The Soul and its Mechanism

One of my papers for The Arcane School required that I relate my current understanding of the nature of the Soul and its Mechanism. I was tempted to look at my old papers and begin with what I have written in the past on this subject because it is so daunting a task, but I resisted, wanting to honestly take the snapshot of my understanding in the here and now. This represents that snapshot.

Soul is a universal principal and an aspect of the divine trinity. It is synonymous with Consciousness and represents the second aspect of Love/Wisdom. We see this aspect, therefore in expression on every possible level of manifestation for it represents itself through the synthesizing of spirit and matter. The soul is love.

It is the binding agent of the universe, if I could put it so bluntly. Every form from the grossest mineral matter on the dense physical plane up through the highest manifestation displays an aspect of this principal, as it must. As above, so below, states the Hermetic aphorism. It binds the sub atomic particles that make the atom and binds the atoms together to form a molecule. It is the support system keeping all life forms in the plant and animal kingdoms coherent and growing. Without this cohesive energy and support the life form goes through the death process of restitution and elimination, returning the matter and energy of which it was made back to the reservoirs from which they were drawn.

In the higher life forms in the animal kingdom it is known as the anima mundi and is passed from life to life through the reproductive process, carrying with it the developed characteristics of the species and extending the refining process through many lifetimes producing ever more complex and diverse manifestations of the one life. Life evolves through generation after generation to higher and more accurate expression of its divine origin.

Within the human being we see this as one of the expressions of soul, the soul of the bodily nature. We also see the reincarnating entity or individualized soul. Man is the creature in which the lower evolution is met by spirit on the path of return. Spirit in manifestation as the Monad or divine spark clothes itself in matter of the higher planes of the cosmic physical plane in order to find expression in the lower three worlds through the use of the fleshy vehicle created through this refining process. It forms sheaths of the finer matter of the Atmic, Buddhic and the highest sub-planes of the Manasic plane, creating a causal body through which it will contact the lower three worlds of manifestation.

It creates a form on the lower three planes in order to better master these worlds and matter itself. It vitalizes the lower triune expression of concrete mind, emotions, and the physio-etheric body through the life thread or sutratma, and communicates with this lower self via the consciousness thread known as the anthakarana. Over many incarnations it develops an increasing ability to find expression through these denser vehicles and grows in its ability to express through this experience. It also gains facility in building and creates vehicle of higher caliber and sensitivity over time, which of course enhances the soul’s ability to establish contact in future cycles.

I see the life of the lower self in terms of a dream of the soul. Through the experience of dreaming it becomes a more adept dreamer and begins to gain in ability to control these dreams. At first when it enters this dream state, just as the personality mechanism in its dreaming, it is not aware of its potency and is in a sense just going along for the ride. Just as a personality can gain dream control or lucidity in the dream state with practice, the soul can become an ever more effective dreamer gaining in its ability to control the life of the personality over many lifetimes.

As this development continues the soul becomes more effective in seeing its purpose fulfilled during the cycle of incarnation. It is building the antahkarana and participating in the “waking state” of the personality. The outward expression of this is a more effective human being, manifesting the love of the soul outwardly and aiding and nurturing his brothers on the path, which he may still be treading unconsciously.

As this integration between personality and soul continues the aspirant and later the disciple is said to be leading a soul infused life. Under the soul’s influence this life becomes one of study (developing the mental apparatus), Meditation (further developing soul contact), and Service.

Service is the outward expression of the effects of this soul infusion and it is also a technique which aids in group awareness. Empathy and love for his fellowmen, community, and eventually all humanity is increased as he grows in this awareness and realization that we are all in this together and even that we are all component parts of one greater organism. An organism is an assemblage of lives working together as a whole, whether conscious of this fact or, as is usually the case, unconscious of it. Having some small percentage of these contributing lives working consciously helps to move the purpose of the greater life forward.

In connection with humanity and the One Life we refer to these workers and servers as working in harmony and “cooperation” with the plan to whatever level they can understand it, but how is this accomplished?

In order to gain control over the mechanism we must first gain an understanding of what it is. If all is energy, and energy follows thought as the occult wisdom teaches, then we must gain an understanding of the energetic underpinnings of the physical world, and then learn to direct these energies, as force through the use of the mind. Gaining a working knowledge of the constitution of man, or the anatomy of consciousness is an essential step in this process. It allows us to direct our consciousness consciously. There are many external forces directing and influencing the mass of humanity, but as the student learns more about himself and his surroundings he becomes a more self directed part of the overall picture. “The student learns by self devised and self induced methods” (HPB).

This act of self direction represents the transmutation of the desire based aspiration into spiritual will and the student of occult wisdom becomes and active participant in the forwarding of the divine will or plan, as he understands it. Through the understanding of the etheric substance and centers of vitalizing force of the physical frame as well as the response mechanism to the directing energies of the astral and mental natures the student refines and perfects the mechanism, tuning it to the souls influence. Resonance with the higher vibrations of the soul simultaneously represents dissonance with the lower vibratory nature of what are called negative emotions such as hate.

Understanding of our unity with all life naturally fosters harmlessness. With what part of ourselves will we wish to make war? Who’s resources would we steal? What part of humanity deserves to starve once we realize we are one? What part of the earth shall we destroy when we realize she is our source and not a resource?

The individualization of consciousness is a stage which is important to our development. As is the case with every other stage, there comes a time when we must transcend it and move on. Becoming trapped within emotional consciousness curtails the development of mind. The mind can become a similar trap if it is not treated as the gateway to the soul. We must develop and then transcend each of these states of awareness, and then lose our separateness as well. As the Tao Te Ching tells us “The student grows by daily increment. The way is gained by daily loss.”

The three Temptatons of Jesus Christ

Attached Please Find…

A video clip of a recent Talk I did on the symbolic nature of the Gospel stories. This section, as indicated in the title of the blog is about the temptations in the wilderness after the Baptism at the river Jordan. Jesus is driven into the desert by the revelation at the baptism and undergoes several tests which, if seen symbolically contain a great wealth of information about the  spiritual path.

Is there really a War on Christmas?

It’s here… That time of year when to all of the pressures of everyday life are added the pressures of the holiday season. In addition to the bathroom remodel, the demands of Higher Ground, kids, the day gig, (I am an engineer) and everything else that seems to pile up over time, we now have shopping, family pressures, decorations, (inside and out) advertising blitz’s, the “must have” toys of the year and everything else that is attached to a holiday that is purported to be under attack. This is evidently caused by the courtesy extended by the use of the phrase “Happy Holiday” instead of “Merry Christmas”; or perhaps by having to share a season of well wishing with the evil celebrants of other less worthy holidays. It makes me wonder who is really under siege, and by whom.

Well if you get down to the true meaning behind the origins of the Christmas Holiday and that into which it has grown, I think its safe to say that Jesus lost that fight to Corporate America a long time ago. If we want to “put Christ back in Christmas” I can get behind that, but I think commercialism has been more of a nemesis than Kwanza or Chanukah could ever be. The modern Christmas celebration, including the Coca Cola Santa Clause that I grew up with, would be unrecognizable to anyone from the 19th Century, let alone the year zero. That leads pretty easily to what I want to talk with you about.

There are aspects of the real holiday that do survive. You will see the classic Nativity in front of a home or church and just for a moment you remember what we are celebrating. But what are we really celebrating? It is supposed to be the birth of Jesus Christ. A nice Jewish boy born 2000 years or so ago, who had a profound effect on humanity. I say “or so” because no one really knows the date. Many don’t even know he was Jewish. We just assume it was December 25th exactly 2008 years ago (or would it be 2009?). Now, if this was in fact the case, it would not have been called the year zero, it would have been 754AUC (referring back to the start of the Roman Empire). People in the year 45 BC didn’t call it that… how could they know? The calendar was later re-calibrated to center it on the birth of Jesus and the so called start of the “Common Era”. Are you confused yet? Wait it gets worse. Without getting too lost in all of this, does it seem strange to re-organize a calendar to a date and year we can’t identify? That gives you an idea of how unique the impact of this one individual.

Now why do we have such a hard time setting this date? Don’t we have his whole life story? Well, yes and no. The two gospel stories that do cover the birth of Jesus conflict with each other, and the earliest of the books in the canonized Bible (Mark) which doesn’t mention the birth wasn’t written until about 60-70AD (we cant set that date either). Mathew says he was born while Herod the great was King of Judea and Luke tells us it was in the time that Quirinius was the Governor of Syria. Ironically, history indicates that those two things didn’t happen at the same time. In addition, census that put Joseph and Mary on the road to Bethlehem was most likely the one commissioned by Cesar Augustus in 6 AD. So we are left to wonder…

Well, I guess it doesn’t really matter what year it was as long as we have the day right. Birthdays don’t mean as much to me anymore and I’m not 2000 years old. We can still celebrate and just not have the right number of candles on the cake. Sorry, we don’t really know the day either. As a matter of fact in the first 337 years of the common calendar 136 different days were used to celebrate Jesus’ birth. That means there is a 1 in 3 chance; no matter what day you are reading this story, that it was Christmas Day at least once. In 337 Pope Julius decided that they had to do something. That mess was OK before, but Rome had basically adopted Christianity in 325 at the council of Nicea. I guess he figured they had to be more organized. So how did he decide? In the absence of reliable historical evidence where would you turn?

As beautiful and complete as the story of Jesus may be, it is not unique in some of its aspects. There are many avatars over the ages and in different civilizations that are celebrated as the “only begotten sons of God”. Edward Carpenter identified 21 common characteristics of these Scriptures and traditions in his “Pagan and Christian Creeds” starting with a virgin mother, (many of whom were named Mary) and including the flight from “a slaughter of the innocents”. Interestingly, many of them were (supposedly) born on December 25th. Are they copying Christmas? Not by a long shot. Christianity is one of the most recent tellings of this ancient story.

Dr. Annie Bessant explains this unlikely coincidence in her book Esoteric Christianity.

“He is always born at the winter solstice, after the shortest day in the year, at the midnight of the 24th of December, when the sign Virgo is rising above the horizon; born as this sign is rising, he is born always of a virgin, and she remains a virgin after she has given birth to her Sun-Child, as the celestial Virgo remains unchanged and unsullied when the Sun comes forth from her in the heavens. Weak, feeble as an infant is He, born when the days are shortest and the nights are longest…” Alice A. Bailey, in her definitive work on the subject, From Bethlehem to Calvary, states, “At the time of the birth of Jesus, Sirius, the star in the East, was on the meridian line, Orion, called ‘The Three Kings’ by oriental astronomers, was in proximity; therefore the constellation Virgo, the Virgin, was rising in the east, and the line of the ecliptic, of the equator and of the horizon all met in that constellation.”

Hence, we celebrate the birth of the “light of the world” at the birthing of the light at the winter solstice, along with countless other celebrations in varied cultures… which constitutes an attack in the minds of some, even though some of the traditions such as the Yule Log cross over and many of the traditions are much older.

Does this sound far fetched? Why would a Pope care about hokey astrological signs when dealing with purely Christian issues? If we dig a bit into history we find some interesting facts. Did you ever wonder why Easter Sunday moves around every year? The date is set each year in accordance with rules set in the same council of Nicea anchored to the Vernal Equinox. As a matter of fact it was among the reasons for the reform of the Julian calendar into the Gregorian calendar in 1582. The older Julian was skewed and over time the date of the equinox had drifted 10 days, effecting the Easter celebration. The new calendar bearing the name of Pope Gregory XIII would “reset” Easter to the date established in Nicea in 325 AD and correspond with the solar or tropical calendar, the actual time it takes for the earth to complete its path around the sun. So, as you can see there is precedent for this kind of basis for the timing of a Christian celebration

So where are we now? We celebrate a definitive event in human history, the date of which cannot be fixed, at the same time that many other celebrations occur, for many of the same reasons. Insecurity alone can be the reason for thinking that the other celebrations are less important or somehow diminish the one that is most important to us. In my father’s One Solitary Life series, this information is given in much greater detail including over a dozen virgin born Sons of God. If we look together at what the teachings of the world have in common we may find even greater reason for our faith. If differing civilizations and cultures all over the world center around the same tenets without the possibility of a common language to have effectively bridged or communicated these aspects of faith, does that diminish the tenets of any?

On the contrary, I believe it is compelling evidence of the central truths.

So is there a war on Christmas? Maybe so, but the combatants may not be who they seem at first glance. Let’s celebrate our faith together and truly honor the teachings and life of the Lord of Compassion along with all of the other celebrations of light around the world.

One Solitary Life – The Christ Epoch… is here

Well, Its done. I just signed off the galley for the last book in the One Solitary Life series, authored by my father Anthony J. Fisichella. It took him 10 years to write and it took 4 years and 10 days after he passed for me to complete this for him. The work itself is not finished because it has become my own. I will be doing whatever I can to make people aware of these teachings for the rest of my life, and by no means will it be limited to my fathers teachings. He never laid claim to this as anything he created. We all simply create our interpretation of these kinds of teachings and if we are able to help people understand better by that interpretation it has value. I can say it had value for me but only you can decide whether it is valuable to you.

It will probably be two weeks or so before I hold it in my hands but the book is done. An idea fostered in my fathers mind and nurtured in his heart for over 40 years. The book that became a trilogy out of the necessity of clarity. This is what he set out to write, the story of Jesus as interpreted by an esoteric mind. The mind of a metaphysician focused on understanding the hidden meaning behind the greatest story ever told. Not great because it is about Jesus, or The Christ (a distinction you will understand after reading the book) but because it is about each and every one of us.

My father always maintained that the story in The New Testament is true, even if it was to be proven beyond a doubt that Jesus never lived. Think about that. Even if the central character is proven fictional the story in its symbolic interpretation is unchanged. That is one of the things that make scripture timeless.

Dr. Annie Bessant said in her book Esoteric Christianity (this is a paraphrase because now I can’t find it) “Christianity is an ocean into who’s shallows a child could wade, with depths that would drown a giant”. If the New Testament is really just a historical account, its not a very good one. it contradicts itself and skips around leaving huge holes. If its seen as the hero’s journey and something we can aspire to… If its really about you and I… If it is a single view of a universal truth which is told and retold throughout the religious teachings of the world… WOW

My dad spent his life teaching this. He did a presentation on this whole subject a couple of years before he died that we were lucky enough to have recorded. It was two hours long and covers much of what the One Solitary Life Trilogy is about. Its listed on Higher-Ground.com and there is a link below. If anyone would like a jump on things. Get the CDs and if you do it before the book is released I will send you book III for free.

http://www.higher-ground.com/audio_one_solitary_life.html

All Saints Day

We have just passed All Saints Day, or All Hallows Day, which means little to most people, even those who know it as the day after Halloween. It is a Holiday designated to honor all of the saints who don’t have their own day. It could be argued that the day was picked in order to combat the revelry of Halloween when it was still called Sawin (Samhain), a Gaelic holiday celebrating the coming of winter. It simply means November and marked the end of the harvest. Throughout the history of agricultural communities this was a scary time of year, because whether the harvest was good or bad you had what you were going to live on for the course of the winter.

Celebrations varied and especially in modern times many ghoulish movies and other Hollywood type treatments have changed what the Halloween festival has become, but that is not why I am writing. I like the fun of Halloween. You get to go a little crazy in ways that other holidays don’t offer. In a way its more fun than Christmas or New Years eve.

All Saints Day, on the other hand never meant anything to me until 4 years ago. That was the day my father, Anthony Fisichella passed away in the wee hours of the morning, literally on Halloween night. I found out about two years later, from Liz Sterling who was a very intimate friend of his and with whom I have grown very close, that he had always said, “If you want to die, do it on Halloween, it is the easiest time because the veil is the thinnest between the worlds”. I had never heard him say it personally, and it is little more than an interesting tidbit. I am not saying he predicted his demise but I had always thought of his death as voluntary.

He had a severe Anurism right at his heart and had undergone surgery, which he survived. The problem was that he was in there for more than twice the amount of time that they had presumed would be necessary. This meant that he could have had some very severe complications in his recovery. I believe that during that kind of anesthesia part of you is conscious anyway but detached from the body and there is anecdotal evidence for this which we have all heard. When he came back into this broken body he would not have been very happy about it and I think if he had a choice he would have moved on, but that is not why I’m writing either.

He left behind the unpublished series of three books, One Solitary Life, with his literal dying wish that we make sure they were published. It took about a year before I could really work on them because I would hear his voice in my head as I read. Its like he reads to me. At first it made it impossible to work on his stuff, but has since become a comfort. I am not implying anything supernatural here. I am sure any number of people reading perhaps a letter written by a  loved one would have the same experience. A close friend of dad’s told me the same thing when we finally got the first book out. This is why I am writing. Not only have the first two books been published, but we are on the verge of getting book III.

Along the way Dad’s work has become my work and we have released his Well of Wisdom series along with an audio lecture on the One Solitary Life Books. I have begun speaking and been transformed in ways I did not anticipate. I never thought I would be publishing books, but even as I committed to that I had no idea of the effect the teachings themselves would have on me. I joined the Theosophical Society and the Theosophical Order of Service as well as the Arcane School in New York. Most importantly, I am living my life differently, and with more success because of the things I’m learning. I want to spread this info far and wide and in a sense, three years later, I am just getting started.

So, while it won’t change All Saints Day for anyone else, I thought it was worth mentioning that even though it has taken 4 years to do, we are near the end of the task of finishing Dad’s work and I have already begun my own. It will be the moment of a lifetime when I hold “The Christ Epoch” in my hand. An idea that started in my fathers mind crystallized on the physical plane for the benefit of whatever portion of humanity stands ready for his message. A message that has already transformed his son.

Namaste

Doug

Spirituality and Religion

I haven’t written in a while, since my latest trip to Crestone and I wanted to touch base on a serious topic. Spirituality. It gets confused with religiousness and I really don’t think they mean the same thing to most people. I do think they mean the same to deeply religious people but not to deeply spiritual people, if that makes any sense.

Spirituality has a more open meaning to me. You can be spiritual and in touch with a higher sense of what you are without necessarily being a part of any organized religion or any of the usually associated practices such as prayer. You can be deeply spiritual without ever attending a religious ceremony or taking part in any form of worship. Worship always worries me because of the totally devotional connotation of the word. When you worship something or even worse someone, be they dead or alive you are diminishing your self in a way. “That (or he, or she) is greater than I”. I believe there is nothing greater than “I” except “we”. In the one case its just another “I” which you are revering in some way.

Since nothing has any intrinsic value, that other “I” is no greater or less than you. The fostering of group awareness is the key to spirituality. The group is greater than the sum of its parts, but only as it becomes aware of its power. Until then it is just another latent unexpressed potentiality. In the Crestone Videos (and especially the longer one which can be viewed on my site www.Higher-Ground.com you can see leaders in many different religious system alluding to this. Spirituality is a part of every system and greater than any one of them. Madame Blavatski said there is no religion greater than truth. This truth is at the core of all of them and no single religion has it all.

One could say the same thing about God, and man him (or her) self. We are all a part of the God Consciousness and it is an integral part (if not all) of each and every one of us. We are enveloped in the whole and an insufficient expression of its nature just as religion is enveloped in spirituality and fails through its self induced limitations to faithfully express the whole truth.

The Higher Ground Crestone Movie (full length)

OK,

This is the full length video I made on the Crestone trip. Its almost 40 minutes long but I believe you will find it interesting to watch. It has parts of the interviews with Lorraine Fox Davis of Rediscovery Four Corners and World Peace and Prayer Day, Connie and Susan at the Nada Hermitage – A Carmelite Monastery, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, who is the 19th Generation holder of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe and a spiritual leader of the tribes that make up the Sioux Nation, and Samiji, the spiritual Master of the Temple of Consciousness Ashram. There is also a piece with Matthew at the Shumei International Temple where he explains a bit about the area geographically as well as how it was created as a meeting ground  for all spiritual disciplines by Hanna Strong. There were other interviews with William and Barbara of Sanctuary House, Ram Loti of the Haidakandi Universal Ashram where we stayed and Dave Davis, a specialist in advanced structural integration. I didn’t get to videotape them but we have audio.

This was in the course of three days. It was all consuming and I have to say everyone we met was wonderful. Opening their temples and in some cases their homes to us. It was amazing. The video is in a chronological order for the trip. We swith Lorraine and ended with Swamiji. It is such a close knit community. I have to tell this little story. We were with Lorraine and she was talking about the elements of wind fire and water and Liz asked a question about the wind. As if to answer her itself the wind kicked up an incredible whirl where it had been silent before. It took us all by surprise.

The next day at the Shumei Institute we brought it up and they had already heard the story. This place is a microcosm of what the world can and (I believe) will be. All of these traditions acknowledge and love each other in one small place. Native American, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic, Japanese Shumei, and many we did not visit.

They are all getting along and better than that, thriving. It gave me new hope for mankind. You don’t get more devout than living in a Monastery or Ashram. If they can acknowledge the divinity in each others traditions why do we have to question it?

I hope you enjoy seeing this as much as I enjoyed making it.

Doug

 

Links

Liz Sterling Will have audio available with the entire interviws and a montage piece is planned as well.

www.AskLiz.com

Chief Arvol Looking Horse       http://www.rhythmsoftheglobe.com/mind/profiles_ChiefArvolLookingHorse.htm

The Nada Hermitage  http://www.spirituallifeinstitute.org/Nada.html

Haidakhandi Universal Ashram  http://www.babajiashram.org/hua/About_Ashram.html

Sanctuary House  http://www.sanctuaryhouse.org/

Shumei International Institute  http://www.shumeicrestone.org/

The Temple of Consciousness http://www.humanityinunity.org/HIU/Community/CrestoneAshram/index.cfm

An NPR Piece on the drilling  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17984537

More on the drilling  http://www.cozine.com/archive/cc2008/01700391.html

 Me    www.Higher-Ground.com

Crestone Video Short from Higher-Ground.com

Attached please find…

This is a short version of a (long awaited) video I made of a trip I took to Crestone, CO. Liz Sterling, a close friend, was supposed to come out to do some recording in my studio and compile some of her radio interviews. We began planning a side trip to Crestone because of an Ashram there run by a woman named Ramloti whom Liz had met at an event. The Crestone side trip grew until it took over the week Liz spent in Colorado. Between preparation and the studio work involved in editing the interviews when we got home it was the central focus rather than a side event.

We went with it and had a great trip. We stayed at the Ashram and Liz interviewed eight or nine of the spiritual leaders in the area. From Catholic Carmalite Nuns to a Native American Chief we got the same message. We are all the same, and we are all on the same journey. All religions lead to God, and Spirituality doesn’t have to be tied to a religion at all.

The other part of the story is that they are in a fight right now over the proposed drilling of exploratory wells for oil and natural gas on the Baca Wildlife Refuge. They sit on top of one of the largest aquifers in North America and had evidently won a fight over the water only to have it changed to oil drilling. The refuge is the issue but the mineral rights in the area don’t come along with land ownership. I don’t want to get too deep because I am not a reporter. Liz is digging and will have more on AskLiz.com

For this short version I didn’t leave much in the way of interviews. I just tried to let you get a taste of the trip. The other version will be up on Higher-Ground.com as soon as I can figure out how to post a 40 minute video. Youtube limits you to 11 min. 

Enjoy,

 Doug

Crestone and Spirituality

What a week!

Last Tuesday Liz Sterling, a close friend and a radio talk show host in South Florida, arrived in Colorado to do some recording in my studio and take a trip to Crestone to visit some of the 23 spiritual centers there. I had been anticipating the trip but it was way more than I expected. We stayed at the Haidakandi Ashram for three days and Liz did interviews with 9 of the spiritual leaders in the area. I will be posting pix and making a video out of the footage I shot there.

What a place! It is beautiful and there are such great people. We went from one brilliant mind to another over the course of the three days talking about spirituality with a diverse group that ranged from a Catholic Carmelite Monastery to a Japanese Shumei Temple and two Hindu Ashrams. We talked to people from “New Age” and Native American belief systems and they all know and love each other. What is really impressive is that they all had about the same things to say. They talked about unity and love and the fact that we are all headed to the same place no matter what “religious” system we relate to.

At the Ashram I got to play a hand drum during the morning Aarati chanting ceremony and participate in the Fire ceremony at the full moon as well. It was interesting to see how devoted and loving they were in their prayers. It is run by a wonderful woman named Ramloti and you can do the same and visit this Ashram if you like. I’ll get links up on the Higher-Ground site ASAP. They live completely off the grid using photocells to generate electricity and gravity fed stream water. They have a generator for emergencies or if the get a few sunless days in a row but rarely have to start it.

What we didn’t know until just before heading there is that they are in an epic battle to save the land from drilling by a Canadian company. They wanted to tap a huge underground aquifer and lost that fight, so now they are trying to drill for natural gas they don’t even know exists. I think it is a ploy to start work there and then take the water. The whole community is against it, but while they own their land they don’t own the mineral rights. Stay tuned for more on this as we put the information together.

 

Doug

Is God Masculine?

God or Spirit is “masculine” only in that it posits into matter, the “female” Deity. The result is Soul or consciousness. This is the trinity of creation Spirit, Soul and Matter or Will, Love and Active intelligence. The Buddhists call it Atma Buddhi and Manas. The Hebrew uses Kether, Chokma, and Binas. It all means the same thing. I am a hylozoist and believe that this consciousness permeates everything and represents God immanent.

In the case of the human soul. It is matter and does occupy space. Man is in gods image a trinity of Will Love and Active intelligence, this also manifests as Spirit Soul and Personality. The Ppirit is Lebniz’s monad and is in a sense a spark of the divine flame, Moses’ all consuming fire. An analogy that I liked was ice cubes in the ocean. Still a part of the ocean in every way, but crystallized into an illusory separateness. That could be said of the soul itself as well as the monad.

The monad manifests on the second cosmic etheric plane called Anupadaka. It appropriates matter on the next three planes of manifestation Atmic, Buddhic, and Manasic (Manasic is the plane of the mind and that will come back in a moment). It sheathes itself in this matter forming what is called the Causal Body. The Soul the recapitulates the same process over and over as it forms and uses the different vehicles or bodies for each incarnation. As man evolves and learns to contact this soul he gains in his awareness and access to the world “behind the veil”. He gains access to what the soul has access to. At the fourth initiation this causal body in which the monad has expressed through countless lives is then discarded as well and the spiritual man ascends. This is what was personified by Christ at the Crucifixion. In the orient it is called the great renunciation.

The fact that the soul and the human mind occupy sub panes of the manasic plane is the key. Through meditation we can build a bridge between the lower concrete mind and the upper abstract mind. Its called the anthakarana or Rainbow Bridge and connects in it lower portion the two mentioned and in its upper portion the abstract mind and the soul. When that communication is made we are sensitive to impress from what Patanjali called the “raincloud of knowable things” in his Raja Yoga Sutras. He calls it this because of the way ideas precipitate down through the upper planes into the mind, and then through the emotional or astral plane into the physical world. This is the basis for thought form building. You get an idea (you do not create it) you infuse it with desire, and if you want id enough you act and it becomes a physical reality.

Meditation is the key to the contact of the soul, and the soul has access to everything else. (God Transcendent). The mental plane is the meeting ground or overlap where spirit and matter meet, as the Human Being is the meeting ground on the physical plane where Highest God and lowest animal meet. Mary rides on an ass in the Bible story carrying within her the Christ Consciousness. Symbolically my soul rides upon a dying animal.