Pymander

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'Those who gave heed to this proclamation and were purified by immersion in the powers of the Spirit, became partakers in the Gnosis, in the living knowledge of God, and, as they had received the Spirit, became perfect men".

The process of reversal, the process of the first baptism, is well-known to you. It has been discussed countless times in the School and explained in detail in our literature. It is the first task of pupilship of the Spiritual School.

Anyone who brings about this reversal in the light-power of the Gnosis, in the light-power of the Universal Gnostic Chain, causes a transmutation of the five soul fluids in the system of his personality. The soul fluids determine the composition and nature of the atoms of which the personality is composed.

It is in this transmutation that the soul is purified and reborn;  a rebirth which especially influences and modifies the head sanctuary, so that the system is opened for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In the Gospel, the beginning of this procedure is referred to as "receiving the sign of the Son of Man", which concerns the transmuting modifications which must take place in the head sanctuary if one is to participate in the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit.

In this way, the candidate is prepared for his meeting with Pymander. Thus the purified soul receives the prize of the perfect souls. It is only when one possesses Pymander that one is truly a man. Only then does one emerge from the animal state. Then, one is a Manas, a thinker in a God-fulfilling sense.

What actually is Pymander? Or the Spirit-Soul? Or the Holy Spirit? Is it possible to distinguish this Spirit when it has manifested itself? Yes, it is possible. The following explanation may be useful.

Seven rays emanate from the Logos, seven activities, seven immense streams of power, which move the entire All. By the word "All", you should understand "primordial substance". The entire universe is filled with primordial substance. This, together with all the life that awakens from it, is moved by seven streams, seven rays, the seven Lords of Fate as they were called by the classical Rosicrucians. All the biological activities of nature, including animal life, are to be explained by the activities of the Seven Rays.

All that takes place in the universe, all that moves and develops, no matter how and where, is subject to a Plan. Everything is awakened and crushed again, everything rises and wanes, including the human kingdom which, apart from its ability to reason, does not differ in any way from the animal kingdom. Everything is subject to a Plan, which is aimed at awakening the possibility of a new development in all of biological life. If this Project fails or cannot as yet succeed, then what has been created is dissolved again to awaken later, out of the womb of eternity, to be given a new possibility.

The Plan of the Logos and its Seven-Spirit concerns the awakening of a new possibility in us all. If this fails we will perish. We are then subject to the law: "You are dust and to dust you shall return". We shall then remain chained to the effects of he wheel of life and death.

The rhythm and periodicity of the Cosmic Days and Nights, of the tidal movements of the All, are controlled and put into effect by the seven rays of the Logos. Thus the seven rays have an elevating effect on the creature. If this process of elevation does not succeed, the creature will be de-natured. "You are dust and to dust you shall return". Animal-man, natural man, is constructed in such a way that he can be elevated and can react positively to the seven rays, in this way rendering de-naturation and death unnecessary. So the prize for the perfect souls is freedom from death.

When the soul purifies and regenerates itself, when it is reborn and carries out the transmutation of the personality in harmony with this soul-birth, then, as a matter of course, the soul man will also be confronted by the seven rays of the Logo in an entirely different way.

As soon as you entrust yourself to the gnostic Light and start to walk the Path, a transmutation, an atomic change will develop in your nature-born state, in the body you now possess, a change which will primarily affect the heart and head sanctuaries. Your head sanctuary will be prepared to receive the Seven-Spirit in a positive way. As soon as the soul has been born, the seven streams of the Seven-Spirit will penetrate the seven cerebral cavities. It is thus obvious that the perfect soul will receive the seven radiations in an entirely different way from that in which the man of nature receives them.

End Part One

From "Receiving  the Holy Grail" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol 2 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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