This Only Happens Once A Year

Here in the States, the Thanksgiving holiday has arrived. The holiday used to be about giving thanks for family and life but has kind of morphed into an eating and shopping holiday. Not only that, but even before the turkey is in the oven, Christmas lights are being strung up and Christmas decorations are being placed on the lawn. Everyone is in a hurry to experience the Holy Trinity of holidays: Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year's.

During this time people try to be a little more accepting of one another, a little more giving. Strangers talk to one another. Yes, there are many who suffer during this time but for the most part it appears that the world really looks forward to year's end. People are generally happier, nicer, more pleasant.

Why is this so? It is because humanity is chasing Love, Freedom and Beauty in any form it can find. These few weeks at the end of the year afford humanity an opportunity to experience how 'good' life can be. It something that we rarely get to experience.  This makes the experience special as it "only happens once a year".

But why? Why only once a year? Why pull Love out of our Attic and dust it off for only a few weeks of the year? Why can't we be kind and loving to one another every day of the year? Why can't we celebrate God, Love and Brotherhood as a way of life? Why do we have to wait for the calendar to turn before we show our Hearts to mankind?

No answers today, just questions, as we prepare to experience yet another brief glimpse of what humanity could be, if we lived in Love every day.

~ g
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Don't Be This Guy

Figured it was time to re-post this, with some additions...

This post is dedicated to all of Humanity.

Friends, don't be the guy in the picture, stumbling blindly through earth-life, helplessly ricocheting like a pinball from one experience to the next but never knowing why.

Do not simply shrug your shoulders and respond to earth-life's challenges with the Mantra of the Foolish: "It is what it is". No, it is not. It is what you have made. It is what you have desired. It is what you have created.

Man, Woman, you must stop being spiritually lazy. You must resolve to find the answers to these burning questions:

"Who Am I?"
"Where Do I Come From?"
"Where Am I Going?"

Make it your One Desire to obtain answers to those core questions. Listen to your heart to separate the Truth from trickery. The Answers will not just fall out of the sky. You must make the effort to obtain those Answers. Then, because Like Attracts Like, those Answers will come to meet you halfway.

Look within for confirmation, not without. Strive to remember the Divine Purpose for which you were created. Work to locate the Golden Thread that leads to the Path of Return. Then follow that Path, without wavering, to final Liberation from this school / prison / tomb that Man, in his ignorance, calls "life".

To get Answers, you must Seek Answers.

Do the Work.

Don't be That Guy.

~ g
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What Is The Point?

We're born, we live, we die. What is the point?

Those who say that there is no point are not using the mental faculty that has been granted to them. They have a long road ahead of them.

Those who say that the point is to be 'good' enough to reach an eternal heaven where angels lead choirs backed by beautiful harps or seven virgins await, are being victimized by the misleading doctrines of the organized religions.

Those who hold that the point is to reincarnate over and over, improving spiritually with each successive life until they eventually become some sort of 'master' are also a bit off the mark.

Those who maintain that the point is to follow occult practices that extend the post-mortem state of the deceased so that he or she becomes some kind of a 'god' in the heaven-worlds are on their way to becoming archons, parasites who feed on humanity's energy in order to 'live'.

Okay, smart guy, you tell us. What is the point of our existence?

The point of our existence is to Remember, and then to Act.

We are to remember that within our life-system, in the region of the heart sanctuary, is a tiny Divine Atom, the last remnant of our prior Divine existence. This special Spirit-spark Atom contains within it everything that is required to transform the human-being back into its former Divine Self. We must first awaken this Atom and then allow it to begin its Divine fission, a gradual splitting that will slowly release its latent Power.

Our task is to subjugate the personality, surrender the self to this Process. We must hand over guidance and direction of the human life-system to the Divine part of us. If we can succeed in this process of Transformation - and we can - we will leave this physical world in which we have become imprisoned and effect a return to our True Home.

We speak here of a shift in consciousness, a change in vibration. Just as water turns to a vapor when a certain level of heat is applied, so will the physical human-being transform into something higher when the fire of the Divine Fission is allowed to run its course.

The point of our existence is to escape the sorrow of the earth-planes via the agency of Transfiguration.

The point is to return to our true Divine Home.

~ g
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The Inward Journey

You may want to take a look at this upcoming 5-part, weekly series of online presentations given by the School of the Golden Rosycross and hosted on Zoom. The next Inward Journey begins on Sunday, November 17, 2019.

No matter where you are in the world, you should be able to find a local start time for these one-hour presentations.

Each week one of these five questions will be asked and discussed:

Exploration 1           Why do we seek?

It is as if we are missing something; as if there is something fundamental that we lack. Efforts to fill this void are made on every level, and by every kind of person, from the most primitive to the most refined. On the primitive level, such efforts are manifested as the desire to gain possessions, or to satisfy one’s passions, or to ensure one’s personal security and material well being. In the more refined sense, it takes the form of striving for high ideals like freedom and perfection, or a life free of danger and conflict, or justice and harmony.

Exploration 2            Why do we exist?

The School of the Rosycross considers the human being’s only task to be: cooperation in a process that will make possible the rebirth of the original, divine Human Being. The primordial atom in the heart is the indestructible seed of this Human Being, from which the process of rebirth must begin. It is the primordial atom in the heart that arouses pre-remembrance and disquiet in the "I" human-being who, compared with the original, divine Human Being, is not much more than a caricature. Yet it is the I-being’s vocation to enable the rebirth of the original Human-Being. Our intelligence, our will, and even the very structure of our whole biological system bear witness to the hidden possibilities with which this task can be fulfilled

Exploration 3          Who are we?

When people use the words ‘human-being’, they often mean only the self, the I personality with its body and mind. But in reality the human system is much more than that. In fact, the human-being is a microcosm, a miniature world.

The microcosm is spherical and sevenfold. One can say that it comprises seven fields of existence rotating concentrically, one within the other, with the primordial atom as the central point.
So the being we normally think of as ‘man’ is only the mortal form or personality of a microcosm. The ‘human-being’ and the microcosm in this  state do not participate in the original Divine Plan; they live completely outside it.

Exploration 4           Can we really change?

The essential basis for finding and following this path lies in the center of your being, in the heart. This is the key to understanding the origin and purpose of your inner urge to seek. When this understanding of the meaning of human existence begins to dawn on you, you will see that, even now, in the midst of present day life, there really is a path that leads to liberation.

Exploration 5          Is a Spiritual Path possible in today’s life?

Yes ..absolutely.

Exploration 1:      November 17

Exploration 2:      November 24

Exploration 3:      December 1

Exploration 4:      December 8

Exploration 5:      December 15

Inward Journey Details

Enjoy the journey.

~ g
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To Walk In The Light

Recently, someone asked what does it mean to "walk in the Light"?

In esoteric language, "Light" is always a pure, high-frequency vibration originating from the Divine Realms. It is a frequency that is not-of-this-earth and is illuminating in its effects. "Illuminating" not in an intellectual sense but in a holistic, healing way. The candidate's entire life-system is gradually purified via its contact with this Divine energy. Purification means a rise in vibration and thus a change to a higher frequency takes place while the candidate bathes in this Light. 

Like Attracts Like. When the candidate lives a life of self-surrender and service-to-others in accordance with the Divine Plan, that person's life-system will resonate with the Divine vibration. He or she will be fed by "living waters" that will serve as spiritual nourishment and empowerment.

This Light is the heavenly "manna" that was symbolized in the story of Moses.

It is what The Christ spoke of when He said "I have food to eat of which you do not know". 

It is the Power that is preserved in the Treasury of Light mentioned in the Pistis Sophia.

It is the vibration that exists in the Thirteenth Aeon as well as in the Living Body of the Spiritual School.

Throughout history, all true mystery schools have had access to this Light and were able to make it available to their pupils. Via the principle of harmonic resonance, the Light frequency always adapts to the state-of-being of the candidate, so as not to overwhelm his or her life-system. As long as one remains linked to this Divine vibration through a humble and sincere dedication to the gnostic Path of Return, that one will "walk in the Light".

~ g
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Different, But The Same

The human race is suffering. We are suffering under the Delusion of Separateness. Long ages ago, in a higher cosmic domain, we were one life-wave, a harmonious unit composed of billions of entities. Endowed with complete freedom but all pulling for each other, all working towards the same goals. Due to an abuse of that freedom, a group of us slowly turned our focus inwards until all that we could behold was our self, our "I".

Once we began to see ourselves as "I" we also began to see "others". This is where the Delusion of Separateness took over. We learned to care for, love and protect the "I" at all costs while fearing all "others".

And now look at us. As it has been so often said, man is like an organism where each individual cell thinks that it is the boss. The human-being thinks that s/he is the most important part of the human race. Out of fear, s/he refuses to re-link with "others". We stay wrapped in our self-made cocoon, now as hardened and impenetrable as a bomb shelter. We refuse to cooperate with one another but are quick to fight. And so we have the chaotic nature-order that we have.

Can you imagine the liver not wanting to work with the spleen "just because"? Or the heart refusing to send blood to the lungs because the lungs "don't look like me"?

Look at the montage of faces above. All of those entities have two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two ears, eyebrows, hair...each one is completely different from the other, yet they are the same. Inside, their organs are the same. Their skeletal system is the same. They all have subtle bodies (etheric, astral, mental). They all share a common history. They, WE, all have a common Goal. What is it then, that makes us  "different"?

It is the Delusion of Separateness. It is the self-inflicted illness of "I"-centrality that has convinced humanity that we are "different" from each other and a threat to each other.

Why can we not see the insanity, the lunacy behind this delusion? It is so obvious that even a child could understand it. In fact, children do get it, because when very young, they will play with anyone, be friends with anyone until they become socialized and are taught that this one or that one is "different".

Mankind is a Unity gone astray. This condition  can only be rectified once we contemplate and accept the truth that we keep hiding from ourselves: that we are One, that we belong together and that we will work better together than we ever did when we were apart.

We. Are. One. When humanity learns to truly live by this Law, we will be able to take giant strides towards leaving this nature-order and returning to our Divine Home...in group formation.

~ g
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The Smallest Part of Evil

All symbols have more than one meaning and can be correctly interpreted in different ways. The Yin-Yang is one such symbol.

Yin-Yang can be interpreted as a symbol that shows mankind the inherent nature of this dualistic nature-order. So-called "good" (white area) and so-called "evil" (black area) co-exist in perfect balance, or at least they are supposed to. The dots of opposing color that appear within the white and black fields are there to symbolize that good is the smallest part of evil and that evil is the smallest part of good.

What does this mean?

How can "evil" be found in a "good" act and vice-versa? Easy. Cosmic law states that this duality that we live in must always maintain the balance that you see above. If anything happens to increase the influence of "good", the influence of "evil" decreases. This upsets the precarious balance between the two and so, "evil", or rather the forces in this world that support evil, will be moved to actions that will push back against "good", in order to regain its share of the pie, so to speak.

In effect, you have one action birthing its opposite as soon as it has been executed. 

What does this mean for mankind? It means that whatever "good" that we do in this world only maintains evil. The moment we do something "good" its opposite polarity, "evil", will respond. This can be a disappointing revelation. What do we do then? Do we stop performing acts of kindness? Do we cease all humanitarian efforts?

No, of course not. Man, driven by the Call of the Rose, even if unaware of that Call, will always try to do something to help his fellow-man. This pendulum of opposing forces was set in motion long ages ago and will be difficult to bring to a halt. It is recommended that we not attach ourselves to any act of "goodness". That is to say, we should not try to characterize or classify the "good" things we do as being "good". Do not do "good" in order to feel good about the act. Do what is right because it is the right thing to do. Attach no undue interest to the outcome or what the act may mean for your own personal growth.

Neutrality. Objectivity. Non-attachment. No judgement, no criticism. Cultivating these qualities is the way to still the Pendulum, to stop the incessant swinging between these two poles.

Yin-Yang can also be interpreted as illustrating the balance that should exist between Spirit and Matter. This is what we are trying to achieve as we walk the Path of Return: an absolute balance between that which is Divine and that which is Man.

Understanding this symbol and working to obtain the necessary balances are the keys to Victory.

~ g
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My Father's Business

"And He said to them, 'Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?'"

Apologies for being away for so long. It became necessary for this writer to assist in contacting our seeking brothers and sisters directly, to meet them where they are in the world. This requires planning and preparation, significant effort. Because there are only 24 hours in a day, something had to give. Unfortunately, that 'something' was the time formerly dedicated to this blog.

On the Path of Return, the quality of Non-Attachment is often referred to. We have to be able to gradually relinquish our attachment to the things of this world or else those earthly attachments will magnetically bind us to this world, making it harder for us to leave this nature-order behind and return to our True Eternal Home. And so, work on this blog was sacrificed in order that the Message could be brought to a physical audience.

Still, walking the Path also requires that we serve humanity in whatever way we can. Not with the aim of trying to improve the earthly lives of our brothers and sisters but to bring them the Insight and Light-power needed to make The Great Turnaround in their lives; to help those who Seek and those who do not to become aware of The One Goal of Humanity, of our True Purpose for living. Thus, this writer can no longer afford to abandon his duty and responsibility when it comes to this blog.

This writer posts only when inspired. However, Inspiration has never been a problem. Time became the problem. It is now time to find the time to do that which is necessary and that is to share the living water of the Gnosis with all who may travel this way - both in the physical world and in cyber-space.

~ g
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