Yearning, Faith and Inner Possession
December 11, 2022
Yearning, Faith and Inner Possession…….
Let us take as an example a person who genuinely begins to yearn for the living salvation contained in the Gnosis. This yearning, born in the heart, will manifest its influence in the head so that, alongside the yearning, understanding will arise, and this will lead to an activation of the will. The person will understand that, if his yearning is to result in attainment, possession, a new life of action will be necessary, an approach to life which is at one with ‘virtue' and completely disengaged from error.
If the person takes this course of action, a remarkable transformation will occur in him, as the precursor of transfiguration. His chakras will begin to rotate in the opposite direction to the one characteristic of this nature. Soul-power will accumulate in the etheric body. The four holy foods will circulate throughout the whole of the material system.
After this process of preparation, the moment will come when the real, all-conquering faith is born. It will announce itself as a mighty surge of power throughout the whole being. One's whole being will be filled with the true power of faith. The Bible says of this power: `If your faith were as small as a grain of mustard seed, you would be able to move mountains.' And `faith is the foundation of things not seen.'
All this has to do with a new astral power, the light-power of the Gnosis, which can, if one has been prepared and trained in the right way, be applied magically for the salvation of humankind. This magical power is applied with the higher creative organ. The living word is spoken, in the same way as when Jesus the Lord uttered the words: `I will, be clean.'
That is how you can know and experience what faith, as Lao Tzu understood it, can do.
Extract from Chapter 23-III "Not Having Sufficient Faith Means To Have No Faith At All"
Jan van Ricjkenborgh and Catharose de Petri