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

[END QUOTING]

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

~ g
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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.

~ g
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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.

 

~ g

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The Doctrine Of The Faith

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The Good is Life, Light, Intelligence, the Word. It is the Son of God. It is God Himself. Evil is Lucifer or Satan. It is pride, ambition, excessive desires and lies. But one day, Christ, the Conqueror, will return the repenting Lucifer to the feet of the God of Love! And the God of Love will, in utter compassion, forgive Lucifer's ambitious revolt!

The Sun is the Creator. Lucifer only constructs the form. Lucifer, moved by pride and ambition, wanted to imitate the works of the Logos; he is the mimicker of God.

Hence his work is only a lie, an imperfect world, a collapse, nothingness.

The world is an animal. The elements, the forests and mountains have a voice, a language. The plants have affections, feelings. The stars are Spirits clothed in Fire. The Heavenly Hosts, the morning stars, and the choirs of the stars are real.

A human-being consists of Spirit and Matter, of life and substance. The soul, the heavenly human-being, is the work of the Son. The body, the earthly human-being, is the work of matter.

Souls are lower angels that have been expelled from Heaven. The birth of a human-being is the fall of an angel.

Hence creation is a fall, life is a penance, and the earth is a place of testing and chastisement.

The exiled souls return to Heaven by Purification. First of all, this Purification occurs on earth; next from star to star; by successive ascensions, according to one's progress on the Path of Perfection.

Life is a sullied garment that is discarded at death; it can (and should) become the first stage of the Path of the Mysteries: from caterpillar to pupa, and from pupa to the perfect insect (the butterfly).

The unworthy souls evolve from star to star until their Final Deliverance into the heart of God.

'There is no hell in Eternal Love!'

From "On The Path to the Holy Grail"  - Antonin Gadal

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A short but powerful excerpt. The first paragraph symbolically and eloquently traces the trajectory of humanity's collective and individual journey away from, and back to, the Father.

There is much to contemplate here.

~ g
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Atlantis, Redux

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Various theories exist regarding the ancient, lost world-empire of Atlantis. However, there is very little precise knowledge about it, which accounts for the multiplicity of the theories and speculations; occult science does not provide the laity with one single detail. Yet it is an established fact that nothing in the dualistic world-order is lasting, for values, forces and conditions are constantly changing. Consequently, there can be no building in this order, in the sense of constant unfoldment and growth, because every rise is followed by a fall. In the Original dualistic order this rising and fading of things was not analogous to good and evil; it did not mean that good was nullified by bad, and bad, in turn, by good. In the Beginning, rising and fading was simply a process of change. How long a particular situation lasted was not determined by man or by human influences, but by the natural laws of this stratum of life.

However, the Fall of Man also disturbed and corrupted our stratum of life, so that natural duality has now been replaced by avenging duality, a situation in which, through man's activities, tensions repeatedly arise which call for destruction and change. In the pre-human state, re-grouping of continents and seas was not a catastrophe for mankind, but it is now, because the process of natural and avenging duality are encroaching on each other. Natural duality is repeatedly forced into action by man's wickedness, by human duality.

As one might imagine, the appearance of the earth during the Atlantean period had to change into that of the Aryan period, through the action of natural duality. One might also be able to imagine that the governors of our Fate made use of this change to teach mankind a lesson, to open a new possibility, in order to teach man how to go the Path back to his Original home, the Kingdom of Heaven.

However, one might want to imagine that, in view of man's sinful state, the change of natural duality could be used as a punishment, as a great twilight, an extinguishing of unholy consciousness, as a 'draught of oblivion'. Then, for the sinner, the new surroundings provide a clean slate, a new beginning, and for him, too, the change of natural duality would be a portal of renewal.

Two developments are therefore conceivable: one for the part of mankind that did not participate in the Great Sin of the Atlantean period, and one for the sinful part. These two developments actually exist. We are now living in the Aryan period. One part of mankind lives in this period as a consequence of the sin of Atlantis, having been hurled into this period with a draught of oblivion. The other part has received great new possibilities. That is why we speak of an Aryan period, for this means literally, 'the period of sanctification'. A true Aryan is a saint; one who, with the help of natural duality, passes through the Portal of Eternity of the True Kingdom. Orientalists have made Aryans of all Europeans. This stupidity became an insanity among the Nazis, who imagined themselves to be king-Aryans and awarded themselves the right and the power to 'aryanize' others.

A further re-arrangement of the continents, analogous to the one described here, is now approaching. A new era will dawn, the Jupiter era, in which all matter in its present form will be done away with. The sinners of this dispensation, those who have become completely crystallized in matter, will no longer be able to maintain themselves in this life-field, which will then be without matter, and they will perish. In this way, the separation between the two developments will come about. All the processes connected with this will become increasingly apparent, namely, the processes of degeneration, harvest and liberation, and finally, the great end-processes.

From "The Structure of the Earth and the Dialectical Life-Field" - Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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There is nothing new under the sun. Cycles begin and end, great civilizations rise, shine and fade into oblivion. The catastrophic demise of legendary Atlantis is once again poised to repeat itself. Many will suffer the consequences...unless they can awaken in time.

~ g
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Let Go

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We have just discussed the farewell, the moment that the new body of the Spiritual School and the magnetic  field of ordinary nature have drifted so far apart that a link is no longer possible. At that moment, the natural scientific farewell is celebrated. But there is still another farewell, the farewell to the world for each pupil who enters the heavenly ship, the magnetic body of the School. One should know that such a farewell is a demand, an absolute necessity; yet, one should realize that it is easy to fulfil. It is out of the question that the School should demand something from you that you could not fulfill or that you could fulfill only with much difficulty and pain.

We say this with emphasis because it is out of the question that a pupil can continue to exist in two fields. At present, you are in a phase of transition, you participate in two worlds. You are of this nature and, as a pupil, of the New Life. But this is an impossible state of affairs that can be only temporary. That is why a choice is necessary. The Sermon on the Mount states very clearly that we will have to choose between God and mammon.

Mammon is often seen as the god of money and to a certain extent, that is right. But that is not the most profound meaning of the Sermon on the Mount; by mammon you should understand everything of this world; hence, the choice between God and this world.

The problems of the soul which prevent a choice and its smooth realization lie principally in the form of self-maintenance of every description. You think you are prevented from choosing on account of all your dualistic difficulties. You think that you are not in a position to do anything right, as you have already succumbed to so many obstacles of ordinary nature. But we say to you: remember the evangelical expression: "Whoever loses his life for My sake, will find it".

Leave your dualistic difficulties for what they are. Do not try to disentangle them. For with every knot you disentangle, you perhaps fasten two other knots even more strongly. Nobody on the horizontal level has ever found a solution to the tangle, a way out of the labyrinth of ordinary nature. The deeper you enter the Maze of Life,  the more new passages, the more new doors you will meet and behind each door another labyrinth will be found. There is no liberation from this. Leave your difficulties for what they are and lose yourself. Take leave of yourself and your difficulties. You will get rid of all your difficulties and miseries if only you let go of yourself. A conscious neutralization is demanded.

From "The Gnosis In Present-Day Manifestation" - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Joy

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You will have been able to determine from our previous commentary that the twelve zodiacal aeons exercise a threefold power:

-- in the first place, on our planet
-- secondly, n every microcosm by way of the auric being's magnetic firmament
-- thirdly, on the twelve magnetic points in the brain of the personality.

When a candidate has freed himself from the grip of the aeons, when he has dethroned the twelvefold brain-god and has realized a new twelvefold magnetic circle in the head sanctuary, then the twelve aeons are, in fact, deprived of one-third of their power in relation to that one individual who has gone the Path. Hence, being 'liberated in Christ', being 'born of God', and more of such mystical sayings in the Bible obtain a very profound and exceptional meaning.

Whoever is able to fulfill this first phase of the Path, the phase of self-dissolution in the grace of The Rose, and is able to break up the magnetic system of ordinary nature to which he is bound is immediately liberated. And although existentially still completely a nature-being and so still in the world and within the system of the Twelve Aeons, such a person will no longer find any hindrance on account of this second sidereal birth. He has become a child of God. He has been freed of all ties forever.

Some outsiders call the philosophy of the modern Spiritual School a sombre, black and melancholic doctrine; but we ask you, can you think of even one message that is more joyful than the one of the Spiritual School?

Of course one can understand such an opinion of outsiders, because it must sound sombre and hopeless when the modern Spiritual School says: 'Expect nothing from this nature! Dissociate yourself from it! Spend absolutely no energy on it!' To people who still expect everything from the I and from this world-order, it must sound depressing when we teach radical self-dissolution.

But for those who see the escape and the ascension from this vale of tears and who have fixed their hearts on the Original Fatherland, it is an immense joy to be able to establish that the Path begins with a radical, absolute liberation. It is absolutely out of the question that such liberation could be expected only at the end of the interminable course of development in the Gnosis. We would like to permeate you with this joy and pour it over you.

From 'The Joyful Message of the Modern Spiritual School"' - The Gnostic Mysteries of Pistis Sophia - J. van Rijckenborgh 

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All other systems of development maintain that one progresses from stage to stage until finally he or she becomes an "initiate". The process is said to take many lives before one can attain the pinnacle.

Only the Path of Liberation offers a truth well-hidden from all seekers. That truth is that one is initiated when the Rose begins to bloom. After that initial awakening, we are provided with everything necessary to successfully complete the journey to Freedom. One has but to take those first steps and them seriously pursue the One Goal.

"I can do all things through the Christ-radiations, which strengthen me."

We start the Path with victory assured. It's not a matter of if, but when. And the 'when' is decided by the effort one puts into performing The Great Work.

~ g
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