An Average Human Life Cycle - Part II

When the newly-deceased re-enters the reflection-sphere, it find itself in the astral realms, often called The Desire World. This is the region of desire. The microcosm still has the use of:

- the two higher ethers of the vital body (reflecting and light ethers)
- the astral, or desire body
- the mental body

Even without a physical body, the human personality is still in close proximity to the physical world. The entity can't smell, hear, or taste as humans do, because it no longer has the use of those physical organs. However, it can sense the vibrations that result from human activities like eating, drinking, smoking, sex, etc. As mentioned before, the newly-dead are the same in nature as they were in physical life. With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that some find it hard to detach themselves from the lure of physical sensation. These ones tend to hang around the lower regions of the Desire World, looking to latch on to humans who may afford them an opportunity to bask in certain vibrations.

For example, one who smoked may hang around humans who are heavy smokers, in order to try and satisfy its craving for a cigarette. Newly-dead alcoholics tend to hang around saloons and bars. They cannot drink, but if they can get close enough, they can share in the vibratory thrill that the human drinkers are enjoying.

Imagine seeing the thing that you most desired in life but being unable to taste it, smell it, touch it. To have a strong desire without the ability to satisfy it is an accurate description of hell.

Purgatory

The journey through the reflection-sphere starts from below-upwards. In order to progress along this part of the cycle, the entity must raise its vibration to match the vibratory level of the next highest region. The longer the entity remains in the lower regions of the Desire World, chasing after physical sensation, the longer it will take for it to move on in its post-incarnation journey. The entity must purge itself of these lower desires before it will be allowed to move on.

For this reason, the lower regions of the Desire World are known as purgatory. The length of time one spends here is entirely dependent upon how long it takes one to turn away from the physical. This could take anywhere from a few weeks to a few years to decades for the most stubborn ones.

The "Heavens"

Everyone gets the "heaven" they deserve.  A devout Christian will be led to a huge cathedral of extraordinary beauty and construction. The Moslem will be led to a magnificent, bejeweled mosque, the Jew to a well-apportioned temple. For the a-religious, their "heaven" will consist of whatever it was in life that was most important to them. Sports, music, art, science, philosophy, anything that one fancies, they will be able to experience to the ultimate in the higher regions of the Desire World. These are the "eternal" heavens that were preached about while the entity was in the physical. It's all well and good, except for one significant detail -- it is nowhere near to being "eternal".

The stay in the higher regions of the Desire World is only temporary. At some point, the soul must discard its astral body and ascend to the region known as the World of Thought. Problems arise when souls resist this process and attempt to prolong their stay in the Desire World region of the reflection-sphere. In fact, this problem is real and exists right now, as the astral realms have been bottle-necked for some time by entities that have refused to move on with the process of dissolution. They don't want to give up their astral bodies. They want to remain in their "heaven-world" and avoid what's next: a temporary stay in the next higher region, the World of Thought, followed by the eventual loss of the mental body. At that point, the personality has been dissolved. The "you" that was, has ceased to exist. All that is left is the emptied microcosm with the accumulated experiences of the past life of you, the now-dissolved personality.

So, eternal life in the hereafter, the carrot-and-stick ploy of the churches, mosques and temples is really a sham, a lie. There is no eternal heaven in this nature-order, because this is a temporary universe, an emergency-order. There is no "forever" here, just cycle after cycle after cycle after cycle. The true Divine Kingdom cannot be created on earth, nor can it be found in the reflection-sphere. It exists within, yet outside of, this temporary, dualistic nature-order, and can only be found if one answers the call of the Gnosis. Going the Path of Return is the only way to stop this endless cycle of death-rebirth-death-rebirth and regain true Eternal Life.

The purpose of posting this information is not to provide practical knowledge about "the other side" so that you can better navigate the after-death experience. This sort of occult knowledge, although interesting,will not help one to move one inch closer to true freedom. In fact, it can only serve to bind one that much more closely to duality. Besides, only the barest outline of what takes place in the reflection-sphere has been touched upon here. There's some unsavory stuff that has been omitted, as this writer does not wish to completely ruin your day.

No, the purpose of these posts was to try and demonstrate that the after-death experience is only TEMPORARY. It is only the other side of the two-sided, physical / non-physical spheres of duality. Inevitably, eventually, the microcosm will have to construct a new personality to return to the physical world and attempt, yet again, to obtain the one goal of humanity.

Liberation.

~ g
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An Average Human Life Cycle

The above is a depiction of an average human life cycle, from entry into the material world, through physical life and the regions of the reflection-sphere, culminating in a return to the material-world. A thousand years is more or less the norm for average humanity. More advanced entities complete this cycle in 700 years.

Birth And Maturity

To trace this cycle, we begin from the lower right, where it reads "Birth of Physical Body". Growth then progresses in increments of 7 years.

Years 1 thru 7 - the physical body matures to a point where it comes under the control of the young human.

Years 7 thru 14 - the vital body matures, as evidenced by rapid growth

Years 14 thru 21 - the desire body is born and matures (now you have an idea of why teenagers can be so emotional)

Year 21 - the birth of the mental body, the Mind (this is why 21 is the "true age of maturity". Not 15, 16, 18 or any of the other arbitrary and erroneous legal definitions humanity has come up with).

It is said that when we reach the age of 21, our life circumstances are more or less set up as they were when we left our last incarnation. In essence, age 21 is the point where we "take up where we left off" in our past life. This marker can give one a good idea of what their state-of-being was like in their previous incarnation. All vehicles have matured and are ready for use in navigating the new incarnation.

The rest of the physical life-cycle depicted in the material world section of the diagram can be followed fairly easily. It is interesting to note that the "Prime of Mentality" - the maturation of the mental body - does not occur until age 49. We can point to the evidence of the countless mistakes humans make during their twenties, thirties and forties as proof of this.

Death

Upon the laying down of the physical body, note where the diagram calls for SILENCE!. This is because it takes approximately 72 hours for the recently-transitioned entity to undergo its life-review. This is the famous "I-saw-my-life-flash-before-my-eyes" phenomena that people who have had near-death experiences always relate to us. Because their "silver cord" did not snap, they were never deceased, just damn close. Thus, their life-review is quick and fleeting. Upon permanent transition (evidenced by the severance of the "silver cord"), the entity gets the opportunity to review the life just lived in detail - in reverse. This is done so that the entity can see the effects that resulted from the causes he or she put in motion during the life just ended.

This is the reason why it is important to not grieve the passing of loved ones with great weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. The "dearly-departed" individual, although bereft of a physical body, is still in possession of his vital, desire and mental bodies. He or she can still see and hear everything that is going on in the physical world. The entity's heart goes out to those who are mourning, for he aches to tell them that he is okay, but is unable to communicate this from his new location beyond the veil. The hysterics of loved ones serve only to distract the recently-transitioned and does not allow them to concentrate fully upon their life-review. The life-review process is critical for the entity to collect the "fruits" of his or her experience in the physical. Therefore, as a rule and if at all possible, the physical body should be left alone for at least 72 hours before any funerary preparations begin.

Do not waste your tears when a loved one departs. Number one - they are perfectly fine. Number two - they are still watching us. Do you know what happens when you die? Nothing, that's what. There may be small period of unconsciousness as the remaining vehicles withdraw from the physical body, rendering it lifeless. You then become aware of being outside of your body and able to view its lifeless condition. You don't sprout wings, you don't become a great angel. You remain essentially the same as you were five minutes ago, when you still had a physical body! You are the same person, with the same habits, likes, dislikes, prejudices, desires, etc. The only thing that is different is that you no longer have an ability to express these things in the physical world.

You will be able to view your own funeral. You will be able to know what people truly felt about you in the life just passed. This may be a pleasant experience or one that is tough to swallow, depending on how you treated others during physical life. There is a possibility that you will be greeted by familiar ones who have already departed. Usually these ones are sent to help the newly-deceased acclimate himself to his new environment. You'd be surprised how many entities refuse to believe that they are "dead". Everything appears the same except for the fact that the physical human beings are no longer seeing or responding to the deceased. There is also a possibility that you may be greeted by some slightly more, shall we say, unsavory characters, or even downright imposters. This will be discussed later.

One other thing: once you have crossed the border to the other side of the veil, you are no longer in the material-world. You are back in the reflection-sphere, where, as can be seen in the diagram, the human entity spends most of its life-cycle. The proverbial "dip into matter" is just that, a dip. The so-called dead are not in "heaven" or any closer to The Divine or "eternal life" than they were in the life just lived. They are still prisoners of duality. They have simply transitioned to another state-of-being within this nature-order. The realm of the reflection-sphere is where the process of dissolution takes place, where the human microcosm is emptied. This will also be discussed later.

We'll pause at this point and resume in the next post.

~ g
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The Two Universes

This is the point of departure. This is where it all begins. This is a major stone in the foundation of the doctrine of liberation. The following will attempt to provide a simplified explanation of this important key-stone:

There exists two separate and distinct universes, each composed of billions of stars and galaxies.

These two universes are diametrically-opposed.

The Original Universe is Divine, Eternal, Never-Changing.

The fallen universe is undivine, temporary, ever-changing.

The Original Universe is a universe of Absolutes.

The fallen universe is one of relativity, of polar opposites, of duality.

The Original Universe IS.

The undivine universe is a reflection, a modified copy of the Original.

The Original Universe reigns in the Sixth Cosmic Sphere, the cosmic astral plane.

The fallen universe occupies the Seventh Cosmic Sphere - the lowest - the cosmic physical plane.

Both universes exist within the same space. It is not a question of the Original Universe being "up there" while the fallen universe is "down here". Both universes exist simultaneously and inter-penetrate one another. If you do not believe that this is possible, remember that even man's primitive science has established that the atom is composed of mostly empty space. This means that you are mostly empty space. Your sense organs are only able to perceive the apparent "solidity" of the human figure and other material objects, because this is what they were designed to do. This is part of the  "illusion".

That said, the Universal Doctrine holds that "there is no empty space". Therefore, we know that something else can, and does, exist in the spaces between our atoms. There are other atoms, composed of different materials, that we are unable to detect with our human senses. In order to become aware of the Original, Divine Universe, we must first develop the proper sense organs. We must "tune" to that station in order to "hear" its broadcast.

The human life-wave once experienced in the Original, Divine Universe, wielding great powers, working in harmony with the impulses of The Absolute. However, a segment of this life-wave began to speculate with their powers and ultimately mis-used them. This resulted in a portion of that life-wave no longer vibrating in harmony with the Sixth Cosmic Sphere, the Divine Universe. Because they were essentially eternal beings, they could not die, but due to their fallen state, they could no longer remain in the Divine Realms.

In an act of Supreme Mercy, a location was set aside in the Seventh Cosmic Sphere (the cosmic physical plane) for this portion of the human life-wave to experience in. The physical plane vibration was more in line with the vibration of these fallen entities. This is how the fallen universe - the emergency-order - came to be. That is where fallen humanity was exiled.

The eternal portion of the human entity, the Divine-Spark or Spirit-Spark Atom, lies imprisoned in the human microcosm. Its location - the upper right venticle of the human heart. It is the only remnant of our Divine heritage. But it lies dormant, unresponsive to the Eternal Call. Only when we awaken the Rosebud will we have any chance of answering the Call and perhaps, of beginning our journey Home. In the meantime, we are born and we die, repeatedly. We suffer life after life of sorrow, tragedy, pain and lack of fulfillment. That is the nature of this fallen, temporary universe. It was purposely designed to be so. The object was to not allow us to "get comfortable" here, but to batter the mortal soul mercilessly with sorrow until it cried out for Salvation, for freedom from the Wheel of Death-and-Rebirth. Only then can the Rose of the Heart begin to stir, and finally respond to The Divine Call.

The creation story found in the Book of Genesis symbolically documents the creation of this fallen universe. The story of Adam and Eve outlines how humanity fell from the Original Universe. These primordial tales, many millions of years old, have been mis-interpreted and mis-applied by this generation of humanity, due to Ignorance, lack of Knowledge and cunning, behind-the-scenes shenanigans.

If one cannot understand and accept the foregoing, or if one refuses to do so, then one will remain in delusion. If one cannot accept that his present location in Time is different from his former location in Eternity, one will remain lost. If one does not come to the realization that this is not "home" and that one must yearn with all of one's heart, to be shown the Path back to the Divine Kingdom - the Original Universe, then that one remains a prisoner.

If one cannot accept the fact that there are two universes (divine and undivine), and that man "lives" quarantined in the undivine universe, that one remains in darkness, and will not be able to take even the tiniest step towards liberation until he or she begins to seek True Knowledge.

This seeking will only occur once the human entity is thoroughly and completely disgusted, disenchanted, beaten and broken by repeated turns on the Wheel. It is at that lowest point, that nadir, when nothing can any longer be found in the world worthy of desire, that the spell of the delusion can be broken, and the Divine Spark within the human entity can be contacted. It is then that the words which are key to liberation can be voiced:

"Not my will, but Thine, be done".

It all begins with realizing our predicament, acknowledging that we are in a predicament, and voluntarily making the decision to no longer participate in the predicament.

Wake up, if you can. Wake up.

~ g
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Delusion-Pain-Rebirth

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The human consciousness is quite definitely not in harmony with the divine idea. The Universal wisdom teaches that at the very centre of the human consciousness is a profound delusion - the delusion of separation, the delusion of a separate self, which exists in isolation from every other self, and in isolation from God.

This delusion is like a congenital disease with which we are all born, and which we hand down from generation to generation.

Our whole physiological structure, and the whole process of human development, from babyhood to adulthood, is aimed at the production of this delusional self, this self, separated from all other selves. And the whole process of education and child-rearing is geared towards intensifying and cultivating that delusion of separation.

So the human consciousness is a consciousness based on delusion. It creates around it a world of experience, but that world, too, must be delusion, because it is born of delusion! And that delusional experience, in turn, conditions the consciousness. So we live, if you like, in a dream world.

We only think we are awake, but in reality we are asleep, dreaming our shared dream, participating in our communal delusion.

But - and this is the great blessing - the current of the divine idea does not leave us alone in our delusion. As we said before, it keeps on acting in a corrective way, bringing whatever is not in harmony with it back to its starting point, so as to give the deviant creation a new chance to unfold in the right way.

Now just think of this, for a moment, in terms of your own life. As a creature whose consciousness is, through no fault of your own, based on a delusion, you keep on acting in ways which are not in harmony with the divine idea. You can’t help doing that; you just do it automatically, because of the state of your consciousness.

And the result is that you keep on attracting experiences that bring you back to your starting point in one way or another. Everything you do, everything you touch, unfolds along a course which becomes more and more painfully familiar - the course of rising, shining and fading; the course of growth, maturity and decay. And what is the result of that? Suffering! Untold human suffering.

Is that all, then? Are suffering and death all we can hope for as human beings? How do we escape from this vicious circle?

Well, as human beings, with very inventive minds, we use all kinds of palliatives, don’t we, to dull that pain and suffering, even if only for a few moments. We have our televisions and our analgesics, our holidays and our stress management techniques, our meditation and our visualisation and all those things. But do we realise that all these palliatives may only be prolonging our pain in the long run?

We want to diverge, just for a moment, to give you an analogy, so that you can see more easily what we mean.

The disease of leprosy is often used in the Universal wisdom as a very apt symbol for the whole human condition. Now did you know that the main symptom of leprosy is the inability to feel pain?

And did you know that it is precisely because of the leper’s inability to feel pain that his body deteriorates in the horrible way so characteristic of the disease? The leper feels no pain, so when he hurts his foot, or something like that, he will take no action to protect his foot from any further harm. And in this way, as time goes by, he does irreparable damage to his body - without even knowing how it happened!

It is the same with our pain. The pain we feel when the realities of life do not measure up to our dreams is not an enemy to be avoided or destroyed, but our best friend.

Without the ability to feel that pain, we damage and mutilate our souls. So we should befriend that pain; we should welcome it, and trust that it will lead us in the right direction.

For what can happen then?

Well, that pain can bring us to a point - not of despair, exactly - but a point of inner quietness that results from knowing that there is nothing more we can do, no more tears left to cry, no more blood left to shed, and in that quietness we let go, for a moment, of our I-central hold on our consciousness. We KNOW for certain that, in our own strength, we can do nothing.

Our consciousness, with all its conditioning, with all the techniques and knowledge it has accumulated over the years, can do nothing. And as that awareness fills us, it is as if a kind of ‘trap-door’ opens in our hearts, and the heart is at last able to send out a steady, clear distress signal, an SOS, a cry of yearning for help, for relief, for salvation, without any interference from the ego.

And that sure signal will certainly be answered. The heart has sent out a pure cry of yearning; it has given voice to its holy desire, its holy thirst, and for once, the human consciousness, with all its techniques and palliatives, has not tried to quench the heart’s thirst with vinegar, but, has remained silent. And in that silence, only four, simple words are heard: ‘Thy will be done’.

And in the silence, the love, the power of the divine idea can reach the heart and help it! The heart can enter the stream of the divine idea, and be carried along by its current.

And if this state of pure yearning for salvation persists, then, in time, it will have consequences.

The pure, divine forces drawn into the system in response to the heart’s pure yearning will feed the consciousness in a new way. The consciousness will no longer be fed only on the dust and ashes available in this world of delusion.

And when the consciousness receives that new, holy food, it is bound to change, and if the consciousness changes, the whole body must follow, for the blood, the nervous system, the hormones and so on are bound to be affected. And if the whole process of thinking and desiring is changed in such a radical way, the quality of the experiences attracted by our thoughts and desires is bound to change also.

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The Divine Heart of the Microcosm : The Awakening of the Heart - Lectorium Rosicrucianum - www.goldenrosycross.org

About Truth

Hermes:

It is impossible for a human being, an imperfect creature, to presume to speak about truth, since he is composed of imperfect members and, with regards to his sheath, is constituted of an assemblage of foreign bodies. But what is possible and correct to say, I will say: namely that Truth only exists in eternal bodies, the elements of which are also true: in fire, which is once and forever fire and nothing else; in earth, which is once and forever earth and nothing else; in air, which is once and forever air and nothing else; in water, which is once and forever water and nothing else.

Our bodies, on the other hand, are composed from all these elements together; they contain fire, and also earth, and furthermore water and air; yet they are neither fire, nor earth, nor water, nor air, nor anything whatsoever that is True.

If then, from the beginning, Truth is foreign to the physical constitution, how shall it behold or express Truth? It will only be able to understand Truth if God wills.

The things of this earth are not the Truth, but the imitations of Truth; and not all are even that, but only a few of them. The rest are lies and error; illusion which only consists of phantoms. When, however, such an illusion receives an influx from above, it becomes a replica of the Truth. Without this superior influence it remains a lie, an untruth. It is the same with a portrait that is an image of a body: the painting is not the body it represents. It has eyes , but they see nothing, ears, but they hear nothing. The painting also shows all the other parts, but it is all an illusion that deceives the sight of the observers. They think they see the Truth whereas reality is a mere lie.

I think and I proclaim that everything is illusion and delusion.

One must think and proclaim things as they are: on earth, there is nothing True. This is true, that here, below, there is no truth. And how is that possible? Truth is the supreme magnificence, the absolute Good which is not obscured by matter, nor encompassed by a body. Truth is the naked, luminous, unassailable, exalted, immutable Good.

Things which are here below are unable to receive this Good. For they are perishable, subject to suffering, soluble, mutable, forever changing, passing from form to form. How could these things be the Truth, since they are in themselves not true? Everything that changes is illusion, because it does not remain in its essence, but passes from form to form and thus presents new appearances all the time.

What then, may we call true?

The Sun alone can be called True. While everything else changes, the Sun does not. That is the reason the Sun is entrusted to give form to everything in the world, to reign over and create everything.

Then what is the primordial Truth?

The One and Only - He who is not made of matter, nor exists in a body; who has neither color, nor form, who changes not, nor is changed, but who always IS.

Corpus Hermeticum - Book 17 - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis - Jan Van Rijckenborgh

The Key That Solves All Problems

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If ever there was a hermetic text that conveyed the full reality of the manifested life, then that is the sixteenth book of the Corpus Hermeticum. It shows so very clearly how very many forces there are at work in bodies manifesting themselves in the nature-of-death. But alas, all these forces and their effects arise from the mortal body, and that is why they are, and will always remain, cut off from any truly divine genesis.

Generally speaking, people experience the results of ungodly life with deep sorrow. The countless efforts they make to escape this fate are desperate and tragic. Most people today have no knowledge of the key that would enable them to solve all of their problems, even though that key is in their possession. Because the moment you entrust yourself to the soul, the course of your life will be changed, for when the soul enters a mortal body, its activating forces have the effect of putting the body back on the road to true genesis.

Without soul-power, man is like an irrational animal. His only guides are instinct and desire: instincts he cannot control and desires that drive him. However, as soon as the soul takes over the guidance of his life, instinct and desire are converted into power and motion capable of bringing the Hidden Man to birth. We need to learn that the soul is an eternal and intelligent being, having for thought its own reason.

The soul, present in the microcosm, is always and unchangeably linked with the Spirit with God. When it leaves the natural body, it is free and independent, and belongs to the divine world. But it always maintains a link with the natural body so that, if insight dawns on the nature-born being and he decides to change his approach to life, the possibility will always be there for the union of the soul and body to be realized. If, as a nature-born human being, you follow the path of the New Way of Life, the Path on which the Rosebud can open, the attributes of the soul will be able to manifest themselves because, as Hermes says: It is characteristic of the soul to confer on others something of its own essence.

So there are two forms of life in the microcosm: the life of the soul and the life of this nature. And isn't it strange that the high, noble life of the soul is innate in all microcosms, while in those same microcosms, a natural life is lived that is not in the least in harmony with the soul? Isn't it disturbing to think that the Divine and the most unworthy form of life should be enclosed in one and the same microcosm? But that is how it is with most people, and are you not struck by the enormity of the situation?

The soul is indeed incorporeal, since it does not form part of the physical body. If the soul were to have a body, it would have neither reason, nor thoughts.

This does not mean that the soul has no higher reason. Its reason is indeed high, and divine, with a true cognitive faculty at its disposal. No, it is the body which is totally lacking in reason and cognitive ability, according to Hermes.

There are probably lots of people who would not agree with Hermes on this point. But hermetic philosophy makes clear that the activity of the physical brain can certainly not be described as 'reason'. Hermes says that unless the human being is over-shadowed by the soul, he is 'without reason'. Look around you, and you will see the truth of this. Whether you consider individuals or societies, human behavior makes Hermes' words alarmingly clear. The human being only achieves real reason and intelligence when the soul enters the head sanctuary. Only then can the true cognitive faculty be born.

We have the power of choice; we are able to choose either the best or, in spite of ourselves, the worst. The choice of evil approximates to the physical nature. That is why fate rules the one whose choice it is.

The soul is very near to you; it is in your microcosm. You are capable of uniting with that true, higher self in obedience and self-surrender. If you do not...then your life will be ruled by the fate of the nature-of-death. Surely, the choice is not a difficult one to make?

"The Key That Solves All Problems" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. IV - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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We are by no means complete. We are a natural, physical manifestation, a biological phenomenom, severed from the soul which was meant to guide us. Stubbornly, we refuse to allow the soul entry as we insist upon stumbling about in arrogant, blind delusion.

The key to reversing the course of our lives lies in being able to surrender control of the physical body to the soul. Then, we will no longer be chickens without heads, scurrying about in confusion. We will be soul-men and women, ready to walk the Path of Return.

Ready to embrace Liberation.

~ g.

The Third Nature

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The struggling pupil on the Path who has not yet transcended the nature-birth and thus still stands in the nature-of-death, is constantly in danger of being victimized and deluded by the strange, sinister and capricious interplay of opposites. He is full of problems and questions, and hardly a moment passes without him demanding some sort of solution or answer. This pupil, the seeker you know so well, is protected in the midst of these great dangers by the light of the Gnosis. The true seeker, whose whole way of life is focused on the Path, is always overshadowed by the Gnosis.

The pupil who perseveres in the New Way of Life and does not forsake the Path is accompanied by the Living Soul. This companionship becomes ever more clear, ever more positive, ever more permanent until finally a firm bond is formed which exercises a powerful influence on the serpent-fire column (the consciousness fluid present in the spinal column). Only the living Soul, the Soul united with the Spirit, can truly help, heal, and liberate you, and when it does, it will demonstrate its presence throughout your being. Anyone who possesses this "staff of Mercury" is strong, and he will overcome. Those who do not yet possess it are weak, mortal beings wandering and stumbling in darkness.

Even if the Soul is not able to speak or is not yet sufficiently awake, the serious pupil who perseveres on the Path is always helped by the universal Gnosis, not only as regards to his soul, but also as regards his personality.

If you want to understand these things, you should always bear in mind that the Soul and the personality are very different in nature. The Soul has to incline itself towards the personality which is in and of this nature-of-death, and the personality has to incline itself towards the Soul, which is of the nature of Life. The central issue of gnostic alchemy, the great problem of the inner grades, is that the Soul and the personality must first incline towards each other; then they must meet, then they must fuse; then transfiguration has come about, and finally liberation itself.

So this fivefold process means that, particularly in the beginning, a new basis must be found and constructed; a basis for working in and with two natures that do not belong to each other and which absolutely cannot and may not go together, because the personality must merge into the Soul-nature. This new basis of work, especially in the early stages, in fact constitutes a third nature. It is through this nature that the liberating life can be reached, and the Great Mission accomplished.

Information about this Third Nature is needed by every pupil. On the one hand, there is the nature of Life, and on the other, the nature-of-death. In the power of the nature of Life the candidate begins his path and dissociates himself from the nature-of-death. In-between is the temporary Third Nature, which is neither one nor the other. This Third Nature is referred to in practical terms as "the Path", and it brings with it a totally different psychological condition.

Imagine that you now decide to follow the Path, or that some time ago, or a long time ago (as in a previous incarnation), you decided to do so. It is not a path that automatically connects the two extremes of the nature-of-death and the nature of Life, but it can form a link between the two. Then, from the very first second, you form for yourself a Third Nature. The Path is not there, you have to make it yourself. There is no such thing as an official, explored Third Nature. You must bring this nature to life yourself; you yourself must forge the way. If anyone says to you: 'Show me the Path. Then I will decide whether I want to follow it', you will not be able to answer, or at least, not in a direct way, because your path is your own path, your own Third Nature, and you cannot take anyone with you on it. The Third Nature begins where you begin, and is manifested where you are manifested, as a true pupil.

However, what is possible and indeed desirable, what in fact could almost be called essential, is that, as a group, working together in total surrender, brotherly love and non-conflict, we form a collective Third Nature -  an Ark, a Celestial Ship, or Living Body. The better the Ark is constructed, the more it measures up to what is required, the more the Third Nature adapts itself to the Living Nature, the faster and better your Path will unfold. So while, in theory, every pupil follows his Path autonomously, calling his own Third Nature into being, in practice going together is of the greatest importance, and is in keeping with Divine Law.

You know the commandment: 'Love God above everything'. It is because of this law that your concentration on the Divine Goal opens for you. But the law also goes on to say: 'Love your neighbor as yourself'. If your pupilship is genuine, and your Third Nature is in the process of manifesting itself, you will be filled not only with love for God, but also for His creature. If you keep moving forwards and upwards, the love that is in you will compel you to serve your neighbor with your most absolute love.

Then, group-unity will be no problem. The way of Life and universal Love is the key to gnostic pupilship. This Love is, and must begin with: non-conflict. If you are willing to enter into that, the Third Nature will open for you, and for the first time, you will really be in the group, in the Celestial Ship, which is the group's Third Nature. Then, for the pupil and the group alike, the Third Nature will have become a reality. And you will be able to experience its presence anywhere, the moment you direct your attention to God, that is, to the Gnosis, or Shamballa.

Now let us consider what happens if, as a person born of nature, belonging to the nature-of-death, you decide to make it your goal to reach the Original Life-Field, Shamballa. You not only take this decision mentally and emotionally, but you also prove it, by adopting a new attitude to life. If you do so, you invoke the power of God, which is omnipresent. As a result of that power, a certain activity starts to make itself felt in your personal astral field. The effects of this are transferred from the astral to the etheric, and from the etheric to the material body. In this way, a manifestation, a creation, comes into being within and around you. This creation stands entirely in the Goodness, Love and Wisdom which is God. And that is how the Divine Trinity becomes a reality, in a direct and clearly manifested way. The Invisible becomes visible in and through Its creation, in Its creature, in a way that is totally in keeping with the creature's state-of-being.

That is why the manifestation of the Third Nature is always changing, for when the pupil progresses and Soul and personality are united once again, under the shadow of the hermetic wings, the Third Nature will manifest itself in a different way. For the Creator always accompanies His creature, until the Good End is reached.

"The Third Nature" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. IV - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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This nature-of-death and the nature of Life, the Divine Kingdom, are two separate and diametrically opposed life-fields. Thus, we need a Third Nature to act as a bridge over the chasm that separates these two fields of manifestation. Those who have gone before us on the Path have constructed Shamballa, the Third Nature for all those who have passed beyond the veil while walking the Path. Each of us must construct our own Third Nature, while in the physical, in order to link ourselves to the power-field of Shamballa

The Path is not simply mystical, occult dream-nonsense. It is a living process which, if made into the primary focus of one's physical incarnation, will deliver that one out of the nature-of-death and safely back into the Divine Kingdom.

~ g
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The Pearl Of Great Price

Tribulations, pole shifts, mass landings of spaceships, electro-magnetic pulses, nuclear war, photon belts, "ascension". These are the things that have been associated with the coming end of the Age. For the most part, people are looking for ways preserve themselves and to somehow survive whatever catastrophe is coming.

Six years ago, this writer started this blog in a search for answers. What could we expect? What should we do to prepare? Could we survive what was on the horizon? All sources were examined. Comparisons were made. Scenarios were presented. All was investigation. All was speculation. For indeed, how could one really know?

Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the Pole Shift. This writer discovered the Gnosis. His spirit-spark was ignited. It turns out that the events of these times are not unique, they are cyclical. This is not the first time that mankind has faced a New Beginning, only the latest. Not only was the end of the Age a cyclical occurrence, but a necessary cleansing, as well. Whenever the human condition becomes too polluted, it must be dissolved, re-cycled and started afresh in a new Day of Manifestation.

Why does the human condition become polluted? It is due to wrong-thinking, wrong-feeling and the erroneous use of the will by humanity. When man chooses to go against the fundamental designs of the Logos, when man chooses to not seek the Gnosis, that man, as a personality, will be erased from the microcosm so that the microcosm can generate a new personality. This is the reason for physical death. Why? Because the microcosm is driven to seek and find the Pearl Of Great Price. That "pearl" is the spirit-spark atom that resides in the upper right ventricle of the heart. This divine spark must be awakened so that the True Heavenly Man can be re-born. Beginning this process is the absolute one goal of humanity. It is the reason for why we are here.

The End of the Age and the phenomena surrounding it cannot be stopped. The earth and her inhabitants will be re-cycled. What is important is that we become aware of our True Purpose before the trumpet sounds. If we are successful, we can join the Remnant that is now assembling on the shore. These ones will be brought to safety. This is so because it has always been so.

If we as personalities do not begin walking the Path now, another will have to take our place in order to do it at some far-distant, future time. There is no avoiding this. It is the One Purpose of human manifestation.

This is why the focus of this blog changed so radically a couple of years ago. The search for answers had turned up the Gnosis. Once known, all other natural speculations were answered. All else pales in comparison. The words of the parable finally make sense:

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like the merchant who was seeking good pearls. And when he had found one costly pearl, he went and sold everything he had, and bought it" Matthew 13 : 45-46

Seek first the Gnosis, the spirit-spark within, and all else will be added unto you.

~ g
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The Lightless Prison

It is important to understand that aeons do not force humans to think or act in a certain way. In this nature-order, the human entity always, always has free choice. The old truism states:

"Aeons impel, they do not compel".

The fact that humanity is bombarded by aeonic influences every minute of every day does not absolve us of  responsibility for our thoughts and actions. We cannot use the excuse that "the devil made me do it". In the end, we choose what influences we will respond to, and how.

Weakness or addiction are also invalid as excuses. A weakness for a particular sensation is a karmic or  hereditary challenge that the human entity has to overcome during its incarnation. Aeons will always exploit the path of least resistance in the personality. In other words, if there are "weak spots", in your character, whether emotional or mental, you can be sure that those weak spots will be probed, attacked and stimulated by aeonic forces, until you are impelled to either react or suppress a response.

Suppressing a response is only a temporary solution. The weak spot still exists. All you've done is bury it for a time - like those carnival games of "Whack-A-Mole", where every time you hit a mole, it pops up in another hole. This is what humanity struggles with in the fallen nature-of-death every second of every day.

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Evil is in everyone; it is inherent in the personality. It can command you and it will command you, and unfortunately you will find satisfaction in it as long as you act out of your blood culture. Unless you make every effort to undergo a very radical change, you will remain in this situation which pulls you down and keeps you down.

So man finds himself in the state of captivity described by Paul in Romans 7: 'By virtue of the light that touches me, I turn towards the light and definitely want to do what is good, but the power existing in my blood dominates me, and consequently, I do what is evil'

How can one escape from the grip of one's own blood-type and the ensuing clouding of the consciousness? Hermes' answer is:

"... do not allow yourself to be carried along by the violence of the stream, but let those among you who are able to reach the harbour of salvation make use of the counter-current to put into port.

Look for Him who will take you by the hand and lead you to the gates of the Gnosis, where the clear light shines in which there is no darkness; where no one is drunk, but all are sober and look up with their hearts to Him who wishes to be known.

But listen well: His Voice cannot be heard and His Name cannot be pronounced, nor can material eyes view Him. Only the Spirit-Soul is capable of doing so. That is why you should tear up the garment you are wearing: the fabric of ignorance, the basis of malignity, the fetter of corruption, the lightless prison".

From "The Fetters of the Blood" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Aeons are our creation. They are the accumulated thought-forms of humanity going back millions of years. Because we created them, we share a commonality. Our fourfold physical body is in total agreement with these vibrations. As long as we remain a nature-born being, we will have to contend with the internal struggle between the evil we wish not to do and the good that we want to do.

In order to free ourselves from this cycle of futility, we must live from a new body, composed of ethers not-of-this-world. That is what the Path of Return is about. Gnosis, Transmutation, Transfiguration. This is the road to Freedom.

~ g
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How Aeons Are Formed

Every so often, the re-posting of the following information can prove useful ~ g

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Collectively, mankind constitutes a much larger thinking-desiring organism, and the sum total of the thoughts and desires in the auras of all the people that together make up mankind, interpenetrate and form what might be termed a 'radiation cloud' around the planet. This cloud is replete with the results of all human thinking, feeling and desiring, not only from causes created in the present but also from the past, for thought and astral energy creates certain elemental forms that can and do survive their creator in the flesh. There is, then, clearly an interaction between human beings and the planetary atmosphere; the human beings contribute toward the quality of subtle substance of the planetary aura in the form of mental, astral and etheric matter.

In the beginning phase of man's spiritual descent, or 'Fall from Grace' (the Garden of Eden days) the psychic atmosphere of this world was still virginal, void of these human emanations. However, with the passage of time they came into manifestation and are forever being strengthened by mankind's incessant ignorant and selfish activity.

Now what happens when many hundreds, sometimes many thousands, or even, over time, billions of people continuously project similar selfish or fear-based thoughts and desires (which include religious desires for personal salvation, personal empowerment, personal happiness, etc.)? Just think of the selfish prayers repeated endlessly in the churches; the wild enthusiasm of the crowds at football games; the mass outbursts of passion during blood-stirring political demonstrations or evangelistic speeches; the daily repeated negative suggestions in the media that are supposedly formulated in order to enlighten the masses and the millions of people who are all tuned in to the same violent TV programs simultaneously!

Like attracts like, and the corresponding vibrations thus launched into the atmosphere coalesce to form one great cloud of unwholesome energy. It is an elementary esoteric fact that when, over time, many people fix their minds upon one idea, a mighty astral image of that idea develops. The astral world possesses specific possibilities of reflection. So when the minds of many of us are continually fixed upon one and the same idea, then we shall discover that at a given moment a huge astral image has been generated, which is becoming clear and well-defined, and with which we are connected and in communication because we created it ourselves. It is thus that a collective spirit, a collective idea, a collective thought-form or a collective image is created and continuously fed by people of similar disposition and/or belief.

Over centuries such an image can and does become so fortified that it acquires consciousness and becomes an intelligent, self-directing being; a huge, living, feeding elemental being that has an agenda namely to perpetuate and fortify its own existence and nature. This it proceeds to do by inciting mankind, via mental and astral impression, to continue producing ethers of a like quality on which it can feed, on which it can grow. At first it is an image 'with dead eyes', but the moment comes when this image gains life and begins to hunger for more of the peculiar type of energy that spawned it. This is when it starts actually dominating us, when certain powers radiate from it and when it is even capable of attracting all kinds of undivine forces and of pouring these down onto the people. This is the way in which pseudo-religious beings (false gods) come into being. Such gigantic elemental beings can be and are utilized by the 'archons', entities residing in the subtle worlds who, with selfish and malefic intent, control and manipulate the mass-consciousness of humanity on earth by way of the images that man himself created.

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Excerpted from The New Call / Rare Insights

Habits Of Thought - II

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In our philosophy we speak of a fourfold personality. We would like to approach this fourfold personality in a way entirely different to that so far employed.

Our material body manifests itself in and through a concentrated ether-field. Inasmuch as this ether-field works and acts within our body we speak of the etheric body since we live from and through the ethers. Immediately outside the material body, the etheric body retains the shape of the material body, but soon merges into the field of manifestation or respiration (the auric field).

The mental faculty in the brain is likewise an ether-compound, albeit of a very rarefied composition.

Furthermore, there is consciousness present in the body. It is to be found in the cerebro-spinal system, the serpent-fire column, and we know that this fire of consciousness is ultimately connected with the blood and the nerve fluid. This consciousness, together with the blood and the nerve fluid, is governed by our desire-essence, from which it can be explained.

This desire-essence is thus the inner nucleus of our dualistic, material existence; it is the 'I', the blood-I, the earthly soul. Its seat in the body can be localised as the liver-spleen system. This location is to be understood not merely in a figurative, but also in a literal sense. The liver, the spleen, the kidneys and the adrenal glands plus the solar plexus (the pelvic cerebral centre) form the realm of the blood-I, the desire-being.

Man lives by virtue of the liver, the supreme organ. By its very name we can discern that the original name-givers of some nations knew about this. In the liver-spleen system and its attendant organs, the blood, the nerve fluid, the serpent-fire and thus the entire person is controlled and kept in a certain state-of-being. All those forces and their hormonal effects which cannot be explained out of this nature are therefore removed from the blood in this system!

We stated that the nucleus of the I-being resides in this system. It lies enclosed in the spleen. During our waking state it lies, coiled up as it were, in the spleen, but during sleep it steps outside; the coil unrolls, a cloud-like ribbon appears from the spleen and this cloud forms a figure in the respiration field, namely: the form of the true dualistic man, the desire-being, the true blood-I. This 'I' usually looks quite different from our material form! We would rather not give a description.

You will understand that this desire-being, appearing in the field of manifestation, is completely different from the thought-beings discussed previously. During sleep this, our true dualistic 'I', can withdraw from the material body to a fairly great distance, but by no means as far as the mental body. Once you are aware that all your nightly experiences take place in this desire-being and are absorbed by it, and that this blood-I fully belongs to nature, it will become clear to you why it is quite impossible for it to receive impulses of a liberating nature. The natural  'I' cannot be made receptive to Higher Life. The natural-I must perish, for 'flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God!'.

If for some reason or other we are highly agitated, the I-being leaves the spleen without our knowledge, ready, as it were, to face a potential aggressor.

Besides being the residence of the I-being, the spleen is also the principal entrance gate to the body for ether-forces. The desire-being feeds on these forces, lives from them and thus completely controls the entire bodily system. Finally, the mental phantoms, the origin and behaviour which we described to you, influence the spleen quite substantially. The process connected herewith can be described as follows:

The desire-being impels the brain to use its creative faculties, its mental activity, in accordance with the nature and the needs of the blood-I, thus populating the entire respiration or ether-field of the microcosm with mental beings.

Each of these thought-images form a focus for ether-powers dwelling in the manifestation field and transforms them according to its type. In this way, the ether-field is treated by all these thought-beings in a particular way, and the result thereof is lapped up by the desire-being, the 'I', via the spleen. All these forces circulate as if through a sluice-gate: they enter the body through the spleen and leave it through the liver. Thus we see that the entire process of life serves to feed the desire-being, the blood-being, the 'I' within us. That is the sinister image of our reality!

Now, when you completely survey both the poverty and the fatefulness of all this and consequently comprehend your captivity in every fibre of your being, when all these matters are intensively studied and proven in detail you may cry out: 'For goodness sake, stop it! I know that I live in a prison, but what is the good of measuring and defining its walls and the nature of the confinement right down to the tiniest detail?' Nobody, however, can rise from the grave of nature unless he has experienced to the very marrow the chill of the mortuary in which he 'lives'! No one can tread the Path of Redemption unless he has perceived the ubiquitous breath of death. And no one will behold the Dawn of Eternal Freedom unless he is ready to carry the Cross of Truth through the hours of midnight.

Whoever is not strong enough to bear this should keep away from our work. 'The Gospel of Jesus Christ is solely for the strong', says Paul, and rightly so. And this Gospel begins with the unmasking. If, however, you do indeed taste, like us, the bitter wormwood of the prison, if you are prepared to imbibe the sour vinegar, then we shall lead you to Paul's mystery of salvation, to the method of healing.

'Lo! I tell you a mystery of healing, a mystery of recovery: We shall all be changed! The perishable must put on the imperishable, the mortal must put on immortality; then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in Victory' 

From "The Nature of Human Imprisonment" - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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"Man does not live, he is lived"

Do you believe that you are in control of your thoughts and emotions? You are not. Do you wonder why you do the very thing you hate and then ask yourself "Why did I do that?". The answer is: you think and do the things you do because you are impelled to do them, to feed the desire-being with the ethers it needs to survive. Our desire-being, the blood-I, is a parasite, and we are its unwitting host. Due to our ignorance, our lack of True Knowledge, we live day-to-day, hour-by-hour being victimized by the I-being that controls us.

Until man is confronted with the Truth, until he examines this Truth and verifies it for himself, man will not take the necessary steps required to change his dire circumstance. He will remain a wandering microcosm, lost in disbelief, ignorance, delusion, darkness...and in slavery.

May you accept, understand, but most importantly, utilize the knowledge of this Revelation to begin your walk towards Freedom.

~ g
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Habits Of Thought

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As we have seen, the candidate for new liberating life must first of all form the image of the Immortal, Heavenly, Original Man in the process of sanctification through which he must live. Through a fundamental change of life he must build up this mental conception, this thought-image within his field of respiration.

You probably know that all thought-images created by man are taken up into his field of respiration. Thoughts are things, light flashes, light impulses of the brain. These light rays are compounds of a very rarefied matter which can be detected and even weighed by means of very sensitive instruments. So thoughts are things, real material forms, though of a much more rarefied nature and construction than our gross material bodies. These thought-forms remain within or near their creators' immediate field of action. They unite with thought-forms of the same kind and become more and more powerful thereby. When we do not mentally animate these thought-beings within our field of respiration and they consequently remain at rest, they resemble cloudy accumulations that show a distinct motion like the cloud formations in the air.

If we observe a person from this point of view, we see these thought-clouds appear at the right-hand side of the body, at the height of the waist, then rise above the head, only to descend and disappear at the left side of the body, again at the height of the waist. When observing another person, this circulation appears to be clockwise, while observing the process withing ourselves, the movement appears to be counter-clockwise.

Since they are creatures, living beings, these thought-clouds must be fed. We have to understand that thoughts are living entities of a definite order and class. For their maintenance they depend upon the light-power, the light-matter of the brain from which they originated. These beings will therefore entreat, and if possible, even compel their creators to feed and maintain them with the same thought-power out of which they are created. We would like to fully describe the way in which this coercion is exercised by the offspring of our thoughts.

When a human being succumbs to this completely natural compulsion -- as he does daily, almost hourly -- then we distinctly see forms originate from these mental clouds circulating within the field of respiration, the most expressive external characteristics of which are perhaps the eyes. To the degree in which the form is being mentally fed, its eyes emanate a paralyzing, hypnotizing influence, with increasing force. Hypnotized by his own mental offspring, the person in question is driven to action, to a series of actions, and thereby to complete slavery to his own phantoms.

In this way all of us, in the course of ages, have become slaves of our delusions, of our prejudices and vices which had taken shape in our field of respiration through the working of our thoughts and which we had kept up and fed until they finally began to dominate us. The mode of life which we so often regret and so frequently offer powerless resistance, the mode of life which embitters our life because we become disgusted with ourselves and are in danger of losing all self-respect, is the result of that compulsion proceeding from this circulation of habits of thought, from our mental conception in the field of respiration.

Humanity is ill, mortally ill, a victim of its own creative drive, and there is no earthly man of whom this statement is not true. Because dualistic man, second-by-second, abuses the creative faculty of his brain we mention in such a horrible, chaotic manner -- with all the fatal results associated therewith -- he has often degraded himself below the animal. When the Bible fulminates against the abuse of the holy creative function, it refers to this destructive application of the mental faculty which is subjugated to an almost unbounded desire life and its consequences. Imprisoned within the vicious circle of habits of thought, many people are thus too black and depraved to be touched.

If we fathom our own heart we must admit that, imprisoned in the chain of habits of thought, we have experienced undesired thoughts forcing their way to the surface of our consciousness for unknown reasons, to follow their calamitous course. How many times have we not exclaimed: 'I don't do what I want, but do the very thing I hate!'

What then, is the cause of this disastrous, undesired stream of lower thought life, which escapes our control to an alarming extent?

Generally speaking, the cause is the blood! The desire, the susceptibility for unholy living lies anchored in our blood. Duality is rooted fundamentally in our blood. The passion of the blood forces its way, no matter what. This is a matter of survival for the human animal.

How does this passion, this primal passion, enter our blood? To answer this oppressive question, we must be detailed. The time has come for a more scientific explanation.

From "The Nature of Human Imprisonment" - The Coming New Man - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Precession And The Age Of Aquarius

We measure a day by the rising and setting of the sun. When the sun rises again, we recognize that a new day has begun.

We measure a month by the phases of the moon.

We measure a year by the solstices and equinoxes which occur approximately every 90 days.

We measure a sidereal year by calculating the amount of time it takes for a particular star to appear in the same position over time. Imagine standing on your front porch one night and marking the position of a star. The amount of time that it takes for that star to return to that same position is called a sidereal year. These periods span large amounts of time, typically many thousands of years.

The Great Year

Now imagine standing on your front porch on the morning of the spring equinox (March 21 or so). You will see the sun rise at a particular location. If you stood on your porch at the next spring equinox, you would see the sun rising slightly to the left of where it rose the year before. This motion is called precession, because the position of the sun precedes where it was located the year before. This motion is caused by a peculiar tilt, or nutation, in the rotation of the earth that causes the earth's axis to change its inclination over time. The motion has been likened to what happens to a child's toy spinning-top. When the top begins to wind down, it starts to wobble in a certain fashion. That is a crude, but effective example of what nutation is.

At dawn, the sun rises in a particular zodiacal constellation. There are 12 zodiacal constellations, each takes up 30 degrees of space, as perceived from the earth. 30 x 12 = 360 degrees, a full circle. Scientists and astronomers will argue this, but they are tied to a certain dogmatism by virtue of their earthly educations and indoctrination. Most are atheists and the vast majority have no clue of how this nature-order truly works.

Viewed from the earth, it takes the sun 72 years to appear to move through 1 degree of space, 2,160 years to move through an entire 30 degrees of a single zodiacal sign and 25,920 years to complete a circuit through all twelve signs of the zodiac. This called a Great Year, or Platonic Year.

The Aquarian Age

The 2,160 years that it takes for the sun to transit a zodiacal sign is commonly referred to as an Age. The last three zodiacal ages have been Pisces, Aries and Taurus, in that order (which is the reverse order of those signs. Remember, precession is a backwards movement through the zodiac). The Piscean Age commenced around the time of the Christ, over 2,000 years ago. Hence the frequent references to fish in the New Testament. Prior to the Age of Pisces were the Ages of Aries and Taurus. Again, in the Old Testament, there are countless mentions of rams and lambs (Aries), calves and bulls (Taurus). We are now moving into the Age of Aquarius, the symbol of which is a man pouring out a pitcher of water. In the New Testament, we find reference to this Age in the use of terms like "fishers of men" and "the Son of Man". So, we can see that these zodiacal ages were known to exist by the ancients and were used, among other things, to reference different time periods in ancient literature.

By the way, did you know that the diameter of the moon is 2,160 nautical miles while the circumference of the earth is 21,600 nautical miles? Or that 2,160 is the total number of corner-angle degrees on the surface of a cube? The number 2,160 is a fairly significant gematrian number. 2,160 as well as 25,920 both add up to nine. "9" is the number of completion, as there are no other digits that follow it.

Anyway, i digress. The point of this blog post is this. If we follow the chronology of the ancients, we are 2,160 years removed from the start of the Age of Pisces. Many systems indicate that the Age of Aquarius is slated to begin in 2012. Again, astronomists and scientists will pull out all of their "facts" and gleefully set themselves to the task of de-bunking what has just been written. Again, man's vaunted scientific knowledge is flawed, erroneous and sometimes, flat-out untruthful. Man's current knowldge is mostly based on the crystallized, flawed observations made by ego-driven humans spanning a period of only a few hundred years.

Some say that the Age of Aquarius began in 1950. Others maintain that because the sun will not rise in Aquarius until several hundred years from now (approximately 700 years, to be exact) that we have not entered the Age of Aquarius yet. If this is true, then i submit the following: when does spring begin? Do the trees begin budding all at once on the vernal equinox, like magic? Or haven't you ever noticed that trees and shrubs will begin budding weeks before the official first day of spring? How about autumn? Do trees immediately go gold on September 21st? Or have we not noticed that leaves begin falling from trees around mid-August? The point being made is this: the exact start time of the Age is not what's critical here (except to scientists and astronomers who always require "proof" of a thing before they can support it). When something is just below the horizon, as the dawn of a New Age, we on earth will feel its effects long before it manifests itself in full glory.

According to the chronology of the ancients, including the compilers of the Mayan calendar, The Great Year of 25,920 years will reach a new starting-point on December 21, 2012. On that morning, the Sun will rise in the constellation of Ophiucus, the so-called, "newly found" 13th sign of the zodiac, situated between Saggitarius and Scorpio. The symbol of Ophiucus (which once went by the ancient name Serpentarius) is that of a man wrestling with a serpent. Earth, Sun, Ophiucus and the Galactic Center will be in syzygy (celestial alignment). Powerful energies will be transmitted from whatever is housed in the center of our galaxy, focused through Ophiucus, then through the Sun and on towards the earth. Will anything be felt or experienced by humanity? We will not know until the time comes.

However, it would probably be wise to have one's light-vesture in good order by that time. Fore-warned is fore-armed, you know.

"And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in." Luke 22:10

~ g
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The Etheric Double and Mankind's New Beginning - II

As we are now enmeshed in the ending of a major world cycle, let us try to remember one thing. The world is not going to "end". The world is going to change, or transform.

That said, we will qualify the above statement with the following -- for those who do not adequately prepare for and align themselves with the transformation that is presently taking place among humanity, the world, as they've known it, will indeed come to an end.

The inter-cosmic radiations of the Christ are touching every human entity on planet earth. One of the effects of these radiations is that our etheric vehicles are being conditioned, purified. If we work with these radiations, the results will be positive. We will be assisted in preparing for the storm that is approaching. If we reject or resist these radiations, our light-vesture will not be properly conditioned. We will be "found naked" when the trumpets sound. Many will become agitated and behave in violent, obsessive and foolish ways. There are plenty of examples this occurring every day across the world.

This planet is leaving the dense, material realm. It will continue its evolution on the etheric planes. If you wish to join her in her journey, you will need a proper vehicle. The dense, physical vehicle that we now own cannot function on the etheric plane.We need an etheric body to experience on the etheric plane, just as we needed our current dense, physical vehicle to function on this plane. This is why Jesus told all who would listen that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven".

How do we prepare our etheric double, our Light-Vesture? There is more to it than exercise and healthy food. Our thoughts, feelings and actions must be as pure and unselfish as possible. The continuous purification of our thoughts and emotions will reap greater benefits than any earthly remedy can provide. Treat all others with kindness, compassion and love. Remain objective towards earth-life. Be neither for nor against any thing. Recognize that no matter how alluring, sensational or beautiful earth-life can be, it is still a prison for the soul.

Due to the special circumstances connected with the ending of this major world cycle, a significant portino of humanity has an opportunity to raise their vibration in time for the Harvest. Sadly, not all will take advantage of the Grace being showered upon mankind. In the end, there will be only two groups. Those who will choose to follow the Gnosis, and those who will choose to cling to duality. These latter ones will have their microscosms purged by the astral fire that is to come. They will resume their evolution many millions of years hence, but will have to start from scratch with no memory of who they were. There is no punishment, there is only choice.

Preparation of the etheric vehicle will enable the human to withstand and properly assimilate the transformative energies that are penetrating the earth. Depending upon the level of vibration, those who are prepared will either move on to the New Earth (Lesser Harvest) or will attain Final Liberation from the Wheel of Death and Re-birth, the One Goal of Humanity (this is the Greater Harvest).

Those who do not obtain the Greater Harvest at this time should not fret. Their time will come. On the New Earth, all those who attained Lesser Harvest will be taught how to achieve the One Goal, in a setting of peace and beauty, free of the distractions once brought about by their deluded brothers who walked in darkness on the former physical earth. Because these inter-cosmic radiations retreat and return in cycles, another opportunity for Greater Harvest will come.

Lesser Harvest or Greater Harvest, what is most important is that you make the firm decision to fundamentally reverse your way of life and detach yourself from the things of this world, in order to prepare for the New World. Prepare your etheric double, your Light-Vesture, so that when The Moment arrives, you can safely be taken aboard the Ark which has now formed and is ready to set sail.

New Heaven, New Earth, New Body.

~ g
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The Etheric Double and Mankind's New Beginning

In addition to your dense physical body,  we have an etheric body. The etheric body is often called the vital body, because it is where we derive our physical vitality. It is also referred to as the etheric double, because it is an exact duplicate of our physical body. Actually, it should be said that the physical body is an exact duplicate of the etheric double. The only difference is that the physical body is composed of denser particles.

The importance of the etheric vehicle cannot be understated. Any disturbance or imbalance affecting this vehicle will manifest itself in our physical body. We call these imbalances disease ("dis-ease"). The word itself represents uneasiness. What is it that is uneasy? Our etheric double.

We are surrounded by viruses and bacteria. Why do some people get ill, while others do not? More than likely, the cause lies in the condition of the etheric body. When the etheric double is healthy and vibrating at a high level, we radiate that beneficial auric energy from our hands, feet, head, etc. These healthy radiations vibrate very rapidly. Thus, when we are approached by the lower vibrating energies that compose the virus and bacteria kingdoms, the health aura acts as a repellent or barrier, and prevents these inimical vibrations from entering our auric system.

When the etheric double is vibrating at a low ebb, due to abuse of the physical body, depressive thoughts, negative emotions, stress, etc. the health aura radiates weakly. These weak vibrations are not strong enough to turn away the  ever-present, low-vibrating viruses and bacteria and before we know it, we are "sick".

Humans think that we "catch" disease from others. In a way, we do, but not in the way we've been led to suspect. A sick person can sneeze in our faces as much as he wants. If our vital body is in optimum condition, we can just wipe our faces and move on. We are protected as described above. But if we are around the sick while our own health aura is low and, for whatever reason, we allow our aura to be "infected" by their negative thoughts and feelings or our own negative thoughts and feelings (such as feeling "sorry" for them, fear of "catching" something, etc.) we run a high risk of allowing our etheric body to be attacked by these micro-organisms. This is why the best thing that we can do when we are around the sick is to preserve a positive, cheerful attitude. This keeps our aura vibrating at a high level and we can impart that vitality to our sick friend.

All disease manifests from the inside-out. If we get sick, we should examine our thoughts and emotions. If we are honest with ourselves, we should arrive at the conclusion that we have been harboring negative or stressful thoughts and emotions prior to falling ill. There is an unmistakable connection between our health and the types of thoughts and emotions we entertain.

Let's talk about HIV and other sexually-transmitted diseases. Doctors say that these can be prevented by the use of a condom. These are viruses. They are microscopic. If you look at a condom under a microscope, you will see plenty of holes. How can a condom prevent the transmission of microscopic particles? The only way to prevent the contraction of sexually-transmitted diseases is to not have sex. But since humanity is both ill-informed and hard-headed, we try to find ways to continue to break certain cosmic laws while trying to evade the consequences.

Humans should not be having sex for "pleasure". The sex act was designed for a single purpose: the propagation of the species. It was never meant to be a recreation or an indulgence. But humanity is strong-willed and self-indulgent. Couple this with a complete ignorance of the laws of this nature-order and we inevitably find ourselves suffering the consequences of our reckless actions. Sexually-transmitted diseases are behavior-driven. This means that they can be eradicated only if humanity reverses its behavior as it pertains to the abuse of the sex function.

Deep within, everyone knows this to be true. However, instead of contemplating the issue intelligently, they either lash out at the messenger, or dive ever deeper into their sexual addictions and proclivities. These traits and behaviors are part of our Atlantean heritage. Our microscosms carry within them the seeds of these ancient desires. Life after life, we try to conquer them or at least, to control them, often failing miserably. When we fall into abuse of this sacred creative function, sexually-transmitted diseases will act as a corrective measure, to try and alert the human entity that the consequences for this particular behavior will always be painful, and at times fatal.

The same circumstances apply to any wrong-thinking or wrong-actions that we may commit (smoking, drinking, drugs, impure or violent thoughts, depression, anger, fear, etc.). The effects of these causes will impact the etheric vehicle first, and then manifest in the physical body and its internal organs.

Anyway, the subject of the etheric double and the vitality of the human entity, although interesting and important information, was not the original purpose of this post. That will have to be presented in the next blog post.

~ g
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The Central Position Of The Etheric Body - Part II

"THE human personality has a very complex structure. Apart from the physical body there are also an etheric body and an astral body. Fourthly, there is also a mind, a mental body, which is still in a very elementary stage of development.

The purpose of the gnostic process of development is to give back to the fourfold personality its Original destination as intended by God, and to make it completely subservient to this destination, because only on that basis is Divine-human life possible.

Striving to enter this Divine-human state of life in an uninterrupted flow of new manifestations of life is the essence of the gnostic aim. All of this aims for the unification with the Christ*.

* The Christ is not a man who walked the earth 2,000 years ago and was crucified, but a mighty radiation power that permeates this solar system and is present here and now, surrounding and penetrating every creature and creation on earth. ~ g

No doubt your self-knowledge is great enough for you to experience tangibly the great chasm that stretches between your fourfold personality and the Christ. If you can experience even a the slightest part of this divine greatness, you will feel completely unworthy. Hence, you will know, and see it clearly and distinctly before you, that unification of your fourfold nature-born personality with the Christ is unthinkable. That would mean the burning up of your personality.

And yet, an encounter with this Supreme Power of Liberation can neither be avoided nor postponed. Actions to slow down progress cannot be catered for in the Gnosis' great process of development, because the processes of development of the world and humanity have to continue; they have to run their course as determined by the Logos, with or without the co-operation of the entities concerned.

For this reason the atmospheric changes and developments that are occurring at present form a situation of the greatest urgency for all of humanity. It is of no use for any mortal to try his best to cultivate an aspect of his personality, or to achieve a splitting of the personality*, in the expectation of thus achieving a union with the Most High, because due to the present and future atmospheric developments, all imitations will be completely unmasked.

*"cultivation of the personality" is when people attempt to adjust their behaviour so that they may become as 'cultured', 'refined' or as 'spiritual' as possible, in the hopes that 'being good' will be enough to get them into man's so-called 'heaven'. "Splitting of the personality" is what the occultist trains himself to do so that he can travel in his astral body, fully-conscious, during periods of sleep or trance, while the etheric body remains with the physical body. ~ g

It is therefore necessary to draw your attention once again to your fourfold nature-born personality, and the etheric body in particular, also called the etheric double or vital body, for this vehicle contains the center of gravity of the development in the period that has now commenced.

The present astral atmospheric conditions and the current exchange of the inflowing and outgoing radiations of the Holy Seven-Spirit, of the Gnosis of the fulfilment, force every human being to a very radical re-orientation of his directedness, and a multi-faceted shift of interest, from the physical body to the etheric body. For there, in the etheric double, in the 'vehicle that is in the middle', the nucleus of the liberating conscious has to be anchored.

When we speak in the Spiritual School about soul-rebirth, we mean the creation of a new soul consciousness, emanating from and living in the etheric body.  This consciousness will begin to guide the entire personality, while the matter-born "I" must be fully prepared to entrust itself completely to this guidance. Only then will a total transfiguration of the whole personality be able to begin. The personality is now still held prisoner by all the chains of matter.

The current change of the radiation conditions has consequences not only on the physical plane, as you will understand, but also on the astral and etheric planes. More complicated and more polluted than the physical plane is the etheric plane of life that is populated by myriads of beings. All life and activity in the etheric planes is being hounded by the new radiation values of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, causing all these beings in the tenuous, subtle planes to seek refuge in the physical plane.

On the one hand, we have humanity in which the etheric double is in the process of being viviified, but which, with a few exceptions, is totally unconscious of this vehicle of the personality. On the other hand, there are the forces and powers which are seeking a safe refuge and are swooping down on the developing etheric vehicles of the great masses. This is the only explanation for the senseless crimes being committed in all parts of the world and in all strata of society, apparently without any reasonable explanation.

It is not only great criminality that seeks our attention in this context; it is also all the strange, often illogical and impulsive behavior that takes place on the edge of, or just above, the criminal or at least very questionable sphere.

Now you may be inclined to focus your attention on the criminal elements outside your own immediate sphere. Or perhaps you could think of someone you know closely and who, in your opinion, is behaving strangely, and to whom the above description could very well apply.

But no matter how much your perception of things outside yourself may confirm the urgent distress of humanity -- in the first instance you should include yourself in your perception. For as long as you are not living out of the fire of Divine grace, out of the gnostic astral forces, you are forced, with your disturbed magnetic system, to live out of the astral sphere of death and the ethers that develop from there, with all the resulting consequences. Just like every other human being, you are open to the ordinary dualistic ethers which are saturated with undivine life.

The choice will therefore be quite apparent to the true pupil of the School of the Golden Rosycross. In self-surrender to the soul, he will try to live, work and strive on the basis of the fire of Divine grace and thus serve a two-fold cause:

-- firstly, the New Soul will take shape in him or her, thus in principle liberating the soul,

-- secondly, he will thus become a living stone in the group of the young Gnostic Brotherhood. This group will be strong both inwardly and outwardly and possess a conscious Spirit-Soul.

He or she will testify and prove that everything that humanity still experiences as a time of great distress, can be turned into a Blessing. After all, that is the purpose of the atmospheric developments in the great order of things".

"The Central Position of the Etheric Body" - The Living Word - Catharose de Petri
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The Central Position Of The Etheric Body - Part I

"DUALISTIC life can be completely explained by the astral fire of this world. The mortal soul lives completely out of this fire, as do all nature-born human beings. It is also everyone's experience that this way of living brings only discord, anguish and disillusionment, due to the self-maintenance of the "I".

There can be no way of truly living as originally meant, as long as we do not live, work and strive out of the fire of Divine grace, and as long as we do not enter the Fundamental Reversal ad try to come into harmony with the gnostic-astral force, the fire of Divine grace.

The pupil, who begins to become conscious of this, experiences a kind of anguish that is totally different from the sorrow of the world. This is the anguish that drives the pupil to new knowledge, so that there can be an end to this fundamentally disharmonious state, this apparently endless succession of rising, shining and fading.

This liberating Knowledge, this Science of Liberation for which the pupil longs, is available for everyone. With un-paralleled grandeur this Knowledge has come to dwell among humanity. Everything you need to know lies literally spelled out before you. The question now is, whether you understand this Wisdom, and whether you, having ears, can indeed hear.

In the past, we may have been told of coming events, but at the moment, humanity is in a situation in which drastic changes are occurring in the astral atmosphere and a reaction has to come, be it positive or negative.

For this reason, you should make an effort and should open up completely, not only to hear what is occurring with respect to astral turbulence and change, but also and especially to let your innermost being fathom the inevitability of the consequences. And above all, you should grasp the Helping Hand which is being extended to you again and again.

You need to gain a deep understanding of these changed atmospheric conditions and of what they have to tell you so that in great humility, you will react positively by taking positive action, without delay. If you don't do this, you will lapse into a negative reaction. There is no middle road".

"The Central Position of the Etheric Body" - The Living Word - Catharose de Petri
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Welcome To Hell...May I Take Your Bags?

"Delusion plus delusion remains delusion. The Spirit does not descend into it to associate with it. First, the volcano has to become extinct. The unleashed fire has to burn itself out and cause its own extinction.

However, this does not deny the fact that many divine sparks are imprisoned in unholiness. This is why the Lord of all life, and the Gnosis standing in His service, comes to lead His own out of the burning fire.

The powerful drama of the nature of death is that every human being is led to the consciousness and the experience that he is living in hell. As soon as that consciousness becomes yours in the violent storms of good and evil, and that consciousness is an absolute knowledge formed out of experience, you can make an attempt to seek and find the true state of consciousness in unity with God".

 -- Catharose di Petri --

Should we "accept the world for what it is", or should we "try to make it better"? The answer is neither. We should be looking for a way out of here.

What is hell, anyway? Hell is where the Divine Spirit is not. If we are enamoured of, fascinated by or attached to this life for any reason, that is our way of saying that we want more of this hell. And more we shall have, which is why we've been incarnating on this planet for so many millions of years. That is why only those who are completely through with earthly striving, the highs and the lows, the joys and the sorrows, the beautiful and the ugly, have an opportunity to open the Rose in sincerity and humility. These ones will have a fighting chance at succeeding in obtaining their liberation.

This is why life on earth is so hard. This is why the slightest error brings us so much pain. It is all by design. The hope is that we will get so tired of being beaten to the ground by our experiences in this nature of death that we will one day just throw our hands up in resignation and cry out "Lord, what will you have me do??".

When we have reached that nadir, that low point of surrender, then we will receive a response. Then, the Rosebud, the spirit-spark atom located in the upper right ventricle of the heart, will begin to bloom. From that humble beginning, we can begin to bid farewell to earth-life. We surrender our self-serving, self-focus and effect a complete turn-around in our way of living -- a fundamental reversal. We live to serve others, we pursue true Knowledge, we seek Gnosis.

i can't speak for others, but i've had my fill. It's been real, but i'm done. Enough already.

To hell with Hell. It's time for us to turn and head for Home.

~ g
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A New Heaven And A New Earth - Part II

[QUOTING]

A magnetic law originates in a radiant idea that moves the root-substance of space. And subservient to, and because of that idea, a universe forms in a diversity of shapoes and forces.

When we observe the nature of death, we know that the idea lying at the root of this universe is undivine and can never become divine. For that idea is not good, and therefore its manifestation is not good.If the idea of our universe were divine, an undivine expression in our universe would not be possible.

For this reason you must realize that there is another idea, another Gnosis, and therefore another magnetic field, hence another universe, nearer than hands and feet, existing and moving everywhere whereever the nature of death is not. Not outside and not inside, not above or below, but omnipresent and nevertheless further than the furthest object in space.

Suppose we are together in the same space, and we all have ideas, views of life, and hence modes of life which are all completely different. There is therefore a diofference in nature, in vibration, in magnetic state. Our idea and its results cloud around us, and so each of us lives in his own world, in his own order, while we all exist in the same space at the same time.

We want the awareness to penetrate into you that besides the fundamental law lying at the basis of our dualistic order and of the universe belonging to it, other fundamental magnetic laws exist in the same space at the same time.

The pure, Original Idea of God determines an absolute order and forms a universe. Could that universe not be corrupted and decay? This is impossible, for the radiation fullness of the Idea of God is irresistible and always the same. For this reason, the Divine universe existed, exists, and will always exist.

We are from that universe; we fell from it into another universe by another stimulating idea, and our existence has adapted to it. Thus the Gnosis cannot possibly exist in the nature of death as a manifesting fullness.

But as soon as a fallen human being were to participate again in the Original magnetic field, that Original universe would show itself to him again. For the participation in another magnetic field signifies a different consciousness, a different personality and a different microcosm.

We say to you therefore that there is another earth and another sun, another solar system, another universe. That Original universe is not being created again; it always was; it cannot disappear. It is the same yesterday and today.

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From "A New Heaven and a New Earth" - The Gnostic Mysteries of Pistis Sophia - Jan van Rijckenborgh.