Awakening The Divine In Man II

II. ENDURA - THE PATH OF SELF-SURRENDER

The preceding gnostic brotherhood of 800 years past – the medieval Cathars of southern France – used a special term to describe this phase of the Path: they called it the Endura.

We’d like to offer a definition of the gnostic concept of “endura”, as explained by Jan van Rijckenborgh:

[QUOTE] Endura – def.

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. 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 in me’.

The Path of the Endura is the age-old path, along which the fallen human-being rises towards his True Immortal Self. The fire of Purification brings about a complete reversal in his life and then he returns to the Father.

Life in dialectics is “life” leading to death; the Path of the Endura means a voluntary “death” leading to True Life. It is the part of the true, God-seeking human-being. ‘He who will lose his life for My sake, will find the Life’.

He who wishes to possess the Spirit must lose the self. As soon as the self, the “I”, comes to the forefront, the Spirit withdraws” 

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III. NEUTRALIZING THE “I”

The Endura has been referred to as “a daily dying” and “a Death unto Life”. These are symbolic terms, not to be interpreted in a literal sense. They refer to the death of the “I-being” – the nullification of the human ego along with the so-called “higher self”.

How Do We Live the Endura?

The aim of the endura is to neutralize the influence of the nature-born self while helping to raise the overall vibration of the microcosm. Everything about us that is focused upon the things of the earth must be released. We must cease to respond to earthly stimuli beyond that which is absolutely necessary. To do this, we need to adopt new ways of Thinking, Willing and Desiring; new habits that are in line with the requirements of the Path. 

The Candidate should look to adopt the following core attributes

(1) an honest and unceasing desire to render Selfless Service to Humanity  

Live to Serve your fellow man. That Service need not be large. Many times, the Small Thing that we do for others is the thing that yields the Highest Value. Opportunities to serve present themselves to us practically by-the-minute. We routinely miss them, usually because we are too busy focusing on ourselves. We must learn to recognize those opportunities for service and render such service accordingly. 

(2) Neutrality                                                  

Learn to be neither for, nor against anything. Do not take sides. 

(3) Detachment, or Non-Attachment      

Learn to Dissociate from earthly affairs. By this we mean do not attach yourself to events or their outcomes. Observe, but do not partake. 

(4) Objectivity 

Avoid being Judgmental towards others. Also avoid the twin vices of Gossip and Criticism.

Judgment, Gossip and Criticism are detrimental to the progress of any Candidate on the Path. These vices serve to harm not only ourselves but others, as well.      

(5) Self-Denial

Cease to indulge the thoughts and desires of the “I-being”.

What the Physical, Astral and Mental bodies want for the human personality is not what the Divine part of us wants. However, do not try to forcibly suppress selfish thoughts and emotions. This will only create new tensions that will build up elsewhere. Rather, learn to recognize those Thoughts and Emotions that are not in line with the requirements of the Path and do not give them your attention. “Energy follows Thought. What is Focused upon, Grows”. So, learn to ignore the persuasive pleadings of your selfish “I”.

.(6)  Eliminate Anxiety, Worry and Fear from your Thinking.

Anxiety, Worry and Fear are low-vibrating Thoughts and Emotions that only serve to lower the overall vibration-quality of the microcosm , when we are, in fact, working to raise that vibration.

(7) Always live from the idea that others are more excellent than yourself. Also, no matter how objectionable a person may seem, learn to speak to that which is Divine within that person. “Like Attracts Like”. The Divinity that is growing within us can and will silently connect with the sleeping Divine part of our fellow human-beings.

This path of Self-Surrender serves to help purify the vehicles of the personality and raise the vibration of the Head, Heart and Pelvic sanctuaries. This process of Purification will enable the Rosebud to bloom energetically, radiating its Divine fragrance throughout the entire microcosm. In this manner, the Divine part of the Human System can awaken from its ages-long Sleep of Death and begin to flourish.

By way of an example, let's take a pitcher filled with water. If we pour the water out of the pitcher it will appear that the pitcher is slowly being emptied, but it is not. For as the water is leaving the pitcher, air is rushing in to occupy the vacated “space”. Eventually, the entire original contents of the pitcher (the water) will be replaced by a substance of a higher vibration (air). 

This is what we are working to accomplish with the endura.

Next: Warnings and Conclusion

~ g

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Awakening The Divine In Man

“The human being suffers the afflictions of Delusion.

He is tormented by Unreality.

He lives in Time, but Time is a fiction, and thus he does not live in the Absolute sense.

Yet, buried deep in his microcosm, 
A tiny Spark is left of the Original.

And if that tiny Spark has not yet been entirely extinguished, a Call can resound in him, like a Voice from afar; a Call to return to the Original Nature, which still exists in all its Pristine Glory, and in which the Spirit can be active, IS active.”

 Catharose de Petri - The Living Word

I. Introduction

The next series of posts will attempt to define and explain a little bit about the Process of Self-Surrender and the role that it plays in awakening that which is Divine in the human system.

First, a brief reminder as to humankind’s predicament. The point of departure is that there are two (2) nature-orders: one of these nature-orders is Divine, Eternal, Unchanging. This is the realm that we, as microcosms, originated from.

The other nature-order is where we are at present. This nature-order is Undivine, Temporal, Changeable. It is a Universe of Death, of constantly alternating Pairs of Opposites, of repeating cycles of Rising, Shining and Fading. Long ages ago, as a result of our own self-will, Humanity, as a collective life-wave, fell from the Divine nature-order. By “fell” it is meant that we fell in overall vibration. As fallen microcosms, we became trapped in the undivine nature-order, this Physical Universe.

Thankfully, within the center of our microcosm, situated in a location that corresponds with the upper right ventricle of the human heart, is a tiny atom. We call this singular atom the Spirit-Spark Atom, the Divine Spark, the Rosebud, and, as it blooms, the Rose of the Heart. This tiny Atom is the only part of the human system that is Divine, Immortal, Eternal. Due to the Fall, this Spirit-Spark Atom has lost its link with the Divine nature-order and thus lies dormant, asleep in the hearts of most of humankind.

However, if we can awaken this Spark, a Great Power will be released. This Power – what we call ‘the Gnosis’ - grants us the Opportunity and the Means to undergo a Process of Transformation that will enable us to break the chains that bind us to the Physical Realm. The Power of the Rose can only be released when we make the voluntary decision to walk the Path of Return to its completion.

The Path itself consists of five (5) main stages. In order, they are:

1. Insight

2. Yearning for Salvation

3. Self-Surrender

4. New Attitude of Life

5. Resurrection in the New Life-Field

We will now take a brief look at each of these five (5) stages: 

Insight: this is the stage of the Rational Touch where the Seeker obtains critical knowledge of the two nature-orders, of mankind’s predicament, of the true nature and purpose of the power centers, organs and soul-fluids of the human system. The Seeker is introduced to the Mystery of the Liberating Path of Return. This stage equates with the Delphic quote: “Man, Know Thyself”.

Yearning for Salvation: guided by this newly-acquired Insight, if the Seeker has been affected by the Rational Touch, he/she will begin to yearn intensely for a release from this fallen nature-order and a return to the Divine Realm. This is the stage of the Moral Touch, and is characterized by the following verse from Psalms: “I will look to the Hills, from whence my Salvation shall come”. (Psalms 121:1)

Self-Surrender:Here the work begins in earnest. Ignited by the fire of the Rational-Moral touch, the Candidate resolves to assist in the twin processes of Purification and Transformation by doing that which is necessary to neutralize the influence of the “I-being” while turning over control of the personality to the growing Other One Within. We are reminded here of the words spoken by John the Baptist: “He, the Other One, must Increase, while I must Decrease”. (John 3:30)

New Attitude of Life: when the Candidate has succeeded in surrendering the nature-born self to “The Other”, the results will be evidenced by a fundamental reversal of type, a “turning around”, if you will. The will of the personality is now aligned with the Will of the Gnosis. The Candidate’s Thoughts, Desires and Actions will stand as proof of that fact. Here we come to understand the meaning behind the words found in Luke 22: “Not My Will, but may Your Will be done”. (Luke 22:42)

Resurrection in the New Life-Field: This final step will find the microcosmic personality of the Candidate transformed and living out of the Divine radiations of a New Field of Life. From this point onwards, the chains have been broken. Although the Candidate continues to experience in this fallen nature-order, he/she is now effectively IN the world, but not OF the world. In this new state-of-consciousness, he/she will use the physical body to carry out God’s Will among fallen mankind, working as harvesters to save that which threatens to be lost. “Why do you look for the Living among the Dead? He is not here, He is risen.” (Luke 24:5-6)

These are the stages of the fivefold gnostic Path of Return. Every true candidate will move through these five stages on his/her way to Final Liberation.

Next: The Endura - the Path of Self-Surrender

~ g

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Are You The One?

Hearing the Call of the Rose and learning to walk towards that Silent Voice, not away from it, is a key to finding the Gnostic Path of Return.

The Gnosis constantly sounds a Call to humanity. Its Divine radiations wash over, around, and through all of mankind every second, no matter where one may be. If we fail to react harmoniously to the Call of the Gnosis, conflict, crystallization and deterioration will be our lot, leading inevitably to dissolution - what man calls "death". Conversely, if we heed the Call and allow ourselves to be guided by the Inner Knowing that will become a part of us, the Divine radiations of the Gnosis will not act in a punitive way (breaking up and dissolving the personality so that it goes the way of all flesh), but will instead allow us to dismantle the old, nature-born personality while simultaneously building New vehicles for use in a higher Cosmic Domain. With the help of the Gnostic radiations, this self-freemasonry will take place gradually and harmoniously.

What man calls "death" is but a breaking up of that which is no longer useful or suited for the task of pursuing the One Goal of Humanity: Liberation. The human personality, with its four vehicles (the Physical, Etheric, Emotional and Mental bodies), its 7 x 7 chakra system, its twelve cranial nerves and endocrine system is generated by a microcosm to fulfill a Divine purpose: to awaken the sleeping Spirit-Spark Atom and begin the process of Transformation and Transfiguration that will liberate both microcosm and personality from this fallen nature-order.

If, during the physical life, the One Goal set for the personality is not pursued, the vehicles of the personality are withdrawn after death until nothing is left besides the permanent atoms and an emptied microcosm. The emptied microcosm must then bide its time until a fresh personality can be generated.

So, then: this is the reason for which you have been created. You, as a personality, were not created to "enjoy" life or to get rich-famous-powerful-drunk-violent-beautiful-successful, etc. You were not created to live a life of struggle on earth only to die clueless as to your True Purpose. You were created to Seek and Discover the fact that you are living in a prison, an electromagnetic prison of Consciousness. Armed with this insight, it was expected that you would turn your back on the things of the earth and "look to the Hills, from whence your help will come". This yearning would lead you to embark upon the path of self-surrender, the endura, where the nature-born personality would gradually be deprived of its authority. Subsequently, this fundamental reversal in type would result in a new attitude of life, one in which "not my will, but may Your Will be done" becomes the keynote. 

Any personality that does not pursue the One Goal has absolutely and completely failed to fulfill the Purpose behind its existence. That mortal personality will be dissolved and a new one will replace it after a period of a several hundred years. This new personality - the umpteenth version generated by the microcosm - will try to be the one that heeds the Silent Call.

After many bitter experiences, some microcosms will succeed in creating a personality that will have the necessary combination of karma, heredity and experience to find the Path while incarnate on earth. You may or may not be such a personality.

Let us hope that you are.

 ~ g

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For Those On The Path

"In the entire world, there are only two kinds of people: those who Know and those who do not Know." - J. Krishnamurti

Many have asked for guidance in walking the liberating, gnostic Path of Return.

Get this book.

Keep it always.

~ g
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The Divine In Man

Man is of the earth, earthy. His physical sheath, the part of him that he pays the most attention to, is constructed of the elements found in the earth. Nothing of man's earthly vehicle contains anything that is Divine. It is a temporary emergency-order vehicle designed for a single purpose: to awaken that which is Divine in Man.

And what would that Divine part be? What part of our undivine earthly body possesses this Divine element? This question can be answered as follows: the Divine element is not a part of the physical body. It is the center of the microcosm, the container in which our mortal personality lives, moves and has it temporary being. This Divine part, the Spirit-Spark, the Rosebud, the Jewel in the Lotus is but a tiny atom. Yet this single atom is the key to unleashing the Divine in Man.

As will be repeated as often as necessary, humanity once lived and moved in the Divine realms, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. During that period, the Divine Atom was directly linked with Spirit. This enabled the microcsom to make use of many great powers, one of which was the power of self-realization: the microcosm could create a glorified personality at will, for use in the service of The All.

As the microcosm degenerated, moving further away from Spirit, it began to lose the powers granted to it by Spirit, including the power of self-realization. As man fell into the Cosmic Physical realm, the Seventh Cosmic Domain, the personality continued to crystallize. In order to provide fallen microcosms with the ability to generate new personalities, the agency of childbirth was introduced.

This temporary, emergency-order Divine Plan of Salvation was instituted for a single purpose: to assist the microcosm in generating a personality of a very high quality. One that would seek and find the method and the means to return to the realm from which it fell. In order to accomplish this, the Divine part must be attached to the undivine part. The Soul-Rose must be attached to the Cross of Matter. Once this re-linking has occurred, the radiations of the Spirit will be able to find their way into the microcosmic New Soul, where they will no longer be ignored, but will be taken up and circulated throughout all of the vehicles of the personality. A great transformation will then occur, a process of purification that will change the microcosm from undivine to Divine. Only then will that which is Divine consciously live once more in Man.

~ g
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Our Worst Enemy

Endura, the path of self-surrender, is an important step on the Path of Return. The purpose of the Path  itself is to

          - awaken the Divine Spark the Heart Sanctuary
          - light the Seven Chambers of the Heart Sanctuary with the Divine Fire
          - reflect that Fire into the Head Sanctuary and light the Seven Mirrors
          - purify the five soul fluids up to and including the blood
          - purify the Mental, Emotional and Etheric bodies
          - construct an immortal new Glorified Personality while continuing to serve humanity using the old, undivine, mortal personality.

What stands in the way of our accomplishing these tasks and bringing our candidacy to a Good End?

It is we who stand in our way. It is the "I-being", the nature-born consciousness that speaks to us and says, "I am separate from all others. I am alone and must defend my "self". Or, "I will walk the Path but on my terms. "I" will continue to  because it is something that "I" like to do and "I" am not quite ready to stop doing it yet. But..."I" am on the Path!"

As long as we continue to look out at the world as a separate entity and continue to use words such as "I", "me", "myself", etc. to refer to the nature-born part of us that thinks, wills and desires, we are in danger of being fooled into thinking that we are traveling the gnostic Path of the True Way, when in fact we are not.

Who is it that tells us to go ahead and have that fourth drink or another cigarette? Who is it that tells us to go ahead and scream at the driver who cut you off? Who is it that tells us that it is okay to gossip about or criticize someone else? Who is it that tells us that animals were put on the earth to provide man with food? Who is it that tells us that we come first, last and always?

It is our "I". It is the part of us that does not want to die, but must die. It is the part of us that is of the earth, earthy and cannot remain a factor in our microcosm if we are to complete our Journey to the Divine Kingdom that is not of this earth. There is a new sheriff in town, and that is the awakening New Soul. He who was, is and evermore shall be, has returned to reclaim Its rightful position as the center of the microcosm and servant of the Logos. For this to happen, a battle must ensue between the New Soul and the I-being. The New Soul must grow in strength, power and influence while the "I" must decerease in the same measure.

But how can the "I" take itself down? Surely that is an impossibility, as the "I" controls all matters of the microcosm that are of an earthly nature? This is true. The "I" cannot and will not kill the "I". That is why the New Soul, the Christ Within, must clash with the incumbent ruler of the microcosm and force it to abdicate its throne. There is not much that we can do to help bring this battle to a close. Recognize the battle that is being fought and resolve to turn the matter over to the newborn King. We must stay united with the group, maintain our focus on the Path that we have chosen, live a Soul-directed life at all times, and not chastize ourselves when we fail. Step-by-step, the race will be won, through patience, perseverance, steadfastness and faith in the Gnosis.

We face a very difficult adversary. One that has had many millions of years of existence. That's quite a headstart. It will not easily relinquish its grip on the personality or the microcosm. However, it can be done. We were given the blueprint two thousand years ago. If we have obtained the necessary insight and carry the requisite longing for liberation from this world, then surrendering the self to the Other One Within is the logical next step, and one that serious candidates will joyously pursue. Paradoxically, we must pursue this goal without pursuing it. We must do this by not-doing. Stand aside while the battle rages. Allow the "I" to die the death that leads to True Life for the personality and the microcosm.

~ g
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He Is Risen

The following is re-posted once again, in remembrance of Easter and of The Resurrection that must take place within all of us ~ g

[QUOTING]

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

The Great Pyramid is not a tomb, as present-day bumbling archaeology earnestly 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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Our Role In The Battle

A key part of the fivefold gnostic Path of Return is self-surrender. Self-surrender is the act of removing the nature-born "I" from its long-held position as King of the Microcosm and enabling the return of The Other One to its rightful leadership role.

This process of surrendering the self is not easy. The nature-born "I" is accustomed to having complete control over the personality. It will not give up its rulership easily. It will not go down without a fight. This will result in an internal struggle for the candidate. No matter how difficult the struggle may become, we must remember that we, as personalities, can do very little to advance the process. The battle being waged is between the "I" of nature and the Other One that is re-emerging from the blooming Rosebud.

We must recognize that in this battle for control of the personality, our personality must stand aside. We can only help by living our daily lives in the sign of the new Soul. We must acknowledge the confrontation that is taking place within our microcosm and turn over the task of subduing the "I" to the Other One, the re-emerging New Man.

If we are successful in doing this, all of our battles againt the "I" will be fought for us. The Christine radiations will do the work in us. When we cease to interfere in the process of self-surrender, it will become apparent that the influence of the "I" is steadily decreasing without our having to scourge or torture ourselves. Gradually, the things that used to matter will matter no longer. That is when we will know that the "I" has been neutralized, the battle won.

~ g
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The Call

A Call from the Divine Realms silently resounds throughout this nature-order. It can only be heard if we tune ourselves to its wavelenght and frequency. We, as nature-born beings, cannot make this connection via nature-born methods or exercises. The Divine Spark, the Spirit-Spark Atom, the Rose of the Heart, the smallest part of us, is the only part that can link up with the Divine Radiation. This follows the law of Like Attracts Like.

In order to "tune in" to this frequency, we must awaken our Divine Spark from its ages-long slumber. The awakening should result from a genuine longing, a yearning to renounce life here in the physical and effect a return to our True Home, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. The intensity of this yearning will determine how much of the Gnosis can be attracted.

We cannot serve both this nature and the Super-nature. We must choose one or the other. If we wish to succeed in our effort to effect Transformation and Transfiguration, we will have to go all in, we will have to push all of our chips to the middle of the table and let it ride.

The Path of the True Way stands before us. It beckons us with the promise that help and guidance will be provided every step of the way. It is we who must choose whether we will roll the dice...or not.

"Go, sell all that you have, and follow Me" -- The Christ Ray, speaking through the man, Jesus

~ g
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A New Candle

Reincarnation, or Rebirth, is like a candle in a room. We can view the candle as the personality and the room as the microcosm.

During life the candle burns brightly, then fades and finally goes out. The candle is not re-lit. Instead, a new candle is lit to light the same room. The old candle is discarded. 

The End

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Be Mindful Of Spiritual Wickedness In High Places

This post responds to a comment posted in "The Reflection-Sphere".

Re: "How do you know if you are being used by entities from the reflection sphere?"

It's not like you will hear voices in your head saying "Do this" or "Do that". The aeons transmit their subtle influences via the lights of the microcosmic auric being, the so-called "higher self", which in turn transfers these subtle influences to the human brain system, specifically the twelve cranial nerves that control the physical instrument. The mental and emotional bodies are also affected by these impulses. The end result is that although the human-being may believe that it was his thinking, willing and feeling that caused him to execute a certain act, in truth, he is simply a marionette responding to the pull of the strings being manipulated by his aeonic puppet master.

If your actions are selfish, self-focused, unloving, not mindful of the needs of others, etc., then the impulse for those actions is being transmitted to you by the aeons of this nature. You can tell because those actions are a reflection of the thoughts that create them, and such selfish thought-forms are encouraged and circulated by the unholy aeons. That is the way that you can tell if you are being manipulated by the aeons of this nature. Examine your thoughts, your emotions and your resulting actions. Then you will know.

Re: "Are you saying one should not listen to wisdom from ascended masters?" 

In the reflection-sphere, the so-called "dead" are exposed to a wider range of information than we have access to here in the physical realm. They also have the ability to take on any shape, form or appearance that they wish. These two factors enable them to easily impersonate well-known historical figures, saints, masters, space brothers, etc.

Yes, there are higher regions of the reflection-sphere where so-called "good" entities dwell, who try to influence humanity in their own way to "do good". We call them light-spirits. The information that they are imparting may be of high quality and accuracy or of a very dubious quality, rife with subtle errors and misinterpretations. Information from so-called "ascended masters", etc., like all information obtained from beyond the veil, should be received with careful discernment. If there are contradictions or misstatements, one would be wise to discount the information being shared.

There is another factor that can affect the information being transmitted from beyond. The channel being used to receive, interpret and transmit information to humans can unwittingly color the message and distort it. For example, if the reflection-sphere entity is transmitting a scientific message and the channel does not have a scientific intellect, the message will be distorted by the channel to fit his limited scientific understanding. For this reason, channeled messages should beheld up to the heart for examination. If it doesn't feel right, then it isn't right.

The reflection-sphere is the realm of delusion and deception. An entity calling itself St. Paul could easily be someone's recently-deceased Grandma Betsy. Therefore we must be careful about the messages that we receive from non-physical entities. Some of these entities have evil intent, others are trying to help but can make mistakes, and then there is a very small fraction of these entities who are pure enough and sincere enough to get a genuine message through. Of course, they must find a channel that is just as pure and just as sincere.

Finally, if the message is one of Fear, then it is not coming from a member of the Universal Brotherhood. True Children of the Light would never try to lower the vibration of any physical human-being through fear. Also, if the entity uses flattery and praise when it refers to you, that entity is not of Light. Flattery is a tool of the Dark Brothers, and they will use it to appeal to our prideful nature (if present) and get us to let our guard down.

We're not saying that all messages from beyond the veil are not helpful or factual. Of course there is powerful, truthful information coming through. What we are saying is that we must not accept a message out-of-hand just because an entity says its name is so-and-so. Always use discernment, as there is a lot of mischief going on in the reflection-sphere.

best,

~ g
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A Place To Stay

"When I was hungry, you gave me to eat.
When I was thirsty, you gave me to drink.
When I was naked, you clothed me.
When I was homeless, you took me in."

There is an esoteric meaning to these verses. To reveal the hidden meaning, one must remember that these words were not spoken by the human personality named Jesus, but by the Christ-Spirit that was in possession of Jesus' physical vehicle and was speaking through him.

The power of the Christ Radiation, the Gnosis, surrounds and interpenetrates the physical world. This Divine radiation literally passes through the physical body of most human-beings. Being oblivious to the presence of the Christ-Ray, they are unable to assimilate this energy into their microcosmic system. Crystallization and disintegration - what man calls 'death' - are the result.

But when a person chooses to walk the Path of Return, when a person makes the decision to do all that can be done to open the heart sanctuary to this constant influx of Divine energy, the Christ Radiations will no longer pass through this person, but will begin to collect and accumulate within the microcosm.

The Divine Spark - the Christ Within - hungry for Divine food and drink, will no longer suffer starvation or thirst.

The microcosm, including all of the soul-vehicles of the Candidate, will provide clothing (the purified and renewed physical, etheric, emotional and mental bodies) and shelter (the purified and renewed microcosm).

It is the sincere and dedicated Candidate on the Path who will look to provide the Christ with a place to stay.

~ g
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Perceived Scarcity And Lack

We live in a world, in a society / civilization that is founded on scarcity and lack. Certain items are identified as "valuable" or "desirable" and are then hoarded by the few to create a lack for the many. A false scarcity is created where it does not really exist. Civilization is left to fight, claw and kill to acquire these things that have been falsely identified as "scarce" and "valuable".

Gold has no value. It has functions and uses but there is no intrinsic value to "owning" gold, except for the value that this society has placed upon it. When the European conquerors came to the Americas looking for gold, the natives there were dumbfounded by their visitors' fascination and lust for the metal. The natives used the metal for decoration, monuments and the creation of sacred artifacts. Not because gold was valuable, but because it was "the metal of the Sun" and representative of the Deity. It was pliable and durable, and it was plentiful. It is said that these ancient pre-Columbian cultures knew the secret to manufacturing gold, a method brought to the Americas by Atlantean colonists hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

It was the European culture with their monarchies and banking systems that stirred the craving for gold to fill their coffers. Wars were routinely fought over it, millions killed and enslaved in order to snatch it from one nation and take it to another. They brought their disease of greed to the New World and infected all those whom they came in contact with.

As we move to the present-day, we see ourselves tirelessly working and striving to achieve some sort of financial standard that ever recedes from our grasp. We do this because we are taught that we need money to survive, and that the things we need are scarce in nature and must be purchased at high cost. In truth, there is no scarcity, there is no lack. Those are manufactured concepts. There is enough land on this planet to comfortably house, on several acres, everyone of its 7 billion inhabitants. Instead we are crammed into crowded, dirty cities and forced to live in spiritual and material filth. There is enough food on this planet to fatten every single on of its 7.5 billion inhabitants, but we see that people are allowed to starve worldwide, and when help is given, it comes in the form of cereals and milk. Meanwhile heads-of-state all over the world are millionaires/billionaires, eating like kings while pretending to be "public servants".

There is no material lack. There are no material things that we actually need. The only thing that we truly lack is proper knowledge about our True Purpose and proper understanding of our current spiritual state. All the things of the material world will pass away, as they must. We are charged to utilize our brief time on earth to discover our True Purpose, to locate the Path of Return and to follow it Home.

The Power that can help us achieve this goal lies within us. It sits at the center of our microcosm, a spot that corresponds with the upper right ventricle of the physical heart. This Power lacks nothing. This Power suffers no scarcity. This Power is Divine in nature and lies sleeping, as if it were a rosebud with petals tightly closed. This Power, this Divine Spark, must be awakened from its sleep of forgetfulness so that it can unfurl its petals and liberate the Divine, transforming energies that it contains.

It behooves us to turn our attention away from the false lack designed to imprison our hearts and minds. We must address our lack of Gnosis, the Knowledge that is of and with God. Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of those who are willing to seek out that Knowledge, or to find and follow the Path of the True Way.

May you find the strength to renounce the world and all the matter therein. May you seek, and seek, and seek, until you find the Key that unlocks the door to Abundance and Freedom.

~ g
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"What I Have Done, All Men Can Do"

36 In flesh of man there is the essence of the resurrection of the dead. This essence, quickened by the Holy Breath, will raise the substance of the body to a higher tone,

37 And make it like the substance of the planes above, which human eyes cannot behold.

38 There is a holy ministry to death. The essence of the body cannot be quickened by the Holy Breath until the fixed is dissolved; the body must disintegrate, and this is death.

39 And then upon these pliant substances God breathes, just as He breathed upon the Chaos of the Deep when worlds were formed,

40 And Life springs forth from death; the carnal form is change to form Divine.

41 The will of man makes possible the action of the Holy Breath. When will of man and Will of God are one, the Resurrection is a fact.

42 In this we have the chemistry of mortal life, the ministry of death, the mystery of deific Life.

43 My human life was wholly given to bring my will in tune with Deific Will; when this was done my earth-tasks all were done.

44 And you, my brothers, know full well the foes I had to meet; you know about My victories in Gethsemane; my trials in the courts of men; my death upon the cross.

45 You know that all my life was one great drama for the sons of men; a pattern for the sons of men; I lived to show the possibilities of man.

46 What I have done all men can do, and what I am all men shall be.

From Materialization of the Spiritual Body of Jesus - Section XXI, Chapter 178 of The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, The Christ

It is important to know the true nature of the "sacrifice" that was made for humanity two thousand years ago. It's all there in a nutshell.

Flesh-and-blood cannot inherit the Divine Kingdom. However, the foundation for the change-over is laid via the purification of the physical and subtle vehicles during earth-life. This purification originates with the awakening of the Divine Spark that sleeps within the center of the microcosm. Once awakened, pure Christine radiations - the Gnosis - will steadily reach the microcosm, effecting a state of reversal within the Candidate, right down to the cellular level.

Just as the butterfly temporarily loses its form during its pupa stage, so will the Candidate reach a point where the cells of the body are in a state of rearrangement. It is at this point that "God breathes" the Divine Breath on these transmuted atoms. Transfiguration is the result. An immortal, new, glorified personality vehicle emerges.

It's been done before, to show us all that it can be done. Two thousand years ago, it was done by a single special human-being. In this current Age, this alchemical transformation will be accomplished by a multitude that no one can count.

~ g
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The Roots Of Affliction

1 The Lord with Peter, James and John were in Jerusalem; it was the Sabbath day.

2 And as they walked along the way they saw a man who could not see. He had been blind from birth.

3 And Peter said, Lord, if diseases and imperfections all are caused by sin, who was the sinner in this case? The parents or the man himself?

4 And Jesus said, Afflictions all are partial payments on a debt, or debts, that have been made.

5 There is a Law of Recompense that never fails, and it is summarized in that true Rule of Life:

6 "Whatsoever man shall do to any other man, some other man will do to him."

7 In this we find the meaning of the Jewish law, expressed concisely in the words, "Tooth for a tooth, life for a life".

8 He who shall injure anyone in thought, or word, or deed, is judged a debtor to the Law, and someone else shall, likewise, injure him in thought, or word or deed.

9 And he who sheds the blood of any man will come upon the time when his blood shall be shed by man.

10 Affliction is a prison cell in which a man must stay until he pays his debts, unless a Master sets him free that he may have a better chance to pay his debts.

11 Affliction is a certain sign that one has debts to pay.

12 Behold this man! Once in another life he was a cruel man, and in a cruel way destroyed the eyes of one, a fellow man.

13 The parents of this man once turned their faces on a blind and helpless man, and drove him from their door.

14 Then Peter asked, Do we pay off the debts of other men when by the Word we heal them, drive the unclean spirits out, or rescue them from any form of sore distress?

15 And Jesus said, We cannot pay the debts of any man, but by the Word we may release a man from his afflictions and distress,

16 And make him free, that he may pay the debts he owes, by giving up his life in willing sacrifice for men, or other living things.

17 Behold, we make free this man, that he may better serve the race and pay his debts.

From Chapter 138 of The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, the Christ

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Once you understand that earth existence is not a one-shot affair but a linkage of successive rebirths, perhaps you will also begin to realize the following:

- Every Cause has its Effect
- Every Effect - good or bad - will rebound to the one who created the Cause.
- Death, so-called, is no barrier to karmic justice. The debts incurred in the present life will be paid in a future life.

Examine your own life and your own situations. Reflect on those things which you characterize as "afflictions". Then, instead of cursing the Creator, understand and realize that whatever afflictions that you are dealing with in this life are the Results of Causes that you, as a prior personality, put in motion in a previous life, perhaps long ages ago.

Therefore, be mindful of the Causes that you create today. Know that the Effects of your Causes, like a boomerang, will always return to you, in force, as all outstanding debts must eventually be repaid.

~ g
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The First Step Taken

This post is a response to questions posed in the comment section of Kiristi : Kristos : Christ. The response was too lengthy to post there.

re: "So why would any of the 7 billion personalities presently on earth want to join LR? The odds of winning a major lottery seem better than becoming a Divine human-being."

In fact, the majority of the earth's population have not reached the stage in their spiritual evolution that would encourage them to join a modern-day mystery school such as LRC. That's why the School presently has perhaps only 20,000 members world-wide. That is approximately 0.000003 percent of total humanity.

'Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen'

Hundreds of millions of human-beings are 'life-spark' human-beings. These entities are completely of the earth and will never be interested in leaving it. In contrast, there are also many millions of  'spirit-spark' human-beings. These are the ones that may Seek. From these Seekers (the 'Called'), a small percentage will find their way to the Path and choose to walk it (the 'but Few'). These ones are not 'chosen' by some external entity. They 'choose' themselves by doing that which is necessary to walk the Path. The Path is freely available to all spirit-spark human-beings, but the human-being must seek it out.

The Path has to be a voluntary choice for it to matter. All Candidates must do the work themselves! LRC, as an earthly output of the Universal Brotherhood, only provides insight, guidance and assistance on a vibrational level (the Living Body of the School).

Actually, the odds of restoring the microcosm to its Divine state are better than the lottery, which is based on randomness and chance. The human body was specifically designed to participate in the process of transmutation and the Divine Plan of Salvation was created to assist Man in finding the process and completing it. The problem is that Man remains distracted by the glittering baubles of earth-life and so completely misses the Prize, the One Thing Needful. He then blames God for playing some sort of shell-game with humanity when in fact it is humanity that is completely absorbed in their own little game of pretending to hide from God and from their own Divine origins. Only those who are tired of this game will choose to stop playing it.

re: "People in this day and age want things instantly not maybe sometime in the future after 1000 lifetimes."

The above observation is true. However, there is no need to wait 1,000 lifetimes. We as microcosms have, in fact, already spent over 1,000 lifetimes just to get to this point in our development! The 'future' that you speak of is now here. Those who enter the Path in this life and begin the process of transmutation in this life have already achieved victory (see Victory At The Start). This is what sets the Path of the True Way apart from the pie-in-the-sky delaying tactics of common churchianity and 'paths of initiation'. Once your microcosm begins to undergo these changes, it is no longer completely earth-bound. Part of it is now composed of Divine ethers. Something immortal has entered the microcosmic system.

After the death of the personality of such a Candidate, the microcosm cannot go off to the reflection-sphere because it no longer vibrates in resonance with that realm. By way of analogy, once an ice cube begins to melt, it is no longer a cube. It cannot be placed back in the ice tray from which it came. The alchemical transformation that takes place within the Candidate, although interrupted by physical death, will have to be completed in another Realm, a realm set aside for the express purpose of housing those who have begun the Process while on earth. That realm is Shamballa, a vacuum of pure ethers that exists outside of and apart from the normal reflection-sphere.

This is why it is stated repeatedly that those who have taken even the first step on the Path of Return are blessed beyond measure, for they have assured themselves of never again having to take another turn on the Wheel of Death and Rebirth. Therefore, to paraphrase a verse from the Pistis Sophia:

"Rejoice and exult and add Joy to your Joy, for the times are completed for you to put on your Vesture, which hath been prepared for you from the Beginning, which you left behind in the Last Mystery until the time of its completion."

The 'time of completion' is now at hand.

~ g
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To Nothing Be Slave

"To nothing be Slave,

Nor desire Possession

Of man-child or wife,

Of home or of household;

Calmly encounter

The Painful, the Pleasant;

Adore Me only

With heart Undistracted;

Turn all your Thought

Towards solitude,

Spurning the noise of the Crowd,

Its fruitless Commotion;

Strive without ceasing

To know the Atman (God);

Seek this Knowledge

And comprehend clearly

Why you should seek It;

Such, it is said,

Are the Roots of True Wisdom;

Ignorance, merely,

Is all that denies them."

-- Krishna --
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No Doubt

This is a response to a recent comment posted in Every Man A Christ.

Friend,

In the movie The Matrix (1999), which is an extremely accurate allegorical portrayal of the Path of Return, complete with archons and aeons (the Agents) and the reborn New Man ("Neo" means "new"), there is a character who symbolically represents the Candidate who is struggling with his choice to walk the Path. The character is tired of living in poverty and eating gruel for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He longs for the world that he knew before embarking upon the Path, even though he knows for a fact that world is an Unreality.

The character's name is Cypher, and he represents the Judas in all of us, the part of ourselves that is willing to betray the Gnosis because we are tired of living two lives that are so diametrically opposed in their aims. The classic Judas-person wants to make a paradise of the world that can be seen with the eyes. This makes more sense to him than suffering for an unseen world whose reality his five senses cannot confirm. In frustration and disillusionment, Cypher chooses to leave the Path and return to the Unreality, the Matrix, the physical world. In the movie, he sits down with an archon (the Agent) to cut a deal:

Cypher: You know...I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize?

Ignorance is bliss.

The Agent: So, we have a deal?

Cypher: I don't wanna remember nothing. Nothing. Do you hear me? And I wanna be rich. You know, somebody important. Like an actor.

The Agent: Whatever you want.

Yep, whatever you want. Just leave the Path and return to the old ways. The Prince of This World will make it worth your while.

Many are lost to the Path in this fashion, which is a tragedy. To have come so far, through so many lives, only to abandon the journey when one is right at the doorstep is a great loss for the Candidate. There is no guarantee that the former Candidate will ever get another opportunity to complete this walk to Freedom. It could be many lives and tens of thousands of years before he or she reaches this point again. On top of that, there's no guarantee that the former Candidate will not completely lose their way during that time and end up lost to the Gnosis forever.

Lose yourself instead in service to others. Do not render such service with any expectation of gratitude or return. Many will be helped even if they do not appreciate or acknowledge the help given. In fact, we help others the most when we assimilate the Light-Power of the Gnosis and radiate it to the world. Every human-being radiates something via their aura. Most of the time, it's a radiation of a very low frequency. We who are on the Path have access to a higher radiation, one of great purity and power. It is our task to pass that frequency along to those who cannot yet access it directly. Their auras will be affected, of this there is no doubt. Something will change within them. We who pass on this radiation will not get to see the results of our Service, but we can be certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that Service has been rendered.

If we are serving and expecting to see the results of our serving, then we are serving from the viewpoint of the ego, the I-being. Giving means just what it says: giving. Nowhere in the definition of Giving is there any mention of a reciprocal return. It is the "I" that wants to see results. It is the "I" that looks for gratification and self-congratulation.

To avoid the fate of the Judas-person, the Candidate must have Faith. After having the Path of Return revealed and explained to him/her, he or she must believe with an Inner Knowing that what has been revealed to him/her is true, and that if he/she follows the requirements, he/she will reach The Goal with certainty. Without this Faith, the Candidate will most surely fail in his/her efforts to move the mountain that stands before him or her.

This is your Dark Night of the Soul. This is where many waver. All Candidates have gone through this phase or will go through this phase. Just think of Jesus and the Temptation in the Desert. The aeons of this nature, who completely control your I-being, are trying to influence you to Doubt that which your awakening heart sanctuary knows to be True. For your part, you must continue to trust the still, small voice of the heart over the clanging din that your I-being is making. Doubt is a trick of the archons and the aeons of this nature. It is a very ancient trick but also a very effective one.

By Faith, we do not mean to wanly hope that something might be true or that something may happen. The Faith of the Travelers on the gnostic Path of Return is born from an unwavering inner knowing that what has been revealed to us is true and will happen, as long as we do not falter.

Remain detached to the suffering that you see around you, or even to your own suffering. Although difficult for some to believe, the suffering that we see in this world is the result of karma lawfully working itself out on this plane. Serve, and keep serving. Give, and keep giving. Radiate that which has been radiated to you. Know that you are not alone, that this Path is walked in group unity, and that in this group the strong will always stand for the weak, until the weak also grow strong.

This Unreality is temporary and will eventually fade away like a puff of smoke, as it always does. When the smoke clears, only the immortal Divine Reality will remain, ready to accept those who have completed the journey Home.

Put away your doubts, and rest in the certain knowledge that your labors are not in vain.

all love,

~ g
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Every Man A Christ

"What I have done all men can do, and what I am all men shall be." - The Christ, from The Aquarian Gospel, Chapter 178:46.

For our entire lives we have been taught that Jesus, the Christ, came to earth to redeem mankind's sins. In exchange for His tortuous death on a wooden cross, all of mankind, then-present and future, would be freed from sin. That's right, all of mankind's sins were forgiven by His noble sacrifice on the hill of Golgotha.

Any rational-thinking human-being will recognize this premise as prima facie ridiculous. Amazingly, there are millions of human-beings who sit in churches large and small to listen to some duplicitous middleman tell them just that. Jesus died for your sins! Your sins have been forgiven!

Um, okay, so what's the deal with all of the atrocities that are taking place in the world today? Have they been forgiven in advance? Is that why lawlessness rules during these troubled times?

First off, there's no way that mankind is going to get off the hook that easily. Each human entity carries the karma of all entities that have preceded him or her in the microcosm. It is the duty of the human entity - what we call the personality - to work to balance that microcosmic karma during earth-life. No one can do this work for the personality. Well, there is an exception to this rule, but that will be discussed later, when we discuss the true meaning behind the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins.

No, the mission of Jesus was not to vicariously atone for all of mankind's sins. His assignment was multi-faceted and far-reaching:

Task 1: To provide a purified human vehicle suitable for use by the Christ-Spirit, the Love-Aspect of the Father.

Task 2: Set a pattern for future mankinds to follow. To demonstrate in real-time, by a Life-example personally witnessed by many thousands, that it is eminently possible for a human-being to transmute, transform and transfigure into an immortal, Divine human-being.

Task 3: Allow the physical body of Jesus to be crucified in order to release the power of the Christ-Spirit into all of the inner planes of the Earth. This resulted in a level of purification that benefits humanity up until the present day.

Task 4: Weaken the power of the aeons by a third of a measure.

This post focuses on Task 1 - The Pattern. The things that this entity did two thousand years ago, the teachings, the healings, the miracles, the suffering, the death and the victory over death, were so astonishing that the memory of the entity's life lives on as if those events had taken place yesterday. The deeper teachings, the Mysteries, were reserved for Jesus' inner circle. For the masses, His life was to be the template by which the common human-being could begin to walk the Path of Purification, the Path of the True Way.

The Adversary established churches and religions to dilute the true Teachings and vanquish those who maintained and preserved those Teachings in their pure form, the gnostics. Present humanity is now left with a watered-down doctrine administered to the spiritually poor by a materially rich priesthood. This long-standing injustice has disillusioned millions, and led them further away from the liberating Truth, which is, of course, what the Adversary is striving to accomplish.

Every human-being has the potential to become a Christ. Indeed, that is the One Goal that we have incarnated to accomplish. The task for humanity is to recognize The Pattern that was gifted to us two thousand years ago and to use that Pattern to shape the lives that we lead while on Earth. The Pattern comes with a couple of very simple operating instructions:

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you".

"Love God above all else".

~ g
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Kiristi : Kristos : Christ

Kiristi (Sumerian): "fish/son; stars/mountain/blazing; life;"

Krista (Sanskrit) "all-attractive"

Kristos (Greek): "anointing"

Christ (present-day) "the anointed"

The word "Christ " is not a surname like Smith, Jones or Clark. The word is a title, a description. Jesus Christ is not quite the same as John Smith (although in the past "Smith" did indicate an occupation, i.e., "blacksmith").

To have earned the title of "Christ" means that one has opened one's heart to the ever-present Christine radiations that surround and interpenetrate this planet and all of humanity. Once a human-being consciously opens the heart sanctuary to these divine energies, wonderful changes begin to take place in the microcosm. The process of Soul Rebirth begins. If this alchemical process is allowed to reach a successful conclusion, that person is considered to have become a "Christ". He or she is a Christed One.

Again, the Christ is an intercosmic radiation of great power. It is not Jesus' last name. It is the Love-Aspect of the Triune Father and emanates from the Father, the All. When this Divine radiation is properly assimilated by an entity, the entity will undergo a Divine transformation that will lift the entity out of the physical plane. When this intercosmic radiation is resisted, rejected or otherwise not properly assimilated by an entity, the entity will undergo crystallization and disintegration.

In the Bible, there are many seemingly personal references made by Jesus, the human personality, that appear to equate him with God. Be advised that anything that Jesus says after he is baptized in the Jordan River does not issue from Jesus, the human personality. After the baptism, Jesus, the human personality, turns over his physical vehicle to the Christ-Spirit mentioned above, for Its full use and disposition. Anything that comes out of Jesus' mouth from that point forward is not spoken by Jesus, the human personality. It is the Christ-Spirit speaking through Jesus.

This is something that the Pharisees couldn't (or wouldn't) understand. Actually, they knew exactly what was taking place but their job was to try and convince the masses that Jesus, the personality, was a blasphemer and a charlatan. So they ignored the fact that the physical vehicle had been turned over to an aspect of the Father, the Christ-Spirit and focused their efforts on trying to find ways to murder Jesus, the human personality.

The modern churches, which are the synagogue of Satan referenced in the holy works, perpetuate this folly by not explaining what is behind statements made by Jesus such as:

"Whatsoever you do unto your brother, that you do unto me"
"Do this in remembrance of me".
"Where two or three are gathered in my name, so there am I"

In the statements above, the personal pronouns "I", "me" and "my" refer not to Jesus, the human personality, but to the Christ-Spirit that was using the physical vehicle of Jesus, the human personality. Additionally, as the Christ-Spirit is the Love-Aspect of The All, essentially and by proxy, the presence of the Christ-Spirit in the body of Jesus, the human personality, represented God on earth. That is in fact the interpretation of the name Immanuel. It means "God Is With Us".

How did man expect for God to contact humanity? Through voices in the clouds? Talking fish? Crying statues? Any good magician, black or white, could accomplish those feats. In order to make direct contact with humanity, The All had to send an aspect of Itself to dwell in a physical body and live as man among men. That physical body had to be of a very high quality, which was why Jesus, the human personality, was born to Joseph and Mary, members of the Essenes, a gnostic sect that lived in purity and harmony.

Despite the visual propaganda of the bloody and crucified figure on the cross that has been subliminally burned into the consciousness of the masses by the Adversary as a symbol of defeat ("look at your so-called 'messiah'. He failed, we got him!") the mission of the Christ was eminently successful. Although the crucifixion appeared to be a victory for His enemies - the Sanhedrin - (and make no mistake, it was the Pharisaic rabbinical element that pursued, encouraged and demanded that the Roman State execute Jesus, the human personality, on the flimsiest of trumped-up charges), what took place on Golgotha (or 'Calvary', as some call it) was a victory for all of mankind over the aeons of this nature.

Will try to expand upon that Victory in an upcoming post. For now, just keep in mind that the entity in the New Testament speaking as Jesus is not Jesus, the human personality, but the Christ-Spirit speaking through an anointed Jesus. If one reads the NT with this key in hand, a veil or two should be lifted.

~ g
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The Ninth Floor

There is an old episode of The Twilight Zone which contains some very poignant symbolism. The title of the episode is "The After Hours". The story, in brief:

"When Marsha White gets off the express elevator on the ninth floor of the department store, she finds it a desolate place where the lone piece of merchandise is a gold thimble. She buys it, although the saleslady, who appears familiar, is extremely rude. As Marsha returns to the first floor, she notices that the thimble is scratched, but when she complains, she’s told that the store does not have a ninth floor. Looking around, Marsha spots the salesgirl who sold it to her, only to discover the figure is just a mannequin. Beset with panic, Marsha's assisted into an inner office where she falls asleep. When she wakes up, the mystery of the ninth floor will be revealed."

** Spoiler Alert **

Those who wish to find out for themselves how the story ends should stop reading now and view the entire half-hour episode here (you'll be allowed to skip the occasional commercial). Others may read on.

Marsha spots the saleslady from behind and goes to speak with her. To her shock, she sees that the woman is a store mannequin. She begins to hear voices that appear to emanate from other store mannequins. They are all calling her name. In panic, she stumbles onto the express elevator and is transported to the empty ninth floor once more. The story wraps up as follows:

"There, she gradually realizes that the mannequins are alive, trying to help her, and that she is also a mannequin. It is explained to her that each mannequin takes turns going out into the world to live among the humans for one month every year, but Marsha had enjoyed her stay among "the outsiders" so much that she lost her identity and forgot her true nature. Being with the other mannequins, she realizes that she is back in her natural place, which allows the next mannequin in line—the female salesclerk—to go out and live among the humans for thirty days. As the other mannequins bid farewell to the salesclerk, the sailor asks Marsha if she enjoyed her time among the humans. She says she had "ever so much fun, ever so much fun." As Marsha fondly recalls her brief sojourn out among the humans, and with a passing expression of regret, confusion, and a small sigh, she and the sailor assume their natural posing postures, and grow rigid as mannequins." 

Somehow, Rod Serling, the author of this teleplay, managed to tap into a great Truth regarding man's existence on the physical plane. The department store symbolizes the dynamic, physical world, the Seventh Cosmic Domain. The non-existent ninth floor represents the static Divine realm, the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

As microcosmic personalities, we are but temporary sojourners here in the physical world. Man was never meant to remain here indefinitely in the physical realm. Yet, due to Forgetfulness, Man believes that this world is his home, and clings to it tenaciously. Man works to make a "paradise "of this temporary domain, then cries in anguish when everything repeatedly goes up in smoke. Because he has forgotten, he does not realize that everything is supposed to fall apart in the physical realm. Nothing is lasting. There can be no permanence in a temporary realm.

Immersed in his delusion, Man will search for something, he knows not what. In the above story, that "something" is the gold thimble which, if you haven't considered it by now, represents the Divine Spark in man. Notice how the gold thimble can only be found on a floor that does not exist (i.e., a plane other than the physical plane). Also note the still, small voices that sound The Call for Marsha to "come home".

A neat little story, one that carries a message for mankind but a message disguised as a fantasy. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear will recognize that this story is not a fantasy, but a Remembrance brought into physical manifestation by Mr. Serling to stir something in the hearts of those who may happen to view the show. Understand the key point of this story:

This physical realm is not the reality. Our reality lies in what has been told to us is "not reality". Be advised that this earth-life is the dream that we must awaken from, and that our liberated brothers and sisters remain ever-watchful, waiting for us to heed The Call and return Home.

~ g
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A Child Is Born

Everyone is aware of the literal interpretation of the Birth of Jesus. Joseph's wife Mary was with child and they were unable to find lodging so that she could give birth. Fortunately, they found a stable and Mary was able to deliver her child amidst the filth of the natural earth.

Three Wise Men came from the East, following the light of a star. They brought to the babe gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They also brought a warning to the parents of the child. King Herod had charged them to look for the "newborn king", and report back to him when found. Herod intended to kill the babe, who he thought was a threat to his earthly throne.

Okay, that's the literal interpretation. Now for the esoteric interpretation.

The Child that is being born is representative of the awakening of one's Divine Spark. The Child is an allegory for the Rose of the Heart. The stable, or cave, represents the "cave" of the human heart in its polluted state, submerged in the natural world. The natural world is represented by the stone walls of the cave (mineral kingdom), the presence of straw or hay (plant kingdom), the beasts kept there (animal kingdom) and earth-born humanity (the shepherds).

The gifts of the Magi - or Wise Men - are interpreted as follows: gold, the symbol of nobility; frankincense, the symbol of the wisdom of the sage; and myrrh, the symbol of dominion and power. These are the attributes of the Original Divine Human-Being, the True Man, the "Other One" that will be reborn within the microcosm if the candidate faithfully follows the Path of Return and diligently grows in the Gnosis.

King Herod represents the aeons of this nature. They are aware of this Birth, this Awakening, because there is an immediate disturbance in the astral field of the Candidate. The Divine part of the personality has started to make its presence known. Without hesitation, the agents of the aeons rush to oust this foreign body from the system of the Candidate. They are charged with extinguishing the Divine Spark before it has an opportunity to set up a stronghold in the personality. To Herod, this child-king is a threat to his own earthly power. However, this newborn king has no intention of ruling over the physical earth. Its kingdom is not of this world.

Mercifully warned, the Child is spirited away as the family flees into Egypt. In the Holy Language, Egypt represents the hermetic land, the land of the hierophant and the alchemical process (the ancient name for Egypt was "Khem"). Here, the child will be protected and nurtured, safely hidden away from Herod's soldiers.

Finally, this Child is the Divine Child that can and must be born within the hearts of each one of us. The symbolism has been placed in the New Testament for your benefit, to enable you to realize that the Universal Brotherhood is with us always, has never abandoned us, and has for us - in symbol and allegory - a trail of instructions to follow as we seek to bring the Child, the Other One, to full maturity.

Hark, the herald angels sing: "Glory to the newborn King".

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