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the
loving fate
Energy
determines the collective field of human life and consciousness.
How
do people react to it?
Do we live, driven by our heritage, our
personal fate?
Or are we able to change our hereditary inclinations
fundamentally and structurally?
To this end, let us fathom what
karma, the power of Nemesis, is and may mean.
KARMA-NEMESIS
The
human being of the twenty-first century is familiar with the idea
that radiations and fields control and pervade life. We know about
visible light, ultraviolet radiation, radio radiation, heat
radiation, microwave radiation, X-ray radiation, etc. With respect
to fields, we know about, amongst other things, the geomagnetic
field, electromagnetic fields, ether fields, astral and mental
fields, morphogenetic fields, the Akasha field, and the zero-point
field. Modern people have an inkling of an unknown number of
vibrating webs of energy, which together constitute our collective
field of life and consciousness.
J
van Rijckenborgh called this ‘the academic sea of life’, and the
Buddha spoke of ‘the ocean of suffering’. Jacob Boehme spoke of
the great ‘house of death’.
However,
the universe we can observe is of an unbelievable greatness and
beauty. Stellar systems flare up and are extinguished again; black
holes swallow up stars. Supernovas, which exploded millions of years
ago, now cast their light on our retina via our telescopes; pulsars
(neutron stars) revolve super-fast around their axes; quasars
(stellar systems with an active black hole in their centre) have a
magnitude of trillions of suns; there are stellar systems that move
through each other. It makes us dizzy. The first lesson we can learn
from this is one of amazement combined with great humility. Finally,
we are living on the planet of a small star at the edge of one of
the billions of stellar systems in a seemingly, largely ‘empty’
universe.
The consciousness of drosophilae
‘Homo sapiens’, walking upright with his pride and
ignorance, has declared himself ‘lord of creation’ and he
behaves accordingly by ruling fellow creatures and exploiting,
oppressing and killing them. Elsewhere Bach’s exalted music
resounds somewhere or people are standing before a painting by
Rembrandt, are fascinated by Michelangelo’s sculptures or enjoy
one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. On the one hand, the human being
is insignificant, on the other great, both in exaltedness as well as
in depravation.
In
this way, growing insight teaches us that enormous power
constellations have their effect on and in our field of life, in
which enormous tensions also develop periodically. Eruptions of
tremendous energy occur; huge catastrophes cause continents and
civilisations to submerge and rise again.
Thus
through a succession of eras and periods, an evolution of life forms
develops, of which we are one, and gradually our consciousness
changes.
How
and in which field of life we participate, is determined by our
consciousness. Drosophilae will not have access to Spinoza’s ideas
nor do we have access to dimensions and fields of life beyond the
gate of our powers of perception.
Consciousness
and sensory perception mutually determine each other. And our
sensory organs are very limited. Only a fraction of reality seeps
through the narrow cracks of our senses into our brain. And the
latter has to interpret it, which results in a vague image. Birds
are able to distinguish colours that we cannot see, like
ultraviolet. Also our other four sensory organs are only
rudimentary. Butterflies can smell their own kind from miles; snakes
can see heat; whales sing a song that can be heard over a distance
of 100 km. Birds are able to navigate in the earth’s magnetic
field; bats navigate in dark caves with the help of ultrasound
waves.
A greater context We are unable to imagine what our galaxy with its three
hundred billion stars looks like nor what a proton looks like or how
a quark feels. Our brain has been made neither to perceive the whole
of reality nor to understand it.
In
this way, we are hanging in a tangle of super-fast fluctuating and
pulsating webs, of which the connecting points and seeming
intermediary voids cannot be comprehended. What we perceive are the
laws of life in order to survive through the evolution from
single-celled beings to entities with a hundred quintillion cells,
called human beings.
Gradually,
we have learned to understand that there are laws controlling
everything and keeping everything together, like the law of
Karma-Nemesis, fate, also called ‘blind fate’. This is why
Nemesis is sometimes represented as a goddess with a blindfold. It
is the strictly just law. We only sense the consequences of this
law.
And
vaguely it begins to dawn on us that the human species is part of a
greater whole; perhaps there is even a covenant that has been made
with us. A high intelligence must hide behind it. In the meantime,
we are in the dark with regard to the intention, the plan, for the
few decades we are granted to live.
If
there is a spirit, it has, during the past centuries, been
extinguished in the brains of scientists and philosophers, who
discovered matter and its natural laws and usually lapsed into
materialism and fatalism. Fatalism is believing in fate, an
instrument that determines our life. ‘God is a hypothesis that I
can dispense with,’ said Laplace. People began, in the footsteps
of Descartes and Bacon, to study the laws of so-called ‘dead
matter’, separated from the spirit, and to convert them into
technology in order to control creation. For three centuries, our
universities and colleges have functioned as temples for the high
priests of atheistic materialism.
Turn of the worldview
However, the pointers of the stellar year continue to turn
relentlessly. With her discourses about the hidden side of life, H P
Blavatsky opened a new window to the modern western world. The
theory of relativity and quantum physics has brought about a turn of
the purely mechanistic worldview. Interest in oriental philosophy
created room in our thinking for concepts other than causality.
Synchronicity was discovered by Carl Gustav Jung. Time became ripe
for a new spiritual impulse. Steiner, Heindel and others opened the
eyes of people and were the pioneers of a new era. Understanding of
new possibilities of the consciousness and parallel universes
developed. Interest grew for the laws of reincarnation and karma.
The
Leene brothers rediscovered the ideas and the power of the
Rosicrucians as to their highest manifestation, and combined their
insights with those of the Manichees, the Cathars, Gnostics,
Hermetics and the universal teachings, which are of all times. These
emissaries of the Light acted as heralds of the new time. They were
joined by a third emissary.
Together,
they unveiled the liberating teachings of transfiguration and
created a mighty organism of initiation, the Spiritual School of the
Golden Rosycross. Its extraordinary radiation field, the living
body, was lowered as a fishing net into the academic sea of life for
the benefit of all who were able to react to it. A human being has
only one organ with which to perceive the very subtle signals of the
new net of life: the primordial atom. An initial reaction is
sufficient for forging the link, but it is then followed by a
process of dissociation from Karma-Nemesis and this world in order
to gain access to the ‘kingdom not of this world’. How does
karma work and how do we dissociate from it?
We
know that karma is the sum total of the results of all preceding
incarnations in the microcosm. The individual web of the microcosm
is floating in the sea of life, the web of fate of the whole of
humanity. The constellation of the past is impressed on the auric
being in the microcosm; we call this impression the lipika. The
lipika is impressed on the head sanctuary, containing the brain. The
blueprint of the next life is made ready.
Genotype and phenotype
Subsequently, the karmic stream of the auric being flows into
the serpent fire of the developing embryo and is linked with the
blueprint in the firmament in the head. Finally, a copy of the karma
of both parents is imprinted on the DNA of the developing child, the
hereditary material with approximately 24,000 genes. The genetic
disposition, the ‘genotype’ of the baby, is the product of world
karma, the karma of the nation, the family, of both parents in
particular, and last but not least, the individual history of the
microcosm, which will serve as the dwelling for the newly born one.
In
this way, cosmos and microcosm intimately cooperate. Examination of
the birth horoscope and the genetic disposition would probably
demonstrate remarkable correspondences, because the karmic
constellation is anchored down into the genes.
We
might wonder: if the genes are the product of the parents, how can
the genotype then correspond to the lipika, which is the karmic
product of the microcosm? This shows the strong interrelationship of
everything, controlled by the dialectical-karmic order. The personal
fate is closely linked not only with the fate of both parents and
relatives, but with the fate of the nation, race and humanity as
well as with that of the microcosm.
Through
the degree of lack of consciousness of the majority of humanity, the
concept of ‘free will’ is virtually an illusion to them. This is
why the laws of karma, or the Lords of Fate, strictly control the
incarnations and selection of parents for entities that should be
born specifically to them to learn vital lessons and vice versa.
Parents and children, just as any other combination of people, must
mutually learn lessons and learn to forgive and expiate each
other’s guilt. These tasks of life are deeply rooted and anchored
as vibration potential in the DNA-molecules and the genes. A wise
order keeps everything in equilibrium, without overlooking any
detail. Karma-Nemesis means strict justice, without respect of
person.
In
general, cell biologists find it hard to look further than the
genetic disposition. They see the genetic defects, understand
mutations and diseases and try to help humanity by gene
manipulation. A praiseworthy pursuit! But… because they only have
an eye for the material aspects and the loose threads underlying the
fabric, they cannot see the actual pattern of weaving. Wrong
conclusions are then obvious. There is a threat that we will
intervene in the building blocks of creation with all the ensuing
consequences. It has not yet been realised that material
intervention does not change the etheric-astral background. This
karmic disposition must be continued anyway, so that, after material
intervention, there is a risk that the field of Karma-Nemesis must
and will forcefully clear another path, right through illness and
suffering.
The balance of Karma-nemesis
The law of Karma-Nemesis won’t be trifled with, and this is
why we might consider it ‘rock-hard’. We will come back to this
later. In this way, we often see that conquered diseases and karmic
dispositions often manifest themselves indirectly as new diseases
and hereditary defects. This causes a race between Karma-Nemesis and
science, in which doctors and biologists usually run, again and
again, after new facts and diseases subsequent to a possible
breakthrough.
In
this way, humanity becomes increasingly more ill, because it does
not understand the drive of Karma-Nemesis, does not hear the knock
on the door, and therefore closes the gate ever more tightly. We are
therefore inclined to see Nemesis as the merciless goddess of
justified revenge, as we know her from Greek mythology, who punishes
us for our evil deeds. However, the duality Karma-Nemesis is,
similar to the symbol of Justice, the power that continuously
restores and preserves the balance of the karmic scales: everything
a human being sows, will one day be reaped, good as well as evil.
Fate,
it is said, is fixed in our genes, and this is why the genotype
determines who and what we are. Recent scientific discoveries,
however, clearly show that this is not the case.
Infinite number of variations
Our genotype is not something like a switchboard that
determines our whole life. Although the genes resemble to a certain
extent zeroes and ones (they can be ‘on’ or ‘off’), an
infinite number of variations is possible. Genes are also able to
drive each other. Whatever result, whatever pattern is going to be
dominant, whatever song of life will resound from it, all depends on
a number of factors. The genotype is a ‘disposition’, driving in
a certain direction. The result of how a human being ultimately
manifests himself, is called the ‘phenotype’.
Sometimes
the following formula is used: phenotype = genotype + environment.
‘Environment’ then includes all external effects in the broadest
sense of the word, like upbringing, social environment, atmospheric
pollution and countless experiences.
However,
equally important are inner influences, like joy of life, sorrow,
optimism or pessimism, courage or desperation, briefly, any effects
that cannot be explained by purely biochemical or electrical
reactions.
Here
the influence of the human spirit comes to the fore, and for the
pupil in particular, the effect of the spirit-spark atom. A higher
reality, the Christ power, touches the pupil’s heart and is able
to create a new phenotype, a new state of life, which far surpasses
the genetic disposition.
Once
again, we draw your attention to ‘the environment’, which, as
you know, is a hot item, about which millions of people worry.
However, the global environment is an external projection of the
problem in the human being himself: his own auric-mental pollution
and astral poisoning. The Rosicrucian realises that the environment
concerns above all his inner environment, a self-revolution in the
most absolute sense of the word, considerably more radical than a
diminished CO2-emission. What matters most is what people
themselves emit, and whether their cars are equipped with a catalyst
or a particulate filter is subordinate to that.
External
measures are wonderful, but do not remove the fundamental darkness.
And this is exactly the aim of a spiritual school: that darkness
disappears, that the emissions of envy, hatred, anger, jealousy and
fear are replaced by spreading Light, love and hope. In other words,
that a human being, realising his own descent, changes fundamentally
and structurally, that he transforms and ultimately transfigures…
Human existence as possibility
Influences may radically change the brain cells and their
connections. This is called neuro-plasticity. This is quite
different from the spirit breaking into the system! This is why the
seeking human being, who accepts the great task of his genotype and
leads it to its destiny, will demonstrate a phenotype that can truly
be called a new state of life. First of all, he will wholeheartedly
and fully accept his own karma and genotype, regardless of how hard
this fate might be. In and through the Gnosis and the developing
spirit-soul, the pupil will in this way be able fully to rise above
his karmic burden, the forces of the lipika and his entire genetic
material that is bound to it. Therefore, first… complete
acceptance, and second… rising up become possible.
In
this way, illnesses may turn into wonderful instruments, with which
a seeking human being liberates himself from the laws of
Karma-Nemesis, provided he or she subjects himself or herself to the
law of the new field of life. It is good to be aware that the
goddess Nemesis is blindfolded, because absolute justice will be
done, independent of personal judgements, preference or disfavour.
There is no avenging justice, but only justice, goodness and truth,
all stemming from divine love.
Then
we understand that the whole nature of death, the academic sea of
life, the ocean of suffering, including the web of fate and the law
of Karma-Nemesis, are surrounded by infinite Divine love.
The
original kingdom is not somewhere else; it is here. The kingdom of
God is within you.
Ah,
some of you may think, then I am in the other kingdom.
However,
this is a great mistake, because first we, or rather the original
human being, will have to rise up from the ocean of suffering.
First, we must truly have learned to know the counternature in which
we live as a ‘nature of death’, so that we will be able to say,
as the prodigal son: ‘I eat the pods that swine eat, but I will
arise and go to my Father.’ If we have not yet recognised and
experienced this nature as the house of death, we will not say so,
but preserve the sham reality of shipwrecked people in the sea of
suffering. The not yet awakened human being suffers rather than
losing himself in something higher.
The soul human being
People have discussed the question whether the Lectorium
Rosicrucianum proclaims a dualistic or a monistic philosophy. The
teachings of the two nature orders is dualistic. It is considered
hard to combine this with the idea that the unity of everything that
exists is also emphasised. But why would this present a problem, if
we depart from the idea that the divine plan implies that a
deviating development continues to be sustained by the divine love,
even for unimaginably long times, until everything has returned into
the unity?
This
is why we cannot only say that the law of Karma-Nemesis is
rock-hard, or that to ‘Dao’, people are like straw dogs. Divine
love does not allow that people are confronted with the consequences
of their own deeds in a rock-hard way. This is the love and the
justice which, blindfolded and wholly objectively, take care that a
human being, humanity, receives what it asks for, knowing that all
paths of experience will one day lead to the return to the divine
unity.
This
is why we carry karma with us and why the microcosm reincarnates.
This is why we carry the blueprint of our task in life with us,
anchored in our genes. The genotype is like a musical instrument
that must be played. It has not yet been decided which song or which
dissonances will arise from it. However, if the new soul can resound
through this wonderful instrument, so that the most beautiful
melodies will rise up from it, the whole karmic disposition and its
laws will go up into it. Then this decline of the human personality
is the ascent of the living soul human being, the first one, who
always was and will be in the original unity.
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