by Laura Knight-Jadczyk
extracted from 'The Wave - The Green
Book'
from
Archive Website
Before I begin to talk about the
rediscovery of ancient secret technology that developed from the
clues the Cassiopaeans have given, I want to make some preliminary
comments for the reader’s comfort.
It may seem to you, the reader of these pages, that I have been
hitting very hard on the concept that "man is asleep and it is
almost impossible to awaken". For some of you, this may evoke a
sense of despair, or helplessness. Some of you feel confident that "Love is the answer", and that everyone will be
"saved" (which is to
assume that somebody is damned!) if they just have love, so we
needn’t worry about it anyway. Others very likely will outright
reject such an idea.
Some of you are definitely certain that
you are not asleep!
In a general sense, to almost everyone, including yours truly, the
very idea of time traveling, mind marauding, hyperdimensional beings
with full powers to create and maintain a reality of illusion and
restriction in which we are confined like sheep, waiting daily to
see which of our number will be "taken" for their wool, skins, or
flesh, is so horrifying a concept that accepting it as a real
possibility, is tantamount to being stripped of all hopes, dreams
and comfort.
Like many of you, I began this work full of frustration with
teachings that don’t work or don’t make sense when compared with
honest observation of reality and experience. There was such a
labyrinth of contradictions everywhere I searched, and I KNEW it was
necessary to go beyond everything hitherto known or tried. I did
have the idea that this knowledge had been available in ancient
times, judging by the evidence of the megaliths and other
incomprehensible structures all over the globe, but whether or not
it would be possible to rediscover this path was uncertain.
It was VERY clear that there was a serious discrepancy between the
observable reality and some "deeper reality" from which, presumably,
ours derives something of its form and structure, but I knew there
was something that separated "us" from "them".
Also, when searching
for answers, it always ended in a maze of insupportable assumptions
and irreconcilable facts. Yes, to all of you who have written to ask
me if I have checked "this" source or "that" source, it is very
likely I have, and more.
And I repeat, when you read ALL of them, you find, as Blaise
Pascal said:
"I reject equally the religion of
Mahomet, of the Chinese, of the Romans, and of the Egyptians,
for this simple reason that since one has no greater marks of
truth than another, my reason cannot be disposed to receive any
one in preference to the rest."
[Pensees, Chapter XI]
You can add a hundred other "sources" to
Pascal’s list on my behalf. They all end in a maze of assumptions
and irreconcilable "facts".
But when the Cassiopaeans began to communicate, to say things that
did explain the problems I was finding in science, religions and
philosophies, and those things they told us were NOT part of my
expectations, I became furious and railed at such a bleak picture of
our existence.
I had already gone through some of this process in earlier years
while reading Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, but I found
that what the Cassiopaeans were saying was far more dispiriting than
I was prepared to receive.
I rejected ideas that suggested our "fairy tale" beliefs just MIGHT
be imposed on us to keep us asleep and unaware because I didn’t like
them either! As time went by and evidence from other sources
mounted, I raged at lessons that drove home these points in my
personal life; and I have wept oceans for the loss of my innocence.
So, believe me when I say to those of you who write to me struggling
to grasp this, trying to reason and rationalize some way to hang on
to the old, false belief systems - I DO understand!
But, when all is said and done, I think I wept even more for all the
years wasted in stupidity and blindness. After a time, I realized
that we are only stupid and blind exactly as long as we need to be
stupid and blind, and not one second longer. I am enormously
grateful for all those experiences because they DID teach me in a
very deep way.
Now, a curious thing about the teachings of both Gurdjieff and
Castaneda, both of which claim that man is "food" for something "other", is the lack of really specific information about this
"other". Yes, Castaneda goes further than Gurdjieff in telling us
some of the history of the "flyer", or the "predator", but it is
still somewhat vague and amorphous.
We have often speculated as to whether Gurdjieff knew the "truth"
the way the Cassiopaeans have explicated it and just simply could
not bring himself to tell anyone; or if he DID tell some of his
students, was this something that only those on the "inside" knew,
and held back?
Ark met with Henri Tracol, one of Gurdjieff’s students, in
Marseilles back in July of 1986. It was a brief meeting in an
airport restaurant, lasting about two hours at most. His interest
was in determining if joining with such a school as the Gurdjieff
Foundation in Paris would be helpful to his own awakening. He
asked many questions, most particularly relating to this idea of
"being eaten" by "something". His assessment, (which is highly
developed from many years as both a scientist and an instructor), of
Mr. Tracol’s reaction to this question was that the man was afraid
to answer.
As he recalls it, Mr. Tracol glanced about nervously as though he
might be overheard, though there was clearly no one to overhear, and
made a somewhat vague allusion to something like "interdimensional
beings" of some sort.
Since it is over 15 years since this meeting, it is hard for Ark to
remember exactly what was said, but the entries in his journal in
the days the following the meeting reflect his state of mind at the
time:
Marseilles, July 21, 1966
I am an energy transformer and a
converter. That is the essence of my existence. That is my only
possible goal. I can choose to serve this goal or not. I can
serve only as an energy transformer. So it seems to not make
much difference what I do. The result will be the same. Or, I
can serve as a channel. This is the choice between self-will and
discipline.
What "I" do, that is "I-Personality", is self-will. What acts through me is not
self-will. Thus I wish to allow, "that which can act through me"
that is not self-will. For this end I need to eliminate
self-will. But, God forbid, not to eliminate control! So I wish
to eliminate self-will. I wish to eliminate identification.
Eliminating identification is most important. I wish to
self-remember. I wish to plan to account for each and every
hour.
I wish to get rid of my hump. To
cease being a camel.
How? Through elimination of identification. I want to listen.
And to consider internally.
July 23, 1996
All this world is vanity. A vanity which will pass. The sky will
pass, earth will pass, trees will pass, and people will pass
too. Human aspirations will pass. Science will pass. All that
keeps me together - will pass. A goal - at this level - does not
exist. To set a goal - at this level - is to lie to oneself.
Humanity, truth, knowledge - these are empty words. Words
surrounded by suffering which is meaningless. When I say I want
to "help humanity" - these are empty words.
When I say "science", "knowledge", "truth",
"cognizance" - these are phantom words.
I am an energy transformer, and I
need to serve as such. And that is what I can do.
Where is the way out?
Nothing will remain of what I am doing. I might as well not
exist at all. To think that I am "different"? That I am "exceptional"? That I can accomplish things that no one has
succeeded in accomplishing - but I will because I will have the
luck? Oh Lord, that it is possible to believe these vain
illusions! I will die and nothing will be left. Nothing will
succeed. Nothing will remain. No goal will be reached. Only one
goal seems possible - that when the end is near, suffering will
be so great that I will pass with relief.
Where is the way out? What purpose do humans serve? This is an
experiment! What originates in me does not count. The only thing
I can do is to allow something more powerful to speak through
me. To allow something more knowledgeable to talk to me and
through me. To allow something more powerful to act through me.
To allow something more powerful to use me. I am just a shell, I
am a machine. I am a device. I am a means to an end. I am a
possibility for something more powerful to be in me and to act
through me.
I am a place that waits to be
filled. I am a carriage without a driver and without a master.
True, there is brain, there are body members, there are senses.
But I am just a carriage. With no driver and no master. A
personality that pretends to have rights. Which play the roles -
sometimes of a driver, sometimes of a master - which says "I"
continuously. Yet I am just a carriage, which goes nowhere, and
is doomed to crash in some ditch.
My aspirations, my ambitions, my wants - all these belong to an
empty carriage and horse that is left without control. All that
I am doing means nothing. All that I am doing is personality.
And that comes from personality is ballast. All that comes from
personality is a camel’s hump. How to pass through a needle’s
eye while carrying a hump? Personality must be left aside.
Aspirations and whims - that is not me. Blessed are those who
are meek. To be meek - that is what I need. Nonattachment.
Eliminating unnecessary things.
And also being conscious of the fact
that EVERY MOMENT IS A BRANCHING OF THE UNIVERSE."
So, this was the state of mind produced
by a single two-hour talk with Henri Tracol.
But what it is that "acts through" or controls mankind or creates
the conditions of this sleep as Gurdjieff taught? We have discussed
this between us, combing through the available resources, trying to
determine if this was one of the big "secrets" of the Gurdjieff
work, but with little result.
At the same time, I have long pondered the possible true teachings
of Jesus. What we know, factually, from the available ancient
documents that are generally assessed to be contemporary with the
time of early Christianity, is that the Romans and about everyone
else in the Pagan world considered Christianity to be an "abominable
superstition"!
This is actually an astonishing statement! When you consider this
fact alongside Christianity, as we know it today, it makes
absolutely no sense! Christianity, as it is today, is simply a
conglomeration of archaic religious beliefs and rites that are
fundamentally NO DIFFERENT from the cultic religions of the Pagans
of the time! The crucified and resurrected savior god was pretty
standard. And most of the teachings from the New Testament are just
plagiarized versions of what was accepted by the Romans and their
subjects as "normal".
In fact, if you think about this period of time and what WAS
believed and practiced, including haruspicy, which was the "going
thing" at the time, and involved killing an animal and reading the
omens from its liver, you have to think that for these people to
call something an "abominable superstition", it MUST have been
pretty bizarre!
And yet, nothing remains of Christianity
that could be considered by the ancient Romans as superstition
because it is exactly what they DID believe and practice in their
various cults!
So, we have a real problem here in figuring out just what these
ancient peoples WOULD have considered an "abominable superstition".
And the only thing that fits the definition is the teaching that man
is "food" for hyperdimensional beings! That is pretty objectionable
at ANY time in history!
If the early Christians were talking this way, we can easily see why
the Romans, who had inherited or subsumed the Greek ideas of the
heavenly pantheon, would consider this to be utterly barbaric! And,
if this IS what Jesus understood and expounded to his
disciples in private, it is no wonder that the "forces" came along
and completely obliterated any trace of the original teaching and
replaced it with the standard pagan rites and ceremonies and
beliefs!
And, if I am on the right track with
this, it certainly gives new meaning to the statement:
"Ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall set you free!"
If it is true that humans are being bred
and raised like cattle in a global stockyard and fed upon both
psychically and sometimes even physically, we have a truly serious
situation going on here, to put it mildly. As I have explained
before, I have NEVER seen a Drachomonoid being except in dreamlike
states or almost hypnopompic semi-sleep states.
So, when the Cassiopaeans began to talk about them, it was truly
"Twilight Zone"
time, in my opinion!
I have also stated that, whenever the Cassiopaeans have told us
anything, I work very hard to discover if there is any form of what
I call vertical or lateral corroboration. Vertical data is that
which is located in history at any point different from the present.
Lateral data consists of collecting reports, witness information,
and other data that amounts to circumstantial evidence from the
present time. It is always better if the two types of data "cross"
or intersect.
But it is still not the same as having a
"smoking
gun". But, when you are dealing with hyperdimensional realities,
"smoking guns" are not very likely to be found.
In the case of the idea of man being "food" for hyperdimensional
beings, there is an enormous amount of both vertical and lateral
corroboration of ALL kinds. So much so that, in fact, it is almost
impossible to understand why it is not generally known. Clearly,
there have been deliberate efforts to "hide this fact". And, the
fact that it is hidden may itself tell us something.
The point is, when
Don Juan and Gurdjieff and the
Cassiopaeans (and others) tell us,
-
that our religions, our social
structure, our values, our beliefs about our spiritual nature and
condition have been deliberately created to perpetuate the illusion
that we are free
-
that we are (or can be) "special and adored
children of a loving God"
-
that we are or can be "co-creators" with
God
-
that we can DO anything at all of a positive and powerful
nature,
...we need to carefully examine this issue!
But it is WORK to examine it objectively. It is HARD WORK because it
consists of long and difficult self-examination in order to be able
to overcome the emotions that prevent us from discovering what
illusions we are hanging onto, what illusions are preventing us from
seeing and acting in such a way as to BECOME FREE.
And yet, we CAN see that SOMETHING is evolving here! With the
maturation of the "group mind", the stakes get higher and the
deceptions deeper!
For many centuries, millennia even, simplistic religions and social
dynamics were dominant over most of the world. This was possible
because even when there was an "intrusion" by one of these
hyperdimensional beings into our
reality, when they did "drop in for dinner", so to speak, it was
easy to conceal because of the lack of communication between tribes
and peoples.
When we sit in our comfortable homes and look at our reality,
including that which is outside our windows, we see a "stable"
front. Cars pass on the street - taking people to and from their
homes in their varied daily activities. The sun shines, children
pass by talking and laughing. Everyone is involved in their life in
an immediate and identified way, believing that this life they are
involved in is what IS.
But, once in a while, something bizarre happens to someone and they
struggle to deal with this anomaly in the space-time continuum.
Usually, it is sufficiently minor that they can "dampen it" and
forget about it, which they MUST, because it is too aberrant in the
normal accepted course of events. It must be shoved under the rug
and hidden.
Once in awhile, bigger things happen in the reality - evidence of
the hyperdimensional control system intrudes, or the "screen" breaks
down in some way - and it becomes news and gets reported.
Charles
Fort spent many years collecting these types of things from the
newspapers and magazines all over the world.
When this happens, the "accepted belief system" hurries to "damp
down" the item so that everyone can go along in their respective and
collective illusions. And, since the events are localized, it is
easy to cover it up. And, in the past, this was a LOT easier than it
is today.
When you read the collected information of Charles Fort, you
see that the "alien reality" that is so widely reported today was
just as active then as it is now. In fact, you see that it may even
be somewhat "cyclical".
Just as we have cycles of food production,
planting, growing and harvesting, so may
hyperdimensional beings harvest us according to some
"seasonal" rule.
But, in any event, in the past it was a lot easier to keep the lid
on the matter. But then, people began to become literate. Books and
papers and magazines were published and distributed. Travel became
easier and information from around the world about these "odd
intrusions" into our reality could be collected giving an overall
pattern that something was not right.
Before Charles Fort, there were a few people who already "smelled a
rat". But, Mr. Fort kindly shoved it right under our noses and the
reaction has been quite interesting. The "cover up" machine went
into FULL operation through the most effective vectors of mainstream
science and religion.
But, the rat had been smelled and some people couldn’t just shove it
back under the rug. The stench kept wafting in the window that had
been opened.
And so, certain people began to start searching for the source of
this stinky rat. They began to gather knowledge and information.
We can even note HOW the "cover-up" machine began to do this "damage
control". When you study the history of social and religious
movement and change, you can see the "control mechanism" morphing
with every discovery or realization made by human beings. As they
outgrew the old religions, the simplistic explanations, new "religions" were put in place.
At exactly the right time - the period
of scientific expansion and growing knowledge of the nature of
reality which brought the old religious views into serious question
- the whole spiritualist movement began, leading to channeled
information that was designed to patch up the holes in the control
net. Newer and more elaborate explanations of the "higher realms"
came into our reality. With each new question, the control system
had a new answer to help everybody calm down, relax, and stop asking
questions!
At the present time, this is even more amazingly evident. A few
years ago, when we first began sharing the Cassiopaean information,
many of the issues we dealt with were not even addressed by these
other "sources". But, with everything we release, the "other side"
brings some new candidate forward with new explanations to "patch
the holes" we are tearing in the fabric of reality.
And, of course, since Ark is a physicist
with degrees beyond Ph.D., some of these new sources are becoming
more educated and articulate as if to counterbalance and damp down
what we are presenting here.
For me, the idea of connecting the dots has always consisted of
using everything available to me in terms of peeling that blasted
onion right down to the center.
If I have to spend weeks buried in
books about genetics to verify or disprove something the Cassiopaeans have said, I will do it. Not only that, I will write to
known experts in the field using my husband’s cachet in the
scientific world to "get in the door" and get the latest, most
up-to-date INSIDE information so that I can be sure that what I am
sharing is as accurate and balanced as I can make it.
And, over and over again I come to the idea that all of these things
were known long ago, and that we were sent a "message in a bottle"
so to say, in the form of myths and archaic practices that were "drilled" into the participants who have long since forgotten the
meaning.
Of course, it does seem that many of the ancient schools and
mystical paths kept some of this information intact. But, for the
most part, even that was "faded on the page" due to the long period
of time since such things were known and acknowledged. But still,
there are those who have seen the contradictions in our reality and
our beliefs and who have sought in these ancient teachings to
discover what MIGHT be known. And many of them have made discoveries
that, when considered with information from many other fields,
assists us in this essential discovery of our true condition and
purpose.
Gurdjieff was one of these.
And so, because he DID it, he made it possible for others to do it.
Even though it seems that each person who makes progress in this
discovery gets "damped down" or obfuscated by their followers, each
person who blazes a trail makes it easier for the next traveler to
follow in their footsteps. Of course, each trailblazer is in the
position of having to cut and slash their way through the thickest
and most dangerous jungle surrounding the truth, and this takes them
only so far.
But, having arrived at a new vantage
point through this great effort, they CAN see more of what is ahead,
in the center. Perhaps they can only get glimpses, but these
glimpses at least assure them that they are on the right track. On
the other hand, they may even see the whole picture and, in keeping
with the maturity of the group mind in their time period, attempt to
express the revelation in terms understandable to that generation.
Gurdjieff’s teachings became known as
the Fourth Way as opposed to
the three ways that had, as far as we can tell, existed within, and
utilized, the very religious and social structures that we may think
are in place for the purpose of keeping us imprisoned. This is what Gurdjieff meant when he said that many are hypnotized into believing
they are Men or Magicians. The problem with these three ways, as we
have already discussed, is that they concentrate on only one of the
three centers in man: bodily discipline, mental development or the
"way of the heart" - Love.
Gurdjieff’s way incorporated all of
these through a form of Conscious Labor and Intentional Suffering.
What did Gurdjieff mean by these things? No two of his students have
ever given the same answer. The only thing we can think about this
fact is that the understanding of his students was based upon their
effort, experience and level of being.
Conscious labor quite obviously does NOT refer to digging ditches or
breaking rocks, though it COULD. It must refer to efforts we are not
accustomed to making in our ordinary lives. Intentional suffering
obviously cannot be present if a person is asleep because it depends
on conscience and, according to Gurdjieff, until an individual is
awake, they are neither conscious nor do they have a REAL
conscience.
For Gurdjieff, conscience and
consciousness cannot be separated.
There are now many "Fourth Way" methods scattered around the world,
all of them partial and incomplete, it seems. But, the point is: Gurdjieff made a big step, he cut away a great deal of the
obstructions in the path of finding ways to bring the technology
back to the awareness of the group mind, and because he did, those
who came after him were able to go even further in this effort.
Unfortunately, the Control System immediately put "damage control"
into operation to patch the holes of revelation, and fences of
secrecy and restriction were erected so that IF anybody in the
organization had the deeper knowledge, it became so hidden that it
is likely that the process of distortion and corruption will proceed
on its normal course there as well.
Even so, we have to see each of these things as "steps". We can’t
leave out Sufism, Alchemy, Catharism, and other persecuted systems
of knowledge that were the stepping-stones before Gurdjieff.
By looking at the overall picture, we
can pretty safely say that when a revelation is seen to be useful,
that it helps the people who are involved in it to lead fuller, more
meaningful lives, the forces that be will immediately go into
overdrive to destroy or conceal it. And, if they cannot do that,
they will ensure that it is distorted and corrupted by putting their
own "agents" in place on the "inside" to see the job done. Witness
the development of Christianity via the Catholic Church.
Yes, Gurdjieff may have achieved the level of a True Sage himself,
leaving us a legacy of process and application, but our job at
present is to go further. And, as we do, we must EXPECT a continuous
effort to counteract, to obfuscate, to corrupt and co-opt the
concepts from all quarters.
Gurdjieff addressed these very
problems:
"The humanity to which we belong,
namely, the whole of historic and prehistoric humanity known to
science and civilization, in reality constitutes only the outer
circle of humanity, within which there are several other circles…
"The inner circle is called the
‘esoteric’; this circle consists of people who have attained the
highest development possible for man, each one of whom possesses
individuality in the fullest degree, that is to say, an
indivisible ‘I’, all forms of consciousness possible for man,
full control over these states of consciousness, the whole of
knowledge possible for man, and a free and independent will.
"They cannot perform actions opposed
to their understanding or have an understanding which is not
expressed by actions. At the same time there can be no discords
among them, no differences of understanding. Therefore their
activity is entirely coordinated and leads to one common aim
without any kind of compulsion because it is based upon a common
and identical understanding.
"The next circle is called the ‘mesoteric’,
that is to say, the middle.
"People who belong to this circle
possess all the qualities possessed by the members of the
esoteric circle with the sole difference that their knowledge is
of a more theoretical character.
"This refers, of course, to knowledge of a cosmic character.
They know and understand many things which have not yet found
expression in their actions. They know more than they do. But
their understanding is precisely as exact as, and therefore
precisely identical with, the understanding of the people of the
esoteric circle.
"Between them there can be, no
discord, there can be no misunderstanding. One understands in
the way they all understand, and all understand in the way one
understands. But as was said before, this understanding compared
with the understanding of the esoteric circle is somewhat more
theoretical. "The third circle is called the ‘exoteric’, that
is, the outer, because it is the outer circle of the inner part
of humanity.
"The people who belong to this circle possess much of that which
belongs to people of the esoteric and mesoteric circles but
their cosmic knowledge is of a more philosophical character,
that is to say, it is more abstract than the knowledge of the
mesoteric circle.
"A member of the mesoteric circle calculates, a member of the
exoteric circle contemplates. Their understanding may not be
expressed in actions. But there cannot be differences in
understanding between them. What one understands all the others
understand.
"In literature which acknowledges the existence of esotericism
humanity is usually divided into two circles only and the
‘exoteric circle’ as opposed to the ‘esoteric’, is called
ordinary life.
"In reality, as we see, the ‘exoteric circle’ is something very
far from us and very high. For ordinary man this is already
‘esotericism’. "‘The outer circle’ is the circle of mechanical
humanity to which we belong and which alone we know.
"The first sign of this circle is that among people who belong
to it there is not and there cannot be a common understanding.
Everybody understands in his own way and all differently.
"This circle is sometimes called the circle of the ‘confusion of
tongues’, that is, the circle in which each one speaks in his
own particular language, where no one understands another and
takes no trouble to be understood.
"In this circle mutual understanding between people is
impossible excepting in rare exceptional moments or in matters
having no great significance, and which are confined to the
limits of the given being.
"If people belonging to this circle
become conscious of this general lack of understanding and
acquire a desire to understand and to be understood, then it
means they have an unconscious tendency towards the inner circle
because mutual understanding begins only in the exoteric circle
and is possible only there.
"But the consciousness of the lack of understanding usually
comes to people in an altogether different form.
"So that the possibility for people to understand depends on the
possibility of penetrating into the exoteric circle where
understanding begins.
"If we imagine humanity in the form
of four concentric circles we can imagine four gates on the
circumference of the third inner circle, that is, the exoteric
circle, through which people of the mechanical circle can
penetrate. "These four gates correspond to the four ways
described before.
"The first way is the way of the
fakir, the way of people number one, of people of the physical
body, instinctive-moving-sensory people without much mind and
without much heart.
"The second way is the way of the monk, the religious way, the
way of people number two, that is, of emotional people. The mind
and the body should not be too strong.
"The third way is the way of the yogi. This is the way of the
mind, the way of people number three. The heart and the body
must not be particularly strong, otherwise they may be a
hindrance on this way. "Besides these three ways yet a fourth
way exists by which can go those who cannot go by any of the
first three ways.
"The fundamental difference between the first three ways, that
is, the way of the fakir, the way of the monk, and the way of
the yogi, and the fourth way consists in the fact that they are
tied to permanent forms which have existed throughout long
periods of history almost without change. At the basis of these
institutions is religion. Where schools of yogis exist they
differ little outwardly from religious schools. And in different
periods of history various societies or orders of fakirs have
existed in different countries and they still exist. These three
traditional ways are permanent ways within the limits of our
historical period.
"Two or three thousand years ago
there were yet other ways which no longer exist and the ways now
in existence were not so divided, they stood much closer to one
another.
"The fourth way differs from the old and the new ways by the
fact that it is never a permanent way. It has no definite forms
and there are no institutions connected with it. It appears and
disappears governed by some particular laws of its own.157
157 In my opinion, the ancient
ways that Gurdjieff claimed no longer exist were, in fact, the
"Fourth Way" as he described it, though more "permanent".
"The fourth way is never without
some work of a definite significance, is never without some
undertaking around which and in connection with which it can
alone exist.
"When this work is finished, that is to say, when the aim set
before it has been accomplished, the fourth way disappears, that
is, it disappears from the given place, disappears in its given
form, continuing perhaps in another place in another form.
"Schools of the fourth way exist for the needs of the work which
is being carried out in connection with the proposed
undertaking. They never exist by themselves as schools for the
purpose of education and instruction.
"Mechanical help cannot be required
in any work of the fourth way. Only conscious work can be useful
in all the undertakings of the fourth way. Mechanical man cannot
give conscious work so that the first task of the people who
begin such a work is to create conscious assistants.
"The work itself of schools of the
fourth way can have very many forms and many meanings. In the
midst of the ordinary conditions of life the only chance a man
has of finding a ‘way’ is in the possibility of meeting with the
beginning of work of this kind. But the chance of meeting with
such work as well as the possibility of profiting by this chance
depends upon many circumstances and conditions.
"The quicker a man grasps the aim of the work which is being
executed, the quicker can he become useful to it and the more
will he be able to get from it for himself.
"But no matter what the fundamental aim of the work is, the
schools continue to exist only while this work is going on. When
the work is done the schools close. The people who began the
work leave the stage. Those who have learned from them what was
possible to learn and have reached the possibility of continuing
on the way independently begin in one form or another their own
personal work.
"But it happens sometimes that when
the school closes a number of people are left who were round
about the work, who saw the outward aspect of it, and saw the
whole of the work in this outward aspect.
"Having no doubts whatever of themselves or in the correctness
of their conclusions and understanding they decide to continue
the work. To continue this work they form new schools, teach
people what they have themselves learned, and give them the same
promises that they themselves received. All this naturally can
only be outward imitation.158
158. This is certainly what
happened to Gurdjieff’s work.
"But when we look back on history it
is almost impossible for us to distinguish where the real ends
and where the imitation begins. Strictly speaking almost
everything we know about various kinds of occult, masonic, and
alchemical schools refers to such imitation. We know practically
nothing about real schools excepting the results of their work
and even that only if we are able to distinguish the results of
real work from counterfeits and imitations.
"But such pseudo-esoteric systems also play their part in the
work and activities of esoteric circles. Namely, they are the
intermediaries between humanity which is entirely immersed in
the materialistic life and schools which are interested in the
education of a certain number of people, as much for the
purposes of their own existences as for the purposes of the work
of a cosmic character which they may be carrying out.
The very idea of esotericism, the
idea of initiation, reaches people in most cases through
pseudo-esoteric systems and schools; and if there were not these
pseudo-esoteric schools the vast majority of humanity would have
no possibility whatever of hearing and learning of the existence
of anything greater than life because the truth in its pure form
would be inaccessible for them.
"By reason of the many characteristics of man’s being,
particularly of the contemporary being, truth can only come to
people in the form of a lie— only in this form are they able to
accept it; only in this form are they able to digest and
assimilate it. Truth undefiled would be, for them, indigestible
food.
"Besides, a grain of truth in an unaltered form is sometimes
found in:
It may be preserved in their
writings, their rituals, their traditions, their conceptions of
the hierarchy, their dogmas, and their rules.159
159 Gurdjieff, Georges G.,
quoted by Ouspensky,
In Search of The Miraculous, op. cit.
As I hinted in the previous chapter,
circumstantial evidence points to the existence of a secret
fraternity unknown in its entirety to the human race.
Other so-called "Secret" groups (Rosicrucians,
Illuminati,
Freemasons, Modern day Templars,
Priory of Zion, etc.) are generally
red-herrings to distract and divert the seeker. Gurdjieff points out
that these groups do serve a useful function because he very idea of
esotericism reaches people through the pseudo-esoteric systems that
such groups promote. And so it is that I say, most, if not all, of
the great religions of antiquity were symbolic representations of
the alchemical work.
During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries a
considerable number of alchemical adepts traveled around Europe,
appearing and disappearing at will.
According to tradition, these adepts
were immortal and kept themselves alive by means of the "Elixir of
Life" which was one of the goals of alchemy. That such mysterious
men did exist there can be little doubt, as their presence is
attested to by scores of reliable witnesses.
This brings us to the most interesting remark that Gurdjieff made
above about the inner circle:
"The inner circle… consists of
people who have attained the highest development possible for
man, each one of whom possesses individuality in the fullest
degree, that is to say, an indivisible ‘I’, all forms of
consciousness possible for man, full control over these states
of consciousness, the whole of knowledge possible for man, and a
free and independent will.
They cannot perform actions opposed to
their understanding or have an understanding which is not expressed
by actions.
At the same time there can be no
discords among them, no differences of understanding. Therefore
their activity is entirely coordinated and leads to one common aim
without any kind of compulsion because it is based upon a common and
identical understanding.160
160 Ouspensky, ibid.
And we are reminded again of the alchemical maxim:
"Like attracts like".
"When a candidate has developed
virtue and integrity acceptable to the adepts, they will appear
to him and reveal those parts of the secret processes which
cannot be discovered without such help. Those who cannot
progress to a certain point with their own intelligence are not
qualified to be entrusted with the secrets which can subject to
their will the elemental forces of Nature."
So, certainly some process must be
followed to achieve the requisite level for "attracting" help.
When we dig as deeply into all of these matters as possible, over
and over again we come upon the idea that Self-knowledge is the key.
It is NOT the end, but it is the means; the first stage in
self-development and the beginning of awakening from sleep is to be
able to know the self in an objective way so that the "predator’s
mind" can be controlled. Note very clearly that I say "controlled"
and NOT merged.
Gurdjieff said that we have many "I’s" and at the same time, we have
an animal nature and a spiritual nature. Self-observation and other
disciplined efforts were taught as the means of "crystallization" of
a "single I". William Baldwin thought that the real source of these
many "I’s" was the spirit attachment problem. In working with this,
he found that his techniques could assist the person in eliminating
this barrier manifesting the true self, in the effort to "grow the
will".
The downside of it is the failure to encourage the assimilation of
other knowledge as a means of having a context in which to place the
discoveries that the self makes in the processes.
But what good is this knowledge when it seems that all the
Cassiopaeans have to say is that we are "helpless" in the face of so
great a deception?
The fact is, they have said or suggested a lot
more than that. More importantly, if we understand the Cassiopaean
communication properly, we see that it is truly a Fourth Way Work,
and that the Cassiopaeans are the teacher that appeared to reveal
the parts of the Secret Processes which cannot be discovered without
help.
What is that big secret? Gurdjieff
refers to the Evil Magicians.
The alchemists said the same thing:
Eugene Canseliet, in his
preface to the Second Edition of Fulcanelli’s
Dwellings of the Philosophers, writes:
"Philippe de Mallery engraved
with a delicate touch: ‘Image of the World, in which
Calamities and Perils are emblematically presented along
with the opposition in feeling between the Love of God and
that of man.’ "The first emblem straightforwardly points to
the original, if not unique, source of all ills of our
Humanity. It is also underlined by the Latin inscription
which, in the parenthesis, is another pun of phonetic
cabala: ‘Totus mundus in maligno positus est’; the whole
world is established inside of the devil."161
What is this world inside the Devil?
It is the world of lies and confusion:
"‘The outer circle’ is the
circle of mechanical humanity to which we belong and which
alone we know.
"The first sign of this circle is that among people who
belong to it there is not and there cannot be a common
understanding. Everybody understands in his own way and all
differently.
"This circle is sometimes called the circle of the
‘confusion of tongues’, that is, the circle in which each
one speaks in his own particular language, where no one
understands another and takes no trouble to be understood.
"In this circle mutual understanding between people is
impossible excepting in rare exceptional moments or in
matters having no great significance, and which are confined
to the limits of the given being.162
161-162 Fulcanelli,
The Dwellings of the Philosophers, op. cit.
To many of you, it may seem that the
Cassiopaeans offer nothing but repeated statements that we are "damned no matter what we do", as one correspondent suggested. But,
that is not entirely the case.
Yes, it is true that, up to this point I
have presented mostly the information that relates to these matters,
attempting to penetrate and tear the veils of illusion under which
mankind has been hidden from his higher nature or potential, but
this has only been done with the intention of having a relatively
clear view of what possibilities of doing we may actually have.
Actually, I have been trying to
accomplish something else, something deep and essential: for those
who are asking, I have been trying to help you find your Free Will.
The point is, I am trying to shock you.
I am trying to make you think about things in new ways. I am trying
to get you to look at yourselves, study yourself, discover your
illusions and then apply yourself to becoming free of them. If
humanity has any hope of surviving, it will have to have a major
"change of mind", or METANOIA, which is incorrectly translated in
the New Testament as "repentance".
For a change of mind to even be
possible, it has to KNOW ITSELF!
And this brings us to that all-important
remark made by a member of our group, T R:
"What we have been told on that is
that this universe was created as a Free Will Universe. It was
created specifically to allow all souls to do whatever they wish
to do; they have complete choice about what they wish to do. The
Grays, the Lizards, whoever they are who abduct and put implants
in people, have the right to do that because it’s their free
will to come here and do that to us.
And, they have the right to tell us
whatever they want to tell us to rationalize their behavior. Our
right is to NOT believe what abducting entities tell us. We have
free will to believe or not believe them. If they tell us in one
lifetime that they have the right to do this to us, and we
choose to believe them then, and then, in this lifetime, they
try the same tricks and we choose NOT to believe them, in each
case, we are exercising our free will and so are they.
This is a Free Will universe. We can
change our mind. They are trying to convince us that we have no
choice in that, whether we believe them or not is OUR choice."
In the view of the Monotheistic
religions, as expounded by Aquinas and Descartes, Free Will
involves the power of the will to choose or not. That is, we are
free insofar as we can choose among alternatives as being either
Good or evil.
In other words, you can choose "Good", or not. And, if not, if you
do not choose what is presented to you as "good", you have, by
default, chosen evil. There is only one "good" option, and you can
take it or leave it and that is what constitutes your free will. It
is, in the words of some Mafia or Nazi types, "an offer you cannot
refuse" because the other option is clearly unpalatable and will
subject you to unpleasant consequences. This view makes a mockery of
the essential idea of Free Will.
Clearly, in our reality, we are in the face of this very teaching
from one religion, philosophy, New Age channeled source or another.
Once we understand that the reality
itself, the illusions of what is or is not "good" or "evil", are
masks, or symbols of something deeper, we begin to realize that the
two "alternatives" presented to us are clearly not equal.
"The thirsty person chooses water,
not oil; the hungry person, bread not tree bark; the poor
person, the dry patch under the bridge, not the bench in the
rain."
Some choice! By this definition, "Free
Will" becomes little more than a joke, a logical inconsistency. It
is also the chief mode of the Service to Self pathway - to "induce
choice" by "weighting" it.
This view of free-will-that-is-not-free becomes the chief mask of
those seeking to deny free will.
Any religion, philosophy or teaching that sets itself up as the
"only way a man can be saved" has immediately aligned itself with
the "Mafia/Nazi/STS" school of free will. You can easily see that a
person who chooses to "love" or "send love and light" because it
might gain salvation for them, or even because it "feels good", is
really in the position of the thirsty person choosing water and not
oil to drink.
And further, if they think that this is
the ONLY thing that they can do because the entire social and
philosophical structure has been carefully designed to make it seem
that this is the ONLY viable choice that is in line with God’s will,
they are still in the same position. But, the chief thing about it
is that they BELIEVE the illusion, the lie, that this choice is to
drink water and that choice is to drink oil. In fear, they don’t
even consider that they don’t have to choose EITHER!
There are other definitions of Free Will that are interesting to
speculate about. I am not going to engage in a lengthy monologue on
the views of the philosophers because, even though some of them are
quite fascinating and really make you think, that would be
counterproductive to the issue at hand here.
The short version is that Hobbes and Tolstoy suggest that we are
free insofar as we may do as we wish "without hindrance or
constraint". Locke and Hume extended Hobbes’s "freedom to do without
restriction" to "the power to do or not as one wills". Spinoza’s
view was that we are free "insofar as we alone determine our
behavior". We are not free when others dictate or hamper our
decisions, or for reasons of illness or incapacity we cannot
determine our actions.
When we consider "being able to do what we choose without hindrance
or restraint", and defining Free Will in this way, we have to then
consider not only whether our free will conflicts with the free will
of others, but also whether our free will itself may be less free
because of unconscious psychological or physiological forces.
And, if the issues of government
mind-control programs and hyperdimensional beings enter the
equation, whether we may be under the absolute control of external
forces must also be taken into account. In the first case we may
choose to rob and steal because of extreme poverty, a broken home,
and an ineffective educational system.
In the latter case, we may choose to "go
postal" because some fiendish government programmer’s toast got
burned that morning or because some Lurking Lizard Being
thought Suzy Smart was getting too close to the truth, and
she needed to be eliminated on her morning trip to buy stamps.
So we begin to think that we are not so free after all. In very real
terms, all of us are under the influence of external forces or
programming of one sort or another.
If we are free in this way, the issue of "free will", in third
density terms, becomes meaningless. This is a very shallow
interpretation because it means that freedom is defined as whether a
person can do what he chooses, not to the choosing itself; it refers
to the freedom of the action, not to the choice of action, because
all of your choices are "programmed".
Yet, whatever the individual decides to
do, even if programmed to do it, it is considered that he has "free
will" if he CAN do it!
What a cheap shot!
These concerns highlight the issue of the many forces that may
restrain or compel behavior against one’s will, which, if one was
AWARE of them, one might or might not choose otherwise.
The point is: We are not free if our
potential or actual choices are restricted. Locke makes an example
of a man locked into a room in which he prefers to stay. The man
desires to stay in the room, is able to do so, and is thus free by
Hobbes’s definition, but the man does not have the power to leave
the room and is thus not free according to Locke!
It is in exactly this sense that most people are deceived by the
Service to Self gang to believe that they have free will. The room
in which they are locked is the illusion that their beliefs and
objectives are the full reality of God/Creation, and their choice to
remain in the room is essentially acquiescence to beliefs imposed on
them from the outside.
Most of humanity spends endless lifetimes locked in this room. But,
the fact is, after a period of time, the confinement of the room and
the sameness of the experiences become objectionable because, all
the while the prisoner is lulled into inactivity, something may be
growing inside him - some urge to see what is outside the room.
But, until this inclination is fully
developed, he may make no effort to even check the door. And, once
he does check the door and discovers that it is locked, he may not
yet have sufficient drive to do anything more than return to his
position and continue to wait for something to happen. After a bit
longer, the drive grows, and this, with the realization that he IS
locked in may drive him to discover how to get out.
But this process can take many
lifetimes, and to attempt to open the door of the prison in which
another is held when they are not ready to come out because they are
not STRONG enough, will only frighten them, will only deprive them
of the building force that is inside them that could, given time to
develop, sustain the effort to emerge from the room on their own.
In such terms, whether or not a person has the power to do as he
wills remains a fundamentally empirical question. He may think he
has complete freedom to do or not as he wills, yet, his will, his
choices which are based on his awareness, may be determined
subconsciously or physically by things of which he is NOT aware. In
this sense, any choice or act that is based upon lack of awareness,
must lead us to discover the source of the lack of awareness as the
causative factor, not the choice of the chooser.
In other words, if a person is "programmed", whether via government
experiments, alien abductors, religions created and imposed by
hyperdimensional beings, then WHO is ultimately responsible?
Is it the "programmers", or is it the person who has effectively
chosen to be unaware?
Yes, the individual may be unaware because of fear of reprisals by
God, demons, or his alien or government handlers. He may be
afraid for his body or his soul or the body and soul of someone he
loves. But these fears are beliefs that constitute the locked room
in which he has chosen to remain not realizing that his own choice
is the lock!
If the person is unaware, not because of fear, but simply because he
is "asleep" is he then responsible for his lack of awareness?
According to the Cassiopaeans, Yes. It is his choice.
He has chosen it for a reason at some
level, and he is entitled to it. He has chosen his environment; he
has chosen his grade and his lessons. Maybe "chosen" in the
conscious sense is an inappropriate term. It is more like he is
there because that is where he "fits", He is a "consciousness unit",
and he is learning. Only when he reaches a certain level will he
begin to "wake up". Only when something has "grown" in him. Will.
Gurdjieff seemed to have the idea that a "will" could be "nurtured"
in a man and accelerated, so to say.
The following remarks were made with
this in mind:
"To awaken for a man means to be
dehypnotized. In this lies the chief difficulty and in this also
lies the guarantee of its possibility, for there is no organic
reason for sleep and man CAN awaken. Theoretically he can, but
practically it is almost impossible because as soon as a man
awakens for a moment and opens his eyes, all the forces that
caused him to fall asleep begin to act upon him with tenfold
energy and he immediately falls asleep again, very often
dreaming that he is awake or is awakening. "
[...] Only a man who fully realizes
the difficulty of awakening can understand the necessity of long
and hard work in order to awake.
Speaking in general, what is
necessary to awake a sleeping man? A good shock is necessary.
But when a man is fast asleep one shock is not enough. A long
period of continual shocks is needed. Consequently there must be
somebody to administer these shocks. There is also the
possibility of being awakened by mechanical means. A man may be
awakened by an alarm clock. But the trouble is that a man gets
accustomed to the alarm clock far too quickly, he ceases to hear
it. Many alarm clocks are necessary and always new ones.
[...] Alarm clocks must be wound up;
in order to wind them up one must remember about them; in order
to remember one must wake up often.
"[...] But there is very little
chance of a man doing all the work of winding up, inventing, and
changing clocks all by himself, without outside help. It is much
more likely that he will begin this work and that it will
afterwards pass into sleep, and in sleep he will dream of
inventing alarm clocks, of winding them up and changing them,
and simply sleep all the sounder for it.
"Therefore, in order to awaken, a combination of efforts is
needed. It is necessary that somebody should wake the man up; it
is necessary that somebody should look after the man who wakes
him; it is necessary to have alarm clocks and it is also
necessary continually to invent new alarm clocks.
"But in order to achieve all this and to obtain results a
certain number of people must work together. One man can do
nothing. If several people decide to struggle together against
sleep, they will wake each other. It may often happen that
twenty of them will sleep but the twenty- first will be awake
and he will wake up the rest. It is exactly the same thing with
alarm clocks.
One man will invent one alarm clock,
another man will invent another, afterwards they can make an
exchange. Altogether they can be of very great help one to
another, and without this help no one can attain anything.
Therefore, a man who wants to awake must look for other people
who also want to awake and work together with them."163
163 Ouspensky,1949, op. cit.
Clearly Gurdjieff was aware of the very
"damage control" factor of the Control System and how quickly it
moves in to damp down any rips in the fabric of the illusion.
His idea that we must continually invent
NEW ALARM CLOCKS is a clear indication that he knew that his method
would have to be reworked, revised, added to and expanded. His hope
to accelerate the awakening of man seems to have been the driving
force behind everything he did, and he was aware of what might
happen to his work. It wasn’t just the idea of distortion; he knew
that it HAD to be constantly reinvented to keep pace with the
evolving Control System.
Can we accelerate the awakening?
The Cassiopaeans have indicated that, yes it is possible:
Q: (L) Is there a tool that enhances
free will?
A: No tool is needed because all there is is lessons. The
learning cycle is variable, and progress along it is determined
by events and circumstances as they unfold.
Q: (L) So, when a person is being
hypnotized and controlled from outside, because that is the
matter of concern we were discussing earlier, they are
hypnotized and controlled until they learn to stop it?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So, using the analogy of the pigsty, they just have to
wallow in it and suffer until they have had enough?
A: Using your analogy of the bicycle: Is there a tool, which
makes it unnecessary for the child to learn how to ride the
bicycle, in order to know how to ride it?!?
Q: (MM) Don’t you get more free will
by assimilating knowledge?
A: Yes!! Yes!!
Q: (L) So, in other words, knowledge
and awareness makes you aware that you have free will, and also
makes you aware of what actions actually ARE acts of free will,
and therefore, when you know or suspect the difference between
the lies and deception and truth, then you are in a position to
be in control of your life?
A: Yes. Remember, you learn on an exponential curve, once you
have become "tuned in". This means that you become increasingly
able to access the universal consciousness. Please learn to
trust your increasing awareness. All who are present here are at
one point or another on that cycle of progression, some further
along than others. If you properly network without prejudice,
you may all wind up at the same point on this cycle.
What does it mean to be "tuned in"? We
return again to the issue of "Like attracts like".
"When a candidate has developed
virtue and integrity acceptable to the adepts, they will appear
to him and reveal those parts of the secret processes which
cannot be discovered without such help.
"Those who cannot progress to a
certain point with their own intelligence are not qualified to
be entrusted with the secrets which can subject to their will
the elemental forces of Nature."
The
Cassiopaean Transmissions are just
such an "appearance". The process is best described by Eugene
Canseliet in his Preface to the second edition of Fulcanelli’s
Alchemical Masterpiece,
The Dwellings of the Philosophers:
"According to the meaning of the
Latin word adeptus, the alchemist has then received the Gift of
God, or even better, the Present, a cabalistic pun on the double
meaning of the word, underlining that he thus enjoys the
infinite duration of the Now. [...]
"In the Kingdom of Sulpur there
exists a Mirror in which the entire World can be seen. Whosoever
looks into this Mirror can see and learn the three parts of
Wisdom of the entire World."
After thirty years of study and two
years of dedicated experimentation, detailed in my autobiography,
Amazing Grace, the Cassiopaean communications began.
"We are you in the Future", they
said.
"We transmit "through" the opening
that is presented in the locator that you represent as
Cassiopaea, due to the strong radio pulses aligned from
Cassiopaea, which are due to a pulsar from a neutron star 300
light years behind it, as seen from your locator. This
facilitates a clear channel transmission from 6th density to 3rd
density."
Through this "Gift of God", - the
Present - I have been enabled to look into the "Mirror in which the
entire World can be seen" from my own omnipresent self, in a state
of full awareness.
In short, based on all the details, the
Cassiopaean Transmissions are a true Fourth Way work, and
exactly as Gurdjieff described, the first order of business of such
a work is to network, to teach and train assistants.
"Schools of the fourth way exist for
the needs of the work which is being carried out in connection
with the proposed undertaking. They never exist by themselves as
schools for the purpose of education and instruction.
"Mechanical help cannot be required
in any work of the fourth way. Only conscious work can be useful
in all the undertakings of the fourth way. Mechanical man cannot
give conscious work so that the first task of the people who
begin such a work is to create conscious assistants."164
164 Ouspensky, op. cit.
So, learning, networking with others who
are further along on the cycle of progression, and doing this
without prejudice CAN make a difference, it seems.
What is the specific purpose of the
Cassiopaean work?
Let’s stop and consider that: At the beginning of
World War I, Ouspensky’s speculated to Gurdjieff that the war was a
consequence of life in the industrial age, wherein humans were
becoming more "mechanized" and had stopped thinking for themselves
because they had things too easy.
Gurdjieff replied:
"There is another kind of
mechanization which is much more dangerous: being a machine
oneself. Have you ever thought about the fact that all people
themselves are machines? [...] Look, all those people you see
are simply machines - nothing more. [...] You think there is
something that
chooses its own path,
something that can stand against mechanization; you think that
not everything is equally mechanical."
At this point, Ouspensky raised what
would seem to be a most logical objection:
"Why of course not! [...] Art,
poetry, thought, are phenomena of quite a different order."
Gurdjieff replied:
"Of exactly the same order. These
activities are just as mechanical as everything else. Men are
machines and nothing but mechanical actions can be expected of
machines."
He then continued:
"[Western civilization] armed with
‘exact knowledge’ and all the latest methods of investigation,
has no chance whatever and is moving in a circle from which
there is no escape.
"That is because people believe in progress and culture. There
is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was
thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form
changes. The essence does not change. Man remains just the same.
‘Civilized’ and ‘cultured’ people live with exactly the same
interests as the most ignorant savages. Modern civilization is
based on violence and slavery and fine words.
"[...] What do you expect? People
are machines. Machines have to be blind and unconscious, they
cannot be otherwise, and all their actions have to correspond to
their nature. Everything happens. No one does anything.
‘Progress’ and ‘civilization’, in the real meaning of these
words, can appear only as the result of conscious efforts. They
cannot appear as the result of unconscious mechanical actions.
And what conscious effort can there be in machines? And if one
machine is unconscious, then a hundred machines are unconscious,
and so are a thousand machines, or a hundred thousand, or a
million. And the unconscious activity of a million machines must
necessarily result in destruction and extermination.
"It is precisely in unconscious
involuntary manifestations that all evil lies. You do not yet
understand and cannot imagine all the results of this evil. But
the time will come when you will understand."
Again we note: Gurdjieff was speaking at
the beginning of the First World War, in the opening rounds of a
century of unprecedented warfare. And now, almost a hundred years
later, humanity is on the edge of a precipice and no one knows what
feather will plunge us all into the abyss.
Wilhelm Reich wrote about the
same problems that concerned Gurdjieff and Ouspensky:
"Why did man, through thousands of
years, wherever he built scientific, philosophic, or religious
systems, go astray with such persistence and with such
catastrophic consequences? […]
"Is human erring necessary? Is it
rational? Is all error rationally explainable and necessary? If
we examine the sources of human error, we find that they fall
into several groups.
"Gaps in the knowledge of nature form a wide sector of human
erring. Medical errors prior to the knowledge of anatomy and
infectious diseases were necessary errors. But we must ask if
the mortal threat to the first investigators of animal anatomy
was a necessary error too.
"The belief that the earth was fixed
in space was a necessary error, rooted in the ignorance of
natural laws. But was it an equally necessary error to burn
Giordano Bruno at the stake and to incarcerate
Galileo? […]
"We understand that human thinking
can penetrate only to a given limit at a given time. What we
fail to understand is why the human intellect does not stop at
this point and say: ‘this is the present limit of my
understanding. Let us wait until new vistas open up.’ This would
be rational, comprehensible, purposeful thinking. […]
"What amazes us is the sudden turn
from the rational beginning to the irrational illusion.
Irrationality and illusion are revealed by the intolerance and
cruelty with which they are expressed. We observe that human
thought systems show tolerance as long as they adhere to
reality. The more the thought process is removed from reality,
the more intolerance and cruelty are needed to guarantee its
continued existence."165
165 Ether, God and Devil, Wilhelm
Reich
Who or what is responsible for this
state of mankind is a major issue, most particularly if we assume a
benevolent God and a hierarchy of benevolent beings guiding the
destiny of mankind.
Gurdjieff commented on this in the following way
(edited for clarity):
"We must remember that the ray of
creation... is like a branch of a tree... Growth depends on
organic life on earth. [...] If organic life is arrested in its
development, in its evolution, and fails to respond to the
demands made upon it, the branch may wither. This must be
remembered.
"To this ray of creation, exactly
the same possibility of development and growth has been given as
is given to each separate branch of a big tree. But the
accomplishment of this growth is not at all guaranteed. It
depends upon the harmonious and right action of its own tissues.
"Organic life on earth is a complex
phenomenon in which the separate parts depend upon one another.
General growth is possible only on the condition that the ‘end
of the branch’ grows. Or, speaking more precisely, there are
organic life tissues which are evolving, and there are tissues
which serve as food and medium for those which are evolving.
Then there are evolving cells within
the evolving tissues, and cells which serve as food and medium
for those which are evolving. In each separate evolving cell
there are evolving parts and there are parts which serve as food
for those which are evolving.
But always and in everything it must be remembered that
evolution is never guaranteed, it is possible only and it can
stop at any moment and in any place.
"The evolving part of organic life
on earth is humanity. If humanity does not evolve it means that
the evolution of organic life will stop and this, in its turn
will cause the growth of our ray of creation to stop. "At the
same time if humanity ceases to evolve it becomes useless from
the point of view of the aims for which it was created and as
such it may be destroyed. In this way the cessation of evolution
may mean the destruction of humanity.
"We have no clues from which we are
able to tell in what period of planetary evolution we exist. We
cannot know this but we should bear in mind that the number of
possibilities is never infinite. "At the same time in examining
the life of humanity as we know it historically we are bound to
acknowledge that humanity is moving in a circle. It one century
it destroys everything it creates in another and the progress in
mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the
cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more
important for it.
"Speaking in general there is every
reason to think and to assert that humanity is at a standstill,
and from a standstill there is a straight path to downfall and
degeneration.
"A standstill means that a process
has become balanced. The appearance of any one quality
immediately evokes the appearance of another quality opposed to
it. The growth of knowledge in one domain evokes the growth of
ignorance in another; refinement on the one hand evokes
vulgarity on the other; freedom in one connection evokes slavery
in another; the disappearance of some superstitions evokes the
appearance and growth of others; and so on.
"A balanced process proceeding in a
certain way cannot be changed at any moment it is desired. It
can be changed and set on a new path only at certain
‘crossroads’. In between the crossroads nothing can be done. "At
the same time if a process passes by a crossroad and nothing
happens, nothing is done, then nothing can be done afterwards
and the process will continue and develop according to
mechanical laws; and even if the people taking part in this
process foresee the inevitable destruction of everything, they
will be unable to do anything.
"I repeat that something can be done
only at certain moments which I have just called ‘crossroads’
and which in octaves, we have called the ‘intervals’.
"The process of evolution, of that
evolution which is possible for humanity as a whole, is
completely analogous to the process of evolution possible for
the individual man. And it begins with the same thing, namely, a
certain group of cells gradually becomes conscious; then it
attracts to itself other cells, subordinates others, and
gradually makes the whole organism serve its aims and not merely
eat, drink and sleep.
"In humanity as in individual man
everything begins with the formation of a conscious nucleus. All
the mechanical forces of life fight against the formation of
this conscious nucleus in humanity, in just the same way as all
mechanical habits, tastes, and weaknesses fight against
conscious awareness in man.
"Can it be said that there is a
conscious force which fights against the evolution of humanity?"
Ouspensky asked.
"From a certain point of view it can
be said," said G.
"Where can this force come from?"
Ouspensky asked.
"There are two processes which are
sometimes called ‘involutionary’ and ‘evolutionary’. The
difference between them is the following: An involutionary
process begins consciously in the absolute but at the next step
it already becomes mechanical - and it becomes more and more
mechanical as it develops; an evolutionary process begins
half-consciously but it becomes more and more conscious as it
develops.
"But consciousness and conscious
opposition to the evolutionary process can also appear at
certain moments in the involutionary process.
"From where does this consciousness
come?
"From the evolutionary process of
course. The evolutionary process must proceed without
interruption. Any stop causes a separation from the fundamental
process. Such separate fragments of consciousnesses which have
been stopped in their development can also unite and at any rate
for a certain time can live by struggling against the
evolutionary process. After all it merely makes the evolutionary
process more interesting.
"Instead of struggling against
mechanical forces there may, at certain moments, be a struggle
against the intentional opposition of fairly powerful forces
though they are not of course comparable with those which direct
the evolutionary process.
"These opposing forces may sometimes
even conquer.
"The reason for this consists in the
fact that the forces guiding evolution have a more limited
choice of means; in other words, they can only make use of
certain means and certain methods. The opposing forces are not
limited in their choice of means and they are able to make use
of every means, even those which only give rise to a temporary
success, and in the final result they destroy both evolution and
involution at the point in question.
"Are we able to say for instance
that life is governed by a group of conscious people? Where are
they? Who are they?
"We see exactly the opposite: that
life is governed by those who are the least conscious, by those
who are most asleep.
"Are we able to say that we observe
in life a preponderance of the best, the strongest, and the most
courageous elements?
"Nothing of the sort. On the
contrary we see a preponderance of vulgarity and stupidity of
all kinds.
"Are we able to say that aspirations
towards unity, towards unification, can be observed in life?
"Nothing of the kind of course. We
only see new divisions, new hostility, new misunderstandings.
"So that in the actual situation of
humanity there is nothing that points to evolution proceeding.
"On the contrary when we compare
humanity with a man we quite clearly see a growth of personality
at the cost of essence, that is, a growth of the artificial, the
unreal, and what is foreign, at the cost of the natural, the
real, and what is one’s own.
"Together with this we see a growth
of automatism.
"Contemporary culture requires
automatons. And people are undoubtedly losing their acquired
habits of independence and turning into automatons, into parts
of machines.
"It is impossible to say where is
the end of all this and where the way out - or whether there is
an end and a way out. One thing alone is certain, that man’s
slavery grows and increases. Man is becoming a willing slave. He
no longer needs chains. He begins to grow fond of his slavery,
to be proud of it. And this is the most terrible thing that can
happen to a man.166
166 Gurdjieff quoted by Ouspensky,
op. cit, 1949
Carlos Castaneda puts the
problem another way:
"‘You have arrived, by your effort
alone, to what the shamans of ancient Mexico called the topic of
topics. I have been beating around the bush all this time,
insinuating to you that something is holding us prisoner. Indeed
we are held prisoner! This was an energetic fact for the
sorcerers of ancient Mexico. […]
They took over because we are food
for them, and they squeeze us mercilessly because we are their
sustenance. Just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, the
predators rear us in human coops. Therefore, their food is
always available to them…’
"‘I want to appeal to your
analytical mind’, don Juan said. ‘Think for a moment, and tell
me how you would explain the contradiction between the
intelligence of man the engineer and the stupidity of his
systems of beliefs, or the stupidity of his contradictory
behavior. Sorcerers believe that the predators have given us our
systems of beliefs, our ideas of good and evil, our social
mores.
They are the ones who set up our
hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They
have given us covetousness, greed and cowardice. It is the
predators who make us complacent, routinary, and egomaniacal…’
"‘In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators
engaged themselves in a stupendous maneuver - stupendous, of
course, from the point of view of a fighting strategist. A
horrendous maneuver from the point of view of those who suffer
it. They gave us their mind! Do you hear me? The predators give
us their mind, which becomes our mind. The predators’ mind is
baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being
discovered any minute now…’
"‘Through the mind, which, after all, is their mind, the
predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever is
convenient for them.’"167
167 Castaneda,
The Active Side of Infinity, 1998,
pp. 213-220
This, of course, takes us to Gurdjieff’s
story of the Evil Magician, which we have already discussed.
We should pay particular attention to
this remark made by Gurdjieff:
"The evolving part of organic life
on earth is humanity. If humanity does not evolve it means that
the evolution of organic life will stop and this, in its turn
will cause the growth of our ray of creation to stop.
"At the same time if humanity ceases
to evolve it becomes useless from the point of view of the aims
for which it was created and as such it may be destroyed. In
this way the cessation of evolution may mean the destruction of
humanity."
In short, based on an objective
assessment of the world around us, we are in deep trouble. In
another place, Gurdjieff makes a rather spooky remark:
"There is a definite period", he
said, "for a certain thing to be done. If, by a certain time,
what ought to be done has not been done, the earth may perish
without having attained what it could have attained." "Is this
period known?" I asked.
"It is known", said G. "But it would be no advantage whatever
for people to know it. It would even be worse. Some would
believe it, others would not believe it, yet others would demand
proofs. Afterwards they would begin to break one another’s
heads. Everything ends this way with people."
Gurdjieff gave other hints about this,
though I expect that he didn’t fully know the details since his own
work was that of one who prepares the ground and plants the seeds
that are crucial to us now when considering the Cassiopaean "Mission".
In this passage, Gurdjieff returns again
to the subject of evolution, which, as he pointed out, has stopped
in humanity.
"Everything I have said till now I
have said about the whole of humanity. But as I pointed out
before, the evolution of humanity can proceed only through the
evolution of a certain group, which, in its turn, will influence
and lead the rest of humanity.
"Are we able to say that such a group exists? Perhaps we can on
the basis of certain signs, but in any event we have to
acknowledge that it is a very small group, quite insufficient,
at any rate, to subjugate the rest of humanity. Or, looking at
it from another point of view, we can say that humanity is in
such a state that it is unable to accept the guidance of a
conscious group."
"How many people could there be in this conscious group?"
someone asked.
"Only they themselves know this", said G.
"Does it mean that they all know each other?" asked the same
person again.
"How could it be otherwise?" asked G.
"Imagine that there are two or three people who are awake in the
midst of a multitude of sleeping people. They will certainly
know each other. But those who are asleep cannot know them. How
many are they? We do not know and we cannot know until we become
like them.
"It has been clearly said before that each man can only see on
the level of his own being. But two hundred conscious people, if
they existed and if they found it necessary and legitimate,
could change the whole of life on the earth. But either there
are not enough of them, or they do not want to, or perhaps the
time has not yet come, or perhaps other people are sleeping too
soundly." 168
168 Ouspensky, op. cit.
Gurdjieff was right that it was not the
right time then.
Based on observation and research, it is
apparent that humanity has now reached a great historical
crossroads. We have come to the end of a two thousand year history
of intolerance, cruelty and stupidity, which has created our present
state of global, collective madness. Humanity, as a collective
whole, is arriving at a state of collective Spiritual Bankruptcy, or
"death". And yet, we cannot assume that this is meaningless.
Those who understand the principles of electricity will comprehend
when I say that this present global estate is the way nature works
and is the establishing of sufficient Contact Potential Difference
for the inflow of energy of Cosmic Light.
But just as it is in the case of the
individual, when that point is reached - that Dark Night of the Soul
- there is a "choice" that becomes apparent: the soul is offered the
way "up" or the way "down". In order for this coming inflow of
energy to act in positive ways, to create a new reality of Free Will
and Balance, there must be a point of contact that can conduct the
energy.
There must be human "micro-chips" or "circuits" sufficient
to sustain this energy or all of humanity will perish. This means
that only the development of human beings of a certain sort - with a
certain "wiring", so to say - will result in the global capacity to
confront the energies of the Crossroads.
The only other Turning Point in history that can be compared with
the present one is that of the "Great Flood". Thus, we come to the
idea that the search for the Holy Grail and the alchemical work of
distillation of the Philosopher’s Stone is ALSO the "building of an
Ark" in order to pass over into the New World.
That is the Fourth Way Work of the Cassiopaeans.
With all of this in mind, we want to now return to Kant’s definition
of Free Will.
Kant defined Free Will as the ability to initiate a new
causal series. For Kant, freedom is independence of the influence of
motivations, character, and external causes. It is more than just
the power to choose. Freedom is the power to exercise will as reason
directs, to be a first cause of events, regardless of physical
constraints.
This means the ability to choose FREELY between at least TWO
alternatives. It means that these (at least two) alternatives MUST
NOT BE WEIGHTED to one side or another in intrinsic terms. That is,
there must be NOTHING that compels the chooser to choose one over
the other.
In fact, it seems to be that the choice is more potent if
it is made in an act of deep and pure faith, in opposition to all
that is evident in material terms.
Freedom, thus defined, captures the essence of the CHOICE between
service to self and service to others. To be thus free means we can
SEE with our reason all or most of the influences that are imposed
on us by the many forces acting in our environment, and we can then
CHOOSE based on knowledge of those forces, irrespective of them.
Our physical bodies are phenomena subject to natural 3rd density
causality because we are part of the 3rd density world and subject
to its laws. Our actions, based on 3rd density interpretations
alone, are then subject to the same empirical 3rd density causality,
and because causal series are continuous in time (each event has a
prior cause which is an effect of another prior cause), we have no
freedom at this level of phenomena.
The totality of the 4th density field of
possibilities is veiled from us and leaves us with no more freedom
than the causally simple stimulus-response theories of the
behaviorists. Our actions are a result of causal processes,
controlled and devised at the 4th density or Noumenal level of
reality, and freedom at this 3rd density level is impossible unless
we access the 4th density causal level by SEEING via the clues
apparent in 3rd density.
If we can SEE the true field of options,
we can choose our ALIGNMENT. THAT’S IT!
But, alignment choices seem to have
far-reaching effects in terms of 3rd density empirical experience.
What this means is that, as long as we do not engage in disciplined
efforts to widen our perception, we appear to have little freedom
within the field to behave other than we do. The more aware of the
Noumenal/causal realm we are, the more free will we can have. And
this is because we are overcoming the damping effect of matter and
the predator’s mind. By doing this, we are increasing our
polarization.
What can be, what might have been, or what should be are ideas that
can be dealt with via reason even if there are no apparent
manifestations of them in the reality. And this is where the mind -
consciousness, awareness - comes into the picture in disciplined
effort to envision what has not (apparently) existed and does not
(apparently) exist, but which MUST exist by virtue of the fact we
can conceive it.
In the deepest terms, reason is more than the domain of
possibilities; it is also the realm of possible empirical worlds, of
analytic constructions, of alternate conceptions, and of potential
frameworks for the very conditions of experience. Because we can
think about things that we have never experienced with any of our
senses, we can understand that reason, making use of knowledge and
awareness, can be independent of the "real world".
Therefore, it is also possible that Reason, supported by knowledge
and awareness, followed by choice, stands in causal relation to
phenomena.
In other words, if your knowledge and awareness of the reality lead
you to the conclusion, via reason, that the reality is controlled,
and you are not free within it, yet you can develop or comprehend
the idea of a world that is NOT controlled, that is NOT limited, you
can CHOOSE to align yourself with such a possible world in a deep
and conscious way. This choice of alignment then becomes your
connection to a THOUGHT CENTER.
And the stronger your connection to the
Thought Center, which is in the causal realm, the more it will
manifest in your reality.
Kant is concerned only with whether an action can be both causally
necessary and free at the same time. His answer is yes, if we are
aware. Kant also argues that this is possible because we can have
two different perspectives simultaneously on the same action.
To be free in Kant’s sense gives us the power to create a new world,
to redo the old, to change ourselves and correct our deficiencies
with AWARENESS, which then puts our choices into an entirely
different category. We can see it as an ordinary action, a choice
brought into focus because of the forces around us, or other choices
in our past; AND, at the same time, we can be aware of all of those
factors, and choose from that position of awareness in a completely
different, "Platonic reality", than the ordinary world.
We can argue that whether we indeed do have freedom is improvable
(Kant argues that the "how and why" of our possible freedom is
unknowable), but given its possibility through reason, we can
presume freedom to exist. And once we presume it to exist, we can
then make choices based on this presumption and observe the results
empirically.
Reason is the crucial concept in Kant’s approach, and it is here
that he makes the critical point. Reason is distinct from what we
can know through our five senses, because it deals with the
possibility and not actuality of experience.
What do I mean by that?
Well, let me try to explain it this way:
A correspondent recently wrote of his despair when he realized that
what the Cassiopaeans were saying truly did do a better job of
explaining the "order of the universe" and the meanings behind the
experiences and symbols of reality.
"[Tonight] we had a ...big annual
fireworks presentation that is synchronized with a radio
broadcast [...]
The whole thing is massive and hyped up. There’s
lots of flashing lights (people even joined in and flashed their
house lights), lots of aerial traffic and lots of flashing
fireworks. All this backed by a radio broadcast that is
impossible to escape since EVERYONE is playing it.
As beautiful as it is, I got
immensely depressed. All that I know so far, all the knowledge
in me just caused me to [be unable to] escape the awful feeling
of alienation and despair. All these people, the kids, the
elderly, the mothers and grandparents - they are all screwed -
most likely including me. We’re like sheep - we’ll be happy with
a bunch of flashing lights and then we’ll go off to earn more
money. To run the program.
I think the most disturbing moment
was when I saw this really gorgeous boy - 5 maybe 7. He had an
incredibly smooth face; he was watching the fireworks and
clapping his hand in happiness. Pity that Lizzies might eat him
tomorrow. [...]
It’s just too much to handle on your own!
We will be taken over with no problems at all. This is our
destiny and only a small percentage of us worldwide will have
any clue as to what is happening when the sky turns red. The
rest will get burned in the packed-out churches.
And what can I do?
"Well, not much [...] It’s like one
of those prophetic dreams - they happen and you can’t change
anything. Yeah, I tried but my acts led to the dream FULFILLING
it. So either way - whether you do something or not, little
difference will be made. It makes no difference how many people
I help. It makes no difference how many old ladies’ days I make.
No matter how many books I read and how many riddles I solve. It
is all predestined anyway. I’m tired of giving already!
"And so the night goes on. I am alone, with no one to truly see
what I mean in a face-to-face conversation. All the people I’ve
ever met had something wrong with them (and there’s literally
thousands of them). No amount of unconditional love could turn
them normal. I’m running out of possibilities here (maybe
there’s something wrong with ME then).
I’m tired of fighting, asking,
probing, observing and not being able to share properly. It’s a
doomed existence and I’m here to watch. Whatever happened to
love, compassion and understanding? Where on Earth (HELL) has
the internal beauty gone?? Is all this bickering ever going to
end?
Enough already!"
[Name of correspondent withheld
for privacy]
Indeed! And how passionately eloquent!
Having been there, (more than once!) my
heart bled for him. And, which is worse: To see what he is seeing as
a young man with his whole life before him? Or to see what there is
to see in middle age, with five children for whom you have given
most of your life; seeing not only that you have been lying to
yourself by believing lies and deception, but that you have conveyed
those same lies to the people you love the most?
What do you do when you realize that
most of your life you have given away your free will and, at the
same time, have taken away the free will of those dearest to you?
More horrible still, what do you do when you realize it has ALL been
done in the name of LOVE?! Is there light at the end of this tunnel?
Is there, Oh! Is there "Balm in Gilead"?
Yes, many times I experienced what my correspondent described so
well. And it is only in the past few years that I am able to see it
for what it was: a series of initiations. Step by step I was led
through one level after another, stripping away all my beliefs and
expectations, until I had no more illusions in which to hide.
And
what I was being taught by the Universe was the deepest and most
essential thing to know - about myself.
When the last illusion was stripped away
and I was left with nothing but the skeleton of my being, I reached
what Kafka describes as Von einem gewissen Punkt gibt es keine
Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen.
"There is a point of no return. This
point has to be reached."
When you have been stripped of all your
illusions, when you have nothing left to believe in, there is no one
there at all but yourself. It felt rather like falling endlessly in
icy, black, meaningless space. No rhyme nor reason, no truth nor
beauty, no anything that I had ever believed in could be seen
anywhere.
I had peeled away the layers of all the
warm, fuzzy, comforting beliefs and found that it was all a lie, a
deception, a mask for "feeding and manipulation". And by believing
the lies, I had participated in the feeding and manipulating to so
great a degree that my grief and regret became an ocean in which I
was drowning. No wonder we resist giving up our beliefs!
Without
them, we have to face the truth about ourselves!
And, as much as we think we are loving,
caring, giving beings, when we see the TRUTH, when we see that most
of our ideas about loving and caring and being have been manipulated
to deprive us of our free will and to pass the infection on to those
we love the most, it is like looking into the pit of Hell.
And when you look into the pit of Hell and realize that you have
been feeding that black and bloody, sucking and gaping gore filled
maw waiting to swallow you, and that you have taught those you love
to feed it as well, the horror of the realization is enough to drive
you mad with grief and despair. And you search for a meaning, some
little point of illumination, and there is no light anywhere, not
even a single candle to dispel the darkness.
But, while falling in this dark, empty space, something begins to
form inside you. In the beginning it is very small, but it catches
your attention and, since it is the only thing that is "different"
in the sucking, feeding darkness, you become riveted on it. You
cannot be sure exactly what it is at first, but your attention gives
it energy and it begins to grow inside you.
What you have found is your will.
And once you have found your will you SEE "the CHOICE". Choice is a
function of will. Where Will exists, Choice comes into being.
You CAN choose.
What you see is that you can choose the ORIENTATION of your soul.
The way the thought came to me was:
"well, okay, I don’t see any light
or love or truth or beauty anywhere; and the universe may just
blink out one day without it ever having really existed. But
that would be a tragedy."
Desolation overwhelmed me and I felt so
great a pity and love for what MIGHT have been - for what radiant
and sublime dreams may be in the Mind of God that might never be
fulfilled; because the deceptions are so deep, and the reality is so
monstrous - who can really SEE it, and survive?
And I became aware of the "feather like
weight" of my inclination, my True Will to Be. It was not
more than an inclination, a propensity, a preference. But as I noted
it and focused on it, it became firmer and more purposeful.
And I realized,
"I am just one single, solitary,
lone being in the darkness, and there really and truly might
never, EVER, be anyone or anything in existence of real love,
truth and beauty".
The sadness and despair vaulted from my
soul into darkness that enveloped me.
But nothing answered except that my
attention was drawn back, again, to this small thing that was
growing inside me which had now begun to glow and give off warmth in
that soul-chilling blackness. Somehow my thoughts were making it
grow. My thoughts were aligning me with it. Resolution and
steadfastness began to blossom. And then I realized that it was
connected to some greater source of Light and by my penitential love
and compassion for the Dream of Love and Truth, the light was
increasing.
And I understood that this darkness was ALSO God!
Disasters, misfortunes, tragedies, ruin, destruction, adversity,
suffering, pain, anguish in all the varied manifestations we find
them in our world are expressions of the IDEA of Nonexistence.
I understood that the idea of
nonexistence exists ONLY as an idea, and ONLY because in a realm of
ALL Potentials, even the potential of Nonexistence exists as
Non-being.
In the two fundamental ideas of Being and Non-being, all
creation is manifested. In the act of Creation, the out rush of
creative energy; half of the Consciousness of God "formed" itself
into a reflection of this idea of non-being as part of the Grand
Experience. And this reflection of Nonbeing is matter - it is only
the half of the Consciousness of God "gone to sleep" to offer itself
as the clay from which the Cosmos is formed.
I also understood that, in that eternal instant of "falling asleep",
of compression, there was a sensation of "loss" in this half of God
that "volunteered" for the role of matter, and that this "sensation"
is expressed as a recoil, a contraction upon itself. It is this "recoil and contraction" in flux interaction with out raying
creative consciousness that establishes the "tension" of
polarization which is the dynamic by which the cosmos is manifested.
And, in 3rd density terms, this recoil
or contraction is the essence of Service to Self; those who choose
this mode recycle into sleeping matter.
The creative consciousness half of God "uses" the matter that is
formed by the "recoil/contraction" of the other half of God to take
on form, to engage in exploration of all the ideas in the mind of
God. This results in an increase of its relative energy. This
"using
of matter" to increase energy is felt by the sleeping
consciousness/matter as "fear of loss of self".
To assuage the fear, the "matter
oriented consciousness" must circumscribe, limit, and restrain. It
must believe that the grand constructions of illusion are not only
REAL, but also ALL THAT EXISTS. Physicality becomes the standard,
the measure, and the object of veneration.
The Physical Universe is, in effect,
God. This is the essential dynamic of all physical or partly
physical realities, including the hyperdimensional
4th density STS
reality.
And I finally understood the reason for
the masks and mazes of our world: it is The Parable of the Sower!
"A man went out to sow, and as he
sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and
ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they had
not much soil, and at once they sprang up, because they had no
depth of soil; but when the sun rose they were scorched, and
because they had no root they dried up and withered away.
Other seeds fell among thorns, and
the thorns grew up and choked them out. Other seeds fell on good
soil and yielded grain, some a hundred times as much as was
sown, some sixty times as much, and some thirty. He who has ear,
let him be listening and consider and perceive and comprehend by
hearing. [...]
To you it has been given to know the
secrets and mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it
has not been given. For whoever has to him will more be given
and he will be furnished richly, so that he will have abundance;
but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
While any one is hearing the Word of the kingdom and does not
grasp and comprehend it, the evil one comes and snatches away
what is sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the
roadside.
As for what was sown on thin, rocky soil, this is he
who hears the Word and at once welcomes and accepts it with joy;
Yet it has no real root in himself, but is temporary
-inconstant, lasts but a little while and when afflictions or
trouble or persecution comes on account of the Word, at once he
is caused to stumble... and he falls away.
As for what was sown among thorns,
this is he who hears the Word but the cares of the world and the
pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches
choke and suffocate the Word, and it yields no fruit.
As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the Word
and grasps and comprehends it; he indeed bears fruit, and yields
in one case a hundred times as much as was sown, in another
sixty times as much, and in another thirty."169
169 Matt. 13: 3-23, exc., Amplified,
Zondervan
Our reality is masked as a medium for
growth.
And what we are growing is our Will
which, when aligned with a given Thought Center, allows that Thought
Center to manifest its Will in our reality to the extent we are in
alignment and can be amplified! To be in alignment with the STO
Thought Centers results in an increase of Spiritual consciousness
and a diminishment of the "sleeping" consciousness of matter.
To align with the STS Thought Centers,
as we ARE, results in an increase of the "sleeping consciousness",
or "Wishful Thinking" of matter, and a diminishment of Spiritual
Consciousness.
Karl von Eckartshausen tells the
tale of the Path to the Temple of Secrets:
"The Temple of Secrets is located on
a high mountain, and everywhere thorns are covering the path
leading to the Temple. The inconceivable, mysterious height of
the mountain is the reason why many people doubt the existence
of the Temple of Secrets. Some think of it as a Fairy Tale, some
consider it an old Myth and others believe it to be the Truth.
"At the entrance of the narrow path
stands IGNORANCE, with her sisters STUPIDITY and LAZINESS, and
they tell awful tales to the travelers and of horrible
adventures the travelers will encounter if they set foot on this
path. That is how lazy Human Beings and fearful Human Beings can
easily be persuaded to turn back.
"There are a few Human Beings on which ignorance attempts her
deceptions in vain. They climb up the first part of the thorny
steep path, and when they are about half way up the mountain,
they reach a plateau on which they find the Temple of Self-Love.
Next to this Temple stands Self-Conceit, Pride and Know it-All
and they offer the traveler a cup, out of which he drinks his
own Self in great gulps and thereby becomes intoxicated with
himself, with his own "I".
"These travelers then become so
intoxicated with themselves that they imagine that their Temple,
the Temple of Self-Love is the Temple of Secrets and there is
nothing, but nothing, above them. The inscription on this
temple, the Temple of Self-Love, reads as follows: The Sanctuary
of the Wisdom of the World.
"Desires, passions and wantonness are the servants of these
priests. However, those whose heart searches for the truth will
not find any satisfaction with this and they will keep on
searching.
"A few thousand steps from this
Temple you will find a very secluded little hut, inhabited by a
hermit, with the following inscription above the door: The
Residence of Humility.
"The man who lives here guides the strangers to the residence of
humility, which in turn leads them to Self-Recognition. This
Divine Beauty becomes the traveler’s companion, and with her, he
conquers the inaccessible mountain. Whosoever tries to reach the
Temple of Secrets without this Divine Beauty can very easily be
misled by his Self-Love, and as a result, will follow the wrong
path. His greed for knowledge will lead him to the Temple of
Curiosity.
The inhabitants of this Temple are:
fraud, seduction and deception, the founders of most of the
secret societies, and those Human Beings who, in search for the
Truth and for the Temple of Secrets will, if they join these
Secret Societies, be robbed of the ability to see with their
Soul. They are then led to the top of the mountain, where they
fall into the abyss or into the labyrinth or maze, in which they
will walk in circles for eternity without finding the Truth.
"Humility alone is the best guide. This alone will lead the
seeker to the Master of Teachers of all secrets. This Master
Teacher is the PURE WILL.
"This pure will becomes the friend of the highest of knowledge
and they enter into a bond of eternal union.
"The knowledge of the effects of the Eternal Light of godliness
in all created beings is True Magic in Theory.
"The conception of this Light, or the transition from the
intellect to the will, is True Magic in Practice."170
170 Von Eckarthausen, Magic: The
Principles of Higher Knowledge, 1788
Now, note the sequence above; those who
align with the Thought Centers of STS manifest IGNORANCE,
STUPIDITY
and LAZINESS in the sense that they believe awful tales and horrible
adventures of travelers, and they are easily persuaded to turn back.
That is to say that they are persuaded
that knowledge will bring them to grief, or that "asking questions"
is a manifestation of "lack of faith", which will earn them
condemnation at best, and a quick ticket to Hell at worst.
The comparison between this analogy and
the Parable of the Talents in which the servant who buried his
talent because he was afraid and was cast into outer darkness are
interesting especially when we consider the end result of the STS
alignment, which is to recycle into primal matter. I would suggest
that such as these are "eaten" rather quickly just as the seeds that
fell by the wayside were immediately consumed by the birds in the
Parable of the Sower.
Then, we have another class of STS
alignment. They aren’t easily put off by terror tactics, so special
deceptions are set up for them.
They DO reach the,
"plateau on which they find the
Temple of Self-Love. Next to this Temple stands Self-Conceit,
Pride and Know it-All and they offer the traveler a cup, out of
which he drinks his own Self in great gulps and thereby becomes
intoxicated with himself, with his own ‘I’."
We can see that these are the ones that
achieve the higher levels of STS orientation.
The key in the analogy is that they,
"become so intoxicated with
themselves that they imagine that their Temple, the Temple of
Self-Love is the Temple of Secrets and there is nothing, but
nothing, above them".
This is what the Cassiopaeans have
described as "Ultimate in Wishful Thinking". And, of course, these
are the purveyors of most of the deceptions in our world today
because, one of the things that these individuals most Wishfully
Think is that they are the purveyors of the Wisdom of the World!
Von Eckartshausen tell us that "Desires,
passions and wantonness are the servants of these priests". We know
from this that these individuals may be very high in the STS
Hierarchy themselves.
And they use the "Predator’s Mind" which
is the nature of Hunger within humanity to do their will.
Q: (L) It says here: In 1979,
Project Phoenix, with the assistance of
the Grays, was
successful in producing a mind amplifier. This was used in
conjunction with putting people with exceptional psychic or
mental capabilities under drug influence, hooking them up to
this machine and keeping them in a state of pre-orgasmic sexual
excitation wherein they were able to create some type of
physical form.
They say:
"The fire within man that is
characterized as passion is the secret that can be utilized.
The secret to all things is passion. With passion all things
are possible. The amplification experiments of the Phoenix
Project have been explained as having amplified brain waves.
In fact, it amplified the passion of the subject.
It was that ‘inner will’ of the
subject that was amplified, that inner spirit within all of
us is that driving force is manifested as electrical energy.
Master that force and you cannot be controlled, the universe
is yours. Master the inner spirit and you shall master the
physical."
Comments please.
A: "Passion" does not set one
"free", quite the opposite!
Q: (L) But what if your passion is for knowledge? What is it
that gives some people this drive, this steamroller compulsion
that they are determined to get to the absolute bottom of
everything and strip away every lie until there is nothing left
but the naked truth? What is the source of this desire?
A: That is not passion, it is soul questing. It is simply that
one is at that point on the learning cycle. At that point, no
drive is needed.
Q: (L) So, you more or less are
there because some critical mass has been reached that "jumps"
you to the point where seeking truth is simply who you are? It
defines the parameters of your being?
A: Yes.
However, there is a kind of person who
has some sort of "inner inclination" for Truth.
They are simply
unable to accept anything else. They cannot be satisfied until they
have peeled the onion to the very core. And these keep their eyes on
the goal of Truth.
The seeker of truth continues to gather knowledge in the same way
the servants in the Parable of the Talents continued to "invest"
their money. Gathering knowledge without prejudice inevitably leads
to humility. Humility added to knowledge inevitably leads to
self-recognition. And self-recognition becomes the companion that
enables a person to navigate the emotions and illusions that seek to
distract us and blind us! Finally, self-recognition, which is the
ultimate state of Humility, leads us to PURE WILL.
Now, notice, it didn’t say STRONG will, just pure. A person’s "will
to be" is his natural frequency. And, when you marry will to
knowledge, you have hope of using the will in a particular way. This
Will is the "mustard seed" of the Biblical parable.
Again: Will to
be, or orientation, is FREQUENCY.
Application of will via knowledge to choices produces FREQUENCY
RESONANCE VIBRATION in the consciousness, which can then manifest in
the experience of the individual in very particular ways, as I will
try to explain.
Any given system has a natural frequency. A human being has several
frequencies, which relate to the atomic "signature" of the cellular
structure, etheric body frequency, and the frequency of the
consciousness, which is a function of will or orientation.
If you record a pure tone, you can connect the output line that
would go to a speaker to an oscilloscope instead. In this way, you
can SEE the sound rather than hear it. As you observe it, you note
that it oscillates. You are seeing a wave. Frequency is the number
of crests of a wave in a designated unit of time. That is what
determines frequency. More units in time means higher frequency.
Frequency is in inverse ratio to the length of the wave. The higher
the frequency, the shorter the wave. (It is important to note here
that a "unit of time" is an arbitrary measurement, so assigning a "number" to a frequency is merely a matter of convention.)
Frequency Resonance Vibration is directly related to what is called
Forced Oscillation. Any wave system may be driven by a force from
the "outside". Whenever a system is made to vibrate by a periodic
force, the resulting motion is called Forced Oscillation. An example
would be the glass that shatters when the opera singer hits the "right note".
Forced Oscillations take place with the frequency of the driving
force rather than with the natural frequency of the system. The
amplitude of the response depends on how the driving frequency is
related to the natural frequency. If these frequencies are nearly
the same, even a very weak driving force can, in time, feed enough
energy into the system to give it a large amplitude of motion. This
condition is called Resonance.
Everybody has probably pushed a child on a swing. What you notice
is, after a series of very strong pushes to get the swing going, you
can stand there and just give an occasional push or "tap" to keep
the same swinging motion going.
But, as every parent knows, it has to be
given at exactly the right instant. The tap must be applied in the
same direction, and at the very instant of the swinging away motion
for it to work. If you give a push at intervals instead of at every
return, you will find that an increase of force is necessary
depending on how many times you let the swing come and go before
applying another tap. If you set up a series of "every other return"
before pushing, you will have to apply the exact same force at each
of these arbitrarily determined intervals, which will be a multiple
of the force you would have to apply if you pushed with every single
return.
These intervals of pushing at
arbitrarily designated returns are submultiples of the natural
frequency. And, as you see from this example, they can produce the
same resonance also, the Frequency Resonance Vibration being the
swinging in response to being pushed.
If the pushes are continued, and if the swing had long enough ropes
and a brave enough child, a regular series of pushes could
eventually launch the child into outer space!
But, you will notice that if the pushes are not given at the right
moment, if they are not constantly delivered either with every swing
or in a submultiple, if no periodicity is maintained, the swing will
slow down and stop. You will also notice that if you do not apply
the pushes in a fixed period, the motion of the swing is erratic.
And you will definitely notice that if you push at the wrong moment,
or against the swing direction, you will cause it to slow down! In
such a case, you are taking energy away from the system.
The very same principles apply to
Forced Oscillation of any wave
whether it is a sound wave, radio wave, light wave or whatever. In
fact, it could be said that light produced is Forced Oscillations of
atoms. All things in nature, which are a "response to a stimulus",
are Forced Oscillations.
A human being could be considered to be a series of Forced
Oscillations.
And here we come to the problem:
"Besides depending on how close the
driving frequency is to the natural frequency, the amplitude of
response of the forced vibrations of a system also depends on
the strength of the damping. The less damping there is, the
greater the response of resonance. The resonance frequency is
always lower than the natural frequency but gets very close as
the damping is reduced."171
171 Freeman, Physics Principles
and Insights, 1973
Now, as we have said, a human being is a
combination of frequencies of the cellular structure, the etheric/genetic
body, and the consciousness orientation.
If these different frequencies operate
in harmonious submultiples of a certain fundamental frequency, we
say that the system is in harmony, that is to say, there is
Harmonious Frequency Resonance.
We can also say that, by changing one of the frequencies and
amplifying it, the others may be brought into harmony by the process
of Forced oscillation IF the natural frequency of each is a harmonic
of, or is close to, the driving frequency.
At the same time, the act of changing ANY of the frequencies can be
accomplished by Forced Oscillation from the "outside", whether for
harmony or not. That is to say, if the forced oscillation is not
close to the natural frequency, there will be less amplitude.
Now, a human being, in general, is under the powerful influence of
the matter of which his body is constructed. Matter is the result of
the STS "Thought of Non-being", or "Sleeping Consciousness" of God.
Therefore, in a general sense, by being in 3rd density, to a great
extent, man is "asleep"; he is under the influence of the frequency
of the STS polarity.
His Frequency Resonance Vibration is STS, or
that of matter/contraction - the predator’s mind.
But, man has a possibility of CHANGING FREQUENCY, aligning with STO
polarity, IF he can find that part of him that is truly of Service
to Others and AMPLIFY it through the process of Frequency Resonance
Vibration, resulting from the Forced Oscillation of alignment with
the STO thought center.
It is only his Will that can do this,
and it is only WHEN it is "married to knowledge" so that he can
truly KNOW what his choice is and how to implement it. These choices
are the "pushes" of the swing. If sufficient amplitude is achieved,
ALL of his other frequencies will also gradually be forced into
Frequency Resonance Vibration.
Of course, this process is not only dependent upon the natural
frequency of the individual, but also upon the dampers that may be
in place that can restrict the amplitude. The fewer dampers, the
greater the amplitude that can be achieved with the least
application of energy.
We have to discover and remove the "dampers" to our systems.
Again, it is in the gaining of knowledge that we can remove the
dampers, little by little. It is hard work and it is painful. But as
we do this, we come, step by step; to the position of humility and
self-knowledge that enables the alignment of the will. If the
natural frequency of
STO is present in the moment of choice, this
pure will "becomes the friend of the highest of knowledge" and they
"enter into a bond of eternal union".
One is then able to connect with the
Eternal Creative Light within, which then becomes the Forced
Oscillator that changes the Frequency Resonance Vibration in
dramatic and life changing ways.
This amounts to giving up self-will
to allow the greater will of the Thought Center to manifest. The
manifestation of this in one’s daily life via choices become
"pushes" of the swing of the etheric/genetic body and the atomic
signature of the cellular structure which then changes the entire
reality.
When we finally achieve Self-recognition/humility, we understand
that it is implementation of our choices at THIS 3rd density level
that increases the amplitude of our Frequency Resonance Vibration,
which IS, in actuality, our polarization. Amplitude constitutes our
"ripeness" for advancement to the next density. What we are choosing
is, in effect, which part we will play in the NEXT cycle of
creation!
What we do now determines our course
into either consciousness that creates, or the intensely contractile
Thought of Nonbeing that "goes to sleep" as primal matter. Neither
of them are "higher" frequencies, they are DIFFERENT.
Mass and "Spring Constant" are the determinants of Frequency in
material terms. Using the principle of "As above, so below", we must
assume that similar constructs apply to "spiritual frequencies".
The Spring Constant is the measure of
the force needed to extend the mass by an arbitrary measure. Mass,
since it relates to matter, in spiritual terms is analogous to
"sleeping consciousness" or IGNORANCE. This means that the
fundamental "ignorant" or "sleeping" nature of the STS orientation
equates to greater mass AND Spring Constant.
Greater mass and Spring Constant require
greater strength of Forced Oscillation to produce Frequency
Resonance Vibration even if the Natural Frequency is very close to
the frequency of the Forced Oscillator. Thus, since the "Natural
Frequency" of the human being is that of matter to the greatest
extent, it is more inclined to be influenced by the STS polarity
Forced Oscillation.
Less mass and Spring Constant are the result of knowledge.
Knowledge
is a function of consciousness, and all knowledge that IS knowledge
and not assumption, prejudice or illusion, increases consciousness.
Q: (L) We have been discussing memories and how memories of,
say, past lives are stored, and that leads to the question of
what is the structure and composition of the soul? How does the
soul remember? How does it carry its memories from lifetime to
lifetime, from body to body, whether simultaneous or sequential?
How does the soul "store" them?
A: Has to do with atomic principles. These with gravity present
the borderland for the material and the nonmaterial. Which
theoretical atomic particulates would you think form the basis
here?
Q: (L) How about tachyons?
A: Maybe neutrons? Neutrinos.
Q: (A) Neutrinos are funny particles because they are massless.
But, some people don’t believe that neutrinos exist. Do they
exist?
A: Okay, we are going to throw caution to the "winds", and say
yes.
[Laughter.]
Q: (L) In terms of these neutrinos and soul composition, how are
memories formed or held or patterned with these neutrinos?
A: Contained within for release when and if suitable.
Q: (L) Memories are contained within the neutrinos?
A: Sort of.
Q: (L) Are they contained within patterns formed by the
neutrinos?
A: Closer.
Q: (L) So, that means that if one
"consciousness unit", or soul
has more memories or experiences than another consciousness
unit, it would have more neutrinos?
A: No.
Q: (L) What’s the difference?
A: More data per unit, sort of.
Q: (L) Does that mean that an individual neutrino can be, in and
of itself, more "dense" in data, so to speak?
A: So to speak.
Q: (L) Does this increased density of data change the nature or
function of the individual neutrino?
A: Maybe it changes the function of the awareness, thus the
environs.
Q: (L) Is there a specific number of neutrinos that constitutes
a consciousness unit, or soul?
A: Number is not quite the right concept. Orientation is closer.
Q: (L) What are the orientational options?
A: Vibrational frequencies.
Q: (L) Do the vibrational frequencies increase or decrease with
density of data?
A: Change; better not to quantify.
Note that the nature of the soul is
fundamentally changed by changing not only the ORIENTATION of the
basic units and orientation has to do with CHANGING frequencies.
And the process of changing orientation
or frequency is dependent on increasing the data within the basic
units; making them more "dense". Vibrational Frequencies change with
increase of density of data.
Increase of data changes the frequency in a natural way from the
orientation of STS to that which is closer to STO which results in a
reduction in Mass and Spring Constant which means that less energy
must be input from the Forced Oscillator in order to produce
Frequency Resonance Vibration!
This is why it is "easier" to increase amplitude via the STO
alignment. This is why it is "easier" to graduate to 4th density via
the STO alignment.
This is also WHY all the dampers and
controls are held so tightly in place. The STS gang does not WANT
humans to graduate to 4th density and that is why they create
beliefs and illusions and controls that are designed to induce us to
make STS choices no matter what we do. As long as we believe lies,
we are aligned with STS.
As long as we are aligned with STS, our
Mass and Spring Constant make it impossible for us to increase our
amplitude for graduation.
And this points up another fact. In order to graduate to 4th density
via the STS pathway, several conditions must be met.
-
First, nearly ALL of the dampers
to
STS, or STO inclinations of the individual, must be
removed to increase the potential for amplification.
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Second, the natural frequency of
the individual, which we already know is a function of
choice, must be so close to the pure STS frequency as to be
almost identical in order for the Forced Oscillation from
the higher density Thought Center to have any effect at all.
This means that the degree and depth of depravity,
malignity, malevolence, degeneration and contraction must be
VERY pure in the individual.
Cassiopaeans: We wish to review some
things... The concept of a "master race" put forward by the
Nazis was merely a 4th density STS effort to create a physical
vehicle with the correct frequency resonance vibration for 4th
density STS souls to occupy in 3rd density. It was also a "trial
run" for planned events in what you perceive to be your future.
Q: (L) You mean with a strong STS frequency so they can have a
"vehicle" in 3rd density, so to speak?
A: Correct. Frequency resonance vibration! Very important.
Q: (L) So, that is why they are programming and experimenting?
And all these folks running around who some think are
"programmed", could be individuals who are raising their
nastiness levels high enough to accommodate the truly negative
STS 4th density - sort of like walk-ins or something, only not
nice ones?
A: You do not have very many of those present yet, but that was,
and still is, the plan of some of the 4th density STS types.
When you "grok" the level of STS that
has to be present in an individual in order to GRADUATE to 4th
density STS, the "purity" of the evil - the consciousness of it -
well, it is a pretty horrifying thought.
It’s like Ted Bundy, Albert Fish, Ed
Gein, and Jeffrey Dahmer all rolled into one and amplified
exponentially! Not only that, SMARTER! Such beings would not have
the damping effect of any STO frequencies on the STS frequency;
efforts would be made to reduce, or eliminate entirely, any residual
STO inclinations, which might act to "expose" them in their moments
of STO "weakness".
That is TRULY scary. Something we need
to keep in mind. Such a being would be able to ACT in any way they
chose, without glitches that "give them away", to disarm and deceive
in order to get their prey where they want them.
Unfortunately, a mixture of STS and STO choices do NOT add up to
graduation to 4th density STS. All they do is damp each other, thus
making it less likely that any amplification will occur. The person
who wishes to pursue the STS pathway with the intent of "graduating"
has to give up any and all thoughts of experiencing love or kindness
that is freely given. Yes, they can be in "love" relationships and
can "act" kind.
But, at this level, it is all PURE manipulation for
the purpose of "owning" or subsuming to the self the energies of
others. Yet, there ARE those to whom this path is attractive.
However, this is not clearly seen at the lower densities until the
masks are stripped away. The deepest implications of this are hidden
by many veils. And even the 4th and 5th density STS participants do
not necessarily comprehend the ultimate dissolution at the end of
their philosophies which is why there are so many sources at higher
levels that are convinced that they are teaching Love and Light and
Truth and Beauty, and why so many on 3rd density are deceived by
these teachings.
They believe because it "feels good", or
because they "want to". This belief that is sustained in the face of
all empirical evidence to the contrary amounts to "Wishful
Thinking". It is seeing what one WANTS to see, rather than what IS:
Ultimate Wishful Thinking.
The deepest implication of "Wishful Thinking" means that those who
adopt this view of reality cannot SEE that they do not become God by
what amounts to assimilation and control of other selves; but that
the real result is a gradual compaction and implosion and
dissolution into primal matter and NON-being. The negative hierarchy
is a pyramidal food chain; the apex of the pyramid is comprised of
the most persistent of the negative graduates, the one who has stuck
it out against every evidence of diminishment, and is the ultimate
example of "wishful thinking".
And this is the most important point of all. It IS a "way home"
because, at the eternal moment when those that return to the Light
return, those that hold the idea of Nonbeing, or darkness ALSO
return. In an eternally instantaneous unification/disbursement Act
that WAS, IS and always WILL BE, the energies of Darkness and Light
fall into their respective roles eternally.
When you realize that it is NEVER GOING
TO END, that NEITHER PATH will take you to "Heaven" and "Eternal
Bliss", or oblivion or any of the illusions perpetrated upon
mankind, it then becomes simply a matter of preference. And that
preference is only an inclination. It literally has the weight of a
feather.
And that, my friend, is the choice that I faced. The possibility of
Service to Others in a realm composed of matter, which is, by its
nature, Service to Self, under the control of higher density beings
who are oriented by Service to Self. That’s where we are. That is
what IS in this realm.
And, by understanding that EITHER choice ultimately leads "back to
God", since there really is no "back to God" since, in real terms,
there is no separation from God, we find that we have an UNWEIGHTED
CHOICE.
That’s it. The whole banana. That’s the choice. Either way, nothing
is going to come to an end with "Union with God" because the instant
there is Union with the One, it all starts over again. That’s what
is. Our choice is to actualize what is IN us; To choose our
orientation/polarity and begin to discover how to amplify it.
Of course, that means we have some details to hammer out here.
Like the fact that, every single day we
make choices and every one of these choices either amplifies our
Frequency Resonance Vibration, or damps it.
The Lizzies want to damp
all our choices so that we will neither be able to polarize NOR
increase amplitude. They have a nice little thing going here and
they will do anything to keep it going.
So, we need to get down to the nitty gritty of what is really
Service to Others and Service to Self.
In the simplest of terms, Service to others is a CREATIVE impulse.
It is to find delight and satisfaction in variety and change. It is
to serve God in others, which means to give all others the right to
BE what they choose, to give them the right to their own Free Will.
It does NOT mean to give them your energy, your love, or any part of
your creative force UNLESS THERE IS WILLING EXCHANGE.
In an STO
exchange, all parties give freely to all others and therefore, all
are sustained and grow.
Service to self is, at the deepest level, just the Thought of
Non-being that manifests as Fear of Losing self in the act of
Creation. Thus, difference, variety, change, spontaneity, and all
creative functions are "feared" and must be carefully controlled. It
naturally forms itself into a controlling hierarchy where each level
is narrower and more "exclusive" and contractile than the level
below it.
It is a process of consuming conscious
awareness and "stuffing" it into the black hole of the Thought of
Non being in an effort to fill up that hole thereby assuaging the
fear evoked by the Thought of Non being. The thing that happens,
though, is that a consciousness that has been subsumed into this
Thought is then DEFINED by it and contracts and contracts until it
becomes, eventually, primal matter.
One of the problems we face is the fact
that, very often, the desire of human beings at this 3rd level of
density to experience Light and Love and Truth and Beauty; to be
One, in a harmony of similar goals and objectives of peace and
tranquility, kindness, devotion, respect and concord, is manipulated
by those beings who live in fear of losing self, twisted and
distorted to mean a contraction into sameness rather than harmonious
variety.
In human terms, this "fear of losing self" and need to "become One"
is not always expressed by overt domination, subjugation. It is
often expressed by the dynamic of absorption of other consciousness
into a single ideal, narrowly defined by human terms of "love and
light".
Very often the ideals of Love and Light are twisted to mean
the DENYING the Free Will of others to make their own choices.
In fact, the idea that "evil/darkness" is a rebellion, a fault, a
thing to be done away with, is the "twist" in all the teachings of
history that have laid the groundwork for domination and absorption
by the forces of Service to Self. In terms of monotheism, this idea
of "saving the world" has manifested the fruits of the many
slaughters that have been instituted in the name of Unity, and Love.
Because of this perceived need to "fix"
or "change" or "transform" other people or situations, those whose
inner inclination is actually STO are induced to damp their own STO
frequency. If, in the act of giving or sending love, or any act
whatsoever you deny the Free Will of another, you are "damping" your STO FRV. And remember, we are not talking about Free Will in the
simplistic terms of being able to "do as one chooses without
restriction".
So we aren’t talking about not putting
criminals in jail for breaking the law! In fact, putting a criminal
in jail so that he can fully enter into his freely chosen lesson can
be PURE STO! It’s the old "don’t do the crime if you can’t do the
time" cliché. By doing the crime, the individual has CHOSEN the
consequences at some level.
Each and every time we participate in Wishful Thinking, we are
polarizing to Service to Self because wishful thinking is the
essence of the constructed defense against the fear of Non-being.
Thus, when we live in illusions, we are, by default, electing to be
part of the STS hierarchical Food Chain.
The illusions in which we participate
are generally projections of higher density Service to Self-beings,
and are set up to produce the negative polarization energy of those
on 3rd density, which supports and maintains the 4th density STS
beings so that they can continue to project the illusion! This
results in the inability of human beings to see what is truly of STO,
which prevents their making STO choices, which damps their FRV, and
keeps them in the cycle.
The work of developing Free Will is to stop believing lies. At the
same time, the only way to really learn this is to "try on" the lies
until the external evidence mounts so high that one is forced to the
ultimate choice of Choosing to continue in the lie in the face of
the evidence that it is a lie, or to choose to see only the truth.
Such a choice is a "Causal act" of polarization. It is an alignment
of choice.
"Making the choice" only comes to those who are ready, those who
have reached that point on the "learning cycle". None of us can skip
this step, and none of us can make it for others. In fact, the
greatest gift we can give to "save" another is to RELEASE them fully
into their chosen creations/lessons.
And so, the choice comes, you are face to face with what you truly
ARE, in the blackness of the abyss, and you choose. I saw that, in
terms of any action I might take in this reality, I had NO Free Will
EXCEPT in terms of my RESPONSE. I could CHOOSE HOW I RESPONDED. I
could choose my Frequency. That was it. In my case the thought came:
"I will offer myself as one who has CHOSEN to BE this light, love,
truth and beauty.
By BEING it, I am GIVING it to God.
I
will strive for as long as I am present on this Godforsaken planet,
as long as I am separated from my Source, drifting in the darkness,
to BE as much of love and truth and beauty as I can manage to
manifest. I no longer cared whether that made me a prime piece of
meat for the Lizzies; I didn’t care if they were going to eat me
tomorrow - or even if they ate everybody I loved and the whole
Universe ended in a Bang and I was blotted out of existence for
eternity!
I figured that for whatever it was
worth, which may have been absolutely nothing, when it was all over
and the stars all blinked out, there was going to be that one little
memory in the Physical Universe’s brain; the memory that one person
RESPONDED with Love to the right of the Universe to BE exactly as it
IS, even if what it IS is nothing but a dark, devouring mouth that
consumes its creatures as soon as they are created, including me.
My response to SEEING was to sound the
tone of Love, Beauty and Truth so that it would have existence IN
me.
I chose to end the illusion of wishful thinking about life in the
flesh and all the ways we are deceived. Finally I understood the
dynamics of 3rd density Service to Self. And I understood why it was
that everywhere I looked there was darkness. And I understood my
choice. And I made it. Yes, there is no candle to illuminate the
darkness that I can see - so the only solution is to BE my own
candle.
I decided that whatever I had to do at this level in order to
discover how to respond to life in order to DO and BE that Truth and
Beauty implicit in the Unconditional Love of Free Will, I was going
to keep searching to my last breath. If all my efforts failed, at
least my response as one who held to the ideal of Truth, Love and
beauty, from the very depths of my soul, in the face of whatever
horror I faced in my search, would have existed.
I realized that this truly was the ONLY thing that I had to give,
and I was ready to give it. And, the fact is, it was EVERYTHING in
me - little though it might have been. It was my ALL.
And I chose to
give this response as a pure, clear tone, to God with the full
awareness that there was NOTHING that I could expect to change it,
there was no anticipation that it would make any difference at all,
and the greatest likelihood was that I would be drowned out or
devoured rather quickly.
So, like a battered and bloody soldier on a battlefield, with all
the odds against him, like a Berserker who has lost all care for, or
consciousness of, the weakness of the flesh, I picked myself up and
set my eyes firmly on the center of the action, and started to walk
in that direction. And I have never looked back.
And for me, the Universe changed in that instant.
In my own moment of choice, I was dealing with a possibility that
was NOT an actuality. It is impossible to be a True STO being in an
STS world. For me, it was such a pity, such a sadness that, once I
penetrated the Illusion, I found nothing but Darkness. I could see
that real Truth and Beauty just simply could not be found in our
reality once one began to peel away the layers of lies and deception
and illusion.
To realize that Love given to someone or
something in order to change it was clearly a judgment, and that
nearly all love that was practiced in our world was clearly done
because it was a manipulation designed to gain, whether it was
salvation or to be loved in return or to feel good, all of which
feed Fear/Nonbeing, produced in me such a sensation of sadness and
Love for the Dream of the Creator that, in that moment, the choice
to manifest love and truth within, despite the fact that I could
know nothing of it through my five senses and 3rd density
experience, was a choice to make a possibility real.
I was able to SEE with my intellect the influences that are imposed
on us by the many forces acting in our environment, but I then CHOSE
irrespective of them. I could see, after all the years of stripping
away veils like flesh from my very bones, that the whole grand
scheme of things in 3rd density merely amounted to choosing the
"lesser of many evils". It was a system of dampers.
For me to have
to choose that way was not a choice, it was a compromise. I was no
longer willing to compromise. You could even say that I chose in
rebellion against compromise with the forces that control our
environment.
The reason and intent for the choice was
ABOVE this control and was made with full awareness that it may be
impossible to ever DO anything to effectively implement the choice!
In other words, there was no "weight" to the choice. I was seeing
that, over and over again I had been told that I must drink the
water and not the oil because it was the "only rational choice", and
I was rejecting that control. I was essentially choosing to drink
neither, preferring to seek further for the ideal "living water".
And it was only in myself that I found it.
It was in my power to CHOOSE to continue
to create rather than seek return and oblivion.
"Jesus answered [the Samaritan woman
at Jacob’s well], If you had only known and had recognized God’s
gift... you would have asked Him and He would have given you
living water.[ ...] Whoever takes a drink of the water that I
will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty anymore. But the
water that I will give him shall become a spring of water
welling up continually within him unto eternal life. [...]
A time will come when the true
worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in true
reality; for the Father is seeking just such people as these...
God is a Spirit and those who worship Him must worship
Him in spirit and truth."
[John 4:10-24, exc., Amplified,
Zondervan]
The deepest realization of this choice
"hits home" when you understand that the greatest illusions that are
chosen by us are those of our closest relationships. Jesus said:
"Do not think that I have come to
bring peace upon the earth; I have not come to bring peace but a
sword. For I have come to part asunder a man from his father,
and a daughter from her mother, and a newly married wife from
her mother-in-law; and a man’s foes will be they of his own
household.
He who loves and takes more pleasure
in father or mother than in Me is not worthy of Me; and he who
loves and takes more pleasure in son or daughter than in Me is
not worthy of me; And he who does not take up his cross and
follow Me is not worthy of Me. Whoever finds his [lower] life
will lose the [higher] life and whoever loses his [lower] life
on My account will find [the higher life]."
[Matt. 10: 35-39, Amplified,
Zondervan]
Every situation or dynamic in which we
find ourselves demands a RESPONSE.
To not respond is, of course, a choice
to accede to the dynamic as IT is. This means that the only true
response we can give is to BE more fully and strongly what we have
chosen. Consciously. And only by doing this do we progress to the
next level.
We come then to the problem of how to do this and I realized that it
was a matter of "growing" stronger in terms of polarity/orientation.
At the level of 3rd density, the animal man is far stronger than the
spiritual man.
Third density is the point at which the
process of "division" into those that will follow the unification
into Oneness that leads to the "new" descent into primal matter, and
those that will follow the unification into Oneness that will be the
consciousness that will "play" with this clay, losing itself in it
for the joy of creation and learning and experience, takes place.
There are those that find the door to
the inner circle of Creation, and those that descend to become
matter.
"The inner circle is called the
‘esoteric’; this circle consists of people who have attained the
highest development possible for man, each one of whom possesses
individuality in the fullest degree, that is to say, an
indivisible ‘I’, all forms of consciousness possible for man,
full control over these states of consciousness, the whole of
knowledge possible for man, and a free and independent will.
"They cannot perform actions opposed
to their understanding or have an understanding which is not
expressed by actions. "At the same time there can be no discords
among them, no differences of understanding. Therefore their
activity is entirely coordinated and leads to one common aim
without any kind of compulsion because it is based upon a common
and identical understanding."
[…] "Everything I have said till now
I have said about the whole of humanity. But as I pointed out
before, the evolution of humanity can proceed only through the
evolution of a certain group, which, in its turn, will influence
and lead the rest of humanity.
"Are we able to say that such a group exists? Perhaps we can on
the basis of certain signs, but in any event we have to
acknowledge that it is a very small group, quite insufficient,
at any rate, to subjugate the rest of humanity. Or, looking at
it from another point of view, we can say that humanity is in
such a state that it is unable to accept the guidance of a
conscious group."
"How many people could there be in this conscious group?"
someone asked.
"Only they themselves know this," said G. "Does it mean that
they all know each other?" asked the same person again.
"How could it be otherwise?" asked G.
"Imagine that there are two or three people who are awake in the
midst of a multitude of sleeping people. They will certainly
know each other. But those who are asleep cannot know them. How
many are they? We do not know and we cannot know until we become
like them. "It has been clearly said before that each man can
only see on the level of his own being.
But two hundred conscious people, if
they existed and if they found it necessary and legitimate,
could change the whole of life on the earth. But either there
are not enough of them, or they do not want to, or perhaps the
time has not yet come, or perhaps other people are sleeping too
soundly."172
172 Ouspensky, op. cit.
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