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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