Chrysalis

When it is revealed that one's microcosm is in possession of a "spirit-spark atom", the sole remnant of a Divine existence that contains within it all of the potentialities required to transform man into god-man, skepticism and disbelief are apt to follow. How can one tiny, microscopic atom effect a total change from a mundane, earthly personality to one that is glorified and immortal? Come, now!

But it is true. Ridicule and scorn can never tarnish Truth. Man cheats himself by refusing to think outside the box. Instead, he chooses to remain trapped in the mental prison that the aeons of this nature have erected for him. If he would dedicate himself to seeking Right Knowledge, if he would listen to the Silent Voice Within, instead of his arrogant and under-developed mental faculty, perhaps he would begin to see the simplicity of the Miracle That Lies Within.

One has but to look at the example that was left for us to contemplate in the natural world. The wonderful mystery of the caterpillar's metamorphosis from lowly, ground-bound grub to magnificently colored and delicate butterfly. How is such a feat accomplished? We know it speaks to the glory of the Logos but the whys and hows of it leave us speechless.

The following from LRC's Pentagram #4, 2012:

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...I am fascinated by the image of the caterpillar that becomes a butterfly. The profound truth that what you receive does not become valuable until you are able to use it in the right way, can be seen very clearly in this. The purpose of the caterpillar is to consume the plant on which it lives. It does not look left or right and does not see sun or horizon. It has no time for this kind of nonsense. It keeps its eager glance focused on the indirect sunlight that is contained in the leaf; it wants to have as much of it as possible. This eagerness reminds me of something: my insatiable hunger for knowledge, truth, excitement, mystical experiences and wisdom. Just think of the countless leaves in our bookcase.

A caterpillar eats until it is filled. Not until then does a change in its pattern of life begin: it no longer eats, but it begins to digest its food. First, it spins and weaves a mantle around itself, the cocoon, in which it withdraws. Then, hidden from the eyes of the outside world, the caterpillar now enters a peculiar process.

Only very few people are aware that, before a magnificent butterfly breaks out of the cocoon, a tremendous struggle is fought inside. The old form must be completely demolished and, indeed, a truly new body must be built. The immune system of the caterpillar violently resists this strange transmutation of cells. It does anything to preserve the caterpillar. Only if it gives up the hopeless struggle, can the transformation of cells continue unhindered. Nothing remains of the caterpillar, except a shapeless, small heap. And exactly one cell contains the building plan of the butterfly, on which basis the completely new body is built.

Then I understood.

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Everything is brought forth from a single seed. From plant to man, all begins as an image, a matrix, encased in a single seed or atom. The seed-atom matrix of an oak tree contains everything that is required to produce a mighty adult oak. The seed-atom matrix of a human embryo contains everything that is required to produce an adult human being. The matrix of the Spirit-Spark atom, our Divinve Spark, contains everything that is required to transfigure the lowly human being into a Divine Child of God.

None should think that such a miracle, such an alchemical event, is impossible. Nothing is impossible in God's Creation! You have but to contemplate the example of the humble caterpillar to get an inkling of that.

Now ponder this: if something as small and seemingly insignificant as a caterpillar is allowed to undergo such a beautiful metamorphosis, imagine how much more can be accomplished by the human personality who takes it upon himself or herself to walk the Path that leads to True Life.

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The Paradise Curse

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There is a world of Absolute Being and also a world of relativity, a relativity, which proves itself in the finiteness of every thing. Finiteness means instability, breaking up, and breaking up means grief, pain, disease and death.

This world of finiteness is our world! It is this earthly 'vale of tears' in which grief, pain, disease and death are our everyday experiences. All these phenomena of the breaking up of life, together with all the forms of suffering resulting from it, belong to the essence of this order of existence, and therefore, are inseparably tied to this world and can never be overcome by the means of this world. Consequently, suffering and the breaking up of life by various forms of disease will be our lot as long as we are children of this world.

This factual situation immediately connects us with the Paradise Curse, in which the whole nature of our order of existence, of this world of broken-ness, is laid down. The fact that we are in this field of existence results from our violation of the Universal Laws of Life. Man, before the Fall, was still divine and lived in the Light of the Absolute Being. As it is expressed in the Holy Language, 'he walked in the Light', which means that he knew and possessed the life of the Order of God, of the 'Kingdom of Heaven'. He was then called therein to a revelation of Life in ever-increasing glory, in a system of vehicles, in a corporeality which enabled him to completely do so.

Thus, in accordance with the two absolutely separated orders of nature, there are also two manifestations of man. One which has remained loyal to the Divine Laws of Life and accordingly lives and is in the Universal Light, the other, our part of mankind, going the path of broken-ness, the way of descent and degeneration. That is what is stated and meant by the Paradise Curse!

Does this simply that our existence here should be looked upon as a punishment for being sinful? No! Because, as creatures of this nature, we harmonize entirely with the laws of existence of this nature.

Must we then see it as though we were living in an accursed world? No! Because this world also behaves entirely in accord with its nature.

To arrive at a correct understanding of these questions we must begin to see these things upon a larger scale and understand that this world and the manifestation of man living in it, both originated from the breaking of the Universal Cosmic Laws of Life and are not included in God's Plan.

They are absolutely in disharmony with the Divine Intention as regards this world and mankind and, therefore, do not co-vibrate in God's Plan.

This world and this mankind are not in harmony with the Intercosmic Radiation (g: Christos).

This is the cause of the broken-ness of our existence.
This is the cause of all grief, pain, disease and death.
This is the heart of the matter in question!

When there is a body within a radiation-field that does not belong there and that is alien to the nature of this field, then this radiation-field will either remove the alien body or break it up incessantly.

The Paradise Curse, therefore, is no damnation, nor is it an interpretation of wrath or despair, because God, the Universal Spirit of Perfect Harmony, Love and Light, does not punish nor is He wrathful.The Paradise Curse is nothing more than a statement of scientific fact!

When, by violating the Universal Cosmic Laws, a group of entities call into existence a world order differing from the Plan of God (the Revelation of the Logos), then, from that moment onward, a disharmony is caused with the Intercosmic Radiation, with the working of the Light-Power of the Logos which bears and maintains the whole Creation. And every disharmony causes demolition with grief, pain, disease and death as the direct result.

Therefore, every disease, every disharmony, is the direct proof that this nature is not included in God's Plan, and disharmony with the Intercosmic Radiation means demolition and consequently -- disease. On the other hand, harmony with the Intercosmic Radiation will mean eternal building, eternal advancing from glory to glory -- a realization of God's Plan.

From "The Problem of Cancer" Jan van Rijckenborgh

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To be repeated as often as is necessary: there are two separate nature orders, two universes. One is fallen, the other Divine. We are trapped in the fallen nature order, without a clue as to how to escape. Sadly, many don't even think of escape. Instead, they try to think of ways to make this world 'better'.

This world cannot be made a 'better' place. There will never be 'peace' on an earth that is governed by the laws of duality. Earthly 'love' is an illusion, at once both selfish and possessive. Man will only be truly free when he realizes that this world is not the world that he wants to be in. When finally he is struck by Remembrance and begins to long for his Divine Home, only then will all the dreams he ever had begin to come true, by the grace of the Logos, in the Light of The All.

~ g
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The Star Within

Know, O man, that Light is thine heritage,

Know that Darkness is only a veil.

Sealed in thine heart is a Brightness eternal,

waiting the moment of freedom to conquer,

waiting to rend the veil of the Night.

 

Man is a Star bound to a body,

until in the end, he is freed through his strife.

Only by struggling and toiling thy utmost

shall the Star within thee bloom out in New Life.

 

Fragment from The Emerald Tablets

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Emerald Tablet IX

 

The Key To Freedom of Space

List ye, O man, hear ye my voice,
teaching of Wisdom and Light in this cycle;
teaching ye how to banish the darkness,
teaching ye how to bring Light in thy life.

Seek ye, O man, to find the great pathway
that leads to eternal LIFE as a SUN.
Draw ye away from the veil of the darkness.
Seek to become a Light in the world.
Make of thyself a vessel for Light,
a focus for the Sun of this space.

Lift thou thine eyes to the Cosmos.
Lift thou thine eyes to the Light.
Speak in the words of the Dweller,
the chant that calls down the Light.
Sing thou the song of freedom.
Sing thou the song of the Soul.
Create the high vibration
that will make thee One with the Whole.
Blend all thyself with the Cosmos.
Grow into ONE with the Light.
Be thou a channel of order,
a pathway of LAW to the world.

Thy LIGHT, O man, is the great LIGHT,
shining through the shadow of flesh.
Free must thou rise from the darkness
before thou art One with the LIGHT.

Shadows of darkness surround thee.
Life fills thee with its flow.
But know, O man, thou must arise
and forth thy body go
far to the planes that surround thee
and yet are One with thee, too.

Look all around thee, O man.
See thine own light reflected.
Aye, even in the darkness around thee,
thine own Light pours forth through the veil.

Seek thou for wisdom always.
Let not thine body betray.
Keep in the path of the Light wave.
Shun thou the darkened way.
Know thee that wisdom is lasting.
Existing since the ALL-SOUL began,
creating harmony from by the
Law that exists in the WAY.

List ye, o man, to the teachings of wisdom.
List to the voice that speaks of the past-time.
Aye, I shall tell thee Knowledge forgotten,
tell ye of wisdom hidden in past-time,
lost in the midst of darkness around me.

Know ye, man,
ye are the ultimate of all things.
Only the Knowledge of this is forgotten,
lost when man was cast into bondage,
bound and fettered
by the chains of the darkness.

Long, long ago, I cast off my body.
Wandered I free
through the vastness of ether,
circled the angles
that hold man in bondage.
Know ye, O man, ye are only a spirit.
The body is nothing.
The Soul is ALL.
Let not your body be a fetter.
Cast off the darkness and travel in Light.
Cast off your body, O man, and be free,
truly a Light that is ONE with the Light.

When ye are free from the fetters of darkness
and travel in space as the SUN of the LIGHT,
then ye shall know that space is not boundless
but truly bounded by angles and curves.
Know ye, O man, that all that exists
is only an aspect of greater things yet to come.
Matter is fluid and flows like a stream,
constantly changing from one thing to another.

All through the ages has Knowledge existed;
never been changed, though buried in darkness;
never been lost, though forgotten by man.

Know ye that throughout the space that ye dwell in
are others as great as your own,
interlaced through the heart of your matter
yet separate in space of their own.

Once in a time long forgotten,
I, THOTH, opened the doorway,
penetrated into other spaces
and learned of the secrets concealed.
Deep in the essence of matter
are many mysteries concealed.

Nine are the interlocked dimensions,
and Nine are the cycles of space.
Nine are the diffusions of consciousness,
and Nine are the worlds within worlds.
Aye, Nine are the Lords of the cycles
that come from above and below.

Space is filled with concealed ones,
for space is divided by time.
Seek ye the key to the time-space,
and ye shall unlock the gate.
Know ye that throughout the time-space
consciousness surely exist.
Though from our knowledge it is hidden,
yet still forever exists.

The key to worlds within thee
are found only within.
For man is the gateway of mystery
and the key that is One with the One.

Seek ye within the circle.
Use the WORD I shall give.
Open the gateway within thee,
and surely thou, too, shall live.
Man, ye think that ye liveth,
but know it is life within death.
For as sure as ye are bound to your body,
for you no life exists.
Only the Soul is space-free,
has life that is really a life.
All else is only a bondage,
a fetter from which to be free.

Think not that man is earth-born,
though come from the earth he may be.
Man is light-born spirit.
But, without knowing, he can never be free.
Darkness surrounds the light-born.
Darkness fetters the Soul.
Only the one who is seeking
may ever hope to be free.

Shadows around thee are falling
darkness fills all the space
Shine forth, O LIGHT of the man-soul.
Fill thou the darkness of space.

Ye are son of the GREAT LIGHT
Remember and ye shall be free.
Stay not thou in the shadows.
Spring forth from the darkness of night
Light, let thy Soul be, O SUN-BORN,
fill with glory of Light,
Freed from the bonds of the darkness,
a Soul that is One with the Light.

Thou art the key to all wisdom.
Within thee is all time and space.
Live not in bondage to darkness.
Free thou, thy Light-form from night.

Great Light that fills all the Cosmos,
flow thou fully to man.
Make of his body a light-torch
that shall never be quenched among men.

Long in the past, sought I wisdom,
Knowledge not known to man.
Far to the past, I traveled
into the space where time began.
Sought I ever-new Knowledge
to add to the wisdom I knew.
Yet only, I found, did the future
hold the key to the wisdom I thought.

Down, to the HALLS of AMENTI
I journeyed, the greater Knowledge to seek.
Ask of thee, LORDS of the CYCLES,
they way to the wisdom I sought.
Asked the LORDS this question:
Where is the source of ALL?
Answered, in tones that were mighty,
the voice of the LORD of the NINE:
Free thou thy soul from thy body
and come forth with me to the LIGHT.

Forth I came from my body,
a glittering flame in the night.
Stood I before the LORD,
bathed in the fire of LIFE.
Seized was I then by a force,
great beyond knowledge of man.
Cast was I to the Abyss
through spaces unknown to man.

Saw I the moldings of Order
from the chaos and angles of night.
Saw I the LIGHT, spring from Order
and heard the voice of the Light.
Saw I the flame of the Abyss,
casting forth Order and Light.
Saw Order spring out of chaos.
Saw Light giving forth Life.

Then heard I the voice.
Hear thou and understand.
The flame is the source of all things,
containing all things in potentiality.
The Order that sent forth light
is the WORD and from the WORD,
COME LIFE and the existence of all.

And again spoke the voice saying:
THE LIFE in thee is the WORD.
Find thou the LIFE within thee
and have powers to use of the WORD.

Long I watched the Light-flame,
pouring forth from the Essence of Fire,
realizing that LIFE is but Order
and that man is one with the Fire.

Back I came to my body
stood again with the Nine,
listened to the voice of the Cycles,
vibrate with powers they spoke:
Know ye, O Thoth, that LIFE
is but the WORD of the FIRE.
The LIFE force ye seek before thee
is but the WORD in the World as a fire.
Seek ye the path to the WORD and Powers
shall surely be thine.

Then asked I of the Nine:
O Lord, show me the path.
Give the path to the wisdom.
Show me the way to the WORD.
Answered, me then,
the LORD OF THE NINE:
Through ORDER, ye shall find the way.
Saw ye that the WORD came from Chaos?
Saw ye not that LIGHT came from FIRE?

Look in thy life for this order.
Balance and order thy life.
Quell all the Chaos of the emotions
and thou shalt have order in LIFE.
ORDER brought forth from Chaos
will bring thee the WORD of the SOURCE,
will bring thee the power of CYCLES,
and make of thy Soul a force that
free, will extend through the ages,
a perfect SUN from the Source.

Listened I to the voice
and deep thanked the words in my heart.
Forever have I sought for order
that I might draw on the WORD.
Know ye that he who attains it
must ever in ORDER be, for use
of the WORD though disorder
has never and can never be.
Take ye these words, O man.
As part of thy life, let them be.
Seek thee to conquer this order
and One with the WORD thou shalt be.
Put forth thy effort in gaining LIGHT
on the pathway of Life.
Seek to be One with the SUN-state.
Seek to be solely the LIGHT.
Hold thou thy thought on the Oneness
of Light with the body of man.
Know that all is Order from Chaos
born into Light.

From The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean - Tablet IX

"Seek to become a Light in the world. Make of thyself a vessel for Light. Create the high vibration that will make thee One with the Whole".

~ g
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Dress Rehearsal

The life you live now  can be considered a dress rehearsal for what comes after death.

One could pass from this world any day. None of us know when Destiny will tap us on the shoulder. Like a cosmic game of musical chairs, one's soul-state at the moment of death will determine where one spends the next eternity.

Be reminded, eternity does not mean infinity. Eternity and infinity are not the same thing. Infinity means  a time without end. Eternity means an extremely long period of time that eventually has an end (with a return to earth-life). Eternity can last from hundreds to thousands to many millions of years, depending upon the cycle involved.

Like attracts like. A state of consciousness is a state of life. Whatever you are, whatever you may be, is reflected in your non-physical bodies (etheric, astral and mental). Your thinking, willing, feeling and acting combine to formulate an overall vibration in what man calls the human aura. It is this overall vibration, this cumulative record of your works on earth in lives past and present, that will determine where you go when this particular sojourn through matter is over.

Physical life is not a game. It is only so for the foolish and the ignorant. Physical life is an opportunity. It represents the latest in hundreds of such opportunities for us to do what is necessary to find the Key to Liberation. There is no other purpose to life. Therefore, seek not to obtain wealth, fame, love, happiness, longevity or pleasure via the fruitless striving of earth-life.

"Seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all else will be added unto you". Mark 6:33

Again, there is no other purpose.

One can scoff at the above if that is what one desires. Such a one will simply have to learn via bitter experience, what we call "the hard way".

Dim the lights.

~ g
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The Plan

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The Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross distinguishes between the earthly and the heavenly human being. The nature-born, earthly personality has a physical body, an etheric body and an astral body. The microcosm has a monadic flame and an etheric and astral aspect. In addition, we know that the earthly personality was not created as an end in itself. A Plan underlies its ages of development: it must devote itself to a Healing Process by a sanctifying mode of life. This means that the personality must surrender to a process of healing and purification, thus helping the microcosm develop its latent properties and powers once again. In this way, the earthly personality makes the return of the microcosm to its Original Realm of Life possible.

The Plan of the Logos enables the microcosm and the personality to merge into a single being. Through an alchemical development, the two must unite into one being. The Spiritual School calls this process transfiguration. This is extensively discussed, because transfiguration is one of the pillars of the gnostic teachings of Liberation. Through a series of developments, the growing new human being acquires properties and powers which far surpass the possibilities of the earthly personality. They should certainly not be confused with the properties and powers that can be acquired by means of certain occult methods.

The above-mentioned new state of consciousness and life can only be realized by following the Path of inner Liberation. This Path cannot be unlocked by any power of the earthly personality or by occult practices but is only accessible through the Rose of the Heart, the last remnant of the Divine Life.

From "Gnosis - Basis for the New Man" - Gnosis As Inner Religion

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