Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone…And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion…For Yourselves And Everyone Else…All Over The World. And For Those Of Us Who Have Been Sincerely Striving To Transform Our Own Hearts And Minds From Those Old Negative Ways Of Thinking And Being, To Those Higher Qualities Of The Love And Light Of Our “Mighty I AM Presence”; Notice The Results And Acknowledge Those Blessed Changes Within Yourselves. It Is The Power, The Mastery, And The Magic Within Each And Every Person; To Transmute The Darkness, Negativity, And Those Lower Vibrations Permeating Our Thoughts And Beings; To The Golden Brilliance Of Illumination – Of Love, Light, And Positivity – And Those Higher Vibrations That The Living God Intended…When We Were Created! Amen…

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…

And Y’all Be Love…

“Jesus happens to be passing by Jerusalem. He is not yet preaching in the temple, though he heals the sick and gives instruction to his friends. The work of love must prepare the ground into which the fruitful seed shall fall. Nicodemus, a learned Pharisee, has heard of the new prophet. Filled with curiosity, though unwilling to compromise himself in the eyes of his sect, he requests with the Galilean a secret interview, which is granted. The Pharisee calls at his dwelling by night and says to him: “Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.” Jesus replied: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus asks if it is possible for a man to enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born. Jesus answered: “Verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

Under this evidently symbolical form, Jesus sums up the ancient doctrine of regeneration already known in the mysteries of Egypt. To be born again of water and of the Spirit, to be baptized by water and by fire, mark two degrees of initiation, two stages of the inner and spiritual development of man. Water here represents truth perceived intellectually, i. e., in an abstract and general manner. It purifies the soul and develops its spiritual germ.

A new birth by the Spirit, or baptism by ‘heavenly’ fire, signifies the assimilation of the truth by the will in such a way that it may become the blood and life, the very soul of every action. From this, results the complete victory of spirit over matter, the absolute mastery of the spiritualized soul over the body transformed into a docile instrument; a mastery which awakens its dormant faculties, opens its inner sense, and gives it an intuitive insight into truth, and a direct action of soul on soul. This state is equivalent to the heavenly one which Jesus Christ called the kingdom of God. Baptism by water, or intellectual initiation, is accordingly the first step in rebirth; baptism by the spirit is total rebirth, a transformation of the soul by the fire of intelligence and will, and consequently, to a certain extent, of the elements of the body, in a word, a radical regeneration. From this come the exceptional powers it gives to man. This is the earthly signification of the eminently theosophical conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus.

There is also a special signification which might briefly be called the esoteric doctrine concerning the constitution of man. According to this doctrine, man is threefold: body, soul, and spirit. He has an immortal and indivisible part, the spirit, a perishable and divisible part, the body. The soul which unites the two shares in the nature of both. Living organism as it is, it possesses an ethereal and fluidic body, similar to the material body, which, but for this invisible double, would have neither life, movement, nor unity. According as man obeys the suggestions of the spirit or the impulses of the body, according as he attaches himself to the one or the other, the fluidic body becomes etherealized or dulled; unifies or becomes disaggregated.

Accordingly, it happens that, after physical death, the majority of men have to submit to a second death of the soul, which consists of cleansing itself from the impure elements of their astral body, sometimes even undergoing its slow decomposition; while the completely regenerated man, having formed on this earth his spiritual body, possesses his heaven in himself and enters the region to which his affinity attracts him…

Now water, in ancient esoterism, symbolizes fluidic matter, which is infinitely transformable, as fire symbolizes the one spirit. In speaking of rebirth by water and spirit, the Christ makes allusion to that double transformation of his spiritual body, his fluidic envelope which awaits man after death, and without which he cannot enter the kingdom of lofty souls and purified spirits. For “that which is born of the flesh is flesh (i. e., chained down and perishable), and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit (i. e., free and immortal). “Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

…Let us note one more important point in this teaching. According to the materialistic doctrine, the soul is an ephemeral and accidental resultant of the forces of the body; in the ordinary spiritualist doctrine it is something abstract, without any conceivable bond with the body; in the esoteric doctrine – the only rational one – the physical body is a product of the incessant work of the soul, which acts upon it by the similar organism of the astral body, just as the visible universe is only a dynamism of the infinite Spirit.

This is the reason Jesus gives this doctrine to Nicodemus as explanation of the miracles he works. It may indeed serve as a key to the occult healing art, practiced by him and by a small number of adepts and saints before as well as after Christ. Ordinary medicine combats the evils of the body by acting on the latter. The adept or saint being a centre of spiritual and fluidic force, acts directly on the soul of the patient, and by his astral on his physical body.

It is the same in all magnetic cures; Jesus operates by means of forces existing in all men, but he operates in large closes by powerful and concentrated projections. He gives the Scribes and Pharisees his power of healing bodies as a proof of his power to pardon and heal the soul, his higher object. The physical cure thus becomes the counter proof of a moral cure which permits of his saying to the man made whole, “Rise and walk!”

Science of today tries to explain the phenomenon which the ancients and Middle Ages called “possession” as being a simple nervous disorder. The explanation is insufficient. Psychologists who attempt to penetrate more deeply into the mystery of the soul, see therein a duplication of consciousness, an irruption of its latent part. This question touches that of the different planes of the human consciousness, which acts now on the one, now on the other, the changing play being studied in different somnambulistic conditions. It also touches the sensitive world.

In any case, it is certain Jesus had the faculty of restoring equilibrium in troubled bodies, and restoring souls to their purest consciousness. “Veritable magic”, said Plotinus, “is love, with hate its contrary. It is by love and hate that magicians act, through their philters and enchantments.” Love in its highest consciousness and supreme power constituted the magic, of the Christ.”

Jesus, the Last Great Initiate, by Edouard Schuré, 1908

Tangled – Emmit Fenn