About Shamballa

The following is in response to a comment posted by andrew on 4/21/2014:

The Lectorium Rosicrucianum does not function in the reflection-sphere. The reflection-sphere is the last place that one will find a true brother of the RosyCross. With all the effort that is spent trying to warn mankind about the dangers of the reflection-sphere, there is no way that help of any sort would be extended to ailing humanity from that sphere. To do so would go against what we know to be true about this nature-order and its twin spheres.

If any entity approaches you from the reflection-sphere, even if he says he is God Himself, place no undue value or emphasis on the communication. The reflection-sphere is the realm of deception and illusion. Nothing truly divine could operate in that region. Yes, there are spirit-guides and invisible helpers and the like. But all of these entities are fallen entities, light-spirits, reflection-sphere phenomena. None of them have obtained Liberation and most of them do not know how. If they did, they wouldn't be hanging around in the reflection-sphere!

When a true brother or sister of the RosyCross transitions, their destination will be the Vacuum of Shamballa, not the reflection-sphere. Why? Because the awakening of the Divine Spark, combined with insight, yearning for salvation, self-surrender, a new attitude of life and a life of selfless service to humanity creates a vibrational change in the microcosm. The entity's soul-vehicles vibrate at too high a level to be attracted by any region of the reflection-sphere. Remember, like attracts like.

Communication between fallen humanity and those in Shamballa is not possible, at least not in the ways that man is accustomed to (i.e., dreams, apparitions, voices, etc.). Shamballa is composed of ethers that are not of this world. Physical humanity has not yet activated the sensory apparatus required to "see" Shamballa or its inhabitants. The only communication that that can be expected from Shamballa comes in the form of impressions that are sent out constantly into the world from its location somewhere in the Gobi Desert.

Shamballa is open to all who follow the fivefold gnostic Path, not just pupils of the LRC. The advantage of joining with LRC is that it provides those who are truly sincere with the ability to walk the Path aided by a gnostic power-field built up over the centuries by previous brotherhoods, such as the Essenes, the Manicheans and the Cathars. We refer to this power-field as the Thirteenth Aeon. With this aid, every step that the candidate takes is sure-footed and true. With perseverance and steadfastness, obstacles are overcome. All of this is provided through the agency of group unity, the Universal Brotherhood. Within this power-field, it is one for all and all for one. The strong will stand for the weak.

An additional note: although the Vacuum of Shamballa is centered in a physical location (the Gobi), it is not a material-sphere or reflection-sphere location, per se. It is more of a borderline between this Seventh Cosmic Domain and the Sixth Cosmic Domain, the Divine Kingdom. Therefore, its ethers are of a very subtle nature, more Divine than physical. This is why it is referred to as a vacuum, because there is a complete absence of material-sphere ethers present therein.

In order to be taken up into this realm the preparation of the etheric, astral and mental bodies has to begin here in the material-sphere during the physical life. After death, the physical body is of no more use ("flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven)"). At that time it is our soul-vehicles that must have been prepared and made ready for the Journey to Shamballa. That is what walking the Path is about, that is the purpose of the Path. And that is the mission of Lectorium Rosicrucianum. Linked to the New Field of Life, it provides a safe-haven of development for those who are sincerely ready to leave this world and never come back.

For more on the Vacuum of Shamballa, you may want to read The Brotherhood of Shamballa by Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Day-Life, Night-Life, New Life

A recent series of posts discussed why it is necessary for the candidate on the Path to ensure that his or her day-life is lived in a soul-directed manner. When the focus of our day-time activities are rooted in selfless service, non-conflict, non-judgment, non-criticism and genuine love for mankind the overall quality of the astral body is charged to a high vibratory level. Because like attracts like, upon falling asleep this level of vibration will enable the sincere candidate to enter the New Field of Life during the hours of sleep. Here, the astral body is bathed in the beneficent radiations of the gnostic Light. Recharged in this way, the candidate returns to waking life astrally strengthened, ready to serve humanity and execute the will of the Logos.

It is of extreme importance to live life in this manner, constantly aimed at the Gnosis. The day-life should lead one seamlessly into a sleep-life steeped in the New Field of Life, then back again to a waking life reinforced and rejuvenated in the Gnosis.

No one knows when his or her present journey here in physical manifestation will end. When our time arrives and we transition from the material-sphere, it is our vibration that will determine where we will go next. If we are earth-focused, we will head off to the natural reflection-sphere where dissolution of the personality and a return trip on the Wheel of Death and Rebirth await. Conversely, if we transition after awakening our Divine-Spark, having endeavored each day to build the New Soul Body, we will not head off to the ordinary reflection-sphere but will instead journey to a Realm of Light, prepared for those who find the Path and sincerely choose to walk that Path while in the physical. There will be no dissolution of the personality, no forced return to the material-sphere, only a continuation of the glorious process of Transfiguration that was begun while on earth.

In reality, our life on earth is a sort of dress rehearsal. Everything we do here, every thought, every act, every emotion will combine to determine our state-of-being at the moment of transition. It is critical that we begin walking the Path in earnest while in the physical, as Transfiguration requires that the candidate begin the process in possession of all of his or her vehicles: physical, etheric, astral and mental.

THIS is why your incarnation is so important. THIS is why life is so "precious". It is because you have only a few short earth-years to locate Truth, recognize it and, in faith and longing, use that Truth to awaken That Which Sleeps Within.

You have been afforded insight. You may even possibly possess a true yearning for salvation. What must now follow is self-surrender and a conscious, voluntary new attitude of life. These are four of the five steps of the fivefold gnostic Path.

The fifth and final step, is Liberation.  The key is to begin the process right here, right now. Make the fundamental reversal in your way of living. Go, "sell all that you have", and follow the Path that leads to True Life.

"In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Me, that where I am you may be also. You know where I am going and you know the Way"  John 14:2

"This is the guide that leads to Freedom: you must give up the body before it dies and overcome the life of conflict; then, if you have won that victory, you will return to the Highest" Corpus Hermeticum

May you be led to The Good End.

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The Vacuum Of Shamballa

We know that the Gnosis is a radiation that is not-of-this-world. Which begs the question, how can something that is outside of and apart from this nature-order, manifest itself in the world?

On the Other Side of the Veil, there is a Brotherhood of Souls, Pure Ones who once lived on earth but through self-surrender, faith and "not-being", managed to achieve Liberation. They have been freed from the wheel of death-and-rebirth and no longer have to take a physical body. They are not obligated to remain in these lower realms, but, in loving self-sacrifice, they remain with us in the etheric sand astral spheres.

Just as there is a single, divine spark within the heart of the human, there is also a Divine Oasis in the midst of this barren nature-order. This oasis acts as a vacuum, holding only pure, divine ethers; ethers not-of-this-world. The coarse vibrations of the dualistic nature-order are unable to penetrate this region. It is called the Vacuum of Shamballa, and it is located in the Gobi desert. It has also been known as The White Island, and The Imperishable Sacred Land.

Think of Shamballa as a container, a sort of "safe haven", like the diving bells used to transport divers to tremendous depths under water. Without the special atmosphere pumped into the diving bell, the diver would perish. Well, a similar principle applies to the Divine Oasis of Shamballa. If this safe-haven did not exist, those who seek to connect with the Divine Radiations would be unable to. Those who wished to begin walking The Path would not be able to, and those who transition while walking the Path would have no way  to continue their transformative work once beyond the veil.

Upon transition, the physical shell is discarded and disintegrates. This is so for all humans. However, for one who has lived in the light of the Gnosis, unlike the ordinary man, the consciousness and the remaining vehicles of the personality do not go to the reflection-sphere (the temporary "heaven-worlds"), but to Shamballa. There, the astral and etheric atmosphere is conducive to furthering the transformative activity already begun during earth-life.

As above, so below. Just as Shamballa exists as a "safe-haven" in the etheric planes, it is also true that the Brotherhood always sets up a Vacuum in the material-sphere. Groups of humans who are able to assimilate the Gnostic light-power are always to be found on earth. Humans of like vibration are drawn to these groups, via magnetic attraction. By remaining in touch with these earthly outposts, either physically or vibrationally, they can also be linked to Shamballa, and thereby linked to the Divine. In this way, "eternity is brought into time" so that souls can have an opportunity to be saved from this material dungeon.

It is our desire to walk the Path, coupled with the nature of our true state-of-being, that will lead us to the oasis. The condition of our astral body is the key to making contact. False attitudes, pretence, etc. will always be unmasked. One cannot fake their way along The Path, he will always be found out. God will not be mocked. So one should be certain that one has "counted the cost" before setting foot on The Path.

How do we begin to purify the condition of our astral bodies, which are currently soaking in the impure ethers of this material nature-order?

Gain Insight into the true nature of man and his purpose (The One Goal Of Humanity - 3 posts)

Yearn for a Return to the Divine Kingdom
Adopt a New Attitude of Life. Walk the talk, as they say.

Self-Surrender, place others before self. Allow The Other One within to increase, while the self diminishes.

If  pursued steadily, consistently, minute-by-minute, day-by-day, in honesty, piety and sincerity one can be certain that the narrow Path he or she is walking will lead them, as promised, to the glorious Vacuum of Shamballa.

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The Mystery Of The Gobi - Part I

The Last Remnant

[QUOTING]

Insofar as the Universal Brotherhood devotes itself to this world and fallen mankind, the centre of its activity is in the heart of the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. All the other foci of spiritual activity we have discussed with you in recent years, such as those of Australia, the Great Pyramid, the Pillars of Hercules on the southern slopes of the Atlas mountains, and the Himalayas, as well as various other activities of the Brotherhood such as those at the two poles, originate from and are guided by the true spiritual heart of the world in the most inaccessible part of the Gobi.

In reality the Gobi is not a sand desert but rather, a disconsolate, arid steppe region of, for us, immeasurable size. It is as unknown and far more inaccessible than for instance, the Gran Chaco of South America. Very few travelers have tried to penetrate into the heart of the Gobi. It is surrounded by loneliness and terror. With a few minor exceptions, there is no literature concerning this area and its mysteries. this is largely because the attention of spiritual speculators is directed towards more familiar parts of the globe. There is a well-known work by Marco Polo, written in the 13th century while he was held prisoner. Marco Polo travelled along the tea-route to China, part of which led through the Gobi. He wrote of the deep fear and holy veneration by which people living around the Gobi are possessed due to the large number of uncanny apparitions that occur there.

The cause of these spectral phenomena is quite clear to the gnostic. The planetary ethers in the Gobi are so transparent and so concentrated that the chemical and etheric spheres of the material world merge into each other almost unnoticeably. As a consequence, phenomena of the reflection-sphere become perceptive to the normal physical senses. This phenomenon has caused the deadly fear of the Gobi which has to this day ensured the total ignorance of the profane with regard to this area.

Yet, the Gobi has always played a part in the most ancient Universal Knowledge. From the beginning of duality, the heart of this area has been referred to as the Holy Land of the Sons of God. When the Bible and the initiates speak of the Holy Land of our planet, they certainly do not mean the region where the Arabs and Jews fight each other with Western arms.

All metaphysical impulses towards regeneration are sent forth from this heart of the world, to spread in rays all over the earth, and leave their tracks everywhere. The ingenious construction of the Great Pyramid, the wisdom and strength of the Manicheans and Cathars and the mission of the modern Rosycross are to be explained from this one source. The Order of the Siddha, the Universal Brotherhood, has its seat in this Holy Land.

Many legends have been woven around the Gobi, and fragments of bygone historical events have been used as the basis for mysterious tales. Through such tales, ancient wisdom tells us that once, long before the pre-Lemurian civilization, there was an extensive inland island sea where there are now only salt lakes and arid deserts. On twelve islands in the heart of this sea dwelt the "Last Remnant" of the Divine Race. These islands were of wonderful beauty. The divine inhabitants were also known as the "Sons of Will and Yoga" or as the "true Elohim, who were said to be masters of all mysteries of nature and to possess the unpronounceable Word, which is now lost. They knew the mysteries of the Original nature and preserve them for those who are ennobled to them.

This island realm still exists as an oasis in the Gobi. All those who know the secret Word are aware of this and have admittance there. It is impossible to find an ordinary way into the Gobi oasis. The whole region is carefully protected against alien intruders both from the land and from the air. There are only seven secret entrances, which are indicated in veiled terms as the seven subterranean passages to Shamballa.

It is our task to discuss these things with you and to inform you of the depths of all the wisdom mankind once possessed, for the time of revelation has come, and it is certainly not our intention, in the midst of the nervous tensions of our times, to deal with these holy matters in a few sentences so that by tomorrow they will have been forgotten again.

Long ago, it was prophesied that all that is hidden would one day be revealed; but it was also said that many false prophets would arise and we are warned not to believe every spirit, but to test them whether they really are of God. The Bible warns: "By this you know the spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus has come in the flesh is of God, but every spirit that does not confess this is not of God".

Whenever a great change is about to occur in the development of the world, the things hidden in God, the Absolute, are revealed and the whole of mankind is confronted with the life of absolute reality of the Immovable Kingdom.

This revelation, this unfolding, does not come primarily as a judgement, but as a call to resurrection, as a tremendous help to regeneration. Also, this revelation should not be seen as a public demonstration, but as a hardly bearable sacrifice of love by those who are dedicated to God, for us in our distress.

When this sacrifice is made, it will only be possible to recognize it as the spirit of God if it can be irrefutably connected with the confession that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This does not mean having some historical belief that 2,000 years ago someone called Jesus came into the flesh; it means the manifestation of the Jesus-realization and the Christ-radiation in your own being, in your own flesh, with scientific certainty and in perfect power, beauty and reality.

The revelations of the Last Times, which will preceded the Great Revolution, will give man a complete vision of the true life of Original mankind and will inevitable bring about the unmasking of all metaphysical speculators, both ecclesiastical and theological as well as philosophical. Also, they will confront everyone without exception with a decisive choice. So the time is no longer far away when everywhere people will speak with perplexity or veneration, with fear, rage or intense gratitude about the seven passages to Shamballa.

Mankind today is confronted with an intensely critical phase. The revelation of the coming times will therefore be of greater magnitude than ever before, because of the urgency of the situation. This revelation is intended to provide a basis for the rebirth of the greatest possible number of people.

All of us need to know once more the liberating, lost and forgotten Word. When the Bible speaks about the One Word of God, it does not mean a collection of mutilated or totally deformed manuscripts of greater or lesser value. First and foremost, we should understand it to mean: the one liberating Word which leads to Life; the Way, the method, the holy science leading to the universal life of the Immovable Kingdom.

The Universal Brotherhood, referred to in the Bible as the "Last Remnant", expresses itself in the Gobi oasis, which has been specially prepared for this purpose, cosmically, atmospherically and scientifically. If you consult your Bible and the sacred books of other peoples, you will find a great number of veiled stories concerning the "Last Remnant". It is said that the last remnants of ancient races were led away after all the others had perished. Taken literally, such information has always led to mystification.

The "Last Remnant" is a mystical term referring to those entities who are rising out of mankind's ordinary path of life by following the path to the Original Life. Those who belong to the Last Remnant are taken up into a new circle of existence; all others follow mankind's ordinary dualistic course, with its usual aspects, right to its ordinary destination in accordance with the laws of nature.

May it be given to all of you to plumb with us the depths of the "Abyss of Universal Knowledge" and may the Sons of Wisdom of the Hidden Holy Land lead all of you to rebirth.

The seven passages to Shamballa are being opened wide for you. You have only to enter. May the unpronounceable Word, the Word that is still lost, be revealed to you, now and for all eternity.

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From "The Brotherhood of Shamballa" - J. van Rijckenborgh, Catherose de Pietri
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The Bridge In The Desert

We live in a fallen, un-divine universe. The One Goal of Humanity is to leave this un-divine universe and return to the Divine Universe from which we have fallen. This begs the question: how can we do that if everything about this universe is fallen? Where is our divine life-raft? Where is our divine rope?

It begins in our hearts. Located in the upper right ventricle of the heart is a single divine atom, composed of divine substance. Long ages ago, when humanity "fell" into matter, this primordial atom was the only part of our divine heritage that we were able to carry with us. This atom sits in the geometric center of our microcosm, a spot that corresponds with the previously mentioned ventricle in the heart. We call this divine atom the "spirit-spark", or, the "rosebud". Fully open, it is a rose with seven petals, but this Rose is closed for so many men and women. However, when the rose-atom is touched by the gnosis, the Rose of the Heart will start to bloom, its petals will begin to unfold. This unfolding attracts more divine light, and will continue to do so as long as the candidate maintains the link.With the establishment of this link, the process of transfiguration -  the transformation of the soul - will have begun.

"But wait a minute!", one might say. "How can we attract more of what is divine if we are engulfed on all sides by what is un-divine? Where is this 'divine light' coming from?". This is a very good question. It is absolutely true that the divine cannot partake in what is un-divine. For one thing, the divine vibration is so strong, so powerful, that if it were to fully manifest itself in our fallen universe, all would be incinerated. We would immediately cease to exist. So, in order to reach the hearts of humanity, this divine energy must be 'stepped down' to a frequency that humanity can handle and safely respond to.

For this purpose, a group of souls set out to provide this service for mankind. They were to supply a location within this un-divine universe where the divine radiations, the gnosis, could be kept in close proximity to humanity. They were to act as a 'transformer station', a 'bridge' of sorts, between fallen humanity and the Divine Kingdom.

It took many ages to build this location in time-space. Primarily because there were precious few humans who were of a pure enough nature to attract these divine energies. But, as is evidenced by what happened 2,000 years ago, a location was indeed built. It started with one very special human being, then twelve, then five hundred, and so on, until today all can be assured that this Bridge exists. It has been built and it is fully functional. From a specific location on earth, members of the Universal Brotherhood constantly project divine, Christine rays, showering the entire world with a power that is not of this world. Without ceasing, they put forth The Call and patiently awaiting man's response.

Our response.

Once we respond to the call of the gnosis, our Rose opens and we are immediately linked to this divine field of life. From that point, we have available to us all the attributes and capabilities of the divine realms, but we must maintain our link by staying on The Path. This link serves as an umbilical cord of sorts, where etheric and astral energies can be delivered to us as we begin the process of transfiguring our microcosms.

The special entities spoken of earlier were able to construct and maintain this divine fortress within these undivine confines due to a massive group effort. They have managed to form a 'vacuum' of sorts, where a stepped-down radiation of the Divine Light may dwell.

We call this vacuum "the Vacuum of Shamballa". It's location: the Gobi Desert.

Next: The Sent Ones

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