From Animal-Being To Soul-Being

"Nature-born man has the same bodily principles as every other animal. Every human-being lives and acts like an animal, each one according to his type. An animal feeds on what it can find, disregarding the lives of others. Natural man is no exception in this regard, although in contrast to other animals, he can think and speak and thus rule over them.

In a threatening and hostile world, natural man cannot help but submit automatically to what is called "culture". But however civilized he may be, whether he has a title before or after his name, whether he lives life with a smile or with a tear, with money or without, he remains, as a nature-born man, an animal-being.

In this animal state-of-being you are called by the Gnosis. Why? Because all of you have the possibility of emerging from your animal condition. This possibility arises from the fact that there is a Divine, incorporeal principle in the center of the microcosm that surrounds you. This Divine Principle corresponds with your heart.

If you want to discover this Principle, which we call The Rose, the proto-atom or the Christ-atom, you will have to devote your whole I of nature, with all it is and possesses, in self-surrender - that is, with absolute dedication, deep interest and intense longing - to the center of your microcosm, the Christ-atom. Only in this way will the True Immortal Soul be born.

You will change from a being of nature into a Soul-being. If you follow the path of the Soul-being with persistence, seriously accepting all the consequences; if the being of nature provides proof of having merged into the Soul-being, this Soul-being will be granted the Spirit-Soul, Pymander, the God-Man Principle, the Holy Grail.

From "Oneness (II)" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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How To Kill The "I"

Endura (definition)

The path of I-demolition, the path of the last golden death through the self-surrender of the "I" to the Immortal Man, the 'Christ in me'. It is the path of the Johannine man, 'who makes straight the paths. The endura is a voluntary 'dying' to realize True Life. It is putting into practice the words: "He, the heavenly Other One, must increase, and I must decrease, so that the heavenly Other One will live in me."

From Glossary - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

The "I" is who we are. It is built from the substances of this nature-order and is thus in complete harmony with this nature-order.

The "I" believes in the illusion that it is a separate entity, that it has no true connection with other "I"s.

The "I" will defend and protect its illusive separate existence to the bitter end. It considers all other "I"s to be a threat to its illusive separate existence unless those other "I"s are in complete agreement with it.

The "I" will never willingly consent to being eradicated, as the Universal Gnosis informs us must be done in order to move towards Transfiguration and Liberation. It will resist all attempts to eliminate its influence over the personality.

The Path of Return demands that the candidate who has awakened the Rose of the Heart must proceed to undergo the endura. The main purpose for this process of I-demolition is to make way for the New Man that is being born within the microcosm. But how does one effect this erasure of the "I" when the "I" is well aware of what is going on? The "I" is very cunning and will pretend to help one to walk the Path. If the candidate is not attentive, he or she will be deceived into thinking that they have accomplished the endura when in fact they have done nothing but subjected themselves ever more securely to the control of their "I".

Here is the best way to decrease the influence of the "I":

Focus on doing things for others, and not for yourself.

When you are unselfishly serving and helping others, you don't have time to think about your own worries, concerns or fears. Focus away from the self and inexorably, slowly, the influence of the "I" will wane. This is what lies behind the call to live a life of service-to-others.

To neutralize the self, focus away from the self.

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The Spirit-Soul

The aim of the Path of Return is to lead the yearning Seeker out of the physical world and back to the Divine Kingdom. By virtue of their significantly different frequency ranges, these two realms do not touch. They are separated by a veil, a border-region that cannot be crossed without help.

In order to return to the Divine Kingdom, one's microcosm must vibrate in a range that will allow the entity to experience that realm. But our microcosm is fallen, broken. It vibrates in harmony with this physical nature-order, it is of the earth, earthy.

Soul

The personality that inhabits one's microcosm is composed of several bodies: physical, etheric, astral and mental. Together, these four bodies combine to form the mortal soul. The key word there is mortal, because at some point after the death of the physical body, the three remaining subtle bodies will also gradually and inevitably meet their end. So, man has a soul, but it is a mortal soul, subject to death.

Spirit

As for Spirit, man is disconnected from Spirit. We know this to be true, because Spirit is of God, is God. The majority of the human life-wave is not consciously connected to Spirit. The proof is in the pudding. If humans were connected with Spirit, which is linked with God, humans would manifest God's works in the physical realm. We can look about us and see that this is not the present case.

New Soul

Walking the Path in true humility, self-surrender and with a deep yearning to obtain The Good End will fuel an alchemical process within the candidate's microcosm. A New Soul will be born within the microcosm, coterminous with the old mortal soul. The old mortal soul will decrease in influence as the New Soul grows and establishes itself. It is the New Soul that must be purified so that it can fulfill its special function.

The primary function of the New Soul is to link up with Spirit, to "meet its Pymander", in the words of the Corpus Hermeticum. When the purified New Soul connects with the Divine Spirit, the Spirit-Soul becomes a reality. The microcosm now has what it needs to complete the task of Transfiguration.

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Spirit-Soul (definition)

The path of the endura, the path of pupilship of a gnostic Spiritual School, has as its aim to awaken the true, immortal soul from its latent condition. As soon as this soul arises from its Sleep of Death, its link with the Universal Spirit, with God, is restored. This restored connection between Spirit and Soul, between God and Man, is demonstrated in the glorious resurrection of the Other One, the return of the True Man to the House of the Father. The Soul that is able to celebrate this link, the union with what the Egyptian Arch-Gnosis calls "Pymander", is the Spirit-Soul. It is the union of Osiris (Spirit) with Isis (the Soul), of Christ with Jesus, of the Father with the Son, the alchemical wedding of Christian Rosycross, the marriage of the heavenly Bridegroom with his heavenly Bride.

The presence of the Spirit-Soul necessitates a heart sanctuary completely emptied and purified of every nature-born influence and activity, and vibrating in harmony with the Spirit-Spark atom. Only in such a purified heart can a meeting with God, the Pymandric consciousness, take place. The Spirit-Soul is the nuclear radiation of the Monad (the Divine Spark) which comes to ensoulment within the heart of material man.

From The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

Bridging The Vibration Gap

Between the Sixth Cosmic Domain (Cosmic Astral Plane) and the Seventh Cosmic Domain (Cosmic Physical Plane) there exists a gap in vibration. The highest vibrational frequencies of the  Seventh Cosmic Domain reach about 700 terahertz (that's 700 trillion hertz). This is in the ultra-violet range.

The lowest frequencies in the Sixth Cosmic Domain (the Divine Kingdom) reach about 800 trillion hertz. Between these two Cosmic Planes lies a gap of about 100 trillion hertz. This gap presents an obstacle to those humans who are striving to escape the physical plane. It works as a barrier, a ring-pass-not.The astral bodies of the vast majority of human-beings come nowhere close to vibrating as high as 700 Thz.

This is why, during this ending-cycle, human-beings are being urged to "raise your vibration". There's a functional need to do so, if one wants to move towards Liberation.

Periodically, according to Cosmic Law, the vibrations of the Divine Kingdom - the Sixth Cosmic Domain - are lowered, stepped down, as it were. They are lowered to a level that enables the lowest plane of the Sixth Cosmic Domain to blend and mix freely with the highest regions of the Seventh Cosmic Domain. It behaves sort of like a temporary bridge, built to last long enough to enable those who wish to escape from matter to do so.

This "gap" is a vacuum of pure ethers, originating from the Divine Kingdom, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. Because it exists as a connection between two entirely different nature-orders, it serves a special purpose. This is the Ark that is always built when major world-cycles are coming to a close. Like a life-boat, it stays in place, gathering all those who seek its refuge until the time comes when the cycle must ultimately end. At that point, the gangplank is lifted and, like a vast fisherman's net, the vibrational bridge that was temporarily extended from the Divine Kingdom begins to withdraw from the Seventh Cosmic Domain with its spiritual harvest in tow.

All candidates who possess an awakened Divine Spark are automatically linked to this special region between two Cosmic domains. They have become cells in the Living Body of the Gnosis. They have boarded the Ark. To remain aboard, the candidate must continue to strive, in complete self-surrender, to follow the Path no matter what obstacles may be placed before him or her. If one steps off the Ark to dally in the natural-world, beware. No one knows when that gangplank will be pulled up.

No matter what one has done previously in life, no matter how heinous or despicable a human-being may have behaved in the past, the opportunity for Redemption is open to all...to all. Forgiveness is at hand! The price? One must make a fundamental reversal in their thinking, willing, feeling and acting. This means that one must permanently and completely turn away from the world and renounce all the matter therein. The renunciation must be complete and without falsification. Only then will the restored link between the Spark and the Ark remain strong enough to lift the candidate out of the Pit of Despair and back to Divine Shores abandoned so long ago.

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Sobriety

"People sometimes say to us: "Alas, who am i? What can I do? I am only a ..." and then follows one or another commonplace description. If you talk like that, you will remain as you always have been."

From "The Imitation of Christ" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

Don't sell yourself short. You know that something is wrong with the world. You know the feeling of being imprisoned by evil, of being strapped to an imaginary chair with your eyes propped open, forced to watch the horrors of this world repeat themselves over and over and over, like a bad movie.

Deep within, you know that the only way out is to escape, to leave this world once and for all. Not via natural death, nor by one's own hand. Those options will only lead you to the reflection-sphere, where you will hang out for a while before returning to earth for more of the same. The escape that beckons you is discussed here incessantly. There is only one way out, and that is the Path of Return.

But when you hear things like "I-demolition", "erasing the personality", or that there is an "Other One" within you that must increase as your "I" decreases, you get fearful, you feel afraid. Why? Because your "I" does not want to be "erased". It is perfectly happy living in this cesspool. It can't get enough of the swill! So it creates a deep unspoken fear within that paralyzes you. You are afraid to move, afraid to take that Next Step, that One Step.

At the end of every Day of Manifestation, the Logos always extends to all those who are imprisoned, the keys to the cell-block, as it were. Messengers are sent forth to herald the Good News. Their mission is to spread the word to a skeptical and unbelieving humanity that there is a way to escape this madness that we foolishly created for ourselves. But you must gain insight. You must have discernment. You must have a deep yearning to be free of this world. You must have an Inner Knowing, a Remembrance, in order to accept that The Process will work, and that you are finally hearing the Truth.

The Dark Brothers are cunning to the extreme. They have clouded and distorted the spiritual landscape so much that humans no longer know what to believe. Apathy follows, then hedonism.

Again, don't sell yourself short. Awaken from this drunken stupor. You are being called Home. Do not discount the Great Gift that the Messengers are bringing to you as this cycle stumbles to a close and do not think yourself unworthy. By virtue of your long ages of suffering, you are eminently worthy of Salvation.

No more false alarms. No more fire drills.

This is it.

"Where are you hurrying, O men, You whose minds are clouded because you are drunk with the word that lacks all Gnosis, the word of absolute ignorance that does not agree with you 

and that you will vomit in the end?

Stop and become sober: see again with the eyes of your Heart! And if not all of you can do so, let those at least who can. 

...do not allow yourselves to be carried along by the violence of the stream, but let those among you who are able to reach the Harbors of Salvation make use of the counter-current to put to port.

Look for Him who will take you by the hand and lead you to the gates of the Gnosis, where the clear Light shines in which there is no Darkness; where no one is drunk, but all are sober, and look up with their Hearts to Him who wishes to be known."

- Corpus Hermeticum - 

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The Third Way (One Flew Over)

There are three roads that can lead one to Final Liberation from matter:

The First Way: 

Live your life as a nature-born human-being. Focus and restrict your striving to the aims of the material world. Seek no further, and if you do seek seek on the horizontal plane, allow human "authorities" such as the churches of the established religions, their priests, pastors, imans, monks and gurus to interpret the holy language for you and stand as sole intermediaries between you and God, a privilege for which you will have to pay for, of course.

Live only to obtain human goals, (i.e., get rich or die trying) and hope for the best in some fantasy after-life that has been brainwashed into you by those church authorities.

Die and head for the reflection-sphere, the temporary heaven-worlds, where your remaining subtle bodies will eventually dissolve, forcing your microcosm to generate yet another new personality to send into the world in search of The Pearl of Great Price. Repeat this process over and over again, for long ages of time.

It will take long ages of time and many Rebirths, but you will eventually find The Third Way.

The Second Way:

Live your life as a nature-born human-being. Expand your striving to include the occult world. The word "occult" means " hidden". Study the invisible worlds, the ways of the reflection-sphere, astrological correspondences, magnetic healing, etc. White magic, black magic, ascended masters and grandmasters. Learn how to 'split the personality' so that you can travel in the reflection-sphere fully conscious. Learn all there is to know about the invisible realms, its levels and hierarchies. Learn how to live an after-death experience in the reflection-sphere that will enable you to retain the use of your astral and mental bodies for thousands and thousands of years, thereby avoiding dissolution of the subtle bodies and illegally prolonging your stay in the heaven-worlds. Learn the artificial methods used by those with occult training to avoid reincarnating on earth.

You become a light-spirit, or perhaps a black magician. Yes, you are free of The Wheel, but you become a parasite, having to resort to siphoning the astral energy of physical human-beings on earth in order to maintain your form in the reflection-sphere. In essence, you have become an aeon yourself. For you, death of the personality has only been delayed.

It will take many long eternities, but if you can reject reflection-sphere life, you may eventually find The Third Way.

The Third Way:

You've lived many lives as a nature-born human-being. You're struck with the urge to seek "something higher". You try the churches. Hypocrisy and falsehoods. You study the occult path. If you're observant, you realize that the occult path does not offer a true liberation. Empty-handed, you continue to search. Theosophy, New Age, channeled teachings, extra-terrestrial messages. All fragments, all a confusing maze of 'truth'. Who can we trust to provide us with the 'truth'? What doctrine can satisfy our desperate seeking? In frustration you throw up your hands and resign yourself to a pointless existence on a pointless world. A helpless puppet in the hands of Fate, doomed to forever chase a 'truth' that must exist but appears to have been purposely hidden from you.

The First and Second Ways have failed you. Thankfully, there is a Third Way:

You leave behind the temporary things of the material-world. You leave behind the false promises of the reflection-sphere. You learn that there is a Divine Realm that exists apart from the physical realm. You learn that you carry a Divine Spark within your microcosm which contains great powers, powers that are still linked to the Divine Realm. This Divine Atom lies sleeping, waiting for the right personality to come along and awaken it.

Once awakened, the True Man will slowly begin to emerge. A Divine Personality will gradually re-assert its control over the microcosm. The broken link with Spirit will be repaired. You learn that for the candidate walking the Path of Return, physical death will lead  not to the reflection-sphere but to Shamballa, where the candidate will complete the mighty process of Transfiguration, in peace, among brothers.

You learn that "finding the Truth" involves taking leave of a world that you can see, in order to become part of a World that you cannot see...yet.

Congratulations. You have found The Third Way.

Wire, briar, limber, lock,

Three geese in a flock;

One flew East,

One flew West,

One flew Over 

the Cuckoo's Nest.

O-U-T spells out.

Goose swoops down

And plucks you out.

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Knowledge Of The Things That Are

I. As it is Below, so it is Above; As on the Earth, so in the Sky.

II. There are two states of being: one is Mortal, the other is Immortal.

III. That which is Mortal is dissolvable, and dissolvable bodies pass away like a mist in the morning. 
IV. An Immortal body is an Essence which is Eternal and Incorruptible.

V. But the two, the Mortal and the Immortal, cannot exist together forever, but each returns to the place from where it comes.

VI. The Mortal body is Sensible, but the Immortal is Reasonable.

VII.The former contains nothing that is Perfect. The latter, nothing that is Imperfect; for the one is the essence of Matter, and the other the essence of Spirit, and Man, the Microcosm, holds the Balance of the two.

VIII. And there is a fierce warfare for the victory, between the Lower and the Upper, as they both desire to obtain the Body as their Prize; for the state of Man is envied by the Lower and glorified as a noble state by the Higher.

IX. Now if the Man inclines toward the Lower nature, which is Mortal, he thereby aids the Lower Imperfect powers to oppose the Higher, which is Immortal, and must suffer the pains of Slavery for his disobedience to the Workman, his Maker. But if he inclines to the Higher, then he is truly Wise and Blessed.

X. Should Man, after being attracted by the Vanities of the World and then, after obtaining knowledge of the Things That Are, return to the Vanities of the World, he will be punished with Torments and Fire in the darkest states of disembodied souls.

XI. Should a Man, after knowing the Things That Are, become rebellious of restraint to the part which is Immortal and returns to the Vanities of the World, the Higher Essence will straightaway depart from him, and he will become the Slave of the Lower Essence, which will seize upon him and drive him to all sorts of Wicked Arts and Evil Ways.

XII. When Man has thus impiously disobeyed his Creator and turned his face away from That Which Is Immortal, behold, he is then disinherited from his Birthright, and is no longer counted among the Children of God, because he has become an Evil, Perverse thing, possessing only those things which are Mortal, and he is punished with Death.

XIII. And so Death is meted out to all those who rebel against their Creator impiously, because they know the Things That Are. But to those foolish Souls who are Ignorant, and who have not knowingly rejected their Creator, behold, they are purified after much suffering, and are sent to the World again.

-- Hermes Trismegistus

Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

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Forgiveness And The Grace Of An Age

The below is quoted from Heavy Karmic Baggage:

"Of course, it is nearly impossible to expunge thousands of years of Karmic debt in one short human lifetime of 72 (on average) years. This is especially true when we are kept in ignorance and as a result continue to pile even more negative karma atop the heavy baggage that the microcosm already carries. This too, is seen as an injustice. But it is an injustice of our own making.

Fortunately, there is a way out. Even more fortunately, you are living in a time when the way out is being revealed to all mankind. This doesn't mean that all of mankind will accept the revelation, it simply means that the way out is being revealed so that all may have the opportunity to freely choose whether to abandon their ways and take advantage of That Which Is Being Offered.

The way out is Forgiveness. An attempt will be made to explain this in the next post."

How can we, as personalities, as projections of the microcosm, hope to eradicate the accumulated karma of our microcosm in the few short decades of life that are granted to us? Karma that has been accumulated over many thousands of years of periodic incarnations of different personalities?

The personality must locate the Path of Return, then follow it as a Golden Thread that will lead one out of the dialectical nature-born realm forever. It is this Path that the Christ Radiation* was referring to when it stated, through the man Jesus, that: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life".

* Never forget that the term 'Christ' refers not to a man who lived two thousand years ago, but to a mighty cosmic radiation, the Love Aspect of the Father. Any human-being who can accept, assimilate and radiate this divine vibration can become a 'Christ'. Jesus, the man, did so and lived His life as an example to all who were to come that "You shall do as I have done; yea, greater things than these you shall do".


We are currently riding the never-ending wheel of death and rebirth. There are a couple of key reasons why we continue to return to earth-life after a brief post-death journey in the reflection-sphere (the so-called 'after-life').

Desire
Karma

In brief, Desire means that the microcosm retains an urge to generate a new personality to return and experience earth-life once more. In short, the microcosm is enjoying (for lack of a better word) the experience of the lower vibrational existence and seeks to continue that experience.

Karma, as we have discussed, is the accumulation of unresolved Effects that have resulted from Causes that we, as past personalities, have put into motion. Because all Karma must be balanced on the plane upon which it was incurred, the microcosm is bound by this Cosmic law to generate a new personality to return to earth-life and take up the task.

As previously mentioned, this task is an immense one, and for all practical purposes, impossible to complete within the constraint of a single earth-life. However, there is a way.

When humanity "fell" into matter-born existence, the Logos, in line with the wishes of The All, also sent Divine emissaries to accompany fallen humanity into the Seventh Cosmic Domain. These Divine Beings carried with them the wisdom of the Gnosis, the Keys that humanity would need in order to find its way out of darkness and back to the Lighted Realms of the Sixth Cosmic Domain. Throughout innumerable ages, we're talking many hundreds of millions of years, these Divine guardians have worked tirelessly to help mankind find the Path that leads out of this Pit of Despair.

Along the way, there have been successes, there have been failures. Individuals who manage to locate the Path and who follow it to 'The Good End' are triumphantly lifted out of the Seventh, their accumulated karma is erased - and they are released from any future obligation to ride The Wheel. They disappear from the Physical Realm, never to be seen again by physical eyes.

Because of this, there is no concrete evidence left behind that documents the success of these successful Seekers. They have transfigured, and can no longer be viewed by physical eyes. As a result, humanity, which for the large part refuses to believe in the reality of anything which they cannot see with their physical eyes or touch with their physical hands, dismisses all notions of man's ability to be reborn in a Higher form. Remember the incredulous words of Nicodemus, not understanding due to ignorance of the facts: "Lord, how can a man be born again? Can he crawl back into his mother's womb?".

A brief word about 'ignorance'. To be ignorant does not mean the same as being stupid. Ignorance is when one errs due to the fact that one does not know better. 'Stupidity' is the act of erring despite knowing better. Nicodemus was a very learned man - in the ways of the world. However, he was ignorant of the Higher truths, he did not have Gnosis.

Periodically, the Logos grants all of humanity the opportunity to seize the gift of Gnosis and to make this transition collectively, as a group. These periods can be classified as major or minor cycles. It is at the end of such cycles that this Grace is extended to mankind. We are presently in the throes of such a period, by which mankind is being offered the Grace of an Age.

An Age is a period of time corresponding to the number of years that it takes for the Sun to transit one of the signs of the zodiac. It takes 2,160 years to pass through one sign of the zodiac. It takes 25,920 earth years to pass through all twelve signs. When Jesus, the man, walked the earth, it was the Age of Pisces, hence the many symbolic references to fish during his sojourn. Prior to his appearance, the holy language speaks of prior Ages using symbolism such as lambs (Aries), bulls (Taurus), twins (Gemini), etc. When it speaks of Aquarius, it refers to a 'Man with an Urn', as in:

"Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house where he entereth in." Luke 22:10

Follow him, indeed. The Man with the Pitcher of Water is Aquarius, which is pouring out over all of mankind the astral energies required by Man to recognize the times that we are in and to take the steps necessary to maximize our progress, to make our escape, as it were.

These Divine energies do not discriminate. They are radiated over all humanity and permeate all humanity. Those who react negatively can be easily identified by their actions. Why do you think there is so much error, violence and malice in the world today? It is because the Christine Radiations are not being well-received by some. Instead of moving towards Gnosis, they are repelled further into darkness. This is due to the rock-hard "I-centrality" of their microcosms.

Those who are receptive are given the help they need, as much as they need, when they need it, in order to guide them safely Home. Many are not even aware of what is taking place. They simply notice that they are 'changing'. Those who are aware of what is taking place have an obligation to spread the word, in the hope that sleeping brethren might awaken in time to take action.

This is why the holy language states that during the end times, "the sheep shall be separated from the goats". There will be two camps, those who are with the Gnosis, and those who are without Gnosis. There will be no in-between, no half-stepping. EACH MUST CHOOSE.

To summarize, in order to return to the Divine Sixth, all of the microcosm's earth karma must be eradicated. The microcosm itself must be purified. The Logos is completely aware of this and periodically offers mankind a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card, which is the Gnosis. All you have to do is resolve to make a fundamental reversal, turn your back on the things of this world, and dedicate your remaining days to doing that which must be done to return to the Divine Kingdom.

If you 'die' in the midst of this striving, you will not be forsaken. Because the fundamental vibration of your microcosm will have been elevated beyond a certain degree, you will be eligible to bypass the reflection-sphere (the fake heaven-world) and proceed instead to Shamballa, where you will complete The Great Work.

Those who are engaged in this process of microcosmic transmutation and are in the body when 'The End' comes, will be transformed, on the spot.

The key is to START NOW. You must begin the Process in order to benefit from the Process. Do not delay or put it off for tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. There is only Now. The natural world is luring mankind to sleep in order to lead him away from the Light. The aeons of this nature are completely within their rights to offer you this Grand Deception. It is you who must clear the crud from your eyes and see the deception for what it truly is. It is you must reject the World. It is you must make the fundamental reversal in your thinking, willing and desiring. The Choice is yours alone. No one can force you to make this change.

Once again, the Grace of an Age is being offered to all of humanity. Complete and permanent Forgiveness is at hand. May you be granted the wisdom to recognize the Glory of this Moment, and to accept the Loving Invitation that is being offered to us all.

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