The Great Schism Within Human Consciousness

It is good at times while in private contemplation to think upon the unique position one has been born into. Not solely in regards to whatever year and month, acquired gifts, character traits, and national or ethnic heritage we inherit but where we find ourselves in a larger scope of world evolution.  It has often been noted that the incarnation of the great being within the sun¹ – the Christ- walked the earth, suffered unto death, and was resurrected three days later as the scriptures still tells us – the whole majesty of these mighty events marks the midway point in cosmic evolution.  A point in history where one can reach out and pull something tangible within, or in other words to know that we come from a land of perpetual mobility, of transformation – a very real world of spirit which sustains and builds the cosmos, under the sway of laws much different than the laws that rule the earthly realm.  So, as we live in 2026, approximately two millennia after this turning point in world history, and since this passing moment of which so much creative power broke forth into the pages of historicity, an inheritance of sons of God has become secondary or has found itself on the peripheral of experience, taken over by our other calling or designation as ‘sons of man’.  We must always be striving to gain a clearer understanding of what has happened to His children – the human race- as we have went about developing within the confines of space and time. 

We are trying to glimpse who we are in a wider cast than what these terms sons of the divine or sons of the earth represent in their respective narrow usages. Sons of God will be used to express the inner essence that we possess – our hidden or esoteric side of being – the spiritual substance of which any modern gnostic can grab a hold of or any of those spiritual seekers that so quickly wish to transcend into higher dimensions.  We leave aside the Book of Job and any reference to spiritual entities, not subscribing to any type of doctrinal angelology at this point to receive perceptions of the content trying to find its way into our hearts.  We simply allow this title to refer to the inheritance we have as spiritual beings, which is our truer nature steming from a spiritual sphere of existence before embodiment in a material body.   

It is also the substance of the great myth of the garden in paradise – the tale of the human being coming into existence on earth.  If we can get outside our typical manner of reading our current notions of reality into the past and take to heart that these poetic utterances found in creation myths were artistically woven into literature much much later than the time they speak of and also that they were in no way subjectively created in the psyche of man but instead were directly experienced as a reality for the soul of the author.   What we find in the first few consecutive chapters of the book of Genesis is a shadow of Man’s now extinct way of perception – of entangling with divinity.  Adam and Eve in the most literal way imaginable walked with the voice of God – as the older translations keep in tact.  This was a time when Men perceived in much different ways than with the use of  physcial eyes and ears.  They inwardly or instinctively knew of the presence of spiritual entities – would intensely feel – indeed experience the heavens as the sphere of their true being, proclaiming it as the source to which they owe their essence.  Ancient humanity long before even some of the world’s oldest iteraturen ever began to be put into a form of sign, would hear the voice of God – the cosmic music of the spiritual hierarchies sounding through them.  In time this musical conciousness would give way to a picture form of perciecing which after many more long epochs of time would find itslef in the form of thinking as we typically experience it today.  In ealier conditions of existence men didn’t suffer ruptures in the continuity of consciousness but the conditions of what may be called incarnation or life in a body was gently caressed as it passed into the states of consciousness that are still so mysterious- the states we know as sleep or entering into the spirit upon death.  There was a weaving, a flowing within the building blocks of existence (Fire, Water, Air, and Earth) – these elements at that time were more akin to what some may know as Akasha, Astral light, and Ether – these foundations of existence were an aspect which chaterterized the experience –  the very thinking of ancient peoples.  The prehistoric ages to which Genesis takes its readers harkens back to a mode of existence that did not contain physicality as we know it – as we experience it when waking conciousness enters each morning. There was no mineral earth. Nothing in the way of the solid structures beneath our feet.  We were beings void of the physical body we carry today, void of clear waking self consciousness and in its place was an instinctive clairvoyance, a consciousness that would receive pictures of the spiritual workings and the beings behind nature’s phenomena, much truer than one may deduce from liking it to the most vivid lucid nocturnal slumber.  This view of our origins has been lost to the perceptions of humanity – to the condition of consciousness that we possess in modern times, one that caters to sense bound thinking which accesses  only object/subject and cause and effect – a dogmatic dualism.  Humanity is finding its way back to its spiritual and soul nature, back to the fabric which travels within the process of  thinking itself.  They will find their way back to the spirit as it manifests itself in an inner truth and heightened feeling but first all must suffer the isolation – that path to perfect freedom  that demands we enter heaven with our egohood intact.

And so it is also with the Son of Man that we must broaden our usage away from interfering in the lives of great imitates of old as well as the new who hold this title under an oath of anonymity of the highest order.  Those who move culture by instilling into world evolution spiritual impulses wrought by the gods.  We won’t even weave this content into a livelier Christology – one that dares bring the richness that it deserves –  a view that is fuller than the traditional images we gain from  Judeo Christian thought,  but also includes the hard faught remembrances of the exalted Unique Sun Hero that the pagan mysteries foretold of – a coming savior,  superman or messiah.  We apply this title to our life in the body, the sojourn of a man or woman within the material realm.  The individuality that emerges from the consciousness of the tribe, group-soul, nation or from Jung’s collective unconscious,  where each is now to become bearers of the divine in one life on the terrestrial plane. However, our view of sonship in earthly ways is not only to be found in the outward historical or biographical sketches of the day but within the currents that aren’t brought into the light as often.  Impulses of soul and spirit, the forces that shape cognition – that bring light to consciousness.  By using Son of man we mean purely the earthly human being and how he experiences consciousness. How as human beings we sacrifice to the gods what our inner being is able to cultivate on earth and the gifts they grace us from above then combine or merge to carry on cosmic evolution.  The riches in which we bring fortth in freedom as stewards of this planet.

In the evolution of humanity, its experience of the world is now much more adept to seeing in terms of physical reality.  People are much more inclined to orientate themselves within cosmic existence with the power of the senses and its accompanying intellect.   Men’s experiences of themselves have shifted much more inward, closed off from what we used to cling to – the perceivable forces of soul and spirit.   His inner cognition has descended from when it was conscious of spiritual rhythms and beings into one that constructs a rather illusionary world- which includes concepts of atoms, the kinetics of modern physics and spiritual beings within or without that are sought by an unexamined faith.  We don’t intend to drift back into the fourteenth century before our era when Moses formed his mighty pictures in his book of origins²-when men had joined themselves to the world about them with a perception that was intimately linked to the objectively present world of soul and spirit.  And definitely not back millions upon millions of years to the time in which he speaks of as he opens his Sepher but into the time a little before the midway point mentioned earlier – the incarnation of Christ-  and see how man’s inner being has been shaped by the impulses from earth – those form inner and outer history- from his doing of life on the physical plane,  and also form that which comes from above- from his relationship to divine entities.  In essence the reciprocal relationship of heaven and earth stretching for thousands of years since the turning point in time.

This cosmic happening, this fall into the terrestrial sphere and all of its corresponding evolution sadly is misjudged as something less desirable or evil in a sense. Many have seen the descent from spiritual glory in many wondrous connections, but it still seems that some are quite unaware of history’s spiritual content.  Its glory passes them by as it works into the waking consciousness of their personal experience.  Perhaps they quickly condemn any science, find any discovery rather banal, there seems to be no eternal or creative aspect being perceived in the unfolding of the life of the soul of man.   When one can finally mature to see the necessity of evil – the necessity of joining in life with those that may live from a certain coloring or univocal view of reality that threatens your comfort, then much more of life’s spiritual thrust is accessible to understand.   They perhaps can only be sympathetic towards a little and exhibit much disdain for variety, perhaps only loving out of a sense of guilt or duty and that love that is brought forth lacks an inner warmth.  This individual wants as a result to return to the old days or to recreate Eden.  In order to not become cold, we must appreciate the polarities in life – the multiplicity of how truth can indeed present itself to experience and observation.  One must begin to possess maturity in their outlook to see the needed differentiation in approaches to life.  For example, one that is in a process of destruction,  in a process of getting out of old ways of thinking,  of deep seeded paradigms – the evolution of so many that would characterize themselves as free thinkers so to speak- these souls that have overcome quite a bit- have really done a mighty work for their spiritual development -unfortunately can begin to smash to pieces anything rigid – anything to which they perceive that suppresses freedom.  They show a lacking of tolerance to those that do hold onto the old ways.  By the use of tolerant we do not mean a polite smile or nod as an external acceptance while inwardly harboring only one’s own ideas.  Tolerance in a richer application is where one assimilates the views of others – is able to gather truth from all opinions.  We do not blindly accept errors but the point being sought after is that life shows us that there is much to be learned from anyone or situation that one encounters.  We must be able to know the value in religiosity, metaphysical notions of various persuasion,  or a pedantic science not only for our continual grounding, for our handling of daily demands of life but to be able to look upon our neighbors as co travelers in this expansion of the kingdom of god.  To be able to in the event when inner worlds collide – when division occurs in the experience or thinking bewtween people that care is thus taken to recognize that each are in their own process of working out their salvation – learning lessons that you have already come to know or will at a later time.   The preacher’s wisdom³ continues to be applicable as time rolls forward – that there is time for everything – or in other words we need to apply the appropriate way of knowing life- to be familiar with the methods we apply to the diverse forms of knowledge as they reach us.  For example to try and grasp what reaches us in the consciousness not just in wakefulness but also embrace the experience of soul that in some ways does take us back to the times of paradise in order to bring to light the influences that dominate when we do not have the outer covering of fleshly skin dimming our inner awareness. To try to enlighten this mysterious often unconscious time with the light of thought- rendering understanding to the period each day that we leave the body in sleep or death – the experiences that lie beneath accessible waking consciousness.  Not until the two become one will proper balance be applied, the merging of  knowing ourselves as a spirit as it moves with the consciousness of an archangel, not only abstractly or in an intellactual sense simply linking our inner life to these higher beings – but truly perceiving ourselves as sons of the most high, cognizing in the present moment the experience of your inner awareness being carried along unforeseen cosmic threads of thinking and feeling.  One can begin to apply the appropriate sensibility to life and as a result begin to grasp the responsibility that begins to make itself known – a  realization that one is a member of a spiritual family consisting of the most diverse forms.  Humanity is in a position at this point in cosmic evolution to know in the most intimate ways, how spiritual laws have been decreed,  truly interwoven into the universe by highly conscious sentient entities, beings of spirit that penetrate, shape and sustain physical reality.  It is this quest for the understanding of oneself that marks the central question and drive of our time – the call to reveal the sons of God to creation and to the rulers and authorities in heaven.⁴ 

Does it ever strike you to ask how is it that in my spiritual walk, the way in which I have come into life indeed guided by God or fate, that I am then led to or inclined to look to this Christ being as something that I perhaps can or need to trust in?  Then taking it further one may ask – ‘even if one can’t penetrate too deep into what this being – the Christ- encompasses, or into the impact he has had in culture -seeing how each man is quite unique spiritually, positivity one of a kind, how is it then, that he, the Christ – still seems to be there for all in some unbreakable cord even when they may never utter the name?  What do we owe to these never ending impulses that never let the human being forget or at least to probe-  to seek out The Christ in one form or another?  How is that the reality never completely fades that he seems to always have been balancing or drawing these two inheritances as Sons of God and of Man together.  It is as if so many need a spark, a jolt that can give them an inner courage  to see that there is another side to life that doesn’t receive its due elucidation.  Where the history of science, the tales the modern historian, or doctor of theology pieces together from the outer facts – the external points of popularity stringing them together can’t reach.  Many just have not come to be led out of what the author of Hebrew expresses as mere elementary oracles [milk] of spiritual things against the more advanced bread from heaven [solid food] for those further alongin spiritual devlopment rendering them esoteric or hidden.  We have become so good at creating symbols and signs to hold onto knowledge that could not be remembered and if we would go far enough back into the past we would come upon a time when milk was a known symbol, a relic for what allows spiritual beings to move the human being onward. To bring about human development was not always done by heredity and genetics.  Its mechanism was not biological and reproductive systems but webs of spiritual impulses consisting not in the heaviness of a liquid but much lighter nearer to the weight of sound.  This milky substance is not of course the milk we think of but was in fact the life substance that was replaced by blood.  In Pre Lemuria – an epoch of life long before Atlantis this milk – a  kind of soma (the life-awakening, intoxicating juice of the soma-plant), like substance was the food of the gods and from this we joined in cosmic evoultion –  were given life from the God’s. ⁵

Just as we need milk from our mothers for life, truly dependent on another for terrestrial life,  in the worlds behind what we see today spread out before us we are dependent on beings in the dimensions unseen.    In some ways the human race are no longer children and now milk lies as a relic of an old way of life.  This milk represents old teaching- one that is no longer effective because the conditions of its thriving have altered.  Humanity at this point in its evolution is to be on solid food- to take hold of the threads of soul and spirit by direct intent.  To once again instinctively perceive the intricateities of spiritual development-  the mysteries of existence that shape the unfolding

of history. So much of what can help us remember is still contained in the substance that gives us  life today- in the forces that actually moves the blood through our organism, not a mechanical heart but the spiritual impulses weaving in the blood.  The  knowledge of how the human being is a cosmos folded within may have may  been lost to the greater human consciousness, however we can now if we are open,  work these now dormant or subconconcious spiritual forces within and raise them into the proper frequency -a quite magical process penned into history as the etherization of the blood⁶ – allowing us to not only grasp our fading splendour that has been darkened with the light of modern consciousness but most importantly to live with satisfaction and purpose into the impsulese that are bequeathed from higher beings allowing the cosmic spiritual feast of heaven and earth to make its appearance.

You may  encounter one that has no academic knowledge, no personal vested interest in research of any kind into the enigmas of life – has shown  zero curiosity in how the inner life of man has evolved and has no clue of any sort of history of ideas but somehow finds their way into these sorts of truths naturally.  One can rightly say that on some level of intuitiveness these individuals know of how we have materialized from a once ethereal existence – not abstractly but a true experiential transformation and as a result have the tendency to make God a character much like us.  On the other end looking towards the other polarity we find those that work tirelessly to have the remotest- any feint – insight into that which lies yonder and by many a scientific endeavor or religious pilgrimage may try to find them. They look for it in what man has birthed from his soul – from his artistic creations or from what has been produced by his reason and genius .  They trace this content in its many forms and piece together the beginning of this or that perception- this way or that of grasping knowledge – perhaps taking note of significant shifs in various styles of painting, creating music, of expressing secrets of creation.  It is  with these types of observations that penetrate deeper than one’s usual way of assessing  life that will help us to apply a genuine tolerance and appreciation to how each man or woman is coming to express all that can make them who they are as a member of the heavenly host who is  spirit through and through while also finding themselves bound up in certain ways -limited in potential while sojourning upon the earth.  In the walk of life one can notice how most can be placed rather easily into one of these two classes of individuals even if it’s not so dichotomically obvious.  One does live out or imbue more of their essence into these two tapestries of life –  a son of god and a son of man.

When a maturing of perception occurs, one can confidently say and not be blasphemous –  ‘that the night does not belong to this God’-   the one that is blotted out when the sun sets – that has become rigid in Christendom’s expansion beginning with the treasures of Aristotle or a millennium later in high scholasticism.   Nor does this unknowable god – the one that hides in darkness –  the deity that our ancestors met in sleep leaving nocturnal ciphers – this god of the mystics and mediums need to always remain in obscurity. For we know the divine – the supernatural- cannot be plundered with the microscope or by use of our inner light of thinking even though these Aristoloeans and Thomists had achieved the use of thought to a perfection never to be reached again.  God is to be sought with both inheritances ⁷ – one with the senses for ordinary knowledge and also with the other “senses”  when we meet him at night upon passing the threshold into death’s little brother.  Even though the God ‘as spirit‘ that escapes theology and modern physics, eluding us at every turn still demands to be known through concepts, ideas, doctrines and creeds built for earthly consciousness, we don’t adhere to the crippling system of dogma that presents a cunning deception,  that speak of limits of knowledge or the impossibility of knowing the spheres of Angels and Demons. 

The immersing of the soul and spirit of man into an earthly vessel with a memory only pertaining to life in the physical body which brings about a sacrifice involving a forgetting of his spiritual essence has been occurring well before the time of Christ.   Humanity was sentenced so to speak to a knowing and positioning of themselves more fully within terrestrial endeavors fulfilling the role of son of man.   It is never possible in one sweeping thrust of words to articulate the gospel in its truest or fullest form so we must take it in small pieces – these ways in which the good news from heaven has infiltrated the contours of our minds through the forgoing epochs of time.  We peer into the worlds of spirit in the centuries before Christianity was founded – about 500 or so years before the point in time when so much lofty energy in the higher spheres of the heavens was brought down to earth in Christ.  Throughout the centuries the knowing of this heaven has slowly been stamped out of men’s consideration – so that we may forget- or never have known that every few hundred years or so a new Archangel takes up the lead from these heights of spirit that move the trajectory of human and cultural development.⁸ It is in these centuries before Christ came to earth that Michael was given a certain position of power.  More strongly did his impulses come to take shape on earth.  It is when we hear of angels that we give them the most human characteristics and fail to perhaps meet them where they are. We can begin to see that our expectations of their coming have been quite off.  When one thinks of Michael subduing the dragon they quite naturally externalize the two figures or do not give them their due recognition in the activity in what

we experience within  as consciousness.  We can take a moment and entertain a simple thought experiment ⁹ that will show that simple analogies can open a portal to spiritual comprehension.  One can begin to get a sense of what these beings consist of and where they operate.  Imagine that you were a being that existed in one dimensional space and as a result could move linearly in one direction or the other.  Next imagine a two dimensional being that could bend that line you were fastened to.  What would you perceive?  Would it be a being that was responsible for your entire perceiving – indeed consisting of all you could exist and move in?  You could not get around this being that seems to be incomplete on one side.  This being is pushing consciousness –  acting in and on real forces which manifest as sensation and time to your conciousness, moving them towards you, manipulating the fabric you are made of.  

We could even clothe this in the dimensional chatter of the day – questions pertaining to the 4th dimension etc.  When we talk of dimensions – worlds within worlds – there does need to be an acceptance, an understanding has to be achieved which allows one to meet the limitations of earthly language.  There are no words available that will allow one to give a clear and precise description of higher worlds or dimensions that give us the sort of images that we work into our perceptions that are gained from surveying the world around us when we may describe a favorite destination we frequent.  When one communicates truths – real details from the spiritual worlds one is then forced to choose the most suitable descriptions that can help those not able to penetrate these higher worlds gain some semblance of higher life.  These details are are very often unlike anything in ordinary reality.  These beings or being that had curved space time – bent that line that was all you knew- were the beings that gave men of earlier times the certainty that they still belonged to higher worlds.  We must begin to see that one might move into the 4th dimension or its other title time and not bring to awareness that we lose physicality.  Time does not sink into the third dimension, but the third dimension falls away – it isn’t there anymore.  And once one goes higher – we enter spheres of sensation and qualities of self awareness and so on and so forth.  One can almost feel that they are beginning to lose consciousness – there aren’t words for what these dimensions truly encompass.   A being existing in time and sensation – the dimensions above the third – is where we need to imagine Michael and the spheres of existence that he moves and has his being within.  No, he isn’t wielding a physical sword but working within impulses, forces and substances that our soul and spirit exist in. We meet him in the submerged activity of the soul – in its thinking, feeling and the impulses of will.

It is in these worlds that are designated as spiritual – the lands from which we sprang- that are clothed in so many forms – the worlds that are inhabited by that septenary set of archangels – that of Raphael and Gabriel and the others that a distinction needs to be noticed.  The place where pure forces of spirit exist in a perpetual creative state do at specific moments take on certain directions or streams. In these subtle expanses of soul and spirit human souls participate – truly clothe themselves in temperament and ambition.  Here human beings exist without a physical body but in a spiritual body in an environment consisting of this same substance.  One can think of a piece of ice as the physical sheath and as it descends into physicality it becomes a new form – it is now ice and upon crossing the threshold of the spirit it returns to its previous form of water or spirit  or resorting back its original spiritual condition.  As they bring these impulses of spirit to earth before embodiment they can be placed into two camps, something that is practiced almost recklessly in today’s culture but in this elucidation it is warranted to help us see the significance of where the human race sits within human evolution with the proper magnitude. Making distinctions like this in the worlds that are unseen may be seen as ludicrous, as something thast lacks purpose and that render so many uneasy.  They do in some way have a point if they say “well sir, you just can’t do that’.   One of course just can’t go along here and there speaking of spiritual beings moving amongst us – living in human physiological processes- whenever they please. However, to claim to believe in the heavens of the bible or to know of the afterlife because one feels a loved one pass through them and then in the next breath place limits on what can be taken from that world and brought back to earthly understanding – is a from of double talk – something that will impede any advancing into the spiritual world.  The majority of people today do not notice the walls in which their thinking hits when they feel they may have achieved the end of the knowing of spiritual realities. They will not acknowledge that these elusive areas of knowledge and experience are intimately knowable and observable like any fact deduced from empirical analysis with a sound mind and perception.  At some point a trust has to be extended into one’s own perception and also to others that they are indeed capable of forming what may be called a science of the spirit – the art of looking objectively into the spiritual world and returning to earth to give an accurate picture.  This is an obstacle for so many gaining anything like a two way vision,  they think it not possible to truly know the world beyond even though they are so assured of its existence.   

One group of souls were more sympathetic to those subtle worlds of spirit –  the worlds that Plato referred to as the world of ideas in which he still perceived – had a natural clairvoyance still intact and experienced in a certain sense the working of soul and spirit. The other group conditioned in the higher worlds of spirit with their own unique qualities would be those patterned more after his beloved pupil Aristotle. These Aristotelians would thus be characterized as much more earthly with their spirituality – wanting to give the platonic ideas a more definite expression. This group would not want to remain in the sphere of feeling but bring these intuitions into observable classifications- they were gifted with the stronger impulses of the nous or reason.  We begin to see that as Sons of God we carry certain qualities from worlds beyond which explains certain dispositions and world outlooks compared with those we read about or see on a daily basis who are quite practical in the doings of life.  One is patterned  from impulses desiring to remain qualitative and dynamic as they come to life in men and the other with more of an aptitude to harden-to take on certain completed forms -taking the path to intellectualization.  In the centuries that contained these monumental thinkers (7th-6th-5th- cnturies BCE)  amongst many others¹⁰ – they were all under the descending of a cosmic intelligence – the lordship of Michael which in turn brought forth a heightening of human consciousness.  They were the beneficiaries of this being’s efficacious impulses during their significant earthly lives and also when they crossed into the world yonder.  It is in this period of time known in some circles as the axial age – the point in time when thought enters into the processes of human evolution – man begins to think in the truest sense.  It is Michael’s service to humanity to which we owe much of what was cultivated upon the earth in the minds of so many great thinkers of this time.   We must also remember that in these worlds of spirit there is immense creativity occurring, decisions being made – just as in earthly life one devises a plan for the future likewise, there is in spirit, a communication amongst angelic beings and human beings that insues in order to move the spheres of the earthly and heavenly.  At this point a sacrifice is made and the spiritual understanding of cosmic exisitence is lost to a suprplus in gaining earthly light, or in other words the ability to see into heaven was no longer the natural inclination instead men began to feel themselves as an outsider to cosmic peneomena – the spitual side of life.  Centuries before our era we can witness the immense struggle it was to hold onto a knowledge that was fading out- the knowledge of real beings of spirit that were directly experienced.  This type of perception when the soul participated in the activities of the host of heaven – this pictorial cognition -a tale of the human soul is the one we see set forth in symbols, myths, and religious conceptions in a sort of frenzy to not forget – to keep track of something no longer felt or known. 

One begins to see the chasm that initially begins in the worlds beyond and what then follows as it takes shape upon earth in the most varied forms and conceptions having to do with theogony or conceptions of the inner life of soul.  It might be uncomfortable to hear of the multiplicity that is true in the lands of spirit, no longer are the beings clumped together into a monad – into a monotheistic deity.

We see it spelled out rather plainly in literature from all cultures that the knowledge of the multiplicity of divinity has been lost to modernity. In the expression of man’s view of heaven and himself he has not the faintest understanding of his spiritual qualities he once internalized naturally.  It would logically follow if one had lost the ability to perceive in spirit that certain beings or possible extensions of yourself would as a result not be perceived – would seem like a hand that has suffered paresthesia feels to its owner – like a foreign entity – no longer concious of it in the same way as acustomed.  We see it in the way the Israelites came to view their Yaweh,  a god that mirrored and reflected back to them the wisdom and strength of the sun.  In their Jahve or Jehova – a once distinct member of the Elohim – their moon god, was already present in human evolution the inner being of man fragmenting into divisions.  The spirit and soul was to be experienced in new ways resulting in expressions or doctrines like a greater and lesser power in heaven,  a greater or lesser Yahweh.  The struggle to make sense of how one’s god was manifesting to one in external life as one’s inner life – one’s soul was finding its way into new forms – being torn asunder by the demands of continual spiritual evolution is still there in the sacred writings.  In the ages when the Old Testament literature was worked out we see Yahweh or the Lord acting in this or that event and in other translations or other instances it is an angel or a presence acting instead of the traditional injunctions of Jehovah.  Some texts like the Midrash even have Michael as the angel of the Lord who leads the Israelites out of the bondage of EGYPT. ¹¹ The ancient Israelite knew two Yahwehs—one invisible  – a spirit, the other visible – often in human form.  The two Yahwehs at times appear together in the text, at times being distinguished, at other times not.  Documented history has shown that this two powers in heaven ¹² doctrine within Judaism was deemed heretical in the 2nd century BCE. We become familiar with how ancient these two streams are as they take shape.  Where those who were destined to move in tandem with the western ego- the intellectual stream – would begin to only consider what I says is correct – a judge onto itself.  When we start looking at how the thinking in man has resulted in certain clashes, the coming about of certain divions – the creation of herecy or whatever; in the quest for spitual truth it is easy to get swept away by the motto that history repeats itself.  Yes in some ways of course its true as the following example shows. The period of time that held the original thinkers that supposed that reality consisted of atoms was not that of modern science but was actually articulated by an aicnet Greek philosopher in that same age when thought power liberated men from his concious spiritual participation – the 6th century BCE.  We must also see how that repetition is at the same time also new,  brought forth by the inner evolution of man in which modern science found itself a new apparatus in  which to weave its articulations, has brought this atomistic throey into new realities.  The battles of the old and the new, between the universals and the things in themselves, seeing the eternal in the individual as Plato did or finding the eternal through the individual as did Aristotle began long before the time of Socrates and Greek sophists.  In the words of Plato himself we get a better sense of the relationship of these two streams;

“What you say is true, for you possess the eye of the body with which you see the horse, but you lack the mental eye by which the concept of horse is perceived.” 

He still, like the ancient israelite, perceived instinctively the multiplicity of the human soul –  as he enumerates three parts of the soul, — the rational, the irational (dvfio’i), and the appetitive  parts. 

We do not grasp who we truly are if we fail to deepen our conceptions of our heritage- not just in external threads but the spirtual as well.  We must take to heart that men and women have not always perceived in the same manner.  Even if we went back just a few short centuries and experienced our thinking and feeling we would know first hand that humanity bore quite different nuances in perceiving and experiencing.  Humanity once possessed an instinctive experience of participating in the thought life of an Archangel who acted on behalf of the of the sun, not the physicist’s sun we are familiar with but the other sun, the one that gives off intelligible light, the spiritual son, the one Blake heard singing forth, the issuer of divine wisdom streaming through the cosmos.   People in the remote past carried within them convictions- intense feelings that Yahweh had bore its way into spheres of the earth.  First as a being who revealed himself in the fixed stars of heaven – the circle of animals or zodiac or samsara – then into planetary spheres of sun and moon – the last vestiges of a true witness of the sun god Osiris and his cohort Isis who was clothed in the most dazzling crescent moons which adorned her veil – that of which Moses lifted further upward as he brought that Egyptian mystery knowledge of the stars into the fabric of earthly sphere – into nature herself.  As he led his people through all of nature’s most cataclysmic phenomena – through deserts, across rivers and up idol infested mountains – into winds and earthquakes, plaques and famine- embracing both blessing and curses.  Finally it fell into the anthropos itself as the great being of the sun united itslef as Christ to us and our planet.  We may not ever find out how the dots connect in larger questions of life at least not in the form that so many want them to.  It’s not enough for example to trace the history of deities with etymological and archaeological discoveries or rest in the ideas and evidence of cultural borrowing from various migrations of root races which are then used to piece together the reality of religious or spiritual evolution and then to expect to feel that one has a firm or accurate apprasial of an evolution of man or of the gods.  I assure you if you had senses that could resonate with the akasha – the book ok remembrance – the Book of Jashar (the onomastic equivalent of the akashic, the dominant sound of each being ash. )   in the forces that connect the subtle forms of life while remembering the pasts’ creativity,  you would then indeed find that old priest of the Hebrews looking for a Messiah in the moon as the evening sky formed in the heavens, an inspiration for the curtain that was torn in two. As the sun disappeared, an alive representation of the special mission the hebrews would have as a people in the evolution – the growth and maturation of the inward light of the sun consciousness- the ego itself – the iam/ the iam of a chosen people would rise up within the sage as a mighty imagination of the Lord or Kyrios (in greek)- signaling that the cosmic

spirit of life, light, and love would soon descend into the hearts of men.  A new impulse of freedom in the inner life of humanity would begin to obscure its relation to its home in the spiritual sun as a Son of God.  We are not here trying to push sloppy insights by claiming the ancient Chaldean god Sin –  a lunar god – is the same Yahweh but that there is some external evidence if needed that indicates that the Hebrews shared in zodiacal and or moon related spitual worship.  In ancient Near Eastern cultures surrounding early Israel (i.e. Babylonian, Chaldean, Assyrian), the Moon was associated with with the tree of knowledge of law,  measurement, and number.  It was a science of genealogy, heredity, and bloodlines that was of an  intuitional nature,  meaning the numbers or the duration,  the mathathmatics was felt – was internalized and not thought out to find relation.  This instinctual grasp of the cosmic ratio of measures  is what afterwards became symbols for actual time and space measurments – the reciprocal activity of time falling into space was mapped out as these people’s including the hebrews followed the lunar year and its ryhtyms and would theurgically remove the sacred geometry from their souls and learn to seek the inner meaning in external appearence as they became more aware of themeselves forming the result into the art of the universe – the material consisting of patterns noticed in nature as men developed the scientific eye – all things that the Jews would begin to instill into evolution beginning with Abraham the father of arithmetic.

Today we also may see a man in the moon.  Not in the way that modern science may – when it views this figure within the lunar disc as a Pareidolia – something people have always mentally done by taking patterns within and coming to see things that aren’t truly there.  When we read folklore from the Middle Ages for instance, a tale about a man being banished to the moon because of crimes he committed and now must do penance, ¹³ we often miss much of what is actually there.  When we don’t have the imagination,  the inner power of thought to live into what the author was wishing for his readers to experience,  we can only then receive the crumbs – the bare essentials of the spiritual food which was offered.  We have lost sight of the objective reality this legend and other mythical tales hint at.  They are not cleverly spun child’s lore but direct experience of spiritual travels that each will face in the worlds yonder when the physical body is discarded upon death.  The materiality of the moon is but a marker for the entire spiritual sphere surrounding the earth , within it there is a traversable higher dimension that is inhabited by beings – moon beings if you will in which we existed alongside in long past ages.  This celestial rock,  which now has garnered attention not for its angelic glory but for it being an object of scurtiny over weather it it had ever actually been visited by a earth astranught,  is in reality the home of these Moon Angeloi that were in long ago periods of cosmic evoultion the primeval teachers of humanity.  These beings are there in the sphere of the moon – the astral substance and not in physical structures.  No, they do not need material crafts to dazzle the human eye but work in the astral and etheric impusles in which the human race is now beginning to experience again.  They mostly hide recording the deeds that are etched into the akasha from the life on earth.   One may think cultural trends come and go of their own accord but in actuality there are intelligences that deliver them to humanity, gifting the inahabinets of earth with gifts from above that sweep the interest of a certain culture.  What so often seems to be a spontaneous interest in cosmic activity or a mysterious fascination with the moon turns out to be not just fantastic coincidences but are events orchestrated by beings that have been lost sight of due to scientific consciousness.  Our old body-less teachers are pushing these images and curiosity about the nightlight for the sky – the lunar orb – within the dreams of men.  It isn’t until  it’s spiritual side is penetrated with active interest will the mystery of moon be fully known. Then it will not just as a symbol for what men may work into world content or one that signifies a guardian making sure we are pure before we are admitted further expansion into the starry heavens but will also exist as vivid reminder that we ourselves are there as the guardian, as the new educator learning to love ourselves – even the substance that has hardened – become mere moon dust- that was originally pure spiritual sunlight.   In the sphere of the moon, the astral land of passions and curiosities that men have so inclined to take on as a son of man, we see the confusion that falls upon humanity when the moon’s light reflects their own personal inward countenance – an inner life that can no longer derive from its appearance what the Hebrew sage could – a symbol of hope and of a future.  A future not lost in samsara – a wheel of births  but one that  through the Christ’s continuous working impulses is now able like the sage begin to sustain a permeance that can be taken into the life after death.  An umbilical cord of spirit that eventually each soul will have created within in order to trace back their own heritage – back through their ancestors, the group-souls and egos – the Sons of God – those Elohim that patterned ancient Israel  after there own likeness according to the Deutoero law or later to be known as the Sons of Israel, ¹⁴ all the way back to the first particle of self that ever entangled with another to produce conciousness in his or her long long life traveling between heaven and earth.  The chosen way for God to complete the work that it began.

As we move further along in the course of history we are given more material to work with  – granted ample opportunity to see this spiritual projection of creative wisdom permeate tangible history.  We begin to witness this wisdom that the Archangels carry down to our abode – these forces  do not appear simultaneously in one thrust of spiritual activity but in a manner that releases its effects slower than what one may expect.  If one wanted to see the deeds of an Archangel – the work of a Michael or a Uriel,  what it means for earthly life when a higher spiritual being reigns over the cosmic turning of time with its most fervent intensity – one would need to place a bend into reality and travel back into the past. 

In order to experience,  to witness the beginning of a certain cultural impulse reaching earth one would need to look back into a number of centuries before.  One can’t see an Archangel in its purest form in the present for they are the propagators of world changing impulses. When these beginnings of things are woven amongst the thinking and feeling of mankind the majority of its bearers are unconscious of its working and only later find an accessible tract to the Archangels themselves.  So where are the impulses of the cosmic intelligence from Michael to be found in a stream that slowly penetrates the earth from heaven over the course of thousands of years?  One answer is to find it in the way we have already begun to bring to light –  in the emergence of the faculty of thinking or in man’s ability to intellectualize is where one can sense Michael’s work,  as he serves an intelligence that counter balances the materiality of consciousness.  Michael’s mission can be uncovered in the maturing of the thought life in man – in its quest from Aristotle in his efforts to render the intangible tangible until its fulfilled in Aquinas a thousand or so years later.  We must imagine, truly bring forth an elevated feeling and thinking into our imaginations makeing them into an ever clearer picture of the fact that for these thousand or so years the impulses of Michael were being stamped into the forms of the times.  Imagine  yourself in a form of a time lapse image taking in these impulses and forming a kind of spiritual muscle memory that yields higher and higher forms of intelligence when it matures within strengthening the act of cognition  – imagine the very process of thinking becoming more disciplined so one can safely navigate the pitafalls of materialistic thinking.   One can trace this impulse as it moves from Aristotle and is driven by Alexander into the east where Arabic influence captures it and creates a court of the highest arts and sciences as it did around the 8th and 9th century of our era.  One can then follow this higher impusle as it returns to Europe and from this is then Christianized or permeated with religious content.  Many are unaware of the immense influence Arabasim and many other streams of eastern extoteric and esoteric knowledge impacted Christianity’s devlopment up till and through the Middle Ages.  Many of Ariststle’s works were translated from Arabic sometimes passing through many other languages such as Hebrew and Greek before arriving in its Latin form.¹⁵ This is how in short,  Michael  and the others by use of the inner faculties of man ever so gently and gracefulling permeated the world with cosmic intelligence.

One might be prompted to ask, ‘well I still can’t quite grasp this, how do I know when something or myself  has experienced this change in conciousness – has been permeated by this cosmic intelligence that is supposedly administered by angelic entities?  How do I get a better feel for what this is?  It is an intelligence that is not learned as mere head knowledge or academic prowess is instilled.  It is also not in the sense that higher beings are transplanting fully worked out content – implanting ideas into one’s mind either.  One can think of the efficacious impulses wielded by an Archangel by relating it to one’s own assimilation of growth or the process of immersing oneself in “what it was like” in this or that period of spiritual incubation. The act of combining one’s own perceptions over the course of many years.  To bring before one’s mind’s eye an older thought image filled with vivid feeling and then in the next moment bring one’s current affections toward it – truly recreating it as it is composed in empty space or spiritual duration – planting one image within the other and feeling the contours of change.  Only when one can look back into a mode of being, is able to relive the qualities of the life of soul does access to the domain of the Archangels open.  It is like a stranger that emerges from an inner depth – you know this stranger intimately as you were always within one another – truly one flesh,  but its appearance is new enough to throw one off as even the elect can be decieved.   One may have the most enthusiastic attraction for an idea, tred a path to some truth or area of inquiry,  harboring all of its corresponding sympathies allowing them to take it to heart in the most sincere way and in the process of gerontology the interest then wanes and only after a number of years when introduced again or is stumbled upon do the experiences of the consciousness of Archangel’s await.  The inner life has become loosened, flexible enough to rise a little above its habitual movments.  One may have known personally this experience, when one contemplates their own expression of human spirituality that they have procured over long periods of inner wrestling – the feeling and thoughts that return for another round of permeation- or in other words after a period of time or after some inner trial is overcome similar religious content and artistic expression when digested again may bring fortth a sixth sense –  a two way vision may appear  – an inner depth has risen to bring forth a richer assimilation of life.  This helps to paint a clearer image of how the spirit weaves into the earthly realm.  

Even though we are trying to find expression for the evolution of the human soul as it has been led on by the spiritual world and its beings, we are also aware of the immense amount of literature and opinion that exist in the many realms of human endeavor that so many in ever widening circles have participated in giving varying degrees of accuracy in accessing the cultural development of the western world.  The external remenatnts of the deeds of history as well as what has been termed the history of ideas has been recorded and interpreted by a number of historians, philosophers of the mind, and scientists of various persuasions.   We here are by no means attempting anything close to exhaustive or even staying somewhat specialized in a certain smaller fraction of the epochs of history.  We are here to bring forth a spark of enthusiasm so that others may begin to bring forth the spiritual or spirit in their own concepts, ideas and events that might have lacked the needed content for satisfaction.    Not only is the aim to make the spirit more knowable but also to trigger a process  that works under the surface,  that truly developes the inner bodies of man.   A development of inner life that works on the highest faculty which is thinking itself.   The form in which one pentrates beyond sense bound knowledge is multi faceted ,  so we gladly withdraw any unreasonable claim to any type of exclusivitiy or as a so called singular way to reach heaven.   Our desire is  to look deeper into this special faculty of ours  as it has developed since the birth of Plato –   – the mode of thought and its preferd philosophical form throughout this critical period of spiritual development.  It is understandable how foreighn it is to speak of such boldness and specificity in regards to higher spirits in our case Archangels moving the reality we are stuck in or even talking of such a science that tries to achieve a suitable penetration of the inner consotion of a man.   One must have an open mind and a willingness to raise one’s attentiveness to a sphere even more obscure than the externals of long past ages of time.

We are first and foremost divine beings and must begin to not just in abstract thought but behold more concretely what this means.  That as human beings we can exist in higher forms of thinking and feeling and can perceive what goes on in spirit just as we perceive external events in waking reality,  even if it is only dimly at first.  We can have confidence that we can rightly experience the very real distinctions, qualities and sides of the non physical world – a land of genuine life existing within these folds of spirit and soul.   We can find assurance within ourselves that the human being penetrates into all these spheres or dimensions and that our future will consist of truly rising to place ourselves in these spiritual decisions that involve destiny which includes a participation in life when out of the body in a state of preexistence or unbornness.  We can be placed into a position to remember that as beings brought forth in the image of the divine, what we then bring into the world which springs forth from our thinking and feeling is unfolding from these meetings in the life before birth where we existed in a spiritual form.  To carry within  notions of humanity participating with higher beings in  such a way as taking in the impulses that would come to life later,  that would need to unfold into the externals of history in order to save the appearances , to save mankind from losing his memory – his very longing for higher worlds,  does much for one’s quality of life and enjoyment of existence than most think.   On the other side – the spiritual side – there is also the longing for another state of being and we might be wise to not assume that the soul is created at conception but to consider that there are impusles that create longings for life in the body.  A desire is kindled in pre-existence to express the ability to work into life on earth  plans that are constructed in these higher worlds before conception.  This is just some of the richer reality that can be injected into ones personal philosophy and conceptions of beauty.   We can look around to those near us, perhaps they would come to to grow in life to fight for the perception of the human being  as a spirit in light of the fact that humanity’s inner freedom would fracture its spiritual intuitiveness. These souls grasped that the clairvoyance he once experienced was no longer going to be presented as a faculty for his fellow men.  We might think that we will know all when we pass through the threshold and in some cases this is true and that much of the mystery of the physical life in the body becomes understandable after we ascend out of the restrictions of our physical apertatus.  Men and women in spirit or out of the body could perceive that in the course of time that thinking itself would pivot,  morphing from a perception such as the way in which a color makes its way into ones attention or an image that rises from within  into  the experience of what we know as a fully developed thought life.   Those that beheld these intuitions before they were to come to life on earth wanted to desperately hold onto the spiritual or platonic view of the world, hold onto a spiritual perception and knew the impending perceptions of men would lose the once intimate connection to spirit.    One does not typically think of the other side of reality, the spiritual,  and see it as the sphere that truly shapes reality.  When one lashes out at dogma or old religious traditions one doesn’t always see where these can originate. Its always more than just the typical suspects and this can result in a deeper understanding for those that our thorns in our sidee, when we gain a higher view of someone’s persistence stubbornness.    It is in the lands of spirit that will dictate much of the ways men and women will then process the world that grows up around them after birth.  In the great wisdom of divinity preparation was instilled that would not let this lost spiritual perception completely fade amidst men’s tendency to order life based on sensory perception.  This collaboration between the Platonic and Aristotelian,  pure spirit and the beginnings of matter is a complexity that must be approached from many sides.

In the leading thinkers at this time,  in the centuries that followed the turning point in human evolution, the Chrit being along with the impulses Michael had brought prior began to work in them as they came to life on earth granting them qualities of soul that would prepare them to express the trinitarian nature of forms in conceptual ideas.  One could say that this had a beginning with Socrates as the pioneer of conceptual thinking up to the time that life would come to expression in philosophical ideas colored with religious feeling- in the first centuries of era even though the world and its content was subjected to a threefoldness long before Chrsitianity got a hold of these representations and  by this time the tripartite diviosn was already a thing not so readily discerned.

 Origen (c. 185 – c. 253) who was a disciple of Clement of Alexandria, is one link to the true Christianity – to its origins in the east-  its platonic heritage.  He assimilated into his philosophy smoe say the beginnings of Christian dogma with elements from Plato, Aristotle, Philo, the Neo-Platonists, and the Gnostics.   If we meet him, not in a superficial manner but try to see his inner struggles and perspectives when one reads his works i.e.- On First Principles .  We see that he was interested in how the spiritual human being presents itself to human understanding.  How can this trichometry of the human being be grasped amidst the new impulses that have been already working for centuries before I came here to earth?   He was a man still in possession of a tremendous secret – to never hold to tightly to the logic of the earthly realm.   And for this conviction he tried with fervent effort to stay true to that world of spirit that still penetrated his soul in his life on earth.   He takes pains with wisdom in hand to withhold dogmatic judgments, displaying his sensitivity to the intuitive knowledge of spiritual impulses that truly entered the hearts and minds of men in quite novel ways at the start of our era.   In his doctrine of preexistence or in his ideas of the human soul his instincts would not let him be led away from the fact that the incarnation of a soul in a body and any ramifications that exist as a result must be sought in the worlds before birth not solely within the physical realm.

“What are now souls (psukhê) began as minds … the purity and subtleness of the body with which a soul is enveloped depends upon the moral development and perfection of the soul to which it is joined.”

Early in the history of Christianity,  we notice the beginning of a period where the Christian or religious experience would shift to being free in its expression into one that is centered in external historicity or in dogma or the letter of the law.   One who found themselves chosen to be birthed at such a chaotic time was Paul.  The apostle is a favorite to cite in defense of the trichromatic human expression from that time, but we need to move on from the basic assertions, think beyond mere pedantic categorization and instead to try and feel how one that was a spiritual minded person or a platonic soul at this time when such birth pains were whirling about would experience the world.   If he would dare write this high principle within man – the spirit –  into a papyrus scroll it must be something that would be known intimately to his listeners something clearly not present in most cases today wehen we only hear of spirit in abstract sentimatlity.   What has happened?  How would these truths be so significant for him to write or to record for others to hear or read have such an intense impct and now are we to never get near that expectation that mode perception drenched in a kind of enchantment .  One must ask how his inner life was so construed so it would dicover the great secret of being fed by the bread of heaven –  the art of being content not by sight with the ordinary sense of life but eyes of the spirit.    Whatever we may assume to imagine was the inner discipline of Paul we need to understand that it was not at all in the laziness of American evnagical cliches such  as ‘god knows my heart’ and  ‘resting in the blood’ of which the truth of these phrases are no longer taken appropriately they have like most tennetas and Christian elements, lost all originality of its true spirit.

This battle never relents,  still continues today as humanity progresses towards its higher goal of full apotheosis,  the wrestling between the free flowing of the spirit  which is not suited for earthly language and the impulses that for the sake of continual development must order these spiritual forces into the most diverse systems, theories and artistic expressions imaginable.  Tertullian (160-230 CE) took a Latin term sacramentum, a term that was ifelt or understood instinctively before the time of Christ as it still held connection to the ancient mysteries – mysterion.  Before the Christian era our language, its very words carried meanings which weren’t so concrete and this word held a meaning of “to keep silent’ – as in the case of an initiate who painstakingly learned to do so he could experience the higher worlds – a foundational component of his initiation within the temples,  the mystery centers.  Tertullian,  by translating what older writers used for spiritual phenomena that was not permittible to speak to the simple, exchanged it with a word that already achieved a certain roman hardening. ¹⁶  This early Christian thinker has engendered a desire to illuminate a once spiritual experience by connecting it to an identifiable and visible earthly Christian rite.  These thinkers rose above what might have been taboo or not permisible to pull down into the profane – into a science of  any sort.  We must also bring open minds to how we appreciate thisese ancient figures.  To not live by hard and fast conceptions of who these men were and the ideals they were chasing.  In some cases they have been given reputations by writers that follow after them who often as it turns out do not understand their views in the slightest.

We now are going to look at a pivotal moment – one which has an indentifiable external identifier or rather correspondence for a major turning in the human being’s relation to divinity, we look to the the midway point of  Christianity’s total existence as of yet,  finding it in the 9th century CE. – the so called dark ages.  This event does not at all garner any attention and for the most part has slipped through history’s elucidation.  One finds the loss of perceiving the spirit articulated  under the surface of the medieval documents which were in involved with Christianity at the 8th Echumenichal Council in Constatinople.  We must keep in mind that whatever came to be penned into these treasties or cannons is just the residue of what had taken place many centuries prior in the world of spirit where Archangels – the beginners in what will transpire on earth over the coming centuries – pass the reins of spiritual headship off to one another.  In these spheres of spirit exists their actions, their intentions of will that slowly penetrate into what as humans can grasp and then work into outward history.  This took place in 869 AD.¹⁷

If we take a moment to look at the documents that were involved we can grasp what we have already hinted at, the spiritual activity of wrestling with the notions that arrive by way of new perceptions of the world about one and the loss of older ways of cognition.    The loss of spritual sensitivity shows itself here in what the great thinkers of Christendom have to say and at this point in time it was regarded that the human being is no longer  a trinity but only a duality – a body and soul.   If you were to be present at this meeting between the west and the east,  it is not as if you would hear one adamantly express  ‘we declare that man can no longer be a spirit, soul and body’, for man did not work with the same concepts neither were his concepts formed in the same manner as they come together for us.  They did not think like we do, the soul and spirit then carried a much different effectual meaning  than how it is injested and cognized today.   This loss of knowledge manifests in the documents below as an inability to trust in the inner life of one’s own soul – an inability to feed it satisfying truth that would give it assurance of salvation, of having an unbreakable link into the immortal spirit.   Within the council’s formal writings themselves  it is quite hidden and not so explicitly spelled out.  It subtly anathematises the doctrine of “the two souls”, mentioning it only once.  Man no longer has the highest principle as a connector to heaven.  Nothing that can give him the sure hope of new life , of redemption – all of men’s faculties of soul are found strung together,  men’s bases instincts and drives or his lower memory  are mashed up with those that make him a spiritual being – the instiller of freedom – all that makes him a divine being – a Son of God.

…“Though the old and new Testament teach that a man or woman has one rational and intellectual soul, and all the fathers and doctors of the church, who are spokesmen of God, express the same opinion, some have descended to such a depth of irreligion, through paying attention to the speculations of evil people, that they shamelessly teach as a dogma that a human being has two souls, and keep trying to prove their heresy by irrational means using a wisdom that has been made foolishness. Therefore this holy and universal synod is hastening to uproot this wicked theory now growing like some loathsome form of weed. Carrying in its hand the winnowing fork of truth, with the intention of consigning all the chaff to inextinguishable fire, and making clean the threshing floor of Christ, in ringing tones it declares anathema the inventors and perpetrators of such impiety and all those holding similar views; it also declares and promulgates that nobody at all should hold or preserve in any way the written teaching of the authors of this impiety. If however anyone presumes to act in a way contrary to this holy and great synod, let him be anathema and an outcast from the faith and way of life of Christians.”…

There were Gnostics  who were convicted that humanity had more than one soul, man had a higher spiritual essence that lived in the light of spiritual reason and a lower aspecr that responded to the needs of physical life.  Once can view this so colled doctrine as the last remnants of the knowledge that the individual human being has of his own spirit (the higher ‘soul’), a spirit that in its essential being is not the same as what is commonly thought of as comprising the soul.  One,  if they do label themselves Christian will speak endlessly of the triune image of man being spirit, soul, and body but the moment they are asked to expound on the “what doing this or that in the spirit means? or what is the difference between the spirit and soul? They usually are at a loss of words unless they carry the spirit entirely into the abstract realm of sentimental metaphysical forces and beings.  The human soul no longer functions as to be able to perceive in  a clairvoyant manner, see into the subtler worlds that are responsible for life in the cosmos. 

As we continue to move along this sequence of history known as the Middle Ages, passing through centuries that are filled with creative decisions from Michael and all of the other Archangles – each with unique abilities, characteristics and in quite different points within their own evolution all working upon the earth.  Quite miraculous endeavors and inventions begin to pop up and rural life shifts into unified city life.  Education moves in novel directions – finding its home in the first universities and away from the monastic birthing grounds of high intellectualism.  There are theologians such as John Scotus Erigena and Thomas Aquinas who still hold to the tripartite division of man.  Hundreds of years later, since man abolished his own spirit, and when there seems to be nothing present to keep the confidence of our inheritance as Sons of God in conciousness amongst the many reformations occurring around this time, there seems to always be a few chosen ones that can in a suitable manner bring to the present the lost wisdom of past ages.  The descending logic or reason into the minds of men that first appeared in its highest acumen with Aristotle and in a thousand years it is then Christianized. The spiritual content from the ancient temple mysteries after it was worked through by the emerging Greek and Jewish thinkers is now within the artistic reach of the church which will begin to act as an authority on all theories of life.

(1225 – 1274) Thomas Aquinas says.” What we see in our sensory environment is constantly permeated by sensory phantasms. But the spirit, precisely the spirit that I have described in the sense of mathematics, described as Nus, which arises in a simple way, just as tomorrow arises from yesterday and today, this spirit, by freeing itself, gathers fruits for eternity. “

When we pick up and read the words of the angelic doctor we discern how he was one who did much for saving the spirit from being annihilated form man’s entire realm of awareness.  He had insight of how one’s very thinking is the highest posssesion of man and something that can lift one into the fading higher worlds.  St. Thomas infers the conclusion that the soul is immaterial.  It was a principle of Scholastic philosophy that action is, so to speak, a measure of existence : agcre scqnitiir esse. Or in other words the effect cannot be greater than the sum of its causes : if, therefore, the intellect, in the processes of pure thought, transcends all material conditions, it follows that the soul, which is the radical principle of such processes, is itself immaterial.

This was also a time when formal education was a pursuit more for the privileged, where the 7 liberal arts found expression in such powerful ways because it was formed at a time when concrete tangible spirits could  still be perceived  behind those 7 liberal arts.  We must let the abstract and rigid conceptions of what the branches of knowledge are to us and allow them to merge more and more into the world of feeling and of spiritual thought, realizing that these students of higher pedagogy who were pursuing academic interests in these fields  experienced it more as a spiritual communion not a worldly affair -something to better my own life- but there was still a brotherly love that permeated men and women at this point in history,  a mutual working together for progress of all was still intact in the conciousness of humanity.  One must begin to spiritualize their long held onto notions of what reality was in different historical periods –  to make them malleable and to realize that our dearly held conceptions are not valid in all spheres. We must try to pierce the veil of reality that has in so many ways become individualized, more complex.  We might want to have neatly alongside each branch

of a science-  or artistic medium or form,  a silhouette of a spiritual being- one that can be easily identified as the father or mother of this or that impulse or idea.  What happens when you open to  Chapter 3 of the Book of Enoch which has again gained such immense interest in modern times?  When you try to understand the conspiracy upon Mount Hermon and the watchers of mankind. It’s not as simple as designating a being of spirit as a propagator of this or that,  not so easy to categorize an inmaterial sphere and beings that will not submit to being separated and identified as men are.  When one ventures into the higher worlds its is not appropriate to think that Michael is leading this art or this science and Oriphiel is in charge of that.  We must take to heart that in these centuries that compose the middle period since the turning point of time there were those that did experience a spiritual entity when pursing music or gramma,  or perhaps would speak or interact with a multitude of angels behind the numbers of artimethitic.  There was still in some, a semi conscious communion when these angels needed to push  knowledge to men – to equip them for their pursuits of Sons of Man – as stewards of the earth for the conquering and knowing of the physical structure of the cosmos.  These beings that were the teachers of humanity have  ever been giving humanity the impulses that would eventually be formed into content by the leading thinkers of whatever time – formed into a science of symbolic forms or a philosophy which would enlighten its hearers, curbing the curioussity and filling the emptiness that results when a living organism makes a way for itself.   These meetings with the beings of higher dimensions have over the course of time fell into an abstractness and changed entirely in time into a our purely abstract areas of study.  Much of the original magic or spiritual activity that was found and felt in pursuits of knowledge are now gone.  Unless we work ourselves back into a thinking that gives satisfaction we will be lost, separated from these beings that fill in the dark matter of the cosmos.   We must know that at the time where high Scholasticism flourished,  men lived more in an intuitive thinking.  The kind of  pursuits of the mind that may have before seemed so childish to us are now fill on with awe as we fathom the kind of cognition that humanity achieved in the centuries before science flooded on to the world stage.  Lost was spiritual side of these foundational branches of study and soon the battles over universals and how the eternal can be found in form would take up the priorities of thought.¹⁸

We can observe in the centuries from the eleventh to thirteenth, when debates in thought expression were more popular as men at that time thought more deeply than most today.   We are largly reactive with thoughts.  We have to combine concepts and ideas together, must produce these thoughts out of ourselves if we want to reach the level of true contemplation that was reached at that time .  A time when theology for instance was a realm of the sacred – a world in which it was dangerous to venture into unprepared.  One made sure to be attuned with mental dispositions and faculties that were trained with strict logic and rhetoric by earthly teachers yes but also like Enoch they knew who the true originators of all sacred science were – the beings who are responsible for the concrete moving of evolution. This prepared the mind to be conditioned like our modern athletes keep their physical bodies in peak condition.  Men experienced their inner life with much more sympathy than the typical person who is living today.   We fail to join these earlier thinkers if we apply the subtle soul qualities of ours to these urgent matters of thought that they appraoched.   At an earlier time love for rhetoric, for music, and  grammar – the ability to rest within these fine modes of what might be thought of as so boring now – just pure intellectualtasim was still at that time more emotionally thrilling or pleasurable for the participant.   A rapture or euphoric exhalation awaited some as an after effect when diligent study was undertaken. People lived in the contours of thinking and even at this point just such a short time ago, still mimicked the natural flow of the elements and rhythms of the seasons as dispensed by spiritual beings.

If we always imagine the unfolding of history as one event leading into another,  so on and so forth,  almost seeing it with no connecting threads,  occurences only happening more or less spontaneously then we can never penetrate into the world of spirit or become clairvoyant in any form.  Many of the events that one had an inability to understand can become clear when details of the inward evolution and involution is elucidated.  For example, when one reads or hears of the reasons why the Christian Church split in the 11th century over a doctrinal belief,  something the modern man has overcome in certain sense but of course not entirely so.  It’s initial absurdity lessens when its realized that these men did not live in relation to a doctrinal belief in the way that one does now.  This could occur when theology was considered the Cum laude of a liberal arts – the highest form of all the paths of gaining knowledge.  Thelogy was so due to men’s conciousness still somewhat retaining its position in the bosom of divinity or in other words the spirit was the natural backdrop of phenomena which today is number of things but certainty not an objective artitisitc spiritual landscape.  Theology could find expression in a thinking produced by a holy being that had worked on its spirit and soul to the point to which it could  begin to produce self conscious thinking and contemplation.  These impausles that came from the East, representative of the platonic, the creative logos, and the unified eseesne of the Spirit urged its followers to protect the supremacy or unity of the Father and therefore could not accept fact that this truth would run the risk of going extinct or could not in a fuller sense realize that there was a real shizm in the cognition of men,  would not be attentive to all that would come to expression through the supremacy of the Son of God & Man – the evolution of freedom of the individual in the western world.  It is not until we delve deeper into what the Father, the Son, and the Spirit mean in the inner soul of the time that it was expressed by whatever name that might be chosen can we come to know the truer reasons why one clinged to this or that creed.  We can see that the Son had to have his say in the position of the historical church in the west and that is where the Catholic in contrast to the East followed the first fruits of the ego stamping it’s signature into the historical science that would envelop the modern western world in a few centuries.  For Christendom , the work of the Sons of God  was left to recede again allowing the rising up of of the individual in freedom as the divine image bearer. 

We see at every turn in the the very thinking and feeling of man, a fight underway to incorporate the new with the old.  From the time when Martianus Capella provided his discourses on the seven liberal arts – providing the structure for the later medieval pedagogy just mentioned (the 4th century) to when we find another of these dividing battles or synergistic assimilations depending on how you approach it, once the pagan classical philosophy of Aristotle fully entered Europe.  There is a poem that is written that is conveniently titled “The Battle of the Seven Arts “ a French poem by Henri d’Andeli – in it one can see an example of the wrestling between the old and the new in the Middle Age’s pursuits of  epistemology.  The classical traditions versus the Humanist ways of approaching life’s content. 

When we move through the later Middle Ages into the Renaissance and on through the Enlightenment and Romantic periods,  knowledge does widen to the point where a substantial survey seems to be impossible.  The long period of a thousand years witnesses the becoming of man transferring away from the family into the individual and with it all the more diversity and expression.  Acquiring culture and growing into the authenticity of a free moral agent is the path humanity is moving towards. We realize that there will always be blind spots and missed opportunities to reveal a more substantial view of what the becoming of our species actually was like.  We try to grasp the best we can the ways in which the two streams we have been dealing with find expression or dance –  the Platonic and Aristotelian, our divine nature versus our earthly nature.   With the spirit no longer being present in men’s ideals, visible in their realities that they carry along with them in life,  it frees up the ego to work entirely on the soul as it grows into what it was destined to be – a self creating spitual being.   Man begins to be able to dive within itsself to a degree that wasn’t possible before, able to find himself in a position to exist and to perceive as an isolated individual from nature or from what it became to be known as – his environment.   We see the invention of the Printing Press doing so much for the modern biography – for the enriching of modern man as he makes his way through terrestrial life.   A time that was foreshadowing in a certain sense the universality that the Christ represents, not only will The Christ be a ransomer & rescuer he will alos be the being that brings to all the raising of inner consciousness – something only sought by the previelged adepts,  the educated few,  but would now be something that could be enjoyed by all.

If we want to grasp  how reality looked at this time in Europe and in the religious life that men lived, we would need to delve into the mystics of the Renaissance especially to those in Germany that in some ways were set in opposition to the reason that Scholasticism sought to advance.  We come to Martin Luther (1483- 1546) and if we were to miss one subtle detail of the content that enriched his soul as it developed we would be in danger of failing to see the inner make up of the reformer.  Luther’s spirituality was greatly inspired by the work of certain German mystical personalities which leads to a remarkable discovery about the inner construction of the man.  Martin had an inner life that was naturally suited for how the world turned in or how it appeared and worked  into the impulses of human beings in an Epoch of time that was slipping away.   He was birthed at a juncture when a new form of conciousness was beginning to take shape.  If we were to read all of the literature that has been written on him,  we still would only see a dim silhouette of the nature of his soul.  A realistic image forms when the reality of the changing of cultural epochs and the difference in mode of thinking and feeling which results is taken into consideration. Men’s cognition was becoming altogeher diffrent in many aspects during the time in which he worked.   In the year 1413 humanity was through developing it’s intellectual prowess  or it ‘s mind soul ¹⁹ if you will.  It is not the the intellectualism that we most likely imagine but it is in relation to an artistic quality or talent.   Men moved within their thinking like the way that a painter works in color – not in a mechanical fashion, not a concious and meticulous tracing from ordinary memory but one that was weaving and assimilating spiritual impusles as it was able to embrace inspiration form the higher worlds before the soul would experience error in its own position within reality, in its own thinking and feeling, experiencing the continued estrangement from heaven.  It was William of Ockham  (1287- 1347) who of course is so well noted for what characterized the pursuit of what typically has been philosophy and theology since this time.  Since it began to prefer the simpler explanation of metaphysical speculation and sought to delve into the empirical observations of science.   And so towards the end of Scholasticism men began to consider philosophy unable to help illuminate theology.   This time would bring forth the kind of thinking that characterizes the modern man,  the first stages of what would be the emergence of the consciousness we carry with us today.  A consciousness that is geared towards the obsession of bringing the outer world into view through inner intellect.  One that can be characterized as a conceptual thinking lacking an instinctual spiritual foundation.  The future lay open for new intensive work on earth in explaining the material realm  and this was also a time when men would be isolated from divine providence in feeling and thought at an intensity never reached prior but at the same time forces were present that had a counter effect, a nourishing impulse was introduced or in other words the Christ impulse contained in it the ability to help men achieve a freedom to make free moral decisions , to truly enter into a new relationship with the beings above.  However not in the manner of those mystics of the Middle Ages but in a form that keeps intact the feeling of the I,  the perception of our personal ego – our self conciounessness and all its acquired abilities can now join the older way of taking in experience.   It was this evolution of consciousness that Luther and his fellow reformers were living into, were beginning to expereince.  One can see in Luther’s views of the Lord’s Supper- the Eucharist or Holy Communion – this act of man growing into his higher self was still in some ways expected to be experienced during certain rituals and was understood as a spiritual act that must not be brought down to the decadence of a symbol no matter how thin its veiling of spirit.  In his Bondage of the Will one can almost sense the expectation of the conscious assurance of salvific certainty that would engulf the mystic and this is what he for all those that had been left in the outer darkness having to make a faith for themselves.  Martin places the highest endeavors of the human soul and spirit in the hands of something that must be sought in faith alone, hitting the plateau that Augustine did a thousand years before.  It is at this point when the souls who were more inclined to

the spiritual or platonic would merge more with those that took life as it appeared on earth or in a scientific or Aristotelian shading. Erasmus could be thought of as one that caught the materialistic germ  of a Son of Man.  An initiate who would be trying to incorporate man’s freedom into the age he found himself, but also Luther as well can be seen as this type of character depending on the context.  If Luther saw the will in bondage to  the decrees of his God, not by any stretch a new thought; doesn’t of course always  represent a fair reputation.  In his own way he was balancing the old and the new ways in which  he thought one ought to find the divine in life.  He knew something had been lost to mans consciousness but would wrestle in how to bring this return to God to a culture who was beginning to feel the birth pains of one that would  smash the religious worldview making room for our modern conceptions and now post modern views.

This new epoch known as the Fifth Post Atlantean Epoch²⁰ would become the one in which brought to the forefront of human development – the scientific cognition of man.   The beginnings of a new form of thinking would appear, the mode we are all used to navigating waking life with, moving away from the mythical and religious consciousness.  There were individuals at this time that possessed an ability to  be true to academic scientific circles but also possess a humility that assisted them to remain devoted to truth to such an extent that left room for the soul to secure spiritual conceptions.  Something that today might be more prevalent, however most seem unable to muster a two way thinking, not in some mystical form or ability but in merging two polar ideas or in other words live into what seems to be paradoxical.  This man was Kepler (1571 – 1630).  

“It is true that the divine call that compels men to learn astronomy is written in the world itself, not in words and syllables, but in terms of the nature of the chain of heavenly bodies and conditions, by virtue of the appropriateness of human concepts and senses. A hidden destiny drives one person to this and another to that occupation, so that they may be convinced that, just as they are a part of the work of creation, they are also under the guidance of divine providence.”

A divine providence at this time was not a mechanical process, something that is taken for granted, thought of as existing outside myself,  unraveling with no other qualities other than weight, number, velocity, and luminosity – consisting of only things that satisfy the physical.  Providence was to Kepler as the ancient number theory was to the Pythagoreans in some respect.  It was of the same quality , consisting of the dynamic flowering spirit which was starting to be grasped in scientific modes of perceiving.  When we hear of the ellipses of the planets or view diagrams of their neat circular travels through the cosmos we don’t at the same time hear the music of the soul, of the celestial bodies of which Pythagorus found in the relation of himself to these heavenly spheres.  It may sound like this is some poetic nonsense,  some cliche that has been overly used but there are some symbols that have remained because there are no others available to designate a closer representation of spiritual reality.  The music of the spheres – the Word- the attaching of spirituality to sound must be felt within, for when we hear of this musical mimesis we must immediately realize a full change in inner consciousness is meant.  Not a fuzzy sentimental bliss but instead  a hard fought victory of the souls transformation has delivered rewards and this gift of musical symbolism represents a concrete spiritual perception.  We have heard recited numerous times that a very significant change can be witnessed as the major branches of knowledge experience a gradual withdrawal of our participation, no longer are we able to sense the spirit or the living ideas of Plato.   And for this change, epistemological pursuits as represented by the cosmological or hermetic sciences shift into their natural scientific designations – with astrology turning to astronomy and alchemy becoming chemistry and so on.

There might be some who read this and ask  “what is the purpose of drawing attention to redundant,  seeming repetitious phenomena that consists of combining the spirit and matter, or speaking on how this or that has separated and come together in various contexts within the confines of history?”  It might be entertaining for some that think about these things but what could be pragmatic about choosing this or that historical figure and examining their philosophy, theology, or mysticism and try to then relate it to the elusive spirit?   Its fruit lies in this ;  as history moves forward it will be increasingly difficult to put together threads that connect the events and forces of life in an understandable form.  History is full of independent examples, windows into the mysteries of existence and most modern surveys tend to leave out the evolution that isn’t so obvious, so the richer, fuller contemplations can bring something that otherwise would be unreachable.   Taking this further, we know that knowledge can be pursued in a way that ignites actual inward growth, enlarging awareness and inner sensibility or in other words just as we take in a concrete physical substances to evoke an inner wellness-  the same applies to the content that invigorates the soul through its thinking and feeling,  the substance not measurable by our lower sensory organs.  This can give the reader an actual inward shock,  drive them into an artistic impulse, a way in which a proper attunement to the Spirit’s reality is possible.  These examples can invigorate the soul to find its own examples of how the spirit approaches each individual man or women ,  how in new ways real higher beings of spirit are making their presence known.   We must realize how much the soul is healed when it assimilates deeper expressions of knowledge that touch the inner depths of being.  The study of the philosophising of humanity covering thousands of years can ever be brought to higher views and help the spiritual researcher and their audience appreciate themselves and what they are a part of,  ending the isolation of spiritual bankruptcy.

We now enter the centuries that would witness another round of materialism obscure the subtleties of spirit. It was a time in which the polarities of heaven and earth would find further separation, while the hopes for that ascension to the spirit seems to be just out of reach. There begins to be a noticeable, an ever increasing strength within the individual to stamp its personality and its reason into one’s worldviews and creations. The self consciousness we know today begins to show itself in how things are apprehended by man. Perhaps we have come across the next individual and attribute his greatness to poetry alone but when one looks exhaustively at his philosophical and metaphysical ideas we see why some have considered this gentleman to be on the leading edge of thinking of his time. He could morph between the day’s artistic genres or within the branches of natural science as they were forming themselves. And even though much of his work remained fragmentary, no more than notes, we can still catch a glimpse into our ancient past when many of the writers at this time would look to the east and rediscover the treasures of our ancient language, especially Sanskrit.

This was Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834). We deduce three impulses that become sensitive to Samuel as they have been conditioned from the ancient prehistoric consciousness in which the hindu or ancient Indian esotericism or what is left of it is the only echo of this long since extinct experience of humanity – the natural clairvoyance that found cognitive powers in an altered form. One could say that Coleridge was the first who would take pains to graph these evolving forces within the soul into a scientific mode of presentation. He helps us understand what thinking actually is so we can better grasp ourselves. Coleridge articulated his Primary Imagination in his Biographia Literaria, in these words.

“the living power and prime agent of all human perception and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. “²¹

He defines the “secondary imagination ” as an echo of the former – co-existing with the conscious will yet still as identical with the former in the kind of its agency and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation.  So by taking in the ideas found by this thinker as he sought to understand how his soul formed artistic works – gained knowledge for itself, we are given one of the many bridges from the earthly to the spiritual – he brings the eternal macrocosm into a microcosm – places it in man’s inner thought life.

The perceiving of man over many centuries of development procured the loss of intuition or a feeling for these streams that were initially given to mankind in pictures for the soul which at times have been botched within the interpretative sciences that the physiology and psychology of the ancients is no longer front and center in each culture’s respected sacred texts. So like Coleridge and the others that have been termed Romantic – a word itself that has undergone its own extraordinary history of an evolution of semantics. These individuals would take on the challenges of obtaining truth and would continue to pull out of themselves these hidden treasures, weaving them into their concepts. We might imagine three souls or egos existing under the guidance of Mr. Coleridge, when one brings in his mode of fancy – simply a mode of memory formed by the law of association. His inner trinity presents a polarity in each of its designations, a fuller picture then appears that includes the complexity of what the inner life of man is becoming. He clearly had in mind a higher and lower self or at least sensed a wider range in what these inner faculties consisted of in its full spectrum from pure thinking down to mere sentient perception.

With the next individuals we place before our gaze it is not for the purpose of transmitting what they may have worked out in any dialectic manner, but instead we wish to show a little more of what was mentioned a little bit ago – the musical consciousness, the music of the spheres, attempt to show that it is through the higher spheres of thinking such as imaginative, inspirational and intuitive that one reaches this ocean of spiritual tones. ²²
It is not always with exact words that these poets may have used that are the links to these tones of spirit or to a musical cognition, but it is in the feeling one is left with that leads one to believe that these men have lived in another state of consciousness. The supreme reason why music is so loved is because it is the language of the spirit that is most transferable, the least is lost in its way into our psyches as it travels through the organ of the ear that knows such a personal long evolutionary track. We hear music audibly and for this we must be conscious and fully awake but it is a fact that when we are lifted out of the body when sleep comes upon our weary bones each night, we are then united with what music actually is – oceans of spiritual tones in a form prior to sensory sound. When we rest at night, our egos are not on earth; they live in the music of the spheres. A time is fast approaching when the earth will need souls that can articulate the complexity of spiritual phenomena, these pitches and tones – the spirit’s rhythm and mold it into written form. Form it into prose which won’t need to stay in the poetic or in the digital age’s preference of short form content but one will need to readjust to a slower life in some respects and will need the healing effect that comes by way of digesting content that is incumbent on the reader to struggle through to grasping – working through each connected sentence requiring all of the reader to retrieve nourishment from its words, letting the soul bring the backdrop of a truer reality, something that digital media as taken over – has truly stolen the spiritual activity of freedom. The prose of today falls short of the glory that it could achieve when it can pull spiritual content into perceivable forms better than it could in the days in which the following poets were limited by that time’s development within the consciousness soul. The laws that rule the cosmos which were becoming everyday more attached to nature, which lured the focus of humanity to the laws of science, still do not encompass all of which man still has slumbering within – a likeness to his earlier sensitivity to a higher law is still there, the Torah of which Moses and the Prophets knew well, which to the untrained would simply be the mundane commandments and ceremonial laws from Jehovah. For the spiritual law births the laws of creation or the number of man. But for the men below, these laws were never of the profane or material they were always the graces from higher beings.

Johann Goethe ( 1749 -1832)
“The sun-orb sings, in emulation,
‘Mid brother-spheres, his ancient round:
His path predestined through Creation”

William Blake (1757 – 1827)
Blake wants to express a very different side of the sun than the one that a modern physicist would picture perhaps as just a ball of gas, heat, or energy. This poet and philosopher knew that there are two Suns. Perhaps these strange formulations from our ancient past of multiple suns rising together are an experience of the development of the soul – a picture of a spiritual reality, an image of when the physical body is let go of and we are at home with the Lord. This is the Higher I of the sun of which Blake described about two hundred years ago.
“When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.’”

Novalis (1772 -1801)
“Aside I turn to the holy, unspeakable, mysterious Night. Afar lies the world, sunk in a deep grave; waste and lonely is its place. In the chords of the bosom blows a deep sadness. I am ready to sink away in drops of dew, and mingle with the ashes.– The distances of memory, the wishes of youth, the dreams of childhood, the brief joys and vain hopes of a whole long life, arise in gray garments, like an evening vapor after the sunset. In other regions the light has pitched its joyous tents. What if it should never return to its children, who wait for it with the faith of innocence?”

In Man’s pilgrimage from the spirit into the terrestrial abode, the great journey of the Prodigal Son or the journey form a Son of God to a Son of Man, we have followed this evolution – how his very spirit is to be killed within him and as a result he is presented with a chaos he must order himself and as he fits himself for this task his teachers from above, his armies of Angels withdraw a little more each time, so that he may learn to find his way to higher forms of philosophy, religion and science. We do not need to belabor the ways in which the last few centuries have done their part, when the emergence of Psychology proper first appeared – in shrouding the experience of the soul. It is now not just the spirit but the soul is also eradicated. I am sure that many of us have had the opportunity to spend time in the practice room of a doctor of the soul and if one wishes to advance the curiosities of a few dream images, when travels of the night are spoken of or any intuitions that may resemble some that have been vaguely identified in medical journals are usually always met with a push to the polished definitions of the physiology of nerves. But the modern man cannot do with this for much longer and one must accept that there is no soul in man’s cognition, this is not a future occurrence, it is already finished. Since that moment in the Middle Ages when William of Champeaux gives his doctrine of creationism in regards to the soul – something Augustine didn’t even endeavor to do and thus becomes the first Christian philosopher in the West to maintain the creation of the individual soul, removing its eternal core of spirit and now the creationism of modernity has been left entirely in the anatomy, physiology, and psychology of modern science and medicine. It becomes simply a product of heredity and thus the soul is abolished. No wonder there exists so much confusion by way of dogma and skepticism.

We now turn our gaze back up to the heavens to try and get a glimpse of spiritual occurrences that are as real as the events we experience in waking consciousness. We have mentioned the grace from heaven, the wisdom of the gods that has been bequeathed to men in order that they may safely navigate the troubles of growing into a god. In these spiritual worlds before the pivotal nineteenth century came to a close there had been a spiritual school that had carried on extensive learning for a number of the previous centuries until Michael was given the keys to put his plans into action. Once again he was to be the leading Archangel.  It was a schooling that would require man to participate – to be present more fully in the decisions that must pass to the hierarchy of humanity.  There were mighty gatherings of human souls just as one may go to a university to become able to act in a certain profession on earth. We must be prepared even before birth to bring to pass all the great wisdom that has been our heritage. In these spheres of higher learning- the worlds of spirit, Michael gathered many together and brought before these souls the mysteries of the universe. A group of human souls was being taught by a being that had passed its human stage so much earlier than we.  Each unique soul present – perhaps you – would be joined with an etheric sort of substance, before your gaze would appear a substance in which would cause one to experience an angelic language – the building blocks of human language – the origin of reason itself would permeate your being and would eventually condense and become the physical tongue that utters the truth of the evolution of consciousness, granting an assurance of salvation, and the joys of eternal participation within the godhead.  It was a learning that involved direct spiritual revelation on how the higher bodies of man must, when in the physical, be flexible enough to handle the emerging currents of thinking, feeling, and willing. A conditioning of these finer bodies of man was executed, many were put through exercises to be able to possess an ability to balance multiple internal currents of forces in order that they should vibrate at the appropriate rate thus developing properly the physical body when they attract the physical’s phantom structure that will enclose the soul and to essentially let one cognize in a spiritual manner and not be fixated on a lower thinking but be able to transcend to something higher.  This was some of what was worked through and studied diligently in the time before birth.

Something was being prepared for centuries in the astral light, in spirit lands, in heaven itself for the right opportunity to emerge on earth to save souls from falling into the onslaught of a continual isolation, into an unescapable positivism. What was so special about this time that caused divine wisdom to decree that Michael would need to hold these grand spiritual seminars in preexistence? It was the end of Kali Yuga ²³ or the end of the downward development of humanity leading to an upward ascent in the pendulum swing of human evolution, bringing new emerging faculties of soul that can once again grasp the spirit but with full consciousness – the modes of experience gained from its travels into and through independent experience.  Men were granted increases in freedom since Kali Yuga began and now since its passing men can now see the fruits of his struggles and notice an ability to participate consciously with spiritual beings.  So how do these events, these assemblies in the worlds above throughout the centuries leading to the 19th project its way into reality?

We know that the saying ‘as above, so below’ applies to all, even if the furthest that the modern scientist has been able to achieve is imagining some invincible aether or some kind of simulation of self generating systems. T here have been streams in history not as visible as lets say the formation of Protestantism in the 16th century onwards but there are intentional streams that are secret or remain out of the knowledge of most people that can be brought to light. We see the spirit’s impulses and the fruit of that mighty spiritual training continue to push forth the esoteric Rosicrucian knowledge that was carried forward in heaven as well as on earth in the mystery stream of the Holy Grail from the times of Charlemagne and its School of Chartres throughout the length the Middle Ages up until now.  We see the emergence of the Spiritism of the nineteenth century with its interest in the paranormal and its flood of mediums and all of this continues today in various paranormal and extraterrestrial interests.  These artists of spirit were gifted once again from above to permeate the minds of man with words that not only shook the naive mind to its core but can pull the listener into the delicate worlds of soul and spirit. It was at this time that the strongholds of materialism would loosen – just before the first World War would be unleashed that an esoteric wisdom would be given the light of day and be transcribed into the language of the modern truth seeker.  This was brought forth once again between a kind of synergistic advance between east and west with the founding of the Theosophical Society in 1875 by (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky -1831-1891) – in hopes of creating a bridge between the modern outlook and the spiritual or religious content of old. Someone today can still pick up her monumental works – The Secret Doctrine or Isis Unveiled and experience themselves quite ripped away from the boredom that typical renditions of the historical yield.  There is truth like this and when one reads or hears it, it is not only provocative but something that holds one’s attention because the voice that speaks is not human.  Your entire worldview is frozen allowing spiritual beings to return to guide us into the never ending world of spiritual revelation, the life blood of the human being.

A strength needs to be found to trust in another that they indeed possess a higher form of insight. That there are those to be looked up to because they have abilities of the soul that most do not.  Just as we owe to men that were chosen in the past, that were prepared and existed in much higher forms of thinking and feeling and were able to give the rest the knowledge of the gods in ever emerging forms just as our bodies were the gods’s canvases in the primeval times of the cosmos. Just like we used to have men and women of prophecy, those with higher insight – there are those that live amongst us now that can be guides.  We can be quite sure that there have always been men of unique dispositions that made them perceptive to new impulses that were left unconscious to the majority. What are we to make of those today that have true hidden premonitions of what is to become in world evolution or can stand confidently in the reality of the spiritual world? How are we to know when there is such a prophet? With this, we meet Rudolph Steiner – 1861 – 1925.

One must choose of his own accord to get to know this man. He does not wish for those to like him or to necessarily see him behind the works that he birthed. Many today have never heard of him. His work is to be taken with an open mind but also with a fervent spirit to test his words to hold them against their verifiable experience within spiritual development and then judge whether one should then reevaluate their accustomed ways of looking into history to see if Mr. Steiner is telling fables or speaking truth. Perhaps there was one to come like Abraham – who would lead his people out of the world of the sidereal and those everlasting stars, the law of spirit into the ego consciousness we experience in the world today.  This man was called, or in other words was karmically predisposed to be an instrument of divinity to bring a new epoch with a new condition of consciousness to all.  We can look upon Steiner as a new Abraham that now instead of leading us at the beginning of Kali Yuga is leading us back into the spirit. His desire is to bring freedom to each, to help all of us make the content or the impulses that reach us that is are so entirely subjective – the residue of the fragmentation that we have tried to draw attentionto  and reveal them as a beacon of truth.  Steiner was deeply motivated to bring this uncertainty of ones position within the cosmos back upon sure footing – ascending to an objective spiritual world.  He was a spirit that contained that most powerful Christ Impulse that would not seek to separate at all times but to unite in a novel light what man had separated – heaven and earth.

If it is true that nothing remains the same in any context of life then where do we find ourselves in the world, and what are we to work towards? Do we await the removal of physicality and any connection to the earth as we know it? Just as our esoteric doctrines became exoteric in time, do our dreams of living concretely on other celestial bodies , fettered to other planets become true but on a plane of reality that is concealed by the Newtonian physics and some solar nebular theory. Will our egos eventually transform to experience new conditions of consciousness where bodies aren’t needed any longer for terrestrial life?  We must pursue questions of such magnitude from many sides and this involves embracing the positives and negatives with artificial intelligence. W e see its curses in taking over more of what man needs to cultivate within himself.  Even at young ages thinking for oneself is being done for one.  Already so many are in no position to even understand the reality that meets them in ordinary waking consciousness.  We no longer remember ourselves as Spirit or as Sons of God but we also seem to be forgetting who we are in the pages of recorded history.  We wait for a time when the two moons or the two suns become one, a time when in a very real way Eden’s grandeur returns as we will be once again robed in the celestial spheres, or when the scrolls that represent the threefold world that meets our waking perception is rolled back and we enter a time of rest until we exist in a new form of physicality – the mineralization has ceased ,  a time will then aproach when we can truly cognize in unending spiritual wonder.  It is here that Artificial Intelligence may give some a headstart to truly shake off some of the daily struggle and soul exertion that is no longer needed to be directed to the struggles of survival.  A time for those that are enslaved to the inefficient economic models can enter into a cosmic intelligence that was for so long only allowed for those with the silver spoon.  So many do not have the luxury to ponder on such high class issues such as training the soul to receive higher knowledge for a personal saving relationship with the Christ.

You may say, “well I can’t wait hundreds of years until consciousness becomes something new, “what about my next ten to twenty years?” Of course this kind of question can be pursued from many angles when someone tries to gauge the heart beat of a culture in this or that decade.  One can see the individualistic impulse in certain quarters is reaching a pitch that one finds almost too astonishing to believe. Some deny almost any sort of truth and another smashing of authority, a revolution is happening once again but perhaps this shall help to bring forth a special perceiving of what is known as moral imagination when some of people’s most cherished notions are crumbling to dust. Perhaps in this essay we are choosing to take on a lighter load and look back upon the literary history in too narrow of scope which is only a fraction of what is present in life that has tried to contain this evolution we have looked at since the time in which Michael had begun to work again. One does have to be a little more sensitive and by sensitive have the ability to sit with the etymological essence of words and phrases, be able to remain in the cadence of a written sentence, allowing no other perceptions to enter into awareness and then one can pick up on the subtle qualities veiled in writing and thus reach to some of the spirit behind the written word. It is in these emerging currents in thinking that lie the kernels for future worlds. It is just that most do not put forth any effort to bring this into reality when it is so difficult to reach an inner silence. If we look into the art of writing over the last century and a half – from Blatvatsky’s Secret Doctrine 1881 through the 1980s and again one does have to develop a discipline for study. One has to make time to work through the literature over the last century or so in the fields of philosophy, science, esotericism and certain poetic works and approach it with new eyes, to literally act like someone that had just received an eye operation and could now see a new world because in many ways one will need to internalize how the methods of solving the riddles of the universe have been changing, in order to begin experience higher worlds.  We must remove as many preconceptions as possible about how this or that person in this or that time thought of the world and the realms that exist beyond it.  Then the answer can appear quite easily and one can judge for themselves if there is in fact a correspondence between the beginning of the reign of Michael in 1879 with his cosmic intelligence, his pulling us back towards our Sons of God inheritance and a thrust of some ability to write prose, produce expository or analytical pieces with soul thus reviving the artistic element in language?  Do we see it peetering out over the last one-hundred years? Or is this just one’s experience of nostalgia, a pink cloud of experiencing the first fruits of the thinkers that had the initial crack of bringing such magnificent epistemology to us?  One must have some concrete orientation to the spirit and soul to answer this question.

There is something exhilarating in learning to be creative with the English language, a language that has shown so many signs of being sold out to materialism and decay but will be given new life when writers that touch on the sensitivities and wonders of spirituality are forced to submit to the creative element in language, to the weaving of the higher words of the Angels. We will learn to gently work the verb into the sentence that will achieve the clearest articulation possible of the working of the spirit – the communications from Michael. We are cognizant of the fact that content of this kind especially over the last few decades has taken on an abstract and quick form but one will have to answer this for themselves. “Am I being fed appropriately by this path to knowledge”? Perhaps like the discipline that someone may evoke in maintaining a diet of pills or the trips to gym that I can also develop my powers of thinking and feeling and not in always absorbing content in traditional forms but I can work and train myself so that I understand more of the knowledge i pursue and can be shaped in fuller ways by my ideas. If one does pursue ardent study- is consistent and sincere in taking in such content from certain leading minds over the past century in the different fields of human enquiry one then can experience a spiritual quality in the elucidations during this time even if the author never directly express the reality of a so called spiritual world. The first example would be in albeit premature permeation of this cosmic wisdom – “The Hebraic Tongue Restored: And the True Meaning of the Hebrew Words Re-Established and Proved by Their Radical Analysis” by Antoine Fabre D’Olivet, in 1815 and many other more esoteric in nature than this could be included in the last half of the 19th century. One notices an almost eerie feeling in the soul like it is uncovering something that wasn’t meant to enter the simple mind. Next, in the year 1889 we could include The Great Initiates by Edouard Schure who so eloquently led the reader to a time that can’t be reached by archaeology and the uncovering of ancient texts. In 1901 there appeared , “A History of Philosophy” by Frank Thilly and a few years later there was completed, “History of Philosophy” by William Turner. One author was of the Catholic Clergy and the other residing in more secular circles but it is hard to tell which one of these prays to the God of the Bible. In 1928, Owen Barfield put out Poetic Diction in which one can witness the evolution of consciousness but through the window of the evolution of philology. We could even include the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939 and even though this book was a book of therapy – of helping the reader identify with the symptoms of an alcoholic, the style of writing is given form through the time Bill spent in the carefully choosing of words and his meticulousness in regards to using a variety of words to convey the same idea. This book is filled with higher forces. Next we come to The Ever Present Origin by Jean Gebser in 1939. This work has brought tremendous insight into the mystery of time and gives us pictures we can use if we are scientifically inclined. The Origins of European Thought by RB Onians could be included, published in 1951 and a Philip Wheelwright publication – The Burning Fountain in 1953 includes examples of how symbols along with their attached meaning contain fossils of man’s evolution – where myth and the poetic still have purpose. Even in Language Hernmanuitec and the Word of God in 1966 the author Robert Funk seems to be getting at something he doesn’t even know he is uncovering – a synthesis for the future working of the Word of God. Julian Jaynes in his The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind in 1976, assists us in understanding the developing psyche throughout long periods of history by giving quite vivid examples of these broad scopes of the breakdown of man’s consciousness. Lastly, Ian McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary in 2018, finds in the development of the brain hemispheres, the involution and evolution of cognition. To read it one can sense the creative spirit is almost penetrating through but can’t quite wrestle through to a clear path for the future of man’s nervous system. We can see what hinders so many in penetrating past the walls put up by our current condition of consciousness when the inner faculties like thinking are always still trying to grasp the outer world and bring it within, not able to find a science that can survey an invisible landscape.

We understand how easy it is to be shortsighted in assessing the correct interpretation of history’s unfolding and that the fullest revelation is yet to come. Many of the views of history from poets and philosophers have been reformed in various ways and that this will be a need that continues. We hope that an impulse was given to let minds not wander to absurdity but be carried with true guides of spirit into untraditional ideas and to take a risk in trying to achieve a higher view of the riddles of philosophy which are the riddles of man. For example, if we were perhaps near Aquinas in the Middle Ages, were able to live life near this man in the time in which he was working into form his Summa Theologiae we would perhaps hear him pondering out loud how logical it is for the transmigration of the soul to be a belief for some. Of course he rejected this idea, he must rest in the soul being eternal and experiencing a resurrection not in any organized fashion or body of knowledge such as subjecting the life out of the body to a science of multiple earth lives, but maybe he held theories or convictions which he kept to himself for the bible does mention a progressive revelation that cannot be shouldered at any moment one chooses. If one keeps the pages of a journal filled, scratching certain vows in writing to guard the wanderings of curiosity or the rabbit holes we fall into, some notion or idea that we swore we would never entertain or this thing I will never believe, but as one goes about the inner jolts of learning the moment appears when they have done the unthinkable they have broken the oath they swore to uphold.

And just as we have had new paradigms break in upon the epistemology of the world with men like Copernicus and Bruno who did much to let people come to realize that sense perception is not all there is and without these men we may indeed still believe that what we see before us is all that we can know. And just as it has been noted so many times – that there is nothing new done under the sun, we still need to apply this correctly – realizing that this may hold good for larger schemes of evolution like the thinking in conceptual form but even within that framework the possibilities are endless and maybe there is shortly to appear another world-view shattering advance in knowledge, but until then the individual’s development within the many spheres of life will remain the focus.  Men and women will mull over what truly is the essence of the words individual and identity. The urge to piece together one’s own truth through its free choice of being taught by personal spiritual revelation – the wrestling free of control and authority is the lot of men and women and will be for some time.

We had mentioned at the beginning that a fuller understanding of the other states of consciousness known as sleep and dreamless sleep will appear to those that find a way to put forth that inner discipline, show an effort to bring new life to their thinking and will then be able to fall asleep and welcome the angels into these once unconscious realms, to enjoy life in more succinct interplay with the spiritualness of being. A vivid understanding of the interpplay between the transient and eternal results when the rythyms of dream life are experienced rather than abstractly studied under labels of the ‘trinity of non’ or N1, N2, N3, the stages of Non- REM or NREM sleep.

Even though it is so difficult at times to bring one out of oneself, out of these times spent with our angels and to be social and join with one another to produce impulses that will live on in the life after death – it still must be sought.  A balancing of inner development and social collectivity so we do not shrivel up in coldness. A very disturbing process if one must fall into its traps. And perhaps this is why today’s philosophers are focused on the social aspect of science. We may have heard of the saying being twice born as an ancient expression for initiation and today it still lies in the creeds and doctrines of Christendom, in the statements of ‘being born again’ but one misses the esoteric originality that is incumbent in the book that these slogans come from and that shaped the western world. It is a book that if studied with diligence – the evolution of humanity and his experience within the cosmos stands there believable in its proclamations.  Where the worship of the sun and moon lose their spiritual dimension to become characters in the myth and sagas until they become simple bodies that govern the night and the day.  No, its not in the text , and not spelled out to the liking of so many evangelical pastors that confuse expounding the word of god with simply emphasizing at times just an article or selected word of a passage of the translation- merely reading to arouse feeling – sermonizing not from a place of making the scriptures ones own. The evolution of our long journey is in one’s method of interpretation – the backdrop of an anthroposophical or spiritual scientific lens opens these passages to wider scopes of man’s development and his expanding knowledge.

God speed to all those who seek the nourishing impulse from the spiritual sun, the spirit of the Christ. Perseverance is needed while we frantically work from old moon forces that keep the record of deeds that the Christ will judge or is judging when they come together in some far distant future.  When all that makes us beings of the sun, beings of the moon, and of the earth – a tripartite body of comic wisdom , the goal of the gods is brought to fruition. The sunlight knows no prejudices, still its light will shine on the just and the unjust, the rich and the poor and one must realize how relative most questions are in life and if someone wants to say something,  to truly speak something real into the world the right context must be applied. For it is unknown usually to where the help comes from if one wants to say more than “the lord”.  The help comes from the many streams that weave their impulses into our inner life.  Some may experience as an example – a new thinking, a feeling comes over them like a type of the cubed new jerusalem descending to protect their holy of holies their I am.  One actually experiences how they have overcome older moon forces, obstacles that caused such hardship are no longer there. There is an actual change in one’s heart beat and the rhythm of breath all impacting the consciousness. One can wait perhaps hindered by fear but it is always those that swing between their own responsibility in training the inner faculties and trusting in the higher forces and beings that seem to be level headed enough to see the urgency in working for the spiritual but also has cultivated self control to not force their way into the spirit for then the Son of God’s love will never break through to the Son of Man.