The Mystery Of The Endura - Part II

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Hence the question: "How does one take the first step on the True Path?". You set your foot on the Path when you solve for yourself the mystery of losing the self. In that mystery lies the key to the inner Science of Return.

To fathom this mystery, the pupil must understand, fully and completely, the nature of his own consciousness. Its nucleus lies in the serpent-fire, in the vital fluid present in the serpent-fire system. The head of the consciousness-serpent corresponds with the frontal cavity of the skull, the tail with the sacral plexus. The sole attribute of the serpent-fluid is "life", "life-consciousness". This consciousness animates the personality-system and spurs it on to thinking, willing, feeling and acting.

The personality-system is twofold. That is to say, there is a crystallized personality and a tenuous, etheric-astral personality. The former corresponds to the material-sphere, the latter with the reflection-sphere. During waking-consciousness both personalities lie concentrically within one another; during sleep the denser portion is at rest, and life is then conscious and active in the other personality.

At death, the two personalities are separated once and for all. The denser one decomposes, while the other continues life in the reflection-sphere. In the reflection-sphere "dying" continues, and this process is something like the action one sees in a slow-motion film. In this way, the etheric-astral personality also decomposes, until only the consciousness remains, and even that loses the main portion of itself. All that was present in the consciousness as a legacy of the past of the microcosm, vanishes. Finally, there remains only the naked soul as a consciousness-atom

When the soul is thus completely emptied, reincarnation follows. First, the dense personality is born and the seed-atom of the consciousness, the naked soul, is linked with the borrowed and inherited serpent-fire of a new and different human generation. And again, in slow-motion, over a period of years, the second, tenuous etheric-astral personality is born, until finally maturity is attained. But long before the the state of maturity is reached, the process of dying will have already set in.

You will undoubtedly recognize, along with us, the hopelessness of this process. "Man lives but to die"...that phrase tells the whole story! So you will understand why dualistic man, with his passion for life, has devised a possibility to escape this turning of The Wheel; that is why nature-religions and occultism have come into being. Through the application of one or the other of these two systems, a remarkable "slowing down" of the dying process develops on yonder side. The slow-motion film is further decelerated, albeit by means of the crass exploitation of our fellow creatures.

Can you imagine the possibility of a life in duality which is not being lived at the expense of our fellow beings? No, you cannot! Did you know that exploitation for the purpose of self-maintenance, in a passion for life, has an increasingly earth-binding, karmic effect? If you want to escape from The Wheel, you should certainly not attempt to slow it down. Therefore, all nature-religion and occultism must be left behind once and for all.

If you are ready to do this, and have thus liberated yourself from your exploiters, you should ask yourself. "Is my consciousness a spiritual consciousness?" If you are looking for an honest answer to that question, you will encounter a bewildered "no!" It is possible for a spiritual impulse to struggle for expression in your consciousness, but to equate that consciousness with the Spirit is impossible. That is why the transfigurist says that dualistic man is a living soul but definitely not a living Spirit.

You will find this confirmed if you reflect upon the nature, the essence and the power of what can truly be called Spirit. The Bible can provide counsel in this, for it teaches that the Spirit is eternal, absolute, omniscient, omnipotent and Divine, and that the consciousness is always subordinate to it.

Your consciousness, your serpent-fire has broken away from the Universal Spirit and from the Spirit of your Original structure. Hence all your speculations and experimentations; hence all your delusions. In more than one sense, the Lord of the Spirit cannot be found in you any longer. Only a life-craving consciousness animates your system and in this there remains, at most, a small spark of Remembrance of the Original Bond with the Lord of the Spirit. Your soul-consciousness is a meager remnant of a former Splendor. You grope about in darkness, no longer possessing any pre-Remembrance; you are no longer able to walk in the Light, in the sense of the Light of the Spirit.

End of Part II

"The Mystery Of The Endura" - The Great Revolution - JVR, CDP

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You are a biological phenomenom; no more and no less. This is because you possess a mortal soul and a physical body - both temporary - and no connection to Spirit.

People are fond of saying such things as "my spirit was touched", or "i felt this in my spirit", etc. Such talk proves that these people have no understanding of what Spirit truly means.

Spirit is of God. Until we re-link ourselves with Spirit, we will remain biological phenomenoms that continually come and go. If we were linked with Spirit, we would not behave as we do. We would perform the will of the Father, not that of the I-being, the self.

The Path of Transfiguration is being revealed to mankind at this time so that he may take advantage of the mighty transformative energies that are sweeping the solar system and at least begin walking towards that much-needed re-linking with Spirit. For this to happen, we must build a New Soul and then, a new material vehicle. All of these processes are part and parcel of the Path, if we but choose to travel that Path.

The endura, the "dying as to self" is a critical part of that journey. It is not an easy task because we are, for the most part, still controlled by our "I" and the "I" does not want to give up its position as ruler of the nature-born man. But this "dying" must take place. The "I" must stand aside to allow for the re-birth of The Other One that sleeps within us.

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