"The Food Of The Gods"

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As we know, the reflection-sphere hierarchy is in great distress because their demand for light-force exceeds the supply of light-force being produced on the material-sphere.

All entities living in the material-sphere and, consequently, making use of a physical body, generate earthly light-force; which means that they transform the ethers which they themselves receive from the cosmic regions surrounding us. This transformation or transmutation of inter-cosmic light-force takes place through

- the blood,
- the internal secretions (hormones),
- the nerve fluid,
- the serpent-fire, and
- the consciousness fluid.

This light-force thus transformed by human-beings, both individually and in groups, constitutes 'the bread of life' for all of those who dwell in the reflection-sphere. The dwellers of the reflection-sphere themselves are unable to transmute inter-cosmic light-force for their own use, for the reason that they lack the necessary personality organism. They no longer have use of the indispensable physical body, since their densest vehicle consists of the etheric body. Therefore, if they wish to maintain the remains of their personality (g: astral body, mental body and perhaps a portion of the etheric double), they have to do this by absorbing light-power which is either put at their disposal voluntarily or is simply stolen by them.

All great religious, idealistic and occult groups in the material-sphere furnish their counterparts in the reflection-sphere, either voluntarily or involuntarily, practically all the light-power which they produce through their activities. Collectively, those who live in the physical life-field thus maintain a gigantic parasitical group in the reflection-sphere.

Now, what do we see developing in the practices of the present time?

We notice that in the past century, as a result of all kinds of terrible events which hit mankind so hard, a general decline of the religious and idealistic inclinations of the masses, and a widespread slackening of related activities. Humanity, to a considerable extent, is becoming 'realistic' and completely a-religious. By this we mean that, although  humanity holds a theoretical faith, as a sort of mystic decorum, this faith no longer has any concrete influence over them, nor does it lend any force to the life of the multitude, in the sense of its original purpose. The religious and idealistic tendencies have been completely diverted in a political, social and economic direction.

The churches are becoming nearly empty, and the light-force operations from the reflection-sphere, as applied to church-goers, do not give such a rich harvest as before. Idealism becomes more and more extinct; and practical idealism manifests itself in the form of contributions to various organizations. Moreover, these organizations, out of political considerations, are more than ever being taken over by the governments, who know that poverty and need breed revolution and revolutionary factions. This is why, at present, the general humanistic practices usually are not based on philanthropy, but prompted by purely matter-of-fact, 'realistic' considerations.

Now, as a result of all this, of which you are fully aware, humanity has brought about, either through individual activity or that of groups, a very great change in the transmutation processes of light-power.

The present transmutation processes produce excessive chemical-ether and life-ether and a very great amount of reflecting-ether of very dubious quality, but very, very little light-ether!

Here the reflecting-ether (or thought-ether) is only attracted and converted insofar as man needs it for projects of a grossly material nature, whilst the light-ether, which formerly was abundantly unleashed by religious, humanistic, and idealistic waves and mass movements, is now only attracted for the immediate maintenance of the body. Only the two lower ethers -- the chemical-ether and the life-ether -- which are to take care of the formation of creatures and things and their maintenance, are produced in sufficient quantity.

In view of this situation, we can now affirm with certainty that the dwellers of the reflection-sphere have no use for the two lower ethers, except those entities belonging to the lowest gradations of earth-bound beings (g: known as "shades"). But those entities have never yet had to complain about a lack of 'food' or the possibility to obtain it.

However, the light-ether and the pure reflecting-ether -- the so-called "higher" ethers -- are the ones that constitute the bread par excellence for the dead who desire to maintain themselves on yonder side, because the remains of their life-bodies, at the moment of passing, are composed of those ethers. Therefore, it is clear that when humanity, in the material-sphere, no longer supplies sufficient light-power composed of the two higher ethers, the entire reflection-sphere hierarchy and their vassals are brought to very great distress, compelling them to exert themselves to the utmost to reactivate the production of light-force, which is indispensable for maintaining themselves in the reflection-sphere.

Now, the Great Play that is to be performed finds its ground in this particularly deadly struggle for life.

From "The Shadow of the Coming Events" - Unmasking - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The human personality-system attracts and assimilates various ethers from the surrounding cosmos. This is one of the main functions of the chakras. The five fluids listed above and certain ductless glands also play key roles. What is required for the maintenance of the human personality is transmuted and retained. Anything in excess of that is thrown off from the body, or liberated. This excess portion of light-force is what Greek "mythology" referred to as ambrosia, the Food of the Gods.

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In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia (Greek: ἀμβροσία) is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods (or demigods), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumed it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves, so it may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth - Wikipedia
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