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ABSOLUTE BEINGNESS, ABSOLUTE INFINITE BEINGNESS, GOD, THE FATHER, ALLAHA
What we know of God we see in reflection as witnessed both externally and
internally. Absolute Beingness is, above all, the Divine Common Selfhood, as
Beings within the One Being. Love, Light and Life belong to the primary
Nature of Absolute Beingness as Total Love, Total Wisdom and Almightiness.
The Love of God is universal, ceaseless, and unconditional. It is the Love
of God, expressed as Grace, which lies at the core of Creation. The Light is
pure, luminous Super Self-consciousness. Everlasting Life is the eternal
motion, generation and regeneration of Its expression. Other characteristics
of Absolute Beingness, in Its Omnipresence, include Multiplicity,
Self-sufficiency and the Will-pleasure to express Itself in Itself as
Creation. Absolute Beingness manifests Itself as the Logos and the Holy
Spirit, 'and these three are one' (1 John 5:7).
ABSOLUTE BE-NESS
That aspect of God which lies beyond the reach of human and Archangelic
comprehension. The ultimate Source, the fathomless and inarticulate depths
of the Divine that are beyond expression, for 'no man hath seen God at any
time' (1 John 4:12).
The Archangels are logoic and Holy Spiritual Beings, who build, govern over,
and project themselves into the universes. Within Absolute Beingness are
Orders of Archangels, Holy Monadic Beings, each Order containing myriad upon
myriad of Beings of the same kind. We know of the existence of twelve
Archangelic Orders: Thrones, Authorities, Dominions, Principalities,
Overlords, Seraphims and Cherubims together with others, named and unnamed.
They possess Total Wisdom, Love, Power and Absolute Self-awareness. Angels
are elementals of the Archangels.
Archangelic Man is an archetype. A Holy Monadic emanation, on its way to the
Idea of Heavenly Man, passes through the Idea of Archangelic Man. For this
reason human beings are brothers to the Archangels.
The Super Self-conscious state in which a being is able to merge itself in
complete unity with any other being or existence, and with Absolute
Beingness in Theosis, without ever abandoning its Self-conscious Ego.
Adjusting our vibrations to the frequency of any other existence or being,
to the extent that we can observe and study its nature. Attunement is
reached prior to at-one-ment.
Being is our Divine Nature, boundless and eternal. Existing, as the
expression of Being, requires time-place-space conditions. Existing has a
beginning and an end and is thus a temporal phenomenon.
Above the noetic state, the causal states are non-dual conditions of pure
Love, Causes, Ideas and Principles, cared for by the higher echelons of the
Archangelic Orders. They are also known as the fifth heaven and above.
CAUSE AND EFFECT, LAW OF
The Law of Cause and Effect is recognized by scientists as well as mystics.
This Divine Law of growth, harmony and balance, requires action to result in
reaction. Every deed, thought and emotion has a consequence, either
favourable or detrimental. Karma, a term from the East, is the accumulation
of the 'effects'. Not limited to the gross material plane, this
instructional Law can operate over several lifetimes as well as within much
shorter periods.
The Will-pleasure of Absolute Be-ness is the primal Cause. It is the Cause
of Creation. From within the Will-pleasure of Absolute Be-ness all
subordinate causes spring. Causes then give rise to archetypal Ideas.
Archangels work through the Ideas and apply Total Wisdom to each form. Every
Idea holds within it the whole Circle of Possibility and Probabilities of
the form to be manifested. Principles govern the expression of causes in
time-, place and space.
Each form contains a Principle known as the Circle of Possibility. A full
embodiment of Total Wisdom, this Principle delineates all the expressions of
each phenomenon of life. All forms are continually developing: from seed to
tree, from child to adult. Life requires change, movement, so that
experience may be gathered from the many perspectives of a Circle. Each form
changes in appearance, though never in nature. In the Eternal Now a form is
complete, with its Circle of Possibility already established. 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).
While the Circle of Possibility is the ideal development and is inescapable,
the Principle of the Circle of Probabilities allows for the halting of a
developing life at any point in its expression in a given plane. A seed may
not grow, a young tree may become diseased and die, or a child may pass-over
(to continue in another dimension). Within each Circle of Possibility we
find millions of probabilities.
As present-day personalities we may come into conflict with one another and
the gulf between us may seem great, but in our common logoic consciousness
we are unified and indivisible. This is what Joshua Emmanuel the Christ
taught when He said, 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of
these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matt. 25:40). This is the
Common Selfhood. In other places Joshua speaks of this: 'Ye shall know that
I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you' (John 14:20) and 'I am the
vine, ye are the branches' (John 15:5). That we all share an equal place in
Christ is one of the most profound and greatest truths.
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, COSMIC MEMORY
In the Cosmic Consciousness every event, past and present, in all the
universes, is recorded and preserved. The Cosmic Consciousness is
constructed of Mind by means of living elementals in the eternal now.
Contained within the Cosmic Consciousness is the Cosmic Memory (Sanskrit:
Akashic record). This is the 'heavenly archive' where impressions, actions,
thoughts, emotions and desires are chronicled. By attuning himself to the
Cosmic Consciousness a mystic can - within the limits of his own development
- study and know the Cosmic Memory .
Manifestation of Absolute Beingness in Itself as the universes, from the
highest heavens to the worlds of existence, in accordance with Its Divine
Plan.
The basic structure of the Divine Plan, governing all worlds and universes,
and corresponding to our higher nature. Epitomizing Reason and Love
manifested, it is our recognition of, and alignment with, these Laws (e.g.
of Cause and Effect, of Harmony, of Order, of Growth and of Love) which lead
to enhanced spiritual development.
Divine Meditation, for lack of a better term, is believed to be the state
prior to the Will-pleasure where Absolute Be-ness contemplates expressing
Itself within Itself.
A little understood, but most compassionate force in Creation, Divine Mercy
permits the miraculous, the seeming exception to the Law of Cause and
Effect, to take place. James, in his epistle, wrote, 'and mercy rejoiceth
against judgement' (3:13).
The blueprint of Creation, perfect and complete, accounting for everything
and for all occurrences. Attuning our thoughts and actions to the most wise
Divine Plan of Absolute Beingness is the purpose of our existence.
Entering the Kingdom of Heavens through expansion, attunement and
at-one-ment. Ecstasy is of the heart as it implies a passing beyond all
conceptual thinking.
Our use of these terms is not to be confused with contemporary psychological
terminology. Egoism misuses Mind through the construction of selfish
desires, through base emotions, greed, malice and envy. The Ego (with a
capital E) is the Self as Beingness, our Self-aware Soul nature, and is
reflected through a reasoning and loving personality. While egoism (the sum
total of unbridled elementals) is the source of dis-ease throughout the
personality, the nation and the world, our Ego nature brings forth love,
compassion, reasoned thinking and reasoned action.
Every thought, emotion and desire creates and transmits an elemental - also
called thought-form - that carries on an existence of its own. We create and
regenerate two types of elementals. When negative emotion previals over
thought, we have created emotional thought-forms, or desire-thoughts. When
our ideas, desires and emotions pass through reason and love, we create
reasoned thought-forms, or thought-desires. An elemental can never be
destroyed, only dis-energized (when no longer fed with etheric vitality).
Elementals of a kind collect to form powerful group elementals. If an
individual, or a collection of individuals, are vibrating at the same
frequency, they will attract such group elementals. Archangels also create
elementals (e.g. nature spirits and angels) in the service of the Divine
Plan.
ETERNAL NOW, ETERNAL PRESENT
Time and place are concepts resulting from, and sustained by, impressions
generated in the worlds of separation. Consequently the concepts and the
experience vary according to your location within the universes. The worlds
of existence are contained within the higher, causal heavens, of the Eternal
Now. Any experience we have in the worlds of existence is but a slice from
the larger whole, the state of Everlasting Life, where past, present and
future collapse into the Eternal Now.
Within etheric doubles etheric vitality breaks down into four conditions of
ether: creative, sensate, imprint and kinetic. Creative ether constructs and
maintains the phenomena of life. Imprint ether is used to shape etheric
vitality. Sensate ether is the 'feeling giving' ether, and kinetic ether
facilitates motion.
ETHERIC VITALITY, MIND VITALITY
'Our daily bread', etheric vitality (Mind at a certain frequency) is
obtained from the sun, breathing, meditation, food and rest. We swim in a
sea of etheric vitality which surrounds and permeates the globe, yet,
through disharmonious lifestyles, most of us exhaust our portion of etheric
vitality and are unable to restore it. Everything in existence, including
our bodies, is constructed within a mould of Mind vitality (i.e. the etheric
doubles).
ETHERIC CENTRES, SACRED DISCS
Centres of energy and activity (Sanskrit: chakras) located at various points
on the etheric doubles of our bodies. Each of the three bodies, from the
gross material to the more refined, displays these centres, which correspond
to organs of the material body. These centres act as gates and storehouses
for elementals.
Each body of everything in existence, from the simplest to the most complex
structures, possesses an etheric double centred within the body and
extending slightly beyond it. The etheric doubles, both perfect and
incorruptible, serve as the moulds for a body's construction and in the
preservation of a body's health.Within etheric doubles ether is accumulated
and distri-buted to various parts of the body. The etheric double exists as
long as the body (whether material, psychical or noetical) is projected.
When a body dies (passes-over), its etheric double dissolves.
A Greek word equivalent to the English expression 'out of body'. We know of
a first (from the material body), a second (from the psychical body) and a
third (from the noetical body) exosomatosis. We all leave our bodies each
night, during sleep, and travel to other planes subconsciously. The aim,
however, is to live self-consciously while out of our bodies.
Not only an individual or theoretical belief in the dogmatic truths of a
religion, but an all-embracing relationship, a recognition of, and love for,
Absolute Beingness. As such it involves the transformation of our
personality, whereby we are taken up into the whole theanthropic activity of
God in Christ and of man in Christ through which we realize our Theosis.
Faith, above all, is an active virtue: 'Faith without works is dead ...'
(James 3:26).
Anything, in order to exist, is created according to an everlasting Divine
form. There are billions of forms reflected in the worlds of existence. Each
form possesses a unique Circle of Possibility, established in Total Wisdom,
that demarcates its expression in the worlds of separation. The Archangels
work through the forms to create and sustain the phenomena of life.
At the point of our first incarnation, having passed through the Human Idea,
each of us is protected and guided by a Guardian Archangel. Throughout our
long sojourn in the worlds of separation, our Archangel helps our Permanent
Personality plan and experience each incarnation - all our valuable lessons
- though never tampering with our free will. Our most faithful companion,
this Archangel (with whom we are egofied), is from the Order of the Thrones.
GROSS MATERIAL WORLD, BODY
The lowest vibration of Mind. Mind made solid to compose the
three--dimensional gross material world and body.
Also called the Idea of Man or the Human Idea. Our bodies are constructed
according to the Causal Law of the heavenly human form.
Not simply the physical organ but the spiritual centre of mankind's being.
Man made in the 'image and the likeness' (cf. Gen. 1:26) of Absolute
Beingness as Reason and Love, our truest Self, our inner sanctum, through
which the mystery and union between the Divine and the mundane is
consummated. 'Heart' has thus an all-embracing significance. Prayer of the
heart means prayer not just in the emotions and affections, but of the whole
person. We should strive to purify our hearts for 'God knoweth your hearts,'
writes Luke (16:15).
HOLY MONAD, HOLY MONADIC SELF
Our real identity as Spirit-Ego-Beings. A Holy Monad might be thought of as
one of countless myriads of 'cells' within the Multiplicity and
Self-sufficiency of Absolute Beingness.
Impersonal Super-consciousness that expresses the Ominpotence of Absolute
Beingness and makes possible the creation and preservation of the universes.
The dynamic aspect of Absolute Beingness as Total Wisdom and Almightiness.
We experience the Holy Spirit as universal Wisdom and healing force.
see HEAVENLY MAN and FORMS
see CAUSES, IDEAS and PRINCIPLES
The Personality as a unified Divine Being. Selfhood encompasses all the
expressions of the Self from Its apex as the Holy Monadic Spirit-Ego-Being
filtered down to the petty present- day personality. Within the Selfhood not
a single expression is devalued; each is cherished in its own right. Our
Spirit-Ego-Being partakes in the Will-pleasure of Absolute Beingness (to
express Itself in Itself) by expressing Itself within Its own Selfhood.
A term indicating the Self in Its expression as the Permanent Personality.
An inner exploration to trace the sources of our emotional and noetical
behaviour with the resolve to self-consciously structure our personality and
its subconscious. The determination to free the self of the limitations of
egoism, by releasing 'your conscience from dead works' (Hebr. 9:14), is
moving towards the wise and loving voice of the Soul. Daily introspection,
also termed 'looking within', is the process of self-examination, of
'knowing thyself'. This is the core practice of every Researcher of Truth
and all those interested in Self-Realization.
God's 'only begotten Son' (John 3:16). Joshua is a direct and pure Ray of
the Logos incarnated, by immaculate conception, in Palestine twenty
centuries ago as the 'Son of man' (Matt. 18:11). His Divine Teachings, as
preserved in the New Testament, are cherished in our work as universal and
timeless, offering indispensable guidance in the exaltation of
consciousness.
LOGOS, CHRIST LOGOS
The Logos, the Divine Common Selfhood, is Absolute Beingness manifested as
Super Self-consciousness. Logos has been translated from the Greek to mean
'Word' and 'In the beginning [authority*] was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God' (John 1:1). The Logos is 'the real light
which enlightens every man ... coming into the world' (John 1:9). Joshua
Emmanuel speaks as the Logos when he says, 'I am the Son of God' (Matt.
27:43), and as Joshua when He speaks as the 'Son of man' (Matt. 18:11).
The inner reaches of introspection become the outer reaches of meditation,
as the exploration moves beyond the subjective experience of the present-day
personality, into the boundless oceans of the Mind, towards alignment with
the universal and eternal.
Mind is the bearer of all life. Everything that exists is made of Mind at
varying frequencies from super-substance, substance, to solid matter. Mind
is an emanation of Absolute Beingness imbued with the Total Wisdom, Love,
Power and Purity of its Creator. Mind, however, is not an immortal Being,
but rather substance eternally used in all Creation. Mind is Divine at its
source, and holy in its expression. When mind is used to express its
everyday, idiomatic meanings, it appears with 'm' in the lower case .
Absolute Beingness in Its manifold nature as gods within God. The entire
diversity of Life resides within God, 'which is his body, the fulness of him
that filleth all in all' (Eph. 1:23).
The mental world. A state of Ideas and unexpressed forms in the Eternal Now.
From the noetic state the Archangels derive the forms for creating and
sustaining the phenomona of life. This state is where we may come to rest in
between incarnations.
The five-dimensional world, and the most rarefied of the three worlds of
separation. In the noetical world - the world of thought and home of the
noetical body - Total Wisdom of Absolute Beingness first finds expression as
thought-forms, ranging from galaxies to unicellular organisms. This is a
world of seven planes, each with seven sub-planes.
Observation is part of our Divine nature. Attention without tension. Perfect
concentration. The ability to observe in detail and to recall what we have
observed is vital to our understanding of the Divine Plan.
A euphemism for what is commonly termed 'dying'. Passing-over is properly
understood as an episode within a Circle of Possibility where a personality
concludes its existence in one dimension only to continue in other worlds.
It is in no way separate from life but part of it.
That part of the Permanent Personality which records the experiences and
lessons it has received in the space-place-time worlds. The permanent atom
is situated in the etheric heart of each body simultaneously, and registers
emotions, thoughts, reactions and experiences as they occur in the worlds of
existence.
The active and expressive part of the Soul, both within and beyond the
worlds of separation. It filters knowledge to and from the present-day
personalities and distills wisdom.
A personality developed during each incarnation, which we may call 'George'
or 'Mary' or whatever. The present-day personality is a projection of the
Permanent Personality into the worlds of separation. This petty self,
infatuated with knowledge resulting from the five senses, is the sum total
of its elementals. The work of the present-day personality is to cultivate a
humble, moral and loving character.
see CAUSES, IDEAS and PRINCIPLES
The four-dimensional world, also known as the 'world of emotions'. The
super-sensuous psychical world is composed of seven planes, each having
seven sub-planes. It is to the psychical worlds that we travel in first
exosomatosis, in our psychical body, and to which, on passing-over, we first
go.
The relationship between the psychical world (emotions) and the noetical
world (thoughts) is so interwoven that we need often to consider them as
semi-unified. There is scarcely a thought without some emotion, and in every
emotion there is a measure of thought.
A multi-dimensional image of psycho-noetical substance, formed through
visualization by means of noetic light. Once formed this elemental is
everlasting, as are all elementals.
The esoteric Christian concept and practice of psy-chotherapy encompasses a
complete range of healing. Not limited to treating problems within the
personality, a real psychotherapist is con-cerned with the noetical,
psy-chical and physical well-being of human beings. An aspir-ing
psychotherapist must train himself in many fields: Self-conscious use of
etheric vitality (as the four states of ether), the ability to visualize,
comprehensive knowl-edge of human anatomy including the etheric doubles,
understanding the sub-consciousness, and awareness of Divine Laws. A
psychotherapist is first and foremost a humble Researcher of Truth whose
effectiveness in the healing process (not considering himself a 'healer',
but rather a worthy conduit for the Holy Spirit) depends on the purity of
his heart and con-sciousness. Motivated by compassion, understanding and,
above all, love, he values a friend in need as a Spirit-Soul-Ego, in the
Common Selfhood, with time-place-space difficulties to be resolved and
evolved from.
The Greek word for repentance, 'metanoia'. signifies primarily a 'change of
mind' or 'change of intellect'. Repentance implies not only sorrow,
contrition or regret, but more positively and fundamentally an analysis of
our erroneous ways coupled with a resolve not to repeat them. Repenting
means turning our thoughts, emotions and deeds towards alignment with the
Divine.
A state of conscious awareness of the self within the Divine Plan. Through
work and will-power we awaken from the slumber of everyday consciousness
into a state of expanded self-awareness.
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, SUPER SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
Consciousness, in varying degrees, of ourselves as individuated beings and
existences. Through faithful introspection self-consciousness expands into
Super Self-consciousness, which is total awareness in Beingness and
existence. It is also known as Theosis.
The culmination of life experience in the worlds of separation. At the point
of Self-Realization, the present-day personality, transmuted into the
Permanent Personality, unified with the Self-aware Soul, is prepared to
assimilate with the Spirit-Ego-Being in Theosis.
A primary Nature of Absolute Beingness: complete Abundance, Blessedness and
independence of all needs.
When a ray of a Holy Monad passes through the Idea of Heavenly Man, a Soul
is. The Soul is not created; it is the precious 'pearl' of Spirit (Matt.
13:45, 46). The incorruptible Soul, which St. Paul called the 'Spiritual
Body'(1 Cor. 15:44), is in a formless state as Spirit, yet retains the human
Idea. When returning to the Godhead, the Soul marries the Spirit-Ego-Being
in a state of Super Self-consciousness, as the bride marries the bridegroom,
cf. Matt. 25:1-13.
Our Self as a Divine Being: boundless, eternal, and immovable. Our
Spirit-Ego-Being is the Self as Holy Monad, Super Self-conscious and
luminous, in at-one-ment with the Self-sufficiency and Multiplicity of the
Godhead. The Will-pleasure of Absolute Beingness to express Itself within
Itself is identical with the Will of our Spirit-Ego-Being to express Itself
in Its own Selfhood.
Researchers of Truth understand the triadic nature of their subconscious.
One chamber of the subconscious contains all the elementals composing our
personality. The second chamber is the storehouse of life-giving etheric
vitality. The third, and most valued chamber, is that of the Logos and the
Holy Spirit.
SYSTEM FOR THE RESEARCH OF TRUTH
Our system of esoteric Christianity celebrates the eternal truths known to
all great religious traditions, while firmly based in the teachings of the
God-Man Joshua Emmanuel the Christ and the New Testament. Through directed
study, exercises and meditations, we seek the balanced evolution and
integration of our entire being, as we cultivate our moral, ethical,
spiritual and mystical aspects. Our approach is methodical, safe and
self-evident.
At-one-ment with the One God, Absolute Beingness. The moment when the
Prodigal Son, now Super Self-conscious, returns home to his most loving
Father.
Primary Natures of Absolute Beingness and all Beings. Forming a sacred
triangle, each Nature depends on the other in order to be properly
expressed.
Visualization is a language of the Divine, the 'key' to the kingdoms (Rev.
3:7). After learning to observe carefully and to concentrate fully, we gain
the ability to visualize consciously. We shape etheric vitality to create
elementals, from psycho-noetical images to entire scenes. Through
visualization, in healing work, we learn to materialize and de-materialize.
There is nothing more powerful than thought, and visualization is the
process of harnessing thought in a constructive manner for the expansion of
the self and to aid others in need.
Absolute Beingness expressing Itself in Itself as Creation. The
Will-pleasure, in Greek euareskeia, carries a sense of pleasure derived from
bountiful giving, as practised by a warmly generous and wealthy source.
God's pleasure in creativeness.
The three worlds of existence (material, psychical and noetical) in which we
spend our periods of seeming separation from Absolute Beingness. These are
worlds of duality, of time-space-place, which we experience during each
incarnation.