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History of New Age and Consciousness Revolution‏‏

“No breakthrough occurs in a random fashion, without deep underlying causes. There are always seeds planted before the time of rapid progress, and a point at which the new ideas seem to germinate in many minds around the same time. If you look at the pattern of human development, there are a whole series of breakthroughs followed by periods of consolidation when the new ideas are absorbed and worked out in practical ways. The times of breakthrough tend to begin in the 75th year of each century, with the period of consolidation focusing on the middle years of the following century. By the time you reach the year 75 again, humanity is usually ready for another breakthrough.

In the case of the consciousness revolution, all this began in the 1870s, when she was working on her first major book, “Isis Unveiled.” This, together with “The Secret Doctrine”, laid the foundation for all the expansion of consciousness that was to follow over the next century. Blavatsky’s work popularized the Eastern ideas of reincarnation, karma and the existence of Master-souls, and firmly established these concepts within Western culture. It is not that the West was entirely ignorant of these ideas up to that point, but until Blavatsky came along, they were considered so uniquely oriental that they could safely be ignored. After she focused attention upon these concepts, they were put firmly on the intellectual agenda of the West.

Where Blavatsky led, others followed. The work of Rudolf Steiner, Alice Bailey and others consolidated that legacy, and extended the base of esoteric knowledge to include concepts such as rays, vibrations, the auric field, and energy-centers and energy-lines in the physical body. Without this essential information, the whole raft of new age therapies would have had no intellectual foundation.

In 1875, when Blavatsky was establishing this esoteric movement in the West, religion was still a powerful force – some would say one of the dominant forces in Western culture.

By 1975, when “The Nature of Personal Reality” (channeled by Jane Roberts from an Nonphysical Entity known as SETH), “A Course in Miracles” (written by Helen Schucman based on what she called an “inner voice” which she identified as Jesus), the Book of Knowledge: Keys of Enoch (received by J.J. Hurtak from the Ascended Enoch) were going out into the world, that world had changed beyond recognition. Now it was Spirituality that formed the main impulse driving forward the agenda of the soul. The freedom to define God in line with one’s own perception was beginning to develop into the ability of each individual to pioneer their own pathway to the Light.

A number of Churches reacted to the rise of Spirituality by funding research projects designed to prove that the New Age had a coherent theme and a single, integrated belief system. However, despite much effort, no convincing evidence could be found to back up these assertions. Since New Agers believe in a whole range of things, not just one thing, the theory that the New Age Movement was a cult did not stand up to close examination. The Churches, looking for a church-like organization capable of founding a new religion, discovered that there was no New Age credo, New Age Vatican or New Age bible. Instead of these things, they found a web of connections, a supportive global network linking kindred spirits, each following their own chosen path to the Light.

The path of individual autonomous Spirituality that was emerging was very different from an organized religion, and it needed none of the trappings of a Church to sustain it. It flowed on like a great river, with the wisdom of many traditions connecting with it and nourishing it. The sense of freedom and empowerment felt within this new Spirituality – a feeling of happy escape from doctrine and hierarchy – was an experience shared by many.

In other areas, there were similar stirrings towards freedom and autonomy. At the political level, the old dictatorships were starting to crumble, and social changes were readjusting the balance between men and women. At the same time, there was a realignment of perception within the sciences that was beginning to bring science and Spirit closer together. The combination of all these developments was generating a fresh energy and optimism, and in the midst of this ferment of change, the stage was set at last for a new beginning: the emergence of a New World and a New Consciousness.”

- Angel Alariel (Channeled in the book “Beyond Limitations – The Power of Conscious Co-Creation”)

 
“There are Star Masters from a whole range of civilizations within your galaxy, especially Sirius, the Pleiades, Arcturus, Orion and Vega. And Star Masters from the galaxy of Andromeda will become increasingly important as you focus more and more on Oneness: they are the supreme teachers of Unity Consciousness, and how it can be applied in practical ways. Help is also available through the Ashtar Command: this brings together Star Beings from many civilizations focusing a wide range of multidimensional knowledge and experience.”

- Angel Alariel (Channeled in the book “Beyond Limitations – The Power of Conscious Co-Creation”)

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The Freedom and Joy of the Afterlife Conditions

“Two elements in my present state are particularly significant to me, when I compare it to physical life. For one thing, my psychological and “physical” mobility is astonishing, and my sense of freedom feels, at least, unlimited. In the beginning I found this disconcerting, for my reality at any given time followed experience-organizations of my own making and focus. The bounds of creaturehood – morning and evening time, and even pain, birth, and death – impose a certain order from which the living cannot stray. My state of mind was one of confusion for a while. Imagine if you will a mongrel of a dog, quite used to wandering, suddenly given, say, wings, the use of a conceptual mind, vocabulary, and million new choices where, before, instinct and the demands of practical creaturehood had kept his curiosity quite well within a limited range.

In other words, new capabilities kept sprouting from my mind, each stranger than the other. A vivid desire of the most momentary nature seemingly transported me from one place to another, with no transition or preparation – exhilarating and unsettling. Countering all of this, however, was the most delightful sense of safety, so that everywhere, being seems to be couched in perfect safety. I simply use my mind to “go” anywhere I want and the rest of me follows. My body, real enough to me, can appear or disappear in any given place, however, and each environment is formed by peoples’ belief in it. I say “peoples’” belief because all of us to ourselves appear quite natural, quite like people, only in a different context indeed.

The freedom of which I speak was not entirely new. It can be deduced easily in life by an imaginative extension of the abilities shown by consciousness in dreams, only here those extensions are the “new facts of life,” if you will forgive the term, and must be mastered. The conditions after death, while consciously dealt with, are similar to dream states, then, while the additional self-conscious manipulations add the most vivid clearness and preciseness. The knack is to focus consciousness properly in the desired areas. This usually presents little difficulty after a brief preliminary stage.”

- William James (The Afterdeath Journal of An American Philosopher)

 
“I forget it, then remember it again. When I forget my body I am operating without it; my consciousness is in no way hampered but follows my pursuits. Then suddenly, like an absentminded professor, I realize that not my mind but my body has been absent, and without any transition I have it again. So most likely it is created unconsciously, out of habit. Nor am I frightened, only momentarily disconcerted, when I discover its absence; I reattain it automatically, as on earth I might pause at the door, ready to go out, and remember my hat, putting it on without a thought. I no longer identify with my body, and of course it is not flesh and blood, though it seems to be when I want it to.

I understand that some of the dead identify with the body for longer periods than I, and that different personalities vary in the easiness with which they learn the afterlife conditions. These conditions themselves vary, account no doubt for the many misconceptions about death and they dying that are often encountered in life through those communications that do take place.”

- William James (The Afterdeath Journal of An American Philosopher)

 
“We do not regard linear time as the fourth dimension, seeing it instead as an aspect of the container which makes the physically manifested world possible, the framework which underpins the realm of form, From our perspective, each dimensional reality is a complete world of experience, inhabited by beings appropriate to that world. Thus, the third dimensional reality is host to physical human beings, the fourth dimensional reality (also known as the Interlife) is host to those who have died and are awaiting rebirth, and the fifth dimensional reality is host to ascended Beings. Linear time does not qualify as a world hosting sentient beings in this way, and that is why we put it into a separate category.”

- Angel Alariel (Channeled in the book “Beyond Limitations – The Power of Conscious Co-Creation”)

 
“There are endless vistas open to us and there are NO blocks, stops, or hindrances whatsoever preventing one from experiencing just as one would like. On earth there is the lack of money. If you wish to go to the wonderful resort in the Caribbean you saw on the TV you could not, because the cost for one week is more than your entire life savings! Imagine an endless universe with endless excitement, and ALL of it available to you for the asking (I am feeling an incredible sense of expansiveness and joy here). That is what it is like for me. I am having ever so much fun in my travels!”

- Conversations with My Higher Self (A book channeling the same entity known as “Abraham Hicks”)

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The Three Categories of Magick

Hermetics split magic up into three general categories: goeteia (goetia), mageia, and theourgia (theurgy).

Goeteia is what most people think of when you bring up historical and fantastic magic; in goeteia, the magician causes change by manipulating aspects of the outside universe. Pronouncing an incantation while performing a hand motion and inscribing words of power onto a strip of papyrus in order to heal the sickness of a friend, for instance, or breaking the bone of a rat while chanting a prayer to Hermes for the purpose of being liberated from a jail cell, are examples of goeteia. Thus, most of what wizards do in fantasy roleplaying games, and what evil cultists do in horror games, falls under the heading of goeteia. The word itself is thought to come from an archaic Greek root meaning ‘howling’.

Mageia can be thought of as what most magicians seek to master. Once a practitioner of magic has a firm foundation in words of power, sympathetic correspondences (see Sympathetic Mechanics) and other elements of spellcasting and magical ritual, he or she can begin to experiment with more rarefied techniques. The magician seeks to cause change through the efforts of his or her will alone; words of power are used to more tightly define the magical flow, but in mageia, the magician chooses not to call upon the aid of Daimons and other beings in favor of developing his or her own abilities. A fine example of this idea in a roleplaying game is that, in GURPS, as a wizard character gains a higher and higher skill level in a particular spell, he or she requires less ‘magical energy’ and fewer ritual gestures to cast that spell until, eventually, the spell requires no ritual gestures or spoken words at all! (See GURPS Fourth Edition Basic Set: Characters, pg 237, or GURPS Fourth Edition: Magic, pp 8 & 9.) The word ‘mageia’ comes from the name of the Iranian priesthood, who were practitioners of magic. It is thought to mean ‘wisdom’ or ‘knowledge’, while magos (the Greek source of our words ‘magician’ and ‘mage’) is said to mean ‘one who knows’ or ‘one who is wise’.

Theourgia is something of a synthesis of the above two. Goeteia takes advantage of communication with spirits of various sorts, the occult connections between material things, and symbols; Mageia takes advantage of the magician’s inner strength, understanding of fundamental principles and level of development. This being true, Theourgia takes advantage of the experience and knowledge gained through both practices, and uses them together in an attempt at becoming him- or herself a God or divine being. Generally, this includes making very strong alliances with Gods and Daimons in order to borrow of their power, though unlike in goeteia, this power is not begged or prayed for, but freely taken (and given in return) as a service to fellow evolving souls. This is where the idea of a pact with a demon or devil comes from, for it was thought of as a free exchange between two intelligent beings and, in the practice of magic, one’s soul truly is on the line whether Daimons become involved or not! If a magician fails in his or her quest for real understanding, severe damage can be done; if a magician succeeds, however, divine exaltation and eternal life are achieved. Such is the philosophy of Hermetic magic. The word ‘theourgia’ means ‘God-work’.

- Except taken from Hermetic Magic

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