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Virtual Circle Lesson March 31.2002 Our Heavenly Father, Your Name is Sanctified, In the Heavens and so in Earth. Your Will Be Done. On Earth as it is in Heaven. Amen In the previous lessons, we mentioned something about who and what we are. Now lets look at where we are. All of us know we have an existence here on Earth so we will begin at this point – Existence. Existence is a temporary condition in time and place. Everything existing in realms of time and place has a beginning and an end. These realms of existence are called many names: the Worlds of Existence, the Worlds of Separation, The Worlds of Illusion, the Worlds of Duality, and so on. Everything in existence is under the phenomenal law of duality. The dual in one and the one in its dual expression: Hot and cold, up and down, good and bad, in and out, etc... All life forms, in all the Worlds of Existence, have the law of duality at work in them. Our material bodies manifest this duality. We have a brain with two lobes. We have two eyes, two nostrils, two ears, and two lungs. Our heart has two upper chambers and two lower chambers. Our body has two hands, two feet and so on. All the forms of life in these worlds have a temporal existence. Moreover, while in these worlds, all the forms of life experience change – constant change. When we refer to the Worlds of Existence, we do not only mean just the Earth, or our Solar system, Galaxy or even the entire material universe. We also mean the Psychical World (sometimes called the Astral World) with its seven planes. Each of these seven planes has seven sub planes – 49 in all. The Worlds of Existence also refers to the Noetical World with its seven planes. Each of these seven Noetical planes also has seven sub-planes. These are the three Worlds of Existence: Material World, Psychical World, and Noetical World. Within these Worlds, our planet has a material existence as well as a psychical and noetical counterpart – three states of existence. A rough similarity can be drawn with H2O, which exists in three states as Ice, water and steam. It is just the rate of vibration, which determines if H2O is in a solid, liquid or gaseous state.
All of the Worlds of Existence are made of Mind in different rates of vibration from the most refined levels to the densest. The Material Plane is the lowest vibration of Mind manifesting as solid matter. Daskalos would emphasis this point repeatedly saying, “Matter is Mind made solid.” Vibrating at slightly higher rates, Mind manifests as the psychical substance used in the creation of the various planes and sub planes comprising the Psychical World. How does this law of duality manifest in the Psychical Planes? The Psychical Planes are worlds of emotions, desires and sentiments. The law of duality here manifests as the feelings of attraction and repulsion. Kind, loving feelings are the attraction whereas hatred and uncaring feelings are the repulsion. The Noetical is a world of thought in the realms of Existence. Here the law of the dual is still at work as our concepts and notions. This is the last place we find the duality of good and evil. Beyond the Noetical, we lose the temporal experience of duality as we enter into the oneness of Beingness in the Eternal Now. Here is where we find the happiness we have been expectantly seeking in the Worlds of Existence as we enter into states of ecstasy, bliss and beatitude, which have no counterpoints. Sometimes in a Stoa lesson, Daskalos would pre qualify what he was about to say with statements like: “You won’t find this in any books” and “These things have been hidden from the public, but at this time it is permissible to reveal more.” This is certainly true of the information he disclosed about the dimensions. We all have a working understanding of space within the third dimension in terms of width, length and height. The entire material universe and everything in it is of the third dimension. The first dimension is a theoretical point – no width, no length and no height and no motion. The second dimension is width, length but no height and still no motion. The two dimensions can give certain representations of three-dimensional things such as a drawing on the surface of paper does. The paper itself has width, length and height (thickness) so it is not two-dimensional but three-dimensional. The fourth dimensional universe is the Psychical World with all the planes and sub-planes. As a personality conscious only of our existence in the three-dimensional universe, we find difficulty in understanding the fourth dimension. It is similar to the problem of an imaginary two-dimensional creature’s inability to perceive the reality of a three-dimensional world. Let us imagine this two dimensional creature living in his flat plane of existence. He exists only in two dimensions so he only understands width and length but not height. He has no frame of reference that will allow him to comprehend height. Now, what could this two dimensional creature understand about a being of the third dimension even if it stood right next to him on his flatland world? Virtually nothing! He simply could not understand this three-dimensional being with his two dimensional means. This is similar to our problem of detecting and understanding the fourth dimension or the beings living within it. As long as we only use our three dimensional senses we can only perceive the three dimensional universe. In the fourth dimension, the third-dimension experience of space gives way to the experience of place. Place here is determined by rates of vibration. In the third dimension, no two objects can occupy the same location. In the fourth dimension, many objects can exists in the same location without mixing up. The closest three dimensional similarity to this occurs with television broadcasts. As we all know, different television stations broadcast different programs, which are all around us. All the many programs exist simultaneously in our living room with out mixing up. That is because they are transmitted at different frequencies – different rates of vibration. We can tune our television to receive one program and not the others co-existing in the same location. Something similar occurs in the fourth dimension and we experience different places by our attunement to them. The Esoteric Practices of our system teach us how to raise and lower our vibrations and attune to different frequencies. These exercises provide us with the means for conscious “movement” within the higher dimensional universes. The three Worlds of Existence are worlds of forms – living forms. The fifth-dimensional Noetical World is where the laws, causes, principles and ideas of the Noetic State are first expressed as forms. The forms on earth are but reflections of the forms found in the Noetical Planes. For something to exist in the third or fourth dimension, it must have a counterpart in the fifth-dimension. Every form existing in the material universe exists in the Psychical Planes and the Noetical Planes. Varying degrees of luminosity of the Divine Light is the most obvious difference between the various planes and sub-planes of the fourth and fifth dimensions. Even in the lowest sub planes there is some light. Unlike on earth, in all these planes the light emanates from every particle of psychical substance and noetical super-substance composing these worlds. And this light gives us a sense of satisfaction and well being. The more light the greater the satisfaction. On Earth, our bodies occupy space and move primarily on its surface. Laws such as gravity, cohesion and friction govern our movement in the three dimensional material universe. Other laws govern our “movement” in the fourth-dimensional universe. Again, space does not exist in the fourth and fifth dimensions; it is a matter of place. In these universes, we “move” from one place to another. It is our vibration that automatically places us in the sub-plane we vibrate in harmony with. We are free to “move” within the range of planes and sub-planes that correspond with our own vibrations but not higher. In the Psychical Worlds, our vibration matches the quality of our emotions. The fourth-dimensional Psychical Planes is a world of vibration giving the sensation of feelings and emotions. Therefore, if we harbor hatred, anger, cruelty and other lower emotions this will limit our “movement” within the lower sub-planes of the psychical worlds. The work of a Researcher of Truth is to master his emotions noetically with reason. Once accomplished all the levels of the Psychical Planes are open and available to him. The researcher is then free to go to any plane or sub-plane he chooses to study and help. So, during an out-of-body experience or after the death of the material body the level we find ourselves in the psychical planes is completely dependent on the quality of the emotions we have been expressing on Earth. In the Noetical Planes, the sense of time is very different than we understand it on earth with calendars and clocks. Yet, we do perceive a succession of events and impressions. This succession gives us some sense of a time sequence. The Worlds of Existence are realms of condition and perception but are not the ultimate Reality. As we advance, we penetrate through the perceptions of these worlds to the Reality that gave them birth. We cross the threshold into the Eternal Now and enter the states of Beingness. Love to All,
Daniel
Now we'll make a meditation. Relax completely the material body. You can be the masters of that body even as a personality, because in nature you are gods. Forget the way you are behaving if it is not sober and wise. In nature you are gods. Now you can be masters of your material body. Be sure that Holy Archangels, the Creators, the builders in it, are not offended. They rejoice seeing you developing. Feel you are completely relaxed. Believe me, it is under good care of the Logos and the Archangels. All the time they try to repair the damages caused by you and by your way of living. Breathe deeply and feel - what? "What am I? Who am I?" If you are a woman your attention will be to the woman, if you are a man, to the man, to your human material form. But, that's not you. You are changing. Try to find your I-ness, your Self now, the heart of your personality, and not the rest of your personality's bodies. You are you. Try to understand what you are, not who you are. Who is too material, it is in the World of the Existence. What you are - god, yet you have a form. You'll keep that form, that's yours. The Infinite Father allowed you as a Spirit-Soul to create this form of yours so that you may have it and will always have in eternity, which means - your human form. Put the question to yourself "What am I as Life? As a living being? What am I as Life, as a living being? And what am I now as a human being, a man or a woman? I am George. I am Helen." Take out the George or Helen and find the reality - I am. The I-ness is the reality and the am means existing. Being is the quality and existing is the expression of your I-ness. Concentrate on the I. Concentrate on your selfhood, divine not human selfhood, Everlasting Life, Spirit-Soul Ego. Calm down every thought. You are not your mind. The Mind as your thought is the instrument for you to use. Calm down every emotion. You are not the emotions. Emotions are changing all the time. You are not your interests. The interests are changing all the time. Forget your body, yet concentrate feeling you are in this material body. Enough. ~ Daskalos |
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Place is a definite condition of the material world (which is in space), the psychical world and the noetical world. They are the worlds of existence and of place. When Christ was going to the home of His Father, He said: "In my Father's home there are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you." He didn't mention space. So, the psychic world is exactly the same as the material world. There you can see mountains, seas, lakes, trees, everything. The psychical world of our planet is exactly the same as our material world, and in it there are many, many things and much, much more than what you can find on the material plane of our planet. And, that's the world we'll some day pass over to leaving behind our material body.
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Terms Mind is the bearer of all life. Everything that exists is made of Mind at varying frequencies from super-substance, substance, to solid matter. Mind is an emanation of Absolute Beingness imbued with the Total Wisdom, Love, Power and Purity of its Creator. Mind, however, is not an immortal Being, but rather substance eternally used in all Creation. Mind is Divine at its source, and holy in its expression. When mind is used to express its everyday, idiomatic meanings, it appears with 'm' in the lower case . ETERNAL NOW, ETERNAL PRESENT Time and place are concepts resulting from, and sustained by, impressions generated in the worlds of separation. Consequently the concepts and the experience vary according to your location within the universes. The worlds of existence are contained within the higher, causal heavens, of the Eternal Now. Any experience we have in the worlds of existence is but a slice from the larger whole, the state of Everlasting Life, where past, present and future collapse into the Eternal Now. A term indicating the Self in Its expression as the Permanent Personality. The Worlds of Existence are comprised of Material World also called the Natural World, the Psychical World and the Noetical World. Psychical Planes The four-dimensional world, also known as the "world of emotions". The super-sensuous psychical world is composed of seven planes, each having seven sub-planes. It is the psychical worlds that we travel in first exosomatosis, in our psychical body, and to which, on passing-over, we first go. Noetical Planes
The five-dimensional world, and the most rarefied of the three
worlds of separation. In the noetical world - the world of thought and home
of the noetical body - Total Wisdom of Absolute Beingness first finds
expression as thought-forms, ranging from galaxies to unicellular organisms.
This is a world of seven planes, each with seven sub-planes. The
Virtual Circle Lessons concern the teachings of the System for the
Researcher of Truth as established by Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis of Cyprus also
known as Daskalos. "Our system of Esoteric Christianity celebrates the eternal truths known to all great religious traditions, while firmly based in the teachings of the God-Man Joshua Immanuel the Christ and the New Testament" ~ DASKALOS |
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