"Fulfillment"

Decided to share this response to a recent comment.

Anonymous,

With all of its struggle, violence, frustration and disappointments many remain completely satisfied with material life. Although there is a constant undercurrent of unpleasantness, they try to combat this by pursuing some ephemeral "happiness", either for themselves or for others. They work to make a paradise of the physical world, which cannot be done. When introduced to the transfiguristic philosophy, one that states without pretense that we must leave this world to achieve true liberation, their "I" recoils in fear and they either lash out or withdraw. Not all are ready for the Gnosis.

There are countless religions and spiritual movements that claim to have "the answer" when, in reality, they have only a piece of the Truth, or nothing at all. It has been proven that if a group takes a kernel of Truth and wraps complete falsehood around it, people will respond to that muffled kernel of Truth while dismissing all that is false about a movement. By this method, billions are misled daily, living what they believe to be pious lives. In fact, they are being led straight to the reflection-sphere by these religious brotherhoods. They die without an inkling of how far away from the Truth they really were.

Our mankind is but one of myriads of mankinds inhabiting myriads of galaxies populating myriads of universes. With the exception of a very few, most of these entities, no matter how highly evolved are fallen entities, struggling to escape this fallen realm, the Seventh Cosmic Domain, but not knowing how.

It is not money, per se, that rules the world. It is the selfish desire of humans to acquire happiness and comfort for themselves in whatever way possible. The root of evil in this world is S-E-L-F-I-S-H-N-E-S-S.

i avoid personal focus, but will try to answer your final questions as briefly and succinctly as possible. Yes, i have a job, children, earthly obligations and responsibilities. These are things that must be attended to. The time of the hermit who escapes humanity by living in a cave is long past. We who are of the Gnosis must live among the people, always remembering to be in the world but not of the world.

No matter what earthly task we are engaged in, as long as we keep the knowledge that we have an opened Rose of the Heart and a firm link with the Universal Gnostic Chain, we can remain free. We work, as we must, but as soon as an earthly task is completed, our thoughts should turn back to things of the Spirit, thoughts of the Gnosis.

The School makes very few demands of its pupils. Vegetarianism, no drugs, no nicotine, no alcohol. A celibate lifestyle is requested, but not demanded. True pupils will follow those basic requirements freely, as they will realize that the New Soul cannot be born if we are polluting the physical, astral and mental bodies at the same time. These habits of behavior will only bring harm to the pupil, as their effects will not mesh well with those of the purifying Gnostic radiations.

No one is forced to attend any of the conferences, lectures or meetings that are offered by the School. Everything about the Path entails a voluntary effort by the pupil to do that which is needful. He or she cannot and will not be forced. Liberation is in their hands. The School simply provides the necessary insight and the power-field to assist in the Great Work.

A "fulfilling" life is not the aim of a serious pupil, as we know that no happiness can be found on the earth-plane. Our joy lies in the knowledge that we have found at last, within this incarnation, the Golden Thread that will lead us away from this earthly vale of tears and back to the Divine Kingdom, back to our Original Home.

~ g

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The Reflection-Sphere

A reader asks: "What does The School mean when it talks about the reflection sphere? Is it the astral world?"

This nature-order is composed of two halves: a material-sphere and a reflection-sphere. The material-sphere is the physical realm, the region that we live in during our physical lives. The reflection-sphere is the invisible "other side" of which most humans do not become aware of until they pass over. It is the region that the personality passes into after the physical life has ended.

Remember, there is no death. At death, so-called, it is only the physical body and the lower half of the etheric double that are laid aside. As the man's consciousness releases its focus on the physical world, the magnetic bonds that held the physical atoms together are relaxed, resulting in the disintegration of the physical body that we know as decay. All of the elements that composed the physical body are returned to their source, the earth.

The remaining parts of the personality, the parts that most cannot see, continue to have a life of sorts in the reflection-sphere. Here, a kind of slow dissolution also takes place, but over a longer period of time. More on that in a bit.

The reflection-sphere embraces the spheres of "hell" and "purgatory" (the sphere of purification) as well as that which in earthly religions is wrongly called "heaven" or "eternal life". All of these regions of the reflection-sphere are just as temporary and finite as those of the physical world. It is the temporary abode of the so-called dead, which does not imply that the deceased personality will be raised up to a new life. On the contrary, there is no survival of the fourfold personality (physical body, etheric body, astral body, mental body).

As the remains of the fourfold personality ascend through the etheric, astral and mental regions of the reflection-sphere, each of these subtle bodies slowly dissolve, by way of a process. Over time, the remains of the etheric body is dropped, then the astral body disintegrates and finally the mental body follows suit. The only things remaining from the deceased earthly personality is the immortal Divine Spark and four "permanent atoms" that will be used as the blueprint for generating the next personality to return to the material-sphere. The entire process generally takes from 700-1,000 earth years to complete.

The astral realm vibrates at a higher frequency than the physical realm, and possesses peculiar properties of reflection, hence the name reflection-sphere. Man's thoughts and desires radiate from his light-vesture and are attracted to similar thoughts and desires that have accumulated in our astral atmosphere ( "like attracts like" ). The astral realm then mirrors, or reflects these thoughts and desires back to humanity, who, having an affinity to these thoughts and desires, invariably act upon them, ultimately radiating those vibrations once again back to the reflection-sphere. Hence the circuit is closed and mankind is trapped within a deadly embrace.

The above interaction accounts for how aeons are formed. This symbiotic cycle of dependency between man and the astral world has resulted in the establishment of countless reflection-sphere brotherhoods, as well as a proliferation of "light-spirits", "ascended masters", "invisible colleges", etc., etc. All of these reflection-sphere phenomena can only survive by way of the forces that are transmuted and radiated by billions of human-beings. We are their "food". Mankind's astral radiations are the ambrosia, the "food of the gods". It is by ingesting and assimilating the light-forces emanating from mankind that these astral entities are able to prolong their stay in the reflection-sphere. They do not wish to return to physical incarnation.

Of course, this give-take-give relationship must result in some unhealthy associations between human and astral entities. As humans are mostly unaware of this on-going parasitic astral activity, they are easily victimized by those on the other side who are absolutely aware of how this works and recognize that the prolongation of their lives in the reflection-sphere depends upon the continued availability of light-power that can only be provided by humans in physical bodies. This is why the ancients maintained that:

"Man does not live, he is lived".

There will be more on this topic in future posts. For now we'll stop here and absorb this bit of insight. If there are questions, feel free.

~ g
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Like Attracts Like

Contrary to what we have been indoctrinated to believe, opposites are not attracted to one another. Opposites repel, they do not attract. At times, opposites may complement one another, but even that will be due to the existence between them of some element of attraction that brings them together through a process of bonding.

Only things of like nature are attracted to other things of like nature. The reasoning behind this is quite simple and clear, if given enough thought. When something is attracted to something else, it is expressing an affinity, a magnetic desire to collect or aggregate more of itself. This is known as attraction. When a thing encounters that which is of an opposing magnetic polarity to it, that thing will not have a desire to attract that which is not like itself. Instead of moving towards that opposite thing, it will move away. This is repulsion.

The number one use of the Fallacy of Opposites Attract is in the realm of personal relationships. Human-beings are prone to saying such things as,

"My partner and I are so unlike. But you know what they say: opposites attract!"

The reason why people say these things is because they are ignorant of the above-stated Law that Like Attracts Like. They focus on what is unlike in their partner, characterize it as being opposite of their own nature, and, at a loss to explain their attraction to one who is so much not (apparently) like them, they attribute the phenomena to the Fallacy of Opposites Attract. If people were to look deeper, if they were to try and understand the infallible Cosmic Law of Cohesion (Like Attracts Like) that rules here in the Seventh Cosmic Domain, they would begin to see a clearer picture.

If one is attracted to some other one that has traits that are dissimilar to one's own, then either of the following things are happening:

1. one is so much more attracted to similarities that exist between one and one's partner that they accept or ignore the existence of their partner's negative or, polar opposite traits.

2. one possesses within one's own auric field, traces of the traits that they characterize as being undesirable, or "opposite".

If your partner likes to argue, and you do not, then why are you with that person? What attracted you to someone with that trait? Either you have chosen to ignore that trait in your partner while accepting and focusing on the common traits shared by both of you, or you yourself have argumentative traits within your auric field. Many do not like to even consider the possibility of the latter.

The ancients stated that "the world we see is a reflection of who we ourselves are". From within our microcosm we peer out through an invisible sea of habits, fears, desires, likes and dislikes. As we look through this vibrational fog, it colors the appearance of everything that our senses receive, so that if we are the argumentative type, we will see an argument in everything others say or do. If we are sexually-focused, we will see sensual overtones in everything that we observe in the world around us. If reject or dislike ourselves, we will see rejection and dislike in every person that we come in contact with.

Predisposition to violence, fear of harm to the self, selfish focus upon the accumulation of wealth or power, all these things and more exist in one's aura and color one's perception of one's world. If we see ourselves attracting irresponsible types, abusive types, miscreants and other assorted negative types into our lives, we must look to ourselves when we experience the repercussions of these associations. Chickens will always come home to roost! It does not matter if you have been a saintly person in this life, thus making you "undeserving" of such treatment from others. What about the life of the previous personality in the microcosm? Or the life of the ones before that? There is a strong possibility that in previous lives you were the irresponsible type, the abusive type, the miscreant, etc. Although no longer acted out upon the physical realm, traces of those traits may still exist somewhere within your aura. Traces of those traits are enough to attract the same emanating from others, thus resulting in the seeming phenomena of attracting that which appears to be opposite of one's self, when in fact, what is being attracted is the same.

There is another saying that goes: "Be the one that you wish to attract". If there is a particular type of mate that one has in mind, one should first make sure that they have self-examined their own traits, both positive and negative, for it is these vibrations that will radiate forth from one's microcosm to attract their own from another microcosm.

The responsibility for the people we attract into our lives, the experiences that we have, etc. belongs solely to each one of us. The objective world is truly a mirror. You are being shown yourself. Like Attracts Like. It must be so on this plane of existence. It is Law. You can learn to work with this Law, or you can continue to work against it, and reap the consequences

Remember that what is returned to you originated from that which is within you. Do not waste time arguing and speculating that it can't be possible, because it is not only possible, it is fact. Spend your time instead diligently working to identify your undesirable traits and then endeavor to expel them from your microcosm as soon as possible. If one persists in this process of purification, one will begin to see the clouds lifting. The people, places and things that once vexed and troubled you will begin to fall away. Why? Because you will no longer have an attraction or desire for those things. Instead, the things that you desire and have an affinity for will become a constant in your life. It is hoped here that all of your desires will be pure and unselfish ones!

One asks: how will I know for certain? How will I know that the negative traits have been purged forever? You'll know. You'll know because when you look out at the world, the world will no longer reflect those things back to you.

Now, a final question will be asked. Having read and contemplated the foregoing, can you begin to understand the origin of your attraction to the Gnosis, its Universal teachings and the liberating Path of Return?

Like Attracts Like.

~ g
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A Pen In The Hand Of God

"Gossip, Cruelty and Superstition. These three great crimes you must avoid, for they are fatal to all progress, because they sin against Love. But not only must you refrain from evil, you must also be active in doing good. You must be so filled with the intense desire of Service that you are ever on watch to render it to all around you -- not to human-beings alone but even to animals and plants. You must render it in small things every day, that the habit might be formed, so that you may not miss the rare opportunity when the Great Thing offers itself to be done. For if you yearn to be one with God, it is not for your own sake; it is that you may be a channel through which God's Love may flow to reach your fellow human-being.

They who are on the Path exist not for themselves, but for others; for they have forgotten themselves, in order that they may serve others. They are a pen in the hand of God, through which God's Thought may flow, and find for Itself an expression down here, which without a pen it could not have. Yet at the same time they are also a living plume of fire, raying out upon the world the Divine Love that fills their hearts.

The wisdom which enables you to help, the will which directs the wisdom, the Love which inspires the will -- these are your qualifications. Will, Wisdom and Love are the three aspects of the Logos; and you, who wish to enroll yourselves to serve God, must show forth these Aspects to the world."

From "Love" - At The Feet Of The Master - by (Alcyone) J. Krishnamurti

Creator works through that which has been created, but only when the created being voluntarily allows itself to become a pure channel for the Divine Love that surpasses all understanding.

~ g
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Plan "B"

A reader writes: "OK so plan A failed. We are now in plan B emergency-order. Seems very hard to escape this prison with all those aeonic warders guarding us but even death does not free us from this prison."

Anonymous,

You are correct. Death does not free us from the physical plane, it simply shifts our "location" to the other side of the material-sphere, the reflection-sphere, where the deceased personality slowly dissolves and an entirely new personality is prepared for rebirth into the physical realm.

There is only one way to get off this never-ending Wheel of Death and Rebirth. We must embrace the Path of Return, the Path of the True Way.

When the sleeping Divine Spark is awakened by the candidate's sincere desire to leave this plane of existence, a change begin to take place in the candidate's microcosm. In short order, the microcosm is no longer completely of the earth, earthy. It has begun to attract and assimilate some of that which is is Divine. Upon the death of the personality, such a microcosm can no longer withdraw to the reflection-sphere, as it no longer vibrates in complete harmony with that sphere. Instead, it moves on to the Vacuum of Shamballa, a special etheric-astral region that is not in any way a part of the ordinary reflection-sphere.

Two things: first, when the candidate makes the decision to begin this process of Return, he or she should make an effort to enter the Spiritual School. The School is existentially linked to Shamballa as its physical-world counterpart. Both regions are enclosed within the sphere of the Thirteenth Aeon, the electromagnetic bridge between the Seventh Cosmic Domain (Cosmic Physical) and the Sixth Cosmic Domain, the Divine Astral. It is the Ark that has returned to take us Home, at least those who have their Lamps lit.

Secondly, we should not enter the Path in order to selfishly "gain eternity for ourselves". Once we enter the Path, immortality is assured, as long as we continue to grow in the Gnosis. We, as personalities, are not to be concerned with our own survival. Our task is to awaken and liberate the Other One that is waiting to be reborn within our microcosm. That is our ultimate duty. We, as personalities will share in all of the benefits of Transfiguration, whatever they may be. We, as personalities, will be the last personality in the microcosm. There will be no further need of rebirth, unless we voluntarily choose to return for the sake of helping mankind.

That is the outline for Plan "B" - God's Divine Plan of Salvation. The fivefold Gnostic plan of salvation consists of five important steps:

Insight
Yearning for Salvation
Self-Surrender
New Attitude of Life
Transfiguration

This Plan is infallible. It has always worked and will always work. The individual microcosmic personality has to react positively to the Plan. Periodically, subject to certain cosmic cycles, there is a harvest of those personalities who have recognized their hopelessly fallen state, recognized that a rescue Plan exists and made the voluntary choice to participate in the Plan by going the Path of Return.

That Cycle of Harvest has returned once again, here at the end of a major world-cycle. All who are ready to take advantage of the Grace Of An Age should do so, voluntarily, in sincerity and humility, as soon as they are able.

~ g
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In His Image

A reader recently commented: "But GOD has allowed free will in heaven, how is this possible? If GOD created everything and therefore is in everything, why did he allow human beings to have free will. Until we can answer this question its all just speculation."

Creator creates what It wills, and always according to a Divine Plan of Evolution. The resulting creations do not undergo the dialectical process of birth and decay, but evolve from power to power and from glory to glory. In this way, the Creation fulfills the Plan and manifests the Glory of its Creator.

Although infused within every part of Its Creation, the Creator simultaneously stands apart from it. This is a key truth and one that is very difficult for many to understand. Creator permeates the entire Creation, but It does not live in Its Creation.

To administer the Creation, Creator emanated co-creators. The co-creators work directly with the root-substance of the various planes of the manifested universes to create the diversity of life that is found in the myriad universes.

The Creator creates beings that are an image of Itself. This must be so, for in order to create in the manifested universes, co-creators must possess and make use of the same powers and properties of the One True Creator. The co-creators, in line with the will of the Creator, also have the ability to create beings who are the image of the One True Creator. We once belonged to such a group of co-creators.

"Created in His image" means what it says. Creator has the freedom to create what It wills and It bestows this freedom upon all co-Creators. Creator also needs no other in order to create. Creator contains both male (positive) and female (negative) polarities and is able to create without a consort. The same goes for the co-created entities. The Holy Language states: "male and female, He created them". This fragment should actually read: "male-female, He created them". That's "male-female" as in hermaphrodite, able to create without a consort. Just another example of how the Holy Language has been subtly tampered with to mislead you.

Co-creators also have complete "Freedom of Choice", as opposed to the overused and misunderstood term "Free Will". As long as Choice is exercised in voluntary service of the Divine Plan of Evolution, everything will proceed from power to power and from glory to glory. When Choice is exercised selfishly, in service of the co-creating entity, serious problems will arise. That which is created will be defective. The Power granted to the co-creator will be gradually withdrawn. The co-creating entity will fall out of the Divine Realms and end up in a region of the Creation where it is no longer able to unfold the powers granted to it by its Creator. The fallen entity will not have the ability to escape the lower region and will have to be rescued.

Yes, it is difficult to believe that we, the lowly worms of the universe that we have been brainwashed to believe that we are, could ever have been Divine, or ever have shared in all of the attributes of God, the Father. We have been taught instead that we are in some long occult process of "development" and that if we do everything that the churches or nature-born occult systems of initiation tell us to do, we might one day become an angel, or an initiate, or an Adept. Granted, this is technically true, because all roads will eventually lead to Final Liberation. God's Divine Plan of Salvation will succeed in the end, even if it takes many trillions of years. Dei Gloria Intacta! The Glory of God's Plan is unassailable! However, that path is the slow, meandering path of bitter experience and painful disappointments. There is a more direct route to Liberation: the Path of Return.

Our heritage is far more glorious than we have been led to believe, and so is our future, so-called. We are on the Path not to obtain Divinity but to regain Divinity.

It is difficult to shake off ages of false teachings and aeonic control, but we must. This is how the aeons of this nature have managed to keep mankind chained to earth, by telling us that we are worthless "sinners" undeserving of redemption or salvation and by training us to believe that we have never been anything Higher, that there is no possible way that we, as Divine beings, could've made the mistakes necessary to fall from our high estate into the Pit of Hell.

In response to a recent comment by another reader, Lectorium Rosicrucianum is a modern-day mystery school, one of the last to appear during the end of this major world-cycle. Its job is to reveal to those who have ears to hear and eyes to see that there is a way back to Divine status, a straight and narrow way. But "one cannot pour new wine into old skins". This phrase from the Holy Language means that we cannot receive the revelations that are being presented by LRC and all true Messengers of God if we are going to continue to hold on to the false teachings of the agents of the archons and the aeons. The myth that man's only road to salvation lies in developing towards some ephemeral higher goal at a snail's pace, step-by-step, life-after-life, initiation-after-initiation, is one of those misleading teachings.

We must empty ourselves of the lies that have become a part of us, and open ourselves to receive the New Wine, the revelation of Truth that has come to set us free.

~ g
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Marooned In The Garden Of The Gods

A reader has asked: "If the Divine Kingdom was all that good, what are we doing here?"

Our human life-wave did not make a voluntary choice to maroon itself in the Seventh Cosmic Domain. It was the result of an error, a mistake, driven by self-will.

When we were in the Divine Realms, we were co-creators with God. As our will was aligned with God's will, we were omniscient, omnipresent and had the power to design living forms. These powers were not ours, but were the powers of God, manifested through us. Whatever glorious things we were able to do were made possible by our constant linkage with the Father, with Source.

A portion of the Creation was set aside for us, the Children of God, to design and create. This region was/is the Physical Realm, the Seventh Cosmic Domain. The Physical Realm was to be a workshop, a laboratory, a Garden of the Gods, where we could experiment with life and life-forms. We created everything from mineral formations, to plant and animal species, to human races. All things were possible.

We were to observe one rule: we were not to get involved with our creations, we were not to attempt to live inside of that which we were creating, especially the human races. The pull of duality was very strong. If we became too entangled, too involved, the magnetic properties of the Cosmic Physical Realm would pull us down like quicksand.

A group of us did not pay attention to this warning. Instead of continuing to align our will with God's will, we followed our own desires, our own self-will. We decided to go into business for ourselves. We chose to dabble directly in the Physical Realm, we chose to live inside of our creations.

As predicted, this had a negative effect on our microcosms, effectively dropping its vibration from the high frequencies need to thrive in the Divine Realms to a much lower frequency, more suited to the Physical plane. As we continued to "fall" in vibration, the Divine part of us slowly atrophied until finally, the Light of the central Divine Spark could no longer communicate with our Divine Home. It became obvious that we were not going to be able to return to the Divine Kingdom without help. In order to rescue these fallen microcosms, a Divine Plan of Salvation was developed and put into action.

The Seventh Cosmic Domain, that which was once a Garden of the Gods, was turned into an emergency-order. It was tweaked so that it would become a suitable location to house fallen microcosms until a way could be found to bring them back Home.

To answer our reader's question, no one intended to leave the Divine Kingdom and end up marooned in the Physical Realm. It was simply the price paid for not having followed the will of the Father, and for disregarding all warnings. Once we made the voluntary choice to follow our own self-will, things got messy. We are now trapped here, far away from Home, with very little memory of who we really are, where we've come from, and how to get back there.

Here's another way of looking at it. A group of schoolchildren go on a field trip in the woods. They are told what to do and what not to do. They are also told to stick together and to not wander off. One child sees something interesting just off the path that they are travelling and makes a quick dash into the woods to get a better look. When he gets there, the item that he wanted to look at is gone. He turns around to rejoin his classmates and realizes that he is lost. Just that quickly, everything has changed.

The child is never found by searchers. He remains in the woods abandoned and alone. He learns to adapt to his new condition. In order to survive, he devolves to the level of an animal. In a few years, all memories of his former life have vanished. He believes that he is a creature of the woods, and always has been.

Via the broadest of outlines, this post has attempted to answer the question "what are we doing here?". Now for the follow-up question: "how do we get out of here?". In order to return Home, we must re-align our will with that of the Father. In order to do this we must surrender our I-centrality. Most of us are spiritually asleep and disconnected from conscious contact with God. We think we have a connection to the Divine, but we do not. The churches, temples and mosques teach that man requires their priests, preachers, rabbis and imans to act as intermediaries between man and God. It's not even a teaching, its straight-up brain-washing. Listen closely to the following and commit it to memory: you do not need the help of any intermediary to reconnect you with the Father. The Kingdom of God is within you! It sleeps with your Divine Spark, awaiting proper and correct actions from you that will awaken and unfold its Power.

~ g

Breakthrough

For those who are not on the Path of Return, or who hesitate to take that first step on the Path, the following is for you:

The physical realm is not the only realm in the universe. There are other realms, astral and etheric, that exist within the same "space" that you now occupy. You cannot see all of the astral activity that constantly surrounds you because you have not yet activated the sense organs required to perceive that activity.

Of all the realms that make up the universe, the physical realm is the least real of them all. It is not permanent or lasting. It is part of an emergency-order.

The physical realm is one of constant change. It is the realm where pairs of opposites are constantly changing place as they attempt to maintain a balance. It is duality. It is dialectics. It is the opposite of the Divine Kingdom, which is the realm of absolutes. On earth, a freshly-picked apple is beautiful and aromatic. With the passage of "time", the apple ripens, then rots, then disintegrates and eventually vanishes. All else on Earth follows this pattern of Rising, Shining and Fading. This proves the unreality of the physical realm. How can something be "real" if it is here one minute and gone the next? Think about that. Really think about it.

In the Divine Kingdom, an apple is always an apple. Beautiful forever.

"Time", so-called, is part of the illusion. Time, as we know it, is a fiction. If the light of the Sun did not come and go, if the Sun did not disappear and reappear at twelve-hour intervals, if it were always light or always dark, would there be "time" on this planet? Time is a fiction.

Not only is the 24-hour day an illusion, so is the Past and the Future. There is only the Present moment. There is only a forever Now.

Even Death is an illusion. There is no death, there is only Change. As Hermes stated, "Man mistakes change for death". So-called "death" is but an exit, a withdrawal from the physical plane back to the reflection-sphere. You spend 72 years on earth, if you're lucky. You spend 700-1000 years in the reflection-sphere, generally-speaking. That's right, you spend more time "dead", than you do "alive". There is no death, just a continuous Rising, Shining and Fading of one personality after another within the microcosm.

"Heaven" is an illusion. The eternal "heaven" of the churches is a lie. They are referring you to the temporary heaven-worlds of the reflection-sphere. Some of these heaven-worlds are actually pleasant, as heavens go, but they are not "eternal". After a certain amount of time, trishna (the lingering desire for sensation on the earth-plane) and karma (the magnetic law that binds all causes to their effects) will move the microcosm to generate a new personality for a return to earth-life, for another turn on The Wheel.

Oh, and you, yourself, as a personality, are also temporary. You, as a personality, are an emergency-order being, created by your microcosm to accomplish a specific Purpose. What is that Purpose? To awaken the latent Divine Spark that sleeps within the center of the microcosm, in the area of the physical human heart. This Spark contains everything that the emergency-order personality needs to re-link the microcosm with the Divine Kingdom, its original Home. To accomplish this, you, the emergency-order personality, must surrender control to the Divine "Other One" that is emerging from the awakened Spark. If you do not accomplish this Great Work, or at least make a sincere and honest start, your incarnation will have been a failure, no matter how much earthly "good" you may have done during life.

The Divine Kingdom is not a part of this emergency-order. Nothing truly "divine" can be found here. The Divine Kingdom cannot be found on other physical planets, galaxies or universes. It is located (for want of a better word) in a completely separate Cosmic Domain, the Sixth Cosmic Domain, the Cosmic Astral Plane. Where are you? You are in the Seventh Cosmic Domain, the Cosmic Physical. The Physical Domain is sub-divided into seven planes Atmic, Buddhic, Higher Manasic, Lower Manasic, Astral, Etheric and Physical. No matter how high you may climb in the Seventh Cosmic Domain, how exalted a light-spirit or "Master" you may become, you will remain un-divine. For your microcosm to regain its Divine state, it must escape the Seventh altogether.

Again, this entire physical universe, both visible and invisible, is a fallen universe. It is a temporary emergency-order. Majestic in its own way, yes, but unreal to its core. You must come to understand and know all of this if you are to voluntarily and unconditionally accept the fact that the Path of Return is the only way out.

Here's hoping that the foregoing will help lead you to a breakthrough.

~ g
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To Be 'Born Again'

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can an old man be born again? Can he enter again a second time into his mother's womb and be born?" John 3:4

"Being 'born again', i.e., awakening the sleeping Heavenly figure, is the task. A new Heavenly Personality must be born while man is still existing in the old personality. The raising of this New Figure is subject to laws which are quite different from those which governed the ancient esoteric systems, and it is these new laws which the candidate must study and apply.

The New Being in gestation is formed from above downwards. First comes the mental faculty, next the astral body, then the etheric body as the matrix for the new physical body.

What is required first of all in order to conceive the Heavenly Man is fundamental reversal, virtual renunciation of the old "I", parting with all ancient magic that exalts the old "I". Furthermore, it should be quite clear that there can be no question of neglecting the earthly personality and the necessary earthly life. We must, however, shift the accents in such a way that we choose an attitude to life which will promote the true aim of Rebirth.

Bound as we are to biological appearance, we must pay the price for our existence in this world, but by adopting a rational attitude to life we build up that which is 'not of this world'.

The Brotherhood of the Rosycross entreats all earnest seekers for Liberation to embrace the Fundamental Principle of the New Dispensation: breaking with the old life and entering the New Life!"

From "Orientation III" - Dei Gloria Intacta - Jan van Rijckenborgh


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'Born again'. Churches the world over throw this term around without the courtesy of an explanation or a plausible example. The term has absolutely nothing to do with superficially changing one's behavior, making Jesus one's "lord and savior", and pronouncing one's self as "saved". That is what Churchianity wants its blind sheep to believe.

The gnostic transfigurist knows the true meaning of the term 'born again'. It is a transmutation of the microcosmic personality. It is the re-birth of the True Man, the Other One who has been imprisoned within the sleeping Divine Spark for long ages of time.

It is to this magical birth that we who are on the Path aspire. This is the Great Mystery that is being revealed to the Children of God during the end of this major world-cycle.

Embrace the true meaning of the term 'born again'. Follow the Path of Return, the Path that leads to the New Birth.

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Live The Path

The Path is a reality. It is not just some ideal. It is not a series of exercises or lessons. The Path of Return is a living phenomena, and as such it must be lived.

Every moment of every day, the life of the candidate should be a reflection of what the Path requires: self-surrender, non-attachment, neutrality, objectivity, understanding for those who are not on the Path, love for all, especially those whom we have been taught to hate, longing for Liberation.

Even when engaged in something that requires our full attention, we must always be cognizant of the Fire that is burning within our heart sanctuary. Once our earthly duty has been completed, our focus should return to what we are trying to accomplish. Maintain equilibrium. If we allow ourselves to be buffeted to and fro by all of the sensations, temptations and impacts of the natural world, our pupilship will suffer.

Although we are presently inhabiting two worlds, be reminded that we are engaged in the process of leaving one world and entering another. Also remember that this is a group effort. You have brothers and sisters the world over who are engaged in the same Great Work. Together we form cells in the Living Body of the Gnosis. Physical proximity is no barrier to our collective unity. We are all connected through the agency of the Thirteenth Aeon, the Ark that has descended once again to retrieve that which was lost.

This is your New Life. The old must pass away. As Joseph Campbell once stated:

"We must give up
The life we have planned,
In order to have the Life
That is waiting for us"

Live the Path.

~ g
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Non-Attachment

"Today there are again developments which practice coercion of the conscience, in small things as well as in major issues. In many fields of life, with all kinds of motives, coercion of the conscience is flourishing anew. Tyranny is exercised by families, for instance, and in many other countries by groups.

We are also thinking, here, of the inhabitants of the reflection-sphere and the life-waves which populate the etheric domain, of those who dwell on other planets and of the aeons and the archons of the aeons. Among them are those who have become extremely powerful as creatures and who glorify themselves with the names of gods, or who are awarded such names by others. There are also the hordes of perpetrators of the Great Game.

In short, there are myriads of creatures with myriads of possibilities for betrayal, deceptions and coercion. And all of them are telling you: "We possess The Good".

And now we consider the Seeker, in the ocean of life, as a creature among fellow creatures. It is as if he has been submerged, and is being tossed to and fro by the waves.

Most of you have been genuine Seekers since your youth. You have been searching everywhere, haven't you? And think of all the vast quantities of literature that you have devoured! And isn't it true to say that it was as if by coincidence, through a combination of circumstance beyond your control, that you came into contact with the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross?

What should the candidate do amidst the fire of his seeking? Where should he go? What is being done to him? Where are the tides of life driving him? Thousands of voices ring in his ears: "The Good is here!' What will become of him? For in the totality of creation, evil takes many forms. That is why the observation is made in the tenth book of Hermes that what is considered good here, in the world of dialectics, is at best the smallest part of evil.

Who could distinguish the truth among all these wraith-like forms, among all those shadowy notions which present themselves to us? Who is able to see through all that pretense, all that delusion, all that nefariousness? How could one possibly make sense of all that immeasurable chaos? Who could remain standing in the midst of these wildly proliferating dangers? Surely it is not possible?

Yes, it is possible! The contents of the tenth book of Hermes are intended to help you in this, since they are directed at the person who wishes to become an Aesclepius. The fact that the Only Good is autonomous, the fact that the Only Good and its mighty radiation are completely separate from all created things, the fact that the Only Good does not share in the delusive nature of creation in any way whatsoever, the fact that the Only Good is unique in its absolute, eternal purity and that nevertheless the Godhead irradiates the whole of creation, the whole of chaos with its Mighty Light and no place can be found where It is not present - that, and that alone enables the Seeker, Aesclepius, to remain himself and find his way through the labyrinth.

We have already given you the necessary directions. If you wish to become a priestess or a priest of the Gnosis, if you want to be an Aesclepius, a healer of mankind, then do not be attached to anything, neither by love, nor especially by hate. Be purely objective, well-disposed to the last, but not attached. Do not listen to any voice, any impulse, any suggestion. Our words, too, you should not accept a priori as true. Be of goodwill, and remain unbiased until from within you discover something of the truth.

We repeat: do not listen to any voice, do not pursue the fleeting urge of your sensory organism. Stand without conceit as an autonomous creature  amid the All-Manifestation. But at the same time, be extremely watchful, for as soon as you begin to enter into detachment, the entire host of aeons and archons will fall upon you. Many gods of creation, many entities who have achieved great power, will take an interest in you.

No one is good, not even one. Therefore, we stand in non-attachment. The Godhead, the mighty all-fulfilling Godhead can only touch us with Its radiation in this state of objectivity and non-attachment. Only in this way can Its radiative plenitude transmit to us in purity the message of the All.

As long as you still exist in the nature-born state, you should not connect yourself with anything. If you do, you will always be victimized.

Bear in mind the familiar warnings in the holy language: "Be faithful, but trust no one. Do not believe in every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God" says John. These two pieces of advice are very hermetic. If you follow them, no harm will come to you. If you do not, grief and pain will assail you, and go on assailing you, for grief and pain are part of evil."

From "The Path Of Self-Surrender" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. III - Jan van Rijckenborgh
                            
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The Path of Return includes a phase of preparation for unification with The Only Good. It requires one to be devoted to the Rose of the Heart. If one can devote one's self to the Rose of the Heart, unconditionally, accepting all requirements and consequences, one will be developing the autonomy required to withstand the attempts of the natural-world to deceive and dissuade.

The aim is to have the head become subordinate to the heart. We call this state-of-being "self-surrender". The aim of self-surrender is to open the head sanctuary for Spirit, for The Only Good. Self-surrender can only be put into practice through a dedicated attitude of non-attachment.

~ g
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The Only Good

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone." Mark 10:18

1 The Good, Aesclepius, is exclusively in God, or rather: God is The Good, in all eternity. That is why The Good is necessarily the cause and essence of all motion and of all genesis: nothing exists that is without The Good. The Good, in perfect equilibrium, is surrounded by a static force of manifestation: it is the entire plenitude, the Primordial Fount, the Origin of all things. When I call that which sustains everything 'good', I mean The Good, which is Absolute and Eternal.

2 This attribute belongs only to God, for there is nothing He lacks, so that no desire for possession can make Him evil. There is nothing He might lose and at the loss of which He might be grieved, because sorrow and grief are a part of Evil. There is nothing stronger than He that might be able to wage war against Him, nor is it keeping with His nature that indignity might be brought down upon Him. Nothing excels Him in beauty and thus arouses Him to the love of the senses. Nothing can deny Him obedience and thus move Him to anger. There is nothing wiser than He which could thus arouse His covetousness.

3 As none of these emotions is to be found in the All-Being, there is nothing to Him other than The Good. And just as none of the other characteristics can occur in such a being, likewise The Good cannot be found in anyone else.

4 All the other qualities occur in all other beings, in the small as well as in the large, in each of them in a specific way, and even in the world, the greatest and most powerful in all manifested life: for all that has been created is full of suffering, because genesis itself involves suffering.

Where there is suffering, The Good is certainly absent. Where The Good is, there is certainly no suffering whatsoever. Wherever day is, there is no night, and wherever night is, there is no day. That is why The Good cannot dwell in what has been created but only in the non-created.

But since all matter participates in the non-created, it is also part of The Good. In this sense the world is good, insofar as it likewise brings forth all things it is, as such, good. But in all other respects it is not good, being also subject to suffering, and changeable, and is the Mother of creatures subject to suffering.

5 Human standards of goodness are obtained by comparison with evil. What is not evil beyond measure is here considered to be good, and what here is held to be good is the smallest part of evil. Therefore, it is impossible, here, for what is good to be free from contamination by evil. What is good, here, is affected by evil and ceases to be good. Thus, this good deteriorates into evil. That is why The Good is in God alone; yes, God is The Good.

6 In men, Aesclepius, The Good can be found only in name but nowhere as a reality. In fact, that is impossible, for The Good cannot find a place in a material body which on all sides is stifled by afflictions and arduous exertion, grief and desire, passion and delusion, and images of the sense.

7 However, worst of all, Aesclepius, is that everything to which man is driven, by what I have mentioned, is here considered to be the greatest good, instead of an extraordinary evil. The passionate desire of the belly, the instigator of all malice, is the error which keeps us here remote from The Good.

8 Therefore, I thank God for what He has revealed to my consciousness with regard to the knowledge of The Good, which is not be found in the world. The world is saturated with evil, just as God is filled with the fullness of The Good, or The Good with the fullness of God.

Corpus Hermeticum, Book 10, verse 1-8

From "That The Good Is To Be Found In God Alone And Nowhere Else" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

If you wish to know the attributes of God, there it is. Verse 2 is especially enlightening.

Compare the description in verse 2 with the account given of the "God" of the Old Testament, who is jealous, vengeful, wrathful, deceitful, murderous and cunning. Then follow that by a comparison with "The Father" spoken of by Christ in the New Testament, Who is both Giving and Forgiving in nature.

The foregoing should help you to identify which of these two testaments is referencing the One True God and which chronicles the exploits of a powerful nature-aeon, one that the churches have spent two thousand years deceitfully teaching mankind to believe is the One True God, The Only Good.

~ g
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From Animal-Being To Soul-Being

"Nature-born man has the same bodily principles as every other animal. Every human-being lives and acts like an animal, each one according to his type. An animal feeds on what it can find, disregarding the lives of others. Natural man is no exception in this regard, although in contrast to other animals, he can think and speak and thus rule over them.

In a threatening and hostile world, natural man cannot help but submit automatically to what is called "culture". But however civilized he may be, whether he has a title before or after his name, whether he lives life with a smile or with a tear, with money or without, he remains, as a nature-born man, an animal-being.

In this animal state-of-being you are called by the Gnosis. Why? Because all of you have the possibility of emerging from your animal condition. This possibility arises from the fact that there is a Divine, incorporeal principle in the center of the microcosm that surrounds you. This Divine Principle corresponds with your heart.

If you want to discover this Principle, which we call The Rose, the proto-atom or the Christ-atom, you will have to devote your whole I of nature, with all it is and possesses, in self-surrender - that is, with absolute dedication, deep interest and intense longing - to the center of your microcosm, the Christ-atom. Only in this way will the True Immortal Soul be born.

You will change from a being of nature into a Soul-being. If you follow the path of the Soul-being with persistence, seriously accepting all the consequences; if the being of nature provides proof of having merged into the Soul-being, this Soul-being will be granted the Spirit-Soul, Pymander, the God-Man Principle, the Holy Grail.

From "Oneness (II)" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

~ g
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How To Kill The "I"

Endura (definition)

The path of I-demolition, the path of the last golden death through the self-surrender of the "I" to the Immortal Man, the 'Christ in me'. It is the path of the Johannine man, 'who makes straight the paths. The endura is a voluntary 'dying' to realize True Life. It is putting into practice the words: "He, the heavenly Other One, must increase, and I must decrease, so that the heavenly Other One will live in me."

From Glossary - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

The "I" is who we are. It is built from the substances of this nature-order and is thus in complete harmony with this nature-order.

The "I" believes in the illusion that it is a separate entity, that it has no true connection with other "I"s.

The "I" will defend and protect its illusive separate existence to the bitter end. It considers all other "I"s to be a threat to its illusive separate existence unless those other "I"s are in complete agreement with it.

The "I" will never willingly consent to being eradicated, as the Universal Gnosis informs us must be done in order to move towards Transfiguration and Liberation. It will resist all attempts to eliminate its influence over the personality.

The Path of Return demands that the candidate who has awakened the Rose of the Heart must proceed to undergo the endura. The main purpose for this process of I-demolition is to make way for the New Man that is being born within the microcosm. But how does one effect this erasure of the "I" when the "I" is well aware of what is going on? The "I" is very cunning and will pretend to help one to walk the Path. If the candidate is not attentive, he or she will be deceived into thinking that they have accomplished the endura when in fact they have done nothing but subjected themselves ever more securely to the control of their "I".

Here is the best way to decrease the influence of the "I":

Focus on doing things for others, and not for yourself.

When you are unselfishly serving and helping others, you don't have time to think about your own worries, concerns or fears. Focus away from the self and inexorably, slowly, the influence of the "I" will wane. This is what lies behind the call to live a life of service-to-others.

To neutralize the self, focus away from the self.

~ g
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The Spirit-Soul

The aim of the Path of Return is to lead the yearning Seeker out of the physical world and back to the Divine Kingdom. By virtue of their significantly different frequency ranges, these two realms do not touch. They are separated by a veil, a border-region that cannot be crossed without help.

In order to return to the Divine Kingdom, one's microcosm must vibrate in a range that will allow the entity to experience that realm. But our microcosm is fallen, broken. It vibrates in harmony with this physical nature-order, it is of the earth, earthy.

Soul

The personality that inhabits one's microcosm is composed of several bodies: physical, etheric, astral and mental. Together, these four bodies combine to form the mortal soul. The key word there is mortal, because at some point after the death of the physical body, the three remaining subtle bodies will also gradually and inevitably meet their end. So, man has a soul, but it is a mortal soul, subject to death.

Spirit

As for Spirit, man is disconnected from Spirit. We know this to be true, because Spirit is of God, is God. The majority of the human life-wave is not consciously connected to Spirit. The proof is in the pudding. If humans were connected with Spirit, which is linked with God, humans would manifest God's works in the physical realm. We can look about us and see that this is not the present case.

New Soul

Walking the Path in true humility, self-surrender and with a deep yearning to obtain The Good End will fuel an alchemical process within the candidate's microcosm. A New Soul will be born within the microcosm, coterminous with the old mortal soul. The old mortal soul will decrease in influence as the New Soul grows and establishes itself. It is the New Soul that must be purified so that it can fulfill its special function.

The primary function of the New Soul is to link up with Spirit, to "meet its Pymander", in the words of the Corpus Hermeticum. When the purified New Soul connects with the Divine Spirit, the Spirit-Soul becomes a reality. The microcosm now has what it needs to complete the task of Transfiguration.

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Spirit-Soul (definition)

The path of the endura, the path of pupilship of a gnostic Spiritual School, has as its aim to awaken the true, immortal soul from its latent condition. As soon as this soul arises from its Sleep of Death, its link with the Universal Spirit, with God, is restored. This restored connection between Spirit and Soul, between God and Man, is demonstrated in the glorious resurrection of the Other One, the return of the True Man to the House of the Father. The Soul that is able to celebrate this link, the union with what the Egyptian Arch-Gnosis calls "Pymander", is the Spirit-Soul. It is the union of Osiris (Spirit) with Isis (the Soul), of Christ with Jesus, of the Father with the Son, the alchemical wedding of Christian Rosycross, the marriage of the heavenly Bridegroom with his heavenly Bride.

The presence of the Spirit-Soul necessitates a heart sanctuary completely emptied and purified of every nature-born influence and activity, and vibrating in harmony with the Spirit-Spark atom. Only in such a purified heart can a meeting with God, the Pymandric consciousness, take place. The Spirit-Soul is the nuclear radiation of the Monad (the Divine Spark) which comes to ensoulment within the heart of material man.

From The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

Bridging The Vibration Gap

Between the Sixth Cosmic Domain (Cosmic Astral Plane) and the Seventh Cosmic Domain (Cosmic Physical Plane) there exists a gap in vibration. The highest vibrational frequencies of the  Seventh Cosmic Domain reach about 700 terahertz (that's 700 trillion hertz). This is in the ultra-violet range.

The lowest frequencies in the Sixth Cosmic Domain (the Divine Kingdom) reach about 800 trillion hertz. Between these two Cosmic Planes lies a gap of about 100 trillion hertz. This gap presents an obstacle to those humans who are striving to escape the physical plane. It works as a barrier, a ring-pass-not.The astral bodies of the vast majority of human-beings come nowhere close to vibrating as high as 700 Thz.

This is why, during this ending-cycle, human-beings are being urged to "raise your vibration". There's a functional need to do so, if one wants to move towards Liberation.

Periodically, according to Cosmic Law, the vibrations of the Divine Kingdom - the Sixth Cosmic Domain - are lowered, stepped down, as it were. They are lowered to a level that enables the lowest plane of the Sixth Cosmic Domain to blend and mix freely with the highest regions of the Seventh Cosmic Domain. It behaves sort of like a temporary bridge, built to last long enough to enable those who wish to escape from matter to do so.

This "gap" is a vacuum of pure ethers, originating from the Divine Kingdom, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. Because it exists as a connection between two entirely different nature-orders, it serves a special purpose. This is the Ark that is always built when major world-cycles are coming to a close. Like a life-boat, it stays in place, gathering all those who seek its refuge until the time comes when the cycle must ultimately end. At that point, the gangplank is lifted and, like a vast fisherman's net, the vibrational bridge that was temporarily extended from the Divine Kingdom begins to withdraw from the Seventh Cosmic Domain with its spiritual harvest in tow.

All candidates who possess an awakened Divine Spark are automatically linked to this special region between two Cosmic domains. They have become cells in the Living Body of the Gnosis. They have boarded the Ark. To remain aboard, the candidate must continue to strive, in complete self-surrender, to follow the Path no matter what obstacles may be placed before him or her. If one steps off the Ark to dally in the natural-world, beware. No one knows when that gangplank will be pulled up.

No matter what one has done previously in life, no matter how heinous or despicable a human-being may have behaved in the past, the opportunity for Redemption is open to all...to all. Forgiveness is at hand! The price? One must make a fundamental reversal in their thinking, willing, feeling and acting. This means that one must permanently and completely turn away from the world and renounce all the matter therein. The renunciation must be complete and without falsification. Only then will the restored link between the Spark and the Ark remain strong enough to lift the candidate out of the Pit of Despair and back to Divine Shores abandoned so long ago.

~ g
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Sobriety

"People sometimes say to us: "Alas, who am i? What can I do? I am only a ..." and then follows one or another commonplace description. If you talk like that, you will remain as you always have been."

From "The Imitation of Christ" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

Don't sell yourself short. You know that something is wrong with the world. You know the feeling of being imprisoned by evil, of being strapped to an imaginary chair with your eyes propped open, forced to watch the horrors of this world repeat themselves over and over and over, like a bad movie.

Deep within, you know that the only way out is to escape, to leave this world once and for all. Not via natural death, nor by one's own hand. Those options will only lead you to the reflection-sphere, where you will hang out for a while before returning to earth for more of the same. The escape that beckons you is discussed here incessantly. There is only one way out, and that is the Path of Return.

But when you hear things like "I-demolition", "erasing the personality", or that there is an "Other One" within you that must increase as your "I" decreases, you get fearful, you feel afraid. Why? Because your "I" does not want to be "erased". It is perfectly happy living in this cesspool. It can't get enough of the swill! So it creates a deep unspoken fear within that paralyzes you. You are afraid to move, afraid to take that Next Step, that One Step.

At the end of every Day of Manifestation, the Logos always extends to all those who are imprisoned, the keys to the cell-block, as it were. Messengers are sent forth to herald the Good News. Their mission is to spread the word to a skeptical and unbelieving humanity that there is a way to escape this madness that we foolishly created for ourselves. But you must gain insight. You must have discernment. You must have a deep yearning to be free of this world. You must have an Inner Knowing, a Remembrance, in order to accept that The Process will work, and that you are finally hearing the Truth.

The Dark Brothers are cunning to the extreme. They have clouded and distorted the spiritual landscape so much that humans no longer know what to believe. Apathy follows, then hedonism.

Again, don't sell yourself short. Awaken from this drunken stupor. You are being called Home. Do not discount the Great Gift that the Messengers are bringing to you as this cycle stumbles to a close and do not think yourself unworthy. By virtue of your long ages of suffering, you are eminently worthy of Salvation.

No more false alarms. No more fire drills.

This is it.

"Where are you hurrying, O men, You whose minds are clouded because you are drunk with the word that lacks all Gnosis, the word of absolute ignorance that does not agree with you 

and that you will vomit in the end?

Stop and become sober: see again with the eyes of your Heart! And if not all of you can do so, let those at least who can. 

...do not allow yourselves to be carried along by the violence of the stream, but let those among you who are able to reach the Harbors of Salvation make use of the counter-current to put to port.

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

- Corpus Hermeticum - 

~ g
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The Third Way (One Flew Over)

There are three roads that can lead one to Final Liberation from matter:

The First Way: 

Live your life as a nature-born human-being. Focus and restrict your striving to the aims of the material world. Seek no further, and if you do seek seek on the horizontal plane, allow human "authorities" such as the churches of the established religions, their priests, pastors, imans, monks and gurus to interpret the holy language for you and stand as sole intermediaries between you and God, a privilege for which you will have to pay for, of course.

Live only to obtain human goals, (i.e., get rich or die trying) and hope for the best in some fantasy after-life that has been brainwashed into you by those church authorities.

Die and head for the reflection-sphere, the temporary heaven-worlds, where your remaining subtle bodies will eventually dissolve, forcing your microcosm to generate yet another new personality to send into the world in search of The Pearl of Great Price. Repeat this process over and over again, for long ages of time.

It will take long ages of time and many Rebirths, but you will eventually find The Third Way.

The Second Way:

Live your life as a nature-born human-being. Expand your striving to include the occult world. The word "occult" means " hidden". Study the invisible worlds, the ways of the reflection-sphere, astrological correspondences, magnetic healing, etc. White magic, black magic, ascended masters and grandmasters. Learn how to 'split the personality' so that you can travel in the reflection-sphere fully conscious. Learn all there is to know about the invisible realms, its levels and hierarchies. Learn how to live an after-death experience in the reflection-sphere that will enable you to retain the use of your astral and mental bodies for thousands and thousands of years, thereby avoiding dissolution of the subtle bodies and illegally prolonging your stay in the heaven-worlds. Learn the artificial methods used by those with occult training to avoid reincarnating on earth.

You become a light-spirit, or perhaps a black magician. Yes, you are free of The Wheel, but you become a parasite, having to resort to siphoning the astral energy of physical human-beings on earth in order to maintain your form in the reflection-sphere. In essence, you have become an aeon yourself. For you, death of the personality has only been delayed.

It will take many long eternities, but if you can reject reflection-sphere life, you may eventually find The Third Way.

The Third Way:

You've lived many lives as a nature-born human-being. You're struck with the urge to seek "something higher". You try the churches. Hypocrisy and falsehoods. You study the occult path. If you're observant, you realize that the occult path does not offer a true liberation. Empty-handed, you continue to search. Theosophy, New Age, channeled teachings, extra-terrestrial messages. All fragments, all a confusing maze of 'truth'. Who can we trust to provide us with the 'truth'? What doctrine can satisfy our desperate seeking? In frustration you throw up your hands and resign yourself to a pointless existence on a pointless world. A helpless puppet in the hands of Fate, doomed to forever chase a 'truth' that must exist but appears to have been purposely hidden from you.

The First and Second Ways have failed you. Thankfully, there is a Third Way:

You leave behind the temporary things of the material-world. You leave behind the false promises of the reflection-sphere. You learn that there is a Divine Realm that exists apart from the physical realm. You learn that you carry a Divine Spark within your microcosm which contains great powers, powers that are still linked to the Divine Realm. This Divine Atom lies sleeping, waiting for the right personality to come along and awaken it.

Once awakened, the True Man will slowly begin to emerge. A Divine Personality will gradually re-assert its control over the microcosm. The broken link with Spirit will be repaired. You learn that for the candidate walking the Path of Return, physical death will lead  not to the reflection-sphere but to Shamballa, where the candidate will complete the mighty process of Transfiguration, in peace, among brothers.

You learn that "finding the Truth" involves taking leave of a world that you can see, in order to become part of a World that you cannot see...yet.

Congratulations. You have found The Third Way.

Wire, briar, limber, lock,

Three geese in a flock;

One flew East,

One flew West,

One flew Over 

the Cuckoo's Nest.

O-U-T spells out.

Goose swoops down

And plucks you out.

~ g
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Knowledge Of The Things That Are

I. As it is Below, so it is Above; As on the Earth, so in the Sky.

II. There are two states of being: one is Mortal, the other is Immortal.

III. That which is Mortal is dissolvable, and dissolvable bodies pass away like a mist in the morning. 
IV. An Immortal body is an Essence which is Eternal and Incorruptible.

V. But the two, the Mortal and the Immortal, cannot exist together forever, but each returns to the place from where it comes.

VI. The Mortal body is Sensible, but the Immortal is Reasonable.

VII.The former contains nothing that is Perfect. The latter, nothing that is Imperfect; for the one is the essence of Matter, and the other the essence of Spirit, and Man, the Microcosm, holds the Balance of the two.

VIII. And there is a fierce warfare for the victory, between the Lower and the Upper, as they both desire to obtain the Body as their Prize; for the state of Man is envied by the Lower and glorified as a noble state by the Higher.

IX. Now if the Man inclines toward the Lower nature, which is Mortal, he thereby aids the Lower Imperfect powers to oppose the Higher, which is Immortal, and must suffer the pains of Slavery for his disobedience to the Workman, his Maker. But if he inclines to the Higher, then he is truly Wise and Blessed.

X. Should Man, after being attracted by the Vanities of the World and then, after obtaining knowledge of the Things That Are, return to the Vanities of the World, he will be punished with Torments and Fire in the darkest states of disembodied souls.

XI. Should a Man, after knowing the Things That Are, become rebellious of restraint to the part which is Immortal and returns to the Vanities of the World, the Higher Essence will straightaway depart from him, and he will become the Slave of the Lower Essence, which will seize upon him and drive him to all sorts of Wicked Arts and Evil Ways.

XII. When Man has thus impiously disobeyed his Creator and turned his face away from That Which Is Immortal, behold, he is then disinherited from his Birthright, and is no longer counted among the Children of God, because he has become an Evil, Perverse thing, possessing only those things which are Mortal, and he is punished with Death.

XIII. And so Death is meted out to all those who rebel against their Creator impiously, because they know the Things That Are. But to those foolish Souls who are Ignorant, and who have not knowingly rejected their Creator, behold, they are purified after much suffering, and are sent to the World again.

-- Hermes Trismegistus

Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

~ g
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Forgiveness And The Grace Of An Age

The below is quoted from Heavy Karmic Baggage:

"Of course, it is nearly impossible to expunge thousands of years of Karmic debt in one short human lifetime of 72 (on average) years. This is especially true when we are kept in ignorance and as a result continue to pile even more negative karma atop the heavy baggage that the microcosm already carries. This too, is seen as an injustice. But it is an injustice of our own making.

Fortunately, there is a way out. Even more fortunately, you are living in a time when the way out is being revealed to all mankind. This doesn't mean that all of mankind will accept the revelation, it simply means that the way out is being revealed so that all may have the opportunity to freely choose whether to abandon their ways and take advantage of That Which Is Being Offered.

The way out is Forgiveness. An attempt will be made to explain this in the next post."

How can we, as personalities, as projections of the microcosm, hope to eradicate the accumulated karma of our microcosm in the few short decades of life that are granted to us? Karma that has been accumulated over many thousands of years of periodic incarnations of different personalities?

The personality must locate the Path of Return, then follow it as a Golden Thread that will lead one out of the dialectical nature-born realm forever. It is this Path that the Christ Radiation* was referring to when it stated, through the man Jesus, that: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life".

* Never forget that the term 'Christ' refers not to a man who lived two thousand years ago, but to a mighty cosmic radiation, the Love Aspect of the Father. Any human-being who can accept, assimilate and radiate this divine vibration can become a 'Christ'. Jesus, the man, did so and lived His life as an example to all who were to come that "You shall do as I have done; yea, greater things than these you shall do".


We are currently riding the never-ending wheel of death and rebirth. There are a couple of key reasons why we continue to return to earth-life after a brief post-death journey in the reflection-sphere (the so-called 'after-life').

Desire
Karma

In brief, Desire means that the microcosm retains an urge to generate a new personality to return and experience earth-life once more. In short, the microcosm is enjoying (for lack of a better word) the experience of the lower vibrational existence and seeks to continue that experience.

Karma, as we have discussed, is the accumulation of unresolved Effects that have resulted from Causes that we, as past personalities, have put into motion. Because all Karma must be balanced on the plane upon which it was incurred, the microcosm is bound by this Cosmic law to generate a new personality to return to earth-life and take up the task.

As previously mentioned, this task is an immense one, and for all practical purposes, impossible to complete within the constraint of a single earth-life. However, there is a way.

When humanity "fell" into matter-born existence, the Logos, in line with the wishes of The All, also sent Divine emissaries to accompany fallen humanity into the Seventh Cosmic Domain. These Divine Beings carried with them the wisdom of the Gnosis, the Keys that humanity would need in order to find its way out of darkness and back to the Lighted Realms of the Sixth Cosmic Domain. Throughout innumerable ages, we're talking many hundreds of millions of years, these Divine guardians have worked tirelessly to help mankind find the Path that leads out of this Pit of Despair.

Along the way, there have been successes, there have been failures. Individuals who manage to locate the Path and who follow it to 'The Good End' are triumphantly lifted out of the Seventh, their accumulated karma is erased - and they are released from any future obligation to ride The Wheel. They disappear from the Physical Realm, never to be seen again by physical eyes.

Because of this, there is no concrete evidence left behind that documents the success of these successful Seekers. They have transfigured, and can no longer be viewed by physical eyes. As a result, humanity, which for the large part refuses to believe in the reality of anything which they cannot see with their physical eyes or touch with their physical hands, dismisses all notions of man's ability to be reborn in a Higher form. Remember the incredulous words of Nicodemus, not understanding due to ignorance of the facts: "Lord, how can a man be born again? Can he crawl back into his mother's womb?".

A brief word about 'ignorance'. To be ignorant does not mean the same as being stupid. Ignorance is when one errs due to the fact that one does not know better. 'Stupidity' is the act of erring despite knowing better. Nicodemus was a very learned man - in the ways of the world. However, he was ignorant of the Higher truths, he did not have Gnosis.

Periodically, the Logos grants all of humanity the opportunity to seize the gift of Gnosis and to make this transition collectively, as a group. These periods can be classified as major or minor cycles. It is at the end of such cycles that this Grace is extended to mankind. We are presently in the throes of such a period, by which mankind is being offered the Grace of an Age.

An Age is a period of time corresponding to the number of years that it takes for the Sun to transit one of the signs of the zodiac. It takes 2,160 years to pass through one sign of the zodiac. It takes 25,920 earth years to pass through all twelve signs. When Jesus, the man, walked the earth, it was the Age of Pisces, hence the many symbolic references to fish during his sojourn. Prior to his appearance, the holy language speaks of prior Ages using symbolism such as lambs (Aries), bulls (Taurus), twins (Gemini), etc. When it speaks of Aquarius, it refers to a 'Man with an Urn', as in:

"Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house where he entereth in." Luke 22:10

Follow him, indeed. The Man with the Pitcher of Water is Aquarius, which is pouring out over all of mankind the astral energies required by Man to recognize the times that we are in and to take the steps necessary to maximize our progress, to make our escape, as it were.

These Divine energies do not discriminate. They are radiated over all humanity and permeate all humanity. Those who react negatively can be easily identified by their actions. Why do you think there is so much error, violence and malice in the world today? It is because the Christine Radiations are not being well-received by some. Instead of moving towards Gnosis, they are repelled further into darkness. This is due to the rock-hard "I-centrality" of their microcosms.

Those who are receptive are given the help they need, as much as they need, when they need it, in order to guide them safely Home. Many are not even aware of what is taking place. They simply notice that they are 'changing'. Those who are aware of what is taking place have an obligation to spread the word, in the hope that sleeping brethren might awaken in time to take action.

This is why the holy language states that during the end times, "the sheep shall be separated from the goats". There will be two camps, those who are with the Gnosis, and those who are without Gnosis. There will be no in-between, no half-stepping. EACH MUST CHOOSE.

To summarize, in order to return to the Divine Sixth, all of the microcosm's earth karma must be eradicated. The microcosm itself must be purified. The Logos is completely aware of this and periodically offers mankind a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card, which is the Gnosis. All you have to do is resolve to make a fundamental reversal, turn your back on the things of this world, and dedicate your remaining days to doing that which must be done to return to the Divine Kingdom.

If you 'die' in the midst of this striving, you will not be forsaken. Because the fundamental vibration of your microcosm will have been elevated beyond a certain degree, you will be eligible to bypass the reflection-sphere (the fake heaven-world) and proceed instead to Shamballa, where you will complete The Great Work.

Those who are engaged in this process of microcosmic transmutation and are in the body when 'The End' comes, will be transformed, on the spot.

The key is to START NOW. You must begin the Process in order to benefit from the Process. Do not delay or put it off for tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. There is only Now. The natural world is luring mankind to sleep in order to lead him away from the Light. The aeons of this nature are completely within their rights to offer you this Grand Deception. It is you who must clear the crud from your eyes and see the deception for what it truly is. It is you must reject the World. It is you must make the fundamental reversal in your thinking, willing and desiring. The Choice is yours alone. No one can force you to make this change.

Once again, the Grace of an Age is being offered to all of humanity. Complete and permanent Forgiveness is at hand. May you be granted the wisdom to recognize the Glory of this Moment, and to accept the Loving Invitation that is being offered to us all.

~ g
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