Caution for the Adepts

The path of the Adept... the Magi is a path of many pitfalls and constraints.

Been noticing the 'powers' of my peers increasing of late. It might sound silly to some, but to others it is quite serious. Powers such as directing of winds, astral projections, directing elementals and energies are coming to their own. These 'powers' are spoken of in the pamphlet "Adepts Masters & Mahatmas" by Percival. The cautions that he mentions is the *desire* to manipulate these powers comes with the price of bringing down the Adept more and more into the physical material plane, and hence hampering their progression.

Where I don't agree with Percival (to a certain degree only) is that he mentions it is extremely hard for an Adept to reach Master-hood or the Mental Level and they get stuck for many reincarnation in the physical and the astral levels. There is still the way of the Mystic, the Monk.

The *Caution* here for the ones on the path of the Adept is that the law of 'do what thou wilt'... even the addition of 'hurt no one', is still a law of free desire. Not bad in and of itself for anyone who does not feel the calling to the path, but for those on the path, this can be extremely hindering, limiting, and sometimes detrimental to their path. There are many examples of this today, the likes of the Abraham Hicks movement of getting whatever you desire. Yes, it is possible and it works, but one is only going deeper into desire and material. Using the new Astral body not for progression, but to fulfill desires on the physical plane.

There is a way for the Adept to progress like the days of old. It is not an easy way, but a way non-the-less. It is the way of the Monk. The early Adepts, the ones who had the path to spiritual progression from physical to astral to mental worlds and beyond, had to extremely restrain their own desires. They had to make moral and monistic laws and rules in order to keep their desires at bay while acting within the moral boundaries, all of this and at the same time working on their astral bodies. This way has worked in the past, but it is a lot less utilized in this day and age.

Just thought I'd share...

in Love,

a +brother.

vision

As above so below, as within so without, as before so once again.
I.N.R.I
Intra Nobis Regnum Iehova
(The Kingdom of God is within us)

... THE FALL

I broke... and with me, so did the ground of my Psyche.
With the ground of my Psyche breaking, so broke the construct, the
edifice of my reality.

I broke and fell backwards within myself as did the bits and pieces of
the edifice of my reality.
Panicking, I tried to grasp at the ruins, the bits and pieces of my edifice.
But they only turned to dust and disappeared.

As I fell I saw the light of my reality dimming and then it was gone.
I was falling in the abyss!
Darkness all around me.
Despair, fear, struggle!
Time was lost.

... TURN AROUND

Time was lost, I gave up the despair, let go of the fear, and stopped
the struggle.
I was still falling.
Realized: where am I falling to?
Turned around to look.
Realized I was never falling at all.
I was being pulled UP!
Up through the Planes of manifestation.
Up to the source.
Up to the divine essence.

... THE TOUCH

I was a man dying of thirst floating in a sea of fresh water.
Unlimited energy to regenerate.
I reached out and the divine reached in.
It was always there, right behind me.
I felt it permeate through every particle of my being and surrounded me.

... THE RETURN

I felt the permeation, the touch.
I was sent down through the Planes of manifestation.
The touch started to crystallize into Knowledge of its essence.
Down through the Planes.
The knowledge crystallize into understanding of the essence.
Down through the Planes.
The understanding crystallize into authority to direct the essence.
I was given the Scepter!

...but 'I' will not direct. 'I' will not control. 'I' have no use of
this power.

Its a mutual understanding!

As above so below, as within so without, as before so once again.
V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem
(Visit the interior of the earth and rectifying will find the hidden stone).

May you all realize that you too hold the Scepter!

~ a +brother
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam
(Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Thy name be given glory).

Spirit behind forms...

Ideals to ideas to thoughts to words to action, form, events is the way of above to below.

Retrace actions, forms, events back to words inside your mind.

Turn the words back into thoughts.

Follow the thoughts to the ideas behind them.

Trace the ideas back to the Universal Ideals that spawned them.

In this way one may:

..."It ascends from the earth to the heaven again it descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior."~ Emerald Tablet of Hermes.

in Love to Light to Life,

a +brother

Order of the Temple part II

‎... There are the paths to the 'holy land', the Sacred Temple within you. These paths are rough and rugged roads. The closer one gets to the 'holy land', the more one is assaulted by the ones whose job is to divert, and to seduce by any means necessary. This, in the big scheme of things is to test the purity, will, and intent of the pilgrim upon the path. Do not be disheartened as there are ones who have taken on the mission to protect the pilgrims on the path to the 'holy land'. The end, never justifies the means!

Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomini Tuo da gloriam~

~Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy Name be given glory ~ Psalm 115

a +brother

Merging of the four worlds

We are Multilevel beings. At any given moment, which is all moments, we function on all levels of Reality. We interact and transform on all levels of Reality simultaneously. Sometimes we get hints at the different levels that we are already in but not fully conscious of... like visions of the astral, Ideals of the Mental world, and Noetic intuitions of the Noetic realms... even some rare moments of *Union*. What we do here, changes all the worlds.

With that said, I suppose the goal would be to become conscious in all the worlds simultaneously!

To become fully Awake!

in Love, Light, and Life,

a +brother

Progression of Humanity

Everything... all 'good' or 'bad'... the ebb and flow of Life, and the whole world of duality is the cause to effect the *progression* of humanity into transformation from 'sensual man' to 'spiritual man'.

'Thy Will be done',

a +brother

On Government

No matter what one's political views are, the closest form of government to the natural order of things is a Democratic and representative Republic.

Look at the body, with all its cells functioning in unity. When a person makes a decision, does s/he defer to the cells to vote in order to act?

The cells (people) seem to really function at the behest of the brain (Judicial branch) and the heart (Congress with its finger to the pulse of the people (cells)), leading to the personality (Executive branch) to make the decision to Act.

A Democratic Representative Republic does just that.

One may say that the cells never elected the brain, heart, and the personality... With further contemplation one might ask... didn't they?

The warnings are the same...

If the brain takes over, the law is followed too literally, and the cells follow a very legalistic, harsh, and sterile leader... a world of dogmatic science!

If the heart takes over, the emotions run amok and the cells follow a overly protective, unstable, and emotional leader... a world of dogmatic religion!

If the personality takes over, then the cells follow a selfish, egotistical, and maniacal leader... a world of despotism!

It is only with these three opposing forces functioning in balance with one another, that the cells, and therefore man, can both function in Unity and still be a Sovereign!

... and so a Democratic and representative Republic echoes the Natural Hierarchy!

As below, so above.

in LL&L,

a +brother.