The Coming New Man - Chapter Discussion

 

 

 

Part III The Talents and Faculties of the New Man

Chapter 1


This Chapter is titled 'Auric Rebirth'

`The time has come to introduce you to the coming new man. In the two preceding parts of this book, the various philosophical and internal aspects of this new human genesis have been outlined. But the age which is now shining in the tender light of morning is the dawn of a day in which the new human being will act, move and be. If we do not belong to those who are earthbound in the grey veils of dialectics, we shall undoubtedly recognise the signature of this new man and be able to determine his reappearance in the history of the world from the year 1952 onwards.

What was revealed in this Aryan age thousands of years ago through the Divine brotherhoods, through the sacred work of Ichnaton in Egypt and the great workers of India, by Lao Tzu in China, by Zoroaster in the Chaldean empire, by Mani in the Middle East; what entered Greece with Plato and Pythagoras and shone in western Europe through the Druids and the work of the Cathars will once again shine in this dark world order.

The day of the new man has arrived. The aurora of a new age of the people of God has once again shattered the armour of dialectics. The chain of seven temples has once again been forged solidly and strongly, and it has invincibly begun a work that can rightly be called the labour of total pupilship. The work of renewal has begun, the paths of Renewal are being trodden.

You will understand that going a path in the particular sense we mean presupposes taking leave and travelling with us. There are pupils who wholeheartedly and entirely from within, wish to travel with us. Others are still full of doubt and there are perhaps some who, without entirely realising it, are full of rejection and criticism. We have attempted to help them but they have proved unwilling. So the hour of farewell has come. The aurora of a new day crowns the paths we have chosen. We are leaving the night and another task awaits us. The words spoken now and in future apply only to those who travel with us and only for them do they have power.'

We have discussed how the power of gnostic renewal which can be absorbed by the permanent atom will ultimately shine from the ascending left sympathetic nervous system strand after a long journey. When this radiation fullness reveals itself it is proof that a new magnetic circulation has been formed in the heart of the microcosm, which corresponds with the body of the old nature, the nature of death. This extraordinary birth of the circulation of pure gnostic powers in a new nerve stream causes a change in the blood and nerve fluid. Gradually an entirely new system of lines of force are formed, outwardly in the image of the personality, but consisting of completely different life streams, springing from the new source of consciousness in the sympathicus.  

A new threefold temple of consciousness, soul and body arises, with which the candidate must `be caught up … in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.'

We will now discuss the work needed to build the temple. The workshop is the precise centre of our microcosm. Our material form is unDivine, and the fundamental principle behind it must first be destroyed through the seven prerequisites to the path already discussed. Only when you fulfill these conditions can you build the temple.

The first requirement is the new magnetic circulation in the sympathicus. Whoever gives himself to the path in absolute surrender and accepts the consequences will receive proof of his readiness in the manifestation of the fluid of the sympathicus. `This fluid is the stone that must be used for building. It is the supreme remedy, the true elixir of life of the myths, the `Open Sesame' of fairy tales. This fluid is the flame of the seventh condition fulfilled, the light of Divine love. It is solely with this love that the work can be begun and can be completed.

It is pointless to sentimentalise and write poetry in honour of this Divine love. It requires deeds, the concrete act of building. That which is called love in the Universal Doctrine is the primal substance of the Divine flame, of the world soul. When the light of this flame begins to burn in the new magnetic circuit, the candidate will be able to bear all things (1 Corinthians 13 v7) and to cover a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4 v8).

In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul says that he who breathes in the primal substance of the divine flame is on a road leading to liberation. He says that though we may attain the height of dialectical culture, perfect the art of rhetoric, speak or write with perfect fluency and facility, and though we may attain the highest level of magic and the perfection of the intellect, have prophecy and the secrets of salvation and of the sciences at our command, we would still be absolutely nothing if we did not have the primal substance of the Divine flame.

Paul then goes on to enumerate the possibilities for the candidate when he partakes of this glory.

When asked to explain these words of Paul and Peter, most people describe a moral and ethical code of behaviour that Paul and Peter are recommending, involving good and self-sacrificing deeds, and mixing with people who share the same moral and ethical code.

But the apostles quoted here were not trying to describe these highest aims of the dialectical human being's emotional life, beautiful, noble and useful as they are. 1 Corinthians 13 refers to something quite different.

There are many groups in the world today who claim to be able to speak in tongues and to prophesy. It is tragic that the unmistakable seeking of tens of thousands of people has become stranded in negative occult pursuits, mediumship and spiritualism. This calamity is caused by ignorance, these people having fallen prey to brotherhoods of the reflection sphere who imitate holy life.

All the gifts spoken of by Paul, which are very real in a true spiritual school, are the first signature, the first evidence of a new human genesis. If one imitates that signature, that evidence, in a purely dialectical and absolutely negative manner, one leaves a whole stream of seekers stranded as if in a desert. When the gifts and attributes of the new man become known, the betrayal will be unmasked, and in such a way as to clearly demonstrate the unbridgeable gulf between imitation and reality. Then innumerable misguided seekers will find the lost trail and proceed from power to power and from glory to glory, giving proof that the gnosis has truly come.

When a pupil has fulfilled the seven conditions of the path and the magnetic circuit in the sympathicus becomes active, the radiation from it will cover the pupil's whole being, his personality, respiration field, the auric being and the magnetic field. This cloud of the Lord will envelop the microcosm of the candidate like a cloak, and a great diversity of new gifts and attributes will evolve, all from the one sanctifying spirit of renewal. The magnetic points in the auric being, wholly attuned to dialectical life and to its aeons, will progressively be extinguished in the cloak of divine love, and new lights will be ignited. This love radiation will thus cover a multitude of sins.

This process of Divine love extinguishes karma: it does not merely cover it, but replaces it absolutely. The magnetic field of the Auric being is utterly engulfed by this Divine flame: the dialectical firmament is extinguished and a new firmament takes its place. A new microcosmic earth, a transfigured personality, emerges under this new heaven. In the first instance, its signature is a multitude of new gifts and possibilities: the signature of the coming new man.

We will cover this in detail in the following chapters.

We advise you to study 1 Corinthians chapters 12 – 15, as the chapter discussions will be based on them.