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Manifesting Yourself in Yourself as Your Total Wisdom and Your Almightiness. enlighten our minds to understand You as the Truth. Clean our hearts to reflect Your Love towards You and towards all other human beings. Amen According to the Bible, the material universe starts with: “And God said, "Let there be light." [i] According to Scientific theory, the material universe starts with an explosion of light they call the Hot Big Bang. Simply put, the Hot Big Bang theory states that the creation of the material universe initiated with the condensation of massive amounts of super-heated Plasma. The Plasma collected and united creating a field of an unimaginable gravitational force. Its powerful gravitational field super compressed all the Plasma into a smaller and smaller space. As the Plasma is compacted into less and less space, its temperature soared beyond measure until the Plasma finally exploded in a blinding flash of light that created our material universe and initiated its outward expansion that continues to this day. When we speak of the creation of the material universe, we are referring to our planet, our sun, our solar system, our galaxy and all the planets, suns, solar systems and galaxies that exist physically. Let us now look at this moment of material creation from the perspective of the teachings of the Researchers of Truth and other mystics who have succeeded in raising their consciousness high enough to witness this event as it is recorded in the Cosmic Consciousness (Akashic Records). What is seen of creation in the flawless records of this Cosmic Memory is very similar to the descriptions of the Scientific Hot Big Bang theory.
Prior to manifesting
what we call physical matter, the records show ethereal substance swirling
and coalescing as a ball of ethereal light. This ethereal ball of light
behaves similar to the behavior scientists attribute to
Plasma. As this swirling ball of Mind-Substance manifests
Our
planet Earth began its material life just as the other heavenly bodies
did… as the element of fire. It begins as a sphere of fire spinning and
orbiting
These accounts tell us something about how the material universe came into existence, but not why. The why has to do with what has been called the Will-Pleasure of God. It was and is the Will & Pleasure of God to manifest Itself, within Itself that causes the creation not only of the material universe but all the universes of existence – Material, Psychical & Noetical. It is also the Will and the Pleasure (Love) of God to express its Eternal Life as all the temporary life forms, which inhabit all the universes of existence. Can you imagine such an all powerful Will and Love? In its totality God’s Will-Pleasure is beyond the grasp of our intelligence. However, we can understand something of this Will-Pleasure by observing its reflection in our own life – As above so below. Consider the artist who feels the inspiration to create a beautiful work of art. The creation of an artist has been manifested by his will to execute his creation and the pleasure or love of doing it. The same with a mother who expresses her will and pleasure in creating a wonderful meal for her family. In both cases, there is the will to create and the love or pleasure of doing it. Now both in the Hot Big Bang theory and the creation accounts described by mystics we see the physical matter of the three-dimensional universe initially manifesting from the ethereal as fire and then all the other elements. This brings us to the prime building blocks of all the words of existence - Earth, Air, Fire and Water and of course Ether. The Four Elements: Earth, Air, Water and Fire have been well known for a long time. What about the so-called Fifth Element? In the ancient Sanskrit language of Eastern cultures it was called such names as Akasa, Adi-Buddhi and Mulaprakriti – the shining cosmic spirit-substance. In the book of Genesis in the Bible, ether is referred to as the waters of the deep. Christ called it the living waters and our daily bread. But it was Aristotle (384 – 322 BC), the Greek philosopher/scientist and student of Plato, who was the first in western history to refer to Ether as the Fifth Element. In Aristotle’s language, the words “Fifth Element” were “pempte ousia”. Later in the Latin language this was called, “Quinta” (fifth) “essential” (essence), which has become the contemporary word quintessence in English. Today the definition of quintessence is: the purest example of something. And certainly, Ether qualifies as the purest substance.
So Earth, Air, Fire, and Water are the four elements of nature. Not only the nature of the physical universe, but they are also the nature of all the universes of existence – Material, Psychical, and Noetical. The material universe is simply the lowest vibration, the lowest level of manifestation of these elements. The Earth Element is dominant in the physical universe. The Water Element is dominant in the psychical universes. The Fire Element is dominant in the noetical universes. However, the fire element in the noetical universes is not like the flames of fire found on earth. Noetical fire is a vibration that causes ignition. The Air Element is dominant in the surrounding Etheric Double of the planet. Yet despite the dominance of each one of the four elements in each of these worlds, all elements are present and active in each world in lesser degrees. So we have four elements ruling each of the four worlds. Specific orders of the Archangels use these same elements Super-Consciously in their work in creating all the material, psychical and noetical universes as well as our material, psychical and noetical bodies, which correspond with these universes. For example, the Michaels are using the fire element, which also gives us physical light and heat. The Michaels are more active in the noetical worlds. The Gabriels are Lords of the liquids using the Water Element in their creationism. The Gabriels are most active in the psychical worlds. The human beings can and do use these elements… though we use them mostly subconsciously. After long training, a researcher of truth who has brought these elements under his conscious control gains psycho-noetical powers… he or she becomes the master of their bodies and these universes. Anyone who begins his approach to Self-Realization soon finds that he must undergo many trials and tribulations, which are preparatory for the scheduled initiations of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. There is no ridged order when we take these initiations and a seeker can face more than one of these in any given lifetime. Each one of these initiations brings with it a much-needed experience vital to the purification of the seeker’s personality and thus a prerequisite to Self-Realization. These elements are also associated with our human nature. For example the Water Element is associated with our emotions. The Water Initiation cleans and calms our emotional “waters” enabling the seeker to reflect something of the Divine while in the mundane worlds of existence. The Earth Initiation is fierce. It is so difficult, that it is typically faced last. The Earth Initiation is perfectly portrayed in the passion of Christ and the crucifixion. Not that the seeker facing this initiation must sacrifice his or her physical life. But when their trials and tribulations are particularly intense, the seeker’s personality does go through its own internal crucifixion and death. This bitter experience is an important and required course in the schoolhouse of life. One aspect of the Earth initiation requires the candidate for initiation to be betrayed (usually by a person close to them). Like Christ, we must also experience a betrayal by a Judas in our life. And just like Christ, we must forgive in a deep an authentic way. Even in successfully passing the test of the external betrayal, there is still more serious betrayals to be faced. To fully pass this Earth Initiation the seeker must overcome the betrayal of the most deceptive and powerful Judas of them all – the seekers’ own egoism! The pure and perfect Christ-Light is within us – it is the light of every human being’s Self-Awareness – it is our own Divine Nature. And each and every day the Judas of our own egoism betrays our own Christ nature. Click here to see Da Vinci's Christ-Judas story False accusations, injustice and harsh condemnation accompany the Earth Initiation. It is not that the seeker experiences all this in every incarnation, but sooner or later we all will experience it and be called upon to give proper response. When we are betrayed, persecuted and treated cruelly, our egoism wants to rise up in righteous indignation, aggressively demand justice and retaliate at our perceived tormentor. But, it is really this negative egoism that needs to be crucified. To be successful in the Earth Initiation, the seeker must surrender and transcend all these trials, repay these bitter experiences with real Love and pray: “Father forgive them; for they know not what they do.” A MEDITATION BY DASKALOS
Breathe
deeply. Feel your feet. Feel from the place you are sitting on the chair
to the toes of your feet. And, feeling them, you'll feel you are getting
warm. There is warmth now in this Etheric Vitality you are feeling in your
feet, thighs, knees, legs. Try to feel this warmth.
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Is there a specific path and a specific manner that you must follow? Has it been found by other Researchers of Truth before you? Yes, and, they take great pleasure in keeping the light, lit. Are they keeping the light on for their own progress? No, not for their own progress, but to help you on your way. Because they have taken an oath, that, for as long as there is pain on the planet, not to progress towards their deliverance. They will be the last to reach deliverance. They are your brothers of mercy. Some of you will also choose this path, because of your love towards your fellow human being.
You will not do
it in the belief that you will sacrifice yourself for others that would be
stupid. Christ said: ‘It is mercy I want; not sacrifice.” If
there is even the slightest trace of egoism within you, you will think
that you are making a sacrifice, though it is not so. The following words
of the Godman will be of significance to you. “Who ever wants to follow me
forsakes himself, (his egoism) picks up his cross (which is the cross of
others as well as his) and follows me”
There is an old story attributed to Leonardo
Da Vinci that has become an urban legend of sorts. The story has many
variations but included below is what appears to be the original as
reported by B.T. Spalding in the early 1900s. The story begins with Mr.
Spalding interviewing an elderly Cardinal in the Vatican discussing Mr.
Spalding’s interest in Christ and Leonardo Da Vinci’s portrayal of him.
The Cardinal suggested that Mr. Spalding go to the Louvre museum in Paris.
With the cardinal’s authorization, a certain curator of the Da Vinci
collection
at the museum shows Mr. Spalding Leonardo’s unpublished letters.
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materially, it
is seen as an enormous ball of fire spinning and ejecting other fiery
balls; casting them out into the depths of space. These become the
central suns of each galaxy.
These spinning fiery central suns are
likewise throwing off smaller fiery spheres, which in turn become the
billions of suns within each galaxy. Each of these suns finds just the
proper orbit around the galactic sun that ejected it. This same process
continues as still smaller fiery balls are ejected from each sun, which
over time cool down and become the planets of each solar system. One of
these fiery balls was destined to become the planet Earth, our temporary
home.
the sun, which ejected it into the near absolute zero
temperatures (-459° or -273° C) of space. Over vast eons of time the
earth cools and starts to form a crust that keeps cracking open and
releasing gases (the air element). A primitive atmosphere forms around
the cooling planet and out of it rain (the water element) precipitates
down on the planet cooling its surface, turning back into steamy vapors,
rising up into the atmosphere and then precipitating back out as rain
again. This cycle continues over great spans of time and eventually the
surface of the planet solidifies into what we call the earth element. So,
material manifestation starts as the fire element then the air element
(gaseous states of matter) then the water element (the liquid states of
matter) and finally the earth element (the solid states of matter).
