Lines of Force

In The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, Max Heindel tells us:

"If a dish of cold water be placed in an atmosphere of a sufficiently low temperature, ice crystals immediately begin to form and we can see the process of their formation. The lines along which the water crystallizes were in it all the time as lines of force but they were invisible until the water congealed."

As Below, So Above. 

Just as water contains within its being the lines of force that will enable it to become ice once the temperature falls below freezing, so too, does the Spirit-spark that is located in the center of the human life-system contain all of the lines-of-force necessary to enable the human-being to regain its former god-like stature.

This means that we have everything within us that we need to effect the transformation from an ego-driven, mortal human-being to an immortal, spirit-soul human-being. All that is required is an open heart and the proper growth environment. 

Plants need good soil, sunshine and rain to blossom and thrive. 

The snowflake or ice crystal requires the right level of temperature.

The spirit-soul human-being requires that we provide the Spirit-spark - what Rosicrucians call "the Rosebud" - with the proper environment for growth and blossoming.

Sunshine - pure thoughts, objective and neutral mental attitude 

Water - pure emotions and unselfish desires

Soil - pure etheric and physical bodies

With this special vibratory environment in place, the Rosebud will gracefully bloom and fill the human life-system with the ambrosia of the Universal Spirit. The consciousness of such a human-being will then expand wide enough to perceive Eternity and participate fully in all universes, all domains, all Creations.

~g

The Three Questions

Who are we?

Where do we come from?

Where are we going?

Who are we? We are individual, immortal sparks of the Universal Spirit, dispersed by the Eternal Oneness, the Creator, the Source of All. Think of what happens when we thrash a roaring campfire. The sparks fly everywhere. Each spark is a miniature replica of the campfire itself, containing all of the properties of the campfire and having the properties of illumination, the ability to burn objects, light other fires, etc. 

It is the same with our Spirit-spark, which resides in the center of our microcosm, our life-system. Our Spirit-spark is a holographic replica of the Eternal Oneness, a pure offshoot of the Original Fire, as it were. 

The physical body is but the outer covering, the shell, the home that guards this Spark.

Where do we come from?  As stated above, at our core, we are holographic emanations of the Universal Spirit. This means that we have within us all of the powers and attributes of the Eternal Oneness. It must be so! If we cut a branch from a tree, how can that branch not contain everything that the tree is?

So, within the center of our being sleeps a Great Power. One that will re-link our consciousness to the Universal Spirit once we can elevate our awareness from a state of ego-consciousness to one of spirit-soul consciousness. This process begins when we open our hearts and allow our Spirt-spark - the Rose of the Heart - to spread its healing and transformative energy throughout our entire life-system.

Where are we going? As Divine Sparks of the All, our primary Purpose is to explore and experience the Realm of Matter and to bring that experience back to Source. Spirit is of such a high vibration that it cannot function in the dense physical world. For that reason, physical bodies are provided to the individual sparks of Spirit for use in navigating these "depths". Think of what a diving suit does for a deep-sea diver.

As long as we remain ignorant of the Spark that lives within us, we will remain here on Earth, prospecting for the Truth. Repeated lives will be required to provide our Spirit-spark with fresh physical bodies. We will repeat the cycle of death-and-rebirth until we finally develop a physical personality that can recognize the answer to the Three Questions and make the decision to finally release our focus on the things of this world and walk the Path of Return to the Good End.

~g

Know God

How can we know God? 

Hermes Trismegistus - Hermes, the Thrice-Great - advises us as follows: 

“If then, you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like.

Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that Greatness which is beyond all measure; 

Rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. 

Think that for you too nothing is impossible; 

Deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; 

Find your home in the haunts of every living creature; 

Make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; 

Bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; 

Think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; 

Think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; 

Grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; 

Then you can apprehend God.

But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say “I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be,” 

Then what have you to do with God?”

"For Like is Known by Like". Carefully ponder these words.

~ g

Change the World

Many have a desire to "change the world", "save the earth", or help with this or that cause. All of those are noble and honorable thoughts but most will fall short of their objective because the aim will be a self-focused one. It will be "I want to do this" and "I want to do that".

The  desire to change must emanate from the Spirit-spark that resides in the center of our life-system. It must be a desireless desire, one that sees the objective but will not be bound to the results, whether positive or negative.

The one thing that we can do to help change the world is quite within our grasp. It is something that we can control and it is not a massive undertaking.

We can change ourselves.

We can become that which we want the world to become.

Any permanent change in our own thoughts, feelings and actions will be felt by the entire world. That is because all of us are connected with all of the rest of us, as if by invisible threads. So effecting change in ourselves is a guaranteed way to provide lasting help to the Earth and to her humanity.

Change Yourself, Change the World.

~ g

To Be Silent

"It is well to get used even now to thinking carefully before speaking. Much common talk is unnecessary and foolish; when it is gossip, it is wicked. 

So be accustomed to listen rather than to talk; do not offer opinions unless directly asked for them. One statement of the qualifications gives them thus:

To Know, to Dare, to Will, and to be Silent; 

...and the last of the four is the hardest of them all."

From At the Feet of the Master - J. Krishnamurthi 

~ g

The Purpose of Confusion

 

The Purpose of Confusion

 “God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.”

 - Rumi -

The state of dialectics in which we exist is not a curse; it is simply our life-field. We can fight it, or we can accept it. Accepting it is easier. Walking the Path becomes easier when we realize that all the confusion that builds up within us is there to help us on our journey.

We have chosen to embark on this Path from our current state – whatever it may be, wherever we may be – because we experience within ourselves the necessity to find our true home. We remember this true home from the core of our being, from the Rose of the Heart, the Spark of the Spirit that has remained within our heart sanctuary throughout our long exile. Now that we are conscious of this potential - this possibility in our lifetime - we can pursue our aim to reunite the essence of our being with the divine Source of all being.

When the head sanctuary has been touched by the Light that is reflected into it from the heart, then there comes a moment of elation that the darkness has been won over by the Light. The consciousness clears—but only for a moment, for there is much still to learn and to earn. We are still subject to images from our world of opposites, and we still react to them. We are still subject to our knee-jerk reactions and getting stuck in the ruts that we have made along the roads of our lives.

Getting stuck is not the fault of our world of opposites. No, it is the result of our perception of it. It is the result of our desire to make the world fit our needs, rather than fitting ourselves to the necessities of the world. In popular parlance, it is the result of service-to-self rather than service-to-others. 

A new development becomes possible only on a completely new basis. A new development is made possible by becoming aware of the confusion created by the dual and opposite influences of our old, conditioned thinking versus the new possibilities presented by impulses from the essence of our being, from our divine potential in the heart. A new part of the Path opens by maintaining focus on the goal and refusing to lose courage. The automatic reactions of trifling thoughts will then be observed clearly enough and soon enough to stop them in their tracks.

Rumi’s words take on a personal meaning as we see the paths of our lives more clearly and as we detach ourselves from the patterns of the past. Our “two wings” give us stability and the power to climb higher and higher on the Path and to experience the Joy and Freedom of each step.

Source: May-2019 Contact Letter

~ g

Stopping the "Madness"

 

This post is in response to questions posed by Claude in his comments dated 18 November 2021:

To all:

"Madness" is investing in the delusion of existence that we accept as "reality". Madness is believing and reinforcing the lie that each human-being is separate from the other, separate from the animals, the plants, the earth, the solar system.

If one has truly found and accepted the Path then one should be consumed with Joy, not with Misery. This Joy arises out of the insight that we have gained, the insight that reveals to us that at our very core, we are eternal beings. There is no death for us. When the fear of death (so-called) evaporates, then we take a huge step on the road to discovering our True Purpose for existing. We have removed a large stumbling block from our Path.

Another important insight is that we should stop seeing ourselves as the center of the universe. When we live from an ego-based consciousness, we are easily displeased whenever we do not get what we want. We call this denial of self-satisfaction "unhappiness" when there is actually no such thing as "unhappiness". "Unhappiness" is simply what the human-being calls the emotion that we feel when we do not get want we want. In order to do away with "unhappiness", we must cease to desire pleasure and satisfaction for ourselves. If these things happen to come our way, fine. If they flee from us, that is also fine. We must learn to look at Life with neutral, objective, and somewhat detached eyes. If we do not do this, then we will doom ourselves to being ceaselessly tossed about upon the frothy seas of duality. 

Learn to focus your attention away from yourself. Live for others. Do for others. When we live to serve others, we will find that there is no time to agonize over our perceived "problems". This is one way to calm the turbulence that roils within us. Care for yourself? Yes. But only to the limit of the biological minimum required for the physical instrument to live healthy and function properly.

Stand back and away from the perceptions of the selfish self and begin to see the Bigger Picture: you are an eternal being serving the Creator over a succession of repeated lives in temporary physical vehicles. Your mission is always to reconnect with the Universal Spirit, and to voluntarily allow Spirit to work through you for the benefit of sleeping humanity. Although you may have forgotten your purpose, you are trying hard to remember. The magnetic allure of the physical delusion is hampering your ability to move forward with clear vision. Recognize this and then release your attachment to the results of your actions in this world. Be IN the world, but not OF the world. 

~ g

Notes on the Illusion

This post is in response to a comment left by Claude in the comments section of He Is Risen.

My friend, 

Although it is often said that the world that we experience in is an "illusion", this is only partially true. Our existence is real insofar as our five senses are reporting to our consciousness the results of what they see, hear, taste, feel and touch. Our physical senses respond to the vibrations that are offered to us on the physical plane. Interpretation of these impressions makes the physical world "real" when perceived by our consciousness.

However, the physical realm is an illusion when it is compared against the True Reality, the reality of the Original Divine Kingdom, which is ever-existent and does not change. Physical reality is constantly changing. Everything is born, flourishes, and then dies. Rising, shining and fading are the hallmarks of physical existence. This physical realm was never intended to be an eternal home for humanity. It is a temporary domain where humanity must experience many lessons - some of them quite harsh - in order to find out that the physical world is NOT the True Reality. With this realization in hand, we can then begin to search for the Path of Return that will take us back to our Divine home.

So, yes, we experience in an illusion but we must not make the mistake of thinking that this illusion is not real. We can compare it to a dream. While we are asleep and dreaming, our dream is as real as it can be.We are totally immersed in the dream experience. The dream is all that exists for us. The dream is all that matters. The outside world still exists but our eyes (and to a certain extent our ears as well) are closed to the outside world during this period of  sleep. We are insensate to all physical impressions as long as we are asleep and dreaming. That is the best analogy that I can give about the nature of this illusion.

So there is a True Relaity that is waiting for us to return to it but we must first awaken from the Dream.

We are living in special times. There is a Transformation taking place, a transformation of the Earth and of her humanity. Part of this transformation process requires that the reflection-sphere (the so-called heaven worlds) must be cleansed, purified. As a result, the veil between the physical plane and the astral plane has thinned considerably. Astral plane phenomena are increasingly becoming a part of the physical world. Such things should be acknowledged but we should not agonize over them or focus upon them too much. Maintain an objective and neutral viewpoint if or when you perceive any of it. 

The people that we meet in our lives are souls pursuing their own development. They are only "shadows" insofar as all physical forms are composed of light energy, condensed and compressed into particular densities and shapes. What is real about most of the people that we engage with is the Divine Spark, the light of the Universal Spirit that lives in the center of their microcosm in a location that correponds to the region of the human heart. Every human contact should be a soul-to-soul contact. That is what matters. This is why we are always advised to look beyond the physical when we encounter one another. Our contacts with each other should be silent conversations that take place at a much deeper level.

Try to approach human contact with these things in mind. Perhaps it will help.

There is never a time when those who are able to do so are not working the harvest. It has always been said that "The harvest is great and the workers but few". All hands are required to be on-deck and attending to their tasks during this period of harvest. Every moment is an opportunity to touch another human-being and to assist in their development and in the raising of their consciousness. Not merely with words but with the Silent Power that radiates from an awakened Divine Spark. Such individuals must be willing and able to share with humanity the Universal Light-Power that they are receiving.

Yes, we have to Live, Work, Eat, etc. But those who have awakened to the knowledge that there is an ever-existent, Divine Reality that awaits our return will be able to navigate this Dream, this "ïllusion", with feet on the ground while their heads are in the clouds. Now remember: do not discount the Illusion. The illusion has its purpose. There are Lessons that we have to learn, Karma that must be balanced, Experiences that must be shared. These things can only be properly done while we are incarnate in the physical illusion. So, we continue to do our duty in this world but do not aspire to worldly things. We strive to remain detached, neutral, and objective about all physical plane phenomena. We keep the following ancient axiom in mind always:

"Be IN the world but not OF the world".

~ g

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He Is Risen

 

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 Sabarthez region of southern France. This was the purpose of the Great Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid is not a tomb, as present-day bumbling archaeology earnestly 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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Crucifixion - The Victory of the Rose and the Cross

cru·ci·fix·ion 

/ˌkro͞osəˈfikSHən/ 

From the Latin noun of process crucifixio, from perfect passive participle crucifixus (“fixed to a cross”), from crux (“cross”) + fīgō. 

Today, we will examine the hidden meaning of the word "crucifixion" and the event that is symbolized by that word. 

We all know the image that comes to mind when we read or hear this word. The image of the man, Jesus, slumped and bloodied while hanging from a wooden cross. Some hold that this is an image of sacrifice. Others maintain that it is a image of defeat. 

We are not going to speak about the event that took place on the hill of Golgotha over 2,000 years ago, although that even carries its own significance and import for the world and for humanity. We are only going to decode for you the meaning of this powerful symbol that everyone relates to but cannot fully understand. 

The original, classical Rosicrucians of the 16th century embedded the symbolism of the crucifixion in their very name. "Rose" and "Cross". The Rose represents the Divine Spark that sleeps within the center of every microcosm and is aligned with the location of the human heart. The Cross represents the physical human-being, the being of Matter, that is rooted to the Earth. 

In order to liberate the microcosm from its earthly chains, the immortal, Divine part of the human life-system (the Divine Spark, or the Rose) must become active within the human-being. "The Rose must be attached to the Cross of Matter". The human-being must "die" to this world in order to be reborn in the Divine Realms from which we originated. 

In this powerful symbol, the human-being essentially "hangs up" the physical body and ceases all worldly activities. That is why the hands and feet are nailed to the Cross of Matter. Even the thinking faculty is compromised, symbolized by "the crown of thorns". The liver-spleen system, the seat of the All action in the physical world ceases. 

The symbolic "death" on the Cross symbolizes a Great Victory. It symbolizes the victory of the candidate on the Path who has succeeded in accomplishing the endura, the process of self-surrender and fundamental reversal that all those who are walking the Path of Return must complete in order to throw open the doors of Liberation for the microcosm. 

The symbolic representation of this Great Victory gives cause for rejoicing, not sorrow. 

In a very short while, with the old, mortal human-being left to perish the Cross of Matter. the Immortal New Human-Being arises victorious on what has been aptly termed "Resurrection Day", the Day of Rebirth.

May we all succeed in attaching the Rose to the Cross.

~ g

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Asleep

“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. 

But we wake up sometimes, 

Just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein

Message for a Broken Man / The Nadir

The following comment was posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 04, 2020 4:41:00 AM:

"I've been waiting a long time to write this comment because I don’t even know what to say anymore. So far this path make me feel like there’s no purpose and I just don’t want to Exist anymore. All I get is obstacles waiting at every door, I get rid of one and 20 is behind it. 

This quest has turned me into a broken man, I am not selfish but I wish that I never came to being, I live two lives with no end in sight. The delusion of this world is pure Insanity/ I don’t see nothing good but working as a confused machine, I used to believe that something good would come out of this but I no longer believe so."

My friend,

You have reached what is known as "the nadir" of your existence. It is the point at which you consciously realize that "All is vanity and vexation of Spirit".  

When we are engrossed in the pursuits of the world, that is where our focus lies. Our consciousness is tuned in that direction. Earthly striving consumes us. Unknown to many is the fact that this world is a temporary nature-order. Nothing in this world is permanent. If you consider this deeply for a time you should be able to confirm this for yourself. 

What is lasting in this world? What is it in this world that does not rust, or rot, or fade, or dissolve, or evaporate, or die? Everything comes into manifestation for a time and then passes on, transitioning into some else. This applies not only to material things but to our personal interactions and relationships. Nothing stays the same. Everything rises, shines and then fades. If we can understand this law, we can perhaps navigate the physical nature order with a minimum level of frustration and disappointment.  When we struggle against this law, we are met with what we deem to be "obstacles". 

"Obstacles" are created by our own unfulfilled desires. When there are things that we want that we cannot achieve, we perceive this failure to achieve as being caused by some obstacle.  The obstacle, in fact, is our own state-of-consciousness. We believe that we can wring "happiness" out of this world when in truth, this world is not designed to provide us with happiness. Remember, this is a temporary nature-order. Humanity, as a life-wave, really does not belong here. Our purpose on Earth is to recognize that Earth is not our home and to take steps to detach ourselves from this nature-order and find the Path that leads back to the Divine Kingdom, our true Home.

At this critical point, the Divine Spark within your heart can begin to reach you. It is the only part of the human-being that is not connected with this physical existence. It is a remnant of our former existence in Divine realm. It is the central point in our microcosm and has been silently calling for us to  return home for long ages of time.

This nadir that you have reached is an important first step on your journey Home. You are seeing the futility of all earthly striving and are asking what is next. When we reach this nadir we should "be still" and listen for the silent call that issues continually from our Divine Spark, the Rose of the Heart. To be still, does not mean to sit quietly without moving or speaking. It means to stop our striving in the world beyond that which is necessary to live - the biological and social minimums. It means to silence the clamoring of the astral body by adopting an attitude of neutrality. It means to redirect our consciousness away from its focus on earthly striving for the sake of fulfilling the various desires of the selfish "I". It means to step back and allow the Other One that lives imprisoned within us to begin to emerge, to reestablish the link between Spirit and Matter and to reclaim its position as the guiding force behind our earthly personality.

It may be difficult to believe, my friend, but you are exactly where you should be if you wish to make a clean break from the chains that have bound you to the earth for thousands of lives. The nadir indicates that there is now only one direction in which you can go, and that is upwards, to the Heights.

Perhaps you can obtain some insights here: 

https://goldenrosycrosscommunity.org/

~ g

The Struggle Is Real

Liberation from this nature-order means disconnecting our consciousness from its bondage to powerful illusions. Although we work to free our consciousness from these illusions, the struggle itself is very, very real.

As we proceed with our determined efforts to walk the Path of Return to a Good End, we will find that there are obstacles and hindrances sprinkled liberally before us, like boulders. Some of these obstacles are small boulders that lie in our way. We can just kick them aside or pick them up and throw them as far away from us as strength will allow. 

Other boulders are medium-sized and a bit too heavy to lift and throw. These we can carefully step around to avoid, so as not to be tripped.

Then there are boulders that are as tall as an adult human being and wider than an automobile. They are so wide in fact, that we cannot get around them. They stand squarely in the middle of the Path, threatening us with their sheer weight and immovability. We find ourselves unable to proceed any further on the Path. What are we to do? What can we do?

It is here that we must rely upon our understanding of the Path. The Path to Liberation is not something that we can walk alone. If things were that easy, we would have succeeded in liberating ourselves hundreds of incarnations ago. We, as personalities, will not be able to do anything about these boulders. You see, the "boulders" represent our past karma, our old habits, our deep-rooted egocentric desires. These are things that are firmly anchored within the I-being itself and are therefore difficult for the I-being to remove. "We are reminded that "the I cannot liberate the I".

And so, we must wait on the help that has been promised to all sincere candidates, the help that is always at our disposal. Always with us is the inexhaustible strength of the power-field of the Universal Gnosis, the Chain of Brotherhoods, and our fellow travelers on the Path. We must recognize our helplessness in the face of such huge obstacles and know that the Power of the Rose will bring to us a solution to all such obstacles on the Path. One day we will look up, wipe away our tears of bitter defeat, and realize that the huge boulder has been removed. We will then pass safely and continue upon our Journey.

Such is the Path of the True Way. Such is the liberating Path of Return.

~ g

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Self-Immunity

Stumbled upon this today while looking for something else. Because there are no coincidences and due to the exigencies of the times that we are now experiencing, this post is being re-published. The original post date was June 26, 2012. 

[QUOTING]

"Esotericists down the long corridors of mankind's history have always been aware that negative and self-centered thinking and emotion are responsible for all disease; it is ever Thought and Feeling which are the essential cause of physical-plane effects, for Action always follows these.

To give an example of the positive advantages of an informed awareness: mainstream science has not ascertained why killer-viruses are fatal to some but not all. The reason is clear, however, to anyone who possesses elementary occult knowledge. Everything in the universe consists of energy at varying frequencies of vibration. Viruses arise due to the low and deleterious vibrations of our own negative thinking and emotion; viruses thrive at low vibratory rates. Those with an altogether higher vibration of consciousness who are positively-oriented toward selflessness and love are generally immune from the so-called killer-diseases, and without the need for harmful inoculations!

'Miracle cures' have been repeatedly recorded throughout history, and all such remedies were made possible by raising the patient's vibratory rate of consciousness so that healing forces could flow unimpeded from within the ailing person themselves. This has been the case whether the cure was labeled faith-healing, white magic, 'God's blessing' or whatever else; the true reasons are always the same, and it is ever the frequency of one's consciousness that is the key to success.

The easiest and quickest way to raise the vibration of consciousness - and certainly the safest for most people - is to make contact with the Divine in oneself, and this may be done by focusing out of and away from the personal self  and upon some higher and worthy purpose. In fact, if in aligning with universal law mankind were to adopt and maintain such an inclusive and expanded focus, perfect healing on all levels would eventually ensue in the world, and in most cases without the need for intermediaries like doctors or drugs etc. For the majority of the planetary population this is a vitally needed education today, and it is this lesson which the impending inner and outer upheavals prior to the birth of the New World will endeavor to impart to all who attempt to continue living within the shadows of selfishness and fear."

From "Causes and Effects - The Birth Of A New World" - The New Call

[END QUOTING]

"Man, Know Thyself".

Over the centuries, humanity has been led to believe that we are helpless and weak, with no God-given powers or abilities. It has been drilled into our heads that all threats to humanity come from without and that all remedies for the ills of humanity must be applied from without. These lies have been  methodically supported and advanced over many millennia in order to shape our consciousness in such a way as to deceive us into believing that we are indeed helpless creatures.

BE ADVISED: Illness and dis-ease manifest from the inside, out...not the other way around.  Medical science continues to diagnose and treat symptoms without giving much consideration to root cause.

Your Thinking, Willing and Feeling are responsible for creating your state-of-consciousness. An overall high rate of vibration is your shield against dis-ease. As stated above, viruses, bacteria, etc. that may be potentially harmful to human beings cannot thrive or survive in a high frequency environment.

"Physician, Heal Thyself".

~ g

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Master the Illusion

Illusion (noun)

1. something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.

2. the state or condition of being deceived; misapprehension.

3. an instance of being deceived.

This post is a response to recent questions from Claude. It is being posted here for the benefit of all.

If you sincerely recognize that you are experiencing in an Illusion then you already have the Keys to Freedom in your hands. Recognizing that one is stuck in an Illusion should immediately raise the question: "If this is an illusion, then where is the Reality?".

Divine messengers of all ages have always brought the same message to humankind: In order to find the Reality, we must look within. Specifically, we must awaken the Spark of the Divine that sleeps within our Heart sanctuary. It is this Divine Spark that has an affinity with the True Reality that we seek. We must fan this Spark from an ember into a Flame.

The world as we experience it is "real", as far as it goes. Just as a dream seems"real" to us until we wake up. This dualistic nature-order is designed to stimulate our five senses, which then report the results to our consciousness. Conversely, the thoughts, feelings and actions of humanity stimulate the surrounding environment. Our consciousness then registers the responses. This is the world of "being". "Being" is a big part of the Illusion. "Not-being" is the state-of-consciousness that can free us from the Illusion. 

The core of the Illusion lies in the fact that human-beings have come to believe that we are separate from one another. Although externally we appear to be separate entities, in our deepest essence we are not. The sense of separation is something that has developed over many millions of years as the human life-wave slowly individualized itself on its involutionary journey into Matter. As a life-wave, we have now reached the end of our individualization process. It is time to gather up our myriad experiences, attributes, powers, etc. and pool them together for the sake of a unified humanity.

You mentioned that "This world is an illusion but a mental one. How can I free myself  from this world when I am still a part of the illusion?"  Well, recognizing the illusory nature of our existence is one of the first steps. It is, in fact, a major step. Next must come the understanding that the human-being is perfectly equipped and fully able to transcend this False Reality. How so?

Human-beings are twofold. We are simultaneously both mortal and immortal. The mortal part we are quite familiar with. The immortal part of us, the eternal Divine Spark, lives in the center of our microcosm, a region that corresponds to the location of the physical human heart. Only a small percentage of humanity are aware of the existence of this Immortal Seed. Our consciousness is so focused upon this temporary, mortal, False Reality that it is has become very difficult for us to locate and forge a link with the immortal part of our being. We must obtain the proper insight that will enable us to reactivate this Divine link.

An immediate step that can be taken  towards freedom from the Illusion is for one to adopt an attitude of detachment from the things of the world. Stop reacting to all of the stimuli that are thrown at you via your senses, the mass media and by other human-beings. It is our automatic knee-jerk reactions to everything that duality throws at us that keeps us on this merry-go-round, hanging on for dear life. 

• Thoughts and feelings of fear, anger, sadness, envy, criticism, vanity, etc must be deleted from our mental and emotional life. 

• The sense that we are the center of the world and all others are our enemy must be done away with. 

• The desire to survive and protect ourselves (self-maintenance) at the expense of others must cease.

• The recognition that humanity, as a life-wave is a brotherhood, must not only be completely understood and accepted, we must also live our lives in a manner that reflects this truth.

• In every moment, we should ask ourselves: who am I serving in this moment? Myself, or humanity? Me, or the person in front of me, behind me, beside me?

These are the first steps. These are the new habits of thought and feeling that must be adopted by us and thoroughly lived if we wish to successfully walk the Path of Return, the Path of the True Way. A total change in our current way of living is an absolute requirement. It is this fundamental reversal that will stir the sleeping ember that is our Divine Spark and enable a new Fire to light our consciousness. 

Yes, we are a part of the Illusion and we do help to maintain it. In detaching ourselves from the Illusion we are able to move towards Freedom. Although we must continue to navigate this illusion and function within it, we can learn to do so without becoming attached to it. The attachments are what bind us to this False Reality and keep us locked up in a Prison of Consciousness. So, learn to be in the world, but not of the world. 

Insight hands you the Keys. Yearning leads you to the door of Freedom. Fundamental reversal and the surrender of the selfish self puts the Key in the lock. A New Attitude of Life turns the Key and opens the doors of our consciousness to the True Reality that we left behind long ages ago.

It can be done. We are all capable of accomplishing this. It is literally what we were born to do.

Rise Above the Illusion.

~ g

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Ending-Beginning

This post is in response to questions recently posed by Claude.

My friend, you asked if i ever have any doubts? No, i do not have a shred of doubt in God's Plan or in the ultimate success of that Plan. Dei Gloria Intacta (The Glory of God is Unassailable). The Divine Plan is so well-designed that even when things look like they are going completely wrong, they are actually going according to plan. This world will be purified and reborn, as will all those who raise their vibration high enough to share in that purification process. The time-frame is not what we should be concerned about. Our task is to work tirelessly to bring about the necessary purification within ourselves.

When we are engaged in pleasant circumstances, we want the good times to continue for as long as possible.  Conversely, when we are caught up in unpleasant circumstances, it seems as if the misery will never end. These are natural reactions for the human-being. The best advice that can be given regarding the times that are now upon us is that we should adopt an attitude of Neutrality, Objectivity and Detachment from world affairs and personal interactions. If one can attain such a state of Detachment ("in the world but not of the world"), the rolling flood of negative world events will cease to have an effect upon us. We will begin to recognize that everything is happening exactly according to Plan.

Humanity has reached the end of a major world-cycle. This is not the first time that we have reached such a milestone. The so-called myths and legends of countless ancient civilizations all attest to periodic global conflagrations by Flood or Fire. Over time, these separate stories have been grouped together as a single story of a single Cataclysm. Such is not the case. Planetary cleansings take place on a periodic basis, like clockwork. Humanity has grown to fear such a cyclic cleansing as the "end" of the world. This is not entirely true.

These cyclic cleansings are actually twofold in nature: they represent both an Ending and a Beginning. Think of it this way: you have a house that is cluttered with trash and litter. The walls are caked in grime. The toilet is backed up and there are vermin everywhere. The house needs to be thoroughly cleaned inside and out, from top to bottom. During the process of cleaning the house, the mess will get a little worse before it gets better. As the trash is slowly removed from the house, the mice and other vermin will begin to scatter because their environment, their habitat, is being disturbed. The sight of these critters scrambling about can be disturbing. Just as the smells of mold, dust and rotting things can also be unsettling. One looks about the house and wonders "Will this mess ever be cleaned up?"

Yes, it will. This is how a cleansing must proceed. Things will always get a little worse before they get better. And so it is with our world today. What we are witnessing is the reaction of the Dark elements of this nature-order to the steady influx of Light. Like roaches in the night, they scatter when one hits the light switch. In desperation, the Dark is trying to thwart the Perfect Plan by heaping atrocity after atrocity upon humankind. This acceleration of negativity is actually a sign. It is proof that the Plan is nearing a climax. The Dark elements of this nature-order are throwing all that they have against this tide of Purification with only mixed results. Many people are awakening due to what they see taking place around the world. Thus, we see that these desperate, negative activities are actually serving to help a portion of sleeping humanity awaken from an ages-long slumber.

We are in the time of The Great Separation. As stated in the Holy Language, we are now separating the "sheep" from the "goats".  The "house" is being emptied of its "trash and vermin". Additionally, all of humanity is being given a final opportunity to choose which side they wish to be on when the curtain finally comes down on this Age: Darkness or Light. Many have already chosen Light and may now be growing a bit impatient as they wait for the promised transition of the Earth and humanity. In the meantime, the Darkness rages about us and it appears as if the "sheep" have been abandoned. We have not been abandoned. We have made our choice and must now wait for our straggling brothers and sisters to catch up. Patience is key here. Once a critical mass of accumulated Light is reached upon the planet, the Transition will begin.

In racing, there is the concept of a Start-Finish line. The same checkered line used to begin a race can also be used to end a race. In a similar vein, we are experiencing a time of Ending-Beginning, where the "End" is not just the end of an old dispensation but simultaneously the beginning of a new one.

All must take heart and navigate these times with Cheerfulness and Joy for all is going exactly according to Plan. Remember that in order to bake a cake, you have to break a few eggs.

"Rejoice and exult and add Joy to your Joy, for the Times are completed...Rejoice then, and exult, for ye are blessed before all fallen men of the earth".

~ g
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7.5 Billion-of-a-Kind

Take a look at the two skeletons depicted above. Can you tell what race these skeletons belonged to when they were coated with flesh? 

How about religion or nationality? 

• Which one was rich and powerful in life and which one was poor and destitute?

• Who was "good" and who was "bad"?

• Who had blue eyes and whose eyes were brown?

• The smart one? the stupid one?

Do you see where we are going with this?

Man's focus on our many perceived "differences" completely ignores the point that is being crudely illustrated by this post. We are of the same stock, not just in physical construction but in our underlying spiritual origins as well. We are a single human life-wave that is currently engaged in a foolish and tragic struggle against itself, lost in the illusion of Separateness.

~ g

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No Worries

Stop worrying about death or how you will die. It will happen at its appointed time and there is not much that you will be able to do about it.

Please understand that the circumstances of our birth are planned long before we are even born. This includes who our parents will be, where we will be born, the time of birth, the position of the stars and planets at the time of our birth, which celestial body will be on the Ascendant at the moment of birth, what racial/national/religious identities we will take on in this life, etc. All of this is carefully planned in advance in order to set the life template for the personality about to be born. With this life template in place, the human-being sets out on his / her journey to find The One Truth.

Just as our Entrance into this world is meticulously planned, so too, is our Exit. The circumstances, means and time of death are put in place well in advance of the incarnation.

The so-called "accident" is not exempt from this planning. Because we are not aware of the Karmic back-story for any particular victim, we are led to believe that accidents are random tragedies. But what if the victim had been the cause responsible for a similar accident to another person in some past life? The Debt must be paid. The Lesson must be learned.

You've heard stories about soldiers who are spared while their entire company or platoon is devastated by enemy fire. Why does that happen? Because it is not that soldier's "time". This example can be applied to all of us.

So we should not waste any angst over how and when our incarnation will end. Instead, we must focus our attention on how we live. Because when we finally do "cross over" the first thing we will realize is that we are not "dead" at all, but very much alive.

And then we will have to answer for how we lived while in the physical body.

~ g
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Avoiding the "Second Death"

As indicated in the prior post, we, as specific and individual personalities, will cease to exist once we transition to the reflection-sphere and pass through a process of gradual dissolution. We will first drop the physical body, then the more subtle etheric, astral and mental bodies in turn. What remains from the life previously lived by the personality is:

1. any new karma developed during the previous incarnation
2. any powers, abilities or attributes developed during the previous incarnation
3. a permanent record of all events that took place in the life just lived, every single second.

These life artifacts are stored in the lipika of the microcosm. The lipika is the terrestrial "higher self" and persists from one incarnation to the next. It is a continuous recorder.

At this point, the spherical microcosm has been emptied. The microcosm will then begin to make preparations to generate a new personality for the upcoming incarnation. This new personality will not be the "you" that walked the earth in the previous incarnation.

1. The new personality will carry the karmic burden of "you" and all other personalities that preceded it in the microcosm. 
2. The new personality will have a portion of the powers, abilities and attributes developed by previous personalities that were generated by the microcosm. 
3. Except in extraordinary cases, the new personality will have no recollection of the events that took place in the lives previously lived.

When a person undergoes past-life regression, the person is usually able to gain access to the records of one or more of their past lives. The person will recognize himself or herself in action as a soldier, a priestess, a servant, etc. even though those entities will look nothing like the person does at present. That's because those personalities were all different, as indicated above. The person is accessing the records of the lipika, the terrestrial higher self, and is recognizing himself/herself in those prior personalities via that temporary linkage.

So, we find that it is the microcosm that is immortal. The human personality is mortal, temporary. It is the microcosm that must be rescued from this lower physical realm and it uses each new human personality as an agent to do so (see blogpost "Transplant" from October 2015).

Life after life, the microcosm creates new personalities composed of different combinations of karma, powers, attributes, etc., in an effort to generate a personalty that will be able to fight through the slog and mush of physical life and recognize the True Purpose of its existence. 

And what is that Purpose? To liberate the microcosm! To free the immortal microcosm from its ages-long imprisonment in the region of mortality! The task of every human personality is to answer the Call of the Divine Spark, a Call so subtle that it cannot be heard over the cacophony of earth-life. We must silence ourselves in order to "hear" this Silent Call. This is not simply a physical silence. By "silence", we mean establishing a daily attitude of Neutrality, Objectivity and a certain Indifference to all things earthly. 

When we cease to fully invest ourselves in the things of the world, the Divine part of us will begin to "speak". Faintly at first, then louder and louder. Gradually and harmoniously, the Rose of the Heart will begin to bloom. It will re-establish its link with the Divine Kingdom and those Divine energies will begin to flow in the microcosm. First, by way of the heart sanctuary, then the head sanctuary and finally the pelvic sanctuary. These three sanctuaries of the human personality will be purified by the Divine Bread of Life. That purification of the personality will extend to the entire microcosm. This process of transmutation and transformation will ultimately lead to a complete Transfiguration of the microcosm along with its current personality.

In the previous post we mentioned the "Second Death", which refers to the loss of all subtle bodies after-death and the total dissolution of the personality. When the goal of Transfiguration has been reached, the microcosm will no longer have to generate new personalities to incarnate on earth. The candidate who is able to complete this process of transformation, or even begin the process, will be the last personality developed by the microcosm. As stated in the Holy Language 

"He who overcomes I will make a pillar in the House of my Father, and he shall go out no more." Rev 3:12

This is the manner in which the Second Death can be avoided.

Awaken your Divine Spark, the Rose of the Heart, that which links you to the Divine Kingdom.

Renounce the world, and all the Matter therein.

Find the Path of Return, enter through the Narrow Gate.

Fulfill the Destiny that you were created to achieve.

Liberate your Microcosm and you will liberate yourself.

If we fail to execute and complete this Duty, our incarnation will have been in vain, no matter what measure of success, fame or riches we may have acquired during the life lived.

~ g

Nobody "Dies"

Death is the ever-present specter that we all know is a part of this experience but are reluctant to contemplate, examine or try to understand. So, we push this inevitable event into a dusty corner of an abandoned basement in our mind and try not to visit that corner of the basement, ever.

This unreasonable fear of Death creates many difficulties for the human-being. For one thing, knowing that our lives are finite, that our lives have an expiration date, has an effect on the mental state of the human-being and the choices that he or she makes during the physical life. 

One person may take a fatalistic approach to life and throw all cares to the wind. "Eat, Drink and be Merry, for tomorrow, we die!" is how the saying goes.

Another person may fear this idea of Death so much that s/he will dedicate his/her life to religiosity and "churchianity", hoping that some phony posing as a mediator between man and God can "save" his/her soul.

Still another person may engage in occult practices so as to "escape" death by using the knowledge gained during physical life to unlawfully extend the after-death soul-life. In this way, these ones attempt to obtain a measure of immortality, even though they are well aware that this sham immortality comes at the direct expense of physical human-beings on earth.

All of these coping strategies are ultimately futile, because Death is part-and-parcel of what physical "Life" is all about. The Seventh Cosmic Domain, our physical universe, is a temporary nature-order. Everything constantly changes. Nothing is permanent, nothing is lasting. This law of impermanence applies to all physical forms and creatures, including Man.

Please take notice of the fact that "you" as a personality are a one-shot deal. "You" are mortal. It is your microcosm that is immortal. Upon the death of your present personality, the Life that vitalized the physical body is withdrawn. The individual chemical elements that compose the physical body no longer have the vital body to hold them together and so they begin to disorganize. These elements are slowly returned to the earth. Man calls this process decay.

To the physical eye, that's it. The body is lifeless and decaying, so the person is considered "dead". But that is not the case. The death of the physical body is only the first stage of a lengthy process of dissolution. The "deceased" human personality still has possession of his/her more subtle vehicles: the higher half of the etheric body plus the full astral and mental bodies). Each of these bodies must individually undergo a process of "letting go" in order for the deceased to advance through the so-called heaven-worlds. This process plays out in stages after-death.

THE ETHERIC PLANE

While the deceased is in possession of the remains of the Etheric Body, he/she will still be attracted to the physical world. As long as deceased personalities do not let go of their attraction to the physical world, they will hang around the earth-plane. In brief, this is what explains the phenomena of so-called ghosts, spooks, shades, apparitions, poltergeists, earthbound spirits, etc. The process of losing this attraction to the physical world can take many years of our earth-time. Gradually, the deceased will lose interest in the physical world. He/she will drop the remains of the Etheric Body and obey the Call that attracts him/her to the next level of the hereafter: the Astral Plane.

THE ASTRAL PLANE

The Astral Plane is sometimes referred to as the Desire World. That is because this plane is the realm of feelings and emotions. Here, the deceased has an opportunity to purge himself/herself of all earthly desires (food, drink, sex, violence, excitement, etc.). Before the deceased can move on to the next higher plane, the Mental Plane, he/she must successfully let go of all emotional attachments to the physical world. When this has been accomplished, the deceased drops the emotional body, the Astral body, leaving him/her with only the Mental Body, which accompanies him/her to the Mental Plane.

Note: these first two stages are where "churchianity" got the idea of "purgatory". Yes, there is a purging that is necessary before the deceased can move on to a higher existence after-death. That has been described for you in the foregoing passages. However, "churchianity" has twisted it all out of proportion in order to instill fear in the masses. There is no pain associated with this process except for the unrequited longing that the deceased imposes upon himself/herself when stubbornly refusing to let go of desires for physical plane phenomena that can no longer be experienced due to the lack of a physical body. For example, a deceased smoker can want "just one last cigarette" as much as he/she wants, they are not going to be able to experience that sensation again. They may try in different ways to get close to experiencing that sensation but the effort eventually proves to be more trouble than it is worth. After a shorter or longer period of earth-time, they lose interest and move on.

THE MENTAL PLANE

The deceased personality remains on the Mental Plane for the longest period of time in the post-mortem state. It is said that here is where abstract ideas and archetypes are contemplated. The deceased is able to work with mental matter and can use that matter to form any sort of construction that he/she wants. Here is where one sees sound and hears colors. Also, if there are any attributes that the personality wishes to improve upon prior to the next incarnation, here is where that work is done. Whether it is musicianship, athletic ability, public speaking, some invention or another, all things can be examined from the "inside-out" as it were, while on the Mental Plane. Attributes and abilities can be improved upon or perfected in this region.

This is also the region of the so-called heaven-worlds that is referred to as "The Summerland". The post-mortem existence in this region is reportedly quite pleasant and peaceful. However, at some point the personality must drop the Mental Body and leave this region as well.

THE "SECOND DEATH"

So, what happens to the deceased personality once it has been divested of its three remaining subtle vehicles?  Well, the after-death experiences are stored in the lipika of the microcosm, adding to the collective experience obtained by all previous personalities that have been generated by the microcosm. The Mental Body dissolves and the deceased personality ceases to exist. This is referred to in the Holy Language as "the Second Death". The death of the physical human-being is "the First Death".

The following bears repeating: "you", as a personality, are a one-shot deal. "You" are mortal. It is your microcosm that is immortal. You, as a temporary personality, incarnate on earth via childbirth. You live the life-span allotted to you and transition out of physical life in the prescribed manner. You then pass through the after-death experience in the so-called "heaven-worlds" as we have just described. Ultimately, the remains of the mortal personality dissolve and the personality is no more.

The microcosm then prepares to generate a fresh personality for the next incarnation. This new personality will not be you, Mr. Smith or Ms. Smith. It will be a brand-new personality totally unrelated to who "you" were in the previous life. It may even be of the opposite sex. The only thing that this new personality will share with the previous personality will be the accumulated microcosmic karma as well as some of the attributes and abilities stored up in the lipika of the microcosm. The "you" that was will be erased, completely dissolved. The entire process takes about 1,000 earth-years, on average.

WRAP-UP

So, that's it? We're here and then we're gone? But what about reincarnation? What about the promise of eternal life? Well, a new personality does incarnate but, as mentioned above, that personality is not "you". It is the microcosm that persists from incarnation to incarnation. The human personality is a tool, a perfectly designed instrument that is tasked to fulfill a specific purpose while in physical incarnation: the Liberation of the microcosm.

We should also note that the promise of "eternal life" in the so-called heaven-worlds is a fallacy. The world's religions have intentionally misled mankind in that regard. There is no "eternal reward" for the ordinary human-being after-death.

This post is not meant to frighten or disturb you. It's purpose is to educate you. Fear of anything is the result of ignorance, of not-knowing. Once you know, fear dissipates like smoke in the wind.

The story does not end here. The next post will describe how we can avoid "the Second Death" and how we can become the final personality in our microcosm while obtaining a full share in its immortality.

~ g
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