The New Body - Part One

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So far, we have extensively discussed the sevenfold path and at last seen that 'godliness' refers to a new, wondrous magnetic circuit of the power of the Holy Spirit in the nervus sympathicus, which, in the Universal Doctrine, is termed the second spinal cord, or the second serpent-fire. This second serpent-fire is the basis of all new human genesis. On this basis a new physical form, a new personality, is formed, the aspects and qualities of which we will extensively discuss when the time is ripe.

This concerns teachings regarding the Apostolic Circle, the Third Temple. Whoever, on the basis of his godliness, is able to enter this Third Temple, receives all necessary support to be able to learn:

1. how to nourish the new body
2. how to make the new body grow
3. how to conduct oneself in it
4. how to use it and
5. how, by means of a process, to take leave of the old body of nature.

Perhaps this information, in its conciseness, will throw some light on one of the greatest - and for the general public as yet shrouded - problems of the ancient Cathars, namely their supposed 'suicide'. The records report that the prisoners of the Inquisition during the medieval wars against the Cathars, seeing an end to their fate and being subjected to the most sophisticated methods of torture, forcibly left their bodies with a blissful smile on their lips and, by committing suicide, escaped their executioners. Their soulless bodies were found, with no sign of external injury and without a trace of poison, in absolute tranquility. What does this mean?

You know what suicide is. One dies by one's own hand, forces the death of the body, after which the remainder of the personality proceeds to the reflection-sphere. In certain regions of the hereafter, the personality must endure an intensely miserable and sorrowful time until the moment arrives in which death would normally have come. Reincarnation follows immediately afterwards, whereby the forcibly broken thread of life must be picked up again under aggravated circumstances.

You will doubtless understand that not a single Cathar ever committed such a deed, which, apart from the further consequences of suicide, would eliminate an existing chance of real Liberation from the Wheel. No, the holy Cathars possessed the new body, the new personality. From their experiences we can gain clear insight, which is in complete accord with the lawfulness of the transfiguristic process.

For the candidate, by means of the gnostic serpent-fire in the sympathicus, builds up a new personality fully equipped with the building materials of the Gnosis and absolutely free of and unfettered by this nature. It is a personality which develops in a totally different magnetic field of life while still occupying the same space as the dialectical personality. Thus, at a given moment there are, besides the auric personality, two further personalities in the micros of the candidate: the personality of the old nature and that of the New one. Consequently there are also two nuclei of consciousness, two I-beings, in this state.

Never make the mistake of thinking that your normal I will be transferred to the new body so that you yourself, as a dialectical center of consciousness, participate in the New Life. Your consciousness as a dialectical being, belongs to the phenomena of this nature. It will disappear, it will one day cease to exist when you go the Path. The Other One must increase, you yourself will perish.

From Godliness (III) - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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