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Ancient of Days
PSALMS!
Recognition
You show me how the Primal Word speaks eternally the ‘eternal human being’: – the one
born in the Spirit who remains eternally in it…!
You show me how the human spirit in this darkness is but a witness to that ‘eternal
human being’, – to the ‘Ancient of Days’ – to the ‘Father’ of all your Luminaries…
*** See: Father and Primal Human Being of the Spirit ***
Angels
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
Yet from this higher spiritual state almost all of these mediators strive higher still, except
those few whom Northern Buddhism knows as the ‘Bodhisatvas of Compassion’ and the
Christian church of earlier times calls its ‘Saints’, ‘Angels’ and ‘Archangels’, including as
well the later ‘Fourteen Holy Helpers’.
LOVE!
Redeeming Light
*** See: Father ***
Angelus Silesius
LETTERS!
Mystics & Böhme
The scholarly poet Johann Scheffler (Angelus Silesius) was in the opposite situation. As a
Protestant he eventually took refuge in Catholicism by reinterpreting every Catholic
teaching as a poetic symbol.
HORTUS CONCLUSUS!
Temporal Eternal Space
or what, for instance, Angelus Silesius meant with the famous line:!
“Heaven is in you – and also the hellish state: – what you choose and want, – such will be
your fate!”…
Anthony of
Padua
LETTERS!
Polytheism Cult Saints
– we find here a typical example of how the imagining of a real earthly personality, widely
known within his revered circle, strengthens and brings confidence to those who call for
help. (You perhaps know that the saint of Padua was a powerful, enthralling preacher, – a
Portuguese monk who died in Padua after making many missionary journeys.)
Anti-semitism
MORE LIGHT!
Western-Eastern Magic
The only few genuine, along with the countless only supposed or arrogantly self-styled,
‘cabbalists’, who are strangely for the most part anti-Semitic in their persuasion, into whose
hands the guides of the ‘fiery chariot’ place this book, will probably resist the supposition
that a hidden tract of ancient Hebrew mysticism is coming to light here…!
Those enlightened spirits demanding reverence, belonging to medieval and later orthodox
Judaism, who strove so fervently to take the secret knowledge they believed to belong to
their people, out of the reach of mere speculation and the superstition of gloomy popular
magic, would surely not have feared that after centuries so many virulently anti-Semitic
non-Jews could be found – ignorant of anything Hebrew and clueless with respect to
Jewish piety – who would abuse the cabbalistic treasure of language and thought, known
to them often via the most dubious translations, for an abstruse magical practice foreign to
all Jewish feeling and thinking!
Apocalypse, The!
(Book of !
Revelation)
WISDOM OF JOHN!
Conclusion
But the so-called book of ‘Revelation’ – the ‘Apocalypse’ – is the work of intellects of very
variable value and gives witness to different times. In it are found traces of ‘those with
knowledge’ alongside the mysterious trimmings which the book acquired through believers
in the new cult together with extended additions by later revisers.!
The writer who once bestowed a grandiose poetic form on the content of this book only
used fragmentary material which had been in existence long before him as evidence of
mystical visions.
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
Nothing that is impure can attain eternal life in the pure Spirit! !
“For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and whosoever
loves and makes a lie.”!
“Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb!”!
Thus it has been written for two thousand years, and the one who wrote it knew the
provenance of the call to write; thus it is necessary to know, that little of what is attributed
to him was actually written by him.!
He spoke, like so many others who were called, about the same things I speak of today
using different imagery.!
The community of the Spirit which revealed itself to him has always made use of symbols
appropriate to the times.
Archangels
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
*** See: Angels ***
Asclepius
PATH OF MY PUPILS!
Dynamic Belief
If ‘miraculous’ cures once conferred the highest reputation on the sanctuary of Asclepius at
Epidaurus, or today Lourdes enjoys the same reputation among its faithful: – in both cases
the ‘miraculous’ agent is the stimulation of the will to cure, the freeing of the imagination,
the belief in the possibility of a cure, even though it may only provide the precondition for
opening access to other kinds of helping powers.
Athos, monks of
GOLGOTHA!
At the Source of Life
Without any guidance, without any help from the spiritually awake, everyone can become
aware of a spiritual Light within himself, the image of a flaming star which the monks on
Athos believed they could only revere sufficiently by calling it the “Holy Light of the
Godhead”.
HORTUS CONCLUSUS!
Gross Underestimation
The hermits of Athos in their way prove beyond contention a deep understanding when
they declare all kinds of scholarship to be incompatible with genuine piety and an obstacle
to beholding God. In order to understand this properly one must know that these ascetic
anchorites were not concerned at all with the generally familiar !
divergences between faith and knowledge, but with scholarship as such, regardless of
whether it includes ‘orthodox’ theology and scriptural knowledge safe from all religious
doubt. Their understanding allows them – as an exaggerated conclusion to be sure – to
value much more highly an illiterate living completely for his eternal soul, than someone
familiar with orthodox theology capable of resolving every question rationally. For they
know that although reason also owes a great deal to the influences of the eternal soul, the
eternal soul barely needs its scholarly research…
AUM
SCINTILLA MANTRA!
Myth and Reality
Outwardly I call Myself, and call “AUM”!
Avesta
*** see Vedas “”"
Avidyâ
(ignorance)
BEYOND!
The One Reality
Avidyâ’, i.e. ignorance, is called by Eastern wisdom with justification ‘guilt’; for only your
own will can block for you the gate to knowledge. !
You have already heard on several occasions that between your world of physical-
sensory perception and the world of the spirit there is only a barrier separating the two
different forms of perception from one another. !
I have often deliberately repeated myself and will have to continue repeating myself so
that that this basic truth enters your consciousness as deeply as possible.!
Therefore I need to remind you here that reality remains forever the same oneness and
causality, even though it enters the perceptions of the worlds of physical or spiritual
phenomena in the most diverse ways.
Babel, Tower of
THE SECRET!
Rocky Island
Each building is anchored in the interior of the earth; the higher it rises, the deeper its
foundations must reach! !
We too must: if the temple we are ourselves is to tower with its dome high up into the
kingdom of pure spirit, lay the foundation stone in the earth’s interior. In this way it will be
anchored there, while we add brick upon brick according to the plan revealed within
ourselves.!
If we do otherwise and make so bold as to build on the earth’s surface, we will be like
those sinners in the legend of the ‘Tower of Babel’ which collapsed within itself because the
building powers could no longer understand each other...
Blavatsky,
Madame
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy & Pseudo-
theosophy
One may name as well Lao-Tse, the great Indian and Tibetan religious teachers, the Apostle
Paul and the author of ‘St. John’s’ Gospel as teachers of true ‘theosophy’, as the genuine
ancient Muslim ‘Sufi’ in ancient Persia, imbued with wisdom, or the ‘last Indian prophet’
Ramakrishna, – the mystic philosophers Tauler and Meister Eckhard, or the still far from
understood Jakob Böhme, at home in his spiritual patrimony. But it is not acceptable to
declare the dregs of occult obsession as found in the ‘arcane teachings’ of Mrs. Blavatsky
to be ‘theosophy’.
Bodhisattvas of!
Compassion
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
*** See: Angels ***
Böhme, Jacob
SHOWING THE WAY!
Who Jacob Böhme?
Jakob Böhme merely gave the form of words to the vision of his soul in which it could, for
himself, be permanently comprehended and kept,!
…It is no wonder he often gave what was real and essential such confused and tangled
embellishments; for it seemed to him that only such arabesques could give form to things
unutterable.!
As a naturally powerful creator of language in the fashion of his age, he compelled words
to give form to his image-filled experience; it was of little concern to him if the words
struggled to absorb the overabundance of his inner visions.!
Only loving immersion can ever release the inner sense from his words.
LETTERS!
Mystics & Böhme
What I said about Jakob Böhme in the small collection of individual and self-contained
treatises published under the title ‘Showing the Way’, is intended, as you rightly
understand, to show that Böhme had been a spiritually appointed pupil of the Luminaries of
the Primal Light.
Brahma
GOLGOTHA!
At the Source of Life
About this has been said: “Brahma formed this world as nourishment” – only, caught in
exoteric way of thinking, one must not think of a sculptor and his creation, for this saying of
the Veda says considerably more to one who knows, – it reveals to him deepest reality, it
reveals to him the inherent law of self-propagation of the “Brahma”, the essence of the one,
absolute being which is eternal life of itself and to which serves as “nourishment” for its
highest all encompassing self-recognition as “godhead”, its forms of representation…
Bread and wine
CULT-MAGIC & MYTH!
Cult As Magic
This is not the place to ask: how matter could be magically transformed, – significant is
only what takes place within the consciousness of the believer who takes in the bread and
wine, not as earthly matter, but as vehicles of the Godhead, whatever name one chooses to
give it, in a form one can comprehend through one's senses. – –
Buddha
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
This Buddha had not himself become the ‘path’! He had not been prepared as path by the
spirit! Only his immeasurable love for everything alive allowed him to excavate a path
leading to enlightenment, to spiritual light, but not to the true re-attainment of spiritual unity
in God, even though this path ultimately can, by certain detours, lead there; but then it is no
longer the historically known path of the Buddha but follows different, very ancient signs.
THE SECRET!
Sea Journey
Even what the Siddharta taught, the one they called the Buddha, will not lead you to the
goal [of spiritual awakening], though it may harbor much wise knowledge which truly
cannot be called the fruit of thinking!!
Many have tried, unrecognized, to show that narrow path, but only one has become
known far and wide to mankind who did not just try, but was able to show it through life
and deeds …!
Subsequently he became ‘God’ to you Christians, and you name yourselves after him. Yet
in vain I seek those among you who follow in his footprints.
Buddhism
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
In almost all religions can be found the idea of an individualized self-manifestation of the
eternal Primal Light as sign of a profound recognition of reality. Only in Taoism, Shintoism
and in the beliefs of the southern Buddhists of the ‘Hînayâna’ school is this recognition not
found, but it is nevertheless wrong to call these religions per se ‘atheistic’ simply because
their imagination of the divine is not able to raise itself above the unformed ocean of divine
original being.!
Northern Buddhism, the school of the ‘Mahâyâna’, the ‘major crossing’, as against the
‘minor crossing’, or the ‘Hînayâna’, displays the image of an individualized self-
manifestation of the eternal Primal Light in its purest expression, in its heavenly original
Buddha, ‘Adibuddha’, even if the individual doctrines considerably blur the purity of this
image. It is possible that this image is Gnostic in origin and only reached Nepal and Tibet
much later via Persia and Turkestan, from where it was disseminated further.
Cabbala !
(aka Kabbala)
MORE LIGHT!
Western-Eastern Magic
I am compelled to make the fundamental observation that the whole mystical system of the
cabbala is of non-Jewish origin: – instead it is rather rooted within the traditions of an
Indian arcane teaching which reaches back to the earliest times of Indian wisdom… The
whole system is a noble ancient variation on the Yoga training rooted in India… I speak of
the deepest spiritual knowledge as found still in eastern orthodox Judaism, and even there
only sporadically…!
In the cabbala also, we are talking primarily, as in all practical mysticism, about finding
the way to the supreme spiritual from which all life comes forth: – about the union of the
soul with its abandoned source of life: about a ‘Unio mystica’: – the fusion of the separate
individualization with the eternal primal individuality, which is alone the common ground of
being for all individual existence…
Cain and Abel
MAN!
New Mankind
Woe upon the ‘last humans’, for then the myth of Cain and Abel will be repeated a
thousand times over, unless earthly people realize in time that every ‘you’ is an ‘I’ seeking
to find itself in them. – –
Camel through a !
needle’s eye
THE SECRET!
Sea Journey
Truly it is easier for a camel – and even if it is only a rope made from its hair – to pass
through the eye of a needle than for a ‘rich man’, rich in earthly focussed spirituality, to
enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
Cagliostro,!
Alessandro
RESURRECTION!
Carnival of the Occult
Everything the carnival conjurers who copy in shabby style the blessed Cagliostro, have to
recommend to their followers comes down to this outwitting through some, mainly
physical, ‘exercises’.!
In this way it is only the compulsion to achieve something unlawfully which one believes
is too difficult to achieve on the straight and narrow, which again and again tempts victims
into the net of vain charlatans.!
Likewise with the craving to experience something extraordinary, however, one
completely forgets that even the most mysterious process which can be experienced with
the help of earthly senses loses all value as soon as these very senses refuse use…
Cherubim
PATH TO GOD!
Certain Knowledge
How contemptuous must be your view of the kingdom of the Spirit, if you do not feel
intuitively that there exists also in this kingdom level upon level, and that an almost
unending hierarchy rises up, before the most exalted princes of the Spirit can be reached.
They – living in the innermost light of the Godhead – truly correspond to the picture human
imagination has created of the highest ‘angels’, of the ‘cherubim’ and ‘seraphim’! – – – – –
Christianity
MORE LIGHT!
Christianity
First and foremost it is important to unravel the knot of dogmatic confusion which has
arisen through the religious-historical, thus purely temporal, equating of the Master of
Nazareth with the self-expression of the eternal Primal Light, the Logos.!
Here a true re-formation, a genuine cleansing of concepts is urgently needed. The
depiction of the self-expression of God, of the Logos, of the eternal ‘Word that is with God
and is God’, and the quite separate understanding of the full potential of what a human
being can attain in union with the Spirit, as embodied in the Master of the Gospels—giving
all this such a theological basis that every more ancient dogma is not thereby cancelled but
transfigured in the truest sense—this act still waits for the brave person who dares to carry
it out, for the knowledgeable person who is capable of daring to carry it out, and the
blessing which would blossom from this act would be immeasurable.
Clouds of
knowing
ROYAL ART!
On the Spiritual
Masters
However: The external form only matters to the wise one as an appearance necessitated by
this Earth, and all appearance is in itself deceptive, – even if we really must not regard it as
mere ‘nothingness’.!
How should the ‘clouds of knowing’—sent to a world of appearance—be able to make
the land fruitful if they do not work as appearance within appearance?!
Cosmos
BEYOND!
The Art of Dying
The whole physical and spiritual Cosmos is a homogenous entirety, even if this entirety
offers very differing aspects of itself.
BEYOND!
The One Reality
You will have to differentiate between three realms in the Cosmos, if you are to learn how to
understand the ‘world beyond’.!
Firstly, the realm of the physical-sensory way of perception, or the physical world. !
Secondly, the realm of spiritual-sensory perception, or the world of the Spirit. !
Thirdly, however, there is the realm of hidden, cause-creating powers of Primal Being—
the only Reality, on whose influence rest all the forms of perception and their phenomenal
worlds, both in the spiritual and physical dimensions of the Cosmos.
Coué de !
Châtaigneraie
SHOWING THE WAY!
Power of Healing
Then in Europe Mr Coué came on to the scene asking for nothing more from the sick than
that they believe in the power of their own imagination; he was able to achieve no less
‘spectacular’ results.!
And now another new report comes to us of a healer who is said to cause all sorts of
sickness to vanish merely through the laying on of hands.
Counter-Being
WORLDS!
The Visions
The farther away from this one, all-generating Primal Sun, the more unlike its essence
become the powers flowing from it, until finally, at the outermost reaches they form
themselves into Counter-Being.!
There in the outer world the powers of Counter–Being belong and are thus alone in their
might.
LIVING GOD!
Karma
You have seen the frightening powers of eternal Chaos at work—the repelling powers of
absolute, rigid ‘Nothingness’ as dense as lava. !
These baser powers—continually under the influence of the resilient effects of absolute
‘Nothingness’—seek to destroy everything in their constant hostility, turning into
‘nothingness’ everything which penetrates them from the spheres of eternally pure Being—
everything which ‘falls’ into their dark zone of influence.
HORTUS CONCLUSUS!
Temporal Eternal Space
Only absolute ‘nothingness’, which as something very real surrounds this whole Universe of
worlds in eternal rigidity, as a ‘hardness’ which cannot be imagined in earthly terms, is
without space and outside all possibly existing space: absolutely without distance, not
even comprehensible as an idea.
Creator Spiritus
HORTUS CONCLUSUS!
More On Truth & Reality
then it is indeed difficult to prepare one’s consciousness for receiving the ‘Creator Spiritus’,
the Creative Spirit of Eternity which is of itself sovereign ‘eternal life’, encompassing
everything in its substantial being that is begotten by its realm, yet absorbs nothing in itself
which had not come forth from it in Eternity.
Doubting
Thomas
*** See: Thomas, doubting ***
Eckhart, Meister
MORE LIGHT!
Christianity
The true helpers in the current plights of Christianity are primarily those German
messengers of the Spirit whom one thinks one knows as the ‘medieval mystics’: – the true
‘theosophists’ in the Pauline sense of the word, – those who in truth are knowledgeable
about the Spirit, like Eckehard, Tauler, the anonymous Frankfurt master of the Teutonic
Knights to whom we owe the existence of the ‘Book on the Perfect Life’ and the ‘Theologia
Deutsch’, the canon Thomas à Kempis who gave his fellow believers the ‘Imitation of
Christ’ and – for those to whom his cosmic visions are not too grand and oppressive, the
seer of Görlitz, Jakob Böhme. Although he is primarily a poet, Angelus Silesius must not be
left out in this context.
LETTERS!
Mystics & Böhme
It is a different case with the German mystics, like the anonymous Teutonic knight from
Frankfurt who wrote the ‘Theologia deutsch’, and Tauler, Seuse and Meister Eckhart.!
These were scholarly men who followed hard philosophical paths to attain their insight
which they found then difficult to protect from the condemnation of the Church.!
The scholarly poet Johann Scheffler (Angelus Silesius) was in the opposite situation. As a
Protestant he eventually took refuge in Catholicism by reinterpreting every Catholic
teaching as a poetic symbol.!
For me a phenomenon separate from the others is the ‘pious’ – in the deepest sense of
the word – canon Thomas à Kempis who wrote the four books on The Imitation of Christ
which are, of course, Catholic in intention and replete with so much peace giving
goodness.!
But all these men had no conscious relationship at all with the Luminaries of the Primal
Light, even though in all of them you can find isolated remarks which might tempt one into
supposing that at least the hidden existence of the Luminaries of the Primal Light was
intuited within the circles of medieval German mystics. !
The fact that they unwittingly received so much spiritual help and guidance from the
source they perhaps intuited emerges from what I have already told you at the time about
the nature of this spiritual help. However, it is also clearly visible in the sermons and
writings of Tauler, Seuse and Meister Elkhart as soon as you carefully remove the often ill-
fitting ecclesiastical cloak placed upon certain statements of confession and teaching to
protect those making them from ending up on the pyre. The spiritual influence of the
Luminaries of the Primal Light is seen in many places in Thomas à Kempis and Angelus
Silesius, who is primarily to be regarded as a poet with mystical sensitivity.!
Yet despite all the respect I have for these ancient German mystical theologians and
philosophers, – despite all the love I hold for the wondrously still and noble Thomas à
Kempis, and with all the joy felt for the magnificently concise and sometimes even
quarrelsome Angelus Silesius, I must advise you for the time being to delay studying
mystical writings of any kind until you feel so certain of your own path that the occasional
pursuit of byways will no longer confuse you in the direction leading to your goal.
Elohim
MAN!
Introduction
You will then understand what this ancient holy sentence means: “The Elohim created man
in the likeness of God.” !
You will then no longer search for ‘original humans’ on this planet; – you will recognize
that what you hitherto have described as such should more correctly be described as a
primeval animal from which the more refined animal evolved which now fulfills its role as
carrier & tool of human beings, enabling them to experience themselves in the physical
world.
Extraterrestrial !
beings
LIVING GOD!
Karma
…there are countless planets in immeasurable space inhabited by ‘human beings’, beings
also resembling outwardly the human animal on earth, and you might have found your
animal body on one of these other planets.!
All the human beings inhabiting planets in other solar systems once ‘fell’ like you from the
blaze of Light!!
There are those who are vastly happier and those who are far unhappier amongst your
distant, materially embodied companions…You must not imagine that they have monstrous
forms. For humankind's earthly body has not been produced by some arbitrary act just on
our small solar satellite; rather it is determined by given laws which apply to the whole,
immeasurable, physical-material universe having ultimately – their source in the Spirit…
Eye, Third
MORE LIGHT!
To Those Tired Sleeping
Signs and wonders will occur on your new path in life, but I very much doubt that you will
notice them before the ‘third eye’ has opened on your forehead…
Eye, Seeing eye !
of the worlds
DIALOGUES!
Light & Shade
For one, who became a ‘seeing eye of the worlds’, there can be no more confusion of any
kind, for that one carries within a might which makes one accountable for every moment
one lives.
Eye, Spiritual
GOLGOTHA!
Most Dreadful Enemy
But [eternal Light] will not be found by anyone who does not previously discover that
ineffable power, that spiritual eye in oneself, of which the wisest of all ages have spoken in
more or less transparent symbols; that eye which can also see where the light of our earthly
sun disappears into a higher Light, like a spark in the flaming blaze.
Eye of a needle
THE SECRET!
Sea Journey
Truly it is easier for a camel – and even if it is only a rope made from its hair – to pass
through the eye of a needle than for a ‘rich man’, rich in earthly focussed spirituality, to
enter the Kingdom of Heaven!!%
HAPPINESS!
Wealth & Poverty
Poverty may be blessed; yet poverty does not imply deprivation…!
Wealth can bestow immeasurable benefits; yet it must not wallow sated and without
creative power in those nether regions of which a divine teacher once said that “it is easier
for a camel to go through the eye of a needle” than for ‘a rich man’ to enter through the
gates of the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’…
Fall of Man
MAN!
Mystery: Man & Woman
Thus it is that the two poles exchange roles: – a spiritual perversion by which the feminine
pole takes on the active, and the masculine pole the passive attitude, making the ‘fall’ into
the physical phenomenal world inevitable.
LIVING GOD!
Karma
Your will had fallen from that sublime illumination and now wanted to enter the world of
physical matter along with you…You were at home in the ‘world of causes’, – yet your fear
drove you out into the ‘world of&
effects’. – – –!
This is the truth found in legends of a ‘paradise’ and of the ‘fall’ of humanity by
committing of ‘sin’! – – –
Father
LOVE!
Redeeming Light
This ‘Father’ of all Luminaries of the Primal Light is the eternally light-begotten spiritual
human from the Primal Word, who is himself ‘Word’ in the ‘Word’ and ‘God by God’ – the
great ‘old man’ who is in the ‘beginning’ – who himself represents the first self-forming of
the Primal Word, the ‘Human Being of Eternity’ remaining eternally in his first begotten
state.!
In ancient teaching he is understood as the highest of all ‘angels’ – the ‘crown’ of that
hierarchy of spirits which created here on Earth in the Luminaries of the Primal Light those
‘builders of bridges’ for the ‘great bridge’ leading earthly humans away from the realm of
the beast, so that they can find again the spiritual home they extricated themselves from
aeons ago!
*** See: Primal Human Being of the Spirit ***
Faust (Goethe)
*** See: Feminine, Eternal ***
Feminine,
Eternal
THE SECRET!
Santo Spirito
In the midst of the twelve disciples of the Anointed One was no longer enthroned the bearer
of ‘glad tidings’ but his mother. The woman had taken the place of the man!!
“The eternal feminine draws us upwards,” observed in passing the youngest of the group
in deep seriousness.
MAN!
Mystery: Man & Woman
Yet it is hard for an earthly human to find even one's true ‘living’ God, – for one has got
used to imagining just ‘man’ in his God, whereas one's ‘living’ God is: – ‘man and woman’.!
Earthly humans will only gain redemption when the ‘woman’ within one's God also
speaks once more to one's consciousness…“The eternally feminine draws us upwards.”
MAN!
Path of the Woman
I hardly think that the poet was ignorant of this process when he found the words:!
“The eternal feminine draws us upwards”…
Fourteen!
Holy Helpers!
(Auxilary
Saints)
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
*** See: Angels ***
Freemasons
GOLGOTHA!
Admission Into White
Lodge
The question regarding “conditions of admission” into the “White Lodge” and the offer to
found “sister lodges” furthermore shows that people, otherwise familiar with all sorts of
“occult” matters, think that this community is an external community given over to the
cultivation of mysticism or the occult, something along the lines of the old Order of the
Illuminati or the Freemasons’ lodges.
Gnosticism
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
*** See: Buddhism and Logos ***
Hagia Sophia
LETTERS!
Polytheism Cult of
Saints
It is not an ‘idolatrous’, crude multiplication of the cherished figure of reverence endowed
with an abundance of trust, – which once emerged from the sublime cult of the ‘Hagia
sophia’: the ‘Divine Wisdom’, as the embodiment of the ‘Eternal Feminine’ and later was
identified with the mother of Jesus, – rather it is a psychologically...
Hatha Yoga
GOLGOTHA!
Occultist Practices
One can indeed attain extraordinary capabilities by Hâta-Yoga or similar “practices”, in
which a certain breathing training plays a large part along with fasting, sexual abstinence, a
vegetarian diet and such like, but – one can never approach the worlds of the spirit in this
way. Indeed, one shuts the gates which lead to the realm of the essential spirit, and no
power on Earth can ever reopen them during this earthly life.
Heavenly ladder!
(aka Jacob’s
ladder)
LIVING GOD!
The Path
On the lowest rung of this ‘heavenly ladder’, the one nearest to you, stand those helpers
who can offer you their hand in support, should you want it…
MAN!
Path of the Woman
Only then can the ‘living God’ ‘beget’ himself anew in the man of this Earth. –!
Only then will the ‘Jacob’s ladder’ be set up once more upon which ‘the angels’ ascend
and descend, and which reaches from this Earth into the eternal ‘Primal Light’ whence the
spiritual in earthly man originates.
PATH OF MY PUPILS!
Inner Life Outer World
After a receptive reading of my elucidations the pupil within the Spirit can himself recognize
precisely where one stands, although one must, of course, beware of refashioning to one's
advantage the characteristics of the relevant ability for experience which I give
unequivocally.
PRAYER!
Knock Shall Be Opened
Most have no inkling of the immeasurable distances lying between their consciousness and
the conscious being of God, although ‘God’ fills them, and they only have their existence in
‘God’.!
…It is truly difficult to teach them that although God, in terms of divine life, is the very
nearest to them, but in terms of God’s conscious Essence, there is nothing more removed
and farther from their nature than is God. Human mortals therefore need to understand that
it is necessary to erect a ‘Jacob’s ladder’ in their inner being upon the rungs of which all the
degrees of light-within the Spirit’s hierarchies must first descend and join their hands if
mortal human consciousness is ever to experience clear communication with God’s eternal,
unimaginable, conscious Essence, without fear of facing instantaneous annihilation.
Heliodorus
GOLGOTHA!
Occultist Practices
In Heliodorus we find, in the third book of his “Aethiopica”, also in literary terms, a highly
appreciated novel an extract demonstrating highest wisdom:!
“One form of magic is for the mob and always wanders as it were low on the Earth; it has
to do with ghosts and teems with corpses. The other, however, the true wisdom, towards
which we priests and prophets strive from our youth onwards, looks upwards to heaven,
has intercourse with the gods and shares in the nature of powerful beings…”
Holy Grail
LIVING GOD!
Tabernacle God Man
In ancient times gentle tidings once arrived in the west from the Orient; Christian imagery
described a wondrous, spiritual community of wise men of action. Westerners did not know
how to interpret the news which came to them in this way.!
The veil of the legend concealed the ‘Holy Grail’ and its noble ‘knighthood’.....Knowledge
full of comfort submerged in obscure myth—became legendary background to a devout
fiction.
MORE LIGHT!
Architects of Cathedral
Although not everywhere as evident as in the legend of the Holy Grail and its knighthood,
the entire western world !
in medieval times was still replete with the sublime news of an elevated circle at one with
God. Thus, traces of these tidings are to be found everywhere in legends, popular beliefs
and poetry.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy & Pseudo-
They [the Luminaries] are the guardians, renewed with every generation, of a sacred
treasure which survives on !
this planet because of them: they are the true ‘knights of the Holy Grail’ of the legend–-they
carry out a spiritual service of which only very few in every generation are capable of, for
only very few are born to this service at any time.
WORLDS!
The Visions
The distant peak there in pure white before the glowing gold of the sky is ‘HIMAVAT’, the
mountain of the only ones on this earth whom the Primal Light itself consecrated as priestly
kings!!
There is the primeval image of that temple and its host of servants, there is the permanent
reality of which the legend spoke piously to men in forms they could comprehend, as: the
‘Holy Grail’.
Human Being of !
Eternity a.k.a.!
Eternal Human!
Being of the !
Spirit
*** see Primal Human Being of the Spirit ***
Ignatius de
Loyola
GOLGOTHA!
Occultist Practices
These “practices” have been snatched with equal dexterity and irresponsibility from the
exercises of Ignatius Loyola as from the nastiest tracts written by slapdash occultist cooks
from both the orient and occident. –
Illuminati, Order
of
GOLGOTHA!
Admission Into White
Lodge
The question regarding “conditions of admission” into the “White Lodge” and the offer to
found “sister lodges” furthermore shows that people, otherwise familiar with all sorts of
“occult” matters, think that this community is an external community given over to the
cultivation of mysticism or the occult, something along the lines of the old Order of the
Illuminati or the Freemasons’ lodges.
Islam & the
Koran
CULT-MAGIC & MYTH!
Myth & Cult
On the other hand, a much more recent cult in the heart of Asia – with good reason very
similar to the one that once came to fruition in Europe – was no less successful in giving
new form and interpretation to the ancient patrimony.
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
The innermost revelations of the substantial eternal Spirit have always been received in
different ages by those called by the spirit, even in the forms of Islam which are so strictly
determined by the Koran, just as by the Indian – genuine – Yogi or by the mystic in ancient
Hellas!
HORTUS CONCLUSUS!
Mystery of the East
In our own days this atmosphere, – which once was also able to draw Islam, remote in its
origin, into its sphere when it entered its spiritual, geographically determinable region, – has
lost a lot of its light-filled warming power. Not because the irradiation had become any less,
but because influences from outside Asia bring their disintegrating effect even into the
circles of the most highly gifted religious Asians…
HORTUS CONCLUSUS!
False Images of God
Even the Muslim cannot manage – in the sphere of his ideas – without image and analogy,
even if Islam, understood according to its strict and therefore also dubious point of view,
forbids the external portrayal of a human.
Jacob’s ladder!
*** See: “Heavenly ladder” ***
Janus, head of
DIALOGUES!
Of the Perfected One
The head of Janus turns continually! The old gives way to the young, and the young must
become the old. – – –Both beget from themselves the third, – the one who always remains
in existence, and must exist where ever there is ‘existence’ …………
Jews
LOVE!
Great Man of Love
The wise teacher who wandered through his native land was a Jew and sought to be
understood firstly only by Jews. Even crazed racial hatred can change nothing in all Eternity
regarding this truth, however hard the attempt is made to deny the Jewish people’s
greatest son his ancestry!!
As a Jew, he had to draw upon the spiritual treasure of his people if the value of that
timeless wisdom was to become comprehensible to those whose teacher he wanted to
become. Originally, he saw himself as sent only to the ‘Children of Israel’, and in the
synagogues he sought to demonstrate the truth of his teaching ‘through the scriptures’: –
the ancient religious books of Orthodox Judaism…!
They needed, being true to the observance of ancient Jewish religion, commandments– –
and the threat of punishment for breaking commandments!
MORE LIGHT!
Western-Eastern Magic
I speak of the deepest spiritual knowledge as found still in eastern orthodox Judaism, and
even there only sporadically…!
Those enlightened spirits demanding reverence, belonging to medieval and later orthodox
Judaism, who strove so fervently to take the secret knowledge they believed to belong to
their people, out of the reach of mere speculation and the superstition of gloomy popular
magic, would surely not have feared that after centuries so many virulently anti-Semitic
non-Jews could be found – ignorant of anything Hebrew and clueless with respect to
Jewish piety – who would abuse the cabbalistic treasure of language and thought, known
to them often via the most dubious translations, for an abstruse magical practice foreign to
all Jewish feeling and thinking!
Kabbala
*** See: Cabbala ***
Karma
HAPPINESS!
Wealth & Poverty
As a part and ‘center point’ of mankind as a whole you always have the right to strive for all
the wealth this Earth can offer you! How much of it you may obtain will be determined by
your karma, your ability to master your own fate.
LIVING GOD!
Karma
Before this fall you had already created your ‘karma’ as the orient calls the line of causes of
the fate of every human on earth – by the ‘degree’ of your ‘turning away’ from your God, –
by the ‘degree’ of your frenzied madness trying to teach you to see a ‘God’ in yourself. – –
“Eritis sicut Deus….”
Kingdom of God
GOLGOTHA!
Foolish Inventions
Thus was a very “hard” saying given to them when the Master taught them with
mathematical precision:!
“The Kingdom of God is in you!” They had “imagined” it otherwise.
Kung Fu Tse
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery of Golgotha
At the time of Kung Fu Tse there lived in the Middle Empire a wonderful wise man called
Lao Tse. Kung Fu Tse, the great teacher of the laws of the happy life, heard of him and set
off to visit him. Having returned from this visit, Kung Fu Tse went around for three days
without saying a word, so that his pupils were astounded.
Lamb, Book of
the
MORE LIGHT!
Architects of Cathedral
Even a spiritual ‘master’ can, when it comes to his earthly existence, still ‘fall’, yet even he
can only as a man of this Earth, commit the one ‘sin’ for which there is ‘no forgiveness’ –
‘the sin against the Holy Spirit’, – which in his case is the resisting, arrogant ignoring of
what seeks to reveal itself through him. Without a sound he will then disappear from the
spiritual world like an extinguished star sinking into space. His name is eradicated from the
‘Book of the Lamb’ bearing the ‘seven seals’.
Lao Tse
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery of Golgotha
While this spiritual community as such worked fully concealed for thousands of years in a
spiritual way, there were, at times, though extremely rarely, some of its members “living in
the world” who were ready and willing to impart the most exalted spiritual teaching through
the spoken and written word. One of these rare examples was Lao Tse.
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
One may name as well Lao Tse, the great Indian and Tibetan religious teachers, the Apostle
Paul and the author of the Gospel of John as teachers of true ‘theosophy’,...
Last Supper
WISDOM OF JOHN!
Pure Teaching
Yet it is truly no ‘coincidence’ that today’s preserved text of the message [Gospel of John]
is alone in reporting nothing about the sayings found in the older three accounts, attributed
to the Master at the Last Supper, which became the foundation of the [new] cult [of
Christianity]!!
How would especially the writer, to whom have been attributed the false words of the
Master about his earthly flesh and blood—that his ‘flesh’ was ‘truly meat’ and his ‘blood’
was ‘truly drink’—have noted with the most solemn emphasis imaginable those words
spoken at the Last Supper, had only a single saying, even with a similar meaning, been
recorded in the falsified passage! !
But he knew full well that ideas taken from ancient pagan cults had found a new life in the
exalted Master’s name.
Life of the Spirit!
a.k.a.!
Eternal Life of !
the Spirit!
a.k.a.!
Eternal Cycle !
of Life
LIVING GOD!
En-sôph
Only the all-encompassing Life of the Spirit exists ‘of itself’, abiding eternally, without
beginning, without end.!
PATH OF MY PUPILS!
Necessary Distinction
Spirit is the most intrinsic form of expression of Primal Being from which all being emanates
—from which all being has ‘life’ as long as it continues to exist in its particular individual
form.
LIVING GOD!
War and Peace
The ‘Life’ of the Spirit brings about and conditions endlessly unfolding spiritual forms within
itself—elements of Primal Being—and their influence in turn ultimately brings about and
conditions the ‘rigid’ physical form of manifestation, in which the Spirit’s endlessly
‘extended’ spiritual power enters a state of captivity and relative impotence—a state of
being determined by a particular rigid will to shape physical forms.!
However, owing to the most powerful attraction from the region where the Life of the
Spirit attains its highest forms, these powers of the Spirit raise themselves again from this
state of rigid immobility and uttermost extendedness—a state completely alien to their
nature—towards new, less dense and rigid forms until, through countless transformations,
they become increasingly free of the tension generated by extendedness, until at last they
feel themselves pulled upwards into their original state within the innermost Life of the
Spirit.!
This is the Eternal—eternally renewing—Cycle of ‘Life’ in the substantial Spirit—‘that
which exists’ of itself! !
Becoming ‘nourishment’ for itself, it sinks down into itself in order to raise and absorb
itself again into its highest absolute essence, free of all the tension of rigid form.
Living God
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
In this manner the once ‘fallen’ spiritual man will find his way back from the animal of this
Earth to his original homeland in the eternal pure Spirit, into the ‘world’ of blessedness and
clarity which knows ‘life’ of a completely different kind than can be found even in the most
mysterious regions of cosmic nature to which belongs this Earth! !
…Only after the completed return, united with the ‘Word’ that is ‘God’, will spiritual humans
see the Godhead the way it eternally is and works from ‘countenance to countenance’, yet
not from without but within oneself. !
Only then will one ‘recognize’ and also ‘be recognized’! !
Yet even at the very start of this immeasurable path one's ‘living God’ can beget itself
within one in a form which can be experienced by human beings.!
The ‘Living God’ of the awakening or awoken human on this Earth is like a
incomprehensibly small spark from the eternally radiant Light of the ‘Word’ that is ‘God’
from Eternity to Eternity, and which is itself the Primal Light in its self-expression as the
Primal Word, just as it contains itself as eternal ‘Godhead’ ‘at the same time’.
Living Fire,!
powers of
*** see “Powers of the soul” ***
Logos
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
The ‘Logos’ concept is derived from Gnostic insight. But here, in the ‘Word’ that is of God
and is God, we are faced with nothing other than the self-expression of the eternal,
incomprehensible Primal Light in an individualized spiritual form. This insight of spiritual
reality entered the teachings of Christianity where it was completely confused with the
utterly different status of ‘son of God’ of the Master from Nazareth, so that the ‘Anointed
One’, the Christos of the Gospels, has been understood and worshipped for almost two
thousand years as: the Logos ‘become man’.
Lord’s Prayer
PRAYER!
Seek & You Shall Find!
If one now utters the wonderful words, so simple and clear in meaning, that the exalted
Master of Nazareth once commanded his pupils to ‘pray’, this attained new consciousness
will feel each of these words as a further confirmation of its own will.!
The complete ‘Lord’s Prayer’ will be to the seeker nothing other than the most perfect
testimony of one's own indivisible oneness with the will of eternal Being…
Lourdes
PATH OF MY PUPILS!
Dynamic Belief
*** See: Asclepius ***
Luminaries!
of the Primal!
Light
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
Yet some who did not fall into the manifestation of the animal body live, of their own free
will from primeval days glowing with divine love and mercy, here on this Earth in an invisible
form, so that they might keep open the way back to the Primal Light for their fallen
brothers. They are guided by one of the primally begotten spiritual beings from the primal
world of the pure Spirit who has never left its primary place in the ‘Word’ that is ‘God’.!
These few were able, an unimaginable age ago, to prepare human spirits before they
were born in the human animal in such a way that they, once born, could reach that state
which forms the bridge for the human spirit to cross over onto the first headlands in that
blessed higher-world of the Spirit from which it had once banished itself through its fall.!
Those prepared in this way among men on this Earth have become, through the Eternal
which reveals itself in them, the ‘Luminaries of the Primal Light’; those few who may be
called, to use a common expression: – the ‘Elder brothers of mankind’, – ‘elder’, because
they would have been born thousands of years ago in the human animal of this Earth, had
they not decided freely, even though they too belong to those spiritual men who had
surrendered to the fall and now had to unite with the animal, to offer themselves to the few
brothers who had not fallen, living here in spiritual form, in order to be prepared to become,
as it were, human lenses for gathering the rays of the Primal Light.
CULT-MAGIC & MYTH!
Myth & Reality
The hierarchies of the spiritual world had taken pity on the human spirit within the animal
and wanted to show it the way back to its homeland.There was no other way of achieving
redemption than through man himself.!
Therefore they sought and found those few whom they could prepare as Luminaries of
the Primal Light, so that through them they could give light to others.They were found in the
heart of Asia; from here they went out into the whole world, true to the mission they had
received.!
One of theirs would suddenly appear among all the peoples of the earth, – their words
would light a holy flame in all who heard them.
Magi
WISDOM OF JOHN!
Aftermath
They were in reality those ‘wise men’ from the east – priestly kings and kingly priests – who
once ‘saw far away in the east’ the ‘star’ of the young carpenter from Galilee. They had
come to teach him until the day he could comprehend his mission himself, – even if they
did not, as later legend would have it, kneel at the babe’s crib and offer him their gifts.
Magic
RESURRECTION!
Magic of Fear
Although the word ‘magic’ has nowadays been devalued into a mere vogue word, it is very
hard not to use it when talking of the things which we are addressing here.!
The ancients who still knew from experience of man’s magical power of faith spoke of
‘white’ and ‘black’ magic, depending on the beneficial or evil effects caused by the use of
the same power.
Mahatma
MORE LIGHT!
Architects of Cathedral
In more modern times it was an exclusively religiously oriented circle of seekers delving into
mystic tradition which knew of the ‘wise men of the east’. For half a century [since 1886]
so-called ‘theosophical’ books have spoken about ‘Mahâtmas’ and their community in a
‘white lodge’, even though the few they think they know by this name are very distant from
the teachings found in these books, and they neither form a Freemasons’ lodge or any
similar circle, nor a secret society; rather they are a purely spiritual community – in no
respect comparable with any other human association.!
The members of this spiritual community owe their mysterious reputation specifically to
the account given by ‘theosophists’; it is a reputation they have never given rise to
themselves, and in which they see only a contemptible, fantasy-ridden distortion of
themselves.
*** See: Melchizedec ***
Mammon
HAPPINESS!
Money
However little money you call your own, you should still be aware of the power contained in
every penny. Just as a pebble can set in motion an avalanche, so too can a penny set the
largest sums in motion.!
And you must also trust the power to move which lies behind money!
Mediumship
GOLGOTHA!
Spiritualist Mediums
But when and where has a creative artist ever had to give himself to this spirit in the way of
a medium – feeling his hand mechanically moved, and creating works which were not
primarily determined by his own ability? –
Melchizedek
MORE LIGHT!
Architects of Cathedral
The true ‘Mahâtmas’—if one wishes to deploy this much used and worn out word which is
an honorific title in India even to describe the members of the circle of Luminaries in the
eternal Primal Light who reveal themselves in the lives of earthly men—have never founded
‘spiritual movements’ nor tried to establish associations by which they sought to influence
men with fakir arts and supposed scientific omniscience…!
It is superfluous to emphasize that a ‘master’ of this sublime circle, described in the
grotesque ‘theosophy’ of recent decades as the ‘White Lodge’—a genuine ‘Mahâtma’—in
the true meaning of the word: a ‘great man of the soul’ or: a ‘great soul’—can be born
anywhere on Earth, not only in India, China or Tibet…!
Such a master, though passed away, continues to remain present on Earth through his
union with the spirit of his successor to whom he transfers his already perfected
mastership. Only then is he who is born to be a master also de facto a ‘master’; only then is
he aware of his priestly status ‘after the order of Melchizedek’.
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy & Pseudo-
theosophy
The words of everyone who teaches as the ‘Father’ commands him to teach, lead to true
‘theo-Sophia’ which is identical to the originally imparted mysterious and spiritual
‘Christianity’ from the eternal ‘Christos’ in the Primal Light whose most sublime temple on
Earth was found only in the ‘innermost East’ long before the Master of Nazareth, as one
belonging to it, taught how to experience eternal Love. Here it will remain in existence until
the end of the days on this Earth, and with it for all time those eternally ordained to it and
who belong to it as ‘priests after the order of Melchizedek’: the ‘order’ which the Eternal
sets up for itself within the temporal!
Meng Tse
HAPPINESS!
Optimism
Meng Tse said: “Doing the right thing involves doing the obvious; yet everyone seeks it in
the extraordinary. Doing the right thing is doing what is easily accomplished; yet everyone
seeks it in what is achievable with difficulty.”
Mithras!
THE SECRET!
Rocky Island
In this magical world, they walked upon narrow paths leading over loose pebbles down to
the beach. Half way down they reached their destination: – that old Mithras grotto where
once, thousands of years ago, the sun was worshipped as a divinity. Here the mystai had
been initiated by sacred mysteries at the time of the spring equinox.!
“Physically we come from the earth and we must, for the time being, also hide ourselves in
the bowels of the earth – whether only in feeling, or visibly as these mystai thought it was
right – before we can be ‘born anew’…
Mystai!
Muslim
*** See: Islam & Koran ***
Myth
CULT-MAGIC & MYTH!
Myth & Reality
The first myth was born and gained might over humanity! Countless are the forms which
came into existence, propagated from its original seed from generation to generation.!
For a long time they only revealed the grave earthly distress of humanity.
Narrow way
GOLGOTHA!
At the Source of Life
One who is not prepared, despite all the false paths one has known, to give up in one's
striving until one has found what one's soul seeks can find the path to freedom, the narrow
path which leads to the essential Light!!
I have already often shown this path and I show it here again to all those who want to find
it.
Nativity
GOLGOTHA!
At the Source of Life
They saw in themselves only that living form of their spirit which can only wake up to
eternal blaze when the “Living God” full of power and reality makes it into the throne of its
glory, – when one prepares one's own “birth” as “child of the virgin” in an earthly human,
announced by the “shepherds” who “keep watch at night”, – worshipped by the “wise men
of the Orient”, the priestly kings from the “innermost East” who can see the “star” as soon
as it lights up over a “stable” in which “among senseless beasts” the king is born who will
“redeem” Israel.
Necessity
SPECTER FREEDOM!
Necessity
Although the ancient Greeks raised their gods to a most elevated position, the wise men of
the time recognized a higher, mysterious principle to which they considered even the gods
to be subordinate, namely: – ‘ananke’, = necessity.
One Life of the!
Spirit
LIVING GOD!
War and Peace
The one eternal Primal Power which exists ‘of itself’ and is reflected in endlessly unfolding
aspects of itself, in elements of Primal Being.
Om Mani Padme!
Hum
ROYAL ART!
The Journey
Deeply carved into the pillar, in the native script of the land, were the sacred syllables,
majestic in their grandeur: OM MANI PADME HUM –!
meaning, “Truly! The lotus flower bears the mystery!”
ENIGMAS!
Enigmas of the Future
Living in the present moment lifts humanity into life’s divine dimension.!
The myriad moments that form our earthly life then line up like precious pearls on a string
until one day, in life eternal, we find ourselves in the constant same moment that
encompasses the experience of the eternal—the jewel in the thousand petalled lotus
blossom.!
OM MANI PADME HUM!
Original guilt
ROYAL ART!
The Threshold
Yet when the powers of that Living Fire which burns without a flame revealed their self-
power in all realms of life to primally begotten humans, they forgot their own essential
power to which alone the fiery forces owed their energy, greatness and might, and—they
began to fear them…!
Fear is humanity’s original guilt, for it was only because of their fear of the powers of
which they were lord that the primally begotten one fell from the eternal blaze!!
Behold, now you know the cause of all evil here on this Earth!
Paracelsus
HIGH GOAL!
The Two Paths
Does not Paracelcus, joyful in his strangely ornate wisdom, utter – as one who could really
know – the meaningful word which testifies to great knowledge:!
“The constellations have power over nothing at all; they are free in themselves, as we are
free in ourselves.”!
And again: “The child needs neither stars nor planets; its mother is its planet and its star!”
–
Patanjali
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy & Pseudo-
To paraphrase Patânjali, the wise man from India: “Just as water when poured into a vessel
takes on its form as it fills it, so too the spirit of the Yogi takes the form of the thing which
he wants to penetrate knowingly!”
Paul the Apostle
LOVE!
Introduction
Hatred is the opposite pole to love; it is the same power inverted; – whoever is incapable of
hatred, though he knew a long time ago that only folly results from hatred, will never find
the love within him of which Paul, truly a man of love, said: “Though I speak with the
tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal.”
Great Man of Love
Thus Paul, that true man of love, called the ‘Apostle to the Gentiles’ and ‘preacher unto
nations’, had a difficult task when he, who once truly experienced in himself the ‘spirit of
truth’ in deepest trembling and thereafter knew who the exalted Master was, – met those
who were all too confined, yet daring to call themselves disciples of the ‘Anointed One’!
HIGH GOAL!
Master of Nazareth
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as
sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”!
Thus spoke one who knew of love! Yet it was another who had lived this love previously in
the everlasting elevated teaching of his life…
THE SECRET!
Southern Night
…We are left with a man who was active for his beliefs with a fiery zeal until one day he
heard of – as he is called: – a ‘righteous’ man in the city of Damascus. He sets off to find
him because finally he had become, oppressed by his doubts, as though blind and
incapable of finding a way out.!
He stayed a long time with that man – and discovered from him those things that – I have
been entrusted to bring to you…!
Having received them he went to those who, with external justification only, called
themselves pupils of one of us. Now his life really becomes difficult as the things which he
recognized as ‘spiritually directed’, the others, tied to their all-too-earthly narrowness, were
to interpret rationally in their own way.!
He very clearly differentiated between ‘God’, described in the genuine passages of his
epistles as ‘God, our Savior’, – the Anointed of God: Jesus, who was to be recognized ‘no
longer according to the flesh’; and thirdly: the ‘Father’ of the exalted Master Jehoshuah of
whom he well knew that he was not simply to be equated with ‘God’. But those who came
later falsified his words when they no longer fitted into their doctrinal structure, which had
been erected, according to their own style with the help of all sorts of old temple ruins on
the foundations of the Nazarene’s teaching. !
He himself warned of those who came later: – ‘For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers
having itchy ears; and they will turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto
fables.’
Pentecost
LOVE!
Great Man of Love
Not even that mass awakening which took place in Jerusalem at the ‘Jewish festival of
Pentecost’ was able to strip away all veils from the souls of those who now believed in the
Master since they had ‘seen’ him repeatedly after his death.These souls were too confined
for the ‘spirit of truth’, once promised by the Master, to be able to bring them to perfection
from within themselves.
Perpetuum
mobile
LIVING GOD!
The Path
God’ determines the universe, and the universe determines ‘God’! The ‘perpetuum mobile’
wise men and fools hoped to discover already exists and cannot be invented a second
time…
Phallus and Yoni
MAN!
Path of the Woman
Phallus and yoni united showed this truth symbolically to the Indians already in ancient
times, – whereas phallus or lingam on itself, as the correlative physical male organ,
symbolizes that power which propagates from the man who is born for this purpose the
initiated and masters of cosmic knowledge…
Pharisees
WISDOM OF JOHN!
Luminary’s Earthly Path
He increasingly avoided the city [Jerusalem] after it became ever more evident to him that
his distinguished friends could not offer much protection if he fell into the hands of the
priesthood whom he had castigated in his sermons.
MORE LIGHT!
Christianity
And let him be far removed from that Pharisaic self-righteousness which thinks it cannot
give any better expression to its reverence for Christian teaching than to meet those who
seek after truth in a non-Christian form with incomprehension or even with hatred!
LOVE!
Great Man of Love
…the Master filled with contempt for the contemptible, who escorted by disciples, made a
scourge to drive out the merchants defiling the temple, – who kicked over the money
changers’ gold and who castigated his people’s priests with harsh words for which they
could, in their lust for vengeance, never forgive him!
Pillar of Fire
LIVING GOD!
The Path
All great things demand courage and belief!!
Before you have hung ‘on the cross’ you cannot ‘rise again’!!
Before you have faith, the ‘pillar of fire’ can not lead you through the ‘parted’ sea!
Plato
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery of Golgotha
With certain justification it has been pointed out how close his teaching is to the
Pythagoreans and the philosophy of Plato. It was even thought probable that Lao tse drew
from the wisdom of ancient Egyptian mysteries and thereby were made the strangest
connections.
Powers of the !
soul a.k.a.!
Powers of the!
Living Fire!
(See also!
Primal Being)!
BEYOND!
The One Reality
You will have to differentiate between three realms in the cosmos, if you are to learn how to
understand the ‘world beyond’.!
Firstly, the realm of the physical-sensory way of perception, or the physical world. !
Secondly, the realm of spiritual-sensory perception, or the world of the Spirit. !
Thirdly, however, there is the realm of hidden, cause-creating powers of Primal Being: –
the only reality, on whose influence rest all the forms of perception and their phenomenal
worlds, both in the spiritual and physical dimensions of the Cosmos.!
These hidden, causal powers of being work in earthly man as his ‘powers of the soul’.!
Once crystallized into a temporal collective form in a human life, they adopt, as it were,
the human’s individual ‘coloration’ and become, through the eternal will which manifests
itself in him, determined for all future time, so that they must henceforth follow the impulse
they now received until he finds fulfillment.!
If this fulfillment does not take place in the earthly life of the human who gave the
impulse, the ‘powers of the soul’ striving in a particular direction will repeatedly express
themselves in new human lives, until they finally achieve fulfillment by merging themselves
with the will manifested in a human being and so becoming one with him. !
An incorrect interpretation of what they saw of these events seduced peoples of the East
into believing in a frequent ‘re-embodiment’ through birth on Earth.
LIVING GOD!
On Death
To the spiritual eye your ‘soul’ is a glowing, living ‘cloud’ composed of innumerable radiant
‘points’—the powers of your soul. This cloud of light is in constant transformation during
your life on Earth.!
You will only keep permanent possession of the powers of the soul which you have united
into your Spirit-begotten will at the time of your departure from this life on Earth.
LIVING GOD!
En-Sôph
The elements of Being are urged and driven to act compulsively without awareness of their
Being, nor of the consequences they bring about. At their source in the ground of Primal
Being they are still opposed to one another, and every element asserts itself alone.!
But from the self-assertion of opposing elements there results polarity and, thus,
reciprocal attraction, which, in time not countable in human terms, prepares for the gradual
accumulation of the scattered elements.!
In the elevated form your consciousness requires, these elements reveal themselves as
the powers of your soul, and many of them are trying to assert themselves within you.!
Whatever rages and seeks urgent expression in your heart, whatever continually drives
you on and keeps you in a restless state–this striving which urges you to achieve
something–recognize in all these the effects of those powers of Primal Being which seek to
unite themselves anew within you in a specific, individually determined form!
LIVING GOD!
The Path
Each individual power of the soul is seeking to possess your will only for itself, and none
willingly surrenders to your will.!
Though you regard them all as your own inherent ‘characteristics’, each power of your
soul is an independent being of the soul with its own will and the drive to assert itself alone,
even at the expense of all other powers of the soul. !
But you must never become discouraged when you often seem to be struggling in vain
for the supremacy of your own will over the many separate wills seeking to assert
themselves alone in your soul! !
All your struggling is but a continual test of your patience and the power you have already
acquired within your own will.!
Know that in this way you will in the end become the victor!
ROYAL ART!
The Threshold
Hidden in your world, concealed by the visible forms of your world, is the world of the
spiritual powers…!
These powers work—originally creative, but also—destructive through creation.!
These powers are powerless in themselves since from themselves they lack all impetus to
be effective. It is the essential power of an individual who is—his true Self—which fills them
with the urge to experience themselves, and so they become spiritually willed…!
Interwoven and immersed in the [physical] world…and similarly interwoven in the world of
these powers of Living Fire of which I speak here, there is a world of pure Light which
illuminates all worlds and reveals them within itself.!
The Mighty One, who only knows himself in his name, holds these three worlds—
embedded in himself—pervading them and experiencing them all in himself.!
He reveals himself to us when keeping quiet…!
Everyone who became a seeing eye of the worlds lives from Him and in Him.!
Through Him the essential power is master of the powers of the Living Fire.!
Truly, you could also call the Mighty One—Her—for man and woman are contained within
Him.
Primal Being, !
elements/!
powers of!
(See also !
Powers of the!
soul)
PATH OF MY PUPILS!
Unavoidable Difficulties
The innermost of what ‘is’, if it is to be defined.
BEYOND!
The One Reality
The realm of hidden, cause-creating powers of Primal Being—the only Reality, on whose
influence rest all the forms of perception and their phenomenal worlds, both in the spiritual
and physical dimensions of the Cosmos.!
These hidden, causal powers of Being work in earthly man as his ‘powers of the soul’.
ROYAL ART!
FromLuminaryToSeeker
The ‘beginning’: Primal Being, begets from itself the Primal Light, and the Primal Light
begets the Word.
WISDOM OF JOHN!
The Paraclete
But Love, which loves itself in the other, is the innermost impulse of all these revelations of
Primal Being.
LIVING GOD!
En-soph
The elements of Being work chaotically where, hurled from Primal Being, they assert
themselves as the deepest forces of primordial Nature pregnant with creation. There they
act compulsively and instinctively without being aware of themselves in what they bring
about. There they are still separated, and each one asserts itself alone.!
Continually alternating their effects, elements of Primal Being show themselves—at times
as manifestation, at other times as the destroyers of manifestation. They themselves ‘are’
from Eternity to Eternity, irrespective of their alternating effects, and are ‘brought about’ by
no one. However, elements of Primal Being are continually hurled from Primal Being and
continually return unto it.
LIVING GOD!
War and Peace
For the spiritual world, however, to enter spiritual phenomenon, the one eternal Primal
Power must be reflected in itself in infinitely unfolding aspects of itself. Once reflected in
each of these aspects as an element of Primal Being, it must assert itself so that every
individual element will seek only its own influence, with the consequence that all other
elements of Primal Being are like empty moulds for it since it only knows itself as Primal
Power within itself.!
Every aspect of spiritual Primal Power—every ‘element of Primal Being’—thereby
becomes the cause for the manifestation of its influence in the physical region acquiring the
instinct to live only for itself and to consume every other manifestation for the preservation
of its own existence. !
Primal Power is undivided in every element of Primal Being, whether it is the cause of the
basest or highest manifestation through its influence.
Primal Fire of!
Love
LOVE!
The Primal Fire of Love
Everything you have hitherto been accustomed to call ‘love’, unless you were only thinking
of the lower level of love which consists of physical craving, will truly be perfected when
you are yourself imbued with the power of the Primal Fire of Love!!
From your whole being will then pour forth that which you are still strenuously trying to
make real! !
Those things you today call ‘duty’ and ‘virtue’ will then become the most natural
fulfillment of your existence!!
You cannot inflame the power of the Primal Fire of Love within you without its rays
continuously pouring from you. Everything that comes near to you will sense this constant
radiance. Everything which previously encountered you with resistance or aggression will
then oblige you in order to join you of its own free will!
MYSTERY GOLGOTHA!
Mystery of Golgotha
The ‘Heart of God’ is the fiery center of Light of all Being, the Primal Source out of
unformed ‘Chaos’, which no word of human language comprehends, unless it is called
‘Love in Being through itself.’!
In the midst of unfathomable ‘Chaos’, eternal Love, ablaze like an incomprehensible fiery
source of Light—eternal ‘Primal Light’—gives voice to itself as the ‘Primal Word’,
simultaneously perceiving itself in an infinitely manifold ‘echo’, in an infinite diversity of Self-
expression.!
The perpetual Emanation of that Primal Fire-Sun of eternal Love expresses itself in
unending Will to become, transforms itself into rhythmically articulated motion, becomes
the Primal Word, which utters from itself all becoming—everything that has ever come to be
and everything that shall ever come to be!!
Thus ‘the 'Word” of the Lord goes out to all the lands’, and in each of these ‘Words’ it
becomes its own worshipping ‘answer’; in each it is the blazing ‘Sun’, generating from itself
its ‘planetary system’–the individuated ‘Godhead’ of the individual within the Spirit, whom it
brings forth out of itself without end.
WORLDS!
The Visions
The indescribably radiant PRIMAL SUN which you now espy in the furthest interior of the
spherical space has grasped us with magnetic force to absorb us into the core of its fiery
light!!
…You will surely now be transformed in this Primal Fire, whether you want it or do not want
it, but here will now be proven who you are!!
You will burn here and be sent back into darkness as a blazing star so that the darkness
might receive eternal light from your rays, or surely your vacillating will shall bring your
destruction and aeons of renewed torment.!
…The perpetual Emanation of that Primal Fire-Sun of eternal Love expresses itself in
unending Will to become, transforms itself into rhythmically articulated motion, becomes
the Primal Word, which utters from itself all becoming—everything that has ever come to be
and everything that shall ever come to be!
Primal Human!
Being of the !
Spirit
ROYAL ART!
FromLuminaryToSeeker
But the Word has the Light of Life, and the Light shines forth in the Word which begets the
‘Father’: Primal Human Being of the Spirit—in the deep silence of Eternity, which today is
as it always was and always will remain.
WISDOM OF JOHN!
The Paraclete
And so the Primal Word, further begetting, reveals itself in the eternal Human Being of the
Spirit who again has ‘from itself’ the same life only in the Primal Light and further begets
the hierarchies of all spiritual entities, which all have life ‘from themselves’, since they are all
only the closer and more distant revelations of the Primal Light through the Primal Word.
Primal Light
WISDOM OF JOHN!
The Paraclete
The Primal Light alone is the eternal Source of All Life: Being of itself! !
WORLDS!
The Visions
The perpetual emanation of the primal Fire-Sun of eternal Love which expresses its own
Self as never-ceasing will toward becoming.
GOLGOTHA!
At the Source of Life
While being Its own cause in all its forms of representation, this eternal Life yet finds its
highest being fulfilled only beyond all forms of representation. Each of its forms of
representation is of its own essence but serves, so to speak, only as the ocean of renewal
from which it continually generates itself, from itself, through its own self-given power. !
Embracing its highest self-recognition, comprehending its entire Being, this Eternal Life of
the Spirit crystallizes its highest consciousness as the Primal Light.
Primal Power
*** see Primal Being ***
Primal Word
WISDOM OF JOHN!
The Paraclete
In itself unfathomable as Being of itself, the Primal Light ‘speaks’ from itself the Primal
Word, which has life only in Being ‘from itself’ as the first eternal revelation of the Primal
Light.!
The Primal Word is the ‘Word’ which is ‘in the beginning’, which always was and is and
will be: ‘God’ in the Godhead.’
Promised Land
LIVING GOD!
The Path
You are not alone on this path…All those who once walked upon this path before you
escort you!!
They too once had to pass through all the dangers! The path was no easier for any of them
than it is for you!!
Now they have arrived at the ‘Promised Land’…
Pythagoreans
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery of Golgotha
With certain justification it has been pointed out how close his teaching is to the
Pythagoreans and the philosophy of Plato. It was even thought probable that Lao tse drew
from the wisdom of ancient Egyptian mysteries and thereby were made the strangest
connections.
Râmakrishna
HORTUS CONCLUSUS!
Tradition AsiaticReligion
In those Asiatic religious systems which have grown in the soil of India, or are influenced by
India, the becoming conscious of the eternal is striven for through a kind of internal play of
the soul, in which man is simultaneously actor and spectator, by representing within himself
his godheads, and by experiencing them with all the weight of his own self-assuredness
depending on his nature, as alive and connected with himself, – if not achieving even
complete subjective identification, – (think, for example, of Râmakrishna!).
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
*** See: Sufi ***
Reality
GOLGOTHA!
At the Source of Life
Truly it is necessary to give witness in ever new images to the truth; truth which is
incomprehensible without images and parables, since it is Reality, Primal Being of things,
Source of all life!
Redeemer
LOVE!
Love’s Primordial Fire
…only then will he come close to you, and only then you may say in truth:!
“I know that my Redeemer liveth!”– – the ‘Son’ of Man who in his day could confirm to his
disciples that he would spiritually abide with them ‘until the end of the world’!
Reincarnation
BEYOND!
The One Reality
Thus the doctrine of reincarnation can be seen as having as little application to normal
events, as suicide or death in infancy can be seen as the normal conclusion of life of man
on Earth…
Rembrandt
LETTERS!
Strangeness Time
Far from all comparisons of value, my treatises on spiritual matters remind me always of
certain drawings by Rembrandt where the intended subject is gradually brought to the fore
by countless lines which try to follow the image more and more distinctly.
Realm of the!
soul
DIALOGUES!
Realm of the soul
However, be not afraid!!
Those who before you became free rulers in the realm of the soul will stand at your side;
the time before your true ‘resurrection’ will not be wasted, even if it were to take ‘thousands
of years’ by human reckoning.
Resurrection
RESURRECTION!
Resurrection
There once lived one who received the ‘mission’ from his ‘Father’, of whom he said that he
was ‘greater’ than him, and he said these words:!
“I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall
he live: and whosoever believeth in me shall never die!”
Revelation, Book!
of
WISDOM OF JOHN!
Conclusion!
MORE LIGHT!
On the 3 Levels
*** See: Apocalypse ***
Saints
MORE LIGHT!
Comprehended
*** See: Angels ***
Salt of the Earth
LOVE!
Love’s Primal Fire
Not those who deem themselves ‘holy’ because they slide out of any guilt and
responsibility like slithering worms, but those on Earth who truly suspect salvation, those
who have in every age been the ‘salt of the Earth’.
Seek and Find
HIGH GOAL!
Seeking & Finding
Truly it is much easier to investigate, with the air of an explorer, the external world and even
to uncover the most secret of its shafts, sure of winning fame as the discoverer, than it is to
find in oneself one’s innermost which is also well hidden from those who believe that they
have explored the soul’s powers for so long that the soul dissolves under their gaze into
unreal nothingness.
PRAYER!
Mystery of Prayer
Yet, according to the ancient account it was also said:!
“Seek, and you shall find!” “Ask, and you shall receive!” “Knock, and it will be opened unto
you!”
Seraphim
PATH TO GOD!
Certain Knowledge
*** See: Cherubim ***
Sermon on the !
Mount
GOLGOTHA!
Occultist Practices
Read the Sermon on the Mount and you will learn those general “first practices” which to
him appear completely essential. If you are looking for “practices” for those of you who are
advanced, then each of his parables speaks volumes, regardless of the fact that he says
quite clearly to his actual disciples:!
“Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, to the rest are
given only parables.”!
In the parables he describes only what is necessary as a “practice”: the focussing of
consciousness on the stimuli of the soul’s powers, and the subsequent action which the will
owes to these stimuli.
Serpent of !
Paradise
GOLGOTHA!
Occultist Practices
...because they hope in this way to outwit the world order and learn “to work magic”, – or at
least to become as clever as the serpent in Paradise, who, as is well known, knew how to
become “like the gods”. Its credulous pupils have evidently not eaten the famous apple “in
the right way” and so the lesson did not quite bring the proper results.
MAN!
Path of the Woman
The myth of the Garden of Eden has ‘Eve’ tempted by the ‘serpent’, and she in turn tempts
‘Adam’. Although this myth as we know it today may not have been handed down to us in
its original form, it nevertheless clearly demonstrates that one initiated in an eternally
recurring process, sought to convey to later generations that knowledge, symbolically
concealed within an account couched in the language of his times, in as far as his symbolic
language would be recognised.
Seuse, Heinrich
*** See: Eckhart, Meister ***
Seven gateways
ROYAL ART!
On the Spiritual
Masters
Perhaps very little would correspond to your over-exaggerated conception of the essence
of those men who are united with God, were you able to recognize in his earthly apparel
any one of us who are called the ‘Masters of the Seven Gateways’ to the Godhead!?!
Shakyamuni !
(Buddha)
LOVE!
Introduction
He will also certainly not understand the meaning of that legend telling of the Shakya-Muni,
the Indian Buddha. It tells of how one of his enemies drove a raging elephant onto his path.
The Enlightened One, to everyone’s astonishment, tamed the beast which, shaking, knelt
down before him; for he had confronted it with the powers of love which he carried within
himself…
Siddhartha!
Gautama
*** see Buddha ***
Silesius, Angelus!
aka Scheffler,!
Johann
*** See Eckhart, Meister ***
Skandhas
GOLGOTHA!
Growth of the Soul
One does not speak for nothing of the “growth” of the soul, for “the soul” is, as I have
explained sufficiently in other places, an organism recognizable only to the highest inner
senses, formed from countless unities: the “powers of the soul” or the correctly understood
“skandhas” of Indian terminology.
Sodom
SHOWING THE WAY!
Urge To Criticize
A single positive value can outweigh the abundant presence of all mistakes and faults!!
Legend tells us that Sodom was destroyed because the sins of thousands made it ripe for
annihilation; but for the sake of ‘ten righteous souls’ the whole city would have been
spared…
Son of God
HAPPINESS!
‘I’ and ‘You’
If you should one day attain supreme knowledge, you will in all certainty think back with
deepest shame to those days when it appeared to you to be part of a divine plan that a
‘Son of God’ had to suffer for your actions because you thought this a convenient way to
shirk the consequences of your deeds…
Sons of God
MAN!
Path of the Woman
The animal form the female pole immediately finds in its ‘fall’, – a form already ‘created’
from spiritual humanity's earliest propagation, – compels the masculine pole to covet the
same form for itself.!
“That the sons of the Gods saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and took them
wives of all which they chose.”
Son of Man
GOLGOTHA!
Mystery of Golgotha
The path to Spirit was thus opened up by Jesus of Nazareth to all those who are willing to
bring to life within themselves what was alive in him. Within himself he had united his Living
God with the animal, begetting that new being he was accustomed to call the Son of Man,
the “son” begotten by the human spirit when at last it overcomes the animal in which it was
imprisoned by letting it behold its own magnificence and power.
Sophia (of God)
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy & Pseudo-
theosophy
Only these exceptionally few men of this Earth, whose eternal spiritual being has received
the needed form of consciousness from the ‘Sophia’ – the wisdom! – of God as the eternal
feminine pole of the radiant Spirit, have the ability, in accordance with this priestly order, to
impart to their fellow human beings the recognition and the knowledge about the Sophia of
God!
Spirit
LIVING GOD!
En-Sôph
En-Sôph’, ‘that which is of itself’, is ‘Spirit’ which holds everything within itself. From the
chaos of the unformed elements of Primal Being, the free, conscious Will of the Spirit
creates itself for itself as—‘God’!
LIVING GOD!
On the Spirit
Spirit is substantial, living Light, being from itself, conscious of itself, through which
everything has life, filling all infinities and pervading all things in the endless spiritual and
physical Cosmos. Forming its own essence, out of itself, the Spirit’s highest form of being
reveals its inmost self as—God
Spiritual !
Substance
PATH OF MY PUPILS!
Unavoidable Difficulties
The very Reality of all things: the profusion of all powers of Primal Being—nothing rigid, but
inherently the freest of all things, hindered by nothing, eternally moveable, and eternally
moving.!
It has not, as it were, been ‘created’ but—without any particular act of will—is given by
the mere presence of ‘Primal Being’, as I must call the innermost of what ‘is’, if it is to be
defined.
Suffering
LETTERS!
Rendering Worthless
All suffering must, however, be exposed as an evil grounded within animal nature which
must be endured as an inevitability following a set pattern infinitely far removed from all
‘educative’ terms of divine ‘guidance’ – yet as a call upon all humanity's powers which can
alleviate or eradicate suffering.
Sufi
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy
One may name as well Lao Tse, the great Indian and Tibetan religious teachers, the Apostle
Paul and the author of the Gospel of John as teachers of true ‘theosophy’, as the genuine
ancient Muslim ‘Sufi’ in ancient Persia, imbued with wisdom, or the ‘last Indian prophet’
Ramakrishna.
Tabernacle of !
God with Man
LIVING GOD!
Tabernacle God Man
Since primeval times, when the first animal creatures became bearers of spiritual humans,
the location of the activity of the ‘brothers’ on this Earth has been where the highest
mountain range of the Earth rises high, – inaccessible to all those they themselves have not
spiritually guided into their midst.!
Here in truth is the ‘tabernacle of God with men’ on Earth! Here the realm of the Spirit
reaches into the physical events of this Earth through the powers of purest spiritual
substance!
Tables of the !
Law
ROYAL ART!
The Teaching
But you shall become more and more a will that is awake, until one day your will, in joy and
clarity shall vividly permeate everything within you.&
All the tables of the law are erected by the will to joy. You are yourself will to joy and
follow only your own law when you want to come in joy to yourself and in joy to God!
Tauler, Johannes
*** See: Eckhart, Meister ***
Teutonic Knight!
(priest) of !
Frankfurt
*** See: Eckhart, Meister ***
Theosophy
MORE LIGHT!
Theosophy & Pseudo-
theosophy
*** See: Blavatsky, Madame and Melchizedek and Sophia ***
Thomas à !
Kempis
*** See Eckhart, Meister ***
Thomas, !
doubting
GOLGOTHA!
Occultist Practices
This “faith” is not certainty won through experience that one can do something, but the
power through which one can indeed do it!!
There is an indescribably fine irony in the punning saying which the Master of Nazareth
directed at doubting Thomas: “Thomas, because thou hast seen thou hast believed” (found
the report to be correct), “blessed are they who have not seen” (have not certainty through
experience), “and yet have believed.”
Transfiguration !
of Jesus
LOVE!
Great Man of Love
When he took three of his twelve disciples on one occasion with him to the mountain where
he was accustomed to ‘pray’ and there allowed them to see his ‘transfiguration’ into his
spiritual form, his loyal followers believed, on seeing two men in white apparel next to their
Master, that they had to be two of the prophets of old, – ‘Moses’ and ‘Elijah’ – so that the
Master, full of disappointment when seeing their error, forbade them to tell the others about
it.
Trinity
WISDOM OF JOHN!
The Paraclete
The true ‘Trinity’ had not been recognized, which is to be seen only in:!
The Primal Light—formless, incomprehensible and all-encompassing—the unending,
imponderable, eternal ‘sea of the Godhead’ revealing itself eternally as One in:!
The Primal Word—the ‘Word’ which is ‘in the beginning’ that ever was, and is, and will be:
‘God’ within the Godhead, revealing out of itself:!
The ‘Human Being of Eternity’–the Light-begotten, eternal spiritual Human Being which
abides forever in the Word and, further begetting as ‘Father’, allows all spiritual hierarchies
to emerge from himself. Thus while being One, the Father is at the same time the
embodiment of all plurality, revealing himself to himself in the numbers of the source from
which emerges all the infinite multiplicities of spiritual life.
Unio Mystica
MORE LIGHT!
Western-Eastern Magic
In the Cabbala also, we are talking primarily, as in all practical mysticism, about finding the
way to the supreme spiritual from which all life comes forth: – about the union of the soul
with its abandoned source of life: about a ‘Unio mystica’: – the fusion of the separate
individualization with the eternal primeval individuality, which is alone the common ground
of being for all individual existence.
Upandishads
*** see Vedas “””
Vedas
THE SECRET!
Sea Journey
If you want to find your way to that narrow gate which will lead you to wakeful experience,
then you will have to consciously leave all the ways which earthly thought has constructed! !
Even the wisdom of the Vedas is often but foolish invention as far as finding that truly
narrow gate is concerned!!
The Upanishads move along broad paths, the Avesta travels the same wide streets of
foolish thought, yet on all of them occasionally trails can be discerned of those who have
found that narrow path which leads to the gate of life.
Water from the !
rock
WISDOM OF JOHN!
Luminary’s Earthly Path
Overwhelmed by everything he saw, he lost at this moment the security of his inner calling,
and just as Moses in the legend doubted whether he could provide water for the people, so
he believed, for moments only, that the power they wanted to bestow upon him could
support his mission.
White Lodge
MORE LIGHT!
Architects of Cathedral
*** See: Mahatma and Melchizedek ***
