THE BOOK
IN SUMMARY:
Long development over millennia from a non-conscious spirit-seed in The
Spiritual Realm to its first incarnation onto the Earth Plane permitted the
newly-arrived human beings to subsequently reach the necessary state of
personal self-consciousness, and then journey through the first stages of speech
development. Continuing on through the era that we designate as early man,
through the transitional stages of tribalism and thence into Nationhood and the
world stage via many different incarnations, that long, often tortuous, path now
finally nears its zenith.
This lengthy development to “personal self-consciousness” will unfortunately be terminated for those who, through their rejection of Divine Truth, are irrevocably drawn into the disintegrating process. They will therewith experience the piece-by-piece shredding of the “ego of personal self-consciousness” during the dissolution process of this part of the Material World to which we belong when its time of “renewal” arrives. Piece by piece, until the once “conscious” personality is reduced to an “unconscious” spirit-seed as it was at its beginnings.
For those who do ascend out of the chaos of disintegration and dissolution, the specific meaning of one particular Scripture in Revelation 20:6 can be readily understood:
“...over these the second death has no authority”!
The explanations we have given should be relatively simple to understand; at least in the mechanics of the process, for we cannot hope to understand the experience until and/or unless it overtakes those very many of us who will undergo it.
However, notwithstanding the many explanations offered, it is nonetheless very important to clarify a key aspect of the human spirit’s development to spiritual self-consciousness and the reverse process of its possible loss in the disintegration of the “Material World” in which it had developed to that self-conscious level.
So: We have identified that the “Spirit” originates in The Spiritual Realm. In its journey downwards towards the Planes of Matter, it arrives to its first incarnation, but without yet having developed to the state of “personal self-consciousness”. For it is the human spirit’s personal experiencing in this earthly medium that offers the mechanism for its necessary development to> self-consciousness. That is why it can only take place in the “Material World” and not in its “Spiritual-origin” world.
Therefore, even though the non-conscious spiritual part of each human entity is originally of The Spiritual Realm, it can only acquire personal “self-consciousness” in its wanderings through the Material Realms!
The stripping away of its spiritual self-consciousness to the unfortunate condition of Spiritual Death can equally only occur during the disintegration of our Material Part of Creation. For that is where it developed to its self-conscious state and to which the necessary “experiences” to obtain the requisite degree of “knowing” belong. ------- Do we get that? ------- Do we really get that?
To repeat: This “stripping away” does not occur in the actual Spiritual Realm of Creation as the words may seem to suggest, for that is not the area where the human spirit is ordained to develop to personal self-consciousness and gain knowledge of The Spiritual. That particular “schooling” takes place in the various levels of the Material Realm, and naturally includes some time on earth.
Thus, it is The Spiritual Realm that the human spirit ascends to when --- but only if --- it has gained sufficient spiritual purity and maturity to earn its place there. There in the Eternal Spiritual, secure in its eternal reality within the bounds of its original home, it can fulfil its complete spiritual potential --- eternally!
The reality of the “Second Death” should not be equated with the beliefs of those who interpret this process as being similar to the attainment of “nirvana”, the “desired” state of spiritual bliss expounded by some Eastern religions. Creation-Law immutably decrees that the human spirit is ordained to develop to personal self-consciousness only, which means it retains its individuality and therefore must render personal responsibility for all its activity.
It was never ordained to merge with a collective “cosmic consciousness”. This is a pleasant idea but does not at all accord with Divine Truth! The “either-or” choice here means either individual spiritual life, or individual spiritual death, in strict accordance with inviolable The Law! The choice once more, of course, is solely that of each individual alone.
There is one further important aspect of the “Second Death reality” to address at this crucial time in the earth’s and humankind’s development. The words, “eternal damnation”, are usually synonymous with fanatical “fire and brimstone” religion. Yet, in reality, it well describes the quite natural and lawful processes for any human spirit drawn into disintegration, for he ceases to be personal.
From any standpoint, this must surely be the worst fate that could possibly befall any individual. For, as already stated, it is exactly synonymous with effacement from The Book of Life itself!
Moreover, this separation of spirit from matter, in itself also a completely natural process in accordance with The Eternal Laws and now taking place under the aegis of The Creative Will, is the so-called “Last Judgement”. This final ‘sorting out’ is necessarily connected with great upheavals and transformations but will be on a scale not previously known.
Let’s hear it again from the Book of Matthew; for it offers a strong insight into just the early stages of the complete process. Those now-stirring beginnings are obviously connected with us of earthly humanity today, but were given when the Disciples of Jesus asked Him what signs will portend “...the completion of this age” ----- our time now. Verses 19 to 22 are particularly chilling in their portent.
“But alas for those with child and those who nurse in those days! Pray, however, that your flight may not come during the winter, nor upon a Rest-day; for there shall then be widespread affliction, such as has not been known since the beginning of the world until now, no, nor will ever be known again. And if those times were not cut short, not a man would be saved, but for the sake of the chosen ones, those times will be cut short.”
In strict concert with the subject matter of this Discourse: Should we be modern, enlightened, intellectual human beings and mock such prophecies as unproven religious rantings because our much-vaunted, university-derived, human science has now determined that “genes” are our life-force, and not such a thing as an inner, animating spirit-core? Scientifically impossible, and therefore nonsense, as ‘earth-science’ would surely determine it.
Or we could simply and logically use our intuition, which is not tied to earthly empiricism, to therewith recognise the obvious truth: That human genes and the processes they control affect the physical body only because they are both of material substance! And that therefore this scientific, so-called, genetic life-force rots away with the body at its death.
As with most Scripture in the Bible, the particular passages from the Revelation pertaining to the “Second Death” become far more clarified when assessed from the knowledge of The Divine Laws of Creation.
It would be a tragic mistake, therefore, to regard these explanations as just religious “fire and brimstone fanaticism” without any relevance to societal beliefs or norms today. The Light-guided Prophets and Teachers clearly understood this immutable point of The Law, for the Teachings they were called to give to peoples of specific lands and times in history were derived by their Spiritual insight and specific guidance; from out of the very Truth Itself!
The ordained ‘spiritual cleansing’ is certainly not meant to be that currently visited by the practitioners of certain religions today --- even against their own --- whereby they strangely believe that their murderous, evil activities’ do fulfil that kind of ordination. Neither, therefore, are they pleasing to a Creator who is both Love and Justice absolute. Such ‘mindless butchers’ will not be permitted any kind of ‘exalted place’, irrespective of their terribly distorted beliefs to the contrary. Only with a belief in a ‘one-life concept’ can such appalling distortions exist at all.
The very fact that virtually everything is collapsing globally should be evidence enough that there is some exceptionally powerful reaping taking place now. We can be sure, therefore, that even what we observe daily is not yet the culmination --- the final collective reaping!
Consequently, it should be a simple matter to recognise that the earth and ‘its inhabitants’ must surely be approaching a major and climactic point, simply because more is happening faster. The separation among men reveals itself more and more sharply every day as smaller and smaller splinter factions in religion, politics, or ethnic groupings, break away from parent organisations. Thus, what had previously only manifested itself in ‘opinions and convictions’ are now revealed as intransigent positions, often marked by violence or the intimidatory threat of.
Despite the fact that in this 21st century the present state of the world is now viewed with very great alarm and concern, empirical/scientific notions on how to “fix it” have long passed their time. Yes, there are many things that could be done and are being done to help our earthly home recover a little from our stupidity. However, the true and urgent need is to seriously recognise where we actually stand spiritually.
In order to stand “right”, however, we must exert the greatest strength to leave behind all base thoughts and activities, seek out The Eternal Truths --- which you all now know --- and begin to live accordingly.
However: If all the warnings over thousands of years were not heeded then, why would we think it would be any different now? That is why the greatest number of “people” on this earth are now in danger of being chained to The World of Matter and eventually being drawn with it towards complete disintegration.
The immense Spiritual pressure forcing everything to reveal its true nature places cultural and ethnic traditions under keen scrutiny, and no amount of believing in one’s ‘ethnic spirituality’, or one’s indigenous right to it, will alter the actual and lawful outcome of this unstoppable, “separating force”.
All races must be absolutely sure that what they regard as ‘high spiritual beliefs’ are truly so according to The Spiritual Laws. It will not be enough to simply imagine they are. For the Eternal Primordial Laws are not the least bit interested in the beliefs of any people and their imagined ‘spirituality’. The Law will sift without favour and in complete objectivity --- as it must in any case.
Yet, in the final analysis, that process will simply be the separating out of the opposing principles of Light and Darkness along with their respective adherents, irrespective of what ethnic or religious group they may belong to. For the end result is one of individual and personal standing, and not that of any collective grouping.
Especially for those who strive for The Light, the uplifting attraction of this Spiritual Force will apply here equally as powerfully as with the destruction of all that opposes it. Thus, those souls who hold more noble aspirations and goals will gradually become freed from The World of Matter, with the correspondingly greater opportunity to ascend more quickly to Planes of Light; to the home of all that is truly Spiritual. With that separation from the baser elements of humanity, The Judgement is fulfilled for them!
The correct knowledge of these great and final happenings now at our disposal enables us to shed light and clarity on much that was previously veiled in mystery and uncertainty.
HUMAN WEAKNESSES THAT CAN BRING THE “SECOND DEATH”
The general tenor of global societies in this 21st century reveal quite clearly that they are in various stages of “collapse”! The affluent West very laudably sends food and medical aid to Third World countries to help lift them out of their travails. The West, however, is beset with many problems of its own; thus each “sphere” riding particular kinds of carousels that today they seem not to be able to stop.
In an encapsulated nutshell, the many thousands of words of explanation in this essential Work will always get back to one single immutable reality: If we wanted real change for the better, we had to fully accept and embrace Divine Creation-Law! Then we had to enact IT in all our earthly laws, cultural paradigms and education systems, and then especially replace religions with that Sublime Truth!
Reader: Are you tired of all this repetition? I certainly am!
However, we must continue --- for “the few”!
As a consequence of “always wanting the world to be our own way”, we humans have established and developed notions that, ostensibly, seem innocuous and even in some cases, apparently beneficial. However, if doesn’t matter what we think, for The Law will bring the reciprocal effect of everything we believe and do! Let’s now itemise a few “practices” and beliefs that hold the potential to be “trapped in the world”.
TO BE “EARTHBOUND”
A term we have probably all heard at some time. Certainly, the many cases of hauntings and poltergeist activity indicate something residual at those sites. So how and why can “departed souls” become “earthbound”? Science will not have any “truck” with this, but in the end earth-science must always have to catch up with real Truth!
(A case in point is knowledge of the Akashic Record. We state this in passing only; to give this key segment of this Discourse its commensurate gravitas. For, as you read in that particular Discourse, a notion that was derided as laughable by “science” has now been “scientifically-established” as correct! That amazing recognition by recent, advanced scientific methods, perfectly “confirms” what we are tasked to write!)
With all processes and activities in Creation, the reason for the close presence of someone who has become “earthbound” will be subject to strict Spiritual Law, and will invariably be associated with land, a place or dwelling, or to a person or persons in that particular place. Or perhaps with an activity there to which the “earthbound” one is drawn. There may be other ties but those outlined will invariably hold the reason why.
In the first place, despite the fact that the binding of one to the earth is a perfectly natural process, there should not be cause for fear if a poor “earthbound” soul is recognised as being about. Cultures that hold to just “psychic” beliefs will produce many “earthbound”, for the simple reason that such aspiritual beliefs do not hold knowledge sufficient for such souls to know that they must leave the earth environment behind when they vacate their bodies at death. That knowledge would help us to leave behind all pointless and thus unnecessary ties to the earth.
A common example of how one can become “earthbound” is where a questioning child is continually told by his parents that there is no such thing as “life after death”. In the beginning the child may intuitively sense that there is life after death, or may have heard about it from school or in Church. Uncertain, he seeks confirmation of it from his parents, let us say his father. The father, perhaps through lack of interest in the matter, or even his own fear about it, dismisses the whole idea and forcefully imparts his view to the child. With continual reinforcement of this very incorrect belief, the child begins to doubt, until finally accepting the opinion of adults that there is no life after death.
However, the time comes when the father dies and, much to his horror and dismay finds that death is not the end after all. The deep wish now arises within the father to impart the truth of this to his child, and this strong desire binds him to it. The child, however, can neither hear him nor sense his presence, for it now has the firm conviction that its father has ceased to exist. This conviction acts as a completely natural and impenetrable wall between the child and the father’s efforts.
Now the father must live the painful reality that, through misleading his child, there is the very real danger that he may take a path leading him further and further from the truth. Moreover, as the child grows into adulthood and gathers future generations around him, the same misleading error is passed on through them with the added danger of his child, through its increasingly narrowing perceptions, falling further.
Perhaps this is one meaning of the “sins of the father” visiting themselves upon successive generations. In any case, this forms the father’s so-called “punishment” for misleading his child. In such circumstances, it would be extremely difficult for him to communicate to his offspring the knowledge that life continues on. Consequently, he will be forced to witness how his previous wrong idea is carried on down through the generations, and all as a result of his own disbelief.
Unfortunately for him, he cannot be released until one of his descendants finally recognises the error and adjusts his life accordingly. Only then will the father be gradually released. And only then can he consider his own need for ascent.
A very typical and more insidious way in how one can be “earthbound” is through the connection to cigarette smoking --- the big “money-maker” for certain “global corporates”. It is a situation which impacts hugely and detrimentally on human health in two ways; physically in the first and thus “visual” instance, and spiritually in the second.
An habitual smoker who dies takes over with him the strong craving to smoke. In its strength, it is actually a propensity which thus has a connection to the “spiritual intuition”, albeit only at its outermost edge. His propensity produces the need for gratification, and he therefore seeks out smokers. There, in their presence, he is able to satisfy his craving because the changed nature of his “body” after earthly death enables him to enjoy the inner sensations of smokers to whom he is held.
If there is no stronger reciprocal effect waiting to bind him to any other place, the sensations he feels are, for him, generally pleasant ones. Such souls may not be aware that being tied to others on earth through their propensity is actually a self-imposed punishment.
This is also the case with heavy drinking, so-called harmless recreational drug use and aberrant sexual desires. Given the heavy emphasis today on one’s “right” to sexual gratification by any and all means, many might not consider this last a punishment at all. Yet any binding to the earth prevents such souls from recognising that their “primary craving”, which overshadows all else, is actually a punishment stemming solely from their own aspiritual personal decisions and subsequent lifestyle whilst alive on Earth.
Consequently, the longing for something better, more noble, and higher, cannot easily develop to become the main focus which would then free them from such base desires, and uplift them.
Yet even if this main desire or craving should reach a point where it begins to die away, other lesser desires --- which the soul still perhaps carries within --- will then rise to take the place of the formerly strongest propensity. The lawful requirement to “live it through” subsequently transports him to a place where the lesser desires can also be expiated. Eventually, with sufficient good will for his own ascent, he will finally succeed in clearing all the dross that had previously prevented any chance of release from his bind to the earth.
For only when the earthly sensations are gradually outlived or let go, associated with a longing for what is higher, purer, and therefore more spiritual, can he steadily ascend. The variations here will be many, but these few examples illustrate the kinds of circumstances that can allow a soul to become ‘earthbound’.
The act of suicide can also produce very strong ties to the earth for a soul that decides to exit earth life by this means. With suicide, however, certain aspects in that individual’s life will generally hold powerful sway prior to the deed. A stronger than usual emotional component --- invariably seen as insurmountable --- will help drive the thought of suicide to its deed and is thus a powerful precursor to the final act. In concert with any problem that appears to have no solution, the inner strength of the one so assailed will ebb to a degree commensurate with the perceived degree of hopelessness of the particular situation faced.
However, notwithstanding the reason for such a desperate “solution”, the very act of ending one’s own life prematurely means that that soul has rejected the gift of life; a life, moreover, that it had once petitioned for. Exiting before the fulfillment or completion of its life’s purpose ensures that the soul is held to the particular level of “maturity” or experiencing attained up to that point in time. It therefore ‘passes over’ in an immature state. Because of the very strong psychic/emotional “feelings” generated within and around a suicide, the site of the incident may become the strongest point of focus for it after death and may thus bind the soul to that place for a long time.
Ordinarily, since the outworking of The Eternal Laws demand spiritual fulfillment in all things, right down to the smallest ramification, this soul must then again incarnate on earth to “catch up” with and then complete all that it did not attain to or fulfil previously. Because it personally chose to commit suicide as perhaps a seemingly-apparent easy way out, it will carry with it into its next life the same unresolved aspect. Only through recognising The Laws of Life and adjusting its thinking and activity to them, might it then expiate the previous unlawful deed to begin again its path of natural ascent.
However, because we have arrived at our allotted time of human learning, fewer chances remain for such souls to return here before the great “human cull”.
In the “strange but true” category, sudden and quite unexpected deaths, such as might occur in a random shooting, in war, terrorist bombings, an aircraft explosion etc., can happen so quickly that those killed do not realise they are actually dead.
In a “normal” death situation, connection to its former cloak, i.e., the physical body, should provide a reference point for at least some level of understanding for the one recently departed.
However, the complete disintegration or vaporisation of the body in an instant -- not at all uncommon in increasing incidents of extreme violence today -- may preclude that possibility. In such cases, the person affected is literally forcibly wrenched or ejected from the mortal shell in a split second, and thus stands alone and stripped of its now virtually non-existent earthly body.
WAR
An Example: After the Second World War it was revealed that during The Battle of Britain, where many young, Allied pilots were killed in air combat against the German Luftwaffe, a very senior R.A.F. Commander from time to time worked with a medium to try to contact his dead pilots to help them “leave”. Anecdotal reports at the time strongly indicated that a number were “haunting” the Air Bases from which they had formerly operated. More especially in exploding fighters --- but also in bombers --- death came very suddenly and very quickly to very young men of incredible courage and daring, to “boys” who readily understood that their life expectancy in total air combat might only be a matter of minutes.
So, for very young pilots now a world away from childhood, teenage years and families, the Air Base became their new home”. The “Base” was the place from which they flew to battle a monstrous evil, but it was also a place of rest and relative safety between missions as well. It was the one “tangible anchorage” in a time of desperate uncertainty, where strong physical and emotional attachments of deep camaraderie and mutual respect would inevitably develop between skilled pilots and brave men. Men who understood they were engaged in a life and death struggle with an enemy bent on the destruction or enslavement of their homeland.
Deriving from sheer psychological necessity to mask the seriousness of the struggle, the dire situation of the time drove pilots to adopt an almost cavalier approach to their task. For given the very high attrition rate, it was imperative to yet believe that one might nevertheless survive to the end. Powerful spiritual forces bond servicemen in this kind of desperate yet noble struggle and sacrifice to the utmost degree. Even though rarely voiced by the men involved, that bond is actually Love!
The Air Base and all that it contained thus represented the entirety of their life at the time, both in the machinery of war and in the intangible essence of enduring comradeship forged through necessary sacrifice for a just cause. Very significantly in this particular situation, however, it was the last earthly anchor point they would know before death overtook some of them. Therefore, to their “Base”, their home, and their fellow pilots, did some return after their personal sacrifice.
It thus follows that major battlefields will have more than their share of earthbound souls, as may any place of mass murder such as the German concentration camps of The Second World War ---- where many visitors have reported they strongly felt the “presence” of souls still stuck there.
Natural and man-made disasters, where large loss of life occurs, can also congregate their complement of souls. For all so earthbound, however, the onus is on each individual to determine why he is so bound, to work through that question, and the time necessary to become free. Correct recognition will then set him free to leave the earth, as should have been the normal process to begin with.
It may sound rather incongruous to believe that one cannot know that one has died, yet that is the reality that some will inevitably experience. Relatives or friends who possess some measure of understanding about the truth of “life after” should therefore consider helping their very recently departed to at least a similar measure of “knowing”. And thus help them more easily transit the passage from the near-earth environs to their next ordained level of existence after the Silver Cord is severed. As formerly stated, the time to so explain it is in the days immediately after ‘death’.
THE SPIRITUAL CRIME OF HYPNOTISM:
AND THE TERRIBLE “EARTHBOUND REALITY” FOR HYPNOTISTS
Hypnotism is a practice that certain branches of medicine --- psychological, psychiatric, and general etc., --- use on a reasonably regular basis. Its use is ostensibly touted as being of great benefit for patients who suffer from certain specific conditions. It is also regarded as an important crime-investigation tool by some law-enforcement agencies.
A seemingly innocuous practice that appears to be of benefit to mankind in certain situations is, in truth, an extremely serious spiritual transgression --- for the hypnotist, particularly, but for the one hypnotised too.
The spiritually-astute reader should recognise why this would be so. The effects of the application of hypnotism are so far-reaching that, if fully recognised, practitioners in every current field of practice would, in horror, immediately and voluntarily cease all such activities. Why?
Because hypnotism binds the personal and free will aspect of the human subject to the control of the hypnotist! And therein lies the seriousness of the transgression. It lies in the binding of the spirit of another human being. In other words, the one hypnotised is open to receiving whatever spiritually-adverse currents or forces that may wish to attach themselves thereto at that moment.
That is because the now open subject is spiritually-unprotected. It therefore cannot possibly resist --- and thus protect itself against --- negative or even very detrimental and dangerous psychic forces which can easily approach the now-vulnerable individual.
To that end, we should always be acutely aware of the following Biblical Scripture from Ephesians 6:12. It warns us to not foolishly or ignorantly dismiss it as just simplistic religiosity:
“Because our fight is not against blood and flesh; but against the sovereignties, against the powers, against the commanders of the darkness of this world...”
Even if used to relieve chronic pain, to help stop smoking or heal a bodily disease, any apparent subsequent improvement resulting from the “treatment” should be regarded as only temporary alleviation. Since it has been the spirit that has been bound, and irrespective of the “condition” for which hypnotism might have been sought, what will be achieved will be more a “suppressive effect”, but not real control of the problem or condition.
Intervention by hypnotism is not any kind of ultimately beneficial panacea, for only with a free and unhindered volition can a human being take full control over its life-problems and destiny; a destiny or fate resulting primarily from its own decisions in any case.
Whilst the effects of being hypnotised are not at all helpful for the one hypnotised, the end result for the hypnotist is dire indeed! Because he is the one who has bound the spirit of another --- and irrespective of the reason why --- he is, from that point on, tied or bound to that other person.
We could continue on a little more, but to better close out the subject of Hypnotism, let’s strive to gain real understanding about the extreme dangers of it in key excerpts from The All-Truth of The Spirit of Truth: ---------- Our Eternal Mediator!
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THE CRIME OF HYPNOTISM
Today it is again the medical profession which has largely appropriated hypnotism. What at one time they denied in the strongest terms they now advocate! ----------------
But it becomes much more serious when one really knows the effects of the application of hypnotism. It is good that the existence of hypnotism has at last been recognised and confirmed, and that the verbose attacks of the scientists, which according to present experience only reveal the ignorance of those making them, have ceased. But that its application should consequently have been so widely extended under the aegis of the suddenly enlightened former opponents proves that these wiseacres are much further removed from real knowledge than the much-abused laymen who made the first researches.
It is appalling to know what harm is done to thousands who today confidently place themselves in the hands of the supposedly qualified in order to submit to hypnosis, either voluntarily or through persuasion, or, worst of all, who are forced into it without their knowledge. Even if all this is done with the best intention to achieve something good, it does not alter the fact that this practice causes immeasurable harm in every case! Those who employ hypnotism are not qualified to do so! Only he can be called qualified who is fully familiar with the sphere to which all that he uses belongs. In the case of hypnotism this would be the Ethereal Sphere. And he who really knows this sphere, and not only imagines in his presumption that he does, will never make use of hypnotism as long as he desires what is best for his fellow-men. Unless, of course, he quite consciously intends to harm them gravely!
Therefore, where hypnotism is used a sin is committed, whatever the circumstances; no matter by a layman or not. In this there is no single exception! ----------------------
Since it cannot be assumed that all who use hypnotism intend to harm their fellow-men, there remains nothing else but to state the fact that they are entirely ignorant of the nature of hypnotism, and face the results of their activity with a complete lack of understanding. There is not the slightest doubt about this; it is either the one or the other! Therefore, all that remains is the lack of understanding!
When a person employs hypnotism, he binds the spirit of the one hypnotised! This binding is in itself a spiritual transgression or crime. To use hypnotism for the purpose of healing a bodily disease or as means towards psychic recovery does not excuse it. Nor can it be defended by the argument that the resulting psychic change for the better has also improved the volition of the patient, so that he has benefited by hypnotic treatment.
To live and act in this belief is self-deception, for only what a human spirit undertakes with a perfectly free and uninfluenced volition can bring it that benefit which it needs for its real ascent. All else is extraneous and only capable of bringing about a temporary and apparent benefit to them.
Every binding of the spirit, no matter for what purpose it was done, forms an absolute block on the possibility of the necessary progress. Apart from the fact that such a binding brings far more dangers than advantages, a spirit bound in this way is not only subject to the influence of the hypnotiser but also remains to a certain extent defencelessly exposed to other ethereal influences, despite the possible prohibition of the hypnotiser, because in its bound state it lacks the sorely-needed protection which only freedom of movement can offer. --------------------
Thus, every man who is effectively hypnotised is more or less permanently hindered in the true development of his innermost ego. Whether the outward circumstance become still more unfavourable, or show an apparent temporary benefit, is only of secondary consideration, and is therefore no criterion for any judgement. The spirit must remain free in any case, because in the final analysis only the spirit is concerned! -----------------------------------
Through the hypnotism which forcibly binds the spirit, the hypnotiser is simultaneously bound to his victim as if with the strongest chains. He cannot be released until he has helped the person whom he forcibly retarded in his free development to advance as far as he would have done if his spirit had not been bound. After his earthly death the hypnotiser must go where the spirit he formerly bound goes, be it even down to the deepest depths!
One can easily see from this what is in store for those who regularly practise hypnotism. When after their earthly death they awake and regain their senses in the beyond they will perceive with horror how many ties connect them with those who have already passed on as well as with those still on earth! Nothing of this can be remitted! Such a man must redeem one link after the other, even if he loses thousands of years in the process!
However, it is probable that he will be unable to reach the end of this task before he is drawn into the disintegration which will destroy the personality of his own “ego” ---
for he has greatly sinned against the spirit!
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH:
And SON OF MAN!
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“Therefore, where hypnotism is used a sin is committed, whatever the circumstances; no matter by a layman or not. In this there is no single exception!”
Reader: That’s it. “End of story!”
In the light of this critical knowledge, consider how hypnotism is used in a comedic way in vaudeville and stage shows. It’s all ostensibly very hilarious, lots of fun, and everybody laughs; but ultimately it is foolish and dangerous in the extreme. As we state quite often, any transgression of The Primordial Laws will always return the reciprocal effect. Not in accordance with human opinions, of course, but most certainly according to the full strength and Perfect Justice of the unassailable Laws of God!
AUTHORS AND WRITERS:
THE “EFFECT” OF THEIR WORKS ON “FOLLOWERS”
A similar fate awaits those who, in seeking followers through religious or “spiritual” activities, distort the Truth to such a degree that the followers are completely led astray i.e., away from the direction leading to the possibility of spiritual ascent. Good intentions hold no mandate here. Neither does it matter if the “leader” is trained in a Theological College, or holds an official position in a mainstream Church, promotes New-Age philosophy, or sets up a personalised, charismatic-type Church.
We should also include in this group “six-day creationists” with their strongly-promoted fundamentalism, and “geneticists” in the scientific field who similarly strongly promote their view that “genes” are the singular mechanism that produce and control all life. Even though perhaps sharing certain tenuous connections, both notions nevertheless together lead their supporters astray.
Religion and science, therefore, the two “strange bedfellows” that nonetheless primarily drive educational, cultural and social “imperatives” in Western societies, particularly, have the utmost responsibility to guide and lead correctly. Though encompassing a very broad-sweep umbrella, each camp will invariably produce only a relatively few “leaders” within who will set the basic agenda and overall direction for their respective “mass of believers”. And despite the fact that there have been many dissenting voices within both Christian religion and science, the conjoined educational curriculum for Western Nations nevertheless steadfastly encompasses a more-or-less standard paradigm set by Universities and Theological Colleges. Upon the “agenda-setting individuals” or “boards” within the numerous “hallowed halls of learning” thus rests the greatest responsibility.
Writers, especially of so-called religious or scientific “truth”, need to be absolutely aware of the inviolable outworking of The Law in this regard, for their writings can live on and continue to sway readers long after the authors have left the earth.
It was not without high purpose that one of the great Teachings specifically warned against the written word being used for wrong purposes; for those very words would stand with the author/s at the time of his/their Judgement. The incredible proliferation of so many books literally “churned out” in the millions stands as clear testimony to the use of the gift of language for, oftentimes, spurious purposes.
Of course, it remains the personal, free-will choice of any individual whether or not to accept a particular teaching or follow a particular “leader”. Notwithstanding that inherent truth, the historical record contains very many instances of so-called “religious leaders” who actively sought adherents. Not, however, to fulfil some kind of altruistic or spiritually-ennobled purpose, but to gain personal power, and/or political or financial advantage. Self-promoting egotism seems to be a common trait here. Therefore, even if, in the meantime, such “leaders” had come to the shattering recognition that they were wrong, those so “influenced” by them must similarly come to the same recognition.
Two single books and one series of books, in particular hold literally millions --- perhaps hundreds of millions --- dangerously-captive in the spiritual sense. “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” and “The Da Vinci Code” are two books that lead readers away from The Truth about Jesus’s association with the true Holy Grail!
Reader, in PART I we gave detailed explanations about that actual connection and what The Holy Grail really is. That vital Discourse is precisely about that subject and about Its unbreakable and sublime connection with The Son of God --- but not how those foolish authors “tell it”!
The line of books that, at this time, have probably led more Christians astray than any other is what is known as the “Left Behind” series; ten or so books that promote an ostensible end-time event called “the rapture”. It is supposedly a phenomenon whereby all “truly believing” Christians will be suddenly “uplifted into the heavens” --- whatever that means for believers ----- but in their physical bodies. In the end, a belief so unworkable, so impossible, that it can only fit in the “quite insane” category!
In summary, those who promote, teach and/or otherwise foment such appallingly-incorrect ideas about the How and Why of Creation and human existence and thus lead people astray --- i.e., away from Divine Truth --- will discover to their horror upon their own death that they were completely wrong.
For the many millions led astray, however; they, too, must accept personal responsibility for simply being mindless followers or believers. Recognition of how wrong the ‘teachings/doctrine’ of the ‘leader/s’ they once believed in really were/are, at least guarantees the beginning of their spiritual ascent before that of the particular leaders or teachers they formerly ‘blindly-followed’.
For there, on the “other side” away from the safer environment of the earth, the once “sure leaders” must wait until the very last they had led astray comes to recognition of their wrong decision and thus wrong path. Only then can they, the “leaders”, begin their own ascent --- just as in the case of hypnotists.
In just the Christian Church alone -- and deriving from the legacy of the foul murder of that so-called “trouble-maker”, Jesus --- how many well-meaning “church-servants” over centuries have preached sermons that badly distorted His Pure Teachings thus leading literally millions astray over that time? How many still do so today? For everyone on earth, the warning out of The Living Law to be very sure of one’s chosen path is simple, yet stark.
Narrow is the path, and few there are that find it!
THE PLACE OF HELL: WHAT IS IT?
Much uncertainty surrounds this question of the nature of the place called “hell”, or even if such a place exists or could exist. Some earlier philosophers postulated a duality of forces, i.e., a good and a bad one, and a light and a dark one. Such a view clearly presupposes that two forces must exist, and that there are two separate powers we can choose between or connect ourselves to. This belief is probably dominant in most cultures and religions today because, on the surface at least, it appears to be a reasonable one.
The dark force, moreover, is invariably deemed to be the “creator” or “owner” of hell. The assumption or proposition that such a separate “dark force” exists has certainly been used often enough as a reason or excuse where horrific crimes have been committed. “I was told to do it” they say. “Voices from somewhere made me do it”, and so on. The voices would be real enough, but their origin is the key consideration here.
St Augustine, a theologian who lived from 354 to 430 AD, was preoccupied for much of his life with what might be termed the “problem of evil”: In essence where evil came from. For a time, he was ‘swayed’ by the Stoic school of thought which held that there was no sharp division between good and evil. A major factor contributing to his quandary was Neoplatonism which espoused the view that all existence is divine in nature. A philosopher to begin with, Augustine had nevertheless long felt that there was a limit as to how far philosophy could go. It was not until he became a Christian that he found the peace he sought; a peace anchored in faith.
He wrote: “Our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.”
Schelling (1775-1854), the leading Romantic philosopher, sought to unite mind and matter. He believed that all of nature in both the human soul and the physical reality was the expression of one Absolute or world Spirit. He saw this “world spirit” in nature but he also saw it in the human mind. He also accepted the idea of a development from earth to rock to “mind” governed by his “world spirit” beliefs. Schelling stated explicitly that “the world is in God”. He believed that God was aware of some of it, but there were other aspects of nature which represented the unknown in God. This was the “dark side of God” in his view.
Reader: Let’s put this issue to absolute rights! In reality, there is only one power streaming through all of Creation. It issues solely from out of “The Creative Will of God” and is completely neutral.
Being, in essence, the “Living Power”, It creates and sustains all life. However, in the case of us humans who are inherently endowed with the attribute of “free will” and who also stand in this power stream, we occupy a singularly consequential position, for we are like lenses.
This “neutral power” is thus automatically refracted through us, precisely according to how we choose to use it and where we choose to direct it. Thus, either for good, or for evil! This unstoppable free-will mechanism therewith ultimately determines our end-fate --- through how we choose to live our lives.
So, whilst we absorb a neutral power, our free-will volition then converts it to whatever we choose --- good or evil; or, to word it differently, to either the correct principle or the incorrect principle. It’s that simple, and that Perfect! By this process, therefore, we automatically “form” our environment thereby bringing in its train our personal reaping, the reaping of our society, our nation and global family of nations.
Since all written history quite clearly attests to wars, blood, and violence on the grandest possible scale, consider the forms we have created over thousands of years, and continue to do so. Most unfortunately, therefore, because we created them, only through a fundamental change in our attitude and way of being can we destroy them and become free of all connections to them.
Yet do we see any real change in our failing societies towards real spiritual ennoblement in anything we do? In a word: NO! We continue to produce the mostly dark forms of our free will volition and then bemoan the fact that “nothing changes”! How many people on earth are truly prepared to accept the reality of The Law of Reciprocal Action? Very few! Instead, we not only add to the dark forms of our collective volition, but greatly nourish them in our selfish desire to “do what pleases us”. Einstein again: “To keep doing the same things and expect a different result”!
So, in concert with the “Creation-Law of Attraction...”, under the “Iron Law of Karma”, we are forced to reap more and more from that growing monster. Unfortunately, however, with additional burdens lawfully imposed via the aegis of the whirlwind constant.
The knowledge and outworking of Creation-Law permits the concept of “hell” to be simply explained. ----------- “It ain’t rocket science, people!”
The key thing to be understood is that it is not an institution ordained and created by God. It is composed of those levels in the world of the afterlife that we of humankind have created through giving full and unbridled rein to our evil dispositions over millennia. The rejection of true Spiritual ideals and the gravitating toward material pleasures and vices --- along with the natural accompaniment of commensurately-evil activities --- has brought about the formation of the “Planes of Hell”.
From there its many and varied dark forms, under the outworking of The Law of Attraction of Similar Species, in their insidious nature go forth to further “infect our societies” --- and we are stupidly “none-the-wiser”!
Humankind, therefore, is the landlord and owner of the place we call “hell”.
In striking contrast, the same process has also formed Planes of Light where like-minded souls enjoy the peace and beauty of the afterlife they have earned. Suffering and tragedy, therefore, are not Willed by God. We bring that on ourselves via the same process, paradoxically, whereby we could enjoy continual peace and happiness, i.e., by the simple application of directing our free will toward the good.
Therefore, all choices are ultimately ours and ours alone, and the automatic outworking of Creation-Law subsequently delivers to us the ensuing consequences.
With regard to our present subject matter, we have looked at the religious doctrines of the “big three”, some philosophical notions, and employed scientific realities to try to give you some understanding of perhaps the “mechanics” of the “Second Death process’.
As we have said often throughout, we can only go so far with religious leanings and other earthly knowledge and discoveries in offering explanations of the many topics we must cover.
But always and in the end, the only knowledge that really matters and is Perfect for all time is that of The Grail Message of Imanuel!
Now, at the end of our contributions on this crucial matter, we quote excerpts from a relevant Lecture of “His Message”, from which you will get the best possible “picture” of a truly terrifying outcome for most human beings! -------- Remember: “Few Men Left.”
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THE REGIONS OF DARKNESS AND DAMNATION
Poor deluded fools who imagine they can carelessly dismiss it with a mocking shrug of the shoulders! In the moment when the appalling truth dawns upon them such carelessness will revenge itself bitterly! It will be of no avail to struggle or turn aside; they will be drawn into the whirlpool awaiting them, unless they can rid themselves of the deep-seated ignorance which always characterises the hollowness and narrow-mindedness of such people!
The ethereal body will hardly have detached itself from the physical body before these souls receive their first great surprise by experiencing that this has not brought conscious being and life to an end. As a result, they first of all become confused, and then follows an unexpected apprehension, which again often gives way to a state of dull resignation or despair. All resistance is in vain; vain are their lamentations and even their pleading, for they must reap what they have sown during their life on earth!
If they ridiculed the Word brought down to them from God, which points toward life after physical death and the consequent responsibility for every serious thought and action, the least that is awaiting them will be what they themselves willed --- utter darkness! Their ethereal eyes, ears and mouths are closed through their own volition. They are blind, deaf and dumb in their new surroundings! That is the most favourable thing that can happen to them! -
Depending entirely on the nature of its own darkness, and on its consequent density and weight, a human soul sinks into that region which exactly accords with its own ethereal gravity and which is thus of the same ethereal species. Its new environment will therefore be just as tangible, perceptible and impenetrable as is the gross material world for a physical body. Every knock, every fall, or every injury will be just as painfully felt there as the physical body experienced during its life on the gross material earth.
Such is the case in every region regardless of its depth or height! Everything of like substance has a like tangibleness and a like mutual impenetrability. --------------------
But what binds a human soul more firmly is a propensity or craving which is the mainspring to one or more deeds! This propensity lives on in a human soul, even when the latter has passed into the beyond after severance from its physical body. As soon as the limitations of everything to do with gross matter fall away, the propensity will immediately become even more pronounced in the ethereal body, because then the intuitive perceptions work with much greater animation and less restraint.
And again, it is such a propensity which will define the density and thus weight of the ethereal body! The result is that, after its liberation from the physical body, the ethereal body will immediately sink to that region which exactly corresponds to its weight and density. And there it will also find all those which indulge the same propensity. Through their radiations its propensity will be further nourished and intensified, causing it to rage madly while indulging it! All the others there will naturally do likewise!
That such unrestrained raging must be a torment for the surroundings is not hard to understand. As in those regions this happens on a mutual basis, however, every single soul will have to suffer bitterly from the others what in turn it is trying continuously to inflict upon them. Thus, life there becomes hell, until such a human soul gradually tires of and intuitively feels disgusted by it! Then, after a long while, the desire will gradually awaken to get away from such an environment!
The desire and disgust are the beginning of improvement. They will grow into a cry for help and finally into a prayer. Only then can a hand be stretched forth to help the soul ascend, but decades, centuries or sometimes even longer may often pass before this happens. It is thus the propensity of a human soul which weighs upon and encumbers it most! ---------------------------
And there are many kinds of propensities! Be it greed and its cousin avarice, sordid sensuality, the urge to steal or murder, incendiarism, or merely fraud or careless negligence; no matter what it is, such a propensity will make the soul concerned sink or be dragged to the region where it will be among its own kind!
It serves no purpose to give pictures of life in those regions. They are often so terrible that a human spirit on earth can hardly believe in their reality without seeing them. Even then he would still think they must only be the visions of a feverish and highly fanciful imagination! Thus, he should be content intuitively to feel a moral shyness in regard to all such evils! This will liberate him from the bonds of all that is base so that there will no longer be any obstacle barring his ascent towards the Light.
Such are the dark regions resulting from the principle Lucifer strives to introduce. The eternal cycle of Creation rotates and reaches the point where disintegration begins and all matter loses its form and reverts to primordial seed which, in rotating further, brings a new blending and new forms with fresh power and virgin soil. What until then could not detach itself from gross and ethereal matter to cross over the highest, finest and lightest boundary and enter the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality, thereby leaving all matter behind, will inevitably be drawn into the disintegration, whereby its form and whatever else is personal about it will be destroyed! And that alone is eternal damnation, the extinction of all conscious personality!
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH:
And SON OF MAN!
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In this Discourse we have offered many pages and much reinforcement to strive to give explanation and meaning to the reality of The Second Death! In doing so, we have surely identified the curious fact that despite it being clearly stated in the Bible, there is seemingly no open discussion or even mention of it across the whole “Christian spectrum”!
We have further raised the probable reason for that marked and studious reluctance to not engage with it. And, of course, it can only stem from the fearful realisation that any acceptance of such a final outcome --- exactly as Isaiah, and later Jesus, warned would have to take place for most --- means that, very clearly and very obviously:
‘Jesus, The Son of God, did not die for the rotten sins of Christian believers’!
For, as we have pointed out thus far, and will forcefully do so again in PART III, if the Church were to begin to preach --- for them --- the obvious Biblical reality of The Second Death from their collective pulpits, the reaction of their congregations would be “deafening”! It would encompass the gamut of indignation, anger. and rage; and especially wounded vanity that would spawn vehement rejection.
And, of course, simple denial/disbelief, strongly infused with the stubborn refusal to “find out for oneself”! ------------- Such would be the fear!
Inevitably, however: For all time for Creation: The Warning Words of The Son of Man Proclaims DIVINE TRUTH!
“What until then could not detach itself from gross and ethereal matter to cross over the highest, finest and lightest boundary and enter the Sphere of Spiritual Substantiality, thereby leaving all matter behind, will inevitably be drawn into the disintegration, whereby its form and whatever else is personal about it will be destroyed! And that alone is eternal damnation, the extinction of all conscious personality!”
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At the close of this crucial-knowledge Discourse --- though, of course, all are critical in content --- the Words of Imanuel leave us in no doubt as to the incalculable danger of The Second Death!
So dire is the condition of the earth and its inhabitants in the 21st century that only the strongest of warnings would have any hope of perhaps awakening just a few to the last and final Truths for global humanity, before the prophesied destruction of global societies and the “works of men” is fulfilled in all its terrible reciprocity!
Reader: Here from a Lecture in The Son of Man’s Grail Message, we repeat the following excerpt. The finality of its “Message” should help serve as a catalyst for at least some to a timely recognition!
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Only a small number of these human beings will still recognise this Grace and make use of It for themselves. The others miss the moment, the opportunity that approaches only once. They think that if all else fails they will still be able, as hitherto, to turn back to It at any hour. But it will be a fearful realisation when they must come to understand that in losing this they have irretrievably lost all, and that their names have already been erased from the Book of Life, from being permitted to exist in Creation.
For many this realisation no longer comes here on earth, but only after they have had to leave their physical bodies. However, they were already foredoomed to eternal death, from which, after disintegration in unspeakable torments of the personal self-consciousness that they were permitted, there is no awakening!
Only once, you men, does this Grace quietly pass before you, without calling you; for it is you who must be on the lookout for It, ardently longing, ever watchful and awaiting It --- open to the ray that comes from the Luminous Heights. Only once will each of you human beings still be touched by It! Not pleading or enticing, but impersonal, indifferent as to who grasps It or lets It pass by. It is the Will of God that you exert yourselves for It!
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH:
And SON OF MAN!
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By now, you who have read this tome to this point should have well-recognised that It has “passed before you”!
That means that It has done so under the aegis of the Very Grace of GOD through IMANUEL -----
Who is The Spirit of Truth and The Son of Man!
This, then, reader, may well be your last opportunity --- and thus your time --- to embrace The Very Truth of GOD!
Should you prove willing to do so, you will embrace It with commensurate and lasting Gratitude!
However: Whether you do or not will, of course, forever remain your personal decision. May your Spirit be sufficiently awake that you do so Recognise!