Christian in the sense of having been given by Jesus Christ, for it has been taken over from pre-Christian cults, particularly from brahminism. Brahminism, in turn, derived this magic from still older cults, which had received it from ancient Atlantis.

This magic is a caricature of the magic of the ancient king-priests of the First Period, when the whole of mankind was still under the guidance of true magicians and man did not yet possess an autonomous thinking faculty. It is applied by a group that does not possess a Spiritual School and by priests who do not have inner Knowledge. The aim of this magic is to raise a spiritual construction and so to build a power-field with a certain vibration.

This seems very fine indeed, but a power-field has no liberating value unless it is built up and maintained consciously and voluntarily by all those who participate in it. However, natural religion, if it lasts long enough, results in absolute sterilization according to the spirit and soul. Therefore, all ancient magic is a great danger for modern man.

What happens through this kind of magic? By ritual, sung and spoken in a dead language, by specially-prepared music, by perfumes, by the mudras of priests and by magnetized waters and other preparations, the faithful are brought into a trance-like state, a state of negativity of the consciousness. In this state, fluids (ethers) are drawn from the vital bodies of the faithful by means of which power-fields are built up by nature-spirits (which are called "angels" but in fact are not). Just as a medium is connected with his control-spirit, so the faithful, after a few of these magic applications, are bound with their entire being; and it takes a tremendous effort to escape from this grip. In regions and countries where such magic can be applied without disturbance, backwardness, primitiveness and terrible social conditions prevail.

By means of this magic, natural religion even lays hold of the children in the family, binding them from the time of their birth, and it accompanies its flock until the hours of death. When death approaches, it even ensures their captivity afterwards, because on the other side of the grave, the natural hierarchy is just as well-organized and strong and has just as much power over its prisoners as it does here. It receives the dead who, due to the magic for the dying, are spiritually deaf, blind and unable to gain any consciousness of the True Light; and when the time comes it seals their microcosms back to the field of material manifestation in a state of almost unbreakable imprisonment. The bondage is thus complete and in this way the herd is kept in existence.

The herd is enlarged by means of missionary work. The primitive methods of missionaries, with their mass baptisms, mass communions and processions, often move the unknowing to laughter. However, it is no laughing matter, for these are serious mass deprivations of liberty, before the very eyes of all mankind.

We ought also to mention that certain natural-religious groups emanating from occultism imitate this kind of magic. They know that it is ancient and dangerous, but they nevertheless use it in the belief that it can be made beneficial. However, this is a great error.

Magic is liberating only if it is applied from within, from inner Knowledge, in selfless service; when it is an act of the new will ignited in God. Magic, liberating magic, must be based on an inner quality. Those who have sufficient awareness and have risen above the herd-animal are no longer entirely open to the magic applied by natural occultism. Such groups therefore have to lead a somewhat limited existence.

These natural-religious creations of movements that were originally occult have reached the end of their potential. To justify their continued existence, they need a total, fundamental re-orientation and a living binding with the task of those with Remembrance. It is our heartfelt wish that they may have such an orientation.

"The New World Brotherhood and the Dangers of the Church" Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Perhaps now, one can perceive a glimmer of insight into why, during the past age, the catholic church and other major natural-religions have expended so much effort and shed so much blood in attempting to gain as many converts as possible. Venturing into bush and jungle to forcibly convert so-called 'savages" to the christian faith. That was once the prime directive of the Jesuit order, who knew of this magic and therefore knew exactly what they were doing. Hence their zeal and dedication to the task of "gathering souls". In addition, the Church crushed with extreme prejudice any and all who followed the Light, knew the Truth and therefore opposed and worked to expose the evil masquerade.

Constant exposure to earth-bound religions will condition the astral body of a human-being to conform to a certain rate of vibration. That person's thinking, willing and desiring will, of course, be in line with that vibration. The worst of it is, at the moment of death, the newly-deceased takes that astral-state into the reflection-sphere. As has been repeated in this blog on numerous occasions (because we do not want to forget) "like attracts like". Those who have taken their natural-religious state into the natural "hereafter" will find themselves guided or led to enormous cathedrals or temples or mosques of indescribable beauty and stature. They will climb the crystal stairs be-decked with gold and jewels of every description. Choirs with angelic voices will serenade them as they walk past. Upon reaching the enormous doors that will open before them, they will cry tears of utter joy as they enter the mighty edifice. The majestic doors will then slowly close behind them and it's...Gotcha!

That soul becomes a prisoner of the aeon of Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Protestantism, etc. Their soul energy will be used in service to that aeonic power. Bound in this fashion, they will be forced, upon their return to earth-life, to be born into a Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant family, or whatever natural-religion they were caught up in when they passed on from the previous life. The circuit of imprisonment is neatly closed.

Stay out of the churches. There is great danger there. Far more danger than can be imagined.

"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28

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