No Doubt

This is a response to a recent comment posted in Every Man A Christ.

Friend,

In the movie The Matrix (1999), which is an extremely accurate allegorical portrayal of the Path of Return, complete with archons and aeons (the Agents) and the reborn New Man ("Neo" means "new"), there is a character who symbolically represents the Candidate who is struggling with his choice to walk the Path. The character is tired of living in poverty and eating gruel for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He longs for the world that he knew before embarking upon the Path, even though he knows for a fact that world is an Unreality.

The character's name is Cypher, and he represents the Judas in all of us, the part of ourselves that is willing to betray the Gnosis because we are tired of living two lives that are so diametrically opposed in their aims. The classic Judas-person wants to make a paradise of the world that can be seen with the eyes. This makes more sense to him than suffering for an unseen world whose reality his five senses cannot confirm. In frustration and disillusionment, Cypher chooses to leave the Path and return to the Unreality, the Matrix, the physical world. In the movie, he sits down with an archon (the Agent) to cut a deal:

Cypher: You know...I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?

Ignorance is bliss.

The Agent: So, we have a deal?

Cypher: I don't wanna remember nothing. Nothing. Do you hear me? And I wanna be rich. You know, somebody important. Like an actor.

The Agent: Whatever you want.

Yep, whatever you want. Just leave the Path and return to the old ways. The Prince of This World will make it worth your while.

Many are lost to the Path in this fashion, which is a tragedy. To have come so far, through so many lives, only to abandon the journey when one is right at the doorstep is a great loss for the Candidate. There is no guarantee that the former Candidate will ever get another opportunity to complete this walk to Freedom. It could be many lives and tens of thousands of years before he or she reaches this point again. On top of that, there's no guarantee that the former Candidate will not completely lose their way during that time and end up lost to the Gnosis forever.

Lose yourself instead in service to others. Do not render such service with any expectation of gratitude or return. Many will be helped even if they do not appreciate or acknowledge the help given. In fact, we help others the most when we assimilate the Light-Power of the Gnosis and radiate it to the world. Every human-being radiates something via their aura. Most of the time, it's a radiation of a very low frequency. We who are on the Path have access to a higher radiation, one of great purity and power. It is our task to pass that frequency along to those who cannot yet access it directly. Their auras will be affected, of this there is no doubt. Something will change within them. We who pass on this radiation will not get to see the results of our Service, but we can be certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that Service has been rendered.

If we are serving and expecting to see the results of our serving, then we are serving from the viewpoint of the ego, the I-being. Giving means just what it says: giving. Nowhere in the definition of Giving is there any mention of a reciprocal return. It is the "I" that wants to see results. It is the "I" that looks for gratification and self-congratulation.

To avoid the fate of the Judas-person, the Candidate must have Faith. After having the Path of Return revealed and explained to him/her, he or she must believe with an Inner Knowing that what has been revealed to him/her is true, and that if he/she follows the requirements, he/she will reach The Goal with certainty. Without this Faith, the Candidate will most surely fail in his/her efforts to move the mountain that stands before him or her.

This is your Dark Night of the Soul. This is where many waver. All Candidates have gone through this phase or will go through this phase. Just think of Jesus and the Temptation in the Desert. The aeons of this nature, who completely control your I-being, are trying to influence you to Doubt that which your awakening heart sanctuary knows to be True. For your part, you must continue to trust the still, small voice of the heart over the clanging din that your I-being is making. Doubt is a trick of the archons and the aeons of this nature. It is a very ancient trick but also a very effective one.

By Faith, we do not mean to wanly hope that something might be true or that something may happen. The Faith of the Travelers on the gnostic Path of Return is born from an unwavering inner knowing that what has been revealed to us is true and will happen, as long as we do not falter.

Remain detached to the suffering that you see around you, or even to your own suffering. Although difficult for some to believe, the suffering that we see in this world is the result of karma lawfully working itself out on this plane. Serve, and keep serving. Give, and keep giving. Radiate that which has been radiated to you. Know that you are not alone, that this Path is walked in group unity, and that in this group the strong will always stand for the weak, until the weak also grow strong.

This Unreality is temporary and will eventually fade away like a puff of smoke, as it always does. When the smoke clears, only the immortal Divine Reality will remain, ready to accept those who have completed the journey Home.

Put away your doubts, and rest in the certain knowledge that your labors are not in vain.

all love,

~ g
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Every Man A Christ

"What I have done all men can do, and what I am all men shall be." - The Christ, from The Aquarian Gospel, Chapter 178:46.

For our entire lives we have been taught that Jesus, the Christ, came to earth to redeem mankind's sins. In exchange for His tortuous death on a wooden cross, all of mankind, then-present and future, would be freed from sin. That's right, all of mankind's sins were forgiven by His noble sacrifice on the hill of Golgotha.

Any rational-thinking human-being will recognize this premise as prima facie ridiculous. Amazingly, there are millions of human-beings who sit in churches large and small to listen to some duplicitous middleman tell them just that. Jesus died for your sins! Your sins have been forgiven!

Um, okay, so what's the deal with all of the atrocities that are taking place in the world today? Have they been forgiven in advance? Is that why lawlessness rules during these troubled times?

First off, there's no way that mankind is going to get off the hook that easily. Each human entity carries the karma of all entities that have preceded him or her in the microcosm. It is the duty of the human entity - what we call the personality - to work to balance that microcosmic karma during earth-life. No one can do this work for the personality. Well, there is an exception to this rule, but that will be discussed later, when we discuss the true meaning behind the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins.

No, the mission of Jesus was not to vicariously atone for all of mankind's sins. His assignment was multi-faceted and far-reaching:

Task 1: To provide a purified human vehicle suitable for use by the Christ-Spirit, the Love-Aspect of the Father.

Task 2: Set a pattern for future mankinds to follow. To demonstrate in real-time, by a Life-example personally witnessed by many thousands, that it is eminently possible for a human-being to transmute, transform and transfigure into an immortal, Divine human-being.

Task 3: Allow the physical body of Jesus to be crucified in order to release the power of the Christ-Spirit into all of the inner planes of the Earth. This resulted in a level of purification that benefits humanity up until the present day.

Task 4: Weaken the power of the aeons by a third of a measure.

This post focuses on Task 1 - The Pattern. The things that this entity did two thousand years ago, the teachings, the healings, the miracles, the suffering, the death and the victory over death, were so astonishing that the memory of the entity's life lives on as if those events had taken place yesterday. The deeper teachings, the Mysteries, were reserved for Jesus' inner circle. For the masses, His life was to be the template by which the common human-being could begin to walk the Path of Purification, the Path of the True Way.

The Adversary established churches and religions to dilute the true Teachings and vanquish those who maintained and preserved those Teachings in their pure form, the gnostics. Present humanity is now left with a watered-down doctrine administered to the spiritually poor by a materially rich priesthood. This long-standing injustice has disillusioned millions, and led them further away from the liberating Truth, which is, of course, what the Adversary is striving to accomplish.

Every human-being has the potential to become a Christ. Indeed, that is the One Goal that we have incarnated to accomplish. The task for humanity is to recognize The Pattern that was gifted to us two thousand years ago and to use that Pattern to shape the lives that we lead while on Earth. The Pattern comes with a couple of very simple operating instructions:

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you".

"Love God above all else".

~ g
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Kiristi : Kristos : Christ

Kiristi (Sumerian): "fish/son; stars/mountain/blazing; life;"

Krista (Sanskrit) "all-attractive"

Kristos (Greek): "anointing"

Christ (present-day) "the anointed"

The word "Christ " is not a surname like Smith, Jones or Clark. The word is a title, a description. Jesus Christ is not quite the same as John Smith (although in the past "Smith" did indicate an occupation, i.e., "blacksmith").

To have earned the title of "Christ" means that one has opened one's heart to the ever-present Christine radiations that surround and interpenetrate this planet and all of humanity. Once a human-being consciously opens the heart sanctuary to these divine energies, wonderful changes begin to take place in the microcosm. The process of Soul Rebirth begins. If this alchemical process is allowed to reach a successful conclusion, that person is considered to have become a "Christ". He or she is a Christed One.

Again, the Christ is an intercosmic radiation of great power. It is not Jesus' last name. It is the Love-Aspect of the Triune Father and emanates from the Father, the All. When this Divine radiation is properly assimilated by an entity, the entity will undergo a Divine transformation that will lift the entity out of the physical plane. When this intercosmic radiation is resisted, rejected or otherwise not properly assimilated by an entity, the entity will undergo crystallization and disintegration.

In the Bible, there are many seemingly personal references made by Jesus, the human personality, that appear to equate him with God. Be advised that anything that Jesus says after he is baptized in the Jordan River does not issue from Jesus, the human personality. After the baptism, Jesus, the human personality, turns over his physical vehicle to the Christ-Spirit mentioned above, for Its full use and disposition. Anything that comes out of Jesus' mouth from that point forward is not spoken by Jesus, the human personality. It is the Christ-Spirit speaking through Jesus.

This is something that the Pharisees couldn't (or wouldn't) understand. Actually, they knew exactly what was taking place but their job was to try and convince the masses that Jesus, the personality, was a blasphemer and a charlatan. So they ignored the fact that the physical vehicle had been turned over to an aspect of the Father, the Christ-Spirit and focused their efforts on trying to find ways to murder Jesus, the human personality.

The modern churches, which are the synagogue of Satan referenced in the holy works, perpetuate this folly by not explaining what is behind statements made by Jesus such as:

"Whatsoever you do unto your brother, that you do unto me"
"Do this in remembrance of me".
"Where two or three are gathered in my name, so there am I"

In the statements above, the personal pronouns "I", "me" and "my" refer not to Jesus, the human personality, but to the Christ-Spirit that was using the physical vehicle of Jesus, the human personality. Additionally, as the Christ-Spirit is the Love-Aspect of The All, essentially and by proxy, the presence of the Christ-Spirit in the body of Jesus, the human personality, represented God on earth. That is in fact the interpretation of the name Immanuel. It means "God Is With Us".

How did man expect for God to contact humanity? Through voices in the clouds? Talking fish? Crying statues? Any good magician, black or white, could accomplish those feats. In order to make direct contact with humanity, The All had to send an aspect of Itself to dwell in a physical body and live as man among men. That physical body had to be of a very high quality, which was why Jesus, the human personality, was born to Joseph and Mary, members of the Essenes, a gnostic sect that lived in purity and harmony.

Despite the visual propaganda of the bloody and crucified figure on the cross that has been subliminally burned into the consciousness of the masses by the Adversary as a symbol of defeat ("look at your so-called 'messiah'. He failed, we got him!") the mission of the Christ was eminently successful. Although the crucifixion appeared to be a victory for His enemies - the Sanhedrin - (and make no mistake, it was the Pharisaic rabbinical element that pursued, encouraged and demanded that the Roman State execute Jesus, the human personality, on the flimsiest of trumped-up charges), what took place on Golgotha (or 'Calvary', as some call it) was a victory for all of mankind over the aeons of this nature.

Will try to expand upon that Victory in an upcoming post. For now, just keep in mind that the entity in the New Testament speaking as Jesus is not Jesus, the human personality, but the Christ-Spirit speaking through an anointed Jesus. If one reads the NT with this key in hand, a veil or two should be lifted.

~ g
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The Ninth Floor

There is an old episode of The Twilight Zone which contains some very poignant symbolism. The title of the episode is "The After Hours". The story, in brief:

"When Marsha White gets off the express elevator on the ninth floor of the department store, she finds it a desolate place where the lone piece of merchandise is a gold thimble. She buys it, although the saleslady, who appears familiar, is extremely rude. As Marsha returns to the first floor, she notices that the thimble is scratched, but when she complains, she’s told that the store does not have a ninth floor. Looking around, Marsha spots the salesgirl who sold it to her, only to discover the figure is just a mannequin. Beset with panic, Marsha's assisted into an inner office where she falls asleep. When she wakes up, the mystery of the ninth floor will be revealed."

** Spoiler Alert **

Those who wish to find out for themselves how the story ends should stop reading now and view the entire half-hour episode here (you'll be allowed to skip the occasional commercial). Others may read on.

Marsha spots the saleslady from behind and goes to speak with her. To her shock, she sees that the woman is a store mannequin. She begins to hear voices that appear to emanate from other store mannequins. They are all calling her name. In panic, she stumbles onto the express elevator and is transported to the empty ninth floor once more. The story wraps up as follows:

"There, she gradually realizes that the mannequins are alive, trying to help her, and that she is also a mannequin. It is explained to her that each mannequin takes turns going out into the world to live among the humans for one month every year, but Marsha had enjoyed her stay among "the outsiders" so much that she lost her identity and forgot her true nature. Being with the other mannequins, she realizes that she is back in her natural place, which allows the next mannequin in line—the female salesclerk—to go out and live among the humans for thirty days. As the other mannequins bid farewell to the salesclerk, the sailor asks Marsha if she enjoyed her time among the humans. She says she had "ever so much fun, ever so much fun." As Marsha fondly recalls her brief sojourn out among the humans, and with a passing expression of regret, confusion, and a small sigh, she and the sailor assume their natural posing postures, and grow rigid as mannequins." 

Somehow, Rod Serling, the author of this teleplay, managed to tap into a great Truth regarding man's existence on the physical plane. The department store symbolizes the dynamic, physical world, the Seventh Cosmic Domain. The non-existent ninth floor represents the static Divine realm, the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

As microcosmic personalities, we are but temporary sojourners here in the physical world. Man was never meant to remain here indefinitely in the physical realm. Yet, due to Forgetfulness, Man believes that this world is his home, and clings to it tenaciously. Man works to make a "paradise "of this temporary domain, then cries in anguish when everything repeatedly goes up in smoke. Because he has forgotten, he does not realize that everything is supposed to fall apart in the physical realm. Nothing is lasting. There can be no permanence in a temporary realm.

Immersed in his delusion, Man will search for something, he knows not what. In the above story, that "something" is the gold thimble which, if you haven't considered it by now, represents the Divine Spark in man. Notice how the gold thimble can only be found on a floor that does not exist (i.e., a plane other than the physical plane). Also note the still, small voices that sound The Call for Marsha to "come home".

A neat little story, one that carries a message for mankind but a message disguised as a fantasy. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will recognize that this story is not a fantasy, but a Remembrance brought into physical manifestation by Mr. Serling to stir something in the hearts of those who may happen to view the show. Understand the key point of this story:

This physical realm is not the reality. Our reality lies in what has been told to us is "not reality". Be advised that this earth-life is the dream that we must awaken from, and that our liberated brothers and sisters remain ever-watchful, waiting for us to heed The Call and return Home.

~ g
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A Child Is Born

Everyone is aware of the literal interpretation of the Birth of Jesus. Joseph's wife Mary was with child and they were unable to find lodging so that she could give birth. Fortunately, they found a stable and Mary was able to deliver her child amidst the filth of the natural earth.

Three Wise Men came from the East, following the light of a star. They brought to the babe gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They also brought a warning to the parents of the child. King Herod had charged them to look for the "newborn king", and report back to him when found. Herod intended to kill the babe, who he thought was a threat to his earthly throne.

Okay, that's the literal interpretation. Now for the esoteric interpretation.

The Child that is being born is representative of the awakening of one's Divine Spark. The Child is an allegory for the Rose of the Heart. The stable, or cave, represents the "cave" of the human heart in its polluted state, submerged in the natural world. The natural world is represented by the stone walls of the cave (mineral kingdom), the presence of straw or hay (plant kingdom), the beasts kept there (animal kingdom) and earth-born humanity (the shepherds).

The gifts of the Magi - or Wise Men - are interpreted as follows: gold, the symbol of nobility; frankincense, the symbol of the wisdom of the sage; and myrrh, the symbol of dominion and power. These are the attributes of the Original Divine Human-Being, the True Man, the "Other One" that will be reborn within the microcosm if the candidate faithfully follows the Path of Return and diligently grows in the Gnosis.

King Herod represents the aeons of this nature. They are aware of this Birth, this Awakening, because there is an immediate disturbance in the astral field of the Candidate. The Divine part of the personality has started to make its presence known. Without hesitation, the agents of the aeons rush to oust this foreign body from the system of the Candidate. They are charged with extinguishing the Divine Spark before it has an opportunity to set up a stronghold in the personality. To Herod, this child-king is a threat to his own earthly power. However, this newborn king has no intention of ruling over the physical earth. Its kingdom is not of this world.

Mercifully warned, the Child is spirited away as the family flees into Egypt. In the Holy Language, Egypt represents the hermetic land, the land of the hierophant and the alchemical process (the ancient name for Egypt was "Khem"). Here, the child will be protected and nurtured, safely hidden away from Herod's soldiers.

Finally, this Child is the Divine Child that can and must be born within the hearts of each one of us. The symbolism has been placed in the New Testament for your benefit, to enable you to realize that the Universal Brotherhood is with us always, has never abandoned us, and has for us - in symbol and allegory - a trail of instructions to follow as we seek to bring the Child, the Other One, to full maturity.

Hark, the herald angels sing: "Glory to the newborn King".

~ g
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Result Depends On Cause

26 And Jesus said, We cannot look upon a single span of life and judge of anything.

27 There is a law that men must recognize: Result depends on Cause.

28 Men are not motes to float about within the air of one short life, and then be lost to nothingness.

29 They are undying parts of the Eternal Whole that come and go, lo, many times into the air of earth and the Great Beyond, just to unfold the God-like Self.

30 A Cause may be part of one brief life; Results may not be noted 'til another life.

31 The Cause of your Results cannot be found within my life, nor can the Cause of my Results be found in yours.

32 I cannot reap except I sow and I must reap whate'er I sow,

33 The law of all eternities is known to master minds:

34 Whatever men do unto other men the Judge and Executioner will do to them.

35 We do not note the execution of this law among the sons of men.

36 We note the Weak dishonored, trampled on and slain by men called the Strong.

37 We note that men with wood-like heads are seated in the chairs of State,

38 Are kings and judges, senators and priests, while men with giant intellects are scavengers about the streets.

39 We note that women with a moiety of common sense and not a whit of any other kind, are painted up and dressed as queens,

40 Becoming ladies of the courts of puppet kings, because they have the form of something beautiful; while God's own daughters are their slaves, or serve as common laborers in the field.

41 The sense of Justice cries aloud: This is a travesty on Right.

42 So when men see no further than one little span of life it is no wonder that they say, There is no God, or if there is a God, He is a tyrant and should die.

43 If you would judge aright of human life, you must arise and stand upon the crest of Time and note the Thoughts and Deeds of men as they have come up through the ages past;

44 For we must know that man is not a creature made of clay to turn again to clay and disappear.

45 He is a part of the Eternal Whole. There never was a time when he was not; a time will never come when he will not exist.

46 And now we look; the men who are now slaves were tyrants once; the men who are now tyrants have been slaves.

47 The men who suffer now, once stood aloft and shouted with a fiend's delight while others suffered at their hands.

48 And men are sick, and halt, and lame, and blind because they once transgressed the laws of Perfect Life, and every law of God must be fulfilled.

49 Man may escape the punishment that seems but due for his misdoings in this life; but every Deed and Word and Thought has its own metes and bounds,
50 Is Cause, and has its own Results, and if a wrong be done, the doer of the wrong must make it right.

51 And when the wrongs have been righted, then will man arise and be at one with God.

From The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, Chapter 114:26-51

Man suffers now the Results of Causes sown in previous lives. Man sows now that which shall be reaped in a future life.

There is not much that man can do about his present karma. But man can put in motion ever greater Causes in this life, and so reap just Results in a future life.

~ g
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Turn Not Away

This post is in response to comment left in The Divine Seed

re: "The one thing everybody knows is that death is inevitable"

My friend, there is no death.

It is the periodic termination of physical life that is inevitable, for the physical life is meant to be only a temporary state-of-consciousness. Physical "death" as seen by the earthly man who stands on this side of The Veil appears to be a final end-point. when it is in fact nothing more than a withdrawal of Life from the physical plane.

Those of the earth who are unaware or unbelieving of the fact that Life is continuous and that the microcosm periodically generates a personality to take a brief"dip into matter", will always live their physical lives in fear and anxiety.

In the passage that you referenced, Shakespeare's MacBeth shared this earth-centric view of life. He ascribed earth-life to "signify nothing", which is an error. Although temporal in nature and strewn with suffering, sorrow, injustice and futility, earth-life serves a great purpose. It is through this suffering, sorrow, injustice and futility that man is led to the Gnosis. Over many lives, the lessons are slowly learned, until finally, a personality is generated who, weary of the many turns of the Wheel, will use its accumulated karmic and hereditary experience to find the Path of the True Way, and effect the deliverance of the microcosm from the fetters of matter.

The futility of trying to find the Truth here in the Darkness is completely understood. There is a vast spiritual supermarket out there wherein the blind are leading the blind. And when the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.

The Gnosis is the Truth that you have been seeking. After countless lives, Remembrance has led you to the doorstep of Liberation. It is hoped that you will allow your Heart to gauge the Truth that is being presented to you, and that you will not turn away in disillusionment after having come so very far.

~ g
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The Spiritual Texts Academy Presents: Spiritual Christmas

It's that time of year again. If you have not already done so, sign up with the Spiritual Texts Academy to receive...

Spiritual Christmas

"This program is an initiative of the Pentagram Bookstore in Haarlem, the Netherlands. It aims to bring the eternal and pure spiritual message to those who inwardly long for life fulfilment.

Participants will receive a daily e-mail during the coming Christmas season, from December 22 – the day after the winter solstice – until January 6, the day of Epiphany.

The texts allow you to contemplate the esoteric meaning of Christmas and the Christmas season. By focusing your attention on it you create a receptivity to a very spiritual process: the Light-birth within yourself. That is the Christmas miracle of awakening and activating the divine being within you. It is the beginning of a completely new spiritual path that never ends.

Free online program, based on ‘The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ’ by Levi Dowling.

Register for daily inspiration from December 22 to January 6"

Although it's recommended that the readings be done on the designated day, links to the entire series are provided below for your convenience. ~ g

• 22-12 morning: Preparing yourself (link appears to be broken)
• 22-12 evening: Birth of Mary (chapter 1)

• 23-12 morning: Recognizing the inner man in yourself
• 23-12 evening: The birth of John (chapter 2)

• 24-12 morning: Preparing your way
• 24-12 evening: The birth of Jesus (chapter 3)

• 25-12 morning: Giving birth to the divine being in yourself
• 25-12 evening: The Consecration of Jesus (chapter 4)

• 26-12 morning: In this sign you will conquer
• 26-12 evening: Three magian priests and the flight to Egypt (chapter 5)

• 27-12 morning: Your magic gifts
• 27-12 evening: The children’s massacre by King Herod’s order (chapter 6)

• 28 -12 morning: Treats form the world and from yourself
• 28-12 evening: Mary and Elisabeth are taught in a mystery school in Egypt 1 (chapters 7 + 8)

• 29-12 morning: Your assignment in life
• 29-12 evening: Mary and Elizabeth are taught in a mystery school in Egypt 2 (chapters 9 + 10)

• 30-12 morning: Looking back at the past
• 30-12 evening: Mary and Elizabeth are taught in a mystery school in Egypt 3 (chapters 11 + 12)

• 31-12 morning: Taking leave of your teachers
• 31-12 evening: Speech in india about God and the divine (chapter 28)

• 01-01 morning: Unfolding your talents
• 01-01 evening: The parable of the rocky field (chapter 33)

• 02-01 morning: The hidden treasure in your heart
• 02-01 evening: The importance of rest, silence and reflection (chapter 40)

• 03-01 morning: Attention for your inner development
• 03-01 evening: The limitations of mental thinking (chapter 44)

• 04-01 morning: Awakening of the spirit-consciousness within you
• 04-01 evening: The universal postulates of the seven sages (chapters 58 + 59)

• 05-01 morning: Seven fundamental principles for your life
• 05-01 evening: John and Jesus at the Jordan river (chapters 63 + 64)

• 06-01 morning: The descent of the Holy Breath
• 06-01 evening:  The rebirth of water and the Holy Breath (chapter 75)

all love,

~ g

The Highest State Of Desire

[QUOTING]

Man has four vehicles: the material body, its etheric double, the desire body and the thinking faculty. The etheric body builds and maintains the material body; the desire body defines the inclinations, the type, the character, the ability of the man -- in short, his essential nature.

The desire body surrounds and penetrates us from every angle and the astral fluids enter our material system by means of the liver. So the liver is more especially the focus of the desire body, as it has developed since birth. The head and the heart of natural man are slaves of the desire body. Your feelings and your thinking as a person of this nature are regulated by your pelvic sanctuary. Consequently, you live out of your pelvic sanctuary, through your spleen-liver system, bound to matter, desiring and focused upon everything that is of ordinary nature. All astral radiations enter the liver in accordance with the activities of your desire nature.

When, after endless roaming on the dreary Road of Experience, a human-being reaches a dead-end in nature-bound life, it can happen that he begins to desire renewal, to yearn for a liberating solution; that in such a man something like a yearning for salvation develops, an urge to seize one or another approach to salvation -- to realize it within himself, that he might climb up out of the pit of mortification. This state of searching for renewal, this increasingly conscious state of yearning for salvation is the highest form of desire of which nature-born man is capable. You cannot reach higher.  This is the highest state, the limit of dialectical astral radiation. When we stand at this border, the Gnosis touches us; not in the liver, but in the heart.

The first touch of the Gnosis always takes place in the heart sanctuary; however, that occurs only in answer to one's yearning for salvation. Therefore it is out of the question that anyone who would approach the Temples of the gnostic Spiritual School simply experimentally or out of curiosity would benefit in any way. It is beneficial to be in a gnostic focus only when the heart has opened somewhat for the Gnosis, yet only as a result of that highest state of desire, the yearning for salvation.

From "Pymander and Hermes" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

[END QUOTING]

The heart is the seat of desire. What we desire we attract to us. That is a natural response to a natural law. Like Attracts Like.

In order to attract the purifying radiations of the Gnosis, we must yearn for the New Life with everything that is within us. We must obtain the highest state of desire mentioned in the excerpt above, the desire to put down the things of this world and return to Whence we came. If we can pursue this objective steadfastly and in deep humility, the law will fulfill itself and we will attract into our heart the astral radiations of a Divine realm, the 6th Cosmic Domain. This re-linking with the Gnosis will awaken the Rose of the Heart, the Spirit-spark Atom, from its eons-long sleep and set a Dynamo in motion.

This Power will not force itself upon you. It must be asked for, sought after, desired with everything that is within you. Your actions must support that desire. It is truly a yearning like no other.

~ g
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In Their Image

7 God's meeting place with man is in the heart, and in a still small voice He speaks, and he who hears is still.

9 And Jesus said, the Holy Breath cannot be seen with mortal eyes; nor can men see the Spirits of the Holy One;

10 But in their image man was made, and he who looks into the face of man looks at the image of the God Who speaks within.

11 And when man honors man he honors God, and what man does for man he does for God.

12 And you must bear in mind that when man harms in Thought, or Word or Deed another man, he does a wrong to God.

If you would serve the God Who speaks within the heart, just serve your near of kin, and those that are not kin, the stranger at the gate, the foe who seeks to do you harm.

13 Assist the poor and help the weak; do harm to none and covet not what is not yours;

14 Then with your tongue the Holy One will speak; and He will smile behind your tears, will light your countenance with Joy, and fill your hearts with Peace.

Chapter 26:7, 9-14 - The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, the Christ

~ g
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The Divine Seed

In the center of the microcosm of every Spirit-spark human-being is a Divine Spark, a Divine Seed. This Divine Principle is the only part of the human-being that is not created from nor composed of physical material. This tiny Divine Atom is the Immortal part of the finite human-being. It contains powers, faculties and abilities far beyond the imagination of even the most gifted author of science-fiction.

Man was once a Divine creature but lost his link to Divinity when he turned to selfishness. Only the Divine Spark remained as a link to his former heritage. However, this link, this Spark, cannot bloom and flourish in the physical universe. It needs to re-link with the radiations of the Original Nature, the Divine Kingdom, the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

It may seem difficult to believe that a tiny atom could contain within it all of the resources necessary to transform a man into a god, but it is true. Think of the ordinary seed that we are so familiar with here on earth. How do tiny seeds grow in to mighty trees? How do tiny embryos grow into fetus, infant, child, teenager, adult?

Simple. Every seed, no matter what its origin, always contains within it every single attribute required for the growth of the organism, as well as instructions for bringing those attributes to life. The seed will execute these instructions automatically. All that is required is the proper nurturing environment, rich soil in which the seed can thrive and a little water now and then.

As Below, So Above. The Divine Atom, the Divine Spark that sleeps within us, is no different. It too, is a seed, albeit a Seed unlike any known to humankind. It too, requires a nurturing environment, rich soil in which to grow. This environment is a purified astral body. The rich soil is the purified blood that flows through the human heart. The human-being is the Gardener who must till the soil, water the Seed, pull the weeds that threaten to choke off its growth, and provide it with the Love and Attention required.

If the human-being can prove himself an effective gardener, the Seed will bloom. The Rosebud will open and blossom into a radiating, golden Rose with seven petals. That blossoming is the beginning of a wonderful process of transmutation and transfiguration that will end in the realization of a glorified human Personality. Via Soul-rebirth, the True Man will be restored to its former Divine state.

You carry this Divine Seed within you. You are incubator, mid-wife, gardener and caretaker of this seed. You are responsible for its growth and maturation. You are a partner in the Great Work. Take time to contemplate the responsibility that you, as an image-bearer in your microcosm, must undertake. It is your job to enable this Seed to unfold its Powers once more.

In this Task, you must not fail.

~ g
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The Articles Of Surrender

The Self must surrender its control and influence over the personality.

Those things that the "I" desires can no longer be considered, nor satisfied.

Those thoughts that the "I" habitually entertains can no longer be a part of the Thought-Life.

Those acts that the "I" once carried out to selfishly fulfill its own dictates can no longer be committed by thy hands.

These are the articles of surrender.

The terms are unconditional.

~ g
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The Unselfish

This post responds to a comment posted in Opening The Rose - The Fivefold Path To Liberation

Friend,

(1) The transfiguristic process, as described, is not a selfish process. Throughout the description given, an "Other One" is referred to. It is not for the self that the sincere candidate seeks Liberation, it is to liberate the "Other One" who arises as a result of an opened Rose of the Heart.

When The Goal has been reached nothing of the human personality will remain. Perhaps this was not made clear enough. The candidate's consciousness will merge with the consciousness of the resurrected New Man, the "Other One", but the form does not persist, nor does the selfish "I" that once was.

Anyone who attempts to walk this Path in the selfish manner that you have described will not be successful. One cannot have it both ways. Once cannot execute the most Unselfish of acts while simultaneously thinking only of the self.

To "know thyself" is to know that the personal self is but a temporary image-bearer, whose sole purpose in life is to remember its Calling and to pursue it. That is embedded in the meaning of "Man, Know Thyself". If the image-bearer is successful in completing its Task, there will be nothing left of the personal self when The Goal has been reached.

It might help to think of the personal self as the yolk within an egg. The yolk is there to provide nourishment and sustenance for the chick that is forming inside the egg. As the chick grows, the volume of yolk gradually decreases. Eventually, the chick emerges fully-formed and there is no yolk to be seen anywhere. All of this takes place within the same eggshell. Transfiguration follows this pattern (As Above, So Below). By way of analogy, the "yolk" represents the personal self, the "egg" is the microcosm and the chick represents the "Other One", the resurrected New Man, the glorified Divine Personality.

(2) Once the goal of Final Liberation has been achieved, the victorious candidate does not straightaway ride off into the sunset. At that point, all Liberated Ones are presented with a Choice:

a. return to the Divine Kingdom and beyond, severing all future contact with earth-humanity forever, or,

b. remain behind within reach of the earth-sphere in order to help other lost and confused image-bearers to achieve the same Goal. In Buddhism this is known as "The Great Renunciation". The Liberated One can reincarnate - voluntarily, and by choice - in order to walk amongst men once again, if or when required to do so in service of the Divine Plan.

The large majority of Liberated Ones choose to remain behind. They recognize a duty to mankind, to their fallen brothers and sisters who are still struggling in darkness. Having climbed the summit of evolutionary achievement, they voluntarily choose to delay their own Evolution in order to help the fallen. It is from these exalted ranks that humanity gets its Christs, its Buddhas, its Krishnas, its Hermes Trismegistuses, its Bodhisattvas, etc.

Some may view the Liberated Ones who decline choice (b) as committing the ultimate Selfish Act. This view is mistaken. At that high level of evolution, having completed The Great Work, Liberated Ones are presented with the privilege of choosing their next step. There is no judgment, either way. Both Choices are valid choices. To the human-being, choosing to not remain behind appears 'selfish', but it is not. Earthly thinking will find it difficult to penetrate this apparent paradox, but there is no paradox.

3) Mother Theresa is indeed an example of humanism and earthly "love". As a nature-born human-being, there is a desire to help humanity but for lack of knowledge, she and others pursue this desire on a horizontal level. Yes, feeding and clothing those in need will help them - on a temporary basis. However, in order to truly help humanity and provide our fallen brothers and sisters with permanent relief from sorrow, those who can must walk the Path of Liberation. Doing so weakens the grip of the archons and aeons on the rest of humanity and provides more workers in the vineyard to serve the Divine Plan of Salvation.

"I will be with you always, even until the end of the Age" - The Christ

best,

~ g
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Opening The Rose - The Fivefold Path To Liberation

How does one open the Rosebud? How does one awaken the Rose of the Heart, the latent Divine Spark that sleeps within the center of the microcosm?

The sleeping Rose is a Divine principle. It is the only part of the human personality that is not-of-this-world, As such, it will not respond to dialectical measures to awaken it. Therefore, the following practices will not be of any use in awakening the Rose:

- meditation
- concentration
- yoga
- splitting of the personality (i.e., astral travel, etc.)
- breathing exercises
- special diets
- tantric practices
- various narcotics and hallucinogens
- kundalini (as taught to the masses of the current era)

The above practices might help one to obtain consciousness in the astral planes of this nature-order, but they will still be prisoners of the Seventh Cosmic Domain, the undivine physical realm. They may achieve great heights and be crowned as "initiates" in the lofty heights of the reflection-sphere but they will still be lashed to the fence-posts of the earth-spheres.

That which is undivine can obtain no reaction from that which is Divine.The only way to awaken this Divine Principle - the Spirit-Spark Atom -  is to relink it with its Divine Origin, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. Once this Link is re-established, the Rose will awaken on its own. The candidate must not "do" anything to interfere or help in this process of Rebirth. The candidate must stand aside in not-doing and allowed the process to unfold. The most that one can do is to surrender the personal self to The Goal, as will be mentioned below.

There are five steps that the candidate must fulfill in order to reach the Good End.

Insight - "Man, Know Thyself". The candidate must gain insight as to his origins, his attributes, his current predicament, the nature of his imprisonment and the discovery of a Path to Liberation. The candidate must undertake to learn everything that he can about the Path of Return.

Yearning - once insight has been established and the candidate knows the truth about the earth experience that he has for so long accepted as "reality" and about the capabilities that have been embedded in the human personality for use in transfiguring the microcosm, he can do one of two things:

1. dismiss all that he has learned and go back to life as it was
2. from the depths of his being, begin to yearn with all of his might for Liberation

Self-surrender - to begin the process, the candidate must offer up his earthly personality. That is, he must stop living selfishly for the self, and instead, live for others. To serve the self is against everything the Gnosis represents. God, the Logos, The Only Good, gives to all. God does not take. If one is looking to re-link with the Divine, one must reflect that single attribute of the Divine, for only Like Attracts Like.

Gnostic Rosicrucians refer to this self-surrender as the endura, a "dying daily" to the things of this world. It is probably the most difficult part of the entire process because the self will not easily relinquish its control or its desires. Through weakness and uncertainty, the candidate will falter time and time again, yielding to selfishness. But he must persevere and weather all storms. He must remember that it is not he who will fight this battle against the self, but the Other One within, who is stepping forth from the opened Rose, gaining in power and might with each passing moment.

New Attitude of Life - once the self has been moved to the background, the Other One must take the lead in the life of the candidate. The candidate must effect a fundamental reversal in his manner of living and being. The earthly things that he once desired and reveled in he must renounce for good. The New Life that he leads while still on earth must consist of the following attributes:

- Complete Unselfishness
- Non-Attachment
- No Judgment
- No Criticism or Gossip
- Constant Service-To-Others
- Devotion to the Gnosis

As this New Attitude of Life becomes automatic for the candidate, the power of the Rose will manifest itself to an ever larger degree. The entire microcosm will begin to fill with the Light of the Gnosis. The New Soul, the Spirit-Soul will seek to re-unite with the Spirit. The Bride shall await the Bridegroom.

Liberation - Devotion to the New Life will result in permanent separation from the earth-spheres.  By way of a process, the old personality will completely diminish in its authority. It will not be erased, but will merge into the glory of the reborn microcosm. A total Transfiguration of all the vehicles of the personality will take place. That earthly personality will be the last earthly personality to incarnate in the microcosm. It will not taste death, but will instead share in the omniscient, omnipotent. multi-dimensional capabilities of the Heavenly Original Man. The Divine Link will be re-established. Eternity will break into Time. The microcosm will celebrate its victory over death and its return to the Fatherland, the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

There, in the briefest of summaries, is the fivefold process that must be followed in order to open the Rose, to allow it to bloom and restore the microcosm to Divinity.

~ g
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Transfiguration: The Ultimate Goal

"Transfiguration means devoting oneself as an earthly, nature-born human-being to the creation, the genesis of the Other One; to the vivification of the 'image with the dead eyes'.

Can we do that? Yes, we can. It is even our calling, our task, our vocation. It is for that we have come into being. If we do nothing more than follow our natural urges as earthly beings, then, as we follow the road of dialectical experience, of rising, shining and fading, the time will come when death will take us.

If, however, we take up our Calling, we will see a Heavenly Man growing within our microcosm, Who will stand before us as the wholly Other One. And through his devotion, his self-surrender to that Other One, the earthly man will one day die, merge and rise again in Him who is the Other One. This second death then signifies the victory over death".

From "The Essential Mystery of Man" The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

This is man's true Calling. This is why we return. As personalities, it is our job to deliver the microcosm back to its Divine Home. That is the reason behind the Divine Plan of Salvation. This plan is being thwarted by the fact that the personality, the image-bearer, has forgotten his task, has gone off the rails and is following its own self-will, which is in error. As a result, Ignorance has taken the lead in the life of the personality, with Fear as the horseman.

It is the greatest triumph when even one human personality remembers his purpose and decides to take up his task. From that moment on, a change begins to take place within the microcosm. This change, if nurtured, encouraged and supported by the Gnosis, will ultimately result in the liberation of the Other One from the prison of the natural body. The personality responsible for initiating this transfiguration will not taste death, but will merge its consciousness with that of the newly reborn Divine Man and, in unity, will leave this finite nature-order and return to the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

The true candidate must release self-focus and recognize that he is but an image-bearer, with a very important task to perform for the Other entity that sleeps within the microcosm. Most are not ready to let go of their self, as they fear some sort of "annihilation". This is so far from the truth. When one takes up the task of delivering the microcosm from this fallen universe, that one begins to live, truly.

~ g
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Truth Not Well-Received

"There is a time during the developmental phases of the young brother or sister of the Rosycross, when they think that the world will welcome this announcement with great enthusiasm. They are naive enough to assume that just as they were allowed to immerse themselves for the first time in the Living Water of the Universal Knowledge, so others will follow their Awakening Call with great gladness. Then they learn to understand the truth of the words of the Fama Fraternitatis:

The careless world will be but little pleased herewith and slander, derision, and mockery will increase. Laughter, derision, and mockery are the reward of the servant of God whenever they dare to speak and testify of the Universal Knowledge"

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Why Things Go Wrong

No matter how hard we try to build something of lasting earthly value, eventually what we are trying to build will fall apart in our hands and crumble to dust. That is the way of dialectics, the natural world. Rising, Shining and then Fading are constants in every aspect of our physical lives.

Man's purpose on earth is not to create varying levels of "happiness" for himself. Man's purpose on earth is to recognize that he must leave this earth via the transfiguristic process, the Path of Return. Any endeavor that does not have this aim as its ultimate Goal will always be doomed to failure. We will be forced to experience pain, hardship, sorrow and disappointment life after life until eventually, a personality will appear in our microcosm that will finally become sick and tired of being sick and tired. It is this personality that will yearn for something other than what earth-life has to offer, and it is then that the heart will call out and the Gnosis will respond.

This is why failure is a constant in this world. If we are not pursuing the One Thing Needful then we have to fail. If we were successful in building a paradise here on earth, we would never want to leave. Our microcosms would crystallize beyond help. Therefore, our figurative castles of sand must be kicked to pieces over and over and over until we finally wise up and make the decision to stop building them.

Failure is the Gnosis trying to get your attention. Go, sell all that you have, and follow Path that leads to Freedom.

"Seek first the Kingdom within, and all else will be added unto you."

~ g
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Purification Of The Thought-Life: The Retrograde Movement

The One Goal of Humanity is to recognize that we are lacking in Spirit, to re-link with Spirit and thus liberate ourselves from Matter. This cannot be done with the physical body. The dense physical body and the more subtle etheric, astral and mental bodies are but temporary instruments whose purpose is to assist in the process of transformation.

Spirit is Divine, it is of God, and as such cannot bear to come into direct full contact with the defiled mortal soul that we carry while incarnate on earth. For its part, the mortal soul cannot bear so great a Divinity as Spirit, from whose Fire it would surely be burned.

Therefore a new Soul must be built within the microcosm of the personality. This New Soul must be constructed of pure ethers in order to create a Soul-body that can provide a suitable abode for the descending Divine Spirit. Hermes calls this New Soul the Spirit-Soul. Only the Spirit-Soul is capable of cloaking Spirit.

For this reason, the candidate is bound to the task of purification. In order to attract the pure ethers necessary to build the New Soul, a certain level of purification must be reached, maintained and increased. This is accomplished by what is termed the retrograde movement.

The retrograde movement begins in the head sanctuary, where our thoughts are aroused. As soon as a thought is birthed, a sparking occurs in the mental body that is in tune with the vibration and nature of the thought. Because of the proximity of the astral body to the mental body, the astral body picks up the vibration being thrown off by the mental body and thus conditions its own vibration to match that of the thought-vibration. From the astral body, ethers are extracted which are used to nourish and build the etheric body. Thus, the vibration sent forth by the original thought now becomes part of the etheric double. As the etheric double is the mold for the physical body, it inevitably must transfer this vibration to all the cells and organs of the physical body. This include the blood. The blood, infused with this thought-vibration, then circulates it throughout the physical body and back to the head sanctuary, where the movement begins again.

Here then is the movement: Thinking, astral body, etheric double, physical body, the blood and then, via the blood back to the thinking faculty. The proverbial "closed loop". If a person's thoughts are of a low nature, focused only upon selfish desires and/or material goals, then the person quite naturally will create a prison for himself via this movement, as his low-grade thinking will reinforce itself ad infinitum. If, however, one resolves to purify one's thinking, the retrograde movement will serve to progressively cleanse and purify all of one's vehicles and the blood, as well. Pursued with steadfastness, this movement will eventually result in a purified mental body, a purified astral body, a purified etheric/physical body and purified soul-fluids, beginning with the blood.

This lays the groundwork for the descent of the Spirit. This creates a welcoming atmosphere within our "temple" for the Great Homecoming, the Alchemical Wedding, the reunion of the Spirit-Soul with the Spirit. This illuminates the symbolism behind the story of Jesus evicting the money-changers from the Temple. In Biblical symbolism, the "Temple" always represents the human body. Jesus represents the Soul-born man who is striving to re-unite the Spirit-Soul with Spirit. Before this unification can occur, the "Temple" must be cleansed. I daresay we would do the same if we were expecting the arrival of any distinguished visitor to our homes.

So it is that we have established the reason behind the need for purification of the Thought-life. Purification is a prerequisite for attracting the Divine Spirit to take up residence in our microcosm. It is our job to prepare the banquet hall for the coming feast.

If we build it...Spirit will come.

~ g
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Purification Of The Thought-Life: Thought-Forms & Thought-Vibrations

"For to no other creature in the kingdom of the Earthly Mother is it given the power of Thought, for all beasts that crawl and birds that fly, live not of their own thinking but of the one Law that governs all. Only to the Sons of Men is it given the power of thought, even that Thought that can break the bonds of death.

Do not think because it cannot be seen, that Thought has no power. I tell you truly, the lightning that cleaves the mighty oak, or the quaking that opens up cracks in the earth, these are as the play of children compared with the power of Thought. Truly each thought of darkness, whether it be of malice, or anger, or vengeance, these wreak destruction like that of fire sweeping through dry kindling under a windless sky. But man does not see the carnage, nor does he hear the piteous cries of his victims, for he is blind to the world of the Spirit." - The Essene Gospel of Peace

When we have a thought, two things are created: a tangible form, made from matter of the mental plane, and a definite radiating vibration. Both of these thought-creations can travel great distances, depending on the power of the Thought that birthed them. The thought-vibration carries with it the character of the Thought. The thought-form is a representation or image of the Thought itself.

The thought-vibration will radiate from the thinker in all directions and travel until it encounters a person whose mental body vibrates in harmony with it. The thought-vibration will link up with that person and impart to him the character of the original thinker's thought.

Let's say that the original thought was of eating a hamburger. The person who picks up the thought may not like hamburgers but because the vibration carries the nature of the thought, the recipient may think of eating something else, like a salad, or a candy bar.

The thought-form has a slightly different existence. At first, it will remain in the vicinity of the thinker, taking up a position at about eye level, waiting for the thinker to act upon it or increase its life with the force of attention. If the thinker does not continue to vivify the thought-form with his attention, the thought-form will either slowly dissolve or wander off into the surrounding vicinity, where it will attach itself to the mental body of any person whose thinking vibrates in resonance with the thought-form. If such a person is found, the thought-form will discharge itself into the person's mental body. This will result in the person thinking the same thought as the original thinker, and moreover, believing that the thought is something that originated in his own brain-mind.

A couple of things can be extracted from the above:

1. your thoughts are living creations that persist long after the activity that created them

2. your thoughts have the ability to affect the thinking of others

Taking the foregoing into account, we should quickly realize the solemn responsibility that we have to our brothers and sisters when we formulate our thoughts. The more powerful the force of the thought, the wider and more long-lasting influence it will have on those around us.

Thus we have another important reason why we should work to purify our thinking. We are responsible for the invisible forces that radiate from us, and must take care to not propagate thoughts that will only serve to multiply humanity's negativity and pain.

Those who walk the Path of Return in humility and sincerity are walking in self-surrender and a new attitude of life. We are our brother's keeper. Or focus is away from the self and always cognizant of the effect of our thinking, willing and feeling upon the wider world. Candidates who do not begin to think and live in this manner are only play-acting. You will know them by their fruits.

Yes, it is a hard duty to try and evaluate each and every one of our thoughts before giving birth to them, but it can be done. The key is that you have to want to take the steps necessary to control your thinking. It is hoped that this extremely brief explanation of the effects that your thoughts have on others will inspire you to do what is necessary to radiate only those thoughts that are pure and helpful to the large numbers of people you will never see or meet.

- To Be Continued -

~ g
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Purification Of The Thought-Life

"Thought Is The Horse That Draws The Cart"
"Energy Follows Thought; What Is Focused Upon, Grows"
"Thoughts Are Things; They Go Somewhere"
"You Are What You Think"

A key requisite for success on the Path is the purification of the thought-life of the candidate. You may be surprised to learn that purification has less to do with "dirty" or "unclean" thoughts, and more to do with the ordinary thoughts that one entertains every moment of the day.

When we think, when we have a thought, we light a sort of fire in our mental body. That fire, that spark, has a vibration that is peculiar to the thought that created it. Coarse, common, self-directed thoughts will generally carry a low vibration. Unselfish, loving thoughts, or thoughts rooted in the Gnosis, will vibrate at a higher frequency. When one's thoughts are of a very high nature, the vibrations generated by them can be very beneficial to one's astral, etheric and physical bodies.

The vibration of the thought in the mental body bleeds over to the astral body and conditions it to match the frequency of the thought. The astral body then conditions the etheric double in the same manner. Because of its relationship as the mold for the physical body, the etheric double instantly passes ethers matching the vibration of the thought to the physical body.

If one gives the above some consideration, one should be able to realize that it's fairly apparent that what we think, the quality of our thoughts, determines the quality of our astral, etheric and physical body, including the blood. This by itself is an important thing for people to know and remember. For good or for ill, our thoughts always come home to roost.

In order to purify our thinking, we first have to change the way we look at Thought. We must take ourselves in hand and resolve to take charge of the thinking process. This requires a great deal of discipline because we are not used to taking the time to evaluate the quality of the thoughts that randomly pop into our heads. We simply think away, without any regard for where our thoughts come from or where they are going. Did you know that a large majority of "your" thoughts are actually the discarded thoughts of others? Man is literally surrounded and victimized by a sea of thought-forms and thought-vibrations. This will be discussed later.

Instead of accepting the thoughts of others as our own, or entertaining thoughts that are not entirely positive or helpful, we should first take a look at the kinds of thoughts that need to be expunged from our thinking lives in order to obtain the necessary purification.

1. Selfish thoughts
2. Criticizing thoughts
3. Judgmental thoughts
4. Angry thoughts
5. Jealous /  Envious thoughts
6. Greedy or Covetous thoughts
7. Ambitious thoughts
8. Prideful thoughts
9. Thoughts of Revenge
10. Lustful, Carnal thoughts
11. Depressive thoughts

May have missed a couple but you get the general idea.

Most of our thoughts are rooted in selfishness. Perhaps "self-focused" is a better description. Self-focused as in: "What is best for me in this situation?" or "How does this affect me?" or "How do I feel about this?" These are not conscious thoughts, we seldom hear them rattling around in our heads, but they are there. We are always processing the stimuli that comes to us from the external world in terms of how it relates to us and our past, present or future condition.

Self-focused thoughts like those listed above are generally low-frequency thoughts. Low-frequency thoughts negatively affect the mental, astral, etheric and physical bodies. When one constantly thinks in this way, a type of pollution occurs in one's subtle bodies. There is a general slowing of one's overall rate of vibration. Consistently entertaining poor-quality thoughts will render one unable to link up with Divine energies, which vibrate at much faster frequencies. In this way, one eventually cuts himself/herself off from the Gnosis by making it difficult to perceive and react to its ever-present, high-frequency radiations.

It is hoped that the above summary will enable you to get an idea of the critical relationship between the quality of our thought and the quality of our soul-bodies; between what we think and what we are. There is a direct connection. In addition, it is hoped that you may begin to recognize the important role that purification of the thought-life must play in helping the candidate to succeed in establishing a link with the Divine Gnosis.

- To Be Continued -

~ g
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Totality

The following is posted in response to a question posed by reader JM.

Astronomical events are not a main focus of this writer. That said, what follows will attempt to bring some perspective to what is scheduled to take place on 21 August 2017.

One should always return to the past if one wishes to search for a sliver of truth. Eclipses are not a new phenomenon, although you wouldn't be able to tell that by the excessive hype that is taking place in the United States at this time. Man was once quite familiar with them and their effects. By most accounts, these effects were not characterized in a positive light. Eclipses were considered to be evil and were also believed to be an omen or foretelling of future negative events.

As with most things involving ancient races and civilizations, the "authorities" of current mankind dismiss this long-held knowledge as superstition and myth. They want you to believe that, for the most part, those who went before us were ignorant savages who had no understanding and were afraid of their own shadows. Our so-called "authorities" maintain that in order for the ancients to manage their cluelessness and fear, they invented stories about evil portents and dark omens.

Consider the fact that everything that we are taught, from grade school to grad school, has been carefully compiled by the agents of the aeons of this nature to deceive and mislead mankind into accepting the false premise that civilization began a mere few thousand years ago. All evidence to the contrary is suppressed, debunked, or assiduously ignored. They do not want you to even remotely entertain the possibility that higher and more advanced civilizations than the one we currently experience in have preceded us, and had expansive knowledge about things that current humanity can only guess at. Please do not fall for their game. Be advised that earthly education is of little value to all earthlings. It shuts you off from the Truth of things and serves only to breed more robotic minions ready to "take their place in society" and keep the machine going for the archons that control the earth-spheres.

Pardon the digression. We shall now get to the point of this post.

The Sun is the Source of Life in this solar system. Without the Sun vigilantly radiating its life-sustaining energies to all corners of this solar system, the different kingdoms of life on all of the planets, visible and invisible, would not exist. The Sun, which is the physical representation of the Logos of this solar system, is indispensable in regards to life in this solar system. It does not take anything from humanity. It is a Giver of Life only. That is one of its main duties and it fulfills that duty every second without interruption. The Sun cannot "take a holiday". It cannot say, "Man, am I ever tired of this Life-Giving stuff. I think I'll take a few months off". One can only imagine the effect that such a decision would have on all of the kingdoms of life on this planet, and others. Not only would physical death of all created things ensue, but the inner worlds would also be severely disturbed and/or damaged.

A total solar eclipse has the effect of interfering with the functioning of the Sun for a short period of time. During this short period of time, the moon acts as a barrier between the Sun and the earth, as it were. The Sun's Life-Giving rays are temporarily obstructed from reaching certain portions of the earth. Let's face it, nothing good can happen when the Sun is prevented from doing its Duty. What follows is darkness.

What is embedded in this darkness? First, remember that as the Source of all Life, the Sun is the provider of vitality to all created things. When it is obstructed in such a way, there is an interruption in the process of vital forces reaching the earth. This results in a weakening of man's subtle bodies (etheric, astral, mental) leaving him susceptible to lower-vibrating energies and entities. Man becomes like a soldier on the battlefield who puts down his shield and removes his armor. For a time, he is vulnerable and defenseless to a degree.

As we know, there are negative entities of all types hiding in the reflection-sphere who are constantly working to influence mankind in one way or another. Most of these attempts are selfish in nature and are a great detriment to humanity. An event such as a partial or total solar eclipse serves to temporarily "open a door" for nefarious energies and influences to wash over mankind without being mitigated by the power of the Sun's radiations.

Where there is no Light, Darkness rules.

The effects of a partial or total eclipse are long-lasting. The negative subtle energies distributed as a result of the event slowly radiate in all directions until the subtle spheres of the earth have been polluted by them, to a greater or lesser extent. These effects can linger for many months.

It is said that just before, during and after an eclipse, an individual may experience lethargy, tiredness, sickness etc. at a physical level. At the psychological level, there may be excess emotional and negative thoughts.

An aspect not discussed is the fact that the Sun has etheric, astral, mental bodies, as does man. These subtle bodies are also eclipsed on these finer, more attenuated planes of existence, and the result probably cannot be classified as "good".

It is interesting to note how the advance discussions regarding the 21 August 2017 eclipse have worked to push millions into a frenzy, of sorts. People are foolishly flocking to towns and cities that lie in the path of the eclipse, spending exorbitant sums for over-priced lodging and food. People are pitching tents and setting up lawn chairs on the side of highways, days in advance, just to get a glimpse of this event. Unknowingly, all are placing themselves in direct contact with celestial forces that they cannot possibly understand because their "authorities" have never bothered to help them understand.

For the candidate on the Path, all that can be said is: take little notice of what is about to occur. Do not get caught up in the hype. We have bigger fish to fry. Remain neutral, objective, unattached to any outcomes related to this event. Continue to monitor your thinking, willing and feeling. Our focus lies elsewhere. We are engaged in the task of purifying the microcosm and liberating the Other One from its long-standing imprisonment. Nothing should be allowed to obstruct or interfere with the Great Work that we are striving to accomplish.

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Don't Wait

"MARY continued again and said unto the Saviour: "My Lord, if the faith and the mysteries have revealed themselves, now, therefore, if souls come into the world in many circuits and are neglectful of receiving the mysteries, hoping that, if they come into the world at any other circuit they will receive them, will they not be in danger of not succeeding in receiving the mysteries?"

The Saviour answered and said unto His disciples: "Herald unto the whole world and say unto men: "Strive thereafter that you may receive the mysteries of the Light in this time of affliction and enter the  Light-kingdom. Join not one day to another, or one circuit to another, hoping that you may succeed in receiving the mysteries if you come into the world in another circuit.

"And these know not when the number of Perfect Souls will be at hand, for if the number of Perfect Souls shall be at hand, I will now shut the gates of the Light, and no one from this hour onwards will enter in, nor will anyone hereafter go forth, for the number of Perfect Souls is completed and the mystery of the First Mystery is completed, for the sake of which the universe hath arisen, -- that is, I am that Mystery.

"At that time then the Faith will reveal itself still more and the mysteries in those days. And many souls will come by means of the circuits of the changes of the body, and coming back into the world are some of those in this present time who have hearkened unto Me, how I taught, who at the completion of the number of Perfect Souls will find the mysteries of the Light and receive them and come to the gates of the Light and find that the number of Perfect Souls is complete, which is the completion of the First Mystery and the gnosis of the universe. And they will find that I have shut the gates of the Light and that it is impossible that anyone should enter therein or that any one should go forth from that hour.

"Those souls then will knock at the gates of the Light, saying: "Lord, open unto us! And I will answer unto them: I know you not, who are you? And they will say unto me: We have received of the mysteries and fulfilled the whole teaching and you have taught us on the High Ways. And I will answer and say unto them: I know you not, who you are, you who are doers of iniquity and of evil even up to now. Wherefore, go into the Outer Darkness, where there is howling and grinding of teeth.

"For this cause then, herald unto the whole world and say unto all men: 'Strive thereafter, to renounce the world and the whole matter therein, that you may receive the Mysteries of the Light before the number of Perfect Souls is completed, in order that they may not make you stop before the gates of Light and lead you away into the Outer Darkness.'

From "The Books of the Saviour" - Chapter 125 - Pistis Sophia

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If you are considering walking the Path of Return, or have begun to do so in fits and starts, heed the foregoing passage preserved in this ancient document for the benefit of all mankind. Do not hesitate, do not put off your decision. As stated here previously, even a sincere start, an honest and humble effort to make a fundamental reversal, surrender the self, adopt a new attitude of life, purify the microcosm and walk the Path of Return can assure the candidate of his or her place in Shamballa, which is the realm of pure Divine ethers preserved as a unbreakable vacuum within the confines of the earth-spheres. This astral-etheric region serves as a receiving-station for those who have begun the Great Work on earth.  It is here that they will pronounce the "Consummatum Est!" It is finished!

There are many entities waiting in this region right now, candidates of all races and of all ages from both recent times and the distant past who left the earth-sphere in the midst of walking the Path and were subsequently taken up into this Divine Waystation. There they endeavor to complete the Great Transformation without the hindrances of earth-life. Help beyond measure is provided. Those who have not yet achieved Liberation now await the time when "the number of Perfect Souls" will be reached.

The "number of Perfect Souls" is a reference to the critical mass of purified microcosms required to transform the Earth and her humanities. No one knows what this number is. We only know that we are moving closer to it. We can liken it to filling up a bucket with water. As the bucket fills, there is a chance that it will overflow if we do not stop at a certain point. As the bucket is filled to the brim, we observe that there is a tipping-point reached, a crown of water that sits precariously on top. We have reached the point where one more drop will cause the bucket to overflow and begin to spill.

We cannot put off our decision to walk the Path for another day, or for the next life. There is no guarantee that we will receive the same opportunities in a future life, or even tomorrow, as the end of tomorrow could find us dead and transitioning back to the reflection-sphere without having taken the First Step towards Liberation.

For those who are doubtful, unsure, half-hearted or play-acting, pay heed to the Silent Voice that has been calling to you from within. There is a reason that you, in this lifetime, were brought to this microcosmic "tipping-point". You do not have forever to make a decision. A decision must be made, and faith in the decision must be true. Tomorrow is not promised to you. Opportunities in future incarnations are not promised to you. You are here, this is now, and you...must...choose.

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The One True Idea Of God

The One True God is everywhere and can be known by man, to some degree. The One True God can be found in all trees, in all plants, in all rocks, in all soil, in all beasts, in all creatures, in all planets, stars, galaxies and universes. Most importantly, God lives within the microcosm of all those who carry a Divine Spark, be it asleep or awake.

The nature of God will be made known to us when we finally acknowledge that God is present in all things manifested and not manifested, animate and inanimate, and is waiting patiently for us to recognize and acknowledge that Presence.

It is Creator's Plan to be known by that which has been created.

The following from the ancient wisdom of the Corpus Hermeticum:

HERMES: "I will also explain to you in detail, O, Tat, the meaning of the following, so that your eyes may be opened to the mysteries of God, who is sublime beyond all name. Understand by inner vision, how He who seems to many invisible, will become for you, what is most manifest.

He would not really be if He were not invisible, for all that is visible has been brought into being, has once been made manifest.

However, what cannot be perceived exists in all Eternity; It has no need to manifest Itself. It is Eternal and makes all other things manifest.

It makes all things manifest without Itself being manifested; It brings forth without Itself being brought forth; It does not show Itself in any perceptible form, but gives perceptible form to all things.

Only what has been created has a perceptible appearance. Indeed, birth or genesis is nothing else than entering the range of what is Visible.

Consequently, the One-Without-Birth is both without perceptible appearance and invisible; but as He gives form to all things, He becomes visible through and in everything, and especially in those to whom He wishes to manifest Himself."

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You are encouraged to contemplate, reflect upon and to move towards complete understanding of the foregoing.

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A Dip Into Matter

The above diagram is taken from the Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, authored by Max Heindel. It provides a description of the average human life-cycle, from birth into the physical, to death in the physical, to the journey through the astral, mental and causal regions of the reflection-sphere and back to physical birth.

You'll note that man spends the smallest amount of time in physical incarnation. That is because if man were to live more than 72 years, say, two hundred three hundred years, think of the damage that could be done by selfish humans with that much time on their hands. When man has sufficiently matured spiritually, only then will the life-span be increased. For now, only a short dip into Matter is allowed for each incarnation at this point in time.

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"Fulfillment"

Decided to share this response to a recent comment.

Anonymous,

With all of its struggle, violence, frustration and disappointments many remain completely satisfied with material life. Although there is a constant undercurrent of unpleasantness, they try to combat this by pursuing some ephemeral "happiness", either for themselves or for others. They work to make a paradise of the physical world, which cannot be done. When introduced to the transfiguristic philosophy, one that states without pretense that we must leave this world to achieve true liberation, their "I" recoils in fear and they either lash out or withdraw. Not all are ready for the Gnosis.

There are countless religions and spiritual movements that claim to have "the answer" when, in reality, they have only a piece of the Truth, or nothing at all. It has been proven that if a group takes a kernel of Truth and wraps complete falsehood around it, people will respond to that muffled kernel of Truth while dismissing all that is false about a movement. By this method, billions are misled daily, living what they believe to be pious lives. In fact, they are being led straight to the reflection-sphere by these religious brotherhoods. They die without an inkling of how far away from the Truth they really were.

Our mankind is but one of myriads of mankinds inhabiting myriads of galaxies populating myriads of universes. With the exception of a very few, most of these entities, no matter how highly evolved are fallen entities, struggling to escape this fallen realm, the Seventh Cosmic Domain, but not knowing how.

It is not money, per se, that rules the world. It is the selfish desire of humans to acquire happiness and comfort for themselves in whatever way possible. The root of evil in this world is S-E-L-F-I-S-H-N-E-S-S.

i avoid personal focus, but will try to answer your final questions as briefly and succinctly as possible. Yes, i have a job, children, earthly obligations and responsibilities. These are things that must be attended to. The time of the hermit who escapes humanity by living in a cave is long past. We who are of the Gnosis must live among the people, always remembering to be in the world but not of the world.

No matter what earthly task we are engaged in, as long as we keep the knowledge that we have an opened Rose of the Heart and a firm link with the Universal Gnostic Chain, we can remain free. We work, as we must, but as soon as an earthly task is completed, our thoughts should turn back to things of the Spirit, thoughts of the Gnosis.

The School makes very few demands of its pupils. Vegetarianism, no drugs, no nicotine, no alcohol. A celibate lifestyle is requested, but not demanded. True pupils will follow those basic requirements freely, as they will realize that the New Soul cannot be born if we are polluting the physical, astral and mental bodies at the same time. These habits of behavior will only bring harm to the pupil, as their effects will not mesh well with those of the purifying Gnostic radiations.

No one is forced to attend any of the conferences, lectures or meetings that are offered by the School. Everything about the Path entails a voluntary effort by the pupil to do that which is needful. He or she cannot and will not be forced. Liberation is in their hands. The School simply provides the necessary insight and the power-field to assist in the Great Work.

A "fulfilling" life is not the aim of a serious pupil, as we know that no happiness can be found on the earth-plane. Our joy lies in the knowledge that we have found at last, within this incarnation, the Golden Thread that will lead us away from this earthly vale of tears and back to the Divine Kingdom, back to our Original Home.

~ g

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