| Man's FallThere are several versions and | | | | existence. It is incorrect to say that Omneity |
| interpretations concerning Man's Fall to be found in | | | | punished the fallen angels, for this would imply |
| the Western Tradition.This particular doctrine can | | | | that Omneity is directly concerned with, and |
| be said to be the foundation from which all other | | | | recognizes states of duality, which in fact means |
| doctrines and tenets of esotericism are built upon; | | | | that God is aware of something other than ITS |
| for without a "fall," why would there be a | | | | own existence. This is illogical from the Absolute |
| "salvation"? Why should there be a striving | | | | view-point, as taught in philosophies of a non-dual |
| towards perfection, wholeness and unity? Man in | | | | conception of Reality, such as Advaita Vedanta. |
| his present state of being finds himself isolated, | | | | There is only God--all else are illusions. All mystics |
| alone, and fragmented. Man subconsciously feels a | | | | agree with this.After the Fall of the rebel angels, |
| certain loss of being, a sense of disorientation | | | | Adam Kadmon was re-emanated to resume his |
| towards Life, Nature, and his fellowmen. He seeks, | | | | journey towards Godhood, and to be the warden |
| not knowing what he is seeking. He pursues | | | | of the perverse beings; or in other words, to be |
| earthly goals, and when attained, it leaves him | | | | the director of their evolution. Adam was in an |
| dissatisfied and unfulfilled. Gradually, the realization | | | | intermediate state. He was attuned with the |
| dawns upon him that his energies are being | | | | Cosmic Mind and at the same time felt the evil |
| misdirected, misspent towards ephemeral goals | | | | thoughts of the perverse beings. Although |
| with no absolute value. He then commences his | | | | emanated after the perverse beings, he was |
| search and journey towards higher goals and | | | | somewhat "loftier" in spiritual status, by virtue of |
| spiritual endeavours.But how shall one tread the | | | | his being pure--and innocent, for his mental being |
| Path of Return? To know the Way of Ascension, | | | | was as yet germinal--this was the state of |
| one has to discover how man's descent occurred, | | | | Adam's paradisical bliss--a blissful ignorance, for he |
| how he originally lost his divine estate. What | | | | had not yet tasted the fruit of the Tree of |
| brought about Man's Fall? After studying the | | | | Knowledge; he had an unawakened mental |
| various traditions perpetuated by the Bard's of | | | | nature.Now, Adam as warden, was supposed to |
| humanity, each student would arrive at his own | | | | induce purity into the perverse beings with his |
| interpretation and conclusion as to what actually | | | | spiritual nature; he, however, was influenced by |
| occurred in the beginning of Time. Although | | | | their telepathic suggestions of rebellion towards |
| personal opinions, speculations, assumptions and | | | | the tasks at hand. More than that, Sacla made |
| convictions may not be facts, and should not be | | | | Adam believe that he would, and could resemble |
| treated as such, they do give us a working | | | | God by consuming the forbidden fruit--and create |
| knowledge to commence our mystical work--in an | | | | like Omneity. And so, with his autonomous free |
| experimental manner, especially when inner or | | | | will, Adam attempted to create but ended-up |
| spiritual guidance is lacking. We will present the | | | | bungling the job. He created the physical plane of |
| doctrine of Man's Fall according to our level of | | | | dense matter which he called "Eve." He then |
| understanding:Universes, like any other organism, | | | | populated the plane with shadowy beings unfit for |
| or aggregate, come and go. They are created by | | | | the Spirit to dwell.That a creator other than |
| the Shakti, or power of God, sustained for a | | | | Omneity (God) created the physical plane was a |
| period, a cycle, called "Manvantara," and then | | | | strong belief among the ancient Gnostics. This |
| dissolved, destroyed, or absorbed back again into | | | | imperfect creator, called the "Demiurge," created |
| the Source, to be recreated or re-emanated once | | | | an imperfect hylic world. However, this very |
| again in a "New Day." It is appropriate here to say | | | | condition gave the Fragments a greater |
| that Esoteric Christianity is essentially | | | | opportunity for accelerated growth. Exoterically, |
| emanationistic in its cosmo-conception, its | | | | "The Great Architect of the Universe," the |
| cosmology. This means that God, or Omneity, | | | | Demiurge, or P'an Ku, as the Chinese philosophers |
| emanated beings and spiritual worlds from ITS | | | | call him, was a contributing cause of the bondage |
| own Womb. However, the emanations do not | | | | of his constituent parts, in the same manner that |
| possess independent existence; all is an | | | | we at times make the cells of our body a slave |
| expression, or active manifestation of Omneity or | | | | to ill health by our inharmonious thoughts and |
| "Allah." All, in fact, is Omneity; and yet Omneity is | | | | feelings. Esoterically, however, T.G.A.O.T.U is a |
| definitely more. This is the immanence and | | | | mastermind of Cosmic evolution. For matter, with |
| transcendence of God. Separation is an illusion, a | | | | all of its resistance to control by interacting |
| play of the senses. The process of Activity and | | | | intelligences, offer spiritual discipline to juvenile |
| Rest, or Manvantara and Pralaya, is eternal; and | | | | spirits.Adam was so enchanted by his creation |
| its purpose is incomprehensible to man. We will | | | | that it gradually entrapped him. This condition is |
| not speak more on this as it would only cause | | | | illustrated in the Greek Mysteries by the allegory |
| confusion.During one of the active cycles, | | | | of Narcissus, who was so absorbed and |
| Humankind, called "Adam Kadmon," or | | | | fascinated by his own reflection in a pond that he |
| "Anthropos," was emanated by that great | | | | fell into it and perished--spiritually speaking. Adam |
| expression of Omneity called "Logos." Adam | | | | forgot his true identity as he identified himself |
| Kadmon is the collective name of the Fragments | | | | with his caricature. All previous powers that he |
| composing its being. Sometimes Adam Kadmon is | | | | possessed were lost in the mist of |
| identified by scholars as the Creative and the | | | | Self-forgetfulness. It was the misuse of free will |
| Solar Logos. This is questionable, as some mystics | | | | that caused his Fall, and it was his ignorance, his |
| have differentiated the three; perhaps it is | | | | Self-forgetfulness that constituted the "original sin." |
| analogous to our physical body which is | | | | His "punishment" was more severe than the |
| constituted of cells, each of which is a being, a | | | | rebels of the angelic hierarchies for he carried-out |
| unit of Life. Now, although the physical body is not | | | | his wayward intentions to completion, something |
| our Self, it does have an elemental consciousness | | | | with which the rebel angels did not have the |
| all of its own. Adam Kadmon's relationship to the | | | | opportunity to consummate. The Fall of Man is |
| Solar Logos is somewhat similar: the Solar Logos, | | | | dramatized in various ancient Mystery Schools, in |
| is the Self; the Creative Logos, or collective | | | | the myth of the hero-god slained, and the |
| Elohims--the elemental consciousness of the | | | | kidnapping and rape of Persephone. The mythos |
| physical body; and the cells are the Fragments, | | | | of the crucified Christ is just a perpetuation of |
| the Monads of Man, or collectively, Adam Kadmon. | | | | the Cosmic event which occurred before |
| The Fragments of Adam were individualized in | | | | time.Adam, before his fall, was not aware of his |
| previous cycles and were ready to resume their | | | | Source. Being ignorant he considered himself as |
| evolution towards a Divine | | | | the highest being, just like Sacla before him. Pride, |
| Self-Consciousness.There is another Logos to | | | | desire and ignorance were the major causes |
| consider--the Redemptory Logos. This being or | | | | contributing to his entrapment within the tomb of |
| principle is not one and the same as the previous | | | | matter. This unfortunate state of mind, this level |
| Logoi mentioned above. Within man, the | | | | of consciousness, is to be found among the |
| microcosm, this Logos is the "Atma-Buddhi-Higher | | | | masses today. Many are ignorant of the divine |
| Mental," collectively called "the Holy Christ | | | | potential of man, the Cosmic verities, the |
| Self."Prior to Adam Kadmon's emanation, the | | | | existence of an Absolute Supreme Being, higher |
| Godhead emanated "Perverse Beings," as called | | | | intelligences, and the spiritual worlds; and this sorry |
| by Martinez Pasquales. Certain Gnostics call them | | | | state misdirects their energy-forces into thoughts |
| as a collectivity, "Sacla," "Samael," and "Iladabaoth." | | | | and actions that are detrimental to their spiritual |
| These beings were the laggards of previous | | | | well-being. From one point of view, Man has never |
| cycles that did not quite make the grade and | | | | really left his Edenic state. The apple he consumed |
| were mercifully given another chance to live | | | | has produced the delusion of separation from his |
| harmoniously with the Cosmic Laws, which are | | | | Source. His consciousness is blinded by what we |
| the laws of their existence, the laws of their | | | | personally call "Maya-grams," or "forms of |
| being, and evolve accordingly. It is taught in a | | | | unreality" by our definition--and these Mayagrams |
| certain occult philosophy that the disobedience of | | | | man considers absolutely real. Absolute Reality is |
| such laws would eventually cancel the | | | | that which is eternal; Mayagrams are ephemeral, |
| core-identity of their being, the fiery-essence of | | | | the stuff of which dreams are made. Man |
| their identity on "Judgment Day," at the end of | | | | relegates his Edenic-Reality to the background of |
| the present cycle should their conversion to | | | | his consciousness and hypnotizes himself with |
| holiness (wholeness) not be forthcoming. This is | | | | fleeting things; he thus finds himself apparently |
| the "second death" and is an expression of Divine | | | | denuded of divine qualities and faculties. The |
| Mercy, for to allow these beings continued | | | | serpent that tempted Man, as recorded in the |
| existence as spirits would cause them needless | | | | allegorical book of Genesis, to consume the |
| anguish, pain, and suffering--all of which are of | | | | apple--the apple of forgetfulness--as seen from |
| their own making. Though newly re-emanated, | | | | one perspective, represents the Law of Evolution, |
| Sacla did not repent, and the evil way of thinking | | | | the creative impulse of the pulsating Center of All. |
| which almost became second-nature to him, | | | | This is represented in the Mystery Schools by a |
| resumed. Because of pride and ignorance, he | | | | snake coiling an egg. The principle of this symbol is |
| willfully denied the existence of his source and | | | | the evolutionary urge inherent within Life, within |
| believed himself the creator of the Universe. The | | | | Man's being that prompted him to descent into |
| desire to be worshipped and to act as the | | | | matter, to unfold his divinity, and to ascent to his |
| Supreme Being, in creating other beings, | | | | God-estate.The perverse beings later joined man |
| eventually caused the downfall of Sacla. John | | | | on the physical plane, and they are with us today. |
| Bricaud in his work "Esoteric Christian Doctrine," | | | | Their characteristic wickedness as we are all |
| has this to say about the Fall:" . . certain heads of | | | | familiar, have their strong influence in the political, |
| the angelic hierarchy refused to obey the laws | | | | economic, social, scientific and religious fields. We |
| which govern the pleroma; that they wanted to | | | | see that humankind, therefore, are divided roughly |
| go over to degrees higher than their class without | | | | and symbolically into two lineages: the perverse |
| fulfilling the required condition, which caused great | | | | beings, the "descendants of Cain," and the |
| disorder in the pleroma."This state of spiritual | | | | Fragments of Adam Kadmon, the "posterity of |
| denial and opposition caused anarchy and | | | | Seth." One way of classifying man according to |
| pandemonium. Most of the angels fell as a result. | | | | Esoteric Christianity is the threefold division:1) Hylic, |
| At the head of the rebellion was a being, | | | | the individual who lives solely according to his |
| traditionally known as "Lucifer," "Athamas," and | | | | carnal nature, "the dead," as designated by |
| "Orphiomorphos."To coerce these fallen angels to | | | | Jesus.2) Pneumatic, the individual who lives in |
| obedience would have been a violation of the Law | | | | accord with his spiritual being, the type of |
| of Free Will that Omneity had established. | | | | personality called by Jesus, "the quick."3) Psychic, |
| Therefore, to contain their perversity, their evil | | | | the individual who lives in an intermediary state, or |
| thoughts, the lower spiritual planes were | | | | what Jesus called "luke-warm."The above are the |
| emanated by Omneity to circumscribe and contain | | | | basic three natures of man. Man, however, does |
| the activities of these rebels of the spirit; to limit | | | | not represent solely of the human race. There |
| the power of their influence upon the pleroma and | | | | are angels, fallen angels, titans, and other beings |
| higher heavens. The principles or component parts | | | | incarnated in the shadowy form of Adam |
| of these beings were automatically densified or | | | | Kadmon. The "sons of God" did cohabit with |
| crystallized according to natural laws as a result of | | | | human spirits to produce hybrids as told in |
| egoic-focus.In reality, Cosmic Laws in their totality | | | | Genesis and the Books of Enoch.The whole drama |
| is the expression of Omneity--is Omneity. | | | | of Man's Fall corresponds with the four worlds or |
| Disharmony with one's spiritual nature naturally | | | | stages of development in the Qabalah:1) Atziluth, |
| densifies one's being and restricts the mobility of | | | | the World of Archetypes, corresponds with the |
| one's soul and spirit. This was what occurred to | | | | impetus and commencement of a new |
| Sacla. He rebelled against the law of his being and | | | | Manvantara.2) Briah, the World of Creation, |
| degraded, and circumscribed his expression as a | | | | corresponds with the emanations of beings; the |
| consequence. Evil limits the extension of itself by | | | | period of the rebellion of the angels.3) Yetzirah, |
| the nature of its own low vibrations. This is the | | | | the World of Formation, corresponds with the |
| reason why evil in any form cannot exist in the | | | | creation of the lower spiritual realms and the |
| celestial worlds. It was not Omneity who punished | | | | actual fall of the rebel angels.4) Assiah, the World |
| directly, but a natural response of the Law of | | | | of Activity, corresponds with the creation of the |
| Cause and Effect. To oppose the Will of God is in | | | | physical plane and the Fall of Man. |
| effect the opposition of the laws of one's | | | | |