Friday 22 November 2019

ABOUT THE END OF AN ERA



There are two major factors that are responsible for the forthcoming Earth changes. These two factors are, the increasing numbers of Humanity itself and the pollution and abuse of the planet. These factors demand a change of a cataclysmic nature to redress the balance. 


HUMAN EVOLUTION

If you look at the rate of human reproduction during the past one thousand years it is not difficult to see, merely by considering Earth resources and projecting figures forward into the future, that the way in which Humanity lives today connot be carried forward into the future centuries. Humanity is growing at too fast a rate for its spiritual understanding. It is reproducing itself in too many numbers and by so doing is polluting the very land which provides the necessary food for its existence. It is using agricultural methods which will soon be unable to meet the demands of an ever increasing world population.

Furthermore, Humanity is now tampering with that sacred being, Mother Nature, in order to achieve a short-term gain without considering the long-term implications. There is therefore approaching a time of famine, of drought, of pestilence, as Nature reacts to what Humanity has done to her. This reaction should not be seen as a form of punishment by the divine but rather as the flowering of the seeds which Humanity itself has sown.


A PURIFICATION

This change will take place both on an inner and an outer level. It is something which you should welcome if you do not fear death and can see the purpose of rebirth. Remember that the symbol of the Aquarian Age is the phoenix. The phoenix is the mystical bird which consciously sacrifices itself on the cosmic fire, releasing its old form in order to come forth purified in the new. Does not the phoenix symbolise the desire within your own spiritual being for the purification of the Earth to take place so that the old human form can be cast off and the new Aquarian form may come forth??

As you look around the World today you cannot help but notice the increasing tempo of human conflict all over the globe as both nations and individuals oppose each other for political, ideological and religious reasons. But Humanity is suffering not only on an outer level through famine, earthquakes, disease and war but also on an inner level through its lack of spirituality. Its focus on self-centredness, its greed, its concern only for the self at the expense of its fellow human beings and the other Kingdoms of the Earth..... All these events bear witness to the approach of Armageddon and the ending of the Age. Humanity needs to be purified. Humanity needs to experience the cosmic fire of purification in order to come forth reborn in the Aquarian Age.


NOT ENOUGH TIME

I know that there are people, some spiritually motivated, who believe that this event will not come about and that it will be prevented either by the interventon of some great Master or by Humanity reversing the path upon which it is now set. I would ask you to remember the impact of the last great impulse of the Christ energy, of the Master Jesus who came on the Earth two thousand years ago. Consider how long it took for that energy to become an effective force on the plane of Earth even after that Master´s great sacrifice.

Even if the Christ energy was to return at this time it could not move Humanity from the course on which it is set. That is why the prophets and the seers of old could make their prophecies with such certainty. To ground cosmic knowledge on the Earth, to manifest it through the cycle of human evolution, takes time, human time. The spiritual consciousness needed to save this World cannot be grounded in the time that is now left before the Earth-changes.


THE WHITE RACE

Those of you who recognise this fact, not knowing when this great moment of transformation will come about but trusting only that it will be a divine act, inspired by Divine Will, might ask what is the purpose of your being. As I have said in the past, the analogy of a lifeboat should come to mind. You sail on the great ship of Mother Earth. At present you are sailing in calm waters, for you are living in the rosy days of the Wester Civilisation, the civilisation of the White Race, the Race which is to lead the World in the New Age.

This civilisation has attracted unto itself souls of great evolution, souls whose consciousness has manifested the technology and the human understanding which gives you the high standard of living that you now enjoy. You have the best of this Earth. That is a fact. However, you should also remember that the consciousness which gives you your high standard of living came down to the White Race because it is the Race primarily responsible for the birthing of the New Age. Deep down, on a soul level, that consciousness is prepared for the great changes to come.


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>> From the teachings of Ramala <<

Friday 15 November 2019

THE ADAM AND EVE STORY


 TREE OF LIFE

GENESIS is deeply symbolic, and cannot be grasped by a literal interpretation.  It´s "Tree of Life" is the human body.  The spinal cord is like a upturned tree, with man´s hair as its roots, and afferent and efferent nerves as branches.  The tree of the nervous system bears many enjoyable fruits, or sensations of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch.  In these man may rightfully indulge;  but he was forbidden the experience of sex, the "apple" at the centre, or "in the midst", of the bodily garden.

THE SERPENT

The "serpent" represents the coiled-up spinal energy that stimulates the sex nerves. "ADAM is REASON" and "EVE is FEELING".  When the EMOTION of "Eve-consciousness" in any human being is overpowered by the sex impulse, ones REASON or "Adam-consciousness" succumbs.

God created the human species by materializing the bodies of man and woman through the force of His will:  He endowed the new species with the power to create children in a similar "immaculate" or divine manner.  Because His manifestation in the individualized soul had hitherto been limited to animals, instinct-bound and lacking the potentialities of full reason, God made the first human bodies, symbolically called Adam and Eve.  To these, for advantageous upward evolution, He transferred the souls or divine essence of two animals.  In Adam or man, REASON predominated;  in Eve or woman, FEELING was ascendant.  Thus was expressed the duality or polarity that underlies the phenomenal worlds.  Reason and Feeling remain in a heaven of co-operative joy so long as the human mind is not tricked by the serpentine energy of animal propensities.

THE HUMAN BODY

The human body was therefore not solely a result of evolution from beasts, but was produced though an act of special creation by God.  The animal forms were too crude to express full divinity;  the original man and woman were uniquely given a tremendous mental capacity -- the potentially omniscient "thousand-petaled lotus" of the brain -- as well as acutely awakened occult centres in the spine.

God, or the Divine Consciousness present within the first created pair, counselled them to enjoy all human sensibilities, with one exception:  Sex sensations.  These were banned in order to avoid the use of sex organs, which would enmesh humanity in the inferior animal method of propagation.  The admonition not to revive subconsciously present bestial memories was not heeded.  Resuming the way of brute procreation, Adam and Eve fell from the state of heavenly joy natural to the original perfect man.  When "they knew that they were naked", their consciousness of immortality was lost, even as God had warned them;  they had placed themselves under the physical law by which bodily birth must be followed by bodily death.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

The knowledge of "good and evil", promised Eve by the "serpent", refers to the dualistic and oppositional experiences that mortals under MAYA (Illusion) must undergo.  Falling into delusion through misuse of his feeling and reason, or Eve- and Adam-consciousness, man relinquishes his right to enter the heavenly garden of divine self-sufficiency.  The personal responsibility of every human being is to restore his "parents" or dual nature to a unified harmony or Eden.


(Excerpt from book Autobiography of a Yogi -- Teaching of the Master, Sri Yukteswar).

Sunday 3 November 2019

OUTWITTING THE STARS



                        Astrology is the study of man´s response to planetary stimuli.

All parts of creation are linked together and inter-change their influences. The balanced rhythm of the Universe is rooted in reciprocity. Mankind, in its human aspect, has to combat two sets of forces — first, the tumults within their being, caused by the admixture of earth, water, fire, air and ethereal elements; second, the outer disintegrating powers of nature. So long as humanity struggles with its mortality, it is affected by the myriad mutations of heaven and earth.


ASTROLOGY

The stars have no conscious benevolence or animosity; they merely send forth positive and negative radiations. Of themselves, they do not help or harm humanity, but offer a lawful channel for the upward operation of cause-effect equilibriums that each person has set in motion in the past.
A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with its individual karma. The child´s horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing its unalterable past and its probable future results. But this natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by a person of intuitive wisdom — and these are few.


UNIVERSAL THRALDOM

The message boldly blazoned across the heavens at the moment of birth is not meant to emphasize fate — the result of past good and evil — but to arouse a person´s will to escape from their universal thraldom. What an individual has done, he or she can undo. None other than he or she was the instigator of the causes of whatever effects are now prevalent in their lives. A person can overcome any limitation, because they created it by their own actions in the first place, and because they do possess spiritual resources that are not subject to planetary pressure.


MECHANICAL GUIDANCE

Superstitious awe of astrology makes one an automaton, slavishly dependent on mechanical guidance. The wise man or woman defeats the planets — which is to say, their past — by transferring their allegiance from the creation to the Creator. The more they realize their unity with Spirit, the less they can be dominated by matter. The Soul is ever free; it is deathless because it is birthless. It cannot be regimented by stars.


SENSE OF IDENTITY

Man IS a Soul, and HAS a body. When he or she properly places their sense of identity, they leave behind all compulsive patterns. So long as they remain confused in their ordinary state of spiritual amnesia, they will know the subtle fetters of environmental law.
God is Harmony, the devotee who attunes himself or herself will never perform any action amiss. Their activities will be correctly and naturally timed to accord with astrological law. After deep prayer and meditation he or she is in touch with their divine consciousness; there is no greater power than that inward protection.


(Excerpt from a teaching by the Master, Sri Yukteswar Giri).