From Animal-Being To Soul-Being

"Nature-born man has the same bodily principles as every other animal. Every human-being lives and acts like an animal, each one according to his type. An animal feeds on what it can find, disregarding the lives of others. Natural man is no exception in this regard, although in contrast to other animals, he can think and speak and thus rule over them.

In a threatening and hostile world, natural man cannot help but submit automatically to what is called "culture". But however civilized he may be, whether he has a title before or after his name, whether he lives life with a smile or with a tear, with money or without, he remains, as a nature-born man, an animal-being.

In this animal state-of-being you are called by the Gnosis. Why? Because all of you have the possibility of emerging from your animal condition. This possibility arises from the fact that there is a Divine, incorporeal principle in the center of the microcosm that surrounds you. This Divine Principle corresponds with your heart.

If you want to discover this Principle, which we call The Rose, the proto-atom or the Christ-atom, you will have to devote your whole I of nature, with all it is and possesses, in self-surrender - that is, with absolute dedication, deep interest and intense longing - to the center of your microcosm, the Christ-atom. Only in this way will the True Immortal Soul be born.

You will change from a being of nature into a Soul-being. If you follow the path of the Soul-being with persistence, seriously accepting all the consequences; if the being of nature provides proof of having merged into the Soul-being, this Soul-being will be granted the Spirit-Soul, Pymander, the God-Man Principle, the Holy Grail.

From "Oneness (II)" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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How To Kill The "I"

Endura (definition)

The path of I-demolition, the path of the last golden death through the self-surrender of the "I" to the Immortal Man, the 'Christ in me'. It is the path of the Johannine man, 'who makes straight the paths. The endura is a voluntary 'dying' to realize True Life. It is putting into practice the words: "He, the heavenly Other One, must increase, and I must decrease, so that the heavenly Other One will live in me."

From Glossary - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol III - Jan van Rijckenborgh

The "I" is who we are. It is built from the substances of this nature-order and is thus in complete harmony with this nature-order.

The "I" believes in the illusion that it is a separate entity, that it has no true connection with other "I"s.

The "I" will defend and protect its illusive separate existence to the bitter end. It considers all other "I"s to be a threat to its illusive separate existence unless those other "I"s are in complete agreement with it.

The "I" will never willingly consent to being eradicated, as the Universal Gnosis informs us must be done in order to move towards Transfiguration and Liberation. It will resist all attempts to eliminate its influence over the personality.

The Path of Return demands that the candidate who has awakened the Rose of the Heart must proceed to undergo the endura. The main purpose for this process of I-demolition is to make way for the New Man that is being born within the microcosm. But how does one effect this erasure of the "I" when the "I" is well aware of what is going on? The "I" is very cunning and will pretend to help one to walk the Path. If the candidate is not attentive, he or she will be deceived into thinking that they have accomplished the endura when in fact they have done nothing but subjected themselves ever more securely to the control of their "I".

Here is the best way to decrease the influence of the "I":

Focus on doing things for others, and not for yourself.

When you are unselfishly serving and helping others, you don't have time to think about your own worries, concerns or fears. Focus away from the self and inexorably, slowly, the influence of the "I" will wane. This is what lies behind the call to live a life of service-to-others.

To neutralize the self, focus away from the self.

~ g
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The Spirit-Soul

The aim of the Path of Return is to lead the yearning Seeker out of the physical world and back to the Divine Kingdom. By virtue of their significantly different frequency ranges, these two realms do not touch. They are separated by a veil, a border-region that cannot be crossed without help.

In order to return to the Divine Kingdom, one's microcosm must vibrate in a range that will allow the entity to experience that realm. But our microcosm is fallen, broken. It vibrates in harmony with this physical nature-order, it is of the earth, earthy.

Soul

The personality that inhabits one's microcosm is composed of several bodies: physical, etheric, astral and mental. Together, these four bodies combine to form the mortal soul. The key word there is mortal, because at some point after the death of the physical body, the three remaining subtle bodies will also gradually and inevitably meet their end. So, man has a soul, but it is a mortal soul, subject to death.

Spirit

As for Spirit, man is disconnected from Spirit. We know this to be true, because Spirit is of God, is God. The majority of the human life-wave is not consciously connected to Spirit. The proof is in the pudding. If humans were connected with Spirit, which is linked with God, humans would manifest God's works in the physical realm. We can look about us and see that this is not the present case.

New Soul

Walking the Path in true humility, self-surrender and with a deep yearning to obtain The Good End will fuel an alchemical process within the candidate's microcosm. A New Soul will be born within the microcosm, coterminous with the old mortal soul. The old mortal soul will decrease in influence as the New Soul grows and establishes itself. It is the New Soul that must be purified so that it can fulfill its special function.

The primary function of the New Soul is to link up with Spirit, to "meet its Pymander", in the words of the Corpus Hermeticum. When the purified New Soul connects with the Divine Spirit, the Spirit-Soul becomes a reality. The microcosm now has what it needs to complete the task of Transfiguration.

~ g

Spirit-Soul (definition)

The path of the endura, the path of pupilship of a gnostic Spiritual School, has as its aim to awaken the true, immortal soul from its latent condition. As soon as this soul arises from its Sleep of Death, its link with the Universal Spirit, with God, is restored. This restored connection between Spirit and Soul, between God and Man, is demonstrated in the glorious resurrection of the Other One, the return of the True Man to the House of the Father. The Soul that is able to celebrate this link, the union with what the Egyptian Arch-Gnosis calls "Pymander", is the Spirit-Soul. It is the union of Osiris (Spirit) with Isis (the Soul), of Christ with Jesus, of the Father with the Son, the alchemical wedding of Christian Rosycross, the marriage of the heavenly Bridegroom with his heavenly Bride.

The presence of the Spirit-Soul necessitates a heart sanctuary completely emptied and purified of every nature-born influence and activity, and vibrating in harmony with the Spirit-Spark atom. Only in such a purified heart can a meeting with God, the Pymandric consciousness, take place. The Spirit-Soul is the nuclear radiation of the Monad (the Divine Spark) which comes to ensoulment within the heart of material man.

From The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

Bridging The Vibration Gap

Between the Sixth Cosmic Domain (Cosmic Astral Plane) and the Seventh Cosmic Domain (Cosmic Physical Plane) there exists a gap in vibration. The highest vibrational frequencies of the  Seventh Cosmic Domain reach about 700 terahertz (that's 700 trillion hertz). This is in the ultra-violet range.

The lowest frequencies in the Sixth Cosmic Domain (the Divine Kingdom) reach about 800 trillion hertz. Between these two Cosmic Planes lies a gap of about 100 trillion hertz. This gap presents an obstacle to those humans who are striving to escape the physical plane. It works as a barrier, a ring-pass-not.The astral bodies of the vast majority of human-beings come nowhere close to vibrating as high as 700 Thz.

This is why, during this ending-cycle, human-beings are being urged to "raise your vibration". There's a functional need to do so, if one wants to move towards Liberation.

Periodically, according to Cosmic Law, the vibrations of the Divine Kingdom - the Sixth Cosmic Domain - are lowered, stepped down, as it were. They are lowered to a level that enables the lowest plane of the Sixth Cosmic Domain to blend and mix freely with the highest regions of the Seventh Cosmic Domain. It behaves sort of like a temporary bridge, built to last long enough to enable those who wish to escape from matter to do so.

This "gap" is a vacuum of pure ethers, originating from the Divine Kingdom, the Sixth Cosmic Domain. Because it exists as a connection between two entirely different nature-orders, it serves a special purpose. This is the Ark that is always built when major world-cycles are coming to a close. Like a life-boat, it stays in place, gathering all those who seek its refuge until the time comes when the cycle must ultimately end. At that point, the gangplank is lifted and, like a vast fisherman's net, the vibrational bridge that was temporarily extended from the Divine Kingdom begins to withdraw from the Seventh Cosmic Domain with its spiritual harvest in tow.

All candidates who possess an awakened Divine Spark are automatically linked to this special region between two Cosmic domains. They have become cells in the Living Body of the Gnosis. They have boarded the Ark. To remain aboard, the candidate must continue to strive, in complete self-surrender, to follow the Path no matter what obstacles may be placed before him or her. If one steps off the Ark to dally in the natural-world, beware. No one knows when that gangplank will be pulled up.

No matter what one has done previously in life, no matter how heinous or despicable a human-being may have behaved in the past, the opportunity for Redemption is open to all...to all. Forgiveness is at hand! The price? One must make a fundamental reversal in their thinking, willing, feeling and acting. This means that one must permanently and completely turn away from the world and renounce all the matter therein. The renunciation must be complete and without falsification. Only then will the restored link between the Spark and the Ark remain strong enough to lift the candidate out of the Pit of Despair and back to Divine Shores abandoned so long ago.

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Sobriety

"People sometimes say to us: "Alas, who am i? What can I do? I am only a ..." and then follows one or another commonplace description. If you talk like that, you will remain as you always have been."

From "The Imitation of Christ" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

Don't sell yourself short. You know that something is wrong with the world. You know the feeling of being imprisoned by evil, of being strapped to an imaginary chair with your eyes propped open, forced to watch the horrors of this world repeat themselves over and over and over, like a bad movie.

Deep within, you know that the only way out is to escape, to leave this world once and for all. Not via natural death, nor by one's own hand. Those options will only lead you to the reflection-sphere, where you will hang out for a while before returning to earth for more of the same. The escape that beckons you is discussed here incessantly. There is only one way out, and that is the Path of Return.

But when you hear things like "I-demolition", "erasing the personality", or that there is an "Other One" within you that must increase as your "I" decreases, you get fearful, you feel afraid. Why? Because your "I" does not want to be "erased". It is perfectly happy living in this cesspool. It can't get enough of the swill! So it creates a deep unspoken fear within that paralyzes you. You are afraid to move, afraid to take that Next Step, that One Step.

At the end of every Day of Manifestation, the Logos always extends to all those who are imprisoned, the keys to the cell-block, as it were. Messengers are sent forth to herald the Good News. Their mission is to spread the word to a skeptical and unbelieving humanity that there is a way to escape this madness that we foolishly created for ourselves. But you must gain insight. You must have discernment. You must have a deep yearning to be free of this world. You must have an Inner Knowing, a Remembrance, in order to accept that The Process will work, and that you are finally hearing the Truth.

The Dark Brothers are cunning to the extreme. They have clouded and distorted the spiritual landscape so much that humans no longer know what to believe. Apathy follows, then hedonism.

Again, don't sell yourself short. Awaken from this drunken stupor. You are being called Home. Do not discount the Great Gift that the Messengers are bringing to you as this cycle stumbles to a close and do not think yourself unworthy. By virtue of your long ages of suffering, you are eminently worthy of Salvation.

No more false alarms. No more fire drills.

This is it.

"Where are you hurrying, O men, You whose minds are clouded because you are drunk with the word that lacks all Gnosis, the word of absolute ignorance that does not agree with you 

and that you will vomit in the end?

Stop and become sober: see again with the eyes of your Heart! And if not all of you can do so, let those at least who can. 

...do not allow yourselves to be carried along by the violence of the stream, but let those among you who are able to reach the Harbors of Salvation make use of the counter-current to put to 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."

- Corpus Hermeticum - 

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The Third Way (One Flew Over)

There are three roads that can lead one to Final Liberation from matter:

The First Way: 

Live your life as a nature-born human-being. Focus and restrict your striving to the aims of the material world. Seek no further, and if you do seek seek on the horizontal plane, allow human "authorities" such as the churches of the established religions, their priests, pastors, imans, monks and gurus to interpret the holy language for you and stand as sole intermediaries between you and God, a privilege for which you will have to pay for, of course.

Live only to obtain human goals, (i.e., get rich or die trying) and hope for the best in some fantasy after-life that has been brainwashed into you by those church authorities.

Die and head for the reflection-sphere, the temporary heaven-worlds, where your remaining subtle bodies will eventually dissolve, forcing your microcosm to generate yet another new personality to send into the world in search of The Pearl of Great Price. Repeat this process over and over again, for long ages of time.

It will take long ages of time and many Rebirths, but you will eventually find The Third Way.

The Second Way:

Live your life as a nature-born human-being. Expand your striving to include the occult world. The word "occult" means " hidden". Study the invisible worlds, the ways of the reflection-sphere, astrological correspondences, magnetic healing, etc. White magic, black magic, ascended masters and grandmasters. Learn how to 'split the personality' so that you can travel in the reflection-sphere fully conscious. Learn all there is to know about the invisible realms, its levels and hierarchies. Learn how to live an after-death experience in the reflection-sphere that will enable you to retain the use of your astral and mental bodies for thousands and thousands of years, thereby avoiding dissolution of the subtle bodies and illegally prolonging your stay in the heaven-worlds. Learn the artificial methods used by those with occult training to avoid reincarnating on earth.

You become a light-spirit, or perhaps a black magician. Yes, you are free of The Wheel, but you become a parasite, having to resort to siphoning the astral energy of physical human-beings on earth in order to maintain your form in the reflection-sphere. In essence, you have become an aeon yourself. For you, death of the personality has only been delayed.

It will take many long eternities, but if you can reject reflection-sphere life, you may eventually find The Third Way.

The Third Way:

You've lived many lives as a nature-born human-being. You're struck with the urge to seek "something higher". You try the churches. Hypocrisy and falsehoods. You study the occult path. If you're observant, you realize that the occult path does not offer a true liberation. Empty-handed, you continue to search. Theosophy, New Age, channeled teachings, extra-terrestrial messages. All fragments, all a confusing maze of 'truth'. Who can we trust to provide us with the 'truth'? What doctrine can satisfy our desperate seeking? In frustration you throw up your hands and resign yourself to a pointless existence on a pointless world. A helpless puppet in the hands of Fate, doomed to forever chase a 'truth' that must exist but appears to have been purposely hidden from you.

The First and Second Ways have failed you. Thankfully, there is a Third Way:

You leave behind the temporary things of the material-world. You leave behind the false promises of the reflection-sphere. You learn that there is a Divine Realm that exists apart from the physical realm. You learn that you carry a Divine Spark within your microcosm which contains great powers, powers that are still linked to the Divine Realm. This Divine Atom lies sleeping, waiting for the right personality to come along and awaken it.

Once awakened, the True Man will slowly begin to emerge. A Divine Personality will gradually re-assert its control over the microcosm. The broken link with Spirit will be repaired. You learn that for the candidate walking the Path of Return, physical death will lead  not to the reflection-sphere but to Shamballa, where the candidate will complete the mighty process of Transfiguration, in peace, among brothers.

You learn that "finding the Truth" involves taking leave of a world that you can see, in order to become part of a World that you cannot see...yet.

Congratulations. You have found The Third Way.

Wire, briar, limber, lock,

Three geese in a flock;

One flew East,

One flew West,

One flew Over 

the Cuckoo's Nest.

O-U-T spells out.

Goose swoops down

And plucks you out.

~ g
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Knowledge Of The Things That Are

I. As it is Below, so it is Above; As on the Earth, so in the Sky.

II. There are two states of being: one is Mortal, the other is Immortal.

III. That which is Mortal is dissolvable, and dissolvable bodies pass away like a mist in the morning. 
IV. An Immortal body is an Essence which is Eternal and Incorruptible.

V. But the two, the Mortal and the Immortal, cannot exist together forever, but each returns to the place from where it comes.

VI. The Mortal body is Sensible, but the Immortal is Reasonable.

VII.The former contains nothing that is Perfect. The latter, nothing that is Imperfect; for the one is the essence of Matter, and the other the essence of Spirit, and Man, the Microcosm, holds the Balance of the two.

VIII. And there is a fierce warfare for the victory, between the Lower and the Upper, as they both desire to obtain the Body as their Prize; for the state of Man is envied by the Lower and glorified as a noble state by the Higher.

IX. Now if the Man inclines toward the Lower nature, which is Mortal, he thereby aids the Lower Imperfect powers to oppose the Higher, which is Immortal, and must suffer the pains of Slavery for his disobedience to the Workman, his Maker. But if he inclines to the Higher, then he is truly Wise and Blessed.

X. Should Man, after being attracted by the Vanities of the World and then, after obtaining knowledge of the Things That Are, return to the Vanities of the World, he will be punished with Torments and Fire in the darkest states of disembodied souls.

XI. Should a Man, after knowing the Things That Are, become rebellious of restraint to the part which is Immortal and returns to the Vanities of the World, the Higher Essence will straightaway depart from him, and he will become the Slave of the Lower Essence, which will seize upon him and drive him to all sorts of Wicked Arts and Evil Ways.

XII. When Man has thus impiously disobeyed his Creator and turned his face away from That Which Is Immortal, behold, he is then disinherited from his Birthright, and is no longer counted among the Children of God, because he has become an Evil, Perverse thing, possessing only those things which are Mortal, and he is punished with Death.

XIII. And so Death is meted out to all those who rebel against their Creator impiously, because they know the Things That Are. But to those foolish Souls who are Ignorant, and who have not knowingly rejected their Creator, behold, they are purified after much suffering, and are sent to the World again.

-- Hermes Trismegistus

Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

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Forgiveness And The Grace Of An Age

The below is quoted from Heavy Karmic Baggage:

"Of course, it is nearly impossible to expunge thousands of years of Karmic debt in one short human lifetime of 72 (on average) years. This is especially true when we are kept in ignorance and as a result continue to pile even more negative karma atop the heavy baggage that the microcosm already carries. This too, is seen as an injustice. But it is an injustice of our own making.

Fortunately, there is a way out. Even more fortunately, you are living in a time when the way out is being revealed to all mankind. This doesn't mean that all of mankind will accept the revelation, it simply means that the way out is being revealed so that all may have the opportunity to freely choose whether to abandon their ways and take advantage of That Which Is Being Offered.

The way out is Forgiveness. An attempt will be made to explain this in the next post."

How can we, as personalities, as projections of the microcosm, hope to eradicate the accumulated karma of our microcosm in the few short decades of life that are granted to us? Karma that has been accumulated over many thousands of years of periodic incarnations of different personalities?

The personality must locate the Path of Return, then follow it as a Golden Thread that will lead one out of the dialectical nature-born realm forever. It is this Path that the Christ Radiation* was referring to when it stated, through the man Jesus, that: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life".

* Never forget that the term 'Christ' refers not to a man who lived two thousand years ago, but to a mighty cosmic radiation, the Love Aspect of the Father. Any human-being who can accept, assimilate and radiate this divine vibration can become a 'Christ'. Jesus, the man, did so and lived His life as an example to all who were to come that "You shall do as I have done; yea, greater things than these you shall do".


We are currently riding the never-ending wheel of death and rebirth. There are a couple of key reasons why we continue to return to earth-life after a brief post-death journey in the reflection-sphere (the so-called 'after-life').

Desire
Karma

In brief, Desire means that the microcosm retains an urge to generate a new personality to return and experience earth-life once more. In short, the microcosm is enjoying (for lack of a better word) the experience of the lower vibrational existence and seeks to continue that experience.

Karma, as we have discussed, is the accumulation of unresolved Effects that have resulted from Causes that we, as past personalities, have put into motion. Because all Karma must be balanced on the plane upon which it was incurred, the microcosm is bound by this Cosmic law to generate a new personality to return to earth-life and take up the task.

As previously mentioned, this task is an immense one, and for all practical purposes, impossible to complete within the constraint of a single earth-life. However, there is a way.

When humanity "fell" into matter-born existence, the Logos, in line with the wishes of The All, also sent Divine emissaries to accompany fallen humanity into the Seventh Cosmic Domain. These Divine Beings carried with them the wisdom of the Gnosis, the Keys that humanity would need in order to find its way out of darkness and back to the Lighted Realms of the Sixth Cosmic Domain. Throughout innumerable ages, we're talking many hundreds of millions of years, these Divine guardians have worked tirelessly to help mankind find the Path that leads out of this Pit of Despair.

Along the way, there have been successes, there have been failures. Individuals who manage to locate the Path and who follow it to 'The Good End' are triumphantly lifted out of the Seventh, their accumulated karma is erased - and they are released from any future obligation to ride The Wheel. They disappear from the Physical Realm, never to be seen again by physical eyes.

Because of this, there is no concrete evidence left behind that documents the success of these successful Seekers. They have transfigured, and can no longer be viewed by physical eyes. As a result, humanity, which for the large part refuses to believe in the reality of anything which they cannot see with their physical eyes or touch with their physical hands, dismisses all notions of man's ability to be reborn in a Higher form. Remember the incredulous words of Nicodemus, not understanding due to ignorance of the facts: "Lord, how can a man be born again? Can he crawl back into his mother's womb?".

A brief word about 'ignorance'. To be ignorant does not mean the same as being stupid. Ignorance is when one errs due to the fact that one does not know better. 'Stupidity' is the act of erring despite knowing better. Nicodemus was a very learned man - in the ways of the world. However, he was ignorant of the Higher truths, he did not have Gnosis.

Periodically, the Logos grants all of humanity the opportunity to seize the gift of Gnosis and to make this transition collectively, as a group. These periods can be classified as major or minor cycles. It is at the end of such cycles that this Grace is extended to mankind. We are presently in the throes of such a period, by which mankind is being offered the Grace of an Age.

An Age is a period of time corresponding to the number of years that it takes for the Sun to transit one of the signs of the zodiac. It takes 2,160 years to pass through one sign of the zodiac. It takes 25,920 earth years to pass through all twelve signs. When Jesus, the man, walked the earth, it was the Age of Pisces, hence the many symbolic references to fish during his sojourn. Prior to his appearance, the holy language speaks of prior Ages using symbolism such as lambs (Aries), bulls (Taurus), twins (Gemini), etc. When it speaks of Aquarius, it refers to a 'Man with an Urn', as in:

"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

Follow him, indeed. The Man with the Pitcher of Water is Aquarius, which is pouring out over all of mankind the astral energies required by Man to recognize the times that we are in and to take the steps necessary to maximize our progress, to make our escape, as it were.

These Divine energies do not discriminate. They are radiated over all humanity and permeate all humanity. Those who react negatively can be easily identified by their actions. Why do you think there is so much error, violence and malice in the world today? It is because the Christine Radiations are not being well-received by some. Instead of moving towards Gnosis, they are repelled further into darkness. This is due to the rock-hard "I-centrality" of their microcosms.

Those who are receptive are given the help they need, as much as they need, when they need it, in order to guide them safely Home. Many are not even aware of what is taking place. They simply notice that they are 'changing'. Those who are aware of what is taking place have an obligation to spread the word, in the hope that sleeping brethren might awaken in time to take action.

This is why the holy language states that during the end times, "the sheep shall be separated from the goats". There will be two camps, those who are with the Gnosis, and those who are without Gnosis. There will be no in-between, no half-stepping. EACH MUST CHOOSE.

To summarize, in order to return to the Divine Sixth, all of the microcosm's earth karma must be eradicated. The microcosm itself must be purified. The Logos is completely aware of this and periodically offers mankind a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card, which is the Gnosis. All you have to do is resolve to make a fundamental reversal, turn your back on the things of this world, and dedicate your remaining days to doing that which must be done to return to the Divine Kingdom.

If you 'die' in the midst of this striving, you will not be forsaken. Because the fundamental vibration of your microcosm will have been elevated beyond a certain degree, you will be eligible to bypass the reflection-sphere (the fake heaven-world) and proceed instead to Shamballa, where you will complete The Great Work.

Those who are engaged in this process of microcosmic transmutation and are in the body when 'The End' comes, will be transformed, on the spot.

The key is to START NOW. You must begin the Process in order to benefit from the Process. Do not delay or put it off for tomorrow. There is no tomorrow. There is only Now. The natural world is luring mankind to sleep in order to lead him away from the Light. The aeons of this nature are completely within their rights to offer you this Grand Deception. It is you who must clear the crud from your eyes and see the deception for what it truly is. It is you must reject the World. It is you must make the fundamental reversal in your thinking, willing and desiring. The Choice is yours alone. No one can force you to make this change.

Once again, the Grace of an Age is being offered to all of humanity. Complete and permanent Forgiveness is at hand. May you be granted the wisdom to recognize the Glory of this Moment, and to accept the Loving Invitation that is being offered to us all.

~ g
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Heavy Karmic Baggage

The question below was posed by a reader in the Comments section of "How Can God Have A Son?".

"I still have a problem in seeing that we return to earth because someone in the distant past ran up a huge karmic debt and the present human being in the microcosm has to pay it off!"

Understood. Let's try to eliminate the confusion.

That "someone in the distant past" was you. All of the "someone's" who have previously inhabited your microcosm were you. Man is a microcosm. You can think of the microcosm as a container. This container houses all of the accumulated force-centers, powers, attributes, experiences, karma and destiny of the entity. The microcosm is permanent, immortal. The personalities that it generates to experience life in the material world are temporary, mortal, finite.

It is the microcosm that is the individuality, not the personality.

The personality is a creation of the microcosm, sent forth into the material world to gather experience, knowledge and wisdom for the benefit of the microcosm. When the personality expires, the physical body disintegrates, the soul-bodies return to the reflection-sphere where they also dissolve, albeit more slowly, over time. At some future point (it may take hundreds of years), there will be nothing left of the personality that was you on this earth in 2017. The microcosm will have been emptied, as it were. The experiences gathered by that most recent dissolved personality will remain with the microcosm, where it will contribute to the overall advancement or deterioration of that entity. Another drop of water will be added to an ocean of water.

Understand that you are not 'separate' from all the previous personalities that have inhabited your microcosm. All of those personalities were/are you. When we say 'you', we mean the individuality, the microcosmic consciousness. It is like being an actor in a stage company. For one production, you will play Hamlet. When that production closes, you play Mary, Queen of Scots in the next. When that production closes, you will play a coal-miner from West Virginia. When that production closes, you will play a slave-owner, and so on. The stage remains the same. The roles played in each production change. All of the roles were different, but the actor behind those roles was the same individual.

The Karma that has been accumulated by the previous personalities in the microcosm automatically becomes the share of each new personality upon rebirth. Many look at the foregoing and think that it is patently unfair. "What have I done to deserve this burden? Why must I pay for what 'others' have done before me?". Why? Because you were those "others". The accumulated Karma is your microcosmic karma, generated over thousands of years of death and rebirth.

Of course, it is nearly impossible to expunge thousands of years of Karmic debt in one short human lifetime of 72 (on average) years. This is especially true when we are kept in ignorance and as a result continue to pile even more negative karma atop the heavy baggage that the microcosm already carries. This too, is seen as an injustice. But it is an injustice of our own making.

Fortunately, there is a way out. Even more fortunately, you are living in a time when the way out is being revealed to all mankind. This doesn't mean that all of mankind will accept the revelation, it simply means that the way out is being revealed so that all may have the opportunity to freely choose whether to abandon their ways and take advantage of That Which Is Being Offered.

The way out is Forgiveness. An attempt will be made to explain this in the next post.

In the interim, please take a few minutes to read the short story contained in the link to the 2015 post below. It may help to further illustrate what has just been written.

"The Scales Shall Be Balanced, The Debt Shall Be Paid"

~ g

"How Can God Have A Son?"

This past week, the following conversation was overheard.

A Muslim was trying to understand the import behind the Christian celebration of Easter. As he learned more, he spoke of what his faith had taught him: That Jesus was a normal human-being. That Jesus was "just" a prophet. That Mohammed was and is the "true" and "last" prophet.

In a matter-of-fact manner, he uttered the following: "We do not believe that Jesus was the Son of God. How can God have a Son? He's God! Who would He mate with?", etc., etc.

It was difficult to not jump in at this point. However, there is no point in presenting the gnostic point-of-view to those who are bound by nature-religions. Nothing good can come out of such conversations. Confrontation is probably the most likely outcome.

So it will be undertaken here to try and resolve the paradox for our Muslim friend.

First, one must cease to think of God as a human-type figure. The veritable "old man with a beard" who lives in the sky does not exist. God, the Creator, the Divine Architect, the All-In-All has no beginning and no end. Although formless, the All contains the potentiality for all forms. The All has no Creator. The All creates from Itself. The entire visible Universe is an emanation of the All, Who permeates the entire Creation yet simultaneously stands apart from it.

What is a "son"? The common response is that the son is the male offspring of a man and a woman. When the term is used in reference to the Second Aspect of the Trinity, it is referring not to a human offspring, but to an emanation of Energy, a Divine Vibration, sent forth from the All in order to accomplish a particular purpose in Creation. As reflected in humanity, most sons are like their fathers. This reflection mimics the example set by the Divine Father and the Divine Son.

In the current Age, the Son of the Father is called "The Christ". The Christ is not a man but a Divine radiation or vibration. It carries all of the attributes of the Father, as a Son should.

Jesus the human-being, walked the Path of Return while on this earth in order to bring this Divine Energy back to the planet. The churches refer to him as "Jesus Christ", similar to "John Smith" or Anna Jackson". But Christ was never Jesus' last name. The addition of the word "Christ" to the name "Jesus" simply meant that Jesus had accepted this Divine Energy into His microcosm. He was the Christed One.

So, the "Son" of God is not a physical human-being, this is true. But God, the Father of All, does have a "Son", the energy of which permeates the entire Creation. This 'Son" is the only such emanation, hence the title "only-begotten". The All needs no partner to mate with. The All creates from Itself.

Our Muslim friend will wrestle with this question for the remainder of his incarnation. Hopefully, having read the foregoing, you won't have to.

~ g
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Resurrection Day

The Feast of the Resurrection (a.k.a. "Easter") has an important esoteric meaning for the candidate on the Path. It represents the culmination of the efforts made to complete the endura, the effacement of the nature-born personality.

The true meaning of the church feast-days have been lost to the ravages of time and deceit. The truths that support them have been buried beneath an opaque veneer of disingenuous church story-telling. Give the flock fairy-tales, let them wonder about the rest. Lie to them and tell them that they must have "faith" that the fairy-tales told to them by their priests have value.

Time for some Truth.

Christmas (opening of the Rosebud): the Divine Spark is awakened in the Cave of the Heart. The Babe is born.

Baptism at the Jordan (Birth of the Soul-Man) Spirit descends "like a dove", to begin the transmutation process within the microcosm.

Lent (the Endura, Self-Surrender): the candidate renounces the things of nature and vows to walk the Path in self-surrender. 

Good Friday (the Crucifixion, Transmutation): via the process of transmutation, the candidate "hangs up" the material body upon the Cross of Matter

Easter Sunday (the Resurrection, Transfiguration): the candidate is transfigured, reborn as a New Man - Spirit, Soul and Body, the Whole Tri-Unity, reunited.

There. Easily recognizable when one has the Gnostic Key in hand.

Many other religions have similar sequences. That is because most religions spring from the same fount. However, due to the manipulations of those whose goal it is to control humanity by withholding from us the reality of the gnostic Path of Return, the core truths of all religions have been fragmented, polluted and corrupted beyond recognition,

The signs of our Great Goal are present all around us. We have but to wipe the mud from our eyes, open them, and see.

~ g
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He Is Risen (Re-post)

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

[QUOTING]

Let us pose the obvious question, the one logical problem:

'How can the fallen human-being become a god again? How can the prodigal son Thotmes return home?'

This problem and its solution is given in every Universal Philosophy: we are humans who are to become gods. The Great Messengers of humanity were gods who became human in order to show humans how to become gods.

If this problem stands clearly before you, you will know it was born 'in conflict', and that the road to it was toil and trouble. Like Prince Thotmes, you have to excavate your Sphinx, which will pose a great problem to you personally. If you neglect your Work for one moment, you will sink back into the bottomless depths of this nature. Then you will feel at one with this world, and you will become accustomed to it again. You must understand that for the defeated soul the question: 'How does the fallen human become a god again?' will develop enough motivation to be able to go the Path as a pilgrim to seek an answer the that question.

Hence we can say: Whoever has seen the Sphinx will enter the Pyramid.

The Pyramid is a temple of resurrection and not of worship. It is a temple not for symbolic acts but for instruction. It is a sepulchre. People can create a lot of mystification about it, but as the Pyramid is hewn in stone its essential language cannot be destroyed.

In our opinion everyone who has seen the Sphinx from within and everyone to whom the Sphinx has spoken, like Prince Thotmes, will be able to understand the stone language of the Pyramid. We say that the Sphinx makes the Call and that the Pyramid points out the Path.

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

[END QUOTING]

The ancients speak to us in symbols. Once you have the gnostic Key in hand, it is like reading an open book.

The Great Pyramid is a four-sided triangle, with a square base. Around the base one can draw a perfect circle. Triangle, Square, Circle.

These shapes have symbolic meaning:

Circle = the Eternal Spirit
Triangle = the Threefold Soul
Square = the fourfold Body

Thus the Pyramid itself represents the reunification of Spirit, Soul and Body, which is the ultimate aim of the transfiguristic Path of Return.

The interior of the Pyramid is constructed in such a way as to outline the steps of this Path using specific measurements, angles, different types of stone and sacred numerology (gematria). The exalted beings who constructed the Great Pyramid did so using a silent, common language that could speak to all human-beings, no matter what the time period. Of course, those human-beings would have to have the gnostic Key in hand.

During the time of the ancients, there were very, very few who were motivated to walk the Path of Return. Around the ancient world, those who showed that they were sincere about doing so were brought to secret places of initiation. This was the purpose of the Mayan and Aztec temples in the West. This was the purpose of the extensive system of caves in the Sabarthes region of southern France. This was the purpose of the Great Pyramid.

The Pyramid is not a tomb, as present-day bumbling archaeology chooses to define it. No physical human-being was ever buried there. It was a tomb for the I-being. It was where a true pupil was taken to complete the endura. It was where the old human-being died as to this nature and the New Man rose in its place.

That is why the "tomb" in the King's Chamber is empty. In silence, it expresses what was written regarding the Christed One on the day of His resurrection as a Divine Human Being:

"Why do you look for the Living among the dead? He is not here, He is risen". Luke 24:5-6

~ g
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No Less Miraculous, No Less Attainable

We keep coming back to the caterpillar, as its metamorphosis into a butterfly serves as a fitting allegory for what man can and must do. The butterfly was created for the express purpose of inspiring wonder in the minds of men, in the hope that someday, men would move beyond wonder, and realize that the miracle of the butterfly is an example of the miracle that awaits all spirit-spark entities.

If the Creator can program a caterpillar to spin a chrysalis, dissolve within it and then reconstitute itself as a beautiful winged creature, what makes you think that the Creator would not program us, mankind, Creator's highest creation, to do something not only similar but exceedingly wondrous and glorious in its magnitude!

You have within you the tiny Seed Atom that is required to make this human metamorphosis a reality. It lies at the center of your microcosm and it is waiting to be awakened and joined to the personality. It is your Divine Spark, the Spirit-spark, the Rosebud, the Jewel in the Lotus. It is the part of you that will manage your transfiguration into a New Man/Woman, but only if you follow the Path that has been set out for man to follow, the Path of the True Way, the Path that leads away from this world and its reflection-sphere. The Path that leads back to Eternity.

Do not sell yourself short. Do not resign yourself to "impossibility". This transformation is eminently possible, and within your ability to complete, even though the rulers of this world have worked overtime to keep that Knowledge from you. Vow to follow the Path, no matter the obstacles. Renounce the world and all the matter therein. Be in the world, but not of the world. Remember the miraculous example of the caterpillar / butterfly that was provided for you to emulate.

What lies ahead for the candidate on the Path is No Less Miraculous, and No Less Attainable.

"Verily, I say to you, the works that I do, you shall do also; and greater works than these shall you do" -- The Christ, talking to YOU.

~ g
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The Warrior

[QUOTING]

1. Stand aside in the coming battle, and though thou fightest, be not thou the warrior.

2. Look for the Warrior and let him fight in thee.

3. Take his orders for battle and obey them.

4. Obey him, not as though he were a general, but as though he were yourself, and his spoken words were the utterance of your secret desire; for he is yourself, yet infinitely wiser and stronger than yourself. Look for him, else in the fever and hurry of the fight you may pass him, and he will not know you unless you know him. If your cry reaches his listening ear, then he will fight in you and fill the dull void within. And if this is so, then you can go through the fight cool and unwearied, standing aside and letting him battle for you. Then it will be impossible for you to strike one blow amiss.

But if you do not look for him, if you pass him by, then there is no safeguard for you. Your brain will reel, your heart grow uncertain, and in the dust of the battlefield your sight and senses will fail, and you will not know your friends from your enemies.

He is yourself, yet you are but finite and liable to error. He is Eternal and sure. He is Eternal Truth. When once he has entered you and become your Warrior, he will never utterly desert you, and at the Day of Great Peace, he will become One with you.

From Light On The Path - Part Two - Mabel Collins

[END QUOTING]

Who is the Warrior? The Warrior is the Other One, the True Inner Man that is rising to wakefulness with the opening of the Rose of the Heart.

As we walk the Path, we will encounter obstacles with every step. If we try to fight these obstacles with our "I", we will most likely fail. Remember, the "I" cannot kill the "I". Therefore, whatever battles are to be fought , whatever obstacles have to be overcome, the "I" must  stand aside and allow the Other One within to wield the sword.

This is the epitome of self-surrender. The road we are walking, we do not walk alone. The trials we must face, we do not face alone. Whatever the challenge may be, always remember that it is not you who must battle the forces of the aeons of this nature, but the power of the Gnosis, the Other One within. There is your Warrior.

~ g
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Wake Up And Return

"Yet you are sleeping, dreaming dreams. Wake up and return! Taste and eat the True Food! Hand out the Word and the Water of Life! Cease from the evil lusts and desires and the teachings that have no basis"

From 'The Concept of Our Great Power" - Nag Hammadi Library - Codex VI, Tractate 4

~ g
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Worth A Thousand Words

“We are placing you before the imperishable Gnosis, which has as its starting point the idea that the Divine Spirit is held captive in the world of the senses and that, consequently, it is necessary to rise up out of this prison, out of this imprisoned Soul-man. In this way, the Original Spirit-Man can be united with the Primary Source of All Things, by means of insight, professing, and striving.”

—J. van Rijckenborgh and Catharose de Petri, The Great Revolution (1989)

Depicted above:

Red-Orange: the Physical Body
Green: the Etheric Double
White Outline: the Astral Body
Pale-Yellow (around the head): the Mental Body
Pink-Violet: the Respiration Field
Circle with Twelve Lights: the Lipika (where the karma and experiences of the microcosm are stored)
Horizontal Ray: the nature-born influences of the Earth-plane
Vertical Ray: the influence of Spirit, accessible when the Spark has been awakened
Light in the center of the Microcosm, corresponding with the heart, is the Divine Spark.
The Ray of Light touching the Divine Spark: is the Gnosis.

Keep this image with you always.
~ g
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Traveler

We mention on this blog Cosmic Domains, reflection-spheres, etc. Truly 'extra'-terrestrial domains that are qualitatively different from the physical realm that we experience with our five senses.

Many find it difficult to believe that there is an entire universe beyond-the-veil in what is known as the reflection-sphere. It's even harder for them to believe that there are whole other densities or dimensions, such as the Sixth Cosmic Domain, which are presently outside of our ability to perceive, even though they are nearer than hands and feet.

Perhaps it would be easier to accept if one recognized that every night, when we close our eyes we travel to the astral realm of the reflection-sphere. The physical body remains in bed, maintained by the lower two ethers (chemical ether, life ether). The Silver Cord keeps the physical body and part of the etheric body connected to the astral body. Tethered in this way, the astral body along with the two higher ethers of the etheric body (light, reflecting) travels great distances, participating in various experiences during the hours of sleep. In the morning, the astral body returns to slip back into the physical body. The body awakens and we are back to 'reality'.

It happens so often and so naturally that we take it for granted. Not realizing or understanding that our dreams are the result of our consciousness experiencing in the astral regions of the reflection-sphere while the physical body sleeps and undergoes repair.

This is only the tip of the iceberg. There are many other 'realities' out there, including the Great Reality that beckons from the Divine Kingdom. Accept that the physical world is but the lowest rung on a Ladder that stretches endlessly into the Infinite. Acknowledge that although it is in latency, you have the power and ability to climb that Ladder. You can, and will, someday walk amongst the Stars. Even more, the Sixth Cosmic Domain is within your reach, if you choose to walk the straight and narrow Path that leads to the Divine Light. How soon any of this takes place is entirely up to you. It all begins with a firm decision to leave this world behind and to Seek the Kingdom within.

~ g
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Liberation 101

For those who have chosen to walk the Path, these books can serve as a critical source of insight and a foundation to build upon.

Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross

From the back cover:

"In this book the authors explain that: 'not everything that calls itself  "Rosycross" is the true Rosycross in the universal, gnostic sense of the word'. What then should we understand as the universal meaning of the Rosycross?

All who are seeking an answer in an unprejudiced way should read this book. It indicates clearly what one needs to know if one truly wishes to find Liberation.

It sketches the meaning of magic and initiation, involution and evolution, birth and death, and it emphasizes the importance of processes of regeneration and redemption of the world.

In conclusion, the Golden Rosycross and its task in today's world are placed before us as a mighty, radiant beacon".

 The Coming New Man

"What do you know about freedom? What do you know about liberation? What is freedom for you? If, upon hearing the words freedom and liberation, your thoughts rise beyond the concepts commonly held in our society, The Coming New Man may be the book for you.

The Coming New Man takes you along on a search for the other one within you. It takes you along on a developmental journey to your true destination.

In The Coming New Man, Jan van Rijckenborgh describes the human being as a system of bodies enclosed by a microcosm. The Divine nucleus is located at the centre of this microcosm, the centre of the Original human-being we once were. The central issue is: who were we, who are we, and where are we going?

The Coming New Man is based on the Universal Teachings, the common thread that has run through all world religions and mystical schools from the outset of the human race. They are the teachings of the Gnosis, the teachings of inner knowledge and recognition. Every age and every period in human development formulates its own ways to liberation, its own Path to Life.

This book, addressed to the human being of the 20th and 21st centuries, will help you to experience this in detail if you are open to it. It describes the human struggle for Light. It contains the key to correct self-analysis, which is a process of self-purification, and the next step in the form of an openness to a spiritual future. The ultimate goal is transfiguration, which is the development of a new Human Being who lives from forces we can scarcely comprehend.

This book describes the new human being in detail, enabling the modern seeker to recognize him and wend his way to following in his footsteps."
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For those who may follow the opportunity to read the above, this writer will be happy to answer any questions that may arise from your study.

~ g
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Immortality Or Death? The Choice Is Yours

You are a temporary personality. A natural phenomena created for the express purpose of helping to Liberate the microcosm that you inhabit.

If you fail in this endeavor, death will be your share. Yes. you'll spend some time in "heaven" (the reflection-sphere) but slowly, like the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, you will dissolve away, leaving not a trace of the "you" who was.

Your Consciousness will persist, as will your Karma, and all the positive and negative receipts of the life just lived. But "you" will be gone, to be replaced in the future by a new personality, whose job it will be to try and accomplish what you failed to accomplish.

If you succeed in this endeavor, if your personality manages to locate the Path of the True Way, the Path of Return, then Immortality will be your share. The remains of your personality will not take the common road to the reflection-sphere and gradual dissolution. Your soul vehicles, minus the physical body, will instead travel to the Vacuum of Shamballa, the outpost of the Universal Brotherhood here on earth.

We refer to Shamballa as a vacuum because it is sustained by ethers that are not of this world. The high vibration that is to be found there is conducive to helping those souls who have begun their Walk while in the physical to complete the Great Work with all the help and support needed. Victory is assured.

The Journey starts here. You have reached the Gate of Choice. You must decide: will I take the road of least resistance and remain rooted to the earth-plane or will I fulfill my mission and travel the Way of the Stars? There is no middle ground. The proposition is either-or. It must be one or the other. You cannot have both. Remember that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom.

Fear nothing. Choose with Wisdom.

~ g
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Of Parallel Universes And Wormholes

We're going to keep this very simple.

Nature-born science proudly announces their theories that "parallel" universes must exist and can be entered via the use of "wormholes", neither of which have yet been discovered.

Even when our "authorities" are on the right track, they mislead mankind with their self-taught theories. We will reconcile these theories here.

Parallel Universes

There are parallel universes, but they are not to be thought of as being actually parallel to one another. Parallel universes are actually concentric universes, meaning that they exist within the same space and interpenetrate one another. We all know that the atom is mostly "empty" space. With that in mind, it should not be hard to comprehend that worlds composed of different arrangements of atoms can exist in the same space without touching one another.

Here in the Cosmic Physical Plane, the Seventh Cosmic Domain, there are actually seven Earths. All seven are of different densities. All seven exist within the same space.

Wormholes

Wormholes have been described as a shortcut between two parallel universes, usually depicted in the manner shown in the picture above, which is conceptually incorrect. The entry-point into any of the concentric universes is your state-of-consciousness. Remember:  "a state-of-consciousness is a state-of-life". Attune your state-of-consciousness to the proper vibration and you will perceive a different universe. That is your "wormhole".

Seven Cosmic Domains

There are Seven Cosmic Domains. Each Cosmic Domain is sub-divided into seven sub-planes. Again, all Domains and sub-planes interpenetrate one another. An aspect of you (not the physical personality, but the True Man) presently exists on all of these Domains and sub-planes. You are not aware of this as you are unable to perceive any of them at this time. The focus of your consciousness is narrowly restricted to the Earth-plane, the seventh sub-plane of the Seventh Cosmic Domain. We who are on the Path are trying to return to the Sixth Cosmic Domain.

The Universal Doctrine reveals that the way to perceive these extra realities is to release our focus on this physical reality, to which we cling as with a death-grip. Liberation is the key to omnipresence and omniscience. The Path of Return shows the Seeker the way.

“Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”  - D. Anka

~ g
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