One Short Lifetime

72 years.

That is the average earthly life-span of a human-being. This may appear to be too short in duration, but it is the quota that man has allotted to himself. There was a time when man lived hundreds of years in physical incarnation. The Biblical references to 900-year lifespans are true. As man digressed spiritually and morally, he distanced himself from the Divine Plan. Whenever we diverge from God's Plan, deterioration and negative dematerialization is the result. Man's life-span was shortened accordingly. Only the Divine Teachers, the priest-kings of that time, maintained the extended life-span, because they "walked with God".

There are no Divine Teachers in physical form on Earth today. The overall planetary vibration is presently far too low to accomodate entities of a divine nature. Humanity has descended so far that we are only allowed a short dip into matter before we must be pulled back into the reflection-sphere. Think back to a few hundred years ago. The life-span was even shorter. People were lucky to reach 40, 45 years of age. 72 was probably the average then as well, but the conditions that man lived under during those times were much more physically harsh and demanding than today. Not to mention the incessant wars and their resulting fatalities. Then, as now, man spent 99% of his time figuring out how to survive and make the best out of physical life and perhaps 1% on the higher spiritual life. That 1% usually did not manifest itself until death drew near. This also remains true today.

So here we are, born with the clock ticking.

72 years.

What can we possibly accomplish in such a short amount of time? Some pursue riches, fame and glory, in order to "leave their mark" on the world. Others feel that they are too small to change the world, so they focus upon the next best thing, which is to make themselves as comfortable as possible. They pursue personal comforts and entertainments. Then there is a class of human-beings who, out of ignorance, fear and confusion, choose to elbow their way through life, taking from others, hurting others, causing harm and destruction wherever they go. Through violence, they attempt to extinguish the fires that burn within. Sadly, they succeed only in fanning the flames.

All of these groups will someday reach the limit of their mortality. As death approaches, they will review their lives. Whether their overall experience has been "successful" or "unsuccessful", nagging questions will still persist:

"Is that all there is to Life?"  "What was the point?" "What's going to happen to me when I die"?

These are questions that should have been asked decades prior. Most wait until the end to give them any consideration. By then, it is too late. They will transition in a confused state, back to a reflection-sphere whose ways they have forgotten and where they will most likely be taken advantage of to some extent.

Thankfully, there are those who, as a result of countless incarnations of striving towards the Light are born into the physical world prepared to ask those questions early on in life and are armed with the tools to search for the answers. These seekers recognize the futility of physical life on a deep, unspoken level. They are able to hear the Still, Small Voice within them, the faint stirrings of the Divine Spark.

These ones will be assisted in their search for That Which They Do Not Know. Gradually, step-by-step, they will find themselves guided to situations that will provide them with an opportunity to broaden their insight into the true nature of their existence. Once they have obtained the proper insight, the true Purpose of their Life will be revealed to them. They will become aware of the One Goal of Humanity: Liberation.

We are here to liberate our immortal microcosms from this mortal existence. To do this, we must see ourselves as servants and not as masters. We are here in service to our microcosmic Spirit-nucleus, the Other One that sleeps within us, the Very Ancient One who has waited an eternity for a personality to come into existence that could free Him.

If we can locate the true Path of Return and follow it diligently, with faith, steadfastness and determination, we will begin the transfiguristic process required to free the Other One. The credo states that "He must increase, while I must decrease". What John uttered is gnostic truth. We must live to bring forth the Other One, which means that our personal concerns, desires, hopes and dreams must be put away - forever. We live to serve the Other. If we follow this Path to its ultimate conclusion, we will not perish, but will share in the multi-dimensional, eternal glory of the One we have helped to Resurrect.

This process needs only to have been started in this life in order to avoid having to meet the reflection-sphere fate of those mentioned above. Those who begin walking the Path of Return in earnest humility while in the physical will not transition to the ordinary reflection-sphere upon death, but will be taken to Shamballa, a region of safety, a vacuum of pure ethers which will enable the Candidate to continue walking the Path of Liberation without interference while maintaining the use of the etheric double, or vital body. He or she will "go no more out". A new incarnation will not be required, unless it is a voluntary choice made in the service of mankind.

So continue your Walk in faith and confidence. Yes, at times you will falter. Yes, there will be setbacks. It is not easy to shake off the aeons of this nature - we are made of the same astral material as the aeons that exert so much control over us; they are, after all, man's own creations - but it can be done! The personality known as Jesus stands as a shining example of that Victory. Accept failure as a part of the Journey. Do not quit! Do not deem yourself unworthy! When you fall, get back up and keep Walking! Don't look back. It is this moment that counts, not the moment that has passed. Every moment we are transmuting the vibration-state of our microcosm. It is a cumulative effort. One failure cannot be cause to stop trying. Every failure should urge us on to the next success. Every success will make the next failure harder to come by.

If we can stay on this Road, there will be no lingering questions at the moment of transition. We will face so-called "death" in peace, knowing that we are but crossing over to Shamballa, where we will join with all those who have gone before us, those who have "died in Christ" (to "die in Christ" means to die with the Divine Spark awakened, consciously walking the Path of Return). We will truly be heading home, well on our way to freeing the Other One within us and fulfilling the Divine Plan of the Logos for the Salvation of Lost Humanity.

72 years.

One short lifetime. Amazing things can take place in those 72 years for those who find The Way, The Truth and The Life.

~ g
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The Spiral Path

With the rollover to a another 365-day cycle, man looks ahead expectantly, at least for a moment. He dreams of all the things that he wishes to accomplish in the new cycle, and tries to imagine what will be different this time around. What does earth-life have in store for him? Can he make his earth-bound dreams a reality?

Before answering those questions, it will perhaps be helpful to understand what a cycle is. In layman's terms, a cycle is a full 360-degree revolution which ends where it begins. An expansion on this can be found in man's definition of a cycle:

cycle

- any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated
- a round of years or a recurring period of time, especially one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves in the same order and at the same intervals.

Did you detect a theme in the above definition?

Our years are simply 365-day cycles that repeat themselves over and over ad infinitum. Nothing really changes. The seasons will turn, on schedule, with each alternating solstice and equinox. Man's routines will remain the same: planting in spring, growth in summer, harvesting in autumn and hibernation in winter. He will do the same things on the same days at the same time of year as in years prior. Rising, shining and fading will proceed with clockwork precision and predictability.

The thing about a cycle is that it is a closed circuit. There can be little or no change manifested by something that revolves in an endless circle. Using a bicycle tire as a crude analogy, we'll find that the only thing one can expect from millions of turns of the wheel is a constant wearing-down that leads to a structural weakening of the tire, eventually ending in a blow-out.

So what can man expect of the "new" year? More of the same, unfortunately. Oh, there my be some microscopic growth in the life of the individual, but it will be almost hard to detect.  One may get a new job, new car, new house, but that is not true growth. What of the person? Has the entity made any progress in pursuit of the One Goal of Humanity?

Perhaps now would be a good time to look at the definition of a spiral.

spiral

- coiling around a fixed axis in a constantly changing series of planes; helical.
- to advance or increase steadily; rise

Again, there is a theme here, one that is in complete opposition to that found in the definition of a circle.

A spiral is a path of growth. Like a circle, it is a revolution around a fixed point. Unlike a circle, it is not a revolution on a flat plane. Each point in a spiral is plotted just beyond the preceding point. This results in an forward-upward movement. A key feature is this: the spiral also has a start-end point, meaning that it ends where it began, but due to the helical motion mentioned above, the new spiral always begins on a higher plane than the previous spiral.

So how does one pursue this spiral growth? He or she must embark on a new Path. Not one that revolves in constant repetition, but a Path that leads one from power to power and from glory to glory. Most human beings are content with the cyclic path, the path of the masses, as it offers no surprises. They know what to expect, more or less. They can pursue their desire to experience the same things over and over again. Let's face it, how much does Christmas or New Year's change over time? Man does the same things every year, like a cuckoo wired to pop out of a clock when the hour strikes. That is not living. It is a zombie-like existence, masquerading as "life".

When one begins to seek The Way Out, he approaches the Spiral Path. When one discovers and understands the doctrine of the two nature-orders, he stands at the doorstep of the Spiral Path. When one makes the voluntary decision to forsake the material world, choosing to be in the world but not of the world,  one can begin to walk the Spiral Path, the Path of Liberation; the Path of Return.

Resolve this year to abandon the cycle of death and climb aboard the Spiral of True Life.

~ g
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The One Goal Of Humanity - Part II

The Rose Of The Heart

As mentioned previously, within the dualistic, nature-born form of men and women there is a single atom composed of Divine substance. Being Divine, it contains all of the attributes of Divinity - immortality, omniscience, omnipresence, etc. Being trapped in nature, it cannot exercise any of its divine attributes until it is liberated.

This wonderful atom goes by many names: 'the divine spark', 'the spirit-spark atom', 'the Jewel in the Lotus', 'the seed-corn of Jesus', and most descriptively as 'The Rose of the Heart'. Within every beating heart, the divine atom sleeps, dormant like a rosebud. But when it is awakened, it will bloom in bright glory and its fragrance will fill the soul.

How do we awaken the Rose of the Heart? Well, we've spoken of Christine radiations. These Universal, cosmic rays penetrate every inch of the Earth and all of humanity, every second of every day. Wave after wave of these subtle, divine radiations wash over and through us all, without being acknowleged or noticed.

Remember that Like Attracts Like. Our dualistic, nature-born selves cannot and will not respond to the Christine radiations, because these rays are of an entirely different nature, they are foreign to duality. As it is written in the Holy Language:

"The Light shineth in the darkness, but the darkness knew it not" John 1:5

Only The Rose can respond to these divine radiations, as it, too, is composed of divine substance. But this response is not automatic, and here is where our part in the process becomes important.

First, we must gain insight as to our dreadful state-of-being. We must recognize that we are trapped in a snare which closes tightly around us, like a vise. We must acknowledge that we are unable to escape this snare without some effort on our part. A certain amount of seeking and 'inner knowing' is involved in order to gather this important Knowledge.

Insight as to the hopeless nature of our plight should lead us to yearning; an incredible, unquenchable desire to escape this prison of duality. When this yearning reaches a certain pitch, The Rose can finally react to the Call of the Christine radiations. It will begin to stir and shake off its eons-long sleep. In order to fan this ember into a steady flame, self-surrender must follow. We must resolve to begin the process of dismantling the "I". We must set aside the selfish, nature-born manimal that we are, in order to make room for The New Man that we wish to give birth to. Again, from the Holy Language:

"He must increase, while I must decrease" John 3:30

In conjunction with our efforts at self-surrender must also come a new attitude of life. We must cease our involvement with the attractions and spectacles of duality. We must cease to react to its multitude of sensory stimulations. We must withdraw from the position of Participant to one of Neutral Observer.  We must treat our brothers and sisters with Compassion, Love, Understanding and Respect, no matter who that brother or sister may be, for though many are sound asleep, all bear the divine seed within. All share the same struggle to be free.

We must, by the quality of our thoughts, desires and actions, by the example of our living, by a fundamental change in our attitude towards life, do the work that is necessary to rouse The Rose of the Heart to its full stature. If we are successful in doing this, a special process will begin to take place -  a transmutation of the dualistic you. This transmutation represents a process of change for the microcosm. One that will ultimately lead to a death and a rebirth: the 'death' of the old personality, the rebirth of a new Spirit-soul with a manifested new personality. This process is real and follows a certain definite sequence, the details of which we will be given to know of at the appropriate time. What is important now is that we start the process.

You see, the physical human body is a laboratory. Built into the human body are all the tools and implements needed to transfigure, to transmute the human into Something Higher. Sadly, man is not aware of the great treasure he has in the physical body. He abuses it, misuses it, foolishly mistreats it, saps its vitality trough riotous living. The majority of humans transition without ever knowing that they had everything necessary to regain Immortality.

Once we transition, it is too late. An opportunity has been missed. Without the body, transfiguration becomes almost impossible. This is why microcosms have to repeatedly return from the reflection-sphere and continue to incarnate until they have successfully accomplished this Great Work, the One Goal of Humanity.

We must begin this ancient alchemy ourselves, within our own microcosms. No gurus, no masters. No special tools required. No meditations, mantras, diets, obscure formulas or rituals. Simply an understanding of mankind's dilemma and the over-whelming commitment to permanently drop one's service-to-self orientation in favor of Service To Humanity.

Insight
Yearning
Self-Surrender
New Attitude Towards Life

These are the Keys that are required to open The Rose of the Heart. All those who will, are welcome to use them to unlock the door that leads to Liberation.

~ g
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The One Goal Of Humanity

The Souls of men were once divine. This means that the there was a direct connection between the Souls of men and The All. This Spirit-Soul partnership we call The Heavenly Man. In direct contact with the Will of The Logos (God), these beings worked to carry out the plans of The Logos.

One of these plans involved the development and evolution of a new, material plane of existence, the 7th Cosmic Plane - our Physical realm. Just as it was recorded in the Bible, man - not the degenerate man of today, but Heavenly Man, the Original Man - was supposed to have dominion over all creatures, subdue the earth, etc.

As long as Original Man worked in concert with the Will of the Logos, all was well. When man began to force his thinking through speculation and self-willedness, problems arose. We deviated from the Divine Plan of Evolution. We chose to involve ourselves in our creations. We "saw our reflections" and fell in love with them. As we became more deeply involved with Matter, we began to lose contact with Spirit. Spirit and Matter are opposite poles of the same substance. We serve one at the expense of the other.

Gradually, over vast ages of time, the connection with Spirit was severed. Original Man no longer manifested the Will of the Logos. We had become self-willed creatures, pursuing our separate thoughts, feelings and desires, all bent on self-maintenance.

This has become known as The Fall of Man.

Once immortal, we were now bound to a mortal existence. The only portion of us that retained its attribute of immortality was a single, tiny atom, situated in the center of the microcosm (the soul vehicle), which corresponds to the location of the physical human heart. This 'spirit-spark atom' is all that is left of our immortal heritage. We call this atom "The Rose of the Heart". Thus, our microcosms carry an immortal principle that is trapped in a mortal universe, a universe of change and death. The microcosm cannot die, because it is essentially immortal. However, it cannot truly live until it regains its immortal heritage.

This is why it was truthfully stated that "the Kingdom of Heaven lies within you", because each of us essentially carries a single, immortal atom of the Original Divine Kingdom within the upper portion of the right ventricle of the heart.

Persistent Self-willedness took this segment of the human life-wave on a downward spiral. To prevent humanity from becoming permanently lost in the Physical dimension, a plan was devised to rescue us, the Fallen. This plan is recognized as The Divine Plan of Salvation. In short, it works like this:

Original Man (that's us), is in a state of exile. We have been ship-wrecked, marooned in the lowest known Cosmic Realm. Because we have become self-focused, our selfishness and self-maintaining ways have only served to anchor us in Matter, thus crystallizing our thinking away from Spirit. Such a state-of-being leads us to commit horrible atrocities against our brother and ourselves. If we were allowed to remain in this condition indefinitely, we would ultimately destroy ourselves. One needs only to take a quick look at the world around us to see the unassailable truth of this statement.

To prevent this, another group of Original Men, those who did not fall, set forth to implement the Divine Plan of Salvation. They have been called, among other names, the Elohim. These mighty beings created a universe of physical worlds and placed our microcosms there. The mission of these microcosms was to develop a perfect personality, one that would, while on Earth, recognize the  awful dilemma that it was in and take the steps required to liberate itself from Matter so that it could re-unite with Spirit and return to the Original, Divine Kingdom (Sixth Cosmic Realm). This is accomplished through the act of transfiguration.

Transfiguration is The One Goal Of Humanity.

It is not to 'get rich', or 'become famous', or 'obtain power', or 'fall in love', or 'be happy', or 'to enjoy life' (which is really a living death), or 'to make it to heaven' (which is really not an eternal heaven at all), or 'to make the world a better place' (which cannot be done in this dualistic universe). The One Goal of Humanity, the sole purpose for our repeated incarnations is to find the Key that will get us out of here!

To prevent our microcosms from crystallizing beyond the point of salvage (due to our self-willed thoughts, desires and actions) the life-span of the personality was shortened. If a personality did not transfigure during its allotted time on the material-sphere, it was transferred to the reflection-sphere (the so-called 'heaven-worlds'), where the physical and subtle vehicles of the personality slowly disintegrated. The experiences, developments and karma of the past physical life would be stored away in the microcosm, while the personality was discarded. The microcosm would stand empty, except for the accumulated karma and the latent spirit-spark atom lying dormant in the center of the microcosm.

After a period of rest in the reflection-sphere, the microcosm would respond to the urge to incarnate once more and, through the agency of vast Cosmic Intelligences, create a new personality for that purpose. The new personality would incarnate in the material-sphere and try once again to achieve The One Goal of Humanity.

How may times have we made this journey? Hundreds of thousands of times, perhaps even millions. You are the umpteenth personality to inhabit your microcosm. You are the current composite of all the personalities that preceded you. If you are unsuccessful in your task to obtain the One Goal of Humanity, then your incarnation will terminate in failure. When you transition (i.e., 'die'), you as a personality, will eventually disintegrate as outlined above. Your microcosm will generate a fresh personality for its next sojourn on earth.

The only way to maintain your current personality is to succeed in completing The Task that your personality has been created for - you must transfigure. You must re-establish the link between Spirit and Matter. At the bare minimum, at the very least, you must earnestly begin this process. If the Link can be re-established, then the personality will not be dissolved, but will re-unite with Spirit to begin the journey Home.

How is the Link re-established? It begins with the awakening of the tiny atom that lies sleeping in our hearts, waiting for us to respond to the call of the Gnosis.

End Part 1


~ g
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