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Thoth the Atlantean
“How do people start seeking Me?
They stretch their arms to the sky and ask Me to
enter as Light into them. In the same way I
began working with you long ago. Recall the
meditations awakening, latihan,
spontaneous dance… It was Me who gave you them!…
“In this way, gradually, youngs
shoots grew on the good soil prepared by Me for you.
Other shoots appeared around; some of them withered…
“By now you have formed a group of
mature and able souls, and I begin to make the
New Atlanteans of you! You may call yourselves
so!
“Living in quietness became
habitual for every one of you. I want you to realize
that without this quality one cannot advance on the
spiritual Path with great strides as you did.
“I bless you to continue your
service to God! Receive My Love!”
“Tell us, do You have an immortal
body as Adler does?”
“Yes, but it is not intended for
incarnations on this continent. I recreate it from
time to time among the Indians of North America.”
“Is your body of Indian appearance?
“The genotype of the body is not
important, but the molecular structure is restored
as it was.
“I visit that region quite often: I
recreate the body for a short time — for a week, for
ten days, for two days. I visit Indians with the
purpose of telling them something.”
“Do those Indians live aloof — not
in cities?”
“Yes, they live in reservations.”
“Why do You prefer that nation?”
“I did not mean anything like that.
Every One of Us has no attachments to a particular
nation. The choice is always dictated by the
necessity against the background of Love to all.”
“Are there any mature (for receiving
the higher knowledge) souls?”
Thoth shows a typical natural way of
life of Indians: they live beside a lake; in
evenings they sing tribal hymns specific to this
land.
“These people are always in search
for personal freedom. This tradition survived
through centuries: seeking personal freedom — for
oneself, for one’s tribe, for all people of the
Earth! The problem is — how to tell other people
about this?”
Thoth shows an image of a tribe of
about 800 people; some of them, including the chief,
sit around a fire.
“They sit like you are doing now and
listen to Me.
“I am always an Honored Guest among
them.
“Indians can tell much to other
people of the Earth. Unfortunately almost no one
listens to them.
“… At present I can impart My
knowledge in full to no one but to you. The
broadness of the world outlook, the deepness of the
cognition of Me are most full in your case.
“This is why I entrusted you with
the task of spiritual service on the Earth on behalf
of Me.
“Every step in this important work
has to be taken with My help, with the help of every
One of Us. Realize the profound importance of this
stage of your service on the Earth! You bear an
enormous responsibility! And everything that you do
has to be done responsibly, solemnly, and earnestly!
“Recall Atlantis. Now God sends to
the Earth a similar project — restoration of ancient
knowledge, the knowledge of the Atlanteans — through
you, My dear! To Me, you are My small Atlantis!
“The intention of Creator is to
fill, to impregnate the people of the Earth with
this knowledge — like a flooding river in spring!
“I suggest that you be constantly
aware of your responsibility and the importance of
this task — restoration of the ancient spiritual
knowledge originating directly from the Creator!”
“Thoth, tell us please about Your
life in Atlantis!”
“It was long ago, at the dawn of the
civilization; modern people know almost nothing
about this time.
“Atlantis! My beautiful Atlantis —
My native land, where I was born and grew up!
“In that time, on the islands of
Atlantis there lived a well advanced civilization.
They had, for example, a system of water supply in
buildings.
“The Atlanteans also possessed the
true knowledge about the meaning of life: about
advancement to God, to the Common Divine Source. The
life of their society was based on these ideas. The
teaching about the structure of the universe and the
place of man in it, about how people’s destinies are
formed and about the right way of living — all it
was a natural, integral part of their educational
system.
“The spiritual life of the Atlantean
society was guided by highest initiates; they were
conveyors of God’s truths.
“The inhabitants of Atlantis were
not gods but ordinary people, and their life was not
carefree. Like other nations on the Earth they had
to ‘plough and sow’. And they had most of the
problems that any human society has.
“But the main virtue of the
Atlantean civilization was the teachings about the
true purpose of life accepted by the society as
fundamental. And though the Atlanteans were mere
mortals, there was a truly Divine component in their
lives and views.
“… My learning began in one of the
Atlantis’ spiritual schools. A very young man, I
just began to discover this wonderful world.
“The process of initial learning
took years. The students had to master, first of
all, the basic skills of psychic self-regulation —
i.e. the control of one’s own emotional states. In
addition, they received broad theoretical material.
“This initial stage of learning was
open almost for everyone, contrary to the higher
stages. With the end of this stage, the majority of
the students quitted the school; only a few were
selected by the tutors for further learning. Thus
the initial course served also the second purpose:
with its help the tutors could find among many
people promising souls capable of advancing further.
“I was one of such students: a young
man striving to achieve the higher levels of
spiritual development demonstrated the leaders of
our society.
“But the selection for this learning
was very strict. The aspirants were necessarily
tested for steadfastness, resoluteness in their
decision to go this Path. This testing period could
last for years: until the aspirant proves, in the
opinion of the tutors, the strength of his or her
intent to sacrifice the worldly pleasures and
attachments for the sake of this highest purpose.
Only a few managed to pass this testing stage. They
were accepted into the order of initiates and
admitted to secret higher knowledge.”
“What happened to Atlantis?”
“It was destroyed according to the
Divine decision, because the positive development of
the society ended and its degradation began.
“Thanks to its knowledge, the
Atlantean civilization had a big advantage over
other nations of the Earth. There is no doubt that
the Atlanteans, after choosing the ‘evil’ path,
would conquer other nations with time and establish
their order, their philosophy among other people.
This is why God decided to end the existence of this
civilization.”
“Why the positive development of the
Atlanteans changed to degradation?”
“As I have said already, the life of
the society was guided by several people — the
leaders among the initiates. Unfortunately, at some
point they fall prey to the false feeling of their
own omnipotence and perfection. They ceased to go
the path of renunciation of the individual ‘I’ for
the sake of mergence with the Higher, United ‘I’.
They reckoned that now they could themselves decide
the destinies of people and the ways of the society
development. They did not want to go further — to
the Divine Perfection through refusal of ‘I’ and
‘mine’ — but having had achieved a certain height
indulged in self-exaltation.
“As a result, the life of people
lost the Divine component which gave them joy and
inspiration for making efforts for the sake of the
future Self-realization in God; their unity, based
on selfless service to the great cause, was
destroyed. Quarrels and squabbles began to occur
often among them.
“Then the higher priests were
deposed by a person who aspired for absolute power.
He was interested only in gaining power by any
means.
“And a society ruled by a predatory
person produces other predators which begin to fight
for the power.
“Thus Atlantis entered dark times
and came eventually to destruction.”
“How did You avoid death?”
“My Teacher led Me away.
“God sent Me to Africa, where I
lived for many years then. In the modern language,
it can be called emigration — when one begins
everything from scratch, begins a new life on a new
place.
“I brought there an invaluable
treasure — the spiritual knowledge of Atlantis.
“The tribes inhabiting those lands
were to Me like children, to whom I had to show the
path of the true development. They knew nothing
about the Highest and were concerned only about
their everyday needs.
“With the help of miracles I
captured their attention and made them listen to Me.
Soon they began to view Me as a leader, and I
started to unite these tribes — so that they could
live and act jointly, with the feeling of
commonality, common interest. I imparted to them
knowledge and technology which helped to improve
their level of life and make it much better as
compared to how they lived before.
“And with time, a state with well
working structures was formed.
“But a state without a spiritual
purpose uniting all people is of no value; it is
like a beautiful shell devoid of life.
“After their union and initial
development of the society, when people became less
obsessed with concerns of providing themselves with
food and shelter, I began shifting the emphasis in
their minds to the ideas about the future life in
the other world, where everyone goes to after the
departure from the body.
“I described it to them as moving to
a new world where one comes to new life. The
well-being in this life is ensured by one’s merits
accumulated in the life in this world. For example,
man will be respected in that new world if here he
earned the respect of his neighbors. In the other
world he will be provided with everything if in this
world he helped other people to provide themselves.
Good deeds in this life are fully repaid in that new
life to come!
“It is easy to see that this idea of
new life, which one has to ensure by good deeds at
present, worked not only in helping people to go to
paradise after disembodiment, but also provided them
with good karma for future incarnations.
“… I became the highest adviser
among this nation, but I never elevated Myself over
people.
“… As time passed, a natural
formation of classes began in that society. The
nobility appeared. And then I decided that My
Mission is over and it is time to leave that land.
“I chose an heir to Me who was to
remain after My departure — a wise and good man. I
told people that now it is My turn to move to the
new life — to the world where we receive the fruits
of our earthly deeds.
“And one day I ‘shifted’ Myself from
the material world — into My present World, into the
Abode of Light.”
“Did You teach esoteric techniques
to those people?”
“Of course there were some chosen
whom I taught. I also taught people the art of
healing.”
“Thoth, tell us please what valuable
ideas can modern people find in ancient alchemy?”
“There is no much sense in trying to
unravel the meaning of the ancient alchemical texts
with the mind. The point here is not in the
proportion of substances or composition of mixtures,
not in the technology of producing the
‘philosopher’s stone’ and gold. One needs to look
deeper.
“The alchemical secrets of control
over matter, including its transformation, were
known to the Great Initiates. But more important is
that They had the higher secret knowledge about the
structure of the universe and about the Creator of
everything existing.
“The outer, material side of alchemy
is nothing but a veil hiding the true Knowledge
about the Highest from unworthy people. This
Knowledge was the basis of all the alchemical
wisdom.”
“Did You possess this alchemical
knowledge in full?
“Actually, I was the founder of this
direction of spiritual development. Unfortunately it
degraded with time and was reduced to useless
manipulations with chemical substances.”
“What is ‘philosopher’s stone’?”
“It is very simple. The
‘philosopher’s stone’ is produced when man, in the
process of working on oneself, grinds ‘in mortar’
his lower self, while all the Higher Knowledge which
he receives he tests by experience and accepts as
his own. Then it becomes Higher Wisdom and a strong
base — that ‘philosopher’s stone’ on which one can
construct the entire building of Divine Beingness.”
“What is alchemical gold?”
“It is adept’s consciousness that
has to turn into the Highest Gold with the help of
‘philosopher’s stone’: the developed and subtle
consciousness has to shine with goldish Light,
similar to the light of the morning sun. Then such a
consciousness can infuse into the Great Central
‘Sun’ — into the Creator of the entire universe,
merge with Him and attain the Immortality, Bliss,
Calm, and full Freedom!”
“Will You tell us about Your higher
methods of work with consciousness?”
“It is not necessary. You know now
that the higher Initiations are given by Divine
Teachers only to those ready for this. And all
preparatory stages are described clearly and fully
in your books and films. All We are glad looking at
the fruits of Our common work! The only pity is that
so few people can understand and appreciate it now…”
“Where did You incarnate after
Egypt?”
“In Assyria.
“In a certain sense, it was even
pleasant ‘to wear the flesh’ again, to come again to
the ‘dense’ world — now with full awareness of own
Divinity.
“Sun was the symbol of the Divine to
that nation. The goldish shining and purity of the
morning sun are remarkable qualities for attuning to
them and refining the soul! What qualities should
represent a symbol of the Divine if not the
qualities of the ideal that souls may aspire to?
“And such qualities are represented
by the image of the morning Sun: its perfect,
unstained purity inside and its shining with the
inner light to the world outside, without dividing
it on those to whom I want to give my light and on
those to whom I do not want to give it. The absence
of such a division originating from sympathies and
antipathies of the individual self is also one of
the qualities of the Divinity.
“I was not a great leader among the
people of that land. I accepted another role and
‘put on the dress of a priest’ — to have the
possibility to tell people — brightly and openly —
about the Divinity.
“… There was also Alexandria — My
favorite city; I looked after it. In this city I
formed a new culture for future civilization. I
collected there bright minds of that time, formed
the atmosphere for exchange of ideas, for
intellectual search. It was My ‘project’.
“Many scholars from various
countries gathered there. And quite naturally they
wanted to tell about their new discoveries and
ideas, to learn the views of others. Such
communication and the spirit of scientific community
worked as a powerful catalyst for development of
knowledge. One may say that it was a very early
prototype of future international scientific
organizations.
“The intellectual aspect of the soul
development is very important indeed!
“The growth of a soul is determined,
first of all, by soul’s accumulating information
about everything that surrounds it. In other words,
the soul develops through cognition. Thanks
to its separateness, the soul can look at the
rest of the Absolute and cognize it — and through
this it cognizes Me.
“Thus, by reproducing in itself
the outer the soul, in essence, reproduces in
itself the image of the multidimensional
universe.
“Then it comes to full Mergence.
“Thus a great number of
individualities infuse into the One and Whole
Awareness of My Infinite Greatness.
“Hence the driving force behind all
the development is the internal impulse to
cognition.”
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