Contact With The Spiritual School - Conclusion

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A weak radiating is caused in the heart by this Touch, and this appeals to the dualistic consciousness which reacts to this with a state of disquiet, as we have discussed repeatedly. By this continuous impulsion of the dualistic being, the dualistic consciousness is invited, so to speak, to follow the suggestions, the voice, of the Original Atom.

The dualistic consciousness does not know that, of course. It has no idea that there is any such thing as an Original Atom. It is so used to experimenting and speculating in its imperfect undivine world, and it is such a fortune-hunter, driven by circumstances, that it thinks it is acting completely out of its own initiative. It is completely egocentric and yet the ego, in fact, is being led. No doubt it is clear to you that no Rosebud-carrier escapes this gnostic impulsion.

Under the power of this influence, that whole sequence of events develops which you know so well, because you yourself have experienced or still do. You know those mad whirls of the dualistic ego in its interests directed this way: reading piles of books -- attending many meetings -- attending seances -- having discussions and joining movements and societies -- pondering until we go around the bend and always drifting between hope and fear -- or resisting that inner calling voice with everything that is in us -- and playing the firmly-convinced person -- and acting as if we are 'initiated' and 'called'! In short, this is all the well-known carrying-ons of tens of thousands of people.

You may know the example of the well from which the lid is removed. The sun shines into it and this causes the insects to wriggle and flutter and scurry about in a great whirl. You know all this!

This seeking and fluttering can last a long time, a life-long time! Until a great inner exhaustion comes. The cause of this is that the aural being of the higher self is at the end of its tether. In all the experimentation of the personality during this period, the higher self tries to retain the initiative and leads the lower self everywhere to satisfy its hunger. It is a case of 'stones for bread', but as long as the ego bites, there is a certain satisfaction.

But now, after a longer or shorter time, there comes a moment when the ego has finished biting and the magnetic system of the aural being or higher self is no longer capable of giving satisfaction. Then the higher self has become weary; there is a weakening of the light in the dualistic firmament and hence, a recognizable magnetic disturbance. Not only the Primordial Atom radiates a new light, but a corresponding light-field in the aural being is seized and vivified by the gnostic magnetic field.

From this moment on a magnetic ray bores into the head-sanctuary at a place in the mid-brain, and as soon as this point is seized, the adrenal glands receive a vigorous impulse; from the mid-brain (the mid-brain controls the kidneys and the adrenal glands) a new energy flows into the body and the ego begins to react positively to the Call of the Gnosis for the first time.

At this moment this person has become ripe for the second field of radiation of the Gnosis, seen from the outside inwards. And in that second field the pupil for the first time comes into contact with the Spiritual School.

The person concerned has probably already known the Spiritual School in his first period, and may have entered it, but then he knew it simply as he would know any other given movement or society. Only in the second period will he know it from within and in a totally different way. Then he will love and serve it so ardently and incessantly that he will never let go of it. The pupil then already experiences the foretaste of the 'Homecoming'.

We hope profoundly that you can already speak of this experience.

"Contact With The Spiritual School" - The Gnostic Mysteries of Pistis Sophia - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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As long as we continue to think that we know it all, or that we have found 'the system', we will remain lost in darkness. Only when we reach the end of our tether, when we tire of the endless hopeless chase for the Truth in natural occult, mystical, religious or cultural groups, will we become receptive to a Light that is not-of-this-world. If, in deep humility and self-surrender, we allow ourselves to follow this Light, what has been Hidden shall be revealed. The Door that was closed shall be opened unto us.

For those who have reached this nadir, this bottom, this state of hopelessness, confusion and despair, the Spiritual School stands waiting to perform its duty as an intermediary between mankind and the Gnosis.

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