Today is Easter Monday - Known as “Bright Monday” the first of what is called “Renewal Week” among the Eastern Orthodox. In the West it is the second day of the 3-fold Festival of Easter-Tide, leading us thru the 40 days from the death & Resurrection to The Ascension – then 10 more days of preparing the communal vessel to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit, at 50 days after Easter – when we reach the pinnacle of Pentecost, or Whitsunday - when the Healing Wisdom of the Sophia sparks the Trinity into a wholeness within the human being so we can fulfill our destiny here on Earth. This Easter-Tide journey is abounding with soul-stirring, Spirit engendering, sustenance.
Today on this Bright Monday I close the topic of ‘Encountering the Inner Layers of the Earth as a Christian/Rosicrucian Initiation, in relation to the Beatitudes and the 9-fold human being’ - before heading off to meet my Rosicrucian colleagues to put these mysteries into a ritual working in the Mysteria Mystica Americana Lodge, & to prepare for our Eclipse Convergence in the Heart of Totality in Dallas Texas. Then I’m off to Camphill Kimberton to fulfill the Mission Statement of AAP Psychology: "Re-membering Psychology through Relational Anthropos-Sophia."
When we move from the unfolding of the 7-fold human being seen in the Christian Initiation, into an exploration of human 9-foldness, I connect the next higher stages with: #8 = The Ascension - For 40 days after the Resurrection, the apostles received from the Risen Christ his esoteric teachings. When the Christ returned ‘to sit at the right hand of the Father’ at the Ascension, He became the bridge between the above and below; opening the way for humanity to become the 10th hierarchy. Since the 20th century, The Christ can be experienced in the etheric body of the Earth…& because of the Ascension, the human soul can begin to come into contact with the cosmic sphere where Christ derived the forces for His Resurrection Body - The macrocosmic sphere of the Father, where the Atma, or future ‘Spirit-human’, is derived. Also at this high stage of initiation the disciple can begin to know the Christ Being, as the Lord of Karma.
As to the 8th & 9th Beatitudes, Spiritual Science brings us back to Occult science. What the Christ-Impulse brings, enters into the whole evolution of humanity - but it doesn’t enter all at once, it comes in such a way that something still remains from the earlier stages of evolution. So its necessary that those who understand the Christ-Impulse should stand firm. If they are inwardly permeated by the force that proceeds from the Christ-seed, & stand firm on that foundation, they will be able to develop the force of steadfastness illustrated in the 8th Beatitude which corresponds to the Life-Spirit:
The 8th layer of the inner earth is in opposition to the Life-Spirit. It is called The Splinterer or Fragmenter. In the Pythagorean School it was called ‘Sphere of Numbers”. The occult schools refer to it as the Shatterer.
If humanity succeeds in progressively ridding itself of the immorality of trying to dictate or impose their will onto others, but instead replaces it with the love & compassion of allowing free will, this zone will calm down. This will in turn influence the attitudes of all human beings. In the 8th stage of Initiation We must all work together in harmony in order to overcome this disruptive force. That is why this layer was laid into the earth, so that human beings can wotk to develop harmony, like a protective sheath for themselves within the group. All the work we do with our study & in the Festival life to build community, make us worthy to truly work together as Michaelites. The Ascension is the seed of the Second Coming, and the Second Coming is the fulfillment of the Ascension. This builds the sacred space for the mystery of the Sophia.
The 9th Stage - I am connecting to: Whitsun or Pentecost, Uniting with The Sophia - The Isis or Wisdom of Christ. The Cosmic Being of the Sophia belongs to the Highest Heavenly realms. In relation to the earth, we can see this Divine Being connected to the sphere of the Sun as a star. Her highest member connected with humanity is at the level of The Spirits of Wisdom, her lowest member is the being of Anthroposophia. In the past Lucifer had slain her, the task of the initiate is to re-member her, bringing Wisdom into the purified soul of humanity. In our time the Being of Anthroposophia working as the youngest member of the Cosmic Sophia is responsible for the path that leads to free thinking, loosened from the physical brain in anticipation of the age of the ‘Spirit-human’. She is therefore leading humanity in the modern path of initiation, with the help of the cosmic intelligence of Michael, to unite us with the Love of Christ, which has been made available to human beings through the work of Christian Rosenkreutz & Rudolf Steiner. In the highest stage of ‘Spirit-human’, the purified physical body - receives the substance of Atma & is able to truly live within its ideals.
The 9th layer is in opposition to our achievement of ‘Spirit-human’. Steiner called it “the last carapace of the Earth‘s immaterial Core,” & spoke of a relationship between this realm and the functions of the human brain and the forces of human and animal reproduction. The spirit of the planet lives here; what Steiner called the ‘Earth Brain’ in his Mystery Dramas. But here too lurks the sun-demon, the being of the anti-Christ, Sorath.
When Christ, the “I” bringer, penetrated this primal point, redeeming the lost souls of the dead, the Resurrection took place, 1st at the gates of hell. With the Resurrection at dawn on Easter Sunday, what was preserved at the earth’s core from the Saturn condition, the archetype of the physical body, was renewed, & from the grave of the earth rose the ‘New Adam’ – the Resurrection body of Christ, which waits to be drawn towards humanity for “The New Jerusalem”. To this Sorath, the “I” destroyer, and his minions the Asuras, work to oppose. The substance of this 9th realm is black magic sowing hate, discord & separation. Only the might of spiritualized love held by the most sublime initiate can transform all that is physical, even the body of the earth herself.
This is Spirit-human in the making.
I bring the 9 into completion naming a 10th stage: The ‘New Jerusalem’ = the Earth as a Sun. Shambhalla. It is for this that we strive. ~hag
To be meditated everyday at 10:10 am/pm For Thinking: “When I think light, My soul shines, When my soul shines, The Earth is a star. When the earth is a Star, I am, a true human being”. I am a true human being. The Earth is a star. My soul shines. I think light. For Feeling: When I feel warmth, My heart sings. When my heart sings, the Earth resounds. When the Earth resounds, I am a true I AM. I am a true I am. The Earth resounds. My heart sings. I feel warmth. For Willing: When I will life, My hands help. When my hands help, The Earth heals. When the Earth heals, I am a free human being. I am a free human being. The Earth heals. My hands help. I will
See you there ~hag
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Monday, 1 April 2024
Bright Monday
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