The Secret Of The Holy Grail

What is the Holy Grail that men have searched so long for? Where can be found this priceless and mysterious treasure sought by knights of yore? What is the secret of its Glory?

The Holy Grail is said to be the cup used to capture the blood of the Christ after His side was pierced by a Roman lance. That is the exoteric explanation. As always, when we are dealing with things of this nature, there is an outer explanation and inner one. The inner explanation is as follows:

As the physical Grail Cup is a chalice used to capture the blood of the Christ, the human heart, when the Divine-Spark has been awakened and the heart has become receptive to the Gnosis, is a chalice of blood that captures the Divine radiations of the Christ, thereby purifying that blood.

That is your Holy Grail.

Remember that the Christ is not a man that lived two thousand years ago. The Christ is a Divine radiation that was received by a man two thousand years ago, enabling that Man to do great things, things that will become the birthright of all those who follow the example of living that He demonstrated for mankind.

All Spirit-spark human-beings carry within them a Grail Cup. For the vast majority, this Cup is empty. For those who make the radical life-change required to receive the Divine radiation, this Cup will overflow, purifying first the blood, then the Soul.

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The Buried Jewel

If you take a diamond and place it in the light of the Sun, you will see it sparkle and gleam, its many facets refracting the pure white light of the Sun into brilliant and diverse colors.

 

Now take that same diamond and bury it under ten feet of earth. The Sun is still present and giving off its Light but that Light is diffused and blocked from reaching the diamond by several feet of soil. Because the Sun’s rays penetrate everything, in theory, the diamond is still receiving the Light. However, due to its condition of entombment, it cannot react as before.

 

It is the same with the Spirit-spark entity, the fallen Original Heavenly Man. We still carry the Divine Spark of God in the center of our microcosms. Within us lives that part of The Unknowable One from which we emanated long eternities ago. Unfortunately, in many Spirit-spark entities, the Divine Atom, the Jewel in the Lotus, is unable to respond to the radiations of Light, unable to receive and reflect the full power of the Gnosis because it is buried and obscured by the heavy vibrations of this dark, physical realm.

 

We must claw away at the “soil” that has buried our Diamond. We must do what is  necessary to expose our Spirit-spark once again to the Light. We do this by making the decision to turn away from that which is offered to us by the material world. We do this by gaining insight into the gnostic Path of Rebirth. We do this by surrendering the “I”, placing the needs of our I-being in the background, while doing all that we can to address the needs of our fallen brothers and sisters. By rendering Service to others, we perform God’s work in the realm of the Fallen. In effect, we become God’s hands, feet, eyes and ears on Earth, which has been the Plan all along. 

 

We can return to our former Divine state only when we make the decision to renounce the world and all the matter therein. It will not be by words that this decision is made, but by deeds. We must put our hands to the plow and live the Path chosen. Only then will our Diamond sparkle and gleam once more. Only then will the bridge between Heaven and Earth be restored.

 

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Bits And Pieces

What Leads One To Seek Gnosis

"When persons no longer find satisfaction in the whirls of the worldly life and when exoteric religion, science, and art no longer have any fascination for them, do not give them any consolation anymore amidst the harassments of their earthly ties, when they reach this point that they are as consumed by an almost desperate longing, an intense nostalgia for True life, that they truly begin to seek with all the power that is within them, then it is certain that they will get in touch with the force field of a Mystery School. These persons gain consciousness of an entirely new Life Reality. A tender ray of Light pierces the night of their existence and touches their heart, connects itself to their being, and stimulates their will to reach a still Unknown Goal."

The Path

"What is called “the Path” is not only a symbolic term for the way a pupil can go to reach the Liberating New Life, but also a supreme reality. The Path begins at the moment when the pupil is struck by the radiation-force of the Holy Spirit and, led by it, sets out on his journey. Such a pupil becomes increasingly “filled” with the Holy Spirit. This means that as he advances on the Path, the radiation-power increases. It becomes his guiding star to Bethlehem."

The "Other One"

"Many people have always thought that the resurrection of the natural body in a glorified state is possible. However, the Divine Sentence that was passed on this body is an irrefutable fact. The natural body will be disintegrated, never to rise again. There is a different “dead man” to be awakened, One who has been “dead” within us for eons past, namely, the True Man with his Heavenly vehicles, the citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven."

Transfiguration

"You who wish to accomplish transfiguration within yourself must undertake an alchemical process of transmutation."

Sobriety

“O obstinate soul, be sober and shake off your drunkenness, which is the work of Ignorance. If you are obstinate and live in the body, you dwell in a boorish condition. When you entered into a bodily birth, you were begotten. When you were born again, you came to be inside the Bridal Chamber, and you were illuminated in Mind.”

-  Silvanus
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The Sins Of Gossip And Criticism

Engaging in Gossip and Criticism will present serious obstacles to one's progress on the Path. These careless thoughts and actions can infect the heart sanctuary, so to speak, thereby hampering the growth of the Power that lives within.

This subject has been discussed previously in this blog (see "On Gossip And Criticism" or search the blog using "gossip" as a keyword).

As it never hurts to reinforce a teaching, the following is being posted for review.

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You must guard, too, against certain small desires which are common in daily life. Never wish to shine, or to appear clever; have no desire to speak.

It is well to speak little; better still to say nothing, unless you are quite sure that what you wish to say is true, kind and helpful. Before speaking, think carefully whether what you are going to say has those three qualities; if it has not, do not say it. It is well to get used even now to thinking carefully before speaking; for when you reach Initiation you must watch every word, lest you should tell what must not be told.

Much common talk is unnecessary and foolish; when it is gossip, it is wicked. So be accustomed to listen rather than to talk; do not offer opinions unless directly asked for them. One statement of the Qualifications gives them thus; 'to know, to dare, to will, and to be silent'; and the last of the four is the hardest of them all.

Another common desire which you must sternly repress is the wish to meddle in other men's business. What another man does or says or believes is no affair of yours, and you must learn to let him absolutely alone. He has full right to free thought and speech and action, so long as he does not interfere with any one else. You yourself claim the freedom to do what you think proper; you must allow the same freedom to him, and when he exercises it you have no right to talk about him.

If you think he is doing wrong, and you can contrive an opportunity of privately and very politely telling him why you think so, it is possible that you may convince him; but there are many cases in which even that would be an improper interference. On no account must you go and gossip to some third person about the matter, for that is an extremely wicked action.

Three sins there are which work more harm than all else in the world - gossip, cruelty, and superstition - because they are sins against Love. Against these three the man who would fill his heart with the love of God must watch ceaselessly.

See what gossip does. It begins with evil thought, and that in itself is a crime. For in everyone and in everything there is good; in everyone and in everything there is evil. Either of these we can strengthen by thinking of it, and in this way we can help or hinder evolution; we can do the will of the Logos or we can resist Him. If you think of the evil in another, you are doing at the same time three wicked things:

(1) You are filling your neighborhood with evil thought instead of with good thought, and so you are adding to the sorrow of the world.

(2) If there is in that man the evil which you think, you are strengthening it and feeding it; and so you are making your brother worse instead of better. But generally the evil is not there, and you have only fancied it; and then your wicked thought tempts your brother to do wrong, for if he is not yet perfect you may make him that which you have thought him.

(3) You fill your own mind with evil thoughts instead of good; and so you hinder your own growth, and make yourself, for those who can see, an ugly and painful object instead of a beautiful and lovable one.

Not content with having done all this harm to himself and to his victim, the gossip tries with all his might to make other men partners in his crime. Eagerly he tells his wicked tale to them, hoping that they will believe it; and then they join with him in pouring evil thought upon the poor sufferer. And this goes on day after day, and is done not by one man but by thousands.

Do you begin to see how base, how terrible a sin this is? You must avoid it altogether. Never speak ill of any one; refuse to listen when any one else speaks ill of another, but gently say: "Perhaps this is not true, and even if it is, it is kinder not to speak of it".

From At The Feet Of The Master - J. Krishnamurthi (1910)

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Persevere

As you walk the Path of Return, the aeons of this nature will begin to take a deep interest in you. They can sense when they are losing control of a microcosm. Every candidate who succeeds in walking the Path of Return weakens the grip of the aeons on humanity by a significant factor. Because the aeons of this nature know you better than you know yourself, every trick in the book will be applied in an attempt to divert your focus and deter you from your Great Task.

Your weaknesses will be probed, your desires will be stimulated, your doubts will be inflamed, your fears, exaggerated. You will be laughed at, ridiculed and spat upon by others. Provocation and challenge will come from those you least expect. Throughout the entire ordeal, you must continue to bear your Cross. This is your via dolorosa.

Never lose sight of the Goal. Be in the world, but not of the world. What you are seeking lies beyond the setting sun. Where you are headed requires the complete renunciation of the world, and of all the matter therein.

The Struggle will be great, but the Rewards will be even greater.

~ g
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Discrimination

"FOUR qualifications there are for this Pathway:

Discrimination

Desirelessness

Good Conduct

Love

The first of these Qualifications is Discrimination; and this is usually taken as the discrimination between the Real and the Unreal, which leads men to enter the Path. It is this, but is also much more; and it is to be practiced, not only at the beginning of the Path, but at every step of it every day until the Good End. You enter the Path because you have learned that on it alone can be found those things which are worth gaining. Men who do not know, work to gain wealth and power, but these are at most for one life only, and therefore unreal. There are greater things than these- things which are real and lasting; when you have once seen these, you desire those others no more.

In all the world there are only two kinds of people - those who know, and those who do not know; and this knowledge is the thing which matters. What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs- these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge- the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan and that plan is evolution. When once a man has seen that and really knows it, he cannot help working for it and making himself one with it, because it is so glorious, so beautiful. So, because he knows, he is on God's side, standing for good and resisting evil, working for evolution and not for selfishness.

If he is on God's side, he is one of us, and it does not matter in the least whether he calls himself a Hindu, or a Buddhist, a Christian or a Muslim, whether he is an Indian or an Englishman, a Chinese or a Russian Those who are on His side know why they are here and what they should do, and they are trying to do it; all the others do not yet know what they should do, and so they often act foolishly, and try to invent ways for themselves which they think will be pleasant for themselves, not understanding that all are One, and that therefore only what the One wills can ever be really pleasant for any one. They are following the unreal instead of the real. Until they learn to distinguish between these two, they have not ranged themselves on God's side, and so this discrimination is the first step.

But even when the choice is made, you must still remember that of the real and the unreal there are many varieties; and discrimination must still be made between the right and the wrong, the important and the unimportant, the useful and the useless, the true and the false, the selfish and the unselfish. Between the right and wrong it should not be difficult to choose, for those who wish to follow the Path have already decided to take the right at all costs. But the body and the man are two, and the man's will is not always what the body wishes.

When your body wishes something, stop and think whether you really wish it. Will only that which God wills; but you must dig deep down into yourself to find the God within you, and listen to His voice, which is your voice. Do not mistake your bodies for yourself-neither the physical body, nor the astral, nor the mental. Each one of them will pretend to be the Self, in order to gain what it wants. But you must know them all, and know yourself as their master.

When there is work that must be done, the physical body wants to rest, to go out walking, to eat and drink; and the man who does not know says to himself: "I want to do these things, and I must do them." But the man who knows says: "This that wants is not me, and it must wait awhile." Often when there is an opportunity to help some one, the body feels: "How much trouble it will be for me; let some one else do it." But the man replies to his body: "You shall not hinder me in doing good work."

The physical body is your animal- the horse upon which you ride. Therefore you must treat it well, and take good care of it; you must not overwork it, you must feed it properly on pure food and drink only, and keep it strictly clean always, even from the minutest speck of dirt. For without a perfectly clean and healthy body you cannot do the arduous work of preparation, you cannot bear its ceaseless strain. But it must always be you who controls that body, not it that controls you.

The astral body has its desires- dozens of them; it wants you to be angry, to say sharp words, to feel jealous, to be greedy for money, to envy other people their possessions, to yield yourself to depression. All these things it wants, and many more, not because it wishes to harm you, but because it likes violent vibrations, and likes to change them constantly. But you want none of these things, and therefore you must discriminate between your wants and your body's.

Your mental body wishes to think itself proudly separate, to think much of itself and little of others. Even when you have turned it away from worldly things, it still tries to calculate for self, to make you think of your own progress, instead of thinking of the Path and of helping others. When you meditate, it will try to make you think of the many different things which it wants instead of the one thing which you want. You are not this mind, but it is yours to use; so here again discrimination is necessary. You must watch unceasingly, or you will fail.

Between Right and Wrong, the Path knows no compromise. At whatever apparent cost, that which is right you must do, that which is wrong you must not do, no matter what the ignorant may think or say. You must study deeply the hidden laws of Nature, and when you know them, arrange your life according to them, using always reason and common sense.

You must discriminate between the Important and the Unimportant. Firm as a rock where right and wrong are concerned, yield always to others in things which do not matter. For you must be always gentle and kindly, reasonable and accommodating, leaving to others the same full liberty which you need for yourself. Try to see what is worth doing: and remember that you must not judge by the size of the thing. A small thing which is directly useful in the Great Work is far better worth doing than a large thing which the world would call good.

You must distinguish not only the Useful from the Useless, but the more useful from the less useful. To feed the poor is a good and noble and useful work; yet to feed their souls is nobler and more useful than to feed their bodies. Any rich man can feed the body, but only those who know can feed the soul. If you know, it is your duty to help others to know.

However wise you may be already, on this Path you have much to learn; so much that here also there must be discrimination, and you must think carefully what is worth learning. All knowledge is useful, and one day you will have all knowledge; but while you have only part, take care that it is the most useful part. God is Wisdom as well as Love; and the more wisdom you have the more you can manifest of Him. Study then, but study first that which will most help you to help others. Work patiently at your studies, not that men may think you wise, not even that you may have the happiness of being wise, but because only the wise man can be wisely helpful. However much you wish to help, if you are ignorant you may do more harm than good.

You must distinguish between Truth and Falsehood; you must learn to be true all through, in thought and word and deed.

In Thought first; and that is not easy, for there are in the world many untrue thoughts, many foolish superstitions, and no one who is enslaved by them can make progress. Therefore you must not hold a thought just because many other people hold it, nor because it has been believed for centuries, nor because it is written in some book which men think sacred; you must think of the matter for yourself, and judge for yourself whether it is reasonable. Remember that though a thousand men agree upon a subject, if they know nothing about that subject their opinion is of no value. He who would walk upon the Path must learn to think for himself, for superstition is one of the greatest evils in the world, one of the fetters from which you must utterly free yourself.

Your thoughts about others must be true; you must not think of them what you do not know. Do not suppose that they are always thinking of you. If a man does something which you think will harm you, or says something which you think applies to you, do not think at once: " He meant to injure me." Most probably he never thought of you at all, for each soul has its own troubles and its thoughts turn chiefly around itself. If a man speaks angrily to you, do not think: "He hates me, he wishes to wound me." Probably some one or something else has made him angry, and because he happens to meet you he turns his anger upon you. He is acting foolishly, for all anger is foolish, but you must not therefore think untruly of him.

You must be true in Speech, too- accurate and without exaggeration. Never attribute motives to another; you cannot know his thoughts, and he may be acting from reasons which have never entered your mind. If you hear a story against any one, do not repeat it; it may not be true, and even if it is, it is kinder to say nothing. Think well before speaking, lest you should fall into inaccuracy.

Be true in Action; never pretend to be other than you are, for all pretense is a hindrance to the pure light of truth, which should shine through you as sunlight shines through clear glass.

You must discriminate between the Selfish and the Unselfish. For selfishness has many forms, and when you think you have finally killed it in one of them, it arises in another as strongly as ever. But by degrees you will become so full of thought for the helping of others that there will be no room, no time, for any thought about yourself.

You must discriminate in yet another way. Learn to distinguish the God in everyone and everything, no matter how evil he or it may appear on the surface. You can help your brother through that which you have in common with him, and that is the Divine Life; learn how to arouse that in him, learn how to appeal to that in him; so shall you save your brother from wrong.

From "At The Feet of the Master" by Alcyone (J. Krishnamurti)

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Advent Of The Cosmic Night

"LET US REMEMBER that our existence in this fallen world, in this emergency order, is only justified when we walk the True Path that leads back to the Divine Kingdom. Nothing is left to human experiments; on the contrary, the Logos perpetually emanates radiations that make us walk a long, long way of experience in the "school of hard knocks" if necessary and which, ultimately, bring us into contact with various higher powers and possibilities.

In the case of a positive reaction, that is to say, if we surrender ourselves unconditionally to those higher powers, then a new birth develops in our microcosm, a transfiguration, the emergence of a New Man, who is eternal and who is able to return to the "House of the Father".

If we react negatively and do not walk the Path that is shown us, then the said radiation powers will empty our microcosm of this non-responsive, resisting personality by death, and they will repeat this as long as is necessary. We have nothing to hold on to, because our own little world is ever fated to be eliminated and recycled.

Our emergency order, being a dualistic one, will pass, and we cannot prevent it. Everything arises and everything fades away, only in order to rise up again. Never can this emergency order, this dualistic nature, be made permanent, for it is fundamentally apt to change. Personality follows personality, each time in a new aspect of the world and, thus, there is no end to the fresh opportunities that the microcosm receives for a return to the Promised Land. This process continues life after life and death after death, until, at the end of a Cosmic Day - a major world cycle or sidereal year - a radiation law releases a universal Force that wipes out every kind of fallen, unintegrated life on Earth.

A Cosmic Night is now setting in during which the face of the Earth will be entirely changed. Thereupon, as has been the case cyclically for ages upon Earth, a new Day of Manifestation dawns and, under altered conditions, the process is started once more in order that the remainder of humanity may now react in the correct manner. Messengers of the Gnosis descend anew, to once again show mankind the only Path of Liberation."

From Chapter 6 of "The Great Play" - The New Call

~ g
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The Flesh

"Fear not the flesh, nor love it. If you fear it, it will gain mastery over you. If you love it, it will swallow and paralyze you"

The Gospel Of Philip - Nag Hammadi Library - Codex II, Tractate 3
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The Parable Of The Fishes

The following excerpted from the Monday Reflection of the Spiritual Pentecost series. Had to share ~ g

And there were certain men of doubtful mind who came to Jesus, and said to him, “You tell us that our life and being is from God, but we have never seen God, nor do we know of any God. Can you show us whom you call the Father-Mother, the One God? We do not know if there is a God.”

Jesus answered them saying, “Listen to this parable of the fishes. The fishes of a certain river communed with one another, saying, ‘They tell us that our life and being is from water, but we have never seen water; we do not know what water is.’ Then some among them, wiser than the rest said, ‘We have heard there dwells in the sea a wise and learned Fish who knows all things. Let us journey to him and ask him to show us what water is.’

So several of them set out to find this great and wise Fish. And they came at last to the sea in which the wise Fish dwelt, and they asked him.

When he heard them he said to them, ‘O you foolish fish that do not consider! Wise are you, the few, who seek. In the water you live, and move, and have your being; from the water you came, to the water you return. You live in the water, yet you do not know it.’ In like manner, you live in God, and yet you ask of me, show us God. God is in all things and all things are in God.”

The Gospel of the Holy Twelve 57: 7-10
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Somebody Famous Died Today

Every day someone rich, or famous, or rich and famous dies. What happens when they cross over? It is then that the "weighing of the heart" will take place. The man or woman will be judged by deeds done while on earth in the service of mankind and the Divine Plan of the Logos. It will be simple and clear. There will be no "judgment", only a reconciling, a balancing of the books.

These rich and famous ones will not be asked how much money they made, or how many houses they owned, or how much notoriety and adulation they received while on earth. There will be no velvet rope, no VIP section, no paparazzi to shout and ogle.

They will say, "Do you know who I am?" and the response will be, "We do not care who you were. We are only concerned with what you have done". The unmasking will begin. The charade that was played while on earth will come to an abrupt end. Slowly it will begin to dawn on these ones that their entire incarnation was wasted on the pursuit of things that were not lasting, that had no value.

One cannot bring one's earthly wealth, power and fame with them beyond the veil. There are no points for that. The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace. To realize these things once the weighing of the heart begins is rather a bit late. A bitter lesson to learn, but one that the materialistic personality must learn.

All of the mundane cares of earth will crumble to dust, right along with the material body. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that we spend our incarnations in constant service to others, as opposed to serving the self. Not having enough money, or nice enough clothes, or a big enough house...none of those things matter!!! These are only temporary issues, that will fade into the mist when we transition. The only things we can take with us are our good works. These translate into riches that mean something, riches of true value.

Once one begins to realize and accept that the "Chase" one engages in on earth is a futile and purposely-designed means of distracting man from his True Calling, one will stop desiring the things of this world. One will begin to seek for that which is more valuable than any earthly wealth. The Pearl of Great Price. If one can live a humble, physical life in which the goal is to place the welfare of others before one's own, that one will have lived a worthy life, and will reap the rewards of such, not here on earth, but Elsewhere.

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your Treasure is, there your Heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21

~ g
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The Auric Being (Re-Post)

Originally posted on 6 April 2014 ~ g

[QUOTING]

The pupil must know then that there are three great hindrances to finding the True Path.

- the first is our I-being and all the delusions of the material-sphere

- the second hindrance emanates from the reflection-sphere and all the forces and entities active therein, whilst

- the third and, to date, scarcely mentioned hindrance emanates entirely from one's own microcosm and especially from its least-known part, the auric being. This third hindrance exerts its full influence when the pupil threatens to escape the first two.

The auric being is a field organized in a sevenfold manner, in which all the powers and organs of the microcosmic firmament are present. Besides its readily conceivable spherical shape, this auric being also has the form of a personality, but a much larger personality than the earthly one which we know, which we are. You will certainly understand that the auric personality is a being of light; and as this personality bears the organs of the lipika, one can rightly speak in a certain sense of a heavenly being, a shining, sparkling, mighty being, two metres high at the very least, full of multi-dimensional splendor.

Therefore one must say that every microcosm possesses two personalities; an earthly form and an auric form. But this auric heavenly form with its almost cyclopean stature, equipped with great abilities, must certainly not be confused with the Original Figure which must be born gain in the microcosm and which will again be able to enter the Original Human Realm, the Immovable Kingdom. Just as the earthly figure of the microcosm must be renewed by transfiguration, so too must this heavenly figure.

In occult literature in particular the auric personality is referred to as 'the higher self', as 'the true man', as 'the god within us', and the pupil is induced to merge into perfect union with this higher self. Highly sensitive persons or those with mediumistic characteristics from time to time receive impressions from the higher self, or are occasionally confronted with it. In a state of mystical-religious exaltation, the lower self is often overshadowed by the higher self. The ignorant imagine such overshadowing to be experiences of special divine grace but in reality they see nothing other than their own auric prototypes.

The well-known stigmatist Therese Neumann, who was quite at home with the heavenly virgin and was virtually worshipped as a miracle of the church, was not the victim of an illusion or a trick of the reflection-sphere, but established a negative-occult connection with her own auric being. This was her "heavenly virgin"! Experiences with Jesus apparitions, etc., obtained in mystic exaltation, all have exactly the same cause.

If you examine your own experiences on the basis of this information, you will probably arrive at the conclusion that you too have experienced the touch of this auric being at some time or other, that you too have seen or felt something of this sort.

You will perhaps ask: "Where does the auric being obtain its splendour and glory? Why is it so mighty? What is its nature, aim or being? Is that being good or bad?

In order to obtain a satisfactory answer to these questions, you must consider everything the Universal Doctrine has imparted to you up to now concerning the auric being.

The auric being is, among other things, a firmament of sense centers and focal points. All these principles together form a unity, a flaming fire, a synthesis of great powers in which a certain fire has been kindled. One of the expressions of this flaming unity is a fiery, shining apparition in which we recognize the gigantic image of a human form, grotesque, magic, strangely imposing.

Another expression of this huge fire is the small world arising within this firmament, the micro-planet, terrestrial man, the lower self. We are begotten of this flaming auric fire, we are maintained by this fire. Thus the auric form finds its reflection in our earthly form but in turn is fed and maintained by the activity of our existence. It is therefore obvious that when we look up in exalted adoration to our microcosmic firmament, to our own microcosmic heaven, a response is sent by our own fire-god from whom we originate and exist. It is equally obvious that if we want to tread the path of the true Divine mysteries with the I, with our own non-transfigured small world (~ g: "microcosm" literally means 'small world'), the auric fire-god will bar our way. For out of their mutual dependence follow the I-centeredness and self-maintenance of the ordinary self.

So there is indeed a 'god' within us: the lipika-being. It is our creator, we are its creatures. This creator can never relinquish his creature, for in their mutual dependence the destruction of the creature means the destruction of the creator. In other words, although it has a form, the fire-being in our own firmament in many respects possesses 'impersonality'. It is bad when we are bad, it is good, when we are good. And it will be broken up when we break up our own self in the process of endura. To say that we stand upon the Path while this lipika-being is still alive with all its old power, is to lie.

From "Two Figures in the Microcosm" - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Lipika-being def.

This is the auric firmament, the entire system of sense centers and power foci in which man's karma is embedded. Our earthly, mortal being is a projection of this firmament, which determines its possibilities, limitations and character.

The auric being, or lipika, represents the entire burden of sin of the fallen microcosm. It is the old (microcosmic) heaven which must pass away and be replaced by a 'new heaven'. This transformation comes about as the result of a total reversal of life, with the aid of the Gnosis, and it leads to the formation of a 'new earth', the resurrection of the true man in whom Spirit, Soul and Body once more form an imperishable unity in accordance with the Divine Plan.

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and the sea was no more" Revelations 21:1

~ g
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A Requirement Of Importance

"By 'God' is meant the Source of all things, the Highest Being from which all existence emanates. All who wish to go the Path of Return, as it is contained in the Highest Being, all who know themselves to be called to the Sonship of God, ought at least to know and fathom our heavenly Father. That is why the knowledge of God has always been the objective of the true gnostic. From this Knowledge all other things can be ascertained."
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The Hymn Of The Robe Of Glory - Conclusion

My Bright embroidered Robe,
Which ... with glorious colors;
With gold and with beryls,
And rubies and agates
And sardonyxes varied in color,

It was also made ready in its Home on high
And with stones of adamant
All its seams were fastened;
And the image of the King of kings
Was depicted in full all over it;

And like the sapphire stone also were its manifold hues,
Again I saw that all over It
The motions of Knowledge were stirring
And as if to speak
I saw It also making Itself ready.

I heard the sound of Its tones,
Which It uttered to those who brought It down
Saying, "I ...
Whom they reared for him in the presence of my fathers.

And I also perceived in myself
That my stature was growing according to his labors.
And in Its Kingly motions
It was sprawling Itself out towards me,
And in the hands of Its Givers
It hastened that I may take It.

And me, too, my Love urged on
That I should run to meet It and receive It;
And I stretched forward and received It,
With the beauty of Its colors I adorned myself

And my Toga of brilliant colors
I cast around me, in Its whole breadth.
I clothed myself therewith, and ascended
To the Gate of Salutation and Homage,
To the Majesty of my Father who had sent It to me,

For I had done His commandments,
And He, too, had done what He promised,
And at the Gate of His princes
I mingled with His nobles;

For He rejoiced in me and received me,
And I was with Him in His Kingdom.
And with the voice...
All His servants glorify Him.

And He promised that also to the Gate
Of the King of kings I should speed with him,
And bringing my Gift and my Pearl
I should appear with Him before the King.

The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (also know as the Hymn of the Soul) by the 3rd century gnostic, Bardaisan

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