There are many righteous people in the world who recognise the greater and lesser injustices in our society and quite understandably become indignant and desirous to set things right. Some of them then "take up arms against a sea of troubles" and rally forth into a personal battle against evil and all that is wrong in the world. Yet when we place a charge on evil (or anything else) and proceed to engage it with any personal desire or aversion we actually strengthen the dualistic field within ourselves and in the world in which both 'good'* and evil thrive. This is why Jesus warned us to: "Resist not evil", lest in our resistance, in our personal battle with it, we feed it.

* In this world of duality, 'goodness' and evil keep one another alive. If we do good from our own self-willed ideas, then we are automatically fortifying the evil of this world, because the universe will always seek to balance itself. The poles of good and evil are perpetually swinging in duality, in maya, due to the ignorant free will of its bound creatures. True, divine Goodness - which has no opposite, for nothing can oppose it - is transcendent of both good and evil; the Christ-Light hidden from the eyes of the worldly is beyond both good and evil, and that is why it does not engage in the battle of the polarities. The Light of Christ-Wisdom will never feed either pole of duality.

Now, the battle of Armageddon is indeed intensifying in the world today as the long-prophesied and now approaching Light of Christ is pushing all unresolved karma and darkness to the surface from within. Therefore we shall all find that life on Earth is becoming more challenging as the forces of dualistic good and evil vie for our attention in an attempt to hold us in and to reinforce our binding to duality- and separation-consciousness, and this is how it seeks to feed itself, to maintain and to perpetuate itself, despite the inevitable approaching world-correction. Meanwhile the separating power of the Sword of Truth, the divine Truth - not personal truth or personal will - continues to effect the inevitable sifting process that leads to this age's end-time harvest of those souls who are able to rise above all duality and so enter the Ark of Christ before it leaves these shores for the New Kingdom. Therefore it is important to remain dispassionately vigilant in these times of world-acceleration because all and any persons who are not 100% centred and aligned in Spirit will act to some degree as a conduit for the expression of the dualistic powers, which are essentially the antichrist forces. Such powers do have intelligence and are willfully galvanised and directed from the hidden worlds, and we shall be able to observe these expressing with greater desperation as well as greater cunning in these testing times, often through friends and family and those most dear to us, rather like Agent Smith was able to come through any human being who was plugged into the matrix in the deeply allegorical movie of the same name. This is why it is imperative to look always to the divine Spark in a person - what some may call the Soul - and not to the changing personality, with which we may easily become caught up in the dualistic drama of the last days: the great battle of Armageddon between the forces of 'good' and evil.

The greatest 'weapon' against dualistic, human 'good' and evil is Truth, and Truth is as neutral and non-dual just as it is impersonal. Truth is also a revealing mirror. Therefore when the mirror of Truth is held up before the dualistic ego-self, when words of Truth are spoken with sincerity, and especially when the energy and light of Truth is radiated abroad, the inevitable sifting process of separating falsehood from verity, vice from virtue will ensue by itself. The ego sees itself in the mirror of Truth and most often, due to fear and dishonesty, tries to attack the mirror, blame the mirror, tarnish it and bring it down to its own level, often using all kinds of spiritual maxims, guilt-dramas and justifications for its egotism, many of which can be quite confusing to others who do not possess Knowledge due to the very real but blind conviction of those who believe that they are serving the Light. This, of course, is the same dynamic that crucified Jesus and it is still happening in the world today, often, as with the pharisees, under quite logically convincing spiritual pretences. "Men love not the light, for it reveals their wickedness; men love the dark." - Jesus. And so egotism seeks to mire the mirror of Truth, but since Truth itself is blemishless, nothing unholy can stick to and so taint it, and as long as the messenger of Truth remains impersonally loving and neutral amidst the play of duality, he/she, too, will remain unsullied and undeterred, like a great rock amidst the crashing waves and surf of the dualistic sea, as the light of Truth proceeds to shine through its messenger and so further its necessary and inevitable work of sifting - the separating of the wheat from the chaff. Wherever there is fear, selfishness and delusion, the Truth will bring it to the surface for resolution and egotism will protest.

Those of us who have attained Knowledge or Gnosis, particularly as it applies to the end-times 'Quickening' on Earth today, understand well that two worlds are now separating from one another: the old and the New, and this inevitable process has been called by the prophets: "The Time of the Great Separation" and by Jesus "The Sifting Time".

The Sheep and the Goats

Be ready at every moment of the day and night, because when you expect him not the Lord will come.

Behold, when he will come with all his messengers of light, the Book of Life, and that of Records, shall be opened up - the books in which the thoughts and words and deeds are written down.

And everyone can read the records he has written for himself, and he will know his doom before the judge shall speak, and this will be the sifting time.

According to their records, men will find their own.

The judge is Righteousness, the king of all the Earth, and he will separate the multitudes as shepherds separate the sheep and goats.

The sheep will find their places on the right, the goats upon the left, and every man will know his place.

And then the judge will say to those upon the right, "You blessed of the Father-God, come unto your inheritance, which was prepared for you from times of old.

"You have been servants of the race; I was hungry and you gave me bread; was thirsty and you gave me drink; was naked and you gave me clothes;

"Was sick, you ministered to me; was in prison and you came to me with words of cheer; I was a stranger and in your homes I found a home."

Then will the righteous say, "When did we see you hungry, thirsty, sick, imprisoned or a stranger at our gates and ministered to you?"

And the judge will say, "You served the sons of men, and whatsoever you have done for these, that you have done for me."

The judge will say to those upon the left, "Depart from me; you have not served the sons of men.

"I was hungry and you gave me naught to eat; was thirsty and you gave me naught to drink; was a stranger and you drove me from your door; I was imprisoned and was sick, you did not minister to me."

Then these will say, "When did we thus neglect to care for you? When did we see you hungry, thirsty, sick, a stranger or in prison and did not minister to you?"

And then the judge will say, "Your life was full of self; you served the self and not your fellow man, and when you slighted one of these, you slighted and neglected me."

Then will the righteous have the kingdom and the power, and they who are unrighteous shall go forth to pay their debts, to suffer all that men have suffered at their hands.

They who have ears to hear and hearts to understand will comprehend these parables.

This sifting time not only includes souls but all of life, all energy on Earth. Therefore equipped with right understanding we know of the necessary division of our planetary life into two vibration fields, and we are aware of all the consequences that we have been warned about for thousands of years by the prophets. So it will be quite obvious by now that we shall have to make a distinct choice. We must decide, while there is still time, whether we wish to belong to one life-field or to the other, for we have today definitely arrived at the crossroads, and the time of reckoning.

So no one should be surprised at the course of things in the immediate future because such a time and process was announced long ago. Every genuine spiritual group and spiritually-aware individual throughout history has known about such a time. The Holy Language in various scriptures also makes no attempt to conceal the fact that there have always been and will always be such times during the successive developmental periods of mankind's journey, as told by way of Jesus' prophetic parable in Matthew 25, verses 31-46 about the sheep and the goats.

The division of the planetary life-sphere into two parts is caused by a powerful astral stirring; a sidereal power of high vibration is today intervening in this world of pain and suffering. And as this sidereal power is the second aspect of the Godhead - Divine Love - Matthew speaks of the Son who will appear in all His glory.

As a result of this development, mankind is necessarily divided into two groups: the right-hand group and the left-hand one, the sheep and the goats. To the right-hand group it is said: "Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world". Then a beautiful metaphorical speech follows which, like many of Jesus' parables, has both a simple, exoteric meaning and a much more mystical or esoteric one, which will now be revealed. The Christ says:

I was hungry and you gave me bread; was thirsty and you gave me drink; was naked and you gave me clothes; was sick, you ministered to me; was in prison and you came to me with words of cheer; I was a stranger, and in your homes I found a home.

From these words we may recognise the fact that the separation of the planetary life has antecedents; the end result of the Great Separation will be an outcome of what has occurred before within the human field of existence on Earth.

The Son of the Godhead, the second aspect of the Trinity - Christ - is always present in the atmosphere of the fallen world, first as someone who is 'hungry', as someone who seeks contact with man. Then, if man responds positively to the Call of Christ, his response feeds the hungry principle of Salvation, which then seeks to establish a holy binding with him. In this way, Christ 'thirsts' to serve mankind, and Grace is with him who quenches the thirst of Love by responding positively to the Call. So, through right human response the new divine astral Fire grows. It becomes ever more powerful until, at last, it can spread all its glory over the whole world.

The 'clothes' of Christ are, of course, the prepared, consecrated and purified microcosm or personal temple, the soul body or wedding garment; a veritable human garb through which the Christ-Consciousness may express itself in the lower worlds come Judgement Day.

The 'sickness' of Christ refers to the fundamental spiritual illness of all fallen human beings. Therefore, to 'minister to me' means esoterically to apply the fundamental reversal, to walk the Path of selfless love and so, by way of the process of holy transfiguration brought about by Grace, counteract or heal the 'disease' of undivine consciousness and existence that has been humanity's lot for ages.

Christ's 'prison' is the dense and constricting condition of mankind's collective consciousness together with the oppressive, unholy ethers from which human beings draw the breath of death. The 'words of cheer' are received by Christ when candidates for the harvest consecrate themselves to attaining - for the world - the sole purpose of human incarnation on Earth and so choose to walk the Path of Transfiguration in selfless devotion.

Christ is, of course, 'a stranger' to the hardened hearts of the mass of humanity today. However, when an aspirant softens and opens his heart to the Gnosis and the divine spark flares up, then Christ will find a 'home' right there in the heart - the spiritual home - of the lover of God.

This, then, is the esoteric meaning of Matthew 25: 35-36.

Today, it is Time!, and the new Gnostic Field of Life has become mature on the other side of the veil between worlds. The Ark of Christ has been prepared. Therefore, today the Son of God is no more dependent upon the positive response of fallen mankind; Christ need no longer grow in time and space through our reactions, for the Judge has arrived. With the prophesied assistance of the first aspect of the Godhead - Divine Will - the Son will very soon reveal Himself to the world. This long-awaited manifestation of Divinity on Earth is assisted in being brought about through the sum of all the righteous efforts of the past centuries, while each and every soul that has contributed thus righteously will receive its long-awaited Reward.

Many ancient prophecies are becoming a reality today. Now that the conclusions are drawn, everyone will have to place himself either on the right or on the left, according to his nature, as the sifting-times process continues to prepare for the forthcoming great harvest.

"Behold the great key-keeper of the age has turned the key; the mighty gates fly wide and all who will may greet the King. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see the King. Take heed! Be strong in mind; be pure in heart; be vigilant in helpfulness; the kingdom is at hand." - Jesus.