I've been working on this for a few years. First I needed to read everything I could find in order to get knowledge. Then when I got what that was, written 'out' there, I needed to go in here, within my own store of knowledge to look at what I am reading on the outside of myself, which others had put out to be shared. And through my internal system I could put it all straight.
So this is it. The story of Sophia when she created that god who she called Yaldabaoth. The thing we are dealing with here are symbols which when delved deeply within, we can comprehend the lesson, the message, the keys which are there to be found.
Alright, first of all...I found that what happened there, works for everyone individually. When she first created him she told him to stay and wait there for her, since she was going out to reach the Mother. And what that means, is when you are first brought into life, when first you are 'born' into a form, the thing you must do is to stay where you are at in order to get to know thyself. Know yourself first before you get up and go. Because when you don't wait and stay to get to know thyself first, then you are missing all of the parts which are meant to be there to help you live your life properly, fully, abundantly.
You see, Yaldabaoth jumped away. He didn't stay. Hence, he didn't have the proper knowledge of himself. He had all kinds of holes in his thinking and feeling...which, would he have stayed, those things would not be holes but they would be a whole.
So what happened to those beings, like say for example, the Lizard beings who are full of fear and who think they need negative energy, well that is the same thing they did. There are some Lizard beings though who didn't jump and run...so there are some whole beings out there. The majority of them, soon as they were created, hatched, what-not, they didn't wait and stick around until they knew who they were. Instead they dashed off into the 'circle' or 'group' of others who also did not wait. Hence you have a very unstable foundation. That's why it is easy to destroy groups who are all stuck together. It's so simple to destroy what they think is strong, because they see on the surface some bi i i i ig group, and they're deceived thinking it is their strength. Hah, ha ha. It is an illusion. You can find one being all by themself who has stayed, waited, found out who they were as soon as they were born, before they proceeded on...and you will find that THAT ONE BEING is stronger than all the groups put together in any realm who have run away from finding out who they really are.
Hence, Yaldabaoth was the teacher of lies, for out of his fear all kinds of imperceptions occurred in his mind, and he didn't have the correct foundation on which to straighten those thoughts, hence he crookedly proceeded, and hid the truth the best way he could because he thought of the truth as an enemy at this point. Whereas would he have stayed and got to know his true self, the whole inner being, then he would have been following what he learned about himself, which would be the truth that is in every being. And then this horrible mess haha, with all kinds of beings going off and running away from their own true self, and creating a hell of a lot of mess, that now needs to be cleaned up, wouldn't have occurred.
Would they have stayed until they knew themselves for who they truly are, they too would have had a much easier and fuller existence, with the treasures within their own self nurturing themselves instead of going out and raiding planets for gold and other resources...since all this is to be found within your own treasure store which IS like a fountain gushing, never ceasing, constantly flowing, out of the glory of the first principle, one's own self. Would they not have scrammed as fast as they could from themselves to go running to their destruction, I.E., those groups of insufficiency which they think is their haven, (Hahaha. The most ludicrous thing!) well they now would be living the wealth and prosperity of who they are meant to be. But they only see their surface scaly or what-not type of flesh in their own material realm...instead of the heart of who they really are. So, learn.
That is what ignorance is. When one does not know their true self. That then is what ego is...the exterior separated from the self...a very shallow and ignorant thing. Hence why Sophia would call him "the blind god."
Therefore, what one must do now, is to go back, into their private inner self, away from all the others and find out who they are. You must use your common sense and stay yourself to the place until you know who you are. Would you to listen to your insecure self, the ego, then you would go off running like some madman and attaching yourself to a group of beings who are similar to your ignorance about your true self, and that would be self defeating. Like I told you, it is very easy to destroy a group no matter how large it is, when that is the principle...that no one who has found themself needs any one else, as, they are a whole. They may communicate and share their treasure with whomever they please or with everyone who could to recieve and give...there is no destroying of that kind. Those are indestructible because they are anchored into the divine center from where all things originate. So! You won't see an intelligent person going after one of those to have a fight. You will see an intelligent being with a chisel having fun destroying a group of beings from their 'security' post, hahaha. There is kindness though. When one loves all other beings, the only reason one would to chisel away at, to destroy a group, would be to help them understand that missing principle in their knowings. They need to learn they must go back from that place where they first were born and find out who they are. Then when they have that needed knowledge, they can move out of that place and go anywhere they please and be completely powerful beings.
There you are beings. Know thyself. One more time. You will hear it always until it is a part of your knowledge. Something that gets taken care of before you proceed to do anything else.
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To Her GRAND Children: A Netherworld of Occult Knowledge revealed for your discernment... A Standard Understanding Of The Things That BE. IS BE.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
2012 - 3 hour online Movie explaining Mayan Calander.
Here's a very informative movie on the 2012 situation, about why the energies are moving so fast now, about where we have been, where we are now, and possibly, where we are heading. It's up to you. Here's the link to watch it from youtube.
The Circled Cross Solar Pattern.
This is very interesting concerning health. I'm excerpting out of a book called "The Ladder of Lights," which is about the Tree of Life, ie, the Qabala. It is written by William G. Gray, published in 1968.
"It was Carl Jung who noticed that when healing was established on psychic levels, the patient almost invariably began to have visions or experiences of the Circled Cross Solar pattern, or Mandala. Such a happening seemed almost a sine qua non of healing. It was, of course, the application of Solar balance to the unconscious part of the patient which began their healing process in the first place. This is the working principle of what used to be called magical, and is now termed "paranormal" healing. Reverse its action and disintegration takes place. The Solar Cross is the key to the whole operation."
Here are some websites with this symbol:
Sun Cross
The Magical Mandala
Art Therapy Thesis-Mandalas
Archetypes of the Near-Death-Experience
Sacred Circle of the Inner Flame
Carl Jung and the Mandala
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"It was Carl Jung who noticed that when healing was established on psychic levels, the patient almost invariably began to have visions or experiences of the Circled Cross Solar pattern, or Mandala. Such a happening seemed almost a sine qua non of healing. It was, of course, the application of Solar balance to the unconscious part of the patient which began their healing process in the first place. This is the working principle of what used to be called magical, and is now termed "paranormal" healing. Reverse its action and disintegration takes place. The Solar Cross is the key to the whole operation."
Here are some websites with this symbol:
Sun Cross
The Magical Mandala
Art Therapy Thesis-Mandalas
Archetypes of the Near-Death-Experience
Sacred Circle of the Inner Flame
Carl Jung and the Mandala
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
David Bowie (fun poetry)
As the world falls down
It's almost 18 o'clock. Time to wake up.
What do you want for breakfast?
Something Quick?
Something easy.
Yea.
Have some.......
LabyrinthWithin You
Sanctuary Angel
Oh, I could
write a poem
but I
thought
This was
easier.
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'come with me myyy love, to the sea, the sea of love...I wanna tell ya how much I love you'
Before you go to Heaven, Ya got ta go through Hell.
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Bennett!
This guy from the Gurdjieff school, I finally found. He's the third peg in the wheel.
Bennett. This is his style...and it is, very interesting.
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Ouspensky records a conversation in St. Petersburg during the summer of 1916 in which Gurdjieff discussed the problem of communication, and the impossibility of conveying in our ordinary language ideas which are intelligible and obvious only for a higher state of consciousness. Speaking of the unity between man, the Universe, and God, he said that the objective knowledge by which alone this unity is to be understood can never be expressed in words or logical forms. At this point, Gurdjieff made a statement which is a key to the understanding of his own subsequent writings. He said:
Realising the imperfection and weakness of ordinary language, the people who have possessed objective knowledge have tried to express the idea of unity in ‘myths,’ in ‘symbols,’ and in particular ‘verbal formulas,’ which, having been transmitted without alteration, have carried on the idea from one school to another, often from one epoch to another.
In All and Everything Gurdjieff makes extensive use of these three forms, that is, symbol, myth, and verbal formula. There is no need in these mathematical days to defend the use of symbolism. It is regarded by many schools of modern thought as the only safe form of language. Wittgenstein treats symbols as something more than conventional signs, and regards them as corresponding in some way to the reality to which they refer. He would probably accept Gurdjieff’s dictum that:
symbols not only transmit knowledge but show the way to it.
Even though other thinkers deny any objective reference to symbols, no one questions that symbolism has a power beyond that of ordinary language. It is different with the language of myth. This is despised by superficial thinkers, but the greatest philosophers have known its value. Whitehead wrote:
The father of European philosophy, in one of his many moods of thought, laid down the axiom that the deeper truths must be adumbrated by myths. Surely the subsequent history of Western thought has amply justified his fleeting intuition.
Toynbee follows Plato’s lead and says:
Let us shut our eyes for the moment to the formulae of Science in order to open our ears to the language of Mythology.
He attributes the value of mythological images to the fact that they are not embarrassed by the contradictions that arise when statements about ultimate reality are translated into logical terms. Even Cassirer, an arch priest of mathematical language, regards mythical thinking as one of the a priori forms in which the human mind operates, and an irreducible way of interpreting experiences.
All these statements are true, but perhaps not quite as their authors understand them. The language of myth derives its supreme power from the fact that it unites what are hopelessly divorced in logical thinking: the inner world of human experience and the outer world which we call the Universe.
The importance of ‘verbal formulas’ as a means of conveying objective truths has been overlooked by modern thinkers, with the possible exception of Whitehead, and yet the type of verbal formula used by Gurdjieff in All and Everything corresponds precisely to what is regarded by many as the highest ideal of language, in which the meaning of an expression is created by the compulsion of inner experience. In Gurdjieff’s hands, this form of language acquires a devastating power.
I have started to write about All and Everything in this way, because it is, in one aspect, an experiment in linguistic form. Gurdjieff uses every linguistic device from abstract symbolism to myth, from aphorism to pictorial image, from the simplicity and directness of Early English to the reiteration and exuberance of the East. But the linguistic form is always the means and not the end. There is, therefore, special importance in the form of language which he uses to express what Whitehead calls ‘the deeper truths.’
In the reviews of the book which have appeared, All and Everything has usually been described as a cosmological epic or allegory. This disregards the distinction between allegory and myth. Allegory is a weaker and more sophisticated form of expression than myth. It belongs to our ordinary language, in which only relative ideas can be expressed. The myths which to this day are the symbolic forms of our deeper thinking, have existed since the dawn of history. Toynbee has said that no genius has arisen in the last four thousand years capable of creating a new myth. This amounts to saying that for forty centuries, mankind has not discovered a new approach to ‘the deeper truths.’
I believe this to be right, and it is a measure of the place which I would assign to Gurdjieff’s work in the history of human thought that I find in All and Everything a new mythology, the power of which will only be understood by generations yet unborn.
It is not surprising that Gurdjieff’s writings have been ridiculed and misunderstood by the very people who profess to desire above all else that a new spiritualising factor should enter human life. With prophetic vision, Albert Schweitzer nearly fifty years ago wrote:
What the ultimate goal towards which we are moving will be, what this something is which shall bring new life and new regulative principles to coming centuries, we do not know. We can only dimly divine that it will be the mighty deed of some mighty original genius, whose truth and rightness will be proved by the fact that we, working at our poor half thing, will oppose him might and main—we who imagine we long for nothing more eagerly than a genius powerful enough to open up with authority a new path for the world, seeing that we cannot succeed in moving it forward along the track which we have so laboriously prepared.
Having said so much I might be excused for refusing to go further. If Gurdjieff has said what cannot be expressed in ordinary language, it would be folly to attempt a translation. This is true, and those who have studied All and Everything for many years, in the manuscript form in which it has been available to his own immediate pupils, know very well that he has dealt lightly with the reader in his “Friendly Advice” to read the book thrice in order to obtain from it that specific benefit “which I wish for you with all my being.” Even with long study, the deeper truths of Gurdjieff’s teaching remain untranslatable without impoverishment.
Unfortunately I have already gone too far and cannot evade the challenge to explain what I mean in asserting that Gurdjieff has said something new which is not expressed in the myths or philosophies of the last four thousand years. Toynbee has said with reason that the language of mythology avoids the logical contradictions inherent in every account of the relations between God and the Universe:
In logic, if God’s Universe is perfect there cannot be a Devil outside it, while, if the Devil exists, the perfection which he comes to spoil must have been incomplete already through the very fact of his existence.
Toynbee rightly conceives some kind of Devil as necessary for the process of creation, but remains involved in the dualism of good and evil, of conflicting wills, of antithetical purposes. This conflict is inherent in all our myths, from the Chinese Yin-Yang and The Book of Job to Goethe’s Faust and the modern myth of dialectical materialism. Dualism remains imbedded in all our thought. Even Whitehead, who rejects what he calls the “vicious dualism of Decartes,” the “bifurcation of Nature,” holds that:
Throughout the Universe there reigns the union of opposites which is the ground of dualism.
Gurdjieff specifically rejects the myth of good and evil. He puts in its place a Creation myth in which the very existence of the Universe is subject to overriding and determining conditions which make the complete realisation of the Divine Purpose inherently impossible. The fact of successive actualisation in Time imposes on every process the price of incompleteness and imperfection. This is the Merciless Heropass which:
has no source from which its arising should depend, but like ‘Divine-Love’ flows always … independently by itself.
For Gurdjieff, Time has at once the absolute character of the Scholium to Definition VIII of Newton’s Principia, and also the disruptive tendency of the second Law of Thermodynamics, which according to Eddington:
holds the supreme position among the laws of Nature.
In Gurdjieff’s myth the Heropass is vanquished by the infinite wisdom of the Creator, not as an enemy or opposing principle, but rather as an ineluctable fact, the very condition of the possibility of existence. From this follows the Trogoautoegocratic principle, according to which the permanent harmony of the Universe is assured by the reciprocal feeding of everything that exists. I think that this conception was dimly sensed by the authors of the older Upanishads, and in the Serpent myths of many races, but it has never been understood as the sole remedy against the destructive power of Time.
In Gurdjieff’s myth, the Universe comes into existence to ensure the perpetual self-renewal of the Most Holy Sun Absolute or First Principle. This conception is so necessary for the understanding of human destiny that Gurdjieff in his final chapter, “From the Author,” translates it into ordinary language. Everything that lives must serve the “all-universal purposes.” Man is not exempt from this necessity, and must, either by his life or by this death, contribute his quota to the transformation of energy upon which the reciprocal maintenance of all existence depends:
But at the same time Great Nature has given him the possibility of being not merely a blind tool of the whole of the entire service to these all-universal objective purposes but, while serving Her and actualising what is foreordained for him—which is the lot of every breathing creature—of working at the same time also for himself, for his own egoistic individuality.
This possibility was given also for service to the common purpose, owing to the fact that, for the equilibrium of these objective laws, such relatively liberated people are necessary.
Although the said liberation is possible, nevertheless whether any particular man has the chance to attain it—this is difficult to say.
Man has thus a two-fold destiny, either to live only as the unconscious slave of the all-universal purpose, or to pay the debt of his own existence and thus attain independent individuality, with all that this brings of further possibilities of self-perfecting. In Gurdjieff’s teaching of human destiny, there is the fundamental religious conception of man as a being in need of salvation. Salvation, moreover, is only possible through redemption from Above. While thus preserving the conceptions which are common to all the great religions, Gurdjieff presents them in a new and penetrating form. To mention one example only, I would say that his doctrine of Original Sin, expressed in the myth of the organ Kundabuffer, is more profoundly satisfying than anything to be found in the theologies of the East or the West. This recalls the avowed purpose of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, namely:
To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world.
Superficially, All and Everything is a cruel satire upon human nature. It exposes ruthlessly our age-old weaknesses of vanity, credulity and self-love. In his descriptions of modern life, Gurdjieff draws directly upon his own penetrating observations of forty years of travel in every continent and most countries. His combination of wit and compassion enables him to speak of the intimate absurdities of our private lives in a way that will offend only those who do not wish to face the truth. To what does all this lead? Rejecting the dualism of good and evil, Gurdjieff has to put in its place some ultimate regulating principle of universal validity. This brings us to one recurrent theme of the book that defies verbal analysis. It is Gurdjieff’s doctrine of the “Sacred Impulse of Divine Conscience.”
Gurdjieff is concerned with arousing the conviction, not only that there is something terribly wrong with “our ordinary being existence,” but also that there is a way out—to a life more becoming to beings “created in the image of God.” The attentive reader cannot help feeling that he is in the presence of someone who has himself penetrated to this better world, and knows the means for attaining it. As one studies the book, there emerges the idea, which becomes a conviction, that the path of what Gurdjieff calls “conscious labour and intentional suffering” can indeed lead to imperishable being and the hope of reunion with the Prime Source of Everything Existing.
In All and Everything Gurdjieff makes no attempt to prove anything, that is to say, he uses no logical arguments, nor does he even explain the meaning of his most important assertions. This meaning can often be found only by confronting passages from several different contexts. In many cases the meaning of words only begins to take shape when the situations to which they correspond have been directly experienced. How then can the mere reading of the book arouse the conviction that its fundamental thesis is true? A great, though not the sole part, is played by the ‘verbal formulas’ which, according to Gurdjieff, are one of the elements of objective language.
This applies especially to Gurdjieff’s doctrine of Conscience. He sets up the “Sacred Impulse of Divine Conscience” as the sole regulating principle of conduct. It is the antithesis of morality, which is no more than a system of external rules having only local and transient significance. Of morality, he says that it has:
exactly that ‘unique property’ which belongs to the being bearing the name ‘chameleon.’
The very idea of Objective Conscience defies analysis. It is as dangerous as it is powerful. Institutional religion rejects inner self-judgement in favor of moral principles and rules of conduct not merely to secure thereby a better hold upon their followers; there is a genuine danger that the idea of Conscience may degenerate into self-sufficiency and license. Gurdjieff meets the challenge with the formula of Ashiata Shiemash:
Only-he-will-be-called-and-will-become-the-Son-of-God-who-acquires-in-himself-Conscience.17
This formula is treated as axiomatic, that is, requiring neither explanation nor argument. Its meaning is conveyed by Gurdjieff’s emphasis upon the character of the inner change which must be wrought in man before he is fit and able to live by the dictates of conscience alone. In one sense, the whole of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson is a commentary upon the doctrine of Conscience, for it depicts the process of its arising in Beelzebub’s grandson Hassein, from the 7th Chapter, when he first catches a glimpse of the meaning of duty, to the 46th Chapter, in which his understanding of the universal laws blends with an overwhelming compassion towards the sufferings of mankind.
Conscience and compassion are inseparable. The legomonism of Ashiata Shiemash, called “The Terror of the Situation,” contains the quintessence of Gurdjieff’s teaching about human life on earth. If man is to achieve his highest destiny, he must purge himself of the taint of Original Sin expressed as the consequences of the organ Kundabuffer. For this he must work and struggle and suffer, but whence is the urge for this work to arise?
Orthodox religion replies that it must come from the Sacred Impulses of Faith, Love, and Hope. Yet the history of mankind has shown that these impulses are ineffectual against the forces of egoism, vanity, self-love, suggestibility, and the rest, which ruin every good undertaking to which man sets his hand. Faith, Hope, and Love are so distorted that they can no longer serve as impulses towards self-perfecting. Gurdjieff teaches that there is one, and only one, sacred impulse remaining unspoiled, deep in the human psyche. This is the Sacred Impulse of Conscience, which cannot be destroyed. It is implanted by Divine Grace. Concerning this, with characteristic delicacy of touch, Gurdjieff exposes in one sentence his doctrine of the Suffering of God:
The factors for the being-impulse conscience arise in the presences of the three-brained beings from the localization of the particles of the “emanations-of-the-sorrow” of our omni-loving and long-suffering-endless-creator; that is why the source of the manifestation of genuine conscience in three-centered beings is sometimes called the representative of the creator.
The doctrine of compassion is contained in another verbal formula which states the condition prerequisite for the process of self-purification by which a being can become worthy to be re-united with the Prime Source of Everything Existing. Purgatory is represented as a state of existence possible only for beings who have already acquired independent individuality, and perfected themselves to such a gradation of objective reason that they can pass in their experience beyond the limitations of the planetary system in which they were born. But these qualifications are not enough. Neither the inward strength of the fully-liberated individual, nor his aspiration towards ultimate perfection, are sufficient; without compassion towards other beings, further progress is impossible. All this is expressed in a verbal formula consisting of the words placed over the chief entrance of the Holy Planet Purgatory, decreeing the following:
Only he may enter here who puts himself in the position of the other results of my labours.
From this, we come to the ‘concluding chord’ in the last chapter, “From the Author,” where:
each one of us must set for his chief aim to become in the process of our collective life a master. But not a master in that sense and meaning which this word conveys to contemporary people … but in the sense that a given man, thanks to his, in the objective sense, devout acts towards those around him—that is to say, acts manifested by him according to the dictates of his pure Reason alone … acquires in himself that something which of itself constrains all those about him to bow before him and with reverence carry out his orders.
The ultimate satisfaction for man is the knowledge that he has paid the debt of his own existence, and is free thereafter to serve the purposes for which he was created. This does not imply that life for Gurdjieff is reduced to a bleak self-denial. Real happiness for man is possible at every stage of his existence, but there is a warning formula:
Every real happiness for man can arise exclusively only from some unhappiness, also real, which he has already experienced.
There is nothing novel about the contents of this formula. What is new and necessary for our time is the emphasis upon the inevitability of payment; Gurdjieff insistently taught that the only true wisdom is to pay in advance. In writing of Gurdjieff’s verbal formulas, I have wandered from the task of stating what I mean by asserting that Gurdjieff has created a new mythology.
In detail, there is little new. Not much research is needed to discover the affinity of Gurdjieff’s cosmology with Neo-Platonism in the West and Sankhya and the Abhidharma in the East. It is easy to show where he has drawn upon Christian (especially Greek Orthodox), Buddhist (chiefly Mahayana and Zen), Moslem (particularly Dervish and Sufi), and Ancient Egyptian and Assyrian sources. The originality of his teaching does not lie in its raw material but in the use to which it is put. His Creation myth is that of a Universe which is the scene of a striving necessary to the Deity. It is permeated through and through with the consequences of the simple fact of successive actualisation in Time. In writing these words, I am forcibly reminded of Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity, and a comparison of the two books is indeed a demonstration of the immeasurable superiority of the language of myth and verbal formula over that of logical analysis, even when inspired by a poetic imagination. What is missing in writers like McTaggart, Alexander and Whitehead is the feeling that the suffering and the striving of the Universe really matter.
With Gurdjieff, the drama of the Universe becomes a present living reality. Involution and evolution are neither good nor evil, neither in opposition nor even complimentary to one another. They are equally necessary for the Divine Purposes. They are woven together by the reciprocal feeding of all existence, which is neither evolution nor involution. Here and everywhere Gurdjieff’s mythology is through and through triadic, and not dualistic. The problems of man, the Universe, and God are resolved in terms of a real mutual need for which philosophy has not hitherto found an adequate expression. From the cosmic drama there emerges the miraculous destiny to which man is called if he is willing to pay the price. Since the Universe itself is a perpetual striving, the highest destiny of man is no static beatitude, but the undying fulfillment of an everlasting purpose.
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Bennett. This is his style...and it is, very interesting.
Gurdjieff’s All and Everything
September 1950
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Ouspensky records a conversation in St. Petersburg during the summer of 1916 in which Gurdjieff discussed the problem of communication, and the impossibility of conveying in our ordinary language ideas which are intelligible and obvious only for a higher state of consciousness. Speaking of the unity between man, the Universe, and God, he said that the objective knowledge by which alone this unity is to be understood can never be expressed in words or logical forms. At this point, Gurdjieff made a statement which is a key to the understanding of his own subsequent writings. He said:
Realising the imperfection and weakness of ordinary language, the people who have possessed objective knowledge have tried to express the idea of unity in ‘myths,’ in ‘symbols,’ and in particular ‘verbal formulas,’ which, having been transmitted without alteration, have carried on the idea from one school to another, often from one epoch to another.
In All and Everything Gurdjieff makes extensive use of these three forms, that is, symbol, myth, and verbal formula. There is no need in these mathematical days to defend the use of symbolism. It is regarded by many schools of modern thought as the only safe form of language. Wittgenstein treats symbols as something more than conventional signs, and regards them as corresponding in some way to the reality to which they refer. He would probably accept Gurdjieff’s dictum that:
symbols not only transmit knowledge but show the way to it.
Even though other thinkers deny any objective reference to symbols, no one questions that symbolism has a power beyond that of ordinary language. It is different with the language of myth. This is despised by superficial thinkers, but the greatest philosophers have known its value. Whitehead wrote:
The father of European philosophy, in one of his many moods of thought, laid down the axiom that the deeper truths must be adumbrated by myths. Surely the subsequent history of Western thought has amply justified his fleeting intuition.
Toynbee follows Plato’s lead and says:
Let us shut our eyes for the moment to the formulae of Science in order to open our ears to the language of Mythology.
He attributes the value of mythological images to the fact that they are not embarrassed by the contradictions that arise when statements about ultimate reality are translated into logical terms. Even Cassirer, an arch priest of mathematical language, regards mythical thinking as one of the a priori forms in which the human mind operates, and an irreducible way of interpreting experiences.
All these statements are true, but perhaps not quite as their authors understand them. The language of myth derives its supreme power from the fact that it unites what are hopelessly divorced in logical thinking: the inner world of human experience and the outer world which we call the Universe.
The importance of ‘verbal formulas’ as a means of conveying objective truths has been overlooked by modern thinkers, with the possible exception of Whitehead, and yet the type of verbal formula used by Gurdjieff in All and Everything corresponds precisely to what is regarded by many as the highest ideal of language, in which the meaning of an expression is created by the compulsion of inner experience. In Gurdjieff’s hands, this form of language acquires a devastating power.
I have started to write about All and Everything in this way, because it is, in one aspect, an experiment in linguistic form. Gurdjieff uses every linguistic device from abstract symbolism to myth, from aphorism to pictorial image, from the simplicity and directness of Early English to the reiteration and exuberance of the East. But the linguistic form is always the means and not the end. There is, therefore, special importance in the form of language which he uses to express what Whitehead calls ‘the deeper truths.’
In the reviews of the book which have appeared, All and Everything has usually been described as a cosmological epic or allegory. This disregards the distinction between allegory and myth. Allegory is a weaker and more sophisticated form of expression than myth. It belongs to our ordinary language, in which only relative ideas can be expressed. The myths which to this day are the symbolic forms of our deeper thinking, have existed since the dawn of history. Toynbee has said that no genius has arisen in the last four thousand years capable of creating a new myth. This amounts to saying that for forty centuries, mankind has not discovered a new approach to ‘the deeper truths.’
I believe this to be right, and it is a measure of the place which I would assign to Gurdjieff’s work in the history of human thought that I find in All and Everything a new mythology, the power of which will only be understood by generations yet unborn.
It is not surprising that Gurdjieff’s writings have been ridiculed and misunderstood by the very people who profess to desire above all else that a new spiritualising factor should enter human life. With prophetic vision, Albert Schweitzer nearly fifty years ago wrote:
What the ultimate goal towards which we are moving will be, what this something is which shall bring new life and new regulative principles to coming centuries, we do not know. We can only dimly divine that it will be the mighty deed of some mighty original genius, whose truth and rightness will be proved by the fact that we, working at our poor half thing, will oppose him might and main—we who imagine we long for nothing more eagerly than a genius powerful enough to open up with authority a new path for the world, seeing that we cannot succeed in moving it forward along the track which we have so laboriously prepared.
Having said so much I might be excused for refusing to go further. If Gurdjieff has said what cannot be expressed in ordinary language, it would be folly to attempt a translation. This is true, and those who have studied All and Everything for many years, in the manuscript form in which it has been available to his own immediate pupils, know very well that he has dealt lightly with the reader in his “Friendly Advice” to read the book thrice in order to obtain from it that specific benefit “which I wish for you with all my being.” Even with long study, the deeper truths of Gurdjieff’s teaching remain untranslatable without impoverishment.
Unfortunately I have already gone too far and cannot evade the challenge to explain what I mean in asserting that Gurdjieff has said something new which is not expressed in the myths or philosophies of the last four thousand years. Toynbee has said with reason that the language of mythology avoids the logical contradictions inherent in every account of the relations between God and the Universe:
In logic, if God’s Universe is perfect there cannot be a Devil outside it, while, if the Devil exists, the perfection which he comes to spoil must have been incomplete already through the very fact of his existence.
Toynbee rightly conceives some kind of Devil as necessary for the process of creation, but remains involved in the dualism of good and evil, of conflicting wills, of antithetical purposes. This conflict is inherent in all our myths, from the Chinese Yin-Yang and The Book of Job to Goethe’s Faust and the modern myth of dialectical materialism. Dualism remains imbedded in all our thought. Even Whitehead, who rejects what he calls the “vicious dualism of Decartes,” the “bifurcation of Nature,” holds that:
Throughout the Universe there reigns the union of opposites which is the ground of dualism.
Gurdjieff specifically rejects the myth of good and evil. He puts in its place a Creation myth in which the very existence of the Universe is subject to overriding and determining conditions which make the complete realisation of the Divine Purpose inherently impossible. The fact of successive actualisation in Time imposes on every process the price of incompleteness and imperfection. This is the Merciless Heropass which:
has no source from which its arising should depend, but like ‘Divine-Love’ flows always … independently by itself.
For Gurdjieff, Time has at once the absolute character of the Scholium to Definition VIII of Newton’s Principia, and also the disruptive tendency of the second Law of Thermodynamics, which according to Eddington:
holds the supreme position among the laws of Nature.
In Gurdjieff’s myth the Heropass is vanquished by the infinite wisdom of the Creator, not as an enemy or opposing principle, but rather as an ineluctable fact, the very condition of the possibility of existence. From this follows the Trogoautoegocratic principle, according to which the permanent harmony of the Universe is assured by the reciprocal feeding of everything that exists. I think that this conception was dimly sensed by the authors of the older Upanishads, and in the Serpent myths of many races, but it has never been understood as the sole remedy against the destructive power of Time.
In Gurdjieff’s myth, the Universe comes into existence to ensure the perpetual self-renewal of the Most Holy Sun Absolute or First Principle. This conception is so necessary for the understanding of human destiny that Gurdjieff in his final chapter, “From the Author,” translates it into ordinary language. Everything that lives must serve the “all-universal purposes.” Man is not exempt from this necessity, and must, either by his life or by this death, contribute his quota to the transformation of energy upon which the reciprocal maintenance of all existence depends:
But at the same time Great Nature has given him the possibility of being not merely a blind tool of the whole of the entire service to these all-universal objective purposes but, while serving Her and actualising what is foreordained for him—which is the lot of every breathing creature—of working at the same time also for himself, for his own egoistic individuality.
This possibility was given also for service to the common purpose, owing to the fact that, for the equilibrium of these objective laws, such relatively liberated people are necessary.
Although the said liberation is possible, nevertheless whether any particular man has the chance to attain it—this is difficult to say.
Man has thus a two-fold destiny, either to live only as the unconscious slave of the all-universal purpose, or to pay the debt of his own existence and thus attain independent individuality, with all that this brings of further possibilities of self-perfecting. In Gurdjieff’s teaching of human destiny, there is the fundamental religious conception of man as a being in need of salvation. Salvation, moreover, is only possible through redemption from Above. While thus preserving the conceptions which are common to all the great religions, Gurdjieff presents them in a new and penetrating form. To mention one example only, I would say that his doctrine of Original Sin, expressed in the myth of the organ Kundabuffer, is more profoundly satisfying than anything to be found in the theologies of the East or the West. This recalls the avowed purpose of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, namely:
To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world.
Superficially, All and Everything is a cruel satire upon human nature. It exposes ruthlessly our age-old weaknesses of vanity, credulity and self-love. In his descriptions of modern life, Gurdjieff draws directly upon his own penetrating observations of forty years of travel in every continent and most countries. His combination of wit and compassion enables him to speak of the intimate absurdities of our private lives in a way that will offend only those who do not wish to face the truth. To what does all this lead? Rejecting the dualism of good and evil, Gurdjieff has to put in its place some ultimate regulating principle of universal validity. This brings us to one recurrent theme of the book that defies verbal analysis. It is Gurdjieff’s doctrine of the “Sacred Impulse of Divine Conscience.”
Gurdjieff is concerned with arousing the conviction, not only that there is something terribly wrong with “our ordinary being existence,” but also that there is a way out—to a life more becoming to beings “created in the image of God.” The attentive reader cannot help feeling that he is in the presence of someone who has himself penetrated to this better world, and knows the means for attaining it. As one studies the book, there emerges the idea, which becomes a conviction, that the path of what Gurdjieff calls “conscious labour and intentional suffering” can indeed lead to imperishable being and the hope of reunion with the Prime Source of Everything Existing.
In All and Everything Gurdjieff makes no attempt to prove anything, that is to say, he uses no logical arguments, nor does he even explain the meaning of his most important assertions. This meaning can often be found only by confronting passages from several different contexts. In many cases the meaning of words only begins to take shape when the situations to which they correspond have been directly experienced. How then can the mere reading of the book arouse the conviction that its fundamental thesis is true? A great, though not the sole part, is played by the ‘verbal formulas’ which, according to Gurdjieff, are one of the elements of objective language.
This applies especially to Gurdjieff’s doctrine of Conscience. He sets up the “Sacred Impulse of Divine Conscience” as the sole regulating principle of conduct. It is the antithesis of morality, which is no more than a system of external rules having only local and transient significance. Of morality, he says that it has:
exactly that ‘unique property’ which belongs to the being bearing the name ‘chameleon.’
The very idea of Objective Conscience defies analysis. It is as dangerous as it is powerful. Institutional religion rejects inner self-judgement in favor of moral principles and rules of conduct not merely to secure thereby a better hold upon their followers; there is a genuine danger that the idea of Conscience may degenerate into self-sufficiency and license. Gurdjieff meets the challenge with the formula of Ashiata Shiemash:
Only-he-will-be-called-and-will-become-the-Son-of-God-who-acquires-in-himself-Conscience.17
This formula is treated as axiomatic, that is, requiring neither explanation nor argument. Its meaning is conveyed by Gurdjieff’s emphasis upon the character of the inner change which must be wrought in man before he is fit and able to live by the dictates of conscience alone. In one sense, the whole of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson is a commentary upon the doctrine of Conscience, for it depicts the process of its arising in Beelzebub’s grandson Hassein, from the 7th Chapter, when he first catches a glimpse of the meaning of duty, to the 46th Chapter, in which his understanding of the universal laws blends with an overwhelming compassion towards the sufferings of mankind.
Conscience and compassion are inseparable. The legomonism of Ashiata Shiemash, called “The Terror of the Situation,” contains the quintessence of Gurdjieff’s teaching about human life on earth. If man is to achieve his highest destiny, he must purge himself of the taint of Original Sin expressed as the consequences of the organ Kundabuffer. For this he must work and struggle and suffer, but whence is the urge for this work to arise?
Orthodox religion replies that it must come from the Sacred Impulses of Faith, Love, and Hope. Yet the history of mankind has shown that these impulses are ineffectual against the forces of egoism, vanity, self-love, suggestibility, and the rest, which ruin every good undertaking to which man sets his hand. Faith, Hope, and Love are so distorted that they can no longer serve as impulses towards self-perfecting. Gurdjieff teaches that there is one, and only one, sacred impulse remaining unspoiled, deep in the human psyche. This is the Sacred Impulse of Conscience, which cannot be destroyed. It is implanted by Divine Grace. Concerning this, with characteristic delicacy of touch, Gurdjieff exposes in one sentence his doctrine of the Suffering of God:
The factors for the being-impulse conscience arise in the presences of the three-brained beings from the localization of the particles of the “emanations-of-the-sorrow” of our omni-loving and long-suffering-endless-creator; that is why the source of the manifestation of genuine conscience in three-centered beings is sometimes called the representative of the creator.
The doctrine of compassion is contained in another verbal formula which states the condition prerequisite for the process of self-purification by which a being can become worthy to be re-united with the Prime Source of Everything Existing. Purgatory is represented as a state of existence possible only for beings who have already acquired independent individuality, and perfected themselves to such a gradation of objective reason that they can pass in their experience beyond the limitations of the planetary system in which they were born. But these qualifications are not enough. Neither the inward strength of the fully-liberated individual, nor his aspiration towards ultimate perfection, are sufficient; without compassion towards other beings, further progress is impossible. All this is expressed in a verbal formula consisting of the words placed over the chief entrance of the Holy Planet Purgatory, decreeing the following:
Only he may enter here who puts himself in the position of the other results of my labours.
From this, we come to the ‘concluding chord’ in the last chapter, “From the Author,” where:
each one of us must set for his chief aim to become in the process of our collective life a master. But not a master in that sense and meaning which this word conveys to contemporary people … but in the sense that a given man, thanks to his, in the objective sense, devout acts towards those around him—that is to say, acts manifested by him according to the dictates of his pure Reason alone … acquires in himself that something which of itself constrains all those about him to bow before him and with reverence carry out his orders.
The ultimate satisfaction for man is the knowledge that he has paid the debt of his own existence, and is free thereafter to serve the purposes for which he was created. This does not imply that life for Gurdjieff is reduced to a bleak self-denial. Real happiness for man is possible at every stage of his existence, but there is a warning formula:
Every real happiness for man can arise exclusively only from some unhappiness, also real, which he has already experienced.
There is nothing novel about the contents of this formula. What is new and necessary for our time is the emphasis upon the inevitability of payment; Gurdjieff insistently taught that the only true wisdom is to pay in advance. In writing of Gurdjieff’s verbal formulas, I have wandered from the task of stating what I mean by asserting that Gurdjieff has created a new mythology.
In detail, there is little new. Not much research is needed to discover the affinity of Gurdjieff’s cosmology with Neo-Platonism in the West and Sankhya and the Abhidharma in the East. It is easy to show where he has drawn upon Christian (especially Greek Orthodox), Buddhist (chiefly Mahayana and Zen), Moslem (particularly Dervish and Sufi), and Ancient Egyptian and Assyrian sources. The originality of his teaching does not lie in its raw material but in the use to which it is put. His Creation myth is that of a Universe which is the scene of a striving necessary to the Deity. It is permeated through and through with the consequences of the simple fact of successive actualisation in Time. In writing these words, I am forcibly reminded of Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity, and a comparison of the two books is indeed a demonstration of the immeasurable superiority of the language of myth and verbal formula over that of logical analysis, even when inspired by a poetic imagination. What is missing in writers like McTaggart, Alexander and Whitehead is the feeling that the suffering and the striving of the Universe really matter.
With Gurdjieff, the drama of the Universe becomes a present living reality. Involution and evolution are neither good nor evil, neither in opposition nor even complimentary to one another. They are equally necessary for the Divine Purposes. They are woven together by the reciprocal feeding of all existence, which is neither evolution nor involution. Here and everywhere Gurdjieff’s mythology is through and through triadic, and not dualistic. The problems of man, the Universe, and God are resolved in terms of a real mutual need for which philosophy has not hitherto found an adequate expression. From the cosmic drama there emerges the miraculous destiny to which man is called if he is willing to pay the price. Since the Universe itself is a perpetual striving, the highest destiny of man is no static beatitude, but the undying fulfillment of an everlasting purpose.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Gurdjieff Teaches Objective Conscience.
In his book Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson, I have pretty much crunched his words in order to clarify the meaning of what he teaches, and so this is my way of excerpting from the book what is valuable. I start on page 348, of the book in the picture in the link.
Chapter 25: Shiemash
Shiemash was the only Messenger sent to your planet who succeeded by creating on that planet conditions in which the existence resembled the existence of the three-brained beings of the other planets of our Universe. He refused to employ the ordinary methods established. Shiemash taught nothing, nor did he preach. Information relating to his, passed from generation to generation through 'initiates.'
Initiates were those who had acquired in their presences almost equal objective data which could be sensed by other beings. They became initiates thanks to their personal conscious labors, merits which can be sensed by other beings, which also evoke in others trust and respect. 'Legominism' is the name given to the successive transmission of information about long past events.
Chapter 26: The Deliberations.
The prayer: I shall always strive to be just towards every spiritualized origination of Our Common Creator. To be coated with planetary body to assist all others to free themselves.
All Individuals same task, for self-perfecting, based on "Faith," "Hope," and "Love."
The different manifestations of the beings I then encountered, I decided I would choose the way for my further activities and devoted myself to concentration. I recalled and analyzed all the impressions present in me of all the perceptions I had acquired. And when I had attained freedom from all the bodily and spiritual associations of the impressions of ordinary life, I began to meditate how to BE.
These meditations of mine made it clear that all the genuine functions proper to man are functions of Faith, Love, and Hope.
When the organ Kundabuffer (the Kundalini) had been destroyed, they had acquired in themselves the genuine sacred being-impulses, Faith, Love, and Hope.
The properties of the organ Kundabuffer -- "vanity," "self-love," "pride," "self-conceit," and so forth.
In consequence of this, they "believe-any-old-tale."
It is perfectly easy to convince beings of this planet of anything you like, provided during their perceptions of these "fictions," the functioning of one or another corresponding properties of the organ Kundabuffer is given, as for instance: "self-love," "vanity," "pride," "swagger," "imagination," "bragging," "arrogance," and so on.
From the influence of such actions upon their degenerated Reason, they will even vehemently prove to those around them that it is just so and can in no way be otherwise.
In an equally abnormal form were data moulded in them for evoking the impulse of love. Not one of ten could describe even remotely the sensation of genuine Love. And without this "taste" they cannot even vaguely describe that rest from labors actualized by us for the purpose of self-perfection. But never do beings-men here love with genuine, impartial and nonegoistic love.
And as regards the being-impulse "essence-hope," such has not only finally adapted itself in them in a distorted form, but this maleficent strange "hope" has taken the place of the being-impulse of Sacred Hope, and is the principle why factors can no longer be acquired in them for the functioning of the genuine being-impulses of Faith, Love, and Hope.
During my observations, although the factors of Faith, Hope, and Love are already quite degenerated in the beings of this planet, nevertheless, the factor which is Objective-Conscience, is not yet atrophied in them, but remains in their presences almost in its primordial state. Thanks to the abnormally established conditions of ordinary being, this factor has become embedded in which is here called "subconsciousness," in consequence, it takes no part of whatever, in the functioning of their ordinary consciousness.
All the separate ruminating parts representing the whole, the functioning of that being factor still surviving in their common presences were to participate in the general functioning of that consciousness of theirs, only then would it still be possible to save the contemporary three-brained beings from the consequences of the properties of that organ, Kundabuffer. It would be possible to attain this only if their general being-existence were to flow for a long time under foreseeingly-corresponding conditions. To the creation of such conditions that the functioning of the "sacred-conscience" in their subconsciousness might gradually pass into the functioning of their ordinary consciousness.
I then decided to investigate in detail to make clear to myself which were the measures Shiemash took and how he actualized them, in order to help these unfortunates to deliver themselves from the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, which had passed to them by heredity and were so maleficent for them.
And as regards that marble tablet I happened to read the contents engraved on it called Faith, Love, and Hope:
Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease.
I must elucidate a little more in detail, that inner impulse called Hope, which Shiemash constated the case is worse than with the other two. Thanks to this abnormal hope of theirs, a very singular disease arose called 'tomorrow.' They must make certain efforts, and which efforts moreover they even know how to make, but owing to this maleficent disease 'tomorrow' they never succeed in making these required efforts. And this is just the maleficent part of all that great terrifying evil, which, owing to various causes great and small, is concentrated in the process of the ordinary being-existence by putting off from 'tomorrow' till 'tomorrow,'... those unfortunate beings are also deprived of the possibility of ever attaining anything real.
They have deprived themselves of all possibilities of removing from their presences the organ Kundabuffer. It had also become a hindrance to most of them in honestly discharging at least those obligations indispensable in ordinary existence. Beings put off till 'later' everything that needs to be done at the moment, being convinced that 'later' they will do better and more. In many of them, toward the end of their planetary existence, that same organ begins to atrophy of their own accord and some of them even entirely disappear, in consequence these beings begin to see and sense reality a little better.
In such cases a strong desire appears in the common presences to work upon themselves. Needless to say, nothing can result from such desires just because it is already too late for them. The time given for this purpose by Great Nature having already passed; and although they see and feel the necessity of actualizing the required being-efforts, yet for the fulfillment of such desires of theirs, they have now only ineffectual yearnings and the 'lawful-infirmities-of-old-age.'
To save the beings of this planet by means of those data which survived in their subconscious impulse, Conscience. It were indeed possible to save them by means of the data which survived engendering this sacred being-impulse, it would only be possible if the manifestations of their subconsciousness were to participate without fail in the functioning of that consciousness of theirs, manifested over a long period through every aspect of this consciousness of theirs.
Chapter 27: Organization
There Shiemash first of all established relations with the brotherhood 'To-be-or-not-to-be-at-all.' Initiates according to the principles existing. He began by enlightening their Reason by means of objectively true information, and guiding their being-impulses in such a way that they could sense these truths without the participation of the abnormally crystallized factors already within their presences, or of the factors which might newly arise from the results of the external perceptions they obtained from the abnormally established form of ordinary being-existence.
'Only-he-will-be-God-who-acquires-in-himself-Conscience.'
The information that in the subconsciousness of people are always present, the data manifested from Above for engendering in them the Divine-impulse of genuine conscience, and only he who acquires the 'ableness' that the actions of these data participate in the functioning of that consciousness of theirs has the honest right to be called Common Creator of all that exists. The impulse of being-conscience exists in man, and secondly how it must be manifested in order that a man may respond to the real sense and aim of his existence, 'Required-Intensity-of-ableness.'
You must also know that afterwards, when all the results of the labors of Shiemash were destroyed, both this word priest and the word initiate were used still, down to the present time, in two quite different senses. Those beings still called by this word priest who by their pious existence and by the merits of their acts performed for the good of those around them, stand out so much from the rank and file of the ordinary three-brained beings there, that whenever these ordinary beings there have occasion to remember them, there arises and proceeds in their presences the process called 'gratitude.'
In the common presences of men all the data exist for the manifestation of the Divine impulse conscience, but this Divine impulse does not take part in their general consciousness; it takes no part because they gradually atrophy the data, the objective impulse of Divine-Love.
When the organization of the first brotherhood was so established that the further work could already be continued independently, by means only of the directions issuing from the Reason, those who had already sensed the said Divine impulse, consciously by their Reason and unconsciously by the feelings in their subconsciousness, and who had full confidence that by certain self-efforts this Divine being-impulse might become and forever remain an inseparable part of their ordinary consciousness. And those who had sensed and become aware of this Divine conscience called 'first-degree-initiates,' he set apart, began to enlighten their Reason separately concerning these 'objective truths,' which before that time were still quite unknown. These were then called 'Great Initiates.' Those principles of being of the initiated beings. What this being-impulse 'objective conscience' is.
The factors for the being-impulse conscience arise in the "emanations-of-the-sorrow" of our Long-Suffering-Endless-Creator; that is why the source of the manifestation of genuine conscience is sometimes called the Representative Of The Creator. And this sorrow is formed in our All-Maintaining Common Father from the struggle constantly proceeding in the Universe between joy and sorrow. In all beings of the whole Universe without exception, for engendering in us the Divine impulse of conscience, "the-whole-of-us" and the whole of our essence, are, and must be, already in our foundation, only suffering.
And they must be suffering, because the completed actualizing of the manifestation of such a being in us can proceed only from the constant struggle of two quite opposite sources. In consequence of this, every being of our Great Universe, owing to the presence of the Divine impulse of "Objective Conscience," always struggle with the arising within of two quite opposite functionings sensed by us either as "desires" or as "nondesires." And so, only he, who consciously assists the process of this inner struggle and consciously assists the "nondesires" to predominate over the desires, behaves just in accordance with the essence of our Common Father Creator Himself; whereas he who with his consciousness assists the contrary, only increases His sorrow.
All ordinary beings not only already knew this Divine being-impulse of 'genuine conscience' was in them, and that it could take part in the functioning of their ordinary 'waking consciousness,' everybody even began to strive and to exert himself. It then so turned out that almost all of those beings began to work upon themselves in order to transfer into their ordinary consciousness the results of the data present in their subconsciousness for engendering the impulse of genuine Divine conscience, and, of consciously taking part in diminishing the sorrow of Our Common Endless Father.
Owing to this, the question of conscience began to predominate both in the waking-consciousness state and in the 'passive-instinctive' state. Even those beings of that time in whose presences the taste of this Divine impulse had not yet been transubstantiated, but who had only empty information concerning this being-impulse, also exerted themselves to manifest in everything in accordance with this information. The total result of everything I have mentioned, was that within ten years there had disappeared of their own accord maleficent causes of which engender all kinds of trifling factors which prevent the establishment of conditions for at least a normal existence. And namely, division into numerous communities ceased to exist, and secondly, in these said numerous communities there also disappeared 'castes' or 'classes' which had long before been established there.
And precisely this second of the two mentioned abnormally established forms of ordinary being-existence was formed by 'egoism.' Some time later I shall explain to you how those conditions were established there, assigning each other to various castes, and how the same maleficent form of mutual relationship has continued even until now. Namely, egoism. Owing to the same abnormal conditions established from the very beginning after the said second Transapalnian-perturbation there, the general psyche had become dual.
I began in the course of my further detailed researches to investigate the causes in which way and why from the particles of the emanation of the Sorrow of Our Common Father Creator for the actualizing of the Divine being of objective conscience, proceeded in their presences just in their subconsciousness, and thus avoided that final degeneration for engendering Faith, Love, and Hope.
The mentioned duality of their general psyche proceeded because on the one hand 'individual-initiatives' began to issue from that localization in their presences, which is always predominant during their waking existence, and which localization is nothing but the result of the accidental perceptions and are called by them, their 'consciousness'; on the other hand, similar individual-initiatives also began to issue in them existing in which they call their subconsciousness.
And because the individual-initiatives issue from such different localizations during their waking existence, each of them, as it were, divided into two independent personalities. Here it must be remarked that this said duality was also the cause that there was gradually lost from their presences that impulse called 'Sincerity.' Later, the practice of deliberately destroying the impulse Sincerity took root and now, from the day of their birth the beings are accustomed by their 'parents'--to an entirely contrary impulse, namely, 'deceit.'
To teach and suggest to their children how to be insincere with others and deceitful in everything, has become so ingrained in the beings of the planet Earth of the present time, that it has even become their conception of duty towards their children they call by the famous word 'education.' They 'educate' their children never to be able and dare to do as the 'conscience' present in them instinctively directs. And of course when these children grow up they already automatically produce their manifestations and their acts; just as they were taught, as they were 'suggested to,' they 'wound up'; just as they were 'educated.'
Thanks to all this, the conscience which might be in the consciousness of the beings is, from their earliest infancy, gradually 'driven-back-within,' so by the time they are grown up the said conscience is already found only in what they call their subconsciousness.
In consequence, the functioning for engendering in their presences this Divine impulse conscience, gradually ceased long ago to participate in that consciousness of theirs by means of which their waking-existence flows. That is why, the data of this sacred being-impulse in them proceeds only in their subconsciousness---which has ceased to participate in the process of their ordinary daily existence---and is why these data have escaped that 'degeneration' to which all the other sacred being-impulses were subject, and which they also ought to have in their presences, namely, the impulses Faith, Love, and Hope.
Furthermore, if the actions should now begin to manifest themselves from their subconsciousness and strive to participate in the functioning of their abnormally formed ordinary 'consciousness,' then no sooner are they aware of it than they at once take measures to avoid it, because it has already become impossible in the conditions already existing there, for anyone to exist with the functioning in their presences, of this Divine impulse of genuine objective conscience.
From the time when the egoism had become completely 'inoculated,' this particular being-property became the fundamental contributory factor in their psyche for the arising of still several other impulses now existing under the names of 'cunning,' 'envy,' 'hate,' 'hypocrisy,' 'contempt,' 'haughtiness,' 'servility,' 'slyness,' 'ambition,' 'double-facedness,' and so on and so forth. These particular properties of their psyche, utterly unbecoming to beings, were already in the presences of most of them even before the period of Shiemash; but when there began to be fixed and to flow automatically in their being the new form of existence intentionally implanted in them by Shiemash himself, then these strange properties entirely disappeared from most of the beings there.
Later when they themselves destroyed all the results of the labors of Shiemash, these same psychic properties maleficent for themselves gradually arose anew in all of them, and, for them, they are already the foundation of the whole of their essence.
Well then, when the data arose in the common presences for engendering this egoism, and when gradually evolving, giving rise to secondary strange impulses, this egoism usurped the place of the 'Unique-All-Autocratic-Ruler' in their general organization; then, not only every manifestation but even what is called the 'desire-for-the-arising' of such a Divine being-impulse, became a hindrance to the actions of this 'All-Autocratic-Ruler.' In consequence of this, prevented it partaking in the functioning of that consciousness of theirs, the actions of those Divine data were gradually removed from the functioning of their ordinary 'consciousness' and participated only in the functioning of their subconsciousness.
It was only after my detailed investigations I understood why there still exists that division of themselves into various classes or castes which is particularly maleficent for them. My later detailed investigations clearly showed me that, in their subconsciousness, even in the beings of the present time, the data for the acquisition of this fundamental Divine impulse conscience does indeed still continue to be crystallized and, hence, to be present during the whole of their existence. The point is, later appeared from time to time, in the presence of this atmosphere, radiated from the presences of these yours, owing to that particular inner impulse which they themselves call 'Remorse-of-Conscience.'
And this proceeded because in those of who chance to receive and experience some kind of what is called 'shock-to-organic-shame,' the associations proceeding from their previous impressions almost always become changed, calmed, and sometimes even for a time entirely cease in them, which associations as I have already told you, consist mostly of various kinds of what is called 'rubbish.'
In consequence, there is then automatically obtained, in these beings, such a combination of functioning in their common presences as temporarily frees the data present in their subconsciousness for the manifestation of the Divine impulse conscience and for its participation in the functioning of their ordinary consciousness, with the result that this said Remorse-of-Conscience proceeds in them.
Here it is necessary to say that these ones become ideally expert in not allowing this inner impulse of theirs, called Remorse-of-Conscience, to linger long in their common presences. No sooner do they begin to sense the beginning, or even only so to say, the 'prick' of the arising of the functioning in them, of such a being impulse, than they immediately, as it is said, 'squash' it, whereupon this impulse, not yet quite formed in them, at once calms down. For this 'squashing' of the beginning of any Remorse-of-Conscience in themselves, they have even invented some very efficient special means which now exist there, under the names of 'alcoholism,' 'cocainism,' ' morphinism,' 'nicotinism,' 'onanism,' 'monkism,' 'Athenianism,' and others with names also ending in 'ism.'
Meanwhile transubstantiate in yourself the following: when the particular property of 'egosim' had been completely formed in the common presences of these beings, various other secondary impulses which still continue to ensue from it, in consequence of the total absence of the participation of the impulse of sacred conscience in their waking-consciousness, these beings both before the period of Shiemash and also since, have always striven and continue to strive, to arrange their welfare exclusively for them themselves. The result is that the prosperity of one is always built on the adversity of many. It is just this exclusive regard for their own personal welfare, which I cited as, 'cunning,' 'contempt,' 'hate,' 'servility,' 'lying,' 'flattery,' and so on, which in turn, on the one hand factors outer manifestation unbecoming to beings, and on the other, the cause of gradual destruction of all inner possibilities placed in them by Great Nature, of becoming particles of the whole of the 'Reasonable Whole.'
Well then, when the results of the labors of Shiemash begun to blend with the processes of their 'inner' and 'outer' existence, and thanks to the Divine impulse conscience surviving in their subconsciousness, gradually began to share in the functioning of their 'waking-consciousness,' then the being-existence both personal and reciprocal began to proceed to have relations towards each other only as towards the manifestations varying in degree of a Unique Common Creator and to pay respect to each other only according to the merits personally attained by means of personal conscious labors and intentional sufferings.
That is why, during that period, there ceased to exist separate independent communities and the division of themselves in these communities into various castes or classes. At that time also, the beings began to consider themselves and those like themselves merely as beings bearing in themselves particles of the emanation of the Sorrow of our Common Father Creator. And all this then so happened because when the actions of the data of the Divine being-impulse began to participate in the functioning of their ordinary waking-consciousness, beings began manifesting themselves towards each other in accordance, with conscience.
The consequence was that masters ceased to deprive their slaves of freedom, and various power-possessing beings of their own accord surrendered their unmerited rights, having become aware by conscience and sensing that they possessed and occupied these rights and positions not for the common welfare but only for the satisfaction of their various personal weaknesses, such for instance as 'vanity,' 'self-love,' 'self-calming,' and so on. Of course, at that period there continued to be all kinds of chiefs, directors and 'adviser-specialists,' who became such, chiefly from difference of age and from what is called 'essence-power,' from varying degrees of self-perfecting, and they then become neither by hereditary rights nor by election in those positions. All chiefs, directors and advisors became such in accordance with the objective merits they personally acquired, and which could be really sensed by all the beings around them.
All the beings of this planet then began to work in order to have in their consciousness this Divine function of genuine conscience. They transubstantiated in themselves what are called the 'being-obligation-strivings' which consist of the following five:
1. First striving: to have in their ordinary being-existence everything satisfying and really necessary for their planetary body.
2. Second striving: to have a constant and unflagging instinctive need for self-perfection in the sense of being.
3. Third striving: the conscious striving to know ever more and more concerning the laws of World-creation and World-maintenance.
4. Fourth striving: the striving from the beginning of their existence to pay for their arising and their individuality as quickly as possible, in order afterwards to be free to lighten as much as possible the Sorrow of our Common Father.
5. Fifth striving: the striving always to assist the most rapid perfecting of other beings, both those similar to oneself and those of other forms, up to the degree of self-individuality.
At this period when every terrestrial being existed and worked consciously upon himself in accordance with these five strivings, many of them thanks to this, quickly arrived at results of objective attainments perceptible to others.
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Chapter 25: Shiemash
Shiemash was the only Messenger sent to your planet who succeeded by creating on that planet conditions in which the existence resembled the existence of the three-brained beings of the other planets of our Universe. He refused to employ the ordinary methods established. Shiemash taught nothing, nor did he preach. Information relating to his, passed from generation to generation through 'initiates.'
Initiates were those who had acquired in their presences almost equal objective data which could be sensed by other beings. They became initiates thanks to their personal conscious labors, merits which can be sensed by other beings, which also evoke in others trust and respect. 'Legominism' is the name given to the successive transmission of information about long past events.
Chapter 26: The Deliberations.
The prayer: I shall always strive to be just towards every spiritualized origination of Our Common Creator. To be coated with planetary body to assist all others to free themselves.
All Individuals same task, for self-perfecting, based on "Faith," "Hope," and "Love."
The different manifestations of the beings I then encountered, I decided I would choose the way for my further activities and devoted myself to concentration. I recalled and analyzed all the impressions present in me of all the perceptions I had acquired. And when I had attained freedom from all the bodily and spiritual associations of the impressions of ordinary life, I began to meditate how to BE.
These meditations of mine made it clear that all the genuine functions proper to man are functions of Faith, Love, and Hope.
When the organ Kundabuffer (the Kundalini) had been destroyed, they had acquired in themselves the genuine sacred being-impulses, Faith, Love, and Hope.
The properties of the organ Kundabuffer -- "vanity," "self-love," "pride," "self-conceit," and so forth.
In consequence of this, they "believe-any-old-tale."
It is perfectly easy to convince beings of this planet of anything you like, provided during their perceptions of these "fictions," the functioning of one or another corresponding properties of the organ Kundabuffer is given, as for instance: "self-love," "vanity," "pride," "swagger," "imagination," "bragging," "arrogance," and so on.
From the influence of such actions upon their degenerated Reason, they will even vehemently prove to those around them that it is just so and can in no way be otherwise.
In an equally abnormal form were data moulded in them for evoking the impulse of love. Not one of ten could describe even remotely the sensation of genuine Love. And without this "taste" they cannot even vaguely describe that rest from labors actualized by us for the purpose of self-perfection. But never do beings-men here love with genuine, impartial and nonegoistic love.
And as regards the being-impulse "essence-hope," such has not only finally adapted itself in them in a distorted form, but this maleficent strange "hope" has taken the place of the being-impulse of Sacred Hope, and is the principle why factors can no longer be acquired in them for the functioning of the genuine being-impulses of Faith, Love, and Hope.
During my observations, although the factors of Faith, Hope, and Love are already quite degenerated in the beings of this planet, nevertheless, the factor which is Objective-Conscience, is not yet atrophied in them, but remains in their presences almost in its primordial state. Thanks to the abnormally established conditions of ordinary being, this factor has become embedded in which is here called "subconsciousness," in consequence, it takes no part of whatever, in the functioning of their ordinary consciousness.
All the separate ruminating parts representing the whole, the functioning of that being factor still surviving in their common presences were to participate in the general functioning of that consciousness of theirs, only then would it still be possible to save the contemporary three-brained beings from the consequences of the properties of that organ, Kundabuffer. It would be possible to attain this only if their general being-existence were to flow for a long time under foreseeingly-corresponding conditions. To the creation of such conditions that the functioning of the "sacred-conscience" in their subconsciousness might gradually pass into the functioning of their ordinary consciousness.
I then decided to investigate in detail to make clear to myself which were the measures Shiemash took and how he actualized them, in order to help these unfortunates to deliver themselves from the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer, which had passed to them by heredity and were so maleficent for them.
And as regards that marble tablet I happened to read the contents engraved on it called Faith, Love, and Hope:
Faith of consciousness is freedom
Faith of feeling is weakness
Faith of body is stupidity.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
Hope of consciousness is strength
Hope of feeling is slavery
Hope of body is disease.
I must elucidate a little more in detail, that inner impulse called Hope, which Shiemash constated the case is worse than with the other two. Thanks to this abnormal hope of theirs, a very singular disease arose called 'tomorrow.' They must make certain efforts, and which efforts moreover they even know how to make, but owing to this maleficent disease 'tomorrow' they never succeed in making these required efforts. And this is just the maleficent part of all that great terrifying evil, which, owing to various causes great and small, is concentrated in the process of the ordinary being-existence by putting off from 'tomorrow' till 'tomorrow,'... those unfortunate beings are also deprived of the possibility of ever attaining anything real.
They have deprived themselves of all possibilities of removing from their presences the organ Kundabuffer. It had also become a hindrance to most of them in honestly discharging at least those obligations indispensable in ordinary existence. Beings put off till 'later' everything that needs to be done at the moment, being convinced that 'later' they will do better and more. In many of them, toward the end of their planetary existence, that same organ begins to atrophy of their own accord and some of them even entirely disappear, in consequence these beings begin to see and sense reality a little better.
In such cases a strong desire appears in the common presences to work upon themselves. Needless to say, nothing can result from such desires just because it is already too late for them. The time given for this purpose by Great Nature having already passed; and although they see and feel the necessity of actualizing the required being-efforts, yet for the fulfillment of such desires of theirs, they have now only ineffectual yearnings and the 'lawful-infirmities-of-old-age.'
To save the beings of this planet by means of those data which survived in their subconscious impulse, Conscience. It were indeed possible to save them by means of the data which survived engendering this sacred being-impulse, it would only be possible if the manifestations of their subconsciousness were to participate without fail in the functioning of that consciousness of theirs, manifested over a long period through every aspect of this consciousness of theirs.
Chapter 27: Organization
There Shiemash first of all established relations with the brotherhood 'To-be-or-not-to-be-at-all.' Initiates according to the principles existing. He began by enlightening their Reason by means of objectively true information, and guiding their being-impulses in such a way that they could sense these truths without the participation of the abnormally crystallized factors already within their presences, or of the factors which might newly arise from the results of the external perceptions they obtained from the abnormally established form of ordinary being-existence.
'Only-he-will-be-God-who-acquires-in-himself-Conscience.'
The information that in the subconsciousness of people are always present, the data manifested from Above for engendering in them the Divine-impulse of genuine conscience, and only he who acquires the 'ableness' that the actions of these data participate in the functioning of that consciousness of theirs has the honest right to be called Common Creator of all that exists. The impulse of being-conscience exists in man, and secondly how it must be manifested in order that a man may respond to the real sense and aim of his existence, 'Required-Intensity-of-ableness.'
You must also know that afterwards, when all the results of the labors of Shiemash were destroyed, both this word priest and the word initiate were used still, down to the present time, in two quite different senses. Those beings still called by this word priest who by their pious existence and by the merits of their acts performed for the good of those around them, stand out so much from the rank and file of the ordinary three-brained beings there, that whenever these ordinary beings there have occasion to remember them, there arises and proceeds in their presences the process called 'gratitude.'
In the common presences of men all the data exist for the manifestation of the Divine impulse conscience, but this Divine impulse does not take part in their general consciousness; it takes no part because they gradually atrophy the data, the objective impulse of Divine-Love.
When the organization of the first brotherhood was so established that the further work could already be continued independently, by means only of the directions issuing from the Reason, those who had already sensed the said Divine impulse, consciously by their Reason and unconsciously by the feelings in their subconsciousness, and who had full confidence that by certain self-efforts this Divine being-impulse might become and forever remain an inseparable part of their ordinary consciousness. And those who had sensed and become aware of this Divine conscience called 'first-degree-initiates,' he set apart, began to enlighten their Reason separately concerning these 'objective truths,' which before that time were still quite unknown. These were then called 'Great Initiates.' Those principles of being of the initiated beings. What this being-impulse 'objective conscience' is.
The factors for the being-impulse conscience arise in the "emanations-of-the-sorrow" of our Long-Suffering-Endless-Creator; that is why the source of the manifestation of genuine conscience is sometimes called the Representative Of The Creator. And this sorrow is formed in our All-Maintaining Common Father from the struggle constantly proceeding in the Universe between joy and sorrow. In all beings of the whole Universe without exception, for engendering in us the Divine impulse of conscience, "the-whole-of-us" and the whole of our essence, are, and must be, already in our foundation, only suffering.
And they must be suffering, because the completed actualizing of the manifestation of such a being in us can proceed only from the constant struggle of two quite opposite sources. In consequence of this, every being of our Great Universe, owing to the presence of the Divine impulse of "Objective Conscience," always struggle with the arising within of two quite opposite functionings sensed by us either as "desires" or as "nondesires." And so, only he, who consciously assists the process of this inner struggle and consciously assists the "nondesires" to predominate over the desires, behaves just in accordance with the essence of our Common Father Creator Himself; whereas he who with his consciousness assists the contrary, only increases His sorrow.
All ordinary beings not only already knew this Divine being-impulse of 'genuine conscience' was in them, and that it could take part in the functioning of their ordinary 'waking consciousness,' everybody even began to strive and to exert himself. It then so turned out that almost all of those beings began to work upon themselves in order to transfer into their ordinary consciousness the results of the data present in their subconsciousness for engendering the impulse of genuine Divine conscience, and, of consciously taking part in diminishing the sorrow of Our Common Endless Father.
Owing to this, the question of conscience began to predominate both in the waking-consciousness state and in the 'passive-instinctive' state. Even those beings of that time in whose presences the taste of this Divine impulse had not yet been transubstantiated, but who had only empty information concerning this being-impulse, also exerted themselves to manifest in everything in accordance with this information. The total result of everything I have mentioned, was that within ten years there had disappeared of their own accord maleficent causes of which engender all kinds of trifling factors which prevent the establishment of conditions for at least a normal existence. And namely, division into numerous communities ceased to exist, and secondly, in these said numerous communities there also disappeared 'castes' or 'classes' which had long before been established there.
And precisely this second of the two mentioned abnormally established forms of ordinary being-existence was formed by 'egoism.' Some time later I shall explain to you how those conditions were established there, assigning each other to various castes, and how the same maleficent form of mutual relationship has continued even until now. Namely, egoism. Owing to the same abnormal conditions established from the very beginning after the said second Transapalnian-perturbation there, the general psyche had become dual.
I began in the course of my further detailed researches to investigate the causes in which way and why from the particles of the emanation of the Sorrow of Our Common Father Creator for the actualizing of the Divine being of objective conscience, proceeded in their presences just in their subconsciousness, and thus avoided that final degeneration for engendering Faith, Love, and Hope.
The mentioned duality of their general psyche proceeded because on the one hand 'individual-initiatives' began to issue from that localization in their presences, which is always predominant during their waking existence, and which localization is nothing but the result of the accidental perceptions and are called by them, their 'consciousness'; on the other hand, similar individual-initiatives also began to issue in them existing in which they call their subconsciousness.
And because the individual-initiatives issue from such different localizations during their waking existence, each of them, as it were, divided into two independent personalities. Here it must be remarked that this said duality was also the cause that there was gradually lost from their presences that impulse called 'Sincerity.' Later, the practice of deliberately destroying the impulse Sincerity took root and now, from the day of their birth the beings are accustomed by their 'parents'--to an entirely contrary impulse, namely, 'deceit.'
To teach and suggest to their children how to be insincere with others and deceitful in everything, has become so ingrained in the beings of the planet Earth of the present time, that it has even become their conception of duty towards their children they call by the famous word 'education.' They 'educate' their children never to be able and dare to do as the 'conscience' present in them instinctively directs. And of course when these children grow up they already automatically produce their manifestations and their acts; just as they were taught, as they were 'suggested to,' they 'wound up'; just as they were 'educated.'
Thanks to all this, the conscience which might be in the consciousness of the beings is, from their earliest infancy, gradually 'driven-back-within,' so by the time they are grown up the said conscience is already found only in what they call their subconsciousness.
In consequence, the functioning for engendering in their presences this Divine impulse conscience, gradually ceased long ago to participate in that consciousness of theirs by means of which their waking-existence flows. That is why, the data of this sacred being-impulse in them proceeds only in their subconsciousness---which has ceased to participate in the process of their ordinary daily existence---and is why these data have escaped that 'degeneration' to which all the other sacred being-impulses were subject, and which they also ought to have in their presences, namely, the impulses Faith, Love, and Hope.
Furthermore, if the actions should now begin to manifest themselves from their subconsciousness and strive to participate in the functioning of their abnormally formed ordinary 'consciousness,' then no sooner are they aware of it than they at once take measures to avoid it, because it has already become impossible in the conditions already existing there, for anyone to exist with the functioning in their presences, of this Divine impulse of genuine objective conscience.
From the time when the egoism had become completely 'inoculated,' this particular being-property became the fundamental contributory factor in their psyche for the arising of still several other impulses now existing under the names of 'cunning,' 'envy,' 'hate,' 'hypocrisy,' 'contempt,' 'haughtiness,' 'servility,' 'slyness,' 'ambition,' 'double-facedness,' and so on and so forth. These particular properties of their psyche, utterly unbecoming to beings, were already in the presences of most of them even before the period of Shiemash; but when there began to be fixed and to flow automatically in their being the new form of existence intentionally implanted in them by Shiemash himself, then these strange properties entirely disappeared from most of the beings there.
Later when they themselves destroyed all the results of the labors of Shiemash, these same psychic properties maleficent for themselves gradually arose anew in all of them, and, for them, they are already the foundation of the whole of their essence.
Well then, when the data arose in the common presences for engendering this egoism, and when gradually evolving, giving rise to secondary strange impulses, this egoism usurped the place of the 'Unique-All-Autocratic-Ruler' in their general organization; then, not only every manifestation but even what is called the 'desire-for-the-arising' of such a Divine being-impulse, became a hindrance to the actions of this 'All-Autocratic-Ruler.' In consequence of this, prevented it partaking in the functioning of that consciousness of theirs, the actions of those Divine data were gradually removed from the functioning of their ordinary 'consciousness' and participated only in the functioning of their subconsciousness.
It was only after my detailed investigations I understood why there still exists that division of themselves into various classes or castes which is particularly maleficent for them. My later detailed investigations clearly showed me that, in their subconsciousness, even in the beings of the present time, the data for the acquisition of this fundamental Divine impulse conscience does indeed still continue to be crystallized and, hence, to be present during the whole of their existence. The point is, later appeared from time to time, in the presence of this atmosphere, radiated from the presences of these yours, owing to that particular inner impulse which they themselves call 'Remorse-of-Conscience.'
And this proceeded because in those of who chance to receive and experience some kind of what is called 'shock-to-organic-shame,' the associations proceeding from their previous impressions almost always become changed, calmed, and sometimes even for a time entirely cease in them, which associations as I have already told you, consist mostly of various kinds of what is called 'rubbish.'
In consequence, there is then automatically obtained, in these beings, such a combination of functioning in their common presences as temporarily frees the data present in their subconsciousness for the manifestation of the Divine impulse conscience and for its participation in the functioning of their ordinary consciousness, with the result that this said Remorse-of-Conscience proceeds in them.
Here it is necessary to say that these ones become ideally expert in not allowing this inner impulse of theirs, called Remorse-of-Conscience, to linger long in their common presences. No sooner do they begin to sense the beginning, or even only so to say, the 'prick' of the arising of the functioning in them, of such a being impulse, than they immediately, as it is said, 'squash' it, whereupon this impulse, not yet quite formed in them, at once calms down. For this 'squashing' of the beginning of any Remorse-of-Conscience in themselves, they have even invented some very efficient special means which now exist there, under the names of 'alcoholism,' 'cocainism,' ' morphinism,' 'nicotinism,' 'onanism,' 'monkism,' 'Athenianism,' and others with names also ending in 'ism.'
Meanwhile transubstantiate in yourself the following: when the particular property of 'egosim' had been completely formed in the common presences of these beings, various other secondary impulses which still continue to ensue from it, in consequence of the total absence of the participation of the impulse of sacred conscience in their waking-consciousness, these beings both before the period of Shiemash and also since, have always striven and continue to strive, to arrange their welfare exclusively for them themselves. The result is that the prosperity of one is always built on the adversity of many. It is just this exclusive regard for their own personal welfare, which I cited as, 'cunning,' 'contempt,' 'hate,' 'servility,' 'lying,' 'flattery,' and so on, which in turn, on the one hand factors outer manifestation unbecoming to beings, and on the other, the cause of gradual destruction of all inner possibilities placed in them by Great Nature, of becoming particles of the whole of the 'Reasonable Whole.'
Well then, when the results of the labors of Shiemash begun to blend with the processes of their 'inner' and 'outer' existence, and thanks to the Divine impulse conscience surviving in their subconsciousness, gradually began to share in the functioning of their 'waking-consciousness,' then the being-existence both personal and reciprocal began to proceed to have relations towards each other only as towards the manifestations varying in degree of a Unique Common Creator and to pay respect to each other only according to the merits personally attained by means of personal conscious labors and intentional sufferings.
That is why, during that period, there ceased to exist separate independent communities and the division of themselves in these communities into various castes or classes. At that time also, the beings began to consider themselves and those like themselves merely as beings bearing in themselves particles of the emanation of the Sorrow of our Common Father Creator. And all this then so happened because when the actions of the data of the Divine being-impulse began to participate in the functioning of their ordinary waking-consciousness, beings began manifesting themselves towards each other in accordance, with conscience.
The consequence was that masters ceased to deprive their slaves of freedom, and various power-possessing beings of their own accord surrendered their unmerited rights, having become aware by conscience and sensing that they possessed and occupied these rights and positions not for the common welfare but only for the satisfaction of their various personal weaknesses, such for instance as 'vanity,' 'self-love,' 'self-calming,' and so on. Of course, at that period there continued to be all kinds of chiefs, directors and 'adviser-specialists,' who became such, chiefly from difference of age and from what is called 'essence-power,' from varying degrees of self-perfecting, and they then become neither by hereditary rights nor by election in those positions. All chiefs, directors and advisors became such in accordance with the objective merits they personally acquired, and which could be really sensed by all the beings around them.
All the beings of this planet then began to work in order to have in their consciousness this Divine function of genuine conscience. They transubstantiated in themselves what are called the 'being-obligation-strivings' which consist of the following five:
1. First striving: to have in their ordinary being-existence everything satisfying and really necessary for their planetary body.
2. Second striving: to have a constant and unflagging instinctive need for self-perfection in the sense of being.
3. Third striving: the conscious striving to know ever more and more concerning the laws of World-creation and World-maintenance.
4. Fourth striving: the striving from the beginning of their existence to pay for their arising and their individuality as quickly as possible, in order afterwards to be free to lighten as much as possible the Sorrow of our Common Father.
5. Fifth striving: the striving always to assist the most rapid perfecting of other beings, both those similar to oneself and those of other forms, up to the degree of self-individuality.
At this period when every terrestrial being existed and worked consciously upon himself in accordance with these five strivings, many of them thanks to this, quickly arrived at results of objective attainments perceptible to others.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
A Trippy Experience About a Heavy Metal Band at a Bar.
They're looking out of the box. Hahhaaa...that is so good. Out of the box. Whichever way you want it. The man in the cave is there for a reason. (The cave: Downstairs at the Coach N' Horses)
This band....KINTRA....I saw them in Windsor last year or so ago. And...I liked them sooo much, that I asked them about stuff and they gave me these two stickers...which I kept to myself. Now....
Last weekend, I was strangely enough, down there again. You know? At the Coach and Horses bar...under The Loop. You know? The Ole Fish Market? Right. So I was downstairs that night fortunately only because another 'friend' of mine had psychic powers and so now I was not at home I was out enjoying the night. . . and I sees this band, you see? It was hahaha what is called KINTRA, but I didn't know that by now....I just sitll, nevertheless fell in love with them. Their music ... was sooooooooooo good!
So, I have forgotten it sinc3, nevertheless still looking to find what name of that KIND of music so I could find some on my computer or my radio, and tune IN to it. But I never found out that name until tonight, when I remembered that I had a same band I really liked's name, right there in my computer folder next to everything. I pulled out the name Kintra...threw it on the main search machine with the words "Metal" next to it...hahaha...and...I came up with this. Kintra. - 12 Piece Trad.
Well after that, I finally found what I was looking for.
Kintra from Montreal - Phran-Ko-Phun.
Awhhh...so awesome.
That's them. That's who I just saw the other day...hahaha...and I didn't even know it. I won't tell ya what happened, that made me TO remember...but ok maybe I will. The guys bass player lit a chord on fire blew it away and therefore the other team member group boys who were musicians, around? lent them a chord...so they could finish their set. I realized later, it was them. The next band, as nice as they were, were them, actually, or not at all...they were the ones who just left. You know? This type of music is so....brutherly. Luv it.
Oh soh faunny.
Placement La Deuce
WhOah! Same as you never thought. Frank Oh Fun version 2
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Seth - "Unknown" Reality - On Searching From Within.
With A Laser Light Beam of Consciousness Finely Focused And Attuned.
Here's a Seth quote, from the book The "Unknown" Reality, Volume 1, page 228 in my book:
"You cannot stand apart from a reality and do any more than present diagrams of it. You will not understand its living heart or its nature. The behavior of electrons, for example, will elude your technological knowledge, for in deepest terms, what you will "perceive" will be a facade, an appearance, or illusion. So far within the rules of the game, you have been able to make your "facts" about electrons work. But to follow their multidimensional activity is another matter...a pun...and you need a speedier means.
The blueprints for reality lie even beneath the electrons' activity. As long as you think in terms of particles, you are basically off the track. Or even when you think in terms of waves. The idea of interrelated fields comes closer, yet, even here you are simply changing one kind of term for one like it, only slightly different. In all these cases you are ignoring the reality of consciousness and its gestalt formations and manifestations. Until you perceive the innate consciousness behind any "visible" or "invisible" manifestations, then, you put a definite barrier to your own knowledge."
"The multidimensional aspects of the electron cannot be perceived within your three-dimensional system using instruments that are already predisposed or prefocused to measure only certain kinds of effects. While this may sound quite sacriligious scientifically, it is possible to understand the electron's nature and greater reality by using certain focuses of consciousness: by probing the electron, for example, with a "laser" [beam] of consciousness finely focused and attuned.
So far in any of your investigations you have been probing exterior conditions, searching for their interior nature."
In utha werds, you've got to stand inside to search the inside.
Here's a Seth quote, from the book The "Unknown" Reality, Volume 1, page 228 in my book:
"You cannot stand apart from a reality and do any more than present diagrams of it. You will not understand its living heart or its nature. The behavior of electrons, for example, will elude your technological knowledge, for in deepest terms, what you will "perceive" will be a facade, an appearance, or illusion. So far within the rules of the game, you have been able to make your "facts" about electrons work. But to follow their multidimensional activity is another matter...a pun...and you need a speedier means.
The blueprints for reality lie even beneath the electrons' activity. As long as you think in terms of particles, you are basically off the track. Or even when you think in terms of waves. The idea of interrelated fields comes closer, yet, even here you are simply changing one kind of term for one like it, only slightly different. In all these cases you are ignoring the reality of consciousness and its gestalt formations and manifestations. Until you perceive the innate consciousness behind any "visible" or "invisible" manifestations, then, you put a definite barrier to your own knowledge."
"The multidimensional aspects of the electron cannot be perceived within your three-dimensional system using instruments that are already predisposed or prefocused to measure only certain kinds of effects. While this may sound quite sacriligious scientifically, it is possible to understand the electron's nature and greater reality by using certain focuses of consciousness: by probing the electron, for example, with a "laser" [beam] of consciousness finely focused and attuned.
So far in any of your investigations you have been probing exterior conditions, searching for their interior nature."
In utha werds, you've got to stand inside to search the inside.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Learning About Probable Realities - Seth.
There's more to life than one small way of looking at things. Take for example this excerpt from - A Seth Book, The "Unknown" Reality, Volume 1 - by Jane Roberts and Robert F. Butts.
"Such experiences as Ruburt's Saratoga episode are valuable because they begin a process in which other neurological pulses are to some dregree recognized. Over a period of time, this can bring about some conscious experience with probable realities. In the beginning the glimpses may be very brief, and the sense experience misty. Nevertheless, new patterns and cognitive endeavors are being set up between the neurological structure and the consciousness that you know.
An excellent preliminary exercise is the following:
Take any remembered scene from your own past. Experience it as clearly as possible imaginatively, but with the idea of its probable extensions. Sometime, immediately or after a few tries, a particular portion of the scene will become gray or shadowy. It is not a part of the past that you know, but an intersection point where that past served as an offshoot into a series of probabilities that you did not follow.
Instead of a shadowy element, you yourself may feel unsubstantial -- "ghostly," as Ruburt did. Instead of any of those things, the imagined dialogue-- if there is any--may suddenly change from the dialogue that you remember, or the entire scene and action may quickly alter. Any of these occurrences can be hints that you are beginning to glimpse the probable variations of the particular scene or action. It is the subjective feeling that is the important clue here, and once you experience it, there will be no doubt in your mind.
Some people will have little trouble with the exercise, and others will need to exert persistence before finding any success at all. This method is even more effective when you choose from your past a scene in which a choice was involved that was important to you. In such a case begin imaginatively, following through with the other decision or decisions that you might have made. At one point a shadowy effect--grayness, or other characteristics, will occur. One of several of these may be involved, but your subjective feeling is the most important clue. Imagination may bring you a clear picture that may then become fuzzy, and in that case, the blurred quality would be your hint of probable action.
Until you have tried the exercise and become fully acquainted with it, you will not understand its effectiveness. You will know for instance, when the remembered event and imagination intersect with another probability. Whether or not you have any great success, the exercise will begin a neurological reorientation that will be most important would you to hope to glimpse realities that are outside your present neurologically accepted sense-reality.
This exercise is a mental and biological doorway that can expand both your concepts of yourself and reality. There may be instances in which it seems that little progress is made during the exercise itself. During the day, having made an important decision in one direction, you may begin to feel the reality of the opposite decision and its ramifications.
The exercise may also result in a different kind of a dream, one that is recognized within the dream state, at least as an introduction to a probable reality. You deal directly with future probablities in the dream state in any case. For example, a series of dreams you may try out various solutions to a given problem and choose one of these. That choice becomes your physical reality.
According to the intensity of the situation, another also desirable solution may be worked out in a probable reality. On an unconscious level you are aware of your probable selves and they of you. You share the same psychic roots and your joint yet separate dreams are available to "all of you." This does not mean that you are dreaming someone elses's dream, any more than it means that twins do, for example. It does mean that your probable selves and you share in a body of symbolism, background, and ability. The multistructured nature of the dream state allows for dream dramas, in which probable selves do appear. They may appear as symbolically representing strong characteristics upon which they have focused, though you have ignored them.
The dream state does operate as a rich web of communication between probable selves and probable existences. All probabilities spring from inner reality, from the psyche's own inner activity and structure. The consciousness that you know, can indeed now emerge into even greater realization of itself, but, not by obsessively defending its old position. Instead, it must recognize its power as the director of probable action, and no longer inhibit its own greater capacities.
In your terms, until now your consciousness has specialized in neurological patterning. As mentioned, this was extremely important while it learned the art of specialized focus. Now though, it must begin to recognize it can indeed expand and bring into its awareness other legitimate realities. The nature of probabilities must be understood because the time has come in the world as you experience it, where the greatest wisdom and discrimination are needed. Your consciousness and neurolgical prejudice blind you to the full dimension of physical activity. The true implications of physical action are not as yet apparent to you.
You are beginning to understand the reality of your planet, for example, you cannot plunder it, is what you are only beginning to learn. Opening up your consciousness to previously denied messages, would bring you in direct contact with other life-forms on your planet, in a way that you have formerly denied yourselves. Your cellular knowledge of past and future probabilities alone would teach you a spiritual and corporal courtesy.
The "unknown" reality sustains you and the web of life as you know it. Your conscious concepts must enlarge so that the conscious self can understand its true nature. As you think of it, consciousness is barely--BARELY--half developed. It has learned to identify with one small group of neurologically accepted responses. Portions of the brain not used, lie latent, waiting, for the recognition that will trigger them into activity. When this happens the mind will become aware of the rich bed of probabilities on which the ego now rides so blindly.
THE GREAT LATENT BUT ALWAYS SENSED DIMENSIONS OF SPIRITUALIZED CREATUREHOOD WILL THEN BEGIN TO FLOWER.
A few great men have glimpsed those abilities, and their love of the race and their integrity had caused them to trigger the unused portions of the brain. In their way, they sensed the great probable future and its ramifications. In centuries past they saw your present, though, through their own vision, and so, it ws only partially the present as you know it. Your emotional reality truly leaps into its own only now and then because your very concepts of yourselves deny the multidimensional aspects of your being. The need and the yearning to love and to know are both biologically present within you. They are present within the animals and within a blade of grass.
The concepts of God that you have, went hand in hand with the development of your consciousness. The ego emerging needed to feel its dominance and control so it imagined a dominant god apart from nature. Nations often acted as group egos, each with its own god-picturing and concepts of power. Whenever a tribe, group or nation decided to embark upon a war, it always used the concept of its god to lead it on. The god concept then was an aid, and an important one, to man's emerging ego. To develop its sense of specialization the ego forgot the great cooperative venture of the earth. If a hunter literally knows his relationship with an animal then he cannot kill it. On deeper levels both animal and man understand the connections. Biologically, the man knows he has come from the earth. Some of his cells have been the cells of animals, and the animal knows he will look out through a man's eyes. The earth venture is cooperative. The slain beast is tomorrow's hunter. In terms of ego consciousness, there were stages of growth, and the god concepts that spoke of oneness with nature, were not those that served the ego's purposes in the line of development as you understand it.
For a while, such techniques worked. Always however, there was the undeniable inner self in the background: mankinds dreams, their biological and spiritual integrity, and this, in one way or another, was always before them.
In your probability you allowed the inner self some freedom and therefore the so-called egotistical consciousness wasn't given complete sway. It remained flexible enough so that even hidden in its god concepts there were symbols of greater reality. Your system deals with physical manipulability and the translation of creativity into physical form. An exterior separation had to occur for a while in which consciousness forgot, egotistically speaking, that it was part of nature, and it pretended to be apart.
It was known however, and unconsciously written in the cells, mind, and heart, that this procedure would only go so far.
When man's consciousness was sure of itself, it would not need to be so narrowly focused. Then the true flowering of humanity's consciousness could begin. Then the ego could expand and become aware of realities it had "earlier" ignored.
YOU HAVE PUT YOURSELVES IN A POSITION WHERE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS MUST NOW BECOME AWARE OF THE PROBABLE PASTS AND PROBABLE FUTURES IN ORDER TO FORM FOR YOURSELVES A SANE, FULFILLING, AND CREATIVE PRESENT.
Ego consciousness must now be familiarized with its roots, or it will turn into something else.
You are in a position where your private experience of yourself does not correlate with what you are told by your societies, churches, sciences, archaeologies, or other disciplines. Man's "unconscious" knowledge is becoming more and more consciously apparent. This will be done under, and with the direction of an enlightened and expanding egotistical awareness that can organize the hereto neglected knowledge -- OR
it will be done at the expense of the reasoning intellect leading to a rebirth of superstition, chaos and unnecessary war between reason and intuitive knowledge.
When at this point now of mankind's development, his emerging unconscious knowledge is denied by his institutions, then it will rise up despite those institutions, and annihilate them.
Cult after cult will emerge, each unrestrained by the use of reason, because reason will have denied the existence of rampant unconscious knowledge, disorganized and feeling only its own ancient force.
If this happens, all kinds of old and new religious denominations will war, and all kinds of ideologies surface. This need not take place, for the conscious mind -- basically now having learned to focus in the physical terms -- meant to expand, to accept unconscious intuitions and knowledge, and to organize these deeply creative principles into cultural patterns.
The great emotion of love has been thus far poorly used. Yet, it represents even the biological impetus of your being.
Your religions in a large measure, have taught you to hate yourselves and your physical existence. They have told you to love God, but rarely taught you to experience the Gods in yourselves. In one way or another religions have always followed the development of your consciousness, and so they have seved its purposes and yours; and they have always reflected, though distorted, those greater inner realities of your being. In historic terms, as you understand them, the "progression" of religion gives you a perfect picture of the development of human consciousness, the differentiation of peoples and nations, and the growth of the ideas of the "individual." There is nothing wrong with the concept of an egotistically based individual being -- I am not suggesting that your individuality is something to be lost, thrown aside, or superseded, nor am I saying that it should be buried, submerged or dissolved in a superself. I am not suggesting that its edges be blurred by a powerful unconscious. I am only saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality, that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand, so that it includes previously unconscious knowledge.
To do this, you must understand that man must move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, the way these ideas are currently understood. You are now poised on a threshold from which the race can go in many ways. There are species of consciousness. Your species is in a time of change. There are potentials within the body's mechanisms not as yet used. Developed, they can immeasurably enrich the race and bring it to levels of spiritual, psychic, and physical fulfillment.
If some changes are not made, the race as such, as the way it is now, will not endure. This does not mean that you will not endure, or that in another probability the race will not, but that in your terms of historical sequence, the race will not endure.
Speaking now in those historic terms you understand, let me say, there was no single-line development from animal to man, but parallel lines in which, for centuries, animal-man and man-animal coexisted cooperatively. In the same way, unknown amongst you, many species of what you may call probable man, dwell in embryo form.
Because of the ego's particular line of development, you have experimented with artificial drugs and chemicals, both in foods and for medicinal purposes, as well for "religious" enlightenment. Some of the effects of LSD and other artificial psychedelic drugs, give you a hint of other probable directions that your consciousness might have followed, or might still follow. However, as the experiments are conducted and in the ignorance which it has in the framework we're talking about now, the conscious mind takes a subordinate position. Using methods other than drugs, instead, your conscious mind could be taught to expand its knowledge far more safely, to organize itself in ways that could be most advantageous. Even so, some of the experiments do give hints of certain aspects of one of the species' probable developments. (I think Seth loves us. Yap! I could feel it. He desires for our best fulfillment.)
You cannot do anything, literally, that is not natural. Nevertheless, over a period of time, "artificial" chemicals taken with food into the body will form a new kind of nature, in your terms.
Your bodies are beautifully equipped and will turn almost anything to their advantage. According to many schools of thought, so-called artificial drugs, or chemicals, are considered in a very negative light, cutting you off from nature. Yet such experiments represent a strong line of probability only in its "infancy" as yet, in which man could sustain himself without draining the earth, and to live without killing animals, and literally form a new kind of physical structure connected to the earth, while not depleting its substance. This does not mean that in the meantime some biological confusion might not result, it does mean that even in those terms, and consciously unknowing, mankind is experimenting with a probable species and working out quite spiritual issues. Your probable futures and your probable pasts, in larger terms, exist at once."
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