To Find The Light

Question: What is the aim of our experience in the Darkness?

 

Answer: “The aim is to find the Light during such an odyssey, and with the aid of the Light one has found, to overcome evil and restore the Original state.

All the Mysteries culminate in this. As soon as the human-being becomes aware of this, his line of development turns upward again and returns to Its Origin. But with what an immeasurable difference!

 

The human-being sets out as an ignorant entity, he returns as One Who Knows. He sets out as a Prodigal Son, now he is the son who has been found again, and who returns to the House of the Father”.

 

From  The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Part IV, p 122 – Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The Holy Aim

"We renounce all religion, all occultism, all humanitarianism, all philosophy, and every form of delusion, being in a complete self-revolt, and we base our aim in the true Divine Seed of Life becoming one with the Original Source of the Spirit.

This objective involves a daily struggle against one’s own earthly nature, which must give up its predominance over the higher nature through self-mortification. Not until this objective is reached can the Gnosis be experienced."
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Equals

“You must consider the course of this world—that all things in it are but a play wherewith you spend your time in such unquietness, and that it goes with the rich and mighty as with the poor and the beggar; that all of us equally live and move in the four elements, and that the hard-earned morsel of the poor is as relishing and savory to him in his labour as the dainties of the rich are to him in his cares.

Also, that all of us subsist by One Breath, and that the rich man hath nothing but the pleasures of the palate and the lust of the eye for a little while more than his poor neighbor, for the end of both is the same.”

—Jakob Böhme, The Way to Christ (1623)
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Karma: Nothing Personal, Just Business

A man commits a murder, killing an innocent young girl in an unspeakable manner. He is apprehended, brought to trial, convicted, sentenced to life in prison or death at the hands of the state. Although he has paid his debt to society, a larger Unpaid Debt remains outstanding.

The man dies, and transitions to the reflection-sphere. Depending on how much the microcosmic personality learned during the just-completed earth-life, he will re-incarnate as either a monster destined to kill again, or as one who has learned the folly of murder and will care for life while in the physical.

Life follows life. The microcosm generates successive personalities of a more refined nature. The killer of thousands of years ago no longer exists, the desire to harm others has been erased from the microcosm.

At some point, the microcosm generates a personality of great beauty. A little girl, innocent and pure. When the little girl is ten years old, she is murdered in an unspeakable manner. The horror is imprinted upon the microcosm.

The Unpaid Debt has been repaid.

From the outside, we see a tragedy of tremendous proportions. If we could see from the Inside, we would recognize the workings of a Great Law. All imbalances must be balanced. All wrongs must be righted. No matter how long it may take.

Be mindful of the Causes that you set in motion during this life, for the Effects shall surely be reaped in some future life.

~ g
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Free Your Mind

"Your world is made by your Mind.
Your training and education have been designed
to keep you in Darkness
by controlling your Mind"

 -- Hilton Hotema --
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What's The Difference?

Take a look at the above two skeletons and try to answer the following questions:

1. Which skeleton belongs to a so-called "black" person? Which skeleton belongs to a so-called "white" person? Feel free to insert any ethnicity or tribal designation into the foregoing and ask the same question.

2. Which skeleton belongs to a wealthy person of great prestige and so-called "power"? Which skeleton belongs to a poverty-stricken, low-class, so-called "bum"?

3. Which skeleton belongs to a male? Which to a female?

4. Which skeleton belongs to an "American"? Which to a "Russian", "European", "Asian" or "Pacific Islander"?

How did we do? Did anyone go 4-for-4 with the correct answers?

So, what's the difference? Answer: there is no difference. The only "differences" that exists between one human-being and another are the differences that man constructs in his feeble and self-focused thinking. Here's the way the majority of humanity looks at the world:

"That person doesn't look like me, is darker / lighter than me, doesn't dress like me, doesn't live where I live, doesn't have what I have, doesn't think the way I do, has ancestors who hated my ancestors, etc., etc. Therefore that person is 'different' from me. And that which is 'different' from me is my opposite, my adversary, my enemy."

What ridiculous nonsense.

That which differentiates one personality from another cannot be seen by the naked eye. Although our microcosms originated from the same Source far back in the annals of what we know as "time", each microcosm has accumulated myriads of different experiences during countless instances of physical incarnations. During this span, some microcosms have advanced on the Path that leads to ultimate Liberation from the cosmic physical plane, others have stagnated or regressed. These conditions are what are responsible for that which man could possibly want to call "differences".

Even this cannot completely be the case, as the least-developed soul is essentially not so different from the highest-developed initiate. They are "the same in nature, but different in degree". Two extremes of the same pole. The initiate was once an undeveloped soul, and therefore shares that experience. The undeveloped soul is striving to become an initiate, and therefore shares that aspiration.

Your mass media is hugely responsible for how humanity looks at the world and each other. There are billions of stories occurring each day across the globe, but the mainstream news editors, publishers and broadcasters are interested only in showing you the worst sort of news, the kind that succeeds in maintaining artificial divides and separating humanity from one another. This is why certain groups, say Group "A" are disproportionately featured on the front pages, doing bad things; the purpose is to reinforce the idea in the minds of other groups, say Group "B", that members of Group "A" are animals, and the cause of all the crime in the world. In the meantime, members of Group "B" are also committing the most heinous crimes imaginable, but receiving little media attention unless the crime is so ridiculously outrageous that it cannot be ignored. Such matters are stage-managed by the handful of human lackeys who control almost everything that you see and hear in this world.

In this way, the thinking of the masses is shaped and refined. The public falls victim to a certain type of mind-control, one based upon humanity's self-focus, coupled with an erroneous assumption that the mainstream media does not lie or manipulate, and always tells the public the truth.

Make it a point to maintain control of your thinking. Observe the world from the basis of the living soul-state, not as a nature-born human-being. Recognize that the world is under the spell of a massive programming and deception, and strive to disengage yourself from it. Always remain neutral, objective, unattached to any outcome. If you fail to do these things, you risk being swept up in the maelstrom of public opinion and mass hypnosis that envelops the world today, thus impeding your ability to respond to the radiations of the Gnosis.

In the end, there is no difference between one person and another, one group or another. We are all prisoners of the aeons of this nature. We are all astral food sources for the "prince of this world". The sooner that this is recognized by the candidate, the sooner the next step on the Path can be taken.

~ g

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Lesser Harvest, Greater Harvest

"There is going to be a Harvest, as you might call it, a Harvest of Souls that will shortly occur upon your planet. We are attempting to extract the greatest possible harvest from this planet. This is our mission, for we are the Harvesters"

Earth and mankind have reached the end of a major world-cycle. At a certain point in time, when a critical mass of Seeking humanity has been obtained, something tremendous will happen.

For a brief period of time, the dimensions will merge. The veils that separate physical, etheric, astral and mental planes will come down for a short while. Like a game of cosmic "musical chairs",  when the "music" stops, this temporary condition will enable all who have sufficiently raised their soul-vibration above a certain level to advance to a higher state of consciousness, allowing them to experience in the plane of existence that corresponds to their rate of vibration.

Each will have their own result. Some will advance to the etheric sub-plane, others to the astral sub-plane. Another group will escape the Cosmic Physical plane completely. Those who do not raise their soul-vibration to a sufficient frequency will have to incarnate on another Earth-like planet in the distant future, where they will begin their evolution all over again without any memories of their former lives.

The following description of the Harvest is taken from Servers of the Divine Plan:

[QUOTING]

So we may now recognize that, with regard to today's cyclic spiritual opportunity, there are three distinct groups:

(1) Those who, having failed to learn the lessons of the physical plane over many lifetimes, will be forced to leave the Earth in order to later incarnate on another physical world so that they may begin again to learn by way of the unique experiences and opportunities that are available only in the third density.

(2) Those who have learned sufficiently from and passed the tests of the physical-plane school and who will have therefore earned their promotion to the fourth- or fifth-density classroom of life where they shall proceed with their higher learning. However, it should be understood that such a graduation does not mean Liberation or Enlightenment, and the promoted soul will at some stage in the future be compelled by karmic law to return, via reincarnation, to the physical plane in order to once again attempt to achieve the one Goal of every unenlightened human being: transfiguration, or ultimate liberation from matter (including the more subtle matter of the 4th and 5th densities). Therefore, the graduation to the 4th or 5th densities is actually a temporary promotion into more rarefied spheres of existence and experience, and so may be termed 'the lesser harvest'.

(3) Those who have discovered and gone the Path of Return and who are, therefore, able to be lifted up into the sixth cosmic sphere - the Body of Christ - and so who will attain the Final Liberation from all the lower worlds of fallen nature by being harvested back into the divine Kingdom. This is the true Harvest and has been the prime focus of all Avatars throughout human history.

[END QUOTING]

What is described in item (3) is called 'the greater harvest'.

It has been asked, what happens to those who "live nobly" but do not find the Path before the curtain falls? These will experience the Lesser Harvest. The etheric body will be their lowest physical vehicle. As noted above, the personality will have to undergo the incarnation process at some point. This because the process of transfiguration must begin in a physical body. The life-span of the personality will increase. All will have opportunities once again to discover the Path of the True Way.

Those who obtain Final Liberation by walking the Path of Return while in the physical body will take part in the Greater Harvest. Their microcosms will transfigure, along with their in-dwelling personalities. These personalities, the last to be subject to the reincarnation process, will not move on to the etheric, astral or mental planes of the Cosmic Physical Plane, the Seventh Cosmic Domain. Instead, with a giant leap they will return to the Divine Kingdom, the Sixth Cosmic Domain, the Cosmic Astral Plane. There will be no mandatory requirement to incarnate into the Cosmic Physical ever again, unless by a voluntary choice to serve the advancement of humanity in some fashion.

This is what lies ahead for mankind. Thankfully, there is still time left to choose your destiny.

~ g
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The Wheel and The Path

School's in.

Above is a diagram that illustrates the gnostic Path of Transfiguration. The diagram is the same as that which describes the Hindu concept of Moksha, only it has more detail. It pictorially outlines every step in the cycle of Life-Death-and-Rebirth and also shows the alternate path, the Path of Return, the Path of the True Way, the Path of Liberation from the Wheel of Death-and-Rebirth.

Man is the only creature that is twofold: he is both mortal and immortal. Mortal as to the temporary personality and its etheric, astral and mental vehicles. Immortal as to the microcosm, which persists for Eternity.

The above diagram describes the ages-long journey of the microcosm, as it creates one personality after another, living, dying, living, dying, in a fruitlessly slow process of development. At the top-of-page is depicted the Kingdom of God, the Divine Kingdom, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. It is referred to as the "Static Universe" because there are no pairs-of-opposites in this Realm, no duality. Love is the rule, not the exception. Here we speak not of conditional human love, which is but a poor imitation, but of the Divine Love that encompasses and permeates The All.

Below this area is shown the Material Universe: duality, or dialectics. Here is where our microcosms fell, long ages ago. The Wheel of Death and Rebirth holds sway here, and is depicted as two halves of the same circle - the reflection-sphere (the so-called 'heaven' worlds) and the physical plane (what man calls 'reality', which, by the way, is incorrect).

To read this diagram, we start at the extreme right-hand side of the Wheel, just below the words "The Veil Between Life and Death". A man and a woman are depicted there. This portion of the Wheel represents physical birth. Here is where an emptied microcosm begins the process of collecting the soul-vehicles that will be required to build a new personality. In addition to the physical body, at intervals of seven-years-per-vehicle, the etheric body is built, then the astral body, and finally, the mental body. By the age of 21 all soul-vehicles are accounted for and the personality is considered an adult. Maturity of the mental body, the last vehicle built, does not occur until the age of 28.

As can be seen on the diagram, once all four vehicles have been constructed, an interesting thing happens: there is a fork or a splitting of the path of the microcosm with its personality. The personality can either continue on the road of least resistance, remain on the Wheel and once again meet physical death, where its vehicles will dissolve one by one until the microcosm is emptied once more, or it can take the divergent path, the Path of Return, the Path that leads the microcosm back to the Divine Kingdom.

This is the secret that was taught in all ancient Mystery Schools. The doctrine of Liberation. It is being revealed to mankind now because we are in the time of Harvest. During this special period of Grace, veils will be lowered, dimensions will temporarily merge, so as to allow all those who are walking the Path of the True Way to take a giant leap into Eternity.

Keep the diagram. Study it. It is the Key to the Mystery of Eternal Life.

~ g
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Moksha

Mokhsa, also called vimoksha, vimukti and mukti, is a term in Hinduism and Hindu philosophy which refers to various forms of emancipation, liberation, and release ... it refers to freedom from saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth.

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A simple diagram illustrating a powerful doctrine. Around and around we go, turn after turn on The Wheel until finally, in one life, the right personality finds the Path that leads to the way out.

With the above in mind, stand by for the follow-up...

~ g
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The Pendulum

It is understood that we are experiencing in a duality, a dialectical universe. Simply put, this means that everything  in the Physical Universe has its polar opposite. Opposites are related to one another, as they represent two extremes of the same attribute. For example, hot and cold are two extremes. In-between them are an infinite range of temperatures.  Both are parts of the same attribute: temperature.

If you apply this reasoning to any of the pairs of opposites that exist in this world, you will see the pattern, and the following principle will become clear.

IV. The Principle of Polarity

"Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; Like and Unlike are the Same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."

Now we move to the principle that man has not understood at all, which has resulted in our accumulating a heavy burden of karma and binding ourselves ever more tightly to this world, life after life after life.

V. The Principle of Rhythm

"Everything flows, out and in. Everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."

The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left. Although living in a duality, Original Man did not violate the above principle. Original Man remained objectively neutral and did not endeavor to take sides or bind Himself to the things of the world. But once a portion of the Original Human-Beings "fell in love with their reflection", they set the Pendulum of Duality in motion and it has not yet stopped swinging.

This Pendulum represents the working of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The knowledge of Good and the knowledge of Evil. Understanding is required here.

"Good" and "Evil" are opposites. Therefore they are identical in nature, but different in degree. One cannot exist without the other. In this way, not only Good and Evil but all opposites maintain one another. If something happens to swing the pendulum towards the Good, it is inevitable, it is Law, that the Pendulum must swing back towards Evil in the same measure: the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left.

How does the working of these laws manifest in the world, to mankind's detriment? Let's take humanism, or humanitarianism. The desire of a segment of humanity to help others less fortunate with food, shelter, money, etc., although outwardly admirable, actually serves only to trigger a "swing to the left", fostering more war, more famine, more destitution, more inhumanity to man. It is the Law, it has to be so within a duality. The problem is that humanity does not recognize this Law and fights blindly against it. Humanity sees more war, so they re-double their humanitarian efforts. More war results. So the humanitarians work even harder. More wars ensue, and so on. You get the picture.

This begs the question: how do we stop the motion of this Pendulum? How do we still this deadly movement that has kept humanity chained to this sphere for vast eons of time?

Neutrality. Objectivity. Be neither for nor against anything. Remain detached. Do not lose compassion for the suffering of your fellow-man, but recognize the workings of the Law and resolve to transcend and rise above it. To be neutral does not mean to "not care". It means just what it says: remain neutral. Do not take sides in anything that goes on in this world. Simply observe with understanding.

What has just been written may be hard for some to accept or follow. This is to be expected. It goes against everything we've been "taught" about how life on this planet works. But when one's eyes are being opened after a long period of darkness, the brightness of the light can sometimes hurt the eyes.

The Pendulum, one of the roots of man's suffering, must be brought to a rest. If not within the whole of humanity, then at least within ourselves.

~ g
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Has The New Soul Been Born In You?

"The Divine Birth cannot be forced. You can only create the conditions for this Birth to take place. How do you know if the New Soul is born in you?

The famous mystic Meister Eckhart wrote about this:

'Now you turn your face entirely to this Birth. Yes, you will encounter this birth in everything you see and hear, whatever it is. You are like someone who looks for quite a while at the Sun, and afterwards sees the image of the Sun in whatever he looks at.

As long as you do not seek and perceive God in everything, this Birth has not yet occurred in you'"
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