Origins.10

10.Gnostics

The gnostic master knew, through the knowledge imparted by his realization that attracting the right men to build his centre , he only had to sit and wait. He could wait forever, if his body died , he would come again or be again.

Each of them lived to an age of several thousand years. This was made possible by 2 factors, in those days the organs could be revitilised from within through the psychic double. Secondly, they were able to occupy a succession of vital and physical bodies surrendered to them in selfless love by devoted followers. Sometimes they would be fully physical orientated and other times he would be mainly in the psychic world. As involution increased he double flowed more frequently back and forth, finally to become our rhythmic breathing principle.(The true significance of the Greek word ‘psyche’, meaning both soul and breath, came from this.

The gnostic centres were controlled by one man, the master , who knew the truth and wanted nothing. They repelled intruders the same way they had attracted right students- through the power of man they had realized within them. For us today this would seem a state beyond circumstantial possibility. But we are approaching the evolutionary point where for the individual the way back to it can begin.The future gnostics will come to this state through self consciousness , exist in larger number and have a greater influence on humanity as their knowledge towards which humanity will be consciously aspiring-not heading away from, as was the case in the time of the original gnostics when evolution demanded man’s descent onto the matter of circumstantial existence, which is life today.

In the aeons that followed the founding of the original gnostic centres, involution- the process of complication of man’s ideas and his world began to grip. Defence of the gnostic centres was made possible by masters teaching their students to deter attack by projecting their power without movement through their bodies. As this power began to wane ,the movement of the students body was used to harness the attacking force without initiating any violence. Then came the unarmed blow directed at the psychic centres of the attackers body, domobilising him or killing him. And finally weapons were introduced such as the sword which students were taught to use as psychic extensions of their own realized power. All these form of meditative combat taught by the long succession of gnostic masters in the original long forgotten east are represented in the martial arts that survive today. This strength behind many great men and women in history is latent in the individual man today is something the world has little understanding of. It has been perceived by many men but not realized by enough to make it a significant truth for all. It is on a descendence .westernization is in the ascendence- the ideal of world progress powered by the evolutionary drive into intellectual materialism. The westernization of the masses demands continuous streams of information-not knowledge.