The Power of the Divine Touch - Conclusion

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This twofold activity of the Divine Light is of enormous significance in your life. It is of such absolute significance that all of your life's experiences can be explained thereby. Every page in your book of life is written by these influences. It accounts for your particular situation as a pupil, as a worker, as a man or a woman, your relationship to others and to society. It is clear that you, as a pupil of the Spiritual School, open yourself to mighty activity of the twofold Light of God. Just as you reflect ordinary sunlight by a concave mirror and focus is thereby formed by the mirror, so is this School a focus for the Light of God.

To the extent to which this mirror is more finely polished, gradually yielding a better and better  focus, and the whole reflection system is constantly improved step by step, the spirit-spark atom within you will be moved, attracted and called with ever-increasing force. Simultaneously, and this is the second gift of the Spiritual School, the state of being moved and calling is explained to you, spelled out as it were. Thus the pupil knows what the infrared Divine Light requires of him, why it calls him and what it enables him to do.

Enable him? Certainly, and in a direct way, because the infrared Light of God is accompanied by the ultraviolet radiation potential. This means that the pupil willing to tread the paths of God discovers that the divine ultraviolet radiation removes all difficulties and barriers for him at the appropriate moment. This power of Christ clears the way for him, to such an extent that the pupil "need not trip over a single stone".

"He who calls you is faithful", as the Bible says, "and He will carry it through, too". Thus the call to the Path at the same time implies the possibility of treading it. Therefore, the prologue in John's Gospel states with great certainty:

"To all who receive Him, He gives the power to become children of God again".

Now you will understand why those who know about these things can state with certainty: the power of The Call is simultaneously the power that clears the way.

Let us now consider the case of the pupil who, by virtue of his pupilship and by virtue of his presence in the power-field of the School, is attracted and called with great intensity but is not prepared to break, who is not prepared to break with that which must be broken up and is not willing to abandon that which must be relinquished. In spite of all that is said to him, this pupil holds on tenaciously to a great deal of delusion which, in the course of many incarnations and by means of thoughts and feelings, has become a supposed reality to him.

What happens then? When a true pupil reacts harmoniously to the calling aspect, he likewise reacts harmoniously to the shattering aspect of the intervention of Christ. Then the Path will be smooth for him. However, should a pupil react harmoniously to the calling aspect, but not to the shattering one, then both influences will have a disharmonious effect in his life. This is obvious! Then a series of difficulties arises, fruitless efforts, endless worries, an inner strife, loneliness and sadness and the entire pit of vipers in which he is then ensnared. By no means are these afflictions caused by the Gnosis: we scourge ourselves with the whip of the dualistic zealot and in this state, there is no one that can help us, for we ourselves must break the scourge of the zealot.

An unbounded happiness awaits you! You are called to belong to the people of God but keep yourself here in pain and misery. Can you imagine a more unintelligent way of life?

You should not take these remarks as a sermon or as a call, because you have already been called a long, long time ago! Our call is but a very faint echo of Eternal Reality. No, we talk with you about these things because the time has come! The prophesying phase is over. The preparatory stage has passed. We have entered the period of realization! The multitude of those who wish to join this group -- and this word is spoken to those who can join -- should make haste for highly urgent, scientific reasons.

We have already mentioned that besides the twofold radiation of the solar-field of Christ there also exists a twofold radiation power of the dualistic nature. The infrared light of this nature attacks and breaks up everything that resists the "I". In this way duality develops: formation, flourishing and wasting away (rising, shining and fading), eating only to be eaten. So this natural radiation field exhibits a degenerative development, while the Radiation-Field of Christ causes an expanding, regenerative development. This means that the two fields are exposed to a change of vibration in mutual opposition: the distance between these two fields becomes greater and greater.

It is clear that a moment will come when an entity existing in one field cannot possibly cross over to the other. The difference between the two fields, originally fundamental and qualitative, ultimately becomes so great structurally, and the entities manifesting themselves in the two fields so different biologically that, from a certain moment on, a person belonging to the dualistic field can no longer reconcile himself, link himself to the field of Christ. Such a tragic situation always develops at the end of a period of mankind's history. It is clear that a person called by the field of Christ but clinging to duality cannot serve two masters: he will be broken away from the field of Christ; he does it to himself.

The time has come for this process of breaking away to take shape in the world: a great cleavage is building up. The word "Christ" will vanish from the lips of all those who do not belong to the field of Christ. They will be unmasked and recognized by all,

The remainder, the serious seekers as yet still have the choice in their own hands, if they but take leave resolutely and promptly of their own brokenness and fully entrust themselves to the Radiation Field of Christ. Then the song of the ancients will apply to them as well:

"Though you have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold."

"For He will give His angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone".

Pupils of the Rosycross, act intelligently: build upon the Everlasting Cornerstone rejected by the masons of this world, and thus celebrate with us, the coming Day of the Lord!

From "Christ, the Universal Source of Light and Power" - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Those who think that the fore-going is about "religion" are in danger of missing the boat. This is not about "religion", it is about a known process, a path of evolution known to the ancients, forgotten by modern man and now being revealed once more. The Path of Return is a living process in which certain organs of the physical body and the force-centers connected with them cooperate with ever-present Divine energies in order to transfigure the personality and liberate the microcosm.

Those who remain attached to duality, who cannot imagine ever leaving good ol' Earth, or discarding their beloved physical body, or releasing their emotional ties to people, places and things of this fallen world, will not be able to take the first step towards Liberation. Why is that so? Because even though the Remedy we seek is all around us, the power the Christine radiations cannot help us unless we choose to seek it out and open our hearts to it.

There are perhaps many who are not aware that such a great Cosmic power actually exists that can transform a human into an immortal. Well, for those who have read this, non-awareness is no longer possible. This writer can personally vouch for the existence and the efficiency of this process. What is left to you now is a decision. The Great Separation that is upon us will be a two-way split. Either we choose the New Life Field, or perish (as a personality, not as a microcosm) with the old. No middle-ground, no undecideds.

Mankind has reached the Gate of Choice. When the gate swings shut, may you be found on the side of New Life.

~ g
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The Power of the Divine Touch - Part I

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A new human race has been born in the world! A new people is emerging, the promised people, the people of the Lord, the people of God!

The prophesying stage with reference to this happening has now come to an end as we have entered the period of more or less extensive realization. This is why we no longer speak in an introductory sense, but must now explain the course of these events, so that you can take into account all relevant factors and integrate them into your life. This is how you should understand 'marching into the promised land'. It does not mean that you should change your place of residence, but that you prepare to form part of the new group of men and women! You will thus understand that there is much to discuss, consider and carefully study.

First of all, we have to broach an old subject discussed at length in our ranks by stating that Christ is not a hierophant of majestic stature residing somewhere outside the dense material world, but is first of all an impersonal, limitless Being, manifesting Himself as Light, as Power, as a mighty Radiation-Field. This radiation-field of Christ which has appeared among us, giving no rest or peace to this dark world-order, exerts a great influence, or rather, a whole series of influences.

Modern man is well aware of the fact that radiation invisible to the eye can exert such a great influence. In the medical world, in military technology and in many laboratories, experiments are now being conducted with invisible rays.

Well, there is a radiation that has a detaching effect, and there is a radiation that might be considered as drawing or attracting. The first group is called the ultraviolet and the second, infrared. The Radiation-Field of Christ, being complete in itself, contains a complete spectrum and can hence be envisioned as a Sun, an invisible Solar body, the radiation and influences of which must be both attaching and detaching. The following explanation may give you a picture of the agency of these two different, yet harmoniously interacting influences and forces of the Radiation-Field of Christ.

The attracting or infrared light of the Divine Sun touches you at a given moment. Now, when your heart-sanctuary is of a special nature, referred to in our philosophy as the nature of a spirit-spark entity, meaning that there is a spirit-spark atom in your right heart ventricle, then you will react to the attracting Light; in fact, you will be obliged to react. The ordinary consciousness does not know of this; the "I" will even spontaneously oppose it and give rise to various caricatural utterances; it will, however, together with your whole being, be dragged along in a torrent of reaction. The entire human being will thus be subjected to a whole series of experiences, due to the fact of having been struck by the infra-red light-wave of the Divine Sun. Millions of men and women in this world personally know these intense disquietings and the inexplicable experiences resulting from them.

The fact that man is literally attracted by this Light-wave explains why the mystical language speaks of 'calling'. This infrared impulse, this attracting Light is indeed a Call. You must know, however, that there is both an earthly, natural infrared and an infrared from the Divine Sun! When God calls you, He touches you with that Light!

If, when called, one does not feel this disquieting, the continuous inner tumult, one can be sure that it was not the Divine infrared by which one was struck. It was the calling of a purely dualistic influence in harmony with the ordinary I-being and in no way capable of touching the spirit-spark atom.

When we are called by the true spiritual Sun, and follow the call, we simultaneously have to leave something behind, because the attracting infrared is always accompanied by the detaching ultraviolet. This is the meaning of the words:

"Go, sell what you possess, and follow Me".

This is the meaning of 'cornerstone freemasonry'. Whoever wishes to build on the 'cornerstone' - the Light of the Divine Sun - must take into consideration both effects of this Light: the destructive and the constructive; both loss and gain!

END PART I

From "Christ, the Universal Source of Light and Power" - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Transfiguration, the process of transmutation by which man is converted from caterpillar to butterfly, is a real process. It is attainable by all who possess the spirit-spark atom within their hearts, the divine spark.

Because we are constantly surrounded by the Radiation-Field of the Christ, we are constantly being 'called'. However, if our divine-spark is closed off, still in the rosebud state, we will not react to this Call. It is only when we adopt the quality of faith and open ourselves up to this mighty, Divine Touch that the process can begin. The Rose will begin to open. We can then take our first tottering steps upon the Path of Return.

~ g
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** Unmasking **

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Impelled by the great seriousness of our present time and truly desiring to help mankind to the best  of our ability, we hereby send into the world a series of treatises doing away with the veils of appearances which, in this our illusioned existence, usually hide the reality of things from our eyes. They are intended as a serious warning and a helping guide for everyone who, on seeing the signs, in repentance and inner ripening, wishes to take account of his responsibility towards God and suffering humanity.

This publication, at places, speaks of a young gnostic Brotherhood and of the New Gnostic Kingdom which it established, an unassailable Tower of Light and Love as a help and a solace in this world of darkness and death. Though they are the reality from which we speak and witness, and they enable us to spread our Message of the Living Truth to all, we feel that here we should not explain the meaning thereof. We refer those readers, who are interested, to the extensive essays in the literature of the Modern Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross.

However, the full weight of the motives which induced us to this publication lies in the absolute necessity of voicing an urgent warning with regard to coming inevitabilities to which the blind course of life of this mankind has led; and of spectacular events in the near future which are narrowly connected herewith and mean an acute danger of extreme importance for the whole of humanity.

By this still early appeal, may many, many people be saved from the fatal grip of the coming Great Delusion and timely start on the Only Path of Liberation.

Introduction - Unmasking - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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There is going to be staged, in the near future, no more or no less than a staged Return of the Christ. The purpose of the massive charade is to steal light-power from humanity by fooling the masses to worship a false, manufactured, imitation of Christ. If you are not prepared for the events that are scheduled to take place, you will risk being taken in by the Great Play, which will appear unbelievably and stupendously real.

Unmasking was written in 1956 as a loving attempt to warn this generation of the deception that is being planned for humanity.

If anyone is interested in reading this book, send an email to brothergee2012@yahoo.com for the pdf.

Peace be unto you.

~ g
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Re: Self-Realization

Hopefully in reading the last two posts, the following did not pass by  un-noticed:

Original Man was a self-generating entity.

The import of this cannot be under-stated. The original microcosm, with its divine central nucleus, was able to generate a human form at will, when desired. This central principle has come to be known as the divine-spark. Although we are mortal, we still retain this divine spirit-spark atom, which is located in the mathematical center of our microcosm, a position which corresponds with the upper right ventricle of the physical human heart. This divine-spark, this dynamo of self-generation, retains all of the power that it possessed in the primordial past, prior to The Fall. However, this power has been closed off, buried, suppressed under the crushing, gross vibrations of the dense physical plane. We call this spark The Rosebud, to symbolize the potential of the Rose that sleeps within tightly closed petals, waiting for the Divine Sun to shine upon it.

It is our task, as temporary personalities, as image-bearers of the Original Man, to re-awaken this spark so that it can shine its Light anew. If we can fan this slumbering ember into a flame, if we can coax the Rosebud into blooming, we will be on the Path to returning this microcosm to the Original Man, the True Man. As we decrease, this Other One will increase. The power of the Rose will grow stronger until, at a given moment, the self-generating capacity that was its divine birthright will resume its activity.

Then the True Man will be re-born! The mortal personality will cease to exist, to be replaced by a glorified Personality of divine stature. And we, brothers and sisters, as our reward for accomplishing the Great Work, shall share in that glorification . For, by making it possible for the Other One to regain its former glory, we shall attain Eternity as well!

Just wanted to run that by you. Sometimes, these things get overlooked.

all love,

~ g
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The Soul And The Word - Part II

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" John 1:1

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There are two mighty faculties that are capable of turning your pupilship into candidateship, and that can lead you to victory. They do not need to be conferred upon you, they do not need to be introduced into your system, because they already belong to the system of your monad. However, you yourself  have to release them. Then they will lead you irresistibly to the Ultimate Goal. These two immortal faculties are to be found in the nucleus, the divine-spark of the microcosm. The first is what the prologue of the gospel according to John calls the Word. It is the divine idea, radiated by the Logos throughout eternity. The second is the radiation of the nucleus that corresponds to the divine idea.

By making the heart still, by withdrawing it from all conflict and causing it to enter a state of deep peace, you make the heart sanctuary open for the Soul, the harmonious influx of the light of the monad. When you are vivified by this light, there will be a number of wonderful results, and when these are manifested, one will be able to speak of pupilship in the true sense. Then it will be possible to speak, genuinely and literally, of a deep connection between the Soul and the personality. Then the foundation for restoration, the foundation for transfiguration, will have been laid.

And then the second faculty will be added: the Word. The throat chakra will then function in your system  in a new way and with an increasing intensity. The nerve-centre in your throat will concentrate the new light-power, which needs to be applied by means of the voice.

Consider this wonder: anyone who frees the basis-faculty, the new soul-state, within his being, surrendering the whole heart to the Gnosis and living out of that state, will gain a new, grandiose creative faculty: the Word, with the aid of which all the forces controlling the system can be applied or, if they are harmful, neutralized and eliminated.

Every pupil will receive these two faculties, if only you will withdraw from the conflict of the heart; if only you are willing to enter the profound peace of Bethlehem and eradicate the anarchy of the voice. If only you are willing to use your voice in the proper way, and to overcome the cry of the animal, then the new heaven-earth will open up for you in true, applied pupilship.

From "The Two Immortal Faculties" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis IV - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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This is where detachment and objectivity can assist in the process. By neutralizing our desires, our likes and dislikes, our preferences and our aversions, we still the heart, which is the center of our desire activity. This allows the subtle vibrations of the Gnosis to gain a foothold in the heart sanctuary, where the divine-spark resides. Unencumbered by the usual clang and rattle of our randomly-changing wishes and desires, our spirit-spark atom can finally respond to this divine touch and propel us onto the Path of Return.

~ g
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The Soul And The Word

Important information on the nature of the divine-spark and its function ~ g

[QUOTING]

"The Word is the image and the Soul of God, the Idea is the image of the Soul, and the Body is the image of the Idea" Corpus Hermeticum, Book Thirteen

In these words of Hermes, and all that follows in the thirteenth book, lies the key to Transfiguration, which has to be brought about  by the candidate in the gnostic mysteries himself with the aid of his two immortal faculties, the Soul and the Word.

We have discussed these two divine faculties and pointed out the way they can be awakened and unleashed. There is not a single entity who could walk the path of true liberation without them. To gain a clear understanding of the significance of these two faculties, you should begin by investigating the microcosm.

The mighty ideation-power of the Logos, the omnipresent and all-pervading One, projects itself into what we call "space". Space, as the true classical Rosicrucians state, is not empty: 'There is no empty space'. Space is filled with primordial substance. When the divine idea relating to God's plan for his creature, man, is radiated into space, the microcosm comes into being. You could think of a concentration of primordial substance, of atoms. Initially, the microcosm is the not-yet-embodied monad, a concentration of primordial substance formed as a result of a magnetic principle. The classical Rosicrucians sometimes called such a light-emitting principle a spark, the divine-spark. This spark is the nucleus of the monad, and from it a radiation emanates, which gives rise to a sevenfold rotation, a sevenfold magnetic field. With the radiation of this spark as its centre, the surrounding magnetic field then becomes a microcosmic field of creation. It is within this field that the great process of self-realization has to take place.

The time comes when a manifestation, a form, a body develops in the microcosmic field of creation. This manifestation is, to put it in hermetic language, the image, the sculpture, the expression of the vivifying radiation of the microcosmic nucleus (the divine-spark). This radiation is in keeping with the idea of the Logos. Hence the words of verse 26: The body is the image of the idea. The idea is manifested via the Soul, the Soul is manifested through the nuclear principle (the divine-spark), while the nucleus in turn is an image of the Godhead. And in verse 27 Hermes says:

"So the most subtle part of matter is the air or primordial substance, the most subtle part of the Soul is the Spirit, and the most subtle part of Spirit is God"

So, in the primordial past, millions and millions of years ago, man was a self-manifesting entity in the absolute sense of the word. Through the radiation of the nucleus of the monad, a glorious Personality was manifested in the creation-field of the monad as a pure image, a pure idea of the Godhead. This entity was equipped with mighty talents that enabled it to act and fulfill a task within the All.

But a group of these entities became involved in a process known as 'the Fall', a process we would like to discuss with you in more detail later. One of the results was that the bodies, the images of the divine idea, crystallized. The bodies became increasingly dense until finally the moment came when an incident occurred, involving the radiation of the divine-spark on the one hand and the crystallizing bodies on the other. In the end, it was no longer possible for this radiation to provide these bodies with sufficient energy. It was then that the process we know as death first appeared. The discarded crystallization were replaced by new manifestations, for the radiation of the divine-spark went on performing its task. Time and time again, a new form appeared in the microcosm. That is why there are myths which state that in the beginning, man was an androgynous being, a male-female being, a hermaphrodite.

"So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created them. Male and female He created them." Genesis 1:27

(g: and now you have the true meaning of the above verse from Genesis)

This condition could not last, however. A human projection that constantly functions in opposition to its nature will ultimately give rise to an intense conflict, and in this instance it could not be withstood by the radiation of the microcosmic nucleus. Thus it could no longer express itself in the personality, which, at that time lived much longer than it does now, and was almost entirely of an astral-etheric nature. When this incident between the radiation of the divine-spark and the increasingly solidifying personality reached its culmination, the separation of the sexes occurred, so that the personality could be maintained by means of sexual intercourse. From then on, the process of birth was necessary, and the relationships were reversed: disembodied, emptied microcosms were given the opportunity, through the birth of new personalities, to envelop the latter during their birth in nature so that, if at all possible, the age-old process could be restored and death could be abolished. So when a personality is born, it is simultaneously brought into contact with a microcosm. The aim of re-establishing this connection between the personality and microcosm is to restore the Original condition and to bring the Original, Immortal Human Being back into manifestation, in keeping with the idea of the microcosmic radiation.

End Part I

From "The Two Immortal Faculties" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis IV - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Man was once able to self-generate his form, via the agency of the divine-spark. As long as the body, the form, the image of the idea, remained aligned with the will of the Spirit, this self-generative process stayed in place and death, as we know it, was unknown.

When man became self-willed, and began to reject the promptings of the Spirit, the body, the image-bearer, began to interfere with the ability of the divine-spark to do its job. Eventually the divine-spark lost its effectiveness, which is what happens when any mechanism falls into disuse.

We are here today as personalities in yet another attempt by our microcosm to re-establish the original order of things. To do so, the divine-spark must be re-awakened. It is like a rusted generator in need of a little oil, or a burning ember in need of kindling and nurturing. To be successful in our appointed task, we must follow the appropriate steps of the Fivefold Universal Gnosis:

liberating insight,
yearning for salvation,
self-surrender, 
a new attitude of life and
resurrection in the New Field of Life

Only then will we be able to restore our microcosm to its former pristine Glory and once again consciously share in its Eternal Life. If we fail, the physical death process will be our only reward. This means another trip to the reflection-sphere where the present personality will be gradually dissolved and a new one inserted in its place to take up where we left off. The nature-born personalities may change, but the Tasks will remain the same:

Awakening of the divine-spark.
Transmutation of the personality.
Transfiguration of the body.
Final Liberation of the Spirit-Soul-Body tri-unity from its prison of Matter.

~ g
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Retraction

Decided to permanently retract the last post (Witness To Reality). This writer's back-story is not what is important here. Apologies for that piece of self-indulgence.

Prophet? Or Witness?

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Imagine that you witness a house being built from  an invisible substance; that you know for which purpose it is being built, and that you know who the inhabitants of that house will be, while we, due to our state-of-being, are unfamiliar with all these facts. You begin telling us about it while we existentially know nothing, see nothing, hear nothing of it. We would then either think you a fool or a dreamer, or, if we respect you, call you a prophet (of dualistic, not divine, calibre). Yet, what you tell us would not be a dualistic speculative prophecy , for you speak and state from reality. Just as you see these things from your reality, we do not see them from ours. From our reality, we cannot possibly see what you perceive.

A prophet as we have described him or her is not a speculator of the future but a witness of reality. Which reality do we mean here?

This reality: the New Magnetic Field of which we now emphatically speak, was once constructed over thousands of years. In the course of the ages, at the approaching of a time of Harvest, it must be animated anew, do its work and, when the harvest time has passed, it must, as it were, be drawn up again. Every spiritual school appearing in time prepares by its work, its diligence and its sacrifice, a part of that magnetic field, so that this field becomes more and more powerful, magnificent and dynamic.

In this present day of manifestation, the first brotherhood had the greatest difficulties, for it really had to do pioneer work. In order for the work to succeed, the brotherhood was formed from a great number of those sent forth (see: "The Sent Ones"), who had earlier achieved Liberation; it is the group alluded to as the Brotherhood of Shamballa. The second brotherhood was far better off, as it could continue to build upon the foundations laid by the first brotherhood and could, moreover, reckon on the help of this first pioneer brotherhood. The work went on like this till more recent times, which were marked by the appearance of Egyptian, Indian and Chinese brotherhoods, as well as the Essenes, Manicheans and other gnostics, and finally by the Druids, Cathars, the classical Rosicrucians of the seventeenth century and the Rosicrucians of modern times. Each of these groups contributed something to The Great Work. Each of them wove part of the seamless garment of Jesus Christ. Each of them prepared and cooperated with the Great Magnetic Field.

Now, if you understand something of this reality, are you then a  medium or an astrologer? Have so-called initiates  then suggested something to you? Are you then a  prophet in the negative sense? Or do you bear witness from your own scientific certainty? When you see the Seamless Garment being woven, when you observe a new magnetic purity gradually spreading its glory over the world and when you perceive that its dynamic powers are constantly increasing, is it then negatively prophetic to say: 'There will come a day when the results will reveal themselves and make themselves apparent'? When this day and that hour will be, 'nobody knows', so says the Bible, for there are always factors yet to be born. But he who understands, the seer, has this certainty: this glorious day will come! So, if you can accept these conclusions, you are placing yourself on the ground of a scientific reality.

It is therefore not prophetic speculation when the Confessio Fraternititatis says:

'One thing, o mortals, is established here by us, namely: that God has decided that before its end, the world will be presented with a stream of Truth, Light and Greatness, such as He ordained should accompany Adam in Paradise!'.

And when von Eckhartshausen repeatedly spoke of 'the re-erection of the Building' in the early 19th century, he spoke from a very deep, inner knowledge. He testified out of the revelation of the sons of God, out of the revelation of the Holy Spirit. He saw the Magnetic Field in development and knew that this Field touched him, that he was a part of it.

Each of us can now attain this same Knowledge, for the field of radiation which the ancient prophets mention, surrounds us all as a 'seamless garment'. It has now become so powerful, the glow of the New Era so intense that, when you open your microcosm to this touch, you immediately notice and experience this radiation-power, and immediately you enter the essence of both natures.

When you open your being, your microcosm, to this wondrous New Field of Life, then this radiation power will touch your heart atom, set your whole being aglow and lead you into a new process, a process of Transmutation and Transfiguration.
From The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

[END QUOTING]

The Gnosis cannot be learned, bequeathed or bestowed. It can only be experienced. It must first be sought. When found, it must be lived. The Path of Return, the Endura, Transmutation, Transfiguration, these forgotten realities are scoffed at by the man of the masses because the 'proof' he requires to believe in such things is lacking. The servants of the Gnosis do not offer man concrete evidence of the existence of a Divine Kingdom. How can a nature-order that is not-of-this-world be proven in this material world? We offer only Truth without proof. It is the man or woman who, depending upon their level of ability to "remember" will decide whether to grasp that slender thread of Truth and begin their walk to Freedom, or turn away dismissively, slamming the door shut on the reality of Eternal Life.

This writer speaks as a witness to Reality.

~ g
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An Interval Of Non-Time - Conclusion

[QUOTING]

To those of the human race who have turned themselves in to the will of God, the coming interval of non-time will literally expand into eternity. These individuals will be able to experience a lifetime or many lifetimes, in that eternity, while still retaining the option to return to their physical projections as transformed representatives of the Being of Life o n Earth. These will be our workers during the period of Planetary Awakening -- please, I hope you ones read this very carefully. Some of you cannot drift upon the currents but must come quickly into Knowledge.

Others, not so finely tuned to the Forces that will be released at that time, will feel great surges of energy, lasting for an indeterminate period. Some few will experience intense fear and many, dear ones, shall die. Everything in physical form at this time, every soul in every kingdom, will feel something, something incredible, something that according to all the laws of physics ever known or ever to be discovered, could never happen. But there it will be before all senses; an impossible fact, like the babe in the manger, like the unmistakable feeling in your heart, an incredible vibration of Truth and Love, shimmering, scintillating, awakening every nerve, every capillary, every cell of your planetary body.

Whether the individual form identity reading these words right now will be a surviving participant in that event depends upon that with which you identify and how gracefully you are able to align yourself with God's creative definition. If you can identify with the flow of Life though your essential Planetary Being and release all subjective definitions of who you think you are, you will be able to play your part most joyously in the birthday celebration.  God's definition of you in form is much greater than you could possibly imagine for yourself. During this present period of Individual Awakening, the first of three creative periods, you are being given the opportunity to embrace this true definition as the cornerstone of your existence.

On the morning of Creation, you will recognize the Unified Collective Consciousness of all Humankind as your own true identity. You will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are the bridge between Spirit and Matter, between Creator and Creation, between Life and the forms through which Life flows. If you release the definitions that Matter has set upon you, this is the definition that the Creator will bestow, the definition of Christ Himself!

At this time in your experience, most of you are simply not yet ready to enter into a closer working relationship with us but we will prepare you, during the coming years of revolutions of your planet around the Sun for the time when your collective vibrational patterns are such that we can blend with them on a very large scale.

We are still experimenting with various ways and means of accomplishing our task of awakening but with the increasing ease of direct informational exchange (g: the internet) our work within the currents of your history will probably subside. We hope it will not be necessary to shake you out of your exclusive past-future oriented focus on form through any of the cataclysmic events foretold in your various prophecies. We will use these if we must in order to preserve the biosphere of this planet but if you follow through on the information we are clarifying, there is no reason why we should have to resort to such extreme measures. Through these transmission and many others like them throughout the Earth, we are supplying you with more than enough information to enable you to restore your own equilibrium.

We are allowing a certain amount of ecological destruction to take place without direct interference because such destruction may help to precipitate a voluntary and cooperative return to a pre-Fall state. You must come to understand that you structure these things yourself and not of outside doing. This would be far more meaningful than a Return that is forced upon you. A self-initiated awakening  will really enhance your ability to restore Earth's ecological harmony. Consequently, we are confining our help as much as it is possible to the providing of information and to the development of conceptual clarity.

Meanwhile, there are many among you who will, as time passes, experience one by one the necessary psychological transformation and enter into a conscious working relationship with those of us in a state of grace. May we abide together, you and us, that clarity becomes our focus and ability to comprehend is granted through the grace of Creator. It is a joy to share in this wondrous experience upon the waves of the universe. Salu.

Hatonn to stand-by.

From "An Interval of Non-Time" Chapter 19, Phoenix Journal #21 (1990) - Hatonn transmitting

[END QUOTING]

Although our inter-planetary brothers are awaiting the time when they will be able, once again, to work closely in the physical with humanity, it is important to remember that mankind has work to do. Nothing will be done for man during this ending-cycle. We must prepare ourselves. We must make the choice to re-align our focus away from the material. We must do the work of de-activating our I-being and purifying our fourfold personality vehicle. Individually and collectively, a portion of humanity can and will celebrate the Birth of a New World. However, in order to be assured of inclusion in the New Race, the individual must endeavor to find out what is required and to then do what is necessary.

~ g
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An Interval Of Non-Time

[QUOTING]

When the universe reaches a point of maximum expansion, a unique phenomenon will take place. There will be a moment when all laws necessary for the creative maintenance of physical matter and all materializing processes become suspended. Due to the relative velocities of the various star systems, this event will not be experienced simultaneously in all parts of the universe, but will travel as a wave across the sea of creation.

Existing within this ripple of non-time will be the focused conscious attention of the Creator. As It passes through the material realms, It will stay and take up residence in all life forms with circuitry capable of mirroring Its essence. This is the moment when the Creator will slip inside Creation; the moment for which we are trying to prepare you.

This is the much-misunderstood "Second Coming of Christianity". It is the event that primitive civilizations have looked forward to as "the return of the gods". The Mayans went so far as to pinpoint its actual occurrence in what you would call the year 2011 A.D. Yet, while many of your traditions hint at what is about to transpire, none of them have adequately conveyed the magnitude of impact such an event will have.  Indeed, no single conceptual structure is capable of conveying the enormity of what is soon to take place. What is actually happening requires all of biological life to convey its meaning.

Words can symbolize this but hardly portray it fully enough to stand alone. If you would know the deepest Truth of scripture, look not to words but to the great momentum of spirit within your own soul. This is where the living history is being made. In a way that would be impossible for your rational intellect to comprehend, this forthcoming event is human history. The sum total of all that has happened on your planet is but the shadow cast before.

In a very real sense, you have not yet been born. You are still in an embryonic state. You have yet to receive the touch of God's total definition. Through the long years of human history on Earth, your species has been forming the cells that are to comprise the directive aspect  of the physical body of the Creator within Creation. Gestation upon this planet has but set the stage for the emergence of the Planetary Being now taking definite form. This Planetary Being is actually "who you are".

You are living in the shadow of an event not yet taken place.

What you have considered to be history, or, in other terms, the evolution of the species, is only what you have been able to observe through the distorted medium of a fragmented and quite subjective intelligence, trapped within the past-future orientation of linear time. From such a perspective, the act of Creation could appear as a progressive, sequential process. To the extent that you are able to identify with the spirit that gives you consciousness however, it becomes a much simpler matter: you have yet to arrive. You are still "on your way", so to speak. Sitting there reading these words is only a reflection of your unconscious totality as it prepares to become fully revealed on the Day of Awakening.

Your real life will begin when the Creator gives you His definition in form. When the Father's center merges with the center of the Earth, the collectivity of human consciousness will awaken to a unified field identity. You will be born. After that, the influence of Matter will not affect your consciousness as dominantly as it did during the historical gestation period. The Earth will continue to suckle the species for another thousand years before you are capable of going off on your own, but even during that period, the Father's influence will be much greater than it is today.

As a collective event, the moment of birth is still a generation away (g: written in November 1990). But individually speaking, this event transcends the limits of space and time and is, in fact, already under way. Your individual birth will take place at the precise moment in linear time when you stop struggling with your rational fear-patterns and let yourself go in the divine dance of Inner Direction. You must decide whether you are going to accept the inevitable in a state of love and prepare yourself accordingly, or hold on in fear until the bitter end. Ultimately, these are the only two avenues of response. By the linear time this event has taken place, humanity will be polarized  according to these two adaptive patterns. All will be decidedly in one camp or another.

From "An Interval of Non-Time" Chapter 19, Phoenix Journal #21 (1990) - Hatonn transmitting

[END QUOTING]

Humanity has reached the Great Turning Point. All that has gone before, millions of years of involution, have served to prepare mankind for this interval of non-time, this Great Moment of Awakening, where Creation pauses prior to commencing its upward, evolutionary arc. This Great Moment is now upon us.

Prepare Ye.

~ g
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"Blessed Are..."

[QUOTING]

"Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom on Heaven"

'And seeing the multitudes, Jesus went up on the mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to Him'.

As you know, the Sermon on the Mount begins this way. We find this Sermon in the Gospel according to Matthew but also, in various forms, in the Holy Scriptures of all times. Even though the place and time and the Holy Personages who proclaimed it varied considerably, its meaning did not. The mountain is a magnificent symbol illustrating the Path leading from the darkness to the Light. The base of the mountain is planted firmly in the earth;  the peak rises into heaven. Therefore, it is clear that such a mountain, from whose peak the word of Liberation shall be heard is, above all else, a symbol of the sevenfold Living Body of a gnostic development.

Jesus the Lord, the exalted One, the perfect One, the liberated Brother who addresses the multitude present in the Living Body is in fact preparing to speak to his disciples. One meaning of the word 'disciple' is 'younger one'. Therefore, the Sermon on the Mount is intended for all those who have started their course upon the True Path and who are still the younger ones with regard to the liberated older ones. Thus, the Sermon on the Mount is of great importance for all those who are present in the Living Body of our young gnostic Brotherhood. We find there the outline of an attitude of life which will invariably lead to The Great Aim.

This important address opens with a glorious consolation, with the 'Beatitudes'. As many as nine times it is said: 'Blessed are'. Not 'blessed shall be',  but 'blessed are'. Blessedness is a state of the greatest happiness, a true state of liberation. There are many younger ones in a gnostic Body. They are on their way to the House of the Father and even as they are on their way, they are greeted with the nine times repeated 'Blessed are...', where the emphasis is placed on 'are'. The mere fact of them being in the living Body of the School as serious pupils renders their liberation a reality. Now this is what characterizes the gnostic life. It does not produce supreme happiness, but it is happiness, it is blessedness.

Therefore, and the world history of the gnostics bears this out fully, a gnostic is and always was a cheerful and happy being, no matter what befell him in the nature-of-death. His sense of security is not instilled in him by the power of suggestion, as a person may be brain-washed by psycho-analysis with a 'you are happy', but it is the certainty derived from the experience of: "I am on my way, and while I advance on the Path, the Light comes to meet me; it enters into me; it will never more leave me, neither by day or night. The Rose blooms; it gives off its sweet fragrance. Because of this, I am going to walk the Path of Roses, upon which the Light attracts me and is my guide".

Should not the one who has such an experience be happy? How could such a one ever be really harmed in going his way through the depths of difficulty of these times? All of us, without exception, can gain consciousness from these experiences this very second. The only condition is that you begin to seek for the Light, to crave for the Light, out of real inner need and with your entire being. Not by willing or thinking, or with feelings of sentimentality, but with a craving that proceeds from your blood state, with an urge to which all the organs of your intelligence must be subservient. Then the first Beatitude: 'Blessed are those who crave for the Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven' becomes a reality for you. From that instant on, the mansions of the New Realm are opened wide for you.

Come to the Light. Delay no longer. Partake of the Fire -- and be free.

From  "The Mystery of the Beatitudes" by Jan van Ricjkenborgh

[END QUOTING]

In Unity,

~ g
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An Average Human Life Cycle - Part II

When the newly-deceased re-enters the reflection-sphere, it find itself in the astral realms, often called The Desire World. This is the region of desire. The microcosm still has the use of:

- the two higher ethers of the vital body (reflecting and light ethers)
- the astral, or desire body
- the mental body

Even without a physical body, the human personality is still in close proximity to the physical world. The entity can't smell, hear, or taste as humans do, because it no longer has the use of those physical organs. However, it can sense the vibrations that result from human activities like eating, drinking, smoking, sex, etc. As mentioned before, the newly-dead are the same in nature as they were in physical life. With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that some find it hard to detach themselves from the lure of physical sensation. These ones tend to hang around the lower regions of the Desire World, looking to latch on to humans who may afford them an opportunity to bask in certain vibrations.

For example, one who smoked may hang around humans who are heavy smokers, in order to try and satisfy its craving for a cigarette. Newly-dead alcoholics tend to hang around saloons and bars. They cannot drink, but if they can get close enough, they can share in the vibratory thrill that the human drinkers are enjoying.

Imagine seeing the thing that you most desired in life but being unable to taste it, smell it, touch it. To have a strong desire without the ability to satisfy it is an accurate description of hell.

Purgatory

The journey through the reflection-sphere starts from below-upwards. In order to progress along this part of the cycle, the entity must raise its vibration to match the vibratory level of the next highest region. The longer the entity remains in the lower regions of the Desire World, chasing after physical sensation, the longer it will take for it to move on in its post-incarnation journey. The entity must purge itself of these lower desires before it will be allowed to move on.

For this reason, the lower regions of the Desire World are known as purgatory. The length of time one spends here is entirely dependent upon how long it takes one to turn away from the physical. This could take anywhere from a few weeks to a few years to decades for the most stubborn ones.

The "Heavens"

Everyone gets the "heaven" they deserve.  A devout Christian will be led to a huge cathedral of extraordinary beauty and construction. The Moslem will be led to a magnificent, bejeweled mosque, the Jew to a well-apportioned temple. For the a-religious, their "heaven" will consist of whatever it was in life that was most important to them. Sports, music, art, science, philosophy, anything that one fancies, they will be able to experience to the ultimate in the higher regions of the Desire World. These are the "eternal" heavens that were preached about while the entity was in the physical. It's all well and good, except for one significant detail -- it is nowhere near to being "eternal".

The stay in the higher regions of the Desire World is only temporary. At some point, the soul must discard its astral body and ascend to the region known as the World of Thought. Problems arise when souls resist this process and attempt to prolong their stay in the Desire World region of the reflection-sphere. In fact, this problem is real and exists right now, as the astral realms have been bottle-necked for some time by entities that have refused to move on with the process of dissolution. They don't want to give up their astral bodies. They want to remain in their "heaven-world" and avoid what's next: a temporary stay in the next higher region, the World of Thought, followed by the eventual loss of the mental body. At that point, the personality has been dissolved. The "you" that was, has ceased to exist. All that is left is the emptied microcosm with the accumulated experiences of the past life of you, the now-dissolved personality.

So, eternal life in the hereafter, the carrot-and-stick ploy of the churches, mosques and temples is really a sham, a lie. There is no eternal heaven in this nature-order, because this is a temporary universe, an emergency-order. There is no "forever" here, just cycle after cycle after cycle after cycle. The true Divine Kingdom cannot be created on earth, nor can it be found in the reflection-sphere. It exists within, yet outside of, this temporary, dualistic nature-order, and can only be found if one answers the call of the Gnosis. Going the Path of Return is the only way to stop this endless cycle of death-rebirth-death-rebirth and regain true Eternal Life.

The purpose of posting this information is not to provide practical knowledge about "the other side" so that you can better navigate the after-death experience. This sort of occult knowledge, although interesting,will not help one to move one inch closer to true freedom. In fact, it can only serve to bind one that much more closely to duality. Besides, only the barest outline of what takes place in the reflection-sphere has been touched upon here. There's some unsavory stuff that has been omitted, as this writer does not wish to completely ruin your day.

No, the purpose of these posts was to try and demonstrate that the after-death experience is only TEMPORARY. It is only the other side of the two-sided, physical / non-physical spheres of duality. Inevitably, eventually, the microcosm will have to construct a new personality to return to the physical world and attempt, yet again, to obtain the one goal of humanity.

Liberation.

~ g
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An Average Human Life Cycle

The above is a depiction of an average human life cycle, from entry into the material world, through physical life and the regions of the reflection-sphere, culminating in a return to the material-world. A thousand years is more or less the norm for average humanity. More advanced entities complete this cycle in 700 years.

Birth And Maturity

To trace this cycle, we begin from the lower right, where it reads "Birth of Physical Body". Growth then progresses in increments of 7 years.

Years 1 thru 7 - the physical body matures to a point where it comes under the control of the young human.

Years 7 thru 14 - the vital body matures, as evidenced by rapid growth

Years 14 thru 21 - the desire body is born and matures (now you have an idea of why teenagers can be so emotional)

Year 21 - the birth of the mental body, the Mind (this is why 21 is the "true age of maturity". Not 15, 16, 18 or any of the other arbitrary and erroneous legal definitions humanity has come up with).

It is said that when we reach the age of 21, our life circumstances are more or less set up as they were when we left our last incarnation. In essence, age 21 is the point where we "take up where we left off" in our past life. This marker can give one a good idea of what their state-of-being was like in their previous incarnation. All vehicles have matured and are ready for use in navigating the new incarnation.

The rest of the physical life-cycle depicted in the material world section of the diagram can be followed fairly easily. It is interesting to note that the "Prime of Mentality" - the maturation of the mental body - does not occur until age 49. We can point to the evidence of the countless mistakes humans make during their twenties, thirties and forties as proof of this.

Death

Upon the laying down of the physical body, note where the diagram calls for SILENCE!. This is because it takes approximately 72 hours for the recently-transitioned entity to undergo its life-review. This is the famous "I-saw-my-life-flash-before-my-eyes" phenomena that people who have had near-death experiences always relate to us. Because their "silver cord" did not snap, they were never deceased, just damn close. Thus, their life-review is quick and fleeting. Upon permanent transition (evidenced by the severance of the "silver cord"), the entity gets the opportunity to review the life just lived in detail - in reverse. This is done so that the entity can see the effects that resulted from the causes he or she put in motion during the life just ended.

This is the reason why it is important to not grieve the passing of loved ones with great weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. The "dearly-departed" individual, although bereft of a physical body, is still in possession of his vital, desire and mental bodies. He or she can still see and hear everything that is going on in the physical world. The entity's heart goes out to those who are mourning, for he aches to tell them that he is okay, but is unable to communicate this from his new location beyond the veil. The hysterics of loved ones serve only to distract the recently-transitioned and does not allow them to concentrate fully upon their life-review. The life-review process is critical for the entity to collect the "fruits" of his or her experience in the physical. Therefore, as a rule and if at all possible, the physical body should be left alone for at least 72 hours before any funerary preparations begin.

Do not waste your tears when a loved one departs. Number one - they are perfectly fine. Number two - they are still watching us. Do you know what happens when you die? Nothing, that's what. There may be small period of unconsciousness as the remaining vehicles withdraw from the physical body, rendering it lifeless. You then become aware of being outside of your body and able to view its lifeless condition. You don't sprout wings, you don't become a great angel. You remain essentially the same as you were five minutes ago, when you still had a physical body! You are the same person, with the same habits, likes, dislikes, prejudices, desires, etc. The only thing that is different is that you no longer have an ability to express these things in the physical world.

You will be able to view your own funeral. You will be able to know what people truly felt about you in the life just passed. This may be a pleasant experience or one that is tough to swallow, depending on how you treated others during physical life. There is a possibility that you will be greeted by familiar ones who have already departed. Usually these ones are sent to help the newly-deceased acclimate himself to his new environment. You'd be surprised how many entities refuse to believe that they are "dead". Everything appears the same except for the fact that the physical human beings are no longer seeing or responding to the deceased. There is also a possibility that you may be greeted by some slightly more, shall we say, unsavory characters, or even downright imposters. This will be discussed later.

One other thing: once you have crossed the border to the other side of the veil, you are no longer in the material-world. You are back in the reflection-sphere, where, as can be seen in the diagram, the human entity spends most of its life-cycle. The proverbial "dip into matter" is just that, a dip. The so-called dead are not in "heaven" or any closer to The Divine or "eternal life" than they were in the life just lived. They are still prisoners of duality. They have simply transitioned to another state-of-being within this nature-order. The realm of the reflection-sphere is where the process of dissolution takes place, where the human microcosm is emptied. This will also be discussed later.

We'll pause at this point and resume in the next post.

~ g
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The Two Universes

This is the point of departure. This is where it all begins. This is a major stone in the foundation of the doctrine of liberation. The following will attempt to provide a simplified explanation of this important key-stone:

There exists two separate and distinct universes, each composed of billions of stars and galaxies.

These two universes are diametrically-opposed.

The Original Universe is Divine, Eternal, Never-Changing.

The fallen universe is undivine, temporary, ever-changing.

The Original Universe is a universe of Absolutes.

The fallen universe is one of relativity, of polar opposites, of duality.

The Original Universe IS.

The undivine universe is a reflection, a modified copy of the Original.

The Original Universe reigns in the Sixth Cosmic Sphere, the cosmic astral plane.

The fallen universe occupies the Seventh Cosmic Sphere - the lowest - the cosmic physical plane.

Both universes exist within the same space. It is not a question of the Original Universe being "up there" while the fallen universe is "down here". Both universes exist simultaneously and inter-penetrate one another. If you do not believe that this is possible, remember that even man's primitive science has established that the atom is composed of mostly empty space. This means that you are mostly empty space. Your sense organs are only able to perceive the apparent "solidity" of the human figure and other material objects, because this is what they were designed to do. This is part of the  "illusion".

That said, the Universal Doctrine holds that "there is no empty space". Therefore, we know that something else can, and does, exist in the spaces between our atoms. There are other atoms, composed of different materials, that we are unable to detect with our human senses. In order to become aware of the Original, Divine Universe, we must first develop the proper sense organs. We must "tune" to that station in order to "hear" its broadcast.

The human life-wave once experienced in the Original, Divine Universe, wielding great powers, working in harmony with the impulses of The Absolute. However, a segment of this life-wave began to speculate with their powers and ultimately mis-used them. This resulted in a portion of that life-wave no longer vibrating in harmony with the Sixth Cosmic Sphere, the Divine Universe. Because they were essentially eternal beings, they could not die, but due to their fallen state, they could no longer remain in the Divine Realms.

In an act of Supreme Mercy, a location was set aside in the Seventh Cosmic Sphere (the cosmic physical plane) for this portion of the human life-wave to experience in. The physical plane vibration was more in line with the vibration of these fallen entities. This is how the fallen universe - the emergency-order - came to be. That is where fallen humanity was exiled.

The eternal portion of the human entity, the Divine-Spark or Spirit-Spark Atom, lies imprisoned in the human microcosm. Its location - the upper right venticle of the human heart. It is the only remnant of our Divine heritage. But it lies dormant, unresponsive to the Eternal Call. Only when we awaken the Rosebud will we have any chance of answering the Call and perhaps, of beginning our journey Home. In the meantime, we are born and we die, repeatedly. We suffer life after life of sorrow, tragedy, pain and lack of fulfillment. That is the nature of this fallen, temporary universe. It was purposely designed to be so. The object was to not allow us to "get comfortable" here, but to batter the mortal soul mercilessly with sorrow until it cried out for Salvation, for freedom from the Wheel of Death-and-Rebirth. Only then can the Rose of the Heart begin to stir, and finally respond to The Divine Call.

The creation story found in the Book of Genesis symbolically documents the creation of this fallen universe. The story of Adam and Eve outlines how humanity fell from the Original Universe. These primordial tales, many millions of years old, have been mis-interpreted and mis-applied by this generation of humanity, due to Ignorance, lack of Knowledge and cunning, behind-the-scenes shenanigans.

If one cannot understand and accept the foregoing, or if one refuses to do so, then one will remain in delusion. If one cannot accept that his present location in Time is different from his former location in Eternity, one will remain lost. If one does not come to the realization that this is not "home" and that one must yearn with all of one's heart, to be shown the Path back to the Divine Kingdom - the Original Universe, then that one remains a prisoner.

If one cannot accept the fact that there are two universes (divine and undivine), and that man "lives" quarantined in the undivine universe, that one remains in darkness, and will not be able to take even the tiniest step towards liberation until he or she begins to seek True Knowledge.

This seeking will only occur once the human entity is thoroughly and completely disgusted, disenchanted, beaten and broken by repeated turns on the Wheel. It is at that lowest point, that nadir, when nothing can any longer be found in the world worthy of desire, that the spell of the delusion can be broken, and the Divine Spark within the human entity can be contacted. It is then that the words which are key to liberation can be voiced:

"Not my will, but Thine, be done".

It all begins with realizing our predicament, acknowledging that we are in a predicament, and voluntarily making the decision to no longer participate in the predicament.

Wake up, if you can. Wake up.

~ g
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Delusion-Pain-Rebirth

[QUOTING]

The human consciousness is quite definitely not in harmony with the divine idea. The Universal wisdom teaches that at the very centre of the human consciousness is a profound delusion - the delusion of separation, the delusion of a separate self, which exists in isolation from every other self, and in isolation from God.

This delusion is like a congenital disease with which we are all born, and which we hand down from generation to generation.

Our whole physiological structure, and the whole process of human development, from babyhood to adulthood, is aimed at the production of this delusional self, this self, separated from all other selves. And the whole process of education and child-rearing is geared towards intensifying and cultivating that delusion of separation.

So the human consciousness is a consciousness based on delusion. It creates around it a world of experience, but that world, too, must be delusion, because it is born of delusion! And that delusional experience, in turn, conditions the consciousness. So we live, if you like, in a dream world.

We only think we are awake, but in reality we are asleep, dreaming our shared dream, participating in our communal delusion.

But - and this is the great blessing - the current of the divine idea does not leave us alone in our delusion. As we said before, it keeps on acting in a corrective way, bringing whatever is not in harmony with it back to its starting point, so as to give the deviant creation a new chance to unfold in the right way.

Now just think of this, for a moment, in terms of your own life. As a creature whose consciousness is, through no fault of your own, based on a delusion, you keep on acting in ways which are not in harmony with the divine idea. You can’t help doing that; you just do it automatically, because of the state of your consciousness.

And the result is that you keep on attracting experiences that bring you back to your starting point in one way or another. Everything you do, everything you touch, unfolds along a course which becomes more and more painfully familiar - the course of rising, shining and fading; the course of growth, maturity and decay. And what is the result of that? Suffering! Untold human suffering.

Is that all, then? Are suffering and death all we can hope for as human beings? How do we escape from this vicious circle?

Well, as human beings, with very inventive minds, we use all kinds of palliatives, don’t we, to dull that pain and suffering, even if only for a few moments. We have our televisions and our analgesics, our holidays and our stress management techniques, our meditation and our visualisation and all those things. But do we realise that all these palliatives may only be prolonging our pain in the long run?

We want to diverge, just for a moment, to give you an analogy, so that you can see more easily what we mean.

The disease of leprosy is often used in the Universal wisdom as a very apt symbol for the whole human condition. Now did you know that the main symptom of leprosy is the inability to feel pain?

And did you know that it is precisely because of the leper’s inability to feel pain that his body deteriorates in the horrible way so characteristic of the disease? The leper feels no pain, so when he hurts his foot, or something like that, he will take no action to protect his foot from any further harm. And in this way, as time goes by, he does irreparable damage to his body - without even knowing how it happened!

It is the same with our pain. The pain we feel when the realities of life do not measure up to our dreams is not an enemy to be avoided or destroyed, but our best friend.

Without the ability to feel that pain, we damage and mutilate our souls. So we should befriend that pain; we should welcome it, and trust that it will lead us in the right direction.

For what can happen then?

Well, that pain can bring us to a point - not of despair, exactly - but a point of inner quietness that results from knowing that there is nothing more we can do, no more tears left to cry, no more blood left to shed, and in that quietness we let go, for a moment, of our I-central hold on our consciousness. We KNOW for certain that, in our own strength, we can do nothing.

Our consciousness, with all its conditioning, with all the techniques and knowledge it has accumulated over the years, can do nothing. And as that awareness fills us, it is as if a kind of ‘trap-door’ opens in our hearts, and the heart is at last able to send out a steady, clear distress signal, an SOS, a cry of yearning for help, for relief, for salvation, without any interference from the ego.

And that sure signal will certainly be answered. The heart has sent out a pure cry of yearning; it has given voice to its holy desire, its holy thirst, and for once, the human consciousness, with all its techniques and palliatives, has not tried to quench the heart’s thirst with vinegar, but, has remained silent. And in that silence, only four, simple words are heard: ‘Thy will be done’.

And in the silence, the love, the power of the divine idea can reach the heart and help it! The heart can enter the stream of the divine idea, and be carried along by its current.

And if this state of pure yearning for salvation persists, then, in time, it will have consequences.

The pure, divine forces drawn into the system in response to the heart’s pure yearning will feed the consciousness in a new way. The consciousness will no longer be fed only on the dust and ashes available in this world of delusion.

And when the consciousness receives that new, holy food, it is bound to change, and if the consciousness changes, the whole body must follow, for the blood, the nervous system, the hormones and so on are bound to be affected. And if the whole process of thinking and desiring is changed in such a radical way, the quality of the experiences attracted by our thoughts and desires is bound to change also.

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The Divine Heart of the Microcosm : The Awakening of the Heart - Lectorium Rosicrucianum - www.goldenrosycross.org

About Truth

Hermes:

It is impossible for a human being, an imperfect creature, to presume to speak about truth, since he is composed of imperfect members and, with regards to his sheath, is constituted of an assemblage of foreign bodies. But what is possible and correct to say, I will say: namely that Truth only exists in eternal bodies, the elements of which are also true: in fire, which is once and forever fire and nothing else; in earth, which is once and forever earth and nothing else; in air, which is once and forever air and nothing else; in water, which is once and forever water and nothing else.

Our bodies, on the other hand, are composed from all these elements together; they contain fire, and also earth, and furthermore water and air; yet they are neither fire, nor earth, nor water, nor air, nor anything whatsoever that is True.

If then, from the beginning, Truth is foreign to the physical constitution, how shall it behold or express Truth? It will only be able to understand Truth if God wills.

The things of this earth are not the Truth, but the imitations of Truth; and not all are even that, but only a few of them. The rest are lies and error; illusion which only consists of phantoms. When, however, such an illusion receives an influx from above, it becomes a replica of the Truth. Without this superior influence it remains a lie, an untruth. It is the same with a portrait that is an image of a body: the painting is not the body it represents. It has eyes , but they see nothing, ears, but they hear nothing. The painting also shows all the other parts, but it is all an illusion that deceives the sight of the observers. They think they see the Truth whereas reality is a mere lie.

I think and I proclaim that everything is illusion and delusion.

One must think and proclaim things as they are: on earth, there is nothing True. This is true, that here, below, there is no truth. And how is that possible? Truth is the supreme magnificence, the absolute Good which is not obscured by matter, nor encompassed by a body. Truth is the naked, luminous, unassailable, exalted, immutable Good.

Things which are here below are unable to receive this Good. For they are perishable, subject to suffering, soluble, mutable, forever changing, passing from form to form. How could these things be the Truth, since they are in themselves not true? Everything that changes is illusion, because it does not remain in its essence, but passes from form to form and thus presents new appearances all the time.

What then, may we call true?

The Sun alone can be called True. While everything else changes, the Sun does not. That is the reason the Sun is entrusted to give form to everything in the world, to reign over and create everything.

Then what is the primordial Truth?

The One and Only - He who is not made of matter, nor exists in a body; who has neither color, nor form, who changes not, nor is changed, but who always IS.

Corpus Hermeticum - Book 17 - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis - Jan Van Rijckenborgh

The Key That Solves All Problems

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If ever there was a hermetic text that conveyed the full reality of the manifested life, then that is the sixteenth book of the Corpus Hermeticum. It shows so very clearly how very many forces there are at work in bodies manifesting themselves in the nature-of-death. But alas, all these forces and their effects arise from the mortal body, and that is why they are, and will always remain, cut off from any truly divine genesis.

Generally speaking, people experience the results of ungodly life with deep sorrow. The countless efforts they make to escape this fate are desperate and tragic. Most people today have no knowledge of the key that would enable them to solve all of their problems, even though that key is in their possession. Because the moment you entrust yourself to the soul, the course of your life will be changed, for when the soul enters a mortal body, its activating forces have the effect of putting the body back on the road to true genesis.

Without soul-power, man is like an irrational animal. His only guides are instinct and desire: instincts he cannot control and desires that drive him. However, as soon as the soul takes over the guidance of his life, instinct and desire are converted into power and motion capable of bringing the Hidden Man to birth. We need to learn that the soul is an eternal and intelligent being, having for thought its own reason.

The soul, present in the microcosm, is always and unchangeably linked with the Spirit with God. When it leaves the natural body, it is free and independent, and belongs to the divine world. But it always maintains a link with the natural body so that, if insight dawns on the nature-born being and he decides to change his approach to life, the possibility will always be there for the union of the soul and body to be realized. If, as a nature-born human being, you follow the path of the New Way of Life, the Path on which the Rosebud can open, the attributes of the soul will be able to manifest themselves because, as Hermes says: It is characteristic of the soul to confer on others something of its own essence.

So there are two forms of life in the microcosm: the life of the soul and the life of this nature. And isn't it strange that the high, noble life of the soul is innate in all microcosms, while in those same microcosms, a natural life is lived that is not in the least in harmony with the soul? Isn't it disturbing to think that the Divine and the most unworthy form of life should be enclosed in one and the same microcosm? But that is how it is with most people, and are you not struck by the enormity of the situation?

The soul is indeed incorporeal, since it does not form part of the physical body. If the soul were to have a body, it would have neither reason, nor thoughts.

This does not mean that the soul has no higher reason. Its reason is indeed high, and divine, with a true cognitive faculty at its disposal. No, it is the body which is totally lacking in reason and cognitive ability, according to Hermes.

There are probably lots of people who would not agree with Hermes on this point. But hermetic philosophy makes clear that the activity of the physical brain can certainly not be described as 'reason'. Hermes says that unless the human being is over-shadowed by the soul, he is 'without reason'. Look around you, and you will see the truth of this. Whether you consider individuals or societies, human behavior makes Hermes' words alarmingly clear. The human being only achieves real reason and intelligence when the soul enters the head sanctuary. Only then can the true cognitive faculty be born.

We have the power of choice; we are able to choose either the best or, in spite of ourselves, the worst. The choice of evil approximates to the physical nature. That is why fate rules the one whose choice it is.

The soul is very near to you; it is in your microcosm. You are capable of uniting with that true, higher self in obedience and self-surrender. If you do not...then your life will be ruled by the fate of the nature-of-death. Surely, the choice is not a difficult one to make?

"The Key That Solves All Problems" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. IV - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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We are by no means complete. We are a natural, physical manifestation, a biological phenomenom, severed from the soul which was meant to guide us. Stubbornly, we refuse to allow the soul entry as we insist upon stumbling about in arrogant, blind delusion.

The key to reversing the course of our lives lies in being able to surrender control of the physical body to the soul. Then, we will no longer be chickens without heads, scurrying about in confusion. We will be soul-men and women, ready to walk the Path of Return.

Ready to embrace Liberation.

~ g.

The Third Nature

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The struggling pupil on the Path who has not yet transcended the nature-birth and thus still stands in the nature-of-death, is constantly in danger of being victimized and deluded by the strange, sinister and capricious interplay of opposites. He is full of problems and questions, and hardly a moment passes without him demanding some sort of solution or answer. This pupil, the seeker you know so well, is protected in the midst of these great dangers by the light of the Gnosis. The true seeker, whose whole way of life is focused on the Path, is always overshadowed by the Gnosis.

The pupil who perseveres in the New Way of Life and does not forsake the Path is accompanied by the Living Soul. This companionship becomes ever more clear, ever more positive, ever more permanent until finally a firm bond is formed which exercises a powerful influence on the serpent-fire column (the consciousness fluid present in the spinal column). Only the living Soul, the Soul united with the Spirit, can truly help, heal, and liberate you, and when it does, it will demonstrate its presence throughout your being. Anyone who possesses this "staff of Mercury" is strong, and he will overcome. Those who do not yet possess it are weak, mortal beings wandering and stumbling in darkness.

Even if the Soul is not able to speak or is not yet sufficiently awake, the serious pupil who perseveres on the Path is always helped by the universal Gnosis, not only as regards to his soul, but also as regards his personality.

If you want to understand these things, you should always bear in mind that the Soul and the personality are very different in nature. The Soul has to incline itself towards the personality which is in and of this nature-of-death, and the personality has to incline itself towards the Soul, which is of the nature of Life. The central issue of gnostic alchemy, the great problem of the inner grades, is that the Soul and the personality must first incline towards each other; then they must meet, then they must fuse; then transfiguration has come about, and finally liberation itself.

So this fivefold process means that, particularly in the beginning, a new basis must be found and constructed; a basis for working in and with two natures that do not belong to each other and which absolutely cannot and may not go together, because the personality must merge into the Soul-nature. This new basis of work, especially in the early stages, in fact constitutes a third nature. It is through this nature that the liberating life can be reached, and the Great Mission accomplished.

Information about this Third Nature is needed by every pupil. On the one hand, there is the nature of Life, and on the other, the nature-of-death. In the power of the nature of Life the candidate begins his path and dissociates himself from the nature-of-death. In-between is the temporary Third Nature, which is neither one nor the other. This Third Nature is referred to in practical terms as "the Path", and it brings with it a totally different psychological condition.

Imagine that you now decide to follow the Path, or that some time ago, or a long time ago (as in a previous incarnation), you decided to do so. It is not a path that automatically connects the two extremes of the nature-of-death and the nature of Life, but it can form a link between the two. Then, from the very first second, you form for yourself a Third Nature. The Path is not there, you have to make it yourself. There is no such thing as an official, explored Third Nature. You must bring this nature to life yourself; you yourself must forge the way. If anyone says to you: 'Show me the Path. Then I will decide whether I want to follow it', you will not be able to answer, or at least, not in a direct way, because your path is your own path, your own Third Nature, and you cannot take anyone with you on it. The Third Nature begins where you begin, and is manifested where you are manifested, as a true pupil.

However, what is possible and indeed desirable, what in fact could almost be called essential, is that, as a group, working together in total surrender, brotherly love and non-conflict, we form a collective Third Nature -  an Ark, a Celestial Ship, or Living Body. The better the Ark is constructed, the more it measures up to what is required, the more the Third Nature adapts itself to the Living Nature, the faster and better your Path will unfold. So while, in theory, every pupil follows his Path autonomously, calling his own Third Nature into being, in practice going together is of the greatest importance, and is in keeping with Divine Law.

You know the commandment: 'Love God above everything'. It is because of this law that your concentration on the Divine Goal opens for you. But the law also goes on to say: 'Love your neighbor as yourself'. If your pupilship is genuine, and your Third Nature is in the process of manifesting itself, you will be filled not only with love for God, but also for His creature. If you keep moving forwards and upwards, the love that is in you will compel you to serve your neighbor with your most absolute love.

Then, group-unity will be no problem. The way of Life and universal Love is the key to gnostic pupilship. This Love is, and must begin with: non-conflict. If you are willing to enter into that, the Third Nature will open for you, and for the first time, you will really be in the group, in the Celestial Ship, which is the group's Third Nature. Then, for the pupil and the group alike, the Third Nature will have become a reality. And you will be able to experience its presence anywhere, the moment you direct your attention to God, that is, to the Gnosis, or Shamballa.

Now let us consider what happens if, as a person born of nature, belonging to the nature-of-death, you decide to make it your goal to reach the Original Life-Field, Shamballa. You not only take this decision mentally and emotionally, but you also prove it, by adopting a new attitude to life. If you do so, you invoke the power of God, which is omnipresent. As a result of that power, a certain activity starts to make itself felt in your personal astral field. The effects of this are transferred from the astral to the etheric, and from the etheric to the material body. In this way, a manifestation, a creation, comes into being within and around you. This creation stands entirely in the Goodness, Love and Wisdom which is God. And that is how the Divine Trinity becomes a reality, in a direct and clearly manifested way. The Invisible becomes visible in and through Its creation, in Its creature, in a way that is totally in keeping with the creature's state-of-being.

That is why the manifestation of the Third Nature is always changing, for when the pupil progresses and Soul and personality are united once again, under the shadow of the hermetic wings, the Third Nature will manifest itself in a different way. For the Creator always accompanies His creature, until the Good End is reached.

"The Third Nature" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. IV - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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This nature-of-death and the nature of Life, the Divine Kingdom, are two separate and diametrically opposed life-fields. Thus, we need a Third Nature to act as a bridge over the chasm that separates these two fields of manifestation. Those who have gone before us on the Path have constructed Shamballa, the Third Nature for all those who have passed beyond the veil while walking the Path. Each of us must construct our own Third Nature, while in the physical, in order to link ourselves to the power-field of Shamballa

The Path is not simply mystical, occult dream-nonsense. It is a living process which, if made into the primary focus of one's physical incarnation, will deliver that one out of the nature-of-death and safely back into the Divine Kingdom.

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The Pearl Of Great Price

Tribulations, pole shifts, mass landings of spaceships, electro-magnetic pulses, nuclear war, photon belts, "ascension". These are the things that have been associated with the coming end of the Age. For the most part, people are looking for ways preserve themselves and to somehow survive whatever catastrophe is coming.

Six years ago, this writer started this blog in a search for answers. What could we expect? What should we do to prepare? Could we survive what was on the horizon? All sources were examined. Comparisons were made. Scenarios were presented. All was investigation. All was speculation. For indeed, how could one really know?

Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the Pole Shift. This writer discovered the Gnosis. His spirit-spark was ignited. It turns out that the events of these times are not unique, they are cyclical. This is not the first time that mankind has faced a New Beginning, only the latest. Not only was the end of the Age a cyclical occurrence, but a necessary cleansing, as well. Whenever the human condition becomes too polluted, it must be dissolved, re-cycled and started afresh in a new Day of Manifestation.

Why does the human condition become polluted? It is due to wrong-thinking, wrong-feeling and the erroneous use of the will by humanity. When man chooses to go against the fundamental designs of the Logos, when man chooses to not seek the Gnosis, that man, as a personality, will be erased from the microcosm so that the microcosm can generate a new personality. This is the reason for physical death. Why? Because the microcosm is driven to seek and find the Pearl Of Great Price. That "pearl" is the spirit-spark atom that resides in the upper right ventricle of the heart. This divine spark must be awakened so that the True Heavenly Man can be re-born. Beginning this process is the absolute one goal of humanity. It is the reason for why we are here.

The End of the Age and the phenomena surrounding it cannot be stopped. The earth and her inhabitants will be re-cycled. What is important is that we become aware of our True Purpose before the trumpet sounds. If we are successful, we can join the Remnant that is now assembling on the shore. These ones will be brought to safety. This is so because it has always been so.

If we as personalities do not begin walking the Path now, another will have to take our place in order to do it at some far-distant, future time. There is no avoiding this. It is the One Purpose of human manifestation.

This is why the focus of this blog changed so radically a couple of years ago. The search for answers had turned up the Gnosis. Once known, all other natural speculations were answered. All else pales in comparison. The words of the parable finally make sense:

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like the merchant who was seeking good pearls. And when he had found one costly pearl, he went and sold everything he had, and bought it" Matthew 13 : 45-46

Seek first the Gnosis, the spirit-spark within, and all else will be added unto you.

~ g
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The Lightless Prison

It is important to understand that aeons do not force humans to think or act in a certain way. In this nature-order, the human entity always, always has free choice. The old truism states:

"Aeons impel, they do not compel".

The fact that humanity is bombarded by aeonic influences every minute of every day does not absolve us of  responsibility for our thoughts and actions. We cannot use the excuse that "the devil made me do it". In the end, we choose what influences we will respond to, and how.

Weakness or addiction are also invalid as excuses. A weakness for a particular sensation is a karmic or  hereditary challenge that the human entity has to overcome during its incarnation. Aeons will always exploit the path of least resistance in the personality. In other words, if there are "weak spots", in your character, whether emotional or mental, you can be sure that those weak spots will be probed, attacked and stimulated by aeonic forces, until you are impelled to either react or suppress a response.

Suppressing a response is only a temporary solution. The weak spot still exists. All you've done is bury it for a time - like those carnival games of "Whack-A-Mole", where every time you hit a mole, it pops up in another hole. This is what humanity struggles with in the fallen nature-of-death every second of every day.

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Evil is in everyone; it is inherent in the personality. It can command you and it will command you, and unfortunately you will find satisfaction in it as long as you act out of your blood culture. Unless you make every effort to undergo a very radical change, you will remain in this situation which pulls you down and keeps you down.

So man finds himself in the state of captivity described by Paul in Romans 7: 'By virtue of the light that touches me, I turn towards the light and definitely want to do what is good, but the power existing in my blood dominates me, and consequently, I do what is evil'

How can one escape from the grip of one's own blood-type and the ensuing clouding of the consciousness? Hermes' answer is:

"... do not allow yourself to be carried along by the violence of the stream, but let those among you who are able to reach the harbour of salvation make use of the counter-current to put into port.

Look for Him who will take you by the hand and lead you to the gates of the Gnosis, where the clear light shines in which there is no darkness; where no one is drunk, but all are sober and look up with their hearts to Him who wishes to be known.

But listen well: His Voice cannot be heard and His Name cannot be pronounced, nor can material eyes view Him. Only the Spirit-Soul is capable of doing so. That is why you should tear up the garment you are wearing: the fabric of ignorance, the basis of malignity, the fetter of corruption, the lightless prison".

From "The Fetters of the Blood" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Aeons are our creation. They are the accumulated thought-forms of humanity going back millions of years. Because we created them, we share a commonality. Our fourfold physical body is in total agreement with these vibrations. As long as we remain a nature-born being, we will have to contend with the internal struggle between the evil we wish not to do and the good that we want to do.

In order to free ourselves from this cycle of futility, we must live from a new body, composed of ethers not-of-this-world. That is what the Path of Return is about. Gnosis, Transmutation, Transfiguration. This is the road to Freedom.

~ g
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How Aeons Are Formed

Every so often, the re-posting of the following information can prove useful ~ g

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Collectively, mankind constitutes a much larger thinking-desiring organism, and the sum total of the thoughts and desires in the auras of all the people that together make up mankind, interpenetrate and form what might be termed a 'radiation cloud' around the planet. This cloud is replete with the results of all human thinking, feeling and desiring, not only from causes created in the present but also from the past, for thought and astral energy creates certain elemental forms that can and do survive their creator in the flesh. There is, then, clearly an interaction between human beings and the planetary atmosphere; the human beings contribute toward the quality of subtle substance of the planetary aura in the form of mental, astral and etheric matter.

In the beginning phase of man's spiritual descent, or 'Fall from Grace' (the Garden of Eden days) the psychic atmosphere of this world was still virginal, void of these human emanations. However, with the passage of time they came into manifestation and are forever being strengthened by mankind's incessant ignorant and selfish activity.

Now what happens when many hundreds, sometimes many thousands, or even, over time, billions of people continuously project similar selfish or fear-based thoughts and desires (which include religious desires for personal salvation, personal empowerment, personal happiness, etc.)? Just think of the selfish prayers repeated endlessly in the churches; the wild enthusiasm of the crowds at football games; the mass outbursts of passion during blood-stirring political demonstrations or evangelistic speeches; the daily repeated negative suggestions in the media that are supposedly formulated in order to enlighten the masses and the millions of people who are all tuned in to the same violent TV programs simultaneously!

Like attracts like, and the corresponding vibrations thus launched into the atmosphere coalesce to form one great cloud of unwholesome energy. It is an elementary esoteric fact that when, over time, many people fix their minds upon one idea, a mighty astral image of that idea develops. The astral world possesses specific possibilities of reflection. So when the minds of many of us are continually fixed upon one and the same idea, then we shall discover that at a given moment a huge astral image has been generated, which is becoming clear and well-defined, and with which we are connected and in communication because we created it ourselves. It is thus that a collective spirit, a collective idea, a collective thought-form or a collective image is created and continuously fed by people of similar disposition and/or belief.

Over centuries such an image can and does become so fortified that it acquires consciousness and becomes an intelligent, self-directing being; a huge, living, feeding elemental being that has an agenda namely to perpetuate and fortify its own existence and nature. This it proceeds to do by inciting mankind, via mental and astral impression, to continue producing ethers of a like quality on which it can feed, on which it can grow. At first it is an image 'with dead eyes', but the moment comes when this image gains life and begins to hunger for more of the peculiar type of energy that spawned it. This is when it starts actually dominating us, when certain powers radiate from it and when it is even capable of attracting all kinds of undivine forces and of pouring these down onto the people. This is the way in which pseudo-religious beings (false gods) come into being. Such gigantic elemental beings can be and are utilized by the 'archons', entities residing in the subtle worlds who, with selfish and malefic intent, control and manipulate the mass-consciousness of humanity on earth by way of the images that man himself created.

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Excerpted from The New Call / Rare Insights