by Ernest L. Norman
Two thousand years ago at the crucifixion, they took the philosophy of Jesus, the simple psychology of life, and they warped it; they distorted it; they created of it the effigy of a church system, and they forever defamed its purpose. They forever destroyed its utility for mankind. So Jesus lives today in the churches throughout the world as a symbol, not as a purpose and not as a principle in which people—you, I, and everyone—could realize a much greater, a much more abundant and a more peaceful life on this planet.
Jesus said, “Do not pray as does the heathen, on street corners nor in public places, neither in temples nor in synagogues but retire into thine own secret closet and seek out the Father who is within that He may reward ye openly.” If you will think for a moment, that in that principle how could it be that any church system could be sustained? It could not! It was for that purpose that those who followed after succeeded in warping, distorting and confusing the whole concept of personal spiritual emancipation into a dogmatic, rhetorical system of effigies and symbols, a system which has held mankind enslaved for almost two thousand years. And yet, here again man is only reliving the old symbology of the past, for this, in itself, is proof of his reincarnation—that out of these old symbologies in the distant ages in which man was spawned from the mud of the earth, he learned of the deistic forces and configurations which confronted him; the unknown elements became gods, spirits, demons, ogres, and he relegated them into their own mythical dimension of consciousness and endowed them with his own particular personal vicissitudes. And he also gave them his long dreamed-of, hoped-for powers of personal emancipation; but the gods could never become any more or less than those who believed in them.
And so it is as of today. How many Christians know that Jehovah or Jehowah is the old Chaldean god which was worshiped by the Babylonians more than three thousand years before Father Abraham, who led the first Israelites out of this forgotten land? How many know that the Koran is the first five books of the Old Testament? How many people know that the stone in the citadel of Mecca is the meteorite which fell at the feet of Abraham in the Evangelistic mission through ancient Chaldea before he started the migration? And yet Jehowah is perpetuated into Christianity and became known as Jehovah, a god which was the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, a huge bronze image with a hollow stomach and a big door heaped high with a fiery furnace used to liquidate political prisoners and other malcontents in the kingdom.
It was Jesus who tried to destroy Jehowah, or Jehovah. It was Jesus who tried to destroy all the mystical and mythical rites which had been sustained by the Jews throughout their history more than two thousand years since their migration—things which had led them from out the land of Egypt in the forty years of wandering through the wilderness. And how successful was he? Yet you and I as individuals are also vitally concerned, not only with our own future but with the future of mankind in general, for we are never more or less than those with whom we associate. Our associations are, in themselves, the denominators of our plane or elevation of consciousness. In our associations with our fellow man, we find human companionship, not in the gregarious sense that human companionship is necessary in a physical mannerism customarily displayed in community enterprises but that common elevations of consciousness must always be reached and maintained throughout a general intercourse of society.
This, too, is part of the pattern of evolution, something with which you will always be confronted; and in itself, knowledge of humanity, knowledge of or knowing thyself gives you the choice. It is automatically selective in itself; and as you learn of yourself, you learn of the humanity with whom you associate, and you are automatically and consciously selective in the process of when and where and how you will live, for in the Infinite you will never become any more or less than that which you can conceive within the secret closet of your own mind. And if these things are conceived within the limited dimension of the reactionary earth-life, then indeed you will find common consort with the materialist, the criminal and the various other different resurgences. You will find common living patterns with all those who are striving against life yet wishing and hoping for a better life. You will find common companionship with those who are trying to dominate, to coerce, to express all the various reactionary elements in which the materialistic world finds common expression.
Conversely, when you begin to attain a more infinite understanding of your place in the scale of evolution—what you are, where you came from and where you are going, what the Infinite is in proportion to how this knowledge is acquired—so you will be levitated into these different dimensions. I have attempted in some way to describe these places to you in the various books of Unarius—the spiritual planets—which I have given various names merely for purposes of identification. People must always have a place; they must have a name until they arrive at that dimension of consciousness where they can conceive the Infinite in its more universal entirety where names are superfluous, as are places. Instead, there is consciousness, an integration of consciousness universally, which makes names and places superfluous and which are used only as a means in which we can communicate with one another and we can sustain communication within the consciousness of our minds as we incept such various forms of communicative devices throughout our evolutionary history.
So life must be lived differently if we are to find those higher spiritual mansions of which Jesus spoke. We must learn to picture the Infinite infinitely, that the earth is, as I have said, neither the starting place nor the cause. It is only the effect and is only one of the countless places where so many different configurations of the same form of consciousness are transpired, not only instantaneously; but so far as time and space are concerned, they have always been so expressing themselves in different forms and in a different consciousness, and they shall also continue to do so eternally.
You, as an element of consciousness, are selective only on the basis of past experiences, and these things in your psychic anatomies are reactive to you in the sense that you are harmonically attuned with them. You are repeating day by day, in new forms and in new ways, old manners of consciousness, old forms of consciousness. You call them by different names, yet they are basically and essentially the same things which have been with you throughout the ages; and yet, as of tonight, this may be the breaking point. This may be the place where you officially terminate that particular form of oscillating consciousness, that is, as far as practical purposes are concerned in respect to a personal evolutionary future which is both progressive and constructive in nature. This terminating point is complete dedication, the complete resolution within yourself that from now on you can become and you will frequently be your own worst enemy—the old self—from the dogma, the creed, the rhetoricism which was impounded in your past lives. The necessary mandates of your evolutionary flight into the present will now become the ogre which will haunt you, which will always tempt you—the devil with the horns and the tail—which will constantly try to superimpose itself in your daily life. It will find innumerable ways and disguises, and always you must come to your own personal rescue. Your knowledge of the Infinite will become your life preserver, your lifeline. You will always be able to level off these various differences in mental temperaments which come to you from out of this past. You will always find there is an equitable answer which can be fully and completely justified, not in the sense that it is reactionary but that it is all inclusive and is part of that ever expanding, resurgent, regenerative Infinite; this is vastly different than when you were so personally concerned with the same situation which was the same reaction as a principle of survival on the planet earth.
Now this has become a problem of survival in a spiritual evolutionary flight, shall I say, into time and into space, for time and space are synonymous; they are part of the Infinite. There are no means of differentiation between time and space as it concerns the Infinite but only resolves itself into cyclic manifestations as they are concerned with you in your personal consciousness.
Many years ago, Einstein presented to the scientific world the space-time continuum theory in which he mathematically proved that the speed of light was theoretically fictitious, it was nonexistent, and light could and did accelerate to several hundred times the known earth speed in interdimensional flights; yet, this was puzzling to Einstein, just as it has been to all those who have studied space and time. The simple answer to all this is this: we cannot equate these things in third-dimensional realizations and consciousness, they must be integrated in a fourth-dimensional state of consciousness. This fourth-dimensional state of consciousness is called by some clairvoyance, the sixth sense. You all have it; there is no one on this earth who does not have it. In fact, no one could live on this earth without it, for it is actually the manifestation of a great principle within each and every man which is sustaining him in his evolutionary flight.
The paranormal or the clairvoyant aptitude—if I can use this phraseology as it is relative to any person—is only the first beginning, the first stages of consciousness when man really becomes consciously aware, in a material world, of something which is an extended concept of consciousness in another dimension. That dimension has neither time nor space and therefore, so far as the speed of light is concerned, time is nonexistent simply because instead of a sine wave, which has a beginning and an ending point, all things are cyclic in motion. They contain themselves as a cycle, a definite entity of consciousness in their own particular oscillation. They convey to Infinity their own particular and subjective attitude and they are harmonically interlocked through harmonic regeneration with all forms of consciousness throughout the Infinite. It is not possible for anyone to think a thought without it being directly linked to the great Infinite, to all of the dimensions, to all of the many mansions. There is a direct relationship harmonically attuned with every living human, with every living thing on this earth, with any other living thing on any other planet and with any other higher world than this. Your thoughts are not private. Interdimensionally, they are common property to those who, like a radio set, can tune into your thoughts. And what do your thoughts become?
Your thoughts of the moment will become your tomorrow—your future—because here again we have destroyed the illusion of time and space, for the future is here now. You will never have any other moment than that which you have in the immediate present. What you do at this particular moment will be vital to you throughout your entire evolution, just as what you have done is vital to you now.
This is the common harmonic interplay of infinite, resurgent regeneration which some people call God, and which, as was explained by Jesus, is the Kingdom—the Father which liveth within, the Kingdom which was the activating Principle, the purpose and the continuity of expression throughout Infinity. The regenerative All—the Father, which is the Creator—created all forms and substances. How, then, can any man set himself over another? How, then, can any man say that he is vested in some holy raiment, he must dispense spiritual virtue and guidance to his fellow man, and he is his brother’s keeper when the very keystone in the arch of evolutionary progression is self-emancipation and freedom from all rhetorical systems, pedantic attitudes and dogma? Jesus taught it two thousand years ago, so did Buddha, so did many others—personal freedom of thought and mind. Only in this personal freedom can we find an interrelationship with the Infinite—not guided by the dictates of some subversive mind which may be psychotic or even obsessed to dominate and influence—and can we find a purpose, a scientific realization in cause and effect, not as it concerns the earth but as an interdimensional aspect, a part of that Kingdom.
So the reestablishment of the gospel of Jesus is beginning to take place in this world today. There are many who are free thinkers. There are many who have yet not dared to take that first all important step. They have longed to but as yet, they have not had the fortitude where they can completely dismember themselves as far as their own practical position to the Infinite is concerned with the various rhetorical and dogmatic systems of the earth.
Emerson said, “Be thyself; imitation is suicide”, yet every day you are constantly confronted with the never ending, repetitious, emotional attitudes of people around you who are like sheep following each other; and like sheep, if they continue to do so, they may in the night run off the precipice. Jesus said, when asked where he had been in the three days and nights, “I have been in the pits of hell teaching to the lost souls, yea, some who have been there even before the time of Noah.” Dante gave an immortal poem about hell. Hell is a configuration of personal concept in which the human mind or the entity of consciousness so becomes embroiled within the nonsensical elements of its own consciousness that it creates a veritable hell for itself. Hell is no more or no less than is heaven and yet, heaven is not sustained as a principle of uselessness; no more so than hell could be sustained as a destructive, never ending, torturous, abysmal form of consciousness.
So these things again prove, in themselves, what Jesus meant—that within your own mind is the Kingdom of Heaven. Conversely, if you so desire, you can find also the kingdom of hell. The choice is yours, and that is irrespective of whether you are a member of any church, of any organization, whether you belong to the Elks or whether you are a Republican or Democrat. These things are, in themselves, only outward manifestations or attributes of what you believe as conformity, or form consciousness, in your daily life. Yet from all these things, each one must extract for himself, infinitely speaking, the principle and the purpose behind all of this seeming nonsensical, never-ending succession of interplays of the emotional natures of mankind, for each man is on the threshold.
He is developing from a carnal, carnivorous beast as he prowled the jungles; he is developing in the entity of his consciousness to where he is becoming spiritually minded. You people present, to some extent, have all gone much further than this. You have become spiritually conscious and quickened to the degree that you would gladly lay aside all of these emotional vicissitudes in which the earth man is so involved. You would gladly make for yourself a world which is more constructive, which is more passive and which is, in itself, a much more joyous place to live, a place where everything could be more rationally justified.
What this all means tonight is simply this: that you have all reached that place where none of the systems of the world are going to sustain you for any particular given length of time into the future, no more so than with the thousands of others out in the world tonight so minded as yourselves. This is part of your evolutionary progress. You are destined for higher worlds if you so desire this to be, if you are willing to put forth the necessary constructive effort, if you are willing to sacrifice upon the altar of your own personal life the past—the past in its implications that it has made you an emotional creature, a creature which was dependent parasitically on a community and the life in which you live. The freemasonry of the infinite world is compounded as a direct infraction of intelligence which we incept much the same as a radio incepts the signal from the transmitter. The universal supply is the Infinite. We live in that world, not by food but by our ability to absorb into our consciousness, into our psychic anatomies, the necessary spiritual substance which is everywhere about us.
Even as we breathe the air at this moment, so will we breathe the energy of the higher life and we will be sustained by it, because we know what it is. We realize it just as we know about the air we breathe or as we know about food—in direct proportion to our understanding and its inception. We also become constructively minded and expressive in ourselves in proportion to our understanding to this Infinite. We become regenerative; we become psychokinetically projective in consciousness and so we assist materially in the scale of evolution.
Excerpt from Tempus Invictus