The First Step Taken

This post is a response to questions posed in the comment section of Kiristi : Kristos : Christ. The response was too lengthy to post there.

re: "So why would any of the 7 billion personalities presently on earth want to join LR? The odds of winning a major lottery seem better than becoming a Divine human-being."

In fact, the majority of the earth's population have not reached the stage in their spiritual evolution that would encourage them to join a modern-day mystery school such as LRC. That's why the School presently has perhaps only 20,000 members world-wide. That is approximately 0.000003 percent of total humanity.

'Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen'

Hundreds of millions of human-beings are 'life-spark' human-beings. These entities are completely of the earth and will never be interested in leaving it. In contrast, there are also many millions of  'spirit-spark' human-beings. These are the ones that may Seek. From these Seekers (the 'Called'), a small percentage will find their way to the Path and choose to walk it (the 'but Few'). These ones are not 'chosen' by some external entity. They 'choose' themselves by doing that which is necessary to walk the Path. The Path is freely available to all spirit-spark human-beings, but the human-being must seek it out.

The Path has to be a voluntary choice for it to matter. All Candidates must do the work themselves! LRC, as an earthly output of the Universal Brotherhood, only provides insight, guidance and assistance on a vibrational level (the Living Body of the School).

Actually, the odds of restoring the microcosm to its Divine state are better than the lottery, which is based on randomness and chance. The human body was specifically designed to participate in the process of transmutation and the Divine Plan of Salvation was created to assist Man in finding the process and completing it. The problem is that Man remains distracted by the glittering baubles of earth-life and so completely misses the Prize, the One Thing Needful. He then blames God for playing some sort of shell-game with humanity when in fact it is humanity that is completely absorbed in their own little game of pretending to hide from God and from their own Divine origins. Only those who are tired of this game will choose to stop playing it.

re: "People in this day and age want things instantly not maybe sometime in the future after 1000 lifetimes."

The above observation is true. However, there is no need to wait 1,000 lifetimes. We as microcosms have, in fact, already spent over 1,000 lifetimes just to get to this point in our development! The 'future' that you speak of is now here. Those who enter the Path in this life and begin the process of transmutation in this life have already achieved victory (see Victory At The Start). This is what sets the Path of the True Way apart from the pie-in-the-sky delaying tactics of common churchianity and 'paths of initiation'. Once your microcosm begins to undergo these changes, it is no longer completely earth-bound. Part of it is now composed of Divine ethers. Something immortal has entered the microcosmic system.

After the death of the personality of such a Candidate, the microcosm cannot go off to the reflection-sphere because it no longer vibrates in resonance with that realm. By way of analogy, once an ice cube begins to melt, it is no longer a cube. It cannot be placed back in the ice tray from which it came. The alchemical transformation that takes place within the Candidate, although interrupted by physical death, will have to be completed in another Realm, a realm set aside for the express purpose of housing those who have begun the Process while on earth. That realm is Shamballa, a vacuum of pure ethers that exists outside of and apart from the normal reflection-sphere.

This is why it is stated repeatedly that those who have taken even the first step on the Path of Return are blessed beyond measure, for they have assured themselves of never again having to take another turn on the Wheel of Death and Rebirth. Therefore, to paraphrase a verse from the Pistis Sophia:

"Rejoice and exult and add Joy to your Joy, for the times are completed for you to put on your Vesture, which hath been prepared for you from the Beginning, which you left behind in the Last Mystery until the time of its completion."

The 'time of completion' is now at hand.

~ g
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