| He who attunes with the harmony of the Cosmos, | | | | he enjoyed perusing the holy scriptures of the world |
| with Tao, with the Divine I AM, feeds and expands | | | | such as the Avesta and the Vedas. He especially |
| the flame--like the Colombes tending the sacred fire | | | | loved the Psalms of David, and committed most of |
| in Vesta's temple--which results in a greater | | | | the things he read to memory.The Embodiment of |
| manifestation of God, the Shekinah, in man's | | | | Love revealed his nature for the first time in the |
| expression in the world of Malkuth--Assiah, God's | | | | narrative by subsequent events. A birthday feast |
| footstool. Glorified by the divinity of his | | | | was given by the grandparents of Jesus in his |
| God-presence, man manifests his full divine potential | | | | honour. When requested by the host as to the gift |
| with the fruits of the Tree of Life in full development | | | | desired by Jesus, the child pleaded on behalf of the |
| with the aspects of will/power, love/wisdom, | | | | starving children to be found in the area. Permission |
| intelligence/activity in equilibrium and in total | | | | was granted for the child to invite the famished ones |
| unfoldment.Heaven, or the Kingdom of God, is an | | | | to join the feast, and this filled the heart of the |
| inner state, a condition within the consciousness | | | | young Jesus with joy.Even at an early age Jesus |
| where peace, harmony, bliss, love, compassion, | | | | criticized animal-sacrifices practiced by the Jewish |
| wisdom, and power rules supreme. Divine union with | | | | priesthood. Hillel, the head of the Sanhedrin, was |
| the source of our being effects the transcendence | | | | unable to offer any solace to the grieving heart of |
| of man's awareness and transports him into the | | | | Jesus regarding the blood-ceremony when the lad |
| corona of the greater Flame, into the kingdom of | | | | sought his assistance. Hillel, humbled by the sincerity |
| Life. This is the unio mystica and the ascension | | | | and wisdom of Jesus offered to train the child |
| sought by Christian mystics and saints ever since the | | | | concerning the exoteric law of the Jews. The early |
| resurrection of the Master Jesus.The EssenesThere | | | | esoteric training of Jesus was with the Essene |
| was a pre-Christian sect called "the Essenes" that | | | | Brotherhood.Once he complained to his mother of |
| was influential in the moulding of Christianity, and it | | | | the narrow-mindedness of the Jews and voiced his |
| behooves us to look at them briefly.According to | | | | desire to meet his "other brothers" in other nations |
| tradition, the Essenes are said to have originated | | | | to study of their ways. This opportunity came quickly |
| centuries before the advent of the embodiment of | | | | when an Indian Raja visited the land, invited and |
| Love and Purity, represented by Jesus and John--the | | | | offered to sponsor Jesus' mystico-religious education |
| Harbinger. This unique segment of the Great White | | | | in India.It would be proper at this time to digress for |
| Brotherhood is said to have originated in Egypt, and is | | | | a moment to point out the various ways with which |
| related with the Theraputae, a sect that specialized in | | | | the mystical and spiritual training of Jesus were |
| healing, to be found among the nations surrounding | | | | effected. The following were his main modes of |
| the Mediterranean. Some esoteric historians trace | | | | study and the acquisition of knowledge:1) |
| their roots to the school of prophets established by | | | | Attunement with the Cosmic Mind, with God's |
| Samuel--the Prophet, who anointed Saul as King of | | | | Omniscience.2) Recollection of knowledge and training |
| Israel. The brethren of this mysterious sect were | | | | from former life-times.3) Personal observation of |
| sometimes referred to as "the Mysterious Ones," | | | | people, their beliefs, and way of life.4) Personal |
| "the Secret Ones," and "the Silent Ones," on account | | | | research and study of ancient, secret manuscripts.5) |
| of their mystical practices, disciplines, behaviour, and | | | | Tutorship under various Masters of Wisdom.Back to |
| the expression and habits of their normal secular life. | | | | our summary: In India, Jesus taught and studied; it |
| A community of Essenes once resided along the | | | | was in India that he learnt the mystic art of healing. |
| shores of Lake Moeris, in Egypt. Some of the | | | | Here,among the Arya-Hindus, he made friends, and |
| members were celibates, those that married probably | | | | he made enemies. He spoke against the caste |
| practiced specific spiritual exercises that permitted | | | | system which angered the Brahmins. The situation |
| lofty souls to incarnate. Like the Christ initiate, the | | | | became so perilous that he was advised by a friend |
| Essenes abhorred animal-sacrifices. It is probable that | | | | to flee. Circumstances being as it was, the young |
| the former adopted this attitude from the latter. The | | | | avatara decided to visit Nepal to carry on his ministry |
| Essenes had no slaves nor servants, and lived | | | | there. Prior to Jesus' leave from India, he received |
| communally, sharing worldly goods; and cooperating | | | | news of his father's death and wrote to his mother |
| harmoniously with every venture that they | | | | to console her. In Nepal he discovered from an Indian |
| undertook. They were healers, and made much use | | | | Master the existence of secret teachings in Tibet. He |
| of herbs, minerals, the "laying of hands," and | | | | decided to read the texts himself and commenced |
| invocation of the healing angels. Members of the | | | | his journey to the monastery in Tibet where they |
| community were considered holy and pious by | | | | were kept. In the land of Lamaism, he is received |
| outsiders of their group.Nothing is mentioned | | | | warmly by Meng-Tse, a Chinese sage, who assisted |
| concerning the Essenes in the New Testament | | | | him with his spiritual researches.Certain manuscripts |
| except for a hint or two regarding the mysterious | | | | are said to have existed in one of the monasteries |
| men in white who often appeared to the disciples of | | | | concerning Jesus' sojourn in India and Tibet. Among |
| the Nazarene Master to offer words of advise. The | | | | the witnesses said to have seen or known about |
| white woolen robes that they wore, which suggests | | | | these manuscripts was the famous Russian painter, |
| pre-Islamic Sufism, apparently signifies their status | | | | Nicholas Roerich.After a brief stay in Tibet, the young |
| symbol as higher degree members. From the dietary | | | | avatara headed for Nazareth, his homeland, stopping |
| aspect of their way of life, the Essenes were known | | | | in Persia and Assyria. In Persia he was received by |
| to be vegetarians; they are also believed to be | | | | the magi that visited him in Bethlehem when he was |
| "God-eaters," a term indicating the ability to nourish | | | | just a babe. Together, with several others, he |
| the physical body with the life-giving qualities to be | | | | meditated in silence upon the spiritual needs of |
| found in the pranic ethers. This and the harmonious | | | | mankind. His other activities in Persia, and later |
| attunement with other Cosmic forces may account | | | | Assyria, included healing and preaching. Among the |
| for their unusually long life span ranging from a | | | | Persians he instructed the "few" a meditational |
| hundred to a hundred and twenty years.Roman | | | | process of mystical development. In Babylon, Assyria, |
| historians such as Pliny, referred to the Essenes in | | | | he visited some ruins in the company of Ashbina, a |
| their writings in a somewhat sketchy manner, due to | | | | mystic Master of the Land. Shortly after, he is |
| the private and isolated lives that the Essenes led. | | | | homeward bound. Following his reunion with mother, |
| The absence of any concrete references to the | | | | family, and friends, he sets on the trail again, this |
| Essenes in the Bible is a fact worth considering. While | | | | time for Greece and Egypt.It was in Egypt that he |
| the other influential sects upon Judaic's social milieu | | | | applied for initiation into the Mysteries of the Egyptian |
| were mentioned, such as, the Sadducees and the | | | | branch of the Great White Brotherhood--like his |
| Nazarites, the compilers and writers of the gospels | | | | western predecessors before him--Plato and |
| for some reason thought it necessary to leave the | | | | Pythagoras. After passing several tests with honors, |
| Essenes out of their texts; or could it be that | | | | the hierophants of the Brotherhood initiates the |
| references regarding their existence and activities | | | | Nazarene into the deepest secrets of Man, Nature, |
| were deliberately expunged from the gospels for | | | | and God. This culminates in his graduation with the |
| political reasons by Church Fathers? It is noteworthy | | | | title "Christ."Before leaving for Nazareth, the crowned |
| that while Jesus criticized some of the other sects | | | | Jesus, with an important mission entrusted to him by |
| for their iniquities, he did not attack or condemn the | | | | the Karmic Lords and Cosmic decrees, is blessed by |
| Essenes. Was there a good reason for this? Certainly | | | | the Seven Sages of that particular world-period, and |
| he must have known about them, being a son or | | | | convened to discuss upon the spiritual requirements |
| initiate of the Mysteries.It is believed by some | | | | of man living in the new dispensation of the Piscean |
| esotericists that the parents of Jesus, Joseph and | | | | Age. The Seven Sages, making out a "Council of |
| Mary, were Essenes. Jesus himself is said to have | | | | Seven," were representatives of the exoteric rays |
| had his early spiritual training among the brotherhood. | | | | that radiates from the Great Central Sun. They are |
| What Jesus taught in later years, in his ministry, | | | | somewhat related to the "Seven Chohans of the |
| resembled the precepts, doctrines, practices, and | | | | Rays," known in New Age spirituality.It is believed by |
| disciplines taught by the Essenes, such as the | | | | mystics that the mission of Jesus consisted of 7 |
| practice of baptism; invocation of higher forces and | | | | goals:1) To instruct the masses concerning the |
| intelligences; the blessing of meals; the practice of | | | | immortality of the Soul and a salvation from physical |
| prophecy and healing; teachings concerning the | | | | bondage by personal effort.2) To embody and |
| Kingdom of God; and angelology, or the science of | | | | replace the imagery of wrath surrounding God with |
| energy-forces of Nature personified by those | | | | that of Love.3) To demonstrate the birth and |
| beings.The Essenes appeared suddenly upon the | | | | perfection of the Christ within, followed by the |
| world scene, and vanished with hardly a trace of | | | | spiritualization of the physical form.4) To anchor a |
| their existence. It is often inquired by scholars | | | | certain spiritual force into the physical plane and |
| regarding the purpose of the brotherhood's | | | | planet.5) To live out a parable of the Soul.6) To fulfill |
| establishment. It is conjectured by some, and | | | | the various prophecies concerning the Messiah in the |
| supported by tradition, that the prime purpose of the | | | | Holy Scriptures.7 To demonstrate the divine |
| institution of the Essene community was the | | | | potentiality, the occult talents and powers of |
| preparation for the coming of the Messiah and his | | | | Man.Through exoteric and esoteric sources, we know |
| ministry here on Earth. When the Master Jesus | | | | that the Nazarene Master fulfilled his spiritual mission |
| disappeared from public view, so did the Essenes | | | | successfully. Unfortunately, throughout the centuries |
| shortly after. Whether they chose to disband, or to | | | | the Church had misrepresented and misinterpreted |
| operate in a clandestine manner, it is believed that a | | | | the teachings of the Avatar. The scriptures, the |
| good deal of their doctrines found their way to other | | | | gospels, were altered by the Councils of Nicea and |
| esoteric schools in later centuries such as Masonry, | | | | Trent for political and personal purposes. Wine, when |
| the Rosicrucian Brotherhood, the Knights Templar, | | | | poisoned, is undrinkable whether in new skins or |
| and many others. Extensive manuscripts discovered | | | | old.The nature of blessings is interesting enough to |
| in a cave at the Wadi Qumran along the shores of | | | | comment: All blessings are derived from a spiritual |
| the Dead Sea in the latter half of this century is | | | | source. It is God that blesses through man. Man can |
| expected to shed more light on the Essene belief and | | | | only be the tool with which God's blessings and grace |
| lifestyle when the manuscripts are wholly made public. | | | | flows. Love is the principle that prompts the heart of |
| Nowadays there is a revival of the Essenes and that | | | | man to bestow a blessing; and Love, as all mystics |
| which may be regarded as Essenic thought among | | | | are aware, is an aspect of the triune nature of God. |
| spiritual occultists.The Esoteric Life of JesusMuch of | | | | Blessings cannot be revoked, as illustrated in the |
| the hidden esoteric life of Jesus is unknown to | | | | narrative of Isaac and his sons, Esau and Jacob, for |
| followers of Orthodox Christianity. From their point of | | | | the simple reason that the divine intelligence does not |
| view, all important events that occurred in Jesus' life | | | | create errors. Love functions impersonally according |
| were recorded in the canonical gospels and further | | | | to Law--to the Law of Karma, the Law of Grace, |
| inquiry into the matter is undesirable and of no | | | | the Law of Giving and Forgiving. It is a joy to bless |
| importance; however, several questions are raised by | | | | rather than to curse. The latter is an egoistic |
| scholars, the most notable are the lack of information | | | | expression, the former a divine flow. Power flows |
| of Jesus' spiritual, mystical and secular training; and | | | | through the hands--whether the operator is conscious |
| the non-chronicling of the activities of Jesus between | | | | of it or not--thus, the hands in its many mudras, or |
| the time of his debate with the Doctors of the Law | | | | mystic gestures, are often used to implement the |
| in the Temple at age twelve and his sudden | | | | blessings upon another. When blessing the Nazarene, |
| appearance at the River Jordon awaiting to be | | | | the seven Masters placed their hands, the tools of |
| baptized by John in the prime of his manhood. What | | | | their will, upon the crown chakra of Jesus. As in |
| occurred in the interim? Though exoteric Christianity | | | | many rites in Esoteric Christianity, especially in |
| is silent on the subject, the esoteric side with its | | | | transmitting a divine influence upon another, |
| psychic investigations sheds some light upon the | | | | invocation is often made upon God or the angelic |
| subject. One may well ask the validity of the | | | | hierarchy.Divine power through the hands, divine |
| information regarding the esoteric side of Jesus' | | | | words uttered from the purified throat chakra, and |
| life--we can only suggest that it is as much valid as | | | | divine love flowing from the radiant anahata chakra, |
| the canonical gospels--and there is more to this | | | | all of which unify in one tremendous force that uplifts |
| statement of ours than what a cursory apprehension | | | | the consciousness of the recipient of the blessing. It |
| can tell.Much of what we are about to relate is | | | | is man's prerogative and responsibility to bless all |
| derived from the book "The Aquarian Gospel of | | | | lesser life, for the greater life has blessed man with |
| Jesus," a manuscript scribed from what was | | | | individuality, self-consciousness, and potential |
| witnessed in the akashic records by Levi, an | | | | immortality; however, blessings should be given |
| American pastor of the 19th century. The events | | | | wisely and discriminately, in accordance with the need |
| and account of Jesus' life mention therein are | | | | of the individual. It is not simply the recipient that is |
| supported by the investigations of other psychics | | | | blessed by the grace of God, by the grace of the |
| and scholars. We will summarize the contents below | | | | giver--the instrument of God's blessings is likewise |
| and correlate them with other information:Born to | | | | graced by the spiritual transmission. Eventhough the |
| parents who were Essenes, Jesus was a normal child | | | | blessings that we are referring to here is of a |
| in every way except for being exceptionally bright | | | | psycho-spiritual nature, it could even take on a |
| and precocious. The three magi who visited the | | | | material form. The effects of blessings are creative, |
| newly-born babe, are believed by students of | | | | constructive, curative; curses are inherently |
| esotericism to be the past incarnations of spiritual | | | | destructive--even to the one cursing. Our modern |
| Masters familiar to Theosophists: El Morya, Kuthumi, | | | | society seems to have lost the urge and instinct to |
| and Dwal Kul. The Star of Bethlehem, witnessed by | | | | bless. In contrast, curses have become a pseudo |
| the magi, was, esoterically speaking, the highly | | | | art-form, a warped-sense of pleasure to those |
| developed causal body of the Initiate Jesus. The Star | | | | destroying the nobility of man's fine sensitivity to |
| has a higher significance; however. A poet once | | | | Nature's manifold expressions. The Kali-Yuga is a pot |
| wrote about the "trailing clouds of glory" that follows | | | | under extreme heat and pressure. All dross |
| the birth of every child. The cloud that trailed behind | | | | eventually and inevitably rises to the surface at the |
| the babe destined to be the Christ was exceptionally | | | | personal and global level to be dealt with by Man; for |
| radiant. Incidentally, there was a prophecy among the | | | | Man is the originator of most of the dark effluvia, the |
| magi that Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, declared to his | | | | misqualified energies that each Divine Fragment of |
| followers that he would return again with his angels | | | | God should transmute and purify.After the |
| to lead them. Apparently, it would seem that the | | | | appearance of Jesus at the River Jordon to be |
| magi believed Jesus to be the reincarnated | | | | baptized by John--the Harbinger, the narrative follows |
| Zoroaster.A holy figure keeps appearing in the | | | | along similar lines to the canonical gospels. It is |
| pre-natal and early life of Jesus. He is known among | | | | unnecessary to recapitulate this, we will instead |
| the parents of Jesus and John--the Harbinger, as | | | | discuss some of the arcane doctrines of Christian |
| "Gabriel." Judging from the interest that the Essenes | | | | esotericism.Esoteric DoctrinesThroughout the |
| had in the child Jesus and the characteristical nature | | | | centuries following the ascension of the Nazarene, |
| of their higher ranking members, it is probable that | | | | various esoteric schools were established to |
| Gabriel was one of their holy brethren who was an | | | | perpetuate the secret teachings of Jesus, under the |
| adept in the art of bilocation, or psychic projection. | | | | decree of the Great White brotherhood. Most of |
| One of their members could also have been | | | | them operated in a clandestine manner for fear of |
| overshadowed by this lofty archangel. No matter | | | | being persecuted by Church and State. In an Age of |
| how Gabriel manifested himself, he certainly was | | | | superstition, fear and ignorance, it was only |
| instrumental in conveying important matters and | | | | appropriate for these Mystery Schools to guard the |
| protecting the Holy Family from the attacks of | | | | treasures of the Spirit for the elect, the "chosen |
| negative forces.Later, after receiving the news of a | | | | few." Not casting pearls before swine was an oath |
| babe having been born and destined to be "King of | | | | deeply held by the brethren of mystical circles. |
| Israel," Herod ordered his soldiers to massacre every | | | | Cathars, Rosicrucians, Templars, Alchemists, Christian |
| child in the kingdom. Joseph and Mary, the parents of | | | | Qabalists, Gnostics, and Martinists, were just some of |
| Jesus, fled to Egypt taking the promised child with | | | | the brotherhoods and traditions that taught the inner |
| them. Thus far, the events mentioned are in accord | | | | meaning and mystical sense of the Holy Scriptures |
| with the canonical gospels; however, the accounts of | | | | and the esotericism of religion. The doctrines and |
| Luke, Mark, Matthew and John fails to relate further | | | | precepts of these prestigious Orders had teachings in |
| developments which were essential to the spiritual | | | | common, with slight variations as to detail and |
| upbringing of Jesus.In Zoan, Egypt, Mary and her | | | | methods with which the spiritual goal, the "Holy Grail" |
| cousin were trained in the workings of Cosmic Law | | | | may be attained : The quest for the Chalice in the |
| and were taught the spiritual doctrines by the | | | | Grail stories required a warrior's will, discipline, and |
| Masters of the Egyptian Brotherhood. These various | | | | determination; the purity of a maiden capable of |
| teachings were given to them to be later passed on | | | | enchanting a unicorn; and the simple faith of a child in |
| to Jesus and his forerunner, John--the Harbinger, at | | | | attunement with Nature--all of these were embodied |
| the appropriate time. After a few years of | | | | by Sir Galahad, the only knight successful enough to |
| educational activities, word was given to the mothers | | | | attain the Chalice in the Grail Mysteries without any |
| to return to Israel.As a child, Jesus loved to read, and | | | | problems. |