Before we go any further let us reconsider our starting point. You may be under the impression that we are commencing with this planet called Earth and that whilst humans have given symbols for the planet it is interesting to note that for the earth they have chosen the sign of the cross enclosed by a circle. Humans tend to let all their findings (based upon the ancient science of astrology) revolve entirely around this planet as if it were the sole centre of human experience. That is, however, just what they have made it – a confinement to “human experience”.
We would like to remind you that, whilst we have said that our life and experiences depend upon the forces radiating from our spiritual sun, there is still another subtle field interpenetrating all this, because our solar system is also confined within a greater system. This field we can discuss later when you have grasped more of your own capabilities. You might think that we are going a long way round to explain our point but, because we understand very well the workings of the human mind, it must finally rest upon you to grasp the meanings of our statements. We can only point the way. The experience must be yours. As we have said we live in a “spiritual” world, this meaning that things are not what they seem from the human standpoint. All activity and experience is dependent on the electro-magnetic energy in our present solar system. Your thoughts and actions produce your experiences by creating other frequencies within yourself. Thus, whatever we produce is an experience. This experience may be conscious, unconscious or concrete (consummated in this “body of flesh”). In the mind it may be called a “mental” or “emotional” experience. Wherever you care to locate it, it is all made up of the same energy at root.
Your “body of flesh” is simply a thought form through which you gain experiences akin to the planet earth, and both you and the planet gained their apparent solidity by a progression of greater and greater attachments throughout the ages. You do not have to spend so much time building up bodies or vehicles to gain experiences elsewhere because these were already made up before the flesh body. Your real self possesses a range which extends from the sun’s centre out to the furthest reaches of the solar system – Pluto for example. A fully enlightened person can, however, reach much further, but enough for now. What we are saying is that the “Venus” realm, the “Mercury” realm or the “Mars” realm is just as real within your present experiences (and as concrete) as this planet earth. The mere acceptance of this fact prepares the way for the possibility of such an expansion of awareness. (NB We are referring to the spiritual planets).
What of the Earth? Since all the great teachers have reminded us that we are at present “asleep” or “dead” or in “darkness” then this is precisely where we are located. We are reminded that eternal life is not discovered until we are released from this “tomb of flesh”. If, therefore, we are at present entombed it means only one thing; that we are all now in “death”. Death is a place of purgatory or hell and if there is a lot of talk of people coming here to learn lessons or work out “karma” then this must be the place. Take a little time to consider this carefully. If this is a new or shocking idea to you then receive your shock and move forward!
In this light the ancient myth regarding Lucifer and the fallen angels could bear an element of truth. There are no explanations of this legend in the scriptures but we find that Jesus was aware of it because he often quoted Isiah and it is mentioned in Isiah chapter fourteen. Many people clamour for explanation of the conditions on this planet but if they were told that they were here because they were “cast out” of Heaven because of their “evil doings” it would shock them into spurning the idea and they would condemn the informant to extinction. Thus the inhabitants of Earth seem to fear the Light of Truth and do all in their power to avoid it whilst, at the same time, claiming to want to know. This reveals a kind of self-deception or self-produced illusion which is part of the reason why they are here.
This is not new knowledge for let us quote the Bhagavad Gita, “The knowers of the three, the Soma-drinkers and those purified ones who worship me with sacrifices ask of me the way to heaven. They, ascending to the holy world of the Ruler of the Shining One eat the divine feasts of the shining one in heaven. When they have enjoyed the heaven-world they desire other enjoyments and their holiness withers and they come to this world of death exhausting their virtues, they receive the transitory.”
See also the story in Genesis 3, especially noting verse 22.
The myth regarding the Tower of Babel presents us with some more interesting facts. Since there are many “alien” languages and cultures on this planet would it be presumptuous to assume this earth is populated by the backsliders from other planets or spheres within our solar system? Have they all come here to purgatory? We mentioned earlier that the rituals of “coming forth” contained in the Egyptian Book of the Dead were originally designed to help free oneself from here where death abounds. An interesting fact is that there are sixteen steps leading out from the tomb of Tutankhaten which symbolises among other things being reborn in the “Four-squared City of the Sun.” Our teachings are designed to help you also to release yourselves to Life.
The “aliens” and “foreigners” on earth who argue and fight with each other have brought down some of their cultures with them. With a little patience you can sort them out. You, no doubt, have had strange feelings that you are a “stranger” and a “foreigner” here and it is Elade’s purpose to help people to find their way back Home. I might help only a few from one particular sphere but hopefully others might respond. Jesus informed us that there are “many mansions” in Our Father’s Kingdom. How many of you want to find your rightful home?
Because we are already on this Earth this is the only place where we can do something about finding ourselves in our rightful inheritance. Not until the last “human” characteristic has been removed can we stand forth in the full Light of Truth.
Take a look around the globe and you will observe cultures ranging from the futuristic right down to gross animalism and from cold aestheticism to materialism. Why such wide divisions and contrasts? Surely this must be hell!
All the systems – religions, magic, witchcraft, spiritualism, meditative systems – on this earth are often based upon a desire to regain that which is assumed to be lost. The state of wholeness and harmony is as natural as man himself and even the so called Kabbala is a very long-winded system. It is possible here and now to break one’s chains of earthly conditions and free oneself from the condition of the cross confined within a circle. This earthly condition is really an illusory state existing within this Solar System and when the last soul has found release the whole planet will be reborn.
The other planets which you behold as interesting orbs out there in space are the physical forms of the vaster realm within and are just as real and concrete in the realm of expanded consciousness as the experiences here on earth. From the sensory point of view they seem to be millions of miles apart. The consciousness of the Whole and Complete Oneness frees one from self-imposed barriers of the senses. When you have freed yourself from the sense element you become aware of yourself as a bright star free to enjoy the places that have been “prepared for us”. In Reality, the planetary essences are within yourself. The world of Mind is that Universe in which you live eternally.
Let us now briefly summarise what we have stated:
Man is a spiritual or celestial being, not necessarily of this planet Earth.
Man can become aware of himself in the likeness of a star or sun with access to the expanding consciousness of the Universe, not as something ethereal but as concrete experience.
The “heaven worlds” are real states to be enjoyed with as much “reality” as conditions on this planet because they are all focalised within man himself at this point in time and space; as spiritual symbols and divine realities.
The way to achieve this kind of awareness is to discipline one’s own discriminatory qualities so as to understand the difference between the real and the illusion. The illusion is the human concept of life.
One has to release himself also from reliance on any teaching or system which binds him to an habitual practise.
Whether you are a “man” or a “woman” it makes no difference because, in Reality, you are not any particular “sex”, the soul is androgynous and it is here wherein lie the faculties of the psychic in their supposed contacts with the “dead”.
The Buddha has rightly said that there is no such thing as existence and non-existence, but rather Reality and unreality, that the world of form is unreality and that Nirvana is Reality and is only an extinction of sense perception. There is no such thing as annihilation because that which is Real is permanent and all that there is is Real. Unreality possesses no substance therefore it is an illusion. Man’s speculations create the illusions.