2003-11-29 05:49:00
Part II
Audience:
Who is DK?
JJ:
Djwhal Khul is the Master who gave all this revelation to Alice A Bailey. We call him DK for short. He's nicknamed among the Masters as the messenger boy for the gods since he's one of the youngest. He's only about 260 years old, in the same physical body he was born. Some of the masters are thousands of years old.
We're going to talk about the various initiations and give detail and additional information than what is found in the Alice A. Bailey books. When I teach I like to give a new slant or something different or more information because I figure if you just want to understand what Alice A. Bailey has to say, or anyone else, you can just read the book. What I try to do is to present a new insight on whatever it is we're talking about. Another thing I always try to do is to give the principle; the principle around why something works the way it does, or why something is the way it is. As I've said many times, the language of the Holy Spirit is in the language of principles. A principle is worth a thousand words, a thousand facts, a thousand pieces of data.
So, Alice A. Bailey began writing for DK and afterwards she began giving it out to some friends who were in the Theosophical Society, who were some of the heaviest thinkers of the day. They were quite impressed with some of the things he said and she began to make converts. Alice A. Bailey also was quite impressed with the writings. After the first book was finished she said, "I'll continue writing for you." So they continued their relationship.
In the beginning she heard the actual words given to her and she'd write them down. They worked together for thirty years. As they worked together so long, at the end of their relationship they became close, almost like one mind. She didn't get words anymore, but she got impressions, much like packages of data, then she would write them down. He lived in Tibet and she lived in New York. He said it took a lot of mental energy for him to send the messages.
It's quite possible that many even in this room have received impressions from the Masters. The Masters are always looking throughout the entire world. When they go into their meditative state they look upon the world. They can see the world almost like a hologram and they see the various lights. If they see Lorraine as one of the lights, they may tune into her and see what she's doing and look through her eyes. They'll examine if there's any opportunity to work with this young lady. They may see some opportunity so they'll send her an impression as to something she could do to help, to be a servant to her fellow man, mankind or whatever. Lorraine will say, "I have to move to San Antonio!" (Laughter) I'm not saying that was from a master. It could've come from your soul or a number of different sources. If you get something from your soul, it's very much like an impression from a master because when a master sends you an impression it will be through your soul. You can get something from your soul but it's a little bit different feeling.
When you have something sent from the outside, from a higher life through your soul or something directly from your soul, it's very similar but with a little difference in vibration. This is because each person has what you'd call a spiritual signature. If I were to tune into Rick and feel his presence, he would have a certain flavor about him, a certain feeling. If I were to understand that and adjust to it, then I'd recognize it next time I felt it. So maybe a year from now Rick may be thinking of me and I may pick it up and think that's Rick's vibration.
You can do this with people. You can tune in to their essence, their spiritual signature. You can recognize it in the future, but you have to get used to it because it involves your physical brain, and involves remembering just like remembering anything else. It's like remembering a name. I may not remember all of your names. I rub shoulders with you and feel your vibration. I may not remember them all, but once you tune in and get familiar enough with it, you'll start to remember it. We do this with loved ones. We tune into them a lot. Perhaps there are times when you feel a vibration of your mother or father, wife, daughter, son. Have any of you done that before? You feel a vibration and you know it's their signature. The Masters do that and the Masters also have a signature. When you feel the presence of one of them it will be different than just feeling your soul because there's an additional vibration.
So the Master may be looking through Lorraine's eyes and think Lorraine could be of use to us if she does such and such. So they'll send her an impression. Until a person becomes familiar with the various signatures they may think it's their own idea. A Master may go to a scientist and say, "Hmmm this scientist could develop such and such and it would be a great use to the planet. He has the ability to do it, so let's send him the impression to do it." The Masters will chose someone and send him an impression. The Masters could send an impression to a scientist to work on a cure for cancer. He'll say, "I know what I'm going to do! I'm going to work on a cure for cancer!" He'll think it's his own idea and he thought of it all by himself. Maybe he did. Sometimes we do think of things all by ourselves, of course. We can't be black and white about this. But in this case, quite often, especially things that will really benefit humanity, a lot of the impressions people get that really amount to something came from the Spiritual Hierarchy of the planet and was sent to them to inspire them to create some great work.
One of the early books dictated was called "The Treatise on White Magic." It has fifteen rules for magic. Interestingly, white magic is different than what most people think. People tend to think of magic as tricks of some kind. That's not what is meant here. Does anyone know what white magic really is?
Audience:
Being able to control the energies of the universe?
JJ:
No. (laughter) Actually the dark magicians can also control a lot of the energies. So that's not quite it.
Audience:
Doing things for the good by working with the light, light energy?
JJ:
She's on the right track.
Audience:
Centering your energy in the good?
JJ:
That's what is necessary to produce white magic. You two have the motive down. Then what follows? What is actual white magic?
Audience:
Manifesting new ideas for the purpose of good? Healing?
JJ:
You're all real close. Healing can do that but of course even the dark magicians can heal. Let me give you a hint. Here's a part of the Bhagavad Gita that DK quotes. "Though I am unborn, the Soul that passes not away. Though I'm the Lord of beings, yet as Lord over my nature, I become manifest through the magical power of the soul." That gives you a hint. "I become manifest through the magical power of the soul."
Audience:
So, white magic would be being able to manifest using the magic of your soul?
JJ:
Yes, that's basically what a white magician is. He manifests through the magic of the soul. We become manifest actually through the magical power of the soul, but the white magician manifests other things through the magical power of the soul.
Audience:
And it is innate in all of us?
JJ:
Right. The ability to contact the soul and work through the soul is in us all. We just don't understand how to do it.
Audience:
So it's an ordered process of taking the idea down into the physical?
JJ:
Right. Now, what's a black magician?
Audience:
They use power for their own benefit.
JJ:
If you read the last book, they're the kind of ornery guys. What did you say?
Audience:
People use power for their own benefit and gain.
JJ:
Right. That's basically it. A black magician and a white magician both have power, both can create magic but one works through the soul and the other works through what?
Audience:
Matter
JJ:
Right, matter. They work through the viewpoint of the personality, that's true but they use power inherent in matter. The white magician uses power inherent in the soul. Now if you use the power of the soul, like Artie says, you have to go beyond the personality. To use the power in matter you have to focus your attention on self. The key to being a magician on either side of the fence is in the word 'focus'. Focused attention. There is tremendous power in focusing attention. If you focus your attention finely enough and consistently enough and keep it on something long enough, you will manifest that which you desire. But is it going to do any good for the world to manifest through selfish intention? Could it do a lot of bad? Who is the most famous black magician in recent history?
Audience:
Aliester Crowley?
JJ:
He was a magician or at least dabbling in that area, but not the most famous.
Audience:
Sadam Hussein? Hitler?
JJ:
Hitler was the most famous. Hitler wasn't a full fledged black magician but he was definitely a disciple of the black magicians. The true black magicians aren't even in physical bodies. The full fledged ones have a vibration so low they can not even incarnate. Their plan to work through Hitler was to conquer the world, then kill anyone who had a vibration higher than the average. Kill all the lights of the earth. That would lower the vibration of the entire earth and allow some of the black magicians to incarnate. That was their plan. They were called the Overlords. They actually appeared to Hitler and gave him instructions. When he had visions he saw they were giants, very big individuals.
JJ:
We're going to talk a bit about Nauvoo since that's the town we're in for this Gathering. There's someone in this room who knows a lot about Nauvoo. Can anyone guess who that person may be? I thought I'd ask Susan to take about fifteen minutes explaining Nauvoo. I didn't want her to hear this was planned because it'd make her nervous. (Laughter) You already know everything anyway so there's nothing to study. So please take fifteen or twenty minutes and tell us about Nauvoo and what happened here and any thoughts you want to share.
Susan:
Thanks JJ! Nauvoo means "City Beautiful." It was originally called Commerce. Joseph Smith had a group of people who joined the Church of Christ back in the 1830s. The name was later changed to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They had the unfortunate experience of ticking off their neighbors so much that they were mobbed and looted. They kept trying to find a place where they could move and gather together. Finally Joseph Smith decided on a swamp along the Mississippi River named Commerce. He changed the name of Commerce to Nauvoo which he said means "City Beautiful." About 12,000 people moved to Nauvoo back in the early 1840s. This began to worry the neighbors since this was the biggest town west of the Appalachian Mountains. It was bigger than Chicago. It was a very large town. They laid it out in a very specific way. If you look at the streets, they have a specific grid pattern and they have a center. All the cities in Utah are based on the same grid pattern. They have a school, a church and so forth in the center then the houses are built around that, and then the farms go out surrounding them. That's basically Joseph Smith's doing. They came here to have economic, political and religious freedom. They had their own city charters, their own government, and their own religion. They began building some of these beautiful brick homes that you will see. Joseph Smith wanted to have a home that he could entertain guests in because people visited from all over the world. He wanted the Mansion House across the street big enough to entertain visitors in and he wanted this Nauvoo House we are in for a hotel. It was originally his, but not finished in his lifetime. Before the Mansion House was built Joseph lived in the brown house across the street from the Nauvoo House. Joseph Smith did live and work in this area. He also owned The Red Brick Store down the street from here. He was married to Elisa Snow Smith. They were unable to have any children. They had a Masonic Lodge here. A lot of the ceremonies of the LDS people are based on the Masonic ceremonies. They thought that was a perverted form of truth so he corrected it into a more truthful form. So if you're familiar with Masonic rituals they're very similar to the LDS rituals. They wanted to have a temple here. That was very important to them, to build a temple to have their ceremonies. They believed in eternal marriage and the temple ceremony would join people together for eternity. Nauvoo was a wonderful, thriving town with lots of schools. It had a publishing center with a newspaper, bakeries, everything a big thriving town would have. My own grandparents came here in 1842. They were Germans, Pennsylvania Dutch actually. He was referred to as the old German preacher. He was a bishop of a lesser known ward, like a parish. He was the head of that ward. Michael Quinn, bless his little heart, always said in his book, he's a lesser known bishop but we don't talk about him because he wasn't as important. That's my grandpa! He was too important! So they were here in 1842 and built a home in a little community called Haun's Mill. It's about 30 miles from here. Nauvoo, to me, was one of the grandest experiments because it involved people who had political and religious ideologies that were similar and it was actually working. They moved together and had their Sunday meetings and their city council meetings. They had a very tight knit community and things were starting to be very wonderful here. But as his polygamist activities got to be more and more known it ticked more and more people off. They didn't understand the molecular relationship and neither did Joseph Smith at that time. He perverted the molecular relationship into polygamy. Someone was going to publish an expose, one of his former associates. William Law was the publisher of the newspaper and one of his counselors in the church. He was upset about what the expose was going to be about. Under the charter of Nauvoo, as the mayor, Joseph Smith had the printing press destroyed which led to him being arrested and taken to Carthage and executed. He was taken to Carthage and was told to go west and hide, to go out west and take the people out that way but his brother and his wife and many of his friends were saying, "Don't be a coward." He said, "If my life has no worth to my friends it's of no worth to me. I'm going as a lamb to the slaughter." So he rode to Carthage with assurance from the government that no harm would come to him but June 28, 1844 he was murdered in the Carthage jail along with his brother Hyrum. John Taylor was shot. Willard Richards was the only one who wasn't hurt. The experiment was basically over the people running their lives. Brigham Young pulled the people together and took them out west so that's why the LDS people left Nauvoo and went to Utah.
Audience:
So he was killed here?
Susan:
No, in Carthage, a few miles away.
JJ:
You can go visit it if you want.
Susan:
You go down 96 to 136 and take a left.
Audience:
He's buried near this house?
Susan:
We don't know where he's buried. They moved his grave around a lot.
Audience:
I came here last summer and heard he was buried in the basement of this house.
JJ:
Was it this house? (general chatter)
Audience:
the Nauvoo House, they dug them up later and moved them around. Audience: So they believed in more than one wife?
Susan:
The main LDS church believes in the law of polygamy but does not believe in practicing it because it's against the law of the land. I personally come from polygamists in every single line. All of my ancestry is from polygamy and it's not pretty. It was a hard thing for them to do. There are shoot-offs from the LDS faith who believe very strongly in polygamy, especially in our town of Manti. There are a lot of polygamists there. One guy has 18 wives. They all complained they aren't getting enough attention. They had built a temple here. It was burned down shortly after the LDS people left and moved to Utah. I haven't even seen the re-built one yet.
Audience:
Is this the temple that had the pillar of light that everyone could see for miles around?
Susan:
No, that was Kirkland, Ohio. There was a light burning alright on this (the Nauvoo) temple, when they set it on fire.
Audience:
Can non-LDS see the inside of the temple?
Susan:
No, before they dedicate a temple, people can go through as tourists. After it's dedicated only people who don't drink, don't smoke, don't adulterate, pay tithing, go to church all the time. Any other questions?
Audience:
So the religion is one sect?
Susan:
There are a lot of offshoots from the LDS religion. I've heard there are about 200 break-offs. The most common are the LDS, the Community of Christ and some other groups. What happened was that Joseph Smith promised different people at different times that they would be the one taking over the church after him. They all expected it and there was some fighting. Some believe it should be passed from father to son, that's the RLDS or the Community of Christ. Right now their leader is the first leader since Joseph Smith's time that wasn't in the bloodline because there weren't enough sons.
Audience:
What is the molecular relationship?
Susan:
The Molecular Relationship is a book that JJ Dewey wrote. It says that Joseph Smith, when he was gazing into the heavens, saw a certain type of relationship. He didn't understand atoms and molecules so he applied it to a theme he knew a little about. Because sometimes it involves more than one partner he thought it might be polygamy. So, JJ explains in his book The Molecular Relationship, about relationships and how they should have been non-sexual. He explains how the molecular relationship should be. It's like the 12 apostles and their wives who were very close together and saying their particular prayers together and bringing down power from above. That's why Jesus was able to do miracles.
According to JJ that's one thing we're trying to do, to get close enough that we'll have a gathering and molecular relationship so that we'll be able to bring down the power to do what we're supposed to do for the second gathering. (Applause)
"Most true aspirants are now at the midway spot, and can either drown (and so make no further progress this life), stand and so hold the ground gained, or become true practicing magicians." DK, Treatise on White Magic Pg 235
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