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Levels of Consciousness
Virtual Circle Lesson
April 20,
2003
God OF Life, Love, and Mercy.
Manifesting Your Self within Your Self
As the Total Wisdom and Almightiness.
Enlighten our minds to understand your Truth
Clean our hearts to reflect Your love towards You
And towards all other human beings.
Amen
We know the Godhead as the Absolute
Beingness, Christ Logos and Holy Spirit. These are not three separated
Gods but three manifestations of God. This triadic expression has been
known by many other names in other cultures and times. In India this
trinity is deified as Brahma, Vishnu & Shiva. The
ancient Egyptians also spoke about the triadic nature of God, and
mythologized it as Ra, Osiris and Isis. The Sumerians, Babylonians and
other cultures also described the Godhead as three fold in nature. Today
in the West, we call this triune manifestation of God the Trinity -
Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit is the
dynamical expression of God. It is the Almightiness, the Omnipotent
characteristic of God. It is the Universal Super-Consciousness and the
giver of the Life we see manifesting in all the living forms around us.
There are countless life-forms on the Earth but there is a distinction
between Life and the various forms Life expresses itself through.
The mineral kingdom is living and
expressing a kind of consciousness known as sensitivity. Iron is
sensitive to moisture and will rust. It undergoes change and decomposes.
The metals are also sensitive to heat and electricity and will conduct
both in varying degrees. The Crystals are living and the pattern of their
growth exhibits their sensitivity to the force of gravity. Pizo-Crystals
are sensitive to pressure and under strong pressure they emit electricity.
Pyro-Crystals are sensitive to temperature and when heated they also
produce electricity. Sensitivity is a level of consciousness and it is a
characteristic of the mineral kingdom. Throughout the entire natural
world we see Life expressing different levels of consciousness.
The next level of consciousness is
called sensibility and it is first found in the plant kingdom. This type
of consciousness is particularly noticeable in flowers. Flowers exhibit a
great deal of sensibility. They have a remarkably ability to sense the
light of the sun. The plant kingdom is very conscious of night and day.
Some species like water lilies are so conscious of the sunlight that they
open their blossoms when they sense the first rays in the morning and
close back up when the sun sets. Other flowers bloom only in the dark of
night. Some flowers sense the movement of the sun and turn to follow it
closely as it moves across the sky.
In temperate climates as the winter
gives its place to spring; the amount of sunlight increases and the plant
kingdom comes alive with fresh growth. Within weeks the plants and trees
send forth buds, blossoms and leaves in an amazing demonstration of
materialization. In Midwest America a single mature hardwood tree
produces enough leaves to cover 21,780 square feet – that is the
equivalent to the living space of a dozen average size American houses.
Now imagine the amount of matter being produced by all the trees and
plants on the entire planet. Where did all that matter come from in such
a short time? What is that force which causes this materialization? The
force or power is the characteristic of the Holy Spirit. As Holy
Spiritual emissaries the Archangels of the Elements manifest this power in
creating the natural world and all the Worlds of Existence. They express
it in accordance with the Divine Plan within the Total Wisdom of God.
The Divine Plan calls for an
immeasurable abundance of life on Earth. Consider the abundance in all
the eatable fruits and vegetables. Each piece of fruit contains a
countable number of seeds within it. Yet encoded within the circles of
possibilities of each seed there exist an incalculable number of potential
pieces of fruit.
Coming to the animal kingdom we see
life expressing sensitivity, sensibility and another higher level of
consciousness called instinct. The migration of fish, birds and other
animals are prime examples of this inborn instinctual consciousness. The
plant and animal kingdoms do not use the mind as thought like humans.
Rather they are governed by what have been called the Nature Sprits. These
Nature Spirits are the projected angel elementals from certain kinds of
Archangels. Many people have come into conscious contact with these living
entities. These Nature Spirits govern the life of the plant or animal and
live within them. Observing animals and plants closely we can detect the
great wisdom and intelligences ruling these forms of life.
In the human kingdom we also see
expressed all these different levels of consciousness – sensitivity,
sensibility and instinctual. We also see another type of consciousness in
man called sub-consciousness. It is called sub-conscious because it
operates in a habitual way just below the surface of our awareness. The
average person operates sub-consciously most of the time. The
sub-consciousness is composed in part of all the thoughts, emotions, and
desires we experience. These are the elementals that make up our
personality and shape our character. Collectively these form a temporary
and very limited type of self awareness. This shadow self is not our real
Self and it is always changing. Yet at its nucleus is the pure radiance of
our unchanging real Self the Spirit-Soul.
Even the limited self awareness of our
personality has the ability to use the Mind as thought. Animals can not
use the Mind as thought nor do they have self awareness. They have a
consciousness as described above and a governing Nature Spirit which
expresses the wisdom contained in the Divine Plan. However, human beings
are Eternal Spirit Beings and are a separated creation from animal
kingdom. Animals, plants and minerals are Holy Spiritual expressions and
do not have a Self. Rather they are living creations of Self
Super-Conscious Archangelic orders. It is the Selfhood of a human being
that sets us apart from the animal kingdom. Our bodies share common
characteristics with the bodies of animals – flesh, hair, bones and blood
but that is where the similarity stops.
God has given the human race the great
gift of using the Mind. This has afforded humankind the opportunity to
raise his own slumbering consciousness from sub-consciousness, to
conscious, to Self-Conscious, and eventually to the highest levels of Self
Super-Consciousness. This is the real spiritual development or spiritual
unfoldment. During this process that which is sub conscious within our
personality gradually is replaced by more and more conscious thought,
feeling and actions which in time can lead us to the realization of true
Self-Consciousness. This is the real aim of the Researchers of Truth and
any sincere spiritual system – To raise the petty consciousness of the
personality to higher levels of consciousness leading one day to full
Self-Realization. Self Realization means knowledge of the Self.
Self-Realization does not mean just knowing our little personality self
with its strengths and weaknesses. It means realization of Soul-Self
Consciousness.
Because we have discolored the
reflective quality of our personality’s consciousness with lesser emotions
and thoughts it cannot reflect the light of our Soul-Self properly. Just
as muddy water cannot reflect the beauty of the natural world immediately
next to it, a dull and dirty personality can not reflect the glorious
reality of the Soul’s awareness. This is why we do not remember our past
lives or experiences of other dimensions. It is not that these things do
not exist – they definitely do exist! It is that we as personalities
have allowed our consciousness to become soiled by base desires, impure
emotions and worldly interest. This has dimmed and limited our ability as
personalities to reflect and perceive the light of our true nature while
in the worlds of existence. Obviously it is our choices as personalities
that have muddied the waters of our consciousness. So it falls to the
personality to clean up its conscious and sub-conscious self.
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This
is how we “raise our consciousness” to higher levels. We begin
through introspection and meditation to discover and remove those
unclean thoughts and emotions lurking in our sub-conscious mind.
Daskalos referred to one chamber of our sub-consciousness as a jungle
– “the storehouse of our elementals” (thoughts and emotions). |

So, boldly and with courage, each one of us should enter into his
sub-consciousness. That means, starting to study his
Present-Day-Personality, the quality of it, the quality of the
elementals composing it. I am telling you, you will find there a very,
very cunning and devilish enemy who is the cause of all the troubles
of every human being. - DASKALOS |
By cleaning and aligning our
personality’s consciousness we reflect the light of the Soul in a greater
measure and become more accustomed and attuned to it. Eventually through
at-one-ment we will realize true Self-Consciousness. Beyond that level of
consciousness are still higher levels called Self Super-Consciousness.
Super-Consciousness means total awareness within the worlds of existence
(past and present) as well as total awareness in the realms of Beingness.
Super-Consciousness goes beyond the limited concepts of time or place and
the three worlds of existence (material, psychical and noetical).
Super-Consciousness is beyond any person’s ability to describe in words
yet it is the intrinsic characteristic of our Spirit-Self and the ultimate
state of consciousness of every Spirit Being.
Love to all,
Daniel
4.20.03
Now, an exercise of
health.
Lay down on your bed,
flat, or sit as you are sitting there on a chair, in the chair. Make your
hands in such a way to resemble the Sun. Take deep breaths and put them on
your heart. Start breathing deeply but comfortably. Breath deeply and
comfortably. If you do it often, then you will feel from your hands inside
your heart a connection, a pulse. This is allowed. That is not
concentration on the heart. That is concentration on the hands. But
breathe deeply, then open (see what I do) the hands and touch both lungs.
And with your thought say "I want my etheric double and my physical body
to be full of energy at all times".
Your sub-consciousness has
to believe it, because the sub-consciousness is also in the etheric
double. The sub-consciousness is getting orders, without reasoning. The
sub-consciousness will put you in contact with the source of energy.
Breathe deeply now, having
your hands just on the chest (like that) and say "I am filling myself from
the source of energy with the etheric vitality, which is energy -
electro-magnetic energy. My hands will always be full of this energy. (You
will never have cold hands. Your hands will always be warm.) I want all my
material body at all times to be full of the etheric vitality or energy.
~ DASKALOS
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Daskalos
Exiting the Stoa

From a Stoa Lesson by Daskalos
Now, we have spoken about matter and we
talked about the vegetable kingdom, the different varieties of luminosity
of Light, we spoke about the animal kingdom, again another degree of
luminosity of Light, about things in the ethereal and in the psychical
worlds, and in the noetical world. What about the human beings now? What
kind of Life-Light is in a human being? Christ said, “I say to you, you
are Gods. All of you are sons of the Almighty.” This is a
great, great theory, yet, Joshua Emmanuel the Christ, the Godman, gave it
practically. “You are now my disciples, my healers and you should know
that all the degrees of bright nesses, of luminosity, are manifested in
you in what we call consciousness.” He spoke about sensitivity and
sensibility, in the material things - they are sensitive to cold and to
light. We have the sensitivity and the sensibility, in our bodies, in our
muscles. He spoke about our sub-consciousness. He spoke about the
instinct.
So, we have the sensitivity and the sensibility in matter and in the
vegetable kingdom. And He spoke about the sub-consciousness. Now, the
animal kingdom has the instinct. The human beings have the
sub-consciousness and I am telling you that ninety percent of the human
beings living on the planet today are living subconsciously. Yet, there is
the waking consciousness. How many are expressing this waking
consciousness and know what they are doing? How many? Very few. Joshua
Emmanuel showed us the way to unfold this waking consciousness in us and
reach the Self-Consciousness. We have to unfold in us our real Self,
which means the real Self-Consciousness. And He said that we should
develop, unfold in us, the Self Super-Consciousness.
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