The Requirements for Victory

Q. If I identify with one of the holy saints or masters, since they are all connected to the Christ by a "string", would not these personalities lead one to the Christ? How can it do otherwise? And would not all of these personalities be also aspects of the various personalities of the Christ? And so, when you honor one or more of these personalities, are you not in turn honoring the Christ revealing itself through them?........or am I missing something?

A. Firstly, all beings who possess a divine spark (which is most people on earth but not all) are connected to the Christ by a 'string'. Therefore as far as the Truth is concerned (which is all we ought to be concerned about) there is no difference in looking to the divine spark of Jo Bloggs or a Buddha (and in all our relationships we should be looking to the spark mostly, rather than the personality, for the spark is what is Real in man). Unfortunately this is quite a difficult thing to do in this world of spiritual compromise and egotism, since people act as if they are the person and little more, and so perpetually when in the company of spiritual somnambulists our focus is encouraged and directed - often solely - towards an illusion, and that illusion is given reality and value in the minds of those with whom we relate. Of course, such relationships are not at all Real-ationships and do little to obviate a befogged mind or therefore assist us in maintaining spiritual clarity. This is actually why historically the really serious spiritual types have withdrawn from society to live in monasteries etc., away from the madding crowd and is why the Buddha taught, "If you can find no one at your level or beyond it, then retreat to the lonely cave or secluded forest and meditate, for there is no companionship with fools."

Secondly, holy personalities such as Jesus can and do, of course, elicit devotion and aid in the engendering of other helpful spiritual qualities for many people, and so masters and saints may be utilised as a very useful 'focal instrument' to God. For example, in my early days of seeking Remembrance, I synchronistically discovered Yogananda's books. I adored him instantly, and both his books and his photographs often "spoke" to me due to my faith and reverence for that which he presented to me and which he himself represented. Verily his photo would move and change its expression in order to guide me in various ways. Yet I always knew that this was essentially not Yogananda's doing but the divine magic evoked by way of my own sincere faith in God via the instrumentality of the sage. So by all means honour the divine luminaries of yesterday but I would recommend that you always keep in mind that they, too, shall pass, and some of them have already passed away in Christ and so their existence is solely an image in the devotees mind, an ideal held in the heart....yet the image is not the Thing Itself, an ideal is not the Truth Itself, and it is only the Truth that Liberates, never a personality; it is only consecration to the Truth that leads to Deliverance, never one's devotion to a person or even to a person's teachings.

It is a fact that infant humanity does require tools and focal instruments at its present stage of development and in its habitual forgetfulness of the eternal and ubiquitous Presence of God. Therefore to utilise holy personages as a phase to pass through on one's spiritual journey is, for most people, a necessary, healthy and even advisable thing. However, if one has reached sufficient maturity of soul to be serious about going the Way of Transfiguration that reveals the Light hidden in Christ and indeed bestows Christhood itself, then one must relinquish all identifications with anything or anyone less than the Light of Christ and the living Truth themselves.

For example, can we imagine Jesus being attached in any way to another sage rather than to the Elohim (the Ray Lords of Deity), to the Cosmic Christ Itself and to the Father-Mother God? Can we imagine Buddha identifying with a personality of either the past or present as his ultimate Guide rather than looking directly to the living Truth wherein lies the only Salvation for man? If these great beings did that, then they would never have achieved what they did, they would never have become truly great, because all identification and attachment to anything that is less than Real in God magnetically binds one to that very thing, and when one is bound, either emotionally by way of even the purest and most selfless devotion, or mentally by way of thought and beliefs, one cannot transcend the level of that quality or characteristic. Therefore those who are compromised in their focus will remain on the wheel of reincarnation until the time they are able to let go of all forms, ideas and lesser identifications, because the sole purpose and goal of human incarnation is to attain Salvation, to get off the wheel of birth, suffering and death and to return to Freedom's Shore.

Thus it may be clearly understood that those who follow Jesus, for example, and who look to Jesus - and not to Christ Itself - yet who speak of attaining personal Christhood, do not speak the truth and will probably become quite disappointed at the time of Harvest when promises made to them of Liberation in Christ does not ensue and they find themselves back yet again on the wheel, in the ordinary reincarnational cycles of birth, suffering and death.

Let us explore further this all-important understanding of the prerequisites for going the Way of Christ to its end and so attaining Victory. Let us begin with an investigation into the dangers of becoming attached to teachers and also in trying to go the Path with selfish motivations.

Every human being possesses an individual magnetic radiation field (aura), which is populated by that person’s thoughts and desires, colored by the quality and nature of the thought and desire that fills it, and this personal field, being magnetic, both attracts and repels certain powers and forces from the surrounding planetary aura. This is the nature of the human microcosm: man is an electromagnetic being.

When a person reacts upon an impulse or idea, the result of such a reaction - be it a thought, a wish, a fear, an expression of jealousy or ire, etc. - lingers in the creator's immediate atmosphere and possesses a potency and longevity that is directly proportional to the measure or intensity of the reaction. If this reaction is repeated, the force radiated by it is strengthened, ad infinitum.

Collectively, mankind constitutes a much larger thinking-desiring organism, and the sum total of the thoughts and desires in the auras of all the people that together make up mankind, interpenetrate and form what might be termed a 'radiation cloud' around the planet. This cloud is replete with the results of all human thinking, feeling and desiring, not only from causes created in the present but also from the past, for thought and astral energy creates certain elemental forms that can and do survive their creator in the flesh. There is, then, clearly an interaction between human microcosms and the planetary atmosphere; the human microcosms contribute toward the quality of subtle substance of the planetary aura in the form of mental, astral and etheric matter. In the beginning phase of man's microcosmic descent, or 'Fall from Grace' (the Garden of Eden days) the psychic atmosphere of this world was still virginal, void of these human emanations. However, with the passage of time they came into manifestation and are forever being strengthened by mankind's incessant ignorant and selfish activity.

Now what happens when many hundreds, sometimes many thousands, or even, over time, billions of people continuously project similar selfish or fear-based thoughts and desires (which include religious desires for personal salvation, personal empowerment, personal happiness, etc.)? Just think of the selfish prayers repeated endlessly in the churches; the wild enthusiasm of the crowds at football games; the mass outbursts of passion during blood-stirring political demonstrations or evangelistic speeches; the daily repeated negative suggestions in the media that are supposedly formulated in order to enlighten the masses and the millions of people who are all tuned in to the same violent TV programs simultaneously!

Like attracts like, and the corresponding vibrations thus launched into the atmosphere coalesce to form one great cloud of unwholesome energy. It is an elementary esoteric fact that when, over time, many people fix their minds upon one idea, a mighty astral image of that idea develops. The astral world possesses specific possibilities of reflection. So when the minds of many of us are continually fixed upon one and the same idea, then we shall discover that at a given moment a huge astral image has been generated, which is becoming clear and well-defined, and with which we are connected and in communication because we created it ourselves. It is thus that a collective spirit, a collective idea, a collective thought-form or a collective image is created and continuously fed by people of similar disposition and/or belief.

Over centuries such an image can and does become so fortified that it acquires consciousness and becomes an intelligent, self-directing being; a huge, living, feeding elemental being that has an agenda: namely to perpetuate and fortify its own existence and nature. This it proceeds to do by inciting mankind, via mental and astral impression, to continue producing ethers of a like quality on which it can feed, on which it can grow. At first it is an image 'with dead eyes', but the moment comes when this image gains life and begins to hunger for more of the peculiar type of energy that spawned it. This is when it starts actually dominating us, when certain powers radiate from it and when it is even capable of attracting all kinds of undivine forces and of pouring these down onto the people. This is the way in which pseudo-religious beings (false gods) come into being. Such gigantic elemental beings can be and are utilized by the 'archons': entities residing in the subtle worlds who, with selfish and malefic intent, control and manipulate the mass-consciousness of humanity on earth by way of the images that man himself created.

This fact is explained in the metaphysical literature of all times. These elemental beings are sometimes called 'aeons', and they group themselves into different aspects. If, for example, a person wishes for financial wealth and radiates this desire into the atmosphere by means of his auric field, then this radiation will unite with the corresponding radiations of all other people in the world who want to be wealthy. In this way, an increasingly powerful aeon of wealth develops in the atmosphere, and will then naturally endeavor to influence all humanity continually. There are many kinds of aeons, and the religious type is particularly large, powerful and inimical because it bestows upon its servants both psychic stimulation (which may lead to astral visions that are quite convincing to the uninitiated) as well as a sense of being a part of something larger and more important than the individual. There was an aeon behind the Roman Catholic Inquisition, the Crusades, the witch-burnings and all the other atrocities perpetrated by the Church in the name of Jesus!

And today the Jesus-aeon is still very much alive and active within the consciousness of all people who cling selfishly to the Jesus-image for their own 'safety' and personal salvation. It is wholly invested in maintaining itself and in augmenting its temporal power and influence in this world by inciting religious fundamentalists to attack or defend on behalf of the Jesus-idea, on behalf, therefore, of separation, ignorance and selfishness.

So should we be surprised when the fundamentalists cry 'heathen' or 'fear monger' when such facts are revealed in order to help them to understand and to free themselves of detrimental aeonic influence? Of course not, for the servant (or puppet) of the aeons means life-insurance for them, and so when the very foundation of the counterfeit life of the aeons is threatened by way of revealing the truth (together with the peculiar attitudes and belief systems it promotes within the consciousness of its human subordinates), fear will naturally arise, and most often it is projected directly onto the messenger who is only holding up a mirror by being simply true. This explains the great hatred (fear) of Jesus that led to his crucifixion, a hatred and fear that has not abated in this world today and which is galvanized far beyond its natural human range by the hidden forces of darkness, by the aeons and their controlling archons, of which the uninitiated man understands very little if anything at all and so is why he can be duped, even and often under religious pretences!

Essentially, any man who cleaves to Jesus for personal reasons will automatically be hooked up to the 2,000 year-old now powerful and hungry Jesus-aeon by way of his own quality of thought and desire, while the one who reveres Jesus for his life-demonstration in humble devotion to the universal PRINCIPLE that he exemplified will transcend the need to identify with the Jesus-personality altogether and evoke a response from the formless Divinity (Christ) Itself. And this is the beginning of the path that leads to Deliverance.

Now, Christ is not a personality of majestic stature residing somewhere outside the dense material world, but is essentially an impersonal, cosmic Being, manifesting Itself as divine Light, Force, Love and Wisdom in a mighty Radiation Field. Christ is therefore much larger than both the Jesus aeon and the personality, Jesus, and the Divine Plan of Salvation, which is implemented under the guidance of Christ is much larger than its concern for this one little planet known as Terran. Christ is not Jesus, although 2,000 years ago the master, the earth-born man, Jesus realised the Christ Consciousness in himself and did a fine job of expressing just as much of it as could possibly be done in this fallen world (which actually is not a great deal!). Jesus did not say that "Jesus was the Son of God" or that "Jesus is Lord" as the distorted church doctrines aver, but that Christ was/IS. "I am the Son of God" is Christ speaking through Jesus and not Jesus speaking about himself. Therefore if we wish to follow in Jesus' footsteps and enter through the Gateway of Christ and if we wish to help our fellows do the same, then we must also look to the Lord Christ and not to any man, just as Jesus himself demonstrated. If we do not do this, especially in this end time phase of critical choice, then we shall be blinded and recruited by the Jesus aeon in the coming battle, which is one of the many false gods of the cosmic antichrist who uses every single delusion - and even pure devotional delusions - to further his agenda, the goal of which is to at best delay a soul on the Path and at worst to effect a complete frustration of the Goal for the candidate-aspirant indefinitely. It is the antichrist forces of 'good' and evil that are battling one another at this time of the end, and unless one is standing upright in and looking uncompromisingly vertically towards the Light of Christ Itself; if one is looking to the left or to the right, at this or that personality or idea, however noble or exalted, and if one possesses any self-regard at all come Judgement Day (as one will have if one is still identifying with a personage*) then the antichrist intelligence will be able to prevent that soul from taking the now imminent grand Opportunity being offered all mankind of the Final Liberation. Conversely, Christ has nothing to do with armageddon since Christ is beyond all polarity battles. To repeat, then, a vital key of Knowledge for these times: armageddon is a battle between the aeons and other dualistic forces of 'good' and evil and they are recruiting as we speak! They are recruiting all free will beings who are choosing, due to a personal focus, to compromise even in the least upon the requirements for reaching the end of the Path of Redemption, by way of false or incomplete understanding and by way of false or incomplete devotion.

* “Whoever worships a divinity as other than the self, thinking 'He is one, and I another,' knows not the truth.” - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I, 4, 10.

If a person looks only to the man, Jesus, as Lord and not to Christ, which IS before Jesus, then he will inevitably be compromised in his vision, and if one is compromised in one's vision, then one will inevitably attract compromised collaborators for one's cause and, of course, the cause itself will therefore be compromised from the very start. The antichrist can and does work through all compromised spiritual causes as well as compromised spiritual people!, just as has been clearly demonstrated by the fallen religions over history, including church-Christianity. Christ cannot and so does not work through compromise - not ever. This is one reason why Christ has not and will not return as Jesus in these times, not in physical form and neither as an incorporeal being, for this earth-school is today transcending its kindergarten status, and while the lesser teachers of compassion - the Comforters - are doing their fine work abroad on earth in these end times in preparation for the NEXT Harvest time in a future cycle, the more advanced Teachers of the Way - the Awakeners, the 144,000 'elect of God' - are Calling in from the fields of darkness the more advanced aspirants, in order to make the Harvest as great as possible for this world at this juncture. The former kind of teachers - the Comforters - will not fool their followers into believing that they will attain Christhood in these times, for to do so would be karmically disastrous for both themselves and their students. The latter Teachers, however - the Awakeners - speak and teach to those who are ready to hear it, the plain truth; they convey the inner divine Mysteries and stress the import at this critical hour of giving up all tools and crutches, all attachments to personalities and philosophies in order to go directly to the uppermost Gate of Christ Consciousness and so attain the Goal that is available today on earth for those who have prepared themselves. And this is the true Ascension-potential today on earth; something that is widely discussed in spiritual circles and even anticipated by millions of hopeful souls; souls who are, nevertheless, not near to being ready to attain the Crown of Life in this age, but who in thus overreaching themselves attract the attention of the imposter or antichrist forces who then lead them further astray.

So, the Christ-Hierophant Himself will not appear to the masses as Jesus or as any other past-accomplished personality, making promises of Ascension and Christhood. However, the antichrist WILL impersonate Jesus and many other well-known saints, angels, masters and sages, mostly from the incorporeal realms from whence access to Jesus-thoughtforms and teachings etc. is readily possible and where it is far easier to deceive mankind. For the antichrist knows how man has been conditioned to blindly follow priestly personalities who appear luminous and wise and especially if such personalities convince followers that they stand among the most well-known divine personages of modern times for this planet and therefore are worthy of being trusted, even surrendered to.

In the time of the end everyone becomes a "spiritual teacher", and even the sincere will be led astray.

Thirdly and finally, in order to be a complete and dependable warrior and servant of Christ, one must have not only remembered unconditional, selfless and sacrificial Love in the heart, but one must also have established the equally important Light in the head, from whence divine Will-Force emanates; this is where the symbol of the Lamb, the name of God is written on the foreheads of the 144,000 elect of God. In order to obtain the Light in the head, one's understanding and so thinking must be entirely in alignment with the Truth. This means in the first instance getting right understanding, obtaining right knowledge, and the attainment of right knowledge necessitates the uncompromising, unconditional seeking of it, like a thirsty and dying man seeks water. Right understanding when applied with Love leads to Overstanding, and when one Overstands and so has automatically re-consecrated oneself in the heart to the service of the fallen soul of this world and to the Divine Plan of Salvation, and so when one has taken one's place amongst the shining ranks of the great Hierarchy of genuine servants of the Cause of Christ in Its salvific aspect, then - and only then - can one be entrusted with the Sword, which is the insuperable Light of Truth that dissolves all falsehood and darkness. This is how one becomes - or rather disappears and so Becomes - a genuine Warrior of Christ. Should there be any variation or compromise to these prerequisites in a man's mind or heart, then all his dreams of being a warrior or a humble servant of Christ will be dashed to pieces in these times upon the Bedrock of Truth, which is the foundation of the World and is about to be revealed on earth.

We are now in the last days of a major world cycle and an extremely significant Harvest Time for this planet. That is why the genuine Call of Christ is being sounded in every corner of this earth for those with ears to hear by the true Aquarian harbingers of Christ who have no name but who carry only the seal of the Lamb on their foreheads, which can be recognised by those with eyes to see. The antichrist is, of course, redoubling his efforts to lead astray the multitudes from today's blessed Opportunity by way of compromised and distorted teachings, while always providing ample temptations for the lower self or ego of man, including the allurement of attachment and deference to personal teachers, so that he may be better caught in the long-prophesied end-times snare that will prevent his redemption at this time of unprecedented Grace.

"At the time of the end, many will be led astray"...but..."To all who receive Him, He gives power to become the children of God again."