Where Is The Love?

The following post is a response to a recent comment that was too large to fit in the Comments section.

Q: "It's been 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Over 1 million souls lost their lives there. Is there any meaning to what happened there or can we just put it down to karma? I can see no love there. Your thoughts please.

A: First, we will objectively speak to the role of racial karma in what was reported to have occurred in Europe during the Second World War. If one reads the Old Testament carefully, one will be struck by the number of times the so-called "chosen ones" invaded other territories and, instructed by their "god", brutally and with great gusto slaughtered every man, woman and child in sight. Conquest and murder were their calling card. Those karmic chickens did finally come home to roost during the years leading up to and beyond WWII.

As for locating love in the midst of atrocity, those who wish to walk the Path of Return, who wish to become Children of God once more, do not get stuck on looking for love in the difficult situations that confront them. These ones understand, on a higher level than most, that mankind is very, very ill. And just as many of us who, having a family member that commits a crime, would continue to love that family member but disprove of the deed, so we who attempt to walk the Path of the True Way offer our love despite the circumstances. To do otherwise is to go against the will of the Father.

Those who cannot let go of the need to love selectively indicate by this resistance that they are simply not yet ready for the challenge of taking on a New Attitude of Life, which is a pre-requisite for success on The Path. There is no shame in this. Each one progresses at their own pace.

Finally, we will speak to the meaning of what happened in Europe during the Second World War. When this writer first began seeking many years ago, the aim was to get to the bottom of who controlled this world and why. One of the things discovered was that there is a huge deception being initiated at levels far above that of the common man. We see only the effects of such actions, never the causes. The event you refer to is one such deception.

Conveniently, it is now forbidden to controvert the official story. Canada is one of the countries that puts people in jail for questioning the veracity of this event. The world over, any intelligent scientific debate is discouraged, derided or vigorously prosecuted. To obtain an intelligent analysis of the truth behind this event, one may wish to read "Did Six Million Really Die?" by Richard Sherman. Via meticulous research using documents that were available during that time (including Jewish newspapers and the Jewish Encyclopedia), the author puts forth that

- Hitler’s “final solution” was to ship all Jews under German control to Madagascar. Negotiations were held with the British to this end, who nixed the idea.
- Census and emigration records indicate that the majority of Jews in the pre-war German sphere of influence had emigrated to other countries long before hostilities began.
- These same population records also indicated that there were more Jews extant in the world after the war than there were before the war.
- All of the concentration camps that were purported to have been involved in the extermination of human beings via gas were on the Russian side of the Iron Curtain, where, after the war was over, access was restricted or not allowed at all.

One may also wish to review The Leuchter Report, which presents compelling evidence serving to refute the historical claim that people could be systematically gassed to death hundreds or thousands at a time in a barracks setting, as to be effectively lethal, any working gas chamber must be sealed and airtight.

These subjects may be distasteful, but this writer learned long ago never to accept the official version of any story outright. In such matters, your controllers count on humans putting their head in the sand rather than conducting their own investigation. One is advised to always conduct one's own research and formulate one's own opinion.

All world events, I repeat, all world events are planned and coordinated to condition the clueless masses to follow a pre-set program put in place by those who control humanity. Every world event is a part of The Great Play which was designed to take place over many years and will eventually culminate in a massive deception that will be perpetrated upon the entire world.

The foregoing aside, we will return to the issue of true unconditional Love. This is the New Law handed down to us by the Christ. It supersedes the Old Law, the Law of Moses, and states:

"The most important commandment is this: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:29-31

Like chess, this is something that may be easy to learn but hard to master. However, we who aspire to that which is Higher must achieve this level of Love, or we risk aligning ourselves with that portion of humanity who will not survive the Great Separation.

"And now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is Love" - 1 Cor. 13:13

all love,

~ g
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Thought-Life, The Astral Body and The Path of Return

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Astral substance consists of astral atoms. It is the primordial substance, the Cosmic Root-Substance encountered throughout the Universe, which made the classical Rosicrucians say: There Is No Empty Space. An astral field is a concentration of astral atoms. Concentrations of primordial substance are found through out space, in most cases initially in some sort of spherical form. Such a field comes into being by means of a force. An idea, for instance, is such a force. Even a passing thought causes a densification, a concentration of astral atoms. A series of ideas thus exercises a considerable power. Atoms of primordial substance are extremely sensitive. They react immediately, for they are part of the Fundamental Nature, the building blocks of the entire universe.

In this way, a human being draws around himself an astral field which conforms to his mentality. We all possess a certain mentality. All of us have a thought-life, and the astral field particular to us, our astral body, corresponds to it entirely. It is of the same nature, the same value; indeed there are even moments when it possesses a form corresponding to the idea being radiated, or even to the form of the originator, for atoms of primordial substance are extremely malleable and can instantly take on a form corresponding to the forces motivating them.

From time to time, for instance during the night when the material body is asleep, the personal astral field takes on the shape of your being. That is why it is correct to speak of the astral body. You will now understand that the vibratory level of your astral body determines the forces you attract or repel. Thus the vibratory factor always constitutes the preserving or ejecting elements of your astral field.

If your mentality, your thought-life, is of high quality and value, if your thoughts are genuinely pure, then your astral body, your own particular astral field, will take on a higher vibration. The more subtle your thought-life, the more pure and uplifted your thoughts, the higher will be the vibration of your astral field. For instance, at the moment your thoughts are on a high level because you are being carried along with us in the spiritual streams of The Alchemical Wedding and you feel linked with them, your astral body will have taken up a correspondingly high vibration and you will immediately experience its serenity. At this same moment you have become insusceptible and inaccessible to all influences of a lower or opposing vibration and can only receive that which corresponds with your current vibration-factor.

If -- and this applies particularly to pupils as a group -- you raise yourself to a higher astral vibration in this way, then an openness to the radiations of the Brotherhood will develop. Anyone can understand that. And thus your ultimate Freedom or lack of Freedom lies entirely in your own hands. Through the pure, New Way of Life, which must be based on true soul-quality, you can raise the vibration factor of your astral body to an ever-increasing extent. Only in this way can you leave behind the lower levels and enter the higher planes of astral serenity, and taste their fruits. Walking The Path is nothing more than the course of development resulting from the raising of the astral vibration-factor of your being, through the New Way of Life, by consistent new directedness.

From "The Astral Criterion" Esoteric Analysis of The Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross, Vol. 1 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Like attracts like. A person is what he or she thinks, in the astral sense. One may be able to put on a façade for the world, but in the astral realm, all is unmasked. The true nature of a person is exposed like an open book.

Thus one will always attract astral forces to themselves that are in line with their astral nature. If you wish to have any hope of ascending the rungs of the ladder of progress on the Path of Return, your thinking, your thought-life, must be purified and raised to a higher level. One must reject the old, self-centered way of Thinking, Feeling and Willing. This requires a conscious effort and quiet resolve to follow the fivefold Gnosis and persist in a New Attitude of Life, which is highlighted by a practical self-forgetfulness and of an impersonal Love for all humanity. The fore-going should not be expressed simply in words, but by deeds which will serve as true Demonstrations of Love all day, every day, for as long as you live on this earth.

Man, control thy thoughts. Consistently aim your focus on the purification of the thought-life and reap the astral benefits that will strengthen your link with the Gnosis.

~ g
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The Unthinkable

Would The All, the Unknowable, Ineffable, Ever-Existing Source Of All There Is create human races just to watch them flail and struggle in misery, then perish, only to have to return to the physical plane to do it all over again?

Would the Unknowable, All-Knowing One mercilessly expose Its creatures to eternities of suffering and endless tortures with no known reason or purpose for this existence?

No. A thousand times no! It is an insult to even consider such things.

The All, the Great Invisible, the Only Good, generated Divine microcosms through whom Its Power could be used to create in a visible world. These Divine microcosms were fine while they were in union with the All. They used the inexhaustible Power of the All in accordance with Its Will. But when a portion of these microcosms attempted to retain this Power for themselves, they shut off their connection with The All and immediately began to crystallize.

As a result of this, these damaged microcosms were no longer able to survive in the Divine Realms. In mercy, the Divine microcosms that did not transgress put forth a plan to save those who had. A separate realm was created, what we know as the physical universe. It was a realm custom-made for habitation by these damaged microcosms. A place where, via the laws of Duality, the transgressors could hope to recognize their error and seek to re-link with The All.

And so, here we are, in what is in essence an "emergency order" of existence. A temporary plane of existence that has the sole purpose of encouraging the Fallen to return Home.

The misery here, we cause ourselves. The hopelessness and fear, we create ourselves. Man looks at the devastation that is this world, cries out "Where is God?" and turns away from the things of the Spirit. He searches the world for a god that suits his desires but consistently fails to seek the Truth that lies Within. When that Truth is presented to him, he scoffs at the messengers and labels it "a fairytale".

Strive to break the Chain of Futility. Seek that which has been put before man since the time of The Fall. Locate the golden thread which leads to Gnosis. Find the Path to Freedom, then join those who are already walking that Path. Together, in group formation, we shall finally find our way out of this vale of tears, in triumphant fulfillment of the Divine Plan of Salvation.

~ g
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The Sins Of The Ages

Keep in mind that countless personalities have inhabited your microcosm. You are but the latest in a long line of such personalities. Each personality has a duty to form a link with the Gnosis during physical life so that it can begin the process of liberating the microcosm from the endless cycle of death and rebirth.

The fact that we are here indicates that over the course of thousands of previous incarnations, we have not succeeded in accomplishing this Great Work. Each time we fail, the personality is dissolved, its experiences and karma are stored in the lipika and, after a time, a new personality is implanted into the microcosm.

This accumulated karma and experience, in conjunction with hereditary and racial factors, combine to make us, the current personality, who we are. Past personalities that have incarnated within our microcosm have been priests, priestesses, killers, thieves, black magicians, etc. It runs the gamut of human expression. Even though we retain no memory of these past incarnations, the experiences, capabilities, successes and failures remain a part of the microcosm. We are laden with the sin of the ages.

Knowing this, we can step back and begin to consider where our current habits, addictions and predilections originate. During incarnation, all of these things become a part of the so-called "sub-conscious". We carry these burdens with us each and every day. This is a major reason why we stumble while trying to walk The Path: we are up against thousands and thousands of years of bad habits, poor choices and selfish, destructive desires. As Paul states in his address to the Romans:

"For it is not the good that I wish to do that I do; but it is the evil that I do not wish to do, that I do. Now if I do that which I do not wish, then it is not I who do it, but the Sin which dominates me". Romans 7:19-20

So how do we extricate ourselves from this yoke of sin? It would appear that there is too much for us to overcome in one short lifetime. How can we expect to balance karma that goes back thousands of years? Well, that is where the Gnosis comes into play. This is why the Gnosis has returned among mankind here at the end of this major world-cycle.

The Christ-radiation called Gnosis, is the "Son" sent to mankind to assist in the following:

1. the extinguishing of all past and current karma (forgiveness of sins)
2. the rebirth of the Spirit-Soul (resurrection)
3. Transmutation and Transfiguration (ascension)

The spirit of the Gnosis is being poured over all, both good and bad alike (thus explains the symbolism of Aquarius, the Water-Bearer), but not all respond to its saving rays. It has both an attracting and repulsing aspect to it. For those who respond favorably, the attracting radiations will offer the healing and salvation outlined above. Those who do not respond favorably, or fight against it, will suffer the pain of the repulsing, destructive aspect of these radiations, eventually resulting in physical death.

We cannot erase our karma through our own efforts. Again, the fact that we are here today is proof that we have been consistent failures at this task. The Gnosis has invaded this nature-order at this time (as it always does at the end of major and minor world-cycles) to offer a helping hand to all of mankind and to remove from this nature-order all those who believe and voluntarily choose to walk the Path of Return.

Don't worry about becoming an overnight saint. Don't worry about how many times you fail as you take these first stumbling steps. Concern yourself only with the pure intent, the sincere yearning to be taken up by the Aquarian radiations. If you give yourself over to it, you will be helped in your walk in a hundred different ways. The Victory over death will have already been won. The Way Home will stretch before you, a road that you will not travel alone. Your brothers in the Gnosis will be with you. Triumphantly, in group unity, we shall return Home.

"He who abides in the protection of the Gnosis shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. For He will give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone."

~ g
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The Way Of The Cross

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The new Soul element has two poles. One is directed to the Fatherland, to the Father, to the Spirit, to the approaching Pymander. The second must direct itself to the nature-born personality to allow the Immortal, the new power of salvation, to flow into the mortal. This is the reason for the inner struggle you must experience from the very moment you celebrate your true pupilship. Consider the following:

Two absolutely heterogeneous states of being combine. In the Gnosis, one undertakes to link the Heavenly with the dualistic and nature-born, in accordance with the example given by all the Great Ones who said: "Be my followers". If you link these two heterogeneous states in your system, great pain will result. One pole of the new Soul element will flee to the Spirit, to Pymander. The second pole will have to encounter the nature-of-death. While the new Soul element makes every effort to strive after The Good, after the essence of the Spirit, it must at the same time suffer the conflict with the two essential powers of nature: passion and desire. What grief will be the result! On the one hand there will be intense longing for Liberation, with every heartbeat; on the other, there will be contact with the powers of defilement and slavery.

In this way the Cross is erected. The vertical and the horizontal are joined together, solidly planted in the earth; what is Heavenly bends down towards the earth and goes its Way of the Cross on earth; it must do so. The top of the Cross is directed towards what is Heavenly and at the heart of the Cross is nailed the Rose of the Soul.

Do you feel the inescapable grief of such a nailing? The vertical is continually scourged and tortured through this voluntary surrender; the Spirit cannot bear it, cannot stand it. And if the horizontally-active soul-power is drawn upwards for a while, this is again an impossibility. The result will be a scorching pain, the scorching of burning. The horizontal cannot abandon its nature-being and the vertical cannot become established in the nature-of-death, although that is exactly what it is supposed to do on a voluntary basis. This process, this Way of the Cross, as the hermetic philosophy summarizes, is the guide 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".

This guide is the Cross with the blood-red Rose, the Cross of voluntary self-sacrifice, the Cross of Purification. Nailed to this Cross, the young Soul must wrestle and fulfill its task.

Therefore, if you walk the Path of Piety, you should not be surprised that you have conflict in your life and still so much in yourself with which to struggle. What is taking place is the necessary encounter between two antagonists that are completely irreconcilable and that, by their encounter, cause a great inner fire, the fire of the Cross. This fire cannot fail to appear, it must rage. The new Soul-state must first have overcome by mortal life. This, stated Hermes, is what you should very well understand and struggle through with your inner being.

There are people who take on the struggle caused by the Path with their "I", with their ego of self-mortification. Such people make this inner struggle into a conflict of a highly personal nature. They proceed from the mistaken idea that all this pain, trouble and grief strikes them because of the fact that they still have an "I"; because their lower nature plays a trick on them in one way or another; because they are still that bad or that sinful. But this has nothing to do with what we have been discussing. Please, see your situation very clearly:

As pupils, you have opened your heart sanctuaries to the new power of the Sixth Cosmic Domain, the power of the Living Soul-state. It penetrates your blood, your nerve-fluid and advances to the head sanctuary; it fills your whole being and causes Soul Birth. However, there is also the other power which is absorbed by the root system of the serpent-fire system; this power also finds its way into your being. These two entirely incompatible powers cause the burning fire. In this way your Soul suffers and so does your "I". You should not think that the "I' is the cause or that the Soul is the cause. No, it is the encounter of two incompatible forces, two different tensions, two antipathetic electromagnetic powers.

What should you do now? Live the endura! Do not allow the "I" to meddle in this process. If you feel grief and tensions, do not work them off on other people, but experience your own grief as the necessary purification of the holy RosyCross. If you experience this grief to the depths of your being, the Gnostic Light-power will be active in you in a most mighty and dynamic way. As we said before, there have always been those who consider the struggle caused by The Path as a struggle of a personal nature. They become, as it were, completely bound up in the "I", and so they put all their efforts into self-mortification. However, it is precisely the "I" that should stand aside! The "I" should not step in anywhere; it should become quiet. Just let this struggle, this purifying fire, rage!

Just think of the ancient monastic habit of self-chastisement and voluntary mutilation in the struggle against the flesh. However, the struggle of the Way of the Cross is not a struggle against the flesh. It is a struggle between the Sixth and Seventh Cosmic Domains that takes place within you. It is impossible to be victorious if these things are tackled with the "I". Such self-mortification is suicide. A human being cannot bear it and death will be the result. Therefore, we emphatically repeat, you must not fight against yourself like a desperate person. Then you will only invoke all sorts of forces which are active in you. You will then place your "I" in the service of one of the two parties. The results will be a speedy consumption of energy, until death follows.

What should you do then? You should exercise devotion until piety has been found. Give this the first priority in your life. For the "I" it will mean the endura. Withdraw from the inner conflict of the two natures, do not be a party to the conflict and let the New Soul perform its voluntary work, its sacrifice within you. This is what the initiate mystics had in mind when they said: "Let the Christ do the work within you'.

*endura - the path of I-demolition, of the Last Death through self-surrender of the "I" to the Other One, the Immortal Man, the Christ within us. It is the path of John, who "makes straight the paths for the Lord". It is to put into practice these words: "He - the heavenly Other One - must grow and I must diminish. I must perish so that the Other One may live in me". The path of the endura is the Way which has existed throughout all times and by which fallen man ascends, by means of the purifying fire of a total reversal of life, to his true, Immortal being and returns to the Father. Man's path through this nature-order is a life of dying. The endura is a voluntary dying in order to be able to Live: "He who is willing to lose his life for My sake, will find It".

Do not force yourself to withdraw, as if in a corner of your being, from which you can peer at what is going on. No, you must desire the endura with all your heart, now, in the present. It must be your deepest longing, for which you yearn in self-forgetfulness and serving love. If you do that, the new Soul element will be born in you and you will begin your Way of the Cross, your way of the Rose and the Cross -- the meeting between the two irreconcilable elements. So the Soul will not seek to fight, because the Soul is only Love; and the "I" will not fight for it then desires only the endura. What will take place is an unavoidable encounter between the two irreconcilable electromagnetic forces. Through this meeting, a circulation will develop in your life, a grief, a struggle of that which hastens upwards and must experience and endure the fire of its sacrifice.

No one knows how long this fire, this struggle, this grief, will last. No one knows for how long all the results of the Way of the Cross will make themselves felt in your being; entirely in accordance with your karma and the merciful radiations active in your microcosm. But at a time when you don't expect it, perhaps right in the midst of the fire of some trial, it can suddenly appear that the mortal has been overcome, and that the "Consummatum Est" can be spoken.

Therefore, accept in perfect objectivity your Path of the Rose and the Cross and do not meddle in it with your "I". Then the Hour of Liberation will certainly come. Your Soul will arise and celebrate its morning of Resurrection. This will be the first New Day, the awakening in the Golden Head, the beginning of the New Morning, the Morning of Eternity.

From "The Path from Bethlehem to Golgotha" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. 2 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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In unity,

~ g
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The Prisoner

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"See, my son, this is the guide on the way that leads to Freedom: you must give up your 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 V, Verse 14 -

You will understand that this text places before us the true Resurrection of the Soul, the liberation of the Soul from the hold of natural birth. This is a difficult task, but one that makes victory all the more beautiful.

The inner struggle every candidate has to fight is described in the gospels in the capture of Jesus the Lord, in his cross-examination before Herod, Pilate and the Sanhedrin, in his humiliation, his Way of the Cross and his death. Finally, we see his grandiose victory on the third day, the feast of resurrection. The Jesus drama signified the birth of the Soul and its course through matter, its liberation from matter and its ascent into the World of the Living Soul-state, from where it returned to serve mankind, to be helpful to the other chained ones.

If you are pupils of the young Gnosis, you will know that the Soul belongs to the Tri-Unity of Light, of the True Being: Spirit, Soul and Body. Each of these three aspects of the being has its own inherent function, so that a co-operation between the three is perfect and harmonious. The Soul acts as an intermediary, as a mediator between the Spirit and the Body. Its positive part is directed to the  Spirit, its negative part to the Body. So the outpouring of the Spirit-power into the Body takes place via the intermediary, the Soul.

Let us consider the case of the pupil of the young Gnosis who has decided to walk the path of piety. The consequence will be the birth of the New Soul. What does this mean? A light-power radiation of high serenity which is not of this world will penetrate the nature-born being via the heart sanctuary and take up residence in it. That is the birth of the New Soul. The immediate effect is an ever-increasing inner struggle, an ever-increasing tension.

Many pupils tell us time and time again that they live with this tension and cannot escape from it. That is only natural! As the radiation of the Living Soul-state enters the heart sanctuary, the Sword is thrust into your being, and the result is a tension which, at a given moment, can no longer be tolerated, leading to a great crisis. This will result in the liberation of the new Soul-state, in resurrection.

When the New Soul is born, the Body is influenced by a new Light-force. Yet, equally, many other forces are at work in the Body, natural forces which are absorbed by the root system of the serpent-fire from the surrounding dualistic field. As soon as the new Light-force chooses to dwell in the Body and act as a new intermediary principle, it is, as it were, taken prisoner at that very moment. The New Light in us is then waylaid by the natural powers represented by Herod's soldiers, the bands of the high priest of the natural being, the mercenaries of Pilate.

The new Soul-principle cannot and must not avoid this, even if it were possible. It agrees to be taken prisoner within the system, for its task is to surrender voluntarily to this Body. It must be the mediator in order to save the whole being and urge it on to Transfiguration. That is why Jesus the Lord must, in great calmness, voluntarily allow himself to be taken prisoner.

In this lies the essence of any possible Transfiguration! No one else can accomplish it for you. A great man who perhaps lived two thousand years ago cannot do anything for you; at best, he is an example to be followed. It is you yourself who must walk the Path. That is why Jesus the Lord says: "Be my followers". Perhaps you can visualize the extent of the initial struggle of the new Soul principle before it can achieve the Great Separation and be able to speak the positive "consummatum est", "it is accomplished". That which is true, pure and undefiled must deliberately and knowingly join with the unclean, the sinful, the nature-born. It must, in Perfect Love, allow itself to be spat at, kicked and flogged; it cannot and must not escape this. At the beginning of this very painful process, the new Soul-being may ask beseechingly: "Cannot this cup pass me by? Is there no other possibility?". But this cup must be emptied to the last drop in order to attain the Goal.

From "The Path from Bethlehem to Golgotha" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. 2 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The above provides a glimpse into the powerful gnostic symbolism that is embedded in the four New Testament gospels. One would be well-advised to blow the dust off of his or her New Testament and begin to read it anew, utilizing the gnostic key to penetrate the veil that was put in place to protect the Doctrine of Liberation from the profane.

That said, the foregoing passage seeks to advise us that the Path of Return is not an easy one, especially in its initial stages. Although we have been struck in the heart by the Gnosis and the vibrations of this Touch have awakened our Divine Spark, we are still nature-born and in the grip of the archons and aeons of this nature. The Divine impulse that we have received is not yet strong enough to overcome the corrupted astral energies that rule our microcosm. In order to begin its purifying and liberating work, this Divine impulse must withstand an onslaught of forces inimical to it while waiting for the pupil to do that which is required to allow the gnostic power to grow in strength. It must increase while the "I" decreases.

Paradoxically, we act as both jailer and potential liberator to the Other One that is bound within us. Let us seek to abandon the role of persecutor and instead work to free the Divine Self yearning to be Reborn.

~ g
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Foolishness In The Eyes Of The World...

18 For the preaching of the Way of the Cross to those who have gone astray is foolishness; but to those of us who are saved by the Gnosis it is the power of God.

19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the "wise" and I will do away with the understanding of the prudent.

20 Where is the "wise"? Where is the scribe? Where is the learned of the world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

21 Because all the wisdom which God has given was not sufficient for the world to know God, it pleased God to save those who believe by the simple gospel.

22 For the Jews demand signs and the Arameans seek after wisdom;

21 But we preach Christos crucified which is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Arameans;

24 But for those who are called, both Jews and Arameans, Christos is the power of God and the Wisdom of God.

25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

26 For consider also your own calling, my brethren, not many among you are wise in terms of worldly things and not many of you are mighty and not many of you belong to the nobility.

27 But God has chosen the foolish ones of the world to put the "wise" to shame; and God has chosen the weak ones of the world to embarrass the mighty

From The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians - Chapter 1

Christos? A fivefold Gnosis? Divine Sparks? Rose of the Heart? Path of Return? Path of the True Way? Cross with Roses? Soul Rebirth? Dying as to Nature? Transmutation? Transfiguration? Liberation from Matter?

Now, as then, men consider such teachings to be foolishness. For their hearts have been hardened and they are unable to receive That which is being offered to them. The "wise" of this world will only believe in that which can be proven scientifically, empirically. Like Thomas, they must see the nail-holes before they will believe.

Those who are touched by the Gnosis respond to the simple but powerful and all-encompassing Truth of the Universal Doctrine as presented by the messengers of the Universal Chain of Gnostic Transfiguristic Brotherhoods. It requires no priests or intermediaries, no halls of learning, no rituals or occult practices, no chanting, meditation or concentration. It requires that one

- permanently disown every worldly attachment,
- recognize the purpose of God's Divine Plan of Salvation
- yearn for a permanent and true escape from this earthly vale of tears
- understand and accept the requirements of the Path shown, counting the cost of this Choice
- maintains a steadfast determination to not turn back once having embarked upon that Path.
- do all that is required in order to assist the Transfiguristic process

This is foolishness, is it not? As Nicodemus once asked incredulously: how can one be "born again"? Can a man crawl back into his mother's womb? He sought to mock the Truth that was being introduced to him but instead indicted his own "wisdom" as sorely lacking and earth-bound.

This writer embraces the foolishness of God, for it has set him Free. My brothers, if you answer the call of the Gnosis, you too will know the utter sublimity, the great joy of being a Foolish One.

~ g
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Touched

 

 

From "Holy Fire" by Alex Grey

 

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Total Transformation Of The Earth (Re-Post)

Originally posted on 14 June 2011

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I deal not in opinions, for they are insubstantial and everybody from a dullard to a genius has one and they are all different.

The Truth is just True.

You may regard it as a certainty that the world is poised before a change, spiritual as well as physical. The Earth itself stands before a total Transformation - a re-structuring of its surface as well as a re-shaping of its interior, and men likewise must prepare for a process with spiritual repercussions, because everything living upon Earth: man, animal and plant, shall have ceased to exist as soon as the re-shaping is under way.

It will be understandable, therefore, that the grounds for an all-embracing Transformation will be spiritual, that a new school for spirit shall be created, and this calls for the destruction of everything old. The Earth cannot remain as at present, if it is not to circle through the universe amid other planets and moons devoid of all purpose.

A change has to take place, and those men shall live to see the act of Transformation upon whom God has bestowed the Grace of using the last opportunities for maturing, because God has blessed the final time of this Earth's existence by heaping graces upon graces on men, so that they will be able to mature by the last day.

That the gifts of grace go unheeded - that they are unwelcomed and hence not accepted - is only proof that the end time has come. Only a few, therefore, shall be able to observe the final act of Transformation, as these stand within God's Will, and hence have knowledge of His Plan of Salvation from eternity.

These shall incur no harm from the process of Transformation, as they shall be lifted from the Earth before the final work of destruction of the old Earth, and are therefore only affected by the change to the extent of exchanging their habitation for a Kingdom of Peace, until they are again led to the newly formed Earth, as progenitors of the new human race.

The others have, until the last day, ample opportunity to change, however, and thus to save themselves. Because as soon as the spiritual transformation has taken place in them - return of the soul to God, from Whom they were alienated through the firmest resistance - these souls also become aspirants for the Kingdom of the Blessed, and need no longer fear the ruin of the old Earth. Nothing of the creations of the old Earth shall remain, neither shall any man remain alive who had not been previously been lifted.

Complete destruction of the Earth's surface as a whole also results in the end of every creature, and where a soul is still capable of change, the change will have been accomplished at the hour of the last judgment. Spiritual change, therefore, is a man's criterion, whether he will live to see the end of this Earth-epoch, and is permitted to inhabit the New Earth as a Child of God.

All men are still capable of change, but only a few are willing to change, and hence the act of Transformation of the Earth shall take place because man's will no longer takes the right direction, and the Earth no longer accords with its destiny. Earth life is misused.

And thus mankind collectively stands before a spiritual change which shall not, however, take place on the old Earth, and which only a few men will consciously live to see, whilst the largest part of mankind shall, indeed, enter a new stage of development, and therefore shall also be affected by the spiritual change, but in a most retrograde sense. They will lose their physical life but shall continue their existence in an entirely different form. (Physical) Life has ceased, and a condition of "death" or sleep enfolds the soul because, as man, it had failed, not having utilized the opportunity to change, to redeem itself.

In the universe, however, the act of Transformation signifies an entirely new period of Salvation, and the termination of an epoch supremely memorable, when God Himself incarnated on Earth as The Christ through Jesus, in order to exemplify to mankind the transformation from man to a Divine Being, which all men ought to carry out on themselves.

The Earth, which carried His earthly body, must now also help the hardened, physical, solid matter to Salvation. Every creature must undergo a change of its outer form, everything bound in form beneath the level of man must be allowed to maintain its upward-impetus, which is only possible through a total Transformation of the Earth.

Author Unknown

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We owe a debt of gratitude to the unheralded messengers who have been sent to warn us. Even more important than appreciation, however, is action.

Prepare yourselves. Learn how. Start now.

~ g
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True Integration

[QUOTING]

A small percentage of humanity is desperately seeking integration, union with God, order, rest, balance harmony in the great home of nature. Of course, this seeking is without success, because it is impossible to reach integration in a nature-field that is inappropriate for it. Therefore, any efforts made in this direction will invariably fail, since there results no integration, but at most a crystallization, a delayed effect of natural processes of life.

Real integration is a complete existential disappearance from this entire nature-field, by confluence with another life-spirit and by the genesis of another existence adapted to this other life-spirit. This is the purpose of all Gnosis!

The Gnosis gathers all those who seek integration and are ready for it and impels them onward to the great process of Rebirth. Therefore, we, who wish to walk this Path, have already started by taking leave, on principle, of the great Mansion of this world, to go, in practice, all the ways leading to Transmutation and renovation; of daily decreasing according to the old nature and daily growing according to the New Nature, in entire harmony with the Johannetic and Christ-centered laws.

However, we have seen that the nature-field, the natural state out of which we are born, cannot allow this process of Rebirth to take place. It will offer opposition and try to hold us back, for many reasons of self-maintenance.

This is why, when we want to leave this nature-field, it will fight against us by means of its creatures and its creations, from the very moment it becomes apparent that it can no longer retain us through its electromagnetic forces of radiation.

However, in the course of the cosmic nature, there are also moments and periods when the great redeeming process of Rebirth can proceed smoothly and easily. Such periods immediately follow those during which the dialectical nature-field is cleansed of its wickedness. Naturally, however, this wickedness will ever crop up again and again and gather for an assault, since this nature-field harbors a fallen human nature. Each time, the purpose of such purification is to  open anew the door to Liberation for the microcosms captive in the nature-field. Hence, as already explained, all nature aeons, their forces and their vassals, will oppose such purification, since this will bring closer and closer the end of the fallen realm of nature.

From Chapter II - Unmasking - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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We are prisoners in a hostile world order. It is a prison without walls, thus presenting the illusion of freedom. However, we are indeed prisoners, as our entire constitution (our physical, astral and mental bodies) is under the influence and control of the Twelve Aeons.

Not only are our microcosms struggling beneath the constantly applied pressure of the Twelve, but our imprisonment is sealed by the fact that most of humanity are completely unaware of their dilemma. Man accepts this world as the World and accepts this life as the Life. This results in a general complacency and a spiritual laziness that prevents man from seeking the Path of the True Way.

Yoga (union with God) and religion (from the Latin religare, meaning to re-link [with God]) are just two methods whereby humans attempt to re-connect with the Divine Spirit that we are estranged from. Over the millennia, these methods, which once worked during the pure phase of mankind's existence, have become but a shell of what they were. They serve only to mislead or disillusion humanity.

Our goal, our duty, is summarized as follows:

Find the Path
Awaken the Spark
Surrender the "I"
Change the Life
Walk the Path
Transfigure

No one can be forced to take these steps. One must be truly exhausted with the world and yearn to be free of it. Any material attachments at all will continue to bind the prisoner to this sphere of existence for eternities.

~ g
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An Introduction

http://www.goldenrosycross.org/ext/downloads/en_broch.pdf

PART 1   The quest for life's meaning

                              The dual nature of the human being
                              The two orders of existence
                              A bridge from Time to Eternity 

PART 2   The heart of religion
                             The Universal Path
                             The Holy Grail 

PART 3   The two nature orders
                             Our nature order -- the world of 'dialectics'
                             The Original, Divine nature order
                             Why does the dialectical nature order exist?
                             The Fall
                             The task of humankind
                             The Re-awakening of the Divine spark 

PART 4   The human being as a microcosm
                             The microcosmic firmament
                             The respiration field
                             The subtle bodies
                             The Divine Seed
                             The Path of Experience 

PART 5   The holy desire
                             The process of Transfiguration
                             The Choice facing us
                             The Golden Cross of resurrection

                             Can it really be done?

http://www.goldenrosycross.org/ext/downloads/en_broch.pdf

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The Brotherhood

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1 Brothers in belief, there are two roads through life: the Road of Good and the Road of Evil. They are not clearly-defined roads and often run side-by-side, and sometimes cross each other. Those who travel without a guide or in darkness often mistake one road for the other. We are those who have chosen to walk in Light, a brotherhood of men who travel the Road of Good together in companionship.

2 We are companions on the Great Path of the True Way, and when an instructing brother speaks of the Great Path of the True Way he speaks of a double path. The Companions of the Right Hand are those who bear the burdens of earthly labor and advancement, for they require strength, dexterity and steadiness. The Companions of the Left Hand are those who bear the burdens of spiritual labor and enlightenment, things closer to the heart of man.

3 The brotherhood is separated into two parts. There is an Earthly Brotherhood, and though it may be small in numbers and have few possessions, this will not always be so. There is also a Heavenly Brotherhood comprising certain of the Twice-Born and their followers who have gone before. Their task is to clear the Netherworld of demons and dark spirits and prepare the way for those who follow. They are like men who enter a new country and must clear it of wild beasts and bring the land under control. It is the task of those above and those below to build a road joining the two territories.

4 Your brother is not so well-equipped to instruct in earthly matters, and therefore leaves it to another. The caravan moves quicker when each man rides his own camel. In spiritual matters, the most important is that each man should awaken his own Soul, a task far more difficult than it may appear, but for which the earth is a dedicated instrument.

5 The first objective to attain towards this end is self-taming. Just as a horse has to be broken in before it can be of any service, so has the mortal body of man to be tamed and brought under control. To do this requires not only self-discipline, but also the ability to rise above earthly conditions. No easy task, for Earth is a hard taskmaster and worthy adversary, and the mortal body of man a unruly steed.

6 The duties, the obligations and the restraints by which those who follow the Great Path of the True Way direct their steps are not imposed capriciously. They are, in fact, no more than the bare essentials covering the first steps. That is why everyone, before admittance into the brotherhood, must accept every obligation and decree covering our way of life. We do not claim to know the only path, undoubtedly there are others, but we can claim to know the best. The top of the mountain may be reached by many paths, but the shortest one is always the best.

From The Kolbrin: Books of the Sons of Fire: Chapter 3 - The Brotherhood

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The above dates from thousands of years in the past. In every age, there is a Gnostic brotherhood whose task is to lead yearning seekers to Final Liberation. These brotherhoods work both on the terrestrial plane and beyond the veil. Each preceding brotherhood passes on its charge to the next. This chain is unbreakable and reaches from here to the Divine Kingdom.

As mentioned, there are many paths to Liberation, but the majority of these paths will cause the traveler to meander his way up the mountainside for ages before reaching the summit. There is only one Path by which the seeker can bore a shaft directly from this nature-order to Eternal Life. This is the Path that the Brotherhood both guards and offers to all who are willing to walk it.

 

Enter by way of the narrow gate,

For wide is the gate

and broad is the road which leads to Destruction,

And many are those who travel on it.

But narrow is the door

and difficult is the road that leads to Life,

And few are those who are found on it.

Matthew 7:13-14

~ g
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Begin...End...Begin Again.

 

Man does not understand that humanity experiences in varying cycles of time. There are minor cycles of roughly 3,600, 6,000 and 12,000 years that affect the races. There are major cycles spanning roughly 26,000 years that affect the Earth and, by extension, humanity. This is a precessional cycle, also known as a sidereal year, or Great Year. Three such Great Years constitute a major cycle that affects not only Earth and her humanity, but the entire Solar System.

Each time a major cycle ends, the Earth is devastated (actually, cleansed is probably the better word). A large portion of humanity is destroyed and a remnant, those who followed The Good Law, is taken to a place of safety. The story of Noah is a symbolical representation of this very ancient fact.

The purpose of the destruction is to not only cleanse the physical earth, but to clean out all of the regions of the reflection-sphere, as well (the reflection-sphere is the realm of the dead, what man mistakenly refers to as "heaven"). Both halves of the earth-sphere, both visible and invisible, are cleansed of the astral filth and dross that have accumulated over the millennia due to man's ignorant and thoughtless thinking, willing and desiring.

Once the reflection-sphere has been cleansed, a new Day of Manifestation dawns. The remnant are free to begin again. However, they do not undertake this endeavor on their own. They are assisted by Divine teachers, known throughout the ages as the Sons of Fire, the Shining Ones, etc. These Helpers of Humanity return to the earth-plane once more to guide the remnant on the Right Path, the Path of the True Way. Because the archons, aeons, light-spirits and shades have been flushed from the invisible spheres, it is much easier to teach man that which he needs to learn. Many are liberated during the early stages of a new Day of Manifestation.

Predictably, this honeymoon phase does not last. Inevitably, man falls back into his old habits, his selfish way of thinking, willing and desiring. New aeons are created and commanded by new archons. Man descends anew into debauchery and violence. An appointment is set for a new Period of Cleansing. The Destroyer is dispatched to perform its gruesome duty.

We have reached the end of a 75,000 year cycle of time. The entire Solar system is undergoing a cleansing. On Earth, that purification is taking place right now, it has already begun. The Great Separation is underway.

This periodic cleansing is a mercy granted to wayward mankind by the Logos. It gives fallen microcosms a chance to start over before they crystallize beyond saving. These cycles will continue to repeat themselves in the millions of years that lay ahead, reaping and harvesting until all prodigal microcosms have returned to the House of the Father.

What is important to know is that this time around, something special is taking place. The Earth is moving up a rung on its own Path of Return. After this Cleansing, the physical Earth will cease to exist. Earth's lowest vehicle will be an etheric one. As such, all life on the new Earth will also have to be etheric in nature. This graduation to the next higher plane is known as the Lesser Harvest, as opposed to the Greater Harvest, which is Final Liberation.

Those microcosms and incarnate humans who are unable to make the required transformations will be recycled. Some millions of years hence they will have to begin again, as cave-men and cave-women on a physical Earth-like planet somewhere else in the galaxy in the hope that they can learn to follow the Truth that they once scorned.

May it be so that this time around, you find yourself aligned either with the Remnant destined for the New Earth or with the Chosen on the road to Final Liberation from matter.

~ g
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Lament For The Foolish

[QUOTING]

1 Our deeds are as thistledown launched upon the wind. We know not where the winds of chance will bear them, or whether they will take root or be borne away as though they never were. Our works are as edifices of mud built upon the river banks, which are swept away by the running waters. The one thing certain in life is change.

2 Men make plans. They are as naught, they are as words written on the waters, as commands given to the winds. Wise is he who knows the Plans of God, for to them the whole Earth conforms.

3 Men cry out at the tribulations of life, not knowing that by adversity alone can they find their Souls. They say, "Why are we beset with trial and tribulation?", for they cannot understand the contest. They say, "Why must we seek and never find?", knowing not that life is naught but a search and at the end man can discover nothing except man.

4 O man, gaze well upon the Earth. See, is it not by its nature a place of labor and not a garden of pleasure, or a panderer to your weaknesses? Truth is found in the book of life, but it may be understood by just degrees. For who among men receiving the whole world would not be overwhelmed and destroyed?

5 In general, men are childlike. Give the people deceitful things and they will rejoice like children. Show them amusing things and they will acclaim their pleasure. The gods of fear are held in reverence, but the Great God who banishes fear, they despise.

6 O foolish people, O foolish generation! With dust on my head I mourn your ignorance. With loud lamentations I decry your folly. Yet the path you have chosen, you have chosen freely. Ease and comfort appear to be your end and purpose.

7 The gods of deceit have temples of splendor, their priests are well-clothed and overfed. But The Great God of Truth has no more than a hidden cavern, his servants are garbed in rags and their bellies are empty.

8 The gods of lust and cruelty have storehouses of treasure, but the God of Kindness has not even a field.

9 The people worship gods that oppress and ignore The God who frees. They give to the gods that take and spurn The God who gives. O misguided generation!

10 O blind and ignorant people, to cherish the stone gods of death and mock The God of Life! O misguided generation, to clasp to its breast the things that inherit decay and spurn the things that inherit Everlastingness!

11 Let the Destroyer come as the whirlwind of barren places. In the dread day of its appearance the works of ignorance shall go down

From The Kolbrin: Book of Manuscripts - Chapter 12 - Eighty-Seventh Scroll

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As timely today as it was thousands of years ago.

~ g
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