I don’t believe or disbelieve these things. Those kinds of stances towards such lofty happenings seem demeaning and facile and dismissive to me. Rather, I sense that there is truth in them. And accept the burden of working upon ‘self’ to evolve matters such that more is gradually illuminated. This feels like a personal responsibility to me. I wouldn’t call it religion; that obscures the reality.

“…for I have overcome the World.” — John 16:33

A Reading From The Akasha

I am not a seer, not a clairvoyant or clairaudient, one with the capacity to perceive into and about the spiritual world. But such adepts do exist, and their quality or caliber is something that persons with an open mind and sober patient discernment can weigh effectively. This is the mysterious thing about truth — ordinary human cognition of the present time has the capacity to detect its quality, if one refines and cultivates one’s capacity. (Which is in itself a sort of spiritual exercise in selflessness once you understand it more.) Many levels exist, and distortions are all about in terms of what is reported. Some deliberate and some due to delusions. Thus, we could say that the great hidden benefit of the current worldly situation regarding the corruption of how information flows and how ‘news’ is consumed and offered is that ample daily practice opportunity is provided for refining one’s ability to tune into truth and discard clutter. This is the same human ability that will more and more become needed to be applied to spiritual knowledge, be it reported, personally experienced, dogmatized, or intuited. And that is a fortunate thing.

When legitimate initiates want to investigate historical events relating to our earth and humanity, they ‘supersensibly’ consult the Akashic Record. This is something reported as a kind of non-physical depository of all things ever experienced in human minds since the beginning, and also includes things experienced by supra-human minds. (I often am reminded of our own memories, how it works, and how the trope exists that all of our potential memories have actually been recorded, but there are shortcomings within our access methods limiting us from ‘total recall’). You can imagine the complexities involved in searching for some article of research one is looking for in this akashic depository. What is revealed there is not like documents in a library but more like images within a vast collage. Nonetheless, the process of seeing within this depository is called ‘reading the akasha’. Error is not impossible in this deeply meditative activity, especially since one must then interpret the images in order to express them in human language if one wants to report what one has seen.

It is a little known fact(1) that the four Gospels — although these must be considered realizing that 2000 years of human fallacy in the processes of translating and comprehending have introduced much distortion — were not written on the basis of eyewitness accounting or careful gathering of second-hand reports over time. They were not written out of any sort of ordinary human form of research. They were read by seers from the universal akashic record and then translated from sacred images to text. This at first unbelievable truth actually explains very much if you think about it for awhile. It also renders moot a good 80% of all modern theology debate. In the distant future enough humans will possess reliable clairvoyance such that it will not matter whether any Bibles exist or not, for individuals will be able to ‘see for themselves’(2). Since Easter has just happened, I wanted to pass along the following ideas about the nature of Christmas and Easter, their meanings, and depths, taken from initiate sources which I personally have trust in, and who have learned these things themselves in the way I have just described. Perhaps it may stimulate your iamgination. I am not going to do a verbatim(3) rehashing here, but a more poetic accounting taking care not to introduce subjective embellishments.

Christmas And Easter

Whereas Christmas is a more worldly or earthly Christian festival, Easter is more properly intended as a cosmic one. This difference is reflected in a number of ways. Take for example the calendar mechanisms for determining the dates of their celebrations. Christmas, marking the birth of the Bethlehem Jesus child, is always fixed a few days after the winter solstice (in the Northern hemisphere where the historical events originated). But the scheduling of Easter is not that simple; it is a movable feast. To determine the date for commemorating the Golgotha event, from Good Friday till Easter Sunday, one has to consider the heavenly reality. The seasonal equinox (earth’s orbit), the phases of the moon, and the day devoted to the holy Sun, all had to be consulted. The ruling recipe for dating Easter was officially set out in 325 A.D. at the Nicaean Council convened by Constantine southeast of what is now Istanbul. (In those days it was Greek territory). The rule is: take the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. This method causes the actual date of Easter to vary between March 22 and April 25 each year. So, the length of the day from sunrise to sunset must be considered, the phase of the lunar body must be considered, and the day of the week devoted to reverence for the sun must be used. In ancient times, these things carried far more meaning and impact for the typical person than can be easily grasped today. For one thing people could actually see the sky back then. And their agriculturally-oriented lives were deeply entwined with the rhythms of these celestial phenomena. There was a wisdom in this date setting which has largely been lost, even in Church circles.

So, while the Christmas festival was designed to focus the intent of the devout upon simple local events, the birth of a child, the Easter festival was designed to focus their attention upon cosmic matters of a wider scale. Why was this? It has to do with the fact that the very early Church fathers, especially in the first century but up to the third, bore a number of authentic Christian initiates among their number. These initiates could see and know the spiritual realities behind the events of the birth of Jesus and crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. By the middle ages these insights were more and more lost and the so-called experts became less and less able to understand the meaning of the Gospels. These seers knew that when Jesus of Bethlehem was born something very special was in preparation and coming to fulfilment. This Jesus child was to be a vehicle for something absolutely pivotal in world history. The three Magi from the East, though not Christian per se, knew this via their own clairvoyance and responded accordingly. Even the parents of this Jesus infant can be seen as carrying some level of initiation in their beings. The mother is visited by angels and told remarkable things and believes them! You cannot perceive angels without clairvoyance — they are not physical. The father experiences a dream in the Biblical account and believes it despite its extraordinary advice to take the family at once and flee to Egypt! This ‘dreaming’ can be seen as another instance of clairvoyance.

Turning back to Easter, the early initiates saw and knew things even more world-shattering. They knew that an exalted god associated with the spiritual benevolence of the Sun was approaching closer to Earth and hovering over the mature Jesus of Nazareth, now a mature man. They knew that this holy Being incarnated into the Jesus man at the event of John’s baptizing of Jesus in the Jordan, which was visually signified by the descending white dove for those with sufficient clairvoyance to see it. It was widely known, even into the ordinary populace of those days and region, that the rite of baptism was a rite of initiation for persons properly prepared or on the verge of their own spiritual seership. It would have been seen as an absurd desecration by those people to ‘baptize’ a human infant in a church by pouring water over its head. They knew, the more talented among them, that the Christ being who descended into Jesus was in fact a member of the highest trinity Godhead who had been present and active at the very beginnings of this cosmic creation. This is plainly indicated by the disciple John in the opening lines of his gospel, referring to Christ as the Word. (John was the most highly initiated of the four gospel authors and could ‘see’ the most). They knew what an unfathomable singular mystery it was that they were alive during this occurrence when God Himself undertook the sacrifice to walk within a human body for three years. They knew this was not only an earthly event affecting the fortunes, or not, of humanity, but additionally a cosmic event affecting forever the spiritual worlds where Christ formerly dwelt. For Christ, post-Golgotha, has elected to remain in the earthly sphere, spiritually rather than physically, to unite his fate with that of the human beings and the Earth. This carries enormous implications for the inhabitants of the spiritual worlds, not just mankind. Because now, Christ is not directly among them in as intimate a way as previously. This act focuses the will and deeds of the spiritual realm even more intensely upon the present and future of humanity and Earth than ever.

It must be felt now in human hearts that destiny is falling more and more into their own hands. This has much to do with more actively penetrating the Christ mystery. But that impulse is being very effectively marginalized by oppositional forces of late with their arsenal of technological distractions and simplistic Church pronouncements. We can legitimately be humble about our understanding of these infinite realities. But it is a mistake to conclude that simple faith in Jesus is the sufficient course for salvation. We are called upon to do more and to become more, and the spiritual world in its entirety awaits our deeds and decisions and collaboration with intensity.

_______RS

Notes
(1) This fact itself, by the way, was uncovered within the Akashic Chronicles.
(2) Imagine the headaches this will cause for future clergymen!
(3) To bypass my retelling of these matters, you could listen to a very interesting reading of this lecture given by an initiate from 1912.

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