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Spiritual Christmas

"This program is an initiative of the Pentagram Bookstore in Haarlem, the Netherlands. It aims to bring the eternal and pure spiritual message to those who inwardly long for life fulfilment.

Participants will receive a daily e-mail during the coming Christmas season, from December 22 – the day after the winter solstice – until January 6, the day of Epiphany.

The texts allow you to contemplate the esoteric meaning of Christmas and the Christmas season. By focusing your attention on it you create a receptivity to a very spiritual process: the Light-birth within yourself. That is the Christmas miracle of awakening and activating the divine being within you. It is the beginning of a completely new spiritual path that never ends.

Free online program, based on ‘The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ’ by Levi Dowling.

Register for daily inspiration from December 22 to January 6"

Although it's recommended that the readings be done on the designated day, links to the entire series are provided below for your convenience. ~ g

• 22-12 morning: Preparing yourself (link appears to be broken)
• 22-12 evening: Birth of Mary (chapter 1)

• 23-12 morning: Recognizing the inner man in yourself
• 23-12 evening: The birth of John (chapter 2)

• 24-12 morning: Preparing your way
• 24-12 evening: The birth of Jesus (chapter 3)

• 25-12 morning: Giving birth to the divine being in yourself
• 25-12 evening: The Consecration of Jesus (chapter 4)

• 26-12 morning: In this sign you will conquer
• 26-12 evening: Three magian priests and the flight to Egypt (chapter 5)

• 27-12 morning: Your magic gifts
• 27-12 evening: The children’s massacre by King Herod’s order (chapter 6)

• 28 -12 morning: Treats form the world and from yourself
• 28-12 evening: Mary and Elisabeth are taught in a mystery school in Egypt 1 (chapters 7 + 8)

• 29-12 morning: Your assignment in life
• 29-12 evening: Mary and Elizabeth are taught in a mystery school in Egypt 2 (chapters 9 + 10)

• 30-12 morning: Looking back at the past
• 30-12 evening: Mary and Elizabeth are taught in a mystery school in Egypt 3 (chapters 11 + 12)

• 31-12 morning: Taking leave of your teachers
• 31-12 evening: Speech in india about God and the divine (chapter 28)

• 01-01 morning: Unfolding your talents
• 01-01 evening: The parable of the rocky field (chapter 33)

• 02-01 morning: The hidden treasure in your heart
• 02-01 evening: The importance of rest, silence and reflection (chapter 40)

• 03-01 morning: Attention for your inner development
• 03-01 evening: The limitations of mental thinking (chapter 44)

• 04-01 morning: Awakening of the spirit-consciousness within you
• 04-01 evening: The universal postulates of the seven sages (chapters 58 + 59)

• 05-01 morning: Seven fundamental principles for your life
• 05-01 evening: John and Jesus at the Jordan river (chapters 63 + 64)

• 06-01 morning: The descent of the Holy Breath
• 06-01 evening:  The rebirth of water and the Holy Breath (chapter 75)

all love,

~ g

The Highest State Of Desire

[QUOTING]

Man has four vehicles: the material body, its etheric double, the desire body and the thinking faculty. The etheric body builds and maintains the material body; the desire body defines the inclinations, the type, the character, the ability of the man -- in short, his essential nature.

The desire body surrounds and penetrates us from every angle and the astral fluids enter our material system by means of the liver. So the liver is more especially the focus of the desire body, as it has developed since birth. The head and the heart of natural man are slaves of the desire body. Your feelings and your thinking as a person of this nature are regulated by your pelvic sanctuary. Consequently, you live out of your pelvic sanctuary, through your spleen-liver system, bound to matter, desiring and focused upon everything that is of ordinary nature. All astral radiations enter the liver in accordance with the activities of your desire nature.

When, after endless roaming on the dreary Road of Experience, a human-being reaches a dead-end in nature-bound life, it can happen that he begins to desire renewal, to yearn for a liberating solution; that in such a man something like a yearning for salvation develops, an urge to seize one or another approach to salvation -- to realize it within himself, that he might climb up out of the pit of mortification. This state of searching for renewal, this increasingly conscious state of yearning for salvation is the highest form of desire of which nature-born man is capable. You cannot reach higher.  This is the highest state, the limit of dialectical astral radiation. When we stand at this border, the Gnosis touches us; not in the liver, but in the heart.

The first touch of the Gnosis always takes place in the heart sanctuary; however, that occurs only in answer to one's yearning for salvation. Therefore it is out of the question that anyone who would approach the Temples of the gnostic Spiritual School simply experimentally or out of curiosity would benefit in any way. It is beneficial to be in a gnostic focus only when the heart has opened somewhat for the Gnosis, yet only as a result of that highest state of desire, the yearning for salvation.

From "Pymander and Hermes" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The heart is the seat of desire. What we desire we attract to us. That is a natural response to a natural law. Like Attracts Like.

In order to attract the purifying radiations of the Gnosis, we must yearn for the New Life with everything that is within us. We must obtain the highest state of desire mentioned in the excerpt above, the desire to put down the things of this world and return to Whence we came. If we can pursue this objective steadfastly and in deep humility, the law will fulfill itself and we will attract into our heart the astral radiations of a Divine realm, the 6th Cosmic Domain. This re-linking with the Gnosis will awaken the Rose of the Heart, the Spirit-spark Atom, from its eons-long sleep and set a Dynamo in motion.

This Power will not force itself upon you. It must be asked for, sought after, desired with everything that is within you. Your actions must support that desire. It is truly a yearning like no other.

~ g
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In Their Image

7 God's meeting place with man is in the heart, and in a still small voice He speaks, and he who hears is still.

9 And Jesus said, the Holy Breath cannot be seen with mortal eyes; nor can men see the Spirits of the Holy One;

10 But in their image man was made, and he who looks into the face of man looks at the image of the God Who speaks within.

11 And when man honors man he honors God, and what man does for man he does for God.

12 And you must bear in mind that when man harms in Thought, or Word or Deed another man, he does a wrong to God.

If you would serve the God Who speaks within the heart, just serve your near of kin, and those that are not kin, the stranger at the gate, the foe who seeks to do you harm.

13 Assist the poor and help the weak; do harm to none and covet not what is not yours;

14 Then with your tongue the Holy One will speak; and He will smile behind your tears, will light your countenance with Joy, and fill your hearts with Peace.

Chapter 26:7, 9-14 - The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, the Christ

~ g
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The Divine Seed

In the center of the microcosm of every Spirit-spark human-being is a Divine Spark, a Divine Seed. This Divine Principle is the only part of the human-being that is not created from nor composed of physical material. This tiny Divine Atom is the Immortal part of the finite human-being. It contains powers, faculties and abilities far beyond the imagination of even the most gifted author of science-fiction.

Man was once a Divine creature but lost his link to Divinity when he turned to selfishness. Only the Divine Spark remained as a link to his former heritage. However, this link, this Spark, cannot bloom and flourish in the physical universe. It needs to re-link with the radiations of the Original Nature, the Divine Kingdom, the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

It may seem difficult to believe that a tiny atom could contain within it all of the resources necessary to transform a man into a god, but it is true. Think of the ordinary seed that we are so familiar with here on earth. How do tiny seeds grow in to mighty trees? How do tiny embryos grow into fetus, infant, child, teenager, adult?

Simple. Every seed, no matter what its origin, always contains within it every single attribute required for the growth of the organism, as well as instructions for bringing those attributes to life. The seed will execute these instructions automatically. All that is required is the proper nurturing environment, rich soil in which the seed can thrive and a little water now and then.

As Below, So Above. The Divine Atom, the Divine Spark that sleeps within us, is no different. It too, is a seed, albeit a Seed unlike any known to humankind. It too, requires a nurturing environment, rich soil in which to grow. This environment is a purified astral body. The rich soil is the purified blood that flows through the human heart. The human-being is the Gardener who must till the soil, water the Seed, pull the weeds that threaten to choke off its growth, and provide it with the Love and Attention required.

If the human-being can prove himself an effective gardener, the Seed will bloom. The Rosebud will open and blossom into a radiating, golden Rose with seven petals. That blossoming is the beginning of a wonderful process of transmutation and transfiguration that will end in the realization of a glorified human Personality. Via Soul-rebirth, the True Man will be restored to its former Divine state.

You carry this Divine Seed within you. You are incubator, mid-wife, gardener and caretaker of this seed. You are responsible for its growth and maturation. You are a partner in the Great Work. Take time to contemplate the responsibility that you, as an image-bearer in your microcosm, must undertake. It is your job to enable this Seed to unfold its Powers once more.

In this Task, you must not fail.

~ g
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The Articles Of Surrender

The Self must surrender its control and influence over the personality.

Those things that the "I" desires can no longer be considered, nor satisfied.

Those thoughts that the "I" habitually entertains can no longer be a part of the Thought-Life.

Those acts that the "I" once carried out to selfishly fulfill its own dictates can no longer be committed by thy hands.

These are the articles of surrender.

The terms are unconditional.

~ g
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The Unselfish

This post responds to a comment posted in Opening The Rose - The Fivefold Path To Liberation

Friend,

(1) The transfiguristic process, as described, is not a selfish process. Throughout the description given, an "Other One" is referred to. It is not for the self that the sincere candidate seeks Liberation, it is to liberate the "Other One" who arises as a result of an opened Rose of the Heart.

When The Goal has been reached nothing of the human personality will remain. Perhaps this was not made clear enough. The candidate's consciousness will merge with the consciousness of the resurrected New Man, the "Other One", but the form does not persist, nor does the selfish "I" that once was.

Anyone who attempts to walk this Path in the selfish manner that you have described will not be successful. One cannot have it both ways. Once cannot execute the most Unselfish of acts while simultaneously thinking only of the self.

To "know thyself" is to know that the personal self is but a temporary image-bearer, whose sole purpose in life is to remember its Calling and to pursue it. That is embedded in the meaning of "Man, Know Thyself". If the image-bearer is successful in completing its Task, there will be nothing left of the personal self when The Goal has been reached.

It might help to think of the personal self as the yolk within an egg. The yolk is there to provide nourishment and sustenance for the chick that is forming inside the egg. As the chick grows, the volume of yolk gradually decreases. Eventually, the chick emerges fully-formed and there is no yolk to be seen anywhere. All of this takes place within the same eggshell. Transfiguration follows this pattern (As Above, So Below). By way of analogy, the "yolk" represents the personal self, the "egg" is the microcosm and the chick represents the "Other One", the resurrected New Man, the glorified Divine Personality.

(2) Once the goal of Final Liberation has been achieved, the victorious candidate does not straightaway ride off into the sunset. At that point, all Liberated Ones are presented with a Choice:

a. return to the Divine Kingdom and beyond, severing all future contact with earth-humanity forever, or,

b. remain behind within reach of the earth-sphere in order to help other lost and confused image-bearers to achieve the same Goal. In Buddhism this is known as "The Great Renunciation". The Liberated One can reincarnate - voluntarily, and by choice - in order to walk amongst men once again, if or when required to do so in service of the Divine Plan.

The large majority of Liberated Ones choose to remain behind. They recognize a duty to mankind, to their fallen brothers and sisters who are still struggling in darkness. Having climbed the summit of evolutionary achievement, they voluntarily choose to delay their own Evolution in order to help the fallen. It is from these exalted ranks that humanity gets its Christs, its Buddhas, its Krishnas, its Hermes Trismegistuses, its Bodhisattvas, etc.

Some may view the Liberated Ones who decline choice (b) as committing the ultimate Selfish Act. This view is mistaken. At that high level of evolution, having completed The Great Work, Liberated Ones are presented with the privilege of choosing their next step. There is no judgment, either way. Both Choices are valid choices. To the human-being, choosing to not remain behind appears 'selfish', but it is not. Earthly thinking will find it difficult to penetrate this apparent paradox, but there is no paradox.

3) Mother Theresa is indeed an example of humanism and earthly "love". As a nature-born human-being, there is a desire to help humanity but for lack of knowledge, she and others pursue this desire on a horizontal level. Yes, feeding and clothing those in need will help them - on a temporary basis. However, in order to truly help humanity and provide our fallen brothers and sisters with permanent relief from sorrow, those who can must walk the Path of Liberation. Doing so weakens the grip of the archons and aeons on the rest of humanity and provides more workers in the vineyard to serve the Divine Plan of Salvation.

"I will be with you always, even until the end of the Age" - The Christ

best,

~ g
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Opening The Rose - The Fivefold Path To Liberation

How does one open the Rosebud? How does one awaken the Rose of the Heart, the latent Divine Spark that sleeps within the center of the microcosm?

The sleeping Rose is a Divine principle. It is the only part of the human personality that is not-of-this-world, As such, it will not respond to dialectical measures to awaken it. Therefore, the following practices will not be of any use in awakening the Rose:

- meditation
- concentration
- yoga
- splitting of the personality (i.e., astral travel, etc.)
- breathing exercises
- special diets
- tantric practices
- various narcotics and hallucinogens
- kundalini (as taught to the masses of the current era)

The above practices might help one to obtain consciousness in the astral planes of this nature-order, but they will still be prisoners of the Seventh Cosmic Domain, the undivine physical realm. They may achieve great heights and be crowned as "initiates" in the lofty heights of the reflection-sphere but they will still be lashed to the fence-posts of the earth-spheres.

That which is undivine can obtain no reaction from that which is Divine.The only way to awaken this Divine Principle - the Spirit-Spark Atom -  is to relink it with its Divine Origin, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. Once this Link is re-established, the Rose will awaken on its own. The candidate must not "do" anything to interfere or help in this process of Rebirth. The candidate must stand aside in not-doing and allowed the process to unfold. The most that one can do is to surrender the personal self to The Goal, as will be mentioned below.

There are five steps that the candidate must fulfill in order to reach the Good End.

Insight - "Man, Know Thyself". The candidate must gain insight as to his origins, his attributes, his current predicament, the nature of his imprisonment and the discovery of a Path to Liberation. The candidate must undertake to learn everything that he can about the Path of Return.

Yearning - once insight has been established and the candidate knows the truth about the earth experience that he has for so long accepted as "reality" and about the capabilities that have been embedded in the human personality for use in transfiguring the microcosm, he can do one of two things:

1. dismiss all that he has learned and go back to life as it was
2. from the depths of his being, begin to yearn with all of his might for Liberation

Self-surrender - to begin the process, the candidate must offer up his earthly personality. That is, he must stop living selfishly for the self, and instead, live for others. To serve the self is against everything the Gnosis represents. God, the Logos, The Only Good, gives to all. God does not take. If one is looking to re-link with the Divine, one must reflect that single attribute of the Divine, for only Like Attracts Like.

Gnostic Rosicrucians refer to this self-surrender as the endura, a "dying daily" to the things of this world. It is probably the most difficult part of the entire process because the self will not easily relinquish its control or its desires. Through weakness and uncertainty, the candidate will falter time and time again, yielding to selfishness. But he must persevere and weather all storms. He must remember that it is not he who will fight this battle against the self, but the Other One within, who is stepping forth from the opened Rose, gaining in power and might with each passing moment.

New Attitude of Life - once the self has been moved to the background, the Other One must take the lead in the life of the candidate. The candidate must effect a fundamental reversal in his manner of living and being. The earthly things that he once desired and reveled in he must renounce for good. The New Life that he leads while still on earth must consist of the following attributes:

- Complete Unselfishness
- Non-Attachment
- No Judgment
- No Criticism or Gossip
- Constant Service-To-Others
- Devotion to the Gnosis

As this New Attitude of Life becomes automatic for the candidate, the power of the Rose will manifest itself to an ever larger degree. The entire microcosm will begin to fill with the Light of the Gnosis. The New Soul, the Spirit-Soul will seek to re-unite with the Spirit. The Bride shall await the Bridegroom.

Liberation - Devotion to the New Life will result in permanent separation from the earth-spheres.  By way of a process, the old personality will completely diminish in its authority. It will not be erased, but will merge into the glory of the reborn microcosm. A total Transfiguration of all the vehicles of the personality will take place. That earthly personality will be the last earthly personality to incarnate in the microcosm. It will not taste death, but will instead share in the omniscient, omnipotent. multi-dimensional capabilities of the Heavenly Original Man. The Divine Link will be re-established. Eternity will break into Time. The microcosm will celebrate its victory over death and its return to the Fatherland, the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

There, in the briefest of summaries, is the fivefold process that must be followed in order to open the Rose, to allow it to bloom and restore the microcosm to Divinity.

~ g
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Transfiguration: The Ultimate Goal

"Transfiguration means devoting oneself as an earthly, nature-born human-being to the creation, the genesis of the Other One; to the vivification of the 'image with the dead eyes'.

Can we do that? Yes, we can. It is even our calling, our task, our vocation. It is for that we have come into being. If we do nothing more than follow our natural urges as earthly beings, then, as we follow the road of dialectical experience, of rising, shining and fading, the time will come when death will take us.

If, however, we take up our Calling, we will see a Heavenly Man growing within our microcosm, Who will stand before us as the wholly Other One. And through his devotion, his self-surrender to that Other One, the earthly man will one day die, merge and rise again in Him who is the Other One. This second death then signifies the victory over death".

From "The Essential Mystery of Man" The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

This is man's true Calling. This is why we return. As personalities, it is our job to deliver the microcosm back to its Divine Home. That is the reason behind the Divine Plan of Salvation. This plan is being thwarted by the fact that the personality, the image-bearer, has forgotten his task, has gone off the rails and is following its own self-will, which is in error. As a result, Ignorance has taken the lead in the life of the personality, with Fear as the horseman.

It is the greatest triumph when even one human personality remembers his purpose and decides to take up his task. From that moment on, a change begins to take place within the microcosm. This change, if nurtured, encouraged and supported by the Gnosis, will ultimately result in the liberation of the Other One from the prison of the natural body. The personality responsible for initiating this transfiguration will not taste death, but will merge its consciousness with that of the newly reborn Divine Man and, in unity, will leave this finite nature-order and return to the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

The true candidate must release self-focus and recognize that he is but an image-bearer, with a very important task to perform for the Other entity that sleeps within the microcosm. Most are not ready to let go of their self, as they fear some sort of "annihilation". This is so far from the truth. When one takes up the task of delivering the microcosm from this fallen universe, that one begins to live, truly.

~ g
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Truth Not Well-Received

"There is a time during the developmental phases of the young brother or sister of the Rosycross, when they think that the world will welcome this announcement with great enthusiasm. They are naive enough to assume that just as they were allowed to immerse themselves for the first time in the Living Water of the Universal Knowledge, so others will follow their Awakening Call with great gladness. Then they learn to understand the truth of the words of the Fama Fraternitatis:

The careless world will be but little pleased herewith and slander, derision, and mockery will increase. Laughter, derision, and mockery are the reward of the servant of God whenever they dare to speak and testify of the Universal Knowledge"

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Why Things Go Wrong

No matter how hard we try to build something of lasting earthly value, eventually what we are trying to build will fall apart in our hands and crumble to dust. That is the way of dialectics, the natural world. Rising, Shining and then Fading are constants in every aspect of our physical lives.

Man's purpose on earth is not to create varying levels of "happiness" for himself. Man's purpose on earth is to recognize that he must leave this earth via the transfiguristic process, the Path of Return. Any endeavor that does not have this aim as its ultimate Goal will always be doomed to failure. We will be forced to experience pain, hardship, sorrow and disappointment life after life until eventually, a personality will appear in our microcosm that will finally become sick and tired of being sick and tired. It is this personality that will yearn for something other than what earth-life has to offer, and it is then that the heart will call out and the Gnosis will respond.

This is why failure is a constant in this world. If we are not pursuing the One Thing Needful then we have to fail. If we were successful in building a paradise here on earth, we would never want to leave. Our microcosms would crystallize beyond help. Therefore, our figurative castles of sand must be kicked to pieces over and over and over until we finally wise up and make the decision to stop building them.

Failure is the Gnosis trying to get your attention. Go, sell all that you have, and follow Path that leads to Freedom.

"Seek first the Kingdom within, and all else will be added unto you."

~ g
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Purification Of The Thought-Life: The Retrograde Movement

The One Goal of Humanity is to recognize that we are lacking in Spirit, to re-link with Spirit and thus liberate ourselves from Matter. This cannot be done with the physical body. The dense physical body and the more subtle etheric, astral and mental bodies are but temporary instruments whose purpose is to assist in the process of transformation.

Spirit is Divine, it is of God, and as such cannot bear to come into direct full contact with the defiled mortal soul that we carry while incarnate on earth. For its part, the mortal soul cannot bear so great a Divinity as Spirit, from whose Fire it would surely be burned.

Therefore a new Soul must be built within the microcosm of the personality. This New Soul must be constructed of pure ethers in order to create a Soul-body that can provide a suitable abode for the descending Divine Spirit. Hermes calls this New Soul the Spirit-Soul. Only the Spirit-Soul is capable of cloaking Spirit.

For this reason, the candidate is bound to the task of purification. In order to attract the pure ethers necessary to build the New Soul, a certain level of purification must be reached, maintained and increased. This is accomplished by what is termed the retrograde movement.

The retrograde movement begins in the head sanctuary, where our thoughts are aroused. As soon as a thought is birthed, a sparking occurs in the mental body that is in tune with the vibration and nature of the thought. Because of the proximity of the astral body to the mental body, the astral body picks up the vibration being thrown off by the mental body and thus conditions its own vibration to match that of the thought-vibration. From the astral body, ethers are extracted which are used to nourish and build the etheric body. Thus, the vibration sent forth by the original thought now becomes part of the etheric double. As the etheric double is the mold for the physical body, it inevitably must transfer this vibration to all the cells and organs of the physical body. This include the blood. The blood, infused with this thought-vibration, then circulates it throughout the physical body and back to the head sanctuary, where the movement begins again.

Here then is the movement: Thinking, astral body, etheric double, physical body, the blood and then, via the blood back to the thinking faculty. The proverbial "closed loop". If a person's thoughts are of a low nature, focused only upon selfish desires and/or material goals, then the person quite naturally will create a prison for himself via this movement, as his low-grade thinking will reinforce itself ad infinitum. If, however, one resolves to purify one's thinking, the retrograde movement will serve to progressively cleanse and purify all of one's vehicles and the blood, as well. Pursued with steadfastness, this movement will eventually result in a purified mental body, a purified astral body, a purified etheric/physical body and purified soul-fluids, beginning with the blood.

This lays the groundwork for the descent of the Spirit. This creates a welcoming atmosphere within our "temple" for the Great Homecoming, the Alchemical Wedding, the reunion of the Spirit-Soul with the Spirit. This illuminates the symbolism behind the story of Jesus evicting the money-changers from the Temple. In Biblical symbolism, the "Temple" always represents the human body. Jesus represents the Soul-born man who is striving to re-unite the Spirit-Soul with Spirit. Before this unification can occur, the "Temple" must be cleansed. I daresay we would do the same if we were expecting the arrival of any distinguished visitor to our homes.

So it is that we have established the reason behind the need for purification of the Thought-life. Purification is a prerequisite for attracting the Divine Spirit to take up residence in our microcosm. It is our job to prepare the banquet hall for the coming feast.

If we build it...Spirit will come.

~ g
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Purification Of The Thought-Life: Thought-Forms & Thought-Vibrations

"For to no other creature in the kingdom of the Earthly Mother is it given the power of Thought, for all beasts that crawl and birds that fly, live not of their own thinking but of the one Law that governs all. Only to the Sons of Men is it given the power of thought, even that Thought that can break the bonds of death.

Do not think because it cannot be seen, that Thought has no power. I tell you truly, the lightning that cleaves the mighty oak, or the quaking that opens up cracks in the earth, these are as the play of children compared with the power of Thought. Truly each thought of darkness, whether it be of malice, or anger, or vengeance, these wreak destruction like that of fire sweeping through dry kindling under a windless sky. But man does not see the carnage, nor does he hear the piteous cries of his victims, for he is blind to the world of the Spirit." - The Essene Gospel of Peace

When we have a thought, two things are created: a tangible form, made from matter of the mental plane, and a definite radiating vibration. Both of these thought-creations can travel great distances, depending on the power of the Thought that birthed them. The thought-vibration carries with it the character of the Thought. The thought-form is a representation or image of the Thought itself.

The thought-vibration will radiate from the thinker in all directions and travel until it encounters a person whose mental body vibrates in harmony with it. The thought-vibration will link up with that person and impart to him the character of the original thinker's thought.

Let's say that the original thought was of eating a hamburger. The person who picks up the thought may not like hamburgers but because the vibration carries the nature of the thought, the recipient may think of eating something else, like a salad, or a candy bar.

The thought-form has a slightly different existence. At first, it will remain in the vicinity of the thinker, taking up a position at about eye level, waiting for the thinker to act upon it or increase its life with the force of attention. If the thinker does not continue to vivify the thought-form with his attention, the thought-form will either slowly dissolve or wander off into the surrounding vicinity, where it will attach itself to the mental body of any person whose thinking vibrates in resonance with the thought-form. If such a person is found, the thought-form will discharge itself into the person's mental body. This will result in the person thinking the same thought as the original thinker, and moreover, believing that the thought is something that originated in his own brain-mind.

A couple of things can be extracted from the above:

1. your thoughts are living creations that persist long after the activity that created them

2. your thoughts have the ability to affect the thinking of others

Taking the foregoing into account, we should quickly realize the solemn responsibility that we have to our brothers and sisters when we formulate our thoughts. The more powerful the force of the thought, the wider and more long-lasting influence it will have on those around us.

Thus we have another important reason why we should work to purify our thinking. We are responsible for the invisible forces that radiate from us, and must take care to not propagate thoughts that will only serve to multiply humanity's negativity and pain.

Those who walk the Path of Return in humility and sincerity are walking in self-surrender and a new attitude of life. We are our brother's keeper. Or focus is away from the self and always cognizant of the effect of our thinking, willing and feeling upon the wider world. Candidates who do not begin to think and live in this manner are only play-acting. You will know them by their fruits.

Yes, it is a hard duty to try and evaluate each and every one of our thoughts before giving birth to them, but it can be done. The key is that you have to want to take the steps necessary to control your thinking. It is hoped that this extremely brief explanation of the effects that your thoughts have on others will inspire you to do what is necessary to radiate only those thoughts that are pure and helpful to the large numbers of people you will never see or meet.

- To Be Continued -

~ g
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Purification Of The Thought-Life

"Thought Is The Horse That Draws The Cart"
"Energy Follows Thought; What Is Focused Upon, Grows"
"Thoughts Are Things; They Go Somewhere"
"You Are What You Think"

A key requisite for success on the Path is the purification of the thought-life of the candidate. You may be surprised to learn that purification has less to do with "dirty" or "unclean" thoughts, and more to do with the ordinary thoughts that one entertains every moment of the day.

When we think, when we have a thought, we light a sort of fire in our mental body. That fire, that spark, has a vibration that is peculiar to the thought that created it. Coarse, common, self-directed thoughts will generally carry a low vibration. Unselfish, loving thoughts, or thoughts rooted in the Gnosis, will vibrate at a higher frequency. When one's thoughts are of a very high nature, the vibrations generated by them can be very beneficial to one's astral, etheric and physical bodies.

The vibration of the thought in the mental body bleeds over to the astral body and conditions it to match the frequency of the thought. The astral body then conditions the etheric double in the same manner. Because of its relationship as the mold for the physical body, the etheric double instantly passes ethers matching the vibration of the thought to the physical body.

If one gives the above some consideration, one should be able to realize that it's fairly apparent that what we think, the quality of our thoughts, determines the quality of our astral, etheric and physical body, including the blood. This by itself is an important thing for people to know and remember. For good or for ill, our thoughts always come home to roost.

In order to purify our thinking, we first have to change the way we look at Thought. We must take ourselves in hand and resolve to take charge of the thinking process. This requires a great deal of discipline because we are not used to taking the time to evaluate the quality of the thoughts that randomly pop into our heads. We simply think away, without any regard for where our thoughts come from or where they are going. Did you know that a large majority of "your" thoughts are actually the discarded thoughts of others? Man is literally surrounded and victimized by a sea of thought-forms and thought-vibrations. This will be discussed later.

Instead of accepting the thoughts of others as our own, or entertaining thoughts that are not entirely positive or helpful, we should first take a look at the kinds of thoughts that need to be expunged from our thinking lives in order to obtain the necessary purification.

1. Selfish thoughts
2. Criticizing thoughts
3. Judgmental thoughts
4. Angry thoughts
5. Jealous /  Envious thoughts
6. Greedy or Covetous thoughts
7. Ambitious thoughts
8. Prideful thoughts
9. Thoughts of Revenge
10. Lustful, Carnal thoughts
11. Depressive thoughts

May have missed a couple but you get the general idea.

Most of our thoughts are rooted in selfishness. Perhaps "self-focused" is a better description. Self-focused as in: "What is best for me in this situation?" or "How does this affect me?" or "How do I feel about this?" These are not conscious thoughts, we seldom hear them rattling around in our heads, but they are there. We are always processing the stimuli that comes to us from the external world in terms of how it relates to us and our past, present or future condition.

Self-focused thoughts like those listed above are generally low-frequency thoughts. Low-frequency thoughts negatively affect the mental, astral, etheric and physical bodies. When one constantly thinks in this way, a type of pollution occurs in one's subtle bodies. There is a general slowing of one's overall rate of vibration. Consistently entertaining poor-quality thoughts will render one unable to link up with Divine energies, which vibrate at much faster frequencies. In this way, one eventually cuts himself/herself off from the Gnosis by making it difficult to perceive and react to its ever-present, high-frequency radiations.

It is hoped that the above summary will enable you to get an idea of the critical relationship between the quality of our thought and the quality of our soul-bodies; between what we think and what we are. There is a direct connection. In addition, it is hoped that you may begin to recognize the important role that purification of the thought-life must play in helping the candidate to succeed in establishing a link with the Divine Gnosis.

- To Be Continued -

~ g
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Totality

The following is posted in response to a question posed by reader JM.

Astronomical events are not a main focus of this writer. That said, what follows will attempt to bring some perspective to what is scheduled to take place on 21 August 2017.

One should always return to the past if one wishes to search for a sliver of truth. Eclipses are not a new phenomenon, although you wouldn't be able to tell that by the excessive hype that is taking place in the United States at this time. Man was once quite familiar with them and their effects. By most accounts, these effects were not characterized in a positive light. Eclipses were considered to be evil and were also believed to be an omen or foretelling of future negative events.

As with most things involving ancient races and civilizations, the "authorities" of current mankind dismiss this long-held knowledge as superstition and myth. They want you to believe that, for the most part, those who went before us were ignorant savages who had no understanding and were afraid of their own shadows. Our so-called "authorities" maintain that in order for the ancients to manage their cluelessness and fear, they invented stories about evil portents and dark omens.

Consider the fact that everything that we are taught, from grade school to grad school, has been carefully compiled by the agents of the aeons of this nature to deceive and mislead mankind into accepting the false premise that civilization began a mere few thousand years ago. All evidence to the contrary is suppressed, debunked, or assiduously ignored. They do not want you to even remotely entertain the possibility that higher and more advanced civilizations than the one we currently experience in have preceded us, and had expansive knowledge about things that current humanity can only guess at. Please do not fall for their game. Be advised that earthly education is of little value to all earthlings. It shuts you off from the Truth of things and serves only to breed more robotic minions ready to "take their place in society" and keep the machine going for the archons that control the earth-spheres.

Pardon the digression. We shall now get to the point of this post.

The Sun is the Source of Life in this solar system. Without the Sun vigilantly radiating its life-sustaining energies to all corners of this solar system, the different kingdoms of life on all of the planets, visible and invisible, would not exist. The Sun, which is the physical representation of the Logos of this solar system, is indispensable in regards to life in this solar system. It does not take anything from humanity. It is a Giver of Life only. That is one of its main duties and it fulfills that duty every second without interruption. The Sun cannot "take a holiday". It cannot say, "Man, am I ever tired of this Life-Giving stuff. I think I'll take a few months off". One can only imagine the effect that such a decision would have on all of the kingdoms of life on this planet, and others. Not only would physical death of all created things ensue, but the inner worlds would also be severely disturbed and/or damaged.

A total solar eclipse has the effect of interfering with the functioning of the Sun for a short period of time. During this short period of time, the moon acts as a barrier between the Sun and the earth, as it were. The Sun's Life-Giving rays are temporarily obstructed from reaching certain portions of the earth. Let's face it, nothing good can happen when the Sun is prevented from doing its Duty. What follows is darkness.

What is embedded in this darkness? First, remember that as the Source of all Life, the Sun is the provider of vitality to all created things. When it is obstructed in such a way, there is an interruption in the process of vital forces reaching the earth. This results in a weakening of man's subtle bodies (etheric, astral, mental) leaving him susceptible to lower-vibrating energies and entities. Man becomes like a soldier on the battlefield who puts down his shield and removes his armor. For a time, he is vulnerable and defenseless to a degree.

As we know, there are negative entities of all types hiding in the reflection-sphere who are constantly working to influence mankind in one way or another. Most of these attempts are selfish in nature and are a great detriment to humanity. An event such as a partial or total solar eclipse serves to temporarily "open a door" for nefarious energies and influences to wash over mankind without being mitigated by the power of the Sun's radiations.

Where there is no Light, Darkness rules.

The effects of a partial or total eclipse are long-lasting. The negative subtle energies distributed as a result of the event slowly radiate in all directions until the subtle spheres of the earth have been polluted by them, to a greater or lesser extent. These effects can linger for many months.

It is said that just before, during and after an eclipse, an individual may experience lethargy, tiredness, sickness etc. at a physical level. At the psychological level, there may be excess emotional and negative thoughts.

An aspect not discussed is the fact that the Sun has etheric, astral, mental bodies, as does man. These subtle bodies are also eclipsed on these finer, more attenuated planes of existence, and the result probably cannot be classified as "good".

It is interesting to note how the advance discussions regarding the 21 August 2017 eclipse have worked to push millions into a frenzy, of sorts. People are foolishly flocking to towns and cities that lie in the path of the eclipse, spending exorbitant sums for over-priced lodging and food. People are pitching tents and setting up lawn chairs on the side of highways, days in advance, just to get a glimpse of this event. Unknowingly, all are placing themselves in direct contact with celestial forces that they cannot possibly understand because their "authorities" have never bothered to help them understand.

For the candidate on the Path, all that can be said is: take little notice of what is about to occur. Do not get caught up in the hype. We have bigger fish to fry. Remain neutral, objective, unattached to any outcomes related to this event. Continue to monitor your thinking, willing and feeling. Our focus lies elsewhere. We are engaged in the task of purifying the microcosm and liberating the Other One from its long-standing imprisonment. Nothing should be allowed to obstruct or interfere with the Great Work that we are striving to accomplish.

~ g
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Don't Wait

"MARY continued again and said unto the Saviour: "My Lord, if the faith and the mysteries have revealed themselves, now, therefore, if souls come into the world in many circuits and are neglectful of receiving the mysteries, hoping that, if they come into the world at any other circuit they will receive them, will they not be in danger of not succeeding in receiving the mysteries?"

The Saviour answered and said unto His disciples: "Herald unto the whole world and say unto men: "Strive thereafter that you may receive the mysteries of the Light in this time of affliction and enter the  Light-kingdom. Join not one day to another, or one circuit to another, hoping that you may succeed in receiving the mysteries if you come into the world in another circuit.

"And these know not when the number of Perfect Souls will be at hand, for if the number of Perfect Souls shall be at hand, I will now shut the gates of the Light, and no one from this hour onwards will enter in, nor will anyone hereafter go forth, for the number of Perfect Souls is completed and the mystery of the First Mystery is completed, for the sake of which the universe hath arisen, -- that is, I am that Mystery.

"At that time then the Faith will reveal itself still more and the mysteries in those days. And many souls will come by means of the circuits of the changes of the body, and coming back into the world are some of those in this present time who have hearkened unto Me, how I taught, who at the completion of the number of Perfect Souls will find the mysteries of the Light and receive them and come to the gates of the Light and find that the number of Perfect Souls is complete, which is the completion of the First Mystery and the gnosis of the universe. And they will find that I have shut the gates of the Light and that it is impossible that anyone should enter therein or that any one should go forth from that hour.

"Those souls then will knock at the gates of the Light, saying: "Lord, open unto us! And I will answer unto them: I know you not, who are you? And they will say unto me: We have received of the mysteries and fulfilled the whole teaching and you have taught us on the High Ways. And I will answer and say unto them: I know you not, who you are, you who are doers of iniquity and of evil even up to now. Wherefore, go into the Outer Darkness, where there is howling and grinding of teeth.

"For this cause then, herald unto the whole world and say unto all men: 'Strive thereafter, to renounce the world and the whole matter therein, that you may receive the Mysteries of the Light before the number of Perfect Souls is completed, in order that they may not make you stop before the gates of Light and lead you away into the Outer Darkness.'

From "The Books of the Saviour" - Chapter 125 - Pistis Sophia

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If you are considering walking the Path of Return, or have begun to do so in fits and starts, heed the foregoing passage preserved in this ancient document for the benefit of all mankind. Do not hesitate, do not put off your decision. As stated here previously, even a sincere start, an honest and humble effort to make a fundamental reversal, surrender the self, adopt a new attitude of life, purify the microcosm and walk the Path of Return can assure the candidate of his or her place in Shamballa, which is the realm of pure Divine ethers preserved as a unbreakable vacuum within the confines of the earth-spheres. This astral-etheric region serves as a receiving-station for those who have begun the Great Work on earth.  It is here that they will pronounce the "Consummatum Est!" It is finished!

There are many entities waiting in this region right now, candidates of all races and of all ages from both recent times and the distant past who left the earth-sphere in the midst of walking the Path and were subsequently taken up into this Divine Waystation. There they endeavor to complete the Great Transformation without the hindrances of earth-life. Help beyond measure is provided. Those who have not yet achieved Liberation now await the time when "the number of Perfect Souls" will be reached.

The "number of Perfect Souls" is a reference to the critical mass of purified microcosms required to transform the Earth and her humanities. No one knows what this number is. We only know that we are moving closer to it. We can liken it to filling up a bucket with water. As the bucket fills, there is a chance that it will overflow if we do not stop at a certain point. As the bucket is filled to the brim, we observe that there is a tipping-point reached, a crown of water that sits precariously on top. We have reached the point where one more drop will cause the bucket to overflow and begin to spill.

We cannot put off our decision to walk the Path for another day, or for the next life. There is no guarantee that we will receive the same opportunities in a future life, or even tomorrow, as the end of tomorrow could find us dead and transitioning back to the reflection-sphere without having taken the First Step towards Liberation.

For those who are doubtful, unsure, half-hearted or play-acting, pay heed to the Silent Voice that has been calling to you from within. There is a reason that you, in this lifetime, were brought to this microcosmic "tipping-point". You do not have forever to make a decision. A decision must be made, and faith in the decision must be true. Tomorrow is not promised to you. Opportunities in future incarnations are not promised to you. You are here, this is now, and you...must...choose.

~ g
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The One True Idea Of God

The One True God is everywhere and can be known by man, to some degree. The One True God can be found in all trees, in all plants, in all rocks, in all soil, in all beasts, in all creatures, in all planets, stars, galaxies and universes. Most importantly, God lives within the microcosm of all those who carry a Divine Spark, be it asleep or awake.

The nature of God will be made known to us when we finally acknowledge that God is present in all things manifested and not manifested, animate and inanimate, and is waiting patiently for us to recognize and acknowledge that Presence.

It is Creator's Plan to be known by that which has been created.

The following from the ancient wisdom of the Corpus Hermeticum:

HERMES: "I will also explain to you in detail, O, Tat, the meaning of the following, so that your eyes may be opened to the mysteries of God, who is sublime beyond all name. Understand by inner vision, how He who seems to many invisible, will become for you, what is most manifest.

He would not really be if He were not invisible, for all that is visible has been brought into being, has once been made manifest.

However, what cannot be perceived exists in all Eternity; It has no need to manifest Itself. It is Eternal and makes all other things manifest.

It makes all things manifest without Itself being manifested; It brings forth without Itself being brought forth; It does not show Itself in any perceptible form, but gives perceptible form to all things.

Only what has been created has a perceptible appearance. Indeed, birth or genesis is nothing else than entering the range of what is Visible.

Consequently, the One-Without-Birth is both without perceptible appearance and invisible; but as He gives form to all things, He becomes visible through and in everything, and especially in those to whom He wishes to manifest Himself."

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You are encouraged to contemplate, reflect upon and to move towards complete understanding of the foregoing.

~ g
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A Dip Into Matter

The above diagram is taken from the Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, authored by Max Heindel. It provides a description of the average human life-cycle, from birth into the physical, to death in the physical, to the journey through the astral, mental and causal regions of the reflection-sphere and back to physical birth.

You'll note that man spends the smallest amount of time in physical incarnation. That is because if man were to live more than 72 years, say, two hundred three hundred years, think of the damage that could be done by selfish humans with that much time on their hands. When man has sufficiently matured spiritually, only then will the life-span be increased. For now, only a short dip into Matter is allowed for each incarnation at this point in time.

~ g
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"Fulfillment"

Decided to share this response to a recent comment.

Anonymous,

With all of its struggle, violence, frustration and disappointments many remain completely satisfied with material life. Although there is a constant undercurrent of unpleasantness, they try to combat this by pursuing some ephemeral "happiness", either for themselves or for others. They work to make a paradise of the physical world, which cannot be done. When introduced to the transfiguristic philosophy, one that states without pretense that we must leave this world to achieve true liberation, their "I" recoils in fear and they either lash out or withdraw. Not all are ready for the Gnosis.

There are countless religions and spiritual movements that claim to have "the answer" when, in reality, they have only a piece of the Truth, or nothing at all. It has been proven that if a group takes a kernel of Truth and wraps complete falsehood around it, people will respond to that muffled kernel of Truth while dismissing all that is false about a movement. By this method, billions are misled daily, living what they believe to be pious lives. In fact, they are being led straight to the reflection-sphere by these religious brotherhoods. They die without an inkling of how far away from the Truth they really were.

Our mankind is but one of myriads of mankinds inhabiting myriads of galaxies populating myriads of universes. With the exception of a very few, most of these entities, no matter how highly evolved are fallen entities, struggling to escape this fallen realm, the Seventh Cosmic Domain, but not knowing how.

It is not money, per se, that rules the world. It is the selfish desire of humans to acquire happiness and comfort for themselves in whatever way possible. The root of evil in this world is S-E-L-F-I-S-H-N-E-S-S.

i avoid personal focus, but will try to answer your final questions as briefly and succinctly as possible. Yes, i have a job, children, earthly obligations and responsibilities. These are things that must be attended to. The time of the hermit who escapes humanity by living in a cave is long past. We who are of the Gnosis must live among the people, always remembering to be in the world but not of the world.

No matter what earthly task we are engaged in, as long as we keep the knowledge that we have an opened Rose of the Heart and a firm link with the Universal Gnostic Chain, we can remain free. We work, as we must, but as soon as an earthly task is completed, our thoughts should turn back to things of the Spirit, thoughts of the Gnosis.

The School makes very few demands of its pupils. Vegetarianism, no drugs, no nicotine, no alcohol. A celibate lifestyle is requested, but not demanded. True pupils will follow those basic requirements freely, as they will realize that the New Soul cannot be born if we are polluting the physical, astral and mental bodies at the same time. These habits of behavior will only bring harm to the pupil, as their effects will not mesh well with those of the purifying Gnostic radiations.

No one is forced to attend any of the conferences, lectures or meetings that are offered by the School. Everything about the Path entails a voluntary effort by the pupil to do that which is needful. He or she cannot and will not be forced. Liberation is in their hands. The School simply provides the necessary insight and the power-field to assist in the Great Work.

A "fulfilling" life is not the aim of a serious pupil, as we know that no happiness can be found on the earth-plane. Our joy lies in the knowledge that we have found at last, within this incarnation, the Golden Thread that will lead us away from this earthly vale of tears and back to the Divine Kingdom, back to our Original Home.

~ g

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The Reflection-Sphere

A reader asks: "What does The School mean when it talks about the reflection sphere? Is it the astral world?"

This nature-order is composed of two halves: a material-sphere and a reflection-sphere. The material-sphere is the physical realm, the region that we live in during our physical lives. The reflection-sphere is the invisible "other side" of which most humans do not become aware of until they pass over. It is the region that the personality passes into after the physical life has ended.

Remember, there is no death. At death, so-called, it is only the physical body and the lower half of the etheric double that are laid aside. As the man's consciousness releases its focus on the physical world, the magnetic bonds that held the physical atoms together are relaxed, resulting in the disintegration of the physical body that we know as decay. All of the elements that composed the physical body are returned to their source, the earth.

The remaining parts of the personality, the parts that most cannot see, continue to have a life of sorts in the reflection-sphere. Here, a kind of slow dissolution also takes place, but over a longer period of time. More on that in a bit.

The reflection-sphere embraces the spheres of "hell" and "purgatory" (the sphere of purification) as well as that which in earthly religions is wrongly called "heaven" or "eternal life". All of these regions of the reflection-sphere are just as temporary and finite as those of the physical world. It is the temporary abode of the so-called dead, which does not imply that the deceased personality will be raised up to a new life. On the contrary, there is no survival of the fourfold personality (physical body, etheric body, astral body, mental body).

As the remains of the fourfold personality ascend through the etheric, astral and mental regions of the reflection-sphere, each of these subtle bodies slowly dissolve, by way of a process. Over time, the remains of the etheric body is dropped, then the astral body disintegrates and finally the mental body follows suit. The only things remaining from the deceased earthly personality is the immortal Divine Spark and four "permanent atoms" that will be used as the blueprint for generating the next personality to return to the material-sphere. The entire process generally takes from 700-1,000 earth years to complete.

The astral realm vibrates at a higher frequency than the physical realm, and possesses peculiar properties of reflection, hence the name reflection-sphere. Man's thoughts and desires radiate from his light-vesture and are attracted to similar thoughts and desires that have accumulated in our astral atmosphere ( "like attracts like" ). The astral realm then mirrors, or reflects these thoughts and desires back to humanity, who, having an affinity to these thoughts and desires, invariably act upon them, ultimately radiating those vibrations once again back to the reflection-sphere. Hence the circuit is closed and mankind is trapped within a deadly embrace.

The above interaction accounts for how aeons are formed. This symbiotic cycle of dependency between man and the astral world has resulted in the establishment of countless reflection-sphere brotherhoods, as well as a proliferation of "light-spirits", "ascended masters", "invisible colleges", etc., etc. All of these reflection-sphere phenomena can only survive by way of the forces that are transmuted and radiated by billions of human-beings. We are their "food". Mankind's astral radiations are the ambrosia, the "food of the gods". It is by ingesting and assimilating the light-forces emanating from mankind that these astral entities are able to prolong their stay in the reflection-sphere. They do not wish to return to physical incarnation.

Of course, this give-take-give relationship must result in some unhealthy associations between human and astral entities. As humans are mostly unaware of this on-going parasitic astral activity, they are easily victimized by those on the other side who are absolutely aware of how this works and recognize that the prolongation of their lives in the reflection-sphere depends upon the continued availability of light-power that can only be provided by humans in physical bodies. This is why the ancients maintained that:

"Man does not live, he is lived".

There will be more on this topic in future posts. For now we'll stop here and absorb this bit of insight. If there are questions, feel free.

~ g
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Like Attracts Like

Contrary to what we have been indoctrinated to believe, opposites are not attracted to one another. Opposites repel, they do not attract. At times, opposites may complement one another, but even that will be due to the existence between them of some element of attraction that brings them together through a process of bonding.

Only things of like nature are attracted to other things of like nature. The reasoning behind this is quite simple and clear, if given enough thought. When something is attracted to something else, it is expressing an affinity, a magnetic desire to collect or aggregate more of itself. This is known as attraction. When a thing encounters that which is of an opposing magnetic polarity to it, that thing will not have a desire to attract that which is not like itself. Instead of moving towards that opposite thing, it will move away. This is repulsion.

The number one use of the Fallacy of Opposites Attract is in the realm of personal relationships. Human-beings are prone to saying such things as,

"My partner and I are so unlike. But you know what they say: opposites attract!"

The reason why people say these things is because they are ignorant of the above-stated Law that Like Attracts Like. They focus on what is unlike in their partner, characterize it as being opposite of their own nature, and, at a loss to explain their attraction to one who is so much not (apparently) like them, they attribute the phenomena to the Fallacy of Opposites Attract. If people were to look deeper, if they were to try and understand the infallible Cosmic Law of Cohesion (Like Attracts Like) that rules here in the Seventh Cosmic Domain, they would begin to see a clearer picture.

If one is attracted to some other one that has traits that are dissimilar to one's own, then either of the following things are happening:

1. one is so much more attracted to similarities that exist between one and one's partner that they accept or ignore the existence of their partner's negative or, polar opposite traits.

2. one possesses within one's own auric field, traces of the traits that they characterize as being undesirable, or "opposite".

If your partner likes to argue, and you do not, then why are you with that person? What attracted you to someone with that trait? Either you have chosen to ignore that trait in your partner while accepting and focusing on the common traits shared by both of you, or you yourself have argumentative traits within your auric field. Many do not like to even consider the possibility of the latter.

The ancients stated that "the world we see is a reflection of who we ourselves are". From within our microcosm we peer out through an invisible sea of habits, fears, desires, likes and dislikes. As we look through this vibrational fog, it colors the appearance of everything that our senses receive, so that if we are the argumentative type, we will see an argument in everything others say or do. If we are sexually-focused, we will see sensual overtones in everything that we observe in the world around us. If reject or dislike ourselves, we will see rejection and dislike in every person that we come in contact with.

Predisposition to violence, fear of harm to the self, selfish focus upon the accumulation of wealth or power, all these things and more exist in one's aura and color one's perception of one's world. If we see ourselves attracting irresponsible types, abusive types, miscreants and other assorted negative types into our lives, we must look to ourselves when we experience the repercussions of these associations. Chickens will always come home to roost! It does not matter if you have been a saintly person in this life, thus making you "undeserving" of such treatment from others. What about the life of the previous personality in the microcosm? Or the life of the ones before that? There is a strong possibility that in previous lives you were the irresponsible type, the abusive type, the miscreant, etc. Although no longer acted out upon the physical realm, traces of those traits may still exist somewhere within your aura. Traces of those traits are enough to attract the same emanating from others, thus resulting in the seeming phenomena of attracting that which appears to be opposite of one's self, when in fact, what is being attracted is the same.

There is another saying that goes: "Be the one that you wish to attract". If there is a particular type of mate that one has in mind, one should first make sure that they have self-examined their own traits, both positive and negative, for it is these vibrations that will radiate forth from one's microcosm to attract their own from another microcosm.

The responsibility for the people we attract into our lives, the experiences that we have, etc. belongs solely to each one of us. The objective world is truly a mirror. You are being shown yourself. Like Attracts Like. It must be so on this plane of existence. It is Law. You can learn to work with this Law, or you can continue to work against it, and reap the consequences

Remember that what is returned to you originated from that which is within you. Do not waste time arguing and speculating that it can't be possible, because it is not only possible, it is fact. Spend your time instead diligently working to identify your undesirable traits and then endeavor to expel them from your microcosm as soon as possible. If one persists in this process of purification, one will begin to see the clouds lifting. The people, places and things that once vexed and troubled you will begin to fall away. Why? Because you will no longer have an attraction or desire for those things. Instead, the things that you desire and have an affinity for will become a constant in your life. It is hoped here that all of your desires will be pure and unselfish ones!

One asks: how will I know for certain? How will I know that the negative traits have been purged forever? You'll know. You'll know because when you look out at the world, the world will no longer reflect those things back to you.

Now, a final question will be asked. Having read and contemplated the foregoing, can you begin to understand the origin of your attraction to the Gnosis, its Universal teachings and the liberating Path of Return?

Like Attracts Like.

~ g
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A Pen In The Hand Of God

"Gossip, Cruelty and Superstition. These three great crimes you must avoid, for they are fatal to all progress, because they sin against Love. But not only must you refrain from evil, you must also be active in doing good. You must be so filled with the intense desire of Service that you are ever on watch to render it to all around you -- not to human-beings alone but even to animals and plants. You must render it in small things every day, that the habit might be formed, so that you may not miss the rare opportunity when the Great Thing offers itself to be done. For if you yearn to be one with God, it is not for your own sake; it is that you may be a channel through which God's Love may flow to reach your fellow human-being.

They who are on the Path exist not for themselves, but for others; for they have forgotten themselves, in order that they may serve others. They are a pen in the hand of God, through which God's Thought may flow, and find for Itself an expression down here, which without a pen it could not have. Yet at the same time they are also a living plume of fire, raying out upon the world the Divine Love that fills their hearts.

The wisdom which enables you to help, the will which directs the wisdom, the Love which inspires the will -- these are your qualifications. Will, Wisdom and Love are the three aspects of the Logos; and you, who wish to enroll yourselves to serve God, must show forth these Aspects to the world."

From "Love" - At The Feet Of The Master - by (Alcyone) J. Krishnamurti

Creator works through that which has been created, but only when the created being voluntarily allows itself to become a pure channel for the Divine Love that surpasses all understanding.

~ g
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Plan "B"

A reader writes: "OK so plan A failed. We are now in plan B emergency-order. Seems very hard to escape this prison with all those aeonic warders guarding us but even death does not free us from this prison."

Anonymous,

You are correct. Death does not free us from the physical plane, it simply shifts our "location" to the other side of the material-sphere, the reflection-sphere, where the deceased personality slowly dissolves and an entirely new personality is prepared for rebirth into the physical realm.

There is only one way to get off this never-ending Wheel of Death and Rebirth. We must embrace the Path of Return, the Path of the True Way.

When the sleeping Divine Spark is awakened by the candidate's sincere desire to leave this plane of existence, a change begin to take place in the candidate's microcosm. In short order, the microcosm is no longer completely of the earth, earthy. It has begun to attract and assimilate some of that which is is Divine. Upon the death of the personality, such a microcosm can no longer withdraw to the reflection-sphere, as it no longer vibrates in complete harmony with that sphere. Instead, it moves on to the Vacuum of Shamballa, a special etheric-astral region that is not in any way a part of the ordinary reflection-sphere.

Two things: first, when the candidate makes the decision to begin this process of Return, he or she should make an effort to enter the Spiritual School. The School is existentially linked to Shamballa as its physical-world counterpart. Both regions are enclosed within the sphere of the Thirteenth Aeon, the electromagnetic bridge between the Seventh Cosmic Domain (Cosmic Physical) and the Sixth Cosmic Domain, the Divine Astral. It is the Ark that has returned to take us Home, at least those who have their Lamps lit.

Secondly, we should not enter the Path in order to selfishly "gain eternity for ourselves". Once we enter the Path, immortality is assured, as long as we continue to grow in the Gnosis. We, as personalities, are not to be concerned with our own survival. Our task is to awaken and liberate the Other One that is waiting to be reborn within our microcosm. That is our ultimate duty. We, as personalities will share in all of the benefits of Transfiguration, whatever they may be. We, as personalities, will be the last personality in the microcosm. There will be no further need of rebirth, unless we voluntarily choose to return for the sake of helping mankind.

That is the outline for Plan "B" - God's Divine Plan of Salvation. The fivefold Gnostic plan of salvation consists of five important steps:

Insight
Yearning for Salvation
Self-Surrender
New Attitude of Life
Transfiguration

This Plan is infallible. It has always worked and will always work. The individual microcosmic personality has to react positively to the Plan. Periodically, subject to certain cosmic cycles, there is a harvest of those personalities who have recognized their hopelessly fallen state, recognized that a rescue Plan exists and made the voluntary choice to participate in the Plan by going the Path of Return.

That Cycle of Harvest has returned once again, here at the end of a major world-cycle. All who are ready to take advantage of the Grace Of An Age should do so, voluntarily, in sincerity and humility, as soon as they are able.

~ g
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In His Image

A reader recently commented: "But GOD has allowed free will in heaven, how is this possible? If GOD created everything and therefore is in everything, why did he allow human beings to have free will. Until we can answer this question its all just speculation."

Creator creates what It wills, and always according to a Divine Plan of Evolution. The resulting creations do not undergo the dialectical process of birth and decay, but evolve from power to power and from glory to glory. In this way, the Creation fulfills the Plan and manifests the Glory of its Creator.

Although infused within every part of Its Creation, the Creator simultaneously stands apart from it. This is a key truth and one that is very difficult for many to understand. Creator permeates the entire Creation, but It does not live in Its Creation.

To administer the Creation, Creator emanated co-creators. The co-creators work directly with the root-substance of the various planes of the manifested universes to create the diversity of life that is found in the myriad universes.

The Creator creates beings that are an image of Itself. This must be so, for in order to create in the manifested universes, co-creators must possess and make use of the same powers and properties of the One True Creator. The co-creators, in line with the will of the Creator, also have the ability to create beings who are the image of the One True Creator. We once belonged to such a group of co-creators.

"Created in His image" means what it says. Creator has the freedom to create what It wills and It bestows this freedom upon all co-Creators. Creator also needs no other in order to create. Creator contains both male (positive) and female (negative) polarities and is able to create without a consort. The same goes for the co-created entities. The Holy Language states: "male and female, He created them". This fragment should actually read: "male-female, He created them". That's "male-female" as in hermaphrodite, able to create without a consort. Just another example of how the Holy Language has been subtly tampered with to mislead you.

Co-creators also have complete "Freedom of Choice", as opposed to the overused and misunderstood term "Free Will". As long as Choice is exercised in voluntary service of the Divine Plan of Evolution, everything will proceed from power to power and from glory to glory. When Choice is exercised selfishly, in service of the co-creating entity, serious problems will arise. That which is created will be defective. The Power granted to the co-creator will be gradually withdrawn. The co-creating entity will fall out of the Divine Realms and end up in a region of the Creation where it is no longer able to unfold the powers granted to it by its Creator. The fallen entity will not have the ability to escape the lower region and will have to be rescued.

Yes, it is difficult to believe that we, the lowly worms of the universe that we have been brainwashed to believe that we are, could ever have been Divine, or ever have shared in all of the attributes of God, the Father. We have been taught instead that we are in some long occult process of "development" and that if we do everything that the churches or nature-born occult systems of initiation tell us to do, we might one day become an angel, or an initiate, or an Adept. Granted, this is technically true, because all roads will eventually lead to Final Liberation. God's Divine Plan of Salvation will succeed in the end, even if it takes many trillions of years. Dei Gloria Intacta! The Glory of God's Plan is unassailable! However, that path is the slow, meandering path of bitter experience and painful disappointments. There is a more direct route to Liberation: the Path of Return.

Our heritage is far more glorious than we have been led to believe, and so is our future, so-called. We are on the Path not to obtain Divinity but to regain Divinity.

It is difficult to shake off ages of false teachings and aeonic control, but we must. This is how the aeons of this nature have managed to keep mankind chained to earth, by telling us that we are worthless "sinners" undeserving of redemption or salvation and by training us to believe that we have never been anything Higher, that there is no possible way that we, as Divine beings, could've made the mistakes necessary to fall from our high estate into the Pit of Hell.

In response to a recent comment by another reader, Lectorium Rosicrucianum is a modern-day mystery school, one of the last to appear during the end of this major world-cycle. Its job is to reveal to those who have ears to hear and eyes to see that there is a way back to Divine status, a straight and narrow way. But "one cannot pour new wine into old skins". This phrase from the Holy Language means that we cannot receive the revelations that are being presented by LRC and all true Messengers of God if we are going to continue to hold on to the false teachings of the agents of the archons and the aeons. The myth that man's only road to salvation lies in developing towards some ephemeral higher goal at a snail's pace, step-by-step, life-after-life, initiation-after-initiation, is one of those misleading teachings.

We must empty ourselves of the lies that have become a part of us, and open ourselves to receive the New Wine, the revelation of Truth that has come to set us free.

~ g
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Marooned In The Garden Of The Gods

A reader has asked: "If the Divine Kingdom was all that good, what are we doing here?"

Our human life-wave did not make a voluntary choice to maroon itself in the Seventh Cosmic Domain. It was the result of an error, a mistake, driven by self-will.

When we were in the Divine Realms, we were co-creators with God. As our will was aligned with God's will, we were omniscient, omnipresent and had the power to design living forms. These powers were not ours, but were the powers of God, manifested through us. Whatever glorious things we were able to do were made possible by our constant linkage with the Father, with Source.

A portion of the Creation was set aside for us, the Children of God, to design and create. This region was/is the Physical Realm, the Seventh Cosmic Domain. The Physical Realm was to be a workshop, a laboratory, a Garden of the Gods, where we could experiment with life and life-forms. We created everything from mineral formations, to plant and animal species, to human races. All things were possible.

We were to observe one rule: we were not to get involved with our creations, we were not to attempt to live inside of that which we were creating, especially the human races. The pull of duality was very strong. If we became too entangled, too involved, the magnetic properties of the Cosmic Physical Realm would pull us down like quicksand.

A group of us did not pay attention to this warning. Instead of continuing to align our will with God's will, we followed our own desires, our own self-will. We decided to go into business for ourselves. We chose to dabble directly in the Physical Realm, we chose to live inside of our creations.

As predicted, this had a negative effect on our microcosms, effectively dropping its vibration from the high frequencies need to thrive in the Divine Realms to a much lower frequency, more suited to the Physical plane. As we continued to "fall" in vibration, the Divine part of us slowly atrophied until finally, the Light of the central Divine Spark could no longer communicate with our Divine Home. It became obvious that we were not going to be able to return to the Divine Kingdom without help. In order to rescue these fallen microcosms, a Divine Plan of Salvation was developed and put into action.

The Seventh Cosmic Domain, that which was once a Garden of the Gods, was turned into an emergency-order. It was tweaked so that it would become a suitable location to house fallen microcosms until a way could be found to bring them back Home.

To answer our reader's question, no one intended to leave the Divine Kingdom and end up marooned in the Physical Realm. It was simply the price paid for not having followed the will of the Father, and for disregarding all warnings. Once we made the voluntary choice to follow our own self-will, things got messy. We are now trapped here, far away from Home, with very little memory of who we really are, where we've come from, and how to get back there.

Here's another way of looking at it. A group of schoolchildren go on a field trip in the woods. They are told what to do and what not to do. They are also told to stick together and to not wander off. One child sees something interesting just off the path that they are travelling and makes a quick dash into the woods to get a better look. When he gets there, the item that he wanted to look at is gone. He turns around to rejoin his classmates and realizes that he is lost. Just that quickly, everything has changed.

The child is never found by searchers. He remains in the woods abandoned and alone. He learns to adapt to his new condition. In order to survive, he devolves to the level of an animal. In a few years, all memories of his former life have vanished. He believes that he is a creature of the woods, and always has been.

Via the broadest of outlines, this post has attempted to answer the question "what are we doing here?". Now for the follow-up question: "how do we get out of here?". In order to return Home, we must re-align our will with that of the Father. In order to do this we must surrender our I-centrality. Most of us are spiritually asleep and disconnected from conscious contact with God. We think we have a connection to the Divine, but we do not. The churches, temples and mosques teach that man requires their priests, preachers, rabbis and imans to act as intermediaries between man and God. It's not even a teaching, its straight-up brain-washing. Listen closely to the following and commit it to memory: you do not need the help of any intermediary to reconnect you with the Father. The Kingdom of God is within you! It sleeps with your Divine Spark, awaiting proper and correct actions from you that will awaken and unfold its Power.

~ g