Transformation

How is the human-being of this nature reborn as the Divine Heavenly Man? What is the mechanism behind this seeming "impossibility"? We will not go into details in this post. Instead, an allegorical micro-view will be presented for consideration.

A hen's egg represents the potential for an adult chicken. It is not the adult chicken. When the proper conditions are present (this usually involving heat radiation) the liquid substances within the egg undergo a transformation. The cells of the egg begin to differentiate and multiply, according to a plan, a blueprint, that governs this alchemical change. This blueprint is also a potential. It can only express itself when the proper conditions are present. When the hen provides incubation for the egg, over the course of a few days the egg will hatch and a chick will emerge. When the chick is born, not a drop of the old liquid substances remain. It has been transmuted*.

* to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.

The physical human-being represents the potential for a reborn Divine Heavenly Man. This potential, along with the blueprint for expressing it, lies enclosed within the nucleus of the microcosm, that which has always been known as the Divine Spark or Spirit-Spark Atom. This single, tiny atom of Divine matter contains within it all of the instructions needed to rebuild the True Man. If the right conditions are present, it will begin to initiate a change in the microcosm of the human-being; it cannot help but to do so.

This change is an alchemical one. It involves the purification on the astral and mental bodies as well as a re-generation of the etheric double, with sympathetic changes manifesting in the physical vehicle. The conditions necessary for starting this process are a concentration of certain divine radiations, which, when voluntarily attracted by the human-being, will serve to bring the sleeping Divine Spark to life, due to the vibrational resonance that exists between the Divine Spark and the Divine Christ radiations.

It will take more than a few days for such a transformation to be completed. It will take years, it could take several lifetimes. Much depends on the diligence and steadfastness of the candidate who has chosen to undergo this change. What is good to know is this: once one has begun the process of transmutation, the process cannot be stopped and it would not be wise to attempt to do so. For now, the candidate carries something of the Divine within his microcosm. Fundamental changes have begun to take place. To stop in mid-stream, as it were, in an effort to reverse the process, would result in serious ramifications.

Mark the following: you are not just a conglomeration of blood and bones, with a rational mental ability throw in for good measure. You are a temporary image-bearer of the Divine Man and, as such, you are at most a means to an end. The 'end' is the restoration of the Divine Heavenly Man that sleeps within your microcosm. The 'means' is the process of Transfiguration, a transformation which is obtained via a complete transmutation of the human personality vehicles.

If mankind truly understood the above, all earthly striving and conflict would cease immediately. Gratefully, someday in the not-too-distant future, this Knowledge will be restored to all of humanity, who will then have the information required to make a final, critical Choice.

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The Meaning Of "Thy Will Be Done"

Most often, this phrase carries with it the undertone of surrender, but of a certain kind. It is a surrender that involves man accepting the struggles that comes his way, not by fighting against it, but by rationalizing that "This is what God wants. There's nothing I can do about the misery that befalls me. This is God's will".

What rubbish.

Again we see how far man has fallen in his understanding. Man's vision of the Truth has become distorted and in accordance with that, so has his thinking, willing, feeling and acting in this terrestrial life.

It is accurate to say that "Thy Will Be Done" is a reference to the surrender of the human will, but this surrender is not an act of resignation. The surrender is a voluntary one, where we voluntarily agree to put aside and ignore the personal desires of our I-being in order to manifest the Will of the Logos through concrete action.

In every human circumstance, our "I" thinks only of its personal comfort and safety. We view the world through an aura clouded by the selfishness of our I-being. This inwardly-turned focus acts as a barrier of sorts to our ability to know the Will of the Logos. Instead, we constantly think of "me, first" and will perform no act unless we can profit from it somehow, even if that act involves helping someone else.

In order to fulfill the true meaning of the phrase "Thy Will Be Done" we must first endeavor to truly know what "God's Will" really is. The Will of the Logos has nothing to do with the prosperity of the individual ("The Father is no respecter of persons" - The Christ). The Will of the All is that we love and help one another without restriction or prejudice. The Supreme Will is that we seek diligently the Path that leads to release from this temporary emergency-order and, if we are fortunate enough to locate the Path, to follow it unwaveringly until we are re-united with The All. In order to carry out this Will, we must allow our own selfish, I-focused will to die. This is something that historically, we have been stubbornly reluctant to do. As such, for ages of time, we have stood in our own way, and blocked our own path to Liberation.

So, "Thy Will Be Done" is not a resignation, but an affirmation. it is a volunteering of one's self to become a vehicle for the Will of the Logos. Not in a negative sense, like a helpless puppet or marionette, but in a positive sense, where we consciously, voluntarily and with proper insight, go forth into the world of men and allow the Logos to manifest Itself to creation through the heads, hearts and hands of his creatures.

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The Prodigals

Those of mankind whose microcosms carry a Divine-Spark, a sleeping Rosebud represent the Prodigal Ones. Contrary to conventional belief, we were not placed on earth to gather "experience" and then, after one or thousands of lives, parlay that experience into some sort of "initiation" that will convert us from human-being to angel. All of that is a subtle distortion of the true situation.

Those who carry the Spark within were, in a time long-ago, already Divine Beings equipped with tremendous powers of Wisdom and Creativity. These Divine powers were used solely in the application and furtherance of plans of the Logos - the Divine Plan of Evolution. We had access to these powers because we were linked with the Logos, via Spirit. God's Will was our will! The All created Its works via the hands of Its creations!

But while working in a lower realm, a cosmic "laboratory", the etheric realm of the 7th Cosmic Domain, we encountered something that we had been warned about. The pull of Duality. The symbolic Tree of Good and Evil (not "Good or Evil, "Good and Evil", the two are linked. That is duality). The magnetic interplay of opposites that characterizes the etheric-physical realm. This magnetic attraction is what allowed us, as Divine Beings, to create within this lower realm, but we were to maintain a distance from those things that were being created.

Unfortunately, a portion of these Divine Beings did not heed this Warning. Whether via curiosity, insolence, arrogance, self-regard or self-indulgence, the net effect was that the microcosms of these Beings "fell" into the creation that they were working in and lost their God-given powers in the bargain. The link with Spirit was severed. We were estranged from God and have remained so for many millions of years.

Thus, we were stranded in the cosmic laboratory. We could not return to the Divine Kingdom (the 6th Cosmic Domain) for our microcosms had too greatly degenerated. We were microcosms without a home, steadily crystallizing into Matter and in danger of being permanently lost to Oblivion.

With great Mercy, The All commanded that a New Lower Realm be created for these "fallen" microcosms. A temporary, emergency-order of existence that would be in harmony with their new lower status. That realm is what we know as the Physical Universe. This includes not just the planet Earth, but every planet, solar system and galaxy in the 7th Cosmic Domain. All of what we see when we look up at the sky is fallen - neither divine, nor of the super-nature. There are countless beings on countless other planets laboring under the same delusions as we are.

This was the genesis of the plan to save the Prodigal Ones. The Divine Plan of Salvation. Because we, as microcosms, have forgotten the Way Home, Sent Ones are periodically inserted into our fallen realm to help show us the way. That "way' is what is known as The Path of Return. When properly taught and followed, it is the quickest, safest and most effective way for a microcosm to escape the 7th.

The "experience" that humans slowly gain in this lower realm all boils down to this:

- in duality, nothing is lasting. Everything eventually turns into its opposite
- there is no true happiness in the physical universe
- mankind's spiritual and social leadership is corrupt
- the souls of mankind are longing for Something but do not know what it is
- humans want to "go to heaven" but do not know where it is or how to get there
- no Truth can be found on Earth

All of this "experience" is designed to push humanity to a breaking-point, a Borderland. Life after life, humans take up the struggle anew, looking to obtain a "happiness" that does not exist, with predictable results. The "experience" gained is retained in the lipika of the microcosm and used to create a new personality with perhaps the right combination of attributes that will allow it to fight through the Haze of Delusion and begin to Seek the Path of the True Way.

After many ages of failure, you as a personality represent your microcosm's greatest chance of accomplishing the Return. Why can that be said? The fact that you show any interest at all in the Gnosis is proof-positive that you have reached the Borderland, that you want out, that you are through with the glamour of the Earth and wish to dissolve as a personality and liberate the Other One within.

This is a glorious start. You have located The Path. But the pull of Duality is still strong, so attention must be paid. You will be hounded and tempted every step of the way. The Jailer will not relinquish its Prisoner easily. But no matter what happens, continue to strive, continue to persevere! For a Rope has been let down from the Divine Kingdom with the intent of raising up as many as can hold onto it. The Rope will be lowered and hoisted continuously until the very Last Day, until the end of this Age.

We, as microcosms, have come very, very far. As a group, as a brotherhood, we are now this-close to successfully returning Home. With open arms, the Kingdom awaits its Prodigals. It is for this Coming Reunion alone that we live.

"Immerse yourselves in this Mixing Vessel, you souls who can; you who believe and trust that you will ascend to Him who sent down this Vessel; you who know for what purpose you were created".

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"To Die In Christ"

"Now if we have died with Christ..." (Rom. 6:8);

"If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world..." (Col. 2:20);

"For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God" (Col. 3:3);

"But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

What does it mean "to die in Christ"?

To understand this phrase one must acknowledge that Christ was not the last name of a man who walked the earth 2,000 years ago and is now wickedly and erroneously worshipped as a "god". The word "Christ" comes from the Greek "Kristos" which comes from the ancient Sumerian word "Kiristi". All of these words have "anointing" at the root of their definitions and all of them pre-date the time of Jesus. To anoint is to apply an ointment, an unguent or a salve. The purpose of an ointment is to serve as a balm, a healer, a rejuvenator, a restorative.

"The Christ" is not a man but a mighty cosmic radiation from a cosmic domain (the 6th) above and outside of the 7th cosmic domain in which we now experience. When this Divine radiation makes contact with the microcosmic heart-principle of a human being who voluntarily calls for and accepts It, an anointing takes place and a healing of the microcosm begins. We call this heart-principle, the Rosebud or Divine Spark. As a result of this contact, the candidate is once again connected with the Gnosis, the Living Knowledge of God. The way is prepared for him or her to follow the Path of Return. The candidate "dies" as to the things of the material world and proceeds to live out of the Christ vibration. He or she has "died in Christ".

If such a one were to physically die while actively and sincerely walking the Path of Liberation, that one is also said to have "died in Christ". This because he or she has transitioned while still linked with the Gnosis, the Christ radiation. After physical death, such a soul does not travel to the reflection-sphere for gradual dissolution, but is taken up into Shamballa, a vacuum of pure ethers that exists to provide a haven for those candidates who pass on while undergoing the process of Transfiguration. In Shamballa, the transmutation and building of the New Soul continues without obstruction, until the candidate ultimately reaches the Goal - reunification with Spirit and the restoration of the divine Spirit-Soul-Body tri-unity.

The verse above from 1 Thessalonians has always been horribly misunderstood. The Adversary - the orthodox church - has made no effort to correct the error in interpretation. As it is read today, the verse implies that on The Last Day, skeleton bones and rotting flesh will break out of their graves and return to life and walk amongst mankind, a horrific distortion of the Truth and one that has inspired scorn and mocking for centuries.

The resurrection of the flesh is not what is implied or meant by this verse. Remember that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God". It is the "resurrection" of the residents of Shamballa that this verse is referring to. Those who have died while engaged in walking the Path. They will be taken up and moved to one of the Father's "many mansions" before any candidates who are in the flesh. The reason is simple: they are already in the purified etheric realm that is in harmony with the vibration of the Divine Kingdom, the 6th Cosmic Domain. The Christ radiations will sweep through the etheric realms first before making its final stop in the physical realm.

Yes, the "dead in Christ" shall rise first, preceding all those who are still in the flesh. If you have understood any of the foregoing, perhaps you will have gained some small insight, some slight understanding of how important it is for us to begin the process of Transfiguration while we are in the flesh, here on earth. By doing so, our so-called deaths will not be in vain, as we will continue this glorious transformative process "on the other side". Not in the unholy reflection-sphere, where fraud and illusion reign, but in the purified and pristine realm of Shamballa, the interim Realm of Peace that awaits all those who, having heard The Call while in the nature-of-death, follow that Call beyond so-called death into the New Life Field.

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Escape From The Borderland

[QUOTING]

So it is true that everyone who passes through the nadir must drain the Cup of Bitterness to the last drop? No, not at all. What happens is entirely up to you. You only need to experience bitterness, misery and sorrow until you have attained insight and inner certainty from that experience, gained amid the interplay of opposites.

You will never be done with the interplay of changes. It has no beginning and no end. In keeping with natural laws, dialectics (duality) constitutes the deepest depth to which one can go. And you find yourself in the Borderland. But you do not need to go through it. You must rise out of it! In that, perhaps, lies your mistake: you want to break through the boundary of the depths. But you should rise above it. You can leave this borderland at any time, and make the journey upwards. Indeed, many people are raising themselves out of the depths with every moment that passes, but then they fall back down again with a thud. Until at last, in the end, sufficient understanding has been born as a result of experience and conflict. And if there is understanding, genuine understanding, then there will also be sufficient strength to make the upward journey successful.

That is why profound insight must first be born. And that is why the Bible says: 'My people are lost for lack of knowledge'. This does not mean intellectual knowledge, No, it concerns the knowledge of Experience, purified by Conflict. And when a person has reached this point via the Path of Bitterness, he will begin to understand these words of Hermes:

Worship these words, my son, and revere them: there is only one religion, one way to serve and worship God, namely by not being evil.

This means that we must say farewell to dialectics (duality). You must close your account with this world and leave the borderland. You must raise yourself up and liberate yourself, in an absolute sense, from all conflict in evil.

That is the meaning of the temptation in the desert. The powers of the borderland offer the candidate everything. If he cannot resist the tempter, he will become entangled in the web. Anyone who has truly awakened to insight will detach himself from all this. You will be able to do this as soon as you possess sufficient inner understanding, as soon as you know the direction in which you have to go, and that you must disengage yourself from the interplay of opposites. If you are aware of all this, you should not be content to simply know it. You must act straightaway and by gnostic science, disengage yourself firmly, directly, and absolutely:

'Today, if you hear the voice, the voice of Inner knowledge, do not harden your heart, but allow yourself to be guided into the New Land'.

From "The Sword of the Spirit" The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. 4 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Persevere.

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Swing The Axe!

[QUOTING]

In your daily life you are in many ways so remarkably dynamic. Very often, in your daily life, you go all out. If you direct for once your dynamics upon this attainment, then within a few months you will experience its salutary effect. The great life-giving things do not come to you by themselves, as in a land of El Dorado. You will have to fight for them. You should work out the breakthrough in inner self-activity, by attacking yourself unsparingly in the characteristic features of your dialectic being.

Often we discover in a pupil stone-hard, incorrect traits of character, whereas in other respects he is such a good pupil. That is because he spares himself. Because he simply accepts those undesirable, hindering qualities. Because he perhaps thinks them pleasant or finds them necessary.

Now we tell you: swing the axe into your own life without mercy and keep your criticism of others to yourself! Do not think or talk of somebody else any longer but control yourself continuously and unscrupulously. That is your task. Then you go your Path of the Rosycross up to the Hill of Golgotha. There the Path ends, with the perishing of the old natural consciousness and a resurrection on the Third Day.

From "The Glorious Resurrection" The Gnosis In Present-Day Manifestation - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Many obstacles are strewn about the Path of Return, but one of the greatest stumbling blocks is ourselves. We sometimes forget that this Process is a 24-hour task, an unceasing work. The aeons of this nature are constantly probing, searching for our weak spots and working to activate the natural tendencies that lie embedded within the lipika of our I-being. We can be doing so well and then, just like that, we will respond to the probing and off the rails we go. The Road is hard, hard, hard and not for the faint of heart.

"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and it makes me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members" Romans 7:23

We are our own worst enemy because we tend to allow certain of our negative behaviors to continuously manifest themselves without ever getting to the root of the issue. Why do I keep responding to certain stimuli? Why is my reaction crafted in such-and-such a way? What must I do to eradicate this behavior once and for all? These are tough questions, which many are hesitant to ask and even more reluctant to answer.

But ask and answer we must. If we wish to offer any assistance at all to this Process, we should first start with being brutally honest about our faults and then being fiercely diligent about trying to eliminate them. Start at the root! Swing the axe again and again and again! We should not concern ourselves with our brother's faults, but work with laser-like focus to eradicate our own.

"For if you live after the flesh you will die, but if you, through the Spirit, subdue the deeds of the body, you will live" Romans 8:13

Until the Tree falls,

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Liberation

 

 

The above illustration is taken from the contents page of the March 2015 edition of the LRC publication e-Pentagram. It beautifully depicts mankind's dilemma (the reciprocal deadly embrace between humanity and its archons and aeons) as well as the Seeker who has been touched in the Rose-heart by the Divine Ray not-of-this-world. Liberated Ones await to joyously receive the successful Candidate, who, by diligently walking the gnostic Path of Return, has managed to achieve Liberation from the nature-of-death.

 

Worth a thousand words.

 

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Longevity

"Like anybody, I would like to live a long life - longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will"

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

26 Know that Life is unimportant unless properly lived. A noble death is better than a wasted life. He who exchanges a life of wickedness for a worthy death makes amends, and the scales are adjusted. Accordingly, let your aim be to live as long as you should and not as long as you can.

29 The span of man's life is neither long nor short but sufficient for its purpose. Whatever benefits a man wishes to attain for his soul may be attained in his lifetime. A lifetime is sufficient to fashion the soul to Ultimate Glory or ultimate horror.

30 What end would a longer life serve? To the wicked an opportunity for more evil, to the selfish more time to hurt others and to the miserly ones more time to lay up worthless things. The slothful ones would rejoice, for there would be more time for their idleness but the burden of the industrious ones would be that much greater.

31 The good may say, "Why, then, should not our lives be lengthened and years added unto us?". Know they not the goodness of the labor done in their lifetime shall have been sufficient and no more is required of them here? If they have served well on Earth, they are candidates for higher service in the Regions of Light, for the opportunity for service ceases not at death.

 32 To what end would you live longer, to do the things you have not done or repeat the things you have already done? What you have been unable to do will be done by others, and does not man experience repetitious pleasures with decreasing enjoyment? Would you increase your knowledge or develop your skill? Who, then, shall teach you more than is to be learned on Earth, or where on Earth can practice carry you beyond perfection? He who would go further must go to a higher place of instruction. The works done on Earth pass away and the fruits of man's labor are reaped elsewhere.

33 Each man's life should leave its impress on Earth, and each man should depart a better man for having lived. Repine not for lost opportunities, for opportunity does not perish at death. Do your best here and you will do better Elsewhere. Be wise here and you will be wise in Another Place.

34 Earthly success is not the measure of a man's achievement, for a gain here may mean a loss elsewhere. An earthly loss may mean a spiritual gain. The Scales are always just.

35 When in old age you say, "Alas that life is short!", then consider the way you abused and wasted it in your youth, is not your reward fitting? Remember that the paths to pleasant old age are chosen in youth. They are the paths of Simplicity, Moderation, Cleanliness and Virtue.

36 Consider the ruthlessness of rulers, the greed of the rich and the willfulness of the powerful. If these dare to enslave the Earth and wreak misery upon the people, knowing they can enjoy the fruits of their oppression but a brief span of years, what would they not set out to achieve were their span of life doubled or were they immortal?

37 Therefore, the Great God in His wisdom has ordained the proper span of man's life. If, then, you think life is short, why dissipate it so and why waste the precious days? Is it not economy that makes a man rich, and not abundance?

From The Kolbrin - The Book of Morals and Precepts - Chapter 4 - Life

Take full advantage of the time you have here on Earth to locate the Path that leads to Soul Rebirth and Immortality.

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Life

10 Travel the road of life according to your abilities and your foot will find its appointed place. Take time and consider every action. He who journeys leisurely, journeys best, and the runner who hastens not unduly is he who reaches the goal.

12 Think not, with the weakling, that nothing is more precious, nor, with the hermit, that you should reject it. Think not too highly of it, nor consider it worthless. Love it not for itself or for what you can get out of it, but for what you can do with it.

13 Forget not that Life has but one purpose, one end and one objective, and that is the awakening of the souls of men. All things on Earth conform to that end. Earth without its perplexities and problems, its struggle and strife, its inequalities and injustices, would never develop the soul in a manner meet for its destiny. This is the answer to the Riddle of the Ages. If all were right with the Earth, there would be nothing for man to do, as it is there is sufficient to occupy him throughout his generations. When man himself is Perfect, its purpose will be fulfilled and Earth, too, will be Perfect.

14 Riches cannot buy Life, nor can gold purchase back wasted hours. Therefore, employ the future that you have left to your greatest benefit. Lament not that you were born or desire that Life should depart. Life has a purpose and meaning even for one as miserable as you, and the Law may not be set aside.

19 Life must be lived from the beginning to the end. Run the race easily, for the course is long and the runner who runs the race best is he who conserves his strength in the early laps.

20 Be not disturbed or overwhelmed when misfortune accompanies your passage along the way. Be not dispirited when the pace is hard, or faint before the obstacles. Accept the challenge of adversity with high spirits, for as the flame is to wax and the furnace to copper, so is Adversity to the soul.

21 Every sorrowful blow that falls upon the soul is a tempering stroke. The metal that suffers the fire of the furnace longest is the finest in quality.

From The Kolbrin - The Book of Morals and Precepts - Chapter 4 - Life
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