Lectorium Rosicrucianum
32
About sin and the removal of aprons of fig leaf
Mirdad: Have you heard of sin, and shalt AGIRS know how humans became sinful.
And declarais - not without merit - that the human being, the image and likeness of God, a sinner, then God must really be the origin of Sin. There exists a trap for the unwary, and I do not want, mates, that you may be stuck in the trap. So I will remove it from your path so that you may remove it from the paths of other human beings.
There is no sin in God, unless we consider sin give the sun something of his light a candle. Nor is there sin in humans, unless they consider sin burn a candle completely in the sun and thus join the sun.
But there is sin in the candle that refuses to give her light, and when applying the match to his temper, curses the match and the hand that holds it. There is sin in the candle ashamed to burn in the sun and, therefore, is hidden from the sun.
The man did not sin by disobeying the law, but want to cover up their ignorance of the law
Yes, there is sin in the apron of fig leaf.
Did you not read the story of the fall of man, so simple and naive in words, yet so sublime and subtle el its meaning? Have you not read how humans just out of the bosom of God, it was like a newborn god - passive, inert, non-creator? This is because, although endowed with all the attributes of divinity, was, like all newborns, unable to know and exercise their endless capabilities and talents.
As a solitary seed gorgeous bottle closed, thought up being in the Garden of Eden. The seed eencerrada the flask remain seed and wonders will never find that it is closed under the bark will be stimulated to life and light, not to be hidden in an analogous ground of their nature and the shell is broken.
Being, however, did not have any soil that is similar where you would be planted and sprout.
It was a face that had never met another face on which could be reflected. It was a human ear that never heard another human voice. It was a human voice that had never had an echo in another human voice. It was a beating heart lonely.
Lonely - so utterly lonely - found itself being in the midst of a world better equipped and released to their destination. Was a stranger to himself, had no work to be done or plan to follow. Eden, for him, was what is for a newborn a comfortable cradle - a state of passive aveturança well, a well-equipped incubator.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life were both at their fingertips, but he did not extend his hand to scoop and taste its fruits, because their taste, their thoughts, their desires and even their were ecerrados life in himself, waiting to be released slowly. And he, by himself, could not free them. Consequently, it was made with him to produce a helper for you - a hand to help him unravel its many Wraps.
Where better could get your help in but his own being, so rich due to its high power of divinity?
This is very significant.
Eva is not new powder or new lease, but the same powder and the same breath Adam - bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. No other creature comes into play, but it is duplicate solitary Adam - a male and a female Adam Adam.
Thus, the lonely and without reflection face gets a company and a mirror, and the name, no echo in any human voice, begins to reverberate in sweet refrains, up and down country lanes of Eden. The heart, which was muffled throb lonely in a lonely chest begins to feel his pulse and hear his heart pounding in a companion and a companion chest.
Thus the steel without sparks, flint finds that will emit sparks galore. So the candle, which had not been lit, is lit at both ends.
One is sailing, one is the wick, and a light, though come from both ends. Thus, the seed meets the soil in the jar where you can germinate and reveal its mysteries.
Thus the unit, unconscious of itself, the duality generated so that through friction and opposition of duality can understand your unit. This also being the faithful image and likeness of God, for God - the Original Consciousness - designs himself the Word, and the Word as much consciousness are unified in the Holy Understanding.
It is not a punishment duality, but one inherent in the nature of the unit and need to develop your divinity process. How is childish to think otherwise! How is childish to believe that such a wonderful process to finish its course in three score years plus ten, or even twenty three million years!
It is so unimportant so become a god?
Is God a master so cruel and miserable, having eternity for gifting, not grant the man more than the little time seventy years for it to unify and readiquirisse Eden, fully conscious of his divinity and his unity with God?
Long is the course of duality, and fools are the measure with calendars. Eternity does not measure the revolution of the stars.
When Adam, passive, inert, non-breeder, was made dual, he became active, full of movement and caoaz to create and procreate themselves.
What was the first act of Adam depoisde become dual? Been eating of the knowledge of good and evil and thereby making this whole dual dumb as him. Things are no longer as they were - innocent and indifferent. These have become good or bad, helpful or harmful, pleasant or unpleasant; become two opposing camps while they were one before.
And the serpent who deceived Eve into qie taste good and evil, was not deep, although inexperienced, active voice of duality, stimulating them to action and experience?
In no way is it any wonder that Eve was the first to listen to that voice and obey it. Eva was like hone the instrument to make manifest the latent powers of his companion.
Do not you have been you, since often the first woman to imagine this, this first human history, moving furtively among the trees of Eden, with the nerves to the skin, heart pounding like a bird that fell in trap, with eyes searching everywhere if anyone was watching, with water in the mouth and shaking hand extended to the tempting fruit? Have you not suspended respiration, the imaginardes she picked fruit and dug his teeth into the soft flesh, you momentarily feel the sweetness that would turn into eternal sorrow for her and her offspring? Have you not wanted, with all my heart that God paralyze the mad audacity of Eve, showing him just when she was about to commit one reckless action, and not after, as he does in the legend? And her having committed that act, you have not wished that Adam had the wisdom and courage to refrain from becoming his accomplice?
However, not God intervened, nor Adam abstained. This is because God did not want his likeness if you become dissimilar. It was his will and his plan being to walk the long road of duality in order to develop his own will, and plan to unify the Understanding. As for Adam, he could not even if I wanted to reject the fruit that was offered by his wife. It was required to eat it, simply because his wife had eaten it, because both were one flesh, and each was reponsável for the acts of another.
Was angry, and God was angry because being eaten the fruit of good and evil? God had forbidden. And he did it because he knew that being could not stop eating, and he wanted to be eat, also wanted to be known in advance the consequences of eating it and had the courage to bear such consequences. And being dared. And be eaten. And be bore the consequence.
The consequence was death. By becoming actively dual by the will of God, died thereafter for passive unit. Therefore, death is not a punishment but a stage in life inherent duality. The nature of duality is to make all things dual and give it a shadow. So Adam begat a shadow Eva, and both have generated for his life, a shadow called death, but Adam and Eve, though shadowed by death, continue to have a life without shadows in the life of God.
Duality is a cosntante friction, and the friction gives the illusion of two opposed surfaces, inclined to self-destruction. In fact, the apparent opposites are contemplating up, filling up and working hand in hand for one goal - the perfect peace, unity and balance of Holy Understanding. The illusion, however, is rooted in the senses and persists as long as they persist.
That is why Adam said to God, qunado God called him, after their eyes were opened ". I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself" As well: "The woman you gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate."
Eva was not more than flesh and bones of Adam. Think, however, this new self of Adam, who, after his eyes were opened, began to see themselves as something different, separate and independent of Eve, God and all God's creation.
This I was an illusion. An illusion of freshly opened eyes was this personality off of God. He had no substance or reality. Was created so that, after his death, would be to know your real self, which is the being of God. This false self will disappear when external-dimmed eyes and your inner eye is illuminated. Although this left confused Adam, served to stimulate his mind and spur his imagination. I have one that can be considered entirely personal - it is truly very flattering and tempting to be that you are unaware of any i.
And Adam was tempted and flattered by his illusory self. While it was embarrassed for being too unrealistic, or too bare, it did not want to separate, but instead clung to him with all your heart and with all your newborn ingenuity. Therefore sewed fig leaves together and made him an apron that hid the nakedness of his personality, trying to keep himself hidden from the all-pervading God's sight.
Eden this mode, the state of well-aveturada innocence, unconscious of herself, fell uniqueness of the dual man, clothed with aprons of fig leaves, and swords of fire were put between him and the tree of life.
The man went out of Eden by double gate of good and evil: he will return the single gate of Understanding. He retired with his back to the tree of life and will come with his face to the tree. He began his long and arduous journey, ashamed of their nakedness, and taking care to hide their shame; reach the end of your trip with its purity without aprons and ufano heart of their nakedness.
But this will not happen while the man is not a sin, freed from sin, because sin will be the ruin of sin itself. And where is the sin, but the fig-leaf apron?
Yes, sin is nothing more than that the barrier be placed between himself and God - between your I transient and eternal you.
At first, a handful of fig leaves, the barrier came to become a powerful bulwark. From the moment we left the innocence of Eden, the state must be very busy in ever gathering more and sew fig leaves countless aprons.
The indolent meet in mending the tears of their aprons with rags abandoned by their next most workers, and each patch in sartorial sin is sin, because it tends to perpetuate the shame that was the first and poignant feeling that be had after separating from God.
Is to be doing something to get rid of this shame?
Ah! His whole effort is shame on shame on aprons aprons.
What are the arts and education of being, but fig leaves?
Their empires, nations, racial segregation and religions, in the path of gerra are not worship services to the fig leaf?
Their codes of right and wrong, of honor and desenra of jusiça and injustice, their beliefs and their countless social conventions - which are only aprons of fig leaves?
Your invaluable assess and measure the immeasurable, and standardize what is beyond standardizable - is not all that patching the already ultra-patched thong?
His greed for the pleasures that eatão fraught with suffering, his ambition for riches that deplete, his thirst for mastery that overwhelms, his lust for greatness that achincalha - are not all these things aprons of fig leaves?
This pathetic race to cover their nakedness, being put on a lot of aprons that, over the years, clung to him so strongly to the skin that it no longer distinguishes acentais skin. And the being feels suffocated, and calls for the release of so many who skins. However, in his delirium, the be all do to be released from his charge, unless the only thing anyone can truly relieve him of his load, which would throw off this burden. He wants to free himself of his burden, and clings to it with all his strength. And want to be naked, however, remains fully dressed.
It is time to undress, and I came to help you to shed off your skins unnecessary - your aprons of fig leaves - so that ye may also help those who crave to get rid of her. I just learning how to do it, but each will have to get rid of her, however painful it will be undressing.
Do not wait for any miracle to save you from yourselves, nor be afraid pain; bare Understanding convert your pain into a perennial ecstasy of joy.
If ye meet yourselves, in the nakedness of Understanding, and if God is calling you and asking: "Where you are?" - You not ashamed, nor tempt ye, neither be ye conceal it from God, but rather, you should stand firm without fear and divinely calm, responding to God:
"Here I am, God -. Our soul, our being, our only me ashamed, afraid and in pain, walked along the rough and winding path of good and evil, thou apontastes in the dawn of time A great nostalgia rushed ours. steps, and the faith held our hearts, and now Conpreensão freed us from our burdens and healed wounds nosas and brought us back your holy presence, naked of good and evil, life and death; bare all illusions of duality, naked except for the cloak of your being, that it involves. Excluding fig leaves to hide our nakedness, we are here before you, free of shame, bright and fearless. Behold, we are unified. Behold, we win. "
And God will embrace you with infinite love, and it will take you directly to your tree of life.
So I taught Noah
So now I teach.
Naronda: Also that we were told by the Master around the brazier.
