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Glimpses of Esoteric Christianity Part 3

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




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