THE GNOSIS
IN PRESENT-DAY
MANIFESTATION

BY

J. VAN RIJCKENBORGH

RENOVA LIBRARY II

2018

HAARLEM – ROZEKRUIS PERS – THE NETHERLANDS

Colofon

Translated from the Dutch
after the revised Dutch edition 1980

Original title:
De Gnosis in actuele openbaring

International School of the Golden Rosycross
Lectorium Rosicrucianum
Headquarters:
Bakenessergracht 11-15, Haarlem, The Netherlands

ISBN paper version 9070196565

ISBN electronic version 9070196565

Copyright © 2018 Rozekruis Pers, Haarlem, The Netherlands

FOREWORD

We present the second book of the Renova Library and hope it may be of assistance to the seeker after truth on his path towards ultimate attainment: liberation from the wheel of dialectics.

ROZEKRUIS PERS

PART I
THE NEW PERIOD OF MANKIND

I
STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS  IS  STATE OF LIFE

We begin this first chapter by considering a new era of mankind that has much to say and especially to the pupils of the modern Spiritual School and to all those who, according to their inner condition and directedness, are called to this pupilship. It is an era from which an extraordinarily compelling, urgent power emanates; an era that occurs only once in the course of countless generations; an era that has many aspects, consequences and peculiarities which require an extensive and thorough reflection.

For a door has been closed behind mankind. We have entered an entirely new space, both for mankind in general and for the Spiritual School in particular¹, and each one of us has to adapt himself to it. It would not be of any use to propose the reality of this new era to you, so that you may say: "Oh yes? How interesting". Or: "You are most probably right". No, if you were like that you would have to depend on theory. You would probably consider this theory, just as we in this nature consider every theory. You would then perhaps want to put some of it into practice from time to time, if it suited you and you were to think of it. However, you will perhaps understand that cultivated theory is never practice and never becomes practice in the sense of the Gnosis. To the ordinary world practice is always applied theory. One learns something for a while and when it has been learned one puts it into practice. In our field of life the individual passes from the theoretical into the practical. But in the sense of the Gnosis practice is always the result of a state of consciousness. And a state of consciousness always entails consequences. For a state of consciousness is a reality out of which one tries to live. The state of life which develops as such and from which one works and strives, is then just as real as the state of consciousness and has nothing to do with applied theory. When your consciousness draws your attention to a particular object and makes you see it as right, it may be that all theorists tell you: "Please do not go that way". But your consciousness places you before it and so you turn your consciousness into a state of life.

Do you want an example? Just think of a theologian. At the university the student must depend on theory. But in his parish, afterwards, he experiences theological practice. Now we ask you: in the matter of the Kingdom of God is there a difference between those two states of being? Is there such a difference when theological theories are put into practice? Certainly not. The theologian as a human being has a state of consciousness and it is this state of consciousness that defines his reality, his state of life and not the theology. The issue is that you are conscious of the new period, for only a state of consciousness can become a state of life. Consciousness-reality creates reality of life; it projects, it reveals itself both inwardly and outwardly.

If, after having heard this, you are surprised, then you will turn theory into practice only in the way of ordinary nature; for a surprised man is not, or is not quite, a conscious man. Because of this you would certainly not take part in the new period in a liberating sense. Therefore we say to you: a state of consciousness is a state of life. One reality must project itself in and through the other. Then there is equilibrium. If that equilibrium fails to come about, man always feels quite wretched, very unhappy, profoundly uneasy. That is a natural law. Think of an animal. When an animal becomes conscious of danger, it tries to find equilibrium by escaping it. Therefore, a state of consciousness is at the same time a state of blood.

If you are now conscious of the new period, a self-evident inner resolution will urge you to action, to give expression to this consciousness in one way or another by means of an attitude of life that is in equilibrium with it. The modern Spiritual School tries to co-ordinate the efforts of its pupils in this way to make the effect as great as possible. The School wishes to orientate the pupils who may be expected to have consciousness of this era. You will understand that this is a theorizing which is both permitted and practical. Just imagine: you are conscious of having entered into a totally new situation, as if you had suddenly found yourself in a strange town where you did not know the way. To come into equilibrium with such a situation you intend to find your way. When someone else who has already adapted himself and who already knows the way gives you a helping, propelling, orientating tuition, then we cannot speak of mere theory.

Perhaps you understand that what is told you is placed in a very special light, a light that adapts itself to the fourth Gnosis, the Gnosis of the new attitude of life. We have heard statements that were entirely directed at bringing about insight, to stimulate your yearning for salvation, or at inviting you to self-surrender. But now the issue is a direct, adapting attitude of life, as a necessary reply to a compelling state of consciousness.

It is clear that also the first Gnosis, that of insight, can be realized only on the basis of a consciousness matured by experience. For the second and third Gnosis, that of yearning for salvation and that of self-surrender, a basis of sufficient consciousness is also essential. Therefore, if this dissertation is to be really productive, you will understand that a very directed state of consciousness is a condition. Having become increasingly conscious by insight, yearning for salvation and self-surrender, we now perceive very clearly a new state of being in our existence, as a reflection of a new period around us to which only one reply is possible, namely that of an intelligent, new and dynamic attitude of life. We will understand this even better when we ask ourselves what consciousness is.

A state of consciousness is an electromagnetic state. Our consciousness is composed of seven centres, filled with magnetic fluid, with astral fluid, to be found in the head-sanctuary in the seven cerebral cavities. They are fed by the respiration process of the magnetic system in our brain that attracts the astral fluid of the intercosmic magnetic field. Consequently, your own state of consciousness depends entirely on the quality and the workings in the intercosmic magnetic field around you. Thus it becomes clear in what way new periods come into existence. Changes within us are caused by changes in the intercosmic field around us. Such changes almost immediately bring about changes in manifested life and also in our lives.

The intercosmic magnetic field consists of twelve streams. These twelve streams manifest themselves, among others, in us. A plan that manifests itself in a period of time underlies these twelve streams. From all this it appears that these twelve electromagnetic streams are controlled by other, stronger magnetic streams. Consequently, there are many magnetic systems that interact, either stronger or weaker. The magnetic field which brings dialectics into realization, develops a series of periods and a course through time and space by mankind. In this course through time and space nothing can be decided by dialectical man. There is no independent choice in him to do so. Everything is decided for man. Mankind is being directed because: a magnetic state is a state of consciousness and a state of consciousness is a state of life. Whatever exists in the electromagnetic field projects itself in our brain and manifests itself as consciousness; that which exists in us as consciousness, propels towards manifestation of life. Therefore, according to nature we are completely directed. We have nothing to decide. Everything is decided for us.

Man is part of a magnetic process. Each man is part of a great body. Thus a development comes and a development goes. The organism works like a clock. The hands keep turning and consequently, this entire plan, this complete course can also be known beforehand, can be ascertained through time and space by several data. This can also be ascertained when we take into account the relativity of time. The twenty-four hours of one day can last longer or shorter than those of the next, but still they remain twenty-four hours. Therefore, relativity does not detract from the order of time and space.

It would be nonsense to say: "Let us now as pupils of the modern Spiritual School decide on this or that attitude of life by virtue of our state of consciousness". For we saw that in the order of time and space nothing can be decided: we are lived. Indeed, if this were to be the conclusion, then it would be better to close the modern Spiritual School. But it is altogether different when we know that the order of time and space, with its course of mankind, also leaves a susceptibility to yet another magnetic field, the magnetic field of the Gnosis. Once we are connected with that other field we are lived by that field and undertake a compulsory course in it.

We only want to make clear to you that when we stand in a particular magnetic field, we are directed by that magnetic field. We are then, as it were, compelled to live in accordance with the laws of that magnetic field. When we have the choice between two magnetic manifestations, it is clear that we have to direct ourselves either to the course of the one field, or to that of the other.

In summary, we determine that there are two magnetic fields, one of which operates on mankind by virtue of our natural state and the other under certain conditions. Seen from the point of view of time and space, both fields work along the same lines of development for a certain time; however, the moment arrives when they part. Consequently, two groups of men come into being, each belonging to a different field and being dispersed totally within those fields, according to their bodily dispositions and to their moral and spiritual states.

Let it suffice to confirm that such a moment in world history has now begun. The two magnetic fields existing in our nature-order have been drifting apart since a certain date we have already passed. Therefore, we shall see particular groups of men completely change with regard to the ordinary dialectical type. One group goes the ordinary course of mankind, the other goes the course of the exceptionals, the course of the new race. In this respect consciousness determines the group-state and the personality-state.

If according to your state of consciousness you belong to the Spiritual School, orientate yourself to this great and glorious moment in world-history and join our ranks in a new attitude of life. That will not cause you any trouble, for: a state of consciousness is a state of life. If you are conscious of the new period, there is only one solution for you: that your state of consciousness projects itself into a state of life.

So join us in a new attitude of life, not out of theory, but out of necessity of life.

II
TWO KINDS OF DISPENSATION,
TWO KINDS OF LAW

Somewhere Jacob Boehme says that God has closed the universe of sin and has thus made a separation between love and wrath. This means that in our world of wrath two magnetic systems are active: the magnetic system of the world of wrath, the nature of death, dialectics, and the magnetic system of God, the Gnosis. In the philosophy of Jacob Boehme a sharp distinction is also made between the Immovable Kingdom and the ordinary nature-field known to us. However, the gnostic magnetic field directs the dialectical magnetic field. Imagine the dialectical nature to be a closed space which is entirely surrounded by the Gnosis. Then you have an approximate image of the reality.

The gnostic magnetic field directs the dialectical magnetic field. To practise obedience to God, to be God-fearing, to be religious, are terms to be found abundantly in the Holy Language. They intend to tell us that there are two aspects of religiousness. It may be that a man in the midst of the world of wrath is able to place himself in direct contact with the gnostic radiation-field. However, it is also possible that he associates himself entirely with dialectics. In that case, the Gnosis rules him all the same, but through dialectics, with the aid of dialectics. We can react positively to the gnostic field, turn to that field completely, or we can turn in a positive way to the dialectical magnetic field. Also in the latter case, the gnostic field rules us just as it rules all of dialectics, but then, as has been said, the Gnosis rules us through the dialectic field. The Gnosis is a secondary factor, the nature-state is the primary one. In the other case, the nature-state becomes secondary and the Gnosis primary. See these things in their true perspective and learn to understand that they are absolutely decisive for light or darkness, freedom or bondage, life or death, to be or not to be.

The dialectical magnetic field, from which we are and live, is a field from which we can explain our entire state of being, our total consciousness. That entire field of wrath is, as has just been determined, directed and governed by the Gnosis, by the other magnetic field. The Gnosis has, as it were, enclosed the world of wrath. So the world of wrath lives in captivity by the Gnosis. Thus one can say: the world of wrath is subordinated to the law. There is an awe-inspiring law which keeps the all-revelation of the nature of death within bounds. The whole dialectical field, including ourselves, is subordinated to that law. As to our natural being we are governed. This intercosmic law has rules and regulations which are not, however, engraved in letters, but which are expressed in various electromagnetic relations and effects. These undulations of an electromagnetic nature are continuously in movement and they drag along the dialectic all-revelation in a sequence of periods. The all-revelation, mankind, you and we, cannot but follow. When it comes to the point, we cannot but react promptly.

This all-revelation is subordinated to the law. God rules the world. Whoever testifies of that speaks exactly the truth.

Although the all-revelation in the nature of death struggles to escape this natural law, it is out of the question that this can ever succeed.

There is something in the world of wrath that does not belong to it. Just think of the entities who possess the rose of the heart. They struggle for freedom, usually in a negative way. There is a tremendous I-passion, a frightful self-maintenance, a longing to make this nature static, owing to which all sorts of tensions take place within the world of wrath, liable to provoke an explosion. But the universe is closed and is kept imprisoned by a law. When someone teaches and says: "Careful, do not act against the divine law, for whenever you do so, you will be punished", then he is completely right, not only from a natural-religious point of view, but also from the scientific point of view as one cannot oppose the electromagnetic directives that are governing us.

This is a sad situation, for because of this the all-revelation is actually deprived of the sense of life. If you are in prison, you cannot say: "This now is the sense of my life". For the sense of life is somewhere outside the prison. Therefore, when someone says: "Obey and do not act against the law", he only ascertains a given situation with regard to the prison in which we all are locked up. Otherwise stated: "Obey the law or violence will be done unto you". You know this saying. That now is religious duty. Obedience: then the wheel of life turns smoothly, without too many difficulties; if not, then the rotations of the wheel will inexorably make you experience bondage by severance and violence in a real course of sorrow.

There exists a form of religion which expresses itself in that way, entirely adapting itself to this reality and trying to comply completely with the intercosmic electromagnetic directives. Who can blame a person for being religious in this way? Yet we may add in the same breath that such religiosity is nothing more than obedience due to fright and fear. Therefore, this religion is without any love, it is very selfish, hard and cold; but also sometimes cheerful when in fact things go well for a man. Think for instance of the book of Psalms. This book sometimes illustrates such religiosity. When difficulties are experienced, then it is the scourge of fate that incites to exceptional behaviour; then the cry of despair sounds: "Deliver me, o Lord, for the water has risen to my lips". The next moment, however, the Psalmist rejoices, when distress and agony have vanished: "There is milk and honey in abundance". You know the childlike bustle of the prayer-meeting when there are difficulties and the thanksgiving service when all is well. This is the religiosity of ordinary, stone-hard nature.

All of mankind is composed of beings who either conform to the law in this way or who struggle almost to death against that law. The latter group, driven by numerous instincts, struggles desperately in all sorts of vulgar and stupid or refined and intelligent ways to escape from it. The outcome of such resistance, and how can it be otherwise, is always violence, electromagnetic oppression and an appalling misery, which all of us have experienced from time to time. This represents dialectics full of wickedness and woe. Therefore, the most intelligent attitude is a religious acquiescence, in the sense of accepting the actual situation. When we cannot escape such violence, which is so enormously powerful and we are as insects in comparison, then the most sensible thing is to comply; consequently, in the way the Ecclesiast puts it. Listen well, when you read the book of Ecclesiastes, to the religious sense of it. The Ecclesiast says: "All things are gloomy, all things are full of weariness, all things go as a rotation of a wheel, all things remain as they have been. The best thing one can do is to fear God and to accede; then it goes as well as it is possible in view of the proportions". That is the zenith of the religiosity of the Ecclesiast.

Such religiosity is perfectly understandable. What else can one do on the horizontal level? But deeper reflection in the light of the gnostic path makes us see clearly that this cannot, after all, be the sense of life. A co-ordination of conditions, of the utmost miserable conditions in prison cannot be the sense of life.

Therefore, we cannot stop at this type of religiosity by submitting in agony of terror to the violence of the law, crying: "Oh, Lord, help me!" How frightened men are of God. Have you ever noticed how terribly frightened people are of God in orthodox circles? Generations have experienced: "Obey the law or violence will be done unto you". Moses, to mention only one, explained the law to us, the testament of dialectical necessities. Religiosity that conforms to this is consequently necessary duty. Any resistance against it (whether one calls it atheism, anti-religiousness or something else) does not prevent one from having to submit to the law. Whether someone says: "I do not want to have anything to do with it", or whether he with acquiescence declares: "Here I am", is neither here nor there in respect to the grip of the law. All of us, without exception, in our course through ordinary life, are completely religious in such a sense that we must submit to the law.

Moses, who has explained the law to us, is perfectly right. All others who have done this before and after him are also perfectly right. But we do not need to cling to it. For a New Testament is placed beside the testament of dialectical necessities, beside the Old Testament that explains the law to us and tells us: "Obey the law or violence will be done unto you". It is the testament of the gnostic possibilities. It neither is nor can be the sense of your life always to remain in prison.

He who realizes this and who knows how to raise himself above the course of these requisites, leaves at the same moment the religiosity of Moses and his followers, closes that Old Testament which is so perfectly true and puts it away with a feeling and joyous cry of intense relief. He steps out of the world of wrath, out of dialectics, into the love-world of the Gnosis, into the new life-field. This possibility is open for everyone. Therefore, Jacob Boehme rightly says: "God has seized in Christ the world of wrath to the very heart". Not to urge you on by violence. No, Christ seizes us to raise us into His world of love. You can only say good-bye to life under the law, when you turn yourself over to the Gnosis.

There are two general electromagnetic dispensations that interact. One can rightly point them out as the old dispensation and the new one, the Old Testament and the New Testament. They interact in such a way, that the new dispensation directs the old one. That is why Christ seizes the world of wrath, among other things, to protect as well as possible that world of wrath and all its entities from themselves.

According to modern views, locking up a person in prison is not meant to be so much a punishment as a means of protecting the person in question from himself and of educating him as much as possible. This would be excellent, if in practice it were indeed possible.

Anyway, owing to the Christ activity, the Gnosis protects the world of wrath from itself and at the same time it prevents the world of wrath from extensively poisoning the Logos, the all-revelation. We can take leave of the dispensation under the law by turning to the new, directing dispensation. Therefore, in the beginning of the Gospel of John we read: "But to all who receive Him, He gives power to become again children of God". When you carry out this reversal, you immediately grasp a new form of religiousness. The world has only apparently grasped this new religiousness. For you will see that, if we remain what we always have been, only talking of Christ from time to time, celebrating Christmas and Easter, only talking of those well-known things mentioned in the New Testament, we do not progress any further.

New religiousness is a practice, just as your religiousness according to the Old Testament has always been a practice. For under the old dispensation you must obey. Otherwise you will experience: "Obey the law, or violence will be done unto you". Forced obedience, obedience out of inexorable necessity, that is the religiousness of this nature. So this is a life practice, an attitude of life you must apply from early morning till late at night, according to special rules. Well, similarly and absolutely, yet full of insight and gay spontaneous voluntariness, the New Testament must be experienced as a self-evident attitude of life. Only then are you religious in a new and true way. This is an attitude of life that must reveal itself at every second. It is the attitude of life of the fourth Gnosis. It means a complete farewell to the old form of religiousness, to which you were compelled according to nature.

Now a man can claim to confess the new form of religiousness without this actually being the case. When we claim this but do not put it into practice we are still completely under the law of the old religiousness. Therefore, the practice of dialectics in its entirety, even using and misusing Christ’s name, still stands completely in the phase of the Old Testament, in the house of bondage under the law. In this way one cannot enter the house of service of the love of God, the temple of the Gnosis.

It is not important what you say but what you do. The issue is action, the fourth Gnosis, the Gnosis of the new attitude of life. When we explain this, everyone who turns his steps towards the path is heartily willing to accept this truth in its general sense. Many have given evidence of it through their pupilship of the modern Spiritual School. But this truth has now been given a very special meaning and accordingly must be taken out of its generality and experienced in an individual way. For what is generally true and confessed as such by the pupils of the modern Spiritual School and, consequently, approached by them, should now take practical form in each one of us. This is possible, if all of us have become conscious of the necessity of it, for a state of consciousness is a state of life.

For we have entered a new period, to be precise, on the 20th of August 1953, according to the chronology of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh. On that day the new period began and it will last till December of the year 2001. Therefore, it covers a period of forty-eight years, the second half of this twentieth century and embraces four generations: ourselves, our children, our grand-children and their first offspring. In this period of forty-eight years the modern Spiritual School will develop its greatest strength and in and through its group of pupils it must receive an entirely different character. If, at this moment, you could glance at the modern Spiritual School of twenty-five to thirty years in the future you would throw up your hands in amazement. The situation of that time could not possibly be compared with the present one.

Three of the generations mentioned are already active: the two generations of pupils and the present generation in our youth activities. Therefore, all of us ought to reflect seriously on everything this new and very short period requires of us and has made or makes possible in us. If all these things are vibrating in your consciousness, you can immediately begin to realize them. Because: a state of consciousness is a state of life. The guiding, electromagnetic Gnosis, as the law of God, leads the dialectic all-revelation from period to period, so that what is lost will enter into the original house of the Father; so that the prisoners may regain their freedom. In the period we have now entered and which began on the 20th of August 1953 (in the external world) and will last forty-eight years, new gnostic possibilities can be applied. In the period which lies behind us these possibilities were freed. We have received them and they can now be put into practice. The period in which these possibilities were freed, was between September 1936 and the 20th of August 1953 and thus lasted exactly seventeen years. It was called by the Pyramid-philosophers the period of the King’s Chamber. In these seventeen years the modern Spiritual School prepared its work and gave it form. During this period it assimilated the gnostic building materials, it has started its work and prepared itself. In June 1953 the modern body of the Spiritual School was completely prepared and on the 20th of August 1953 it appeared clearly before the world.

In the coming forty-eight years everything must be put into practice. Naturally those who remain under the law will go the ways established by the law, for the law demands obedience. But those who go to meet the Gnosis will enter into renewal. Provided they now start to apply the liberated forces and possibilities. You should not postpone this for twenty-four hours. Do not start from the idea: I shall begin next week. No, from this moment on do live in the living present! The liberated possibilities can and must be applied now.

If there is no consciousness of the new possibilities within you, then alas, you are still completely in the old dispensation. However, if you are indeed conscious, then these new possibilities will come to light in you. Then you will walk with us out of the house of bondage into the sacred Halls of the new departing Brotherhood. For: a state of consciousness is a state of life! That which is in you as a result of consciousness must reveal itself.

We invite you all to transform with us the new state of consciousness into a new state of life. From this moment on the modern Spiritual School appears in an entirely different form.

III
THE NEW ATTITUDE OF LIFE

As has already been explained, new possibilities have been liberated in the period behind us, which we should be able to put into practice in the newly begun period. To be able to do something, we must first acquire the knowledge and the capacity to do it; also possibilities such as raw materials must be present. Therefore, one cannot object and moreover one can readily agree that a sound consciousness is necessary to serve as a bridge between the liberated possibilities and their application. By this it is once more stated that a state of consciousness is a state of life. Further, we have spoken of the two electromagnetic fields: the one of ordinary nature and the one of the Gnosis. We have spoken of the two dispensations: life under the law and everything that results from it and life in divine Love. We have spoken of the necessity to rise beyond the world of wrath and to enter into the world of divine Love.

In summarizing what has been said, the question now arises: What direct and practical use can we make of this on short notice? The Spiritual School says to you: "A state of consciousness is a state of life. If a consciousness exists in you with regard to the new and exclusive possibilities which have now been liberated, then you will leave the house of service of the old dispensation with us and enter into the sacred halls of the new departing Brotherhood"²

This all sounds very nice, but is it really so? Is it perhaps only a theory, pure speculation to keep ourselves content? We should be careful not to say: "really, this life under the law is not so bad, anyhow it need not be so bad. Let us examine how in the past we always flew at one another with all sorts of fighting implements and used all kinds of firearms. Let’s not do so anymore in the future. Let’s be kind to each other, let’s come to an agreement and live nicely, pleasantly and happily with each other. Isn’t that what the Gnosis desires? Let us live with each other like new people". Then we smile at one another – if it suits us – and we are very kind and an angry word is never heard. We have discovered that it is possible to form a society without conflict.

Undoubtedly you have heard or read of such cases. They may have appeared to us in all degrees and dimensions; also when the conflict only existed on the level of words and criticism. For one can hurt another severely by criticism, by a sharp word.

Therefore, when we speak to you of the enormous significance of the fourth Gnosis, of the new attitude of life, you should not accept an attitude of life which is only another means to continue your life, for then this would only be a weapon by which you can continue the struggle for existence. Because then your change is not an inner one, but only new clothing you have put on. Then we would only deceive each other. The Spiritual School wants to prevent this at all cost, because then you will not be led out of the house of service, but you will place yourself and die in a possibly long sustained balance of interests. Do perceive that this is no solution, no liberation from the wheel of birth and death, no salvation for emptied microcosms. Therefore one of our Temple songs rightly reads as follows:

"A new attitude of life requires clearly conscious reflection; he who travels to new life, must begin again".

In our consciousness a certain number of possibilities and powers exists which define its nature. They manifest themselves in our lives either separately or together and in fact our whole body is formed by them. Each cell in our body reacts in accordance with our state of consciousness. All our pathological conditions are closely related to our consciousness. Be fully aware of this and do not think that you can be cured with the help of a powder or some potion or other or by special therapy. You must begin with the consciousness! Then medicine or some physical treatment may also be of use. If, however, your consciousness does not change, you will never change physically. It is out of the question that if a new consciousness were to appear in us, then only a different moral condition, a different attitude of life would be the result. No, the result would be that our entire personality, our entire physical state would change. That is why we speak of transfiguration in the Spiritual School. Not only does our life and behaviour change, but also our form of existence, our system of vehicles changes in cohesion with the microcosm.

We know how the body reacts to the atmospheric substance. So we should also understand that our whole being will react to a changed electromagnetic influence. Now all depends on whether you become conscious of everything we have discussed and have not only accepted it rationally and morally. In the Spiritual School many things are discussed to which you will immediately say: "Yes, that is absolutely right", because your mind explains it and your feelings tell you so. But that is not enough. Everything concerning the path and the new life, which we accept as being rational-moral, must take shape in us as a state of consciousness, as a magnetic power. Then we can begin to live from them and manifest them in and through our life. Becoming conscious is to breathe magnetically. When you enter into a new magnetic state in such a way, a new phase of life is the positive outcome. For a state of consciousness is a state of life. Then the results manifest themselves in the seven candles, in the seven magnetic sources in the head-sanctuary.

However, we are faced with a problem if you say: "I accept this in a rational moral way. I understand what this is all about. I know what has been said about realization of the new attitude of life is correct. But you declare: consciousness in the sense of the Spiritual School is magnetic inhalation in a new way of new possibilities and powers with the help of the brain-system. But I have not yet reached that stage". Or you may ask: "Have I reached that stage? Please, tell me". Then it is obvious that you are not yet sure about this. Or you say: "Even though I do yearn for it, hope and believe, concerning the magnetic new level my brains are still entirely closed".

Let us suppose that you do not as yet know the new magnetic respiration but that you, in a rational moral way, accept the path that the Gnosis wants to go with you; that you have a notion of the irresistible nature and truth of the Gnosis. You may ask: "If I understand and accept that the way the School is going with its pupils is right, can this be accepted by the School as a working basis even if practically I am off the mark? Can I participate in the blessing of the new departing Brotherhood³ on this basis or am I obviously too late? Is it possible that I belong to the stragglers? Is in fact this new liberation as far as I am concerned, only something about which one can speak, but which is no longer able to exercise its power in me?"

Undoubtedly there are many who will ask themselves these things from time to time. Now we may say to you that indeed the mentioned rational-moral notion can be accepted as a working basis, provided you see that this basis is in essence totally unsuitable to transpose a state of consciousness into a state of life in a really new sense. The new electromagnetic powers must enter the seven sources in the head-sanctuary via the magnetic brain system, so that this sevenfold candelabrum can begin to burn with seven flames in the new electromagnetic substance. That is the point at issue! Your candelabrum does not yet burn in the new light, so a cardinal change must take place in you. On this condition the Spiritual School can accept you as a fellow-pupil in the initial phase of the new period. On this basis you are now invited to tackle two things you are directly capable of: firstly, an attitude of faith entirely attuned to the new situation and secondly an attitude of life entirely attuned to the new situation.