The mind is a bag. How loaded is yours? The child's mind is empty. The adult's mind is overloaded. The born-again adult's mind is empty. Are you prepared for rebirth?
From childhood the mind is trained to be outward-going. Parents and society, through so-called education, give the child a bag of false faces. This bag of false faces – the Ego – becomes a burden at the end of active life, when the mind is forced to look at its luggage of false faces. It discovers its life was wasted gathering dust, which it thought was gold. Life is far spent and the body is weak. What options are available to this mind?
(1)Force itself out of the body through suicide.
(2)Drag on helplessly with its useless Ego until death claims its body.
(3)Re-create itself through a second birth.
Our “civilized world” offers only options (1) and (2), and qualifies them as the “will of God”. Option (3) is what true religion and spiritual education is all about. Being a life-long project, the training begins in childhood. The mind learns discrimination and keeps its luggage to a minimum that can be disposed of easily when the time for its renewal comes. It must be empty for the renewal to take place. The mind is a bag. How loaded is yours?
Today, no religion or public schools offer the curriculum for option (3). The “civilized world” calls it magic or witchcraft. Only secret brotherhoods offer it to their members!
The second birth is the mind’s last achievement before it separates from its body at death. If this re-birth is not achieved in one incarnation, the work continues in future incarnations.
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Contents
1. Introduction
2. What is the Second Birth?
3. Work Program for the Second Birth
4. Execution of the Work Program for the Second Birth
5. The Great Work of Alchemy and the Second Birth
6. Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix A: What is God?
Appendix B: More Light on the Concept of God
Appendix C: Worship of God
Appendix D: Talismans
Appendix E: Reincarnation, The Lord's Prayer, Temptation, The Devil
Appendix F: Easter Festival and the Second Birth
Appendix G: About the Author
Introduction
We assume that the reader has a physical body, that he has a mind because he thinks and dreams, and that he has a spirit without which he becomes a corpse.
From childhood the mind is trained to be outward-going. Happiness is always associated with external events and objects. We evaluate ourselves only in terms of how others see us. We get bored when we are alone because the mind, finding nothing outside for its attention, is thrown back upon itself. We feel strange because the mind was never trained to turn its attention inwards. We seek the company of others not out of love, but to run away from ourselves.
The child is born innocent and has only one face - he is true to himself. This is the first birth - of the flesh. The parents and society, through so-called education, give the child a bag of false faces. These faces are intended to help the child live conveniently within the society. The innocent child transmutes into a cunning adult. His face shows the exact opposite of his internal states. This bag of false faces is the Ego, which is very useful for survival in the outside world.
When we retire from active life, the mind is bored because there is nothing to do in the outside world. The acquired bag of false faces - the Ego - becomes a burden. No one seems to be interested by our false faces. We feel rejected by the very society that adulated us just yesterday. We feel lonely and depressed. This is why many people die, in spite of a comfortable life, as soon as they retire from active life.
But why should people, in spite of material comfort, die because they are no longer needed in the outside world? Because the mind is thrown back upon itself, since there is nothing outside upon which to place its attention. The mind is forced to look at its accumulated luggage of false faces - the Ego. Looking at its Ego, the mind discovers that it has wasted its life gathering useless dust, which it thought was gold. What to do? Life is far spent and the body is getting weaker daily. What options are available to this mind? Three options present themselves as follows:
(1) The mind forces itself out of the body through suicide.
(2) The mind accepts to drag on helplessly with its useless Ego until death claims its body.
(3) The mind decides to re-create itself through a second birth or regeneration of itself.
Our so-called "civilized world" offers only options (1) and (2), and qualifies these options as the "will of God". Really? The Ancients knew better and God had no business in man's salvation. The mind was given the powers to conquer the outside world and save itself from being swallowed by that world. It has conquered the outside world, but refused to exercise the other power to save itself from being swallowed by that world.
And what about option (3)? That's what true religion and true spiritual education is all about. This option being a life-long project, the relevant education is begun in childhood. Through this training the mind learns discrimination and keeps its luggage to a minimum that can be disposed of easily when the need for mental renewal arises. The mind must be empty for the renewal to take place.
The second birth or regeneration of the mind is the mind's last achievement before it separates from its body at what we call death. The mind of Jesus was regenerated at the age of thirty years. He was then baptized by John and he became Jesus-the-Christ. After his baptism, he lived for three years and left his body in what we call death.
Today, no religion or public schools offer the curriculum for option (3). The "civilized world" ignorantly calls it magic and witchcraft. Only the secret brotherhoods offer it to their members!
If this second birth is not achieved in one incarnation, the work continues in future incarnations (see Appendix E). The second birth starts now. The mind is a bag. How loaded is yours?
This book is essentially practical and geared towards self-help in the manifestation of the divinity within us with a view to solving problems. The Christian Bible tells us that we are Gods (Psalm 82:6, John 10:30-34). This is good news, but we are not told what and where the godly powers are and how to use them for the good of ourselves and others.
We have endeavored to show what and where these powers are and how to develop and use them. We are told that Gods create what they desire from "no-thing". And we are Gods. Hence we can also create what we desire from the same "no-thing". But we are Gods without experience and some little training and practice will restore us to our lost estate - training and practice make the expert in any field.
We shall, therefore, study some methods to sharpen our understanding and then put those methods into practice, with a view to reaping the attendant benefits. Learn the "tricks" of the Gods and take your rightful place among them - for you are children of the same father-mother, God. The Appendices contain information on what we mean by God, reincarnation, talismans, the worship of God, and much more.
This book may be read with profit by any youth or adult, who wants to educate and help himself. Mental imagery developed in childhood helps the youth in his studies at college and higher levels. Folktales, legends and myths are dying out of our culture and the imaginative faculty of the youth is stifled by so-called rational thought. My imaginative faculty was greatly impacted by:
(1) The folktales, legends and myths I heard at home as an infant.
(2) The study of Bible Knowledge (BK) and Greek mythology in my secondary school literature classes.
This asset came in handy during my career at the university and thereafter, as may be guessed from my biographical note in Appendix G.
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