HUMAN BEINGS - HUMANITY
DD 0l ARCHANGELIC NAN (EP
148)
HEAVENLY MAN (EP 155)
BEING and EXISTING (EP 148)
SOUL, SELF-AWARE (EP 161)
SPIRIT-EGO-BEING (EP 162)
EP 32 On Being Human
Archangel within the Archangelic Orders.
Before their expression,
After passing through the
Idea of Archangelic Man, a ray of the Spirit then continues through the Idea of
Heavenly man to be shaped according to the law of the Human Idea. From that
moment it takes on its own separate radiance within Absolute Beingness. A small
ray of our Spirit-Ego-Being enters into a separate domain of Total Wisdom,
Total Power and Total Love as a Self-aware Soul. Now we have two foundations
for the Inner Self: the Holy Monadic Self within Absolute Beingness and its
emanation which passes through the Heavenly Man to be formed into the
Self-aware Soul. Here we see how our Holy Monadic Self takes on a separate
existence from that of the Archangels.
The Self-aware Soul which is
formed of Spirit, then begins to express Itself. As the Soul is of
incorruptible Spirit, it is Self-sufficient and Omniscient. All Souls are
equally luminous. The Soul can never be harmed or weakened in any way, so
"fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the s6ul"
(Matt.l0:28). It is the Soul which distinguishes humans from other Beings, for
Archangels have no need of a Soul as they each belong to a communal Order. It
is the Soul that harbours the Divine Individuation of each human
Spirit-Soul-Ego when we return to our Father. The Soul is the womb of Super
Self-consciousness.
EP 33 As the Spirit-Ego-Being gives birth to the
Self-aware Soul,
EP 38 We can imagine
the pure Spirit of humanity as a ray projected from the sun (Absolute
Beingness). This ray passes through the Idea of the Archangelic Man, continuing
on to the Human Idea. Now picture this ray approaching an open window. On one
side of the window we have the Self-aware Soul. As the ray passes through the
window the Permanent Personality is shaped, part of it remaining within the
Soul's home in the Eternal Now, and the other part expressing itself in the
worlds of separation. The ray continues beyond the window and hits the floor.
Here we have what we term our present-day personality. The floor, where the pattern
of Spirit Soul is laid, should be kept clean and swept.
EP 149 On entering the worlds of existence
(material, psychical and noetical), the Circle of Possibility of a human being
is inscribed on the Permanent Personality. No form can escape its Circle of
Possibility, thus ruling out transmigration from one form to another (humans
will always reincarnate as humans)
ET 14 It is through the Christ Logos and not with
our sight but
with our emotions - which are a
characteristic of the
psychic body - that we can begin to
understand. We feel the
Christ Logos with the heart, and our
beingness is wholly
attuned to Christ, while our minds are
aflame with longing
to become one with God. The longing for
attunement and at
one-ment with God is unspeakably pleasing
and delightful,
since the human-ego-personality feels
ashamed when it spends
its time in circumstances which constitute a
denial of God.
ET 22 Within Absolute Beingness we may also
distinguish Divine
Power, Divine Wisdom and Divine Love. It was
from exceedingly
great Love that God emanated
humanity and endowed it with
the possibility of developing Self-awareness
and Divine
understanding.
ET 22 With our studies, it is possible to be guided to reality,
to a sensitivity of God's Total Goodness and Total Love. Once this is
confirmed, the path is easier and - no longer as rough and unpleasant - but
straighter and smoother to tread.
ET 23 We have within us Total Power, Total Wisdom
and Total Love.
Absolute Beingness, the Christ Logos and the
Holy Spirit are
continuously within us, just as there is no
moment when we
are not within Absolute Beingness.
ET 27 It must be fully understood that the Christ
Logos does not
begin, It rules. The Christ Logos is
Absolute Beingness, of
which the expression in humans is
self-awareness, reason and
love.
Beingness - in quality, alike; in quantity,
certainly not.
The difference between us consists in the
way we interpret
the Nature of Absolute Beingness1 which
we, as Researchers,
will understand in quite a different way
from the under
standing of the majority of humanity.
ET 34 In the human body we have the head and the heart, which
expresses thought, reason and love --Christ Logos-- and the solar plexus, which
provides power and instinctive intelligence --Holy Spirit--.
ET 34 A human being is both Logoic and Holy
Spiritual and even
something beyond these appellations. It is a
Holy Monad
within Absolute Beingness, and there has
never existed any
period in which it was not. The Holy Monad
is of eternal
Nature and Condition of Absolute Beingness.
This fact, how
ever, is fully comprehensible only after
Theosis, when a
human being's centres for receiving
impressions are no
longer within the worlds of the phenomenon
of life.
ET 35 A human being, as an emanation of a Holy
Monad, is a most
valued expression of Absolute Beingness. As
a Being Spirit,
however, as It passes through the Human
Idea, which is a
part of the Divine Meditation, It begins to
express Itself
within the universes in a Logoic way as a
Self-aware Soul.
Subsequently, when it
descends to the lower vibratory pattern of supermatter and matter, in order to
live through the phenomenon of life, it becomes also a Holy Spiritual
expression. This means that the gross material body, and the higher bodies, are
Holy Spiritual expressions, through the medium of the Mind. The Holy Spirit
constructs, from substance and supersubstance the three bodies in a perfect
way, so as to reflect the Total Wisdom, Total Power and Total Love of God. The
Christ Logos uses the bodies to express Its own Self as, firstly, a self-aware
personality and, later, as a Self-aware Soul. We are all miniature Christ Logoi
and express ourselves within It. The Christ Logos is the light "which
lighteth every man that cometh into the world" (John 1:9), and the
universes resound in harmony with Its expression.
ET 36 So, in parallel with this
model, which is a significant
factor in the construction of the psychic
and the noetical
bodies, there is also the work of the Holy
Spirit and the
work of the Archangelic Man, who, apart from
the characteristics
which they bestow in common
upon the human race,
transfer faithfully every detail brought by
the permanent
personality, which the Permanent Atom has
impressed upon it.
The Holy Spirit, we might
say, creates in us a subconscious Self-awareness. We call this Self-awareness
"subconscious absolute Self-awareness", because the Holy Spirit works
within us in an impersonal way. When we use the term "Holy Spirit",
we intend this word to include Total Wisdom, Total Power and Total Love and to
express, in the fullest sense, the One and Only Indivisible God.
ET 37 The self-aware self-consciousness of
humanity, however, is
at different stages. It varies from total
ignorance, where
there is very little light as far as
knowledge is concerned,
right up to the limits of the Everlasting
Light, which we
call Self-Realization.
We, as human beings, possess
what we have called Holy Spiritual subconsciousness, which refines in our gross
material body, the psychic and noetical bodies and empowers them with Total
Wisdom. It is that part of Mind within our personality which we call the
subconscious mind. Each cell and atom of our gross material body also possesses
instinctual consciousness. And as we have said, the Holy Spirit, God, who is
everywhere present, works from the centre of each atom and cell, apparently
beneath Self-consciousness, but in reality in a super-conscious way. It is from
an infinite number of points that It simultaneously manifests Its creative
force. We have seen It as impersonal, though nevertheless omnipotent and
totally loving, working together with the Christ Logos, within the universes -
from the material to the mental and beyond - as provided for within the Divine
Plan.
That part of our self which
we call the present day or temporary personality and which is a centre for the
collection of understandings and impressions by means of the sense organs, has
been constructed by the Holy Spirit and is primarily a subconscious self. We
also, opening the concept to a wider meaning, call it the instinctive ego. It
does, however, form the centre of our Holy Spiritual life.
ET 38 The development of our self, at the various
stages of its
expression, from the shadows of ignorance
and the domination
of instinct to knowledge, wisdom and
Theosis, is nurtured
with the care of the Holy Spirit and the
Christ Logos,
within the universes and within our selves
too. This is the
phenomenon of life, which consists of
continuous change,
constantly giving new form to matter.
ET 39 CHAPTER FOUR "HUMANITY"
ET 39
Humanity
had been conceived within the Divine Meditation of
Absolute
Beingness and had been impressed upon the causal
and
noetic worlds of Ideas.
ET 39 All phenomena of life are created solely by
Its "word", with
the exception, that is, of humanity and the
other Beings.
Humanity is not created; it is emanated. God
Himself conceived
the material form of
humanity, from the clay modeled
with His own saliva. And He did not tell the
soulless shape
simply to live, He transfused it with breath
of His Breath
and life of His Life (Gen. 2:7). For this
reason humanity is
less a creation and more an offspring.
ET 40 It is one of the infinite Holy Monads which
are within Absolute
Beingness, as elements of Its Multiplicity,
and which
project and express themselves as a result
of Divine Will-
pleasure. For the Will-pleasure of God, is
our will-pleasure
as well.
ET 40 As a Holy Monad, the Self as a Spirit-Ego-Being,
humanity
differs little from the Archangels. It is
the Archangelic
Man. it projects itself, however, through
the Human Idea and
from that moment takes on its own separate
radiance within
Absolute Beingness. It enters into a
separate domain of
Total Wisdom, Total Power and Total Love as
a Self-aware
Soul.
ET 40 The Holy Monad (going through the Human
Idea) takes on
form --even though in reality what takes on
form is not the
Holy Monad itself, which remains unchanged,
but its
projection--. This projection is what we
call our permanent
personality and is our personality's Ego.
ET 41 This Ego has been projected in incarnations
by our Self-
aware Soul Self, into the worlds of
space-place-time. This
Ego, our permanent personality, is eternal
and made of
immortal
supersubstance.
The permanent personality,
descending into the worlds of experience, takes on its own colour and designs
its own projections. As long as it remains in the worlds of time and
space-place, it assumes many names, dons many temporary personalities and
expresses itself in many ways in these worlds.
ET 41 The permanent personality must record the
impressions and
experiences it has received in the
space-place-time worlds.
It designs, therefore, with matter-substance
of which it is
itself constructed as gross material,
psychic and noetical
body a centre. This centre is situated in
our etheric heart,
whose position in the bodies is exactly the
same as that of
our physical heart. We call this centre the
permanent atom.
ET 42 Later, when a human being passes over --"dies"--, the pre
sent day and the permanent personality
withdraw into the
psychic world and there study and evaluate
the various re
cords which have been made, and derive the
necessary judgements
and corrections. This is why
some have termed the
psychic world "the great halls of
learning". Subsequently,
after they have remained in the psychic
world long enough
to form the necessary balance, they withdraw
to the noetical
world, where they carry out corresponding
work and absorb
the required lessons, in order to be better
prepared for the
next incarnation.
ET 42 The Holy Monadic human ... is a Microcosm,
the image and
likeness of the Macrocosm, and expresses
itself within its
own Selfhood, within Absolute Beingness.
ET 43 Humanity as a Holy Monad is imperishable.
Both humanity and
the Archangels are emanations of Absolute
Beingness within
Itself.
ET 46 When a cycle of earthly life is complete,
the permanent
personality of a human being dissolves the
gross material
body and withdraws the permanent atom along
with the temporary
personality into the psychic
world. There, our
temporary personality, according to its
composition and
quality of the permanent
atom, will arrive at the corresponding
plane or sub-plane of the
psychic world.
In the psychic world, the
permanent personality, by means of the permanent atom, will begin to record
experiences, still wearing the mask of its last incarnation. our self, within
the psychic world, has a double existence, as permanent and present
personalities. ... It is our permanent personality
- our right thinking self -
which comforts our last temporary personality self, as it feels, even here,
pain and joy, according to its thoughts and behaviour while in the gross
material world.
There are indeed hells and
paradises --humanly constructed places of experience and valuable lessons--.
Our temporary personality --name, nationality, the totality of our desires,
thoughts and ambitions-- creates and experiences these environments, while our
permanent personality, along with our Guardian Archangel, observes and is
edified. We must remember though, that the permanent personality and our
Guardian Archangel are not apart from us looking down, but are within us all
along.
ET 47 (After death), when the permanent
personality has no further
experiences to collect in the psychic world
withdraws the
temporary personality into
the noetical world, to the relevant
plane or subplane of that
world.
ET 47 In the psychic world there are seven planes and forty-nine
sub-planes, as there
are also in the noetical.
From the noetical planes,
the present personality is moved into the noetic state, now having
dissolved the remaining discernable
body. The essentials of personality are now contained within the permanent
atom.
After having absorbed the
impressions from the noetic state, the temporary personality has fulfilled an
incarnation. For those whose experience throughout this process was traumatic
and sobering, they are allowed to withdraw and fall into a state of blissful
rest. Others are prepared to move on, without delay and begin a new cycle, a
new descent.
ET 47 During this period, to which all are
subject, the Lords of
Destiny, the Lords of Cause
and Effect, give to the permanent
personality of each human
being, even those in the
deepest hells, the noetical substance it needs,
which will
later be used by the personality and the
Archangels of
Creation, together with the Holy Spirit, to
build its new
noetical body.
Subsequently, it projects
again in the psychic world and waits in an expectant state till the Lords of
Destiny once again give it psychic substance, with which to build its psychic
body. After that the new temporary personality descends into the etheric double
of the gross material world and the Lords of Destiny, having in mind the
individual's karmic state, the Laws of Love, Compassion and Mercy, will give
the permanent personality the environment in which to incarnate its new
temporary personality.
ET 50 The Human Idea, like all the other Ideas,
is within the
Divine Meditation of Absolute Beingness. But
what is an
Idea? Surely it is something which a
Logos-Spirit is expressing
in the Eternal Now. Who decides which of the
Holy Monadic
Beings will pass through the
Human Idea? We ourselves,
of our own free will, decide and it is, at
this point, where
the absolute freedom of
humanity is established and authorized.
Hereafter we choose the way
in which we create our Self-
awareness, which is essential to our
eventual return to
Theosis.
ET 50 Humanity passes through the Archangelic
Idea, which is a
matrix containing the Human Idea. This
matrix is a creation
of Absolute Beingness, through which the
Holy Monadic Beings
can pass, in order to become, from that
instant, Self-aware
Souls. Our Self as a Spirit-Ego-Being before
it passed
through the Human Idea, was Self-aware Life.
It was not,
however, Self-awareness in space-place-time,
which is
something desirable to the Spirit. It was
within the All,
and although it was a Holy Monad, it could
not comprehend
itself as something separate from Absolute
Beingness. From
the moment that it passes through the Human
Idea it gains
Soul Self-awareness.
ET
51 We see Self-awareness at different stages.
We see it as
subconscious self-awareness, as conscious
self-awareness and
as super-conscious Self-awareness.
ET 51 Our Holy Monadic Self, as a whole, does not
enter into the
Human Idea, nor will it incarnate. Its ray,
nevertheless,
which descends into the worlds of experience
is qualitatively
the same as the eternal Holy
Monadic Spirit-Ego-Being.
Who has created the human form? Who has
formed the three
bodies, in such a complex way, to allow a
Being to live
there comfortably?
ET 52 The expression of the form as a phenomenon of life, is possible thanks to the Archangels of elements who construct and
help maintain each of our bodies. They,
together with the
permanent personality and the Guardian
Archangel, allow the
process of incarnations, of sowing a series
of temporary
personalities into the worlds of separation.
ET 52
Each new
temporary personality - no more than a mask worn by the permanent personality -
is the joint creation of the Guardian Archangel and the permanent personality.
The present day personality
is capable, thoughtful and desirous of projecting etheric energy in the
creation of elementals. Its appointed task, however, is to supply the permanent
personality with knowledge and experience and nothing more than that.
ET 54 But let us not underestimate ourselves,
when we live in the
gross material world as temporary
personalities and are
exposed to suffering and desire. We are Holy
Monadic Beings,
Spirit-Ego-Beings, integral parts of the
Absolute Beingness,
'1Sons of Man".
ET 61 In the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke
15:11-32) the
father gives the returning son a ring. This
ring is a symbol
for mastery of time and space, as a circle
with no beginning
nor end --eternity--. His brother --an
Archangel--, who
never left his father's side, complains that
he is offered
nothing in return for his obedience. Yet the
gift to the
Prodigal Son is well earned, for he has
toiled long and hard
~n the worlds of separation.
ET 62 For anyone to determine the nature of the
Archangels, the
angels or human beings within Absolute
Beingness, it is
essential to acquire the capability of total
attunement and
at-one-ment. It is necessary to go beyond
the nature of
human Self-awareness, which is focussed upon place-time
events, and to enter the reality of life, by achieving
super-conscious Self-awareness, which
extends into the
stages of ecstasy.
ET 75 Within these universes, the Logos and the
Holy Spirit will
become the Caretakers of Its Divine Will,
creating the
worlds, which we as Spirits, the Archangels1
the angels and
all other manifestations receive as perfect.
Also bestowed
on us is the authority to use the Mind in
all its states, in
order to play out our own cherishable roles
within Creation.
ET 82 The basic purpose of Creation is to serve
the Holy Monad and
not our temporary self, which is no more
than a shadow.
Furthermore, humanity having mastered the
material world has
all the necessary equipment to enter into
"the joy of our
Lord" (Neh.8:10). We can now express
ourselves in the space-
place-time worlds of gross material, psychic
and noetical
matter, as a small Logos. This cannot occur
until the Holy
Monadic projection has learnt its lessons in
the space-
place-time worlds. "He that is faithful
in that which is
least, is faithful also in much", says
the Most Holy Logos
(Luke 16:10). Thus the aim of our existence
is not to hoard
temporary things, which seem
to us as such desperate necessities
in our present lives --as
comfort, wealth and
entertainment- -, but the
cultivation of the continuing and permanent. It is Life
that is to be gained
and not the phenomenon
of life.
ET 82 Human beings should meditate continuously upon
these premises
and should ask for Divine
illumination, so as to establish
themselves eventually as
partners of the One Truth,
with its infinite beauty and endless
continuity.
ET 83 Christ offers us this most profound advice
(Mark 6:19-21):
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures
upon earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves
break through and
steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves do not
break through nor steal: For where your
treasure is, there
will your heart be also".
ET 89 Let us, then, look at these cycles (of
possibilities and
probabilities) in the case of humanity. Our
cycle of
possibility is: sperm, ova, conception,
birth, childhood,
adulthood, old age unto "death".
In this, only a part of
the human cycle of possibility is fulfilled,
since "death"
does not put an end to the
path of humanity, but only reveals the larger
scope of the cycle of possibility
belonging
to the human form: birth and
rebirth with an ever
expanding range of consciousness.
In the human form too, the
cycle of possibility is immutable. However, if the sperm is rejected and fails
to activate the cycle, that's it! There is nothing more. Such events, evident
only in the gross material world, stand as testimony to the work of the cycle
of probabilities, in interrupting a cycle of possibility in accordance with the
Divine Plan.
ET 89
In the psychic world - as
far as humanity is concerned - the
cycle of probabilities is absent. Whatever
has been set upon
its path will necessarily follow its
evolution in the
psychic world. The personality which is set
free when, for
example, an infant dies or a mother miscarries,
will continue
its life in the psychic
world, and if we could follow
it, we would see that the infant, who was
only three when he