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

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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.

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