A Researcher
of the Truth must be a burning question mark!
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What_is_consciousness
Whats_God
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How Long to Meditate
What is the appropriate
Meditation
Question: What
is prayer and how does it work?
Answer: We said that every thought, every emotion, and
every word (because words are expressing thoughts and emotions)
we are creating elementals (thought forms). This elemental
definitely has a form whether we can see it or not. This form
has a life of its own. Every elemental is living. And this
elemental has the intelligence of its creator of the one who
projected it. Now, what can be a prayer? Definitely every prayer
will express the thoughts, the emotions, and the desires of the
creator. Prayer to whom now? Christians to Christ, if they are
Roman Catholics and orthodox, the eastern people even to the
Holy Mother, the Virgin Mary. Muslims will prayer to Allah, an
impersonal god or to a prophet. The Hindu will pray to their
deities, Krishna and others.
Now what is a prayer? Every prayer creates an elemental, usually
having the form of the deity or the person directed to, to a
saint, to Christ as they imagined him from paintings and all
that. And it has its own intelligence and quality. Now we must
see how these prayers are working. Who is Christ now? Or
Krishna, or the Virgin Mary? Or the different saints? Definitely
we know that the death of the material body is not the
annihilation of the personality living in that body. And we know
that persons passing over to the other side are carrying with
them the sum total of their elementals; they had them already
while living in the material body. With these elementals they
built their hell or their paradise. No one will find himself in
any hell or in any paradise after passing over in which he is
not already in now.
Our life on the planet now as a present day personality which is
the sum total of these elementals. So, prayers are a certain
class of elementals. Now, the prayers, definitely a man when
praying will have in his mind the image as he understands it of
the deity or person he is praying to. Now, we said that
elementals when created go out and return to the fellow who has
sent it. Christ is mentioning that in the New Testament. So,
where are those elementals directed? Straight to Jesus Christ,
definitely to Christ. Praying to the Virgin Mary, directly to
the Virgin Mary. But where is the Virgin Mary and where are the
saints? Do they exist now? Of course they do. Because the
passing over, leaving behind of the material body is not the
annihilation of the personality which became saintly.
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QUESTION: How is an
elemental created?
ANSWER: Even Joshua Emmanuel the Christ described the way
talking about what he called the evil spirits (thoughts). At the
beginning a thought form is not created bigger that the head of
a pin at the root of the nose of our etheric body. We can see it
(visualize it). Then, it comes out getting its natural size
(even of a very big building if we desire having one of that).
In order to exist, obeying the general law in the world of
separateness, an elemental has to have a form. It gets a form,
either the form we are giving it with our desires (for a jewel
or something) or it gets its form according to its nature.
Definitely, an elemental has to have a form! So, we are creating
thought forms, elementals, every moment.
Joshua Emmanuel talked about how they project themselves. They
don't find rest in any other state, so they return back to the
man, "Let us go back home". They bring another seven, more
wicked than themselves, entering through the seven gates, the
seven as the Hindus call them chakras, the seven churches
according to the Apocalypse. They enter and get possession of
the personality and of the body of a human being, a man or a
woman, who created them.
QUESTION: What is
consciousness?
ANSWER We can study what human intelligence is expressing (what
you call human consciousness). Yet, is that all? Is that what we
call the waking consciousness which is the privilege of every
human being living on the planet (which for me is a kind of
subconsciousness)? The waking consciousness is not what we call
the self-consciousness. What is this thing we call
consciousness? This is what a Seeker after the Truth tries to
find out - to know it, assimilate it, and feel it part of
himself to express it. You have consciousness in various degrees
of expression. We have mentioned certain kinds of consciousness.
The instinctive consciousness, the subconsciousness, the waking
consciousness. Studying the human nature let us call that one
the self-consciousness, but - that is not all. Our real
Self-consciousness is the Soul-Ego consciousness and further on,
our Spirit Self-consciousness.
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QUESTION: What's God?
ANSWER: Of course, millions and millions of years ago the
cavemen, out of necessity and fear of the nature around them,
have thought of the existence of a superior being to protect
them. How was that feeling created in a human being? Why don't
such thoughts exist in the animal world?
So, we see man, the caveman, living in very, very difficult
conditions. The light of the Sun was not reaching the planet
sufficiently due to heavy rings of water and dust. There was
very little difference between day and night. The light they had
at that time was from the volcanoes and from the fire all around
them. We find the human beings in caves. Around them, on the
planet known at that time, were huge serpentine animals, some
herbivorous and some carnivorous, and we see this animal life
just clashing amongst each other to survive. Many, many, many
kinds have vanished. They belong to history and we find traces
of their bones in the rocks now. Of course, if we can raise our
self-consciousness to Self-Superconsciousness we may see
everything that happened (in the Cosmic Memory).
We may see the animal life expressing a kind of instinct just to
survive. Where are they now? Instinct? What is the instinct? The
human being was living in no different circumstances than the
other animals, and even had less to defend himself. He had to
use just a heavy club. Where is he now? Big cities. The whole
planet is under his orders. He lives in such comfort,
electricity and what not, television and so many other things
now. How did he succeed to have all that? The animals which had
lived at that time and are living even now, the elephants, the
lions, the tigers, the bulls, cows, camels, are still as they
were at that time. Can they read and write? Did they invent
anything?
Then what is the difference between a human being and the animal
life? What are the animals and what is a human being? A human
being is a thinking entity, which means - using the Mind in its
own way. Now, the vegetable life uses the Mind in sensitivity,
the animal life are using the Mind in instinct. The human bodies
have sensitivity and instinct also - the human body. But, what
does a human body have more than the animal bodies?
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QUESTION: What is the
Resurrection?
ANSWER: The Resurrection - a word which has been so much
misunderstood. The waking up to what we are - that's the
Resurrection!
The Resurrection does not mean our material body to die and to
be
recomposed so that we may enter again into that dirty sack we
call -
material body! That isn't Resurrection. Though many things that
the word
Resurrection means - the material body to be resurrected - no!
Resurrection means to wake up into your own state and nature!
That is the
Resurrection - and He said "I am the Life and Resurrection, and
he who
believes in me will have everlasting life". DASKALOS
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Question: I infer then
that you feel uncomfortable with Systems which require
meditation periods of several hours a day, and retreats that
span months, even years.
Answer: Again such a thing might be appropriate in
certain traditions, but we, as Christians, believe in service -
not withdrawing from our fellow humans who may need our help. We
stress engagement in the world, but not enslavement to it. For
as Joshua said, You "are not of the world, even as I am not of
the world" (John 17:16).
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Question: What is
an appropriate measure of meditation?
Answer: Let me put it this way. Say you have a
seedling. You expose it to the sun, good soil and each day give
it a little water. It will grow in its course. But if you
decide to put it in the hot midday sun, or water it to the point
of drowning its roots, it will surely shrivel up and
die. By exercising too much there is a danger in
over-meditating, creating an extreme division between the
periods of meditation and your normal waking state. We only
encourage periods of fifteen minutes or so, two or three
times a day.
I have seen many, too many, who
have severely damaged their nervous systems through excessive
meditation. We are in the world and must, dialectically, work
with it.
Exercise and meditation at higher
levels mean exploring, attuning to, and eventually becoming
unified (at-one-ment) with the Causes, Principles, Ideas, and
Laws. Each Circle of Possibility works according to the Divine
forces of Total Love, Power and Wisdom. These most perfect
forces of life are within our archangelic human form. Ecstasy,
real ecstasy, is aligning ourselves with the Divine.
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