Human Love/Divine Love

"Tao does not love as humans do; it sees all things as straw dogs.

"The sage does not love as humans do; he sees people as straw dogs.

Tao Te Ching

WE LIVE IN A WORLD where everything appears to be separate. We perceive with our five mundane senses and mind, and we see what is 'out there', thus viewing life from a perspective that reinforces our idea that we are separate from everything and that everything is separate from us. But in truth, the separate nature of our existence is delusional because everything in the universe is interconnected and interdependent.

The illusion of separation has firmly established itself as a paradigm on Earth, and today dominates the consciousness of nearly 6 billion human beings. From our segregated perspective as individuals we also behold separation reflected back to us in the form of multifarious pairs of opposites that also appear to be separate from one another, e.g., good and evil, right and wrong, friend and foe, etc.

As we continue to invest ourselves and to believe in this illusory state of duality, we serve to fortify and so perpetuate the matrix of separation into which we have been born. And as long as we continue to feed the dualistic matrix we can never transcend it, which is actually the spiritual goal of life.

No amount of activity applied by the separate personality can help to liberate mankind or this planet from the dualistic illusion. Humanity, as a collective of unenlightened personalities, may only affect change within the constraints of the unholy world-order into which we have incarnated. The undivine world in which we exist is a dualistic illusion that is ruled by polarity, and the only thing we may ever change or affect by way of personal effort is the swing of the pendulum between one pole of duality and the other. Let us explore this in greater detail.

When we use our personal will - our free will - to embrace one aspect or side of an issue, we expend energy through the generation of our dualistic thoughts and emotions. The ego, by virtue of its inherently separative nature, constantly grasps at or repels that which is outside itself, and as it does so it generates energetic fetters of mental and emotional matter. It is thus that ignorance reinforces the illusory nature of its existence by binding itself to duality. Energy follows thought, hence a certain aspect of duality will be strengthened by one's attraction to it while another may also be strengthened by one's resistance to it. Therefore, such an energetic investment - which to unenlightened perception may seem only to empower the one pole or side of an issue - in fact serves to strengthen both poles, thereby empowering either end of the spectrum and effectively exacerbating one's entanglement in, as well as strengthening the very fabric of, the illusion of duality.

To the deluded eyes of those who are wholly invested in and so co-creating within the undivine, dualistic world, things may appear to be changing, and sometimes even improving, but such people are actually only riding a predicamental merry-go-round; they are merely experiencing the inevitable and fruitless vacillations of their bondage to the Buddha's wheel of samsara, the world of illusions.

Billions of human beings spend their whole life like this, creating more and more karma by attaching themselves to one pole or the other in a dualistic illusion, thus ensuring their continued existence, over lifetimes, in an unholy world of restlessness, suffering, pain and inevitable death.

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Despite humanity's long-prevailing ignorance of these facts, all true scriptures have repeatedly testified to the futility of seeking true Fulfilment, Love and Life where they can never be found: in duality, in an illusion. Yet still today the restless search for love and happiness continues throughout the world.

"But," says Lao Tzu, "Tao does not love as humans do; it sees all things as straw dogs. The sage does not love as humans do; he sees people as straw dogs."

These words spoken by the enlightened sage, Lao Tzu, may come as rather a shock to many people. If these words are true, they are likely to overturn one's whole way of viewing life and the world, and that is indeed the aim of that ancient Chinese revelation we know as the Tao Te Ching. When we understand what Lao Tzu really meant to convey, many of our preconceptions will be shot to pieces, for it tears apart the whole paradigm with which humankind has surrounded itself and which has been handed down from generation to generation since time immemorial.

In the Tao Te Ching it is said that beauty always brings forth ugliness. The presence of the polarity of ugliness is the proof that beauty in this undivine world is also an illusion, and that true Beauty - which is imperishable and incorruptible and which has no opposite - is not to be found here. In the world of opposites, beauty brings ugliness to the surface, good brings forth evil, and love brings forth hatred. Hatred is the proof that love is an unknown quantity whose reality is not to be found in this world. Our conceptions of it are an illusion. Worldly expressions of love are actually attempts of the ego to glorify its own undivine state of being. That is why they arouse antitheses.

As long as human love is evoked in a world of opposites, hatred will be its twin brother. There is no avoiding it! Anyone who cultivates personal love is also cultivating hatred; that is a law of any dualistic world. Hatred is a means of self-protection in this fearful world, as essential and as ego-centred as human love.

The scales of love and hatred are constantly in motion and can never be brought to a standstill in duality. One moment we are amiability itself, the next the scales tip the other way. Observe mankind, and you will see this oscillation happening all the time; it is an amazing but inescapable aspect of human nature. What poor fools we are, consumed by love and hatred, swinging like a pendulum between the pairs of opposites in duality. Alternating one with the other, our love and our hatred in their many forms constantly add fuel to the flames of our dualistic delusion. Is it not quite clear, then, why Tao does not partake in any of this?

We cannot imagine a hatred-propagating Tao but, by the same token, neither should we imagine a love-propagating Tao either. Tao Loves us, but not in keeping with our secular interpretation of the word. Tao does not love as humans do, and it sees all such perceptions as 'straw dogs', which in ancient China were used for sacrifices. In the same way, neither does the sage who participates in Tao love as humans do; he, too, sees the people as straw dogs, as humanimals, part of the great illusion.

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So what does the Bible really mean when it says that "God is Love"? Well, if we wish to understand anything at all about Love, we will need to free ourselves entirely of all our preconceptions about it. We must shatter them, just as we must shatter all the other preconceptions that populate our pantheon of ignorant beliefs and opinions.

Let us, then, firstly take a modern-day example of how divine Love is so terribly misunderstood. There are many well-meaning New Age groups and centres in existence today where people sit and attempt to send out loving thoughts and energies in order to elevate humankind, to protect it from harm, to put an end to wars, to ring in an era of peace on Earth, and even to circumvent the forthcoming and necessary geological upheavals. But in reality, human love has never liberated the world, and nor can it ever. These centres and groups do not bring about peace on Earth, they do not quench the fires of ignorance, they can never heal the wounds of humanity. To the contrary, and when understood esoterically, they are actually among the breeding grounds of war, indirectly arousing and propagating hatred by feeding and so fortifying the antitheses of 'good' and evil. Therefore, they actually strengthen the powers of darkness by their unenlightened motivations, which are actualised by personal will, not divine Will. Such activities are akin to black magic, as unenlightened personalities seek, often with noble intentions, to interfere with the affairs of others and the world. Such desires create karma and further confusion, for unenlightened human beings are unable to create and send Love into the world; only Divinity, only Tao can do that! And remember that "Tao does not love as humans do".

Therefore, if we truly wish to be an agent of Love in this world, we must first bring ourselves into a binding with Tao, which has nothing to do with this world of temporality and illusion. This is the one, solitary and overriding Goal of every single unenlightened human being on Earth, and this is why no enlightened Teacher ever prescribes to ordinary humanity the kind of practices that are being performed all over the world today within the New Age culture.

The vast majority of New Age teachings, channellings and meditations encourage people to use their personal will to create change within and for themselves, and sometimes in order to help manifest positive change in the world also. Their focus is on personal transformation, as in: "create your own reality". But by encouraging people to focus upon themselves and the dualistic world, and to use their personal will to implement their high ideals, they only serve to feed the illusion of duality, along with the rest of the spiritually-unawakened masses.

In fact, these so called New Age teachers, channelers, channelled entities and groups are actually participating in something even more detrimental than those who are occultly unaware. By inciting people to polarize themselves en masse towards 'peace, goodness, light and love', these well-intentioned but misguided groups are actually synergetically strengthening and empowering the opposite end of the spectrum, i.e., violence, evil, darkness, hatred, etc. on a global level, thereby unwittingly exacerbating the already chaotic and desperate condition of this planet.

Such groups are causing the pendulum of the polarized illusion to swing further and more dramatically from one side to the other, effectively producing more and more dualistic power, momentum and tension in the world, all of which is actually helping to hasten our planet toward cataclysmic developments.

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Now that we have clearly seen how personal love has nothing whatsoever in common with divine Love, let us further explore the scriptural axiom that 'God is Love' by again reviewing Lao Tzu's words:

"Tao is like a bellows. It is empty and never exhausted. The more it moves, the more is brought into manifestation." - Tao Te Ching.

The divine Manifestation is governed by a certain rhythm, which is present even in the minutest atom. This state of being knows no antitheses, it casts no shadows, and always brings forth itself. Good is not set against evil there, nor beauty against ugliness, nor love against hatred, nor reality against delusion. Tao does not have love, it does not give love to others - Tao is Love! In other words, divine Love is not something that can be targeted at a goal, as the New Age people attempt to do in order to dignify or save themselves and to preserve this world of separation and pain. Love does not make any effort, it does not seek to counteract the effects of evil in duality, and so it does not know conflict. Divine Love is not the opposite of hatred or fear, either. If divine Love had an opposite, then it would not be divine, eternal; it would be dualistic. Divine Love is a neutral Force; its power is boundless, and can be compared with a bellows. If a bellows is pumped rhythmically it generates a great deal of power. In the same way, the rhythm of Tao generates an enormous Power and nothing that conflicts with that rhythm, nothing of duality, can ever become one with it.

Knowing all this, we will understand better than ever before why this undivine, dualistic world will remain fundamentally imperfect and essentially irreparable, however much personal love - via group meditations and the like - is sent out into it! Knowing all this we will resolve to waste as little energy as possible on such futile and often detrimental activities as so many people are involved with today within the New Age movement. We will leave the fallen world of duality for what it is. In complete self-surrender and genuine, selfless service to the Divine Plan, we shall focus only on that which is capable of assimilating the divine rhythm of Tao and which is of the same nature, the Divine Nature.

It is only through the complete surrender of our personal will, only through the relinquishing of all our attachments that bind us karmically to the wheel of samsara, that we may become clear, unimpeded vehicles for the divine Intelligence of Tao, which alone has the Power to affect really positive change in this world. Only when we give up our self-grasping, egotistic ideals and forget our small selves may we become empty enough to allow Divinity to enter into our hearts and to awaken the spark that lives within us so that we may become instruments of Tao.

It is our selfishness, our ignorant use of free will that brought us collectively into our present state of existence. Therefore it is only by a 180° reversal, through selflessness, through the complete and utter surrender of ourselves and our personal will to the divine Will of Tao, that we may allow the forces of true Change, the forces of Redemption, to work through us and liberate us completely from the unholy illusion of this world, which necessarily knows so much dualistic restlessness and, therefore, suffering.

Pseudo Occultism

By Anon (Author of The Sword)

Today the dangers of pseudo occultism are highlighted!

Those vain, deceitful yet popular teachings that are dispersed throughout bookstores, new age/mystical outlets and internet forums are now being seen for what they truly are. A measure of a teacher can be given by ones students and one may observe the many occult groups, “spiritual” classes and forums and clearly see many sincere yet confused aspirants struggling with and against those beings who are psychotic, half hearted in approach and sometimes even truly predatory in nature. Attracting all and various- let true doubt be cast upon those teachers and teachings who allow all and sundry to come under their feet.

Such beings cast dispersions, attack personalities and/or seduce those sincere yet immature aspirants into dualistic interplay.Young and struggling seekers often become confused and distracted and are usually compelled or psychically manipulated to engage in unknowingly serving and feeding the host of the subtle realms through coercion and misplaced attention.

So-called teachers, group leaders or forum moderators allowing those under their supervision and care to sow discontent and confusion or who allow peddling of the non-essential or the mis-informative are in fact serving those darkened forces by enabling them to openly flower in their corruptive purposes.

Such leaders compromising their own serviceful intentions and understandings are severely hampering and harming those who sincerely seek amidst the great and growing spiritual egotism, misinformation and truly deceptive teachings littering the so-called “spiritual supermarket” of today. Thus karmically and energetically engaging and entangling in what are truly unwholesome practices serving Lucifer and his host.

True group service in true alignment with the divine plan is virtually unknown and almost completely misunderstood within humanity today. The divine inner nature and synthesis of true group work in alignment with the divine plan is a far cry from those many and assorted groups who feebly labor in “Christ’s name” only!

True group service has nothing to do with surrendering oneself to mere idealism based upon teachings of those who expound seemingly higher occult knowledge! Gatherings of such personalities are mere cults pursuing self service with no true divine contact or inspiration. Often seen amongst their followers or students is a blind adherence to their teacher or teachings. Often lacking true discernment and openly prejudicial they are not able to receive true divine assistance. Thus psychically trapping and energetically binding

each other by generating their illusions and glamour within group fields, such cults can become powerful obstacles to divine realization as each member reinforces each other energetically and egoistically.

Today capable aspirants are cautioned to be alert in these times of mass deception and confusion -truly questioning their own motives and inner sincerity to become of true service to the divine plan on earth. Know those who seek outwardly common ground to serve their own shared idealism be it world salvation, ascension and/or healing programs without true innate divine realization or guidance are at best but blind fools or yet servants of the great and growing darkness upon the earth. Verily the counterfeit spirit abounds!

What is apparent to those who can see and can understand is that what such pseudo occult groups and teachings fail to radiate is a true divine field or vibration. Without true divine realization it is impossible to understand the true nature of events that are unfolding within the current Armageddon. As entering cosmic energies continue to affect all planetary life, many are gazing in apprehension as the growing wave of darkness rises over humanity and are unable to comprehend what is truly happening. Under cosmic impulsion growing reactionary and dualistic conflicts are arising from within and those who are caught within the illusion are now to feel the great and inevitable pressure of the incoming will energy!

Humanity’s misguided aspirations and inherent misconceptions as to its true planetary situation have led it to its current and now inevitable crises that shall now upon the outer planes of existence having serious repercussions.

Naive spiritualists and occultists in their ignorance and misunderstandings as to the true nature of such a planetary event cling to their teachings, delusional dogmas and unfulfilled promises of world saviors that are coming to save the earth.

It is seen that the true planetary hierarchy have failed to impress upon a self indulgent and immature collective the true nature of initiation and their teachings have been greatly twisted and adulterated by the planetary ego.

The teachings of Christ are being proclaimed by the hordes and truly the most twisted and blasphemous absurdities are being proclaimed!

Thus the sword is raised to those miscreant, deceitful and delusional laborers in the darkness of untruth for the guardians of the sacred do not stand idly by when such evil is so openly pronounced!

The Sutra Preached by the Buddha on the Total Extinction of the Dharma

Thus I have heard. Once, the Buddha was in the state of Kushinagara; he was to attain Parinirvana in three months. Together with all the monks and all the bodhisattvas, an innumerable crowd came to visit the place where the Buddha was, and bowed themselves to the earth. The World-Honored One was still, silent and preaching nothing; his radiant brilliance was not manifested.

The sage Ananda did obeisance, and said to the Buddha, "World-Honored One, whenever you have preached the Dharma, your majestic brilliance has been uniquely illustrious. But now, a great multitude has come together, and your radiance is not manifested in the slightest. What is the reason for this? A reason there certainly must be, and we wish to be taught its significance."

The Buddha was silent, and made no response. After Ananda had repeated the question three times, the Buddha told him, "After my nirvana, when the Dharma is about to extinct, the Five Mortal Sins will foul the world, and the demonic-way will flourish exceedingly. The demons will become monks, to spoil and wreck my Way. They will wear lay dress [rejoicing in cassocks] and multicolored clothing. They will drink wine and eat meat, killing living things in their desire for fine flavors. They will not have compassionate minds, and will hate and envy each other."

"At times, there will be Bodhisattvas, Pratyeka-buddhas, and Arhats, who cultivate merits diligently and treat all beings with reverence; being the objects of the people's devotion, they will impartially preach and convert. They will pity the poor and keep the old in their thoughts, and take care of those in poverty and difficulty. They will constantly persuade the people to worship and serve Sutras and images, doing all good acts that bring merit; their wills and natures will be kind and good. They will not harass or injure people, but sacrifice themselves to save others. They will not spare themselves, but will put up with insult, being benevolent and harmonious."

"Should there be such a being, the gang of demonic monks will unite in hating him, slandering him and blazoning forth his errors. He will be expelled and banished; they will not let him remain at that place. From then onwards, they will all fail to cultivate merit according to the Way. Temples will be empty and desolate, and will no longer be repaired, but will be allowed to fall into ruin. The monks will covet nothing but material goods, accumulating them without distribution, not doing good deeds. They will deal in male and female slaves, plow the fields and plant them, burning off the mountain forests and harming all living things; they will not have compassionate minds. Male slaves will become monks, female slaves will become nuns; they will have none of the merit that comes from practicing the Way, but rather will be filthy and depraved, foul and turbulent; men and women will not be kept separate. The reason the Way will become shallow and weak, is all because of that type of person."

"Some will evade the constables by taking refuge in my Way, seeking to become monks, but not practicing the precepts and ordinances. At the middle and end of the lunar month, although in name they should chant the precepts, they will be tired of it and resentful; lazy and careless, they will not wish to listen. They will select and abbreviate here and there, unwilling to speak everything. The Sutras will not be recited, and should there be readers, they will not know the characters and phrases; they will force interpretations and allege their accuracy, not bothering to ask people who know. In their haughtiness they will pursue fame, making a vain display of elegant manners with which to glorify themselves, and hope for people's offerings."

"This gang of demonic monks will be doomed to fall spirit and soul into Avici Hell after the end of their fated lives. In their punishment for the Five Mortal Sins, there is nothing they will not suffer as hungry ghosts and animals, for as many kalpa as there are grains of sand in the Ganges. Their sin atoned for, only then will they come forth, but they will be born in a frontier state, where there will be no place that has the Three Treasures."

"When the Dharma is on the verge of being destroyed, it is women who will concentrate on advancement, and have the habit of performing good deeds. Men will be lazy and indolent; they will have no use for the words of the Dharma. They will consider monks to be like befouled earth; they will not have believing minds."

"The Dharma is about to be wiped out, and when the time for that comes, all the gods will weep tears. Rainy and dry seasons will be untimely, the Five Grains will not ripen, pestilential vapors will be prevalent; there will be many dead. The common people will toil in hardship, the public officials will be calculating and harsh; not compliant with the principles of the Way, all will have their hearts set on pleasure or disorder. Wicked men will steadily increase in number, to become like the sands of the sea; the good will be very scarce, no more than one or two."

"Because the kalpa is nearly at its end, the days and months will become shorter and shorter, and men's lives will pass more and more hastily; their heads will be white at forty. Men will indulge in sexual conducts so that their vital energy will exhaust quickly and their lives will be shortened, or they may live at most to the age of sixty. The lives of men will become shorter, but the lives of women will become longer, to seventy or eighty or ninety; some will reach a hundred years."

"Great floods will suddenly occur; they will strike by surprise, unlooked-for. The people of the world will have no faith, and hence they will take the world to be permanent. Living creatures of every variety, with no distinction between gentry and the base, will be drowned and float away, dashed about, to be eaten by fish or turtles."

"At that time, there will be Bodhisattvas, Pratyeka-Buddhas, and Arhats; the gang of demons will drive them away, and they will not participate in the religious community. These three types of disciples will enter into the mountains, to a land of merit. Tranquil and self-controlled, they will rest content in this. Their lives will grow longer, the various gods will protect and watch over them, and Moon-Light [Bodhisattva] will appear in the world. They will be able to meet him, and together they will make my Way flourish."

"In fifty-two years after that, the Shurangama Sutra and the Pratyutpanna-Samadhi Sutra will vanish first, and shortly afterwards the twelve divisions of the Mahayana canon will also be destroyed in their entirety, and will not appear again. The robes of the monks will spontaneously turn white."

"When my Dharma is destroyed, the process will be comparable to an oil lamp, which, drawing close to the time it will go out, will shed an even greater radiance and brilliance, and then be extinguished. When my Dharma is destroyed, it will surely be like a lamp going out."

"What will happen then is not possible to describe in detail. But several thousand myriad years after this happens, Maitreya will descend to be Buddha in the world. All-under-Heaven will enjoy peace, prosperity, and equality; the pestilential vapors will be dispersed and expelled. The rain will be suitable to growth and no more, and the Five Grains will grow and flourish. Trees will grow large, and men will be eight Tzerng tall. All of them will live eighty-four thousand years. It is impossible to count how many living things will be able to be saved."

The wise and worthy Ananda made obeisance and said to the Buddha, "What shall we name this Sutra? How is it to be venerated and practiced?"

The Buddha said to Ananda, "The name of this Sutra is The Total Extinction of the Dharma. Propagate it to all; you should cause all to have a clear, complete understanding of it. The merits of its accomplishments are limitless, and cannot be counted up."

The four groups of disciple heard the Sutra; grief-stricken and rueful, all aroused their minds to attain the Way of the Unsurpassed Holy Truth. All did obeisance to the Buddha, and departed.

The Way of Freedom Allows Real Love, but Does Not Cling To It

by Sri Dava Prakasha

The Teaching may at times challenge the mental faculties, or may seem too intellectual to some readers. However, I use the mind to Lead the reader to that intuitive understanding which transcends but informs the mind, and upon which the real living of The Way is based.

The Way of Freedom is not a mind-only Path, and is far from sterile and cold. The Way involves the entire being and life, and is mainly always about God. The Way of Freedom is not sterile and cold, because The Way is always about God, and God is certainly not sterile and cold. One Quality of God’s State and Presence is Love, real Love. The love commonly found in human culture and relationships is not the Love of which I Speak. Ordinary human love is mere investment, clinging, ownership, selfish expectation, and control. Ordinary human love is no more than the feeling underlying the business-like contract implicit within common human relationships.  The warm-fuzzy of ordinary human love says, “Let’s be nice to one another, so that we can use one another to get our needs met.”. Ordinary human love is, therefore, conditional and further-limiting, and thus suffering-enhancing. The Love of God, however, is Of Freedom, and is Unconditional Goodness, Benevolence, Peace, and Bliss. The Love of God asks nothing in return, and is Love for the sake of Love in a world bereft of God and His Way.

God, His Love, and His Way of Freedom are not other-worldly, and are not away from life and human relationships. In fact, God, His Love, and His Way Inform, Permeate, and Guide the entire being and life, including the relationships, of the serious follower. It is the Pure Love of God that can Heal human hearts, minds, lives, and relationships. Upon Incarnation, God’s Love is indeed Unconditional, however, His Response, Intervention, and Help are not without conditions. Because of His Utmost Goodness, God does not Impose Himself and His Way where He is not wanted. God’s Love Is Unconditional, but for God to Help an individual, he must be truly and deeply inviting and allowing God and His Way, through his sincere and deep attempting to walk The Path of Freedom. Out of Love, God does not “capture” followers, but Allows all to choose or reject Him and His Way. God can Love without Helping.

The popular idea that, because of His universal Love, God is equally Involved in the being and life of every person, is simply false. God is not like a human parent, who cares equally for the needs and wishes of his children. To generate a feeling of connectedness and safety, people tend to ascribe parental attributes to God. However, the true follower learns to take full responsibility for his inviting and allowing of God, and does not sit passively waiting for God to Heap Blessings upon him. God’s Love Allows every person to choose Him and His Way, or not. And, people are Recognized by God as choosing Him and His Way, when they are truly and deeply attempting to live His Way of Freedom. People may live any way they choose, but they should not expect God to Run to their aid when egoically-unpleasant accidental and karmic events unfold for them. If nature is your lord and master, then, realistically, you should look to nature, and not God, for the little aid and comfort it can provide.

The real Love of God can bring a sense of Fullness, Peace, Contentment, and Light to the follower. It can also profoundly Change his mind and heart, and can cause him to act according to that Love in his interactions with others. God’s Love can make him feel and act better. However, the advancing follower remembers to not become attached to any feeling-state, even including the Love of God. God’s Love is simply a Quality of God’s Presence in three-dimensional space, and that Presence is Given to the follower Through the Incarnation, and is not generated or owned by the follower.

Clinging is clinging, and even trying to cling to God’s Presence maintains and strengthens the state, stuff, and ways of limitation and suffering. There is no Higher clinging; all clinging is of the natural way, even the clinging to God. All clinging shuts-out God, and the attempt to cling to God shut-outs the very God to which one is trying to cling. The reader is perhaps closer to understanding why I use the phrase “allow God”, when describing the follower’s Sacrificial and Faithful participation in The Way of Freedom.

Spiritual paths and practices involve generating, clinging to, and wallowing in, various experiences and feeling-states. The Way of Freedom is, however, no spiritual path or practice. The Way allows real Love, but is always about Freedom in the very midst of existence and relationships. Love is a Quality of God, but from the follower’s perspective, God is most essentially Freedom, so His Love should not be confined or perverted by clinging, preference, or aversion.

Imitation Spirituality

By Truth Fellowship

THERE ARE A GREAT MANY SPIRITUAL TEACHERS and groups in the world today, some possessing much insight and good intentions. However, when compared to the Path that leads to complete Redemption it becomes evident that the vast majority of spiritual groups and so-called enlightened teachers actually demonstrate a significant compromise on the Highest, on the quest for Liberation, on the holy Truth. Conditions are often applied and many people 'go spiritual' in order to gain same benefit and greater happiness in their personal lives. They practice, therefore, what to the discerning eye and the pure heart might be termed 'imitation spirituality'.

The culture of imitation spirituality has come about due to a lack of true Knowledge and selfless motivation. This is clearly apparent within the New Age movement, for example, where the general focus is upon profiting for self. So many people today have their own valued ideas of how best to bring about light, love and peace on Earth, yet the majority of these individuals have yet to actually realise such virtues themselves. New spiritual groups and teachers are appearing all the time in these days of The Quickening on Earth; self proclaimed masters, teachers and motley bands of disciples and do-gooders are a very common sight within the spiritual supermarket today. It is often found that such groups - new and traditional - tend to demonstrate a noble intention to heal themselves and this planet, yet all truly enlightened Masters, Holy Orders and Mystery Schools throughout the ages have taught that the personal self, this world and all that is in it do not represent the goal of life, and on the spiritual path neither should they be the focus. Wrong focus is the result of a lack of true Knowledge and awareness of the purpose of physical incarnation, and without such Knowledge the true spiritual Path cannot be found, let alone trodden.

To improve the quality of life in this world is not the purpose of our existence here. The Buddha spoke of this world as being like a bubble on the ocean, an illusion that would pass away just as surely as it had appeared, and he taught that the spiritual aspirant should not become attached to it in any way. Jesus said in no uncertain terms, "My Kingdom is not of this world" and he urged mankind to seek ye first that Kingdom. For to seek and find true Life (the Kingdom) will alone right all the wrongs, pains, and sufferings of mankind's self-created predicament as well as open up the Way that leads to the Goal of life. Conversely, true healing and redemption from suffering cannot be achieved by way of a personal and worldly focus or awareness, and the separate self will only compound its problems through self-striving. Like a dog chasing its tail, the self can only go round and round in circles, necessitating and perpetuating its bondage to what the Buddha called the wheel of birth, death and suffering.

To attempt - from an unenlightened perspective - to heal this world and mankind is like a blind man trying to give directions to someone who is lost. The world may only be healed when humanity's focus and motivations are true, when the heart of mankind is open and when its mind is looking in the right direction. The solution to all ignorance-born world problems may only be apprehended by giving up all self-created notions, looking out from the separate self and upwards toward the universal Spirit and the Divine Plan for Earth. The solution to all suffering, darkness and ignorance is necessarily a divine solution and can never be found within the separate and limited nature of the personal self or its plethora of speculative ideas, projections and delusions. Such personal, ignorant convictions never amount to anything other than more separation, the proof of which is perfectly visible in society as it exists today, and is also reflected in the many individual and disparate views and ideals held by the countless spiritual groups and teachers.

A correct focus is essential if the seeker of Truth is to rise above the multifarious snares and pitfalls of pseudo spirituality that are to be found everywhere in this world. The pain of the world’s heart and all mankind’s sufferings are resolved and ultimately permanently healed through a focus on what is already True, Whole, and Complete, and not on the individual self or the transitory world of appearances. Only when a man's focus is turned towards the Highest, to the Truth itself, will he come into alignment and harmony with universal law, and so realise a true Spirituality, as he naturally becomes inspired to serve the Divine Plan. It is only through such a correct alignment and the subsequent spiritual resonance that it engenders that the world’s ailing condition will begin to be remedied. Human delusion can never be resolved until the seeker has made contact with Reality, and so has aligned himself with true Life. To seek and practice anything else, anything for one's own benefit without due recognition of the whole, is imitation spirituality, and this serves nothing other than the personal ideas and whims of the separate self, leading to further confusion and suffering. For separation (from God) is synonymous with pain.

In order to allow the spirit of Truth to reveal itself, one must seek that Truth uncompromisingly with a selfless focus and motivation. Any lesser activity of mind or emotion, even when born from a noble intention to do the right thing, is still a personal desire, an ideal created from the limited vision of one's separate reality and experience. No amount of such good intentions can ever create a perfect world. To the contrary, such a personally-oriented attitude only precipitates more conflict and separation from Reality, the impersonal Reality that has always been Perfect and which is waiting for humanity to come back into alignment with its gracious Laws by way of its own free will. Delay in such divine alignment will most often produce more karmic bindings to the wheel of birth, death and suffering. It is an inescapable fact that a personal focus is limiting and degenerative, whereas a divine focus is liberating and regenerative. If only the self-seekers of the world would understand that should they lose their self-defeating ulterior motives, then they would begin to enjoy both a greater vitality in life as well as a progressive spiritual alignment and inspiring purpose.

There are a great many people in these last days of a major world cycle for Earth who are focusing on all kinds of interesting things, from personal healing and self development to the channelled advice and lofty messages of those who have passed over. There exists today a worldwide marketplace for psychic counseling, innumerable methods of self-discovery, spiritual awakening, soul recovery, magic rituals, past life recall, ET mania, etc., etc. The list is endless and would take a great number of lifetimes for a person to fully explore even a small fraction of them. Many of these activities are not wrong or dangerous in themselves, but in the absence of a right spiritual focus and a selfless attitude they are fated to merely revolve around the grasping desires of the personal self. They cultivate and refine the ego-self and so do not lead to That which is already Perfect and which liberates.

A growing number of people all around the world today are writing spiritual books and giving workshops, again often before they themselves have actually realised anything of a higher order than mere philosophical or psychic insight in the absence of  alignment with Truth and divine Purpose. This generally perpetuates ignorance and pride because the focus is essentially ever the same. No matter how philosophically true may be the words and concepts of a preferred teaching, it will not help a person reach the goal of life - Liberation - as long as the focus is selfish, upon gaining for the ego-self, the 'I', 'me' and 'mine' of self-grasping, as in: "my healing", "my path", "my ascension", "my truth", "my self", "my life", etc. Until one learns in all one's activities of thinking and aspiring to look towards the One Life alone, to that which is True and Divine, and in so doing reawaken the inner spiritual seeking element in the heart, all that is created and focused upon will be in vain, and it will yield nothing of any real and lasting value.

Before aspirants embark upon the spiritual path they should - first and foremost - ask themselves earnestly: Do I love and wish to serve the Truth unconditionally, or do I seek the Truth because I want to take personal advantage of it in some way? If the answer reveals that there is indeed some ulterior selfish motive, then the aspirant is not yet ready to walk the Path of Purification, the true spiritual Path, and he should beware of trying to understand and apply the higher, esoteric teachings or of practicing advanced techniques.

No matter what is learned and understood intellectually and no matter from what eminent source it may spring, without a right focus and true, spiritual understanding it will generally be used as yet another vehicle in which the ego-self can move in circles and create more illusions. All that is really taking place in imitation spirituality is the motion of the ego from one separate and unillumined sphere of thought and desire to another; in the case of the New Age movement, to a so-called 'spiritual' one. But the path of the ego-self rotates on one plane only, it does not spiral upwards, it does not lead to emancipation from the self-replicating problems and woes of the separate personality. Today a tremendous number of unenlightened teachers seek to propagate imitation spirituality amongst mankind as if it were a most worthy service to the world. 'Being spiritual' has become a fashionable trend in our times. But for the most part such ministrations are actually a disservice due to the focus upon the personal self, rather than the eternal divine Element within the heart of mankind, which is innately selfless and True. Until this divine Element is focused upon and its nature and purpose in incarnation sought out, no lasting Truth or Wisdom can be realised or integrated into one's life, and when living Truth and Wisdom are absent, then no real spiritual Service may be rendered either. It is this lack of true and simple Wisdom that perpetuates imitation spirituality all over the world, and which drives people to work on themselves, instead of forgetting the separate self in exchange for seeking and embracing the living Truth, which naturally heals as it enlightens.

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Until the self-proclaimed spiritual groups, teachers, and indeed mankind at large learn to see clearly the need to align themselves with the larger Plan and so establish a divine Focus, they cannot apprehend what must soon come to pass in this world and why, and so neither will they be able to avail themselves of the present spiritual opportunity of an age. They will remain ignorant and unaware of how to properly prepare and assist in the One World Work, which seeks only to manifest on Earth the Divine Plan for this period for the benefit of all. In the absence of true Knowledge and right understanding, and without an innate love-yearning for God, imitation spirituality actually works against the perfect unfoldment of Truth on Earth by way of its unenlightened and spiritless ideas and projects.

Adherents of imitation spirituality work - consciously or subconsciously - to delay that which must come to pass because they operate outside the Law of Oneness, outside of Unity, and not in alignment with the Divine Plan for this world. They most often work from a place where they feel happy and safe, protected within their own personal comfort zones and consciousness of 'I know'. Using such unrealised affirmations as 'We are all God' they try to bring their own will and agendas, disguised as divine alignment, to bear on others. One of the greatest obstacles - if not the greatest obstacle - that stands in the way of real spiritual unfoldment and realisation is an absence of humility, and the honest admission as to how little the separate self really and truly knows of the higher Life, its purpose, goal and ultimate inevitable result for this end of a major world cycle. Most people shopping in the spiritual marts of trade today are so focused upon what they already know - or more accurately what they think they know - that there is little or no scope for them to discover what is actually True. That which has waited eons to enter the heart and illumine the mind of humanity in order to liberate it from delusion and suffering can find no resonance with those who already know best, and so neither can it enter into their lives. Hence the essential need for humility, an empty cup.

Imitation spirituality comes into being, then, due to the full cup, the cup that is filled with personal 'knowing'. It is born from the assuming attitudes of the self-oriented seeker and all groups and teachers who regard the personal self, however subtly, rather than the Universal Truth of which the individual soul is only a tiny part. The answer to all man-made problems must be sought from the Divine, and if a personal focus is favoured over and above an impersonal, divine orientation, then the real Solution will never be found, for there is nothing at all in the world of the ego that has the redeeming power to lift the imprisoned soul from its ignorance, pain and self-engineered separation. There is but one truly spiritual attitude and one Way that leads to Freedom: it is through an earnest and humble seeking of That which has always been True, and forever will be True, and this Truth has nothing to do with the separate self and so cannot be contained, procured or possessed by it. Therefore, the world of imitation spirituality is in dire need of a complete reorientation of understanding, focus and consciousness, without which genuine spiritual qualities and virtues will continue to be a rare and infrequent occurrence on Earth, and so the goal of life will remain unattainable for the majority.

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So many statements and claims made in both the old and the New Age arenas today are at least partially motivated by fear, pride and spiritual egotism. By way of their substantial knowledge and in-fact-uation, many teachers endeavour to convince themselves and the world that they know all about the spiritual life. Yet knowledge is not required in order to take the very first step onto the spiritual Path. What is needed is an earnest love of and yearning for the living Truth. Such a sincere orientation makes a person a Seeker, and from such a correct spiritual orientation will arise true understanding, insight and eventually Wisdom, as, by law, the living Truth responds to a genuine and selfless invitation.

All who wish to return to Reality and so partake again of the original Freedom, must first become empty of self, open and so ready to be filled with the living light of Truth. Now, an empty cup does not contain anything, it does not, therefore, proclaim that it knows anything, for all true Knowing is of God. Allowing the light of Reality to enter one's emptied grail is to become aware of God's Will, and it is thus that the Calling to assist in the manifestation of its Plan for these important times on Earth is registered by the Seeker, and consecrated service to that Divine Plan then becomes natural and spontaneous. This is the beginning of Freedom, and the seeker of Truth is then initiated into life's mysteries and is given progressively greater spiritual responsibility, together with its commensurate reward. It is in receiving and then giving away what is received that one becomes the humble servant of all, proceeding forth along the Lighted Way, not by efforts of self-will and not by dint of personally-constructed ideals and theories, but by the living Grace of divine Providence. The surrendered Server then becomes a tiny, glowing point of light in the darkness, one with the Universal Light, in which there is neither any separate self nor speculation.

To look to or to seek for anything less than divine Guidance in every new moment is foolishness. It perpetuates spiritual blindness and confusion, which then continues to give rise to an endless array of self-oriented pseudo-spiritual philosophies, groups and teachers, in which great numbers of unsuspecting people invest their time, energy, dedication and money. This is how the culture of imitation spirituality has grown to epidemic proportions in the world today. Those who follow unenlightened teachers, prophets, deceptive teachings and groups contribute toward the reinforcement of the grand illusion of false spirituality as they simultaneously become more deeply bound to and by it themselves. By investing in the pronouncements and prescriptions of teachers of illusion, adherents unwittingly support the same illusions themselves through a compromised focus, and it is thus that they directly help to maintain falsehood in the world, while simultaneously delaying any true Light from entering, and all under the oft colourful and glinting banner of spirituality and truth.

The result of perpetuated self-conviction and personal investment in imitation spirituality is that one becomes so lost in the darkness of delusion that the Spirit-flame which may have glowed originally within the heart, inspiring one to become a Seeker, all but dies out, having failed to be nourished by the living Truth, and so it is unable to guide one further along the right Path. When this point is reached, the consciousness of the separate self becomes so immersed in appearance-reality and the subconscious fear and attachment that this engenders, that it finds it extremely difficult to admit that it could be mistaken or even entirely lost in darkness. This is how the downward spiral away from the Light develops in the life of the selfish seeker, and imitation spirituality today has mesmerized vast numbers of souls and is pulling them ever deeper into the great illusion of 'I', 'me' and 'mine'.

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When one considers that all genuine spiritual Masters of the past have ever pointed to That which lies beyond the shores of this material and transitory realm, beyond the sense of the separate ego-self, one must surely question how anything True and lasting can ever be created or attained by way of the limited perspective, unenlightened beliefs and focus of the 'I'. One should also ask why there exists such a diverse variety of ideals and methods - most often in at least partial disagreement with one another - amidst the great majority of spiritual groups and teachers who are today, apparently, working towards world peace, healing, and love. Without first aligning themselves with the behests of the Divine Plan for world and mankind and so helping to fulfill that Plan for this end of a cycle period, such groups and teachers make efforts to manifest their own personal interpretations of the need of the hour, hence the multifarious discrepancies between them. There are a tremendous number of spiritual groups in the world today, but very little unity of heart and focus amongst them. Yet where the Truth is loved and seen together, hearts are united. This must always be the case, for the Truth is One, as are all souls who serve it in consecration.

A right focus - an inner yearning for and love of the Truth itself - would eventually bring to this world every dream and joy ever longed for or imagined, without any work or effort being placed directly upon the self first, as is so often prescribed by misguided teachers. However, lacking such an earnest and humble inner yearning for the Truth, no amount of spiritual education or practice will quench the soul's thirst, for the living Spirit does not regard the personal self and so cannot avail the ego of its Grace; the divine Spirit recognises only Itself within but beyond the separate ego-self: immanent but transcendent.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and many well-meaning groups, teachers and leaders in this world today travel that road. Yet none of these good intentions have served to free the heart of mankind, and they never will. It is not until one looks selflessly towards the greater Life, neutralising one's own personal will for the sake of the greater divine Will, that freedom in Purpose begins to be experienced again. All self-willed actions necessarily go against the flow of the universal Harmony, which is ever meaningful, intelligent, dynamic and liberating. Seeking anything less than perfect alignment with the universal Intelligence will amount to little or nothing but the creation of more confusion and separation in a world that has already gone insane due to its long-perpetuated unwise use of free will and its selfish grasping habits.

Just as in the common, selfish life of the mass of mankind, the misuse of free will in imitation spirituality is also rife on Earth today as people shift from one ideal to another, from one form of self-will and desire to an alternative, perhaps more exciting form, which may seem in the beginning to offer something more, something better. But no matter where one shifts one's personal focus, the 'I' still remains in its separate and very limited condition, and it is this self that gives up on one idea only to grasp at another in the hope that it may gain greater happiness and perhaps ultimately eternal freedom. However, there is nothing lasting and so truly satisfying that can ever be procured by the separate self, and the one who realises this will understand the sane choices made by all wise men of the past who successfully regained their spiritual heritage through a selfless attitude and a humble yearning for Reality, in which there is no separation. To open one's heart to the One Life in all and so to forget all ideas of 'my will' is to become aware of 'Thy Will', the Universal Will, and it is in such a prudent focus that one begins the process of being initiated into true Spirituality, and so becomes a recipient and servant of the liberating Truth.

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Due to the prevalence of imitation, self-orientated spirituality the world over in these frantic times, the true servants of Life - those who are aligned with the divine Spirit and so also with the Plan of Salvation for these times - are mostly forced to wait and prepare in the shadows, while so many self-appointed teachers are busy in the limelight propagating their information and methods from an unenlightened idea, teaching the multitudes how to achieve what they themselves have yet to realise. The genuine awakened servants of the human race and the Divine Plan prefer to eschew the loud claims and commercial activities of those who spend much of their time doing and saying the greatest things in public so as to be seen as spiritual and wise, and they seek not to teach those who are insincere and so who are as yet not ready to court Revelation.

In the past, candidates for the inner teachings of the Divine Mysteries had to seek out and to prepare themselves to work with the Initiates and Masters, and unless an aspirant possessed the key that opened the door to the inner sanctum, he could not gain access to Life. Today the requirements for true spiritual work have not changed, and the kind of potencies wielded and teachings offered by holy groups are dangerous for the unprepared.

Yet we may observe everywhere today the public advertisements in magazines and on the Internet for teachings about holy Ascension, together with an expanding abundance of teachers offering to show the way to enlightenment. In fact there are so many self-styled masters and spiritual teachers in the world presently, offering a diverse array of methods and philosophies, that one cannot help but wonder why humanity has not ascended to at least the ninth dimension already! This is the great tragedy of sham spirituality, that so many people in these times have bought into the imitation version of the real thing and so are being led astray, deceived by the rising number of false teachers who instruct upon matters which they themselves do not yet truly comprehend. Part of the reason for this is due to the fact that advanced spiritual teachings have found their way into the general public and can today be purchased by anyone in the local book shops. Yet using sacred teachings for personal agendas always leads to disaster, for such teachings will always be used by the ego to cover its own fear and ignorance in an attempt to create a safe and comfortable semblance of truth for personal happiness, self aggrandizement and power. In doing this with conviction, in widely advertising the benefits for self of even the greatest and truest teachings, the delusion of imitation spirituality spreads all over the Earth, and so what in past has been a most sacred and carefully guarded treasure becomes degraded into a commonplace vogue in the marketplace: Ascension, free for all!

With great alacrity, the Truth is repeatedly utilised in error by the ego, rehashed into an imitation spiritual philosophy to suit the needs of the separate self, where, for example, people loudly proclaim 'I AM', yet without an iota of inner, spiritual realisation to back it up, and simply because they have read it somewhere and have taken the impersonal Truth personally. That which is True is not of the world of time and space, where everything is in a perpetual state of change, decay, death and rebirth. The Eternal is evidently absent from the world of rising, glimmering, fading and dying. Just as that which is True is not of the temporal world, similarly the Truth itself cannot be revealed in the temporal world. Nothing True can ever be written or spoken in words alone. The Truth that is written and spoken is at best only a reflection of the Unborn, the unmanifest Truth of Life, which can only be experienced. But without a pure heart and motivation - which may only be reached through the loving, selfless and intelligent quest - the all important and vital Energy of the living, vibrating Truth that may accompany only the realised words and concepts of the sage, is lost. Thus so the living energy of Truth cannot be received or passed onto another. In this way many people may read and even understand philosophically the most profound truths on Earth, yet still not receive one modicum of the living, experiential Reality, which they know all about. This is how the most exalted words and teachings of our saints and spiritual masters have been stolen and killed by way of self-grasping, and the foundation of all imitation spirituality is rotten due to the selfish motivations of those who practice it.

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Until one seeks out the living Truth and its Wisdom with an honest and humble heart and with a mind that earnestly acknowledges that it knows nothing of that Truth, no true Light can ever be received, no matter how many books one reads, no matter what teaching is followed or believed in and no matter how many lifetimes one practices mystical techniques. Until a man rediscovers the hidden mystery of the living Truth in his own heart, he remains essentially ignorant, a fool, and if he proceeds with conviction to think that he may lead others to Enlightenment when he himself has yet to attain the Goal, then he becomes a foolish teacher of fools who will follow him; the blind leading the blind. Until a man actually reaches the Goal of divine Remembrance he should keep in mind always that he is still a seeker of Truth, and not yet a teacher of it. If the great majority of spiritual teachers in the world today would remember the enduring fact that they may only assist others along the Way to a very limited degree until they themselves have actually attained the Goal, then there would be far more humility on Earth within the spiritual supermarket and consequently much more true Light, rather than the false, deceptive glamour-filled light of imitation spirituality.

Being with a true and therefore divinely-aligned Teacher will always give us Light, and not just in the head! The awakening of the divine spark in the heart as a result of coming into contact with a true Teacher may be accompanied by a sense of wonderment, awe and perhaps great 'jubilant sorrow' as the realisation dawns how we and most of humanity have prevented the Light from entering our lives in the past by way of our own ignorant habits. If a teacher does not give us Light, particularly in our early encounters, then either the aspirant is not yet ready to receive it or the teacher has not come into divine alignment and so is not qualified to awaken others. However, if the teacher has attained some significant level of divine contact, then his personal radiatory field will prove to have an effect, and this may be experienced by the insincere, impure of heart or spiritually immature aspirant as a surfacing of unresolved fears, hatreds and resistances, a rising of inner darkness. Therefore, one way or another, the true Teacher will generally have a significant effect upon the consciousness of everyone who opens to him.

However, these simple and unchanging facts seem to be completely overlooked by the mass of spiritually-disposed human beings, who blindly follow their impotent teachers, lesser gurus, false leaders and who religiously adhere to the endless collection of self-seeking groups together with their written material and unenlightened prescriptions. "In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king!" There are today thousands of so called 'enlightened teachers' in the public arena. Many of them have their own website, unique teachings to share and a growing band of followers. Most of them are true in words, at least to some degree, but not yet pure of heart. Yet it must be remembered that the unrealised heart does not have access to that all-important and vital energy which makes possible the living transmission of Truth. The vibratory signature of unenlightened teachers betrays to those who are able to see with the heart, that they have not aligned themselves with the Divine Plan for the planet and race in these times. While words, ideas and teachings may point the Way, they are not the Way themselves and so should never be clung to lest they further blind the heart and mind.

It is astonishing when we consider just how many thousands of self-proclaimed masters there are today all over the world and accessible to the general public, more than in any other time in history. Yet the human race is more exceedingly deluded than it ever has been in any other time in history, and consequently our planet is ailing more than ever before, for we have today reached the nadir of human expression on Earth. Millions of souls are presently being led astray, as was long ago prophesied would happen in these times, and as more groups and self-proclaimed spiritual teachers rise up around the planet, infecting the minds and hearts of their growing followers with unrealised philosophical systems and personal ideas, very ordinary people with little spiritual or even psychic experience are becoming self-appointed teachers. Today we stand at the end of a major world cycle and the imminent dawn of a New World, and still the focus for the majority is on the spiritual feel-good factor, and even those who do have some innate wisdom are being drawn into the great deception.

“False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they will perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible, even the elect.” - Matthew 24:24

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Imitation spirituality has reached such a record high today that those who have actually established true divine contact and who possess real Knowledge of the need of the hour and the Plan for Earth, are forced to stand aside and look on at the confusion as it plays itself out before they are able to commence the greater holy work for humanity for which they have incarnated. These souls are not here to scatter abroad yet more mystical concepts or pass on philosophical teachings that never really change anything. These advanced souls are here today on Earth, mostly on humanity's behalf, to comprise the critical mass required to satisfy the Law, and to sound the final Call in the world, which is a cry in the wilderness of mankind's ignorance and selfishness, a last plea to humanity to face in the right direction in good time. For most human beings, however, it is already too late with regard to this cycle's spiritual opportunity for Deliverance, and all that remains for the relatively few realised hearts who have become aware of the truth of these end times, is to wait in the background of life until the Redeemer of this world finally commissions them to transmit the divine vibration of Truth worldwide, to wield the Sword, and so shatter all that has not aligned itself with the Divine Plan.

Already the Sword is beginning to show itself in the world today, and the prophesied 'Great Separation' is now taking place on many levels all around the planet. There are relatively few who boldly acknowledge what must come to pass: the victory of ages of Truth over falsehood, yet mankind has been warned repeatedly over the millennia about the inevitable, stark reality of these times and the inescapable fate of everything and everyone that is not True. Even at this late stage of the period leading up to the Day of Reckoning and the Great Shift, only those with eyes to see and ears to hear have responded in any vital way to the Call. Throughout the ages humanity has been cautioned about the false leaders, teachers and groups that would rise up in these last days of an age, but so very few have taken heed of those warnings. In these accelerating times it is most inexpedient to continue building more dreams and romantic ideals pertaining to planetary healing and peace, or for improving upon the world's illusions of preservation of what is old, familiar and now redundant. All such self-constructed projections of the human mind are about to be utterly dispelled by the insuperable living light of Truth itself. These are the 'end times', and there is only one way to safely and wisely navigate through the darkness and multitudinous distractions of this period in order to attain Liberation from falsehood in the valley of the shadow of death, and that is by humbly seeking the Truth and surrendering to and serving God's Will, free of all personal sentimentalities and philosophical ideas and preferences.

If we truly Seek, then we shall Find, but if we think that we already know and so fail to perpetually and humbly Seek until we are Free, then we are going to discover nothing liberating or True. Part of true Knowing is knowing that we do not know. But until the heart awakens to Truth, most people do not really know how little they really know. There are two kinds of fools in this world: the ignorant fool and the wise fool. The ignorant fool is he who cannot find the humility to admit that he is a fool who knows nothing. The wise fool is he who knows that without the divine Spirit he knows and is nothing. It is this latter kind of fool - the wise fool - who is guaranteed of spiritual success.

If we are engaged in selfish activity, however subtle or 'spiritual', then we will not see past our own selfish reflection in the mirror of Truth that is approaching our world today. If we try to build further knowledge upon our own existing ignorance and ideas, then nothing True will be constructed, and neither will our ivory towers survive what is to come. There are relatively very few true, uncompromising spiritual Seekers in this world who have cultivated the art of spiritual Listening. Fear and pride has long found a home in the hearts of the majority of souls on Earth, and consequently a great number of foolish fools have adorned themselves with their own ideas and methods of attaining Liberation. But the Way to find the Truth and to be liberated by it is to completely and unconditionally give up all ideas and beliefs of the self in deference to that Truth: "Not my will but Thy Will be done." This requires the virtue of a selfless consecration, which has nothing to do with the ideals and plans belonging to the ignorant self, however long-established, noble or cherished.

If the ego feels good and proud in its knowledge, psychic power, spiritual attainment or influence over others, then imitation spirituality is being practiced, and the true Path is still yet to be found. Most people turn to spirituality in order to attain greater happiness, healing or some meaningful achievement for themselves. However, it is a fact that the separate nature of the ego-self will always struggle and fight to maintain itself when faced with the Truth, the nature of which dissolves all separation and ultimately annihilates the illusion of the separate self altogether. The further along the true Path one progresses, the greater the suffering. Therefore to walk the spiritual path in order to find personal happiness is as absurd as it is impossible, and always results in imitation spirituality. The true pilgrims of the Way are 'men of sorrows': "Suffer little children that come unto Me." - Christ. Nonetheless they are also candidates for Glory and they seek the Truth simply because they are in love with it, not in order to make their separate selves happier, more powerful or to shine in any way. "I wish to reduce myself to zero." - Gandhi. Going the Way of Sanctification entails a unique form of suffering, but this does not mean that if we seek the Truth we will know only misery and suffering. It means that regardless of what arises in our lives as a result of our courting greater Light, we shall remain true, selfless and empty, even if at times what is revealed to us may be hard to bear. As we move closer to the Truth and the Goal of our lives, our vision will expand and we will see this world for the travesty that it really is, yet still our focus will become ever more impersonally loving, in a way that cannot be fully understood by those who have yet to be initiated into the Divine Mysteries, which are not of this world.

A man who has attained a true, spiritual vision will be deeply moved at seeing his brothers and sisters suffering in their own blindness and ignorance, yet he will be unable to help them because they are not yet seeking the true Solution and also due to his obedience of the law of non-interference. However, he is able to carry the vision for others until they learn to see it for themselves. His heart will weep for them and be moved to great sadness as he watches his family struggle in the darkness of self, knowing there is nothing he can do for them and that they must learn by way of their own choices, even though he may recognise that those choices must lead to further pain and frustration. It is not until the earnest Seeker finds the true Path himself that he sees how few actually tread it, and so often he finds himself quite alone on his journey as a physical being. Yet imitation spirituality assures us that it is all about 'love and light and joy and happiness', and that if a spiritual path does not make us happy then we are on a false path! Yet this kind of path is for the selfish self; it is trodden with the self in mind in order to profit  the self, and as such is a lie, just one of the many facets of self-seeking fake spirituality. Those who tread this path are often unable to see the world objectively, to see the dire truth of this world and what must come to pass, because it does not please them, allay their fears or support their delusions to do so. And so the blinkers remain on. It is easy to create a self-made bubble of distortion and glamour around ourselves and choose to see what we want to see, to believe only what is most pleasant for us personally, but such a subjective focus only leads to greater error and attachment, and the deeper and the longer this investment is made in self by self, the more difficult it becomes to surrender one's comfortable and familiar illusions. The plain Truth must be seen in its own light, not in a light that pleases us most; things must be seen just as they are before we may begin to truly progress spiritually.

Imitation spirituality is marketed and sold to the masses in attractive packaging that appeals to the personal self: "heal your life", "find greater happiness", "empower yourself", "create your own reality", etc., etc. Yet crystals, tinctures, ointments and head knowledge never led a single soul to the Truth, and neither will any unrealised teaching or practice made for self-gain. What is so often overlooked by the hopeful and self-grasping aspirant is that true spirituality has little to do with and is often not pleasant for the ego-self at all, because that self must necessarily surrender to the higher Life and Purpose, so that the inevitable process of self-abnegation and ego-demolition may begin. "I must decrease so that He may increase in me."

One cannot live in two worlds or serve two masters; neither can the earnest spiritual aspirant afford to be attached to the things of this life while trying to reach the next. In fact, everything must be given up to the Truth if we would walk the Lighted Way that leads to Liberation from falsehood, and so also be of real spiritual service to others. No one can enter a new spiritual world while still clinging to the old, it is impossible. However, imitation spirituality seeks to do just this very thing - for the separate self. Yet it is the perpetuation and aggrandizement of the separate nature, along with its personal desires and ideas, that preserves and augments the pain and illusions of the very life that imitation spirituality claims to serve. In order to walk the true spiritual Path, all that need be sought is how best to give one's separate and illusionary nature in sacrifice to the greater Good and for the benefit of all; this is right use - divinely aligned use - of free will. No matter how good one feels and no matter how the self attires itself, it will at some point have to give up all its ideas, opinions, desires and fears in order to allow the One Life to do its work of self-redemption within. Therefore a lover of Truth seeks to stand aside, to remove self from Reality, and to unite with other hearts for the same divine Purpose. For such a true Seeker knows that it is not he personally who may possess or benefit from the Truth, but rather the Universal Spirit itself does, and in his pure love of and devotion to God, that Reality is all he cares about as he seeks uncompromisingly to again become one with it and so dissolve his separate and painful sense of self forever in the supernal Light of the Divine.

TERMINAL MADNESS OF THE ENDTIME

Copyright 1998 (c) by Dr. J. S. Chiappalone

This phrase, which I have coined, is both a description of certain aspects of life on this planet, in this generation, which I have described as the Final generation of the Planet, and an indication of the ultimate explanation of what is going on. I will explain this assertion with what follows.

Each of us in some way is being affected by overt fragmentation of the hitherto apparently homeostatic biological systems of Earth. Some are bothered by financial loss, others by deteriorating job prospects, many by illness, pollution, racism, the rage of others at work, on the road, at school, etc.

Even the most cursory examination of the various aspects of existence confirms fragmentation of governments, religions, families, communities, nations, ecological systems, financial institutions, educational institutions, diverse races, cultures and so on. However, the biggest factor which will affect each and every individual is the mental fragmentation which s/he may or may not suffer. Indeed, the majority will suffer this Terminal Madness of the Endtime, but some will not.

It is not sufficient to simply describe aspects of symptoms of the malady affecting the Earth, humanity and all living creatures in its ecosystems. One needs to make an accurate diagnosis and then find the prognosis. Finding out why this is all happening means there must be some solution to this mess. And indeed there is a solution, along with many other spurious postulations of what is going on. I hope to briefly examine these aspects.

To know what is going on and why, we need to consider the fragmentation which is occurring from all three perspectives: the physical, the psychic or mental, and the spiritual perspective. Failing to do so can only lead to an inadequate database upon which any conclusions can be based.

A        The Physical Perspective:

The physical fragmentation is the most obvious for us to see, and while we do rely on data supplied by various collectors, we are also affected directly enough in our lives to reach our own conclusions. This is important, for many who supply public data often give us false conclusions of what it all means.

The biological fragmentation from a physical perspective is of an inexorably terminal decay of the planet.

i        Ozone depletion is allowing injurious radiation to reach us with destructive consequences. Plankton and krill are dying, thus causing the seafood chain to collapse. This has been noted and our seas are all but sterile, dead. Cataracts, skin cancers, especially fatal melanoma, suppressed immunological ability - all due to the radiation - are also side-effects.

ii        Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect are well documented and it is only malicious, vested interests who for the want of greedy profits are disputing these even as the Antarctic is melting, as record annual temperatures are noted and as oceanic warming is causing the disasters associated with the El Nino Effect. This elevation of temperatures is also allowing the development of a toxic pathogenicity in all strata of consciousness. Hence,

a        Tropical diseases such as Malaria and Dengue fever are spreading, as are Japanese encephalitis, Hanta virus, TB, etc., from other reasons including the breakdown of public health measures, poverty, antibiotic resistance, etc.

b        Toxic algae are poisoning waterways and killing coral reefs.

c        Previously harmless symbiotic or parasitic microbes are becoming pathogenic and causing diseases such as E.Coli food poisoning.

d        Warmer waters are acting as culture mediums for cholera, pfiesteria, salmonella, campylobacter, etc.

e        The changes have given us climatic madness.
 

iii        Pollution, most of which is from human endeavours and their destructive scientific technology, is not only causing terminal decay of systems, but also sterilizing humanity, animals, amphibians and insects. Excessive use of chemicals, antibiotics, poisons, radioactive material, etc., etc, has bred superbugs, superweeds, and iatrogenic diseases from which people are dying. The air, water and soil are polluted to an irredeemable level. Gastrointestinal diseases are increasing, as is asthma from dirty air. Salination of soils, albeit ignored by most, is threatening crop failures in many locations. Acidification of rivers, waterways and estuaries is destroying the nurseries of what fish and crustaceans remain.

iv        New diseases such as transgenic ones and an increased incidence of zoonoses indicate both increased virulence in microbes and a breakdown of the victim's defence. Malicious experimentation with genetics and vaccines, with the development of protease-resistant protein strands called prions, has given rise to the spectre of humanity's doom in the form of HIV-AIDS, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or Mad Cow Disease) and Gulf War Syndrome, which I contend is a variant of these, even more infectious, and faster acting. The activity of prions alludes to supramental manipulation of this level. However, details of that I will leave for another discourse.

This list of physical decay can be greatly expanded with much more detail, however these few facts suffice to indicate that some major problems exist in the physical plane.

B        The Psychic (Mental) Perspective:

Mental fragmentation is, from my perspective, equally as obvious.

i        People are abandoning religious institutions in droves for they are not mentally satisfied with the answers. In other words, whatever dogmatic paradigm was restraining them appears to be no longer sufficient in view of the physical deterioration, and these institutions are collapsing.

ii        Governments are changing, or are under attack, repeatedly, demonstrating they have no answers to the ills which plague their nations and also that the mental lability of voters is becoming destructive instability.

iii        Financial collapse in nations, although minimized by some sections of the media, is an indication of perverse attacks by currency speculators and profiteers whose mentality is fracturing, thus allowing them to act in such irresponsible ways. The collapse of the Asian Tiger economies will be followed by Japan which is teetering, China, other Asian nations, Australia, Europe and the USA. I am aware of the talk of supreme wealth and economic buoyancy in the US, but readers are warned that the talk is all hot air. The US is unofficially bankrupt and the economy a bubble of spuriousness, built on false hope, which is about to burst. Warnings by financial archons such as Alan Greenspan and others have been ignored with the hubris of minds self-satisfied in the efficacy of their own illusion. That, too, is a measure of the fragmentation of the mental plane.

iv        Most systems are in crisis - health and medical, hospitals, manufacturing industries, exports, imports, and so on. This is a symptom of individualistic mental instability as well as the decay en masse, for individuals are making gross errors of judgement affecting the things they manage.

v        Individual mental decay is reflected in such things as Road Rage, Computer rage, increased incidents of suicide, especially among the youth, hostility, suspicion, paranoia, racism, tribalism, minor and major wars, accelerated divorce rate, pornography, prostitution, paedophilia, etc. Both humans and animals are behaving in an increasingly erratic manner. Is it not madness of individuals which gives us the continuing Gulf War Fiasco, the Genocide of Palestinians, India vs Pakistan, Shri Lankans vs Tamils, etc., etc.? Is the threat of nuclear annihilation, which will shortly precipitate into the eventuality of a nuclear World War 3, not from fragmenting minds? Patience is also all but dead in most.

Apart from metaphysical reasons upon which I will not elaborate here, this madness of minds is reflected also in the increased violence by children and women. More school shootings and the like will occur, for the progress of Terminal Madness of the Endtime is accelerating and unstoppable.

vi        Inspite of apparent wealth in the West, of unprecedented longevity, entertainment galore and technological assistance, most minds are not imbued with a joie de vivre, but rather they are threatened by a very real sense of foreboding, an anxiety of inexplicable origin, a sense of doom even. This explains why the sale of psychotropic drugs is at record levels, as are illicit drugs and why escapisms are sought so avidly -just think of the recent "Viagra" craze! Of course, many shun or ignore such feelings or else put them down to poorly performing aspects of their lives, such as relationships, jobs, health, etc., but the mental moods reflect in their actions and manifest in their body language, for as a human thinks, s/he acts. Hence, the rise in hatred, impatience, racism, violence, etc., etc., which is ubiquitous. All these things will become worse as minds fragment even more. Not all minds are like this, in fact, some are bright and joyous with an understanding of what is going on.

This then, to ask "Why is it so?", is the crux of the situation!

As the physical actions are manifestations of the mental function, so too is the mental function a manifestation of the spiritual. Many who have denied the existence of the spiritual plane, even in most rudimentary forms, are now suffering the most mentally.
 

C        The Spiritual Perspective:

What we have is a spiritual separation of consciousnesses into "viables" and "non-viables". What I mean by that is that some are not fit to continue existence and some are. We, on this planet, as is occurring or has occurred on every other physical manifestation in this physical universe, are in the process of being sorted out - yes, as per the distorted biblical paradigm, if you wish - and the viable ones are being readied for evacuation from this self-destructing orb.

Many around the world have been contacted via various mechanisms to prepare for such an eventuality. These mechanisms, include dreams, clairvoyant episodes, direct visitations, spacecraft contacts, astral projection and tuition, spontaneous regression, projection into the fixed future, etc.

The spate of UFO activity consists of various groups of aliens, most of whom are evil aliens to be eradicated by a process called transmutation, to which the non-viables are also subjected. Some are the "Elohim", so-called, who have come to evacuate the viables. I realize this may be straining the mental restrictions of some readers, however, space does not allow expansion of these concepts and if they are interested, I direct them to my books and newsletters.

The reason why some minds are fragmenting and manifesting the Terminal Madness of the Endtime is because on the spiritual level they are aware of this sorting out of consciousness and of their failure. This possibility, if they have denied the spiritual aspect, does not fit into their restrictive mental paradigm and hence, their minds cannot cope and they are going crazy. In other words, having denied the possibility of this judgement, of this sorting out, of this finality, of this call to account for their actions, inspite of countless warnings, they cannot now realign their minds with a Greater Reality, and they crack with the pressure.

This concept of which I am now writing is not metaphysical, or of personally religious polemic, or of hypothetically theosophical, or philosophical ideologies.

It is the information, manifestation and very process of the Greater Reality which exists beyond the Virtual Reality of this plane and the Real Process which is destroying the Virtual Reality of this universe which has been a fraudulent and counterfeit creation.

It is minds who cannot accommodate these concepts, which are forced upon them by the ensuing reality, which are going crazy. And their sense of foreboding, of doom, is a realistic and accurate reflection of their failure, and the fact that they will shortly exist no more. There is no simpler or clearer way I can say this. All have had infinite chances throughout their existence to avoid such a fate. Those who have failed have done so by embracing the Essence of Evil which has created this mess.

Why are some happy? They are happy, even though they may be initially apprehensive. They are happy because they eventually realize this is the end of this horribly sordid mess, this den of iniquity, of pain, of suffering and gross exploitation. That this is such a noxious mess may not be all that obvious to deniers sitting in their nice apartments or homes, reading this on relatively expensive computers.

It is easy to be deluded when living in an illusion, especially a self-created one within another illusion, but think of the billions who do not have enough to eat, have inadequate housing, have inadequate medical care, or education, no clean water, etc., etc.

On the latest figures, some 40% of American citizens, and citizens of my country, Australia also, are disadvantaged in one of these ways. Hence, many are happy, for they realize their prayers have been answered. It is the end of evil and they are going home! And, in case you doubt the correction of this abomination, and think it is not an answer to prayers, let me remind you of these words from the most frequently recited Western prayer - the Lord's Prayer - "... and deliver us from Evil".

As the spiritual aspect filters down to these lower levels, where we are in the physical dimension, inter-dimensional barriers, purposely placed there by Evil as self protection to prevent the fragmentation and eventual correction of this gross error, are collapsing. That is why we are witnessing the incidence of increased phenomenology and experiencing it ourselves. Clairvoyance, a natural ability which we all have, is returning to us all. Near Death experiences, Astral Travel, spontaneous regression, seeing other levels and dimensions, ghosts and apparitions, etc., are all due to interdimensional collapse of barriers.

Some are perversely cashing in on this phenomenon and they call it "Remote Viewing". My advice is that you ignore them. Some are also stupidly, cunningly, blindly attempting to lead the sleeping, gullible blind.

Those whose minds cannot expand to accommodate the Finality of the plane, their failure, the psychic phenomena, etc., are going crazy. The fact that they are forced to confront their own evil nature and submit to a Superior Authority, who will hold them accountable, terrifies them with the gloom of Doom. They have only themselves to blame.

The reason why most clairvoyants, New Agers and Remote Viewers as yet cannot get valid answers of what is going on is because they are part of the doomed fraternity and are struggling to prevent this Greater Reality impinging on the plane. But their resistance is futile and the Truth of what is occurring will become more and more self-evident as time passes.

Finally, I would like to briefly address some of the spurious explanations of what is going on.

i        Deniers are the ones who say nothing is happening. Alas, those sporting the Arrogance of Ignorance are the most strident deniers and objectors to this information. Forget them. Most are the programmed and very ignorant fools who will suffer the most in due course. A few are as yet unawakened "viables". It is amazing how many sacerdotes, religionists, scientists and academics fall into this category of denial. This clearly demonstrates the pernicious effect of spurious educational indoctrination. Their rationalizations, in career and linguistically specific mumbo-jumbo, are hubristic and really spurious and mendacious, and they fall short of full explanations of what is going on. Their short-term band-aid solutions only give rise to greater problems and reveal their ignorance and incompetence in the face of what is upon us. They lose all arguments by weight of what is happening, even as they deny it is so, and by my "Bottom Line" which is that "it is all happening exactly as I have described, for the reasons I have given".

ii        Religious Fundamentalists: These rely on distorted texts, all originally plagiarized from Gnostic origins and then butchered, which form the basis of all religions. Many do expect Christ (the Christ Energy - although some expect an individual) and the Endtime, but they, being indoctrinated with the deceitful spuriousness of dogmatized religion, are grossly confused, for the eventualities they witness do not tally with the distorted texts. Some are trapped "viables" in these ranks, but the majority are failed fools who would not recognize the Divine Light they claim they are awaiting if it burned so brightly in front of their eyes that it perforated their corneas!

iii        New Agers - the Gurus for the gullible: In denying the existence of Evil, this correction and the Endtime, these sods are already floundering in the unreality of perversity. Some, even psychologists in their ranks, claim Earth and humanity are preparing for a quantum leap into a heaven unknown. That is as mendacious as saying, and far, far more ridiculous, that a cachectic, cancer-riddled patient in his last hour of life will get up, get dressed, and run the Boston marathon in record time. It is impossible. The Earth is as good as dead! The spurious healing, by the New Agers and their ilk, for the doomed Earth has been futile, and an obstructive affront to the True GodForce, which they are NOT a part of, and which is performing the Final Separation and Correction.
 

Maliciousness appears to be prospering on this plane at this time, but that, too, is an illusion. It is simply being exposed everywhere, in preparation for the destruction of all things of an evil essence which give rise to the maliciousness, along with the deceitfulness and gross hypocrisy. As the mechanism of this plane's unstoppable expiration proceeds, the Joy of Theomorphs, of the salvageable "viables", will grow with the truthful, spiritual understanding of what is going on.

Over 90% of this physical universe has already been corrected.

The recent light phenomenon, noted by the Italians and Dutch astronomers, depicting the engulfment of massive galaxies by a huge black hole was a view of correction many billions of light years ago in that sector. It is now Earth's turn, and while I have restricted this short essay to earth and its creatures, realize that all planetary bodies, even our sun, are undergoing decay and termination. Indeed, the Terminal Madness is manifesting in erratic cosmology, and soon the absurd Celestial Error, created of Evil, which had trapped theomorphs in its bowels, will be no more.

These changes are unprecedented. There are no other valid explanations of what is happening to humanity, to all the fauna and flora, and to the whole globe. All other explanations are spurious and, as far as I am concerned, this information, manifesting more and more as self-evident truth daily, is not negotiable or debatable.

No matter how many people, for now, want to dispute these facts, and no matter how vigorously they wish to argue, this time IS a time of the Earth's and Humanity's end. It is the Endtime for Evil here and a new beginning elsewhere for those not of Evil.

Goodness and Humanity's present Choice

From The Pure Gnosis

IT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IN OUR BOOK THE PURE GNOSIS how the malignancy of our dualistic atmosphere of life increases as humanity continues upon its course of self-maintenance (see chapter: The Universe of Death), and how, at the end of world cycles the poisonous state in the atmosphere becomes concentrated, brought to a head, as it is purified by divine intervention. This measure aims to harmonise the toxic radiations (emanating from the Earth and going out towards the other parts of the solar system) to the requirements of the solar system, so that the risks originating from the extreme situations in the atmosphere of the Earth will be kept in check. This is why the Earth is kept under continuous supervision by its fellow habitants in the solar system and beyond.

However, the compression, the concentration of all the evil forces and venom produced by mankind over the millennia must have its corresponding effects upon the human race. The concentration of the collectively-created calamity of humanity's psychic activity constitutes an intense radiation field, a mirror reflecting back upon man, in a concentrated form, whatever he himself has created. All this must lead irrevocably to a generally increased poisoning of all human relationships, geared towards an ever more acutely emphasised personal and social situation of an utterly regrettable nature. Just like so many times before, this degenerative line of development has again occurred on Earth in our times, and is now being addressed by many sincere people with 'good' intentions.

This course of events must inevitably develop, and accordingly we are today witnessing a dramatic struggle between the group that, often consciously, becomes worse on the one hand and the group belonging to the twilight of goodness on the other. There is today in the world an increase and therefore a great concentration of all the bourgeois, dualistic goodness and false religious radiations. Yet it is precisely the concentration of human longing for goodness that does not belong to the Plan of our emergency order - the Divine Plan of Salvation - because this longing originates from the ever-returning and artificially-maintained idea that this world, our nature and our manifestation in matter can be repaired and ultimately brought to perfection. Therefore the humanitarian groups will try to hold back, to neutralise the rising darkness by means of various measures: peace conferences, congresses, testimonies, alliances, prayer meetings, group meditations and visualisations and church days. Every second, holy names will be uttered, visualisations performed, prayers made and focussed meditations organised; all this, however, without the least result, for the rotations of the wheel of duality cannot be stopped; the Law of Cause and Effect is insuperable.

All the concentrated 'goodness' in the world cannot liberate mankind, despite what the New Age people may like to believe. We know that so-called goodness is a reaction to evil and is accordingly linked with evil; dualistic good is the polarity of evil. They are fruits of the same tree. Therefore dualistic 'good' is, like dualistic 'evil', a cause of confusion, bondage and ultimate devastation. As all these processes are now in an advanced state of development and we are already completely living in the decisive years for mankind and Earth, none of us can afford to just approach the Path of Return philosophically, considering it from all sides and turning over in our minds whether or not we seriously intend to go the Path unto New Life.

For, whether we believe it or not, whether we realise it or not, it is assured that the tide of things has definitely turned. At this late stage of the period of preparation prior to the birth of the New World, it would be expedient for all candidates for harvest to have already decided that they will go forward with the group of the exceptionals to the goal of the Final Liberation. This is the group that dissociates itself from both good and evil, which isolates itself from the fallen radiation field and never joins the battle against evil by means of so-called 'goodness'.

The group of the exceptionals, which shall constitute the New Race of men on Earth, attunes itself to other norms. It leaves the world for what it is, it renders unto Caesar what is Caesar's. The signs of the times incite it to double its efforts. It is entering into a new attitude of life: group-unity, non-conflict, one-pointedness of purpose, harmony in all our activities, and new service. By group-unity the weaker of the exceptionals are strengthened and the Living Body - the Ark of Christ - is vitalised. By non-conflict we may neutralise all the detrimental effects of duality. By non-conflict, righteous activity and as a group we can do more for world and mankind in one year than all the humanitarian strivings of the masses during an eternity! This secret has been known to all true holy orders of the past. By non-conflict and surrender of the self we deprive evil and 'good' of its source of sustenance. The goal is reached only by one-pointedness of purpose in serving the Divine Plan of Salvation, its aim and its requirements.

We fortify our bond with the new Life Field by harmony in our thinking, willing and activities. The Water of Life is daily and hourly poured over us. Living by it and existing in it we receive strength, new strength, unearthly strength to fish from the ocean of life the many seekers who are longing to enter into the safety of the Living Body of the group of exceptionals of the New World.

We have now begun to enter the new reality on Earth - the Aquarian age - and that is why today every fallen microcosm, standing at the boundary of the turning of the tide, is continually placed before two realities: the reality of death and the reality of Renewal, of Regeneration in Christ, which is the reality of the Liberating Life. We all now have to choose between these two realities.