Heavy Karmic Baggage

The question below was posed by a reader in the Comments section of "How Can God Have A Son?".

"I still have a problem in seeing that we return to earth because someone in the distant past ran up a huge karmic debt and the present human being in the microcosm has to pay it off!"

Understood. Let's try to eliminate the confusion.

That "someone in the distant past" was you. All of the "someone's" who have previously inhabited your microcosm were you. Man is a microcosm. You can think of the microcosm as a container. This container houses all of the accumulated force-centers, powers, attributes, experiences, karma and destiny of the entity. The microcosm is permanent, immortal. The personalities that it generates to experience life in the material world are temporary, mortal, finite.

It is the microcosm that is the individuality, not the personality.

The personality is a creation of the microcosm, sent forth into the material world to gather experience, knowledge and wisdom for the benefit of the microcosm. When the personality expires, the physical body disintegrates, the soul-bodies return to the reflection-sphere where they also dissolve, albeit more slowly, over time. At some future point (it may take hundreds of years), there will be nothing left of the personality that was you on this earth in 2017. The microcosm will have been emptied, as it were. The experiences gathered by that most recent dissolved personality will remain with the microcosm, where it will contribute to the overall advancement or deterioration of that entity. Another drop of water will be added to an ocean of water.

Understand that you are not 'separate' from all the previous personalities that have inhabited your microcosm. All of those personalities were/are you. When we say 'you', we mean the individuality, the microcosmic consciousness. It is like being an actor in a stage company. For one production, you will play Hamlet. When that production closes, you play Mary, Queen of Scots in the next. When that production closes, you will play a coal-miner from West Virginia. When that production closes, you will play a slave-owner, and so on. The stage remains the same. The roles played in each production change. All of the roles were different, but the actor behind those roles was the same individual.

The Karma that has been accumulated by the previous personalities in the microcosm automatically becomes the share of each new personality upon rebirth. Many look at the foregoing and think that it is patently unfair. "What have I done to deserve this burden? Why must I pay for what 'others' have done before me?". Why? Because you were those "others". The accumulated Karma is your microcosmic karma, generated over thousands of years of death and rebirth.

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.

In the interim, please take a few minutes to read the short story contained in the link to the 2015 post below. It may help to further illustrate what has just been written.

"The Scales Shall Be Balanced, The Debt Shall Be Paid"

~ g

"How Can God Have A Son?"

This past week, the following conversation was overheard.

A Muslim was trying to understand the import behind the Christian celebration of Easter. As he learned more, he spoke of what his faith had taught him: That Jesus was a normal human-being. That Jesus was "just" a prophet. That Mohammed was and is the "true" and "last" prophet.

In a matter-of-fact manner, he uttered the following: "We do not believe that Jesus was the Son of God. How can God have a Son? He's God! Who would He mate with?", etc., etc.

It was difficult to not jump in at this point. However, there is no point in presenting the gnostic point-of-view to those who are bound by nature-religions. Nothing good can come out of such conversations. Confrontation is probably the most likely outcome.

So it will be undertaken here to try and resolve the paradox for our Muslim friend.

First, one must cease to think of God as a human-type figure. The veritable "old man with a beard" who lives in the sky does not exist. God, the Creator, the Divine Architect, the All-In-All has no beginning and no end. Although formless, the All contains the potentiality for all forms. The All has no Creator. The All creates from Itself. The entire visible Universe is an emanation of the All, Who permeates the entire Creation yet simultaneously stands apart from it.

What is a "son"? The common response is that the son is the male offspring of a man and a woman. When the term is used in reference to the Second Aspect of the Trinity, it is referring not to a human offspring, but to an emanation of Energy, a Divine Vibration, sent forth from the All in order to accomplish a particular purpose in Creation. As reflected in humanity, most sons are like their fathers. This reflection mimics the example set by the Divine Father and the Divine Son.

In the current Age, the Son of the Father is called "The Christ". The Christ is not a man but a Divine radiation or vibration. It carries all of the attributes of the Father, as a Son should.

Jesus the human-being, walked the Path of Return while on this earth in order to bring this Divine Energy back to the planet. The churches refer to him as "Jesus Christ", similar to "John Smith" or Anna Jackson". But Christ was never Jesus' last name. The addition of the word "Christ" to the name "Jesus" simply meant that Jesus had accepted this Divine Energy into His microcosm. He was the Christed One.

So, the "Son" of God is not a physical human-being, this is true. But God, the Father of All, does have a "Son", the energy of which permeates the entire Creation. This 'Son" is the only such emanation, hence the title "only-begotten". The All needs no partner to mate with. The All creates from Itself.

Our Muslim friend will wrestle with this question for the remainder of his incarnation. Hopefully, having read the foregoing, you won't have to.

~ g
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Resurrection Day

The Feast of the Resurrection (a.k.a. "Easter") has an important esoteric meaning for the candidate on the Path. It represents the culmination of the efforts made to complete the endura, the effacement of the nature-born personality.

The true meaning of the church feast-days have been lost to the ravages of time and deceit. The truths that support them have been buried beneath an opaque veneer of disingenuous church story-telling. Give the flock fairy-tales, let them wonder about the rest. Lie to them and tell them that they must have "faith" that the fairy-tales told to them by their priests have value.

Time for some Truth.

Christmas (opening of the Rosebud): the Divine Spark is awakened in the Cave of the Heart. The Babe is born.

Baptism at the Jordan (Birth of the Soul-Man) Spirit descends "like a dove", to begin the transmutation process within the microcosm.

Lent (the Endura, Self-Surrender): the candidate renounces the things of nature and vows to walk the Path in self-surrender. 

Good Friday (the Crucifixion, Transmutation): via the process of transmutation, the candidate "hangs up" the material body upon the Cross of Matter

Easter Sunday (the Resurrection, Transfiguration): the candidate is transfigured, reborn as a New Man - Spirit, Soul and Body, the Whole Tri-Unity, reunited.

There. Easily recognizable when one has the Gnostic Key in hand.

Many other religions have similar sequences. That is because most religions spring from the same fount. However, due to the manipulations of those whose goal it is to control humanity by withholding from us the reality of the gnostic Path of Return, the core truths of all religions have been fragmented, polluted and corrupted beyond recognition,

The signs of our Great Goal are present all around us. We have but to wipe the mud from our eyes, open them, and see.

~ g
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He Is Risen (Re-post)

The following is re-posted once again, in remembrance of  Easter and of The Resurrection that must take place within all of us ~ g

[QUOTING]

Let us pose the obvious question, the one logical problem:

'How can the fallen human-being become a god again? How can the prodigal son Thotmes return home?'

This problem and its solution is given in every Universal Philosophy: we are humans who are to become gods. The Great Messengers of humanity were gods who became human in order to show humans how to become gods.

If this problem stands clearly before you, you will know it was born 'in conflict', and that the road to it was toil and trouble. Like Prince Thotmes, you have to excavate your Sphinx, which will pose a great problem to you personally. If you neglect your Work for one moment, you will sink back into the bottomless depths of this nature. Then you will feel at one with this world, and you will become accustomed to it again. You must understand that for the defeated soul the question: 'How does the fallen human become a god again?' will develop enough motivation to be able to go the Path as a pilgrim to seek an answer the that question.

Hence we can say: Whoever has seen the Sphinx will enter the Pyramid.

The Pyramid is a temple of resurrection and not of worship. It is a temple not for symbolic acts but for instruction. It is a sepulchre. People can create a lot of mystification about it, but as the Pyramid is hewn in stone its essential language cannot be destroyed.

In our opinion everyone who has seen the Sphinx from within and everyone to whom the Sphinx has spoken, like Prince Thotmes, will be able to understand the stone language of the Pyramid. We say that the Sphinx makes the Call and that the Pyramid points out the Path.

From "The Mystery of the Sphinx and the Pyramid" - The Living Word - Catharose de Petri

[END QUOTING]

The ancients speak to us in symbols. Once you have the gnostic Key in hand, it is like reading an open book.

The Great Pyramid is a four-sided triangle, with a square base. Around the base one can draw a perfect circle. Triangle, Square, Circle.

These shapes have symbolic meaning:

Circle = the Eternal Spirit
Triangle = the Threefold Soul
Square = the fourfold Body

Thus the Pyramid itself represents the reunification of Spirit, Soul and Body, which is the ultimate aim of the transfiguristic Path of Return.

The interior of the Pyramid is constructed in such a way as to outline the steps of this Path using specific measurements, angles, different types of stone and sacred numerology (gematria). The exalted beings who constructed the Great Pyramid did so using a silent, common language that could speak to all human-beings, no matter what the time period. Of course, those human-beings would have to have the gnostic Key in hand.

During the time of the ancients, there were very, very few who were motivated to walk the Path of Return. Around the ancient world, those who showed that they were sincere about doing so were brought to secret places of initiation. This was the purpose of the Mayan and Aztec temples in the West. This was the purpose of the extensive system of caves in the Sabarthes region of southern France. This was the purpose of the Great Pyramid.

The Pyramid is not a tomb, as present-day bumbling archaeology chooses to define it. No physical human-being was ever buried there. It was a tomb for the I-being. It was where a true pupil was taken to complete the endura. It was where the old human-being died as to this nature and the New Man rose in its place.

That is why the "tomb" in the King's Chamber is empty. In silence, it expresses what was written regarding the Christed One on the day of His resurrection as a Divine Human Being:

"Why do you look for the Living among the dead? He is not here, He is risen". Luke 24:5-6

~ g
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No Less Miraculous, No Less Attainable

We keep coming back to the caterpillar, as its metamorphosis into a butterfly serves as a fitting allegory for what man can and must do. The butterfly was created for the express purpose of inspiring wonder in the minds of men, in the hope that someday, men would move beyond wonder, and realize that the miracle of the butterfly is an example of the miracle that awaits all spirit-spark entities.

If the Creator can program a caterpillar to spin a chrysalis, dissolve within it and then reconstitute itself as a beautiful winged creature, what makes you think that the Creator would not program us, mankind, Creator's highest creation, to do something not only similar but exceedingly wondrous and glorious in its magnitude!

You have within you the tiny Seed Atom that is required to make this human metamorphosis a reality. It lies at the center of your microcosm and it is waiting to be awakened and joined to the personality. It is your Divine Spark, the Spirit-spark, the Rosebud, the Jewel in the Lotus. It is the part of you that will manage your transfiguration into a New Man/Woman, but only if you follow the Path that has been set out for man to follow, the Path of the True Way, the Path that leads away from this world and its reflection-sphere. The Path that leads back to Eternity.

Do not sell yourself short. Do not resign yourself to "impossibility". This transformation is eminently possible, and within your ability to complete, even though the rulers of this world have worked overtime to keep that Knowledge from you. Vow to follow the Path, no matter the obstacles. Renounce the world and all the matter therein. Be in the world, but not of the world. Remember the miraculous example of the caterpillar / butterfly that was provided for you to emulate.

What lies ahead for the candidate on the Path is No Less Miraculous, and No Less Attainable.

"Verily, I say to you, the works that I do, you shall do also; and greater works than these shall you do" -- The Christ, talking to YOU.

~ g
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The Warrior

[QUOTING]

1. Stand aside in the coming battle, and though thou fightest, be not thou the warrior.

2. Look for the Warrior and let him fight in thee.

3. Take his orders for battle and obey them.

4. Obey him, not as though he were a general, but as though he were yourself, and his spoken words were the utterance of your secret desire; for he is yourself, yet infinitely wiser and stronger than yourself. Look for him, else in the fever and hurry of the fight you may pass him, and he will not know you unless you know him. If your cry reaches his listening ear, then he will fight in you and fill the dull void within. And if this is so, then you can go through the fight cool and unwearied, standing aside and letting him battle for you. Then it will be impossible for you to strike one blow amiss.

But if you do not look for him, if you pass him by, then there is no safeguard for you. Your brain will reel, your heart grow uncertain, and in the dust of the battlefield your sight and senses will fail, and you will not know your friends from your enemies.

He is yourself, yet you are but finite and liable to error. He is Eternal and sure. He is Eternal Truth. When once he has entered you and become your Warrior, he will never utterly desert you, and at the Day of Great Peace, he will become One with you.

From Light On The Path - Part Two - Mabel Collins

[END QUOTING]

Who is the Warrior? The Warrior is the Other One, the True Inner Man that is rising to wakefulness with the opening of the Rose of the Heart.

As we walk the Path, we will encounter obstacles with every step. If we try to fight these obstacles with our "I", we will most likely fail. Remember, the "I" cannot kill the "I". Therefore, whatever battles are to be fought , whatever obstacles have to be overcome, the "I" must  stand aside and allow the Other One within to wield the sword.

This is the epitome of self-surrender. The road we are walking, we do not walk alone. The trials we must face, we do not face alone. Whatever the challenge may be, always remember that it is not you who must battle the forces of the aeons of this nature, but the power of the Gnosis, the Other One within. There is your Warrior.

~ g
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Wake Up And Return

"Yet you are sleeping, dreaming dreams. Wake up and return! Taste and eat the True Food! Hand out the Word and the Water of Life! Cease from the evil lusts and desires and the teachings that have no basis"

From 'The Concept of Our Great Power" - Nag Hammadi Library - Codex VI, Tractate 4

~ g
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Worth A Thousand Words

“We are placing you before the imperishable Gnosis, which has as its starting point the idea that the Divine Spirit is held captive in the world of the senses and that, consequently, it is necessary to rise up out of this prison, out of this imprisoned Soul-man. In this way, the Original Spirit-Man can be united with the Primary Source of All Things, by means of insight, professing, and striving.”

—J. van Rijckenborgh and Catharose de Petri, The Great Revolution (1989)

Depicted above:

Red-Orange: the Physical Body
Green: the Etheric Double
White Outline: the Astral Body
Pale-Yellow (around the head): the Mental Body
Pink-Violet: the Respiration Field
Circle with Twelve Lights: the Lipika (where the karma and experiences of the microcosm are stored)
Horizontal Ray: the nature-born influences of the Earth-plane
Vertical Ray: the influence of Spirit, accessible when the Spark has been awakened
Light in the center of the Microcosm, corresponding with the heart, is the Divine Spark.
The Ray of Light touching the Divine Spark: is the Gnosis.

Keep this image with you always.
~ g
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Traveler

We mention on this blog Cosmic Domains, reflection-spheres, etc. Truly 'extra'-terrestrial domains that are qualitatively different from the physical realm that we experience with our five senses.

Many find it difficult to believe that there is an entire universe beyond-the-veil in what is known as the reflection-sphere. It's even harder for them to believe that there are whole other densities or dimensions, such as the Sixth Cosmic Domain, which are presently outside of our ability to perceive, even though they are nearer than hands and feet.

Perhaps it would be easier to accept if one recognized that every night, when we close our eyes we travel to the astral realm of the reflection-sphere. The physical body remains in bed, maintained by the lower two ethers (chemical ether, life ether). The Silver Cord keeps the physical body and part of the etheric body connected to the astral body. Tethered in this way, the astral body along with the two higher ethers of the etheric body (light, reflecting) travels great distances, participating in various experiences during the hours of sleep. In the morning, the astral body returns to slip back into the physical body. The body awakens and we are back to 'reality'.

It happens so often and so naturally that we take it for granted. Not realizing or understanding that our dreams are the result of our consciousness experiencing in the astral regions of the reflection-sphere while the physical body sleeps and undergoes repair.

This is only the tip of the iceberg. There are many other 'realities' out there, including the Great Reality that beckons from the Divine Kingdom. Accept that the physical world is but the lowest rung on a Ladder that stretches endlessly into the Infinite. Acknowledge that although it is in latency, you have the power and ability to climb that Ladder. You can, and will, someday walk amongst the Stars. Even more, the Sixth Cosmic Domain is within your reach, if you choose to walk the straight and narrow Path that leads to the Divine Light. How soon any of this takes place is entirely up to you. It all begins with a firm decision to leave this world behind and to Seek the Kingdom within.

~ g
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Liberation 101

For those who have chosen to walk the Path, these books can serve as a critical source of insight and a foundation to build upon.

Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross

From the back cover:

"In this book the authors explain that: 'not everything that calls itself  "Rosycross" is the true Rosycross in the universal, gnostic sense of the word'. What then should we understand as the universal meaning of the Rosycross?

All who are seeking an answer in an unprejudiced way should read this book. It indicates clearly what one needs to know if one truly wishes to find Liberation.

It sketches the meaning of magic and initiation, involution and evolution, birth and death, and it emphasizes the importance of processes of regeneration and redemption of the world.

In conclusion, the Golden Rosycross and its task in today's world are placed before us as a mighty, radiant beacon".

 The Coming New Man

"What do you know about freedom? What do you know about liberation? What is freedom for you? If, upon hearing the words freedom and liberation, your thoughts rise beyond the concepts commonly held in our society, The Coming New Man may be the book for you.

The Coming New Man takes you along on a search for the other one within you. It takes you along on a developmental journey to your true destination.

In The Coming New Man, Jan van Rijckenborgh describes the human being as a system of bodies enclosed by a microcosm. The Divine nucleus is located at the centre of this microcosm, the centre of the Original human-being we once were. The central issue is: who were we, who are we, and where are we going?

The Coming New Man is based on the Universal Teachings, the common thread that has run through all world religions and mystical schools from the outset of the human race. They are the teachings of the Gnosis, the teachings of inner knowledge and recognition. Every age and every period in human development formulates its own ways to liberation, its own Path to Life.

This book, addressed to the human being of the 20th and 21st centuries, will help you to experience this in detail if you are open to it. It describes the human struggle for Light. It contains the key to correct self-analysis, which is a process of self-purification, and the next step in the form of an openness to a spiritual future. The ultimate goal is transfiguration, which is the development of a new Human Being who lives from forces we can scarcely comprehend.

This book describes the new human being in detail, enabling the modern seeker to recognize him and wend his way to following in his footsteps."
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For those who may follow the opportunity to read the above, this writer will be happy to answer any questions that may arise from your study.

~ g
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Immortality Or Death? The Choice Is Yours

You are a temporary personality. A natural phenomena created for the express purpose of helping to Liberate the microcosm that you inhabit.

If you fail in this endeavor, death will be your share. Yes. you'll spend some time in "heaven" (the reflection-sphere) but slowly, like the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, you will dissolve away, leaving not a trace of the "you" who was.

Your Consciousness will persist, as will your Karma, and all the positive and negative receipts of the life just lived. But "you" will be gone, to be replaced in the future by a new personality, whose job it will be to try and accomplish what you failed to accomplish.

If you succeed in this endeavor, if your personality manages to locate the Path of the True Way, the Path of Return, then Immortality will be your share. The remains of your personality will not take the common road to the reflection-sphere and gradual dissolution. Your soul vehicles, minus the physical body, will instead travel to the Vacuum of Shamballa, the outpost of the Universal Brotherhood here on earth.

We refer to Shamballa as a vacuum because it is sustained by ethers that are not of this world. The high vibration that is to be found there is conducive to helping those souls who have begun their Walk while in the physical to complete the Great Work with all the help and support needed. Victory is assured.

The Journey starts here. You have reached the Gate of Choice. You must decide: will I take the road of least resistance and remain rooted to the earth-plane or will I fulfill my mission and travel the Way of the Stars? There is no middle ground. The proposition is either-or. It must be one or the other. You cannot have both. Remember that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom.

Fear nothing. Choose with Wisdom.

~ g
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Of Parallel Universes And Wormholes

We're going to keep this very simple.

Nature-born science proudly announces their theories that "parallel" universes must exist and can be entered via the use of "wormholes", neither of which have yet been discovered.

Even when our "authorities" are on the right track, they mislead mankind with their self-taught theories. We will reconcile these theories here.

Parallel Universes

There are parallel universes, but they are not to be thought of as being actually parallel to one another. Parallel universes are actually concentric universes, meaning that they exist within the same space and interpenetrate one another. We all know that the atom is mostly "empty" space. With that in mind, it should not be hard to comprehend that worlds composed of different arrangements of atoms can exist in the same space without touching one another.

Here in the Cosmic Physical Plane, the Seventh Cosmic Domain, there are actually seven Earths. All seven are of different densities. All seven exist within the same space.

Wormholes

Wormholes have been described as a shortcut between two parallel universes, usually depicted in the manner shown in the picture above, which is conceptually incorrect. The entry-point into any of the concentric universes is your state-of-consciousness. Remember:  "a state-of-consciousness is a state-of-life". Attune your state-of-consciousness to the proper vibration and you will perceive a different universe. That is your "wormhole".

Seven Cosmic Domains

There are Seven Cosmic Domains. Each Cosmic Domain is sub-divided into seven sub-planes. Again, all Domains and sub-planes interpenetrate one another. An aspect of you (not the physical personality, but the True Man) presently exists on all of these Domains and sub-planes. You are not aware of this as you are unable to perceive any of them at this time. The focus of your consciousness is narrowly restricted to the Earth-plane, the seventh sub-plane of the Seventh Cosmic Domain. We who are on the Path are trying to return to the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

The Universal Doctrine reveals that the way to perceive these extra realities is to release our focus on this physical reality, to which we cling as with a death-grip. Liberation is the key to omnipresence and omniscience. The Path of Return shows the Seeker the way.

“Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”  - D. Anka

~ g
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Journey Through The Four Kingdoms

"God Sleeps in the Stone,

Breathes in the Plant,

Dreams in the Animal

and Awakens in Man."

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Your Greatest Adversary...

...is yourself.

The moment that you say "I can't...", you won't.

The moment you identify yourself as a body, you delay the rebirth of the New Soul.

The moment that you refuse to consider that there are myriads of worlds, solar systems and entire universes invisible to the physical eye, yet occupying the same space in which you stand or sit, you lock yourself into this material realm, the lowest of the infinite Realities.

The moment that you refuse to believe that you, by the purification of the Thought-life and via a link to the Thirteenth Aeon, can effect the birth of a New Soul and a glorified New Personality while still retaining the use of the old mortal soul and mundane physical personality, you condemn yourself to the Wheel of Death and Rebirth.

Everything that man needs to transcend the physical world has been given to him. He has the physical instrumentarium, with its light-vesture composed of the five soul fluids: the consciousness fluid, the serpent-fire, the hormonal fluids, the nerve fluid and the blood. He has the etheric double, the vital body whose time is now approaching. He has the astral body, that allows him to visit higher realms, if he is so attuned, and he has a mental body, which will one day re-link him to Spirit.

Unfortunately, even with these riches, man lacks the one thing needful: knowledge. Knowledge of how to properly utilize these gifts in the manner in which they were intended. It is like being stranded on a desert island with a canoe and oars right next to you on shore. Instead of taking up the oars and rowing to safety, you turn the canoe over and build a clubhouse. Or you rip the planks off the boat and use them as firewood, so that you can cheerfully roast up some marshmallows. Meanwhile, you seal your doom.

In a similar manner, man abuses his body until this magnificent instrumentarium has no choice but to become dis-eased and die. The Precious Gift is wasted. Again.

Learn to understand the purpose of the human body. Learn to understand the relationship between the seven main chakras and the ductless glands. Learn that your mental body, although in its infancy, is extremely powerful. Learn of the transformative power of the Light-radiations of the Gnosis. Learn that whatever you focus upon is what will come to you. Whatever you desire is what you will attract.

If what you desire is useless crap, then useless crap you shall receive. If you have crap in your life, it is because crap is what you requested. The sooner you learn the foregoing, the sooner you take responsibility for your incarnation.

If what you want is a link with the Gnosis and guidance on the Path of Return, then that is what you shall receive. The sooner you take steps to purify your thinking and your desires, you will attract Divine Attention. Strong, gentle hands will reach out to guide you on your way, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

To obtain the former, simple desire will do. To obtain the latter, you must yearn with all your heart.

~ g
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All God's Children

[QUOTING]

It is well to digress here and reveal another secret that is well-hidden. Each nation and race of antiquity had various names for God. In Arabia, it is Allah; in India, Brahma; In Hebrew, Yod, Jod, Jehovah; In Egypt, Is-Ra-El, which also means the whole visible universe or body of God.

The Hebrews claimed they were the Children of Israel, God's own "chosen people" (Deuteronomy 7:6). All races can make that claim, for they are all God's children. The Hebrews took the word "Israel" from the Egyptians. It is a compound of three Egyptian words: Is, Ra, and El. "IS" was an Egyptian symbol of God as Universal Mother. "RA" was a symbol of God as Universal Father; and "EL" was a symbol of God as Universal Son. The Egyptian words IS RA EL meant the three Universal Principles of God -- Father, Mother, Son -- the Trinity.

A mystery ceases to be such when explained. To understand what we read, we must understand the basic meaning of the words we read.

From "Awaken The World Within" Hilton Hotema (1962)

[END QUOTING]

This deception has been used to effectively segregate a portion of humanity from their brothers. It has inspired world wars and resulted in the creation of a nation-state that remains at the center of unrest in the Middle East and around the world.

There is a hidden reason for this gross fraud but there is neither space nor time to go into it now. Suffice it to say that whenever you hear the term "chosen people", take it with a grain of salt.

We are all God's Chosen People. Fallen at this time, but Chosen nonetheless.

~ g
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Metamorphosis - The Birth Of The New Soul

A well-written article on The Birth of The New Soul appears in the February 2017 issue of the e-Pentagram, the electronic newsletter of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum.

To read or download this issue please go to:

https://joom.ag/X1eW.

The link is safe and once opened can also be downloaded and saved as a .pdf.

Best,

~ g
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Death = Change

“THE COSMIC CYCLE PROVES LIFE IS ETERNAL. Man dies not; he changes. “Death” is the word used to indicate the change.

 

UNDER THE LAW OF THE COSMIC CYCLE, INVISIBLE VAPOR BECOMES VISIBLE ICE, AND ICE RETURNS TO VAPOR. THERE IS NO END. COSMIC PROCESSES WORK IN CYCLES, AND ALL THINGS ARE ETERNAL.”

 

From Man Does Not Die by H. Hotema

If there's one thing everyone needs to learn, understand and apply:

There is no such thing as death. The Universe, emanated from The Living All, is a living Universe. No part of it can "die".

Man's mis-education has taught him to fear death, to consider the dissolution of the physical body as the definitive "end of life". This is so far from being true that it would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. Death, so-called, is simply a transition from one state-of-consciousness to another. It is like being in a room, opening a door into another room and closing that door behind you. You still exist, both rooms still exist, only you are no longer present in one of the rooms.

If man realized that death is not "the end", perhaps he would live life differently. If he knew that he was destined to return to earth-life again due to the causes he puts into motion during the current life, perhaps he would be more careful with his Thinking, Feeling and Willing in the current life. Perhaps he would live life consciously and intelligently, instead of blindly crashing through it like a bull in a china shop. Perhaps, instead of chasing ephemeral things like money, sex, power and possessions, he would take the time to stop and contemplate the meaning of his existence and in so doing, find the purpose behind our existence, the One Goal of Humanity.

There is no death. This has to be understood and accepted by man. If not, everything else in his Seeking will make no sense at all. What we call "life" here on earth is but the temporary extension of a personality into physical matter; a dip in the pool, so to speak. Symbolically speaking, we take a dip, splash around, learn new swimming strokes, or learn nothing and perhaps even drown.

Each life lived is like another pearl added to a string of pearls. Each incarnation, like another page in a very large book. This must become clear not just in the mind of the Seeker, but in the minds of all men.

There is no death. There is only change.

~ g
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To Find The Light

Question: What is the aim of our experience in the Darkness?

 

Answer: “The aim is to find the Light during such an odyssey, and with the aid of the Light one has found, to overcome evil and restore the Original state.

All the Mysteries culminate in this. As soon as the human-being becomes aware of this, his line of development turns upward again and returns to Its Origin. But with what an immeasurable difference!

 

The human-being sets out as an ignorant entity, he returns as One Who Knows. He sets out as a Prodigal Son, now he is the son who has been found again, and who returns to the House of the Father”.

 

From  The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Part IV, p 122 – Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The Holy Aim

"We renounce all religion, all occultism, all humanitarianism, all philosophy, and every form of delusion, being in a complete self-revolt, and we base our aim in the true Divine Seed of Life becoming one with the Original Source of the Spirit.

This objective involves a daily struggle against one’s own earthly nature, which must give up its predominance over the higher nature through self-mortification. Not until this objective is reached can the Gnosis be experienced."
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Equals

“You must consider the course of this world—that all things in it are but a play wherewith you spend your time in such unquietness, and that it goes with the rich and mighty as with the poor and the beggar; that all of us equally live and move in the four elements, and that the hard-earned morsel of the poor is as relishing and savory to him in his labour as the dainties of the rich are to him in his cares.

Also, that all of us subsist by One Breath, and that the rich man hath nothing but the pleasures of the palate and the lust of the eye for a little while more than his poor neighbor, for the end of both is the same.”

—Jakob Böhme, The Way to Christ (1623)
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