The Faithful, The Called And The Chosen

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g: some italics have been added for emphasis

The work of calling by the Universal Brotherhood concerns a wondrous Radiation in our field of existence. It is a Radiation wherein, and we emphatically repeat this, all magnetic elements, all factors of compulsion are absent, and yet this Radiation does not leave any Spirit-spark entity at rest, because the Spirit-spark atom possesses a polarity with this Radiation. Therefore this action causes a continual stirring, a permanent feeling of being 'called', awakened.

Just as a radio set can be tuned to a certain wave-length and reproduces what is broadcast, so the Spirit-spark atom, by virtue of its nature, is continuously tuned to these cosmic vibrations of the Brotherhood and reproduces them within its own system. These vibrations are present everywhere in the nature of our isolation field, speaking a special language to everyone who is open to them. In every age, brothers and sisters have gone out to mankind to translate this language, to make it comprehensible, to explain the sense of the Calling Light and, thereby, concurrently to reinforce the effect of these Cosmic rays.

Thus you will be able to imagine that many millions of people in this world are 'called' in the full sense of the word; most of the pupils of the Spiritual School experience this call consciously. To be 'called', to know that one is 'called', to experience this in every fiber of one's being brings with it a great certainty, namely the certainty of being in possession of a Spirit-spark atom. However, there is at the same time a great danger in all this, the danger of developing a false mysticism and of the enormous delusion that can result thereof.

Suppose that you experience God's call and you talk about it, sing, write poems and otherwise give evidence of it, but for the rest remain exactly the same person as you were before. That is false mysticism! When you continuously say 'The Lord has called me', but take care to remain in the same old spot.

When a pupil speaks effusively about being 'called', or talks about the Brotherhood with a serene smile regarding what he feels in the heart, about the insight he receives but, at the same time does not show the slightest change in his mode of life, this is false mysticism! Just as a purring cat suddenly extends its claws in self-defense, viciously digging its nails into the victim's flesh, so many a person indulging in false mysticism will lash out and protest full of refusal and indignation when he or she is told that being 'called' presumes a going of the Path. The Gnosis demands your entire self, the forsaking of your entire attachment to nature. In response to its Call, it requires the offer of your I and the actual proofs thereof. False mysticism makes the grave error of imagining being 'called' as being the end of the process, but being 'called' is only an organic beginning, a kind of organic predisposition for the Cosmic rays concerned.

If, when 'called', one refuses to go the Path, one inevitably falls prey to the countless negative currents attempting to shackle mankind permanently to the Wheel* Every natural religion shows this characteristic and nourishes the ego-drive. Now you can grasp the words of the Christ when He spoke: 'Many are called, but few are chosen.'

* the 'Wheel of Death-and-Rebirth', upon which all humanity is currently trapped ~ g

Only when a 'called' person goes the Path consistently on the basis of his or her fundamental state-of-being, and when the Calling Light, as we said, becomes a lamp unto one's feet, does the moment come for the first contact by the electromagnetic field of the Cosmic Septenary. Only then does one begin to be drawn, seized, chosen (i.e., one enters a new metabolic process). This too is neither a compulsion, nor a danger, nor a premature birth in the New Life, but rather a fulfillment of the parable saying: 'And the father went out towards his son, and embraced him, and kissed him.' Then the prodigal son has returned home. He had to go the two Paths of the Rosycross: the Path of Dissolution and the Path of Resurrection. The precious Jewel in the Lotus radiates in the full brightness of a New Morning. The candidate is resurrected in the New Life. Every Spirit-spark entity is called to this resurrection.

In closing, a few words regarding Revelation 17*. There we read about the Cosmic Revolution, the agitation connected therewith and the victory of the Lamb. In the 14th verse we read that the victory will we shared by the faithful, those called and those chosen. The faithful are those who, although 'called', are not yet completely conscious of the fact but still react spontaneously by approaching the Spiritual School out of their innermost being. Those called are the ones who have become conscious of their state-of-being and, awakening, make the decision to Return. Those chosen are the ones who go the Way of the Cross with Roses and awaken reborn in the New Morning.

* They will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and those who are with him are called and chosen and faithful.” Rev 17:14

No matter on which of these three steps you stand at the present moment; if your motives are pure, your attitude in harmony with the demands, and your reaction accords with the Great Law, you will stand on the side of Freedom during the progressive division taking place in this world.

We pray that you may share in this Freedom that surpasses all understanding.

From "The Inevitability of the Way of the Cross" The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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We can't just talk about it, we have to be about it. Purified thoughts and purified emotions must be transmuted into deeds. It is our actions that will provide proof as to whether we are going the Path with all the dedication that we can muster or whether we are just posers, simply pretending to be one of the Faithful, Called or Chosen.

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