Wake-Up Calls - Conclusion

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Wake-up calls are often misunderstood by Servers due to the initial excitement (emotional agitation and glamour), personal desire and pride which they may so easily evoke. For example, some, in their naïveté, may earnestly believe that they have suddenly and miraculously become fully enlightened, like a master of wisdom, or so divinely commissioned that they are adequately qualified to teach with spiritual authority. Such impetuous Servers would do well to ponder upon the fact that early wake-up calls herald but the beginning of a potentially ongoing and cumulative process of spiritual unfoldment, and that until their own tiny point of consciousness merges completely with the Cosmic Consciousness of the Universal Mind, they are at best but a messenger or servant for something much greater than their little personality.

Imprudent impulsiveness often produces much impractical idealism and delusion which, in turn, will result in a retardation of further wake-up calls, and at worst may bring about such perfect conditions within the Servers' vehicles that they become an easy target for negative psychic impression. They may then be manipulated by evil minds residing within the hidden worlds for their own sinister purposes, and it is in this way that much neutralisation of the positive efforts of others is effected worldwide by well-intentioned but unwary Servers. Psychic contamination is a very common and escalating phenomena today for humanity, and may lead to outright occult possession, spelling calamity for the Server, while simultaneously fulfilling the promise of certain forebodings made thousands of years ago predicting the appearance of "many false prophets and Christs", for even accomplished Servers may be misled.

Servers may also curtail their own process of awakening by their misguided use of those abilities that have been conferred upon them for the benefit of others. If the knowledge and powers given are not used wisely and selflessly in service to humanity, then the Server should expect no further wake-up calls. Indeed, should spiritual gifts be abused in service to self, great remorse may be known as the Server's privileges are quickly revoked by the group-soul. Additionally, and due to the unwise employment of faculties that may have been stimulated by a wake-up call, imbalance is likely to ensue. This may manifest itself, for example, as a brilliant intellect but a closed heart, a distorted perception of the true Aquarian vision, or the preponderance of psychic powers, replete with all the temptations and dangers of lower psychism.

Many partially-awakened Servers, in becoming infected by the widespread glamour within the New Age movement, are today joining the swelling ranks of the enthusiastic but deceived to build fairy-tale castles in the sky. They are then proceeding with the greatest fervour to lavishly furnish their imitation New Jerusalem with an assorted abundance of colourful and most pleasing allurements and romantic ideals that offer little more than distractions from the real divine Work. Today, the expanding light of the New Dawn is throwing shadows in all directions; temptation is everywhere apparent, and Servers will be at a great disadvantage without basic self-knowledge and an adequate understanding of the hidden side of life.

Wake-up calls sound intermittently, then, in a consecutive series of increasingly brighter realisations, and these prepare Servers to eventually receive the forthcoming conclusive Revelation - or final Wake-up Call - that will restore their full multidimensional awareness together with their higher spiritual faculties and powers as it launches them into the blissful state of divine remembrance. Upon receiving this crowning Wake-up Call, all limitations and karmic afflictions connected to the lower worlds will be completely neutralised as successful Servers emerge from their past struggles in darkness and limitation into the long-awaited majesty of their true divine estate, and as they experience their final emancipation from the world of duality and separation.

The timing of the final Wake-up Call is partially contingent upon the ongoing, invocative appeal of both Servers and humanity alike, for in a free will system divine assistance may be given only in response to sincere requests for aid. At a not-too-distant future time the crisis faced by humanity will elicit an urgent demand for effective spiritual service, and this will incite a far-reaching global invocation which, in turn, will speed up the reunification of groups of Servers as they hasten forth in response to the call of mankind and the immediate needs of the world. The concluding Wake-up Call cannot sound before the time of worldwide group reformation, a process that is being duly expedited today. Due to the powerful synergetic dynamics evoked at that time, a profound world awakening - a global Initiation - will be catalysed.

Servers collectively constitute a kind of living bio-spiritual orchestra, each individual or group awaiting their appropriate playing time. Prior to the occasion of their gala performance, they are necessarily silenced by the limitations imposed upon them by the veil of forgetfulness. They are, however, duty-bound to care for their instruments, keeping them in good working order, and also to keep their playing skills well-honed and ready to employ. Like any professional member of an orchestra, Servers will wish to listen intently to the surrounding melody of life in patient anticipation of their wake-up calls, which will lead them to their forthcoming major cue to join in with the greater concerto. However, let it be known that today the prelude to the grand symphony of the Servers' collective mission has already begun, and the Maestro of the Divine Plan is presently summoning all the remaining members who are ready to begin playing their part.

Ultimately, those Servers who respond with sagacity and intelligent discrimination to their wake-up calls will experience valuable insight, positive expansions of consciousness, elation and expeditious spiritual unfoldment as they are much facilitated by the rising Aquarian frequencies and as they are catalysed into a supreme awakening. They will soar to new heights of experience and expression, and they will enjoy the greatest freedom and capacity for love that they have ever known in their present incarnation. Eventually, together with the discovery of a marvellous new agility and vitality born within their finely-tuned vehicles, they will open up to a much greater inflow of spiritual force, and will finally graduate most joyfully at the impending Harvest Time, taking as many amongst humanity with them as are willing and able to rise up and behold the refulgence of the New World.

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Wake-Up Calls - Part 3

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The all-important process of awakening may be significantly accelerated by propitious meetings with other Servers of the Divine Plan. Some Servers who have yet to receive a major wake-up call may be given an opportunity to penetrate their veil of forgetfulness to some degree when another awakened individual conveys a truth to them or positively affects their consciousness by the radiation of certain auric energies. When Servers meet physically and begin to trust and open to one another, even slightly, a greater part of the group-soul is invoked. Ensuing energy-transmissions originating from the higher worlds bring light from above, as it were, and down through the lower vehicles to arrive ultimately upon the physical plane where it may heal, rejuvenate and spiritualise the bodily cells and illuminate the physical brain-consciousness. However, should such Grace fail to be integrated within the personalities of Servers who are thus ministered to, and if positive change from their previous spiritual torpor is not subsequently effected by their own will, then their familiar condition of occult blindness is likely to rapidly reassert itself, and their potentially liberating vision may be lost.

Like humanity, the typically resistant egos of unawakened Servers may doubt or even react in fear and hostility as the initial stages of purification ensue resulting from wake-up calls sounded by other more awakened individuals. Thus so, in accordance with their choice to react negatively, they will voluntarily turn away from the door of opportunity as it necessarily closes in accordance with the law of free will. Depending upon various conditions, it may well be that Servers who fail to accept such Grace into their lives in these critical times will not again receive a similar chance during their present incarnation, and so they shall unwittingly yet wilfully abort their mission. Those who decline opportunities to serve, and especially those who mistreat awakened Servers who endeavour to offer them help and guidance, are in danger of descending into a deep personal gloom as their own Greater Self  turns away from their personality as a result of their choice to disregard a messenger of the New Spirit.

It is imperative that Servers who are still asleep and lost in ignorance should recognise other awakened Servers who may have been galvanised from within to come to their aid in answer to an earnest prayer. It should also be very well understood that when one's soul-family is beginning to reunite again upon the physical plane, it is precisely at this time that the hidden forces of selfishness will try their utmost to create apprehension, confusion, blindness and the like in all those personalities who have become infected by the pervasive distrust, fear and delusion upon Earth. There are various ways in which Servers may recognise one another, some of which have already been described, and more of these will be detailed later. However, as a general rule, Servers should learn to trust their initial feelings and perceptions (which are usually soul-born and, therefore, accurate) before the ego has an opportunity to becloud such valid recognition with doubt, scepticism or criticism.

The Divine Plan bears within its design special wake-up calls for a very small percentage of Servers who might be appropriately termed early-risers. They are awoken in advance of the majority of other Servers, and consequently they often experience much frustration, ridicule and hardship as they struggle in the darkness to learn necessary lessons by trial and error. As heralds, the early-risers are ahead of their time, and are therefore little understood and sometimes even less welcomed in a world that is not yet ready to receive them or their expanding and prophetic vision. They crow like the rooster in the darkest hour before dawn, announcing the imminent morning glory to a world that sleeps on. Even in the present stages of world preparation the task of those Servers who are charged with laying the foundations for the New Way of conscious spiritual development for mankind and with the labour of getting ready for the first awakened group members, is difficult indeed. They stand for so much that is still deemed visionary and impossible, and the formidable goals that confront early-risers may appear quite unattainable in the initial stages. However, their pioneering efforts are likely to lead to an early remembrance of who they are, together with those hard-won greater responsibilities, and will be seen to evoke their rightful reward.

Many Servers who are awoken earlier than most will find that they are compelled to resume their duty to mankind on Earth by highlighting the adjusted laws of the Aquarian age and by teaching the corresponding new truths and ways of human spiritual advancement. The initial effect of their earnest undertaking is necessarily destructive because they endeavour to rid mankind of all the old forms of religious, economic and political doctrine that no longer serve the world's needs. Their required impersonality - which recognises faults as well as virtues - enrages many, even those from whom they had most expected understanding, true impartiality and collaboration. Their failure to be impressed or attentive to established rites and ceremonies, to ancient and precious yet obsolete ideas, philosophies and theologies, and their constant warfare on attachments, denials, worldly illusions and any and all obstructions to the emerging New World Consciousness, meet in the early stages with little encouragement. Early-risers work frequently alone, therefore, and usually without either support or recognition.

A very small percentage of Servers scattered around the world today are involved in the important task of dismantling the old and outmoded forms and methods (usually by exposing their flaws), while simultaneously enunciating the new principles of Unity Consciousness. Yet as the planetary deadline approaches and as the frequency of wake-up calls soars to meet the growing world need, their numbers are steadily increasing. They are preparing the way for the first organised bodies of Servers who, having reunited upon the physical plane in specific soul-group combinations, will proceed to assist in the next phase of the Divine Plan for Earth.

Unawakened Servers who sense the import and urgency of the Call to Service today but who do not yet have sure contact with their own group-soul or the divine Helpers upon the inner side of life, may benefit by taking the opportunity to utilise the wisdom and reliable guidance made available for awakening by the prescience of those early-risers who are able to see more clearly. In so doing they may avail themselves of relevant knowledge, and so, by way of the sublimation of consciousness that always accompanies new spiritual comprehension, they may expedite their own process of Awakening as well as that of their fellows.

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Wake-Up Calls - Part 2

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An inspiring characteristic of early wake-up calls is that they provide a tiny yet thrilling glimpse of just how much more there is to be known and experienced upon the Server's mission. It becomes clear that there are still as yet most wonderful discoveries to be made, and although the dimly-sensed future glory remains imperceptible and incomprehensible to awakening Servers, such glimpses always beckon and inspire them onward. Servers are often awestruck and frequently overwhelmed by the light of progressively brighter revelations that pertain to the greater magnificence which awaits them beyond their presently limited but growing field of vision. Wake-up calls are therefore intended to incite further seeking and service by inspiring the Server's spiritual thirst.

Following a major wake-up call (i.e., one having significant and lasting transformative effect), Servers will generally pass through three stages of response. First comes the stage of enchantment, euphoria and of grand recognition; then a relative darkness follows, and sometimes even despair when the revelation fades, and Servers find that they must walk again in the ordinary dim shadows of the world. They now have some idea of who they are, but it is at this point that their real test lies, for they must now proceed on that inner knowledge and memory alone, and without the spiritual stimulation of the wake-up call. Moments of sometimes intense inner vision are usually balanced and integrated in this way by relatively dormant periods of reflection, absorption and consequent preparation for the next step forward. Finally, awakening Servers become so engrossed in their service, in aiding their fellows, and in helping them forward toward their next wake-up call, that the initial excitement and reaction are forgotten. They then discover to their surprise that at any time and at will - if it serves their selfless interests and those of the Divine Plan - the revelation and spiritual light that were first delivered by a wake-up call are forever theirs.

There are three modes of delivery for wake-up calls, which may be received either in waking consciousness or while asleep in the dream state. They are:

1) a gentle, gradual and steadily unfolding process, often spanning a number of years - the soft alarm bell;

2) a sudden, intense and profoundly transformative awakening - the loud alarm bell; and

3) an overdue and startling wake-up call - the late alarm bell.

This last kind of stimulus becomes eventually necessary due to the Server's lack of appropriate response to previous opportunities provided them, and consequently due to their failure to begin to penetrate the veil of forgetfulness in good time. The belated wake-up call will be much more demanding upon the Server due to its necessary severity. Such a sudden and intense spiritual stimulation generally presents certain hazards and may even cause damage to the lower vehicles of consciousness. As a result of this potent inflow of force the Server may be rendered mentally and emotionally unbalanced, and therefore prevented from fully completing his mission. As the planetary deadline draws nearer, such radical wake-up calls are less likely to result in positive awakenings. This is so because the needed personal purification will have been delayed for too long, and as the Kundalini fires are forced upwards along the spine, piercing the chakras of an impure and unprepared personality, nervous breakdown, insanity and even death may ensue. Late wake-up calls will require a very resilient constitution indeed and an unusually strong will in order for disaster to be averted. It may be clearly recognised, therefore, that there is presently an urgent need for Servers to embark upon or to swiftly proceed along the path of purification without delay.

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Wake-Up Calls

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ALL SERVERS POSSESS WHAT MAY BE REGARDED metaphorically as a kind of inner time-clock that has been set to arouse their consciousness from its mission-imposed slumber at the appointed hour when they will be required to act in the world with greater spiritual effect. Received as either internal impulses triggered from hidden dimensions or as catalysts originating from the external world, wake-up calls will sound at different times for each individual Server as they tread their path, and later for larger numbers of Servers simultaneously when in group formation. Due to the ever-variable factor of free will, both the timing and frequency of these occult summonses are not fixed; they are essentially dependent upon the Server's own choices in life, and also, to a smaller degree, those made collectively by humanity.

The Servers' life-path is typically strewn with lesser and greater stimuli for awakening, especially in these final years leading up to the planetary deadline. These stimuli might be regarded as providing opportunities for initiation, yet for Servers they are but reminders. This is because Servers have already undergone and transcended such initiations prior to their present incarnation upon Earth. Expansions of consciousness precipitated by wake-up calls are, therefore, always familiar; in truth, they comprise an unfolding process of cumulative recall which, in turn, contributes toward the Server's training and preparation during the waiting period. As latent intelligence, knowledge and wisdom are released from within by the catalyst of wake-up calls, and as a greater degree of spiritual contact is subsequently attained, the mystery of the Server's mission is revealed to him in stages. Wake-up calls therefore help to chart the Server's path in exemplification to humanity of the fruits of the spiritual life and the way into the New World, while simultaneously they help determine his growing vision and service.

Wake-up calls can take a multitude of forms: they may present themselves spontaneously as an unexpected synchronicity in daily life; they could arise as visions, inner-plane guidance from discarnate entities or subtle senses and impressions from within; they might manifest through pictorial symbols in a piece of art or in Nature*, or perhaps in meditation or dreams; they may also be delivered in the form of expressed words, either from a book, verbally or in song, or they may be received in silent recognition. They could be a welcome confirmation of a dimly sensed goal or future possibility; they might be witnessed as an incentive, a sudden inspiration or dynamic and compelling impulse in the Server's life, or they may be registered as a flash of intuitive understanding revealing a larger part of the nature of the universe. Wake-up calls will generally effect a greater appreciation of the Server's potential destiny and usefulness; they may even disclose the overall purpose of a Server's incarnation and thus stimulate a conscious aspiration toward the successful consummation of his life-mission. In whatever form wake-up calls may present themselves these precious events will reveal to the previously limited and seemingly separated consciousness of the Server at least a glimpse of the expansive, multidimensional awareness that constitutes the larger part of his own true Self, and also some small but very real sense of the existence of those transcendental worlds that are familiar territory for him.

* For example, the crop circles are veritable wake-up calls for those who are able to recognise their symbolical meaning and significance on a deeper level than the intellect.

It is usual that initial wake-up calls will begin to sound themselves spontaneously and without effort, and these may succeed in leading the Server a little way toward his goal. However, subsequent wake-up calls must be evoked by the Server's own volition. Such is an immutable law upon the True Path, and until that which has already been awarded is utilised intelligently, more will generally not be given. Revelation must always be self-engendered and may be brought about by earnest spiritual seeking and by a genuinely loving attitude. When this simple but fail-safe formula is diligently followed there will swiftly dawn within the Server's consciousness the answer to his present question, the clue to what is needed for him to move forward on his path, or certain information which, when practically applied, will reveal some doorway leading to further progress.

Wake-up calls are important events in the life of a Server for they provide testimony to vague senses that many Servers retain from their childhood, and they thereby inspire a conscious reconsecration to the noble and liberating life in service to the Divine Plan. By conferring true vision, they reveal to the Servers' awareness the ever-evolving possibilities of the spiritual life and the inevitability of the ultimate success of their collective mission. An inner certitude is thus born, and when acted upon will lead to further confirmation born of experience that is never subsequently forgotten. Depending upon the intensity of the wake-up call, the consciousness and outlook of one who has been partially awakened by it will be subtly or profoundly changed forever.

Following true wake-up calls (and not merely psychic experiences, which have become so common today), Servers will generally find it uncomfortable, if not impossible, to revert to their previous routines which shall invariably appear quite unsatisfying and bleak in light of their new and brighter perceptions. Radical changes are inevitable for each and every awakening Server in the world today as old life-patterns and ideals begin to be recognised by their expanding consciousness as inappropriate and even antagonistic to their remembered purpose in incarnation. Careers, relationships and certain mundane commitments made prior to a wake-up call will swiftly become incompatible with the new awareness being triggered from within, and past ways of living will eventually lose their appeal completely. At this time Servers may become aware that there exists a pressing need to regroup upon the physical plane, and so the greater part of their search will begin. New pathways of opportunity will then reveal themselves, leading to valuable experience that will impel Servers to resolve all disharmony in their lives in readiness for the Harvest Time. They will be compelled to face any and all fears, and to balance and clear the corresponding emotions that will arise due to the expanding new light within them.

Wake-up calls will continue to sound as long as the free will of the Server is exercised in accord with the behests of the Divine Plan; such appropriate activity is required in order to ensure that further opportunities are bestowed by the group-soul. As Servers once again consciously dedicate themselves to a worthwhile and selfless goal, a familiar spirit of consecration and unconditional love will be aroused within them. Hence, due to the dependability of their restored purity of motive and in doing their very best to meet the demands required of them, they will qualify for the receipt of greater knowledge and spiritual power that will be conferred upon them via the instrumentality of successive wake-up calls. Servers may thus begin to consciously co-operate in stimulating the rate of their own wake-up calls as they magnetically evoke new opportunities for themselves in Service and thus expedite the process of Remembrance.

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Use It Or Lose It

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Listen, my child. There is no such thing as a vacuum. That sentence conceals the secret that everyone must unveil who wants to be transformed from a perishable animal to an Immortal Consciousness. Only you must not apply the words merely to external nature; you must use them like a key to open up the Spiritual Realm; you must transform their meaning. Look at it like this: someone wants to walk, but his feet are held fast in the earth; what will happen if his will to walk does not weaken? His creative Spirit, the primal force that was breathed into him at the Beginning, will find other paths for him to tread and that force within him that can walk without feet, will walk in spite of the earth, in spite of the obstacle.

The creative will, man's divine inheritance, is a force of suction; this suction - you must understand it in a metaphorical sense - would of necessity create a vacuum in the Realm of First Causes if the expression of the will were not eventually followed by its fulfillment. See: a man is ill and wants to get better; as long as he resorts to medicines, the power of the Spirit, which can heal better and more quickly than any medicine, will be paralyzed. It is as if someone wanted to learn to write with the left hand: if he always uses the right, he will never learn to do it with the left.

Every event that occurs in our life has a purpose; nothing is pointless; an illness says to a man, 'Drive me away with the power of the Spirit so that the power of the Spirit will be strengthened and once more be lord over the material world, as it was before the Fall'. Anyone who does not do that and relies on medicines alone has not grasped the meaning of Life; he will remain a little boy playing truant. But anyone who can command with the field marshal's baton of the Spirit, scorning the coarser weapons that only the common solder uses, will rise again and again; however often death strikes him down, he will yet be a king in the end.

That is why men should never weaken on the Path to the Goal they have set themselves; just as sleep is only a brief rest, so is death. You do not begin a task to abandon it, but to complete it. A task, however unimportant it appears, once begun and left half-finished, corrodes the will with its poison, just as an unburied corpse pollutes the air of the whole home.

The purpose of our life is the perfection of the Soul; if you keep that goal firmly in your sights, and in your mind and your heart every time you begin or decide something, then you will find yourself possessed by a strange, unknown calm, and your destiny will change in an incomprehensible way. Anyone who creates as if he were immortal -- not for the sake of the object of his desires, that is a goal for the spiritually blind, but for the sake of the Temple of his Soul -- will see the day come, even if it is after thousands of years, when he can say, 'I will it' and what he commands will be there, will happen, without needing time to ripen slowly.

Only then will the point be reached where the long road ends. Then you can look the Sun in the face without it burning your eyes. Then you can say, 'I have found a Goal because I sought none'.

From "The Nightwalk" - The White Dominican - Gustav Meyrink

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Live consciously, ever aware that each thought, feeling or action will either help or hinder the ability of Spirit to effectively re-link with and work through you. There is no wasted motion in Life. All is designed to point man back to his Divine origins. Know that your microcosm, although fallen, is immortal. It is the mortal personality enclosed within that microcosm, the man or the woman, who is lost and wandering in Darkness.

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Castles Of Sand

 

Man strives daily to build his worldly castles. With laser-like focus he minutely examines his life circumstances and then compares them to the circumstances of other people, past or present. "That is what I want to be!", he cries. "That is what I want to have!". With resolve he promises "I will be that! I will have that! I'll do whatever is necessary!".

And so, man attacks his life, working diligently to do whatever he can to obtain his oh-so-important earthly goals: success-wealth-power. If he reaches his goal, dissatisfaction arises and he sets higher ones, for there are always those who have more than he. If he fails to reach his goals, he labels himself a failure and a loser.

All is vexation and folly. Why do things never turn out the way we want them to? Why does the boulder we push uphill always come rolling down that same hill, crushing us beneath its weight? Why can't we have what we want in this world? Why can't we be "happy"?

i have news for you. You are not here on this earth to be happy, or successful, or wealthy, or powerful, or famous or any of those things that we are told marks a "successful" life. That is not the point of your incarnation. You are here to seek and find the Kingdom of God that dwells within you. You are here to awaken the Divine Spark that slumbers in the upper right ventricle of your heart. If you do not undertake this effort, then you will have truly failed at Life, for that is the whole purpose behind your being here.

Whatever you try to obtain and retain in this world will inevitably be taken from you. Anything you endeavor to build in this world will eventually collapse. These things will be, they must be, when one seeks from the earth what he should be seeking from Heaven. If your seeking remains horizontal, Universal Law will work overtime to ensure that you never obtain the object of your material desires.

Why is this? Think of it. If one gains what one wants in this world and settles contentedly in a "paradise" of his own making, he will crystallize. He will never feel the urge to seek in a vertical direction. He will never take even the first step to locate the Path. Why should he? He's perfectly happy. That is why all striving must be broken up, again and again and yet again. That is why you fail at what you so ardently desire, that is why those things you accumulate are at some point taken away from you. Man is like the stallion who must have the rider yank the reins repeatedly in order to force his eyes to focus on what is in front of him.

In the same way, you must switch your focus from the things of the earth. Yes, we need to eat and live somewhere and yes, we must provide for ourselves and our children. No one is denying these basic facts. But the chase for earthly comforts beyond the minimum that we need to live will always be rewarded with disappointment and pain. However, if one finds the Path and begins to walk it in honesty and humility, all will change. For then you are attempting to align your will with the Will of the Father. And there is no doubt that those who do so will be guided, protected and provided for. The Father knows His own. From the Holy Language:

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures buried in the ground, a place where rust and moth destroy and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves a Treasure in Heaven, where neither rust nor moth destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also is your heart.

No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and like the other; or he will honor the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (wealth).

For this reason I say to you, do not worry for your life, what you will eat and what you will drink, nor for your body, what you will wear. Behold, is not Life more important than food, and the Body more than clothing?

Observe the birds of the sky, for they do not sow, neither do they harvest nor gather into barns, and yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not that much more important than they?

Therefore do not worry or say, What will we eat, or what will we drink, or with what will we be clothed? For worldly people seek after all these things. Your Father in heaven knows that all of these things are also necessary for you. But seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you". Matthew 6:19-33

Go with the flow, not against it. Build your castles on the most solid of foundations. Leave desire for the things of the earth behind. Aspire to obtain that which is higher, the Pearl of Great Price, the Kingdom of Heaven that you carry within your Divine Spark.

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Heart...Broken

The heart wants what it wants, the saying goes. Invariably, what the heart wants is usually not what the man or woman truly needs. So often the search for one's heart's desire returns nothing but disappointment, sorrow and pain as a reward.

But if man is anything, he is persistent. With every crushing blow dealt to him by the pursuit of the unnecessary, he will spend a short period in mourning before resuming his misdirected desires. He may yearn in the same direction, or perhaps in another. Inevitably, the end result will be the same: disappointment.

At some point, if he's fortunate, the man will reach a low-point of despair, a nadir so definite that he will crumble in a heap, limp and exhausted from the chase. What is the use? This world is naught but fruitlessness and sorrow. What is the point? Why am I even here? What is my purpose? I am through with this world, its glamour and false promise. Defeated, he sobs bitterly, doing his best to melt away and leave this earth behind.

This is the key juncture. This is where the heart, which has heretofore pursued its own desires without care or control, is broken like a wild stallion - true heart-break. It now sends forth a yearning, a vibration that will attract a like Vibration in response. Contact is made with the Gnosis, which has been waiting patiently for the heart to be still.

From this broken-heartedness, from the abject misery of perceived defeat, the man, led by the stirrings of the Divine Spark, dries his tears and rises to his feet, the heart now set in a New Direction, burning with the flame of a New Desire.

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A Difference Of One Letter

Just before Jesus, pinned to the cross, "gave up the ghost" as some would call it, He called out to the Father. Depending on the spelling of a key word in the Hebrew transliteration, what was spoken was either:

"Eloi, Eloi lama shabaqthani" - "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"

or,

"Eloi, Eloi, lama shabacthani" - "My God, My God, how Thou hast glorified me!"

A clever deception has been perpetrated on humanity by those who were charged with "translating" the Bible. The above passage is a prime example. For more on this, a quote from a Theosophical publication written at the turn of the prior century is presented:

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Question: If Christ was a great Teacher, why did He say at the last, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?". Surely this does not sound like a note of victory, like He had achieved the work of redeeming mankind, but more like one of defeat, as though He had failed!

Answer: The passage is a difficult one because the two Hebrew letters qoph and cheth are somewhat alike in sound. If the word was written with the former it would mean to set free, forsake; but if with the latter it would mean to praise or to glorify.

Turning from the form of the words, if we look at the sense of the message we shall at once see a great relief that "glorify", and not "forsaken", was the word used by Jesus. How utterly repugnant it is to all sense of right that Jesus should talk of being forsaken by God! Had not the Voice from Heaven declared "This is my beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased?" Were not His last words on the cross full of confidence, "It is finished", and "Father, into Thy hands I commend my Spirit"? Besides, we read that on the Mount of Transfiguration Jesus was radiated with heavenly light - "He was transfigured as he spoke of the decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem". From which it is evident that Jesus recognized it as "glorification".

[This] rescues Christ from the false position that so many centuries, wrongly called Christian, have represented Christ as occupying; and shows Him to be exultant above all suffering, and radiant with glory, a condition which is also ours as the Christ within us fills the whole nature.

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Jesus in defeat, bloodied and hung on a cross like dressed meat, is what the enemies of the Christ want mankind to see. By perpetuating this image, the human mind is subliminally impressed with the idea that the Christed One failed in His appointed duty. Alas, if HE failed, what hope is there for me?

This is what your controllers want you to feel. That Jesus was a failure and that evil has triumphed in this world. The translated Bibles have been carefully tampered with in such a way as to preserve their power but to twist the messages until they can no longer be properly understood. Only those with the gnostic key are now able to pierce the veil of deception that has been drawn over the Holy Language. The gnostic works containing the unadulterated Truth were purposely excluded from the Bible and classified as "heresies". Today, these excluded gnostic works are known as Apocrypha, and summarily dismissed by the theologians and so-called 'experts'.

Mark these words, the Christ succeeded in accomplishing everything He had been tasked with during His sojourn on Earth 2,000 years ago. Upon liberation from the physical body, He traveled through the aeon worlds and "cleaned house" so to speak, robbing them of "a third of their power" (Pistis Sophia). This is something He could not have done while in the flesh. This post-mortem work helped to loosen the grip of the archons and aeons on future mankinds right up until this day, where humanity is now able to seek the Truth freely and each day more are finding the Path of Return.

The dark brothers can burn, behead and crucify the Divine Messengers past, present and future. They can view the lifeless carcasses and pronounce themselves rulers but to no avail. The Victory they seek to thwart has already been won.

Dei Gloria Intacta!

~ g
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Salvation For The Living

The religious systems of the world, although philosophically disparate and divergent, are pretty much united on one thing: that man's "eternal reward" lies in the "hereafter", to be bestowed upon him only after a life of "goodness".

These religions disingenuously neglect to inform you of the following:

- that the "hereafter" is actually the reflection-sphere, which is merely the other side of material existence.

- that the "eternal" stay in said "hereafter" is temporary. Your personality will eventually dissolve in the blissful "Summerland", leaving an emptied microcosm. So much for "goodness".

- that your microcosm, in total forgetfulness and with a completely new personality, will return to earth-life at some point doomed to blindly fumble through the life experience once again.

- to top things, off, you will incarnate in a family belonging to the same religion that misled the last personality to inhabit your microcosm

And thus, the circle is closed.

On the other hand, The Universal Doctrine, which teaches the gnostic Path of Liberation, departs from the above tenets. Most importantly in the following areas:

- there are two separate and distinct nature-orders, two universes. One is Divine, the Original Kingdom from which man fell. The other is undivine. It is the world that has been pulled over our eyes. It is the world which man struggles in desperate futility to "make better".

- "salvation" is not something that awaits those who die. The moment the Divine Spark has been touched and awakened, the Seeker is already Victorious. That is because he or she is then linked to the Living Body of the Gnosis which is linked to the divine Treasury of Light. All the Light-power of that Treasury is immediately made available to the Candidate, although in a stepped-down measure. Material man would not be able to withstand the full power of the Gnosis, an astral power not-of-this-world. He would burn as if lit afire. Instead, it is made available to each new Candidate in a measure that can be safely assimilated. No one is given more than he or she can bear. A First Step is taken. The next step is taken only when one is ready.

- the true gnostic Rosicrucian shuns the reflection-sphere, the "hereafter" of the churches. Even with all of its beautiful summerlands and blissfully sublime devachans, it remains an illusory venue, a astral region of loitering for disintegrating personalities and emptying microcosms.

- the true gnostic brother of the Rosycross recognizes that even "reincarnation" although a true fact of human existence, is a revolving door leading to nowhere.

- the true gnostic Rosicrucian would not be caught dead in a church, temple or mosque, nor belong to any religion of any kind, as he or she recognizes that they are but traps for the Soul.

- most importantly, the true gnostic Rosicrucian knows that the moment he or she sets foot on the Path, he or she is on the Road to true salvation and true eternal life. It is understood that after death the personality will not be routed to the ordinary reflection-sphere for recycling, but will instead take a glorious detour to Shamballa, where the divine processes of Transmutation and Transfiguration will continue to unfold until the Good End is realized.

Do you realize that the salvation you seek is not something to be deferred until after physical death? Everything you need to begin this Great Journey is available here and now, in the present! First you must gain the proper insight into your plight. You must then make the decision that you are no longer going to try and make this world a "paradise", but will instead withdraw from the ways of the world and follow the Way of the Stars. The first steps on this Path are: selfless service and self-surrender. Both work hand-in-hand. Both are foolproof if applied steadfastly in humility and honesty.

Your Salvation begins here, from below-upwards. The churches do not want you to know this, so they disparage and murder the gnostic messengers of times past and present, in order to discourage you from seeking and finding that which was left for you to find.

It is fear that prevents one from letting go of this world. It is knowledge, insight, that will enable one to muster the strength to let go of the world.

Begin the process of Salvation while here on earth. It is the only way to avoid the fate of personality-dissolution in the sham heaven beyond the veil. The moment you open your heart to the Gnosis, you are on your way to Freedom. Stay on the straight and narrow Path. You will be given all the Help you need to bring your journey to a Good End.

~ g
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Untitled

 

 

"We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."

 from "The Truman Show" 

 

 

Um, let's try not to, okay?

 

~ g

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The Meaning Of The Legendary Phoenix

The one who walks the Path of Liberation experiences both a loss and a gain. The awakening of the Divine Spark situated in the upper right ventricle of the human heart attracts a Divine vibration into the system. This Divine vibration, an energy not-of-this-world, "breaks into" the system, as it were and immediately links the candidate with the Gnosis. It is the beginning of the Return Home.

As the candidate persists in walking the Path, he or she undergoes the endura, which is a dying as to the self. This is characterized by self-surrender, which is the sacrifice of what the self wants in favor of what the Other One within requires in order to manifest Itself.

In this way, both a death and a birth take place. By way of a gradual alchemical metamorphosis, the old self "dies" while the New Spirit-Soul is born. If the Road Back is steadfastly followed to its glorious conclusion, then, at the moment the last vestige of the old self has been dissolved in the astral fires of Divine transmutation, the True Man will arise from its ashes.

And now you know the meaning behind the legend of the Phoenix.

~ g

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The Key To The Matrix

Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

Morpheus: What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

Oracle: Do you know what that means? [points to a banner] It means Know Thy Self. I wanna tell you a little secret, being The One is just like being in love. No one needs to tell you you are in love, you just know it, through and through.

The above quotes are from a movie that is required viewing for all those who are walking the transfiguristic Path of Return. That movie is The Matrix (1999).

Just like the New Testament, this motion picture is not what it first appears to be. On the surface, it is a slick, futuristic action movie with an intriguing plot and great special effects. But embedded beneath the surface shine is a deeply allegorical, step-by-step description of one man's journey on the Path to Liberation. A large portion of the dialogue carries a strong symbolic meaning that can and should be understood on a deeper level.

i do not know how this was done, or who was the true author. It certainly was not the Wachowski brothers. i'm not even sure if it was Sophia Stewart, who was recently awarded millions as a result of a plagiarism suit filed against the film's makers. Suffice it to say, when the Universal Brotherhood endeavors to send a message to mankind, it does whatever needs to be done.

Yes, there are a few errors, a couple of distortions, gunplay and gratuitous violence  (after all, we're dealing with Hollywood here), but those who carry a Spirit-Spark Atom that has been touched by the Gnosis should be able to recognize what is being revealed to humanity by this movie. The vast majority of humans viewed and enjoyed this motion picture on a superficial level only. Another group of humans has tried to decipher it and have failed to do so  successfully because they've formulated their interpretations within the context of this nature-order.

And then there are those on the Path who are able to interpret using the Gnostic Key. It's sort of like when you were little and your mom wanted you to take an aspirin. She knew you'd never take it if she handed it to you, so she'd hide it in a scoop of ice cream.

One of these days, take another look at The Matrix (1999). Don't bother with the sequels that followed it. The first movie is the one with The Message.

 Morpheus: Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the Path and walking the Path.

~ g
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Splitting The Divine Atom

The Spirit-Spark atom, the infinitesimally small Divine Seed anchored in the center of our microcosm contains tremendous power within. Every seed carries within it all of the coding necessary to enable it to move through multiple stages of growth until it becomes an adult something. The environment in which the seed is planted is of great importance, as it provides the nutrition that the seed needs to accomplish this growth.

Slowly, gradually, imperceptibly the growing proceeds apace until one day, the twig is but a memory and the mighty tree stands before us.

The same can be said for the Spirit-Spark atom that lies dormant within our microcosm, waiting for the proper environment and nourishment so that it can begin its growth process. The environment? A true seeking human being who has made the decision to undergo the endura, the dissolution of the selfish self. The nourishment? The "four holy foods" that are ultimately attracted by those who choose to walk the Path of Liberation.

Atomic energy involves the forcible splitting of an atom in order to unleash the considerable power encapsulated within. Mankind has witnessed the unfortunate result of this forced splitting. The Spirit-Spark atom also contains tremendous energies and possibilities. However, it cannot safely release these potentials if it is split in a forcible way. It must be gently ignited and then nurtured. Like a Rose, it will unfold, petal by petal, until a sevenfold bloom is apparent. It is in this manner that the True Man will be able to make its appearance. It is by this divine fission that the Other One will be reborn.

~ g
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For Contemplation

O wondrous Mystery of the New Soul-State.
How majestic and beautiful are Your developments.
How true it is -  when it is said to the pupils of the
Spiritual Schools of all times:

I say to you, the Kingdom of God is within you.

The growing New Realm is in us.

And so we proceed, with the whole impetus of
our rational-moral consciousness to serve this
Glorious Process within us.

He who serves the Gnosis - serves himself.
He who serves the Gnosis - serves his fellow-men.
He who liberates the Kingdom within himself
can also help to free others from their death-garments.

Thus there is a life, which speeds to its end, never to return.
Thus there is at the same time a Life, which holds enclosed
within itself the foundations of Eternity.

The death-garments are discarded - as a leaf from a tree
And from the grave arises,
Imperishable and Beautiful:
The New Man.

LRC
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The New Body - Conclusion

'A House Not Made With Hands'

[QUOTING]

If you understand all this, then pay attention to the Sermon on the Mount for your further information. To the pupils who possess 'the Other One'' it is said:

'You have heard it said: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, do not resist evil. If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if anyone would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well'.

What the hordes of the Inquisition meant to achieve in the war against the Albigensians* was the destruction of the outer garment, of the outward appearance of the holy Cathars, for the Inquisitors were operating under the mystification that, beneath the cloak, the living heart of the Gnosis was beating. But with a laugh that resounded through the Pyrenees mountains, the Cathars left their enemies the dialectical cloak, after having fulfilled their task for as long as possible, and went up into the serene heights of the Sacred Stillness.

* a name used by the Pope's armies when referring to the Cathars

They ascended from tear-filled surroundings to a New Morning. They were already Brothers and Sisters of the Dawn, the possessed the bodies for it, but they remained as long as possible in the regions of the night in order to help the seekers in their darkness. But do you think they would fight for that?

They entered into the New Life because they knew that there would always be helpers, brothers and sisters. The chain of the serving Brotherhood on Earth will never be severed. Is there someone who wants to take the coat of one of them? He will leave his assailants his cloak as well. He will not provoke them saying: 'Please hurry up', for he knows his duty. But, spontaneously and naturally he longs for the moment of departure. And when the time of farewell comes, his place is immediately taken by a successor. Do you think this point-of-view is wrong? Then heed what Paul says in 2 Cor. 5:

'For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Here indeed we groan, and long to put on our heavenly dwelling. For while we are still in this tent we have only One Purpose; that we may not be found unclothed, and that what is mortal may be swallowed up by True Life'.

From Godliness (III) - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

[END QUOTING]

To walk the Path of Return, the Way of the Transfigurist, means that two soul bodies will inhabit the same microcosm, in the same space, at the same time. With steadfast devotion to the Gnosis, the New Soul will increase while the old, material soul body decreases in kind. For those who persevere, this Journey will end in Eternal Victory.

~ g
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The New Body - Part Two

[QUOTING]

When the Brotherhood speaks to you, it speaks to you as a microcosmic totality, it speaks to you and the Other One who, if you still do not possess it in the form of a personality, is still potentially present in you, in your microcosm, hidden as a 'seed'.

You can understand that it is of the greatest importance for the servants of the serving Brotherhood in our field of existence who already possess the New Being to maintain the old dialectical personality for as long as possible, for through this dialectical personality, contact can be made with dialectical people; unobtrusively and in a normal, natural manner, people can be fished from the sea of life in a fallen world. Therefore, they will, to this end, maintain their dialectical personality to the uttermost limits of what is practically attainable. Only when their time has come do they leave, without any ostentation, their old natural form. They die, but you will understand that this death is something quite different from that of any other person. This death is not the fruit of sin, no splitting of the personality whereby the remains move to the hereafter, but rather with this death the grave is found completely empty; only the cloak of the old nature remains. It is not a body that is abandoned, for this body was a disguise for many years, a cloak, a veil of Another Reality.

Normally, when someone dies, the remains of the personality are still present after the death of the body. But with the transfigurist initiate, the remains of the personality had long disappeared; they had long since 'died in Jesus the Lord', as the old Brotherhood of the Rosicrucians called it. What remained was just a disguise, the outward appearance of the old form of the body which was being used in the service of mankind for as long as possible. When, at a given moment, this old garment is thrown off it becomes apparent that nothing, absolutely nothing, remains of the old existence any longer, neither here nor in the hereafter.

This is why it is also said that the grave of Jesus the Lord was found completely empty. One saw nothing but a rolled-up shroud, namely the outer garment of the old form of the bodily figure. When Mary Magdalene wishes to see the Lord she has to look backwards. This 'looking backwards' is an ancient gnostic expression for gazing into the Original magnetic space, now new for her once more. There she sees Him whom she has always known in her innermost but whom she cannot approach, as she still exists in the old state of the ordinary nature. Therefore she is told: 'Don't touch me!' Here the same law is intended that caused Annanias and Sapphira to die. One cannot approach the 'entirely different' with what is dialectical, without causing a catastrophe.

If, in the light of the above, you now reflect on the ancient Cathars you will understand. A group of prisoners was walled in alive in a cave. A wall several feet thick lay between them and the outside world. The intention is clear: a slow death by starvation. Not a single chance of liberation. Do you think they would suffer for days, perhaps weeks, and then die in darkness and filth? No, for they who had long since made the sympathetic nervous system cerebro-spinal, they knew: now our time has come, now our task is fulfilled and with one small twist of the will to the nervus vagus they left the garment of their camouflage to meet Eternal Freedom, leaving the grave behind them, empty.

Another group of them, on top of the mountain of the cross at Foix, was fettered and thrown down into a ravine. Do you think they awaited the result of their fall? Contused, bleeding from terrible wounds, with broken limbs, dying under hellish pains? No, before they reached the ground they had left the garments of their camouflage and were winging their way up towards the clarity of the New Life! So it was, too, for those who went to the stake, for those who were cast into dungeons. As they no longer belonged to this world when the sacrilegious hand of dialectical violence reached out to them, they entered into their own Fatherland. This is the truth of the death of Jesus; this is the truth of the supposed 'suicide' of the ancient Cathars.

Those who do not know and cannot see, cast their hands before their faces in despair, saying: 'Oh, how terrible, what immeasurable suffering!' But all those who do know sing a hymn, a song of effervescent joy. For those who, while living, die the voluntary death of nature in the endura can no longer be harmed by the second death, the death of the camouflage body.

From Godliness (III) - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

[END QUOTING]

End Part Two

~ g
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The New Body - Part One

[QUOTING]

So far, we have extensively discussed the sevenfold path and at last seen that 'godliness' refers to a new, wondrous magnetic circuit of the power of the Holy Spirit in the nervus sympathicus, which, in the Universal Doctrine, is termed the second spinal cord, or the second serpent-fire. This second serpent-fire is the basis of all new human genesis. On this basis a new physical form, a new personality, is formed, the aspects and qualities of which we will extensively discuss when the time is ripe.

This concerns teachings regarding the Apostolic Circle, the Third Temple. Whoever, on the basis of his godliness, is able to enter this Third Temple, receives all necessary support to be able to learn:

1. how to nourish the new body
2. how to make the new body grow
3. how to conduct oneself in it
4. how to use it and
5. how, by means of a process, to take leave of the old body of nature.

Perhaps this information, in its conciseness, will throw some light on one of the greatest - and for the general public as yet shrouded - problems of the ancient Cathars, namely their supposed 'suicide'. The records report that the prisoners of the Inquisition during the medieval wars against the Cathars, seeing an end to their fate and being subjected to the most sophisticated methods of torture, forcibly left their bodies with a blissful smile on their lips and, by committing suicide, escaped their executioners. Their soulless bodies were found, with no sign of external injury and without a trace of poison, in absolute tranquility. What does this mean?

You know what suicide is. One dies by one's own hand, forces the death of the body, after which the remainder of the personality proceeds to the reflection-sphere. In certain regions of the hereafter, the personality must endure an intensely miserable and sorrowful time until the moment arrives in which death would normally have come. Reincarnation follows immediately afterwards, whereby the forcibly broken thread of life must be picked up again under aggravated circumstances.

You will doubtless understand that not a single Cathar ever committed such a deed, which, apart from the further consequences of suicide, would eliminate an existing chance of real Liberation from the Wheel. No, the holy Cathars possessed the new body, the new personality. From their experiences we can gain clear insight, which is in complete accord with the lawfulness of the transfiguristic process.

For the candidate, by means of the gnostic serpent-fire in the sympathicus, builds up a new personality fully equipped with the building materials of the Gnosis and absolutely free of and unfettered by this nature. It is a personality which develops in a totally different magnetic field of life while still occupying the same space as the dialectical personality. Thus, at a given moment there are, besides the auric personality, two further personalities in the micros of the candidate: the personality of the old nature and that of the New one. Consequently there are also two nuclei of consciousness, two I-beings, in this state.

Never make the mistake of thinking that your normal I will be transferred to the new body so that you yourself, as a dialectical center of consciousness, participate in the New Life. Your consciousness as a dialectical being, belongs to the phenomena of this nature. It will disappear, it will one day cease to exist when you go the Path. The Other One must increase, you yourself will perish.

From Godliness (III) - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

[END QUOTING]

 End Part One

~ g
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From The House Of Death To A New Abode

[QUOTING]

We know that there is a self-contained nature-of-death, that is: together with our fellow human beings we exist in a sick, unnatural part of the universal cosmos. This nature-of-death, Jacob Boehme says, belongs to the House of God, to the great Universal Body of God, although we must consider it as the old body. And the holy, Divine birth, the continuously renewing Divine love, has separated this sick part, this isolated body of the house of death, from the rest.

We can say: one part of the Universal Body, having become sick, has been isolated. Everything visible, Jacob Boehme says, belongs to the house of death, just as an inner, invisible host of stars belongs to the holy Divine birth. The house of death has been replaced, as it were, has been replicated by a new part. The sick part already exists simultaneously with the old abode, with the house of death, and gradually the new part is vivified and constructed and gradually the entities from the nature-of-death are transferred to the new abode. This new abode is the Immovable Kingdom, to which we have been called. As soon as all those who are candidates for it have been transferred to the New Kingdom, and the others who are not candidates for it have been transferred to a subhuman kingdom, or have possibly been dissolved, the old body of the nature-of-death will be dissolved and the wound in the Universal Body will have been healed.

Therefore, there are three possibilities: ascent into the Immovable Kingdom, which means returning to the Original abode, or being changed into a completely new type of being, or being dissolved. And this dissolution should not be seen as something terrible, as the worst thing that can happen to an entity, but this dissolution is in itself a mercy also. Imagine that you could choose between an existence in a dreadful, horrible demonism, being conscious of it in woeful grief, in dreadful hatred and the dissolution of the whole sevenfold system with the return of its seed atoms into the universal Body. Then you would certainly choose the latter.

In these three ways the wound in the Universal Body is being cured. In other words, not a soul is lost: either it returns to the Immovable Kingdom, the Primary Goal, or it is changed into a new type, or it is dissolved. To this end the Original Life breaks into our existence. The Original Life is manifested and conquers death.

From "The Blood Soul" - Working In The Service Of Mankind - Jan van Rijckenborgh

[END QUOTING]

Three possibilities, three choices. One leads to Eternal Life, one leads to an eternity, many millions of years of continued misery and one leads to oblivion.

A no-brainer..for those who are ready.

~ g
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I'm Only Human!

No, you are not.

You are an emergency-order being, a temporary phenomenon charged with the duty of awakening the True Man that sleeps within your microcosm.

We are gods in embryo. As with any embryo, without the proper conditions it will not achieve its aim. Certain things must happen for a hen's egg to become a chick. If those things do not happen, that egg becomes someone's breakfast.

Essentially, we are faced with the same situation. If we do not find the Mysteries of the Light while we are incarnate, our personality will be removed from the microcosm, post-mortem, to be replaced by an entirely different personality upon reincarnation. However, if while incarnate we manage to answer the call of the Gnosis and begin to walk the Path that leads to ultimate Liberation, our personality will persist after so-called death and will not have to return to the material world via the agency of childbirth. As it is written, we will "go no more out" (...he that overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out - Rev 3:12).

Do not waste the opportunity that lies in front of you. You have been touched by the Gnosis to some degree, or else you would not be reading these words. Grab the Golden Thread and follow it to its glorious end, thereby avoiding a fate similar to that of the tasty fried egg.

~ g
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There Are No "Others"

- originally posted in July 2009. Re-posted with edits -

One of the hardest things in the world for us to do is to understand that we are a Unity of One. What we do for One, we do for All, including ourselves. The following quote is from an entity known as "Hidden Hand":

See yourself within all Others and treat Others as You would like to be treated Yourself. Then remember this one crucial thing:

 

There are no "Others".

A very simple, yet profound statement. When we serve the group, we serve ourselves by default, as we are a part of the group. It doesn't work the other way around.

It's a huge shift for us to make, as we have spent thousands of incarnations pretending that we were Separate from each other. But it's a shift that can be made. We simply need to open our minds to the memory of what was and to the realization of who we truly are.

all love,

~ g
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Seek. Live. Know.

The following is in response to a recent comment.

You are a Seeker, as are many of us. Our seeking inevitably brings us to a borderland, a ring-pass-not. Having seen everything else the natural world has to offer we are left frustrated, confused, jaded and cynical. The world's spiritual supermarket offers us nothing lasting, nothing true. We sigh in despair, ready to throw up our hands in defeat.

It is at this point of abject disillusionment that we are most susceptible to the touch of the Gnosis. The heart knows that there is "something" out there. It is when we are through chasing on the horizontal level that the heart takes a step towards That Which Is True.

How do we know that the Universal Doctrine is not just another New Age scam or flavor-of-the-month spirituality? First off, one must do his or her due diligence. The School of the Rosycross has always maintained that insight is the first step of the Fivefold Gnostic Path. This means that a certain amount of study is in order. The Seeker must learn the true nature of the world to which he or she has been bound for thousands upon thousands of years. This is why Jan van Rijckenborgh, a Sent One, went to great lengths to expose the workings of the reflection-sphere, as well as the archons and aeons of this nature-order. The transfiguristic process was carefully explained in The Coming New Man.

The Gnosis is nothing new. It has been with man since The Fall - many millions of years. Although most of the recent writings (by recent, we mean the last 75,000 years or so) explaining the Gnosis and the Path of Liberation have been destroyed or hidden away by those who wish to keep us ignorant, important works managed to survive primarily because humans do not recognize what they are reading when confronted with it. van Rijckenborgh had the ability to translate these ancient works so that the modern Seeker could understand. Indeed, that was a major part of his mission during his incarnation. Some examples:

Egyptian: The ancient Corpus Hermeticum is interpreted and explained by JVR in four volumes of The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis.

Chinese: The Tao Te Ching is interpreted and explained in The Chinese Gnosis.

Gnostic Christianity: The gnostic gospel Pistis Sophia is interpreted and explained in The Gnostic Mysteries of Pistis Sophia.

Insights into the workings of this nature-order are explained in Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross.

The Transfiguristic process is explained in The Coming New Man.

These works were not written for monetary gain or personal fame. They were written for you, for all those future Seekers who, after endless wandering in the night of the world, would cry out in despair for the Truth that had eluded them for so long.

So the advice here is to begin at the beginning. You must do the work. Gain insight into Man's plight and Man's path to salvation. After doing so, something within you will decide whether what you have been exposed to rings true or not. You will either walk away in disappointment or you will move joyfully to the second step of the Fivefold Gnostic Path - a deep yearning for salvation. But first, you must gain the proper insight.

Seek the Truth. Once found, Live the Truth. It is by living the Truth that you will come to Know the Truth.

Seek. Live. Know.

~ g
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"Love Yourself"

We hear it all the time:

"The best advice I can give you is to love yourself".
"You can't love anyone until you learn to love yourself".
"Learn to love yourself first".

At first glance, harmless and helpful, right? Empowering, eh?

In truth, the above is the exact oppositve of what one should be trying to do as mankind enters the Aquarian Age. Learning to love ourselves puts the focus on ourselves. It turns our attention inwards, towards what we think is good for us, what we desire, what we want to do. This self-focus shuts out others and serves to color life as a "me-against-them" proposition. The following advice is for those who aspire to become a part of the New Race:

Love all others, so as to be loved. Forgive all others, so as to be forgiven.

~ g
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"For You It Shall Be As Food"

[QUOTING]

A pupil of the Spiritual School will be a vegetarian because animal cells obstruct and even make impossible the task he has to fulfill: the methodical demolition and annihilation of the old nature and the revivification of the Divine nature. Vegetarianism is therefore a fundamental condition for admission into the School of the Rosycross.

The human organism consists of cells of which there are different groups. Cell groups of the same kind together form one specific organ. Every cell is a little world of in itself, a complete microcosm. Each has its own metabolism. Cells are fed by forces attracted by cell nuclei, while other values leave cells after having performed their tasks. Cells also die and are completely replaced by new ones. These strange processes, which to material science are still almost impenetrable mysteries - as is the problem of the maintenance of the brain-cells, for example - are clear to esoteric science, which teaches that, without any exception, it is dangerous for human beings to use the cells of animal bodies as food.

There are three levels on which the damage can make itself felt: the spiritual, moral and material levels, causing spiritual, psychological or physical defects. For instance, to eat fish fosters perversity, horse meat passion; to eat beef fosters stupidity and sententiousness; pork fosters cruelty, brutality and over-confidence; to eat mutton fosters falseness and to eat fowl fosters idiocy.

Nations and individuals who eat a great deal of any of these meats clearly show signs of it. Every cell is a power center, suitable only for the organism to which it belongs. Any foreign cell in the body will therefore cause damage in some way or the other. Apart from the physical, psychological or spiritual defects, a meat diet brings about a strong binding with the earth.

As Man in his fall sank ever deeper into the material life-field, he adapted his food to his state-of-life. Some esoteriscists maintain that this change in diet has taken place under divine guidance, but this is quite wrong. Just as man himself was the cause of his fall, so he himself always chose his foods accordingly. Seven phases can be distinguished:

1. the fruit diet, composed of the produce of the vegetable kingdom;
2. the vegetable diet;
3. the addition of the products of living animals;
4. the addition of the flesh of killed animals;
5. the addition of alcohol, which causes befuddlement of the mind;
6. the addition of nicotine, which causes degeneration of the aural sphere and the nerves, that is, the consciousness;
7. the addition of synthetic foods and synthetic medicines, which cause disturbances in the vital body through mineralization of the life ethers.

In passing through these seven phases, mankind has now sunk to the bottom of this stratum. Via these seven phases his entire bodily figure has become degenerated, diseased and miserable, simply through the effects of food and stimulants.

If we add all the other causes of our downfall and consider the material , moral and spiritual interactions we will realize how matters stand with us. The crystallizing and degenerating foods which are so harmful will not be taken away from mankind. Therefore, every individual will have to renounce them as a result of a personal decision.

To be able to make such a decision, one must be ripe for it. No one can be talked into it. Those who make it do so primarily because they are urged by remembrance, which has been guided and purified by the Hierarchy. Their decision is supported by an attitude of life which is as broad as possible so that nothing can be omitted. For the candidate on the Path of Liberation it is necessary to free himself from narcotics. In this way he liquidates the fifth, sixth and seventh phases of his downfall.

It is well-known that alcohol dulls the mind. However, even the smallest quantity has a strong effect on the pineal and pituitary glands. Alcohol drives out a man's positive consciousness and makes him open to all kinds of negative forces and influences.

Nicotine brings about an immediate degeneration of the respiratory system, the heart sanctuary, the blood, the sex organs and the nervous system. Tobacco is a Mars-herb. This Mars-narcotic affects the iron in the blood, its red pigment, the sex organs, the motor nerves, the left hemisphere of the brain, the muscular movements, the astral body, the motor segment of the spine and the rectum. It irritates and causes explosive, excessive and violent reactions. These are the pathological properties of this Mars-narcotic. Anemia, sexual desires, nervous disorders, infantile paralysis, spinal diseases, hemorrhoids and rheumatism are among the consequences of the use and mis-use of nicotine. What alcohol brings about only partly, nicotine does continually; it makes the entire being dependent on earthly powers and earth-bound spirits. It makes the Prodigal Son satisfied with his hog-slop.

Apart from some specific characteristics, the other narcotics have a similar effect to that of alcohol and nicotine.

The synthetic substances contained in foodstuffs and drugs cause dehumanization of the vital body. They cause it to lose its individual vibration and to show increasing similarity to the planetary ether. In this way man becomes like a mineral, which is the worst form of crystallization and materialization. In this way, the chain is closed.

The candidate who has freed himself from the fifth, sixth and seventh phases of his descent will now also take leave of the fourth phase, that of eating the flesh and products of dead animals. Once this phase has been overcome, there exists an elementary basis for the great purpose of pupilship. In the further development of his eating habits, the candidate will exercise the greatest possible discretion so as not to fall into extremes.

Generally speaking, the diet should be composed of fruits, vegetables and other edible plants, certain herbs and products of live herbivorous animals. The diet should be adapted to individual needs and great caution should exercised in laying down rules for others. We should not force our own eating habits on others, for one person may well need more proteins, carbohydrates, fats or mineral salts than another.

From "Attitude of Life and Nicotine, Alcohol and Other Narcotics" - Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross - J. van Rijckenborgh

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Everything begins from below-upwards. Walking the Path of Liberation requires a that our physical and subtle vehicles obtain and maintain a certain state of purity. This cannot be if we persist in defiling the temple with all sorts of unnecessary and harmful products. It is one thing to not know any better. Such a person cannot be found completely at fault, due to ignorance. However, once one has come to know better, there is no excuse. It is only a stubborn I-centeredness that will prevent that person from making the changes required in order to walk the Path in earnest.

People want to eat whatever they want, drink whatever they want, ingest whatever hallucinogenic substance that they want. This they call "freedom", when in fact, all they are doing is slamming more padlocks on their personal prison.

If one wants to walk the Path in earnest, then one will have to give up the things of this world that are designed to obstruct that Journey. Those who are ready, will know it instinctively. Those who are not, will walk the Path in name only. May it be so that you belong to the group that has remembrance and that these elementary requirements will not faze you in the least.

"...behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of the whole earth, and every tree which bears fruit yielding seed; to you it shall be for food" - Genesis 1:29

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Don't Be This Guy

 

Remember the Divine Purpose for which you were created. Locate the Golden Thread that leads to the Path of Return. Then follow that Path to Liberation from the nature-of-death.

 

~ g

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Nobody Dies

There is no death. Life withdraws, it does not cease. The physical form remains behind and disorganizes. We call it decay. What is actually happening is that natural life processes are continuing. The individual elements that were held together in an organized fashion by the forces of the etheric body are released from their bonds. They return to the earth from whence they came (like attracts like).

The so-called "dead" individual persists beyond the veil, alive as ever. The only difference being that the physical body has been shed. The individual does not become an angel, or all-powerful or all-wise. One crosses over essentially the same as one was during earth-life. So, if one was a jerk in life, they will remain a jerk in the reflection-sphere, at least for a time.

The remaining vehicles are dissolved after shorter or longer periods of time. First, the higher portion of the etheric body, then the desire body, then the mental body. Eventually, there is nothing left of the personality that inhabited the microcosm in the life just ended. John Doe no longer exists. You will no longer exist. Only your experiences and karma will be retained, stashed away in the lipika where they will remain until the microcosm links up with a new physical vehicle and a fresh personality is constructed.

Repeat the above thousands of times and you will have what passes for existence in the nature of death. Man is on a treadmill, without having the slightest notion of being there, nor of how to get off.  There is only one way to dis-engage from The Wheel of Death and Rebirth:

Seek the One Goal Of Humanity, the Path of Liberation. Free the Other One that lies sleeping within your heart sanctuary.

Nobody dies. Your microcosm is eternal, but it is trapped here in a temporal world. May you find the strength to awaken from your slumber and do what you were created to do.

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Exterminate With Extreme Prejudice

 

We know the Cathars as the preceding brotherhood. The medieval Roman church did its level best to eradicate the influence of the Cathars upon the people of southern France, Spain and beyond. In appearance they did succeed, through cold-blooded murder and intimidation. In truth, they ultimately failed, as the presence of you, this writer and all those who continue to answer the call of the Gnosis unassailably proves.

 

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Why Were the Teachings of the Original Christians Brutally Suppressed by the Roman Church?

Catharism was for many years the prevalent form of Christianity in large areas of France, Spain and Italy. The Cathars called themselves the friends of God and condemned the literalist Church as the Church of the Anti-Christ. They claimed to be the living inheritors of the true Christian heritage that had persisted in secret and which still had large numbers of adherents throughout the world.

Like the original Christians, the Cathars were vegetarians, believed in reincarnation and considered the Old Testament god Jehovah to be a tyrant...

The Cathars were respected for their goodness, even by their opponents. The Catholic Bernard of Clairveaux writes:

"If you interrogate them, no one could be more Christian. As to their conversation, nothing can be less reprehensible, and what they speak they prove by deeds. As for the morals of the heretics, they cheat no one, they oppress no one, they strike no one."

Despite this, the infamous Inquisition was set up by the Roman Church specifically to eradicate the Cathars, which it did with ferocious enthusiasm, burning alive men, women and children. From 1139 onwards the Roman Church began calling councils to condemn the heretics. Pope Innocent III declared that 'anyone who attempted to construe a personal view of God which conflicted with Church dogma must be burned without pity'. In 1208 he offered indulgences and "eternal salvation", as well as the lands and property taken from the heretics, to anyone who would take up the crusade against the Cathars. This launched a brutal 30-year pogrom which decimated southern France. Twelve thousand people were killed at St Nazaire and ten thousand at Toulouse, to give just two examples.

Béziers sacked and burnt 22nd July 1209

The inquisitor Bernard Gui instructed that no one should argue with the unbeliever, but 'thrust his sword into the man's belly as far as it will go.' At Beziers, when asked how to tell who was a Cathar and who was not, the commanding legate, Arnaud, replied, 'Kill them all, for God will know his own.' Not a child was spared.

Carcassonne taken by Crusaders 15th August 1209


Montségur - last stronghold of the Cathars

The Inquisition

 

By 1215, the Council of Lateran established the dread Inquisition. During the next 50 years the toll of those killed by this infamous arm of the Church climbed to one million, more than in all of the other crusades against heresies combined.
 

Cathars and supporters burnt at Montségur 16th March, 1244
 

Throughout these trials, Montségur quietly defied the Church, standing as a bastion of faith. The brave Cathari and their supporters resisted for six months. but, through an act of treachery, the difficult mountain was scaled, and in march of 1244, Montségur surrendered. Singing, 205 Cathars marched down the mountain and into the large bonfires awaiting them.

At Montségur, at Minerve, in the dungeons of Carcasonne, it is told that the Parfaits went willingly to their fate, helping others at the same time achieve release without fear or pain.

Yet despite the persecutions, the Gnostic free spirit could not be extinguished.

Excerpted from The Trail of Gnosis - Judith Mann

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Mainstream history books make not a single mention of this unholy crusade. Those who control what you see and hear do not want the masses to obtain any contact or link with the Gnosis, which is where exposure to the the history of the Cathars would eventually lead. This writer had to wait until mature adulthood to find out about the Church's bloody vendetta to usurp the pure rival that posed a threat to its corrupt teachings. But, as noted at the top of this post, despite their most diligent and bloodthirsty efforts, they...have...failed.

 

"At the end of 700 years, the laurel will be green once more"

- Bélibaste, the last Cathar to be burnt alive 
in the Corbières village of Villerouge-Termenès in 1321

 

We're back.

 

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