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Chapter 12
Out of Time
Once Upon a Time
It is in the sense outlined in this book that I propose that the
myths and rites of the ancients are a dim reflection of ancient
science, and that it is only due to the advances of modern science
that we have any hope of deciphering this technology, this “science
of the soul”, this Great Work of Alchemy. It does no one any good
for these matters to be consigned to the realms of magic and
mysticism and mumbo jumbo artists of all forms and sorts who only
manage to embarrass themselves, and drive legitimate scientists away
with their nonsense, their silly “sacred geometry” and Kabbalistic
rants.
Fulcanelli tells us that the Gothic Cathedrals are an expression of
the initiatory power of a learned and transcendent philosophy. He
points out that they are “severe and austere productions, not the
light, graceful, and pleasing motifs”, such as the emotional art of
the Renaissance. In saying this, he is making an important point.
And he drives his point home by remarking that:
While the latter aspire only to flatter the eye or to charm the
senses, the artistic and literary works of the Middle Ages are
founded on higher thought, true and concrete, the cornerstone of an
immutable science, the indestructible basis of religion.372
372 Fulcanelli,
Dwellings, p. 35.
Right in
these words, Fulcanelli has given us more evidence that our view of
the key is correct. He has said that “higher thought” is the
“cornerstone”. And in many other places, this “stone” is the same
one that is described as the “first stone” of the work. So we
understand that “higher thought” is the means of achieving the
Stone. He then asks us playfully if we would like an example?
Well, sure!
Fulcanelli then directs us to look at a figure from a tympanum from
the 12th century. The figure is of a master teaching a pupil,
pointing a finger to the pages of an open book. Beneath these
figures there is a vigorous athlete strangling a monster, a dragon. This is next
to an embracing couple symbolizing emotion. Fulcanelli pronounces
for us the meaning of this set of symbols, the cabalistic
interpretation:
Science is the ruler of Strength and Love; one must
oppose the superiority of mind to the physical manifestations of
power and feeling!
And even though these ideas are in direct
opposition to the current New Age ideas based on the teachings of
Helena Blavatsky, Schwaller de Lubicz and others, we have to point
out that it seems to be apparent, despite the attempts of the
COINTELPRO operation to destroy his work, his reputation, his
achievements, Fulcanelli was a Master who had achieved the Great
Work and was given the Present: that he did, indeed, escape the
Matrix. He became the Child of the King, he became Perseus, and he
cut off the head of the Gorgon.
And that is the secret and the
answer to the question: Why Perceval?
Time is on My Side
Knowing what we do now about the literature of the Holy Grail, we
think that there is more to the legend’s enduring fascination than
just the fad of the Middle Ages. The story has appeared in different
forms and times long before Geoffrey’s Historia began the craze. As
noted, Arthur represents something else, something other than just a
British Dux Bellorum, he represents a long ago Golden Age, a time of
social harmony and wise government, a time of ethics and morality, a
time of the “Way of Former Kings”, a time when there was no Time.
The theme of the “lost Golden Age” is so potent that when Geoffrey
made Arthur a sort of Messiah, combining Welsh myth and tradition
with genuine history, he touched something so deep in the human
psyche that the Medieval Soul took flight in hopes of the
restoration of the Kingdom on Earth which could only be restored by
the discovery of the Grail; or, in other terms, the “building of the
Ark” and the abolishing of Time.
Again, the focus may have been
shifted from a process to an object, and I don’t mean a mystical
process either, but a literal scientific procedure or technology as
well as a different state of being, quantumly speaking, in relation
to the environment. Part of this state of being may have been an
essentially different view of time.
In the present day, within the framework of the three dominant
religions of our time: Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, there is
the linear concept of a limiting of the cosmos to some specific
number of millennia at which point it will all grind to a screeching
halt, and the saved will go to “Nirvana/Heaven” and the damned will
fry eternally. For Christianity, time is real because it has a
meaning - the redemption at the ENDend.
A straight line traces the course of humanity from the initial Fall
to final redemption. And the meaning of this history is unique,
because the Incarnation is a unique
fact. Consequently, the destiny of each one of us, are both likewise
played out once, once for all, in a concrete and irreplaceable time
which is that of history and life.373 The linear conception of time
is intimately connected to the idea of evolution.
The events of
history are a continuing unfoldment of new and more perfect
manifestations of both man, man’s works, and thus the spirit of God.
But despite the reaction of the orthodox Fathers, the theories of
cycles and of astral influence on human destiny and historical
events were accepted, at least in part, by other Fathers [of the
church] and ecclesiastical writers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Minucius Felix, Arnobius, and Theodoret, the conflict between these
two fundamental conceptions of time and history continued into the
seventeenth century.
We must remind the reader that, at the height of the Middle Ages,
cyclical and astral theories begin to dominate historiological and
eschatological speculation. Already popular in the twelfth century,
they undergo systematic elaboration in the next, especially after
the appearance of translations from Arabic writers. ...Albertus
Magnus, St. Thomas, Roger Bacon, Dante, and many others believe[d]
that the cycles and periodicities of the world’s history are
governed by the influence of the stars, whether this influence obeys
the will of God and is his instrument in history or whether it is
regarded as a force immanent in the cosmos.374
In short, the time of
the creation of the Grail legends was precisely the moment when
eschatological conceptions were combined with and complemented by
the theory of the cyclic return of events. In spite of the Crusades
and Inquisition, these ideas dominated down to the seventeenth
century. And it was then that the Control System began a mop-up
operation to eradicate these ideas.
Because, it is also at this
precise time that the linear progress of history began to assert
itself, most particularly through the influence of Isaac Newton.
From the seventeenth century on, linearism and the progressivistic
conception of
history assert themselves more and more, inaugurating faith in an
infinite progress,
a faith already proclaimed by Leibniz... popularized in the
nineteenth century by thetriumph of the ideas of the evolutionists.375
373 Puech,
Henri-Charles, Gnosis and Time, quoted by Eliade, 1954, 143.
374 Eliade, op. cit., 143-144.
375 Ibid., pp. 145-146.
Karl Marx, in an extremity of materialism, proposed that all of the
suffering of
humanity is not arbitrary; it is designed to lead man to a definite
and coherent end - a final elimination of the Terror of History via a material
salvation which constituted an “age of gold”, or Heaven on Earth of
Marxism. This, of course, justified the exacerbation of evil to
hasten the final deliverance - an idea not unknown to Judaism and
Christianity as evidenced in the Crusades, Inquisition,
and, frighteningly, in the
present day regression into fundamentalism in America and Israel. It
is also a fundamental concept of the many secret societies currently
promoting Egyptian mysticism and the return of the Egyptian Gods and
the Divine Theocracy.
An important question now is: how does free will enter in here?
It seems, on the surface, that modern man has affirmed his
“autonomy” by
rejecting concepts of periodicity and cycles and archetypes. The
modern
“historical man” or Christian, views archaic man’s view of history
as endlessly
repeating archetypal gestures as a symptom of a fear of movement and
spontaneity - or having no free will or courage.
On the other hand, the more modern and “mechanistic” man becomes,
the less able he is to “make” history himself. As a “cog” in a vast,
mechanized society, history is made by an increasingly small number
of men who not only prohibit the mass of their contemporaries from
directly or indirectly intervening in the history they are making,
but in addition, have at their disposal means sufficient to force
each individual to endure, for his own part, the consequences of
this history, that is, to live immediately and continuously in dread
of history. Modern man’s boasted freedom to make history is illusory
for nearly the whole of the human race.
At most, man is left free to
choose between two positions:
(1) to oppose the history that is being made by the very small
minority (and, in this case, he is free to choose between suicide
and deportation);
(2) to take refuge in a subhuman existence or flight.
Marxism and Fascism must lead to the establishment of two types of
historical existence: that of the leader (the only really “free”
man) and that of the followers, who find, in the historical
existence of the leader, not an archetype of their own existence,
but the lawgiver of the gestures that are provisionally permitted to
them.376
376 Ibid., pp. 156-157.
Thus, modern man in his linear time, is neither free nor a
creator of history. And worse, he is trapped in this horror house
with a prophesied end to it all looming on the horizon, with all the
guilt of endless millennia of human suffering on his shoulders!
So we see that, even if only in a certain psychological sense, the
ancients, in their cyclical existence, were free! They were free to
annul their history, to abolish time, to regenerate themselves -
even if only symbolically. And, in the very most ancient times,
perhaps they were free to do this literally. And, if not this time,
another time! No eternal blame, no arbitrary guilt, no everlasting
Hell-fire and damnation.
The King is dead; long live the King.
The Hope of the World
Returning finally to our images of the maze, the crane dance of
Theseus/Perseus, the dancing Maruts, Perseus/Theseus with the thread
of Ariadne escaping the Egyptian maze; cutting off the head of the
Gorgon, the Ark of the Covenant, the Hyperboreans and their dancing
God at nineteen year intervals, and a whole host of related clues,
we come to the idea of a group of people who understood that the
biophysical energies of certain individuals, moving in a specific
geometric relationship to one another, in specific geometric
relationship to an arrangement of megaliths set up for the purpose,
become an effective “machine” which has the ability to transduce
cosmic energies.
“When ye Maruts spear-armed dance, [the Heavens]
stream together like waves of water.”
And we find in this idea, an
explanation for the origin of the representations of the Mother
Goddess as wavy lines representing the confluence of Cosmic Energies
in response to an activity of ecstatic “ascent”. We also begin to
understand what Pythagoras may have meant by his references to
geometry, astronomy, and sound - things he was supposed to have
learned from the Northern Barbarians. The idea that movement,
especially group movement, as a stimulant to the production of
certain energies seems to have been a part of the archaic
technology.
But it was only participated in by a group of adepts:
those who had achieved freedom from the maze, or who had cut off the
head of Medusa, and who therefore had the power of the “Ark”; those
who could combine the functions of diviner, medicine man and
mediator between the worlds of humans and transcendental powers in
an ecstatic manner:
Shamans.
Tearing the veil away, the actual “art
cot” or Art of Light, is the Quest for the Holy Grail, the building
of the Ark, through which the human being may “pass through the
conflagration” at the End of Time.
Fulcanelli tells us:
The obelisk of Dommartin-sur-Tigeaus is the tangible, expressive
image, absolutely conforming to tradition, of the double terrestrial
calamity, of the conflagration and of the flood, on the terrible
Judgment Day. […] This monument seems to be erected on the plane of
the ancient hexagram; a figure composed of the water and fire
triangles, which is used as the signature of the physical Great Work
and of its result, the Philosopher’s Stone. […]
Two sides of the pyramid are exactly aligned on the highway’s
North-South axis.
On the Southern side, one can notice the image of an old oak
sculpted in bas-relief. […] If we question the oak of stone, it can
answer us that times are near, because it is its figurative
foreboding. It is the revealing symbol of our times of decadence and
perversion; and the initiate to whom we owe the obelisk, carefully
chose the oak tree as a frontispiece for his work, in the fashion of
a cabalistic prologue, in charge of pinpointing in time the
ill-omened period of the end of the world. The characteristics of
this period, which is ours, are clearly indicated in the
twenty-fourth chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew. […]
These frequent geological tremors, accompanied with unexplained
climatic changes […] are symbolically expressed by the oak. This
word, whose French pronunciation (“chêne”) is lisped, phonetically
corresponds to the Greek word (Khen), and designates the common
goose. The old oak tree, because of this fact, takes on the same
value as the expression the old goose and the secret meaning of the
old law, heralding the return of the Ancient Covenant or the Reign
of God […] Saturnalia, Paradise and of the Golden Age.
Here, we encounter the so-called Da Vinci Code discussed in the
section of comments on the cover of this book. We recall here what.
Sir John Rhys wrote about Cassiopeia:
We have to look for help to enable us to identify the great ‘SHE’
persistently eluding our search in the syntax of the Welsh language.
Only two feminine names suggest themselves to me as in any way
appropriate: One is Tynghed, ‘fate or fortune’, and the other is
Don, mother of some of the most nebulous personages in Celtic
literature.
It is from Don that Gwydion, the bard and arch-magician, and
Gofannon the smith his brother, are called sons of Don; and so, in
the case of Arianrhod, daughter of Don, mother of Ilew, and owner of
the sea-laved castle of Caer Arianrhod, not far distant from the
prehistoric mound of Dinas Dinlle...
In Irish legend, we detect Don under the Irish form of her name,
Danu or Donu, genitive Danaan or Donaan, and she is almost singular
there in always being styled Divinity. From her the great mythical
personages of Irish legend are called Tuatha De Danaan, or ‘the
Goddess Danu’s Tribes’, and sometimes Fir Dea, or ‘the Men of the
Divinity’.
The last stage in the Welsh history of Don consists of her
translation to the skies, where the constellation of Cassiopeia is
supposed to constitute Ilys Don, or Don’s Court.377
377 John Rhys, Celtic Folklore
The word “casse”
means oak, and Cassiopeia, the great celestial W/M means, literally,
the “Voice of the Oak”, the Sibyl, the Great Mother, the Virgin, the
object at the end of the Milky Way, the pilgrimage route of St.
Jacques.
Returning now to Fulcanelli’s comments:
In the time of the Golden Age, the regenerated man knows no
religion. […] He respects, honors and venerates God in this
radiating globe which is the heart and brain of Nature and the
dispenser of earthly goods. […] In the midst of the radiating
celestial body, under the pure sky of a rejuvenated earth, man
admires the divine works, without outer manifestations, without
rites, without veils. […]
The Golden Age, a solar age par
excellence, has for cyclic symbol the very image of the
celestial body, the hieroglyph that has always been used by the
old alchemists, in order to express the metallic gold or mineral
sun. On the spiritual level, the Golden Age is personified by
the evangelist Saint-Luke. The Greek Luchas, from (Luchnos), light, lamp, torch,
(lux, lucis in Latin), brings us to consider the Gospel according to
Luke, as the Gospel according to the Light. It is the Solar Gospel
esoterically conveying the journey of the celestial body and that of
its rays, back to their primary state of splendor. It marks the dawn
of a new era, the exaltation of the radiating power over the
regenerated earth and the return of the yearly and cyclical orb. […]
[W]e consider accurate all the descriptions that have been made of
the earthly Paradise, or, if you prefer, of the golden age; but we
are not going to dwell on the various theses aimed at proving that
the refuge, inhabited by our ancestors, was located in one well
defined country. If we deliberately don’t specify where it was
located, it is only because, during each cyclic revolution, there is
only one thin belt left, that is respected and which remains fit for
habitation on its earthly soil. However we emphasize it, the zone of
salvation and mercifulness is located sometimes in the Northern
Hemisphere, in the beginning of the cycle, sometimes in the Southern
hemisphere at the beginning of the next cycle.378
And in the
mysterious Hendaye chapter of
Le Mystere des Cathedrales, Fulcanelli
further says:
[W]e learn that a country exists, where death cannot reach man at
the terrible time of the double cataclysm. As for the geographical
location of this promised land, from which the elite will take part
in the return of the golden age, it is up to us to find it. For the
elite, the children of Elias, will be saved according to the word of
Scripture, because their profound faith, their untiring perseverance
in effort, will have earned for them the right to be promoted to the
rank of disciples of the Christ-Light. They will bear his sign and
will receive from him the mission of renewing for regenerated
humanity the chain of tradition of the humanity which has
disappeared. […] For it is by fire and in fire that our hemisphere
will soon be tried.
[…]
The age of iron has no other seal than that of Death. Its hieroglyph
is the skeleton, bearing the attributes of Saturn: the empty
hour-glass, symbol of time run out, and the scythe, reproduced in
the figure seven, which is the number of transformation, of
destruction, of annihilation. The Gospel of this fatal age is the
one written under the inspiration of St. Matthew. […] Matthaeus […]
means science.
This word has given study, knowledge, to learn. It is
the Gospel according to Science, the last of all, but for us the
first, because it teaches us that, save for a small number of the
elite, we must all perish. For this reason the angel was made the
attribute of St. Matthew, because science, which alone is capable of
penetrating the mystery of things, of beings and their destiny, can
give man wings to raise him to knowledge of the highest truths and
finally to God.379
378 Fulcanelli, Dwellings, pp. 519-521.
379 Fulcanelli, Le Mystere, pp. 168, 169, 171.
On June 6, 1996, the following exchange took
place between me and Myself in the Future while looking into the
mirror of the world:
Q: (L) As you know, I have been studying the Sufi teachings, and I
am discovering so many similarities in these Sufi “unveilings” to
what we have been receiving through this source, that I am really
quite amazed, to say the least. So, my question is: could what we
are doing here be considered an ongoing, incremental, “unveiling”,
as they call it?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Now, from what I am reading, in the process of unveiling, at
certain points, when the knowledge base has been sufficiently
expanded, inner unveilings then begin to occur. Is this part of the
present process?
A: Maybe.
Q: (L) My experience has been, over the past couple of years, that
whenever there is a significant increase in knowledge, that it is
sort of cyclical - I go through a depression before I can assimilate - and it is like an inner transformation from one level to another.
Is there something we can do, and if so, is it desirable, to
increase or facilitate this process in some way?
A: It is a natural process,
let it be.
Q: (L) One of the things that Al-Arabi writes about is the
ontological level of being. Concentric circles, so to speak, of
states of being. And, each state merely defines relationships. At
each higher level you are closer to a direct relationship with the
core of existence, and on the outer edges, you are in closer
relationship with matter. This accurately explicates the 7 densities
you have described for us.
[…]
Q: (L) Al-Arabi presents a very complex analysis and he probably
didn’t know it all either... Nevertheless, it almost word-for-word
reflects things that have been given directly to us through this
source.
A: Now, learn, read, research all you can about unstable gravity
waves… Meditate
too! … We mean for you, Laura, to meditate about unstable gravity
waves as part of research. …Unstable gravity waves unlock as yet
unknown secrets of quantum physics to make the picture crystal
clear.
Twenty days later, as a result of sharing this information on the
internet, I met my husband, a theoretical-mathematical physicist who
was researching gravity waves. At almost the same time as the above
exchange occurred, he was sitting on a megalith in Italy, writing
about gravity waves in his research notebook.
When I asked about the
fact that the C’s were constantly urging me in the direction of
“science”, the following exchange took place:
Q: (L) At one point you mentioned that I needed to learn
mathematics, which can be a years long effort. And now, Ark is a
mathematician. Was this a clue that Ark was to be part of this?
A: Ark was coming into the picture all along. All is eternal, time
is selective. We
can see the entire jukebox menu selection at all “times”.
In more recent times, as we discussed the identity of
Fulcanelli as
Jules Violle with Patrick Riviere, the subject of the
Hendaye
chapter came up. The reader who is familiar with this chapter will
notice that the above quoted excerpt from Dwellings is startlingly
similar to the material of the Hendaye chapter. This was the first
time I had ever heard the word “Hendaye” pronounced by a native
French speaker and I was startled to hear it, realizing that it was
quite similar in sound to the French word for wave, which is onde.
With sudden clarity, I realized the reason for the Hendaye chapter:
not only had the C’s urged me to study “gravity waves”, but their
central focus was on “waves” in general.
On June 21, 1997, a rather
startling exchange took place:
A: Alfalfa fields in Rhineland yield as of yet undreamed of
treasures.
Q: Where are these alfalfa fields?
A: Near tracks well worn.
Q: Another clue, please?
A: Nope, that is enough for now!!
Q: You guys are gonna drive me crazy! Do you mean Rhineland as in
Germany proper?
A: We do not mean Rhinelander, Wisconsin... Or do we?!? Who is to
tell?
Q: Who?
A: The searcher, the sepulcher, the one who carries the staff in
constant search for
greener pastures.
Q: Is there anything that can be expanded, or any additional clues
for me or Ark?
A: Last clue for tonight: Look for the vibratory frequency light.
Which brings us to the work of Jules Violle.
Remember that the
“violle” is a unit of light intensity equal to a square centimeter
of platinum, glowing at its melting temperature of 1769 °C (3216
°F). It was the first unit of light intensity that did not depend on
the properties of a particular lamp. Obviously, the reference to
“Rhineland” does not refer to Germany, but in Green language, refers
to France, the land of a thousand cheeses, all of which have a
“rhind”.
This clue is explicated in the reference to the pilgrimage
route of St. Jacques, “the searcher, the sepulcher, the one who
carries the staff in constant search for greener pastures”. What are
the “undreamed of treasures”? Certainly, Auch Cathedral is part of
it.
From July 27, 1997:
Q: You previously talked about “undreamed of treasure in alfalfa
fields of Rhineland.” Is this a physical, spiritual or knowledge
based treasure?
A: It is all three.
Q: Who put this treasure in the alfalfa fields of Rhineland?
A: Discover.
Let me now reiterate our hypothesis, formed after all these years of
collecting data and noting a certain pattern: that religious myths
might be the narratives of an ancient technology and knowledge of
the cosmos that far surpasses our present day understanding, as well
as a warning to us about some perilous state in which we are living,
and some future event toward which we are heading.
We have also
hypothesized that the myths, rituals and ceremonies of the ancient
religions are but surviving fragments of this technology from which
the true significance has vanished.
What I would like to suggest at
this point is that it is in discovering the secrets of this
“technology” - The Holy Grail - that mankind has a chance to become
free of the Terror of History, to construct an Ark, and survive the
coming Deluge.
Over and over again we have seen our tracks of the Grail/Ark lead us
to Russia, to Central Asia, to the Scythians, the Tribe of Dan. It
is interesting to note at this point a prophecy of
Edgar Cayce about
Russia and China.
In 1944, he prophesied that China would one day
be, “the cradle of Christianity as applied in the lives of men”.
“Through Russia”, he said “comes the hope of the world. Not in
respect to what is sometimes termed Communism or Bolshevism - no!
But freedom - freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man. The principle has been born there. It will take years for it to be
crystallized; yet out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.”
In reference to this, and the many other “Russian references”,
Geoffrey Ashe writes in The Ancient Wisdom:
From Greece to the Indus Valley, we find people holding Ursa Major
in reverence almost as far back as we can document… In various ways
they introduce the Bear into
beliefs that connect the centers Above and Below. […] We have enough
to reconstruct a common myth that might underlie all primary
versions of the seven-mystique […] from which the rest follow.
In the far north there is a high and paradisal place, peopled by an
assembly of beings of superhuman longevity and wisdom. They have
associates and contacts at lower levels. […]
[B]iblical editing never quite censored out the northern mountain
and Zion’s mystical identity with it. […] The prophet’s imagery is
baffling, and rabbis in later ages claimed that it concealed a great
secret, an occult wisdom. Only the wisest and holiest could expound
the Work of the Chariot. Robert Graves has maintained that the God
of the Chariot actually is Apollo.[…]
Is there reason to believe that the northern Something was literally
there […] that a cosmic system was actually taught by the Rishis on
a real Meru, and carried south and west along several routes? […]
The inquiry has […] led to what no one ever identified before - an
arguable locale, to which the search can be narrowed down. [W]e are
justified in reverting to Guthrie’s theory of Apollo. If this God
was brought to Asia Minor and thence to Greece from a Siberian
birthplace, a real Land of the Hyperboreans, then he implies a
northern Something which actually was there: a center of an
influential species of shamanism, with Hyperborean Apollo as one of
its Gods. […]
If Apollo did make this journey from Siberia, the
bear-Goddess Artemis was probably paired with him at an early
stage.380
380 I would like to suggest that the
constellation Orion may have
originally been representative of Artemis the huntress.
The story of Apollo and his twin sister Artemis is
interesting and connects us back to Orion. Some sources say that
Artemis fell in love with Orion and was going to give up her avowed
virginity to marry him. Apollo, her brother, did not approve and
tricked Artemis into shooting Orion who was swimming in the sea. In
her grief, Artemis placed Orion in the sky to honor him.
Other sources say that Orion had raped one of Artemis’ female
followers, and so Artemis killed him as punishment. She sent a
scorpion after him, which stung him and poisoned him. When Orion and
the scorpion were placed among the stars, they were given places
opposite each other, so that Orion would be out of danger. When
Scorpius is just rising, chasing after Orion, the hunter is just
starting to disappear behind the western horizon.
The veneration of the bear is so ancient that we even find it in the
French cave remains of almost unspeakable antiquity. The symbolism
is deep here. A bear is supposedly born as a tiny shapeless lump and
“licked into shape”. His winter sleep symbolizes death-and-rebirth -
or, more significantly, “survival in an Ark”. The bear stands on his
legs and is an omnivore, like humans.
The point is that the bear,
Arca, Arthur, takes us back to his
origins in Northern and Western Europe and Siberia. The Siberian
shamans tell that in former ages all men had access to the Gods,
whereas now, only shamans have it and that Shamanism itself has been
degraded. Shamanism presents itself as the remnant of an Ancient
Wisdom teaching which once flourished across the Northern
Hemisphere.
The main feature of the Shaman’s universe is the cosmic
center, an axis connecting earth with both heaven and hell. It is
often represented as a tree, a ladder, or a pole. The shaman can
utilize this tree to travel upward to commune with the Gods, or
downward to battle demons. Numbers are important: there are a fixed
number of steps, or celestial stages.
The cosmic tree can also be
represented as a mountain with seven stories. The mountain is made
of gold and the name “Altai” itself actually means “gold”. We note
that the Scythians were famous goldsmiths. What is more, even the
most untrained eye can see that the art of the Scythians is
identical to the art of the French caves and the art of the Celts of
Europe.
It is clear that shamanism, as it is known, has declined from its
original unified and coherent system. One reason for thinking so is
that, while there are many local terms for a male shaman, there is
only one for a female shaman. Shamanism, it seems, was formerly a
woman’s activity. In one Tartar dialect, utygan, the word for a
woman-shaman, also means “bear”.
There is a place called Mal’ta, fifty-five miles north-west of
Irkutsk, in country where the remnants of Altaic shamanism are still
active. Carvings have been discovered there which include an oblong
panel of mammoth ivory with designs on it. The dominant design is a
spiral of dots which goes around seven times, and winds into or out
of a central hole - a spiral maze. This is the oldest known heptad
in the world - almost 30,000 years old.
There are claims that the Ancient Wisdom survives in Central Asia to
this very day. We cannot confirm that. The only thing we do know is
that out of Russia came the work of Georges Gurdjieff mainly through
the efforts of another Russian, P. D. Ouspensky. The Third Man,
Boris Mouravieff, has expounded on the Fourth Way material of Gurdjieff in significant ways that relate directly to the Grail
Issue.
Gurdjieff and Mouravieff have called this Tradition,
“Esoteric Christianity, suggesting that it was the true teachings of
the man we know as Jesus”. But we now suspect that what was
originally taught by an obscure man in the area of the Middle East
over 2000 years ago was a revival of a far more ancient Tradition -
a Tradition that extends back into the mists of pre-history to a
time when man interacted with his environment in an altogether
different way - a Way that seems magical and mysterious to us in our
present state of reduced capacities.
Let’s look at what has survived
of this tradition first, and then let’s see if we can’t put it in
more scientific terms.
Boris Mouravieff’s Gnosis is an attempt to recover and describe, in
terms understandable to modern man, a particular Tradition handed
down over the centuries, in a sometimes perhaps broken line but one
that still exists today in the Orthodox Church. [..] This tradition
could be said to be the Christian equivalent of Yoga, Zen and the
other inner traditions of the far Eastern religions, disciplines
which have each existed as specializations within the religion of
which they are part. […] It’s
later form can be traced particularly in the Russian Church [and]
clearly relates to the oral tradition known as the Royal Way. […]
Mouravieff himself admits that the survival of this tradition within
the church is tenuous, that the doctrine does not appear to survive
in full or has not been collected together in full. […] Monks on
Athos admit the existence of the Tradition but say that it has never
been fully spelled out in writing.381
In carefully studying the work
of Mouravieff, we discover that we have found many of the missing
pieces of our puzzle. What is more significant is that these pieces
relate directly to the hidden meanings of the Quest for the Holy
Grail and the Great Work of the Alchemists.
Again and again, Seekers have sought to interpret the process of
“Ascension” in terms of their external experiences. As Fulcanelli
has told us, it is in the clash of ideas that the letter dies and
the spirit is born. That is to say: the knowledge is in the meaning,
not in the words.
Again and again the esoteric Tradition is misunderstood in this way
and so it dies. Then, when the time is ripe, it must be either
restored or rephrased. In the meantime the meaning is kept alive in
communities or schools symbolized by the name “ark”, of which Noah’s
ark was one.
Mouravieff writes:
With time, the revealed Word, sometimes handed down from extinct
civilizations, is subject to damage due to human forgetfulness: it
becomes fragmentary. Then it receives arbitrary additions from
purely human sources. With time, those conjectures are generally
taken as realities.
Apart from these mutilations, we should not lose sight of a
phenomenon of a totally different order. Divine Revelation, the
source of all true Tradition, does not crystallize into immobility
through the course of millennia. Revelation is given in stages:
metered out each time in a necessary and sufficient way in answer to
the needs of the epoch and of the Cause.382
381 Amis, Robin, translator and
editor: Gnosis II, Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition
of Eastern Orthodoxy by Boris Mouravieff (Robertsbridge, UK: Praxis
Institute Press 1992) pp. xiii, xiv.
382 Ibid, p. 96.
Mouravieff’s words echo
those of Fulcanelli:
Every prudent mind must first acquire the Science if he can; that is
to say, the principles and the means to operate. Otherwise he should
stop there, without foolishly using his time and his wealth. And so,
I beg those who will read this little book to credit my words. I say
to them once more, that THEY WILL NEVER LEARN THIS SUBLIME SCIENCE
BY MEANS OF BOOKS, AND THAT IT CAN ONLY BE LEARNED THROUGH DIVINE
REVELATION, HENCE IT IS CALLED DIVINE ART, or through the means of a
good and faithful master; and since there are very few of them to whom
God has granted this grace, there are also very few who teach it.383
383 Fulcanelli, Dwellings, p. 94.
When we turn back for a moment to consider the problems of the many
and varied teachings of “Ascension” that we noted in the
introduction, we find that this issue of “works vs. faith” has
always been the condition confronting the Seeker. It is part of the
Haunted Forest through which he must pass even before he is faced
with his true tests of stamina, courage, and discernment.
Mouravieff
discusses this also:
A very ancient maxim quoted in Saint Luke’s Gospel places the
problem [of Ascension] in its proper context. He writes: “the
labourer is worthy of his hire.” This maxim is given in the context
of sending the seventy disciples “as lambs among wolves’ to announce
to the people that ‘The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.”
This means that in the esoteric field, as in everyday life, man
earns a salary for the service he provides. […]
In the esoteric field we can gain nothing pure or true and thus
nothing beautiful without making efforts whose sum and importance
are equivalent to the result to which the worker aspires.
Conversely, the value of the results we obtain is always equivalent,
quantitatively and qualitatively, to the measure of the services
rendered on the esoteric level.
It is possible to obtain so-called esoteric results that are impure,
but they are false and thus transitory.
Here we refer to the vast realm of occultism, where the children of
this century, more capable than the children of light, seek to apply
their abilities beyond the visible world. This occurs in what we
call mysticism of phenomena. […] If the seeker […] approaches the
esoteric domain driven by the desire to find in it personal and thus
impure satisfaction for himself, he will not be able to advance very
far along this way. If he persists, he will meet with failure. The
error of conception made at the start will imperceptibly lead him
towards this “mysticism of phenomena”.
The attentive reader will draw a practical conclusion from the
above: one must find a genuine esoteric task being carried out in
the world, make oneself useful in that work, and take an active part
in it. […]
[We are in the heart of this period] we will call the Time of
Transition. […] All the signs show that the necessary conditions for
the End are emerging before our very eyes. […]
The preparatory task fundamental to the Time of Transition can and
must be accomplished […] for human beings and by human beings. This
is, therefore, a question of the New Man. […]
In practice, this problem can be reduced to the need to form a new
elite [the Children of Elias, as Fulcanelli states]. In the time of
transition between our civilization which has now reached its end
and the new era into which humanity is now moving in its historical
evolution, success depends on the emergence in the near future of a
sufficient number of people belonging to this new human type.
[…]384
384 Mouravieff, Gnosis II, pp. xxvii-xxxiii.
So, let us briefly describe what the Ancient Secret Science of
Ascension is really about according to research, what we have
learned from the Cassiopaeans.
Organic life on Earth serves as a
“transmitter station”. As such a transmitter, during times of
Transition, as it is in the case of a quantum wave collapse, what is
being “transmitted/observed” determines the “measurement”. There are
approximately 6 billion human beings on the planet at this moment of
transition, most of them contributing to the quantitative
transmission. But what is missing is the qualitative frequency
resonance vibration that will create the template for the New World.
The quality of humanity has changed little in the past many
millennia. Most human beings are still ruled by fear, hunger and sex
in states of misery and chaos. In short, although the global
intensity of transmission has grown exponentially with the increase
of the population of the planet, the spectrum of energies
transmitted is incomplete. It lacks massive amounts of the finest
energies of the psyche.
Only human beings on the verge of true
spiritual ascension are capable of ensuring the transmission of
these energies in sufficient quality and quantity. The energies
needed are the Three Currents of Objective Love: Spiritual,
Emotional/Mental, and physical love. And we emphasize that these
currents must be pure.
Man alone has the ability to capture and live all three. But to
grasp and fully experience the Soul Love, the giving love, the
courteous Love demonstrated and taught by Chivalry and the Knights
of the Grail stories, the Seeker must develop a magnetic center
within himself.
Human beings are penetrated through and through by the two currents
of mental/emotional and physical love, but these currents are not
pure; without a fully developed magnetic center, the individual has
no capacity to capture them. It is only by actualizing these three
currents in his or her life, either in the mode of the Alchemist, or
in the Model of the Grail Quest, both of which exemplify the
Shamanic Ecstatic Ascent, that a person has the real possibility of
Ascension, the return to the Golden Age.
We have seen in our survey of the history and the evidence, what the
potentials are: a Return to the Edenic State in the literal terms of
Primitive Chiliasm - a New Heaven and a New Earth.
Again, this depends upon capturing and holding stable - possibly in
the face of extraordinary events - massive quantities of what the
tradition refers to as purified Objective Love.
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It is clear to those who have been paying attention to what is going
on in the world that there are forces that do not wish for this
possibility to manifest!
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They do not want to lose their supply of
negative energy food!
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And with this end in mind, they propagate
endless lies and deceptions upon humanity - so as to deceive even
the very elect!
How to achieve this anchoring of the frequency - the three currents
of Objective Love?
Let’s look first at what the tradition teaches
utilizing the commentary of Mouravieff with editorial clarification.
The attitude a person takes toward Love reflects his level of being.
The splendor of the Love of God/Creation is generally inconceivable
to human beings; it would burn out all their circuits with a mere
glimpse. However, a human being can glimpse and survive the
spiritual Love of Objective Knowledge. But, in order to do this, the
individual must pass to a higher level of BEing and become a true
individuality. Only those beings who have achieved the level of
Individuality, who obey the imperatives of the Divine within, the
real “I”, have the possibility of holding this frequency and
radiating it at the Time of Transition.
The “Elect”, the Children of
Elias as Fulcanelli terms them, are human beings who have crossed
the Second Threshold and who have achieved the Second Birth. They
will be “gathered from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other”, to pass through the Transition and form the seed of humanity
in the New World.
This means that they will be humans of all colors
and types - the only criteria being that they have crossed the
Second Threshold. Each of them will be Fully Conscious through a
direct and indissoluble union of the Personality with his Higher
Emotional/Intellectual Center. This direct contact of the new
humanity with the higher planes explains why the Second Coming will
not require a “new incarnation of Christ.”
This is why we were
warned:
“If any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ or there;
believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs and false
prophets and shall show great prodigies and miracles; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall seduce the very elect.”
The path that must be followed is that which is exemplified in the
Quest for the Holy Grail. Human beings must travel from the residue
of Celestial Love that we experience in our ordinary lives, to the
Love of the Spirit. This is the general requirement for “Salvation”.
This path is the way to the Second Birth. But to be reborn, a human
being must pass the test of True Love. Only he who has mastered his
personality and burns with this True Love can cross the Second
Threshold. And before he can even reach this point, the Seeker, will
pass through intermediate stages. These stages include challenges
that test Sincerity and Strength. These challenges cannot be met
without discernment, and discernment can only be acquired by first
attaining Knowledge.
Knowledge acquired through study and work is only a temporary - but
essential - stage. Only Higher Love can reveal the Divine Nature. But if there
is no vessel built by Knowledge to receive Gnosis, there is no
possibility of anchoring the Forerunner Spirit - creating the
magnetic center - which will open the gates to the Holy Spirit. The
Gatekeeper is Knowledge.
But for this to occur, the sign of Knowledge, that is, the Sign of
St. Matthew-Science as Fulcanelli describes it, must be correctly
oriented. And this means that the Seeker must be liberated from
lying and believing in lies. Without this, there is no possible
access to the Era of the Holy Spirit. No matter how well-meaning the
individual, if they are following practices or teachings that are
based on lies, they will not achieve the Grail. And so, we see why
knowledge and discernment is essential. Again, I refer the reader to
the section of this book that discusses neurochemistry.
Access to knowledge requires courage, as it demands a special
psychological effort from the Seeker: he has to accept the postulate
that, “the truth is out there, but it is very difficult to find”,
while at the same time disregarding his own ideas and personal
beliefs to which he is emotionally attached.
With the approach of the era of the Holy Spirit, everything must be
gradually brought to the light of day, not only the secrets of the
laboratory, but the deepest meaning of esotericism. The same must
happen with illusions, errors and lies, which must be revealed so
that they can be rectified. This process, including the Revelation
of the deepest esoteric Knowledge that has been promised and
prophesied, will fully reveal the many deviations of man’s
fundamentally inquiring spirit. Initiation, in the esoteric meaning
of the word, is not simply a “ceremony”. In fact, the “initiation
ceremony” does not occur on the human plane with human rituals.
True
initiation occurs on the super-sensory plane. It confirms the
Initiate in a new dignity earned by his Work, and carries him
towards the Divine Grace.
To solve the problem of anchoring the Three Currents of Objective
Love, we must concentrate on a positive and practical solution to
the problems of individual human beings.
A practical application of
esoteric knowledge should help those who are Seekers and who burn
with the desire to reach the Second Birth. The Seeker of the Holy
Grail, burning for Truth, just as depicted in the stories, must
first assimilate all he can learn exoterically and mesoterically.
And he must then be ready to serve the Cause joyfully.
To Burn and to Serve is the motto of the new Knight.
The Tradition teaches - and this knowledge can be discerned in the
Grail Legends as well as in the fragments of the Catharist teachings - that at the End of Time, the Children of Elias will consist of
Polar Couples and their affiliated groups and helpers.
The evolutionary path of love from the Fall has traveled from
polygamy, with other human beings (mostly women) considered as
“chattel”, to the Free Choice of partners based on spiritual love as
exemplified in the Grail stories. It now is a decaying form, leading
to over-emphasis on the physical expression and, in some cases, is
even regressing to a form of “polygamy”, or multiple partners.
Mouravieff writes:
A revolution is occurring silently which will replace the free
romance, distinctive mark of the Christian era, with the singular
romance characteristic of the Holy Spirit. Liberated from servitude
to procreation, this romance of tomorrow is called on to cement the
indissoluble union between two strictly polar beings, a union which
will assure their integration in the bosom of the Absolute.
As St.
Paul says: “Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor man without
the woman in the Lord.”
The vision of such a romance has haunted the highest minds for
thousands of years. We find it in platonic love385, the basis of the
singular romance in the myths of Androgyny man; of Orpheus and Euridice; of Pygmalion and Galatea... This is the aspiration of the
human heart, which cries in secrecy because of its great loneliness.
This romance forms the essential aim of esoteric work. Here is that
love which will unite man to that being who is unique for him, the
Sister-Wife, the glory of man, as he will be the glory of God.
Having entered into the light of Tabor, no longer two, but one
drinking at the fount of true Love, the transfigurer: the conqueror
of Death. The principle of Woman’s intervention is found in ALL
crucial periods of history. Periods where the ennobling role of the
woman in the life of human society has faded are marked by a
triviality of morals and manners, expressed in particular by a taste
for realism carried to its utmost limits.
Today, human relations suffer from a real distortion in the innate
role that woman is destined to play at the side of man: instead of
being the active force in these relations, the inspiring and
fruitful complement to the man, the woman tends to follow a parallel
path, which no longer permits her to exercise her own creative
vocation. […]
Man and woman once formed a single spiritual being - even if in
separate bodies - endowed with the unique consciousness of the real
Self; the Being described in the myth of the Androgyne.
The incomplete “I” of the Personality, unfinished and powerless,
wanders in life with no faith and no true affection. It goes from
error to error, from weakness to weakness, and from lie to lie. A
prisoner - perhaps voluntarily - but nevertheless a prisoner - man
does not do what he wants to do in life, but does what he hates,
blindly obeying a diabolical mechanicalness which, under its three
aspects: fear, hunger and sexuality, rules his life.
This purely factitious existence has nothing real except the
possibility of evolution - which remains latent, and forms the
objective of esoteric studies and work. Apart from this seed,
everything in exterior life is based on lies.
If the Fall is a direct consequence of identifying with the “I” of
personality [the predator’s mind, the degraded DNA state], and the
solitude of polar beings separated by the Fall is the source of
weakness in humans who have in this way become mortal, the return of
Unity appears to be an inexhaustible source of new energies. These
energies are necessary to man, and to restore the dangerously
disturbed equilibrium of today’s public and private life, he must
seek them out. However, this return to the perfect unity of polar
beings is not given freely. It is the exclusive privilege of those
who have crossed, or are ready to cross, the Second Threshold of the
Way.
It is through realization of the totally indivisible unity of their
real “I”, by two polar Individualities arrived at the Second Birth,
that the original sin can and must be redeemed.386
385 Though Plato missed the point and thought that polarity on the
physical plane could be minimized or excluded.
386 Mouravieff, Gnosis I, pp. xxv-xxvi, 225-227.
The next step of
the evolution of Love is the Alchemical Androgyne. This is not to be
understood in the physical sense, but rather in the Spiritual
meaning.
The Divine Androgyne is the highest condition of Human
Consciousness which crowns the efforts of the Seeker and which Union
results in the Second Birth. Mouravieff interpreted the Tradition to
mean a relation between two people, but it is actually more simple
than that. Objective Love can only be attained here, in human
existence, by its complete and vivifying manifestation at the time
of the Second Birth.
The practice of Courtly Love demands sacrifices and exploits. These
are tests. For those who surmount them, the salutary effect of
Gnosis is doubled.387 The courtly Love of the Knight and his Lady is
a metaphor that describes the proper relation between matter-mother-and spirit-logos.
387 Mouravieff, Gnosis III, Author’s Introduction p. xx.
The Tree of Life
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things
were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was
not even one thing made that has come into being. In Him was Life
and the Life was the Light of Men. And the Light shines on in the
darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it, and is
unreceptive to it.”
[John 1: 1-5, Amplified, Zondervan]
The word “Logos”, in Greek, means “word”. When it was used in
archaic, esoteric terms, it had a more specific meaning which was
that “Divine Essence” was concentrated in its Name. This theory of
creation was passed from Tantrism to Neoplatonic philosophy, and was
later adopted into Christianity and from there, it was suggested to
apply only to Jesus. The Christian enthusiasm for this idea may have been related to the fact that it
provided exclusively male Gods the means by which to give birth!
They could just “speak the word” and that was that! Thus, it has
become a widely known and popular theological construct.
However, the ability to create and destroy with words was originally
the domain of the Goddess in all her many manifestations. She
created alphabets, languages and secret words of power, or Mantras.
Every manifestation of life was brought into being by the, “supreme
syllable and mother of all sounds, Ohm”. The Logos idea is actually
almost identical to the Oriental concept of the Oversoul, which was
supposed to be the essence of the Great Mother.
Origen, one of the
early fathers of the Christian church wrote:
As our body while consisting of human members is yet held together
by one soul, so the universe is to be thought of as an immense
living being which is held together by one soul, the power of the
Logos.
The doctrine of the Logos was so widespread in the ancient world
that it would have been impossible for Christians to ignore it.
However, not only did they appropriate its use to their own ends,
they also destroyed the ancient Logoi, or sacred writings of the
Orphics, mentioned by Plato and other philosophers. This was a large
portion of the Wisdom Literature which survived in part in the
Bible, and was also preserved in fragments in certain Gnostic
writings discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945.
The Gospel of Truth
says:
“When the Word appeared, the Word which is in the hearts of those
who pronounced It… It was not only a sound, but It had taken on a
body as well.”388
388 The Gnostic Gospels
Christians gave the idea very simplistic
interpretation, assuming the “body” was Christ’s. The more
perceptive of the ancient writers intended to say that man, the nomothete, creates all his Gods out of his Word.
And here we find ourselves back in the domain of the Names of God,
or Thought Centers.
Q: (L) Is there only one ultimate creator of the universe
A: All is one. And one is all.
Q: (L) How does thought become matter?
A: Bilaterally.
Q: (L) What do you mean by “bilaterally”?
A: Dual emergence.
Q: (L) Emergence into what and what?
A: Not “into what and what,” but rather, “from what and to what.”
Q: (L) What emerges from what?
A: The beginning emerges from the end, and vice versa.
Q: (L) And what is the beginning and what is the end?
A: Union with the One.
Q: (L) What is the One?
A: 7th density, i.e.: all that is, and is not.
Q: (L) In terms of major
STS, this may or may not be related, could
you tell us the nature of a Black Hole?
A: Grand Scale STS. Black Holes are a natural force reflection of
Free Will
consciousness pattern of STS. Notice that Black Holes are located at
center of spiral energy forces, all else radiates outward. All in
creation is just that: a radiating wave.
Q: (L) Where does the
energy go that gets sucked into a black hole?
A: Inward to total nonexistence. Universe is all encompassing. Black
holes are final
destination of all STS energy. Total nonexistence balances total
existence. Guess what is total existence? “God.” Prime Creator. As
long as you exist, you are of the Prime Creator.
Q: (L) Now, this stuff that goes into Black Holes, that goes into
nonexistence, is that, then, not part of the Prime Creator?
A: Correct.
Q: (L) How can Prime Creator lose any part of him or itself?
A: Prime Creator does not “lose” anything.
Q: (L) Well, then, how would you describe this energy that was in
existence and then is no longer in existence because it has become
or gone into a Black Hole?
A: Reflection is regenerated at level 1 as primal atoms. 1st density
includes all
physical matter below the level of consciousness. Seventh density is
union with the one... it is timeless in every sense of the word, as
its “essence” radiates through all that exists in all possible
awareness realms. And, remember, there is only one “God”, and that
the creator includes all that is created and vice versa!
Q: (L)
Okay, who created the Cassiopaeans?
A: Your super ancient spiritual ancestors.
Q: (L) Do these beings have a name?
A: No. They are
Transient passengers.
Q: (L) What is the meaning of this term and who are these beings?
A: Transient passengers are not beings. Transient Passengers are
unified thought
form.
Q: (L) Why are they called Transient Passengers?
A: Because they transit all forms of reality. And they spring forth
from the Unified
form of existence.
Q: (L) Well, are these Transient Passengers Realms?
A: Yes. So are you.
Q: (L) Are the 6th density Orions, also known as Transient
Passengers, are they the same Transient Passengers that have been
referred to as the ones who genetically engineered us or put us
here?
A: Close. They are Wave riders.
Q: (L) Is “riding the wave” part of the definition of Transient
Passengers?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Do they like to ride this wave?
A: Is it “fun” for you to live on earth?
Q: (L) Well, I like living on earth a great deal, but I don’t like
pain and suffering, and I don’t like man’s inhumanity to man and I
don’t like to see other people suffer.
A: Do you live on earth for amusement?
Q: (L) I would like to live on Earth for amusement but I haven’t had
a whole heck of a lot of laughs since I have been here this time. I
would like to have a life on the planet where things were
pleasant...
A: You misunderstood.
Q: (L) I see what you are saying. That’s where they live because
that’s where they live.
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Are there Service to Self beings at 6th density that some
call the 6th density Orions?
A: These are only reflections of individuals, not unified entities.
These reflections
exist for balance. They are not whole entities, just thought forms.
Q: (L) Are these 6th density beings what the Bible describes as a
“gathering” of angels as in the story of Job where “Lucifer” came in
before the Lord...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So, in addition to STO, there are STS at 6th density which
balance? And they are just there, they exist?
A: Reflection for balance.
Q: (L) Is there any kind of hierarchy to this thing? Do these beings
come before some kind of “Grand Council” and make plans and discuss
things, and make decisions and implement them?
A: No.
Q: (L) Well, how do things happen? Do things just sort of happen as
a natural interaction of things and energies?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) You say that you are unified thought forms in the realm of
knowledge.
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Ibn Al-‘Arabi describes unified thought forms as being the
‘Names of God.’
His explication seems to be so identical to things you tell us that
I wonder...
A: We are all the names of God. Remember, this is a conduit. This
means that both
termination/origination points are of equal value, importance.
Q: (L) What do you mean? Does this mean that we are a part of this?
A: Yes. Don’t deify us. And, be sure all others with which you
communicate
understand this too! Remember: 1st density includes all physical
matter below the level of
consciousness. 6th density is uniform in the level pattern of
lightness, as there is complete balance on this density level, and
the lightness is represented as knowledge. 7th density is union with
the one... it is timeless in every sense of the word, as its
“essence” radiates through all that exists in all possible awareness
realms. The light one sees at the termination of each conscious
physical manifestation is the Union, itself. Remember, 4th density
is the first that includes variable physicality!! Ponder this
carefully!!! And, remember, there is only one “God”, and that the
creator includes all that is created and vice versa!
Now, let’s form
a little hypothesis here - a working model. Let’s say that Unified
Thought Form at 6th density are the Names of God. This is a level of
pure consciousness; the Platonic level of ideas, or essences or Noumena. The 6th density level of Knowledge-of-All would be just
“below” the One at 7th density. We would call this The Name of
Knowledge; it is the “Logos” or “Word” that engenders all existence.
It could be symbolized by the ancient yin-yang symbol since it
includes all the names. It could also be symbolized as the
“Universal Hermaphrodite/Androgyne”.
It is the “Two in One” where
the work of generation begins. It is the first manifestation of the
Eternal Parent and is a “Bisexual Universal Being”. It combines
within itself the elements and principles of both Masculinity and
Femininity.
However, we have to make a distinction of the Knowledge of all as
opposed to the “Names of Wrath” and the “Most Beautiful Names”.
Now, in trying to think through this idea, I wanted to have a visual
image. I struggled for months to think of a way to present it with
little success. Finally, it occurred to me that the Cabalistic Tree
of Life might be a useful form to work with. I found an image in a
book, and it didn’t seem quite the thing, but I thought I could play
with it a bit, modify it, and get it to do what I wanted, so I put
it on the scanner to make an image.
When I did, the way the scanner
was sitting forced me to have to place the book upside down. When
the image came up on the screen, reversed, I immediately recognized
that this WAS useful! So here is my little modification of the Tree
of Life that represents the Cosmos, or “Body of God”. [See Plate 1.]
Now, I want you to notice, first of all, that the vertical axis has
7th Density “Union with the One” at the top, and 1st density matter
at the bottom. If I were able to present this in a
hyperdimensional
way, the position at the top would include Being and Non-being that
serves as a sort of mobius connection between 1st density and 7th.
In other words, they are not really separate - they connect in an
endless cycle.
“The beginning emerges from the end and vice versa”.
It might be useful to refer back to the
tesseract idea to be able to
realize that this is a 3 dimensional representation of something
that is not 3 dimensional!
Now, the next thing we want to consider
about this vertical axis is the placement of the sixth density level
of Knowledge on the vertical axis as a “mirror image” of the
placement of 2nd density as the realm of Nature. That is, Flora and
Fauna.
There is an important key here that we must realize. If sixth
density is, “uniform in the level pattern of lightness, as there is
complete balance on this density level, and the lightness is
represented as knowledge”, then we must think of the realm of
Nature as being the physical reflection
of this principle. That is to say, “nature” - all of creation - is a
reflection of all of consciousness!
We also notice that second density is only able to recycle through
5th density in order to “graduate” to any of the other densities,
and this is reflected in our observations of Nature. We do not ever
see any creatures from the animal kingdom suddenly developing
self-consciousness in the sense of the nature of human
consciousness.
Actually, we don’t necessarily have any hard evidence that it is
possible for humans to graduate to the higher densities which might
be indicated by the lateral axes in the figure which show direct
channels between 3rd, 4th and 6th densities, but we have been told
that it is possible; there is circumstantial evidence in esoteric
literature that it has happened; and we do have some idea that
certain “divine beings” who have appeared throughout history have a
more or less “human” form. So, we might assume that, generally
speaking, there is not so great a barrier between our 3rd density
state and the higher densities, as there is between 2nd density and
the densities that are reflected in human self-consciousness and
awareness.
So, 2nd density is shown without a direct conduit to the higher
densities except through 5th, the “recycling zone”.
One thing that occurs to me as I look at this little modification of
the Tree of Life is that it seems to model and define in pretty
simple and precise terms the relationships we are coming to
understand about our reality, as well as the potentials for moving
from one point on the Tree to another.
It should be understood, again, that the conduits of connection are
really “hyperdimensional” in nature and not really separated as they
appear on the model. Not only that, but the two lateral axes
identified as STS and STO - or creation and entropy - represent
literally infinite dimensions, or potential ideas, in number. These
dimensions can represent different Names of God and their
“extensions” down through the densities either as single individuals
or as groups of individuals, or simply potentials. However, there is
always balance, so for every STO-Creation axis, there is an equal
and corresponding STS-Entropy axis.
Another thing that occurs to me
as I examine the relationships is that, from any of the lateral
axes, by accessing the Nature/Knowledge relationship, one is also
aligning with the vertical axis of Being which could be defined as
the axis of gravity within each of us. Perhaps by aligning with this
axis, one could theoretically, “open a doorway” into this axis.
Once
one was in the axis, one could then open a doorway into any of the
other positions of either the lateral or vertical axes. Of course,
talking about it and doing it are two different things! Apparently
this is one of the aspects of the “Great Work” of Alchemy. And in
studying alchemy we find some warnings that it would do us well to
heed.
The alchemists wrote that the study and contemplation of the
metaphorical “Philosopher’s Stone” along with the chemical work was
a necessary component to elevate the mind and prepare the soul for
transmutation.
“By invigorating the Organs the Soul uses for communicating with
exterior objects, the Soul must acquire greater powers not only for
conception but also for retention, and therefore if we wish to
obtain still more knowledge, the organs and secret springs of physical life must be wonderfully
strengthened and invigorated. The Soul must acquire new powers for
conceiving and retaining... That this has not been the case with all
possessors was their own fault.
.... Those who study only the material elements can at best discover
only half the mystery... alchemy is a mystery in three worlds - the
divine, the human and the elemental... alchemy in the hands of the
profane becomes perverted... Man’s quest for gold is often his
undoing, for he mistakes the alchemical processes, believing them to
be purely material. He does not realize that the Philosopher’s Gold,
the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Philosopher’’s Medicine exist in
each of the four worlds and that the consummation of the experiment
cannot be realized until it is successfully carried on in four
worlds simultaneously according to one formula.
Furthermore, one of
the constituents of the alchemical formula exists only within the
nature of man himself, without which his chemicals will not combine,
and though he spend his life and fortune in chemical
experimentation, he will not produce the desired end [which is] the
subtle element which comes out of the nature of the illuminated and
regenerated alchemist. He must have the magnetic power to attract
and coagulate invisible astral elements.”389
389 Eugenius Philalethes, quoted by Manly
Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, emphases, mine.
The alchemical
literature includes stories of alchemists who blew themselves up,
who suffered horrible diseases, who came under the power of demonic
influences because their technical abilities surpassed their
spiritual development, or who shot to “stardom” like a meteor, and
then crashed and burned in ignominy But, we are gathering more clues
here. We have a remark that, “Alchemy is a mystery in three worlds”,
and that the work takes place in four worlds simultaneously.
The
three worlds are defined as “divine, human and elemental”.
The Cassiopaeans have also talked about these “three worlds” as:
“Each soul has its own patterning, which is held in place by the
three bodies of existence ‘thought center, spirit center and
physical center,’ there are specific methodologies for adjusting
these, and traveling into or out of other planes of existence. When
one does not properly utilize these, one tears the fabric of their
trilateral continuum when they seek to travel. This can be very
problematic, and may lead to the soul being unable to reconnect with
the body, thus causing the physical center to perish!!!”
[Cassiopaeans, 10-05-96]
The Cassiopaeans have also talked about the “four worlds”.
“And remember, your consciousness operates on four levels, not just
one! [They are] Physical body, genetic body, spirit-etheric body,
and consciousness. [These are] the four composites of the human
manifestation in 3rd and 4th densities.”
[Cassiopaeans, 10-10-98]
Now, as I pondered these things, it occurred to me that this
modified Tree of Life could be used to represent each individual
human being since, as the
Cassiopaeans have pointed out, all of creation exists within each
and every one of us! When we align with the central axis, we are
aligned with 7th density, which is the origin of all other
“engendered beings”, and we thereby have access to all of Creation
in very literal terms.
However, since man is a “mirror image” of God, we now need to
reverse the image as the Cabalists constructed it with, again, my
little modifications. Now, look at this Tree. [See Plate 2.]
Note
that, on the vertical axis, below the level of Union with the One,
or 7th density, there are 4 positions. If this is the relationship
we are looking for, then we see that the physical body relates to
1st density matter, the genetic body relates to 2nd density, the
spirit-etheric body relates to 5th density, and consciousness
relates to 6th density knowledge.
At the same time, we always retain
our connection to 7th density, so that must be considered the
“pivot” or “true dimension”.
Q: (L) Physicists talk about multi-dimensional universes. The idea
is that our 3 dimensional space and 1 dimensional time is an
illusion of plane beings, while the true universe has more
dimensions perpendicular to the above ones. Physicists have
different guesses here: 5, 6, 7, 11, 256. How many dimensions does
the true universe have?
A: Not correct concept. Should be: How many universes does the
“true” dimension
have?
Q: (L) All right, then. I think that from a previous session we were
told that the number of universes was not countable. Is that
correct?
A: Infinite, maybe, but more to the point: variable and selective.
Q: (L) Explain variable and selective, please?
A: For those who know how, universes can be created at will in order
to
trans-modify reality merge.
Q: (L) What is a reality merge?
A: What does it sound like?
Q: (T) Merging of realities from one universe into another? A
creating of a new reality which is then merged with the old to
create a new universe. (L) Maybe it means the realities of different
people merge to create a sort of “mutual universe”? Like the idea
“you create your own reality”?
A: T is closer; Laura is playing “left field.”
Q: (T) A structure of the universe that holds the levels together...
everything is connected. The consciousness of 6th density is
perfectly bonded and balanced with 3rd density, and the
quasi-physical level of 4th density, and the totally physical levels
3 through 1, and the total ONE of 7th, and whatever 5th is. (L) We
have four levels of physical expression, so to speak, going from the
really solid, minimal consciousness level 1 to....
A: Yes, but the Terran scientists have been programmed to believe
that nothing can
exist unless it can be measured, estimated, calculated and
represented in some way in the physical material plane. Not
true!!!!!!! For example: We are in NO WAY physical.
(L) Well, I also want to know why you refer to a technological
device that supposedly transports someone from one density to
another, as a ‘Trans Dimensional Atomic Remolecularizer’?
A: In order to reconstruct 3rd density into 4th density physical,
other dimensions
must be utilized in the process. Remember, we are talking about
exact duplicates which are merged.
Q: (L) But, a little while ago you said there was a single dimension
and many universes, and now you are saying utilizing another
dimension, so the terminology is getting to be a little bit
confusing... (T) It is like a program loading onto a computer. Some
programs just load straight in. Others need to create a space on the
hard drive to put files that they need to LOAD the program, but are
not PART of the program, and when it is finished loading, it erases
all the “loading instructions.” The hard drive is still the hard
drive, but for a time, the program used a sector of the hard drive,
and created a temporary dimension, let’s say. (L) Is this what we
are looking at here?
A: Close. And remember, we said “true” dimension!
Q: (L) So, it is like one hard drive, many programs, loading
instructions for new programs that are then erased, etc. If there is
one “true dimension”, and infinite universes within it, does one
particular universe exist, of and by itself, at any given time,
until it is merged into a new one, or is there within this one true
dimension, multiple universes as real as ours is, to which we could
go, and could be there alongside ours, so to speak?
A: Yes to the latter.
Q: (L) And, can infinite numbers of “dimensions” exist within each
level of density, even if temporary?
A: Yes. If you want to go back and change “history,” either for
individuals or for
universal perception, you must first create an alternate universe to
do it. Your 4th density STS “friends” have been doing this a lot.
Q: (L) If you, being a general term, create an alternate universe,
does the former one continue to exist, or does the former one merge
into the new one?
A: Both.
Q: (L) If the former one continues to exist, does it exist and
evolve on its own, disassociated with the second one, or this
offshoot?
A: Clarify.
Q: (T) The universe you are in: you are going along and say, “I
think I will create a new Universe”. You do it, and move to it, and
you bring your universe with you. That is the merging of realities.
But, when you move to the new universe, you are no longer in the
original one, which continues along on its own. The pattern of the
old universe, you bring into the new one, and when you become part
of the new universe you have just created, you are no longer part of
the old one you just left which just goes along with everybody else
there, only without you. Is this possible?
A: Sort of... remember, one can create all ranges of types of
alternate possibilities.
Q: (L) So you could create a new universe with a new “past”, even?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So, in that way, both actually occur and you can change the
whole thing?
A: When merged, the former never existed.
Q: (T) Not for the person creating the new universe, but the former
will continue for everybody else.
A: Close.
Q: (L) So, for the person creating a new universe, the former never
existed, but the other beings who are satisfied with that old
universe, and “go” with it, are still continuing along as though...
A: Your 3rd density mind restrictions limit the scope of your
comprehension in this
area.
Q: (L) If you decide you don’t like your present universe, and you
work like crazy to learn how to create a new one, and you do it, do
you, essentially, forget that you did this? And why you did this?
And forget the other universe?
A: If you wish.
Q: (L) So you can or you can’t... (T) Going by what you just said:
“an unhappy universe”, exists maybe because you’re perceiving the
universe you are in as being unhappy because that is the way you are
and where you are at, in terms of learning, and by creating a new
universe, you are simply wishing to change the way the universe is
around you, and really it’s not the universe that has a problem, but
you...
A: Off track. [So much for that version of “you create your own
reality”!]
Q: (L) So, the universe you are in, is what it is, and you are in it
for some reason... (T) You’re in it to learn lessons... just to
change the universe because you don’t want to learn the lessons
you’ve chosen to learn... (L) Or, you have learned them and thereby
CAN change the universe... (T) When you learn, you just move on
automatically, you don’t have to change the universe. The universe
will change for you.
A: Déjà vu comes to you compliments of 4th density STS.
Q: (L) Is déjà vu a result of some sensation of the universe having
changed?
A: Or... some sensation of reality bridging.
Q: (L) What is reality bridging?
A: What does it sound like?
Q: (T) A bridge is something you put between two things...
A: You wish to limit, wait till 4th density, when the word will be
obsolete!
Q: (L) That still doesn’t help me to understand déjà vu as a
“sensation of reality bridging”. Is déjà vu because something comes
into our reality from another?
A: One possibility.
Q: (T) Didn’t we talk about this? That it is a bleed through from
other dimensions... that when we think we have been someplace
before, it is because in another dimension we have...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) If you are now in a particular universe that has been created
and merged by 4th density
STS, and there is still the old universe
existing, and you feel a connection, or a bridging, because some
alternate self is in that alternate universe, living through some
experience... or a similar thing?
A: No limits of possibilities.
Q: (L) So it can be any and all of those things, and bridging
realities of “past” and “future”, as well. Is it possible to change
the past within a discrete universe, or does every change imply a
new or alternate universe?
A: Discrete does not get it.
Q: (L) Well, within a particular, selected one of the universes, can
you go back in time, within that universe, change the past, and have
it change everything forward, still within that selected universe,
like a domino effect?
A: In such a case, yes.
Q: (L) But, you said that if you want to change the past, you have
to create an alternate universe... (T) No, you asked about changing
the past, and they said you have to create a temporary place to work
from, a position from which you can manipulate the reality...
A: That is for specialized activities. What was described is not the
same as an
“alternate universe”.
Q: (L) It is a temporary file that will go away when you are
finished loading the program. And that is not creating an alternate
universe, but rather a temporary dimension...
A: Close.
Q: (L) In our particular universe, what is the primary mode? Are we
constantly shifting and merging universe to universe, or is our past
being changed and reacting like the domino effect... at least in the
past few years... (T) But, we wouldn’t know if the past has been
changed because we wouldn’t see it...
A: Measurements are inadequate.
Q: (L) Is it that any and all possibilities will and do take place?
A: Closer.
Q: (L) Are the words “universe” and “dimension” synonymous?
A: Yes and no. For you, these are “gray” areas, and no matter how
hard you try,
until your perception shifts fundamentally, you aren't going to get it!
Q: (L) Okay, there are 4 physical densities...
A: No, three.
Q: (L) Okay, there are 3 physical densities, and the 4th is...
A: One is variable. Three Ethereal.
Q: (L) Okay, three that are physical, three ethereal, and one in
between that is both.
A: Close.
Q: (L) Is awareness the only thing that determines what density one
exists in?
A: No. Awareness is the bond that unites the reality.
Q: (L) You have said that gravity is the binder of all reality.
A: Yes.
Q: And now you talk about perception bonding.
A: Yes. Now, try to picture how gravity is the binder of all
reality!!!
Q: (L) If gravity is the binder, is gravity consciousness?
A: Not exactly. Did you know that there is no “right” or “left” in
4th density
through 7th density? If you can picture this exactly, then you may
be able to understand the responses to all the questions you are
asking. If not, best “give it a rest”. Because it will only be
productive learning when you ponder and reflect/review “later”.
Regarding the three worlds, “divine,
human and elemental”, or, as
the Cassiopaeans put it: [The] soul has three bodies of existence
“thought center, spirit center, and physical center”, we look again
at the tree and note that each of the lateral axes has three
positions: 6th density, 4th density, and 3rd density. In other
words, our physical third density body is directly connected to our
“spirit center” at 4th density, which emerges from the 6th density
Thought center, which is the level of the Names of God.
However, in keeping with our “mirror image” of the Cosmic tree, we
have designated the two axes as STS - or entropic - and
STO - or
creative.
On the STS axis, beings that “graduate” become more and
more “encapsulated” until, at 5th density, they exist completely in
entropic thought with no activity whatsoever. At some point, these
contractile energies “gain sufficient weight” to “graduate” to 6th
density, at which point, in contact with All Knowledge, they
perceive their true function which is to “regenerate at level One as
primal atoms”. They become “matter”. This occurs at the same
“instant” that STO energies have “gained weight” on an opposing
axis, and rise to Union with the One.
In short, a constant cycling.
Q: (T) Now, another force in what we term as the past, defeated you
and used the power of the light in order to alter us in different
ways, is this correct?
A: Yes. Now understand this: It is all part of natural grand cycle.
Q: (L) You say it is a natural thing or part of a natural grand
cycle. Is this natural grand cycle just part of the interaction
between light and darkness, which just simply must be?
A: Yes. We are at “front line” of universe’s natural system of
balance. That is where
one rises to before reaching total union of “The One”. 6th level.
Q: (T) Now, the battle you had with the other side...
A: Are having.
Q: (T) This battle goes on... do you have the light power back?
A: Never lost it, you did.
Q: (T) Okay, I guess that for us the Lizzies are the main force even
though they have others on their side...
A: Yes.
Q: (T) They took our light, not yours?
A: Not against you. Currently in union with you.
Q: (T) So we are but
one battle in the universe in an overall,
ongoing struggle?
A: Yes. Balance is natural. Remember, it’s all just lessons in the
grand cycle.
Q: (T) When we put out energy as positive or negative energy, there
are beings on other levels that feed on this energy. Is this true?
A: Yes.
Q: (T) Okay, and you said that the Lizzies feed on the negative
energy?
A: Yes.
Q: (T) Who feeds on the positive energy?
A: You do.
Q: (T) How do we feed on the positive energy?
A: Progression toward union with the one, i.e. level 7.
Q: (L) In other words, you fuel your own generator instead of
fueling someone else’s. (T) You are at level 6, what do you feed on?
A: You have the wrong concept. We give to others and receive from
others of the
STO. We feed each other.
Q: (L) So, by feeding each other you move forward and grow but those
of the STS path do not feed each other so must feed off of others.
(T) Now, you are talking to us now. This is considered STO?
A: Yes.
Q: (T) We are providing energy for the channel also, does that
provide you with energy?
A: No.
Q: (L) What do you want from us?
A: We don’t want when pure STO. We came because YOU wanted. But that
is STS
until you share with others. […]
Q: (B) What is the purpose of this contact?
A: To help you to learn, thus gain knowledge, thus gain protection,
thus progress.
Q: (B) What do the Cassiopaeans gain from this contact?
A: By helping you, we are moving toward fulfilling of our destiny of
union with
you and all else, thus completing the Grand cycle.
Q: (B) Is this the only probability open to you or is this the best
probability open to you?
A: Both.
Q: (B) Are you a great distance from us in light years?
A: Distance is a 3rd density idea.
Q: (B) Light years is 3rd density?
A: Yes.
Q: (B) What do you mean by
traveling on the wave?
A: Traveling on thoughts.
Q: (L) Whose thoughts are they?
A: Thoughts unify all reality in existence and are all shared.
Q: (S) You travel on a wave of energy created by all thought forms?
A: Thought forms are all that exists!
Q: (B) Have those that are STS acknowledged that those that are STO
are going to win in this race or conflict?
A: No, absolutely not! In fact, the STS cannot conceive of “losing”
but instinctively
feel pressure building upon them, that is the reason for the
impending turmoil.390
Q: (B) What happens to them when they lose,
does this mean that they are degaussed, or does that mean that they
have to go back and do the whole evolutionary process all over again
on the other polarity?
A: Latter.
Q: (B) So, there is a nexus point coming up?
A: Close. When we said “close” we meant concept was “close” to
reality. Not close
in terms of time or distance.
Q: (B) At that point do they experience the pain that they have
caused?
A: No, that is what happens on 5th level only.
390 Note that this session, predicting world conditions following
9-11, was dated January 11, 1995.
When considering “thought centers”, a particular remark of the
Cassiopaeans may give us another clue for our quest:
“Remember, most all power necessary for altering reality and
physicality is contained within the belief center of the mind. This
is something you will understand more closely when you reach 4th
density reality where physicality is no longer a prison, but is
instead, your home, for you to alter as you please. In your current
state, you have the misinterpretation of believing that reality is
finite and therein lies your difficulty with finite physical
existence. We are surprised that you are still not able to
completely grasp this concept.”
[Cassiopaeans, 08-12-95]
This
suggests to us that the way to “change our reality” is to access
something called a “thought center” or “belief” center. The only
problem is, it seems that by “aligning” ourselves with the 4th
density Service to Self reality, we have also come under the
domination of the STS “thought center” or “control center”.
Let’s
have a look at some of the references to Thought Centers to
determine if we can sort out the matter:
Q: (L) Who created the Lizzies?
A:
Ormethion.
Q: (L) And who is this individual?
A: Thought center.
Q: (L) Located where?
A: Everywhere.
Q: (L) Can you give us a little more of a clue?
A:
Another sector of reality.
Q: (L) Is this a sentient, self-aware being that created the
Lizzies?
A: Yes and no.
Q: (L) And who created this Ormethion?
A: Not being. Thought center.
One thing we notice is that “Thought Centers” are slightly different
from “Unified Thought Forms” that are identified as Transient
Passengers.
This is another clue that our Tree of Life model is set
up correctly, since the Unified thought forms would exist at the 6th
density level of knowledge, which contains the “thought” of STS for
balance, but no STS Unified Thought “beings”, so to say.
But, the
Thought Center realm is, apparently, a 6th density level of being.
The difference is easily identified by looking at the tree. The 6th
density Thought Center for STS does not Transit all densities and
realities - it is restricted to the STS realm. The same is true for
the purely STO Thought Center level - it is restricted to the STO
realm.
However, the 6th density Unified Consciousness level is
located on the central, vertical axis as the Logoic “offspring” of
7th density.
Q: (L) Where does gravity emanate from?
A: Thought center.
Q: (L) You have mentioned thought centers on many occasions. Is
there more than one?
A: All are one and all.
Q: (L) If you have a thought center, how do thought centers relate
to 7th density, the One?
A: Exactly!
Q: (L) Are thought centers 7th density?
A: All is.
Q: (L) All is thought centers?
A: No. All is 7th density. We have told you before that
gravity is
the foundational
force of absolutely everything!!! This means at all density levels,
all dimensions... It is the “stuff” of all existence. Without it,
nothing would exist. Your thoughts are based in gravity, too!!
Looking at this from a slightly different angle, there is the
incident that is included in a chapter of my book
The Wave. The
session was one in which a guest had brought an “aura camera” and a
couple of strange photos resulted.
In the following excerpt, “AM” is
the guest with the camera.
Q: (AM) Take a deep breath and hold... [aura photo of L is taken] We
waited a few minutes for the photo to develop and when it did, it
was totally unlike the “aura photos” taken of all the other
participants at this session. [See Plate 3.] Since the camera is
essentially taking a photo and superimposing another image on it, it
should at least show the physical outlines of the subject. It
didn’t.
Q: (L) [looking at aura photo of self] This is very strange,
guys. How come I am not in this picture and F shows up in his? Why
have I physically disappeared?
A: Learning builds spiritual growth, and awareness “solidifies”
knowledge.
Q: (L) Okay, guys, smile for the camera! [Aura photo of board is
taken with L’s and F’s fingers on planchette.] (L) Okay, but that
does not explain why I disappeared.
A: Because the energy field enclosure was unifying you with the
conduit, as is usual
during channeling sessions between 3rd and 6th density level
communications.
Q: [Photo of board develops, and geometric figure
appears to sounds of amazement from group] (L) What is this
geometric figure?
A: Was a visual representation of the conduit, indeed!!! The reason
for such clear
luminescence is that thought centers were clear and open in you at
the moment of the photograph. In other words, there was an imbalance
of energy coming from 6th density transmission point. So, what you
are viewing is 100 per cent pure light energy of uncorrupted
knowledge transmitted through you. This has never been seen in 3rd
density ever before. You do not completely realize the ramifications
of this yet, but you will. We have made history here tonight
folks!!!!! In Plate 3, you can see my hand at the right and F***’s
hand at the left with our fingers resting lightly on the little
plastic planchette.
I began writing
the Wave Series and other articles as a way of
collecting excerpts together in general subjects. As I published
them, more and more readers asked questions. In my attempts to give
answers to them, as the Cassiopaeans had given to me, I found that a
truly extraordinary thing began to happen.
The Cassiopaean
Experiment had resulted in transmissions from myself “in the
future”, and I realized that by doing the suggested research, by
digging for the answers based on the clues given me, I was becoming
myself in the future - a cosmic self. I began to see what I had been
trying to convey to myself from this superconscious state.
The years
of experimental work had created a new circuit wherein it was
possible to simply ask a question in my mind about the subject at
hand, and the answer would flow through my fingers onto the
keyboard. I was often as amazed at what came out as anyone.
I asked the C’s about it in the September 23rd, 2000 session, and
here was what they said:
Q: I have to say that the writing of this [Wave] series has been one
of the most educational projects I have ever undertaken. Because, in
the writing, I have had to comb through the transcripts and have had
to explain it to other people and before I can do that, I have to
explain it to myself. It has become a profound mind expansion
thing...
A: Good.
Q: It’s almost as much fun to be learning the things I am having to
assemble as if I were reading it. And I’m the one writing it. It’s
really quite amazing.
A: In part you are [writing].
I finally understood what the Cassiopaeans meant when they said:
Q: (L) Al-Arabi describes unified thought forms as being the
‘names
of God’. His explication seems to be so identical to things you tell
us that I wonder...
A: We are all the names of God. Remember, this is a conduit. This
means that both
termination/origination points are of equal value, importance.
So it seems that, by this time, I was truly merging with “Myself in
the Future”, and I had direct access to this awareness through my
writing, showing me how to assemble and edit the material together
after I had made such a mess of it in the original question and
answer phase. It was as though the long period of working with the board had developed a circuit
that bypassed my conscious mind and worked directly through my
hands.
The idea of the “Names of God” as explicated by Ibn Al’Arabi also
assists us in understanding what the Cassiopaens meant when they
said, “We are where we are”.
Certainly, this process of working with the material creatively has
come under a great deal of attack from those who would like to
“deify” the Cassiopaeans and declare that the material “belongs to
humanity”, and that I have no right to research it, examine it,
correct it, or otherwise refine it according to the principles of
alchemy. I find that attitude to be quite disturbing.
In any event, this discussion indicates to us, perhaps, something of
a foretaste of the effect of the wave upon mankind - or at least
portions of mankind. Perhaps these experiences give us an inkling of
what 4th density might be like? I can verify that there were many
physical experiences that I passed through in my interaction with
the Cassiopaeans. I have alternately burned and shivered many times
as a consequence of certain meditative exercises, not to mention
participation in the channeling process. And of course, there were
numerous “visionary” states that included bi-location.
The important thing to note is that initiation denotes a “change
from one situation to another”, and is described as “self
transmutation”. I suspect that
The Wave is an energy source that
will interact with every individual according to his or her
frequency resonance. To some, it may indeed be the End of the World.
But for others...
“Meantime, the world in which we exist has other aims. But it will
pass away, burned up in the fire of its hot passions: and from its
ashes will spring a new and younger world, full of fresh hope, with
the light of morning in its eyes.”
Bertrand Russell
This suggests
that I was in a state of total “non-anticipation” at the moment of
the photograph, which allowed a sort of “zero-point energy” function
to activate in a psychic way. But, more importantly, it suggests the
idea that we are connected via some sort of “conduit” to these
archetypal Thought Centers as depicted in our Tree of Life image.
Another remark about Thought Centers demonstrates again that our
Tree of Life figure is going to take us somewhere:
First of all, confusion abounds here due to incorrect
interpretations of the last subject discussed. Dimensions are not
densities!!!! Dimensions are strictly the result of the universal
consciousness as manifested in the imagination sector of thought.
Density means level of development as measured in terms of closeness
to union with the one...
We might think, then, that the lateral axes represent dimensions
resulting from various thought centers which are infinite even if
they do fall under the general “categories” of STS-Entropy and
STO-Creation or the Wrathful and Beautiful Names of God.
In trying to understand the relationships of our given position at
the 3rd density level to the vertical lateral axes, or the densities
3, 4, and 6, to which we are connected in a direct way, we might
look at this bit of information as a clue:
Q: (A) Which part of a human extends into 4th density?
A: That which is effected by pituitary gland.
Q: (L) And what is that?
A: Psychic.
Q: (A) Are there some particular DNA sequences that facilitate
transmission between densities?
A: Addition of strands.
Q: (L) How do you get added strands?
A: You don’t get; you receive.
Q: (L) Where are they received from?
A: Interaction with upcoming wave, if vibration is aligned.
Q: (L) How do you know if this is happening?
A:
Psycho-physiological changes manifest.
Q: (A) When you speak of an upcoming wave, it is a wave of what?
A: Think of it as a wave of reflection from the beginning and end
point.
Q: (A) But what vibrates? Energy? Aether?
A: Energy and aether are directly symbiotic. “Aether” is Terran
material science’s
attempt to address ether. The trouble is, there is simply no way to
physicalize a plane of existence, which is composed entirely of
consciousness. It is the union of perfect balance between the two
“states” or planes that is the foundation and essence of all
creation/reality. You cannot have one without the other!
Q: (L) When
you say the two states or planes, you are saying the physical state
and the state of consciousness...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) And you can’t have one without the other. And the state of
consciousness and the state of material existence are so completely
connected, that both are infinite? One cannot exist without the
other...
A: Yes, connected, intertwined, bonded... Merged.
Q: (A) When this aether-energy-matter vibrates, then in which
dimension does it do this?
A: The densities 3 and 4 at transition junction.
Q: (A) If not in linear time, then in what?
A: Cyclical “time”.
Q: (A) What measures the distance between one crest and another?
A: Ending/beginning of cycle.
Q: (A) Is
DNA acting as a superconductor?
A: Yes!!! But variably.
Q: (A) I am trying to understand the universe in terms of a triad:
matter - geometry - information. Is it the right idea?
A: If one thinks of matter as “living” rather than “dead”. And now,
when you merge
densities, or traverse densities, what you have is the merging of
physical reality and ethereal reality, which involves thought form
versus physicality. When you can merge those perfectly, what you
realize then, is that the reason there is no beginning and no end is
merely because there is no need for you to contemplate a beginning
or an end after you have completed your development. When you are at
union with the One at Seventh density, that is when you have
accomplished this and then there is no longer any need for
difference between physical and ethereal forms.
This brings us back,
in a curious way, to the study of Nature - all of Creation - as a
means of drawing closer in alignment with the central, vertical
axis.
By invigorating the Organs the Soul uses for communicating
with exterior objects, the Soul must a acquire greater powers not
only for conception but also for retention, and therefore if we wish
to obtain still more knowledge, the organs and secret springs of
physical life must be wonderfully strengthened and invigorated.
The
pituitary connection was mentioned.
It would take too long to
describe the function of this gland and the numerous hormones it
produces, but let me suggest that the reader do some research on
their own in order to discover exactly how, when properly
“connected”, the pituitary may, indeed, be the gland that can
initiate the processes of physical transmutation.
Cassiopaeans:
“Stones were once utilized to provide for all needs,
as the energies transmitted connected directly with the pituitary
gland to connect spiritual realities with the material realms of 3rd
and 4th densities. So you see, the “stone” was viewed as Matriarchal
indeed!”
And the alchemists say:
The study and contemplation of the metaphorical “Philosopher’s
Stone” along with the chemical work was a necessary component to
elevate the mind and prepare the soul for transmutation.
The Cassiopaeans relate the alchemical transmutation to 4th density:
Q: (L) Were the beings involved in this type of activity 3rd
density, 4th density or bi-density?
A: Originally 4th when home was in other locators.
Q: (L) Could it be said that the pituitary gland itself is the
body’s own “mother stone”?
A: If you prefer.
Q: (J) What exactly is the function of the pituitary gland in your
references to Stonehenge?
A: This gland is your uplink.
Q: (L) Is it possible that the pituitary can be stimulated by
external sources such as radio waves, waves from a supernova, or
other frequencies in the environment?
A: Yes and experiments have ensued.
Q: (L) Would it be beneficial for us to experiment with such things?
A: Not wise. You could fry yourself in your zeal.
Regarding the strictly physical aspects of our being, we look again
at our Tree of Life and note specifically the arrangement of third,
4th and 6th densities on the lateral axes.
The third density
position is directly connected with 5th density contemplation zone,
as are all the other densities.
The Cassiopaeans once remarked about
the chakras that:
A: First of all, “chakras” are a little understood and non-proven
phenomenon. Now,
it just so happens they do exist, but in different form than
reported by many in the so-called “psychic” community.
Q: (L) What, exactly, is a
chakra?
A: An energy field that merges density one, two, three or four with
five. You are all
connected with level five when you are on a short wave cycle.
Chakras are the connection with physical imprint locator.
Q: (A) Now, I was reading in the transcripts that sleep is necessary
for human beings because it was a period of rest and recharging. You
also said that the SOUL rests while the body is sleeping. So, the
question is: what source of energy is tapped to recharge both the
body and the soul?
A: The question needs to be separated. What happens to a souled
individual is different from an organic portal unit.
Q: (L) I guess that means that the life force energy that is
embodied in
Organic Portals is something like the soul pool that is
theorized to exist for flora and fauna. This would, of course,
explain the striking and inexplicable similarity of psychopaths,
that is so well defined that they only differ from one another in
the way that different species of trees are different in the overall
class of Tree-ness. So, if they don’t have souls, where does the
energy come from that recharges Organic Portals?
A: The pool you have described.
Q: Does the recharging of the souled being come from a similar pool,
only maybe the “human” pool?
A: No - it recharges from the so-called sexual center which is a
higher center of
creative energy. During sleep, the emotional center, not being
blocked by the lower intellectual center and the moving center,
transduces the energy from the sexual center. It is also the time
during which the higher emotional and intellectual centers can rest
from the “drain” of the lower centers’ interaction with those pesky
organic portals so much loved by the lower centers. This respite
alone is sufficient to make a difference. But, more than that, the
energy of the sexual center is also more available to the other
higher centers.
Q: (L) Well, the next logical question was: where does the so-called
“sexual center” get ITS energy?
A: The sexual center is in direct contact with 7th density in its
“feminine” creative thought of “Thou, I Love”. The “outbreath” of “God” in the relief of
constriction. Pulsation. Unstable Gravity Waves.
Q: Do the “enters” as described by
Mouravieff relate at all to the
idea of “chakras”?
A: Quite closely. In an individual of the organic variety, the
so-called higher
chakras are “produced in effect” by stealing that energy from souled
beings. This is what gives them the ability to emulate souled
beings. The souled being is, in effect, perceiving a mirror of their own soul when they ascribe
“soul qualities” to such beings.
Q: Is this a correspondence that starts at the basal chakra which
relates to the sexual center as described by Mouravieff?
A: No. The “sexual center” corresponds to the solar plexus.
Lower moving center - basal chakra
Lower emotional - sexual chakra
Lower intellectual - throat chakra
Higher emotional - heart chakra
Higher intellectual - crown chakra
Q: (L) What about the so-called seventh, or “third eye” chakra?
A: Seer. The union of the heart and intellectual higher centers.
[Laura’s note: This would “close the circuit” in the “shepherd’s
crook” configuration and certainly relates to the pituitary.]
Q: (V) What about the many ideas about 12 chakras, and so forth,
that are currently being taught by many new age sources?
A: There are no such. This is a corrupted conceptualization based on
the false
belief that the activation of the physical endocrine system is the
same as the creation and fusion of the magnetic center. The higher
centers are only “seated” by being “magnetized”. And this more or
less “External” condition [location of the higher centers] has been
perceived by some individuals and later joined to the perceived
“seating” locations, in potential. This has led to “cross
conceptualization” based on assumption!
Q: Are the levels of initiation and levels of the staircase as
presented by Mouravieff fairly accurate?
A: Yes, but different levels accessed in other so-called lives can
relieve
the intensity of some levels in “another” life.
Q: (L) So work on the self in different incarnations - assuming one
is not an organic portal - can be cumulative? You can pick up where
you left off if you screw up?
A: Yes. To some extent.
Getting back to our hypothesis about Archetypes and/or
Names of God,
let me propose that 4th density is a realm where the Archetypes are
“embodied” in Group souls. These group souls then have “extensions”
of themselves into the third density reality in the same way a hand
has five fingers. Only in these “projections”, each finger is a
different lifetime of an individual soul, which lifetimes are not
limited to sequential experience; and we cannot limit the number of
hands or fingers!
In this sense, it could be said that 3rd density
is a “projection” of 6th density through the “lens” of 4th density.
Q: (D) When 4th density beings communicate it’s telepathic, right?
A: Yes.
Q: (D) Okay, since time doesn’t exist, how do you communicate about
happenings? If you’re communicating telepathically on 4th density,
and time doesn’t exist, how do you communicate about events as one
happens now, as opposed to later, and the next thing happens, and
the next thing happens? (J) How is it sequential?
A: Translate.
Q: (D) Okay, let me explain what I mean. I mean, we talk about 1907
something happened...
A: That is how it is done.
Q: (T) You translate the experience?
A: From 4th density to 3rd density. And vice versa.
Q: (L) So, in other words, it’s almost like making movies. So, in
other words, if you’re a 4th density being, everything is more or
less happening, excuse the term happening, everything is
simultaneous, and if you wish to discuss or communicate or have any
focus upon any particular aspect of this unified dimension, then
what you do is you kind of extract it out, project it into 3d
density like a movie...
A: Close. But you will not understand fully until you get there.
Now, each of these archetypal “Qualities” or “Names” of God manifest
on 4th density in “Archetypal Dramas”. This relates us back to
Mircea Eliade’s concept of the Archetypal Gesture - illud tempus -
from the beginning.
Every hero repeated the archetypal gesture, every war rehearsed the
struggle between good and evil, every fresh social injustice was
identified with the passion of a divine messenger, each new massacre
repeated the glorious end of the martyrs. ... All religious acts are
held to have been founded by Gods, civilizing heroes, or mythical
ancestors. ...Not only do rituals have their mythical models, but
any human act whatever acquires effectiveness to the extent to which
it exactly repeats an act performed at the beginning of time by a
God, a hero, or an ancestor.391
391 Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return, 1954; emphasis, mine
This expresses the idea that the
world in which we live is a “form”, or reflection or “double” of
another cosmic world that exists on a higher level. These were
Celestial Archetypes.
Q: (L) Earlier Eva and I were talking on the phone about
mythological figures possibly representing group souls. That is, on
our level of 3rd density, groups of individuals who are separated by
flesh, might be extensions of group souls at a higher level...
A: Whom does Zeus represent?
Q: (F) The father of the
Gods?
A: And the implication is...?
Q: (L) Does Zeus represent 7th density?
A: Or does Zeus represent the grasping for 7th density?
Q: (L) Are we saying grasping in ways that are not suitable?
A: No grasping is “not suitable”.
Q: (L) Okay. Are we all pieces of
... are there groups and groups and groups that are pieces of a
larger whole, or larger wholes, and they can only graduate when they
assemble?
A: More to the point would be that, that makes the progress speed up
for most of those involved in such a process.
Q: (C) Are we part of a group soul or group entity?
A: What do you think?
Q:
(C) Yes.
A: And...
Q: (C) I think that we are part of a group soul... whatever that
means, we have a purpose; I think we have a similar interest, and
that is to discover the truth. And it is also to advance us.
A: And...
Q:
(C) When one group advances, then it filters down to others...
A: How does it “filter down”?
Q:
(C) Because I believe that all are connected.
A: How so?
Q: (L) I get it! The Zeus thing. The whole Zeus thing, the bearing
of children, the moving out in all these various ways,
manifestations or patterns as defined by the ‘children of the
Gods’
through all the various levels, so that it eventually all comes back
around to 7th density.
A: And what does it mean when it “comes back around”?
Q: (L) Union with the One. And it all just keeps going around and
around.
A: And C___ says...
Q: (C) If we are patterned after the myths of Zeus, and we have gone
forth, and there are lots of smatterings of fragments upon the earth
having many experiences, and as we grow and advance, we come to the
truth and the full meaning, we merge back together again with all of
the wisdom of all of these experiences.
A: Yes, but is not just the “Earth”.
Q:
(C) They are in the same process.
A: Yes.
Q: (C) Do they have different myths?
A: They have different everything... But, in the final analysis, it
is really just the same!
Q: (C) Then I would say that when everyone graduates from their
finite, physical existence, then they occupy the same space at a
different vibration, and go onto other lessons and experiences and
advances that I cannot conceive of at the moment.
A: But what is “the moment”?
Q:
(C) The moment? I haven’t thought that far ahead yet!
A: Or have you, but you simply do not perceive it as such?
Q:
(C) Probably so. How many people are in this particular group that
Laura and I are in, for the purpose of this work?
A: Up to you to discover.
Q:
(C) Well, I thought I’d give it a shot! Thinking is electrical.
Does a person leave an electrical echo and can certain combinations
produce harmony which is cumulative and exponential, thereby certain
groups thinking can produce more than others, or individually?
A: Close. Now, Suggestion: Combine frequencies to witness the
development of a directed wave effect; packs a potent “punch”.
Q: (LC) I’m really curious. I feel like all of us here have been
drawn together for a reason. We had a hell of a time getting here,
every one of us, but we did, and I’m just wondering what is this all
about? Why did all of us feel so drawn that we just HAD to be here?
A: You are not wondering so much as you are seeking confirmation.
Q: (LC) I don’t know. I just feel something powerful.
A: Every one here thinks on more than one level. This already puts
everyone into a different category than the status quo. You all have quite well
developed senses, a more difficult task is learning to trust the
messages. Remember, you all have received negative programming at
the third density level, which is designed to derail your higher
psychic awareness. You by now know that this is false programming,
but we realize that the subconscious centers are more difficult for
you to overcome. Patience will pay off for you big time!!!
Q: (P) This is my feeling about the whole thing: us coming together,
the energy created by each of us being in each other’s presence is a
key; it’s unlocking something that we agreed to come together at
this time, though it may not be apparent now, it’s going to be.
That’s the way I have felt about this whole thing. (LC) Okay,
another question, and this is a kind of selfish one I am thinking
about...
A: Wait a minute, remember, your plane of existence is STS by its
very nature and that is okay, because you’re all where you are for a reason... Now
L__, fire away and be just as selfish as you please, dear.
[Laughter]
Q: (LC) Well, if that’s the case! I want to ask about past life
relations between us. I’m sure there is. Are there any specific past
life connections between any of the women in this room?
A: Before we answer that, we wish to hear from you what you perceive
a past life
circumstance to be. How do you perceive the reincarnation process to
be?
Q: (LC) I perceive it as you come back with people you choose to
come back with, and that you choose people that you are karmically
connected to. (I) I see it a little bit differently than that...
A: Aha! We have a variance!
Q: (I) I think that when we die and go to 5th density, that we make
pacts with people in each incarnation, so when you come back, it is
coming back to fulfill that pact. (LC) Yes, that is the way my line
of thinking is going. But, when they asked that question, I was
thinking that you have people you come back with because of
closeness. Somebody may be your mother in one life, and there is a
love bond, and then there are other people that you come back with
because you have to resolve something to let go of that person
rather than to get closer.
A: This is partially correct. But, there is more to it than this.
For example, one can incarnate on various planes of existence, not just the one you
perceive currently. And, one may actually reincarnate on more than
one plane concurrently, if one is advanced enough to do this.
Q: (L) Are you suggesting that that we are all part of the same soul
unit here?
A: Yes, we are! To an extent, but you may not yet understand what
exactly a “soul
unit” is in that sense. And of course, there is more than one sense
for this as well. The “trick” that 3rd density STS life forms will
learn, either prior to transition to 4th density, or at the exact
juncture, is to think in absolutely limitless terms. The first and
most solid step in this process is to not anticipate at all. This is
most difficult for you. We understand this, but this as also why we
keep reiterating this point. For example, imagine if one of your
past lives is also a future life?
Q: (P) Now, I just want to say that I think that we have all of us
here traveled back in time to change the way things are now. We
inserted ourselves into this time period to wake up and see what is
really happening. This is 3rd density thinking, I know, but it is
the only way I can describe it. We looked back on the way things
happened, the way the world is now, and we have come back to change
things. We have come from the future, to wake up now, because we
didn’t wake up before. Because the world is going in this direction,
and something had to be done. That’s what I see. Not just that,
things happen to keep us from waking up period! We’ve all been
bombarded with stuff all our lives.
A: That is surprisingly close to the truth. Now just a moment...
reflect please.
Q: (L) P___ was saying that we have come back from the future and
inserted ourselves into this timeline...
A: Yes. That is close to being totally correct!
Q: (L) In terms of reincarnation, which we were talking about a few
minutes before that, we are possibly incarnations of ourselves
incarnated at different levels. This just happens to be one of the
levels of reality that we are occupying, but there are other selves
at other levels thinking and doing other level stuff, and these
other levels are perceived by us as the future...
A: Maybe for some of you, but let us not get ahead of ourselves.
Q: (P) The C’s say that they are US in the future. So, we, being
THEM in the future, some of who they are in the future, have come
back as us, to do what we are doing, to undo what is happening on
Earth...
A: Close, but more complex than that. It would be difficult for you
to completely
understand at this point, but let us just say that you are close.
You should reflect upon all that is in the reflection!
Q: (L) What is the reason for the use of the term “reflection”?
A: “Alice through the looking glass.”
Q: (L) When she went through the mirror, she was in an alternate
reality. (I) Are we in an alternate reality?
A: Yup. But then again, are not all realities “alternate”?
Q: (P) I think we are creating a possibility that would not have
existed if we had NOT come together here.
A: Yes, but that is generally true in most similar circumstances.
The question is the
degree to which there is significance.
We encounter in myths the idea that man only repeats the acts of the
Gods; his calendar commemorates, in the period of a year or other
longer cycles, all the cosmogonic phases which took place in the
beginning or which take place repeatedly at another level of
reality.
Myths are only a much later formulation of an archaic content that
presuppose an absolute reality, or levels of reality that are
extrahuman.
If we begin to think that our reality is but a sort of
slide show projected from a hyperdimensional realm, we have to begin
to think about the archetypal dramas themselves. If we come to the
idea that we are extensions of our higher selves, fulfilling the
purposes of the great Cosmic Dramas, we come up against a couple of
important concepts. The first of these concepts is Free Will.
Going back to what the Shaykh Ibn al-‘Arabi had to say about it:
You should know that the divine call includes believer and
unbeliever, obedient and disobedient... This call derives only from
the divine names.
One divine name calls to someone who is governed by the property of
a second divine name when it knows that the term of the second
name’s property within the person has come to an end.
Then this name which calls to him takes over. So it continues in
this world and the next.
Hence everything other than God is called by a divine name to come
to an engendered state to which that name seeks to attach it.
If the object of the call responds, he is named “obedient” and
becomes “felicitous”. If he does not respond, he is named
“disobedient” and becomes “wretched”. 392
392 Futuhat, II 592.32
This gives us a clue as to
the true extent of our so-called Free Will. Basically, it amounts to
the fact that we can identify which archetypal drama we are living
and acknowledge it, witness it in our mind, and accelerate or extend
the concluding of it.
We accelerate by our “obedience” to the “call”
or we extend it by our rejection and “disobedience”. In the first
case, the outcome can be felicitous if we are careful to “finish the
drama” within the archetype, even if only symbolically (which is
often the wisest choice in the event of being caught in a drama of
great negative potential); and in the second case, we can refuse to
acknowledge the drama, continue to struggle against it like a bug
striking a window over and over again, and be wretched as a result.
Of course, the problem many people have is in understanding that
they don’t have to remember their past lives in order to “learn”.
The soul has a memory of its own.
Q: (L) OK, let me ask this question. In talking about time, I would
like to ask, in relation to time, what is memory? Some understanding
of time refers to it as the ‘now’, the ever-present now. Well, a lot
of people remember a lot of other ‘nows’, some people don’t remember
any ‘nows’ at all, and it seems like memory is almost like a reverse
function of anticipation. Anticipation being almost like a memory of
the ‘future’ and memory being like a reverse anticipation into the
past. So, what I would like to know is if time is merely a ‘now’,
what is memory?
A: Conscious and subconscious record of perceptions.
Q: (L) OK. If memory is subconscious or conscious recording of
perceptions, when one accumulates a sufficient amount of memory,
does one then become ‘timeless’?
A: One is always timeless.
Q: (L) OK, but does one then become aware of one’s timelessness?
A: In 4th density.
Q: (L) OK. Does an electron have a memory?
A:
Electron is borrowed unit of 7th density.
Q: (L) All right, in the picture of the crop circle you designated
as being ‘Atomic Structure’, there was the concentric circles and
then these three things on the outside corners of the triangle, one
being zigzag, one being plain and round, and the other one kind of
like a wheel, it had like little divisions. Would the zig-zaggy one
be the electron?
A: Not correct concept atomic structure unifies elemental atoms.
Q: (L) What is an elemental atom, as opposed to an ordinary atom?
A: Elemental defines singular body of structure. Within, as in:
“element of”. Electron is element of atomic structure.
Q: (L) Is there anything about an atom that holds memory?
A: Memory is subjective, atom is not.
Q: (L) Well, some atoms seem to be somewhat subjective.
A: No, it is your interpretation.
Q: If memory is conscious and subconscious record of perception, as
you have stated, and there occurs a “reality merge”, as you also
described previously, some sort of time manipulation, does this
automatically change individual perceptions?
A: Perceptions “leap” into place according to markers in the
eternally present continuum.
Q: What are these markers?
A: Experiential breaks in the perceptual realm of continuance.
Q: Markers are experiential breaks. So, one experiences breaks and
they become markers... perceptions leap into place... is this saying that, when
there is a perception of a break, that some part of the psyche seeks to bridge
this break by leaping into some sort of…
A: The definition of the previous responses will become clear for
you only after some reflection, my dear!
Q: Okay, you said that memory is subjective and an atom is not. If
memory is subjective, what you have just been describing means that
each and every person has a slightly
different perspective, even if they are involved with the same
incident or the same time sequence.
A: Of course! That is the treasury of learning.
Q: Who is the treasurer?
A: The learner.
Q: But still, what you said still implies that an atom has an
objective existence. Is this correct?
A: Yes.
Q: Would you please tell us what constitutes objectivity?
A: The effort on the part of the observer to leave prejudice “at the
door”.
Q: How does the effort on the part of the observer to leave
prejudice at the door relate to the objective existence of an atom?
A: An atom, as with absolutely everything else, cannot exist without
an observer.
Q: So, in the case of the objectivity of an atom, if the human
observers are not objective, where is the observer who makes the
atom objective, or does the atom not exist if there is no observer?
A: Yes to the latter comment.
Q: So there must be an observer. Must the observer be human?
A: The observer must be a consciousness.
Q: If you say that an atom has an objective existence, yet it only
exists if it is perceived by a consciousness, then an atom does not
have an objective existence, correct?
A: No.
Q: Okay, what is the distinction? You say that objectivity is the
attempt on the part of the observer to leave prejudice at the door.
A: Without consciousness, there is neither objective nor
subjective!!
Q: So the crux is the attempt to leave prejudice at the door in the
same manner as one would be non-anticipatory in order to create?
A: Yes.
Q: Well, that is a very tricky... (A) Is consciousness objective?
A: Consciousness is objective, until it has the capacity to choose
to be otherwise.
Q: What is the stimulus for the change, for the giving of the
capacity to choose?
A: The introduction of prejudice.
Q: In a cosmic sense, cosmic consciousness, in the sense of The One
Unified Consciousness, what is the stimulus there for the ability to
choose?
A: When the journey has reached union with The One, all such lessons
have been completed.
Q: But, that doesn’t answer the question.
A: Yes, it does!
And this is where the study of nature comes in. There is a passage
from Psalms about Nature as a source of knowledge:
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows and
proclaims His handiwork.
Day after day pours forth speech, and night after night shows forth
knowledge. There is no speech nor spoken word; their voice is not
heard yet their voice goes out through all the earth, their sayings
to the end of the world.393
393 Psalm 19: 1-4, Amplified, Zondervan
The Alchemists tell us:
In order to respect the principle of hermetism adopted by the
Tradition, we must understand that esoteric teachings are given in a
sibylline form.
St Isaac the Syrian points out that: The Holy Scriptures say many
things by using words in a different sense from their original
meaning. Sometimes bodily attributes are applied to the soul, and
conversely, attributes of the soul are applied to the body. The
Scriptures do not make any distinction here. However, enlightened
men understand.
This is the point at which we begin to understand our reality.
The
Celestial myths are the archaic representations of the Archetypes.
In studying these stories and their characters we can have access to
very deep knowledge about any human situation or drama in which we
may find ourselves. We can also identify which character, or part,
we are being activated to “play”. Once we have identified the drama
of the moment (which may extend over years or even an entire
lifetime, or merely be a “mini-drama” of a few minutes, hours or
days’ duration), we can fully activate our participation with some
degree of control.
By recognizing the play, by acknowledging our “part”, we have formed
a link between ourselves and the director, producer and writer of
the production at the higher densities! We are psychically “linked”
to them in a real and symbiotic way. And, by being linked, we can
have access to a Free Will that is not ordinarily accessible.
Joseph Chilton Pearce was aware that there was something deeper and
more involved in our reality than many suppose, and he called it the
“Cosmic Egg”. Well, he may have been more right about this than he
ever suspected. If Thought Centers are Cosmic Eggs laid from 6th
density into 4th density via 5th density, and hatched into 3rd
density, then we have only one issue to deal with at this density,
and that is WHICH EGG IS OURS?
More than that, if we don’t like the present egg, can we “crack it”,
and get out?
Well, here we come up against the ever-present problem of the “Catch
22”.
Q: (L) When we are talking about dimensional curtains, we are
talking about divisions at the same level of density, is that
correct?
A: Maybe.
Q: (L) Can dimensional curtains be between dimensions at the same
level of density?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Are dimensional curtains also something that occurs between
levels of density?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So, a dimensional curtain is a point at which some sort of
change takes place... what causes this change?
A: Nature.
Q: (L) What defines this change?
A: Experience.
Q: (L) Is it in any way related to atomic or quantum physics or the
movement of atoms?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Okay. An atom is in 3rd density. What distinguishes it from
an atom in 4th density?
A: Reality.
Q: (L) What distinguishes one realm from another?
A: Assumptions.
Q: (L) Okay, what you assume or expect is what you perceive about
that atom depending upon which reality you are in, is that correct?
A: Close.
Q: (L) What determines your assumptions?
A: Experience. Every thing that exists is merely a lesson.
Q: (L) Okay, so once we have learned certain lessons, as in
experience of certain things, then our assumptions change?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Okay, is this wave that is coming our direction going to give
us an experience that is going to change our assumptions?
A: Catch 22: One half is that
you have to change your assumptions in
order to
experience the wave in a positive way. All is merely a lesson, and
nothing, repeat nothing, more.
How do we get the experiences that will change our assumptions?
Well, let’s look at our Tree of Life again. We notice that in both
versions, the Cosmic and the Human mirror, the different levels of
the different densities “recycle” through 5th density on the Central
axis. There does exist a sort of “conduit” between the Centers, but
these conduits do not have an “exchange point” on the Central axis
that would facilitate a “shift” of Thought Centers or “assumptions”.
From this we can conjecture that it is somewhat difficult to “change
polarity” without some sort of facilitator. This is why the way of
the Monk, the Yogi and the Fakir are so difficult. They attempt to
bridge the gap without a facilitator on the Central axis.
We notice that, on the Cosmic Tree, the position of Knowledge is a
facilitator for the cycling of 6th density energies to move into
Union with the one which is, in effect, an instantaneous (or
timeless) to Being and Non-being which then initiates a new cycle of
consciousness that regenerates as dense matter and consciousness
that emerges bilaterally into the Beautiful Names and Wrathful Names
of God to initiate the drama all over again.
When we look at the Human Tree of Life, which is the mirror image,
we see that the position of Knowledge is now held by the genetic
body, which is ON the Central axis. We then realize that this is our
facilitator.
The genetic body is the control center for the physical body since
it transduces the Central axis energies, so whichever Thought Center
is dominant will control the physical experience. Not only that, but
we can see another possibility - namely, that knowledge and genetics
are directly interactive. At the 3rd density level, genes are the
Logos!
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things
were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was
not even one thing made that has come into being.
Sounds like Cosmic Chromosomes!
It is through our genetics that we
have the potential of aligning with the Central vertical axis and
“changing Thought Centers”. And, just as 2nd density Nature is a
reflection of 6th density Knowledge in the Cosmic Tree, so is our
genetic code the 2nd density reflection of all that exists as
potential within US as human beings.
It could even be said that all of nature exists within US.
Gurdjieff addressed the issues of this chapter as well, showing that
the source of his information was very similar to the “Q source” of
Alchemical teachings.
This is evident in the answer he gave to
Ouspensky when the latter asked,
“Can it be said that man possesses
immortality?”,
Gurdjieff replied:
“Immortality is one of the qualities we ascribe to people without
having a sufficient understanding of their meaning. Other qualities
of this kind are ‘individuality’, in the sense of an inner unity, a
‘permanent and unchangeable I’, ‘consciousness’, and ‘will’. All
these qualities can belong to man, but this certainly does not mean
that they do belong to him or belong to each and every one.”
“In order to understand what man is at the present time, that is, at
the present level of development, it is necessary to imagine to a
certain extent what he can be, that is, what he can attain. Only by
understanding the correct sequence of development possible will
people cease to ascribe to themselves what, at present, they do not
possess, and what, perhaps, they can only acquire after great effort
and great labor.”
“According to an ancient teaching, traces of which
may be found in many systems, old and new, a man who has attained
the full development possible for man, a man in the full sense of
the word, consists of four bodies. These four bodies are composed of
substances which gradually become finer and finer, mutually
interpenetrate one another, and form four independent organisms,
standing in a definite relationship to one another but capable of
independent action.”
Gurdjieff’s idea was that it was possible for
these four bodies to exist because the physical human body has such
a complex organization that, under certain favorable conditions, a new and independent organism actually
can develop and grow within it.
This new system of organs of
perception can afford a more convenient and responsive instrument
for the activity of an awakened consciousness.
“The consciousness manifested in this new body is capable of
governing it, and it has full power and full control over the
physical body.
“In this second body, under certain conditions, a third body can
grow, again having characteristics of its own. The consciousness
manifested in this third body has full power and control over the
first two bodies; and the third body possesses the possibility of
acquiring knowledge inaccessible either to the first or to the
second body.
“In the third body, under certain conditions, a fourth can grow,
which differs as much from the third as the third differs from the
second, and the second from the first. The consciousness manifested
in the fourth body has full control over the first three bodies and
itself.
“These four bodies are defined in different teachings in various
ways. The first is the physical body, in Christian terminology the
‘carnal’ body; the second, in Christian terminology, is the
‘natural’ body; the third is the ‘spiritual’ body; and the fourth,
in the terminology of esoteric Christianity, is the ‘divine body’.
In theosophical terminology the first is the ‘physical’ body, the
second is the ‘astral’, the third is the ‘mental’, and the fourth
the ‘causal’.
“In the terminology of certain Eastern teachings the first body is
the ‘carriage’, (the body), the second is the ‘horse’ (feelings,
desires), the third the ‘driver’ (mind), and the fourth the ‘master’
(I, consciousness, will).
“Such comparisons and parallels may be found in most systems and
teachings which recognize something more in man than the physical
body. But almost all these teachings, while repeating in a more or
less familiar form the definitions and divisions of the ancient
teaching, have forgotten or omitted its most important feature,
which is: that man is not born with the finer bodies. They can only
be artificially cultivated in him, provided favorable conditions
both internal and external are present.
“The ‘astral body’ is not an indispensable implement for man. It is
a great luxury which only a few can afford. A man can live quite
well without an ‘astral body’. His physical body possesses all the
functions necessary for life. A man without ‘astral body’ may even
produce the impression of being a very intellectual or even
spiritual man, and may deceive not only others but also himself.
“When the third body has been formed and has acquired all the
properties, powers, and knowledge possible for it, there remains the
problem of fixing this knowledge and these powers. Because, having
been imparted to it by influences of a certain kind, they may be
taken away by these same influences or by others. By means of a
special kind of work for all three bodies the acquired properties
may be made the permanent and inalienable possession of the third
body.”
“The process of fixing these acquired properties corresponds to the
process of the formation of the fourth body.”
“And only the man who possesses four fully developed bodies can be
called a ‘man’ in the full sense of the word. This man possesses
many properties which ordinary man does not possess. One of these
properties is immortality. All religions and all ancient teachings
contain the idea that, by acquiring the fourth body, man acquires
immortality; and they all
contain indications of the ways to acquire the fourth body, that is,
immortality.”394
394 Gurdjieff, quoted by Ouspensky,
In Search of the Miraculous, op.
cit.
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”. And again, 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
Castañeda, 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 almost twenty years since this
meeting, it is hard for Ark to remember exactly what was said, but
the entries in his journal in the days following the meeting reflect
his state of mind at the time:
Marseilles, July 21, 1986
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 1986
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 his state of mind after a 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.
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.
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.”395
“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.” 396
“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 pseudoesoteric movements,
in church religions, in occult and theosophical schools. It may be
preserved in their writings, their rituals, their traditions, their
conceptions of the hierarchy, their dogmas, and their rules.”397
395 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.”
396 This is
certainly what happened to Gurdjieff’s work.
397 Gurdjieff, quoted by Ouspensky, In Search of The Miraculous, op.
cit.
As
I have written previously, 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 the 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.
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.”
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.”398
398 Fulcanelli, Dwellings of The Philosophers, op. cit.
What is this world inside the Devil? It is the world of lies and
confusion. How did Gurdjieff described it?
‘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. 399
399 Ouspensky, op. cit.
Gurdjieff seemed to have the idea that a “will” could be
“nurtured” in a man and accelerated, so to say.
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,
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.” 400
400 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.401
401 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 in 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.”402
402 Gurdjieff quoted by Ouspensky, op. cit, 1949
Carlos Castañeda puts the
problem another way in the words of don Juan:
“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.”403
403 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.” [Emphasis
added.]404
404 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”. And so, 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.
How can anybody be sure of anything in this day and time when the
world seems to have gone mad and we find ourselves collectively in
the position of the hero/heroine of the horror movie who hears a
noise but can’t see its source. Indeed, the audience can see that
the monster is lurking in the bushes (no pun intended) just outside
the door, the soundtrack is heavy with ominous portent, and with
innocent naiveté and a handy flashlight, the star of the movie puts
his or her hand on the doorknob. The audience groans with the agony
of knowing and collectively shouts, “DON’T OPEN THE DOOR”!
But,
unfortunately, the movie world is not connected to the world of the
audience, and no warning can cross that divide.
In the old days, movie heroes and heroines generally always survived
such mistakes by dint of clever scripting. In more recent years, you
can never be sure anymore: the hero or heroine is likely to die -
reflecting real life - because of their stupidity.
Admittedly, when I was much younger, I only liked the kind of movies
where the hero or heroine triumphed in the end. I was always upset
and angry - I felt cheated - if the movie ended as real life often
does: no haven, no help, no hope. Only later did I realize the
usefulness of such movies; that they could be teaching tools that
help us to analyze our hopes, our beliefs, our wishful thinking that
“right will prevail” no matter what, so that, if - indeed - we ever
found ourselves in similar situations, we could circumvent the
“failures of intelligence” that led to failures in awareness and
strategy. In short, observing how wishful thinking most often leads
to disaster in real life, could teach us how to think rationally,
how to analyze and predict, and thus, formulate an adequate response
to any situation of danger.
It’s a useful concept.
But it still doesn’t bridge the divide between the actors in the
movie and the audience that can see.
In order to share our knowledge, to complete the loop and give to
those others
who are asking for the Truth, we began a daily news page in 2002
called Signs of
the Times.405
405
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/
Our job is to report the state of the world as it is.
We get a lot of
letters from readers and entries in our forum by people who complain
that the
Signs Team sounds like they are “frustrated” or “insulting” or
“repetitious”, or they don’t understand that it is all just a cosmic game and we can
go home at the
end and have a party with all the bad guys. These readers aren’t
aware, of course,
of the many discussions we have trying to figure out what may or may
not work to get the attention of the reader in a way that will truly
serve to galvanize them to wake up.
One day we may try one thing,
and another day, we will try something else.
At the present time, it seems that much of the outside world is
watching America in the same way an audience watches a horror movie.
The audience, of course, has the benefit of a “bird’s eye view”, and
all the clues of music and privileged perspective granted by the
movie maker. The actors are in a state of “fantasy”, or “wishful
thinking”, if you like. They have agreed, individually and
collectively, to engage in acting out the drama. They have agreed to
“forget” all they know about the script so as to more effectively
“get into” their roles. When the movie making is over, they all have
a cast party, toast each other for how well they managed to fool the
audience, and agree that it was a great movie and go home to read
another script.
The audience, on the other hand, if they are
knowledgeable, will
agree that their favorite actors sure had them going there for a
bit! They will declare sagely how good the monster was, and how evil
the villain was because the actor or actress was such a master of
their craft.
Such analogies as audience and movie are often used by philosophers
as a way of suggesting that all that happens on earth is exactly
that: a grand play and everybody is all the same when the show is
over: actors and audience are simply two sides that have agreed to
play “parts” in the life of humanity. Certainly, at some ultimate
“level” of reality, this may be true in a certain way, but we
suspect that it is not at all exactly that simple.
Sure, in the ultimate Grand Scheme of things, everything goes back
to source. The difference is that those with the BEing nature of
Creativity don't like the idea of Entropy and they reserve the
right to make a choice.
It is easier to resist evil at the
beginning than at the end.
And it is oh, so easy to excuse yourself from resisting by just
saying,
“Oh, it’s just a movie! We can all go home at the end and
know that everyone played their parts well...”.
There is more than a little scientific support for the above ideas
that consciousness - the root of existence and being - has two
fundamental states: on, or off. In the final analysis, it seems that
the metaphor of humanity and its collective “higher selves” being a
movie and an audience, may be simply anthropomorphizing creative and
entropic forces of the universe for the purposes of “self-calming”.
The stakes, it seems, are a lot higher and more real. This brings us
to the issue of subjectivity vs. objectivity.
As the C’s have said, and this is echoed in the most ancient
traditions: “It’s not where you are, but who you are and what you
see that counts.” This “who” and “what you see” have been somewhat
problematical as research subjects, and it has only been in the last
three years that clear understanding of these concepts have been
articulated.
About two hundred years ago, the French mathematician and physicist
Pierre Laplace wrote:
We must regard the present state of the universe as the effect of
its past and the cause of its future. Consider an intelligence
which, at any instant, could have a knowledge of all forces
controlling nature together with the momentary conditions of all the
entities of which nature consists. If this intelligence were
powerful enough to submit all this data to analysis it would be able
to embrace in a single formula the movements of the largest bodies
in the universe and those of the lightest atoms; for it, nothing
would be uncertain; the future and the past would be equally present
to its eyes.
Certainly, such an intelligence as Laplace describes would be
“Godlike”, you agree?
And certainly, no one of us human beings is
capable of such “seeing”, you will also agree. However, what does
seem to be true is that this is a significant clue to the solutions
to the pressing issues of our day: knowledge that leads to
awareness.
Here I will refer the reader back to the section on neurochemicals.
As the brain
interacts with its environment, synaptic circuits combine to form
synaptic maps of
the world perceived by the senses. These maps describe small
segments of that
world - shape, color, movement - and these maps are scattered
throughout the
brain. As the brain’s synaptic network evolves, beginning at birth -
or even before - these maps process information simultaneously and in parallel.
Based on our synaptic maps of the world, we are enabled to have a
more or less objective view of reality.
Classical physics asserts that the future already exists, as do the
present and past. Everything that ever will happen has already
happened. But for some unknown reason our minds can only experience
the future a piece at a time in what we call the present.
Quantum physics says that we can never predict the future with
absolute certainty. The future does not yet exist in a single
definite state. Quantum uncertainty does not deny us all knowledge
about the future. It gives us the tools to make predictions, but
only in terms of probabilities.
Bohr and other leading physicists of the Copenhagen School say that
objective reality is an ambiguous concept at the quantum level. In
physics, our knowledge comes only when we actually measure
something, and even then the way we decide to perform the
measurement affects the results we obtain. Asking the same question
in different ways may give seemingly contradictory answers, but no
single experiment will itself provide contradictory information.
Some experiments will show electrons as waves, and others will show
them as particles. In no single experiment do electrons display
wavelike and particle-like behavior simultaneously. Bohr called this
complementarity.
Quantum mechanics leaves the observer uncertain about the actual
nature of reality. Are they really waves or particles? We don’t know
and no experiment will tell us. Detecting one of the attributes
automatically excludes knowledge about the other.
There is a striking similarity between life and thought. Just as
there are more potential life forms than the planet can hold, there
are more potential ideas than our minds can possibly absorb and
remember.
Just as evolutionary natural selection may generate change by
choosing from among the many potential forms of life, so may thought
be able to generate evolutionary change by choosing among many
potential thoughts. The master evolutionary mechanism is found in
the wave function of the universe. The observer guides the selection
from an infinite number of potential arrangements that the universe
may assume from moment to moment. The universe has many possible
future states or potentialities represented by the wave function.
The wave function is constantly collapsing into the present as the
many possible states become a single state as the present unfolds
and possibilities become actualities.
Many individuals have decided that this Quantum Uncertainty means
that you can “create your own reality” by what you believe, or
depending upon what you give your attention to. This is a popular
idea among many New Age types, and is actually the foundation of
most religions whether they realize it or not.
Chris Floyd wrote in the Moscow Times on October 22, 2004:
Now we come at last to the heart of darkness. Now we know, from
their own words, that the Bush Regime is a cult - a cult whose God is
Power, whose adherents believe that they alone control reality, that
indeed they create the world anew with each act of their iron will.
And the goal of this will - under-girded by the cult’s supreme virtues
of war, fury and blind faith - is likewise openly declared:
“Empire”.
You think this is an exaggeration?
Then heed the words of the White
House itself: a “senior adviser” to the president, who, as The New
York Times reports, explained the cult to author Ron Suskind in the
heady pre-war days of 2002. First, the top Bush insider mocked the
journalist and all those “in what we call the reality-based
community”, i.e., people who “believe that solutions emerge from
your judicious study of discernible reality”.
Suskind’s attempt to
defend the principles of reason and enlightenment cut no ice with
the Bush-man.
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore.
We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality”, he
said. “And while you’re studying that reality, we’ll act again,
creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s
how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors ... and you, all of
you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Anyone with any knowledge of 20th-century history will know that
this same megalomaniacal outburst could have been made by a “senior
adviser” to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini or Mao. Indeed, as scholar
Juan Cole points out, the dogma of the Bush Cult is identical with
the “reality-creating” declaration of Mao’s “Little Red Book”:
“It
is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.”
For Bush, as for
Mao, “discernible reality” has no meaning: Political, cultural,
economic, scientific truth - even the fundamental processes of
nature, even human nature itself - must give way to the
faith-statements of ideology, ruthlessly applied by unbending
zealots.
The view of
the Bush Reich is, as it happens, diametrically
opposed to the view we promote at Signs of the Times.
This view has
been stated quite economically by the Cassiopaeans:
Life is religion. Life experiences reflect how one interacts with
God. Those who are asleep are those of little faith in terms of
their interaction with the creation. Some people think that the
world exists for them to overcome or ignore or shut out. For those individuals, the worlds will cease. They
will become exactly what they give to life. They will become merely
a dream in the “past”. People who pay strict attention to objective
reality right and left, become the reality of the “Future”.
Human
beings are both fascinated and repelled by what is called “evil”.
The fascination stems from the fact that “good” people find it
difficult to comprehend how evil can exist in a world that is
allegedly overseen by a benevolent and loving creator. And so, they
struggle to identify it, quantify it and understand it. Throughout
history, different individuals or groups of individuals have been
labeled “evil” by the “authorities” of the time. In our own period,
we often find that the mass media will display photographs of
murderers with the caption, “The face of evil”.
The viewer shudders
with fear and thanks his lucky stars that such an individual is not
a part of his of her life!
At the top of the list of the 20th-century’s most evil people, we
find an ordinary looking guy named Adolf Hitler. Like George Bush,
he was more comical and absurd than frightening. There are many
surviving photographs that show him dandling babies and fondling
pets.
Nevertheless, when we gaze upon these old photos of Hitler, our
perceptions are automatically conditioned to produce that frission
of fear: this is HITLER, the Face of Evil. We see, in retrospect,
that the dandling of babies and scratching the dog’s ears were
undoubtedly the propaganda of the time. We know that because we know
the history of what Hitler did.
What we all tend to forget is that Hitler could not have come to
power and committed Germany to its policies of war and genocide
without the tacit consent of the German people and without the rest
of the world turning a blind eye to what was going on in Germany. In
a certain sense, this makes the entire world responsible for the
crimes committed in Germany.
Would the German people have been so susceptible to Nazi rule if
there had been a concerted effort on the part of other peoples to
assist them in waking up, in seeing their folly?
Why did everyone think “it’s not my business”, most particularly
those governments that could have acted more strongly to curtail the
rising power of Hitler? How much responsibility do they hold for the
65 million deaths of the Global Holocaust that was World War II?
Knowing that the German people were the foundation on which Hitler
stood, his soldiers and workers and assistant killers, is one thing;
understanding how it came to be is another.
If other countries did not forcefully object, surely the German
people thought that the direction Hitler was taking them was at
least their own solution to their particular problems, even if not
exactly the solution other countries would have chosen.
There was no real consensus of rejection of the Nazi ideals conveyed
to Germany in an effective way and, certainly, the German people
were suffering a variety of serious internal problems to which
Hitler’s answers seemed to be good ones.
There was no single moment in time when the German people - as a
whole - suddenly “became evil”. The Germans - the people susceptible
to Adolf Hitler - were a people desperate for identity and economic
prosperity. Germany was a country torn apart by overwhelming
economic, political and social blows: World War I, the treaty of
Versailles, hyperinflation and the Great Depression, were all blows
that ruined or diminished the admirable qualities of Germany as a
whole. These disasters left the way open for a truly horrifying
ideology.
Hitler tapped into this desperation, whipping the people
of Germany into a religious, messianic fervor. Little by little,
they were induced to close off their consciences as the price that
had to be paid for their dreams; they were induced by clever fear
tactics and propaganda to incrementally realign their collective
morality so that, in the end, the Face of Evil was the face of every
supporter of Hitler.
The story of the rise of Adolf Hitler is the single most important
story of the 20th century. With this event, in less than a single
lifetime, one of the most civilized countries in Europe was reduced
to moral, physical, and cultural ruin. The rest of the world was
nearly gobbled into this black hole of evil. This should give
everyone something to think about - and think about it long and
hard. At present, the model of what transpired in Germany can quite
easily be seen by many people as unfolding in the United States
today. There were other ways that the history of Germany could have
unfolded in that time. There are other ways the history of the
United States can unfold.
Complicity does not mean that you have to support evil, it simply
means that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing. In my work, I am not in the business of
telling anyone what to do. The work, as with Signs of the Times,
stands as a lighthouse, a constant sweeping illumination that goes
around and around to shine light on the terror of the situation. The
goal is provide knowledge of the objective reality in which we live,
a reality that appears to be veering out of control. This brings us
back to the issue of how does Knowledge Protect?
We were recently approached by representatives of two different
“consortiums of power” of a global scale. Both of these groups asked
about our interest in becoming part of a “network” approach to
current global issues that we all understand well: that is, we are
living in a powder keg and giving off sparks. Now, as best we can
understand it, these proposed networks have the stated goal of
“exposing the lies” of the U.S. administration with a view to waking
Americans up “politically”.
The conditions that would be imposed on us would be that we would
have to distance ourselves from our own stated goal of waking people
up to
the hyperdimensional nature of the control system.
One of the
above mentioned “agents”406 wrote to me as follows:
My interest in US politics is not so much concerned with trying to
change (or save, or preserve) the US, which is tightly under the
control of / committed to business interests, but in attracting
attention to my ultimate objective of saving the planet’s
environment (e.g., stopping the mass species extinction, stopping
global warming), with primary emphasis on what to do after the
current system of global industrialization collapses. [...]
406 I know of this individual because of the research I did on game
theory. He was closely associated with Wheeler and did studies on
using game theory as a means of killing the most people with the
least expenditure of energy as a means of reducing the planet’s
population significantly.
Well, well, well.... It looks like the folks at the top are
beginning to worry a bit about their plans not working quite the way
they want them to.
Well, to make a long story short, we declined these invitations even
though the carrot of large scale funding was dangled. It seemed to
us that, even if it was legitimate, it was the wrong approach
designed just to serve someone else’s agenda rather than the agenda
of truth which suggests that all this “good cop, bad cop” routine is
just a smoke and mirrors show controlled by hyperdimensional
factors.
It occurred to me that both of the above contacts, coming so close
together, amounted to a sort of “pincer movement” designed to try to
contain and suppress the information we are disseminating about the
root issues: hyperdimensional realities.
To the gentleman who represented one of the “consortiums” of power,
I responded as follows:
“It seems that you perceive that we here at cass may, indeed, have a
pretty good track record of seeing and predicting, even if we point
out that prediction can only be statistical, and attaching dates is
a fool’s game.”
“It also seems that what you are seeking to do is a sort of ‘let’s
tell people as much as we have to in order to make this or that
adjustment to the dynamic, since our own ideas don’t seem to be
panning out so well, but we can’t tell them everything...’
approach.”
“It’s already way too late for that.”
“For example, just the other night we had a couple questions about
the recent
earthquake and tsunami. Here is the exchange with the C’s:”
Session date: Jan 9, 2005
Q: Regarding the recent earthquake and tsunami, there is a huge buzz
on the net that this was not a natural phenomenon. Some say it could
have been a meteor; others say it was a US nuke; others say it was
India and Israel playing around in the undersea trenches. Then there
is the speculation on an EM weapon of some description. The New
agers are saying it was the start of the final ‘Earth Changes’. So
what really caused this earthquake that happened one year minus one
hour after the earthquake in Iran?
A: Pressure in earth. Not any of the
proffered suggestions. But
remember that the human cycle mirrors the cycle of catastrophe and human mass
consciousness plays a part.
Q: In what way does mass consciousness play a part?
A: When those with higher centers are blocked from full
manifestation of
creative energy, that energy must go somewhere. If you cannot create
“without” you create “within”.
In the past three years, we have made some considerable progress on
our mandate of discovering what really makes reality tick and how
does humanity fit into it. Much of this work is pure science -
physics and mathematics - but I’m not going to give you the formulas
or the computer simulation codes, I’m going to explain it to you in
simple terms.’
Our universe seems to be made up of matter/energy and of
consciousness.
Matter/energy by itself “prefers”, as it seems, a chaotic state.
Matter/energy by itself doesn’t even have a concept of “creation” or
“organization”. It is the consciousness that brings to life these
concepts and by its interaction with matter pushes the universe
towards chaos and decay or towards order and creation. This
phenomenon can modeled mathematically and simulated on a computer
using EEQT (Event Enhanced Quantum Theory 407).
407
http://quantumfuture.net/quantum_future/papers/petruc/petruc.html
Whether EEQT
faithfully models the interaction of consciousness with matter, we
do not know. But chances are that it does because it seems to
describe correctly physical phenomena better than just the orthodox
quantum mechanics or its rival theories. (Bohmian mechanics, GRW
etc.)
What we learn from EEQT can be described in simple terms as follows:
Let us call our material universe “the system”. The system is
characterized by a certain “state”. It is useful to represent the
state of the system as a point on a disc. The central point of the
disk, its origin, is the state of chaos. We could also describe it
as “Infinite Potential”. The points on the boundary represent “pure
states” of being, that is states with “pure, non-fuzzy, knowledge”.
In between there are mixed states. The closer the state is to the
boundary, the more pure, more “organized” it is.
Now, an external
“observer”, a “consciousness unit”, has some idea - maybe accurate,
maybe false or anywhere in between - about the “real state” of the
system, and observes the system with this “belief” about the state.
Observation, if prolonged, causes the state of the
system to “jump”. In this sense, you DO “create your own reality”,
but the devil, as always, is in the details.
The details are that the resulting state of the system under
observation can be more pure, or more chaotic depending on the
“direction” of the jump. The direction of the jump depends on how
objective - how close to the reality of the actual state - the
observation is.
According to EEQT if the expectations of the observer are close to
the actual state of the system, the system jumps, more often than
not, into more organized, less chaotic state.
If, on the other hand, the expectation of the observer is close to
the negation of the actual state (that is when the observer’s
beliefs are closer to being false than to being true according to
the actual state - the objective reality), then the state of the
system, typically, will jump into a state that is more chaotic, less
organized. Moreover, it will take, as a rule, much longer time to
accomplish such a jump.
In other words, if the observer’s knowledge
of the actual state is close to the truth, then the very act of
observation and verification causes a jump quickly, and the
resulting state is more organized. If the observer’s knowledge of
the actual state is false, then it takes usually a long time to
cause a change in the state of the system, and the resulting state
is more chaotic.
What this means is that order can be brought out of chaos by
observing chaos as it IS and not pretending that it is otherwise.
In short, everyone who “believes” in an attempt to “create reality”
that is different from what IS, increases the chaos and entropy. If
your beliefs are orthogonal to the truth, no matter how strongly you
believe them, you are essentially coming into conflict with how the
Universe views itself, and I can assure you, you aren't going to win
that contest. You are inviting destruction upon yourself and all who
engage in this “staring down the universe” exercise with you.
On the other hand, if you are able to view the Universe as it views
itself, objectively, without blinking, and with acceptance, you then
become more “aligned” with the Creative energy of the universe and
your very consciousness becomes a transducer of order. Your energy
of observation, given unconditionally, can bring order to chaos, can
create out of infinite potential.
In the Adventure Series 408, I concentrated to a great extent on the
problem of
psychopathy in our world today. I was motivated to do this by the
fact that we had
been victimized by a psychopath whose behavior was utterly
incomprehensible.
408
http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/adventureindex.htm
As
a consequence of this research, I was much better prepared to
understand
George
Bush and his Reich and that served to “inoculate” me against the
fear tactics that are
utilized by the psychopath to paralyze their victims. I realize that
Americans who
are “stupid” are that way by design. In a sense, it is not their
fault. They are no more
capable of thinking on their own than the mouse is capable of
escaping the claws of the cat determined to eat it.
But not everyone is a mouse. It is for those who are evolving that
we continue to keep the lighthouse going. But be aware, the day may
come - and sooner than you might expect - when the storm is so
violent that the keepers of the flame will abandon the task, knowing
that no light can be seen in such Stygian darkness.
In the Adventure Series, I wrote the following:
Could it ever be an evolutionarily stable strategy for people to be
innately unselfish?
On the whole, a capacity to cheat, to compete and to lie has proven
to be a stupendously successful adaptation. Thus the idea that
selection pressure could ever cause saintliness to spread in a
society looks implausible in practice. It doesn’t seem feasible to
outcompete genes which promote competitiveness. “Nice guys” get
eaten or out-bred. Happy people who are unaware get eaten or out-bred.
Happiness and niceness today is vanishingly rare, and the misery and
suffering of those who are able to truly feel, who are empathic
toward other human beings, who have a conscience, is all too common.
Nevertheless, a predisposition to, conscience, ethics, can prevail
if and when it is also able to implement the deepest level of
altruism: making the object of its empathy the higher ideal of
enhancing free will in the abstract sense, for the sake of others,
including our descendants.
In short, our “self-interest” ought to be vested in collectively
ensuring that all others are happy and well-disposed too; and in
ensuring that children we bring into the world have the option of
being constitutionally happy and benevolent toward one another.
In short, if psychopathy threatens the well-being of the group
future, then it can be only be dealt with by refusing to allow the
self to be dominated by it on an individual, personal basis.
Preserving free will for the self in the practical sense, ultimately
preserves free will for others.
Protection of our own rights AS the rights of others, underwrites
the free will position and potential for happiness of all.
If mutant psychopaths pose a potential danger then true empathy,
true ethics, true conscience, dictates using prophylactic therapy
against psychopaths. It seems certain from the evidence that a
positive transformation of human nature isn’t going to come about
through a great spiritual awakening, socioeconomic reforms, or a
spontaneous desire among the peoples of the world to be nice to each
other. But it’s quite possible that, in the long run, the
psychopathic program of suffering will lose out because misery is
not a stable strategy.
In a state of increasing misery, victims will seek to escape it; and
this seeking will ultimately lead them to inquire into the true
state of their misery, and that may lead to a society of intelligent
people who will have the collective capacity to do so.
And so it is that identifying the psychopath, ceasing our
interaction with them, cutting them off from our society, making
ourselves unavailable to them as “food”
or objects to be conned and used, is the single most effective
strategy that we can play. [...]
To allow oneself to be conned, or used by a psychopath is to
effectively become part of his “hierarchy” of feeding. To believe
the lies of the psychopath is to submit to his “bidding” (he bids
you to believe a lie, and you acquiesce), and thus, to relinquish
your free will.
In strictly material terms, this doesn’t seem to be much of an
issue, right? After all, somebody lies to us and who really cares?
Is it going to hurt us to just let them lie? Is it going to hurt us
to just go along with them for the sake of peace, even if we know or
suspect they are lying? After all, checking the facts and facing the
psychopath with truth, and telling them “no” is generally very
unpleasant. Remember, the game is set up so that we pay a lot for
being ethical in dealing with the psychopath. In material terms, it
really doesn’t seem to be worth it because we suffer all kinds of
attack - verbal, psychological, and even physical abuse - so it’s
just easier to let sleeping dogs lie, right? [...]
At best, we can only really penetrate to the level of the
psychological reality, observed behavior that is discordant, or
self-destructive. And we are thoroughly programmed to help by giving
until it hurts, or trying to fix, or to make nice. All of these
things, all of these accommodations of psychopathy, on just a
practical level, can be seen to “select for psychopathy” in terms of
the gene pool.
But on another level, considering the great amount of evidence we
have that there is something very mysterious going on that has to do
with “controlling the minds of humanity”, and covering up something
that may affect every single human being on this planet, we find
that the issue is crucial. Refusing to accommodate the manipulations
and maneuvers of the psychopath may, indeed, be critical to the
positive transformation of our planet. [...] And we see that the
ultimate aim of the psychopath, as living representatives of the
Universal forces of Entropy, of Non-Being, is to master creative
energy. To assimilate it to the self, to deprive others of it by
inducing them to believe lies.
Because, when you believe the lie of the psychopath, you have given
him control of your Free Will - the essence of Creativity. [...]
The first Divine Command is Be! And that includes
Being and
Non-being instantaneously. Therefore, the second law is “follow
Being or Non-being according to your choice and your inherent
nature”.
All creation is a result of the engendering command. So, in this
respect, there is no Evil. But the second, prescriptive law
determines to which “Face of God” one will return: Life or Death.
There are such things as “evil planets”, and dark stars. And the
real question at this time is: Is Mother Earth about to become one?
Now, you are a smart guy - no question in my mind about that - so I
am sure you can do a bit of extrapolating from the above and
understand that there is one, and only one way to “save the earth”.
Since humanity - as a whole - is an “organ for transducing cosmic
energies onto our planet”, the condition of humanity - as a whole -
is reflected by the planet. The suffering of humanity, the lies that
humans believe, all have a profound effect on the planet.
VERY IMPORTANT: it is not whether or not one “believes” in good
things or bad things that makes good things or bad things happen. It
is the factual observation of reality and whether or not it leads to
a true assessment or lies.
The effort to view the universe as it views itself with love and
acceptance even in the face of what might be termed “horror” can
actually lead to amelioration of that horror. To view the universe
and to deny the truth and to insist that one can believe whatever
one wants and thereby make it so, is to deny reality and contributes
to the chaos, the destruction, the suffering.
And so, what is the solution? The truth - as close to it as we can
objectively get - must be propagated as widely and as soon as
possible.
That is the only thing that will “save the planet”. Because it is in
the creative centers of humanity - both kinds, those with souls and
those without - that the fate of the earth lies.
We come now to the specifics. We have seen what Mouravieff has said
about “Courtly Love”, what Gurdjieff has said about Esoteric
circles, what all three of them have said about the so-called “End
of the World”, so what, exactly, do we do? If the Grail
Consciousness is Objectivity, how do we learn to see the universe
objectively, as it sees itself?
Another way of putting it is: how do
we overcome our own subjectivity?
The answer is by mastering the
impermanent parts of our personality and bringing them under the
control of that part of us which is permanent, that part of us that
has a link with the Creative force.
And in this struggle, we
discover that not only do we bind with truth spiritually, but this
process also induces a change in our brain chemistry which can
literally lead to a physical transmutation.
Transmutation of the Personality
Anyone who has done a bit of introspection will have noticed how our
personality appears to be divided. One minute we are promising
ourselves to give up sweets with all of the will-power we can
muster, and the next minute we have our hand back in the box of
chocolates. We set out on a diet only to “forget” the next time we
see something tempting on our list of forbidden foods. We promise
ourselves to get to those bills next, only to decide to make a
coffee first, followed by reading a magazine.
How many times have we
done something that we know is harmful to us, in spite of the
interior voice telling us that we will have to pay the consequences? Gurdjieff tells us that the whole work consists in the struggle
between “yes” and “no”.
The first thing, then, that we notice about ourselves is that there
appear to be many different “I’s” pushing and pulling us in many
different directions. They come and go so subtly that we think that
we have a permanent ‘self’ when in fact we are a bundle of
conflicting and contradictory urges and impulses. We might identify
each of these little voices as a different aspect of our
subjectivity or our personality, but we have also discussed these as
“programs” inculcated into us from childhood, generally with
significant emotional effect.
The Tradition refers to these
programmed thought loops, ideas, opinions, as impermanent parts of
ourselves. Certainly, to some extent, our tastes, desires, and needs
change as we grow, but there are many of these circuits that are
laid in our brains during our infancy,
and are thus “pre-verbal”, and extremely deep. If we are to arrive
at an objective view of reality, these voices of subjectivity must
be recognized for what they are and then aligned and brought under
the control of that essential part of oneself that might be termed
“soul”.
This essence is the part of the self that - in the
individual who is of an intrinsic creative nature - has the
possibility of truly Seeing, or that at least wishes to see, the
world as it really is. But how is this done? In our normal state of
running on auto-pilot, we generally just seek a comfortable,
conflict free existence. Our momentum carries us along a certain
path, and it is only when we hit impediments or even unforeseen
attractions that we are forced to change direction. These are
shocks.
It is through shocks to the system that we are aroused from
our state of sleep. Because we are conditioned to seek a conflict
free life, we generally seek to move past these shocks with as
little disturbance to the system as possible. In short, we seek to
go back on auto-pilot as quickly as possible. As a result, if we are
forced to turn off our autopilot and deal with the world in
real-time, we try to find the quickest and easiest way to
accommodate the shock with as little disturbance to our way of life
as possible. However, when things do not go as we would like them
to, when the world does not act or react according to our desires,
our wishes, our predictions, our anticipation, we then receive an
even greater shock.
It is in such conditions that human beings
become aware of the false assumptions that get us into situations
that our programming can’t handle. In short, it is during these
moments of shock that all the different parts within are momentarily
aligned while we seek to create a “new program” that will, in
future, manage such situations.
This means that, for that period of
time that we are seeking a solution, we face a choice: to “take a
drug” for the pain, or to fully experience it so that the body
itself (and here we refer to the spiritual body) will produce its
own “chemical” that will properly “heal” the wound. In other words,
in those moments of such shock, we have the opportunity to break our
habits, eliminate the assumptions we have acquired by rote, and stop
the mechanical ways in which we do things. In other words, the key
to fusing the self consists in using these shocks, these moments of
self-awareness, as aids in becoming less mechanical.
The shock can
make us aware for a brief instant of where we are, how we got there,
what our assumptions were, or, in other words, of the program that
we were running, if we seize it during the brief instant it exists.
However, the moment during which we can override the autopilot is
narrow because we have back-up systems in place that can kick-in,
programs for dealing with shocks, (spiritual drugs, beliefs, etc),
and these programs are every bit as mechanical as the others.
So one
must learn to discern the moment when the transfer of the programs
takes place and consciously step in before the new program.
As we are mechanical in all aspects of our lives, the shocks that
can awaken us can also be found in all areas of our lives: at work,
at home with our spouses, children, or parents, in reports about the
day’s news, or even at the movies. But we must know how to put them
to work. One must be able to stop when one is shocked and properly
observe our reactions as they take place.
This process is referred
to in the Tradition as “The Doctrine of the Present”.
In the process of applying certain aspects of the
Doctrine of the
Present, the seeker can observe the physiological changes brought on
by the shock: a quickening of the pulse, a shortening of the breath,
perhaps a tightness in the chest. It happens in an instant. The
physiological changes are always accompanied by an emotion, perhaps
fear, the sense that one is being attacked. Fear can lead to a
response of attack or flight, either physical or simply mental,
closing oneself off or letting off a string of angry words.
In time and with practice, we can watch all of this happen as if it
is not happening to us. We can become more and more objective about
ourselves. Of course it takes time to develop, to be able to
separate oneself from the physical manifestations, the emotional
reaction, and the subsequent intellectual justifications that we
elaborate to explain our reaction to the shock. In this respect, a
network or a group proves invaluable because we can easily fall into
extremely subtle intellectual rationalizations, fuelled by “colored”
emotional energy.
As we gain practice, through proper utilization of
a network of like-minded seekers, an esoteric group, we can begin to
identify the different small “I’s” as they react. Some of these are
physical, some are emotional, and others are intellectual.
They are
the myriad manifestations of the three bodies we discussed earlier
in respect to the Tree of Life. In the terms of esoteric
Christianity, they are defined as the motor center (the physical and
instinctive aspects), the emotional center, and the intellectual
center. The work of aligning these centers is the work of
understanding them, stepping outside of them to watch them work, and
then, eventually, changing the habitual and mechanical responses
they engender to something controlled by the essence - the objective
observer.
Rather than reacting to shocks as the chemicals race
through the system and carry us away, we are in control, and can,
for once, begin to truly act instead of merely reacting to stimuli.
This is what Gurdjieff means when he says that as we are we are
incapable of action. We are merely reacting mechanically until we
“crystallize” or “grow” that spiritual body that can control our
programs.
Through this work of self observation and self-mastery, we are in a
sense rewiring ourselves, creating new circuits, physiologically.
And it isn’t easy. It hurts. You will suffer. You will suffer
physically, emotionally, and mentally. To grab control of the
emotions while the chemicals are pumping through the body is going
to hurt, but this is the necessary and unavoidable part of the
process. It is the body that is the alchemical crucible, and the
proper use of mental and emotional and physical energies is the
process that transmutes lead into gold.
By seeking objectivity about
ourselves and the world around us, as opposed to what we are
programmed to think or what appeals to us via emotion, the brain is
forced to produce a different chemical mix and binding of Truth
takes place on two initial levels: as above, so below. This activity
can be cumulative, and can unlock DNA potentials as described in the
section on neurochemicals.
With this understanding, read again the
following:
By invigorating the Organs the Soul uses for communicating with
exterior objects, the Soul must acquire greater powers not only for
conception but also for retention, and therefore if we wish to
obtain still more knowledge, the organs and secret springs of
physical life must be wonderfully strengthened and invigorated. The
Soul must acquire new powers for
conceiving and retaining... That this has not been the case with all
possessors was their own fault.
.... Those who study only the material elements can at best discover
only half the mystery... alchemy is a mystery in three worlds - the
divine, the human and the elemental... alchemy in the hands of the
profane becomes perverted... Man’s quest for gold is often his
undoing, for he mistakes the alchemical processes, believing them to
be purely material. He does not realize that the Philosopher’s Gold,
the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Philosopher’s Medicine exist in
each of the four worlds and that the consummation of the experiment
cannot be realized until it is successfully carried on in four
worlds simultaneously according to one formula.
Furthermore, one of
the constituents of the alchemical formula exists only within the
nature of man himself, without which his chemicals will not combine,
and though he spend his life and fortune in chemical
experimentation, he will not produce the desired end [which is] the
subtle element which comes out of the nature of the illuminated and
regenerated alchemist. He must have the magnetic power to attract
and coagulate invisible astral elements.409
409 Eugenius Philalethes, quoted by Manly
Hall,
The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
Gurdjieff spoke of
intentional suffering. We see now how suffering can be used, if one
is conscious and has made the choice, for transmutation. Using the
model of the many small “I’s”, we can say that the heat of the
crucible, the fire engendered through our suffering, becomes the
fuel needed to fuse together the many small “I’s” to one purpose:
Truth.
This activity is mirrored in the chemicals in the body that
affect DNA. The word “fuse” is used to good purpose because the self
becomes a furnace in which the repetitive process of heating and
cooling the personality is analogous to the heating and cooling used
to forge and temper iron. If it is done all in one blow, the iron
becomes brittle and will crack, the seeker will go mad, but if it is
done slowly and carefully, heating and cooling over and over again,
the iron becomes stronger, able to resist ever stronger shocks. And
so it goes with the inner work on the self.
You may have to go through the process for each of the small “I’s” -
each thought loop of reactions learned from society, family,
experience - as each kicks and screams when it does not get its way,
a process that will occur and reoccur as each is aligned and fused
with your overriding will for the Truth that will set you free; true
liberation: the mastery of the Self.
This process is the Quest that leads to the
Holy Grail of the self
transmuted both psychically, and physically via DNA. These battles
with the self are the tests of the Knight, tests of his commitment,
designed to fell the Knight, either through force or distraction or
seduction.
Each choice we make is a test.
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Do we continue to live in
the old way, or are we beginning to live in a new way?
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Do we
continue to react to the shocks as we have always reacted?
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Or do we
move on, understanding why we have always reacted thusly (under
the illusion that we were in fact acting) and working to change, to
no longer be mechanical, dependent upon our chemistry?
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Do we fall
into confluence with the world, slipping out of awareness and into
patterns of habit or mechanical activity?
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When we are walking into a
trap, can we identify it in time or are we caught?
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If we are caught
in a trap, do we recognized we are caught, or do we find excuses to
justify to ourselves that we are free?
These choices will of necessity be difficult and painful.
I know in
my life there were times that I felt as if my heart was being
crushed with the pain of facing the truth, of accepting it, and
acting on it! And all the while the pain was unleashed and running
wild through my system, a little voice was telling me that nothing
was worth this pain, that the whole quest was nothing but an
illusion, begging me to stop, to change course, to return to the
comfort of the old life.
But the old life was never comfortable. The old life had driven me
to the desperation of being willing to do anything to get out, so in
the midst of the pain one must continue to see through the illusion,
must hold onto the ultimate aim, the objective truth.
That is the thought that I needed to keep in mind when my body and
my emotions were telling me to quit, when my mind was using my
emotions to elaborate stories on how my old situation wasn’t that
bad after all, on how things could be different if I would just make
a teeny change, a miniscule compromise of what was right. It took
enormous will to remain connected to that part of me that knew the
truth, that knew I could not continue on in the old ways, the part
that knew compromise was just another lie.
That continual barrage of shocks is the fuel for the work, and the
emotions are the fire that heats the crucible. That fire must be
stoked over and over. Just because one has passed one test is no
guarantee that one will pass the next. In fact, it is easy to become
overconfident and complacent and forget that we are not in control
of our own minds.
In our work with the Quantum Future School we have seen students
who, full of energy and drive, have made enormous progress, dealing
with many issues until the day comes when they face that one point,
that one sacred cow, that they refuse to abandon. Quite often these
are individuals who have previously made accurate assessments of the
very same subjective state in others. However, even if they were
able to see the dynamic playing out in others, as soon as it comes
home, as soon as the fire is burning within them, they find excuses,
rationalizations and justifications to explain why their case is
special, unique, different, and why they should be excused from
staring the truth in the face. Self-importance followed by
self-pity.
And here we see the truth of the scripture when it says “Many are
called but few are chosen.”
Conscious suffering, the ability to sit in the fire while it burns
and look at it objectively, that is, to see it for what it is
without trying to put it out, to damp it, to cover it over, is the
means by which we fuse our small “I’s”.
The magnetic center in the esoteric Christian tradition is the
fourth body. It does not exist and must be created as the bridge to
the higher self, the so-called soul. Let us look more closely at the
structure of these centers.
This is a diagram of the three lower centers, the motor center, the
emotional center, and the intellectual center. Each center is
composed of two halves, the positive and negative; each half is
divided into three regions representing the three lower centers.
Boris Mouravieff defines the three centers as follows:
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The Intellectual Centre
registers, thinks, calculates, combines, researches etc.
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The Emotional Centre has for its
domain the feelings as well as refined sensations and
passions
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The Motor Centre directs the five physical senses, accumulates
energy in the organism through its instinctive functions, and with
its motor functions governs the consumption of this energy.
410
410 Mouravieff, Boris, Gnosis, Vol I, p. 11.
He
further elaborates on the positive and negative parts of the
centers:
Persistent introspection will later allow us to constate that each
one of the three centers is divided into two parts: positive and
negative. Normally these two parts act in conjunction with one
another: for they are in fact polarized as are the double organs of
the body, which duplicate the same function or participate in the
same work at the same time; our arms for example. That division of
the centers, a reflection of the universal polarization, allows them
to establish comparisons: to consider both sides of problems posed
to them. The positive part of each centre looks - one might say-to
the head, and the negative part to the tail of these problems.
The
centre as a whole constructs an appropriate synthesis and draws its
conclusions, inspired by the constatations made by each of the two
parts. An example is the process of critical analysis. It is
therefore totally erroneous to consider that the names of these
parts indicate a beneficent or harmful role depending on whether
they are positive or negative. These terms do not imply any value
judgment-any more than the constatation of positive and
negative charges upon elementary particles.
If we consider the functioning of the motor centre, we can perceive
that these parts are inseparable one from the other, in their
structure as well as in their action. […]
This symmetry - this
polarity - is to be found in the two other centers. Constructive and
creative ideas are born in the positive part of the intellectual
centre. But it is the negative part that evaluates an idea, that
takes its measure, so to speak. It is on the basis of this
functional polarity that this centre, as a whole, judges. It is the
same with the emotional centre, the action of the negative part
opposes the positive part, which at the same time completes it, for
example permitting the centre as a whole to distinguish the
agreeable from the disagreeable. We can nevertheless misuse the
faculties of the negative parts. This negative abuse is a real
danger. The case is obvious as far as the motor centre is concerned,
yet here physical exhaustion acts as a control, intervening to stop
excessive consumption of energy. When it comes to the other centers,
the misuse of the negative parts takes much more insidious forms,
which entail more serious consequences for our minds as well as our
bodies. […]
In every centre there is therefore as much on the positive side as
on the negative; one sector of each possesses the characteristics of
that centre in a pure state. In the intellectual centre are sectors
which are purely intellectual-positive and negative; in the
emotional centre sectors which are purely emotional - positive and
negative; in the motor centre sectors which are purely motor - positive and negative. Beside the pure sectors we find composite
sectors which are, so to speak, the representatives of the two other
centers. 411
411 Ibid., pp. 24-25.
We do not have the space in this book to go into any
more detail about the centers and their functioning. This topic is
dealt in great detail both in Mouravieff’s work as well as in
In Search Of The Miraculous
by P.D. Ouspensky who gives us Gurdjieff’s
ideas. We wish to give a brief overview of what happens to the
centers as one undertakes the work described above.
In “souled” individuals, those characterized by Mouravieff as
belonging to the Adamic race which has been discussed in an earlier
section of this volume, there are three other centers - two higher
and one “lower” - that constitute the “body” of the “higher self”.
As mentioned, a bridge has to be built to unite the higher and lower
self. The two higher centers are the Higher Emotional center and the
Higher Intellectual center. The lower center - which is, relatively
speaking, still a “higher” center - is the sexual center.
The
diagram of the six centers looks like this:
 The two higher centers are independent of our physical body and our
Personality. They represent our Soul, the Logos. Although the higher
centers are
working at full capacity, the lack of balance - the bridge - in our
three lower centers prevents us from receiving the messages they
send.
The work of the lower centers has as its goal to bring them
into balance and purify them, that is, rid ourselves of our
programs so that the energy from the higher centers can be
received without distortion, interference and noise. As we
achieve this balance, we begin to form what we have referred to
as the fourth body above, our magnetic center.
 At right, we see the magnetic center as it
begins to form its connections to the other centers. It is still
small, a black dot of “essence” that, little by little, can grow
until
it is able to balance and regulate the energy between all the
centers. Eventually the magnetic center becomes strong enough
to draw the lower emotional center and the higher emotional
center together to form a single unit.
This then results in what is
called the “Knowledge of the Heart”. Unfortunately, most
expositions of this subject commonly available today are
woefully misguided. At the start of this process, the diagram
would look like the figure at above left.
Mouravieff describes the
process as follows:
When the magnetic centre finally takes shape, it establishes an
undisputed authority over the three centers of the Personality. […]
This is how the magnetic center's growth is perfected and how its
development commences. The latter is a function of conscious efforts
to develop the lower centers up to their limits.
The further this
development is continued, the more the magnetic centre absorbs the
lower emotional centre, at the same time identifying itself more and
more with the higher emotional centre. Once the three lower centers
are fully developed and equilibrated, the magnetic centre once and
for al1 identifies itself with the higher emotional centre, dragging
with it the lower emotional centre which it finally absorbs. From
now on the lower emotional centre, with the magnetic centre, will
form an integral part of the higher emotional centre.412
412 Ibid., pp. 59-60.
 
When the
merging of the centers is complete, the higher emotional center
takes the place of the lower
emotional center and we are left with the figure at above right which
those acquainted with esoteric work will recognize as the true
esoteric representation of the Pentagram: the “Ascended Being”.
At this point, the false personality is replaced by true
Individuality which has, itself, a long series of stages of growth
and development to undergo. In Chapter 5 we spoke about the
pre-Adamic race, what we also call the
Organic Portal. The OP does
not have the higher centers. They can and do however mimic them,
reflecting back to the individual who has them in potential an image
which can become a trap.
The potentially souled individual can take
the reflection, the illusion, for the real thing. Plate 4 models how
this works. [See Plate 5.] We have learned that a major part of our
esoteric work is to learn to extricate ourselves from the energy
feeding dynamic inherent in relationships with Organic Portals.
Moreover, because those who have the higher centers in potential are
subject to the same programming and are mechanical, reaction units
until they undertake the work to develop their higher centers, the
same thing holds true in our interactions and dynamics with them. We
are all feeders until we learn to stop our feeding off of others and
how to stop others from feeding off of us.
Esoteric work demands
enormous amounts of energy, and this energy is the energy off of
which others feed.
In order to progress in esoteric work, it is fundamental to
understand this underlying dynamic of feeding; it is pointless and
dangerous to attempt to identify and to classify individuals as
organic portals because we are all OPs until we choose to be
otherwise. To turn a tool for understanding the true terror of our
situation in this world of the fallen into a weapon against
individuals is to empty it of its spiritual importance and render it
a tool of our enslavement in the material world, the same process
that has occurred to all of the world’s religions during the course
of our unhappy history.
A true understanding of the
organic portal and the world in which we live gives us the knowledge
necessary for getting out “alive”,
whether that is literally or whether it is just being alive to our
true nature as souls locked in material bodies in order to learn
important lessons that only this world can teach. We can no more
hate those who have no access to the higher truths because of who
they are than we can hate the cat who plays with the mouse prior to
killing and eating it.
Let me quote again the C’s comment on the
matter of Organic Portals in their relations with human beings who
have the higher centers:
Q: (A) Now, I was reading in the transcripts that sleep is necessary
for human beings because it was a period of rest and recharging. You
also said that the SOUL rests while the body is sleeping. So,
the question is: what source of energy is tapped to recharge both
the body and the soul?
A: The question needs to be separated. What happens to a souled
individual is
different from an organic portal unit.
Q: (L) I guess that means that the life force energy that is
embodied in Organic Portals is something like the soul pool that is
theorized to exist for flora and fauna. This would, of course,
explain the striking and inexplicable similarity of psychopaths,
that is so well defined that they only differ from one another in
the way that different species of trees are different in the overall
class of Tree-ness. So, if they don’t have souls, where does the
energy come from that recharges Organic Portals?
A: The pool you have described.
Q: Does the recharging of the souled being come from a similar pool,
only maybe the “human” pool?
A: No - it recharges from the so-called
sexual center which is a
higher center of
creative energy. During sleep, the emotional center, not being
blocked by the lower intellectual center and the moving center, transduces the energy from the sexual center. It is also the time
during which the higher emotional and intellectual centers can rest
from the “drain” of the lower centers’ interaction with those pesky
organic portals so much loved by the lower centers. This respite
alone is sufficient to make a difference. But, more than that, the
energy of the sexual center is also more available to the other
higher centers.
Q: (L) Well, the next logical question was: where does the so-called
“sexual center” get ITS energy?
A: The sexual center is in direct contact with 7th density in its
“feminine” creative
thought of “Thou, I Love”. The “outbreath” of “God” in the relief of
constriction.
Pulsation. Unstable Gravity Waves.
In this last remark, we begin to understand how
the hyperdimensional
Lords of Entropy utilize Organic Portals to steal the creative
energy of the Mother, Mater, Mer.
Ibn al-‘Arabi discusses the
Universal Reality or Reality of
Realities, i.e. Nature. In his cosmology, Nature alludes to the
feminine side of a male/female, active/receptive, or yang/yin
relationship. The words he uses in his discussion bring to mind
receptivity toward an activity “coming from above,” so to say.
Nature is receptive to the Word, or “sign”. Even though Nature is
described as “receptive”, it can be active or receptive according to
the “forms” that are “impressed” into it via the Logos. Nature, the
higher Sexual Center in Esoteric Christianity, is the Virgin of the
World.
Nature is also the Black Virgin because, relatively speaking, Nature
is “dark” and “unformed” without the Logos, or Light. At the same
time, Nature is also Light because only absolute non-being is true
Darkness since it is neither perceived, nor does perception take
place through it. Thus, Nature, though it may be called the Black
Virgin in relation to the Spirit which infuses it with life, is
light in relation to absolute nothingness.
Nature is envisaged by al-‘Arabi as receptive toward the
Divine
Names, or Thought Centers as we refer to them. In this sense, it is
the Breath of God, the “highest
and greatest Mother”, who gives birth to all things, though she
herself is never seen”. The Black Virgin is the receptivity that
allows the existent things to be manifest.
The specific properties of Nature are “heat, cold, wetness, and
dryness”. Two of them are active and two receptive.
Heat is the root
of dryness and cold is the root of wetness. But all four are
receptive in relation to the Divine Command. Heat and cold, as well
as wetness and dryness, display opposition and mutual aversion. As a
result, everything that displays the properties of Nature reflects
this opposition and conflict. But, like Nature, these properties
cannot be assigned a category of “good” or “evil” without context,
the third force.
The root of the Breath is the property of love. Love has a movement
within the lover, while “breath” is a movement of yearning toward
the object of love, and through that breathing enjoyment is
experienced. And God has said, as has been reported, “I was a
Treasure but was not known, so I loved to be known”. Through this
love, breathing takes place, so the Breath becomes manifest, and the
Cloud comes into being. The Cloud is Nature.
The Divine Marriage, or sexual union of the Cosmos occurs when the
Logos “penetrates” Nature to produce the possible entity of the
endless potential of being. However, the Cosmic Union has a deeper
and more important meaning for us.
Al-‘Arabi tells us:
That which is desired from marriage may be reproduction - I mean the
birth of offspring - or it may simply be enjoyment. The Divine
Marriage is the attentiveness of the Real toward the possible thing
in the presence of possibility through the desire of love, so that
there may be bliss along with desire. When the Real turns His
attentiveness toward the possible thing as mentioned, He makes
manifest the coming to be of this possible thing. Hence, that which
is born from this coming together is the existence of the possible
thing.
The entity of the possible thing is named “wife”, the attentiveness
through desire and love is called “marriage”, and the production of
the offspring is called a “bestowal of existence” upon the entity of
that possible thing or, if you prefer, an “existence”.
The Beloved keeps Himself absent from the lover for the sake of
imparting knowledge and teaching courtesy in love. For if the lover
is truthful in his claim, while God tests him by the absence of his
Beloved, then there will appear from the lover a movement of
yearning to witness Him. Through this yearning he shows the truth of
his claim; thereby his station is increased, and his reward through
bliss in his Beloved is multiplied. For the pleasure which he finds
at encounter is greater than the pleasure of unceasing
companionship. This is similar to the frightened person who finds the sweetness of reaching security: the
sweetness of unceasing security is not nearly as intense.[…]413
413 Futuhat , translated by William Chittick, op. cit.
To
love God objectively, in all His states, is to be attentive toward
reality and to prove that love by the inward “movement of yearning
to witness” the Beloved.
Life is religion. Life experiences reflect
how one interacts with God. Those who are asleep are those of little
faith in terms of their interaction with the creation. Some people
think that the world exists for them to overcome or ignore or shut
out. For those individuals, the worlds will cease. They will become
exactly what they give to life.
They will become merely a dream in
the “past”. People who pay strict attention to objective reality
right and left, become the reality of the “Future”. The world is as
it is for a reason. When we have learned our lessons and have
aligned ourselves with one or another of the two fundamental
universal principles, Creation or Entropy, we are permitted to leave
by one of two doors, either up or down, the ascending or descending
path. The choice is ours. That is the great cosmic economy and the
great secret of the world.
Truth comes from Knowledge. Knowledge leads to Love. To achieve Love
in the Higher Realms, one must hold that Love here in the Lower
Realm, but not the love that seeks to overcome or ignore or shut out
the truth of the nature or the world within which we live, the
objectivity of Nature as it is viewed, with love, by the Logos -
unconditionally.
Today, as in the time of the emergence of the Grail Stories, Courtly
Love remains, by definition, the indispensable condition for the
success of the vivifying objective Love of the Higher Realms, the
transducing of the energies of Creation, the objective of the Quest
for the Holy Grail.
It is only by achieving this state of
objectivity, true unconditional love that SEES and KNOWS and yet
LOVES, can the Seeker gain access to the Ancient Secret Technology
which includes mastery of Space and Time and Matter:
The
Philosopher’s Stone:
Ascension. The Alchemical Androgyne: I have
become One: Creator of worlds.
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