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There are many different

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spiritual systems

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in the world

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that have different types

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of initiation programs

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that a person goes through.

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And the Rosicrucian system is one

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that's been very influential in the West,

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but actually it's sometimes

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hard to get information about what

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their actual system of development is.

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Some of the classical depictions

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of initiation processes

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coming from European alchemy

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and from the Rosicrucian tradition,

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and these often present

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in an allegorical form,

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the different types of stages

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one goes through

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for spiritual development.
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The Rosicrucian tradition

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is one of the most recent

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of the great traditions on the planet.

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If you go back to the Vedic tradition

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in India,

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Tibetan tradition, etc., many others,

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they're very ancient.

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But the Rosicrucian tradition

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really only broke the surface

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in human history in the 1600s.

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The Rosicrucian organization

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wasn't connected

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to any one authoritative teacher,

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and it wasn't connected

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to any particular type

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of control structure.

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There was no institution for it.

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It was really a very free

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and independent path

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of modern initiation.

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What do we actually mean

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by initiation or an initiate?

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Because the terms are used very generally

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in modern metaphysical circles,

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but if you look at people

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that are being presented as initiates,

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they're often extremely different.

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One technical part of

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this is actually the structure

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of their consciousness

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and the structure of their subtle bodies

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can be quite different

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from one to another,

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although they're being presented

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as initiates within different systems.

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So one of the

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discernment points that we have

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within the Rosicrucian system

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is that there are three different
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aspects of initiation

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or becoming an initiate.

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In one of these,

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what is actually being illuminated

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begins with the thinking process,

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with actually knowing

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about nonphysical realities,

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knowing about the greater

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spiritual realities that we come from,

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and the spiritual depths of oneself.

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This is linked to the spiritual centers

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inside the head,

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and this is also linked

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to the elimination

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of the thinking process.

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So that with this process,

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we actually know consciously

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the structure of the spiritual worlds,

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how we interact with them,

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how they influence us on a daily basis.
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And within this Rosicrucian system

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that would technically

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be known as an initiate.

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Some of that actually understands

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the systems,

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and that's one reason

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why you find

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in so much of the classical depictions,

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all these presentations

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of different types of patterns,

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one pattern

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within another,

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often represented

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within sacred geometric forms

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and within Western Europe, often sacred

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geometric forms

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that hold inside of them Hebrew letters

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that are a representation

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of certain states

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of consciousness, spiritual

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beings, things of that kind.

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This is because

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in this path of illumination,

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we find that everything is a thought

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form from the mind of God.

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And all those thought forms

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have a pattern to them.

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And the current term

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that we use for understanding

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those patterns is sacred geometry.

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So sacred geometry is a universal science

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for understanding

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the patterns of creation

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at every level,

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whether it's how the different spiritual

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or constructed

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or different ranks of spiritual beings

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and their consciousness,

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or the different subtle bodies
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of a human being.

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And so no matter what

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tradition you study with,

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they will work with sacred geometry,

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because the sacred geometry

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at the highest

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level is a pure

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pact thought form from the mind of God.

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That shows you

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the pure pattern of everything

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that's manifested from it.

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Now, the next level

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is that of the clairvoyant.

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And from one perspective

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we could say

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this is linked

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to the illumination of the heart

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and the feeling life.

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The Rosicrucian talk about a process

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and within an initiation
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in which at a certain point

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when the heart becomes open and unarmored

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and we cultivate this

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feeling of unconditional love,

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there is a ignition

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of a kind of spiritual spark

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within the heart.

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And what happens then

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is that they describe it

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as an authentic rose.

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Light arises from the heart and moves up

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to what's commonly called

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the third eye center.

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And with that rose

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a third extreme,

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it enters into the centers in the head.

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That area

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that is technically

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at the third ventricle of the brain

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and was known as the cave of Brahma

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in the Indian teachings.

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This is a particular area

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that's open in the head

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that has a space between the penile

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and pituitary glands.

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And as this space becomes illuminated,

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it leads to direct spiritual vision.

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The clairvoyant can actually perceive

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nonphysical realities.

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The third aspect here is that there's

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also the cultivation of action

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or of the will,

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and this is linked to the belly or what

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in Japan

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they call the horror,

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or in Chinese alchemy

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they call the lower dawn to young.

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the most extreme form of this

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we have things

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like actual physical alchemy

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and the transmutation

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of one physical substance to another.

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But this is usually attained

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after going through multiple steps

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of being able to transform something

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that is less dense

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and that is normally

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a etheric energy fields.

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So the actual vibrational transformation

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of energy

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fields, energy,

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healing, things of that

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kind is something that you find
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very strongly on this path.

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So the person that can actually

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transform things using spiritual forces

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is referred to as the adept.

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There's a reason

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why we're emphasizing the head,

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the heart and the horror.

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When you study classical spiritual text,

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you find that

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they divide up

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the aspects of the human being

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into different types of forces.

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So the actual consciousness

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of the human being is often

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referred to as the astral body,

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and it's related

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to what's often called

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the spiritual plane of the astral plane.

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If you study with the Buddhist,

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they'll talk about the thought,

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speech and action.

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If you study with Sufis,

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they'll talk about the head,

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the heart and the hands.

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All these different traditions

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are working with the same concept.

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If you studied Chinese medicine

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or Chinese

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internal alchemy like Tree Kong,

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you'll know that
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they have the upper middle

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and lower down to Yan.

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They refer to these as Elixir fields

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because when we understand

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what these actually are energetically,

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they are a kind of spiritual

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elixir field that we can work in

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and illuminate

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the forces of,

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depending on where we focus on primarily,

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we can

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first begin to develop the capacity

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of understanding things

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in a conscious manner.

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The patterns behind them

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become the initiate

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or directly perceive spiritual realities,

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the clairvoyant

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or directly manipulate

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the spiritual forces,
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hopefully for a good outcome.

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And that's the adept.

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This is really a path

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of direct connection

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to spirit

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by understanding spiritual processes.

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When we go through

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a process of initiation,

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initiation is really a process

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of becoming aware of Who am I?

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Why am I here?

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And

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As you begin to understand processes

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other people don't understand,

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there can be the temptation to use

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that knowledge to manipulate other people

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or to manipulate all types of things.

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Let's say you understand psychology

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and somebody else doesn't.

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You can manipulate them

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with all types of things

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and neuro linguistic programing

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and things of that kind.

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What words do you use?

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What tonality do you use?

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How do you present the information?

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You can manipulate them

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all over the place.

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And so in Rosicrucian ism,

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there's a very strong rule

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that all the powers and understandings

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gained on the path

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will be put

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to the service of other people.

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And so that's like the first rule

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in Rosicrucian ism.
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Otherwise you develop the abilities,

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you will get that temptation of, Well,

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I could get what I want right now

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because they don't understand

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this process, but I do.

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So initiation in inner alchemy.

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Alchemy has to do

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with the transformation of something

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from a base state to a higher state.

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But there's an important thing

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that's hidden in that, which is that

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the base state has to exist first.

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You're turning led into gold,

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but the had to be the led there first

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to create the gold.

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So this means that hidden within

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all types of lower

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structures are the seed

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of its full fruition.

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Very much like
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the classical illustration

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of the caterpillar in the butterfly.

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You know,

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you don't know

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looking at the caterpillar that over time

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its entire structure

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has laid within it

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the ability to become a winged butterfly.

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But it's exact

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same thing in the human being,

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which is why they depicted the higher

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spiritual bodies of the human being.

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As always,

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being with wings, traveling

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through the spiritual worlds.

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But then we come to the point

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of developing our self awareness.

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The I Am presence,

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and that's where we are today.

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The Rosicrucian

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see the whole issue of Jesus and Christ

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being a particular human being of Yeshua.

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Ben Joseph,

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a rabbi who had developed

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to the point

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of being able to actually unify himself

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energetically and in consciousness

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with the being of the Christ.

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Now who is the Christ?

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It's related to what I referred

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to before in the Zoroastrian tradition,

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with a her amazed

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how the aura of the sun

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and the classical tradition

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of the sun God,

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because it was understood

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in the ancient traditions,

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this was not something pagan

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in the detrimental way

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we use that term

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sometimes today in the West,

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but rather

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this had to do with the whole way

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that God manifested in the world.

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And so if we look at our local system,

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the solar system,

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everything moves around the sun,

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and the sun is the

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inexhaustible source of life

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in the solar system.

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It is light and it has heat.

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Without that light and heat,
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we would have no life here.

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And it was understood

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that if you actually

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literally look into the energetic

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aura of the sun,

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there are spiritual beings

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of such a high nature

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that be very difficult for them

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to manifest into denser bodies.

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They need something of that level

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to match their own nature.

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And this is connected

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to certain of the spiritual hierarchies

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and to the Christ being.

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So when they try to understand

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this whole mystery of

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what is the Christ

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in the early Christian centuries?

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There was a wonderful text

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written by one of the great early
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church fathers in Egypt

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whose name was Origin

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and Origin wrote

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a book called On First Principles.

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And in the book on First Principles,

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he gives a very simple

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and beautiful description of

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how can we understand

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what the Christ being is

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the Christ being is nothing other

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than a being emanated from the Godhead

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that has all the qualities of the Godhead

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in a unified form, but reduced in scale

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to where human beings

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can directly interact with this being.

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Because it's understood

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originally that

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the Godhead is everything.

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The Godhead is

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literally everything, everywhere.

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But you take those qualities

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and you create a a being that has that

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at the microcosmic level,

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and that was understood

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to be the Christ being

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and then the human being

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was actually the microcosm

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of that, emanated Godhead,

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we are the crown of creation, etc..

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And so what this means

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in the early Christian centuries

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is they understood

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the Christ

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as being of the exact same nature

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as the human being.

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The crisis is almost a kind of over soul

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of all human beings.

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At the macro cosmic level,

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we all connect to the Christ being.
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And one of the things

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that was a Christians lament

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is that this impulse came in from lower

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states of consciousness,

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trying to understand the teachings

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and Christianity

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that then somehow made Christianity

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something that was a separate sect,

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separate from other sects,

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which was not the initial concept.

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The initial concept

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is that the Christ being

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is the actual higher

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consciousness aspect.

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That is a living being

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at a higher microcosmic level

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that every human being is connected to

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is not something for one particular

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set aside group of people.

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Some might be more conscious of it
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than others,

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but from the perspective

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of a Rosicrucian,

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you can find people

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that are more deeply connected

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to Christ

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than someone that says they're Christian

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who are Buddhist Hindus.

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Whatever has to do

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with their illumination of consciousness

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and what they resonate with.

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And so it's a thing of this

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actual manifestation of the Godhead

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at a higher level

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that has all the qualities of the Godhead

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so we can interact with

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it reduced in scale.

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This I am self-awareness

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is something

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that is related to the entire

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Christ mystery

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building through the Jewish text

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and then into the esoteric

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Christian text.

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So again, the seven

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I am sayings of the Book of John

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are understood by the rose accretions.

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Not to be

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that you have to pledge

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some type of loyalty

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to Jesus Christ as a kind of master

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in order to not be tortured

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or to die forever.

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But rather it's a matter of the I am

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is the way in the light.

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The I am is the resurrection and the life

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that it's that spark of the divine

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inside of us,

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that of the exact same nature
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as the Christ being.

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There is no separation between them.

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They're both emanating

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from the same ocean of fire.

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That's the consciousness of God.

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That's the essence of all of this,

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and that's the stage we're at today.

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So there is a crucial

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and see

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this as the point we're at where

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we have to illuminate our awareness

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to actually illuminate that spark.

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Now, we've gone through a process

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where actually

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we have become more

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and more individualized,

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and when we actually pass

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through this stage at a higher level,

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we first become more deeply self aware,

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but then we actually become aware
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in a transpersonal way.

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So not all of ourselves is so focused,

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but first it starts with

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focus on the self.

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Now the inner

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alchemy of this

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is that once we have developed that fire

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and this is represented

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an esoteric Christian tradition

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as the flame

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above the head of the disciples

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at Pentecost, it's a literal flame

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that ignites a spiritual structure,

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that moves in a vertical axis

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through the human body.

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And at this energy center

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above the human head,

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it illuminates to be the center

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of the Holy Spirit,

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and it's ignition

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into higher consciousness.

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This is a particular way

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it can be presented

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in the Western understanding.

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So as we develop that,

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that aspect of ourselves

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that are the same nature

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as the Christ, same nature

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as the Godhead can now illuminate

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with light

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and transform with the fire,

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the lower bodies.

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That means that

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then we can train our

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I am spiritual self-awareness

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to actually transform

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our consciousness to a higher level.

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It's an alchemical transformation

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of a consciousness
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to become something

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different of a higher nature.

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And then it can then transform

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our entire body of life

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force, the entire authentic

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body cheeky prana

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to a higher level,

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and then it can actually transform

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the physical body.

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That's what an esoteric

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Christianity is referred

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to as the resurrection body

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of the Christ after the crucifixion,

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and sometimes in the esoteric text

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is referred to as the phantom body.

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The first

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start to analyze our own internal life.

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We have to be aware of

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What am I thinking?

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What am I feeling? What am I doing?
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Because most of the time

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we're completely unconscious.

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These are the kind of things

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that you find in many traditions,

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like in the work of Gurdjieff.

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If you

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look at the foundations

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of Gurdjieff work,

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he talks about the fact

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that the terror

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of the situation in his terms

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is that the whole human race is asleep.

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We think we're awake

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and we're walking around in the world,

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but we're still fast asleep

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and we just keep playing out

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the same

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reactive psychologic patterns

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again and again and again.

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So we have to go through a process

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that he calls waking up

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and becoming self-aware.

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And so we start simply

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observing ourselves.

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So the process of self

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observation is fundamental

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in just about all

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classical initiation traditions.

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Without self observation,

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you can't begin to crystallize

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out this level of awareness,

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and you can't start

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changing your detrimental

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psychological patterns

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of how you think and how you speak

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and how you interact with people

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and how you feel internally

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to something that's more beneficial.

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Now, over time,
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this develops to a higher level

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to where your awareness

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actually becomes transpersonal

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so that you're

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not completely focused on yourself,

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but rather

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you can take in the consciousness

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states of more and more people.

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This also develops into being able

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to think in a way

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that goes beyond

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simple mechanical thinking.

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In our mind, it's

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what the Rosicrucian

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is called sense free thinking.

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It means that we can think

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in terms of pure archetypes.

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Our mind can now access

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the pure archetype from the mind of God.

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And that's
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what sacred geometry

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was understood to be by the Greeks.

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So what to us

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seems like a very abstract philosophy.

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What are they talking about?

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They're meditating on ideal types

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and all these geometric forms.

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What are the Greeks doing with that?

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Why are they wasting their time with it?

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They understood that

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what they were actually meditating on

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was sense,

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free thinking, being able

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to actually go into resonance

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with the actual forms

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from the mind of God

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that hold the patterns

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of everything in the world

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into communion with the mind of God.

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And so true, sacred geometry

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was always on that level.

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And this can also give rise to

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something called the new clairvoyance,

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because the whole path of clairvoyance

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has changed over time,

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because our state of consciousness

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used to be different.

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Our way

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that we could perceive things

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spiritually was also different.

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As our consciousness changes,

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how we can perceive things

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spiritually transforms over time

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and again.

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The I am can transform our life force,

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transforms our life body into

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what is sometimes referred to

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as the Immortal Body.

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It has different names
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and different traditions

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and then transforms the physical.

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One of the Rosicrucian practices,

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as far as practical exercises,

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is that they examine things

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in the living world

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to see the stages

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that it moves through

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because they understand

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that with in a seed

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is the complete pattern matrix

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for everything that seed will ever do.

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Once it begins to grow and sprout

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and blossom and fruit

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and wither and decay and disappear,

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all those stages are hidden

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within the seed.

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And so all things

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go through this process.

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So when we observe the growth of a child,
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we see all of these stages.

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One after another, in a lawful process.

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The life of every human

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being from an infant

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to old age is a microcosmic fractal

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of what we go through over

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great periods of time

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and spiritual development.

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It follows a particular trajectory.

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So to clarify some of this,

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and this is a very general gloss on it,

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we descend originally

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from spirit to Earth

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and with human development.

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We went through a particular process

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that in the Indian tradition

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is referred to as Kali Yuga.

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This Kelly Yuga spiritual tradition

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was understood

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as being the spiritual dark age.

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And depending

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on which of the Indian teachers

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you talk to,

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some say that we're still in color Yuga

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and we'll be for a long time to come.

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Others, such as in the three units

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of our Babaji lineage,

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say that it's actually already ended

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and actually

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the timing of the Kali Yuga

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dark age for human

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evolution is exactly the same

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for the ending point

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between the European Rosicrucian

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and the Babbage's.

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For you to start lineage.

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So in this Kelly Yuga dark age,

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we had a particular situation

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take place in the early times.
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Human beings were not self-aware.

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You study ancient texts,

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they're always identifying themselves

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with the tribe, the group.

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I am so and so, the Philistine,

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the samurai, whatever it might be.

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They always identify with the group

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in ancient Greece.

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To be exiled from your city

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was like a fate worse than death.

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Today, it's like you put me in jail.

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I just got to leave the city.

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Great. I'm gone.

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But for them to be separated from

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the group was terrible as a punishment

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because they had a group consciousness,

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so they weren't self-aware.

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But what they did have in early times

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was a lot of clairvoyance.

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And so you still see this
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with some of the traditional peoples

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on the earth today.

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Those traditional peoples

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preserve this type of native

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clairvoyance that can be quite strong.

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And the Rosicrucian see is actually it's

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being related to the blood

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in a particular way.

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What happens over time

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is that as we become more self aware,

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we're not fully self aware,

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but we're moving towards

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becoming more individual

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in our self awareness.

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This leads to what

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the great teachers in ancient

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India refer

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to as the Kelly Yuga Dark Age,

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because literally

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the clairvoyance is going dark.

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The people in India are losing

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their clairvoyant faculties

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and we can no longer directly see spirit.

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And so there's a kind of a panic

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that you can see

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in some of these old text

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that leads to the teaching of,

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well, the physical world is an illusion.

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You're about to get stranded here.

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This is actually a place of suffering.

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So get off the cycle of karma

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and reincarnation of the suffering,

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and just go back to the spiritual world,

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to Nirvana permanently.

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But it was not understood

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the complete sequence of this,

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at least the way the Rosicrucian see it.

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So human beings

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began to more and more lose the ability
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to clairvoyant,

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perceive the world around them,

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but they develop the ability

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to think in a logical, linear way

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and to think of themselves

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as more of a separate individual being.

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This develops over time

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until we reach

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a kind of a low point of this.

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That is the Nader point

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that the Rosicrucian see

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as what happened

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around the time of the incarnation

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of the Christ

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being within Jesus of Nazareth,

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that that is a human

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being attaining the state,

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that creates the template

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for the rest of humanity

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to actually unite with the Christ being
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and develop that state of awareness.

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And so there's actually two different

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movements happening here simultaneously.

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There's an ascending movement

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and a descending movement.

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Our capacity

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for developing higher consciousness

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is going up at the same time

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as in a way

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we're contracting

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into more

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and more of an individual

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contracted state.

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So at the time that we become

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the most individual, the most separated,

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the difficulty of

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that is

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we lose perception of the spiritual world

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and we lose a sense of connection

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to everything.

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That is the benefit of it

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is that it sharpens our self-awareness,

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it sharpens our ability to think

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and to be conscious in a particular way

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that could only happen this way.

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So once that happens

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and we can begin to crystallize the

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I am self awareness

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and we truly become self-aware,

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self conscious,

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then two things could happen.

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Either we keep going down

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and we become more and more self-involved

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and become more materialistic,

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or we can begin to pull back up.

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As that

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I am presence

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fully develops

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and instead of just
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becoming a lower and lower base

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like form of being separate

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from everything,

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it instead becomes

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a transcendental consciousness.

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We're now

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with a fully awakened,

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logical, linear thinking

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and the ability to be self aware.

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We can now fully awaken the

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I am inside of us and connect

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not just to ourselves,

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but start to expand back out

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to be transpersonal in our awareness.

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Now that I am self awareness

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can begin

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to transform our consciousness

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so our detrimental thinking patterns

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where we think very negatively

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and we ascribe all types of angry
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and negative types

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of aspects to the people around us

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and to the things of the world around us.

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We begin to transform

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that and illuminate it again.

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Then we transform the life body

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and transform the physical body.

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And the idea is that once

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you can awaken

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that I am inside

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through certain processes,

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then the task is to connect

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directly to spirit

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and not have to do it

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through connecting

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through another human being

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that will then connect you to spirit.

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And so what this is meant to do

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is it illuminates

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the thinking again,

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not as just a type

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of intellectual activity,

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but to where the intellect develops,

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to where it actually becomes clairvoyant.