Lecture given by Daskalos on

3 SEPTEMBER 1991

God is, as the Absolute Reality, what we call the Absolute Infinite
Beingness. The nature of this Absolute Beingness is the self-sufficiency,
yet, one of its natures is the Pleasure and the Will to express Itself in
Itself. The Absolute Beingness is not male or female. It's just the
Absolute Reality, God.
Now, in the Pleasure of the Absolute Beingness as Will, the Total Wisdom
and the Almightiness, this Absolute Beingness expresses Itself as the
Logos. The Logos is not a second God. It's the Absolute Beingness in
certain kind of expression. Logoic expression. We shall explain what we
mean by logoic expression. Also, in Its nature as the Almightiness and
the Total Wisdom, there is an expression (Its expression) we are calling
the Holy Spirit.
So, the Absolute Beingness is expressing Itself now in the world of
existence as the Logos and as the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not
"Geist." "Geist" is the Mind. The Holy Spirit is God, but do not confuse all
that, because in Germany you call the Holy Spirit "Heilige Geist", which it
is not. We shall speak about this "Geist" or the Mind. The Mind is not
God, but it is also holy.
We said that the Infinite Beingness is the Eternal Reality as Life. But,
we must not make a mistake to confuse the expression of life in the living
forms in the material plane (and in the other planes) with the Life
Eternal, everlasting, which is God. You cannot just compare a flame of
the candle with the Sun. What is fire? The flame and the Sun.
Now, we see that this Absolute Reality, the Infinite Beingness, God, is (as
its nature) a multiplicity. Multiplicity? In what sense? Not that it is
multiplying itself, but that it contains in itself other immortal and eternal
Beings, which have never been born. They are and they will never stop
being. That's what you call Beings (with capital letters). These are the
Holy Archangels of all the orders. The High Intelligences which manifest
that nature of the Absolute Beingness we call the Total Wisdom and the
Almightiness. So, these Archangelic orders and these Beings in the
Archangelic orders are both logoic and holy spiritual. They are both. And
what is man, what's a human being now? A human being is an eternal,
everlasting Spirit, God. Just as all the other Archangels.
A human being is an Archangel belonging to the Archangelic order
we call the Heavenly Man, the Idea of Man. Now, as a human being.
What is a human being? Spirit, which is the Self (the real Self) of every
human being, is God, eternal. It will never be born and will never cease
being. Cease being? Now, you'll have to make a separation between the
word being and existing. Yet, that Spirit reflecting Itself is known as
the Soul.
So, what are we now as human beings living in bodies, expressing a kind
of time-and-place (space) self which is our personality, personality of a
man or a woman? Yet, at the same time, in this personality of ours we
are experiencing a part of our real Self, as the Spirit and as the Soul
which is our individuality. The Soul, or that individuality of ours, is
immortal. It will never die and will never cease being. So, we have our
personality (existing - but, which will not exist as a manifestation always)
and our individuality (which is a part of our Being) - which will
assimilate a part of our personality to itself. Nothing is lost. All our
personalities during the centuries as phenomena are passing away - the
name, the sex, the kind of expression, but not the nature of our
personality, that means Life in the personality. So, what is not lost but
assimilated is the nature of our personality (not its essence, which is the
individuality, or the Soul). I'll put it more clearly. The Soul is in the
personality and if the Soul is withdrawn from the personality, the
personality will cease to exist.
Now, we can read in the Bible "And God said ..." (Said? And He started
vibrating expressing His Will power as the Total Wisdom and the
Almightiness. Of course, that vibration affected other Beings in God to
become cooperators with the Infinite Beingness.) "And God said, 'Let us
create (create, now!) man (human being) according to our image and to
our likeness.'". And so, the Spirit-Self of ours, a Metathrone (an
Archangel from the order of Metathrones, the Thrones) and, immediately,
a Michael, a Gabriel, a Raphael and an Uriel (and others) started
vibrating that Will vibration of God (of creation) to create man. And so a
human being was created. A human being is a creation. A creature
(having in it the Spirit-Soul-Self, immortal, eternal, and its expression)
following the Total Wisdom and the Almightiness of God to create, as we
know today, the human being.
What about the form, the human form? Where is the human form? Of
course, it is in the Total Wisdom of God as all the other forms around us
- in the material plane, in the noetical plane and everywhere. These are
the worlds of existence, the worlds of forms. And these are making the
various Heavens. There are many, many Beings in the Seven Heavens.
Maybe there are many, many, many more, but the human intelligence
cannot reach beyond the Seventh Heaven. Which one is the First Heaven?
(We are just using this word Heaven for a world of certain kind of
existence). The material world. The material world is the First Heaven,
and this is the world of three dimensions (we'll explain what we mean by
dimensions). It is everything material on the planet, the planet, the solar
system, all the solar systems, the galaxy, all the galaxies in chaos and in
space. All these are the First Heaven.
Which one is the Second Heaven now? What you call the psychical
plane. To exist, anything material, from the smallest to the galaxy, must
have in it what you call the psychical plane and, in between them, what
you call the etheric vitality, the mould in which the Beings (the
Creators) are working to manifest the material things on the material
plane, using, as I said, the Total Wisdom and the Almightiness. We may
call that plane (cosmically) the Pleasure of the Infinite Beingness. Yes, it
is the Pleasure of the Infinite Beingness and Its Will power.
And, as there is the Second Heaven, or the psychical plane, there is also
our so-called psychic body. So, a human being has a material body
which corresponds to the First Heaven, the material world, and he also
has the psychic body which corresponds to the Second Heaven, the world
of four dimensions.
Now, we also have what we call the noetical plane, the mind plane. For
something to exist materially and psychically it must have in it the
noetical counterpart of it. Now, in a man, we have his noetical body. (We
also have the noetic body and the noetic world.) And so, as above - so
below. A human being is a complete composition of all the universes
(universes or heavens - it is the same). Composition? But, what are the
universes and the worlds composed off? Now, we come to the Mind you
call "Geist", not the Holy Spirit, but the means by which all the universes
are being created. Matter, even a grain of sand, everything material is
Mind solid - it is the Mind. And we said, for something to exist materially
it should have the etheric double of it, and the Pleasure of God and the
Total Wisdom of God as its psychic body, noetical and noetic bodies.
So, we know what is the Mind and can define it. Now, we find the Mind
in various states of expression. We find the Mind as Supersubstance. We
have the Mind as Substance. We have the Mind as Matter Substance.
And we have the Mind as Matter. These characteristics of the Mind are
used by the Holy Beings, the Archangels, to create their expressions in it.
So, we have the Lords of the Elements. The order of the Element of
Matter, of Fire, of the Liquids (Water), of Space, and so on. As I said
before, we can come in contact and in touch with these Archangels,
because one of every order of these Archangels is now (in this time) in
our bodies - building, creating. So, in your bodies, the material, the
psychic and the noetical bodies, a Michael is working. Michaels are
billions and billions, and billions of such Archangelic Beings composing
the Archangelic order of Michaels. And so are all the other orders. As we
have in our body many, many blood cells, so in the order of Archangels
are many, many Beings: Michaels, Gabriels, Raphaels, Uriels, and so on.
So, in our bodies we have a Michael, a Gabriel, a Raphael, an Uriel, and
other Archangels working in the Total Wisdom of the Almighty Beingness
- composing our bodies.
How are our bodies created and kept in good order? This is the reality.
You may ask "But, do these Archangels work only in the material body
and the other bodies of the human beings?" No. They are working in all
the universes and the whole creation. In plants, in trees, in animals,
everywhere. And they are working expressing the Total Wisdom of the
Almighty God. So, these are not simply theories. Every Researcher of the
Truth has the means and the way to investigate himself and find out the
truth about it. But how? By studying, first, his personality. To find what?
The quality of his personality. You can study the material body of a man
or a woman and know what a material body of any man or woman is in
composition. But, you cannot study the personality of a man and know
the personalities of all the people, men or women. So, each one who is
interested in these things should start studying his own personality, its
nature and its quality.
We have to, as we said yesterday, work more, not in but on our material
body and, on our psychic body, our emotional body. The emotional body
has exactly the same form as the material body. Now, this is the real
body of our Present-Day Personality. Can this body, the psychic body,
express itself in the four dimensional world, in the psychic world, leaving
behind the material body? Of course. The psychic body can be the means
of expression of our self apart from the material body, and we call this
exosomatosis. So, the psychic body can express itself independently
from the material body, yet, in the material body it gives the personality
the emotions and the desires. This can be studied by a Researcher of the
Truth.
Now, we said that we have the noetical and the noetic bodies, the lower
and the higher mind bodies, with the same form as the material and the
psychic body. In form, of course. Can we (or a Researcher after the
Truth) use only this mind body and move independently from the psychic
body and the material body? Move about in what we call the noetical and
noetic worlds? Yes. Because, the noetical and the noetic body can serve a
human being completely and independently from the psychic body and
the material body. But, the Present-Day Personality has to train itself
and develop its self-consciousness to higher levels (of course), to leave
the body anytime (no matter if he is a man or she is a woman), move
about, get experiences, and behave in the same way he is behaving with
his material body or in the psychic plane - which is where? Where is the
material earth? The material earth has its psychic counterpart, and also
the noetical and the noetic counterpart. So, one doesn't need to leave the
planet. Even by passing over nobody has ever left the planet. By passing
over? The hells and the paradises (many) are in the psychic counterpart
of our planet. So, many have the idea, mistaken idea, that they will leave
the planet after passing over. Now, can we leave the planet with the
noetical and the noetic body? No! They will move about in the noetical
and the noetic planes of the planet. Can the Seeker of the Truth ever
leave the planet? Of course he can. By controlling and being the master
of his bodies and developing his self-consciousness beyond the
consciousness of the bodies. Developing his self- consciousness to what
we call Self Superconsciousness. Then he is free to go anywhere. Not
only on the planet, but beyond the planet, beyond the galaxy, beyond the
galaxies.
But who has the time to do that? There is so much pain on the planet and
you are not allowed to leave the planet for curiosity. You have to stay to
serve, and as long as there are eyes with tears you have to be here with a
handkerchief to wipe off these tears. For me it is a curse to leave the
planet just out of curiosity. And something else. Where is God? Where is
the Infinite Beingness? Where is, what certain dogmas speak about,
Salvation? What Salvation? To, egoistically, put apart our so-called Soul
from the others and believe in our Salvation? Becoming a monk, or a
nun, or withdrawing the self from the world? Of course, I don't know
what people are thinking of me, but - this is stupid. An insult against
God. Because, if that was the case, why God Himself as the Logos
incarnated amongst us? What for? You are to follow His example, the
example of the most beloved Godman, Joshua the Christ. You have to
stay! And where shall we find God? When shall we enter the Heavens?
Joshua the Godman said "The Kingdom of Heavens is in us." This is
Salvation - to disentangle the self from the illusions of time and
space and material enchantment and serve, work, for the Logos.
This, for me, means Salvation, and not entering in a state people call
paradise! Yes, paradises do exist and hells do exist, and they are also in
us. In our bodies, in our psychic and in our noetical bodies.
So, Salvation means to realize the Self, becoming masters of matter and
of the substance and the Supersubstance as the Holy Archangels, our
brothers, are. That means Salvation. And if the Holy Archangels
undertook to work in the bodies of human beings, of animals, and of
trees (I said a Michael, a Gabriel, a Raphael, an Uriel, and others), if
these have undertaken to work in the body of any human being, of a
thief, a criminal - then, what is our duty as a Self Being? Now, this we
should follow - their example. Do they work in the body of a criminal?
Yes. Suppose we inflict a wound on a criminal, and he escapes arrest, no
matter how many people he has killed, will the wound on the body of
that criminal be cured? Yes! Which means that their work is the work of
Mercy of the Almighty, because our brothers the Archangels are good
beyond our comprehension. They are the faithful creators, workers, in
our bodies. We have to understand this and respect our body which is
their body also.
In deep meditation, observation, and concentration, what I call
introspection, one can study these things. And in the course of time, they
(these Archangels) will be willing to appear to one, reveal their intentions,
their work, and especially their love, and - teach one (him or her - doesn't
matter if it is a man or a woman) what is real Love. Now, most of you
will say "Ah, don't we know what is love?" Of course you don't! Because
what you consider love is, what I call, love by reflection. Which means,
you love somebody if you believe that that somebody (never mind if he is
the member of the family or not) is just caressing your personal
egoism. Satisfying you! If that is so, then you are calling him beloved
one. If he is against your desires and will, you'll start complaining, even
attacking, and so on. So, you don't love that person. When you say you
love him or love her - it's yourself you are loving. Not your real Self, but
your egoism.
So, a Seeker of the Truth has as his duty to study all these things. As I
said before, to study his Present-Day Personality, the time-and-space
(place) personality. His behavior. And what will he find out? That he is
controlled all the time by other forces I call elementals of his own
creation or elementals who she or he had reenergized from the existing
group of the elementals making them part of himself. So, one should
start studying sincerely the self of his Present-Day Personality which, in
reality, is not his real Self. It isn't his Self, it is a creation in the world of
existence. So, studying the behavior of the personality you'll start
working on, what we call psychic or emotional body. The aim is to get
control over the so- called emotional body, now, using the mind as
reason, studying and checking all these desires and emotions.
And now, coming to a conclusion - how to control them, how to deprive
them of their force enslaving you? Become master of the mind, of thought,
by behaving reasonably. Master of the Mind, "Geist". And "Geist" is
Substance, Supersubstance, but not God. This is what you have to have
in your mind. By doing so, in introspection, what will you find out? "I am
not the body. I am just using the body. Others are working, others are
keeping it in good order, and I have to thank them, live in it, and
understand their work. Also, controlling, checking my emotions, I deprive
my egoism (which I make the mistake to think that it is myself) from its
influence on me (torturing me). I become the master of my psychic body -
therefore, I am not the psychic body. The body is something I can use,
live in it, use it. So, by thinking, reasoning and getting the force of
thought to reach decisions - that means I am not the mind. The mind is
something I can use - has been given to me to use it." Then, you are
taught by the Holy Archangels the way they are using the Mind
creatively. Yes, making friendship with the Archangels in your bodies.
This is not impossible. Difficult, yes, but not impossible! You can learn
many, many things, human beings cannot give to you. But you should
be careful. Are you in contact and in touch with the Archangels or with
lower class elementals, which present themselves as the Archangels?
Now, you have to use reason, because there is a danger. Many, I have
seen many making the mistake hearing, feeling the presence of some
elementals, that make the mistake thinking they are in contact with their
Archangels or with their Guardian Archangel. Now, we have to reason!
The Holy Archangels are most wise and they don't give stupid advices
just on material or petty little things. So, we have to use reason. Am I in
contact now with an Archangel or with certain elemental? It is as easy.
Now we'll say how you can find out the truth whether you are in contact
with an Archangel, with your Guardian Angel, or with an elemental. You
will be sure after introspection. By being able to control emotions and
thoughts you will reach higher levels becoming the master of the mind.
Then you are sure, because you know what is right. But, you can never
be sure if you are not in contact with lower class elementals being a
slave of certain desires of yours, or emotions of yours, since - you are on
their level. So, this is the way one should check.
Now, what are elementals? We can speak about them not only for a day,
but for a month, a year, and yet, we'll just have to learn much by
introspection, looking within and observation, to see the quality of
emotions and desires - the life of these elementals. These elementals, I
said yesterday, cannot be seen by our material eyes, yet we can be
crushed by them, we can feel them torturing us. But, we can disarm
them, disenergize them! Do you know where is the power of the Devil?
(What is the Devil?) In not being seen, or in not being detected - just
influencing our personality. There is its danger and its power! And
knowing that it is, either a backwater spirit (I will not call it an evil spirit)
or an elemental, we are responsible for being tortured by them, by giving
them the authority and the power over us.
So, the duty of everybody (man or a woman - no need to be a Seeker of
the Truth) is to start what I call introspection, or looking within,
checking the behavior of his or her personality to see the quality of (let
me put it like that) his or her desires or emotions and, to see that bad
smelling muddy place in their subconscious we call weaknesses, which is
anger, jealousy, the feeling of attacking, envy. We have the most
dangerous things in our subconscious, in our personality, because our
subconscious and our personality are one and the same!
Now, a meditation.
Feel you are completely relaxed now. Feel the belly, the solar plexus.
Relax the chest. Relax the hands. Now, the head ( to relax is more than
just to feel that part there). Take out every kind of thought. Be at complete
peace. Feel you are in the material body, not by tension but by attention.
Because, by tension you are not relaxed. Simply be in the material body
without tension - completely relaxed. And put yourself this question: "Who
am I? What am I? I know myself hearing a name by habit. But am I really
that? I am in a material body completely relaxed now, yet, I can feel that
body. I am in it.
Now, I know that in this body of mine, apart from my thoughts and my
feelings, there are intelligences and entities working. The Archangel of
heat, warmth, fire, a Michael is working. A Gabriel, Master of the liquids,
water and the blood. A Raphael, Master of etheric vitality, electricity,
magnetism, energy (call it whatever you like). Cooperating and working to
give my material body the warm blood. This is the work of these
Archangels - the Archangels of Harmony. Now, whether I feel it, know it, or
not, my blood is circulating in my arteries, in my veins, in my material
mind, in the toes of my feet, in my fingers. Everywhere. What is the
circulation of my blood and who is doing it? Now, my heart beat? I don't do
that. Who is doing it? It is the Holy Archangels and the Holy Spirit as the
supervisor. They are working unceasingly for me, just to prepare a
material body for me. And, of course, they are working in my psychic body
and in my noetical body, which I can find out and check (in introspection -
later). And who am I now, observing, thinking, and trying to understand? I
am not the product of the material body. I am logoic. I am expressing a
self-consciousness. And the Logos, according to the evangelists, is the light
which lighteth every human being coming to the world, giving every
human being the self-consciousness. So, I am under His blessing.
Feel completely relaxed in the material body. Feel your desires and
emotions at peace. Calm down all negative thoughts and even positive
thoughts (you don't need them now) and feel at peace. Enough.
You can make this prayer (I call it a prayer - call it meditation, call it
introspection, but it's a prayer) when you need to relax completely and
find your Self.
 
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