The Johannine Type

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We do not want to view the figure of John the Baptist as an historical personality, but as the type of person who can indeed be called the harbinger of Jesus, in the sense that before the Christ-radiation can take shape in any person and this person can consequently be called a Jesus-person he must first be a Johannine-person. He must be taken up in a preliminary process.

This is why John precedes Jesus  in the Gospel and why John the Baptist is a figure of all time. He manifests himself immediately when any pupil of the Spiritual School commences the Path under the same conditions and in the same power as the Johannine type. Hence a given person cannot just decide to be a Johannine type; at most, he can decide to become a Johannine type.

There are different stages of genesis and therefore also different types and sub-types:

1. the type of the ordinary dualistic person, which type can be distinguished in various gradations;

2. the Johannine type, the type which populates the ordinary visible Spiritual School;

3. The Jesus type, the type of the new, liberated human being;

4. the Christ type, the type of the divine human being.

From the announcements of the Gospel and those of the Pistis Sophia, it appears that also a miraculous birth can be connected with the Johannine type. We mean this birth not in the sense of the natural birth of a child, but the entrance into a non-dualistic state-of-being. There are three births, three stages of miraculous resurrection:

1. the birth of John, called by the Rosicrucians 'kindled by the Spirit of God'

2. the birth of Jesus, called by the Rosicrucians 'perishing in Jesus the Lord'

3. the birth of Christ, called by the Rosicrucians 'reborn through the Holy Spirit'

The first birth is the condition for Transfiguration.
The second birth is the process to Transfiguration.
The third birth posits the fact of Transfiguration.

We give you this outline for the sake of completeness, but the point of direct, primary importance for us is whether we have indeed entered the process of that first birth -- the Johannine birth. And we repeat: this concerns a miraculous . One cannot decide to be a John today. One can decided to enter the Way, and on this Way, provided the conditions are fulfilled, the factors to this birth must be granted to us. This is why it is a miraculous birth. This birth must appear out of a state-of-being, out of a very concrete mode of life in which selflessness takes the central place.

In order to make this first miraculous birth radiate clearly before your consciousness and hence to place the Johannine type before you in clear definition, it is necessary to begin with some repetition: the repetition of matters and problems that should be very familiar to you from reading and listening. We begin with the question: 'Who is to be regarded as a successful pupil of the Spiritual School?' And we mean successful in the liberating sense.

The answer is:  'A pupil who has come to the discovery through experience, out of suffering and sorrow, that our nature-order cannot possibly be the divine order'.

Consequently, such a pupil will regard every attempt at the improvement of the world on the horizontal plane as superfluous and absolutely useless. He therefore does not just accept this world, but begins to seek from within for The Other. At least he constantly wants to do this seeking from a disquiet that has consequently entered his blood.

The person who is typified by this disquiet in the blood as mentioned above sends out a certain magnetic vibration. It is a radiation that makes contact with the source of powers that the Pistis Sophia calls the power of the little Iao, the Good, who is in the Midst.

What sort of power is this? It is the power that, as Jakob Boehme says, has seized the nature-of-death in its heart. It is the fundamental, calling power of the gnostic Body of the Universal Chain, active in the world of duality. It is a power that does not originate directly from the New Field of Life, but is nevertheless connected with it and takes shape completely in the dualistic field of nature.

Yet it is obviously separated from it and can be active exclusively  in people of the type described above. This field of power is therefore within reach of every dualistic person, without him or her having to enter an unnatural state-of-being. Although it is active in duality, it is nevertheless completely under the control of Original, Divine forces.

The power of this field is sown in the type of person described above as an answer to his soul distress and is connected with the Original Atom, with the heart,. When this work has been accomplished, the second phase begins.

'The Birth of John" - The Gnostic Mysteries of Pistis Sophia - JVR

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The Johannine type is that one who "makes straight the paths" preparing the way, via selflessness and self-forgetfulness, for 'He who is to come', the Jesus-man, who represents the birth of the New Soul.

One cannot begin to take this step unless and until one has first recognized that he or she has had their fill of the world, that they are through with the illusion of this temporal, finite nature-order.  It is only when this point of despair has been reached and the candidate yearns desperately for an escape from this prison that the Spark within the heart can be touched by a radiation not-of-this-world. This Touch will link the candidate to another Life-field, one that does not vibrate with this nature-order. From this earnest beginning, one is given the power needed to begin the conversion from ordinary to Johannine, one who "prepares the way".

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