Begin Again

It's New Year's Eve, 2015. So, what does the New Year hold for the seeking human-being?

Many wait until the first day of January to try and make changes in their life. They resolve to do this or that, they vow to drop old habits to make way for new ones. It is a good feeling to start over, at least for a little while. Then comes the actual work of holding fast to those resolutions and, in the majority of cases, failure inevitably follows.

In dejection, these ones throw up their hands in surrender and give themselves over to their habits. Feeling like helpless failures, recognizing the power of their masters, they resign themselves to another year of enslavement.

"For I do not know what I do; and I do not do the thing which I want, but I do the thing which I hate" - Romans 7:15

It does not have to be this way.

Each new day is a chance for us to begin again, an opportunity to make ourselves new. Failure only means that you have not yet succeeded. To give in to failure is to give up on one's self.

In the matter of walking the Path of Return, there will be many times when we will stumble and fall. This is to be anticipated, as the Way we have chosen is alien to anything we have done before while incarnate. Do not be discouraged, do not give up and return to the old ways, taking the path of least resistance. A baby learns to walk only after many unsuccessful (and oftentimes humorous) attempts. So, too, must those who have chosen The Path of the True Way continue to do whatever it takes to bring the Journey to a good end.

Every failure is an impetus to drive us to a future success. Every success provides yet another firm foothold for us to anchor ourselves as we continue the journey Home. The following cannot be emphasized enough: Try, try and keep trying. Lift your eyes to the Hills from whence your Help will come. The Brotherhood watches over and guides those who have taken up their Cross. We do not walk alone. Take heart in the knowledge of that fact and dare always to Begin Again.

all love,

~ g
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The Folly Of The Transfigurist

The following is in keeping with the recent theme of gnostic 'foolishness'. ~ g

[QUOTING]

The individual magnetic field of man is one with that of the Earth, so that in more than one sense he finds his center of gravity in this world. He is controlled by the Earth's magnetism; his whole life and strivings, his works and desires, are characterized by this dependence: he is of the earth, earthly.

...it is of no interest to the Transfigurist which economic system is to become the life-system of man now or in the future, which point of view man will take in any field of endeavor in this nature-order, or in which way man colors his mode of life with respect to factors of religion, occultism or humanism; for the Transfigurist is completely dedicated to a total liberation from this field of nature!

One cannot imagine a more radical person than the Transfigurist. The radical natural type strives for some change by force in the economic, social or political arena, i.e., a change on the horizontal level. The Transfigurist, however, wishes to keep entirely away from this horizontal plane by means of a powerful, self-revolutionary intervention within his own being.

Transfigurists are very scarce in this world. When we say this, you will probably point in amazement to the great development of our School with its many pupils. But we must then point out that by far the majority of us cannot as yet be called Transfigurists. To be interested in the developmental plan of the School of the Rosycross and orientate oneself completely as to what the School presents, does not mean to realize fully this working-plan in one's life. You will understand that there is a considerable difference.

People will say to you: 'Transfigurism is a classic form of insanity which appears from time to time in the world's history.' -- 'Transfigurism is extreme absurdity and scientifically impossible.' Or people will assert: 'The only thing one can reasonably hope for is to reach a certain high goal by one form of culture or another.' And people will then refer you to various cultural acquisitions which appear tto completely confirm this statement.

If you do not stand firmly upon both your feet, then you will turn away from the School and, when asked: 'Weren't you also a member?', you will blush with shame and, untruthfully, you will say: 'Not me, where did you get that idea?' Peter's denial is an ever-recurring occurrence with pupils in the forecourt. And yet, Transfigurists, with their signature of folly, are in very good company!

-- Jesus stands before the Sanhedrin, the General Synod of His time. They call him a dangerous fool ... and Jesus is silent.

-- Paul stands before Festus, the governor. He has given an exposition of Transfigurism to the governor. Promptly comes the reaction on the part of the Roman: 'You are raving!' ... and Paul remains silent.

-- Listen to Augustine fulminating against the Manicheans! Hear how he puts them in the most ridiculous light ... but the Manichean brothers keep silent. How could they have said anything without a basis for mutual understanding?

-- And have you read of what the Albigensians (the Cathars) were accused, of their 'extreme and dangerous folly', as it was called? Almost a whole nation was massacred, but the Albigensian brothers themselves ... they were silent.

Transfigurism must, of natural necessity, be an absurdity to all those belonging to this nature-order. The world oozes religious fervor , but the fundamental religion of Liberation is considered an absurdity. This is the signature of dialectics. Think of the famous words of Paul in the first epistle to the Corinthiams:

'For the word of the Cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart. Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this Age? Has not the Gnosis made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the Wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For the foolishness of the Gnosis is wiser than men'.

So we can conclude that the heresy of Transfigurism is in very good company.

Such a heretic is a fool, a nonsense-talker, one gone astray: he is absorbed in the folly of the Cross; and this foolishness only makes eminent and logical sense, this folly only becomes a majestic power for those able to understand and ready to carry the Cross of Transfiguration. The Transfigurist therefore wastes not a single word on those who stand full of ambition in this nature-order. He will keep silent, without uttering a word in his defense, without a word of compromise or concession.

For this reason our addresses are delivered to those of whom one can assume comprehends the reasonable basis of Gnostic foolishness to some degree. The world offers abundant evidence that it is unable to find 'God in the Wisdom of God' through its formidable worldly wisdom. We therefore disassociate ourselves from the world in order to immerse ourselves in Another Reality, free of all dialectical-philosophical working hypotheses.

From "The Folly Of The Cross" - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Amen.

~ g
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Welcome, Fool

Those who seek Liberation are considered fools in the eyes of the world.

Why so? We are fools because we have chosen to walk a Path that requires seekers to withdraw from the world. The aims of the Path are the eradication of the "I", the rebirth of the 'the Other One' within and the Final Liberation of the microcosm from the Wheel of Death and Rebirth.

What foolishness! Why would one want to erase himself or herself? Who or what is this 'the Other One'? Liberation from what? How is it even possible to take leave of the world or to be "born again"? What nonsense, what rubbish, what foolishness.

Those who have made their peace with the world prove that they are not ready to take Heaven by storm. To these ones, all efforts to escape this nature-order will appear to be folly.

Those who, after repeated lives of suffering and disappointment, have reached the nadir of existence in this nature-order are the ones who may finally choose to seek Liberation via transfiguration, via the ancient alchemical method.

For those who are not ready, there is no real shame. Someday in the near or distant future, they will tire of the material world and turn the eyes of their souls towards the stars.

For those who feel that they are ready, be sure to ask yourself if this is what you truly desire. If the answer to that question is yes, then we welcome you as both a fool and a fellow traveler.

"For God has chosen the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and he has chosen the weak of the world to shame the mighty" -- Cor 1:27

You're in good company.

~ g
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Teachings Of An Elder To The Brothers Of Light

 

What follows is for your contemplation and action.

 

Please note that "Satan" means "adversary" and is a reference to the powers of the aeons of this nature that rule the hearts and minds of men, not some guy with horns and a pitchfork ~ g

 

"Three are the dwellings of the Son of Man, and no one may come before the face of God who knows not the angel of Peace in each of the three. These are: his Body, his Thoughts, and his Feelings. When the angel of Wisdom guides his thoughts, when the angel of Love purifies his feelings, and when the deeds of his body reflect both love and wisdom, then does the angel of Peace guide him unfailingly to the throne of his Heavenly Father. And he should pray without ceasing that the power of Satan with all his diseases and uncleannesses may be cast out of all of his three dwellings; that Power and Wisdom and Love may reign in his body, his thoughts, and his feelings.

 

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"First shall the Son of Man seek peace with his own Body; for his body is as a mountain pond that reflects the sun when it is still and clear; but when it is full of mud and stones, it reflects nothing. First must Satan be cast out of the body, that the angels of God may enter again and dwell therein. Truly, no peace can reign in the body unless it is as a temple of the Holy Law.

Therefore, when he who suffers with pains and grievous plagues asks for your help, tell him to renew himself with fasting and with prayer. Tell him to invoke the angel of sun, the angel of water, and the angel of air, that they may enter his body and cast out of it the power of Satan. Show him the baptism within, and the baptism without. Tell him always to eat of the table of our Earthly Mother, spread with her gifts: the fruits of the trees, the grasses of the fields, the milk of beasts good for eating, and the honey of bees. He shall not invoke the power of Satan by eating the flesh of beasts, for he who kills, kills his brother, and whoso eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats the body of death. Tell him to prepare his food with the fire of life, not the fire of death, for the living angels of the living God serve only living men.

 

"And though he sees them not, and hears them not, and touches them not, still is he every moment surrounded by the power of God's angels. While his eyes and ears are closed by ignorance of the Law and thirst for the pleasures of Satan, he will not see them, nor hear them, nor touch them. But when he fasts and prays to the living God to cast out all the diseases and uncleannesses of Satan, then will his eyes and ears be opened, and he will find peace.

 

"For not only he suffers who harbors the diseases of Satan within him, but his mother, his father, his wife, his children, his companions, these suffer also, for no man is an island unto himself, and the powers that flow through him, whether they be of the angels or of Satan, truly these powers do unto others for good or for evil.

 

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"For to no other creature in the kingdom of the Earthly Mother is it given the power of Thought, for all beasts that crawl and birds that fly, live not of their own thinking but of the one Law that governs all. Only to the Sons of Men is it given the power of thought, even that thought that can break the bonds of death. Do not think because it cannot be seen, that thought has no power. I tell you truly, the lightning that cleaves the mighty oak, or the quaking that opens up cracks in the earth, these are as the play of children compared with the power of thought. Truly each thought of darkness, whether it be of malice, or anger, or vengeance, these wreak destruction like that of fire sweeping through dry kindling under a windless sky. But man does not see the carnage, nor does he hear the piteous cries of his victims, for he is blind to the world of the spirit.

 

"But when this power is guided by holy Wisdom, then the thoughts of the Son of Man lead him to the heavenly kingdoms and thus is paradise built on earth; then it is that your thoughts uplift the souls of men, as the cold waters of a rushing stream revive your body in the summer heat.

 

"When first a fledgling bird tries to fly, his wings cannot support him, and he falls again and again to earth. But he tries again and one day he soars aloft, leaving earth and his nest far behind. So is it with the thoughts of the Sons of Men. The longer he walks with the angels and keeps their Law, so do the stronger his thoughts become in holy Wisdom. And I tell you truly, that day will come when his thoughts will overcome even the kingdom of death and soar to everlasting life in the heavenly kingdoms; for with their thoughts guided by holy Wisdom do the Sons of Men build a bridge of light thereby to reach God.

 

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"Then shall the Son of Man seek peace with his own Feelings; that his family may delight in his loving kindness, even his father, his mother, his wife, his children, and his children's children. For the Heavenly Father is a hundred times greater than all fathers by seed and by blood, and the Earthly Mother is a hundred times greater than all mothers by the body, and your true brothers are all those who do the will of your Heavenly Father and of your Earthly Mother, and not your brothers by blood.

"Even so, shall you see the Heavenly Father in your father by seed, and your Earthly Mother in your mother by the body, for are not these also children of the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother? Even so shall you love your brothers by blood as you love all your true brothers who walk with the angels, for are not these also children of the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother?

"I tell you truly, it is easier to love those newly met, than those of our own house, who have known our weaknesses, and heard our words of anger, and seen us in our nakedness, for they know us as we know ourselves, and we are ashamed. Then shall we call on the angel of Love to enter into our feelings, that they be purifiers And all that was before impatience and discord, will turn to harmony and peace, as the parched ground drinks in the gentle rain and becomes green and soft, tender with new life.

"For many and grievous are the sufferings of the Sons of Men when they cleave not to the angel of Love. Truly, a man without love casts a dark shadow on everyone he meets, most of all those with whom he lives; his harsh and angry words fall on his brothers like fetid air rising from a stagnant pool. And he suffers most who speaks them, for the darkness that encloses him invites Satan and his devas.

 

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"In our Heavenly Father's realm there are many mansions, and many are the hidden things you cannot know of yet. I tell you truly, the kingdom of our Heavenly Father is vast, so vast that no man can know its limits, for there are none. Yet the whole of his kingdom may be found in the smallest drop of dew on a wild flower, or in the scent of newly-cut grass in the fields under the summer sun. Truly, there are no words to describe the kingdom of the Heavenly Father.

 

"Glorious, indeed, is the inheritance of the Son of Man, for to him only is it given to enter the Stream of Life which leads him to the kingdom of his Heavenly Father. But first he must seek and find peace with his Body, with his Thoughts, with his Feelings, with the Sons of Men, with Holy Knowledge, and with the kingdom of the Earthly Mother. For I tell you truly, this is the vessel which will carry the Son of Man on the Stream of Life to his Heavenly Father. He must have peace that is sevenfold before he can know the one peace which surpasses understanding, even that of his Heavenly Father.

 

"But when he calls on the angel of Love, then is the darkness dispersed, and the Light of Sunshine streams from him, and the colors of the rainbow swirl about his head, and gentle rain falls from his fingers, and he brings peace and strength to all those who draw near to him.

 

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Long ago, before the Great Flood, the Great Ones walked the earth, and the giant trees, even those which now are no more than legend, were their home and their kingdom. They lived many score of generations, for they ate from the table of the Earthly Mother, and slept in the arms of the Heavenly Father, and they knew not disease, old age, nor death. To the Sons of Men did they bequeath all the glory of their kingdoms, even the hidden knowledge of the Tree of Life which stands in the middle of the Eternal Sea.

"But the eyes of the Sons of Men were blinded by the visions of Satan, and by promises of power, even that power which conquers by might and by blood. And then did the Son of Man sever the golden threads that bound him to his Earthly Mother and his Heavenly Father; he stepped from the Holy Stream of Life where his body, his thoughts, and his feelings were one with the Law, and began to use only his own thoughts, his own feelings, and his own deeds, making hundreds of laws, where before there was only One.

 

And so did the Sons of Men exile themselves from their home, and ever since have they huddled behind their stone walls, hearing not the sighing of the wind in the tall trees of the forests beyond their towns.

 

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"Always have the Brothers of Light lived where rejoice the angels of the Earthly Mother: near rivers, near trees, near flowers, near the music of birds; where sun and rain may embrace the body, which is the Temple of the Spirit. Nor do we have ought to do with the edicts of rulers; neither do we uphold them, as our law is the Law of the Heavenly Father and the Earthly Mother; neither do we oppose them, for no one rules save by the will of God. Rather do we strive to live according to the Holy Law and strengthen always that which is good in all things; then will the kingdom of darkness be changed to the Kingdom of Light; for where there is  Light, how then can darkness remain?

 

From "The Sevenfold Peace" - The Essene Gospel Of Peace

 

~ g

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A Child Is Born In Bethlehem

May the Star of Bethlehem, the Divine-Spark that is the center of your microcosm, be awakened within the cave of your heart. May the Christ-child within you be nurtured and protected so that Its growth is assured.

It is this magical birth that we celebrate at Christmas. We pray that those who have not yet taken the first step to Immortality will soon give birth within their hearts to The One Who Is To Come.

~ g
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Sixteen Days Of Christmas Inspiration

Passing this on to any who may wish to receive these emails during the Christmas season. ~ g

"The Christmas Season is the perfect time to reflect on the birth of the Light in the human heart. This time of the year inspires us to change our ways and make new resolutions. You are invited to register for the online program ‘Spiritual Christmas’ at 

www.spiritualtexts.academy.

It will be a series of 16 daily spiritual texts beginning December 22, 2015 going into January 2016".

The titles of  the 16 daily emails are:

12/22 Preparing Yourself
12/23 Recognizing The Inner Man in Yourself
12/24 Making Your Paths Straight
12/25 Giving Birth to the Divine Being in Yourself
12/26 In This Sign You Will Conquer
12/27 Your Magic Gifts
12/28 Overcoming Resistance
12/29 Your Assignment in Life
12/30 Looking Back At The Past
12/31 Taking Leave Of Your Teachers
01/01 Unfolding Your Talents
01/02 The Hidden Treasures In Your Heart
01/03 Attention For Your Inner Development
01/04 Awakening Of The Spirit-Consciousness Within You
01/05 Seven Fundamental Principles For Your Life
01/06 The Descent Of The Holy Breath

~ g
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Moment Of Awakening - Conclusion

[QUOTING]

As the new reality comes fully into human consciousness (at that moment when the Creator’s luminous field comes into perfect alignment with the Earth Mother), all illusion of a destructive nature will be dissolved. Though there have been many centuries leading up to this Moment, when the Moment comes, it will be decisive.

There will be a great shift then, a Single Moment of quantum awakening. In this Moment, the smallest interval of time measured in these dimensions – the interval that occurs in every atom between each of its billions of oscillations per second – will be lengthened unto Infinity. An interval of non-time will expand. Through that expansion, Eternity will flow. Some will experience this Moment as minutes or hours, others as a lifetime. Still others will experience this flash of non-time as a succession of many lives, and some few will, in this Moment, know the Nagual itself, the great nameless Presence that exists before and after all these worlds.

In the expanse of the non-time interval, human beings will have all the time they require to realize, experience, and remember the full consciousness of their eternal Spirits and the recall the origin of their individuality in the primordial fields of being. All will have ample time to recharge their form identity and its biological projection with the awareness of who they are, why they have individualized, and why they have chosen to associate with this planet’s human expression. Each one will have the choice to return to biological form or to remain in the fields of discarnate awareness.

Those who choose to return to human form will do so fully aware of who they are. No longer will they be but partially incarnate; they will resume biological residence with the full memory and consciousness of their eternal natures, sharing the creative capacities of the Star Maker, whose reflective cells they will know themselves to be.

Subconscious orientation in Fear will be replaced by conscious orientation in Love. The sudden release of power, as the polarity of the collective human emotional field shifts from outer to inner orientation, cannot be avoided, no matter how smoothly we seek to guide this transition. All will feel an unmistakable surge of power in the instant of quantum awakening. This is as inevitable as the daily rotation of the earth’s continents into and out of the light of the sun.

But the effects? The implications? There is no way to predict them. They depend on the choices you make today.

By extrapolating current trends of consciousness we can establish a probable range of effects. But there may be as many as eight billion people incarnate at that moment, each with complete freedom of choice. And though the choices each one makes in his or her lifetime prior to that Moment will certainly predispose that person in one direction or another, there are no guarantees, no assurances.

The spiritual polarity of collective human consciousness did shift once before, triggering a reversal of the earth’s magnetic field, a shifting in the position of the poles, and a great deal of destruction. However, that shift was a shift from consciousness to sub-consciousness (~ g: referring here to Atlantis).

We will have a degree of control during this conscious shift that was absent then and so do not expect the same sort of cataclysmic shock waves. Still, it would be under-estimating the variables to assume that earth changes will not accompany The Event. Almost certainly, some will. These will be for the most part of a benevolent nature – a melting of the polar ice caps, for example, bringing rain to arid regions and helping to cleanse toxins from polluted lakes and rivers, a warming and simultaneous moistening of climate that will open to agriculture the extensive plains and fertile river valleys of Greenland, Antarctica, and certain of the world’s deserts.

To minimize the trauma of this moment both for you and for other members of the human family, it is important that you prepare for it well ahead of time, establishing the habits that will leave your self-understanding fluid, relaxed, and trusting in the overall benevolence of the Universe and its resident Intelligence.

The best way to prepare for any future moment in time is to be fully in your present moment now.

From Chapter 14 of "The Third Millenium" by Ken Carey (1991)

[END QUOTING]

~ g
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Moment Of Awakening

The following is an excerpt from "The Third Millenium" by Ken Carey, published in 1991.

[QUOTING]

At the moment of quantum awakening, change will occur rapidly, rippling across the terrestrial surface like a wave. Everything in the earth's gravitational field will be affected in some way.

This will be a time of massive change, of change on a scale that has no historical precedent...deep and fundamental, massive though these present changes are, they will occur within the span of a just single human life.

Within your lifetime, you will witness revelations that will show the foolishness of much that was once deemed wise. You will watch as traditions and historical habit patterns once assumed to be survival imperatives are discovered to be detriments to a healthy life and a healthy society.

Those who incarnate now, those who bring the fullness of their eternal talents, attributes, and perspectives into today's people, are the Agents of Healing. They alone have it in their power to experience this awesome time of Transition as glorious or traumatic. Every individual who becomes a clear and undistorted channel for Eternal Love in these times offsets a thousand who remain locked in the dissolving values of the old.

The future, as always, holds an element of surprise. Yet some things are as certain as the movement of the stars.

A mother never knows exactly what hour she will give birth to her child, but she has a "due date", an approximate time when the baby is expected and will most likely be born. For millenia now, there have been those in various traditions of both East and West who have known that the Earth has a due date sometime during the second decade of the 21st century. Though there will be much awakening of individuals prior to to the first unified movement of the awakened planetary organism, this movement, like a first breath, will occur in but a single moment.

Babies are sometimes born early, sometimes late. So be aware, be vigilant. Do not discount the possibility that The Moment might come as a thief in the night. And do not be among the foolish who will wait until the last moment to come to terms with the rising awareness. This is to be an important occasion.

It is THE Event that is central to all human history.

Our emphasis for many thousands of years has been and continues to be to prepare you for this Single Moment. For though the changes will be dramatic, they need not be traumatic. Though they will bring a fundamental human revisioning of reality's nature, this need not be perceived as threatening. Essentially, it is a positive and joyous event. The consciousness that will ultimately emerge will be the consciousness of the Eternal One, the Creator, the Being of Life, awake and aware for the first time in a material universe.

Human circuitry is designed to accommodate this consciousness, In much the same way that your individual cells understand their relationship to you, each awakened human being understands him- or herself in hologramatic awareness to this Unified Field of Awareness.

Since this perception of self differs significantly from historical perception, its emergence in collective human consciousness presents the potential for disorientation in those who might react to its coming in fear. We wish to maximize enjoyment and minimize discomfort for all concerned. If human beings understand more fully what is occurring, they will be less likely to react in ways that would cause them unnecessary discomfort.

Regardless of whether one accepts this change or attempts to back away from it, this event will be of greater power than any the earth has ever seen. More energy will be released in a very few moments than is typically released upon the surface of the earth in many years. This energy will take the form of heightened perception and deepened emotional connection, rejoining the individual and God.

[END QUOTING]

~ g
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Responses For A Distraught Entity

This post responds to a comment left here.

My friend,

The world we see around us is a result of humanity's collective poor decision-making over many thousands of years. What a man thinks, he shall become. We have the world that we have because we have made it so via the wrong-thinking of the many prior personalities that have lived in our microcosms in the past. You, as the current personality to inhabit your microcosm, have the opportunity to break this Chain of Error.

Nothing can "make you" do anything. You lash out at the world because you choose to do so. That is the manner in which you express your frustration at not understanding.

As to being a "temporary vessel for a trapped Spark", it is more accurate to state that we are an instrumentarium of our Divine Spark for use in attempting to reunite with Spirit so as to regain our Divine birthright of Immortality. Notice that the word used is "regain", as in restoring to ourselves something that was lost. If the current personality fails in that attempt, it will be dissolved and a new personality will be inserted into the microcosm to try again. This is the root cause that lies behind the twin phenomena known as death and re-birth (reincarnation).

Divine Love is different from human 'love'. Human love is conditional and changeable. "I will love you until you do something that I don't like. Then I will not love you anymore". Divine Love is constant, impersonal and freely bestowed upon all human races. "The Sun shines on both good and bad alike". It is man's turning away from the Love of the Father that is the cause of man's problems. When man makes the conscious, voluntary decision to Think, Desire and Act in line with the Will of the Father, his troubles will pass away like a bad dream.

There is no such thing as 'nothing'. As the classical Rosicrucians so wisely reiterated, "There Is No Empty Space". Every micrometer of God's universe is alive with Life. You cannot perceive this Life because your five physical senses limit your perception to that which is of the physical realm.

What occurred on 9/11 was orchestrated by the servants of entities who are currently in control of the physical world. These entities are extremely intelligent and diabolically cunning. They are experts in human nature and have eons of experience in manipulating human races. For that reason, we will never find out the full truth behind 9/11, or Pearl Harbor, or the 7/7 metro bombings, or the Challenger disaster, or the triumvirate of political assassinations of the '60's (JFK, MLK and RFK), when a calculated effort was made to demoralize and crush the hope of humanity via brutal murder.

Please be advised that it does not matter if we never find out the truth about these things. It is enough to know that we are continually required to return and experience in an environment controlled by the archons and aeons of this nature. What is most important is that each man and woman free himself or herself from the control of these entities, many of whom mankind itself is responsible for creating.

As for knowing the ultimate Truths, true "knowing" comes from within. True Knowing is not something one learns in a book. True Knowing is actually Remembrance. Due to the fact that your microcosm has hosted hundreds of personalities over many thousands of years, you have been, in a microcosmic sense, a material witness to all that has happened to humanity over that time period, including the rise and fall of Atlantis and the periodic flood disasters that submerged her, as well as all things prior. Those memories are stored within your lipika but are currently inaccessible to you due to the veil that has been put in place to obscure those soul memories.

The 'real' you is not the personality. The 'real' you is the Consciousness that infuses the personality. Close your eyes and stop up your ears. Can you see your body? No. Can you hear anything? No. Are you still there? Yes. Please remember the following: you have a body; you are not your body.

The way to Know Truth is via the Intuition. Intuition is the Soul's voice. It is the Voice of the Silence. If one works to purify their Thinking, Willing and Acting, one will begin to recognize when that Voice is speaking and will know via a certain resonant feeling whether a thing is True or not.

To answer your last question, once the aim of the Gnosis is understood / remembered and its Path accepted, all doubts/uncertainties flee like smoke. This is the power of Remembrance.

True Knowledge is like turning on a floodlight in a pitch-dark room. While the room is in darkness, one is in constant fear of bumping into something or having something reach out to attack or do harm. Every sound one hears conjures wild imaginings, every step taken is timid and halting. One's entire being is immersed in a constant terror.

Once the floodlight is turned on, one knows everything about the room. One realizes that there are no creatures ready to reach out and attack. One can identity all sounds and their origins. Each step is taken with surety and confidence because one can see clearly the direction in which one is headed. One realizes that the feelings of fear and trepidation stemmed from not-knowing and that, in reality, there had never been anything to fear at all.

If one wishes to be truly free of such Fear, then one's first step is to gain much-needed insight.

all love,

~ g
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Hiding In Plain Sight

The New Testament is a gnostic document written in a cipher that is impenetrable to those who do not have the Gnostic Key. It was written this way in order to preserve the deep gnostic truths that were embedded in its gospels, epistles and letters.

The enemies of the Gnosis have worked hard throughout the centuries to mutilate, defile and deface the Holy Language of all ages and origins. By modifying a word here or there, by improper translation and sometimes outright fabrication, a supreme effort has been made to re-direct the pure intent of these works so as to make it very difficult for the Seeker to locate the Truth that was left for him or her to find.

What is the Gnostic Key, as it pertains to the New Testament? The Key is this:

...the entire New Testament is a symbolic treatise on the Path of Return.

It consists of the following:

a. a roadmap symbolically describing the Path of Return (the four Gospels)

b. teachings for those who are preparing to walk the Path or already on the Path (the Epistles, and Letters)

c. teachings for those on the Path who have chosen to share the Light of the Gnosis with the world (Acts of the Apostles)

d. a heavily-veiled description of the process leading to Final Liberation (The Book of Revelation)

Remember, the Gnosis and the Path of Return have been with humanity since the dawn of this Day of Manifestation. The opportunity for Liberation is always available for those who make the decision to truly seek the Path and are willing to accept all the consequences of that decision. In the centuries that lie behind us, there was no TV, radio or internet. There were no books in wide circulation until the invention of the printing press. The first book to be printed in any sort of volume was The Bible. For most people, the Bible was the only book in their home. In reality, it is truly the only book that mankind needs.

The only way to keep Christ's message of Liberation from matter and of Return to the Divine Kingdom alive during the times of persecution by the Roman Church was to embed its true meaning within the New Testament, in a cipher that would place these Divine Truths beyond the ability of the profane to recognize or understand. Because of this, all attempts to erase these Truths have failed, as the Jewel of the Gnosis continues to shine as bright as ever beneath the soil that has been heaped upon it.

The reason that the New Testament has fallen into disrepute is due to the purposeful mutilation that has taken place over the centuries. This mutilation has created a Doctrine of Error that has been commissioned and reinforced by the Vatican and the Jesuits, who send their "priests" into the world to teach the false doctrine that all one has to do is "believe" in a man who lived 2,000 years ago and one will be "saved" or "born again". No work involved. They teach the surface of what is written in the New Testament and go no further. These surface teachings are just words to the listener and have no value because they produce no lasting results. And so the listener gives up, and falls into apathy or worse, atheism.

Below is a synopsis of how The Path from Bethlehem to Golgotha is symbolized in the Four Gospels:

(1) Birth in Bethlehem - The Candidate awakens the Spirit-Spark atom, the Rosebud, the Divine Spark.

(2) John the Baptist - The Candidate begins the Endura (dying as to nature) in order to "make straight the Paths" for the return of the Spirit. The purified New Soul is born.

(3) Baptism at the Jordan - The Gnosis becomes a certainty in the blood; the Spirit descends upon the Candidate as a dove. Spirit & New Soul reunite.

(4) Beheading of John the Baptist - the Johannine man has completed his duty. He has prepared the way. The Jesus-man now takes over the process of transmutation and transfiguration.

(5) Transfiguration on the Mount - The alchemical change takes place via the agency of the Spirit-Soul. A divine set of vehicles is created, unseen to physical eyes.

(6) Crucifixion - The Candidate "crucifies" all physical desires upon the Cross of Matter on the hill of Golgotha ("the Place of the Skull"); also represents the discarding of the physical body.

(7) Resurrection - The Candidate is Reborn as The Heavenly, Transfigured New Man. Lowest vehicle is now the etheric double, which cannot be seen by those with ordinary physical vision.

(8) Ascension - The Initiate achieves Final Liberation and departs the physical plane. Physical rebirth is no longer mandatory or necessary, unless the Initiate volunteers to do so in service to his fallen brothers and sisters.

There's much more symbolism in the Gospels but those are the main points. That is the Gnostic Path of Return from Bethlehem (the Heart, the Spirit-spark) to Golgotha (the Head, the pinealis).

"For this is the whole sum of our Laws: those are nearest and most like unto us who do make the Bible the rule of their life, the end of all their studies, and the compendium of the Universal World, from whom we require not that it should be continually in their mouth, but that they should appropriately apply its true interpretation to all the Ages of the world.

Some make sport of Scripture as if it were a tablet of wax to be indifferently made use of by theologians, philosophers, doctors and mathematicians. Be it rather ours to bear witness, that from the beginning of the World there hath not been given to man a more excellent, admirable and wholesome book than the Holy Bible.

Blessed is he who possesses it, more blessed is he who reads it, and most blessed of all is he who truly understands it, while he is most like unto God who both understands and obeys it".

- Confessio Fraternitatis
(the second Rosicrucian Manifesto - 1615 A.D.) -

~ g
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Waterspout

 

The Divine Radiations from the Sixth Cosmic Domain are of a much higher vibration than anything here on the physical plane, the Seventh Cosmic Domain. Ordinarily, the Sixth does not, cannot, mix with the Seventh. Only during special periods of time, times of harvest at the end of major world cycles, do these Divine Radiations become more readily available to humanity.

 

A sort of "step-down" occurs, where the frequency of the lowest vibrations of the Divine Kingdom drops to a level that just about matches the very highest vibrations of our physical realm. This gives those who have prepared themselves the ability to form a link with the Divine Kingdom. At some definite point, the Divine Radiations will then withdraw, taking with it all those Souls who were able to avail themselves of its Mercy.

 

As Above, So Below. The action is similar to that of a water spout, which, as its vortex descends towards the surface of the sea, attracts water upwards until both meet. If we wish to take advantage of the Grace of an Age, we must work to raise the vibration of our auric being to the highest level possible for a nature-born human. If we can do that, the Divine Plan of the Logos will do the rest. 

  

 

~ g
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Seek Without Rest

 

"Let not him who Seeks...cease until he finds. And when he finds, he shall be astonished; Astonished, he shall reach the Kingdom, and having reached the Kingdom, he shall rest". ~~~ .

The Universe From Nothing

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking and others maintain that the Universe created itself from nothing.

This idea, birthed by the ratiocination of flawed human minds, highlights the atheistic, ego-driven belief system that permeates "modern science". It throws a spotlight on the fact that scientists are some of the stupidest human-beings alive, with celebrated fools like Hawking leading the way.

Modern scientists consistently err when it comes to matters of cosmology because:

1. They refuse to acknowledge the existence of the One God, The Source, First Cause, The Prime Mover
2. They exalt themselves as the perfection of perfections
3. They cannot accept that there could possibly be something greater than man

This is what happens when man bases his complex theorizing solely on what he can observe with his physical eyes, or imagine with his physical brain. This is what happens when man, in haughty pride, distances himself from The All, from the One True God.

 All Things must come from Some Thing. Some Thing cannot come from No Thing. Some Thing must already exist within Something Greater, which gives birth to it. That Something Greater is The All, the Infinitely Existing Consciousness that has always existed and will always exist.

Many human minds cannot even come close to apprehending the concept of an Infinitely Existing Consciousness. Thinking shuts down when they ask themselves the question: "How can Some Thing have always existed??"  This is the one question that physical man cannot answer. That's okay. What happened before the Beginning is Unknowable. Accept it and move on from there.

These scientists also maintain that the "Laws of Physics" are responsible for the creation of the Universe. Again, stupidity. How can you have a Law without a Law-Giver?

It would be better for the scientific community to sometimes just say that they don't know, rather than conjure up ridiculous theories that conspicuously ignore the existence of an Infinitely Existing Consciousness. But their job is to pretend to know, to place themselves as your "authorities" and then give you stones for bread.

Live not as those who live in the vanity of their mind. They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the Life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; - Ephesians 4:17-18

~ g
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Like Fish

 

[QUOTING]

For this reason, then, we do not sleep nor do we forget the nets that are spread out in hiding, lying in wait for us to catch. For if we are caught in a single net, it will suck us down into its mouth, while the water flows over us, striking our face. And we will be taken down into the dragnet, and we will not be able to come up from it because the waters are high over us, flowing from above downwards, submerging our heart down in the filthy mud. And we will not be able to escape from them. For man-eaters will seize us and swallow us, rejoicing like a fisherman casting a hook into the water. For he casts many kinds of food. He smells it and pursues its odor. But when he eats it, the hook hidden within the food seizes him and brings him up by force out of the deep waters. No man is able, then, to catch that fish down in the deep waters, except for the trap that the fisherman sets. By the ruse of food he brought the fish up on the hook.

In this very way we exist in this world, like fish. The Adversary spies on us, lying in wait for us like a fisherman, wishing to seize us, rejoicing that he might swallow us. For he placed many foods before our eyes, things which belong to this world. He wishes to make us desire one of them and to taste only a little, so that he may seize us with his hidden poison and bring us out of Freedom and take us into slavery. For whenever he catches us with a single food, it is indeed necessary for us to desire the rest. Finally, then, such things become the Food of Death.

Now these are the foods with which the Adversary lies in wait for us: First he injects a pain into your heart until you have a heartache on account of a small thing in this life, and he seizes you with his poisons. And afterwards he injects the desire of a tunic so that you will pride yourself in it, and love of money, pride, vanity, envy that rivals another envy, beauty of body, fraudulence. The greatest of all these are ignorance and ease.

Now all such things the Adversary prepares beautifully and spreads out before the body, wishing to make the mind of the Soul incline her toward one of them and overwhelm her, like a hook, drawing her by force into ignorance, deceiving her until she conceives evil, and bears fruits of matter, and conducts herself in uncleanness, pursuing many desires, covetousness, while fleshly pleasures draw her into ignorance.

But the Soul -- she who has tasted these things -- realized that sweet passions are transitory. She had learned about evil: she went away from them and entered into a new conduct. Afterwards, she despises this life, because it is transitory. And she looks for those Foods that will take her into Life, and leaves behind her those deceitful foods. And she learns about her Light, as she goes about stripping off this world, while her True Garment clothes her within, and her Bridal clothing is placed upon her in Beauty of Mind, not in pride of flesh. And she learns about her depth and runs into her fold, while her Shepherd stands at the door. In return for all the shame and scorn, then, that she received in this world, she receives ten thousand times the Grace and Glory.

From "Authoritative Teaching" - The Nag Hammadi Library (Codex VI, Tractate 3) - translated by George W. McRae

[END QUOTING]

Fairly self-explanatory for those on the Path with ears to hear.

~ g
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Piety In Action

[QUOTING]

What should we do to achieve a correct balance with the primordial gnostic law and receive the key to liberating Life? Hermes says that we, who live in a world of physical phenomena, should try to penetrate to what's behind them. Then we will understand. Then you will understand your fellow man and be able to help them. You must try to obtain knowledge of how it happened that man fell and degenerated to this present state of life and behavior. Once you possess this wisdom, which is not intellectual knowledge but first-hand inner wisdom, as a property that streams throughout your whole being and which you cannot ignore, you will love your neighbor -- that is, mankind as a whole -- and you will also understand the nobility of your deeper self.

To come to this wisdom you will have to lead, as Hermes put it, a God-serving life, you will have to become pious. "He who is truly pious will love wisdom beyond all measure, for without love of wisdom it is impossible to reach the highest piety".

So we have to ask ourselves what piety means as a way to arrive at wisdom, as a method of raising us to the Arch-Gnosis.

The answer might appear to be simple and you could say: "I know what piety is, I know perfectly well what it means". But do you really know what a God-serving and pious life is?

When we speak of a pious life, we often think too much of what is considered to be a religious life. Throughout the centuries many mystics have buried us under various statements concerning piety. Such virtue is considered to be connected with the life of religious people who fulfill their religious duties faithfully and conscientiously.

There are millions of such people and there always have been. But, where then is the Truth, the liberating Truth which must necessarily be the result of a pious life?

He who clings to a certain religious form of expression or associates with a habitual pupilship will unavoidably crystallize. Because of this crystallization it will become increasingly difficult for the Light to approach such a pupil. Therefore, this kind of pupilship, as it is sometimes understood, involves an enormous danger.

As soon as the foundation stone has been laid, building must begin. The building must rise into space. Something will have to be realized which did not previously exist, and when it is realized it must be used. Consequently, religiosity and devoutness are entirely different from piety. We are told that the key to becoming a True Man lies in piety, that is, in the courage to persevere in the face of impediments, against all opposition, to persevere in spite of what people may say and in spite of the situations and difficulties that may be gathering around you.

If you cannot summon up this courage, if you do not possess this perseverance, if you do not desire to break through, you will never attain wisdom, never arrive at love for mankind in the sense of the primordial law of the Gnosis. To "love God above all" means to persevere in spite of everything, even if it sometimes does not suit you with respect to your everyday life. The wisdom that is of God will come to you if you show this courage of conviction constantly. Then you will have passed the gate. If you really dare to entrust yourself to the mighty Light-field of the Gnosis, in perfect sincerity, and push all the difficulties aside without accepting them, without acknowledging them, you will have passed the gate.

Being a pious and devout person in the gnostic sense differs entirely from being a religious person. A religious person recognizes and accepts a deity in the same way as a citizen recognizes and accepts a government. He shows a certain reverence for and a proper gratitude to his god; he performs his religious duties but otherwise he remains in bondage, completely of the earth. He celebrates the great days of the Christian year; he knows the church festivals, his religious anniversaries; he remembers Jesus the Lord in His dying and resurrection. However, it will never occur to hmi that he has to follow Him in His dying and that he can, even must, participate in His resurrection.

It is precisely in this respect that real gnostic pupilship stands or falls. The hermetic philosophy tries to make it clear that by devotion, by the courage of piety, it is you yourself who hold your salvation, your sanctification in your own hands. He who realizes and experiences this will give his speechless thanks to the Divine Architect. The original principle of self-freemasonry is that everyone is capable of placing the imperishable building of his own salvation on the one foundation stone. You should understand that, no matter what the circumstances may be, it is given to every human-being to walk the Path of Return. Everyone, without exception can do so. However, the problem is that theoretical knowledge of this possibility is not at all liberating. You must put theory into practice. You must bring to life the possibilities granted to you through the courage of piety.

The aim of piety is to be resurrected in the nature-of-death., without being part of it any longer, through soul-birth and its results. This means to celebrate the real Easter event, a personal, everlasting Easter festival; to be in the world but no longer of the world.

From Chapters IX and X - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Ricjkenborgh

[END QUOTING]

It is not enough for us to stand in one place after obtaining gnostic insight into man's plight and the Path of Return. We must endeavor to learn what is expected of us, required of us and then undertake to live those requirements, every minute, every hour, every day. A complete and total reversal of the personality vehicles is what must take place in order for the power of the Rose to grow and develop.

Many reach this point in their journey and stop in their tracks, thinking to themselves "I now know it all. I have found The Great Secret! My quest is over. Here I will rest". No! The opening of the Rosebud, although it represent a glorious new chapter in the life of the Candidate so fortunate, is but a beginning. The insight and knowledge gained must be put to use; the Light received must be shed for others. It is from here that we proceed from power to power and from glory to glory.

Never stop working towards the Good End. The Path of Return is not a place of rest. It is a way of action. If one remembers this and above all truly practices piety in action, the rewards will flow effortlessly, to be shared with all those who are still in darkness.

~ g
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The Woman In The Red Dress

There is a scene in the movie The Matrix where Neo (the Seeker, the Candidate on the Path) is being briefed as to the nature of the Matrix. In the movie, the Matrix represents duality, the physical domain, the nature-of-death, the aeon-world.

As Neo moves along in a crowd of humans hurrying to and fro in that anxiously pointless way that sleeping humans have, he notices an attractive woman in a red dress. He is immediately distracted and begins to stare at the woman, who has locked eyes with him in an alluring manner. His guide, who has been instructing Neo regarding the inner workings of the Matrix, speaks:

"Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?"

Embarrassed, Neo does not answer.

His guide says "Look again".

When Neo returns his gaze to the woman in the red dress, he is surprised to see that she is no longer there. Her place has been taken by an "Agent" (the "Agents" represent the archons, or rulers of this nature-order). The Agent has an automatic pistol in his hand and has taken dead aim at Neo. Before the Agent can pull the trigger, the scene is frozen. Fortunately for Neo, it turns out that the entire scenario was a simulation designed to provide a teaching moment. He learns that the aim of the training program was to teach him one important lesson:

"If you are not one of us, you are one of them."

The Woman In The Red Dress, as well as everything else in the highly allegorical film The Matrix, is a symbolic representation of something deeper. As the Matrix itself represents the world of the rulers and Neo (as in "New" man) represents the Candidate on the Path, the Woman In The Red Dress represents the alluring glamour of the physical world that traps and ensnares so many candidates on the Path. These distractions can be anything ranging from the obvious (sex, narcotics, desire for wealth, power and fame) to such seemingly innocuous things as religion, family ties, professional pursuits, desire for safety, comfort and security.

These things and many more are the aim and one goal of so many sleeping human beings. With the direction of their life so rigidly focused on the Woman In The Red Dress, they are unable to see through the façade and thus unable to break free of the Matrix. The Woman In The Red Dress is their reality. It is everything they feel will be needed in order for them to obtain 'happiness' in this world. And so, open-mouthed, they stop and stare at her sham-beauty not realizing that she is but a disguise for the archons and aeons of this nature-order. They cannot see that there is a gun pointed at them loaded with a bullet that is marked with their name.

The Woman In The Red Dress is also a distraction for those who have awakened and are trying to walk the Gnostic Path of Return. We acknowledge that it is extremely difficult for the candidate to disengage from the physical attractions of this world. After all, prior to locating the Path, this nature-order was all that the candidate knew. It was his or her reality in which he or she was totally immersed. So it takes a bit of time to begin to see what is beneath all of that glamour. Let it be known that beneath every physical treat is a trick. Beneath the trappings of this world are the workings of the archons and aeons of this nature. Their job, their only occupation, is to keep the candidate transfixed, hypnotized and paralyzed by the Lie that is the physical world.

Therefore, Candidate on the Path, do not fall victim to the gaze of the Woman In The Red Dress. She is a trick, an illusion. She is an agent of the aeons of this nature-order and an enemy of the Gnosis who means you nothing but harm. No matter what the situation, always look beneath what is being presented to you in the physical realm. By remaining vigilant in this regard, you will be able to unmask the agents who are plotting your demise before they can pull the trigger.

~ g
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One Versus Two

"This, my son, is the only way to Truth, which was also followed by those who went before us and on which they received the Good.

Sublime and well-trodden is this road, but difficult for the Soul to follow as long as it is in the body.

First the Soul has to struggle against itself, achieve a great separation and allow one part to gain victory over it. For a conflict arises between one part and the other two parts: the former tries to escape while the latter try to drag the former - that is, the Soul - down from below. The result is a fight and a great trial of strength between the part that wants to escape and the two others that strive to detain the Soul.

However, it makes no small difference whether the one or the other side wins, for the one strives with great effort towards the Good, while the others make their home in the domain of perdition. The one yearns after freedom, the others embrace slavery. If the two are vanquished, they remain locked up within themselves, inactive and lonely, abandoned by the one that rules. But if the one part is defeated, it is carried off as captive by the two and deprived of everything and is punished by the life it lives here.

See, my son, this is the guide on the way that leads to Freedom: you must give up the body before it dies and overcome the life of Conflict; then, if you have won that victory, you will return to the Highest".

Corpus Hermeticum, Book 5, verses 8-14
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Your Protection Against Deception

[QUOTING]

There are million who, strictly speaking, are our fellow creatures. And among all these companions of race and fate there are many who take a certain standpoint with respect to others. Think of the many authorities to be found in the world, who say to you: 'This is what we say; listen to us. We know all about it; we can do it. Take such-and-such a course; this is what you must do.' Indeed, there have often been times in which those in authority have exercised compulsion, posing a threat to life and liberty. The brothers and sisters of the Tri-Unity of Light, of Grail, Cathar and Cross with Roses, could tell a tale about that!

Today, too, there are again developments which practice coercion of the conscience, in small things as well as in major issues. In many fields of life, with all kinds of motives, coercion of the conscience is flourishing anew. Tyranny is exercised by families, for instance, and in many countries by groups. We are also thinking, here, of the many inhabitants of the reflection-sphere and the life-waves which populate the etheric domain, of those who dwell on other planets and of the aeons and the archons of the aeons. Among them are those who have become extremely powerful as creatures and who glorify themselves with the names of gods, or are awarded such names by others. There are also the hordes of perpetrators of the Great Game*. In short, there are myriads of creatures with myriads of possibilities for betrayal, deception and coercion. And all of them are telling you: 'We possess the Good!'

* See J. van Rijckenborgh, Unmasking, 1958

And now we consider the Seeker, in the ocean of life, as a creature among fellow creatures. It is as if he has been submerged, and is being tossed to and fro by the waves.

Most of our readers, too, have been genuine seekers since their youth. You have been searching everywhere, haven't you? And think of all the vast quantities of literature you have devoured! And isn't it true to say that it was as if by coincidence, through a combination of circumstances beyond your control, that you came into contact with the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross?

What should the Seeker do amidst the fire of his seeking? Where should he go? What is being done to him? Where are the tides of life driving him? Thousands of voices ring in his ears: 'The Good is here!' What will become of him? For in the totality of Creation, evil takes many forms. That is why the observation is made that what is considered 'good' here, in the world of dialectics, is at best the smallest part of evil.

Who could distinguish the truth among all those wraith-like forms, among all those shadowy notions which present themselves to us? Who is able to see through all that pretense, all that delusion, all that nefariousness? How could one possibly make sense of all that immeasurable chaos? Who could remain standing in the midst of these wildly proliferating dangers? Surely it is just not possible?

Yes, it is possible! We have already given you the necessary directions. If you wish to become a priestess or priest of the Gnosis, if you want to be an Aesclepius, a healer of mankind, do not be attached to anything, neither by love, nor especially by hate. Be purely objective, well-disposed to the last, but not attached. Do not listen to any voice, any impulse, any suggestion. Our words, too, you should not accept a priori as true. Be of goodwill, and remain unbiased until from within you discover something of the Truth.

We repeat, do not listen to any voice, do not pursue the fleeting urges of your sensory organism. Stand without conceit as the autonomous creature amid the All-Manifestation. But at the same time, be extremely watchful, for as soon as you begin to enter into detachment, the entire host of aeons and archons will fall upon you. Many gods of creation, many entities who have achieved great power, will take an interest in you.

From "The Path of Self-Surrender" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

[END QUOTING]

At this point in mankind's history the spiritual supermarket is overflowing with enticing selections, too many to enumerate here. Most mix a very tiny portion of the Truth with their toxic teachings. That tiny bit of authenticity speaks to what is True in the Seeker, and is usually enough to get him or her to buy into the larger, false portion of what is being offered.

Beware. A war is raging in the heavens. It is a war for men's souls. The protagonists will use every trick at their disposal to lead you away from the Truth, not by force, but by coercion. It will be your own choice that will free you or doom you. So be very careful as to what you lend your ear to.

Those of you who happen to be sensitive and are able to see into the invisible worlds or hear from them, place no importance upon what your physical senses are telling you. If you can detect something with your physical sense of sight or hearing then you can be certain that you are in contact with the reflection-sphere, the realm of the dead. Do not ascribe any undue importance to extra-sensory phenomena.

If you remain neutral and objective, that which is True will undeniably speak to that which is True within you.

~ g
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Willing

 

"Today, I Baked A Pie!" (To All Readers)

There are a ton of blogposts with titles such as the above that glorify daily tasks like the one mentioned. Bloggers will talk about the most mundane subjects because those subjects mean something to them, and they want to share what is important to them with the world. They also want to make a little money advertising, gather approval from total strangers and generally be reminded of how great they are.

This is not one of those blogs.

This blog is for those whose Seeking has brought them to a Borderland. It is for those who have reached the limit of seeking on the horizontal plane and are exhausted from the fruitlessness of their endeavors. Religion, New Age, mysticism, occult practices, kabbalah, extraterrestrials, the list goes on. All leave the true Seeker frustrated and exhausted, silently screaming, "What is the Truth? Where can it be found? Why am I here? What is my purpose? Where do I come from? Where am I going?"

This writer is familiar with all of the above, intimately so. That is why it can be said without reservation that when a Seeker reaches the point where he rejects all dialectical remedies and reaches out a hand in search of salvation, that hand will be grasped, that Seeker will be guided...to a terrestrial outpost of the Universal Brotherhood. There, the Seeker will be presented with teachings that fly in the face of dialectics. He will encounter a vibration that will, if possible, serve to awaken his Divine Rosebud from its ages-long slumber.

Like attracts like. Most of you found your way here because something within you resonated with the vibration emanated from this anonymous spot. This blog is concerned primarily with the following:

- spreading The Call of the Gnosis
- exposing the true Seeker to the Universal Doctrine
- presenting teachings that will provide critical insight.
- answering those questions regarding the Gnosis that can be answered

No one is coerced to come here. No one is forced to continue to frequent this blog. There is no advertising, no entry fee. The blog asks nothing of anyone, while offering everything it can. It is here, that's all. It sits in place, like a clear puddle of water after a rain. There is no need to call the birds down to have a drink, the birds will come on their own.

This writer will always refrain from writing about himself, or his journey, or what he had for lunch today. No one comes here to read stories about this writer's life. There are a billion other blogs that can provide the reader with that sort of vicarious ride-along. This blog has a specific Service to provide and it will try to fulfill that purpose for as long as it proves to be useful to true Seekers the world over.

If an excerpt is posted here, one can be sure that there is reason for it. This writer is not going to waste the time of those who frequent this blog by posting worthless drivel. Why is so much of Jan van Rijckenborgh's and Catharose Di Petri's material posted here? There are two reasons:

1. they knew what they are writing about, from first-hand experience as former Grandmasters of the Spiritual School

2. the hope is that Seekers will be inspired to pick up these works and avail themselves of this first-hand knowledge.

Everything one needs to know about walking the Path of Return properly, in steadfastness and humility, is laid out in detail in the forty or so books written by these two people. This writer has read them all at least twice over. Some of them more times than can be counted. It was money well-spent. In former times, the same amount of money was foolishly wasted on clothing and so-called fine cognac. These works are priceless. It can be stated here without equivocation: all that is written in the works of van Rijckenborgh and di Petri is of tremendous help. All that is presented provides a critical blueprint for the Seeker, a roadmap. Through first-hand experience, this writer knows that what has been revealed in the literature of the School about the Eternal Path of the True Way is authentic.

Unfortunately, there is nothing that this writer can do to convince you, the reader, of what he knows to be true. You will have to undertake the experience for yourself, which is why excerpt after excerpt is presented for your study. It is an effort to encourage you to conduct your own investigation, to experience the Path, truly experience it for yourself.

This writer is not a guru, or a teacher, or a master or any of those things that some seekers feel a need to be "led" by. If you are here to be "led" to Liberation, you are going to be sorely disappointed, because you will not find your guru here. What you will find is one who was once like you, immersed in the cesspool of the dialectical world, who was then led from within to the fountain of the Gnosis and, when he reached it, drank from it thirstily. From there, this one underwent a fundamental life reversal. The personality that he once was began to slowly recede. In its place the emerging Other One began to assert itself.

There is nothing and no one that can shake the convictions of one who knows. The Gnosis is real. Liberation is available to all those who wish to pursue it. This blog will remain active for the sake of those who are still searching for that which was once hidden from mankind but must now be revealed to those who have made themselves worthy. It is the least Service that can be provided by one who has been fortunate enough to climb out of The Pit and obtain knowledge of The True Way.

May all of you, without exception, find the courage to pursue the insight necessary to motivate you to surrender the self, change your life's vibratory tone and walk the Path of Return to the Good End.

all love,

~ g
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Transplant

The Original Divine Microcosm contained three soul-nuclei. One was positively-charged, one was negatively charged. These two nuclei orbited one another. The third soul-nucleus was neutral charge and orbited the other two.

These three nuclei cooperated harmoniously with the power of the All. Because the Microcosms were linked with the Divine they shared in the omnipotence and omniscient powers of God. All was well as long as the Divine Microcosms utilized this power in a centrifugal fashion. That is, the Power of God was allowed to work through them to create good works. The Microcosms acted as conduits for a great, divine Power. As long as this Power was allowed to flow through the Microcosm for the benefit of the All-Manifestation, they were able to accomplish wondrous things, among these was the ability to self-generate a glorified etheric-physical Personality at will.

When a group of these Divine Microcosms chose to utilize this Power in a centripetal fashion, when they tried to keep the Power within and use it for selfish purposes, a mighty heat began to arise within the nucleus of the Microcosm. The heat became so great that it eventually resulted in an explosion of sorts. Due to this explosion, one of the pairs of nuclei in the center of the Microcosm was ejected from the system. For some Microcosms, it was the positive soul-nucleus that was ejected. For others, it was the negative soul-nucleus that was lost. The once tri-une Divine Microcosms were now di-une. This is the cosmic truth behind the symbolic story of the separation of the sexes.

Once this occurred these severely damaged microcosms were unable to function properly in the Divine Kingdom. They were missing a critical third soul-nucleus. Due to their selfish error, they wandered as lost entities, doomed to a limbo-like existence.

With great mercy, the Logos saw fit to devise a plan for rescuing these fallen microcosms. A temporary, separate universe was generated which would be adapted for use by these damaged microcosms. This emergency order of existence would be designed in such a way as to lead these microcosms, after long experience, back to an awareness of their Origins and from there, to a restoration of their damaged microcosms and a return to the Divine Kingdom.

In place of the lost third soul-nuclei, an outside entity would be inserted into the fallen microcosm via the human phenomena called child-birth. This entity - the earthly personality - would be tasked with trying to restore the tri-une nature of the microcosm by unifying the positive and negative soul-nuclei once more.

In essence, each child-birth represents a transplant, an attempt to introduce into a damaged microcosm the missing element that could restore it to Divinity. If this unification can be accomplished, the microcosm will undergo a transmutation that will eventually lead to a transfiguration, the liberation of the Other One within and the restoration of the Divine Microcosm.

But what happens to the human personality that succeeds in executing its part in this divine rescue mission? Is it discarded like a used Kleenex? No! Indeed, the following details the reward that awaits the successful earthly personality:

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This is, as it were, an operation, a transplantation: an organ originating in the emergency-order is implanted in a Being from quite another Order. And now it must be proved whether the transplanted organ is willing and able to 'take'; whether the plan to return - the aim of the operation - will be achieved.

By following a path of transfiguration it is possible to make you conscious of your state, to make you conscious of The Great Aim. If you are able to link harmoniously with the rose-atom, the neutral auric-self will immediately react. The great process of salvation will begin. With regard to you, as a product of the emergency-order, a great and intense wonder will then unfold. When an organ is transplanted into the body and it begins to react, this enables the whole body to live, so that the transplanted organ can share in its life.

In the same way, by following the fivefold gnostic procedure -- the method of transplantation -- you can be taken up into the Life of the Original Order. You will then leave the emergency-order to which you formerly belonged and enter a Higher Order, along with the system into which you were introduced. In this way, you will be incarnated, transplanted, in a Divine Being and, with that Eternal Being, you will live eternally. You can then justly be called a 'twice-born' one', born once as to what is of the earth, earthly, and once as to the Heavenly Being.

From "The Mystery of Life and Death" Jan van Rijckenborgh

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And this...

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For this purpose a mortal personality was created as an image-bearer of the Original Personality. This image-bearer was called to bring his microcosm back to the Immovable Kingdom with the aid of the powers hidden in the Rose. In this way, by following the Path of Transfiguration, he would gain Eternity for himself.

We are telling you this to remind you again about the image-bearer of the lost, third soul-being. It was so that you could become such an image-bearer that you were modeled from the matter of this world and are able to be active in the fallen microcosmic system. You are meant to become one with it so that you can bring it back to its former glory by reconstructing the Original Personality.

From "The Mystery of Life and Death" Jan van Rijckenborgh

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You are a transplant. As an earthly personality, if you succeed in accomplishing your task to help lead your microcosm to the Good End, your reward will be a merging with the reborn, divine Other One. You will share in its restored omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience. Life as an earthly human-being will be a forgotten memory. A mission spanning countless ages will end in Victory.

May this be so for us all.

~ g
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Transplant (draft)

Engraving by Theodore De Bry

Microcosmic Restoration - Your Role in the Divine Plan

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A microcosm is spherical in shape. Around the sphere is a complex magnetic field. If we view this sphere from a distance, our attention is attracted, first of all, by the auric being. This surface layer is sevenfold in composition and within it we find a magnetic system, a combination of magnetic points. The auric being also possesses an atomic nucleus with which the system of magnetic points forms a unity which is is to a greater or lesser extent conscious. When we speak of this conscious unity, we use the term 'auric self' or auric soul'.

The interior of the microcosmic sphere forms a void called 'the field of manifestation' and precisely in its heart a second atomic nucleus is to be found. This nucleus is known as 'the rose of the heart'  or 'the miraculous jewel in the lotus', or 'the unknown, latent soul'. On closer examination we discover that the auric soul has not one single connection, not one single contact, with the rose-heart. Although there are magnetic lines of force running inwards from the auric self, and although the field of manifestation is a space continually criss-crossed with powerful vibrations, the rose-heart does not react to them; it is asleep. So we see that we can only speak of genuine life when we look at the auric self; within the sphere's field of manifestation we only see a 'void' as far as life is concerned.

When we speak of the auric self as living, you need to understand clearly what we mean, for the life inhabiting it is very strange and not at all like the life-forms we know. The life of the auric self is neither mineral, nor vegetable, nor animal, and it certainly cannot be thought of as superhuman.

We can best approach the auric self's state of consciousness by comparing it with the consciousness of an elemental, a consciousness which is the result of the combined activity of magnetic forces, and will be clear or dull, strong or weak, good or bad in conformity with the effects of the processes going on within and around the sphere. Such a consciousness will therefore be without any deep, inner psychological reactions of its own; it will be a completely automatic, neutral consciousness.

If the consciousness is automatic, then it is clear that the microcosm must be in possession of a governing soul-being if it is to live in the highest sense of the word. However, in the conditions we have been describing, such a soul-being is not present at all. There is only the latent life in the rose-heart, and life in the auric soul which is life in name only. Apart from that, there is nothing! It is hardly possible to say that such a microcosm lives, any more than one can say that it is dead.

That, then, is the condition of an emptied microcosm in our domain of life. Such was the fate of all microcosms after the third soul in the system had died. Remember that the third soul-nucleus, in cooperation with the rose-soul, had originally caused a Glorious Personality to exist in the microcosm's field of manifestation. But this Personality disappeared and evaporated from the field of manifestation at the moment when, through centripetal activity, the arrangement of the system was disrupted.

What could be done about this situation? Well, the third soul-nucleus would need to be brought back into the system. It would need to realize unity with the rose-soul and in this way restore the original state-of-being. But where should the third soul-nucleus come from? For the third aspect of the soul had vanished; it had dissolved into energy in the heat of the fire.

This was the tremendous problem with which the Logos was faced, a problem still in the process of being solved, since not all of the microcosms have yet been rescued and brought back to the Original Kingdom.

As we explained, a cosmic emergency-order was established. Its aim was to create a being, a living being that would be able - temporarily - to inhabit the place formerly occupied by the soul and the Original Personality that had vanished. If this surrogate-being were able to act as a substitute in a microcosm's field of manifestation, this would enable a magnificent process of Transfiguration and hence, of Return.

It may be difficult for you to accept that you are the transitory end-product of an emergency-order plan. At birth, you represent the vanished third-soul nucleus, and your newly-born body represents the Glorified Figure of Old. Both this soul-nucleus and this young body are introduced into an emptied microcosm. This is, as it were, an operation, a transplantation: an organ originating in the emergency-order is implanted in a Being from quite another Order. And now it must be proved whether the transplanted organ is willing and able to 'take'; whether the plan to return - the aim of the operation - will be achieved.

By following a path of transfiguration it is possible to make you conscious of your state, to make you conscious of The Great Aim.  If you are able to link harmoniously with the rose-atom, the neutral auric-self will immediately react. The great process of salvation will begin. With regard to you, as a product of the emergency-order, a great and intense wonder will then unfold. When an organ is transplanted into the body and it begins to react, this enables the whole body to live, so that the transplanted organ can share in its life. In the same way, by following the fivefold gnostic procedure -- the method of transplantation -- you can be taken up into the Life of the  Original Order. You will then leave the emergency-order to which you formerly belonged and enter a Higher Order, along with the system into which you were introduced. In this way, you will be incarnated, transplanted, in a Divine Being and, with that Eternal Being, you will live eternally. You can then justly be called a 'twice-born' one', born once as to what is of the earth, earthly, and once as to the Heavenly Being.

If this ascent, this Second Birth, is not successful, you will know yourself what the end must be. You will die the death of your earthly state ('you are dust, and to dust you shall return'), and your microcosm, one delusion richer and often in a severely wounded state, will have to wait for another chance.

From "The Doctrine of Reincarnation" The Mystery of Life and Death - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Read the fore-going as many times as you have to. Sobering? Perhaps. Shocking? Maybe. Glorious? Absolutely! This is the Divine Plan of Salvation for those who have Fallen. This merciful Plan is tended to and lovingly administered by countless entities from numberless realms who have made, and are still making great sacrifices as they unceasingly try to show us The Way Home. The Divine Plan of Salvation is the essence of, the Truth of, the Purpose for and the Reason behind your present existence.

If you fail to comprehend and implement this Plan, if you retreat from doing your part to effect this Mighty Restoration, 'you' will not get another opportunity on the Wheel of Death and Rebirth. Do you now see what is at stake? Do you now see why the common troubles and desires of the material-world are useless, misleading and delusional?

For all those people who have ever wondered. "What is the meaning, point or purpose of my life?", well, you have just had it revealed to you. May you take this Knowledge and keep it with you as you begin your journey from darkness back into Light.

all love,

~ g
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