There is the created world and the creative plane, matter and the spiritual principle. Wanting to lead a so-called spiritual life would therefore mean continuing to live in the created world but according to the principles of the creative plan. Living in one plan according to another. But the plan below does not have an existential logic in line with the plan above, on the contrary they are opposed. The temporal and the eternal are like the reflection of a mirror: reversed. What is above is like what is below, identical but reversed. A true spiritual life is therefore very much against the grain of the temporal system and the world. Because the plane below is opposed to the plane above, the external world is opposed to the truth within.
Throughout time, people wanting to devote their lives to spirituality isolate themselves from society. Living as a hermit or in communities allows you to invest all your energies in the vertical path, far from the worries and chaos of the world. But these choices prevent us from confronting the world, from discovering ourselves through trials and encounters, from resisting and overcoming evil. The requirements of life are both obstacles and jewels on the pilgrim’s path.
Living in the world according to the higher truth is demanding and difficult, if not impossible. It is much easier, but less progressive, to live according to fiction, that is to say the narration of the world. The spiritual path is not always gentle, kind, pleasant, sublime. It is rather demanding, arduous, punitive. Life tests us in accordance with our deep reality. Tests and trials always correspond to our inner nature. Life increases its demands, its tests and the intensity of its challenges as the path progresses, accomplishment gradually becomes harder and harder. Tests like so many challenges and opportunities for elevation and strengthening of the being.
A criminal can go through life without any divine correction, but a being on the path must undergo trials at the slightest deviation. If the criminal awakens, he will suddenly receive numerous tests from the divine which will manifest in the form of intense crises.
When the force of truth is expressed, the path of life becomes much more demanding. The comforting path of the world is transformed into the ridgeline of consciousness. Challenges and difficulties can be seen as simple bad luck, but in fact turn out to be initiatory steps. These are not bad twists of fate or the result of chance, but the expression of the wisdom of the soul remembering its truth, of divine love testing us. Consciousness sharpens, the being strengthens as it ascends.
To ally with life is not to enter into struggle against it or against others who are only manifestations of the force of truth. Each spiritual awakening is an irruption of the force of truth in the world, a rebellion of a cosmic order, a return to higher harmony. There are many sacrifices to make, including choosing to be at the expense of having and appearing. Sacrifice one’s short-term comfort and the known to embrace a vast and impersonal reality. To sacrifice means to make sacred.
But…. beware! You cannot contemplate God face to face without dying. Are you willing to continue? I can grant you a great gift. I offer you….death! Do not tremble, this death is the gift of the immortals; it is the gift of the phoenix that is gloriously reborn from its own ashes. To be, one must not be; to be born and to be, one must first die. If you achieve this, you will be called the twice born. Do not scorn my offer; consider it carefully. It is better to die now than to live awaiting death. Do not believe that if you reject me you will be able to continue your path unharmed. On the contrary, all paths lead to me; ignore me and you will be like an orphan who does not know its parents. You only have two paths; either I devour you or you unite with me. Yours, and only yours, is the choice.
If you decide to be devoured, fully dedicate your life to enjoyment; drink the last drop of the cup of pleasure. Close your mind to the voice of your spirit, abandon yourself to the beast and enjoy the sensual pleasure of the matter. Thus, when you are least aware, the moment of the final cannibalism will arrive. Do you really believe I will take pity on you? You deceive yourself; I have no feelings. I am beyond pleasure and pain, beyond right and wrong. I am like the sun that rises in the morning to light everything equally. After your death, you will become only remains and a relic. Afterwards….not even that.
If you desire to marry me, you must be ready to suffer the death of initiation. You must pass the trials the terrible Sphinx will send to you without mercy in order to judge your spiritual courage and the quality of your nature. I surrender myself only to he who has reached the stage of crucifixion, resisting the attacks of the four elements. I love only those who have drunk the cup of bitterness, of betrayal, of ridicule and mockery, of persecutions, of slander, and of defamation. I love the initiates who have persisted with couragen suffering the loneliness in the midst of a world of animals. You come to me after experiencing slander and defamation, which are the specific trials of the element of air; after blow and persecutions, the trials of the element of earth; after sensual temptations and vices, which are trials of the element of water; and after dominating uncontrolled ambitions, which are the trials of fire.
This quaternary corresponds to each of the ends of the cross to which one who came to me was nailed…Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, others even grater have lived and live in secret; no one knows of the existence because it is better for their work.
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If you disdain me, receive my blessings and continue on your road, destined to be food for the gods. Not all can be men; some can only be animals, or worse, vegetables. If you come to me through curiosity, think twice. it is easy to be rash with what one does not know. If you are not brave enough, turn back; shield yourself with your vanity and your pride, content yourself to look down at the ground like your kin. If you are not prepared, do not aspire to see my face; unfortunate is he who, possessed by animal greed or misguided curiosity, contemplate only my reflection, as he will never forget me, and will die tormented by the desire to possess me.
If you are prepared, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, if your intention is pure and noble, proceed without discouragement and know that from the moment you cross the threshold of the occult abode, I will be anxiously awaiting you like the young bride for her first love. This book can prepare you; it can be the guide that will take you to the hidden door, whick so many seek and so few find. Seek and you will find; do not pray to the gods, fight for me. You will conquer with the strength of your decision, not by praying.
John BAINES – the stellar man
I Message from Isis