Book IV
Selected Sayings Concerning
Human Spirituality
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1
The Great Mystery
1:1 There
is a multitude of mysteries. They
can
all be penetrated by the seeker of Truth, all but one: the
Great Mystery of
the invisible spiritual universe.
1:2 There
are things known, there are things unknown, that may someday become
known, and
then there is the Great Mystery of the invisible spiritual universe
that shall
never become known.
1:3 The
belief in existence of the invisible spiritual universe is rooted in
faith and
revelation, therefore, not open to debate.
1:4 The
Great Mystery of the invisible spiritual universe can never become
known to the
created mind of man, as the Great Mystery was never created, therefore
cannot
enter one’s consciousness.
See
also: God, Book IV, Chapter 25; Creation, Book IV, Chapter 29;
Spiritual
Entities, Book IV, Chapter 31; Spiritual Self, Book IV, Chapter 33.
2
Existence
“The world
you see has
nothing to do with the reality. It is of your own making, and it does
not
exist.” A
Course in Miracles
“Nothing
has existence
in itself. Nothing
exists except in
dual, antagonistic exchange.”
J.
Baudrillard
“There are
no things,
there are only inter-connections.”
F.
Capra
“Things
‘exist’ only as
images in one’s consciousness.” A.M.
Part
One
2:1 Life
is full of suffering – part of transient world. Existence is
full of joy – part
of eternal reality.
2:2 Awareness
of ones existence is in direct relationship to the level of ones
awakening.
2:3 When something enters our
consciousness from outside, we
call it “existence”.
When something
enters our consciousness from inside, we call it
“fantasy”.
2:4 You
live in the world in which nothing, absolutely nothing exists. All your
experiences are coming from the images, conjured by your mind and
entering your
consciousness; some pleasant bringing pleasure, others disturbing,
bringing
suffering.
2:5 Man
‘creates’ things through the experiences of his
senses, imagination and
memories.
Part
Two
2:6 Only
when divisions are created and opposites appear, or, when apparent
changes take
place can things become manifested, entering the consciousness as
images.
2:7 An
object can only “exist” when an observer becomes
aware of the object. By
becoming aware of the object the observer “creates”
the object, which then
enters his consciousness as an image.
This is the only way an object can
“exist”.
2:8 The
mind receives images of appearances and experiences, processes them and
gives
them a status of “existence,” by solidifying them.
2:9 It
is an error to assign existence to something or someone due to an image
of that
something or someone entering one’s consciousness.*
Part
Three
“I tell you
solemnly,
unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter
the
2:10 A
little child dwells in pure illusion.
Later, through programming, the pure illusions lose their
purity and
solidifies. Now the
permanency, we call
existence and reality appears, bringing bondage; innocence and
happiness become
lost, and replaced with a never ending search for pleasure to overcome
suffering.
2:11 Everything
is an illusion…and yet, illusions do not exist, and because
the illusions do
not exist, one can be free. Illusions
come to us playfully, and then, when allowed, they depart into the
great
emptiness and great nothingness…
2:12 When
one transcends all and everything, through realization that nothing,
absolutely
nothing exists, one becomes aware of pure illusion.
To this type of man, ten thousand things
become ten thousand toys…
Part
Four
“The Real
is dead, and
no one can identify the murderer or find the murder weapon.” J.
Baudrillard
2:13 Reality
kills Real by killing illusions, the habitat of Real.
2:14 Only
when Real is present, illusions can flourish.
When Real is not present, the illusions become transformed
into
delusions.
2:15 The
world is a magical stage for games staged by the Real.
2:16 The
world void of games is a world void of the Real.
In a world void of games, men becomes living
corpses.
2:17 He
who attempts to define Real will murder Real...
*When
you place a label of existence on a person, you are creating an idol.
The
person you just created is made of the images of that person which have
entered
your consciousness.
See also: Images, Book I, Chapter 12; Ego, Book I, Chapter
32; Movement
and Rest, Book IV, Chapter 18; Awakening, Book IV, Chapter 28; Bodies
of Man,
Book IV, Chapter 32; Spiritual Self, Book IV, Chapter 33.
3
Reality
“Every time
that the
powers of the soul come into contact with created things, they receive
the create
images and likenesses from the created thing and absorb them. In this way arises the
soul’s knowledge of
created things. Created
things cannot
come nearer to the soul than this, and the soul can only approach
created
things by the voluntary reception of images.
And it is through the presence of the image that the soul
approaches the
created world: for the image is a Thing, which the soul
creates with her
own powers. Does
the soul want to know
the nature of a stone, a horse, a man?
She forms an image” Meister Eckhart
3:1 Subjective
reality consists of labels one places upon the appearances and experiences perceived through one’s
senses.
3:2
Objective reality is consensus reality. It is the sum of subjective
realities
the majority of men in a culture hold in common.
3:3 All realities are illusionary.
See
also: Programming, Book III,
Chapter 11; Creation, Book IV, Chapter 29
4 Time
“If one pays no attention to
time, time does not exist.” M.
Eliade
“Time does not form part of
the universe, and thus many
scientific concepts that utilise time in their formulae are
incorrect.” J.
Peck
“People like us, who believe
in physics, know that the
distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly
persistent
illusion.” Albert
Einstein
“Time cannot be defined by
man, as time is invisible and
uncreated.” A.M.
4:1 There
is no time! Man lives in eternity, there is no beginning and no end; no
past
and no future.
4:2 That
which one calls “now” has already passed into the
past… and, the future, the
moment it is born, passes into the past as well, now is no more than a
point
between yesterday and tomorrow.*
4:3
Yesterday exists not! Only memories remain chaining one to the past.
Today
exists not! The moment it arrives it becomes part of the past. Tomorrow
exists
not! It only dwells in one’s hope for pleasure and
one’s fear of pain.
4:4
Memories of the past, as well as dreams of the future, are part of
one’s
delusion and fantasies formed from the images entering one’s
consciousness. Sometimes
departing
quickly, other times staying, often tormenting one’s mind.
4:5
Awareness of time is a direct relationship to alienation and suffering. The stronger is the
awareness of time, the
stronger will be the alienation and suffering.
4:6 Through
the obsession with past or future the full weight of time comes into
existence.
4:7 He
who dwells in time must have goals**, and hope to reach those goals.
4:8 In the past, time came from a man observing the sun, moon and seasons. Today time comes from a clock and calendar.
4:9 Man
must have a method to handle time. It is called hope: a conviction that
unhappiness, disorder and suffering will end. Mental disorder appears
when one
has no hope and, thus loses the ability to handle time.
4:10 Place
yesterday into
storage…stop tomorrow from infringing upon today…
4:11 They
all wait for the end, and yet, the end will never come…
*”Now”
can only be experienced through awakening, which abolishes time and
allows one
to enter eternity.
**There are goals made to be fulfilled in time,
and there are
goals made to be fulfilled now. Goals made to be
fulfilled in time are
made of pure fantasies, which may or may not be fulfilled. Goals made to be
fulfilled now are made of
pure illusions, which are almost always
instantly fulfilled.
See
also: Awakening, Book IV,
Chapter 28.
5 Time & Space
“Time and space are
constructs of the mind of the observer
rather than inherent in any absolute way in the fabric of
reality.” N. Friedman
5:1 There
is space created by man, and there is spaceless infinity... There is
time
created by man, and there is timeless eternity... Man speaks of time,
as he no
longer remembers eternity... Man speaks of space, as he no longer
remembers
infinity...
5:2 Time
and space appear to exist because they can be measured. Eternity and
infinity
do not appear to exist, because they can not be measured.
5:3 When
man invented the clock and the yardstick, he found time and space, and
by
finding time and space he lost infinity and eternity.
5:4 When there is no time, there is no hurry to arrive on time… When there is no space there is no hurry to finish the journey...
6 Via
Positiva & Via Negativa
Part One
6:1 Via Negativa
gives birth to Via Positiva
6:2 Via Positiva
stands for order and linear thinking and verbal teaching.
6:3 Via Negativa
stands for chaos and non-linear thinking and non-verbal
teaching…
6:4 Via Positiva
is a dualistic, goal-oriented path where hope is essential.
6:5 Via Negativa
is a non-dualistic. uncharted path where hope is not needed. *
6:6 When man
walks upon Via Positiva, the Via Negativa is always present… When man walks upon Via
Negativa, Via
Positiva is always present…
Part Two
6:7 Via Negativa
may lead one into the great emptiness and great nothingness, where one
may
experience the “dark night of the soul”, realizing
that there is no “God” and
there is no “I”… God, the idol, and I,
the ego, have both perished in that dark
night…**
6:8 Through the
dark night of the soul, man becomes aware of his unity with God,
transcending
dualism of the fallen world.
* When there is no goal there
is no need for hope.
**Not only “God” and
“I” but also all and everything once part of
one’s
illusions become transcendant in that dark night, as it was born from
the
labels one had created, in order to give substance to the images
entering the
consciousness.
See
also: Images, Book
I, Chapter 12; Game,
Book II, Chapter 6; Emptiness
and
Nothingness, Book IV, Chapter 19: Awakening, Book IV, Chapter 28.
7
Dualism & Nondualism
“Non-duality is the
spiritual, philosophical and scientific
understanding of non-separation and fundamental oneness.”
Author Unknown
“I have put duality away, I
have seen that the two worlds
are one.” Rumi
Part One
7:1 Dualism is the
nature of life in this world, dualism gives birth to the object and
subject,
existence and non-existence, reality and non-reality. Dualism creates
antagonism and enables games to take place.
7:2 The dualistic
world is a relative world. Here everything is
divided into two, each one
seen as perceived in relationship to the other.
7:3 In a
dualistic world, there is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the
omega.
But in a nondualistic world, there was never a beginning and there will
never
be an end.
7:4The
nondualistic world is an absolute world. This is the world beyond
object and
subject, existence and non-existence, reality and non-reality.
Part
Two
7:5 The dualistic
world represents dualistic thinking, and a dualistic point of view. The nondualistic world
represents
nondualistic thinking, and a nondualistic point of view. Dualistic and nondualistic
worlds exist
simultaneously.
7:6 In the dualistic
world of Via Positiva, there is an evolution taking place creating
“progress”. For
this to happen a goal
and hope are required. By participating in a game, man will experience
suffering, struggling to maintain hope, and to reach the goal. In the nondualistic world
of Via Negativa,
there is no evolution taking place creating
“progress”. Therefore,
suffering and struggling to
maintain hope, and to reach the goal, are no longer present.
7:7 In a world of
a dualist there is a light and darkness. In a world on non-dualist
there is
neither light nor darkness.
7:8 Man dwells in
a dualistic world. Seeking
truth, he
discovers the world of nondualism. Alone and free he now faces the
Absolute…
The Absolute, which is not-this-and-not-that, like himself, who is
not-this-and-not-that…
Absolute who is
not ‘there’, and himself who is not
‘here’…
7:9 The
world of dualism can only be transcended through awakening. Only then one can find
happiness without
sensation, pure calm and perfect peace.
See
also: Awakening, Book IV, Chapter 28.
8 Love
– Unconditional
"Teacher, which is
the great commandment in
the law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart and all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the
great and
first commandment. And a second is like it. You shall love your
neighbor as
yourself." Matthew 22:36-39
"Love is not
something you can do, it is a
quality of your being.” Osho
8:1
Unconditional love* is the power of Spiritual Self, which blesses
without
distinction all who are capable of receiving it.
8:2 Unconditional
love is feeling not directed at a person or an object because of
pleasure
received, pleasure hoped for, or suffering one tries to avoid. Instead,
it is
love for its own sake. Love of God, man, things…all for
their own sake.
8:3
Unconditional love is the pre-requisite for being at peace, and peace
is the
pre-requisite for being happy.
8:4 Through
unconditional love, also known as pure love, one is sending positive
thoughts
through the power of subtle energies to others.
Through this type of love one is also receiving subtle
energies from
others.**
8:5 Unconditional
love brings the ultimate in unity and intimacy. It creates, it redeems,
it
heals… it is love without guilt, without regret, and without
fear.
8:6 There
are three types of men:
(1) The
awakened who can love all men.
(2) The
natural who love some and hates others.
(3) Those
who are no longer able to love or to hate.
8:7 When
you practice unconditional love you will overcome all of your earthly
adversaries, and your adversaries from the underworld.
8:8 Through
unconditional love one will experience happiness, from the love given
to
others.
8:9 Only
when you realize that every man is at once victim and victimizer, then
will you
be able to love all men.
*Unconditional
love is known in Christian theology as agape.
**Kind words, a hug, a smile from the heart are examples
of human
rituals which transmit subtle energies and activate life through love.
See
also: Wealth, Power
& Energy, Book I, Chapter 6; Natural Love, Book I, Chapter 15;
Spiritual
Self, Book IV, Chapter 33.
9
Love, Truth & Beauty
“Many are
called but few are chosen” Mathew 22:14
[The chosen one are those that seek Love, Truth and Beauty]
9:1 The
Way of Pure Love is the way leading to Unity. The Way of Pure Knowledge
is the
way leading to Truth. The Way of Pure Beauty is the way leading to
9:2 He who
practices compassion and kindness finds God by finding Love. He who seeks knowledge and
wisdom finds God
by finding Truth. He who attains peace and happiness finds God by
finding
Beauty.
9:3 By
awakening to Love, one finds oneness with all and overcomes alienation.
By
awakening to Truth, one finds freedom and overcomes slavery. By
awakening to
Beauty, one finds joy and overcomes suffering.
9:4 Seek
and you shall find… Love, Truth and Beauty; find one, and
you should find all
as love, truth and beauty are one.
* The
exalted state beyond human comprehension.
10 Visualization
10:1 Imagination,
gives birth to images. Due to man’s free will, man can use
images according to
his will, visualizing anything of his choice sickness or health,
poverty or
riches. The strength of his faith will determine the power of his
vision.
10:2 Visualization
can be conscious or unconscious, active or passive.
Conscious visualization can be guided by the
person himself or from the outside.
In
unconscious visualization, the visualizer himself is one with
visualization. Active
visualization
occurs when strong will is present.
Passive visualization is known as fantasy –
unproductive visualization.
10:3 Visualization
should always be centered upon the goal rather than the process.
See also: Consciousness,
Book IV, Chapter 21.
11
Knowledge
There
are many different categories of knowledge. The sayings in this chapter
focuses
on knowledge as related to awakening.
"Alas for you lawyers who have taken away the key of knowledge! You have not gone in yourselves, and have prevented others going in who wanted to." Luke 11:52
“The true purpose of spiritual knowledge is not to
learn, but to overcome
ignorance.” A.M.
11:1 Man
lives in a ‘fallen world’, a world of slavery,
confusion and suffering,
therefore, man seeks ‘knowledge’ – the
path to escape.
11:2 True
spiritual knowledge is a lift that takes one to the top of a mountain.
Without
it, it would be hard, if not impossible, to reach the summit. True spiritual knowledge
will lead one to
humility and holy ignorance. It
will
open the door to holy memory…
11:3
Spiritual teaching found in ancient scriptures* or, conveyed by a
spiritual
teacher is only a catalyst which will help release truth dormant in
one’s soul.
11:4 The
movement from the lowest to the highest level of knowing and
understanding is
the movement from dualism to non-dualism.
The purpose of this type of knowledge is to go beyond the
teachings
based upon Noble Ideas, the purpose of which is programming.
11:5 There
is a difference between information and knowledge. There are different
types
and different levels of knowledge. True spiritual knowledge, which
brings
empowerment and transformation, is also known as esoteric knowledge.**
11:6 Knowledge
has no value in itself, apart from a tool to eliminate ignorance.
11:7 The
knower, the known, and knowledge are one…
*
All ancient writings were
written in the language of the age using the vocabulary
of that
age. This must be
considered for proper
understanding of those writings.
** The depth of esoteric
knowledge can only be transmitted orally.
See
also: Consciousness, Book IV, Chapter 21.
12 Wisdom
For a
better
understanding of this chapter, consult Book II.
“The first step to wisdom is to understand what is false.” Lactantius
“Spiritual things can only be spiritually
discerned.”
12:1 To
have perfect wisdom the following is required: keen intellect,
intuition and
instinct, life experience, and knowledge of pyramidal, natural, and
divine
laws.
12:2
Wisdom is hard to find, because of lies and erroneous teaching being
planted in
the minds of men by unrighteous fathers.
13
Truth
"The truth shall set
you free." John
8:32
“Seeking
truth is like seeking to reach a
magnificent summit of a high mountain. The summit which seeker of truth
is
seeking to reach belongs to the holy mountain. To
climb the treacherous
walls of this mountain one must overcome the fear of heights
– ignorance…then,
one will reach the summit, and receive the vision of the great
emptiness and
great nothingness – the gate to the
13:1 Through persistent search for truth, all and everything, all but the Great Mystery of the unseen spiritual universe, can become known.
13:2 There is absolute and relative truth. Absolute truth comes from faith and revelation and it’s merits cannot be debated. Relative truth is open to debate, through the use of reason and logic.
13:3 One's understanding is
always blinded by ideologies by which one has been indoctrinated. Only
“direct
seeing” – awakening – can bypass the
indoctrination.
13:4 Truth comes from inside, information from outside…
13:5
Seeking truth is the most dangerous of all human endeavors, as the
seeker
interferes with those in charge of this world. This is the highest of
all
transgressions for which there is no forgiveness!
13:6
Seeking truth is a high calling. Many hear the calling, few survive the
journey.
13:7 Truth
is a transforming agent – transforming a slave into a free
man; the one who
wants nothing… needs nothing… has
nothing…
14 Fire & Ice
14:1 Fire
is the agent of life and death, as well as of transformation, change
and
madness.
14:2
Madness is fire through which the broken spirit of man turns into ashes.
14:3 Ice
is frozen, enslaved water – water far from fire…;
fire melts ice, turning it
into water, making soil fertile. As a flood, water destroys everything
in its
path.
14:4 All
the mysteries of this world will be revealed to him who learns the
truth about
fire and the truth about ice...
15
Center
“The center
is, above all, the origin, the point
of departure of all things; it is the principal point, without form and
without
dimensions, therefore indivisible, and thus the only image that can be
given to
the primordial unity.” Rene Guenon
Part
One
15:1 No
life can exist without a center – the source of power. An
electron, a planet,
or man, they all receive their life and their power from a center, be
it a
nucleus of an atom, the sun, or God.
15:2 The
ultimate, the absolute, the everlasting center we call God is
"not-this-and-not-that." He was never born and will never die. God is
the origin of the ultimate in authority, power, stability, certainty
and
vision.
15:3 The
center of natural man with ego-consciousness is in
the pyramids, and his
power comes from the fathers. The center of awakened man with cosmic
consciousness is in God, and since God is
everywhere… this center is also
in him. The power of this type of man comes from God and his power is
inexhaustible.
15:4 Unity
and center are interrelated. Strong unity is only possible when a man
has a
faith and is willing to surrender to a center. Turning away from a
center, or
inability to identify with a center, brings alienation on a personal
level and
fragmentation on a social level.
15:5 The
center is the source of life; the further one is away from the center,
the
further is one away from life.
15:6 Man
without a center sometimes attempts to fabricate an interior center by
seeking
honour and demanding respect. When refused, he often becomes angry,
even
violent.
Part
Two
15:7 Through
perfect centering man realizes his unity with the center.
15:8 The following are four main types of centering:
(2)
Master centering. For the purpose of
centering, one contemplates upon the master and his teaching.
(3)
Magical centering: For the purpose of
centering, participation in rituals required.
(4)
Ideological centering: For the
purpose of centering, one looks to a leader who embodies a Noble Idea.
15:9 Centering
is always rooted in spiritual faith, occult or semi-occult beliefs, or
a
powerful secular ideology.
See also: Consciousness,
Book IV, Chapter 21.
16
Orderly & Disorderly
Orbit
16:1 All
life, all activities and all movements in the universe must follow an
orderly
orbit around the center. The center we call "father"; the one in
orbit we call "child." The pull from a father to a child we call
"gravity."*
16:2 When
an orbiter follows an orderly orbit, all his actions are predictable,
safety
and freedom assured. When an orbiter no longer follows an orderly
orbit, his
actions are no longer predictable, safety and freedom in jeopardy.
16:3 God
and righteous man are an example of an orderly spiritual
orbit. The sun
and its planets are an example of an orderly physical
orbit.
16:4
Disorderly spiritual orbit causes mental disorder, suffering and
inability to
play a game. Man's errors and sins interfere with orderly orbit. They
erode his
power. His errors diminish his pleasure, his sins his happiness.
16:5
Disorderly physical orbits involving planets cause atmospheric
disorders,
planetary changes, and sometimes the collapse of planets.
16:6 The
diagram of an orbit:
C –
center/father; the source of power.
B – orbiter/child: planet or electron in orderly orbit; the
recipient of power.
G – spiritual or planetary gravity.*
L – orbiter lost in space.**
LL – orbiter lost in space who cannot be found.
16:7 The
reason for the collapse of orderly orbits is a weakening of the forces
of
gravity. This happens due to lack of centering, a reduction of a
center's
power, or an interference by an outside force.
16:8 He
who departs from an orderly orbit departs from the center, the source
of power;
will be forced into the world of lost souls.
16:9 He
who is in orderly orbit knows the center, is one with the center, and,
therefore, is at peace.
*”Gravity”
stands for electro-magnetic, psychological, psychic or spiritual pull.
**”L” and “LL”
refer to ‘lost souls’ including those who are
experiencing
permanent psychosis.
17 Flow
“Blessed is
he who stands in the eternal flow!
Cursed is he who stands outside the flow; thirsty for life and hungry
for
death, he will die in agony… But beyond blessing and beyond
curses is he who is
flow itself. Angels will minister to him! Light will seek him and
darkness will
be in fear of him.” Author Unknown
17:1 There
is an organic and an inorganic world. The organic world is a dynamic
flow of
life itself. The inorganic world is a static world of death and
stagnation.
17:2
Eternal flow is at the heart of life, it was created by the Eternal
Father and
sustained by righteous fathers. Apart
from the eternal flow, created by the Eternal Father, there are flows
created
by the righteous and unrighteous fathers of this world. Righteous
fathers
create orderly flow, a prerequisite for the proper functioning of a
game.
17:3
Social and religious traditions are part of the historical flow.
Attempting to
stop this flow brings disorder, confusion, and suffering.
17:4 There
is also an inside flow within man – the flow of his vital
energy. When the flow
of this energy becomes damned one will experiences a mental disorder or
physical sickness.
17:5 To
stop the flow is to stop life...
18
Movement & Rest
Jesus said: "If they
say to you: 'From where
have you originated?', say: 'We have come from the Light, where the
Light has
originated through itself. It came and revealed itself in their image'.
If they
say to you: 'Who are you?', say: 'We are His sons and we are the chosen
ones of
the Living Father'. If they ask you: 'What is the sign of your Father
in you?',
say: 'It is a movement and a rest'." Gospel of Thomas
18:1 There
is movement and rest. There
is a doer
and a witness.
Doer is man on the
move who plays the game, witness is man at rest who observes the game.
18:2 For
man to change from witness to doer vision must be present, power must
be
acquired, and will must be activated.
18:3 Man
on the move, the doer, is a violent man. Man at rest, the witness, is a
man,
resting between battles…Man who is neither on the move nor
at rest is a man in
a coffin – a coffin made with his own hands.
19
Emptiness & Nothingness
“Enter the
great emptiness and great nothingness,
fear not the Divine chaos, where the awakening to existence –
the pure
joy – is awaiting you.” A.M.
19:1 It
all starts with suffering. Suffering
leads to search. Search
leads to
knowledge, and knowledge ends in great emptiness and great
nothingness…
19:2 The
great emptiness and great nothingness – the source of all and
everything born
into the world of appearances – contains neither order nor
pattern.
19:3 The
great emptiness and great nothingness is not a state of consciousness,
therefore, it is not accessible to our senses.
19:4 There
are those who seek relaxation and pleasure, those who seek peace and
happiness,
and there are those who seek the great emptiness and great
nothingness… The
humble one will find great liberation, the proud one wild
hallucination…
19:5 In
the great emptiness and great nothingness, all images, all desires, all
attachments and all beliefs, as well as faith itself, become
transcended. The
Divine darkness prevailing over the great
emptiness and great nothingness, brings the realization of
one’s ignorance and
the blessing of great humility. This
is
also known as “the dark night of the soul”.
Here one must stand still, as time stands still, then, and
then only can
one die without dying…
19:6 In the void of the great emptiness and great nothingness, subtle energies are present, which assist one to return back to the ‘world’.
19:7 The
great emptiness and great nothingness, invisible and un-polluted, search
for it in the great chaos…
20
Not-This-and-Not-That
Part
One
20:1 God
is not-this-and-not-that… The awakened one – the
one born of the Spirit and the
Truth –becomes awake to his Spiritual Self which is
not-this-and-not-that.
20:2
This-and-that is the essence of one’s human nature;
not-this-and-not-that is
the essence of one’s divine nature.
20:3 Due
to the images entering one’s consciousness, one
‘sees’ the other, as
this-and-that, rather than not-this-and-not-that, the true nature of
the other.
20:4 Man
has free will. Therefore, he can create this-and-that, and when
this-and-that
becomes man himself, then he too becomes this-and-that. He becomes the
prisoner
of his own creation.
20:5 I am
a spiritual being – not-this-and-not-that, as well as
this-and-that. When
not-this-and-not-that, the
20:6 When
I am this-and-that I am experiencing life and
suffering; when I am
not-this-and-not-that I am experiencing existence
and pure joy.
Part
Two
20:7 There
are those who are comfortable in their skin, those who are
uncomfortable in
their skin, and those who have no skin… Those who are
comfortable in their skin
are slaves; those who are uncomfortable in their skin are also slaves,
aware of
their slavery, wanting to escape. But the "skinless" ones are free.
Their spirit dwells here and there and everywhere. They are awake to
their
spiritual nature, which is not-this-and-not-that…
See also: Kingdom of God, Book IV,
Chapter 26;
Spiritual Self, Book IV, Chapter 33.
21
Consciousness
21:1 Human
consciousness can function in five different ways:
(1) Ego consciousness,
born from the experiences in the pyramids.
(2) Expanded cosmic
consciousness, born from awakening. It can be of a temporary or of
permanent
nature. When in
this state, the door to
extrasensory perception, intuition and inner vision opens. Together with clear
intention, faith and unconditional
love, many spiritual gifts, including the gift of healing and prophecy,
can
become manifested. Only through expanded cosmic consciousness can one
transcend
dualistic thinking and see into the true nature of things. [See:
Awakening,
Book IV, Chapter 28.]
(3) Expanded
consciousness, not born from awakening. It’s permanent, and
is a result of
prolonged search for truth, bringing new and profound awareness.
(4) Naked consciousness*
is born when mind comes to total rest, by suspending it’s
activities, then the
consciousness void of images appears.
There are innumerable ways one can enter naked
consciousness. Any
pleasant experience void of content through which one is able to
“let go” may
empty one’s mind of images and prevent new images from
entering. Naked
consciousness also appears spontaneously prior to one’s sleep. Naked consciousness is the
abode of absolute
silence, absolute stillness, absolute emptiness, absolute peace and
absolute
calm.
(5) Alternative states of
consciousness (ASC) are characterized by radical shifts in patterns of
consciousness from normal ego consciousness.
The following are a few essential things to know:
(a) ASC can be local or
non-local.
(b) One can enter ASC
voluntarily or involuntarily, one cannot always change ASC for ego
consciousness.
(c) ASC can be induced by
any of the following means: psychedelics, drugs, magical techniques,
dancing,
chanting, intoxication, self-inflicted pain, sensory deprivation,
sensory
overload, sleep deprivation, hypnosis, ecstatic trance, fatigue,
malnutrition,
fasting or psychosis, as well as the possession by a ghost or a
spiritual entity
from the underworld.
(d) ASC may cause
temporary or even permanent mental disorder.
(e) The state of
hallucination is not ASC.
21:2 Ego state of
consciousness is the only permanent state of consciousness. It is safe to enter naked
state of
consciousness, or cosmic state of consciousness, the product of
awakening. Entering
alternative state of consciousness
is always a risky endeavour.
21:3 All life has
limited consciousness. Only man has self-consciousness.
21:4 Nothing,
absolutely nothing exists outside one’s consciousness, and
that which appears
in one’s consciousness has no permanency.
21:5 The feelings
of discomfort and suffering, as well as those of pleasure,
“exist” because
those feelings originating in the astral body, become registered in
one’s
consciousness.
* It is known in
Buddhism as the state of no-mind.
See also: Images, Book I, Chapter 12; Spiritual Entities,
Book IV,
Chapter 31; Bodies of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32.
22
Belief
22:1 Belief emerges when one’s
feelings become structured
and defined. Programming
and propaganda
assist with emergence of a belief.
22:2 Beliefs bring hope as well as
oppression and slavery.*
22:3 The astral body, which is the habitat
of all
desires, feelings, emotions and passions, is the root of the majority
of
beliefs. The mind
has little power over
beliefs. It’s
power is limited to
defining and justifying them intellectually.
22:4 Only through awakening can a spiritual
knowledge
dormant in Spiritual Self become activated, enabling man to transcend
his
beliefs. By transcending his beliefs he will find truth, truth which
will set
him free.
22:5 There are beliefs which will assist
one on one’s
journey through life, and there are beliefs which might lead one into
error and
bring harm.
22:6 After one becomes seduced by certain
beliefs, one
starts to gather the “evidence” to support those
beliefs.
22:7 All decisions one makes are influenced
by one’s
beliefs.
22:8 God, and all that is invisible, enters
one’s mind
through a belief, which could give birth to faith.
Then, faith itself could be transcended by
knowledge, dormant in one’s Spiritual Self.
22:9 Every culture is product of the
dominant beliefs of
its people.
22:10 A phenomenon is brought into
“existence” through a
belief which ceases to “exist” when belief is no
longer present.
*
Religious and political beliefs
are on the decline or dying. Is
man
capable of surviving without hope and without chains?
23
Faith
23:1 When
true faith* is present, paranormal subtle energies from spirits, powers
from
holy entities or angels, are always present.
23:2
The
level of faith is in direct proportion to the level of
awakening – the source of power, at the moment the will is
being exercised.
23:3
A lack
of faith indicates the inability of Spirit of Man to
tap the source of power.
*He
who has true faith has no
need for hope.
See
also: Who Am I?, Book I,
Chapter 2; Wealth, Power & Energy, Book I, Chapter 6; God, Book
IV, Chapter
25; Bodies of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32; Spiritual Self, Book IV,
Chapter 33.
24 Seeker of God
"I counsel you, that
in the earnest exercise
of mystical contemplation you leave the senses and the activity of the
intellect, and all that the senses and the intellect can perceive, and
all
things in this world of nothingness and that world of being, and that
your
understanding being laid to rest, you strive towards a union with him
whom
neither being nor understanding can contain. For by the unceasing and
absolute
renunciation of yourself and all things you shall in purity cast all
things
aside and be released from all, and so shall you be led upward to the
ray of
that divine darkness, which exceeds all existence." Dionysius*
Jesus said: "The
seeker should not stop until
he finds. When he does find, he will be disturbed. After having been
disturbed,
he will be astonished. Then he will reign over everything."** Gospel of
Thomas
"You are looking for something along with God, and you are behaving exactly as if you were making of God a candle so that you could look for something. When we find the things we are looking for, we throw the candle away. Whatever you are seeking along with God is nothing. It does not matter what it is – be it an advantage or a reward or a kind of spirituality or whatever – you are seeking a nothingness, and for this reason you find a nothingness.” Master Eckhart***
24:1 God
can never be found because God has never departed, only man has
departed from
God.
24:2 God
can only become “known” to man through the
One who possesses perfect humanity and perfect divinity. When the seeker loves the One and obeys his commandments he
becomes one with the One…
24:3 When
you truly see yourself, you will be appalled at
what you see… Then, your
heart will be troubled and you will embark on the journey.
24:4 There
is no "spiritual growth"! There is only the relentless search for
Truth for the sake of seeing, for Love for the sake of unity, and for
Beauty
for the sake of paradise.
24:5 When
man goes on the journey, and for the sake of truth is willing to become
‘lost’,
only then, and then only, can God “find”
him…
24:6 Man
is a son of God. Forgetting his father, he becomes blind to his
inheritance.
But when he realizes whose son he is, he inherits the wealth.
24:7
Sometimes language becomes the enemy of the seeker, and words the
stumbling
stones on the path.
24:8 A
seeker of God must avoid baggage from the past as well as spiritual
entertainment from the false teachers of today.
*The
name given to the author of a corpus of theological writings born c.
500
A.D.
**That which the seeker will “find”
was never lost. Only the ability to
access it was lost due to one’s ignorance.
***Medieval German, Christian
theologian and mystic.
See also:
Love, Truth and
Beauty, Book IV, Chapter
9.
25
God
”What no
eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the
heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love
him.” I
Corinthians 2:9
"The eye by which I see God is the same as
the eye by which God sees me – one in seeing, one in knowing,
and one in
loving." Meister Eckhart
“God is an
infinite sphere whose center is
everywhere, circumference nowhere.” N. Cusa
"If there is no God,
then everything is
permitted." Dostoyevsky
“No God has
ever controlled man. Divine despotism
is fantasy.” J. Evola
“He who is
seeking God is also seeking himself.”
A.M.
25:1 God
is not-this-and-not-that, as God cannot be defined in human terms. One
cannot
assign to God human qualities, as by doing so one would create an idol.*
25:2 Faith
in God gives man knowledge of his true identity and the power from
knowing that
he is a child of God. To have faith in God is to know the great power
one has.
25:3 Be
still, stand in awe of God, see your nothingness, and you will overcome
the
ultimate sin separating you from God – the sin of pride.
25:4 Faith
in God brings unity with all. Lack
of
faith in God brings disunity and fragmentation, experienced in
loneliness and
alienation.
25:5 The
unrighteous fathers keep man away from God: by telling man to overcome
guilt
and therefore no longer feel bad about sinning and by not telling man
about
virtues and therefore preventing him from seeking a vision of the Kingdom of God.
25:6 When
man loses faith in God he becomes an orphan and homeless, as he also
loses
belief in the Great Mystery of the invisible spiritual universe. Losing faith in God one
creates a spiritual
void never left empty for long…
25:7 The
separation between man and God brings poverty and weakness, ignorance
and
confusion. But through unity with God man can overcome poverty by
finding
wealth, weakness by finding will, ignorance through wisdom, confusion
through
vision.
25:8
For one
to believe in God can be conscious or unconscious,
depending on one’s spiritual memories. Total recall of
one’s spiritual memories
will bring total awakening and total reconnection with God.
25:9
According
to the scriptures God is everywhere – He is
nonlocal. Through Spiritual Self, God is present in man.
25:10 God
never interferes in human affairs. The origin of suffering which man is
experiencing is in a second and third universe.
25:11 There
were times, they say, when man walked with God;
Then, man walked with animals and worshiped nature;
Now,
man is walking alone, worshipping his shadow…
25:12 There
is no sea for fish swimming in the sea, just as there is no God for man
in
unity with God. Only when a fish departs from the sea, and only when
man
departs from God, does the fish remember the sea and the man remember
God.
*To say that God
exists, or, to say that God does not exist is equally incorrect, as the
concept
of existence and non-existence belongs to the world of dualism. God is beyond existence and
beyond
non-existence.
26
Kingdom of God
“His disciples said to him: On what day will the kingdom come? Jesus said: It cometh not with observation. They will not say: Lo, here! Or: Lo, there! But the kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.”* Gospel of Thomas
“The
“One who enters the
“This world you seem to live
in is not home to you. And
somewhere in your mind you know that this is true. A memory of home
keeps
haunting you, as if there were a place that called you to return,
although you
do not recognize the voice, nor what it is the voice reminds you of.
Yet still
you feel an alien here, from somewhere all unknown. Nothing so definite
that
you could say with certainty you are an exile here. Just a persistent
feeling,
something not more than a tiny throb, at other times hardly remembered,
actively dismissed, but surely the return to mind again.” A
Course in Miracles
26:1 Separate
yourself from this world of darkness and death! The
26:2 The
26:3 In
the middle of the world full of pain and suffering, there is the
26:4 There
are preachers who
preach about the
*(a)
Man dwells in the
27
Peace of God
“Peace of
God is beyond
all understanding.” Philippians 4:7
“I want the
peace of
God…To say these words is nothing. But to mean these words
is everything. If
you could but mean them for just an instant, there would be no further
sorrow
possible for you in any form; in any place or time. Heaven would be
completely
given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the
resurrection
of all creation fully recognized.” A Course in Miracles
27:1 All
peace comes from fathers: worldly peace from worldly fathers, heavenly
peace
from the Heavenly Father. He who is in a state of surrender to worldly
fathers
will experience true peace of mind when in a state of surrender to
righteous
fathers*, and false peace of mind when in a state of surrender to
unrighteous
fathers. He who is in a state of surrender to the Heavenly Father will
experience the peace of God – the source of true happiness.
27:2 Peace
in this world dwells in time and space, but the peace of God dwells
outside
time and outside space. Peace of men comes and goes, but peace of God
neither
comes nor goes; only men depart from it.
27:3
Repentance and forgiveness are two requirements for experiencing peace
of God.
27:4 The
peace of God is the door to happiness – a self-satisfying
sensation – a state
void of conflict, guilt, remorse or fear…
27:5 The
peace of God brings the end to emotional and mental disorders.
It makes one aware that the creation is constant and
stable.
It
is experience of the
27:6 Peace
of God is rooted in acceptance of all as all is in the will of God.
*To be in a state of
surrender to righteous fathers one must also
be in surrender to the Heavenly Father.
See
also:
Awakening, Book IV, Chapter 28.
28
Awakening
There are many
types of awakening. The awakening can be temporary or permanent, full
or
partial. The sayings in this chapter are about the awakening of the
Spirit of
Man to the of Spiritual Self, man’s true identity.
“I tell you
most solemnly, unless a man is born
through water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the
“The father
and I are one; we are distinct in
person, because nothing gives birth to itself; we are one in nature,
because
otherwise justice would not beget the just, nor would the father beget
the son
as other.” Meister
Eckhart
"Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how
couldst
thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!" F. Nietzsche
Part
One
28:1 It is the
destiny of man to be tempted by the forces of
“darkness” – the snake with one
thousand heads… Tempted until the snake is slain and
awakening takes place.
28:2 Natural man
is a seduced man; seduced by the unrighteous fathers and the will of
the
flesh.* Entrapped
and unaware of his
true identity, this kind of man becomes a wanderer searching for
pleasure.
28:3 Through
awakening** man regains peace of mind, through new found ability to
transcend
images entering his consciousness.
28:4 Beyond the
dualistic vision of the dualist and the tunnel vision of the
ideologue***
awakened man becomes capable of direct seeing,
seeing things as a child
would see them.
28:5 True seeker
loves others more than he loves himself.
Awakening of one clears the path to awakening for many.
Part Two
28:6 Man was born
blessed, and yet, he seldom experiences his blessedness, because his
spirit is
alienated from his Spiritual Self, the source of his true identity. Only through awakening
will his spirit become
reconnected with the Spiritual Self, regaining his true existence and
blessedness, also known as peace of God.
28:7 Through
awakening man transcends his ego-identity and regains his spiritual
identity.
28:8 Awakening
brings an end to emotional upheaval in the astral body as well as
bringing
peace, the source of happiness, to the mental body.
28:9 Natural man
is goal-oriented. He
can “win” or he can
“lose”… Awakened man is process-oriented.
He can neither “win” nor
“lose”.
28:10 There is no
“system”, which can lead one to awakening as the
purpose of all systems can
only be programming.
28:11 Only
awakened man can truly love others; only the awakened man can truly
love
himself.
Part Three
28:12 Awakened
man is Christ-like. Fully human and fully divine, following the path of
nondualism, unconditional love and total forgiveness, forgiving the
transgressions of others and errors of oneself.
28:13 Awakened
man is the one who has seen into his own true nature, and, through this
seeing
he has seen the one who is
‘not-this-and-not-that’.
28:14 Awakened
man is strong with the wealth which is not of this world. Strong and
powerful,
he seeks no more, as heaven and earth have been given to him.
28:15 Through
awakening, man becomes fully aware of his existence, and becoming aware
of his
full existence he becomes one with Existence…
Part Four
28:16 One born
from the Spirit and the Truth
becomes like the earth, which gives away all that it receives from the
sun...
28:17 The one who is
truly “born again” of the Spirit and the Truth is
in this world but not of it…
He no longer dwells in dualistic worldly delusions, and the world has
no power
over him.
28:18 Through
awakening one receives awareness of the illusionary nature of the
second and
third universes, as well as the power to transcend.
Part
Five
28:19 The life purpose
of an awakened one, is to make “below as above”, by
spreading unconditional
love. The life purpose of natural man is to do the will of the ego, and
find
ego gratification.
28:20 Awakening cannot take place without
love for a living
master in a spirit, or, a living master in flesh.****
28:21 Through awakening the search ends, as
through awakening one
realizes that nothing, absolutely nothing exists.
*The will of the
flesh is rooted in one’s astral body with it’s
desires, feelings, emotions and
passions. Emotions and passions, not controlled by the will, will lead
one into
carnality and materialism, bringing degeneration to man. They are the two main
barriers to
awakening.
**Flash
of intuition, insight, peak experience, as well as many other similar
psychological experiences are not identical with
awakening, as none of
those experiences will bring inner transformation or activate
unconditional
love.
***Ideology
comes from a programming with the purpose of fulfilling an agenda
created by
fathers. When one
has principles, one
has no need for an ideology.
****A
spiritual teacher is no more than a catalyst awakening the Spirit of
Man which
can tap the dormant knowledge in Spiritual Self. [What is inside is
also
outside, and what is outside is also inside…] Since the
inside of man, the
Spiritual Self, is dormant, the ‘inside’ is not
like the ‘outside’. For inside
to become like outside men must seek help from outside.
See
also: Existence, Book IV, Chapter 2;
Bodies
of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32; Spiritual Self, Book IV, Chapter 33.
29 Creation
"The notion that the
physical universe
emerged from an underlying spiritual realm hidden from the senses is a
central
teaching of most religions." P.A. LaViolette
“When you
seek the origin you will find the
beginning and when you find the beginning you will also find the end,
as the
beginning and the end are one…”
Author
Unkown
“Modern
science has come to understand that matter is only condensed energy.
Sooner or
later science will also discover that what it calls energy is only
condensed
psychic force.” V. Tomberg
General
29:1 To
speak of
creation is to speak of the ultimate mystery of the origin
of man and the world.
29:2
Creation
stories* which can be found in all religions,
exist because of man’s need to know about his origin and the
origin of the
world. However they
are fundamentally
faulty for the following four reasons:
(1) Because the concept of
time belongs only to our world, and perhaps to the worlds similar to
ours.
(2) Because the
supernatural event – of such magnitude, cannot be described
in a human
language.
(3) Because higher created
the lower, and higher, creator of the lower, can never be comprehended
by the
lower. [The “higher” is part of the Great Mystery
of the invisible and
uncreated spiritual universe.]
(4) Ancient myths are creations
of spiritual teachers attempting to explain the unexplainable. They
should
never be given literal meaning.
29:3
The
scientific theories concerning creation are unproven
and limited.
The Triune
Universe
29:4 Man lives in
a triune universe – partly visible, but mostly invisible.
The First
Universe
29:5 From the great
emptiness and nothingness…
The Living Word** of God did, is, and always will,
create the
everlasting universe.
We
call it the first universe
[This is known as creation
–
the
29:6 The first universe is constant
and stable. The unstable, second and third universes give birth to
changes one
is experiencing. They enter one’s consciousness as images.
The Second
Universe
29:7 With power , will,
wisdom and vision…
The Living Word of Man, did, is, and always will,
create his
unique temporary universe.
We call it the second universe.
[Man
is able to create his universe because he was given a free will and
self-consciousness.]
29:8
Man
lives in the universe he has created.
He is the king of his universe and no one can
take it away from him, as this universe exists only in his
mind…
29:9
Creating
one’s universe is often a struggle.
Many abandon the struggle and enter the world
of lost souls.
29:10
One is
born into the first universe. Through programming one enters the
second universe and through awakening one can return to the first
universe –
the
The Third
Universe
29:11 With power, will, wisdom and vision
The Living
Words of Fathers did, are, and always will, create their
temporary
universe.
We call it the third universe.
[The world
one lives in - the grand pyramid. Everyone makes a contribution toward
it, to
the degree of his will and power.]
29:12
The
third universe gave birth to the nations and tribes. They are born
through violence and they die likewise.
29:13
Culture
and religion are the essence of this universe, as they provide
order and vitality.
Universe
“X”
29:14
There
is also a universe created by the entities from the
underworld. We call
is universe “X” –
the universe of great suffering and madness.
The
Interrelation Between the
Universes
29:15 All changes taking place in the
third universe, also manifest themselves in the second universe.
29:16
Man has
no power over the first and the third universe.
However, the second universe belongs to
him. He has created
it, he can destroy
it, or, he can transform it; he has the power to do it.
29:17
The
third universe must be in harmony with the first, as extreme
disharmony will bring total social chaos, also known as “end
of times”.
29:18
The
second universe must be in harmony with the first and the third
universe, as extreme disharmony will bring madness.
The
Fall of Man
29:19 Through the ‘fall of
man’ man was
‘expelled’ from the garden***.
This gave birth to the second and third
universes. Now cosmic consciousness was replaced with ego consciousness
and
tribal consciousness.
Beginning
and End
29:20
The
creation to be sustained and stability assured, order must be
maintained, through the laws governing creation.
29:21
Every
universe has a spiritual blueprint – the law governing a
universe. Breaking
the laws creates
chaos, and it may also bring widespread social as well as mental
disorder.
29:22
Breaking
the laws of the first universe is called sin. Breaking the laws of
the second universe is called error. Breaking the laws of the
third universe is
called crime.
29:23
It
appears that the purpose of every universe is to create a
playground….
* The
creation stories can only be written in the language of those for whom
they
were written. The
old stories in a
language of cultures long gone; the new stories in a language of today.
**The living word can also stand for powerful thought with
strong
intent.
***The Golden Age
See
also: Destiny, Book I, Chapter 24; Pyramid, Book II, Chapter 8; The
Great
Mysteries, Book IV, Chapter 1; Emptiness and Nothingness, Book IV,
Chapter 19;
God, Book IV, Chapter 25; Bodies of Man, Book IV, Chapter 32.
30
The Seven Dwelling Places
of Man
30:1 There
are seven houses in which man can dwell.
The House of Games:
(1) The house of power games.
State of escape from suffering through pleasure; home of the majority.
(2) The house of mind games.
State of mental disorder, born from inability or unwillingness to play
a
game;
the home of lost souls.
The House of God:
(3) The house of truth.
State of awareness, born through awakening; home of those consciously
re-born.
(4) The house of love.
State of peace, born through awakening; home of man unconsciously
re-born.
(5) The house of beauty.
State of peace and happiness, born through awakening; home of those
unconsciously re-born.
The House of Limbo:
(6) The house of madness.
A state of mental disorder, born from total alienation.
(7) The house of coma.
State
of unconsciousness, born from severe shock; home of those in a state of
suspended animation.
31
Spiritual Entities & Spirits
Part One
31:1 Spiritual entities vary in powers as
well as attributes. They
can appear through one`s inner vision,
or occasionally through one`s astral vision*.
All spiritual entities one can encounter are non-local and
they appear
as one would like to see them.
31:2 An encounter with a holy entity, or
with an angel, is
always beneficial. For
the encounter to
take place strong faith is required.
31:3 Only those who are consciously or
unconsciously
"open" and have strong belief in the possibility of an encounter with
a spiritual entity, can experience it.
31:4 The encounter with an entity from
beyond the human plane
also known as the underworld, may lead to possession.
Possession by an entity like a ghost, may
result in a take-over of one’s mental body, which can bring
mental disorder and
great suffering. One
can also be
possessed by an entity without being aware of it.
31:5 There are no devils and no evil
spiritual entities, only
adversaries. Devil
is a name given
throughout history by popular culture to a spiritual entity from the
underworld
– the plane beyond human plane.
Part Two
31:6 In the invisible underworld there is a great variety of spirits, similar to bacteria, viruses and fungi present in the visible universe. They are attracted by our world, invading those lacking spiritual immunity. All spirits emit “vibes”. There are many ways one can become possessed by a such spirit, which in turn can also inflict others.
*Known
in Hinduism as the third eye.
32 Bodies of Man
The terms
“body” and “habitat” used in
this
chapter are only two of the many terms which can be used in this
context.
[Throughout the ages men were defined as a being
who had body, mind
and spirit. The sayings in the chapter below only expands the original
definition.]
Part One
32:1 At
the time a child is being conceived the soul begins to build the
vehicle needed
to dwell in this world: astral, mental and etheric bodies. When the soul, known as
the Spiritual Self
when dwelling in the flesh ‘departs’ from this
world, the physical body will
lose its etheric energy. The astral and mental bodies will survive
death and
will be the only vehicle of the soul until it reaches its ultimate
destination…
32:2 The
following is a short description of the three invisible bodies of man
created
by Spiritual Self:
(1) Astral body* – the habitat of the Spirit of Man. It is the exact copy of the physical body but made of finer material. Astral body is…
(a) The instrument of desires, feelings, emotions and passions.
(b) The root of all human impulses.
(c) The origin of the will of the flesh and the plane through which man is seduced by the fathers and spiritual entities from the underworld.
(d) Able to exercise all the functions of the mental body, when separated from it.
(e) Endowed with extrasensory perception.
(f) Capable of separating itself from the physical body.
(2) Mental
body – the habitat of the mind.
The mind has the capacity to project a
vision, utilize intellect and wisdom, analyze data, use imagination and
exercise will**. It can also process and store information received
from the
senses, and to recall data from memories. Consciousness is an
instrument of the
mind activating one’s
awareness.
(3) Etheric
body*** - the matrix that holds the
physical body together, and which dissolves at death.
Through chakras, (the energy points of the
etheric body) the physical body is supplied with the vitality necessary
for
it’s existence and well-being.
Aura is
the energy radiating from the etheric body.
Part Two
32:3 To exercise power over one’s
desires and passions, one must seek
awakening, as the power of will is related to the level of
one’s awakening.
32:4 To be healthy, created bodies must be
nourished. The
physical body needs healthy food; astral love, affection and kindness;
mental,
worldly and spiritual knowledge; the etheric body needs the subtle
energies.
32:5 Physical and astral bodies have each an immune system – an inner warrior preventing outside entities from invading.
32:6 To find stability and harmony, essential to proper functioning of the bodies, one should seek grounding, one should practice stillness, and one should be mindful at all times.
(a) Grounding, found through awareness of one’s body, will stabilize and bring harmony between the physical body and earth – the extension of physical body.
(b) Stillness, found through focused relaxation, will stabilize and bring harmony between the astral body and astral plane – the extension of the astral body.
(c) Mindfulness, found through awareness of one’s thoughts, speech, activities and desires, will stabilize and bring harmony between the mental body and cosmic intelligence – the extension of the mental body.
Part Three
32:7
Spirit of Man is ones outward
manifestation, as well as ones command and control center. During the
earthly
journey Spirit of Man is in charge of one physical, astral and mental
bodies.
32:8 Depending
on the level of ones awakening,
the Spirit of Man can tap into the worldly energies of the pyramids
– the third
universe, as well as into the subtle energies of the creation
– the first
universe.
*Also known as the
emotional or light body.
**Triggering
the process, the goal of which is to fulfill the decisions made by the
Spirit
of Man.
***It is also known in
the West as the
vital body or bio-plasma.
See also; Wealth, Power & Energy, Book I, Chapter
6.
33 Spiritual Self
33:1 Man is a
spirit, which ‘dwells’ in a body during his earthly
journey. We call this
spirit the Spiritual Self. *
33:2 Spiritual
Self has no beginning, and since it has no beginning will have no end.
33:3 The
Spiritual Self is one with God** and is part of the Great Mystery of
the
invisible spiritual universe. Therefore Spiritual Self cannot be
defined by
words or registered by one’s senses.
33:4 The
physical, mental and astral body are created bodies in the service of
the
Spiritual Self, when dwelling in the flesh. They are the infrastructure
of the
Spiritual Self for the duration of his worldly journey.
33:5 Only through the realization of
existence of Spiritual Self
– through awakening – can one become aware of
one’s true identity.
33:6 When a storm comes, remember who you truly are. Then peace and calm will prevail…
*Spiritual Self is
also known as the inner being, the living soul, higher self, true self,
etc.
**Of
the same essence.
See
also: Consciousness, Book IV,
Chapter 21.
34 Prayer
"Truly, I say to you, whoever says to
this mountain,
be taken up and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but
believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you
receive it,
and you will." Mark 11:23-24
General
34:1 Man prays
because he is a spiritual being temporarily living in the flesh. Prayer is a channel
between man and God.
Between the natural world, and the Great Mystery of the invisible
spiritual
universe. Through persistent prayer one builds a relationship with God
and
spiritual beings.
34:2 Before
entering into a state of prayer…
(a) Grant
total forgiveness to others as well as to
yourself.
(b) Experience
unconditional love.
(c) Empty your mind by
seeking naked consciousness.
This
way your
prayer would not be interrupted by your thoughts.
Prayer of Praise
34:3 Through
the prayer of praise one gives glory to God.
This is a state of pure joy – the taste of the
[One
can only truly praise God, when one’s love for God is greater
than one’s love
for the world.]
Prayer for Help
“I will not leave you
desolate; I
will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more,
but you
will see me; because I live, you will live also. In that day you will
know that
I’m in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. He
who has my
commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me
will be
loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to
him.” John
14:18-21
“A human being should never
pray for something, pray for
God’s will and nothing else, then everything else will be
given.” Meister
Eckhart [Awakening
– to be born again of the Spirit
and Truth is the ultimate in God’s will.]
34:4 Man should not
have a need to beg God for favours. Man was not born to be a beggar! He
left
the garden – the first creation – and all his
problems and all his unhappiness
came as a result of this departure.
34:5 Through prayer
for help, man is asking ‘the higher powers’
– God, perfected spiritual beings
or angels* – to bring change by supernatural means.
34:6 Prayer for help
is the cry of a desperate man, who finds himself in a difficult,
sometimes
catastrophic situation, which can only be changed by supernatural
means. Under
the right circumstances, the immense powers dormant in Spiritual Self**
will
become activated, bringing the desired help: health, transformation,
empowerment, etc.
34:7 All man are
born blessed, as they are born into the first universe. Becoming
separated from
the first universe, blessedness diminishes. However, through prayer one
can
temporarily return to the first universe, and experience blessedness
also known
as peace of God.
34:8 It appears
that the fulfillment of prayer depends upon the following factors:
(1) Faith – the awareness
of immense power of Spiritual Self.***
(2) Knowledge of one’s
true nature.
(3) Profound love for God,
the spiritual being or angel to whom prayer is being directed.
(4) Strong mental
visualization of the goal.
(5) It must be fervent,
accompanied with strong feelings.
(6) It cannot contravene
the laws governing creation.
*Angels
are mysterious
spiritual entities who help man on his difficult journey through life.
They
assist us on a conscious, but mostly unconscious level.
**One
in the essence with the
Holy Spirit.
***
All and everything was
given to man from the beginning. Through faith, the depth of which is
related
to the level of one’s awakening, one will become aware of it.
See
also: Consciousness, Book
IV, Chapter 21.
35 Subtle
Energies of the Cosmos
“Science
has recently begun to prove what ancient
myth and religion have always espoused: that there may be such a thing
as a
life force. During
the past few decades,
respected frontier scientists all over the globe have produced
extraordinary
evidence to show that an energy field – the Zero Point Field
– connects
everything in the universe, and we ourselves are part of this vast,
dynamic
network of energy exchange.”
L.
McTaggart
“All the
subtle energy of the cosmos are at the
disposal of one whose Spiritual Self is no longer dormant, and who has
found
awakening and his full existence.”
A.M.
35:1 The
cosmos is a power cage…the world, and the sky above, are the
source of energy,
both normal and paranormal.
35:2
Man
dwells in the flesh and cosmos from which he receives
invisible subtle energies.* Some
men
also dwell in the
35:3 When
human eyes look into the sky, they see vast empty space. At night, they
see the
multitude of solid shining objects. That which appears
“empty”, is not
empty…That which appears “solid”, is not
solid…The empty contains paranormal subtle
energies; the solid objects contain condensed normal energies.
35:4 Subtle
energies are transformation, empowerment and healing tools, which can
be
directed toward oneself, another person, or to bring about changes
which are
beyond the reach of the normal energies. To the degree of ones
awakening, the
Spirit of Man can consciously or unconsciously tap into those energies.
35:5 To create state of mind
needed when engaged in
transformation, empowerment or healing using subtle
energies, the following should be present:
(a) Strong faith in the
existence of subtle energies indicating that a channel to it is
present, and
the tapping of the energies is possible.
(b) Focused attention with clear intent.
(c) Visualization centered upon a goal.
(d) Unconditional love.
* (a) Subtle
energies are part of the first universe, also known as creation. They
consist
of those which can be scientifically detected and measured, (i.e.)
ultrasonic
waves, cosmic rays and electromagnetic spectrum, etc., as well as those
which
cannot be scientifically detected. (b) Also known as the life force, as
well as
ether.
36
Essential Sayings of Jesus
From
the New Testament
The
Beatitudes:
Blessed
are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed
are those
who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they
shall
inherit the earth.Blessed
are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be
satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the
pure in
heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
shall be
called sons of God.Blessed
are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for
theirs is the kingdom
of heaven. Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and
utter all
kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad,
for your
reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were
before
you. You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how
can its
saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be
thrown out
and trodden under foot by men. You are the light of the world. A city
set on a
hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel,
but on a
stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so shine
before
men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father
who is in
heaven.” Matthew
5:3-12
“I will not leave you
desolate; I
will come to you. Yet
a little while,
and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live,
you
will live also. In that day you will know that I am in my Father,
and you in me, and I
in you. He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is
who loves me;
and who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will love him and
manifest
myself to him.” John
14:18-21
“Do not love the world
or the things
in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the father is not in
him. For
all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eye
and the
pride of life, is not of the father but is of the world. And the world
passes
away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides
forever.” 1
John 2:15-17
“Love your enemies, do
good to those
who hate you, bless those you curse you, pray for those who treat you
badly.” Luke
6:27
From
the Gospel of Thomas
“In the gnostic gospels,
the human
problem that is addressed is not sin, but rather ignorance, and hence
Jesus
does not save people from their sins, but rather communicates knowledge
to
address human ignorance and bring about enlightenment.
People in this world of mortality – this
underworld – are confused, and they have grown forgetful,
have fallen asleep,
have been seduced by the deceptive pleasures and pains of the world. People have become mixed
up in this world of
death, and they no longer remember who they are:
they have forgotten that they are children of
the divine, with the light of the divine within.” M.Meyer
“The Gospel of Thomas
really is, I
believe, the clearest guide we have to the vision of the
world’s supreme
mystical revolutionary, the teacher known as Jesus.
To those who learn to unpack its sometimes
cryptic sayings, the Gospel of Thomas offers a naked and dazzlingly
subversive
representation of Jesus’ defining and most radical discover:
that the living
Kingdom of God burns in us and surrounds us in the glory at all
moments, and
the vast and passionate love-consciousness – what you might
call
“Kingdom-consciousness” – can help birth
it into reality.” A.Harvey
“Immortality is said to
be the reward
of anyone who successfully decodes Thomas’ enigmatic sayings. The correct interpretation
of the sayings is
not the final goal but the means to the goal, the discovery of the
“The seeker should not
stop until he
finds. When he does
find, he will be
disturbed. After
having been disturbed
he will be astonished. Then
he will
reign over everything.”
Logion 2
“If your leaders say to
you ‘Look!
The Kingdom is in the sky!’ then the birds will be there
before you are. If
they say that the Kingdom is in the sea,
then the fish will be there before you are.
Rather, the Kingdom is within you and it is outside
you.” Logion
3a
“I will give you that
which eyes have
not seen, ears have not heard, hands did not touch, and minds have not
conceived.” Logion 17
“When you understand
yourself you
will be understood. And
you will realize
that you are Sons of the living Father.
If you do not know yourselves, then you exist in poverty
and you are
that poverty.” Logion
36
“Blesses are those who
have been
persecuted within themselves. They
have
really come to know the Father.”
Logion
69a
From
Various Sources
“God’s kingdom
is spread out upon
the earth, and people do not see it.” Simeon of
“Whoever forsakes father
and mother
and brother and sister and wife and child and possessions, and bears
his cross,
and follows me will receive the promises that I have promised him. And I shall give them the
mystery of my hidden
father, for they have loved what is theirs and have fled from the one
who
persecutes them violently.”
Bruce Codex
“His Followers said:
“Master, who is
the one who seeks and who is the one who reveals?” The master said to them:
“The one who seeks
is also the one who reveals. Matthew
said to him: “Master when I hear and when I speak, who is the
one who speaks
and who is the one who hears?”
The
master said, “The one who speaks is also the one who hears,
and the one who
sees is also the one who reveals.” Dialogue of the Saviour
“Whoever seeks the world
is like one
who drinks seawater. The
more he drinks
the more his thirst increases, until it kills him.” Al-Ghazzali
“If you do not fast from
the world,
you will not find God’s kingdom.” Papyrus
Oxyrhynchus
“Jesus said: This world
is a
bridge. Pass over
it, but do not build
your dwelling there.” Inscription
from a
mosque at Fatehpur Sikri
“There is nothing about
me that you
cannot attain. I am nothing that does not come from God. The difference
between
us now is that I have nothing else…” A
Course in Miracles
37 Unclassified
Deliver me Jesus…
"From the desire of being loved.
From the desire of being extolled.
From the desire of being honored.
From the desire of being praised.
From the desire of being consulted.
From the desire of being approved.
Deliver
me Jesus…
From the fear of being humiliated.
From the fear of being despised.
From the fear of suffering rebukes.
From the fear of being calumniated.
From the fear of being forgotten.
From the fear of being ridiculed.
From the fear of being wronged.
From the fear of being suspected.”
Litany of Humility
“I let go my desire for
security and survival.
I
let go my desire for esteem and affection.
I let go my desire for power and control.” Mary Mrozowski
“He who knows does not
speak; he who speaks does not
know.” Lao
Tzu
"The Way that can be told of is not
the eternal Way.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth.
The Named is but the mother of ten thousand things.
Truly, only he that rids himself forever of desire can see only the
Secret
Essences;
He that has never rid himself of desire can see only the Outcomes.
These two things issue from the same Source, but nevertheless are
different in
form.
This Source we can but call the Mystery,
The Doorway whence issue all secret essences."
Lao Tzu
"In
order to arrive at
pleasure in everything,
you must seek pleasure in nothing.
In order to arrive at possessing everything,
you must seek to possess nothing.
In order to arrive at being everything,
you must seek to be nothing.
In order to arrive at knowing everything,
you must seek to know nothing.
In order to arrive at that in which you find no pleasure,
you must go by a way in which there is no pleasure.
In order to arrive at that which you do not know,
you must go by a way you do not know.
In order to arrive at that which you do not possess,
you must go by a way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not,
you must go by a way in which you are not."
T.S. Eliot, The Ascent used in East Coker.
"There
are many roads to
“The mystery does not aim to teach but to renew the individual.” V. Macchioro
“There is an invisible world out there and we are
living in it.” Bill Viola
“Materialism
and carnalism turns one’s effort away
from taking care of one’s spirit towards taking care of
one’s body. Those
who seek it will drown in filth of
carnality and the mud of materialism.”
Author Unknown
Part
One
37:1 The
world gives all men three cups: the cup of love-delusion, the cup of
truth-delusion, and the cup of beauty-delusion. Most drink from these
cups
forever; few empty them…
37:2 Truth
can never be communicated with words… Love can never be
expressed with
feelings… Beauty can never be seen with eyes…
37:3 Seek
light and reject darkness. But when you find light, do not let it blind
you.
Instead, look and see that which light had revealed to you.
37:4 The solitary one will never be
alone… The minimalist will
never lack anything…
37:5 The wise man keeps nothing, therefore, he can receive much.
Part
Two
37:6 For
something to exist, many believe that it must be experienced through
the senses
and/or registered by scientific means. This is a great error as it will
prevent
one from having faith in the existence of the Great Mystery of the
invisible
spiritual universe.
37:7 One
cannot use language from the dualistic world to interpret the
non-dualistic
reality of the spiritual universe.
37:8 There
is quality and quantity. Everyone learns that a yardstick is needed to
measure
quantity. Few know, however, that to measure quality a yardstick is
also
needed. To measure quality, discrimination between good and bad,
excellent and
mediocre, is necessary.
Part
Three
37:9 One’s
life in this world will depend on how one acts; one’s life in
the world to come
will depend upon how one lives. One must act without committing errors,
and one
must live without committing sin.
37:10 The
three dark desires inherited in the will of man are the desires to
take, to
keep, and to advance at the expense of others.
37:11
Happy is he who is a stranger to sin, who can avoid errors, and who
never
rebels without a just cause. But beyond happiness is he whom sins and
errors
avoid, and who cannot rebel, as he is the one against whom the world is
rebelling against.
Part
Four
37:12
“Turn
the other cheek…”* This can be a moment of
awakening!
37:13 You
will be truly free when you will no longer have a need to have a goal,
and when
you will no longer have a need to have hope.
37:14
There is no greater virtue than humility – the virtue which
gave birth to all
other virtues.
37:15 Only
when you can see your nothingness will you be able to see your
greatness.
Part
Five
37:16 What is there you may not see, and
what you see may
not be there…
37:17 Not all questions are valid, not all
questions have
an answer.
Part
Six
37:18 I
have sought Him and He came…
He came without coming, and I
died without
dying…
This is the mystery of One!
There was neither a center nor One, until one became
many…
Then many multiplied and prospered because they believed
in the
existence of the One.
Part
Seven
37:19 A
sage witnesses the collapse of the universe.
Experiencing neither sadness nor joy he continues the walk
on his
designated path…
*Luke
6:29. When you turn the other cheek you are no longer reacting as a
natural man
would. You have now
made a crossover
from the dualistic world to the non-dualistic world; from the kingdom
of man to
the
At
Point
Zero,
the
mystical theology of Via
Negativa
encounters
the political
ideology
of
ideas with no content.
Here
begins and ends the
path into
the
great emptiness and
great nothingness,
place
void of boundaries
&
space
void of content…
