Apotheosis is the pinnacle
achievement of spiritual development for an individual. There are a plethora of
pathways for one to take to get there. Once divinity is accepted and brought
into one’s life, the clarity that leads to this goal becomes more defined. By
mastering the spiritual concepts that lead to this perfection, its’ aspirants
have been known to perform miracles. For most it remains an enigmatic concept,
because its’ truths lie outside the confines of the Earth. To obtain apotheosis,
is to truly know God; and this is the ultimate goal for each of our souls.
Apotheosis is defined as the
highest point in development of something. It also means the elevation of man
to divine status. From Greek apotheoun,
“to make a god, “to deify”, implies a polytheistic conception of gods. It also
recognizes that some individuals cross the dividing line between gods and men.
It is assumed that godhood,
associated with such characters as the Greek pantheon of gods, is mythical. It
also has been proposed that the myths have something to do with ancestor
worship, or reverence for the dead. Some assume that godhood has been
attributed to past rulers as a method of mere flattery. It is uncommon today to
assume that the myths of godhood were literal.
Though, it is often observed
that mankind had in the past, has always had the ability of achieving, and has
to some degree at all times, a god-like potential that goes unseen. These
abilities have been recognized throughout all of time and are usually likened
to the ability and product of prayer. The potential of this power is directly
related to the spiritual purity of the individual.
Where does this quest for
spiritual purity begin? For Christians it is possible that this journey begins
with the sacrament of Baptism. All religions have rite of passage rituals that
bring their members through a type of spiritual advancement. Throughout history
there has always been a service offering all mankind a separate form of
advancement outside the confines of religion. From ancient Egyptian mystery
schools taught by Hermes Trismegistus, whose reincarnated governance of the
craft has been attributed to the works of Thoth, Hermes and Tubalcain, to the
schools governed by King Solomon, Pythagoras, and all the way to Freemasonry
today; no matter what path is chosen spiritual truths are always within our
grasp.
Most mystery schools have a
symbolic “lodge room” where groups of practitioners perform their ritual. King
Solomon’s Temple is proposed to be a symbolic representation of the Mind of
God. Initiates to the craft are always brought through from the West. Some
medieval rabbis claimed that today's Western Wall, at Temple Mount in
Jerusalem, is a surviving wall of the original Temple of Solomon, and cautioned
Jews from approaching it, lest they enter the Temple precincts in a state of
impurity.
“Man is
born without raiment; he is born helpless; he is born dependent upon those who
love him for everything that makes life possible. The candidate for the Entered
Apprentice Degree must be born again, before he is really entered; and when his
preparation is so regarded, the rite becomes solemn, convincing, sacred; there
is no humor in it, nor any intention or desire to wound the most sensitive
feelings. The initiate does but go the same way as all good brothers who have
preceded him through the West Gate.”
- Carl H.
Claudy
Freemasons today recognize and
respect a similar concept of the Western Wall of Temple Mount with the Western
doors of their lodge room. A Mason is essentially one who has acknowledged what
spiritual purity is and has vowed to ever work towards it. That is the first
step towards spiritual understanding.
Throughout the Degrees of
Freemasonry a Mason learns the methods in which to purify himself. He studies
the world around him and works to obtain a ‘gnosis’ or ‘nirvana’ state of
understanding, and with that wisdom he can see that his own Apotheosis is
potentially obtainable. For most, the work is never complete during their
lifetime.
The Monomyth, as presented by
Joseph Campbell, vaguely represents the journey of a Freemason through the
degrees. It has been used as a template for telling stories by Hollywood,
Disney, and many others for many years. It can be found in a broad category of
tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis
wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed. It is important to
note that adventurer must answer the call before he begins the journey as that
is the required first step for spiritual growth; choosing to believe in deity.
Then the adventurer seeks out his cause, his journey; he chooses to seek out
deity. In doing so the adventurer comes back changed; his ignorance of deity
dies. This is the symbolic return of the king.
Phophecy in the Bible talks
about the return of the Messiah coming through the Eastern Gate of Jerusalem.
Not often is it publicly disclosed, but the truth in understanding the wisdom
offered by all myth is that this prophecy is symbolic of the Temple within man.
Freemasons understand this concept as their journey from the West to the East.
For the followers of Dzogchen,
ancient teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, the pinnacle achievement is known as the
Great Perfection. Upon realizing the Great Perfection, practitioners’ bodies
transform into a light body. The key to turning into a light body is based on
one simple, but hard to do premise: love everything, all the time. Of course,
it goes much deeper than that such as the recitation of mantra, performance of
mudra and visualization; as well as wisdom awareness, observing the
egolessness, emptiness, and impermanence of all phenomena. All sound is heard
as mantra, awareness of thoughts is the primordial dharmakaya, and appearances
are the mandala of deities. At the highest levels of this teaching, telepathy
and clairvoyance are achieved, along with complete enlightenment.
The lightbody transformation is
known in many cultures by various names:
Sufism: the
most sacred body or supracelestial body
Taoist: the
diamond body, the immortals and the cloudwalkers
Yogic
schools and Tantrics: the divine body
Kriya yoga:
the body of bliss
Vadanta:
the superconductive body
Ancient
Egyptians: the luminous body or being (akh) or the karast
Gnosticism:
the perfect body
Hermetic
Corpus: the immortal body
Alchemical
tradition: the Emerald Tablet calls it the golden body
Tibetan
Buddhism: Rainbow Body
Tibetan Buddhism has ongoing
reports of the “Rainbow Body” to this very day, in which people transform their
physical bodies into a new, rainbow-colored energetic form after many years of
practice. In many cases, they would complete this process of transformation by
meditating in a cave. When they come out, and are ready to graduate to this
next level of their own evolution, they will often push their hand or foot
directly into the stone. They can now easily flip the stone molecules into
time-space, and leave an impression behind. Some of these handprints and
footprints have been photographed and published online. There are fully 160,000
documented cases of the Rainbow Body in Tibet and India alone.
The Rainbow Body concept has
been the goal of many within the occult. It is the inspiration for
Transhumanism; advancing human capability through means of science and
technology. Inspired by the works of H.P. Blavatsky and Friedrich Nietsche,
Adolf Hitler employed the Anenerbe, a dark Nazi occult group, to develop an
Ubermensch army for his war efforts. This is also where the concept for Super
Man comics came from. The fallible concept of a master race started a quest for
power and a movement that practiced eugenics, racism, and war; all due to
weighing heavily on one end of a polarized concept. They didn’t follow the
middle path, nor did they understand any semblance of spiritual purity.
The symbol the Anenerbe were
said to worship was that of the Black Sun. It is essentially a Sun Wheel. The
Sun Wheel is an ancient symbol featuring an equal-armed cross within a circle.
It is quite a popular spiritual symbol that has been discovered in the
iconography and religious art of a number of prehistoric cultures across the
world. It is also known by the alternative names of Sun Cross, Wheel Cross,
Solar Cross, Pagan Cross, Woden's Cross and Odin's Cross.
Throughout history, the Sun has
always been worshipped and considered to be all-powerful, supreme and a
preserver. It is supposed to control the actions and impact of the planets as
well as their moons. The Sun Wheel symbol is believed to invoke the great
cosmic powers to bless the Earth with fertility, life, abundance, prosperity
and peace. The cross in the Sun Wheel divides the circle with four parts, which
are said to be representative of the solar calendar and are marked by the
solstices. They symbolize the four annual seasons that have a very significant
influence on the agricultural cycles.
This symbol originated in
ancient Mu as the circle, then a point within the circle, then as a swastika,
and has been misunderstood for thousands of years. The swastika was known in Mu
as a hydra. It represented the four primal powers, which came from the divine
source. This alluded to physicality’s symbolism of mans’ four appendages, the
four corners of the Earth, and the Galactic Cross. It was a spiritual symbol of
truth that was admired by all in antediluvian culture. Due to the connotation
that Nazi Germany and Marvel Comics have given to the swastika and the hydra,
it can be understood that there has been a massive misconception of these
sacred images in our modern times.
“Their
faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on
the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox;
each also had the face of an eagle.”
- Ezekiel
1:10
The galactic cross is formed by
the zodiac the sun appears in during its’ equinoxes and solstices. Two thousand
years ago it crossed Aquarius the man, Leo the lion, Taurus the bull, and
Scorpio which was then represented as an eagle. Ezekiel’s vision of the angel
was an amalgam of the primal forces, like that of the swastika. This same
concept is reflected in the much older Sumerian sphinx, Lamassu; which has the
head of a man, body of a bull and lion, and an eagle’s wings. This is also
synonymous with the 4-headed Hindu god Brahma. These symbols were meant to
represent the concept of All Creation. They show primal forces emanating in the
center, and the epitome of God’s reach in the stars. It is a conscious reminder
that God is within, and as God works through man, reality is set in to place.
Like voices in our heads, the
angels and demons, the elemental gods, Jinns and Neters, etc., are emanations
of our own mind. They represent concepts. The Seal of Solomon represents the
mastery over these forces. It represents the understanding of Maya, the
illusion of physical reality in Hinduism. It is a reminder that all these
things are a part of the divine whole.
The Seal of Solomon shares this
concept. It has also been confused in its’ meaning due the stories of Solomon
sealing 72 demons to do his bidding. This story is more of an allegory for the
truth, but it is also literal. The number 72 comes from the observance of the
stars in the physical heavens. It is the number of years it takes for the
entire star chart to shift 1 degree. (In his fallen state, a man believes that
the Creation rules over him, instead of God within him ruling over the
Creation.) The 72 represents the ‘gods’ of ancient religions that are found
within the stars; such is the myth in ancient Sumer. These ‘gods’ are called
‘demons’ to those that understand the truth, because they are merely
‘demonstrators’ of the conscious work that occurs within. To have power over
demons is the concept of the Seal. Through this understanding great works can
be achieved.
Spiritual perfection relies
heavily on only using invocations. Invocation is likened to white magic, as it
invokes the True God within to manipulate the Creation. Evocation is likened to
black magic, as it evokes the concepts that exist within Creation.
Practitioners of magic know that evocations always come with a price. This is
because, in practicing evocation, we literally make a sacrifice with our
eternal minds. We choose to attribute power to being within the ‘thing’ within
Creation that we evoke, and take it away from the source of power that is
within. If apotheosis is your goal, you are to bow before no one or thing but
the eternal God within. However, it is admissible to evoke the eternal God
within others, and to bow to them in reverence to the same; as this is truly an
invocation. When raised to understand spiritual wisdom, one can invoke all the
same magic used in evocation without the consequences. The application of this
ability in the modern world is likened to healing without medication.
If apotheosis is possible, it
must be done in communion with the eternal God within; by aligning oneself with
divine will. In no way is the Transhumanist method of Apotheosis possible by
combining Ego with Godly powers. To give in to the ego is to make gods of
demons. Sacrifices to false gods are something we are all guilty of until we
perfect ourselves. Until one obtains spiritual purity, they will never fully
know the ruling power that comes from within.
Also, if it is possible, then
those who have never opened their mind to it will never discern evidence of it
due to the prime directive. The prime directive is an intrinsic part of our
reality, to where one must accept that there is a divine presence before they
are given any proof. No matter how hard believers push the truth upon
non-believers, there will always be concepts lacking in the relay of
information for the non-believer to fail to grasp. The prime directive is the
covenant that gives man the ability to choose any path he desires. It is the
assurance of free will within the Creation. To know of it is to understand the
allegory of Plato’s cave.
The universe as we know it is a
creation of the foolish god of Gnosticism. In other words, it is a projection
of the shared consciousness of our fallen nature. Astrological predictions of
celestial bodies determining our destiny is only an implication. The studies
into our sciences to understand the world around us, is the same as holding up
a mirror to the Unknown God of Gnosticism; our true creator and eternal God
within. All we perceive with our physical bodies is a reflection of the inner
workings of the collective consciousness. In our fallen nature, our physical
environment is a powerful suggestion towards our behavior.
Physically, behavior has been being
modified via frequencies since before the times of ancient Egypt. Tools like
the Djed pillars, the caduceus rod of the pharaohs and Caesars, even directed
intentions like prayer and spell work intentionally alter behavior on a
physical level. Also, when people worship symbols they resonate with power. Our
physical bodies are always being suggested to behave a certain way due to our
environment. The fallen nature of man is the ignorance to the truth that we are
the progenitors of the environment in the first place; and that God dwells
within man. Those that do not know this truth become slaves to false gods.
To advance spiritually, we have
to choose to be stoic about life. We need to follow the Middle Path, and have
the constitution to transmute the energies around us to overcome any
detriments. We must get past the dark night of the soul of experiencing the
fear of the unknown. Own it. We have always had free will. We can only be
subject to suggestions. The light we see is a demonstration of the inner workings
of our soul. The demons and angels are fractal pieces of conscious thought. The
cosmic egg of Hinduism suggests this same truth. The kingdom of heaven as
taught by Jesus Christ is the same.
This is the interpretation the
Gnostics have been trying to inform humanity of since the fall of man thousands
of years ago. Thoth and the Vedas of Hinduism, and many others who have felt
the truth with their heart, were technically Gnostics. Their knowledge comes
from communion with the divine. Mankind has always had this capability. The
Sacred Heart of Jesus reflects this same concept. It is the weighing of our
sins upon our heart. When we acknowledge power coming from our environment, our
hearts feel heavy; and when we acknowledge that true power comes from God
alone, our hearts feel light. Through the discernment of our own individual
interpretation of our environment we judge our selves.
The spiritual heart is the
source of the Apple of Perception. All we see are signs that we are meant to
interpret the meanings thereof.
“Truly I
tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
“Again,
truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for,
it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather
in my name, there am I with them.”
- Matthew
18:18-20 (NIV)
This is what is meant by the
alchemical teaching: ‘as above, so below’. This Biblical passage portrays the
true tesseract-like nature of Heaven and Earth. It also shows that physical
existence is brought on by multiple sources of invisible energy. Multiple
people having the same intention, aligned with the divinity within, culminate
in the manifestation within the Creation. Manifestation can also occur when one
is enlightened through inner harmony of mind body and spirit. Obtaining this
power is to perfect the cornerstone within your spiritual temple. This is the
secret of the divine trinities, the mystery of the triune god, the refuge of
the three jewels and the cintamani stone of eastern cultures; the wish
fulfilling jewel. This is the secret of the philosopher’s stone.
The same message is repeated to
us over and over in different ways. Their concepts may vary slightly, but that
is for the reason of introducing divine truths to varieties of people. The
understanding of this is also unique to the individual. The message can feel
redundant as the world around each of us has been presenting this truth
constantly in different ways.
The ultimate conclusion is the
realization of reality as we know it as being a conscious mirror of the
interworking of the soul. It’s all a dream. It comes to each of us to decide
whether or not to wake up. Heaven on Earth can be an individual accomplishment
when one achieves a type of enlightenment and finds peace within.
Heaven on Earth is also the
hopes for our collective future, a place in time and space that the ascended
souls go to dwell in peace. It is the prophesied Golden Age. The Revelation of
the Bible, the returning of the four legs of Dharma, these concepts are a
prediction of the future and hope of a time when we all choose to wake up.
All we can do is keep trying to
spread the word. The obligation of the missionary belongs to all who are
initiates of this truth.