"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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Unmasking - The Parasites

Light-Spirits - the Parasites of the Reflection-Sphere

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When a man falls asleep, his personality is cleaved. The subtle part of his personality steps out, as people call it; in fact, things happen in quite the same way as during the condition of death. However, we must remark here that, when the personality is splitting upon the approach of the condition of sleep, the human consciousness is also splitting.

When a man sleeps and the material body lies stretched on the bed, the etheric double  floats some inches above the material body, whereas the other subtle parts of the personality can, if he so wishes, move more or less to and from the material body. This cleavage of the personality having taken effect, the human consciousness is cleaving also, as we have said. Therefore, the normal human sleeping-consciousness differs from the waking-consciousness. For, part of the waking-consciousness remains with the material body during the sleep. This part of the waking-consciousness then is in a more or less dreamless, unconscious condition.

Now, many people supposed that it would be possible to transfer the total consciousness to the subtle part of the personality during the condition of sleep. The reasoning was as follows: 'When we, on falling asleep, cause to 'step out' that which, during the waking-consciousness, we call our total consciousness, then the "I", when awakening, can bring back the complete result of the investigation in the hereafter and etch it on the brains.'.

In order to be able to do this, the whole material body must be trained for the purpose. To this end, a training of the brains will be necessary, especially a change in the cells of the brains. The entire central nervous system is to be subjected to a series of adjustments for, normally, the brains do transfer the pictures of the nightly life, which we call dreams, but generally it is not possible to make head or tail of them, as everybody knows: they are confused, senseless and extremely veiled.

Well, the whole of this training of all the vehicles of the personality, for the purpose of transferring the total consciousness to the subtle personality, lies at the basis of the science and the practices of occultism. But a man who subjects himself to these practices thereby brings himself in a very great danger, namely the danger of heavy crystallization of the personality; a crystallization which is much more intense than what is possible in a normal human life. As we have explained already, he firstly tries to make this body live much longer than normally would be possible, by influencing the organic processes in various ways.

The occultist literally strives after a prolongation of the dualistic state-of-life. He trains the entire personality, the subtle as well as the more dense part. Thus, his personality's factor of crystallization changes completely and it is absolutely contradictory to the dualistic, natural law.

This, in short, is the manner in which a part of mankind, unlawfully and contra-naturally, have created for themselves a life in the reflection-sphere, in the land beyond the veil. Of course, this unlawful, contra-natural half-life tries to maintain itself in the reflection-sphere. Just as people on the material side of our nature try to maintain themselves by all means, they try to maintain themselves on the other side of the veil also. These people believe themselves to be alive, to have reached their aim; they think they are citizens of heaven, but in reality, they are anomalies in the dualistic nature. For this reason, they are, and at the same time create, a deadly danger for that part of humanity who are still living on this side because, in order to be able to prolong their lives on the other side and to secure their existence there, they are obliged to constantly feed themselves with light-ether.

Now you will understand, especially after having read the above treatise, what a brotherhood of the reflection-sphere really is. It is a collection of entities who unlawfully maintain themselves in the reflection-sphere and who are extremely dangerous for the world and mankind in view of the unnaturalness of the forced prolongation of their existence and its consequent practices.

Now you will also understand what the hierarchy of the reflection-sphere brotherhoods is. It is a combine of such brotherhoods whose only basis is: need of self-maintenance. For, generally, there is a great animosity or rejection among the various groups. But when need be, they join and form one combine of interests. In our days, the danger threatens them that they will not be able to continue maintaining their lives in the reflection-sphere because of a growing lack of light-ether. That is the reason they are developing The Great Play, the play of the coming again of the Christ, in order to urge humanity into an increase of light-ether production for these hordes of parasites.

In The Shadow of the Coming Events (detailed in this series of posts), we indicated the whole of this play in its various aspects and, furthermore, outlined how it will begin and how its course will be.

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End Part II

From "Armageddon" - Part II of Unmasking - J van Rijckenborgh

After the death of the physical body, the etheric, astral and mental bodies survive for awhile in the reflection-sphere (what man considers to be 'heaven'). As the microcosm ascends withdraws from the physical plane, it sheds each vehicle, one at a time. The etheric is left to decay with the physical body while the soul withdraws to the astral plane. Here, it is purged of earthly desires and the astral body is discarded. the soul then moves on to the lower mental plane, where the same is done for the mental body. This leaves the causal body, which resides on the higher mental plane.

That is the normal process of "death" for the personality, which normally takes hundreds of earth years to complete. However, as stated above, throughout the ages, there have been humans who, during their incarnation, have learned how to delay this process of dissolution, in order to obtain for themselves a sort of "immortality" in the reflection-sphere. They hang on to their vehicles, stubbornly refusing to allow their personality to dissolve. Leeching light-ethers from humans who are in the physical body is the only way they can maintain themselves in this fashion.

These entities will do anything to maintain their existence. They know that the end of this cycle is near, and that because of the degeneracy of mankind that accompanies such ending-cycles, there is precious little light-ether to be found on earth (as opposed to, say, the Middle Ages, when the churches were packed).

Remember, what has been before, will be again. These things are known because they have been recorded from times past. This knowledge has been made available to us now in keeping with the ancient promise that, before the end of this major world-cycle "all that is hidden, will be revealed".

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