Conscience; raising astral to I AM
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” John 11:25f
This world does not want us to believe in the I AM, the lord of this world, Ahriman, knows that the I AM is imminent. He is very busy calculating the ways to rob us of our I AM opportunities.
Take conscience as an example. Many people seem to have no conscience; they decide to do whatever they like and think that they will get away with it. Two thousand years ago the word ‘conscience’ appeared in our language for the first time. Before that we didn’t need a conscience; if our deeds were bad the Furies tormented us. So if we told a lie, or stole something, a spooky Furie would attach itself to us so that we - and everybody else - knew that we had made the wrong decision.
As human consciousness developed the word conscience began appearing in ancient Greek literature. This indicated that conscience was internalised and this event coincided with the earthly presence of the I AM. The departure of the Furies signalled the development of external laws; our legal system today stands on this development.
The interesting thing, however, is that the I AM is self regulating. A person who has a strong connection to their I AM does not need to be regulated by laws so that they do the right thing. So why is it that almost everyday a new law is announced? No doubt the lord of this world is at work because these laws supplant the inherent ability of the I AM to do the good?
Whenever freedom is curtailed people do not believe in the I AM. Whenever there is no trust, where there is doubt, people do not believe in the I AM. Jesus is speaking this fifth I AM saying to Martha who didn’t trust the I AM. The feminine within us, the soul levels, are drawn towards the astral when the I AM draws close. It is the astral that must be raised up by the I AM. The astral must become spiritualised, it must leave its instinctual, psychic ways and become conscious and clear seeing (clair-voyant).
Jesus says (the) I AM is the resurrection and the life … but only if we believe it!
The resurrection body of Christ exists. It is a reality. It is a constant presence in and around us. If we can’t see it we just have to believe it. Each year between Easter and Pentecost the resurrection is replayed so that we can re-experience the intensity of it. If we believe it then each year our experience of it will be more intense.
Those who do not experience this resurrection power experience instead a schism between their I AM and their physical existence. The evidence of this can be observed in the daily news: an increase in violence, the degradation of sex and the abuse of substances. The dignity and divinity of the human being is lowered or lost.
Rev. Mario continually spoke of the resurrection power. He said, “I want to use the words ‘chemical marriage’ to indicate the gradual absorption of the resurrection forces of Christ into the human organism. So a harmony which we once lost through the fall will now be restored and re-established within us.”
In another place Rev Mario spoke of his anxiety about the teachings being used in a clever and theoretical way. “If we cannot unite that sense of responsibility, if we cannot unite the fullness of our emotional or our feeling forces in order to break this [theoretical] tendency then we cannot participate of that resurrection power that is available in the world today.”
Then in response to the most frequently asked question – what is my purpose - he said, “the purpose of us being together as a group is precisely that as a group we develop such a love for the spiritual worlds, such a love for Christ that one day he will be here and you will see him. That becomes for you the second resurrection as the Book of Revelation says.”
The sign of the resurrection power is the bread and the wine. When Jesus, at the last supper, blessed the bread and the wine, he gave thanks for the hidden forces that create them; the fermentation of the grape and yeast. The fermentation is the resurrection power at work in the wheat and the grape.
If we participate in the consecration and eat the bread and the wine it is not to be ‘religious’ but to experience the resurrection power through which we can see the living Christ. Christ no longer nailed to the cross of this world but risen to be our constant companion in everything we do till the end of this world. Then we do not need laws, our conscience will guide us.