The New Body - Part Two

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When the Brotherhood speaks to you, it speaks to you as a microcosmic totality, it speaks to you and the Other One who, if you still do not possess it in the form of a personality, is still potentially present in you, in your microcosm, hidden as a 'seed'.

You can understand that it is of the greatest importance for the servants of the serving Brotherhood in our field of existence who already possess the New Being to maintain the old dialectical personality for as long as possible, for through this dialectical personality, contact can be made with dialectical people; unobtrusively and in a normal, natural manner, people can be fished from the sea of life in a fallen world. Therefore, they will, to this end, maintain their dialectical personality to the uttermost limits of what is practically attainable. Only when their time has come do they leave, without any ostentation, their old natural form. They die, but you will understand that this death is something quite different from that of any other person. This death is not the fruit of sin, no splitting of the personality whereby the remains move to the hereafter, but rather with this death the grave is found completely empty; only the cloak of the old nature remains. It is not a body that is abandoned, for this body was a disguise for many years, a cloak, a veil of Another Reality.

Normally, when someone dies, the remains of the personality are still present after the death of the body. But with the transfigurist initiate, the remains of the personality had long disappeared; they had long since 'died in Jesus the Lord', as the old Brotherhood of the Rosicrucians called it. What remained was just a disguise, the outward appearance of the old form of the body which was being used in the service of mankind for as long as possible. When, at a given moment, this old garment is thrown off it becomes apparent that nothing, absolutely nothing, remains of the old existence any longer, neither here nor in the hereafter.

This is why it is also said that the grave of Jesus the Lord was found completely empty. One saw nothing but a rolled-up shroud, namely the outer garment of the old form of the bodily figure. When Mary Magdalene wishes to see the Lord she has to look backwards. This 'looking backwards' is an ancient gnostic expression for gazing into the Original magnetic space, now new for her once more. There she sees Him whom she has always known in her innermost but whom she cannot approach, as she still exists in the old state of the ordinary nature. Therefore she is told: 'Don't touch me!' Here the same law is intended that caused Annanias and Sapphira to die. One cannot approach the 'entirely different' with what is dialectical, without causing a catastrophe.

If, in the light of the above, you now reflect on the ancient Cathars you will understand. A group of prisoners was walled in alive in a cave. A wall several feet thick lay between them and the outside world. The intention is clear: a slow death by starvation. Not a single chance of liberation. Do you think they would suffer for days, perhaps weeks, and then die in darkness and filth? No, for they who had long since made the sympathetic nervous system cerebro-spinal, they knew: now our time has come, now our task is fulfilled and with one small twist of the will to the nervus vagus they left the garment of their camouflage to meet Eternal Freedom, leaving the grave behind them, empty.

Another group of them, on top of the mountain of the cross at Foix, was fettered and thrown down into a ravine. Do you think they awaited the result of their fall? Contused, bleeding from terrible wounds, with broken limbs, dying under hellish pains? No, before they reached the ground they had left the garments of their camouflage and were winging their way up towards the clarity of the New Life! So it was, too, for those who went to the stake, for those who were cast into dungeons. As they no longer belonged to this world when the sacrilegious hand of dialectical violence reached out to them, they entered into their own Fatherland. This is the truth of the death of Jesus; this is the truth of the supposed 'suicide' of the ancient Cathars.

Those who do not know and cannot see, cast their hands before their faces in despair, saying: 'Oh, how terrible, what immeasurable suffering!' But all those who do know sing a hymn, a song of effervescent joy. For those who, while living, die the voluntary death of nature in the endura can no longer be harmed by the second death, the death of the camouflage body.

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

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