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