Tablet Twenty-Two
Chapter 12
"And there appeared a great wonder in
heaven; a woman clothed
with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown
of twelve stars:" (Rev. 12:1)
<1>This is the description of the beginning
of the awakening of the
creative forces (The
Word) in the universe.
The Word (The
Holy Ghost) which is
The
Holy Mother, "And there
appeared...a woman...," is awakened (released). Through
understanding The
Holy Ghost,
"...clothed in the sun," "the moon" or lower nature can be overcome.
However, if The
Holy Ghost (Holy
Mother) is not understood and/or is misused, it becomes "The
Woman" and will become temptation and the
lower nature of man ("moon").
<2>Those who overcome will be "clothed with
the sun [spiritual knowledge]" over their lower natures ("moon") and
will be crowned by the twelve powers (pranic powers) of
heaven.
"And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered." (Rev. 12:2)
<3>She was delivering a child,
the First
Begotten Son.
"And there appeared another wonder in
heaven; and behold a
great red
dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads." (Rev.
12:3)
<4>"A great red
dragon": The
color red is the symbol of attraction. So the
dragon
is attractive and catches the attention. The
dragon is
related to the
Maya (Holy
Mother becomes woman
or passion), which is the power of the external world to bind a man
and prevent him from pursuing higher consciousness. <5>The
seven heads of the
dragon are the
seven false attractions of
Maya which bring false satisfaction to the
false ego. These are:
1-excess attachment to life (survival), 2-excess attraction to food
(overeating), 3-power, 4-beauty (of body or for self-gratification),
5-false attraction to the sexual world3,
6-wealth, and 7-intellect
(blind intellect).
<6>The seven crowns are the false satisfactions or prestige
related to these things.
<7>The ten horns are the by-products of the
false ego
related to these seven heads of
Maya, such as anger, fear, vanity, false prestige, lust, pride,
envy, etc.
<8>In fact, attraction to
Maya will bring desire,
and desire results in attachment, and attachment increases the
greed, and greed brings more attraction, and the wheel goes on and
on. <9>These will result in being drowned in the ocean of
Maya and being eaten up by
the red
dragon. The
result will be uncontrollable anger, lust, pride, envy, and all
those things related to the lower nature (the animal part of the
human).
<10>The "wonder" appeared in
heaven, so the
dragon was
still in heaven. In this stage the
unit consciousnesses were still in the un-manifested world, and
they were under the influence of the lower nature, which is the
power of the tama guna
over their Souls.
"And his tail drew the third part of the stars of
heaven, and did cast
them to the earth: and the
dragon stood
before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her
child as soon as it was born." (Rev. 12:4)
<11>So
Maya (the lower nature)
stands in front of all humans, even the Great Souls, to mislead them
as soon as possible, "stood before the woman...."
<12>The sentence, "his tail drew the third
part of the stars of heaven,
and did cast them to the earth" means that
Maya has misled so many
unit
consciousnesses (in
heaven) away from the
path to higher consciousness and has led them to
hell (their lower natures,
ignorance, earth) even before this manifested world was created.
<13>Also this means that
Maya casts people from
reaching higher consciousness (heaven)
to the earth (lower nature,
ignorance,
hell).
"And she brought forth a man child, who was to
rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up
unto
God, and to his throne."
(Rev. 12:5)
<14>However, "her child was caught up unto
God, and to his throne,"
which means that
God will protect her child
from being misled by
Maya. As it was said, the
woman is the symbol of The
Holy Ghost in the universe (the
creative force,
The
Holy Mother) from which
the First
Begotten Son, "...a man child," had emerged. <15>Also,
being "caught up unto
God, and to his throne"
means that only by His Grace
can man be saved (of course, after we prove ourselves to be
willing).
<16>So by His
Grace
this First Begotten Son of God
is saved "who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron." <17>It
happened before this manifested universe was created ("Let there be
light...," Genesis 1:3 --
for more detail, read the book
The Base). To
be "caught up unto God, and
to his throne" means to become
God-conscious and saved by Him from the power of the
tama guna (dragon).
"And the woman fled into the wilderness, where
she hath a place prepared of
God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and
threescore days." (Rev. 12:6)
<18>This woman will be fed in the wilderness
for 3,500 years, or, for this period of time, the true meaning of
who this woman is will be hidden from humanity. The wilderness is
the confused world. "The place prepared of
God" means that it all has
been done by His Will.
"And there was war in
heaven:
Michael and his
angels fought against the
dragon; and the
dragon fought
and his
angels," (Rev. 12:7)
<19>The
Angel
Michael is the
symbol of the
raja guna or the "I
do" part of the
Universal Mind.
It is used as the active force in using the
tama guna (the
dragon) to
create the manifested universe (Maya).
<20>But there was a great resistance on the part of the
dragon
to be used in this process, "and the
dragon
fought and his angels."
"And prevailed not; neither was their place found
any more in
heaven." (Rev. 12:8)
<21>They were cast out of
heaven to the earth. The
tama guna was used in
creating this manifested universe and "neither was...found any more
in
heaven."
"And the great
dragon
was cast out, that old
serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his
angels were cast out with him." (Rev. 12:9)
<22>Eventually truth will win over
ignorance, and the
devil (which is
Maya) will fall from its
high position. It will fall on the earth, which means that only
those who are in their lower natures will be deceived by him.
<23>This verse also means that the earth is a place where the
lower nature of man (devil,
power of the
tama guna) has been
cast to from
heaven (higher or
Pure
Consciousness).
<24>Again we see that this manifested universe is a place for
purification. It
is neither illusion nor reality, but a place of opportunity to grow
to higher consciousness and overcome the lower nature.
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3 -False attraction to the sexual world for satisfying
unsatisfied emotional needs; false attraction as adultery; false
attraction when sex becomes a great part of the life; false
attraction as a thinking disturbance rather than the reality of
it, which is unimportant. Spiritual attraction to the
sexual world is to have sex through marriage in order to have
children and create a unit block for society, and also to become
unified in higher levels as one (
).
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