Piety In Action

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What should we do to achieve a correct balance with the primordial gnostic law and receive the key to liberating Life? Hermes says that we, who live in a world of physical phenomena, should try to penetrate to what's behind them. Then we will understand. Then you will understand your fellow man and be able to help them. You must try to obtain knowledge of how it happened that man fell and degenerated to this present state of life and behavior. Once you possess this wisdom, which is not intellectual knowledge but first-hand inner wisdom, as a property that streams throughout your whole being and which you cannot ignore, you will love your neighbor -- that is, mankind as a whole -- and you will also understand the nobility of your deeper self.

To come to this wisdom you will have to lead, as Hermes put it, a God-serving life, you will have to become pious. "He who is truly pious will love wisdom beyond all measure, for without love of wisdom it is impossible to reach the highest piety".

So we have to ask ourselves what piety means as a way to arrive at wisdom, as a method of raising us to the Arch-Gnosis.

The answer might appear to be simple and you could say: "I know what piety is, I know perfectly well what it means". But do you really know what a God-serving and pious life is?

When we speak of a pious life, we often think too much of what is considered to be a religious life. Throughout the centuries many mystics have buried us under various statements concerning piety. Such virtue is considered to be connected with the life of religious people who fulfill their religious duties faithfully and conscientiously.

There are millions of such people and there always have been. But, where then is the Truth, the liberating Truth which must necessarily be the result of a pious life?

He who clings to a certain religious form of expression or associates with a habitual pupilship will unavoidably crystallize. Because of this crystallization it will become increasingly difficult for the Light to approach such a pupil. Therefore, this kind of pupilship, as it is sometimes understood, involves an enormous danger.

As soon as the foundation stone has been laid, building must begin. The building must rise into space. Something will have to be realized which did not previously exist, and when it is realized it must be used. Consequently, religiosity and devoutness are entirely different from piety. We are told that the key to becoming a True Man lies in piety, that is, in the courage to persevere in the face of impediments, against all opposition, to persevere in spite of what people may say and in spite of the situations and difficulties that may be gathering around you.

If you cannot summon up this courage, if you do not possess this perseverance, if you do not desire to break through, you will never attain wisdom, never arrive at love for mankind in the sense of the primordial law of the Gnosis. To "love God above all" means to persevere in spite of everything, even if it sometimes does not suit you with respect to your everyday life. The wisdom that is of God will come to you if you show this courage of conviction constantly. Then you will have passed the gate. If you really dare to entrust yourself to the mighty Light-field of the Gnosis, in perfect sincerity, and push all the difficulties aside without accepting them, without acknowledging them, you will have passed the gate.

Being a pious and devout person in the gnostic sense differs entirely from being a religious person. A religious person recognizes and accepts a deity in the same way as a citizen recognizes and accepts a government. He shows a certain reverence for and a proper gratitude to his god; he performs his religious duties but otherwise he remains in bondage, completely of the earth. He celebrates the great days of the Christian year; he knows the church festivals, his religious anniversaries; he remembers Jesus the Lord in His dying and resurrection. However, it will never occur to hmi that he has to follow Him in His dying and that he can, even must, participate in His resurrection.

It is precisely in this respect that real gnostic pupilship stands or falls. The hermetic philosophy tries to make it clear that by devotion, by the courage of piety, it is you yourself who hold your salvation, your sanctification in your own hands. He who realizes and experiences this will give his speechless thanks to the Divine Architect. The original principle of self-freemasonry is that everyone is capable of placing the imperishable building of his own salvation on the one foundation stone. You should understand that, no matter what the circumstances may be, it is given to every human-being to walk the Path of Return. Everyone, without exception can do so. However, the problem is that theoretical knowledge of this possibility is not at all liberating. You must put theory into practice. You must bring to life the possibilities granted to you through the courage of piety.

The aim of piety is to be resurrected in the nature-of-death., without being part of it any longer, through soul-birth and its results. This means to celebrate the real Easter event, a personal, everlasting Easter festival; to be in the world but no longer of the world.

From Chapters IX and X - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Ricjkenborgh

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It is not enough for us to stand in one place after obtaining gnostic insight into man's plight and the Path of Return. We must endeavor to learn what is expected of us, required of us and then undertake to live those requirements, every minute, every hour, every day. A complete and total reversal of the personality vehicles is what must take place in order for the power of the Rose to grow and develop.

Many reach this point in their journey and stop in their tracks, thinking to themselves "I now know it all. I have found The Great Secret! My quest is over. Here I will rest". No! The opening of the Rosebud, although it represent a glorious new chapter in the life of the Candidate so fortunate, is but a beginning. The insight and knowledge gained must be put to use; the Light received must be shed for others. It is from here that we proceed from power to power and from glory to glory.

Never stop working towards the Good End. The Path of Return is not a place of rest. It is a way of action. If one remembers this and above all truly practices piety in action, the rewards will flow effortlessly, to be shared with all those who are still in darkness.

~ g
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The Woman In The Red Dress

There is a scene in the movie The Matrix where Neo (the Seeker, the Candidate on the Path) is being briefed as to the nature of the Matrix. In the movie, the Matrix represents duality, the physical domain, the nature-of-death, the aeon-world.

As Neo moves along in a crowd of humans hurrying to and fro in that anxiously pointless way that sleeping humans have, he notices an attractive woman in a red dress. He is immediately distracted and begins to stare at the woman, who has locked eyes with him in an alluring manner. His guide, who has been instructing Neo regarding the inner workings of the Matrix, speaks:

"Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?"

Embarrassed, Neo does not answer.

His guide says "Look again".

When Neo returns his gaze to the woman in the red dress, he is surprised to see that she is no longer there. Her place has been taken by an "Agent" (the "Agents" represent the archons, or rulers of this nature-order). The Agent has an automatic pistol in his hand and has taken dead aim at Neo. Before the Agent can pull the trigger, the scene is frozen. Fortunately for Neo, it turns out that the entire scenario was a simulation designed to provide a teaching moment. He learns that the aim of the training program was to teach him one important lesson:

"If you are not one of us, you are one of them."

The Woman In The Red Dress, as well as everything else in the highly allegorical film The Matrix, is a symbolic representation of something deeper. As the Matrix itself represents the world of the rulers and Neo (as in "New" man) represents the Candidate on the Path, the Woman In The Red Dress represents the alluring glamour of the physical world that traps and ensnares so many candidates on the Path. These distractions can be anything ranging from the obvious (sex, narcotics, desire for wealth, power and fame) to such seemingly innocuous things as religion, family ties, professional pursuits, desire for safety, comfort and security.

These things and many more are the aim and one goal of so many sleeping human beings. With the direction of their life so rigidly focused on the Woman In The Red Dress, they are unable to see through the façade and thus unable to break free of the Matrix. The Woman In The Red Dress is their reality. It is everything they feel will be needed in order for them to obtain 'happiness' in this world. And so, open-mouthed, they stop and stare at her sham-beauty not realizing that she is but a disguise for the archons and aeons of this nature-order. They cannot see that there is a gun pointed at them loaded with a bullet that is marked with their name.

The Woman In The Red Dress is also a distraction for those who have awakened and are trying to walk the Gnostic Path of Return. We acknowledge that it is extremely difficult for the candidate to disengage from the physical attractions of this world. After all, prior to locating the Path, this nature-order was all that the candidate knew. It was his or her reality in which he or she was totally immersed. So it takes a bit of time to begin to see what is beneath all of that glamour. Let it be known that beneath every physical treat is a trick. Beneath the trappings of this world are the workings of the archons and aeons of this nature. Their job, their only occupation, is to keep the candidate transfixed, hypnotized and paralyzed by the Lie that is the physical world.

Therefore, Candidate on the Path, do not fall victim to the gaze of the Woman In The Red Dress. She is a trick, an illusion. She is an agent of the aeons of this nature-order and an enemy of the Gnosis who means you nothing but harm. No matter what the situation, always look beneath what is being presented to you in the physical realm. By remaining vigilant in this regard, you will be able to unmask the agents who are plotting your demise before they can pull the trigger.

~ g
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One Versus Two

"This, my son, is the only way to Truth, which was also followed by those who went before us and on which they received the Good.

Sublime and well-trodden is this road, but difficult for the Soul to follow as long as it is in the body.

First the Soul has to struggle against itself, achieve a great separation and allow one part to gain victory over it. For a conflict arises between one part and the other two parts: the former tries to escape while the latter try to drag the former - that is, the Soul - down from below. The result is a fight and a great trial of strength between the part that wants to escape and the two others that strive to detain the Soul.

However, it makes no small difference whether the one or the other side wins, for the one strives with great effort towards the Good, while the others make their home in the domain of perdition. The one yearns after freedom, the others embrace slavery. If the two are vanquished, they remain locked up within themselves, inactive and lonely, abandoned by the one that rules. But if the one part is defeated, it is carried off as captive by the two and deprived of everything and is punished by the life it lives here.

See, my son, this is the guide on the way that leads to Freedom: you must give up the body before it dies and overcome the life of Conflict; then, if you have won that victory, you will return to the Highest".

Corpus Hermeticum, Book 5, verses 8-14
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Your Protection Against Deception

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There are million who, strictly speaking, are our fellow creatures. And among all these companions of race and fate there are many who take a certain standpoint with respect to others. Think of the many authorities to be found in the world, who say to you: 'This is what we say; listen to us. We know all about it; we can do it. Take such-and-such a course; this is what you must do.' Indeed, there have often been times in which those in authority have exercised compulsion, posing a threat to life and liberty. The brothers and sisters of the Tri-Unity of Light, of Grail, Cathar and Cross with Roses, could tell a tale about that!

Today, too, there are again developments which practice coercion of the conscience, in small things as well as in major issues. In many fields of life, with all kinds of motives, coercion of the conscience is flourishing anew. Tyranny is exercised by families, for instance, and in many countries by groups. We are also thinking, here, of the many inhabitants of the reflection-sphere and the life-waves which populate the etheric domain, of those who dwell on other planets and of the aeons and the archons of the aeons. Among them are those who have become extremely powerful as creatures and who glorify themselves with the names of gods, or are awarded such names by others. There are also the hordes of perpetrators of the Great Game*. In short, there are myriads of creatures with myriads of possibilities for betrayal, deception and coercion. And all of them are telling you: 'We possess the Good!'

* See J. van Rijckenborgh, Unmasking, 1958

And now we consider the Seeker, in the ocean of life, as a creature among fellow creatures. It is as if he has been submerged, and is being tossed to and fro by the waves.

Most of our readers, too, have been genuine seekers since their youth. You have been searching everywhere, haven't you? And think of all the vast quantities of literature you have devoured! And isn't it true to say that it was as if by coincidence, through a combination of circumstances beyond your control, that you came into contact with the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross?

What should the Seeker do amidst the fire of his seeking? Where should he go? What is being done to him? Where are the tides of life driving him? Thousands of voices ring in his ears: 'The Good is here!' What will become of him? For in the totality of Creation, evil takes many forms. That is why the observation is made that what is considered 'good' here, in the world of dialectics, is at best the smallest part of evil.

Who could distinguish the truth among all those wraith-like forms, among all those shadowy notions which present themselves to us? Who is able to see through all that pretense, all that delusion, all that nefariousness? How could one possibly make sense of all that immeasurable chaos? Who could remain standing in the midst of these wildly proliferating dangers? Surely it is just not possible?

Yes, it is possible! We have already given you the necessary directions. If you wish to become a priestess or priest of the Gnosis, if you want to be an Aesclepius, a healer of mankind, do not be attached to anything, neither by love, nor especially by hate. Be purely objective, well-disposed to the last, but not attached. Do not listen to any voice, any impulse, any suggestion. Our words, too, you should not accept a priori as true. Be of goodwill, and remain unbiased until from within you discover something of the Truth.

We repeat, do not listen to any voice, do not pursue the fleeting urges of your sensory organism. Stand without conceit as the autonomous creature amid the All-Manifestation. But at the same time, be extremely watchful, for as soon as you begin to enter into detachment, the entire host of aeons and archons will fall upon you. Many gods of creation, many entities who have achieved great power, will take an interest in you.

From "The Path of Self-Surrender" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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At this point in mankind's history the spiritual supermarket is overflowing with enticing selections, too many to enumerate here. Most mix a very tiny portion of the Truth with their toxic teachings. That tiny bit of authenticity speaks to what is True in the Seeker, and is usually enough to get him or her to buy into the larger, false portion of what is being offered.

Beware. A war is raging in the heavens. It is a war for men's souls. The protagonists will use every trick at their disposal to lead you away from the Truth, not by force, but by coercion. It will be your own choice that will free you or doom you. So be very careful as to what you lend your ear to.

Those of you who happen to be sensitive and are able to see into the invisible worlds or hear from them, place no importance upon what your physical senses are telling you. If you can detect something with your physical sense of sight or hearing then you can be certain that you are in contact with the reflection-sphere, the realm of the dead. Do not ascribe any undue importance to extra-sensory phenomena.

If you remain neutral and objective, that which is True will undeniably speak to that which is True within you.

~ g
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Willing

 

"Today, I Baked A Pie!" (To All Readers)

There are a ton of blogposts with titles such as the above that glorify daily tasks like the one mentioned. Bloggers will talk about the most mundane subjects because those subjects mean something to them, and they want to share what is important to them with the world. They also want to make a little money advertising, gather approval from total strangers and generally be reminded of how great they are.

This is not one of those blogs.

This blog is for those whose Seeking has brought them to a Borderland. It is for those who have reached the limit of seeking on the horizontal plane and are exhausted from the fruitlessness of their endeavors. Religion, New Age, mysticism, occult practices, kabbalah, extraterrestrials, the list goes on. All leave the true Seeker frustrated and exhausted, silently screaming, "What is the Truth? Where can it be found? Why am I here? What is my purpose? Where do I come from? Where am I going?"

This writer is familiar with all of the above, intimately so. That is why it can be said without reservation that when a Seeker reaches the point where he rejects all dialectical remedies and reaches out a hand in search of salvation, that hand will be grasped, that Seeker will be guided...to a terrestrial outpost of the Universal Brotherhood. There, the Seeker will be presented with teachings that fly in the face of dialectics. He will encounter a vibration that will, if possible, serve to awaken his Divine Rosebud from its ages-long slumber.

Like attracts like. Most of you found your way here because something within you resonated with the vibration emanated from this anonymous spot. This blog is concerned primarily with the following:

- spreading The Call of the Gnosis
- exposing the true Seeker to the Universal Doctrine
- presenting teachings that will provide critical insight.
- answering those questions regarding the Gnosis that can be answered

No one is coerced to come here. No one is forced to continue to frequent this blog. There is no advertising, no entry fee. The blog asks nothing of anyone, while offering everything it can. It is here, that's all. It sits in place, like a clear puddle of water after a rain. There is no need to call the birds down to have a drink, the birds will come on their own.

This writer will always refrain from writing about himself, or his journey, or what he had for lunch today. No one comes here to read stories about this writer's life. There are a billion other blogs that can provide the reader with that sort of vicarious ride-along. This blog has a specific Service to provide and it will try to fulfill that purpose for as long as it proves to be useful to true Seekers the world over.

If an excerpt is posted here, one can be sure that there is reason for it. This writer is not going to waste the time of those who frequent this blog by posting worthless drivel. Why is so much of Jan van Rijckenborgh's and Catharose Di Petri's material posted here? There are two reasons:

1. they knew what they are writing about, from first-hand experience as former Grandmasters of the Spiritual School

2. the hope is that Seekers will be inspired to pick up these works and avail themselves of this first-hand knowledge.

Everything one needs to know about walking the Path of Return properly, in steadfastness and humility, is laid out in detail in the forty or so books written by these two people. This writer has read them all at least twice over. Some of them more times than can be counted. It was money well-spent. In former times, the same amount of money was foolishly wasted on clothing and so-called fine cognac. These works are priceless. It can be stated here without equivocation: all that is written in the works of van Rijckenborgh and di Petri is of tremendous help. All that is presented provides a critical blueprint for the Seeker, a roadmap. Through first-hand experience, this writer knows that what has been revealed in the literature of the School about the Eternal Path of the True Way is authentic.

Unfortunately, there is nothing that this writer can do to convince you, the reader, of what he knows to be true. You will have to undertake the experience for yourself, which is why excerpt after excerpt is presented for your study. It is an effort to encourage you to conduct your own investigation, to experience the Path, truly experience it for yourself.

This writer is not a guru, or a teacher, or a master or any of those things that some seekers feel a need to be "led" by. If you are here to be "led" to Liberation, you are going to be sorely disappointed, because you will not find your guru here. What you will find is one who was once like you, immersed in the cesspool of the dialectical world, who was then led from within to the fountain of the Gnosis and, when he reached it, drank from it thirstily. From there, this one underwent a fundamental life reversal. The personality that he once was began to slowly recede. In its place the emerging Other One began to assert itself.

There is nothing and no one that can shake the convictions of one who knows. The Gnosis is real. Liberation is available to all those who wish to pursue it. This blog will remain active for the sake of those who are still searching for that which was once hidden from mankind but must now be revealed to those who have made themselves worthy. It is the least Service that can be provided by one who has been fortunate enough to climb out of The Pit and obtain knowledge of The True Way.

May all of you, without exception, find the courage to pursue the insight necessary to motivate you to surrender the self, change your life's vibratory tone and walk the Path of Return to the Good End.

all love,

~ g
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Transplant

The Original Divine Microcosm contained three soul-nuclei. One was positively-charged, one was negatively charged. These two nuclei orbited one another. The third soul-nucleus was neutral charge and orbited the other two.

These three nuclei cooperated harmoniously with the power of the All. Because the Microcosms were linked with the Divine they shared in the omnipotence and omniscient powers of God. All was well as long as the Divine Microcosms utilized this power in a centrifugal fashion. That is, the Power of God was allowed to work through them to create good works. The Microcosms acted as conduits for a great, divine Power. As long as this Power was allowed to flow through the Microcosm for the benefit of the All-Manifestation, they were able to accomplish wondrous things, among these was the ability to self-generate a glorified etheric-physical Personality at will.

When a group of these Divine Microcosms chose to utilize this Power in a centripetal fashion, when they tried to keep the Power within and use it for selfish purposes, a mighty heat began to arise within the nucleus of the Microcosm. The heat became so great that it eventually resulted in an explosion of sorts. Due to this explosion, one of the pairs of nuclei in the center of the Microcosm was ejected from the system. For some Microcosms, it was the positive soul-nucleus that was ejected. For others, it was the negative soul-nucleus that was lost. The once tri-une Divine Microcosms were now di-une. This is the cosmic truth behind the symbolic story of the separation of the sexes.

Once this occurred these severely damaged microcosms were unable to function properly in the Divine Kingdom. They were missing a critical third soul-nucleus. Due to their selfish error, they wandered as lost entities, doomed to a limbo-like existence.

With great mercy, the Logos saw fit to devise a plan for rescuing these fallen microcosms. A temporary, separate universe was generated which would be adapted for use by these damaged microcosms. This emergency order of existence would be designed in such a way as to lead these microcosms, after long experience, back to an awareness of their Origins and from there, to a restoration of their damaged microcosms and a return to the Divine Kingdom.

In place of the lost third soul-nuclei, an outside entity would be inserted into the fallen microcosm via the human phenomena called child-birth. This entity - the earthly personality - would be tasked with trying to restore the tri-une nature of the microcosm by unifying the positive and negative soul-nuclei once more.

In essence, each child-birth represents a transplant, an attempt to introduce into a damaged microcosm the missing element that could restore it to Divinity. If this unification can be accomplished, the microcosm will undergo a transmutation that will eventually lead to a transfiguration, the liberation of the Other One within and the restoration of the Divine Microcosm.

But what happens to the human personality that succeeds in executing its part in this divine rescue mission? Is it discarded like a used Kleenex? No! Indeed, the following details the reward that awaits the successful earthly personality:

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This is, as it were, an operation, a transplantation: an organ originating in the emergency-order is implanted in a Being from quite another Order. And now it must be proved whether the transplanted organ is willing and able to 'take'; whether the plan to return - the aim of the operation - will be achieved.

By following a path of transfiguration it is possible to make you conscious of your state, to make you conscious of The Great Aim. If you are able to link harmoniously with the rose-atom, the neutral auric-self will immediately react. The great process of salvation will begin. With regard to you, as a product of the emergency-order, a great and intense wonder will then unfold. When an organ is transplanted into the body and it begins to react, this enables the whole body to live, so that the transplanted organ can share in its life.

In the same way, by following the fivefold gnostic procedure -- the method of transplantation -- you can be taken up into the Life of the Original Order. You will then leave the emergency-order to which you formerly belonged and enter a Higher Order, along with the system into which you were introduced. In this way, you will be incarnated, transplanted, in a Divine Being and, with that Eternal Being, you will live eternally. You can then justly be called a 'twice-born' one', born once as to what is of the earth, earthly, and once as to the Heavenly Being.

From "The Mystery of Life and Death" Jan van Rijckenborgh

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And this...

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For this purpose a mortal personality was created as an image-bearer of the Original Personality. This image-bearer was called to bring his microcosm back to the Immovable Kingdom with the aid of the powers hidden in the Rose. In this way, by following the Path of Transfiguration, he would gain Eternity for himself.

We are telling you this to remind you again about the image-bearer of the lost, third soul-being. It was so that you could become such an image-bearer that you were modeled from the matter of this world and are able to be active in the fallen microcosmic system. You are meant to become one with it so that you can bring it back to its former glory by reconstructing the Original Personality.

From "The Mystery of Life and Death" Jan van Rijckenborgh

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You are a transplant. As an earthly personality, if you succeed in accomplishing your task to help lead your microcosm to the Good End, your reward will be a merging with the reborn, divine Other One. You will share in its restored omnipresence, omnipotence and omniscience. Life as an earthly human-being will be a forgotten memory. A mission spanning countless ages will end in Victory.

May this be so for us all.

~ g
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Transplant (draft)

Engraving by Theodore De Bry

Microcosmic Restoration - Your Role in the Divine Plan

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A microcosm is spherical in shape. Around the sphere is a complex magnetic field. If we view this sphere from a distance, our attention is attracted, first of all, by the auric being. This surface layer is sevenfold in composition and within it we find a magnetic system, a combination of magnetic points. The auric being also possesses an atomic nucleus with which the system of magnetic points forms a unity which is is to a greater or lesser extent conscious. When we speak of this conscious unity, we use the term 'auric self' or auric soul'.

The interior of the microcosmic sphere forms a void called 'the field of manifestation' and precisely in its heart a second atomic nucleus is to be found. This nucleus is known as 'the rose of the heart'  or 'the miraculous jewel in the lotus', or 'the unknown, latent soul'. On closer examination we discover that the auric soul has not one single connection, not one single contact, with the rose-heart. Although there are magnetic lines of force running inwards from the auric self, and although the field of manifestation is a space continually criss-crossed with powerful vibrations, the rose-heart does not react to them; it is asleep. So we see that we can only speak of genuine life when we look at the auric self; within the sphere's field of manifestation we only see a 'void' as far as life is concerned.

When we speak of the auric self as living, you need to understand clearly what we mean, for the life inhabiting it is very strange and not at all like the life-forms we know. The life of the auric self is neither mineral, nor vegetable, nor animal, and it certainly cannot be thought of as superhuman.

We can best approach the auric self's state of consciousness by comparing it with the consciousness of an elemental, a consciousness which is the result of the combined activity of magnetic forces, and will be clear or dull, strong or weak, good or bad in conformity with the effects of the processes going on within and around the sphere. Such a consciousness will therefore be without any deep, inner psychological reactions of its own; it will be a completely automatic, neutral consciousness.

If the consciousness is automatic, then it is clear that the microcosm must be in possession of a governing soul-being if it is to live in the highest sense of the word. However, in the conditions we have been describing, such a soul-being is not present at all. There is only the latent life in the rose-heart, and life in the auric soul which is life in name only. Apart from that, there is nothing! It is hardly possible to say that such a microcosm lives, any more than one can say that it is dead.

That, then, is the condition of an emptied microcosm in our domain of life. Such was the fate of all microcosms after the third soul in the system had died. Remember that the third soul-nucleus, in cooperation with the rose-soul, had originally caused a Glorious Personality to exist in the microcosm's field of manifestation. But this Personality disappeared and evaporated from the field of manifestation at the moment when, through centripetal activity, the arrangement of the system was disrupted.

What could be done about this situation? Well, the third soul-nucleus would need to be brought back into the system. It would need to realize unity with the rose-soul and in this way restore the original state-of-being. But where should the third soul-nucleus come from? For the third aspect of the soul had vanished; it had dissolved into energy in the heat of the fire.

This was the tremendous problem with which the Logos was faced, a problem still in the process of being solved, since not all of the microcosms have yet been rescued and brought back to the Original Kingdom.

As we explained, a cosmic emergency-order was established. Its aim was to create a being, a living being that would be able - temporarily - to inhabit the place formerly occupied by the soul and the Original Personality that had vanished. If this surrogate-being were able to act as a substitute in a microcosm's field of manifestation, this would enable a magnificent process of Transfiguration and hence, of Return.

It may be difficult for you to accept that you are the transitory end-product of an emergency-order plan. At birth, you represent the vanished third-soul nucleus, and your newly-born body represents the Glorified Figure of Old. Both this soul-nucleus and this young body are introduced into an emptied microcosm. This is, as it were, an operation, a transplantation: an organ originating in the emergency-order is implanted in a Being from quite another Order. And now it must be proved whether the transplanted organ is willing and able to 'take'; whether the plan to return - the aim of the operation - will be achieved.

By following a path of transfiguration it is possible to make you conscious of your state, to make you conscious of The Great Aim.  If you are able to link harmoniously with the rose-atom, the neutral auric-self will immediately react. The great process of salvation will begin. With regard to you, as a product of the emergency-order, a great and intense wonder will then unfold. When an organ is transplanted into the body and it begins to react, this enables the whole body to live, so that the transplanted organ can share in its life. In the same way, by following the fivefold gnostic procedure -- the method of transplantation -- you can be taken up into the Life of the  Original Order. You will then leave the emergency-order to which you formerly belonged and enter a Higher Order, along with the system into which you were introduced. In this way, you will be incarnated, transplanted, in a Divine Being and, with that Eternal Being, you will live eternally. You can then justly be called a 'twice-born' one', born once as to what is of the earth, earthly, and once as to the Heavenly Being.

If this ascent, this Second Birth, is not successful, you will know yourself what the end must be. You will die the death of your earthly state ('you are dust, and to dust you shall return'), and your microcosm, one delusion richer and often in a severely wounded state, will have to wait for another chance.

From "The Doctrine of Reincarnation" The Mystery of Life and Death - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Read the fore-going as many times as you have to. Sobering? Perhaps. Shocking? Maybe. Glorious? Absolutely! This is the Divine Plan of Salvation for those who have Fallen. This merciful Plan is tended to and lovingly administered by countless entities from numberless realms who have made, and are still making great sacrifices as they unceasingly try to show us The Way Home. The Divine Plan of Salvation is the essence of, the Truth of, the Purpose for and the Reason behind your present existence.

If you fail to comprehend and implement this Plan, if you retreat from doing your part to effect this Mighty Restoration, 'you' will not get another opportunity on the Wheel of Death and Rebirth. Do you now see what is at stake? Do you now see why the common troubles and desires of the material-world are useless, misleading and delusional?

For all those people who have ever wondered. "What is the meaning, point or purpose of my life?", well, you have just had it revealed to you. May you take this Knowledge and keep it with you as you begin your journey from darkness back into Light.

all love,

~ g
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The Two Human Types

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You may have already realized that if anyone who studies mankind's past wishes to reach the right conclusions, he will have to view everything in a much wider context than superficial literalism would allow.

The earth is inhabited by various human races, each with a differing past and also, in many respects, with a very divergent future. There are elements present that combine these races into one community; but there are undeniably also elements that separate them. Among all these races with very divergent dispositions we find the ancient Spirit-born Ones, the Children of the Fire. In the broadest possible sense it is a group of those whose microcosms still possess elements which make possible a direct link with, and a life in, the Spirit.

All holy language, in its original, unsullied state, is directed solely towards this exceptional class of humanity, to the Spirit-born Ones of the Beginning. And from a certain point of view, these Universal Teachings are to be considered dangerous for other human types.

Why dangerous? To understand this you will need to realize that the Children of God and the children of nature have widely divergent interests. The Children of God, insofar as they are in a state of imprisonment, want to flee the word. The children of nature seek and desire to maintain the world. So their efforts are diametrically opposed. In this context, we are using the word 'world' in its narrow sense, to mean the nature-born life-field.

If the Children of God were to take the lead on earth, this would be accompanied by a complete alteration of the astral conditions of our life-field. The astral field of the nature-of-death would become like the gnostic Astral Field, a field full of serenity and the highest purity. The reflection-sphere would be emptied. All those self-maintaining reflection-sphere processes would become impossible. All the conditions of existence in our life-field would change. The earthly field of genesis would no longer provide life-spark entities with any possibility of existence. The millions of life-spark entities that populate the earth would simply not be able to exist any longer, and so it would be as if they had been murdered. The classic fratricide, the ancient drama of Cain and Abel, would be repeated.

Another possibility is that the life-spark entities could, through reconstruction of their microcosms, be restored to the Childship of God. If an entity did not possess the classic, Primordial Atom of the Spirit in his microcosm, it would be possible, by reconstructing the microcosmic field, by bringing the Spirit into it, to introduce into the microcosm what was not previously present within it.

Creatures always come forth from the Fundamental Nature. The Original Nucleus of every creature unfolds on the basis of the creative idea underlying it. If this idea and the nucleus of the creature are not from the Spirit, then a Child of God will not develop. However, if this idea is of God, then a Child of God will develop.

So the Child of God is a creature who has to behave in accordance with the Fundamental Idea underlying his being. If he deviates from that Idea, then he will have to undergo all kinds of difficulties and consuming processes until finally he has to return to the Original Idea. If the idea originates from a different cosmocracy, then a different kind of being will arise, a different orientation, a different starting point, a different aim.

However, we repeat that it is possible for entities who have an aeonic origin to be restored to, and by, the Idea of the Universal Spirit. The first prerequisite is to preach, throughout the world, a Universal Doctrine of the Spirit. The second is to realize and establish a genuine Church of the Spirit. The third is to adapt the life-field, mankind's field of genesis, to the requirements of the Spirit, as a result of which the creature will submit to the Spirit.

In this way, an entity that was not originally a Child of God from the Beginning can become one through the re-creation of the microcosm. The Tri-Unity of the Light - Rosycross, Cathar and Grail, is preparing for such a mighty effort to re-create aeonic, life-spark entities. The Universal Doctrine is resounding through the mouth of the Rosycross. The new Church of the Spirit , the aspect of the Brotherhood of the Cathars, has been founded. The great alteration of the life-field, beginning with the astral field and following the requirements of the Spirit, is underway once more; and the Brotherhood of the Holy Grail has been manifested anew.

All this forms part of the mighty activity of the Sons of the Fire. It is for this reason that the liberated Sons of the Fire came and have always come to earth. It is for this that their disciples and servants came, and have always come, for the unfolding of an intense activity, with the aim of forging all Abel-entities into Children of the Fire. And to raise up all fallen and imprisoned Cain-entities and install them in the community of God. All true holy language, all Universal Doctrine, bears witness to this mighty and glorious attempt, which has been repeated time and time again throughout history.

In many periods of man's history the necessary conditions were created to bring about this grand and glorious work of the Spirit. The true Church, the Church of the Spirit, has appeared many times on earth. Take, for instance, the Church of the Cathars mentioned just now. Think also of Appolonius of Tyana and of the gnostic churches around the Mediterranean, in Asia Minor, Greece, the Balkans, Egypt and other parts of North Africa. One can affirm with great joy that in all those periods, large numbers of entities entered the Liberating Life. There is, indeed, a multitude no one can count, gathered from all peoples, all races of the earth.

From "The Classic Betrayal (1) - There Is No Empty Space - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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There are two human types: one group is born of this nature-order and lives in relative harmony with it. The other group hails from the Sons of the Fire. This group, which has fallen into matter, lives in torment and seeks to escape the nature-of-death. If you can hear and obey the Call of the Gnosis then you are most likely a fallen Child of the Fire. It is for us and those of our kind that the Divine Plan of Salvation was put into motion. We are not the first to embark upon this Path of Return, and we will not be the last.

"He was the True Light, which lighted every man who came into the world. He came to His own, but His own did not receive Him. But to those who received Him, He gave the power to become Sons of God." John 1:9, 11-12

~ g
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The Three Pillars

 

 

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The ancient Universal Teachings being offered in our time are, living and in unveiled words, transmitted to true Seekers by the modern Rosycross. These ancient teachings rest upon three fundamental insights, upon Three Pillars. They are:

• knowledge of the two nature-orders; a Divine one and a degenerated one;
• knowledge of the two natures of man as a perishable personality in an imperishable microcosm
• knowledge of the liberation of man from the cycle of reincarnation, via Transfiguration

The Two Nature-Orders

When Jesus speaks about the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Buddha about Nirvana, or Lao Tzu about Tao, they are not referring to the reflection-sphere 'hereafter' where the so-called dead sojourn. Earthly life and the hereafter are the two inseparable halves of this fallen nature-order, of dialectical nature. In this un-divine nature, instability and continuously alternating pairs of opposites rule. Whatever originates on earth, its opposite is simultaneously generated. By being, non-being is invoked.

Everything created is perishable. Nirvana is the non-being of this world of opposites; of earthly-being and non-being. Eternity simply is. Whoever exists in this Divine field is not subject to perishability, decay and death. He lives in harmony with Creation, in freedom, as a creative fellow worker. All messengers, all great Sons of God and all Holy Scriptures, like the Bible, in which the words of these messengers are recorded and passed on, testify to this Divine Kingdom. People usually do not believe the Divine message because they cannot see the Divine Kingdom with their natural senses. They turn away from, or even against, the redeeming Word as long as their distress does not give them ears to 'hear' and as long as the state of their own inner being is not a testimony to the Truth of this message, contrary to all external manifestations of willfulness.

The Small Human World

The human-being is a part of the earthly un-divine nature-order, for he has been created from it. His biological body has been built with the atoms of the nature-order of death; his astral and etheric bodies have been shaped from the more tenuous substances of this nature-order. Nothing of this natural baggage has eternal value. The second pillar of the Universal Teachings concerns the teachings of human nature and explains them.

All Messengers of the Light reveal to us that the human-being carries a spark of the eternal Light within him. Jesus called it the Kingdom of God within you; oriental philosophy speaks of the Jewel in the Lotus; the Rosicrucians speak of the Spirit-spark atom or the Rose of the Heart. The theosophists characteristically call it the Last Remnant of the Divine Human-Being.

The Microcosm Tumbles Through Space Out Of Control

The Original Fatherland of the human-being is not the dialectical nature-order, but the Kingdom of Heaven. There, he was created as one of the Sons of God, meant for a life in the eternal Divine Order. He was a shining microcosm, the expression of all powers and possibilities of the Divine Microcosm. The Universal Teachings state that I-centrality caused his fall. The lights of the microcosm were extinguished; the Divine Nucleus withdrew from the fallen being; the Divine Soul sunk into a deep sleep and the out-of-control microcosm tumbled aimlessly through chaos.

In order to save the fallen Children of God, the earthly human-being was built from the forces of nature and implanted into the microcosm as a living, ensouled and conscious being. With the help of this implanted, mortal human-being, the microcosm was able to acquire a certain form of life and consciousness and gain experience. In this unbalanced pairing of microcosm and earthly human-being, only the Lotus or Rose, the sleeping primordial principle, is still Divine. Due to the Rose, the earthly human-being is gifted and plagued. It torments him, it disturbs his peace in the world, but it also grants him the possibility to understand the Divine Word.

After an endless chain of incarnations, the microcosm becomes tired of its journey far from home. The Soul-Nucleus wakes up, and through the Original Atom's longing for its Divine Fatherland, the human-being is disturbed and driven on until he answers its Call, begins to Seek, and one day will be standing before the gate of the New Life asking to be admitted. The whole dialectical nature-order was developed to help people, to enable them to listen to the awakening Soul and, by obeying this Inner Voice, purify their microcosm.

Breaking Through The Cycle Of Life And Death

The teaching of the transformation of what is mortal into what is Immortal is the third pillar of the Universal Teachings: the knowledge of the Liberation of the human-being from the cycle of birth and death, the gospel of the resurrection of what is Eternal in a human-being. The earthly, physical human-being has been entrusted with the great task of liberating the microcosm he inhabits. Without his insight and cooperation, this Liberation is not possible. But when a human-being surrenders, and thus becomes a servant of the process of Salvation, he is taken up into what is Immortal through the process of Transformation: Death is swallowed up in Victory, Paul says.

The process of transformation, Transfiguration, means the destruction of the old temple and the construction of a new one in three days, as Jesus promises. Through this process, the whole microcosm with its Spiritual form, its Soul form and it Bodily form is renewed and becomes Immortal. He becomes an inhabitant of the Kingdom of Heaven again and a brother of the Children of God. This tremendous process can only be accomplished in the power-field of a Spiritual School, because this power-field makes available the forces and possibilities for the birth of a New Human-Being.

He who decides to walk this Path and devotes himself to it with all his strength , will withdraw his attention and longing from the earthly world and will focus ever better on the New Genesis. His longing for the New Life will give him the strength to neutralize his old being and, in this way, the New Soul will be awakened out of the dormant Divine Spark. Through the neutralization of the "I", the microcosm is purified and withdraws from the influence of the rulers of the dialectical world order (the archons and the aeons). The previously extinguished lights of the Original Microcosm will shine again as in a new firmament. The Spirit can again link itself to this renewed system. When the alchemical wedding has been celebrated, and the Spirit has been reunited with the renewed Soul, the microcosm has been saved and has returned Home. He who enables this Homecoming has sacrificed his mortal, un-divine soul in this process. He is taken up in the New Soul and at death he discards his physical body as a dead leaf.

From "The Three Pillars of the Eternal Truth" - Rosicrucians Through The Ages - K. Dietzfelbinger

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That's basically it, in a nutshell.

~ g
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Circle, Triangle, Square and Dot

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The classical hierophants depicted this field of fire, sung about by Akhenaton, with the power of the sun, which they depicted as a Circle with a Dot in its center, the point, the nucleus-principle, a field of genesis manifesting itself.

This sphere does not stand by itself, but creates something. The point generates a line and from the line, all mathematical figures like the Circle, the Triangle and the Square originate. The first number - 1 - and all subsequent numbers up to nine originate from the nucleus. This sequence ends with zero and with the 1 of a new beginning (the number '10').

Cube Placed Within The Circle

Hence, the circle points to an enclosed space in which a process develops. We know that systematic changes occur in every space: fission, divisions and multiplications. This is why the ancient philosophers placed a cube within a circle to demonstrate there is Life. This refers to a content that can be re-vivified; a field of genesis that can be found within the power-field of the Fiery Beginning, and can be described as 'Life'.

In itself, this Life is not complete if there is no possibility of achieving regeneration and fulfillment, in addition to manifestation. The ancients depicted this process with a Triangle or a Pyramid.

From this classical description of the power-field, we receive a clear image of the symbol of the Circle, Triangle and Square , the symbol of the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross. With this symbol, the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross indicates that it confronts its pupils with three aspects and that these three aspects form a perfect unity within its power-field. In this way, the Circle, Triangle and Square represent the entire power-field, including its nucleus-principle (the Dot) from which the plan of manifestation develops. A Square of Construction is realized, and the fiery triangle of the New Field of Life arises from it.

 

The symbol of the power-field testifies to the Divine power, manifesting as a sevenfold cosmic field, descending into unholy dialectics. In this way, the depraved dialectical world is affected by the Light; the twelvefold zodiac is pierced and a new magnetic firmament, a new heaven and a new earth, take shape. The classical Rosicrucians said that this power-field is manifested every seven hundred years in order to lead Seekers into the Field of the Light.

 

From "The Threefold Mystery of the Power-field" - Rosicrucians Through The Ages - K. Dietzfelbinger

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May the foregoing shine additional light on the meaning embedded within the symbol of the Spiritual School.

~ g
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He Is Risen

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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

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

The Pyramid is not a tomb, as present-day bumbling archaeology 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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The Mystery of the Sphinx and the Pyramid

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We should not see the Sphinx as being unconnected to the Pyramid and its mystery. In ancient Egypt, the classical kings received the epithet: 'living sphinx, image of the Lord of the Universe'. That is a Sun God, descended into matter.

Perhaps you understand this symbol. The human-being is a fallen angel in a state of cleavage: one part of the microcosm imprisoned in the Original Life Field, totally incapable of any activity; the other, cast down into the nature-born urge for survival. The human-being is the Sphinx!

The knowledge of this has repeatedly been lost and not a word of this is mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. It has been lost, just as the Sphinx has repeatedly been totally covered by the desert sands. This sign, hewn out of rock and spanning the ages, is gaped at by tourists. It is said that they feel respect but they do not understand.

Perhaps many will begin to understand when their illusions of existence are torn to shreds in the impending world development. Then they may well remember the column that stands between the front paws of the Sphinx. The story on the column is, briefly:

Prince Thotmes, the son of an Egyptian king, had ordered the Sphinx to be excavated from the desert sand. He was used to riding around the desert and hunting for wild animals. On one of those hunts the prince went to rest in the shadow of the Sphinx in the afternoon. He fell asleep and dreamt that the Sphinx began to talk to him. He said:

"Look at me, my son, Thotmes. I am your Father. My face and my heart are turned towards you, for you belong to me. Behold my state of suffocation. I am in danger of being buried by the sand of this desert on which I am lying.

I have waited until you will do what was in my heart, for I knew that you were my son, my protector!

As a pupil of the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross you will understand the language of the Sphinx. You, too, have excavated the Sphinx and it is speaking to you ever more clearly.

The old, lost knowledge of Transfigurism has been excavated again in this century, not by studying or reading books, but by pilgrimage, by the process of life, by really going the Path, by real exertion, by the radiations of the Magnetic Power Field.

You, too, can clearly see the situation of the nature-born human-being as that of someone who is held in a suffocating grasp. The grip of this nature is constantly on the point of burying you. The human-being is a god who has become human according to this nature.

From "The Mystery of the Sphinx and the Pyramid" - The Living Word - Catharose de Petri

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Surprise! The Sphinx represents the dual aspect of the present human-being. The body of the Sphinx represents the lower nature, the physical human-being rooted to the earth, mired in this nature-order. The top portion, the royal visage high above the earth, stares at the eastern horizon, awaiting the New Dawn. As we have moved (or will soon move, depending upon who does the calculations) into the zodiacal Age of Aquarius, the Sun rises (or will rise) in this constellation. On the western horizon, behind the Sphinx and 180 degrees opposite of Aquarius, is the constellation of Leo. The cosmic symbolism is inescapable. The Sphinx now faces the constellation that is represented as a Man pouring a pitcher of water. Behind it is the constellation that is represented as a Lion, the so-called "king of beasts".

There are no coincidences. The Sphinx is a symbolic image in limestone of what the candidate on the Path is striving to become again: a god-man. The Great Pyramid that it guards also contains a profound message -- about the Path itself.

~ g
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"The Strong Will Stand For The Weak" -- More On The Living Body

Over long ages of time, millions of nature-born human-beings have managed to successfully liberate themselves from the pull of matter. Each time a soul (or microcosm), is liberated, another 'cell' is added to the group-body of beings who have already obtained the Good End in past harvests. At the end of every Age there always surfaces true gnostic brotherhoods whose job it is to lend assistance to those souls who are ready to climb out of the Pit of Despair. These millions of liberated beings, incarnate and discarnate, form a chain of such brotherhoods, This chain of gnostic brotherhoods we call the Universal Brotherhood, or Living Body of the Gnosis.

Liberation means that via the rebirth of the Soul, one is reunited with the Divine Spirit and so re-establishes a link with will of The All. The microcosm is transfigured and Immortality is regained. Such a one is thus linked with the pure astral forces of the Sixth Cosmic Domain, aka the Divine Kingdom. Being linked in group unity, the Living Body is able to pull Divine forces from the Sixth Cosmic Domain down into the Seventh Cosmic Domain (the physical realm). Here, this Divine power can be made available for all Seekers who are truly looking to walk the Path of Return.

Time, space, geography and distance do not separate the members of this Living Body. If you are sincerely walking the fivefold gnostic Path, you will be taken up by the Living Body, which gives to each pupil what he or she needs, when it is needed. Nothing more will be asked of or provided for the candidate than can be safely handled. Each step taken will be taken at the candidate's own pace. Through it all, the Living Body will be there to provide the pure astral forces that the pupil will need in his or her efforts to overcome the lower nature.

When it comes to the Living Body of the Gnosis there is a saying that goes, "The strong will stand for the weak". These are not idle words. While we are here striving to effect our final detachment from this nature-order, those who have gone before us remain united in focusing and sending forth the pure astral radiations that we will need to be successful in our endeavors. If we can persevere until the Good End then someday, we too, will become a permanent part of the Living Body, from where, in Wisdom and Divine Love, we will reach back into the Pit to aid our fallen brothers and sisters.

May it be so for us all.

~ g
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Answers On The Living Body, The Endura

The below are answers to questions posed by Brian in the Comments section of the post "Million-Year Journey".

Q: What is union and what is a living body or group body?

A: The gnostic Living Body is defined as follows:

"A gnostic Living Body is the 'Ark' referred to in the Book of Genesis. It is a Body that is built in co-operation with the forces of the Universal Gnostic Chain of Brotherhoods, in the service of the Harvest that must be gathered in at the end of a Cosmic Day and carried safely into the New Life-Field".

A gnostic Living Body manifests itself on all planes and sub-planes. It carries the pure astral forces of the Divine Kingdom and makes these forces available to all those who are walking the Path of Return. Those who choose to live out of these pure astral forces will be able to transmute and ultimately transfigure their microcosms, if they can remain steadfast in surrendering the 'I' and maintaining their focus on a new attitude of life.  The LRC represents the terrestrial aspect of this gnostic Living Body, which always reappears when humanity reaches the end of a minor or major world-cycle in order to gather up those souls who are ready to be liberated from the nature-of-death.

Q: When we go the Path do we give up our personality to become part of a something bigger(the brotherhood?) or re-union with the Light Force of God?

A: When we resolve to walk the Path, we are resolving to transfer control of our microcosm from the nature-born self, or I-being, to 'the Other One' that is awakening within us as a result of the effect that the Divine Touch of the Gnosis has had upon our Divine Spark. We refer to this transfer of control as 'self-surrender'. The medieval Cathars called this process the 'endura', which can be defined as follows:

"Endura is the path of I-demolition, the path of the final death, through the surrender of the 'I' to the Other One, the Immortal Man, the Christ within us. It is the path of John , who 'makes straight the paths for his Lord'. It means putting into practice the words: "He -- the heavenly Other One, must increase, and I must decrease. I must perish so that the heavenly Other One may live within me".

The path of the endura is the ancient path along which the fallen human-being rises toward his True, Immortal Self. The gnostic fire of purification brings about a complete and fundamental reversal in his life and he then returns to the Father.

Life in dialectics (duality) is a life leading to death (dissolution); the path of the endura means a voluntary death leading to True Life. It is the path of the true, God-seeking human-being: 'He who will lose his life for My sake, will find the Life".

Many are tripped up at this stage of the journey, because the thought of erasing the self will elicit fear in the new pupil. It is the I-being that creates this fear, because the 'I' is habituated to preserving itself. It knows what you are contemplating and reacts accordingly. The new pupil begins to believe that if he or she walks this Path, he or she will 'cease to exist'. That is far from the case! On the contrary, the pupil will live as never before! As the Other One increases in its influence and strength, the current personality will not be erased, but will be subsumed, absorbed into the glorious, multi-dimensional Personality that will arise, like a Phoenix, from the ashes of the old nature-born I-being.

Q: Is being an extreme individualist a hindrance to the Path? But do you have to be a bit of an extreme individualist to go on the Path to walk away from the family, cultural, religious, politic, nature born norms?

A: This is a good question and an interesting paradox. Yes, the individualization of human souls has resulted in fiercely I-centered entities whose first, third, and last thought is always that of preservation of the self, i.e., "What is best for ME?" This rigid, constant and ruthlessly self-focused thinking has resulted in all of mankind's past and current problems and is responsible for the world that we see around us today. Individualism, the idea of a separated self, in and of itself is not a 'bad' thing. It is the I-focused thinking that accompanies this sense of 'I am' that is the problem.

When one undergoes the fundamental reversal mentioned in the previous answer, the first thing that has to happen is that the pupil must no longer think of the self first ("the 'I' must decrease..."). This is why unselfish service-to-others is stressed so heavily for those who are undertaking to walk the Path of Return.

On the other hand, one does have to be more than a bit of an individualist to forge an attraction to the Gnosis, to the Christ-radiation that is not-of-this-earth. Such thinking represents a tearing-away from the aeonic forces that control the masses of humanity in the natural world. It is the height of individual thought and indicates that the current personality is inhabiting a mature microcosm that is ready to move away from the glamour of the natural world in order to pursue its true destiny, the One Goal of Humanity.

Please note that although as candidates on the Path we recognize that we must leave the things of the natural world behind, this is accomplished not by retreating to a cave in the woods to eat locusts and berries for the rest of one's life. It is impossible to physically withdraw from the world in today's age and time. Besides, there are hardly any pristine wildernesses left anywhere for one to hide in!

Therefore, we must effect our withdrawal by cultivating an attitude of life characterized by non-attachment. We must no longer become attached to the things of this world. Yes, we need to eat, but we don't need to eat to excess, or slaughter our younger brothers in the animal kingdom for their flesh, or eat things that are detrimental to the physical body simply because they look 'good' or taste 'good'.  Yes, we need clothing, but we do not need to dress to impress others, or spend enormous sums on designer clothing, or slaughter animals for their hide or fur. Yes, we may need to work for a living, but we do not need to identify with our job, or chase high salaries and positions, or hurt others in the pursuit of same.

The world is what it is. We have to live in it because it is the field of development that has been created for this life-wave to experience in. The true pupil on the Path realizes that although we are still in the world, we can no longer be of the world. Therefore, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's (the material I-being). Render unto God, that which is God's (the reborn Soul, or microcosm).

Above all, we should not abandon our spouses or children. Our families are karmic responsibilities that we do not have the right to walk away from. Do your duty in life. Do not shirk your responsibilities. Care for those you love and for all men and women, but always with a sense of detachment. Detachment does not mean 'not caring'. It means to not become attached to outcomes, expectations, etc.  We, as pupils, must carry within us the knowledge that we are undergoing a process of surrender that requires the walking of a fine line. We are engaged in a moment-by-moment endeavor to help the Divine Man within to re-assume control over the microcosm and ultimately, to transfigure it. In order to achieve this Good End, the 'I' must steadily decrease in influence, until nothing is left of the old nature-born 'I' that can mislead or deceive us. Only then will we be on our way to becoming the pioneers of the New Race that is now being born.

~ g
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Million-Year Journey

 

The human-being reincarnates every 700 to 1,000 years, alternating between male and female with each incarnation. This means that in a single sidereal year* of 25,920 years, one can live between 25 and 36 lives.

*a sidereal year is the amount of time it takes for the earth to pass through all twelve signs of the zodiac. It takes 2,160 years to pass through one aeon, or 'age' of the zodiac.

Spiritually-advanced souls will incarnate at approximately 700-year intervals, as they require less time between incarnations to assimilate the life experience. Common souls need the extra time in the reflection-sphere to distill the benefits of the life lived and thus incarnate at the higher, 1,000-year interval.

Because each zodiacal age spans 2,160 years, we can see that a new personality is born twice under every sign, once as a male and once as a female. Sometimes there are exceptions, but that is the general rule.

So, how many lives have we lived? Let it be known that all of us have lived through the Atlantean Age and the Lemurian Age prior to that. The time of Atlantis spanned at least a 1,000,000 years of time in humanity's immediate past and was probably in existence for much longer than that. Applying the foregoing timelines, this means that in just the last one million years alone, all of us have lived at least nine hundred lives. Nine hundred.

That's hundreds of lives, countless personalities inhabiting our microcosm partaking in countless experiences. So many families, spouses, sons, daughters and siblings. Occupations as priest or priestess, black or white magician, warrior, politician, farmer, thief or murderer. An untold number of self-focused lives, resulting in selfish choices leading inevitably to dissolution and yet more turns on the Wheel of Death and Rebirth.

Through all of these lives runs a single thread, that of the seeking human-being. The human personality is forever searching for something, even though it knows not what that 'something' is. So it tries to find it in all sorts of nature-born activity. Predictably, because of the peculiar laws of duality, nothing that the human-being finds on the horizontal plane is lasting, or permanently fulfilling. Everything is evanescent, fleeting, temporal. Life is a constant rising, shining and fading.  Hundreds of lives, over and over, new personalities pursue the same futile dead-ends.

At some point during this long, long process of evolution, a personality in our microcosm may come in contact with the Gnosis. We learn of the Path of the True Way, the Path of Return. However, for whatever reason, we turn away from the Gnosis. We choose not to walk the Path in self-surrender, or we begin the Walk and then abort the effort. Although such incarnations are classified as failures, they are not completely so. For every life lived, nothing is lost. All is retained in the lipika of the microcosm, which accumulates and stores the karma and the soul-growth of the microcosm. Thus, the touch of the Gnosis experienced by a personality remains a permanent part of the microcosm.

Now we reach the present personality -- you. Within you, there is a spark of remembrance, due to your exposure to the Gnosis in a previous life or lives. You are drawn to the Universal Teachings, there is a resonance. You do not know why, but it 'feels right' to you. It is remembrance that is responsible for this. You as a personality once again face a critical choice: either act upon this pre-condition and finally take up the Path or turn away yet again and fail once more to achieve the One Goal of Humanity.

It has taken much effort, many failures and countless lives for your microcosm to develop a personality that has been able to get to this point. You now stand on the precipice of Liberation. Do not waste this opportunity. Gain insight. Direct your thinking, willing and feeling to the Transfiguristic process. Go the Path. Complete the journey that has been a million years in the making.

This is the life. You are the personality. Now is the time.

~ g
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Broken Vase

There was once a beautiful crystal Vase of Truth. It was renowned the world over and its Light shone brightly, its facets sparkled. One day, the Vase fell and shattered into countless pieces. The Light was no more.

People would walk by the scattered shards and, intrigued by the light that was reflected by them, would pick one up in awe.

"What a beautiful piece of Truth! I will keep it with me and show the world!". And off they would go with their piece of the Truth.

More and more people would stop and pick up a shard - after all, there were so many pieces to choose from. Soon there were shards all over the world, of different sizes and shapes. All of them glittered with their own reflected light, all were shaped differently. The people who held the shards believed that they held the whole Truth. Sadly, they did not realize that they only held a very tiny portion of the Truth.

Such is the state of man's religions in this nature-order. A sad state-of-affairs, yes. Thankfully, this is about to end as Divine Truth is in the process of being restored to mankind. The Vase is being repaired. Soon, Truth will once again be Whole. The Light will shine for all.

~ g
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The Machinations of Stupefaction

[QUOTING]

We live in times of great turmoil. Because of the chaos prevailing everywhere, the world has come very close to an explosion. Humanity is experiencing world events, just like watching and 'living' a film as shown in some cinema.

And so we want to lead you in your imagination to the biggest cinema in the world. This is a cinema in which people readily pay for the right to wait in the queue of the insatiable, after which they are admitted to the Temple of Moving Images.

There you see one great glittering illusion, one great imitation of everything that perhaps once was considered real or true. What you see there is the delusion of which the human-being, with his clouded vision, is proud, because the image shown him in the bewitching darkness seizes him like an hypnotic trance. It is all ostentation and pretentious display produced by soulless machines for an audience that appears to be soul-forsaken.

Like cattle being led to the slaughter, the crowds are pushed into the queues inside the guide ropes. When, after an overwhelming burst of music and darkness, a sufficient number of stupefied people has left the cinema, those waiting make room for an ever-swelling stream of new people, so that everyone gets the opportunity of being swallowed up into the monster's gullet.

The people are watched painstakingly lest anyone escape the Abyss of Oblivion. The whole show is just one great draught of Oblivion as the images rapidly follow one another and a stream of false gratification flows continuously on, for no one is allowed to get bored. No one may wake up from his doze which is like that of cattle chewing the cud. Nor is anyone allowed to think, and so the events have to succeed one another without allowing a spare second.

He cannot be allowed to wake up, let alone realize that all this is totally alien to the One True Soul Life that emanates from God.

He must not realize that this poisoned food is served to the human race to prevent any spark of Light from flaring up.

This is why events must succeed one another with frenetic speed, so that people don't have time to see what they are being served.

These ingenious machinations, composed of intelligence without any conception of deeper values, these machinations of stupefaction and decomposition, are controlled by the powers and forces of this world.

No matter how tragic this may sound, humanity is experiencing without any essential depth the emotions of this existence in a world that is meant to be a house of transition to the Eternal Reality. The majority of people are constantly waiting for new sensations. A human race totally imprisoned in the inebriated atmosphere of inferior astral turmoil in the universe: that is the state of present-day humanity.

From "Kundalini: The Power Of Eternity" - The Living Word - Catharose de Petri

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This writer has stated repeatedly that all world events are staged for the purposes of manipulating, terrorizing and ultimately confusing humanity. Especially today, one atrocity follows another as we are constantly bombarded with examples of man's inhumanity to fellow man. These events are constant and unceasing. They serve to paralyze the common human-being of this nature, and to possibly demoralize the human-being of humanistic goodwill.

Nature-born man lives entire his earth-life in a daze. He then transitions without having gained any insight, or made any strides towards locating the Path of the True Way. Wave after wave of reincarnated souls follow to view "The Show", doomed to walk the same road of spiritual failure.

Those who have gained insight into the workings of the archons and aeons (the "powers and forces of this world") understand that what we are seeing on a daily basis is a vast manipulation designed to distract humanity from its true goal and purpose. As troubling as world events may appear, we must move forward without wavering, with eyes firmly set on the Prize. Success depends upon our being able to make it through the storm together, in group unity.

~ g
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Let Go, Or Suffer The Consequences

[QUOTING]

When a person decides to follow the Light wherever It leads him, he has to accept the Way of the Cross. Whoever begins to do this in the power of the Fire of the Christ is a Rosicrucian from that moment on. For them the Father Fire, the root fire, breaks open the Rose resulting in the well-known inner unease. Whoever dedicates this Rose to the Way of the Cross is a Rosicrucian: a human-being who attaches the Rose to the Cross.

You know that the Mystery Fire is the most important and most sublime symbol of God, of the Spirit, of the Gnosis, of the Circle of Eternity. The Rose within you is the potential of the God in you.  As soon as this Holy Fire begins to burn, a fiery process begins. God Himself enters into you. God Himself raises His voice.

The ancient Manichaeans had the idea that in the Children of the Fire, the Light was mixed with darkness. We know that this is completely true. Due to his birth in nature, a human-being has many dark elements. These are mixed with the elements of the Light.

However, when you begin to walk the Liberating Path, the newly-lit Fire attacks the darkness in you. A fire process begins. God Himself enters into your being. This is why Paul says to such a pupil: "Do you not know that you are God? Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?" And he adds: "If anyone harms God's temple, God will harm him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are" (1 Corinthians 2:16-17).

What does Paul mean by this? He is not referring to being harmed by others, because others cannot harm a pupil on the Path. When the Father's Fire burns in you, no mortal is able to extinguish that Fire. No, you are the only one who can harm yourself. As soon as you go the Path in the flaming triangle, you are obliged to go and stand on the Square of Construction in a totally new way. A completely new mode of life is essential. Without this, you will harm your own temple, the temple which is God's.

No doubt you will understand that if a pupil of the Spiritual School puts the emphasis on numerous incidents and on all kinds of dialectical* values , he would build up an enormous resistance to himself. If you kindle the Holy Fire and at the same time clutch to the things of ordinary nature with both hands, the Fire that has come to consume all that is old and unworthy to God, will  meet its greater resistance in you.

*Dialectics: duality, earthly, of the earth

This is the reason why many pupils of the Spiritual School of the Golden Rosycross sometimes despair at all the difficulties in their lives. In their ignorance, they put up resistance against the Fire of Liberation they themselves have invoked! So...let go of what must be given up.

If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay and stubble -- each person's work will become manifest. The day will prove it, because it will be revealed by the Fire that you yourself have lit. The Fire will test your construction.

From 'The Three Fires of Grace" - The Living Word - Catharose de Petri

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The Path of Return cannot be walked half-heartedly. Once we begin the process, the Light of the Gnosis is attracted and begins Its work within our astral, mental and etheric vehicles. A breaking-up takes place, a breaking up of what is earthly. If we try to hold on to those earthly habits and desires while simultaneously trying to walk the Path to a New Life, we will only interfere with the process. The results of such indecision will be painfully disastrous.

Therefore, all are advised to count the cost before beginning this Journey. One must be ready to leave everything that is of the earth behind, knowing that what lies ahead is more beautiful and glorious than anything ever imagined on earth.

We are the Children of the Fire, and it is time for us to return Home.

~ g
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