The Brotherhood

There is a common link and bond of all secret societies. The reason for their secrecy was naturally the Inquisition and the Dark Ages. These times were not open for people to express their curiosity and thirst for knowledge. They had to remain secret. They were “actors”  in the shadows but they could not remain inactive and silent in the face of evil.

The Essenes were around long before the birth of Jesus and remained long after his death. They changed and eventually the organization morphed into Knights Templar, and after that they became the Meistersingers and then the Night Riders in France and Italy.

Note: The Night Riders rescued alleged witches from burning in Medieval Europe. Read WITCHCRAFT IN THE MIDDLE AGES Jeffrey Burton Russell published by Cornell University Press

The Freemasons in Egypt that Count Cagliostro was the head of were open for men, women and children; but this caused difficulty in the organization and the other Masonic sects moved to eliminate the women and children.

Freemasonry became popular and active in Europe before the French Revolution. This was the first time the secret teachings of the Brotherhood were brought out into the open.

Going back to the Nights Templar, they were originally two men and a white horse. They were so poor that they had to share the one horse. They began patrolling the routes the pilgrims used and were robbed regularity by the Arabs. Later the Templar order became popular and wealthy.

The legendary troubadours are still in existence but they lost their popularity. They are of a same cloth of the original Meistersingers and they sing about beauty and love, seeking an elusive woman, who is in actuality the Mother of the World.

All these secret societies were at one time or another part of the great White Brotherhood.

The ancient Druids had the knowledge of all the mysteries and they were originated from the Island of Samothrace in Greece. This place still exists today and it is the part of the White Brotherhood. If you want to know more about the Druids I suggest reading the saga of Tros of Samothrace by Talbot Mundy.

The first seven astronauts were 33-degree Freemasons. Masonry was and still is the part of the Brotherhood, yet most of the contemporary Masons have no idea of this. It was the part of the Knights Templar that begun originally in Egypt but later migrated to Scotland as part of the Scottish Rite of the Masons.

The performing arts and the theatre were always the tools of the Brotherhood.  From the early Greek theatre to the Asvaghosha arts and beauty were to lift men’s consciousness. 

Miguel H Bronchud a medical doctor and Mason wrote an intriguing book on the  connection of the Knights templar and Freemasonry while he was researching and working on the preservation of the most likely eldest Masonic Temple on earth, and the likely link between the Templar Knights and freemasons in the XII-XIIIth century Spanish kingdom of Aragon. 

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Castle-Key-Good-Evil/dp/0981597114/ref=sr_1_32?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240887176&sr=1-32

 Asvaghosha is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet before Kālidāsa.

Asvaghosha was first a student of non-Buddhist teaching, but upon losing an argument with Parshva converted to Buddhism. He became a religious adviser to the Kushan king Kanishka.

Karma and Reincarnation

This ancient belief system turns up different emotions in us, either we love the idea or we hate it. This emotional dualism is based on whether we subscribe to this belief system ourselves or we are antagonists to this due to a conflicting belief system.

The fact is, western men carry the awesome burden of death on its shoulder; this deforms and alters him psychologically, leaving him without the true understanding of his purpose in life. I suspect this idea of temporariness induce us to be more materialistic, in need of instant gratification, after all we say “you got one life to live”. But is that really the case?

Reincarnation is caused by our attachment, our zest for life that will pull us to transmigrate and come back again and again. This attachment can be anything. Even the love of God, can cause us to be pulled back again. Usually this attachment is something more mundane; sex, food, alcohol, drugs, money, power and countless other venues, some appearing benign others quite sinister.

It is said that Ramakrishna’s love for God, in reality his love for Samadhi, was his pull.

He was said to be intoxicated with his innate ability to enter Samadhi almost at will,

People told him to back off as moderation in all things is desirable. Ramakrishna said

“You are right maybe I am mad, too many men are mad for money, or fame, other are for power, but too few are mad for God”.

The life cycle of birth, death and rebirth is called the “wheel of karma”.

Note: Karma and reincarnation are the bus and the bus driver, nothing happens without one or the other. Karma is the Cosmic Law of cause and effect. You rob a bank, and then you might go to jail. This is instant karma. If you somehow escape punishment your next life you will be born into a circumstance to balance out this cosmic imbalance.

People on the spiritual path can ask the Hierarchy (The White Brotherhood) to have their karma speeded up. Why delay the inevitable?

When a person loses all his attachments, and finally loses his attachment to the self, his ego, then and only then he will gain the final bliss and he will then fall off the wheel of karma.

You can read about reincarnation a million times, and it will be just words until you can remember past lives. Then and only then it will become reality and fact of spiritual live.

There are ways to remember past lives but it is not desirable for the novice.

Incarnations alternate, one time you were a man and now perhaps you are a woman. It is likely we have been everything under the sun. Warriors, maiden, murderers and spectators to murder, we were all. This is precisely the reason we have no moral ground to look down on anyone who is perhaps in the shoe that we were in perhaps a dozen lifetimes ago.

Personal traits are carried forward from lifetime to lifetime but we always get situated into life circumstances that will allow us to learn the specific life lesson that caused us to be here the first place. For example a person who was a professional musician might come back with some skills and affinity to music but his next life he will do something different. Certain ingrained traits will remain with us but sometime quite dormant in the subconscious.

All this information is carried in our Aura and the few and very special who might be around to read ones Aura can instantly have the map of traits, and thousands of lives lived. A true Guru could do this but we have no Guru’s incarnated anymore.

Before a certain time an animal, for example a horse or a dog could perform a heroic act, like saving the life of a human by self sacrificing, (which is commonplace act among noble animals). At that point, this animal could incarnate into a human being. This went on for a long time in human history but it is no more.

Some people argued against reincarnation on the basis of total number of souls ever lived since the dawn of men would far outweigh the number of human beings on earth – currently six billion. There is an explanation to this and it is as follows;

The average length of the unaware, mundane human being not in any Teaching is about 700 years, further some people incarnate into beings on other planets and vice versa. We cannot be Earth centric to detriment of the Universe. Some of the people who millions of years ago taught early men to skills of using fire or tools, were in fact beings incarnated from Stars like Sirius. These were advanced beings and they chose to be reincarnated into the primitive milieu of early men with the full knowledge of getting killed. They did not mind as their purpose was to serve and help. Thus after being brutally slain they were promptly reincarnated back and kept on.

Note: advanced souls can reincarnate or not depending on the need of some mission to be performed, here on Earth.

There is a dualism in some Karmic events. 

When Jesus was betrayed and subsequently murdered there is an indication that this was a result of some past life deed that Jesus has done. Similarly the act of betrayal was a karmic act that Judas had done. We can say – it was a negative karmic act.   So you see, there is a dualism in karma, and free will is a paradoxical factor.  Had Judas not betray Jesus, there would have been a “plan B”, for his capture and nothing would have changed.

People often ask me, what reincarnates the spirit or the soul and what is the difference between these two, if any?

The answer is that the spirit is the “seed” of the individual soul. When reincarnation occurs, the soul moves on to Devachan and incarnates into a new individuality. There are no distinctive memories of the soul, but in the Spirit that is separate but one with it,  lifetimes of information kept.

Finally, animals have group souls only.