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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