For these people to be in the public domain too early, before the foundations of their work are complete, and before they have developed sufficient spiritual resilience, is risky. And the population needs to be ready to receive their new understanding. There is no point otherwise.
In the commercial spiritual arena, there are the ‘prosperity consciousness’ seminars, ‘speaking to angels’ workshops, and the like, which hoodwink people into believing that it is possible to bypass the hard grind of spiritual discipline in order to get something for nothing.
(Spiritual readiness and the dangers of bypassing discipline)
I believe that everything that is incomplete when a person moves beyond the physical experience remains embedded in the subtle layers of the Earth until a soul descends to retrieve it, every unsatisfied hope, every unfulfiled ability—which brings me to the main point of this treatise, the need for further human experience to clarify, develop and extend various strands of your individual spiritual development. This necessitates further forays into the dense world of matter to complete any unfinished business and to enhance the individual creative abilities that have been introduced but not fully explored.
Without a spiritual dimension to their lives, many people believe that they are beholden to no one but themselves and this leads to the ego building up a false sense of importance. This is the great issue facing many spiritually-minded people today, for as their understanding, ability, and influence increases, the need for true humility increases also. No one, faced with the need to relinquish personal power of any kind, does so easily, that is, until the recognition comes from the deep places within the heart, that all power resides with the Creator.
We are all rightly confined to the human experience, limited to easily understood experiences that connect up. Imagine being linked to one hundred radio channels simultaneously bombarding your attention and you will understand why there are veils to memory that prevent many earlier experiences of this life intruding on your present circumstances. These filters enable us to have some sense of proportion, spared what we are not yet required to know, and what it is no longer necessary to remember, so that the essentials of each day are achievable and can be integrated into the fabric of just one life at a time.
(Unfinished soul-business and the necessity of return)
Absolute light within the solar system is at a single point at the centre of the Sun, and absolute dark is at the extremities, with eternal light forever making love to eternal night. Yet, there is nowhere that light is not, and nowhere that dark is not. They are compelled to work together always. However, imbalance is inevitable, for without the need for re-unification, no creative activy could happen at all.
Some people call these two components of consciousness, the involutionary and the evolutionary. The reach of the dark, the involutionary, is the slowest vibrational rate achieved at all points at the furthest distance from the Source of Light, and these points increase in number as the process continues. So what does ‘evolutionary’ actually mean? Which aspect is playing which role? We like to think that we are evolving, lifting ourselves up beyond past ignorance and overcoming the lower impulses that would drag us down and return us to our former bestial nature. We see the involutionary as the enemy holding us back. But is not the darkness evolving along with the light? In fact, our Sun is growing gradually weaker as it burns itself out, and the universe is expanding and creating more darkness, and that is how the unified ‘God’ wishes it to be. For this is one of the great paradoxes. The essence of light sacrifices itself to the darkness in order that those entities, including you and me, that lie within its compass, having infinite potential, can continue to achieve that potential.
Any continuing imbalance between the dark and the light, or between the two within the one, I define as karma.
The basic concept, integral to all future explanations, is that, for individual consciousness to descend from a subtle to a less compact realm, a source entity must identify a set of linked concentrations of creative intent, functioning as individual minds within it, and project these down, in turn, to a denser, slower level of itself.
Frankly, the thought of being contained in a succession of new human bodies, handing over my precious individuality, and restricted to the inflexible laws of this physical condition, with no power to act independently, when there is a vast universe out there to explore, appals me. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen that way. We are exactly where we are in the evolutionary flow, and I am certain that we can exercise our individual free will, always.
Spiritually awakened people, wishing to act as channels for higher consciousness, ascended masters and the like, have each attracted a ray from one such archetypal being who can communicate higher truth through them, in much the same way that an aspect of the Christ consciousness was able to overshadow Jesus all those centuries ago. However, many who claim to channel the light aspect of these higher minds are often fooling themselves. They are much more likely to be contacting the shadow of the archetype which, while demonstrating an impressive grasp of occult knowledge, is actually one of the most artful of deceivers.
With the Master’s support, you can draw in the rarefied cosmic streams, those subtle rays emanating from a profound level of the Sun in conjunction with the formative energies beaming up from deep levels of the planet, these two forces blending in a process of mutually spiralling energy. To be a representative of higher consciousness, to be a ‘world server’, you must be willing to clear away all those limiting thought patterns that deceive and divert. Balance in all things is the key that a number of well-known mystics could not fully grasp because they wanted to unlock the secrets of the heavens but not the mysteries held within the earth and so, could not mould their dreams into a useful human reality.
Imagine yourself to be a crystal as used in an old radio set, able to tune into many stations, both long wave and short wave. This particular crystal has not only the ability to receive and pass on rays of light but also, on alternate frequencies, pulses of dark energy. The crystal stays where it is but it can relate to realities far beyond itself, indeed, throughout the entire universe and everything else beyond.
Imagine that a crystal has been placed in the band of transitional energy between the physical and astral planes, and the reality that you are experiencing in your physical body is actually an activity of consciousness sourced from there. That crystal is yours alone, it is a part of you and, from a point within it that balances many streams of consciousness, it is possible to relate to all the realms, planes, levels, and all activity within and beyond it. One reality can meet another there and interact and, from this, come into a true understanding of the unified nature of all existence.
(Light and dark as co-creative cosmic forces)
When you die and move on to your particular level of the astral world, you will establish surroundings that will be very familiar to you, and you will construct your house there, not with bricks and mortar, but with an in-between kind of substance that is used by your mind to manifest form. This will be your ideal home, with no need of a mortgage. The environment you create will be in tune with your essential nature. After a short period of assimilation, you can take up residence.
It is not possible to ascend into the higher worlds of spirit while the lower instinctual nature dominates. Any sensation-induced memories of the Earth life claw at the mind, which then retreats into a state of evolutionary inertia.
(What the astral world builds from and what holds it down)
They push away the feelings of guilt and shame; they deny their inner agony and so, block the way out of their addiction. The Master Jesus invited us to surrender all worldly attachments to follow in his footsteps, but the base human nature that many rely on for their sense of self worth cannot be shaken off any more easily when they die.
for nothing of higher matters will impinge until they purge their minds of the desires and complacencies of the past. Only then can something progressive reach them from deep within.
Unable to be happy just being simply who they are, they have created an ego monster that holds their various bodies down to a very low level. Even quite spiritually mature people can have arrogant personalities that will continue to unbalance them until they are able to cast off the constant self promotion that they carried forward from their life on Earth. They need to see that there is more to their existence than the approval they receive from others. Quiet discipline is required to break the stranglehold of desire, force never works. In one sense, the challenges they are facing are all illusory, though at the same time, a path must be negotiated through them.