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Are you beflamed by the majesty of His will as I am? Are you seized with a passion that is the love of God? Does your heart burn in the anticipation of His presence and do you yearn to be filled with the wisdom of His law? If for you life is but an encounter with obstacles that heighten the homeward race and that fill you with anticipation just to see His face - then come with me as I extol the virtues of oneness and as I lay before you the knowledge of the law, the awareness of the bliss of love, and as I show you how to pursue wholeness, to defend oneness, and in being God how to remain undefiled, uncontaminated by the world.
The path of discipleship is a path that leads the soul gently from a consciousness of duality to the consciousness of unity, of oneness in the white-fire core of being. Successive stages of initiation of the unfoldment of the mind of God within the mind of man are for the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new.1 These are for the release of the veils of duality, of mortality, and their replacement with the garment of the Lord - the seamless garment2 of grace and light's effulgence.
Day by day, the Lord leadeth the children of promise out of the land of bondage, across the desert - parting the turbulent sea, clearing the path to summit heights where the vision of the promised land is seen by the elect of God who have kept the vision of oneness. Those who perceive oneness have the right to conceive oneness and to bring it forth from out the white-fire core in the planes of Spirit into the planes of Mater.
Each step of the way, challenges arise. Each bend in the road is a mark of attainment that precipitates the precipice of challenge. In chaos and chimera, by the flame of wholeness, scattered energies are drawn into rods of power, erratic movements become dynamic momentums, and jagged emotions are geometrized as a cone of self-realization. Every phase of maya, every phantom of the mist is resolved, even as dissonant sound by the law of truth becomes the orchestration of celestial harmonics. By meditation upon the Christic light, by the converging of self-consciousness with God Self-consciousness, man and woman putting on the garment of the Lord become one in the spiral of our oneness.
When Jesus came into the country of the Gadarenes, he was met by one who came out of the tombs, a man with an unclean spirit who could not be bound - no, not with chains. Nor could he be tamed but was found always night and day in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus from afar off, he ran and worshiped him.3
The record of Christ's healing of this one possessed of an unclean spirit is written clearly in akasha. It is the record of an illusion of duality, a manifestation that confounded all the people of that country and which still confounds the scientists and the doctors two thousand years after this healing that was brought about by the Spirit and in the power of the Lord.
The infestation of the sheaths of consciousness that surround the soul as a swaddling garment has occurred since the hour when man and woman rejected the wholeness of God and elected by the misuse of free will to separate themselves from the twin flames of sacred fire in the center of being. The sheaths of consciousness which surround the soul we call the four lower bodies. These are the vehicles of the soul's expression and expansion in the plane of Mater. They are the etheric or memory body, the mental body, the emotional or astral body, and the physical body.
Through these interpenetrating forcefields, the soul projects the energies of Spirit into manifestation in the world of Matter form. Here the soul gains experience in the manipulation of the laws governing time and space. Here the soul proves self-mastery by working the works of God in man. And thus he obeys the injunction of the Lord "Take dominion over the earth."4
Sacred vessels are these four bodies of man, of woman - yea, even the habitation of the Most High God.5 But when the vision of oneness descends to the level of relativity in Matter, engendering a sense of separation from the central flame of Life, then the door of consciousness is opened not to the Christ but to the dweller on the threshold and to the fallen ones - discarnates, demons, and entities who seek a dwelling place in the tabernacle of God that has become the tomb of the living dead. Now we see in the one who is marked by society as insane only the extreme manifestation of what those who are sane experience as the parallel manifestation of the Christ mind and the carnal mind side by side in the evolving soul-consciousness.
The insane are those who are not able to resolve patterns of duality and to live a normal life while tolerating that warring within the members of which Paul spoke.6 The insane are those who have been split in two - mind and heart, body and soul being utterly rent in twain by the manifestation simultaneously of that which is one with the Christ on the one hand and that which is aligned with evil and the devil on the other. Those who remain sane, then, are those who have the ability to tolerate within the four lower bodies at once the elements of the old man that is being put off and of the new man that is being put on.
There are times when those who are sane do pass through periods of insanity. These periods of emotional turmoil take place as the soul for a period of hours or days is unable to come to grips with the forces of light and darkness as these are embattled for the victory of the domain of consciousness. Likewise, there are periods when the so-called insane resolve the clashing and the clamoring of forces and are found to be passive if not wholly rational for indefinite periods.
The duality of this one with an unclean spirit is seen as his soul and his heart run to greet the Christ, the Saviour, and to worship him, acknowledging him as the source of salvation and of freedom from bondage while at the same time the unclean spirit dwelling within the recesses of the mental and emotional bodies cries out with a loud voice, saying: "What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not." The fiat of the Christ "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit" is the commanding presence of the Word, of the Logos itself, by which the creation was framed.7
Jesus, being filled with the Holy Ghost and being imbued with the action of the law, must exact obedience from all that which comes in contact with his flame. Wherever he is, life must obey the law of cycles, atomic particles must come into alignment with true being, and that which is of the light must confirm the light while that which is of darkness must confirm darkness. And the definition of that which is Real and that which is unreal is clearly seen in the presence of the Christ as the action of the sacred Word - the sword that cleaves asunder the True Self from the not-self.
Aside from the compassionate Christ Presence which he exemplified, Jesus was the fullness of the expression of the law. The unclean spirit did not belong in the house of God. The unclean spirit was not in its proper place. By the law of harmony, by the law of the wholeness of Alpha and Omega in the very center of the heart flame of the Christ, energies must be resolved to their proper planes.
And thus Jesus asks, "What is thy name?" For by pronouncing the name (which is the key to the vibration, to the electronic forcefield, of the entity) Jesus will key the energies of the Holy Spirit to that frequency for the removal of that force, that disquieting factor which has no part with the architecture of the cosmic cube - the real identity of man. And he answered, saying, "My name is Legion: for we are many." And the unclean spirit besought Jesus that he would not send them away, that he would not send this legion of discarnates out of the country - the place of the familiar.
These discarnates, which scriptures record as being devils, besought Jesus, saying: "Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them," for there was nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. Their request shows that in the presence of the Christ they also desired to return to that level of awareness, that vibration, kindred to their own on the astral plane. The swine consciousness was that to which in reality they were affinitized.
By the law of affinity of vibration, therefore, Jesus gave them leave. And they went out of the man and entered into the swine. And yet that phase of elemental life that retained God-awareness, even within the swine, refused to submit to the lower aspect of their nature which the unclean spirits personified. And thus their consciousness being split, the group soul of the swine preferred to reunite with the Spirit of God in nature than to remain in the presence of the discarnates. And so they ran violently down a steep place into the sea (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.
Now and then in the history of the evolution of elemental life through the animal kingdom, there have been recorded incidences where elementals desiring to be released from the burden and the weight of an astral force that has overtaken the animal consciousness have sacrificed themselves in great numbers, thereby sharing in the sacrifice of Jesus the Christ on behalf of the balance of harmony in the planet and in all mankind.
This, then, is the teaching of the Brotherhood on the putting on of the garment of the Lord through a return to wholeness. I shall return in the next Pearl of Wisdom to the subject of wholeness and the reunification of man and woman in the flame of the One.
I AM shining in the brightness of immortal spheres.