Free Me

"Free me then, O Lord, from the bondage of the body, that I may show others how to free themselves"

~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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Salvation Without Perspiration

The following post is in response to a comment submitted by Graph Ft Cash. The response was too large to fit in the Comments Section. ~ g

My friend,

With all respect due you, the mark is missed only by those who subscribe to the fallacious and erroneous dogma of "Vicarious Atonement", which maintains that the Christ “died for our sins”. This is the Church’s E-Z Path to Salvation, which teaches that because the Christ did all the work, mankind doesn’t have to do anything.

The E-Z Path to Salvation is quite popular with today’s Christians because it relieves them from having to do any work whatsoever. What for? You’re already saved! You’re Heaven-bound! You’re already seated at the right hand of the Father. Your sins were “washed away" 2,000 years ago. All you have to do is go to church once a week, wag your finger at those who don’t, and set yourself up as The Only Sinless Man In The World.

Those who ascribe to such thinking reveal a complete lack of spiritual maturity. If the sins of mankind were “washed away” 2,000 years ago then what is to be done about the sins that mankind is committing in the present-day? Do they not count as sins? Are we given a free pass due to the "sacrifice of the Lamb" 2,000 years ago? If so, maybe that is why we have perpetual war, rapes, murders, child molestations, priestly misconduct, rampant counter-natural sexual behavior, gluttony, selfishness, etc., etc., etc.? Apparently, today's evil acts have all been forgiven-in-advance (Oops, sorry about that knife in your back, buddy, but I have this Free Pass...). Does the Christ have to come back and repeat His sacrifice of 2,000 years ago?

If you are already “sitting at the right-hand of God” then what are you doing here in physical manifestation? Those who are seated at the right hand of the Father “will go no more out”. What are you doing here in this hell?

"The Shedding of the Blood". "The Forgiveness of Sins". "Grace". “Consummatum Est!”. It is apparent that you have absolutely no idea of the true meaning behind any of these concepts. You repeat only what you have been indoctrinated to repeat by your controllers. You adhere tightly to the Church’s interpretation of such concepts and thus accept stones for bread.

You have been lied to, my friend. The nature-born, aeonic Church, which has been the enemy of the Christ since its inception, has blinded you and billions of other well-meaning, earnestly seeking souls with falsehoods, distortions and platitudes; all with the express aim of putting you to sleep spiritually and thereby discouraging you from Seeking and finding the actual Truth. You have been taught that you are already "there", that you have no further steps to take, and that the Church must be the intercessor between you and God.

You are welcome to continue to rest on your unearned laurels, but contrary to what you stated, there is PLENTY of work to be done, by those who recognize that the Christ only paved the way. It is we ourselves who must now locate and travel the Path of Return, the Path that was carefully laid out for us to follow by the Living Example that He set for us, and by the deeper teachings of the gnosis that He gave to His core disciples (“milk for the babes, meat for the strong”).

As for the choice of who this writer will “serve”, that choice has already been made. You do not recognize my choice because you are blinded by the deceptive theology of Churchianity, which is in complete antithesis with the Gnosis, and has been for over 2,000 years.

You characterize salvation as a Free Gift. Free Gift? There may be a Gift awaiting us, but it is certainly not “free”, my friend. Salvation must be earned. Each of us put ourselves into the position that we find ourselves in today. Each of us must find our way out of it. The Christ made things easier for future mankind by taking away a third of the power of the aeons, but the real work He left up to future mankind. This brings to mind an old axiom: “God will work with you. He will not work for you”.

That said, you are where you are and you are comfortable with your spiritual location. You have lost the desire to Seek, and have allowed the Truth to flee from you. Perhaps in some future life, after returning from the sham-heaven of the reflection-sphere yet again, you will finally be successful in finding the Key That Unlocks All Doors.

May you be blessed to someday find the Path that leads to The Good End.

~ g
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The Time Is NOW

This writer may, at times, sound like a man crying in the wilderness. So what. It does not matter how this one is perceived. The Call must go out to all who can receive it. Mankind has been lulled to sleep by the heavy narcotic of earth's pseudo-reality. Man believes that he is alive, when he is, in fact, living-dead.

Man believes this life is reality, when it is, in fact, not real.

Man believes whatever his authorities tell him, because he does not have the insight nor the will to seek answers for himself.

Man rejects the things of the Spirit because he refuses to accept as true that which he cannot see with his physical eyes.. Therefore, man only sees one-half of the Reality.

Man is afraid of so-called death, because he has completely forgotten that there is no such thing as death.

The curtain has fallen on Man's memory. Thus, Man forgets that he is an immortal being, trapped in a mortal world.

Man persecutes and ridicules those who are sent to open his eyes. He has lived in the Lie for so long, the Truth appears as utterly preposterous.

Man does not accept that he can, yea, must escape this world of death. He cannot see what is just over the Horizon, and so, in abject fear, he chooses to remain where he is, rooted to the spot, frozen in terror.

We are here to spread the word to all of mankind, to all Spirit-spark human-beings. Awaken!! Arise from your slumber! There is a World above and beyond this one. It is a world of Eternity, of Love, and of Power. It is a world that you have left behind in a past so far distant that it now seems to be science fiction.

Awaken!! You are being cultivated like cattle, your astral energy is being siphoned off by beings who cannot exist without your unwitting cooperation! Earth's myriad distractions are being used to prevent you from discovering the Path that would lead you back to Safety and Joy!

Awaken!! Why do you think the Christ was terrorized, plotted against and assassinated? Because he said nice things and performed a few magic tricks? No!! It was because he held the Keys to Escape from earth, the prison-world of the aeons. He taught Liberation! To those who would listen and were ready to take that step, he imparted the Gnosis, the True Knowledge of and with God. This Knowledge ensures the destruction of the aeons of this nature. This Knowledge enables the fallen to become Children of God once more.

The Word must continue to be spread. Even if only one Seeker hears and obeys, that is one more fallen Spirit-spark human-being that will be snatched from the clutches of the archons of the aeons. Each time one of us escapes the physical world, the aeons of this nature are weakened, for they are deprived of an energy source.

There are things occurring in our atmosphere that clearly indicate that these Times are hurtling to a close. Like a crucial game of cosmic Musical Chairs, whatever level of vibration your microcosm is at when the music stops is where the next many millions of years of your future evolution will lie. You have the opportunity now to take a giant leap in evolution. Will it be Eternity, or will it be a fall backwards into the Pit, the Pit of Hell known as physical "life".

No one can make this choice for you. Each must choose. Each will have his own result.

The long Cosmic Night is over. The New Dawn is here.

W-A-K-E    U-P.

~ g
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Hold Fast

"The Pupil should not mourn about passing distress and deceptions...often they can effect a direct destruction in his Inner Being. He should always allow the waves of Doubt and Unrest to wash over him, while continuously holding on to the Anchor he has found."

As repeatedly mentioned in this blog to those who have embarked upon the Path: no matter how you fail, or how many times you fail, never give up. That is exactly what the aeons of this nature-order want you to do! Always continue on. Maintain your focus on the Path you have chosen and the Goal that is within reach. You are not unworthy of Transfiguration. In fact, you are eminently worthy of the Divine Promise by way of your lost birthright, which has been found once more.

It is your Destiny to return to the Divine Kingdom as Children of God once more, as Sons of the Fire. You are not fighting to obtain something that you have never had. You are striving to regain that which has always been yours: eternal life in the True, Divine Universe that is not-of-this-world.

The prerequisite for success in this endeavor is to release your attachment to the things of this world, no matter how much they attempt to lure you back into their clutches. Focus your desires on those things which are not-of-this-world. As stated in the Holy Language of all ages, "Wherever your heart's desire is, therein lies your Treasure".

So, hold on.

~ g
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Lost

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Man is not expected to achieve perfection here on Earth, but only to seek it. What is expected of him is a sincere and honest effort without any hypocritical or deceptive reservations. The Divine Design requires that Man make a conscious choice of Right under the constant pressure of temptation to do otherwise. This also leaves man free to choose Wrong.

Man chooses Wrong instead of Right for just two reasons: either it's the easy path of least resistance, or it is the most alluring. Consequently, the Good Religion must first concern itself with establishing strength of character and moral backbone, for these form the only foundation upon which the Palace of Spirituality can be erected.

Long ages ago, Man took the wrong path and was led astray still further by guides with insufficient knowledge of The Way. They knew the general direction, but their maps were faulty. Now Man is lost in the swamps of spiritual bitterness and the marshes of moral decay. His vision cannot penetrate the thick mists of mortal and material illusions which have closed in upon him. He has lost all confidence in his guides and feels betrayed, abandoned and lonely.

The Lost Wayfarer must be revived with a draught of moral courage. He must be strengthened and revitalized with a belief which gives him spiritual backbone. The religions which pander to the weak characters, to the meek and servile, the ignorant and unthinking, must be discarded. Man must be given what he needs, not what he deserves. He must be taught the Meaning and Purpose of Life, so that he no longer wastes it.

He must know that whatever befalls him on Earth is either decreed or the result of his own actions, but that it may be utilized to his benefit elsewhere. Now, as always, Man is taught to seek inspiration outside of himself. In the Light of the New Dawn he must be taught to seek his inspiration from the Divinity within himself.

From the Book of Wisdom: Chapter 21 - The Kolbrin

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Signs Of The (End) Times

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A Roman soldier who hailed from Gaul spoke up, saying, "It is foolishness and futile to set one against the other, for men cannot write with swords, or fight with quills or writing reeds. Let men become brothers, as they await the day of The Awakener. Tell me good Master, when shall the end be?"

Jesus answered, "There will be an end to the Beginning and men will know this by the spirit of the times. Men will no longer be as brothers, nor will they be manly. Women will be as men as men will be as women. Adultery will not be condemned, nor will fornication, therefore they will flourish. Men will not honor their homelands and there will be no discrimination among them. Fathers will not be honored, nor mothers respected, and children will be raised to be wayward. Perversions will be encouraged and criminals will mock the law.

There will be incest and rape and it will be unsafe to walk abroad. Floods, famines, droughts and earthquakes will cause death and destruction. Strange sicknesses will smite the people  and there will be a denial of God. Babes will be slain in the womb.

Men will lust after the wives of other men and marriage shall lose its meaning. Women will go to the marriage table unchaste and with deceit in their hearts. Their husbands, creatures of pity, will hear the mocking voices of laughing men. Priests will defile their altars with their impurity and rulers will be held in little repute. It is not God who marks the end days, but Man, who lives as though setting a pitfall for himself."

Chapter 3 - Jesus (Part 2) - The Britain Book - The Kolbrin

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Spot-on.

~ g
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Doomsday Survivors

That's what we are.

The Earth has experienced many cataclysms in her past. These were calamitous global events whose purpose was to eradicate all evil from the material-sphere and the reflection-sphere. In cyclic fashion, both Earth-planes are cleansed, and returned to a pristine state for a period of time. Gradually, Man's erroneous thinking once again pollutes the twin-spheres of the Earth to the point where they must be swept clean again. Destruction, then renewal; destruction, then renewal. This is the pattern.

Prior to the end of the destruction phase, a Remnant is always segregated from those who are to perish. The Remnant is made up of those who have kept God's Laws, who are walking the Path of the True Way, or who are earnestly attempting to do so. These ones are warned in advance and a place is prepared for them. The Holy Language refers to this place of refuge as an 'ark'. Those on the Path with knowledge of these things will know that the 'ark' is a symbolic reference to locations such as Shamballa, also known as The White Island and The Imperishable Sacred Land.

We can be fairly certain that we are not a part of the remnant that was saved from the prior destruction. If we were, we wouldn't be here. It is more likely that we are among those who perished, those whose microcosms were wiped clean in order to enable us to begin again. The Remnant are removed from the physical plane. Its members will return to the physical plane only if doing so is in the best interests of fallen mankind, or if there is a specific task that needs to be performed for the benefit of humanity.

Thus, we are doomsday survivors. We have experienced repeated end-time scenarios, have had countless confrontations with The Destroyer, and have continuously failed to learn the lesson put before us. Slaves to our unholy self-will, we have stubbornly failed to make the Liberating Choice.

We are now at the end of yet another World-Cycle. We are once again facing a Choice between True Life and Living Death. Will we choose to remain bound to the Earth and hypnotized by all that it has to offer, both 'good' and 'bad'? Or will we make the Right Choice, the One Choice, the Only Choice, and seek the Path that will lead us out of Darkness and back into the Light?

~g
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Resolutions To Keep Along The Way

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My duty is to learn and understand the Holy Writ, so that I may direct my children by its Light. I acknowledge that only by example can I be a true and worthy exponent.

The faith I hold shall not be something imprisoned within my thoughts, but something lived and expressed in deeds. I give thanks for the knowledge that I am a Living Soul, but I know full well the responsibility I bear towards my Future Being. I will not be a disgrace to the Earth when I pass to the Greater Realm beyond.

I shall not seek to blame others for my own failures. I shall be ever-mindful of the good things in Life and be grateful for them. I shall suffer adversity and affliction with fortitude, rising above them and not cringing before them like a dog under the stick of his master. Doubts, fears, unnatural desires and inhuman urges may lurk along my Path, like forest demons which waylay those who travel, but I shall overcome them.

I recognize that my Soul and Body compete for satisfaction of their separate desires. I know that each day the Body dies a little, that every day draws it nearer to the Dark Shore. Therefore, I will follow the precepts of Prudence, and each and every day will be a step forward in the awakening of my Soul. I shall not punish my True Self for the sake of a decaying body.

I will live in the Light as revealed in the Holy Writ, the Written Light as revealed to the Brothers of the Book.

From "The Book of the Sons of Fire - Chapter 18 - The Masiba Amendments" - The Kolbrin

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A Portion Of Time

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Read, O children of the Unborn Years, and absorb the wisdom of the past, which is your heritage. The enlightening words from the past, which is to you, in days so far away and yet, in Truth, so near.

We are taught that we live forever, and this is true, but it is equally true that no moment of life must be wasted; for each hour and day on Earth is a shaping for the future. We are the inheritors of a portion of time, we can dissipate it on futile things or utilize it to our everlasting benefit.

In the days of our fathers, before barren teachings clogged the thoughts of men, and vain formal ritual built a wall which obscured Understanding, men walked in the light of the Truth. Then they knew that there was One God alone, but because they allowed their higher abilities to fall into disuse, they saw less clearly. Because He appeared in different aspects, they thought He was many.

Now, in our days, God has many varied forms in the eyes of men and each declares he alone knows the true name and likeness of God. Here all men fall into error, though all have spoken truly according to their understanding. But Truth can never bow to the limited understanding of man, the comprehension of man must expand to grasp it.

From "Chapter 3 - Flood of Atuma" Book of Gleanings - The Kolbrin

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The Frightener

Artist's depiction of The Destroyer

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I am the prophet to tell men of The Frightener, though many generations will pass before it appears. It will be a thing of monstrous greatness arising in the form of a crab, first its body will be red, then green, then blue. It will spread destruction across the Earth, running from sunrise to sunset.

It will come in the Days of Decision, when men are inflicted with spiritual blindness, when one ignorance has been replaced with another, when men walk in darkness and call it Light. In those days, men will yearn after pleasure and comfort , they will go down roads of ease, encouraged by women incapable of inspiring them towards The Upward Path.

There will be disbelief in spiritual things, but this will proceed from ignorance, it will be a thing of the lips, for disbelief is not in the heart and nature of man. No matter how much a man cries out his disbelief, in times of turmoil, in strange and unfamiliar surroundings, when frightened by the unknown, he turns to spiritual things for comfort and strength.

In the days of The Great Conflict do not pray that the Supreme Spirit be on your side, this would be a futile waste of time. Pray, rather, that you be on the Right Side, the side of the Supreme Spirit.

Hear my voice, for I tell of things to come. There will be no great signs heralding the coming of The Frightener, it will come when men are least prepared. It will come when they seek only worldly things. In those days, men will be falling away from manliness and women from womanliness. It will be a time of confusion and chaos.

I have warned of The Frightener. I have done what I am charged to do.

From "Teachings of Elidor - 6" - Book of the Silver Bough: Chapter 7 - The Kolbrin

Then came the day when all things became still and apprehensive, for God caused a sign to appear in the Heavens, so that men should know that the Earth would be afflicted, and the sign was a strange star.

The star grew and waxed to a great brightness and was awesome to behold. It put forth horns and sang, being unlike any other ever seen. So men, seeing it, said among themselves, 'Surely, this is God appearing in the Heavens above us'. The star was not God, though it was directed by His design, but the people had not the wisdom to understand.

Then God manifested Himself in the Heavens. His voice was as the roll of thunders and He was cloaked with smoke and fire. He carried lightning in His hand and His breath, falling upon the Earth, brought forth brimstone and embers. His eye was a black void and His mouth an abyss containing the winds of Destruction. He encircled the whole of the Heavens, bearing upon His back a black robe adorned with stars.

Such was the likeness and manifestation of God in those days. Awesome was His countenance, terrible His voice of wrath, the sun and the moon hid themselves in fear and there was a heavy darkness over the face of the Earth.

"Book of Creation - Chapter 4 - Affliction of God" - The Kolbrin

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Celestial object captured on Google Sky

~ g
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The Reality Of The Unreality

"All changes. The world is an illusion." - The Treatise On Resurrection - Nag Hammadi Library

That which is Real is permanent. It is eternal and does not perish. This is what establishes its Reality.

That which changes is Unreal. It is temporary, subject to perishability. Its impermanence is proof of its Unreality. If something is here one moment and then gone or changed in the next moment, that thing is an Illusion. Any magician can attest to that fact.

The material-sphere falls within the realm of Illusion. It is not Real, as it does not meet the definition of Reality. This can be proven by making the simplest of observations.

A ripe fruit falls from a tree. No matter how one may try to preserve it, eventually that fruit will fall victim to the natural process of decay and disintegrate into its constituent atoms. The fruit was never Real.

A child is born, delicate and small. Immediately, it embarks upon unceasing changes of the body, from infant, to adolescent, to young adulthood, etc., eventually reaching old age. Where is the child that was born? It no longer is, for it has changed. The child was never Real.

The reflection-sphere, the so-called 'heaven-world', which is, in fact, simply a temporary home for the so-called 'dead', is also not Real. After death, the physical body is dropped, but the etheric, astral and mental bodies continue on to travel through the different levels of the reflection-sphere. As the remains of the personality approach each higher level, a vehicle is dropped: the etheric body dissolves prior to entering the astral realm, because the etheric body cannot thrive in the astral realm due to incompatibility of vibration. The astral body is dropped as the remains of the personality approach the mental realm, finally, the mental body is dropped at the doorstep of the causal plane. Divested of the subtle bodies, all that remains of the physical personality are the permanent atoms, which store the experiences, attributes and karma of the personality.

Eventually, unfinished business on the earth-plane, karmic debts and/or desire for the sensory stimulation of physical life will prompt the microcosm to adopt a new personality, which will be inserted into the physical realm via the agency of childbirth. Thus, the circle is closed and the process of Rising-Shining-Fading begins anew. The Wheel of Death and Rebirth rolls on. This illustrates the temporal nature of the "eternal heavenly reward" that the churches pound into the heads of their blind sheep. It is not permanent. It is not Real.

The physical Earth serves as a home for human life-waves for a cycle of time. At a given point, the Earth is destroyed, not as an act of terror or punishment, but as a farmer would plow under his fields to prepare them for a new season of growing. Everything about the Earth is in a state of constant change. Earth-life is, in essence, an illusion.

So, what is Real? What is Lasting? What is Permanent?

There is a Kingdom above our Physical Realm, in which Imperishability is the hallmark. There is no death there. There is no decay. There is no endless cycle of Rising-Shining-Fading. This Divine Realm is. It lives in the womb of Eternity. There is only an eternal process of evolution, of moving from power to power, and from glory to glory.

This is where we, as spirit-spark human-beings, emanated. It is to this realm that we must return. The Path of Return provides us with the method and the way.

All those who accept and nurture the power of the Gnosis - the Christ-power - are granted the ability to become Children of God again.

Again.

~ g
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Starting Over

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We live in a field of genesis in which the Original, pure fiery astral forces still go on performing their task. However, through the misuse of astral forces of which all dialectical mankind is guilty, there comes a point when the earth's astral sphere becomes so dark, so full of devilishness, so laden with absurdity and depravity, and the material-field of life degenerates into a region of so much blood and tears, that it can no longer be tolerated. For what develops in the astral sphere must manifest itself on earth.

And when you become involved with a particular astral force, this has to manifest itself in your life and in your body. The result is that, in the end, the earth, the creation-field of the World, has to be thoroughly purified, right from the astral sphere to the material sphere. All microcosms present in it are then emptied of their uncleanliness and brought into a state of forgetfulness. All microcosms are divested of their karma. They have to begin anew; for the Logos does not forsake the work of His hands.

In this way, the Original, embryonic process of genesis can take place again, right from the beginning. How much time can be lost in this way! But nevertheless, thanks be to God, each new microcosmic re-animation represents a new opportunity for the entity concerned.

From "Black Demonism" The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Drinks Are On Hermes

After so much harm has been inflicted upon the human race,
I, Hermes, being the Primordial Fount,
Flow forth here as a Healing Remedy,
According to Divine decree
And assisted by The Art.

Let him who can, drink of Me.
Let him who will, cleanse himself in Me.
Let him who dares, stir Me.

Drink, brothers, and Live.
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Radiation And Rebirth

If one has any doubt about the ability of a Divine radiation, the Gnosis, to penetrate and awaken the power of the latent, sleeping Divine Spark, perhaps the following may be of help.

The key word in the previous sentence is the word 'radiation', the definition of which, follows:

Radiation

a.the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves.
b.the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body.

Every second of every day we are bombarded with multiple radiations. Some of these radiations we absorb and assimilate, with or without some measure of difficulty or dis-ease. Other types of radiation pass through us without notice.

At this very moment scores of different types of radiation are streaming through your physical, etheric, astral and mental bodies. There are the more mundane ones, such as radio, telephone and wireless transmissions. Then you have etheric, astral and mental radiations emanating from the light-vestures of incarnate human-beings and from entities beyond-the-veil. Beyond that, you have inter-cosmic radiations from planetary bodies and star systems.

Yes, the stars do emit energies and these energies find their way to you. You cannot 'feel' them the way that you 'feel' the light that comes from our nearest star, the Sun, because you do not yet have senses that are attuned to detect and inform you of such subtle radiations. This does not mean that these radiations do not have any effect on you, the human-being. It just means that you are presently unaware of their influences or their origins.

From planetary systems and star-systems we can extend this phenomena to include the influences of nebulas, quasars, supernovas, galaxies and higher planes of existence. Cosmic Domains above our 7th also radiate energies to us. It is from these higher densities of the All-Manifestation that the pure Christine radiations originate.

Here on earth, humanity is immersed in these radiations. This is especially true now that we have reached the end of a major world-cycle. A cosmic revolution is taking place that is pouring unprecedented quantities of this Divine radiation upon mankind. This is the Age of Aquarius, the symbol of which is that of a man with a pitcher, pouring out Living Water.

'It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh...' Acts 2:17

The radiations of the Gnosis surround and interpenetrate all microcosms. Some may ask: if this is so, then why isn't all of humanity on the Path? It is because man does not properly utilize these energies for the purpose they were intended for. A Divine energy cannot be harmoniously assimilated by an un-divine personality. There is but one way for a personality to trap and make use of these Divine radiations. He or she must awaken the only part of them that has an affinity for these Divine radiations. He or she must awaken the sleeping Spark in the center of the microcosm, the Divine Atom that is aligned with the human heart.

If one can succeed in experiencing this special awakening, the Divine radiations will then have a place to go. They will no longer pass through the human-being or cause disruption to the human system. Instead, a process begins whereby the amount and quality of these radiations will increase and take up residence in the microcosm. If the candidate is aware of the requirements of the Path and consciously walks it, the Gnostic light-power will begin its work of transforming the astral, mental and etheric bodies. The light-vesture of the candidate will undergo a gradual purification. The weaving of the Golden Wedding Garment will be the final result. With this garment, the candidate will be able and prepared to meet the Bridegroom.

To "meet the Bridegroom" simply means that the reborn Soul will reunite with Spirit, which is the prerequisite for the ultimate transfiguration of the microcosm.

~ g
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What Will You Do With This Life?

What do you do with the life that you have received?
Do you give it back, after the allotted years,
Crippled,
After working, eating, drinking, 'happiness',
After the Game of Good and Bad Fortune?
And you end up Unconscious,
Just as you began?

Or do you dare
To take the Upward Journey?
Wearisome, perhaps, but certain step-by-step
Of being conscious in Spirit, Soul and Body
Through Will, Wisdom and Activity.
In accepting everything
While knowing that nothing is without meaning.

Say farewell in Seven Spirals
Constantly more sublime,
By which, unknowing, the Straight Path appears
For the Spiritual Being whom you truly are,
Who, above dying nature
Enters into the Fields of Birth,

So Giving
Is Living.

The Utimate Question

What do you do with the life that you have received?
Do you give it back, after the allotted years,
Crippled,
After working, eating, drinking, 'happiness',
After the Game of Good and Bad Fortune?

And you end up Unconscious,
Just as you began?
Or do you dare
To take the Upward Journey?
Wearisome, perhaps, but certain step-by-step
Of being conscious in Spirit, Soul and Body
Through Will, Wisdom and Activity.

In accepting everything
While knowing that nothing is without meaning.
Say farewell in Seven Spirals
Constantly more sublime,
By which, unknowing, the Straight Path appears
For the spiritual being whom you truly are,
Who, above dying nature
Enters into the Fields of Birth,

So Giving
Is Living.

Atrocity And Detachment

Atrocities across the globe are coming so fast now that it is almost impossible to keep up. Awful doings have become so commonplace that there is no time do anything but careen onwards from one nightmarish act to the next.

This is how evil looks when it is thrashing about in a final, desperate attempt to maintain its foothold on Earth. As a result, susceptible human-beings are being influenced to commit the most heinous crimes imaginable.

During this time of the end, it becomes even more important for those who are on the Path of Return to distance and disassociate themselves from these proceedings. If one gets caught up in the ongoing horror, one runs the risk of becoming attached to outcomes and circumstances. This can serve to arrest one's progress and may leave him rooted to the spot, paralyzed by fear and anxiety, unable to move.

Recognize that this is how it always is at the end of a major world-cycle. Evil will have its day, as the sheep are being separated from the goats. Through it all, one must maintain one's objective detachment. Remain a neutral observer. Do not allow these events to bring you down or dampen your resolve. Let them pass you by, like petals blowing in the wind.

~ g

Delay Not

Man should not assume that he has an eternity to choose the Path of Return ~ g

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As to those who are indifferent, thinking that they have many births before them and need not hasten, the Master bids the disciples:

"Preach ye unto the whole world, saying unto men: 'Strive together that ye may receive the Mysteries of Light in this time of stress, and enter into the Kingdom of Light. Put not off from day to day, and from cycle to cycle, in the belief that ye will succeed in obtaining the Mysteries when ye return to the world in another cycle.

"Such men know not when the number of Perfect Souls [shall be filled up]; for when the number of Perfect Souls has been completed, I will then shut the Gates of Light, and from that time none will be able to come thereby, nor will any go forth thereafter, for the number of Perfect Souls shall be completed, and the mystery of the First Mystery be perfected -- the mystery by which all hath come into existence, and I am that Mystery.

"From that hour no one shall any more enter into the Light, and none shall come forth, in that the time of the number of Perfect Souls shall be fulfilled, before I set fire to the world, that it may purify the aeon, and veils, the firmaments, and the whole world, and also all the matters that are still in it, the race of humankind being still upon it.

"At that time then, the Faith shall show itself more and more, and also the Mysteries in those days And many souls shall pass through the cycles of transmigrations of body and come back into the world in those days; and among them shall be some who are now alive and hear Me teach concerning the consummation of the number of Perfect Souls, [and in those days] they shall find the Mysteries of Light and shall receive them. They shall mount up to the Gates of Light, and shall find that the number of Perfect Souls is complete, which is the Consummation of the First Mystery and the Gnosis of the Pleroma; they will find that I have shut the Gates of Light, and that from that hour no one can come in or go forth thereby.

"Those souls will then cry within through the Gates of Light, saying: 'Master, open unto us.' And I will answer unto them, saying, 'I know not whence you are'. And they will say unto Me, 'We have received the Mysteries, and we have fulfilled all Thy doctrine; Thou didst teach us on the High Ways.' And I will answer unto them, saying: 'I know not who ye are, ye who have practiced iniquity and evil even unto this day. Wherefore go [hence] into the Outer Darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth."

The Christ, speaking through Jesus, discourses with His disciples, eleven years after the Resurrection - The Pistis Sophia / The Books of The Savior - translated by George.R.S. Mead

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Too little, too late.

Be reminded that the Banquet has been prepared. The Bridegroom awaits. The Doors to the Hall of Eternity have been thrown wide open. Come all who may, for when the Banquet Hall has been filled, these Doors shall close.

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From Suffering To Seeking

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People generally protest against suffering, and the world does everything possible to neutralize and alleviate it. But for most people, suffering is the only method of making the nature-born consciousness, which is governed and colored by a wicked and undeveloped soul-state, realize that something is wrong. For the soul-state overshadows and controls the entire personality, the whole being.

Anyone who has gone through Experience -- and everyone does that in the nature-of-death -- will begin Seeking sooner or later. As soon as the Seeking life begins, the person concerned ought to begin, in the heart, to struggle against the soul-state. The moment he does so, all kinds of voices will speak to him, reactions to all the radiations and influences which until that time played a role in the heart-sanctuary and thus are on the same level as the natural soul-state. Initially, all those voices urge the candidate to try out various social, political, ethical or natural-religious experiments, with which the world is full and which are intended to make him realize the ultimate pointlessness of all efforts on the dialectical level.

And so it will come about, whether after ten years or a thousand years, or even after a sidereal year*, that a person becomes mature enough for his life to take a different direction. Then the moment dawns when gnostic reason begins to speak to him, to a certain extent. It points in the Only Direction that can lead to a solution to all problems, the direction of the soul-state, the state of the heart.

* The 25,920 years that it takes for the Sun to cycle through all twelve signs of the zodiac. Also known as the Platonic Year and/or The Great Year.

From "The Alteration of the Soul-State" The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. 4 - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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One cannot be forced to walk the Path, even after one has become aware of its existence. No one is ready until they are ready. If there are things of this world that still hold one's attention, that one will find it difficult to let go and begin walking a path of I-demolition and self-surrender. This is why detachment is such an important part of the Path.

The Cup of Experience must be quaffed down to the last drop. One must become completely sick and tired of being sick and tired. Both the material-sphere and the reflection-sphere have to have lost their glamour and allure before a Seeker will turn away and begin to yearn for a way out. Usually, the only way for a person to reach this nadir is through a lengthy and fruitless "pursuit of happiness".

Suffering plays a key role in this. Through constant disappointment, pain and sorrow, man is persistently beaten down and made to know that "You cannot win this game, O man. The game is tightly rigged and it is rigged against you". Man sees this truth but refuses to believe that it is so. Thus, he continues to beat his head against the stone wall of earth-life, suffering, suffering, suffering; hoping all the while that "This time, things will turn out differently!".

As van Rijckenborgh states, it may take a longer or shorter period of time, but at some point, a person will weary of the shell game known as earth-life. Perhaps at that point, in desperation and surrender, the heart will cry out for Liberation from this nature-order. Then the Gnosis will come to greet him or her.

Until then, suffer.

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Seven Key Principles

The following are excerpted from The Hermetic Kybalion ~ g

I. The Principle of Mentalism

"The ALL is Mind; The Universe is Mental."

II. The Principle of Correspondence

"As above, so below; as below, so above."

III. The Principle of Vibration

"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."

IV. The Principle of Polarity

"Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; Like and Unlike are the Same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."

V. The Principle of Rhythm

"Everything flows, out and in. Everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."

VI. The Principle of Cause and Effect

"Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of Causation, but nothing escapes the Law."

VII. The Principle of Gender

"Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."

These are seven very important principles. They are explained in further detail in the above link. It would be helpful for the Seeker to understand these principles. Here is a bit from the section on the Principle of Vibration:

"This Principle explains that the differences between different manifestations of Matter, Energy, Mind, and even Spirit, result largely from varying rates of Vibration. From THE ALL, which is Pure Spirit, down to the grossest form of Matter, all is in vibration–the higher the vibration, the higher the position in the scale. The vibration of Spirit is at such an infinite rate of intensity and rapidity that it is practically at rest–just as a rapidly moving wheel seems to be motionless. And at the other end of the scale, there are gross forms of matter whose vibrations are so low as to seem at rest. Between these poles, there are millions upon millions of varying degrees of vibration."

Recommended.

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