The world without end is the world of Reality. Since all there is is Reality then we live in a world without end. That which is called illusion is the world of change; but as this world possesses no substance it ends when one eliminates from consciousness.
One may ask, “How can I experience this unreality if it does not exist?” The answer lies in the fact that one makes false assumptions about that which is manifest. The misery experienced is that due to one’s living in that which is associated with the false ideas – nothing more. Misery is unreal because it is but a shadow, and shadows possess no real substance apart from the deductions one makes from what we call sensory perception.
This leads us to the question of whether sense perception really exists. If sense perception is the means whereby an illusion is experienced, is sense perception itself an illusion? If all there is is Reality and there is no means by which illusion can be experienced, then both sense perception and that which is assumed to be witnessed by this means are illusions. Thus, when one says that sight, hearing or feeling are limited by “senses”, then, in Truth, no limits exist. These faculties are faculties of the Self and are, therefore, Realities. How can one become blind or deaf? This comes about by impeding the perfect follow through from Cause to Effect by those things which are false and which are classified as “sins”. Sins are “blind spots” produced by one placing the assumed importance of effects in one’s experiences. That is, the person is giving more importance to how the effects are working out than letting the true nature of the Reality express Itself. If one has complete faith in this Reality and allows It to become manifest in the world, one can only experience the True Life. Because there is no unpleasant thing in the Reality Itself, nothing unpleasant can be experienced. This needs to be proved and it can be found to be so if the person allows. This means that because there is no unpleasant thing in the Realm of Cause, only Harmony can appear in effect. It is as simple as that.
Whatever one might say, and however one might disagree, one will, in his own time, be compelled to discover this Truth for himself. We are only stating what is really true now and at all times, and we say that it is better to realise truth now than suffer uselessly by refusing to accept that which can be proved. So sure of the reality of Divine truths are all the greatest of mankind’s leaders that “all beings are exhorted to enter upon the path”. It is by the realisation of this fact that one can come to Perfection and Wholeness by living according to the way that it really is. Thus, we are saying that misery and all that is associated with it does not exist at all. This may seem a hard truth to accept but if one really changes his mental attitude this can be found to be true. It says in the scriptures, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so will he be.” This means that you and your thoughts are One. We are at all times the embodiment of that which we are thinking. This means that if I think “power” I am precisely that. My thoughts are me in expression and thoughts are my nature. If, therefore, I am experiencing pain at this moment I am entertaining painful thoughts. Only that which has been entertained can become manifest or experienced.
The principles mentioned have, in the past, been the basic ideas of “higher magic”, but the stage must now appear where one should dispense with external instruments to be complete within one’s own Self because it is only when such externals have been eliminated that one can come to know other fields of knowledge which leads one into areas of mind which were hitherto unknown. When man can achieve the heights which have been attained with instruments without such instruments; this can be seen as a further step towards one’s embracing his ideal and the door is opened immediately to something greater. At all stages the One is coming into the awareness of Itself, and we are that One. All that we know within and all that we experience without is the active life of the One. Whatever we experience, we experience the life of the One, therefore whatever the nature of the experience we have, we experience our own very Self.
We have taken you into the realm of the mind of the Initiate and the Master and now we will fullfill our promise of giving you a glimpse of that realm of consciousness which links you to the glorious realm of the “Is”, or Elohim – the creator gods who live beyond the regions of time and space and journey through the vast areas of mental activity. The reason why we are able to do this is because, as we have said, once a person has released himself from the “pull” of conditions of this Earth he can become aware of all that which is contained within the One Consciousness, and all things are contained within everything else.
I will now relate the circumstances in which I was able to disclose the basic principles of the teachings of these beings and to show you how these principles will become more apparent in future systems, because they are to be found in the most ancient of the already existing systems.
Some time ago I was called to the Great Council of the Hierarchy. Inside a great hall which seemed to reach up from the very Earth itself to the Source of all Being I was interrogated on certain matters. A voice which seemed to vibrate with terrible authority said to me, “What are you doing here?” Really I did not know that I was an intruder because I had already been summoned there. Whereupon I answered, “It is my right to be here because I am one of you”. There were others present and a great hush fell upon them all. “You mean that you are an El?” boomed a voice. “Yes”, said I. “Then prove it”, came the reply. “I know your secrets. I have unravelled the mysteries of your crystalline worlds and know how new worlds are made, but more important than all, I teach the way of Great Liberation”.
“Tell us more,” they all echoed.
I cannot go into all that followed here, but I had to prove my points and substantiate my claims. There seemed to be an air of great amusement in the hall while this was going on.
“Verily, thou art an El – a junior El – but how came it that you have slipped through our net and did not complete your cycle of activity with us?”
“Because the Most High in His wisdom can confound that wisdom of even the Els. He saw to it that no secrets should be lost or evolved out of the reach of even the least of His Creation. He did this to me – so I stand at this point – between He and Thee and Thee and We – that no one unit of the Whole be out of touch with the other, and though records on tablets of stone be buried forever man can rediscover all things within his own Being.”
In his fact lies the evidence that The Order of Melchisedek stands in a unique position. It is a channel provided for mankind wherein all things can be known and the Great Final Mystery can become understood at this point in time and space. This is truly a wonderful thing for all in this day and age because all that which has been assumed to have been lost has now been restored by the loving compassion of those in charge of man’s growth to maturity, for while there will be many who will not come to know us in this lifetime, their lives will be influenced by that which is being radiated to all men.
It has been claimed by some that the present “human race” will not attain to the same condition as the Els because they belong to a different cycle of being, but this is not really true because we can experience the same understanding of Divine Love and Wisdom which is the real and only true nature of all life.
Their (the Els) present in “time” is our long distant past, present and future. Even long before the human form began to assume any type of gaseous matter the Els had achieved a very advanced state of conscious awareness before our Universe took on the physical shape it has now.
The ancient teachings based upon the Four, Four-square, Sixteen and Thirty-two systems originated from these beings. This teaching is based upon how mind becomes crystalline light energy, this meaning that the continuum of light energy waves emerges from its Source in dense and more dense states until it “arrives” at our particular realm of concreteness.
This process can be observed in the field of crystallography wherein the crystalline atoms take on seven distinct types or systems of “solidity”, and these seven types are then divided into thirty-two classes. These coincide with the seven-fold “rays” or “types” within our visible light spectrum, and because the thirty-two classes represent the dual natures in expression, the basic pattern of individuality is sixteen. This basic structure of sixteen also represents the cosmic “skeleton” for building all future worlds and realms of expression, both in the structure of Man’s form and by the way in which his experiences take on concreteness. Thus, the structure of sixteen points of light-energy vortices or centres represents the Archetypal or Perfect man in expression.
We have said before that there are sixteen steps leading up from the tomb of Tutankhaten (or leading down, whichever way we look at it). These represent the sixteen centres that have to be resolved to liberation. Each point being dual, masculine and feminine in nature, gives us thirty-two. Thus, the physical body represents the area of crystalline atoms comprising the actual fullfillment area of man’s expressed self. Thus, from within the “invisible” area of oneself there is a perfect alignment of lattices or lines of force revealing themselves in well defined ways that can be proved and tested at this level, and it is by adhering to the principles of these patterns that man can experience himself at all levels simultaneously. This means that by using the “form” of man within our human concept we can unravel the mystery of creation itself by the power of Mind – or Word.
However this present “human” form is no more indicative of Man Himself because He, at Source, is no particular shape, but is an area of pure pulsating light-energy with an inherent quality of changing shape at will.