Our Atlantean ancestors

A distant civilization, millions of years ago, evokes an inexplicable sense of remembrance for many people. Much of what we experience today is a re-telling of the story of Atlantis. 

Today I want to share the interesting connection between the abilities of the Atlanteans, and what is supposed to emerge as a new human faculty in the present and near-future. 

All the souls that are present today had already been incarnated in Atlantis

Some ruins of Atlantis are said to be at the floor of the Atlantic Ocean

Free will in light of the Fall of Man

The story of the Fall of Man from Paradise is relevant to humanity's complicated existence today. Over the course of millions of years of human evolution, from the time of ancient Lemuria, man became independent of the divine spiritual powers that once guided him, symbolized by Lucifer's temptation of Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

See: Fall and redemption - original sin and grace

We see that human consciousness posits a fall of man at the beginning of the historical development of mankind on earth. He would have been incapable of falling into sin if he had remained in his old state, in a state of instinctive guidance by divine spiritual powers. 

...Whereas he would then have remained sinless, incapable of sinning, like a mere creature of nature, he now became capable of sinning through this independence from the divine spiritual powers.  

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

This was a necessary part of the Divine Plan. If we had always remained perfectly wise and moral, we would have never become free. We would always know how to act, and there would never be a deliberation of choice between two options. 

If we did not have this possibility of choosing, we would still be unconscious in Paradise, among "little angels with pink gowns playing lyres, what a boredom!"...Thus, Evil was a necessity!

As Mephistopheles answers to Faust, when asked who he was: "I am a part of that force who always craves for evil but always ends up doing good".  

Building with the atom: the new masonry. The frontier of spiritual knowledge in the modern age. Collected quotes by Steiner.

What is the atom? 

The atom of physics is nothing else but frozen electricity...It stands in the same relationship to electricity as ice does to water out of which it has been frozen. The physical atom is condensed electricity.

The developments in electricity in recent centuries heralds a new era in which human knowledge of the atom will be used for spiritual purposes. 

New electrical theory...is something of enormous importance...[it] hints at the critical turning point in the development of man's thinking...Before the end of the fifth epoch of culture, science will have reached the stage where man will be able to penetrate into the atom itself. 

It is true that only now...human thinking has turned to tracing natural forces as far as the atom, and indeed, he who would understand this precisely must follow the latest phase of the various developments in electricity.  

Thinking...must be carried right into the atom. When man has learned to think right into the mineral atom, when he has an understanding of how to make use of what lives in the atom and place it in the service of the whole. 

Clairvoyance: a vision of our destiny

In continuation of my other posts: Memory and etheric vision and Destiny and the Christ.

In the Daoist parable of the horse, one fortune leads to misfortune which leads to another fortune. Because of life's infinite complexity, we cannot identify the chain of effects that originate from a course of action from rational thought alone. From there, we can begin to understand the nature of etheric vision.  

The butterfly effect. One action can have many unintended consequences

We must have a way of estimating future conditions by a form of thinking that is not sense-bound nor linear. This highly developed form of foresight will be our faculty of etheric vision. Also known as clairvoyance, which stands for "clear vision". 

Etheric vision is distinct from atavistic (old) clairvoyance or mediumship, which does not arise from intellectual or moral development on the part of one's volition. 

Memory and etheric vision

Memory is usually thought of as information stored in the physical brain. Consider this: when we are remembering something, it means that it is not immediately present. The moment has already passed, but it stays with us in our soul. 

The physical senses are not responding to anything in front of it, but subtler senses coming from the etheric body are making us aware of something that has passed. From that aspect, the etheric body acts as a bridge between the physical and non-physical realm, the body and the soul. It is part of what is known as the human aura. 

The Christianity of spiritual science

Notes and minor additions on The Nature of the Virgin Sophia and of the Holy Spirit

At the present time the idea is all too prevalent that everything religious is identical with all that is primitive and simple. People say: We acknowledge that Science possesses many and complicated ideas, but we do not grant the same to Faith and Religion. Faith and Religion—so say many “Christians”—must be simple and naive! They demand this. 

And many rely upon a conception which is little quoted perhaps, but which in the present is haunting the minds of men and which Voltaire, one of the great teachers of materialism, has expressed in the words: “Whoever wishes to be a prophet must find believers, for what he asserts must be believed, and only what is simple, what is always repeated in its simplicity, that alone finds believers.”

The Christ

The Great Cosmic Being, second Person of the Godhead. Descended to earth from the Sun, the sphere of the Elohim. Descended from even greater Cosmic Heights, the central Spiritual Sun and the Sirius Star.

See: Alice Bailey: Esoteric Astrology, the Creative Hierarchies

Referred to as Yahve when He worked from the Lunar sphere in Old Testament times. Known to Zarathustra as Ahura Mazdao. 

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirt

Glamours of the shadow functions: the descent into the Underworld

These are my nighttime musings, to be taken with a grain of salt.

My personal experience and observations coming upon the shadow functions...given one has mastered their 4 main conscious functions, especially the third and fourth, that is their doorway into the subconscious...

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. ― C.G. Jung 

Briefly stated, the shadow functions are not consciously expressed and often the seat of our pain, confusion, and failures in life. I believe everyone in their spiritual journey must confront the shadow, just as the initiates of the ancient Mystery Schools descended into the Underworld. 

Blindfolded in the dark, one has only God to guide him through. But he cannot stay in the Underworld forever, he must come up eventually. Ultimately he stays true to himself (the primary 4 functions.)