In the Second Advent Community, we observe Easter each year on April 18th. As we approach True Easter, which is a fixed date based on the solar calendar, I would like to focus my messages this month on the battle for the control of Man, on the judgement of the goodly and the ungodly, and on men and women of two worlds. Let’s start with the battle for the control of man and woman.
In the beginning, Man was made in the Image of God – created of Light – but he lost his bright nature. Thus man and woman became enslaved by the material environment – the air they were made to breathe, the food they ate, the water they drank, and the sunlight that bathed them. By these means man and woman degenerated into material beings. Trapped in an ever-changing environment, they became the product of cosmological events that vary according to cycles, the distances of one celestial body from another, temperatures, the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth, and various cosmic energies that bombard the planet. All together, these and other energies and phenomena determined what man and woman was to become, what they were to think, and how they were to respond to nature.
Man and woman change, though they know it not, from one age to another. We differ in appearance, in stature, in composition, and in the manner we view ourselves and the universe in which we live. Our institutions of learning, our societies, religions, arts, sciences, and all the environment we create for ourselves, together with the natural environment, make us what we are, or what we may become, either for our own improvement or deterioration. Our survival as a species is dictated by all these conditioning processes.
When we elevate our eyes to the Sun and absorb the energies directly into our brain and nervous system, we flood our entire being with cosmic energies which have their origins in space and in worlds beyond our own planet. We are thereby projected into outer space. Our whole being on the physical level is altered by all of our systems at work in the body. And these alterations have an effect upon our thinking processes, for with incoming light and energy from the Sun our mind is illuminated with thoughts that have their origins outside of our own body and, indeed, our world. Thus, slowly we are made new in the Image of God, and we take on an image not of matter, but of Light. We begin to have thoughts of searching for outer being, for understanding the source of all life, for comprehending the Creator of all things. By means of sunlight, we become as gods of the ancients, eating the food of the gods which is eternal Light from the heavens.
God’s Thought, called the Word, is sent to the Universe and thence to the Earth by means of sunlight. The thought did not originate within this Sun but rather within the eternal Mind of God from which all things owe their existence. When we look at the Sun, our mind is linked with the Mind of God. And this is what is meant by the Word and the incarnation of the Word in the mind of Man.
With the coming of God’s Thought into the world from the Sun, the light of the Sun has been altered, for it is filled with divine thoughts. And that is why the Sun has been called the Sun of Righteousness. And because God’s Thought or Word calls us back to Him, redeeming us from the Earth, the Sun is also called the Messianic Sun – meaning that God, wishing to restore man and woman to their divine Nature by means of divine Light, is Savior.
Sunlight acting upon our eyes, brain, nervous system, and organism through the blood and the secretions of glands brings about a drastic change in us on the physical and mental levels. We begin to have new thoughts. We feel different. And because of these changes, it is necessary that we apply a system of looking at the Sun which is beneficial to us. This System is a divine Science that has been given to The Community, an institution of learning concerned with Man’s body, mind, emotions, psyche, and spiritual nature. The System of Cosolargy is a complete system for alteration of human nature.
It is for this reason that those of us who apply this System are admonished to apply it within The Community for our own sake. For to look at the Sun means to aspire to a celestial nature more than to a terrestrial nature. A celestial nature is a state of being far superior to that which can be attained without the System. This System was known, in part, by many ancient schools and was applied by Socrates, Plato, the Buddha, Pythagoras, Viracocha/Quetzalcoatl, Moses and Aaron, Jesus and James, and many, many other religious men and women of antiquity.
But because the nature of the Sun is different today than it was in ancient times, our System and our School is by necessity distinct in many ways. Therefore, a New Teaching governing this change has come into the world as the traditional and divine school of Light which has come at different times to various peoples in diverse places around the world. Our Community is authorized by God and the Worlds of Light to bring this Teaching into the world at this time of Man’s spiritual evolution. This authority must be respected by those who apply the System, and it must also be respected by the secular and religious institutions of the world.
Because the world is undergoing drastic changes, owing to the alteration of sunlight and the intelligence within that sunlight, the human species can be expected to change with it. This change shall be determined by the natural environment. And it can also be regulated for Man’s greater good and purpose in the Universe. This is why The Community is important to thinking men and women; because it is a discipline that has a very practical application in the world. It can determine whether we are to survive and inherit the Universe or whether we are to become extinct as a species.
If Man is to inherit the Universe, we must become a far more advanced species on the physical, mental and spiritual levels. To accomplish this, we need to become more akin to energy than to matter. The changes that must take place in Man can best be achieved in a religious manner, for God is involved. Any other attempt to bring about changes while working with solar energy will necessarily be one of gross mental undertaking or one of negation, which is to say, one of Darkness. Powers beyond the material world control Man, though his sciences and secular institutions do not know this. Knowing this, it is better that thinking and rational men and women – such as the ancients who gave the modern world many of its founding ideas and philosophical and religious concepts – work with cosmological forces and those powers governing them, as opposed to working against them.
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