To Be 'Born Again'

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can an old man be born again? Can he enter again a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" John 3:4

"Being 'born again', i.e., awakening the sleeping Heavenly figure, is the task. A new Heavenly Personality must be born while man is still existing in the old personality. The raising of this New Figure is subject to laws which are quite different from those which governed the ancient esoteric systems, and it is these new laws which the candidate must study and apply.

The New Being in gestation is formed from above downwards. First comes the mental faculty, next the astral body, then the etheric body as the matrix for the new physical body.

What is required first of all in order to conceive the Heavenly Man is fundamental reversal, virtual renunciation of the old "I", parting with all ancient magic that exalts the old "I". Furthermore, it should be quite clear that there can be no question of neglecting the earthly personality and the necessary earthly life. We must, however, shift the accents in such a way that we choose an attitude to life which will promote the true aim of Rebirth.

Bound as we are to biological appearance, we must pay the price for our existence in this world, but by adopting a rational attitude to life we build up that which is 'not of this world'.

The Brotherhood of the Rosycross entreats all earnest seekers for Liberation to embrace the Fundamental Principle of the New Dispensation: breaking with the old life and entering the New Life!"

From "Orientation III" - Dei Gloria Intacta - Jan van Rijckenborgh


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'Born again'. Churches the world over throw this term around without the courtesy of an explanation or a plausible example. The term has absolutely nothing to do with superficially changing one's behavior, making Jesus one's "lord and savior", and pronouncing one's self as "saved". That is what Churchianity wants its blind sheep to believe.

The gnostic transfigurist knows the true meaning of the term 'born again'. It is a transmutation of the microcosmic personality. It is the re-birth of the True Man, the Other One who has been imprisoned within the sleeping Divine Spark for long ages of time.

It is to this magical birth that we who are on the Path aspire. This is the Great Mystery that is being revealed to the Children of God during the end of this major world-cycle.

Embrace the true meaning of the term 'born again'. Follow the Path of Return, the Path that leads to the New Birth.

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