Greetings DjM,
Thank you for this outstanding contribution!
With best regards,
Adrian.
Adrian- thanks, again.
The Mystery of Gogotha is the nugget, the pearl, the crux of Christianity. Anyone who chooses to read this article for understanding will truly know what Christianity is. Everything else is built around this Mystery.
All the best!
Well... I have read this a couple times, and it is very interesting. I think we all have some purpose in one way or another, no matter how minute it may seem. I want to become a great martial artist and also a visionary. I get a lot of visions. They are not about things that will come to be, but I think I have tapped into some kind of source of happiness. It once happened to me while singing Mozart's Requiem (one of his most fantastic works ever, if you ever get a chance to listen to it. He actually died before he finished it, but a student of his finished it for him and it was sung at his funeral- pretty ironic, he wrote his own requiem! lol). It was only a for split-second but it made a lasting impression on my soul. It was amazing. It was probably something made by extraterrestrial beings. I can't describe my visions because they would not make any sense in the physical world- and besides, we're not supposed to materialize that which is spirit, right? I think this was entirely spirit. It was something made out of wood or a substance that looked remarkably like wood, coated in a high-quality varnish. It had a shape to it but I cannot describe the shape because it cannot physically exist. What I saw I knew could never exist on the physical plane the moment I saw it.
Do you think this is a way that extraterrestrials would try to contact someone, through visions like these? Read the first book of the Ender's Game series (hence my callsign) and you will understand what I mean.
These visions often bring great happiness and understanding to me. They rebalance my energies. What part do they play in the Great Plan? Can you elaborate for me? I would much appreciate it. I believe a good race is contacting me. I do not know what race, but I need to know how to send a response back to them.
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Originally posted by EnderWiggin
Do you think this is a way that extraterrestrials would try to contact someone, through visions like these? Read the first book of the Ender's Game series (hence my callsign) and you will understand what I mean.
These visions often bring great happiness and understanding to me. They rebalance my energies. What part do they play in the Great Plan? Can you elaborate for me? I would much appreciate it. I believe a good race is contacting me. I do not know what race, but I need to know how to send a response back to them.
I cannot account for another's visions and don't want to try. It requires a lot of effort (i.e. beyond a few posts) to attempt to interpret someone else's dreams, visions, etc... Inacurracy would do one a disservice. The truth is, we are supposed to be able to make sense of our own experiences. We all have visions (i.e. dreams; state of consciousness)! The key is to be able to apply the correct meanings to what is presented. Typically, one's vision(s) only contains relevance to one's self. Having a vision does not make one a saint or elevate one's spiritual development. In fact, sometimes one is receiving a warning that goes uncomprehended. (e.g. Watch out for the hole! What? Watch out for the....) Great revelations are typically NOT made to those who cannot make light of them. What would be the sense?
The common denominator in all of the dreams, visions, etc... that have been presented to me (i.e. not necessarily on this site) is: someone is having a divine revelation and now they know it all...if they could just interpret it correctly! Now, what's wrong with this picture? The plan is: human evolution. If one takes their own spiritual development to heart and pursues it in earnst, then, THIS activity itself IS part of the divine plan (i.e. individual response to the collective effort).
I believe that the integrital way to handle one's own vision, dream, and/or supernatural occurance is to pursue a level of understanding that will make one self-sufficient in these regards. In today's world, we have a thought and want to publish it right away. The Gnostics, who studdied esoteric truths, were prepared for 2 years BEFORE they were taught anything! Receiving a presentation of truth(s) can be destructive if the level of required understanding does not commensurate.
All of your dreams come from you. You alone, can make sense of them. However, if one does not possess the tools to do so, the meaning(s) will be lost.
If you (as a higher intelligence) were going to communicate with a human being in this world, would you simply pick anyone or would you seek out one who is most capable of understanding what is to be communicated? (Please bear in mind that there are those who can go to the spiritual world at will, as opposed to having a passive experience.) Why try to communicate to someone who doesn't know the language? Why not find someone who does? After all, the assumption is: we are be contacted by higher intelligence.
All of the great leaders of humanity knew the language.
FYI: most good texts that cover dreams, etc... reccommend that one keep a journal.
Although this is not a specific answer to your question, it is an answer to all your questions (pertaining to the understanding of dreams, etc...). Chances are, one will NOT get a good transcription from one who did not actually have the dream.
Is one worthy to have a vision associated with great truths if one will not even attempt to possess the tools (i.e. of understanding) to make use of it?
are you sure you are talking about visions DjM, and not just sudden understanding of things that you previously couldn't comprehend?
i've had visions, and i've had sudden understanding, and i've also had God force knowledge and understanding directly into my brain, and they are all different things. in my case i didn't have to interpret the visions, but the sudden understanding i did have to think about. the gifts from God didn't need understanding either; I just knew and understood more than i did before, i didn't even have to think about it, it just came, like a great book being read right into me.
~kakkarot
Actually, I am certain that if an alien contacted me, I would understand the language, because aliens are so far advanced that they could read me and know exactly what they wanted to communicate to me and how to communicate it. That is probably proof enough that I am not being contacted... maybe. I think aliens are an advanced version of ourselves- what we will someday evolve into or something similar. The reason for contacting only certain individuals is for aiding mankind in spiritual evolution. These individuals probably say the messages are from God or are made to think this, and their actions probably have large effects on the course of history. Just like demons can sneak thoughts into our minds, so too can aliens, only when they do it they probably make it look like God sent us the messages, and you can genuinely feel that the messages are good (if sent from a benevolent race). I've heard of "not-so-nice" races of aliens, and they probably do exist; I hope I do not come in contact with them. It's quite unlikely. In any case, I think I will take the initiative and try to contact a benevolent race. It can't hurt. In a worst-case scenario, I'll learn something.
um... side note: cia has figured out a way to use radio wave transmissions to get people to "hear voices". the cia can get the person to hear what the cia wants them to hear. probably gonna be used to communicate among agents rather than as a way to make normal citizens insane, so no i'm not posting this as a conspiracy theory thingy. [:)] happy hunting.
~kakkarot
Though the CIA may not use this to put thoughts into our heads, it still scares me that they have the ability to do that. It's bad enough they can get into our computers and have unlimited access, not to mention all the satellites orbiting earth. Our privacy is gone, and now they have the ability to brainwash us with radio waves?! I know you're not posting this as a conspiracy, but it's inevitible that someone would say something about that. Anyway, I just think it's terrible that the government has this power. They have already caused enough conspiracies for my lifetime. Who's to say they won't abuse this power? It's inevitible that they will. Humans are naturally corrupt when they obtain positions of power. At least, that's what history says.
Anyway, we're getting off-subject here. I strongly believe that there are in fact aliens out there. Their world is probably our future in some way. It is probably a model of what the future will be like when mankind evolves. It would be neat to know, I assume, what the future will be like. Of course, there is also something inside me that doesn't want to know... Yet. Maybe when i'm dead and flying around among the clouds somewhere speaking random sentences to people late at night.
enderwiggin, regarding the CIA: appear small. they won't go after you if they do have a reason to. unless they do stuff to random people. in that case... um.. "walk real quiet and carry a big stick" [:P]
~kakkarot
I'll attack with spoons. That always works hehe. yeah, I don't think I'm a threat to anyone. Even with my kung fu skills... er, I mean my spoon fighting skills. hmm... Oh well.... They'll never take me alive! *Busts out jetpack and flies away*
Gabriel means announcement, annunciation, foretelling. That is why Archangel Gabriel plays the role of messenger in the Gospels. Under Gabriel's guidance, spiritual life was ripening in complete stillness, well protected and surrounded like a child in a mother's womb. In November 1879, in the astral plane, something quite similar to a birth occurred. What had been maturing since the 14th century could now be carried out into the world. The reign of Gabriel was replaced by the reign of Archangel Michael. Michael is the radiating sun, through whom esoteric wisdom illuminates a small human band. Under Gabriel's guidance, esoteric wisdom remained hidden, while on the physical plane, materialism was developing. It is not correct to view materialism as something evil, for materialism too is part of the divine creative plan and has a goal and purpose in the cosmic whole. Now, however, the dark forces of materialism have taken an upper hand, and therefore the time has come for the esoteric sun to shine forth once more under Michael's radiant guidance.
Michael's radiant rule will be replaced in turn by a dark, terrifying age, which will begin around the year 2400. Even now, coincident with Michael, a dark god has proclaimed his power: Mammon.
For occultists, Mammon is not only the god of money. Mammon is the leader of all the lower, dark forces. His troops attack not just the human soul, but the physical bodies as well, devouring and destroying (e.g. bacilli) them. In the future, they will acquire even more frightening power.
When this dark age approaches, there will be raging quarrels between brothers, and wars between brothers. Poor human bodies will waste away, prey to dread illnesses and scourges. The seal of sin will be imprinted most visibly onto the human body. The another Archangel will appear: Oriphiel. He is the one who must come to shake humankind, to jolt it through terrible suffering, awakening it to its true vocation. For this to happen in the right way, however, there must be, starting now, a small handful of human beings capable of spreading esoteric life during the next four to six hundred years.
Anyone who feels the urge to participate in spiritual life under Michael's guidance is called to serve Michael and learn from him. This is the preparation for service under Oriphiel's terrifying rule. Sacrifice will be required of those who want to consecrate themselves to spiritual life. The willingness to put oneself at the service of humanity is the necessary prerequisite from anyone who seeks to receive the spiritual life.
In four to six hundred years, the handful of human beings who are now preparing themselves will be put in the service of Oriphiel, so that humanity can be saved. If the people who assume the leadership then have not prepared for it by holding their own against the troops of Mammon, they will not be able to play the role assigned to them under Oriphiel. Then humanity will not be raised from its misery.
But it is when the darkest forces are at their most violent that the brightest light also shines. Oriphiel has assumed leadership in the past. The last time was when Christ appeared upon the earth, a period when the worst rottenness and decadence reigned all over the earth. It took terrible sufferings then for the human race to be jolted forward. Oriphiel has been called the Archangel of Anger; who purifies humanity with a strong hand.
The story of Christ cracking his whip at the money-changers in the Temple has a deep meaning to it. At this darkest of times in human history, Christ appeared to save humanity. Oriphiel's reign ended 104 years later and was replaced by Anael's. Then came Zachariel, then Raphael. Raphael reigned at the time of the Renaissance; Gabriel from the 16th century to 1879. Then Michael assumed leadership. Around 2400, it will be Oriphael's turn again. And, just as the last time, the spiritual light will shine but radiantly in the darkness. Christ will appear again on earth, but in a different form. Our vocation is to receive Him; to serve Him.
The beings who, as we ascend, are closest to human beings are known in Christian esoterism as Angels, Archangels, and Prime Powers or Prime Beginners - Angeloi, Archangeloi, and Archai. Archangels reached their human stage of development during the Old Moon period and are at present only as far evolved as humanity will be during its Jupiter phase of evolution. Hence, Angels are one stage above humans.
If we want to make a comparison between Jehovah and Christ, we would do well to take sunlight and moonlight as an illustration. What is sunlight; what is moonlight? They are one and the same and yet very different.Sunlight streams from the sun, but in moonlight it is reflected back by the moon. In the same way, Christ and Jehovah are one.
Jehovah made himself known to the Hebrew Initiates ins such a way that they realized something they had never, with their ordinary powers of comprehension previously been able to grasp- namely, that Michael was truly the countenance of Jehovah. Hence the ancient Hebrews spoke of Jehovah-Michael: Jehovah was unapproachable, unattainable by human beings. Michael was the outer manifestation of Jahve or Jehovah, just as the manifestation of the I in the human being may be recognized in the brow and countenance.
We can therefore say that Jehovah revealed himself through Michael, one of the Archangels. Knowledge of the Being described above as Jahve was not confined to the ancient Hebrews, but was far and more widespread. The last 500 years before the Christian era, we find that throughout this whole period revelation was given through Michael. This revelation can be discovered in another form in Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, in Greek philosophy, even in the ancient Greek tragedies, during the five centuries before the event of Golgotha.
Christ-Jehovah has been the Being who has accompanied humankind throughout the whole course of evolution. And during successive epochs, Christ-Jehovah always reveals Himself through different beings of the same rank as Michael. According to which Beings from the Hierarchy of the Archangels is chosen to be the mediator between Christ-Jehovah and humanity, widely different ideas and conceptions, impulses of feeling, impulses of will, are revealed to human beings. The whole period surrounding the Mystery of Golgotha may be described as the Age of Michael, and Michael may be regarded as the messenger of Jehovah. For the Angels Through his power, Michael poured into humanity what was destined to be imparted at that time.
For the Ages of the different Archangels are repeated; and it is a fact of supreme importance that every such Archangel gives to the Age its fundamental character. These Archangels are leaders of different nations and peoples, but because they become leaders of particular epochs, and because they were also such leaders in bygone times, they become in a certain sense, leaders of humanity.
As regards to Michael, a change has now taken place. Michael himself has attained a further stage of development.
What is the Mystery of Golgotha's chief importance? The fact of supreme importance is that the Being who bears the name of Christ passed through the Mystery of Golgotha and through the gate of death at that time. Never, throughout the evolution of the earth, will one be able to speak of the Mystery of Golgotha without considering the fact that Christ passed through death- that is the very core of the Mystery...
There is no death for any Being of the higher Hierarchies, except for Christ. But for a supersensible Being such as Christ to be able to pass through death, that Being must have first descended to earth. And the fact of immeasurable significance in the Mystery of Golgotha is that a Being who, in the realm of his own will, could never have experienced death, should have descended to the earth in order to undergo an experience inherently with humankind. Thereby an inner bond was created between earthly humanity and Christ, in that this Christ Being passed through death in order to share His destiny with humankind. That death was of the greatest possible importance, above all for the present evolutionary period of the earth. A Being of unique nature, who until then was only cosmic, was united through the Mystery of Golgotha, through Christ's death, with the earth's evolution. At the time of the Mystery of Golgotha, He entered into the very process of earthly evolution. This had not been the case before that event for He then belonged to the cosmos alone; but through the Mystery of Golgotha He descended out of the cosmos and was incorporated on earth. Since then He lives on earth, is united with the earth in such a way that He lives in human souls and experiences earthly life with human beings.
Thus the whole period before the Mystery of Golgotha was only a preparatory period in earthly evolution. The Mystery of Golgotha imparted to the earth its meaning and purpose.
For three years, after the Baptism in the Jordan, Christ lived in the body of Jesus of Nazareth as a human being among earthly human beings. This may be called the earthly manifestation of Christ in a physical, human body. But in what form does he reveal Himself since that time? No longer in the physical body, for that was given over to the physical earth and is now part of it. The Christ-Being can now be recognized in a being belonging to the Hierarchy of the Angels. Just as the Saviour of the world manifested Himself during the three years after the Baptism in a human body - in spite of His sublimity - so, since that time, He manifests Himself directly as an Angel, as a Spiritual Being belonging to the Hierarchical rank immediately above that of humanity.As such, he could always be found by those who were clairvoyant, as such He always united with evolution. Just as truly as Christ, when incarnated in the body of Jesus of Nazareth, was more than human, so is the Christ Being more than an Angel- that is His outer form only.
But the fact that a mighty, sublime Being descended from the spiritual worlds and dwelt for three years in a human body also includes the fact that during that time this Being Himself progressed a stage further in His development.
When such a Being takes on a human or an angelic form, He Himself progresses. And it is this that we have indicated in speaking of the evolution of Christ-Jehovah.l Christ has reached the stage where He reveals Himself henceforth not as a human being, not through His reflection only, not through the name of Jehovah, but directly. And the great difference in all the teachings and all the wisdom that have streamed into the evolution of the earth since the Mystery of Golgotha, is that through the coming of Michael- the Spirit Michael - to the earth, through his inspiration, human beings could gradually begin to understand all that the Christ-Impulse, all that the Mystery of Golgotha, signifies. But in that earlier time Michael was the messenger of Jehovah, the reflection of the light of Christ; Michael was not yet the messenger of Christ Himself.
Michael inspired humanity for several centuries, for almost 500 years before the Mystery of Golgotha, as was indicated in the Old Mysteries, by Plato and so forth. But soon after the Mystery of Golgotha occurred and Christ had united Himself with the evolution of the earth, the direct impulse of Michael ceased. Michael could no longer inspire humankind. Nevertheless, human beings continued to be inspired by Michael's companions amongst the Archangels in such a way that much soul-force was received unconsciously through inspiration.
The writers of the Gospel themselves had no clear occult (i.e. beyond the 5 senses) knowledge, for the inspiration of Michael came to an end shortly after the Mystery of Golgotha and the other Archangels, the companions of Michael, could not inspire humanity in such a way as to make the Mystery of Golgotha comprehensible. This accounts for the divergent inspirations of the various Christian teachings. Much in these teachings was inspired by the companions of Michael. That is, the teachings were not inspired by Michael himself, but bear the same relation to his inspirations as the planets do to the mighty sun.
Only now, in our own age, is there again a Michael influence, a direct influence from Michael. Preparation for this direct inspiration from Michael has been going on since the 16th century. At that time, it was the Archangel who was closest to Michael who gave humanity the inspiration that led to the great achievements of modern natural science. This natural science is not attributable to the inspiration of Michael, but to that of his companions, Gabriel. The tendency of this scientific inspiration is to create a science, a world-picture, connected with the physical brain, that promotes understanding of the material world alone.
Within the last few decades, Michael has taken the place of the Inspirer of science. And in the next few centuries, Michael will give to the world something that, in a spiritual sense, will be equally important - indeed more important, because more spiritual - immeasurably more important than the physical science which has advanced from stage to stage since the 16th century. Just as his companion Archangel Gabriel endowed the world with science, so Michael will endow humankind with spiritual knowledge, of which we are now at the beginning. Just as 500 years before the Mystery of Golgotha, Michael was sent as the messenger of Jehovah, as the reflection of Christ, to sound the keynote of that era, just as he was then still the messenger of Jehovah, so now, in our own epoch, Michael has become the messenger of Christ Himself. Just as in ancient Hebrew times, which were a direct preparation for the Mystery of Golgotha, the Initiates among the Hebrews could turn to Michael as the outer revelation of Jahve or Jehovah, so we now are able to turn to Michael - who from being the messenger of Jehovah, has become the messenger of Christ - to receive from him during the next few centuries increasing spiritual revelations that will shed more and more light upon the Mystery of Golgotha. What happened 2000 years ago could be made known to the world only through the various Christian sects and its profundities can be unveiled only in the 20th century, instead of science, spiritual knowledge - our gift from Michael - will come into its own. This should fill our hearts will deep feelings for spiritual reality in the present time. We shall be able to realize that within the last few decades, a door has opened through which understanding can enter.
Michael can give us new spiritual light which may be regarded as a transformation of the light that was given through him at the time of the Mystery of Golgotha; and people today can receive that light . If we can realize this, we can grasp the significance of the new age that is now issuing from our own; we can be aware of the dawn of a spiritual revelation that is to enter into the life of humanity on the earth within the next few centuries. Indeed, because human beings have become freer than in former times, we shall be able through our own wills, to progress to the stage where this revelation may be received.
Reference shall now be made to the event in the higher worlds that has led to this altered state of affairs- to this time of a renewal of the Mystery of Golgotha...
Let us remember what has been said- that in the invisible worlds there is no death. Christ Himself, because he descended to our world, passed through a death similar to that of human beings. When He again became a spiritual being, He retained the memory of His death; but as a being of the rank of the Angels, in which He continued to manifest Himself outwardly, He could experience only a diminution of consciousness.
Through what, since the 16th century, was a necessity for earthly evolution- namely, the triumph of natural science at ever higher levels - something entered human evolution that was also significant for the invisible worlds. With the triumph of science, materialistic and agnostic sentiments of greater intensity than ever before arose in human nature. There had been materialistic tendencies in earlier times, but not the intense materialism that has prevailed since the 16th century. Increasingly, human souls who passed through the gates of death into the spiritual worlds bore with them the outcome of the materialistic ideas they had on earth. After the 16th century, more and more such seeds of earthly materialism were carried over- and these seeds developed in a particular way.
Christ came into the old Hebrew race and was led to His death within it. The angelic Being who, since then, has been the outer form assumed by Christ, suffered an extinction of consciousness in the course of the intervening 19th centuries as a result of the opposing materialistic forces that had been brought into the spiritual worlds by materialistic human souls who had passed through the gate of death. This onset of unconsciousness in the spiritual worlds will lead to the resurrection of the Christ-consciousness in the souls of human beings living on earth in the 20th century. In a certain sense, it may be said that, beginning in the 20th century, the consciousness lost by humanity will rise again for clairvoyant vision. At first only a few, and then an ever-increasing number of human beings in the 20th century will be capable of perceiving the manifestation of the Etheric Christ- that is to say, Christ in the form of an Angel. It was for the sake of humanity that what may be called an extinction of consciousness occurred in the worlds immediately above our earthly world, where Christ has been visible in the period between the Mystery of Golgotha and the present day.
At the time of the Mystery of Golgotha something took place in a little known corner of Palestine, something that was the greatest event in the whole of human evolution, but of which little notice was taken by the people of that time. If such a thing could happen, need we be astonished when we hear what conditions were like during the 19th century, when those who since the 16th century had passed through death and confronted Christ?
Thus Christ-consciousness may be united with the earthly consciousness of humanity from now on into the future; for the dying of the Christ-consciousness in the sphere of the Angels in the 19th century signifies the resurrection of the direct consciousness of Christ- that is to say, Christ's life will be felt in human souls more and more as a direct personal experience from the 20th century onward.
Once the few who could read the signs of the times were able to realize, contemplating the Mystery of Golgotha, that Christ had descended from spiritual worlds to live on the earth and undergo death, so that through His death the substances incorporated into Him might pass into the earth ; in the same way, today, we are able to perceive that in certain worlds lying immediately behind our own, a sort of spiritual death, a suspension of consciousness, took place. This was a renewal of the Mystery of Golgotha, in order to bring about an awakening of the previously hidden Christ-consciousness within human souls on earth.
Since the Mystery of Golgotha, many human beings have been able to proclaim the Name of Christ, and from the 20th century onwards an ever-increasing number will be able to make known the knowledge of the Christ that is given in Anthroposophy. Out of their own experience they will be able to proclaim Him.
Twice already Christ has been crucified: once physically, in the physical world at the beginning of our era, and a second time spiritual, in the 19th century, in the way described above. It could be said that humanity experienced the resurrection of His body in that former time and will experience resurrection of His consciousness from the 20th century onward.
These indications will gradually make their way into human souls, and the mediator, the messenger, will be Michael, who is now the ambassador of Christ. Just as he once led human souls towards an understanding of Christ's life descending from earth, so he is now preparing humankind to experience the emergence of Christ-consciousness from the realm of the unknown into the realm of the known. And just as the time of Christ's earthly life the greater number of Christ's contemporaries were incapable of believing what a stupendous event had taken place in earthly evolution, so, in our own day the outer world is striving to increase the power of materialism, and will continue for a long time to regard what has been spoken of today as so much fantasy, dreaming, and perhaps even outright folly.