Lecture\u00a012b of 25 by [R]<\/p>\n
\u00a0Regeneration\u00a0and the Aquarian Age<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We do not waste experience.\u00a0 Divinity is parsimonious.\u00a0 Everything has to be regenerated, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re studying Scorpio in relation to Aquarius and the Aquarian Age \u2013 things we can do to participate in this process, because there\u2019s always the possibility that with the Aquarian Age it could be the time when we are ripe and ready enough for this material world to be disintegrated, and we would be returned back into the ethers without all of these positive limits of ourselves.\u00a0 That means it\u2019s time for a story or maybe even two.<\/p>\n
Moroccan Peddler<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first story is about the Arabian Nights and it\u2019s about a man who is a ne\u2019er do well; he is a visionary in the negative sense of the word.\u00a0 One day he gets a little bit of money, an inheritance or something like that.\u00a0 He finds a spot in the market place and lines up, and he has all of these clay vessels.\u00a0 While he\u2019s waiting for customers to come he\u2019s thinking about how when he sells all of these clay vessels, with the money that he makes, he will buy more things, and eventually he will have silks and he will have caravans, and all of those kinds of fine things, and with that he will build himself a grand palace and he will continue to make money, and then he will buy concubines for himself, and if a concubine is not perfectly pure, or if she does not obey him completely, he will kick her out of the house, and in his daydreaming he kicks, and he knocks the pots over in domino fashion and he has lost everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What we are talking about is dreams that are not fulfilled\u2014not carrying things out to their utter end.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about death and redemption and degeneration and all of those kinds of things.\u00a0 I heard a line from Oliver Wendell Holmes that has been one of my favorite lines of poetry of religious ilk ever since I first heard it.\u00a0 It goes: Weep not for those who bear the cross, but weep for those that bear the cross without the glory<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Destruction, like death, must come.\u00a0 We all have our cross that we have to bear, but we have to redeem everything with death.\u00a0 That\u2019s the spiritual legacy of Socrates.\u00a0 This is why when someone dies we have the procedure that we give him silence for 72 hours, silence and coolness so that the body does not begin to decompose.\u00a0 This is so\u00a0one can review his life before leaving the physical behind, because nothing must be lost.\u00a0 So that is what regeneration is all about.\u00a0 We want to avoid the wasting of energy, of experience.\u00a0\u00a0 We don\u2019t want just destruction.\u00a0 The Bible talks about that.\u00a0 Christ said, Destruction must come, but woe be unto the destroyers<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 That is, people who just destroy but who don\u2019t destroy to redeem \u2013 don\u2019t destroy to recycle.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s time to look at the other story, and we\u2019re going to look at the background\u00a0of it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a story we\u2019ve mentioned several times; a story from Adam and Eve.\u00a0 These Scorpios just can\u2019t get beyond that Adam and Eve story.\u00a0 [laughter]\u00a0 We\u2019re locked into that all of the time.\u00a0 This time we\u2019re going to talk about the background in what you might consider a fairy tale, if you like, or you can call it \u2026\u2026\u2026.a story with no reality.\u00a0 We want to examine the first and second sins, the sin of Adam and the sin of Cain, the sin of mis-generation and the sin of wanton destruction\u2014very pertinent to our time, the sins of sex and violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We look at the creation story from Genesis.\u00a0 Actually it\u2019s three creation stories; if you look at the first creation story, it is the evolution of form.\u00a0 In the evolution of form, humans are the last things that are created in the story.\u00a0 Then, briefly\u00a0there\u2019s a second miniature creation story.\u00a0 In that, humans are the first created, meaning to say by humans<\/em>, the spiritual beings that were here before all the other creatures.\u00a0 They were here first, before the animals and the plants and the minerals.\u00a0\u00a0 The third evolutionary story is an evolution of consciousness story.\u00a0 That\u2019s all of those boring begats in the bible.\u00a0 So and so begat so and so who lived \u2013 and they give a little quality about them.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 All of those begats (all of those names of the begats) actually represent states of consciousness.\u00a0 They talk about the resolution of one kind of consciousness into another kind of consciousness.\u00a0 I understand a little of that, but with most of it I\u2019m in the dark.\u00a0 We want to go further back than that. \u00a0We want to go back to something that is analogously antecedent and analogously grander than the Garden of Eden story.\u00a0 It takes place in one of the earlier days of creation which in Western mysticism is called a period<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 The first period is the Saturn<\/em> period which is what the Bible calls dark and void of form;<\/em> and it is a time when we went through a mineral-like evolution.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t minerals; our bodies were composed of thought, because the cosmos was formerly as dense as a thought.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The second period was the Sun Period, the period in which there was visible light in the cosmos \u2013 not like this kind of Sun, but an internal light that was everywhere.\u00a0 In that period we went through a plant-like existence.\u00a0 The third period which preceded our current earth period in the cosmos as we see it now was called the Moon Period<\/em> and in the Moon Period we were animal-like.\u00a0 We were suspended in the cosmos as animals and we developed mobility and such.\u00a0 The cosmos was no more dense than ether, or you might say no more dense than a magnetic field.\u00a0 In the Moon Period, the beings that were one step ahead of us are now the beings who are called angels.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The angels had their own particular lesson, and they had to make their own particular leap of faith.\u00a0 They had things that they needed to learn, and one of them was variety.\u00a0 <\/em>It\u2019s a very important evolutionary lesson; the more variety, the more facets of the spirit you can bring out of your character.\u00a0 In fact, with diet, the more variety you have in your diet, the more likely you are to be healthy.\u00a0 Your body needs different things and needs them in different forms.\u00a0 The solar system at that time was not like a solar system; it was just a big sphere of energy, and toward the center there was a hot luminous ball.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t like one of those nuclear reactions; it had to do with consciousness more than it had to do with chemical interaction.\u00a0 Circulating throughout the sphere was something that is called (and it\u2019s a great stretch of the word) water<\/em>, an etheric water<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For evolutionary experience we were cycled through that sphere from the creative hot center out to the cool perimeter where things were objectified and brought to fruition.\u00a0 Some of the beings that were human then resisted.\u00a0 They loved the heat and the light and the thrill of creativity, and they were the brightest of the angels.\u00a0 In the human-like condition you first get free will, and they used their free will to remain at the heart of what was becoming the solar system.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They missed essential lessons; they missed the ability to be receptive and to go along with the plan.\u00a0 It\u2019s the way it always is \u2013 we think we know better than the plan; we don\u2019t read the directions.\u00a0 They became known as the fallen angels<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When they developed their human-like consciousness they were very, very brilliant.\u00a0 But when the Moon Period was over, and after the great cosmic rest, they were in a fix because they couldn\u2019t become angels.\u00a0 In order to become angels, they had to be receptive \u2013 to receive and bring through or allow cosmic wisdom to flow through.\u00a0 They were defiant.\u00a0 On the other hand they couldn\u2019t become humans like us because they had no evolutionary experience of building a body like this.\u00a0 Angelic bodies are made of energy, so they were in a fix, and they were left to fend for themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now this is quite a bit about the cosmic creation.\u00a0 Beings can be defiant and not go along with the plan, and they are not destroyed.\u00a0 Many would say there is a divine compassion, and so they were left to fend for themselves, and therefore they began to act independently.\u00a0 Independence is very different from self reliance.\u00a0 In independence you separate yourself and you act as when independent.\u00a0 If you\u2019re self reliant, you can do things all by yourself, but you intentionally cooperate and work together with others.\u00a0 Cancer is independent.\u00a0 It produces a body or a tumor within us that takes away from the rest of the system and offers nothing to the rest of the system.\u00a0 It\u2019s independent, an independent growth.\u00a0 There\u2019s no sharing or interaction with anything else.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That is the condition that they found themselves in.\u00a0 So, when the cosmic night was over, they were clever and they bided their time.\u00a0 They desperately needed experience for knowledge and so they had to get it somewhere.\u00a0 Being very, very bright they hit upon an idea.\u00a0 They waited until things were just right.\u00a0 (Now this gets very complex; the cosmic creation is so complex and so much based on analogy that it\u2019s almost, for our kinds of minds, impossible to understand.)\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But in each of these periods or seven days of creation if you want to call them that, there are seven states of matter which are called globes<\/em>, and they usually take place in four different grades of matter.\u00a0 There are seven revolutions of consciousness through these seven globes.\u00a0 In each revolution on each globe there are epochs of time.\u00a0 We\u2019re coming down now to our current time.\u00a0 We are in the Earth Period, and we are in the fourth revolution of the Earth Period on Globe D which is the deepest state of matter in the Earth Period.\u00a0 We are now in what is called the post-Atlantean or Aryan Epoch.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first epoch was called Polarian, the second Hyperborean, the third Lemurian, the fourth Atlantean, and now our own.\u00a0 In the Lemurian Epoch in this revolution on this globe in the Earth Period the Solar System as we know it was being formed.\u00a0 Things were condensing out of a state of energy into a state of matter.\u00a0 Planets were being separated.\u00a0 Adam means \u201cman of red earth<\/em>\u201d and the earth was still red hot.\u00a0 I know this sounds utterly fantastic and you can consider it another fantasy if you like.\u00a0 In all the water was in a vaporous state or most of the water was in a vaporous state, like the Moon Period.\u00a0 We had internal picture-consciousness; we were not really aware of the external world as we are now.\u00a0 In fact our bodies didn\u2019t look anything like they look now.\u00a0 Someone might say, oh, I remember I was really good looking in the Lemurian epoch.\u00a0 Well if you like to look like a dog or like a lemur or something like that, maybe if you consider that good-looking, it\u2019s worth listening to.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As we came into the material world it was necessary, because of the nature of this material world and all of its limitations, that the sexes be separated\u2014that we be gender.\u00a0\u00a0Part of the energy would be used for procreation so that there could be the continuance of humans and part of it be used for developing higher organs through which the spirit could express.\u00a0 This was when the Lucifers<\/em>, which is the name of those fallen angels, which is also the name of these matches, of all things; they are called lucifers<\/em>.\u00a0 How things all fit together is really interesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At any rate, we were animal-like human beings and the angels and the other hierarchies guided us around willy-nilly.\u00a0 But, they couldn\u2019t watch everyone all of the time.\u00a0 Even if you\u2019re a parent, you can\u2019t watch your child one-hundred percent of the time or your child never gets to learn anything.\u00a0 So, the Lucifers found a way to take advantage of those gaps \u2013 when we weren\u2019t being watched.\u00a0 They overshadowed our consciousness.\u00a0 They worked through the spine and through the spinal fire, and with our internal consciousness it seemed as if serpents were coming up our spines.\u00a0 This is something we still see with waking consciousness now as we become clairvoyant, however it\u2019s not the Lucifers but it is the path of our own spinal energy from the sacrum to the genitals and up to the voice box and up into the cranium.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Lucifer - Guillaume Geefs - Belgium <\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They insinuated themselves into our consciousness when we were in female rebirths.\u00a0 This is because in the female rebirth we are much more receptive; we have to be receptive in order to do the imaginative work to build a body.\u00a0 Then, they didn\u2019t lie, but they directed our attention to the fact that we all die, which we had never known before, however they brought to our attention that we could, by our own action become immortal through the procreative process\u2014and that this process could be very pleasantly sensational.\u00a0 What they didn\u2019t tell us was that we had to work harmoniously or else this would all backfire.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What happened was we took the creative powers into our own hands.\u00a0 We began to use the sexual function, first for sexual expression and pleasure, and eventually we began to use it for black magic and disgusting deeds like killing and things like that.\u00a0 This produced ad-harmony and it caused so much of the creative energy to be turned downward and outward that we became materialists and we came to our current state of blindness regarding the spiritual worlds.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If we had maintained a division in the spiritual energy\u2014only so much to go downward and outward and all of the rest to go inward, we would have had more spiritual vision.\u00a0 With greater spiritual vision our progress in the evolutionary creation would have been much faster.\u00a0 We would have learned the lessons more quickly.\u00a0 As it is, because we don\u2019t have the insight to understand our mistakes, we make the same dumb mistakes over and over again.\u00a0 What happened is they recognized the whole trajectory that we have taken.\u00a0 We have taken a trajectory that has taken us deeper into matter than was intended.\u00a0 A trajectory that makes our whole existence\u00a0 [\u2026.. ]\u00a0 anyway,\u00a0 that\u2019s the story in brief, but there\u2019s one part of it that\u2019s really important.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was not the using of sex that caused the fall of man.\u00a0 That was not the sin.\u00a0 It was the selfishness that was appealed to and to which we responded.\u00a0 We were led into perdition, and that\u2019s what came of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is all symbolized in the story of Adam and Eve.\u00a0 Adam and Eve had three sons, Abel, Cain and Seth.\u00a0 Abel represents the part of humanity that never fell.\u00a0 It was killed off; that means it was lost to us, and these people never descended into physical bodies like us.\u00a0 Sometimes they do\u2014as a good service, but that\u2019s a very long, complicated subject that I don\u2019t want to go into.\u00a0 Cain represents the part of humanity that is very Luciferic in nature.\u00a0 All of us are probably Luciferic; we\u2019re all children of Cain; we\u2019re all children of fire.\u00a0 We want to create; we want to understand why; we want to build things.\u00a0 Seth represents the son of Adam and Eve.\u00a0 It is said that Cain is the son of Eve and of the Lucifer spirit, Samael.\u00a0 Therefore, Seth is the son of water.\u00a0 It represents the people who are accepting of everything and who will go along with\u2014they have a lovely faith\u2014they love a chain of command and all of that, but they don\u2019t have the same kind of gumption that the children of fire have too much of.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We want to look at this in terms of regeneration: what is regenerated in the fire?\u00a0 What is gained from the fire?\u00a0 Now, it\u2019s one of those curious things that spiritually we have to go back from where we came.\u00a0 Since everything comes down from above, we go back up through the same door from which we came.\u00a0 So, we\u2019re talking about the Lucifers, both the bees which are\u00a0Luciferic and the matches which are lucifers.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a very, very vague topic that we can\u2019t go into.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to; I\u2019d like to have a whole series of talks\u2014it\u2019s all about beans and garlic and onions and reproduction of sperm and semen and vaginal fluids and all kinds of other things that are really Scorpionic, but we\u2019re just not going to go into it.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably good, because I would probably get too Luciferic about it all.\u00a0 Because we don\u2019t have time to go into it doesn\u2019t mean that these things should be ignored, however.\u00a0 Right now our culture is permeated by Luciferic influence right down to generational maintenance and the stuff of our bodies.\u00a0 Our entire being is still penetrated by Luciferic attitudes.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We put a tremendous amount of energy into the first and second sins.\u00a0 We have VCR\u2019s that were developed so that people could watch porn at home and they wouldn\u2019t have to go out to a foreign-film theater; they could, in secret, indulgence themselves.\u00a0 I think in all but one or two countries in the world, the largest item in their budget is what is called \u201cdefense.\u201d\u00a0 So, it\u2019s a world that is very much prone to sex and violence.\u00a0 We can\u2019t ignore the presence of the Luciferic influence in our lives, because that leads to an even more deadly sin, the sin of Satan where we avoid things, sometimes called \u201cthe sin of omission.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m not going to help that person over there; I\u2019m not going to get involved,\u201d even though the person might be in danger of being harmed greatly.\u00a0 And we have to fret, of course, so that we aren\u2019t too contrarian, because we can\u2019t look too much at evil and we can\u2019t resist evil too strongly, because that\u2019s a way that we get caught into it.\u00a0 We want to look through the conditions that are produced by the ad-harmonious actions and try to understand what is going on.\u00a0 If we look with true spiritual light\u2014if we study the good, we\u2019ll learn about evil anyway, because we have this in our natures.\u00a0 In looking for the good, every virtue that is in us has its opposite pole, because our degenerating actions have produced some kind of vice.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are free.\u00a0 We are free to decide where to place our attention.\u00a0 Again, remember that we have to leave by the same door through which we came.\u00a0 It means that we have to watch where we\u2019re going.\u00a0 We cannot avoid the use of the sexual energy, but it does not have to be used in sexual indulgence.\u00a0 It is used regeneratively.\u00a0 The big word of regeneration is \u201ccreativity.\u201d\u00a0 After all of the old forms have degenerated and dissolved completely there is cosmic recycling, and they are available to us for creation\u2014perhaps creation similar to the lines of the past because our evolution is very, very slow, but we must create.\u00a0 Our new conceptions must always be looking upward.\u00a0 We must always go higher, and therefore we never lose the passion of sexuality.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When we talked about Leo and compared it to Aquarius, we talked about the relationship of individual love to that of altruistic love.\u00a0 Now we can talk about passion relative to altruism.\u00a0 Altruism is not milk [\u2026\u2026..].\u00a0 Altruism has some zing; it has some passion.\u00a0 When we aspire in a regenerative way to love, that is not a meek kind of loving.\u00a0\u00a0 It has something that is important, and we have to turn the corner.\u00a0 We have to dissolve death; the physical body is called the personality.\u00a0 The physical body has to be destroyed; it has to go down and the personality, the focus on individualism in personality, is very different than spiritual individuation.\u00a0 Spiritual individuation can only take place with regard to the universal truth of the all or of the totality.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t dissolve, and if we don\u2019t regenerate the personality, what happens is we become rugged individualists, and in the rugged individualism we have the same kind of independence as the Lucifers.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a very important thing that we are doing.\u00a0 We are becoming new people.\u00a0 We are becoming new in a regenerative way for becoming creative beings and we\u2019re contributing and producing new selves because our life is all we have and if,….. you know, we talked earlier about some problem people that I\u2019ve had to interact with.\u00a0 I do not mean to put them down, because in some ways they are more advanced than others because they do unique individual things and they are creating new personalities.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What we\u2019re looking at here is dissolving our past in full consciousness and recycling it into something new.\u00a0 We remember, and from that we consciously build.\u00a0 It is these things that we should see in our ideal.\u00a0 If we are Christians, in Christ we see the ideal of what we could be.\u00a0 We see the ideal of what we can create; it\u2019s much more important than creating a painting or a house or anything else.\u00a0 We have what Steinbeck called \u201cthe glory\u201d and we see what could be and how we could participate in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s go back to generation and look at one more central problem about it.\u00a0 In the plant kingdom we see regeneration frequently.\u00a0 Did you know that all of the delicious apples are of the same tree?\u00a0 It\u2019s all one tree that\u2019s been cloned and re-cloned and re-cloned; it has not gone through a reproductive process.\u00a0 It has been kept from having an evolution, and because it is not co-evolving with the insects and the fungi and the other things that will prey on it, we have to use more and more chemicals and things like that, because we want that apple to always stay the same rather than evolve and get better.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the animal kingdom there is also regeneration.\u00a0 I think most of the amphibians have regeneration.\u00a0 If you cut off the tail of a flatworm it grows a new tail.\u00a0 If you cut it off at just the right place, the head will grow another head.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if the tail will grow another tail; that doesn\u2019t seem very likely.\u00a0 Flat worms are one of the best examples of regeneration, because if you take a flat worm, and you know how long it\u2019s going to live, generally, and you bring it to just about the time it would die, you cause it to fast.\u00a0 You fast it until just about the time when it would die from starvation, and then you feed it again until just about the time when it would die and then you fast it again.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That flat worm will regenerate itself 30 times the length of \u2013 you know, like 30 lifetimes of flat worms that have already gone through and that one will still be alive.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if anybody has tried to produce the immortal flatworm yet (laughter).\u00a0 It seems like somebody could get a grant for that.\u00a0 At any rate, that is physical regeneration.\u00a0 In fact there are cases, all kinds of dark cases of even regeneration of limbs in human beings, but that\u2019s only the physical part of it.\u00a0 In this, material science looks much more at the effects than it does at the causes.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When material scientists want to cause a change in the species, they\u2019re much more likely to \u2026\u2026 you know this whole idea gives me feelings of terror.\u00a0 They want to get rid of all the genes that cause disease and likelihood of diseases.\u00a0 They\u2019re hacking away more and more at the DNA.\u00a0 Like for example they find that if they do away with the part of the DNA that does away with malaria, then sickle-cell anemia would be rampant because the same genetic structure that makes a resistance to sickle-cell anemia makes a liability to anemia, and you just \u2013 a fallen way is a way to destruction.\u00a0 We can\u2019t learn anything except if we kill it and tear it apart rather than learning something by building and creating.\u00a0 So, what we\u2019re talking about is regeneration in material science, we\u2019re talking about the cloning of pears or regeneration in flat worms or things like that.\u00a0 Provided that the change isn\u2019t too severe and the desire body is reasonably strong, cloning will be successful. It\u2019s accomplished by maintaining the matrix of the etheric body.\u00a0 There has to be the formative ability in the etheric body in order to regenerate something.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But, that\u2019s different from spiritual regeneration or creation.\u00a0 How do we regenerate all of humanity?\u00a0 It is true that there are abstract ideas and archetypal thoughts for everything that is created, everything in our evolution, and we all work with that.\u00a0 They will work with regeneration, for making new humans and a new humanity, and that is the place to begin.\u00a0 The axe is laid to the root.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If we wish to create new human beings, the only way we can do that is by going as deep as we can to the root of where the spirit meets the three-fold personality.\u00a0\u00a0 When we transcend the concrete nature and exist in the threefold spirit we are at a place where we can create completely new people.\u00a0 This is what being a twice-born means.\u00a0 A person is a twice-born because they are born in the spirit and they are right at the nub of the root or at the crown of the root where something new can be created.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When we do create new humans, even if we use the basic creative ideas of the cosmos or the existing archetypes it\u2019s not like filling in a coloring book; we have to give something of ourselves.\u00a0 True creation and regeneration is a much more demanding process.\u00a0 To do that, let\u2019s go back to the mandala.\u00a0 Last time when we looked at the mandala we began with everything in standard position, and we had a square\u2014the square of the seasons\u2014the square that represents the turning points of summer solstice, autumnal equinox, winter solstice, and vernal equinox.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/clay-vessels.jpg\" "\\"clay")
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