Faith In The Heart

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One of the most important aims of the modern Spiritual School, as regards everything now being revealed concerning the coming New Human Race, is to bring the norms, principles, and aspects of this new human regeneration as near as possible to all those able to understand its message. The invitation addressed to them, to use all means in trying to partake of this new regeneration, will explain this intention sufficiently. All speculations and uncertainty, all vagueness, must be done away with as thoroughly as possible and all philosophic reveries kept at a distance.

If you possess something of true Pupilship, there is a fundamental longing in you to return to the Immovable Kingdom. In the present phase of the Brotherhood's revelation, this craving is directed into the right channels and in the development of every pupil, who demonstrates his inner decision to go the Path, 'a driving force' will be brought. But you must understand what it means 'to bring a driving force' into somebody's life. Any negative help is out of the question here; but insight and knowledge are procured in the first place. The scripture rightly states: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge".

Knowledge, in the sense of the Universal Doctrine, means to acquire, on the basis of an active Spirit-spark Atom, the understanding of the current situation: of the Path and True Life itself and also of all the auxiliary factors at the disposal of the candidate. Equipped with this knowledge, the pupil himself will proceed to activity. It is in this liberating, self-freemasonry that the Spiritual School would like you to participate.

The New Human Race will not be born by miracle, but rather, everyone who is determined to become a member will have to enroll himself in this group by means of self-liberating action. You have to initiate yourself along the narrow path of self-freemasonry. "Work out your own salvation in fear and trembling" says the Lord of All Life, namely: "Work for your Liberation, by forgetting the self" and you will succeed unconditionally, if you believe this.

To believe, in the sense of the Brotherhood, means to know from within, and this "knowing from within" is the activity of the Spirit-spark Atom. Paul, therefore, speaks about "the faith in your hearts". By this he does not mean a kind of sentimentality or some traditional bible- or church-belief, but refers to the sparkling vibration of the Spirit-spark Atom in the right heart-ventricle. This is the belief that must make its abode in your heart. In order to obtain this faith, to arouse this vibration, you are admitted to the forecourt of the Spiritual School, but do not imagine that the Spiritual School can or will do anything further for you before you "move mountains" on the basis of this new, exclusive vibration of faith.

We say that you have been admitted to the Spiritual School primarily in order to arouse the vibration of the Spirit-spark Atom or, formulated mystically: "to free the faith in your hearts". Such statements are often formula or slogans heard everywhere and from everybody; pronounced and listened to superficially, they have but slight meaning. When we tell you: "You are in the Spiritual School in order to free the faith in your hearts", this can give you, initially, a  feeling of homely rest, a sensation of having returned home. But do not be mistaken: in this School you have not come home! For the task of the School is only to alarm you, since it is you who must bring a 'driving force' into your life.

Whoever feels "at home" here does not yet possess an active Spirit-spark Atom. It must be so that 'this Atom leads a life of pain in the ego' as we quoted from Lao Tzu in the previous chapter. Whoever suffers this exceptional pain in his own being, will experience the same pain with respect to the world in which he lives, and there will arise a boundless craving for the lost, Original Fatherland. In accordance with this yearning, the 'driving force' will come into your life.

Because, as seen from the natural-scientific standpoint, what is yearning? Yearning is a force, a force of attraction, a force of gravity, a magnetic faculty. And, just like every magnet, this one has another pole, a magnetic pole that repulses. When our yearning, the one magnetic pole, is directed towards a subject, then the second magnetic pole will repulse the opposite. This is of tremendous importance and we advise you to think it over thoroughly!

From "Gravity and Liberation" The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh.

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The Root Of All Evil / How To Avoid The "Second Death"

The Root of all Evil is not Money. The Root of all Evil is Selfishness.

The idea of the separate Self, the idea that the person in front of you is a separate entity and somehow "different" from you, these ideas drive the belief that there is an "I" as opposed to a "Them". The "I" must be protected at all times from the "Them".

Human-beings are essentially all part of a single organism. The opposition and conflict that humanity engages in has resulted in disorganization and dysfunction within the human organism. Imagine if your hand told the brain, "I want to be the brain", I refuse to be a hand!" Or if the legs were to chime in, "No, that job is best left to me. My talents are wasted in this going to and fro!". Then the arms, and the eyes, and the internal organs all begin to argue the merits of their own individual talents. Meanwhile, the body flops around like a fish out of water, because its constituent parts refuse to work together as designed.

This is what has happened to humanity. We are so busy "doing me", that we are unable to recognize the harm we are doing to the entire human family. Although long ages were spent in developing the individuality in mankind (involution), the time has come for the human race to integrate those individualities into a single, functioning organism (evolution).

Before one can consider walking the Path, one must recognize that one's "I" will have to be left behind. It should be understood that the "me" that we feel the need to protect, please, pamper, exalt, etc., must be allowed to die, to disappear. Without this recognition, any attempt to walk the Path will result in either failure or delusion.

John's symbolic words "He must increase, and I must decrease" are not empty and devoid of meaning. Properly interpreted, they mean that the "I" must make way for The Other One that is attempting to awaken from its aeons-long slumber within the Rose of the Heart, our Divine Spark. The terrestrial self cannot inherit the New Life. That Kingdom is not-of-this-world.

Yes, we've become accustomed to being who we are. We may love ourselves (or not). But we must come to realize that, as personalities, we are but temporary, emergency-order beings. When natural death occurs, resulting in the loss of the physical body, we will return to the reflection-sphere where, one-by-one, we shall lose our etheric, astral and mental bodies, leaving but an emptied microcosm. This is what is known as "the Second Death". The First Death is that of the physical body. The Second Death is the gradual decay of what's left of the more subtle vehicles of the personality as it travels through the etheric, astral and mental regions of the "heaven-worlds".

The emptied microcosm will then be driven to assemble a new personality and re-enter the earth-plane via the agency of natural childbirth. That new personality will not be you or I. It will be a completely new personality who will be burdened with your karma and the karma of all other personalities that previously inhabited the microcosm. It is the microcosm that persists, not the personality.

The only way to avoid this fate is to make the decision to walk the Path of Return. Once the Divine Spark has been awakened and the candidate takes his or her first tottering steps on the Path, the construction of the New Soul begins, which will eventually lead to a reunification with Divine Spirit and the building of a new, glorified Personality. This magnificent process of transmutation can and must begin in the here and now. All that is required is that the candidate gains the proper insight as to his or her true predicament, learns what is required to walk the Path and then dedicates their entire being to completing that Walk.

If one can do this, if one can even lay the very first building stone, then that one can avoid the "Second Death". Upon transition, when the physical body is laid aside, the remaining vehicles of the personality will not shuffle off to the reflection-sphere for its inevitable dissolution, but will take a detour to the Vacuum of Shamballa, the safe haven that exists for the express purpose of taking in those who have begun the mighty process of transfiguration while on the earth-plane. This will be their home. The personality (minus the material body), the "you" that experienced on the earth-plane, will remain intact until the Great Work is completed. At that time, "you" will be merged with the reborn Other One, and will share in the omniscience of the Resurrected One, the True Man.

Please note: one should not choose to walk the Path because it promises to preserve the "I". If one ventures on this Journey with that mindset, he or she will fail miserably. In order to become the last personality in your microcosm, in order to "go no more out", it must be your overwhelming desire, your duty, your prayer, to liberate the Other One within. That should be the Aim. That should be the One Goal. Whatever positive things that happen to impact the personality (good health, etc.) as a result of taking on this glorious Task should be looked upon as fringe benefits for those who have chosen to make the Supreme Sacrifice.

"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be harmed by the Second Death." Rev 2:11

all love,

~ g
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The Path To The Heart Of The Universe

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The path to the heart of the universe is one and yet different for every human-being. The meaning is that every human-being himself is that pathway — that pathway which is builded of thought and consciousness and of the fabric of your own being. It is builded of the stuff of the Divine Nature’s heart.

There is a long road; it is also broad. It is the road whereon you have the Divine Nature’s streaming current of energy with you, and following this road you will reach perfection in due time; but this is the road of long-enduring slow evolution, moving ahead little by little in each life, through the incalculable ages.

There is another road, steep and thorny, difficult to follow, but which the Great Ones of the human race have trodden. It is the quick road, but the difficult one. It is the road of self-conquest, the road of the giving up of self for the All, the road by which the personal man becomes the impersonal Buddha, the impersonal Christ; the road by which the love for your own is abandoned, and your whole being becomes filled with love for all things both great and small. It is a difficult road to follow, for it is the road of initiation; it is the steep and thorny pathway to the gods; for when you climb the heights of Olympus you must tread the pathway as there it lies before you.

Beautiful are the pathways, sublime the goal, and quick the feet of them who follow the way of the Still, Small Voice Within, which way leadeth to the heart of the universe. This is the core of the messages of the great Mysteries of antiquity — the union of the simple human being with his Divine Source, with the root of himself, linked as that is with the All, for that core is a spark of the Central Fire, a spark of Divinity; and this spark is in everyone.

Divinity is at the heart of you. It is the root of you. It is the core of the core of your being; and you can ascend along the pathway of the spiritual self, passing veil after veil of obscuring selfhood, until you attain unity with that inner Divinity. That is the most sublime adventure known to man — the study of the self of man.

Thus you will climb the mountains not merely of Parnassus and of Olympus, but you will in time, by following this inner pathway of self-knowledge, grow so greatly in understanding and in Inner Vision, that your eyes will take in ranges and sweeps of Inner Light, unveiling to you holiest and the most beautiful, mysteries of the boundless universe.

The first step on the pathway to the heart of the universe is to recognize the Truth that all comes from within. All the inspirations of genius, all the great thoughts which have made and unmade civilizations, all the wonderful messages that have been delivered by the Great Ones of the earth to their fellow human beings — all these come forth from Within. The battle of union, towards union, for union, with your own inner god, is more than half won when you recognize this Truth.

How splendid is the pathway seen after that! How glorious is it! Leading ever more inward and inward, which is the same as saying upward and upward, ever higher and higher, till you become at one with your own kin — the gods — who are the governors and rulers of the universe, and of whom men are the children.

The inmost of the inmost of you is a god, a living Divinity; and from this Divine Source there flow downwards into your human mentality all the things that make men great, all the things that give rise to Love and mighty Hope and Inspiration and Aspiration, and noblest of all, Self-sacrifice.

In yourself lie all the mysteries of the universe. Through your Inner Self, your spiritual nature, you have a road reaching to the very heart of the universe. If you travel that road leading ever Within, if you can go into yourself, go behind veil after veil of selfhood, deeper and deeper into yourself, you go deeper and deeper into the wondrous mysteries of Universal Nature.

Knowing yourself, you progress more quickly than the average running of the evolutionary course; and when this pace is quickened to the utmost, there are initiations, short cuts in fact, but only for those who are fit and ready to take these difficult, very difficult, short cuts. Growth proceeds step by step.

This pathway is spoken of as a road, yet it is the unlocking of the heart of man — not the physical heart, but the heart of his being, the essence of the man; in other words the unlocking and development of his spiritual and intellectual and psychical powers and faculties. This is the doctrine of the heart, the Secret Doctrine, the doctrine which is hid. The eye doctrine is that which can be seen and is more or less open.

The same Universal Life flows through all things that are. The same stream of consciousness which flows in the mighty Whole and through the mighty Whole of the universe, flows therefore through man, an inseparable portion of that universe. This means that there is a Pathway by which you may come into intimate relation with The Heart of the Universe itself; and that Pathway is you, your own inner being, your own inner nature, your Spiritual self. Not the self of ordinary physical man, which self is just a poor reflection of the spiritual brilliance within, but that Inner Self of pure consciousness, pure Love for all that is, unstained by any earthly taint — your Spiritual being.

From "The Path to the Heart of the Universe" - G. De Purucker

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The Call

"When at last—at last—we have become wearied to death, sick at heart and despairing, staring with eyes that do not see into the drab misery and dreariness of this existence, of this existence without purpose, without sense, light, nor deliverance, then … then the “Inner Light” speaks to us from out of the Spirit-spark Atom.

Only then can the “Inner Light” speak to us. Then It calls us and only then do we understand Its continual urge to Awaken, the longing for Deliverance, and for the truly liberating Light. Then the liberating Call: “Awake, O Sleeper, arise from the dead and Christ shall shine over you,” will become real to us."
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The Perfect Triangle

"The body of man must be regarded as a holy temple, a shrine of the Divine, the most marvelous House of God that exists, fairer far than the fairest temple raised with hands. For this natural temple which the Divine has wrought, is a copy of the Great Image, the Temple of the Universe in which the Son of God, the Man, dwells.

Every atom of every group of atoms, every limb and joint and organ, is laid down according to the Divine Plan; the body is an image of the Great Seal, Heaven-and-Earth, male-female in one.

But how few know or even dream of the possibilities of this living temple of the Divine! We are sepulchres, for our bodies are half-atrophied, alive only to the things of Death, and dead to the things of Life.

The Gnosis of the Mind thus teaches us to let the Life flow into the dead channels of our corporeal nature, to invoke the Breath of God to enliven the substance of our frames, that so the Divine Quickener may first bring to birth in us our Other Self, our long-lost Spouse.

And then we may ourselves with ungrudging love bring our True Selves to birth, so becoming regenerate or reborn, the Perfect Triangle, body-soul-spirit, jeweled with all three sparks of perfected manhood."

- George R.S. Mead, Echoes of the Gnosis
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Awakening The Divine Spark

Once one becomes aware of the fact that he or she carries a Spirit-spark atom and obtains an inkling of the possibilities that can be realized by activating the power of that Atom, the natural urge is for one to think something like, "Oooh, that sounds so cool! I want to do that!".

Be advised that embarking upon the Path to Liberation is not the same thing as taking a yoga class, or learning how to read astrological natal charts, or mastering the art of astral travel, or any of the popular occult and New Age roads to "enlightenment". Choosing to walk the Path of Return is not a speculative venture. One cannot approach it with an attitude of "let me try that and see what happens". It requires the complete and steadfast dedication of the candidate as well as an understanding of what must be relinquished in order to obtain the Great Goal.

Although desire to awaken the Spark is to be applauded, that desire must originate from the proper cause. One must have a better reason than mere experimentation to want to take this step.

If, despite all trials and tribulations, one is comfortable with living in this world, that one is not ready.

If it is a goal to do all that one can to "make the world a better place", that one is not ready.

If one is determined to use any and all occult means to get to the heart of physical reality in the hope of transcending physical reality, that one is not ready.

If one blesses the world and all of its "gifts" and accepts his or her lot in life without complaint in expectation of a reward after death, that one is not ready.

But...

If one has sought the Truth, has studied the world that is hidden from view and found the world wanting,

If one has discovered that everything about this life is "vanity and vexation", as the Buddha stated,

If one is thoroughly tired and exhausted from living on a treadmill of tears,

If one has tried everything possible to obtain peace, enlightenment, true Knowledge and failed,

If one has reached a border region, an end to hope and desires, desiring with every atom of his or her being to be released from this Lie and shown the Truth,

If one strives to obtain the Insight necessary to enable him or her to see the world as it truly is,

If one, once achieving insight, begins to Yearn from the heart to leave everything of this world to permanently return to the Divine realms,

If one accepts that the personality must be sacrificed, completely erased in order to obtain the Great Goal, and accepts that requirement unconditionally,

...then that one is ready.

"Go, sell all that you have, and follow Me".

Insight and Yearning for salvation from this fallen existence, if true and sincere, will result in an awakening of the Spark. Once one begins to yearn for the things that are not-of-this-world, that which is not-of-this-world will come for him or her. The Gnosis will reach out to the awakened heart.

"I will set out and go back to my Father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his Father.

But while he was still a long way off, his Father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him."

If one is happy here on Earth, there is no shame. One will eventually learn over the course of perhaps many future lives, that the only purpose of Earth-life is to reveal to the human-being that he or she does not want to live on Earth, but wishes to return to a Divine Home that he cannot see, but knows must exist.

If one is desperately unhappy here, but at a complete loss as to which direction to turn to next, when all attempts crumble to dust in one's hands and one realizes that the material world has no lasting answers, that one will "lift up his or her eyes to the Hills, from whence their help will come".

Once you reject this world, and all the matter therein, the Divine Realm will approach you with open arms.

~ g
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God Within

For those who lament that God is nowhere to be found, seek understanding.

God, the Ineffable Nameless One, the Father-Mother, created all there is from Itself. How could it be otherwise? If the Ineffable had to gather materials from somewhere else to create the Omniverse, that would imply that there was something greater than God, for where would that other material have come from?

The All emanated the Omniverse from Itself. This means that every atom, every atom of every created and uncreated thing in every universe not only contains God, but is God.

So, then why are we here in these seemingly inadequate material bodies? Surely we, as flawed and fallen creatures cannot be made up of God-atoms?

Well, yes, we are.

"In Him we live, and move, and have our being" Acts 17:28

In the Omniverse, Original Divine Matter vibrates at different frequencies and wave-lengths. The lower the frequency, the further away from The One we are. We essentially "lose touch" with God, as we are no longer consciously linked with the Divine Frequency.

Thankfully, when the human life-wave fell into this Physical Plane frequency, each microcosm carried within its center a single tiny atom that retained its link with the Divine. This link was feeble, but it was a link. This wonderful atom is known as the Spirit-spark Atom, the Divine Spark, the Jewel in the Lotus. It is also known as The Rosebud, for as it sleeps, its seven petals have tightly drawn closed.

It is God Within.

"The Kingdom of God is in your midst" Luke 17:21

That's "midst", as in the center of your microcosm.

The powers of this Atom are in latency. The Atom is asleep, as it were, narcotized and muffled by the coarse, low-frequency vibrations of this Physical Realm. It is like a man trying to speak as a train roars into a station, or as a jet plane takes off. His mouth will move, but no one is going to hear him.

As it is a Divine God-Atom, the powers that it contains are beyond description. These powers cannot be expressed on this plane of existence, for if this Atom were to be split by force, a great conflagration would arise. You've seen what happened with the splitting of the atomic and hydrogen bombs. Well, that is only an inkling of the power that is locked up within the Divine Atom.

The Spirit-spark Atom has to be awakened slowly, systematically, and according to a formula. If the Rosebud is allowed to unfold properly, the result will be the rebirth of the soul, a purified microcosm, and a re-establishment of a link with Spirit, which is a link with God.

You are not just a bag of flesh and bones, doomed to slave and suffer in sorrow until the grave beckons. You are a Prodigal Child of God, who carries within your microcosm everything that you will need to restore your Godhood!

This Divine Atom does not respond to vibrations of this nature-order. So it will not awaken by meditation, or concentration, or any of the many occult methods of achieving "enlightenment". It will only respond to the touch of the Divine Radiation. This is so because like will always attract like. Therefore, the seeker must find a way to attract a radiation that is not-of-this-world. This Divine Radiation must be enabled to make contact with the Spirit-spark Atom. That is the starting point. That is the beginning and the genesis of The Coming New Man.

~ g
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