The Judas Signature

Slander and calumny are nothing new to The School. The School has been attacked since its inception. Often, these attacks are prosecuted by former pupils.

Most people know the story of Judas and how he betrayed Jesus. When Jesus indicated that one of the Twelve would betray him, all were astonished. “Surely, it is not I, Lord!” they all exclaimed.

Jesus identified the traitor-to-be as "the one who has dipped his hand in the bowl with Me". That man happened to be Judas. Sure enough, a few hours later, Judas gave the Saviour over to the centurions.

Judas, who acted as treasurer for the group, was all about money and earthly glory. He wanted Jesus to use His Divine powers to become a King on earth. Whereas, Jesus had to remind everyone that His "Kingdom" was not of this world. Judas turned on the Christ in the hope that it would goad Him into using His powers and establishing dominion over the ruling classes. Being money-hungry, he also didn't mind the thirty pieces of silver that was offered to him. We call this "the Judas Signature". Jan van Rijckenborgh wrote about it thusly:

"WE are also reminded of a certain enmity that can slumber in the pupil, too. This enmity can be, yes will be present, as the momentary astral consciousness in dialectical man possesses a natural and explainable enmity towards the Gnosis. The pupil can be either unconscious or only vaguely conscious of this because, for instance, the blood-state or karmic influence draws him to the Spiritual School and, consequently, to the Gnosis. Such a person could originally be very gnostically sensitive, having already sought contact with the School while still very young, but with respect to the necessary transformation of his astral consciousness he has as yet done nothing. The astral consciousness is then exactly the same as it was years ago. In this respect he is still as the cave man, the original natural man, perhaps fiery impassionate, whereas through a hereditary factor he has become a pupil of the Spiritual School. Then, by virtue of the astral consciousness he possesses at the same time interest towards the School and enmity to the Gnosis.

Enmity expresses itself first as a certain resentment, as displeasure or irritability because the School "interferes" too much in his life. If the School announces a certain arrangement for the good of the work, he feels irritated. Because of his pupilship he fights against this enmity for a long time and he considers these things with the help of trusted friends, who are adroitly drawn into a conversation. But the enmity grows. If you try to hold the astral consciousness in check, tensions develop and at a given moment, the storm breaks loose, just as in the highest heat sphere.

We see the same development when a pupil has come too much under the control of a group or power from the astral sphere. Then such a pupil, even if he or she is not fully conscious of it, is used every possible moment against the School and its pupils in order to check the work and, if possible, to damage it, to neutralize the harvest of the Brotherhood.

In this way, the 'power with the lion’s head' existing in the astral sphere of the nature-of-death, tries to imitate the Gnosis and distributes stones for bread with a lavish hand. If you have received a lot of this substitute bread in your astral consciousness, you imagine yourself to possess the Gnosis and you feel irritated when the School fails to recognize you.

From "Escape From Astral Bondage" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. I - Jan van Rijckenborgh

When a person joins the School but is only-playacting, eventually he or she will be found out. "Unmasked" is the word that fits here. No matter how much they outwardly pretend to be down for the School, inwardly their true nature simmers. Eventually, they will expose themselves by their actions. Tensions develop from trying to suppress their base material nature in a group where pure ethers are circulating. These tensions must lead to an explosion. 

In this way, imposters will expose themselves and quit the School. Having left the School, they will proceed to blame the School for their problems instead of recognizing that it was their own vibrational incompatibility that was to blame. Because they were unable to walk the Path with their "I" they try to tell others that the Path is a sham and does not exist. 

"Saint" Augustine showed this signature when he left the Manichaeans, a gnostic brotherhood of which he was a member for some time. When he couldn't bend those teachings to serve his earthly will, he left the group in anger, stating that "Never once did I see any evidence of two separately existing nature-orders". He then went on to become a champion for the orthodox Catholic Church and a staunch opponent of all Gnostics.

The Judas Signature is real and quite easy to detect. It comes with the territory, so it’s something that all true gnostic brotherhoods have learned to live with.

~ g
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