Christ & the Kundalini [interesting]

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CHRIST & THE KUNDALINI

Contrary

to popular Christian dogma, Christ did teach about Karma,

reincarnation, self-realisation and the Divine Feminine as Holy Ghost

-- God the Mother. Christ's teachings are more Eastern than the

Churches would have us believe or would like to admit.

The

two centuries after Christ, saw the Christian Gnostic teachings of

spiritual awareness disseminated alongside the blind faith doctrines of

's formulation. In the third Century, the Roman Church's council of

Nicaea acted to stamp out the Gnostics and their anti-dogmatic approch

to spirituality.

The

Gnostic's were declared heretical, their texts destroyed and the

Gnostics themselves persecuted into extinction. However, a small amount

of Gnostic teachings survived, hidden in caves or in watered-down form

in other "heretical" texts (broadly labelled as "Apocrypha").

The

Christian Gnostics practiced a spirituality more similar to Eastern

traditions than to the Western Christianity we know today. "Gnostic" is

Greek for "knower" and it is "Gnosis" or "Knowledge" that they were

seeking. Unlike the blind faith demanded by today's Churches, 'Gnosis'

meant direct, mystical experience of the divine, which was to be found

by individual spiritual evolution to Self-Realisation, and not within

the confines of intellectual dogma. The experience of Gnosis was

trans-rational and non-intellectual.

From

the Nag Hammadi Library, the Book of , Christ tells us "For

whoever does not know self, does not know anything, but whoever knows

self, already has acquired knowledge about the depth of the universe".

Compare this with a tract from the Upanishads, the Indian metaphysical

treatise on Self Realisation: "It is not by argument that the self is

known... Distinguish the self from the body and mind. The self, the

atman, the highest refuge of all, pervades the Universe and dwells in

the hearts of all. Those who are instructed in the self and who

practice constant meditation attain that changeless and self effulgent

atman ( spirit/ self). Do Thou Likewise, for bliss eternal lies before

you..."

In another gnostic text, the Secret Gospel of ,

Christ promises us spiritual fulfilment "I shall give you what no eye

has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched and what has

never arisen in the human mind." This description is not unlike the

Upanishadic experience "the Self is devoid of birth and death, it

neither grows old nor decays and the accidents of life do not affect

it. The Self transcends space and time; what is great is not too great

for it to comprehend and what is small is not too small to escape its

attention. It is the Self of All".

Just

as Christ warned us against sin and encourages moral perfection in the

pursuit of spiritual fulfilment, so too do the Eastern texts "No

intellectual acumen can help one realise it, it can be realised only by

those who surrender to it and who make themselves worthy by grace, by

desisting from all that is sinful, who engage in the practice of

perfection by constant meditation"( Upanishads).

The

most ancient Eastern spiritual texts, the Vedas,of India, tell us that

the process of spiritual awakening by which one attains truth

-awareness is called 'Self-Realisation'. The Self Realised person lives

in direct experience of reality -- this is called "Jnana" ( a

traditional sanskrit word meaning 'knowledge' or 'Gnosis'). Such a

person is called a "Jnani" ('knower ' or 'gnostic' ) or "dwijaha"

('twice born'; first from a human mother to the earthly plane then

secondly as a child of the Goddess, or Divine Mother, who gives the

seeker their second, spiritual birth, Self Realisation, into the plane

of mystic awareness- gnosis! ). The traditional Indian texts extol the

'Divine Mother' as the Cosmic Matriarch, bestower of the highest

treasure of Self Realisation upon Her deserving children. Many Indian

mystic traditions say this same goddess is represented within the human

being as the divine feminine power called Kundalini.

What

of Western tradition? In the Secret Book of Christ explains that

human redemption before the Heavenly Father occurs by the mediation of

a Divine Feminine principle, which he calls the Earthly Mother. It is

the Earthly Mother who removes the sins of the children that they can

become worthy of their divine heritage; "when all sins and all

uncleanesses are gone from your body, your blood shall become as pure

as our Earthly Mother's blood and as pure as the river's foam sporting

in the sunlight. And your breath shall become as pure as the breath of

odorous flowers; your flesh as pure as the flesh of fresh fruits

reddening upon the leaves of trees; the light of your eye as clear and

bright as the brightness of the sun shining upon the blue sky. And now

shall all the angels of the Earthly Mother serve you and your breath,

your blood, your flesh shall be one with the breath, the blood and the

flesh of the Earthly Mother, that your spirit also become one with the

Spirit of your Heavenly Father. For truly no-one can reach the Heavenly

Father unless through the Heavenly Mother. Even as the newborn babe

cannot understand the teaching of his father until his mother has

suckled him, bathed him, nursed him, put him to sleep and nurtured

him". The Earthly Mother is a divine mediator through which the

seekers, the Sons of Man, are raised to the Heavenly Father. Another

part of the same text says "Honour your Earthly Mother and keep her

laws that your days may be long on this earth and honour your Heavenly

Father, that eternal life may be yours in the Heavens. For the Heavenly

Father is a hundred times greater than all the fathers by seed and by

blood, and greater is the Earthly Mother than all mothers by the body".

The Holy Trinity, then is God the Father, God the Son (ie. Christ) and,

it seems, God the Mother. The Divine Mother particularly is the means

and power of spiritual evolution.

The

Secret Book of relates Christ's description of the Divine Feminine

as the power of God Almighty. "She is the first power. She preceded

everything, and came forth from the Father's mind as forethought of

all. Her light resembles the Father's light; as the perfect power She

is the image of the perfect and invisible Virgin Spirit. She is the

first power, the glory, Barbello, the perfect glory among the worlds,

the emerging glory, She glorified and praised the Virgin Spirit for she

had come forth through the Spirit. She is the first thought, image of

the Spirit. She became the universal womb, for She precedes everything,

the common parent, the first humanity, the Holy Spirit". The Holy

Spirit is here described as the Divine Power of God Himself. This power

is maternal in its character (universal womb, She, the common parent)

and all powerful as the 'first emanation of God'. More so, She is pure

(Virgin) and She glorifies purity.

So ancient christian tradition seems to tell us that the holy spirit is actually the Divine Mother!

One

cannot overlook the Eastern parallels. God Almighty in Indian mythology

is represented as Sada-Shiva. His state is eternal perfection (Sat Chit

Ananda). His power is the Adi Shakti (primordial power) who is His

feminine counterpart or spouse. It is She who does all things. She

created the universe and the gods who attend over it (for example, the

triune Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu). The Adi Shakti is the Mother of all

things. She gave birth to the universe and is the feminine power of

every deity and celestial being (usually represented as their spouse).

The Secret Book of parallels this "She became the universal womb,

for She precedes everything, the common parent, the first humanity, the

Holy Spirit, the triple male (Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu?) the triple power

(Parvati, Saraswati, Lakshmi, who are spouses of the triple males-or

the triple Goddess of Western mythological tradition?)". Thus the

Christian mystics understood that the Holy Spirit is the Divine

Feminine, the Goddess, the Universal Mother herself. The Syriac

Christians worshiped the Holy Ghost as the Great Mother.

suggests that Herself is the Holy Spirit (for who else but God the

Mother can give birth to God the Son?). Other Apocryphal Scriptures

describe as the focus of Temple activities. Her early life was

punctuated by auspicious portents all implying her own Divinity.

Just

as and the Holy Ghost appear to parallel aspects of the Divine

Mother described in the East, so too does Christ, the son of God

reflect the Eastern principle of the Divine Child. The Divine Child in

the Eastern mythological tradition is commonly worshiped as the dual

child-gods Ganesha and Kartikeya. Ganesha represents the fabric of the

cosmos, the primordial Aum or Logos from which the creation was

constructed. Christ affirmed the same primordial nature of himself when

he said "I am the first" and "I am the alpha". Ganesha is the

primordial child who is the embodiment of purity and innocence.

Similarly Christ venerated children and the innocence that they

manifested. He even urged the apostles (and us) to cultivate our own

childlike innocence " let the children come to me for the kingdom of

heaven belongs to such as these" and "assuredly whoever does not

receive the kingdom of god as a little child will by no means enter

it"(Mark 10). Kartikeya is the same principle of innocence in dynamic

action- the slayer of evil; as Christ did when he ejected the money

lenders from the temple.

So,

Christ seems to be telling us that the kingdom of Heaven, which is a

state of God-like perfection and child-like innocence is attained by

some inner phenomenon. In the Gnostic Scriptures Christ spoke directly

of this as an inner transformation, self realisation.

He also told us that the Holy Ghost or Divine Mother is the power by which this is accomplished, but by what mechanism?

Let's

take lateral look at the Indian tradition of Kundalini of which many

local saints have spoken. Shankaracharya (700AD) and Gyaneshwara

(1200AD) are two well known mystic exponents of Kundalini. They both

describe the actualisation of self-realisation in their classic poetry,

such as the Saundarya-Lahari, Sivananda-Lahari and the Gyaneshwari

(itself a commentary on the Kundalini Yoga described by Krishna in the

Bhagavad Gita ). They describe a force of pure (virgin) spirituality,

which lies dormant within the human being.

By

constant purification and self perfection the seven vital energy

centres (chakras) which govern all aspects of mind, body and soul, are

prepared for the awakening of Kundalini. Once awakened by divine grace,

the Kundalini passes through these centres, not unlike a string through

beads, enlightening each as it passes through. Arriving at the seventh

centre (Sahasrara) the seeker's awareness is united with the

eternal-self-within. The experience is transrational, non causal, a

tangible and real bliss of truth-awareness. Indian mystics called the

Sahasrara "Paradise", "Heaven" or, as Christ has called it "The Kingdom

of God Within". As the Kundalini passes through each of the vital

centres, they are stimulated to produce a pure, nourishing energy. The

Vedas (Ancient Scriptures of India) describe this energy as a sacred

river emitted by each of the seven chakras. Shankaracharya called this

energy "spun". He too described its nature as being like divine water

showering down upon him as he meditated in the ecstacy of devotion.

Other Indian scriptures call this energy "Paramchaitanya" (energy of

supreme consciousness).The miracle of Whitsunday wherein the Apostles

became empowered with their spirituality sounds similar to the

experience of these chakras manifesting this same divine energy.

Shankaracharya

said "All Glory unto the current of Divine Bliss which, brimming from

the river of Thy Holy stories, flows into the lake of my mind, through

the canals of intellect, subduing the dust of sin and cooling the heat

of memory". Much of the gnostic texts repeat this ancient Eastern

understanding.

Consider

this tract from the Book of Hymns of the Dead Sea Scrolls: "I have

reached the inner vision and through Thy Spirit in me I have heard Thy

wondrous secret, through Thy mystic insight Thou hast caused a spring

of knowledge to well up within me, a fountain of power, pouring forth

living waters, a flood of love and of all embracing wisdom, like the

splendour of eternal light". The "fountain of power", "spring of

knowledge", "Living water", "flood of love", "eternal light" all

directly describe the experience of Kundalini awakening! Consider this

from the Nag Hammadi Library, the Apocryphal Gospel of "The

Tree of Life is in the centre of Paradise, as is the oil tree from

which the anointment Chrisma comes. The Chrism is the source of

resurrection". Krishna, the divine being, c4000BC, also described the

Kundalini as an inverted Tree of spirituality, whose roots lay in the

brain. The 'Tree of Life' is a well recognised symbolic parallel of the

Kundalini. So too is the Holy Grail, the cup from which Christ drank at

the last supper its symbolic significance being that Christ's

sustenance arose from a cup, that is, an object whose receptive

qualities reflect the nature of the divine feminine -- yet another

parallel of the Kundalini.

It

is likely that St 's 'Chrisma' is the same 'spun' described by

Shankaracharya, the 'Paramchaitanya' or in Christian terminology 'God's

grace'. In the Gospel of Peace, Christ explains that the experience of

spirituality is foremost. He says the Scriptures are merely conveying

an intellectual knowledge, but we are to have the 'living knowledge',

that is the experience of our own spirituality. He says "Seek not the

law in your Scriptures for the law is life, whereas the Scripture is

dead. I tell you truly Moses received not his laws from God as writing

but through the living word. The law is living word for living God to

living prophets for living men. In everything that is life to the law

is the law written, for I tell you truly all living things are nearer

to God than the Scripture which is without life. I tell you truly that

the Scripture is the work of man, but life and all its hosts are the

work of our God. Wherefore do you not listen to the words of God which

are written in his works? And wherefore do you study the dead

Scriptures which are from the hands of men?". That is, seek the divine

experience which is beyond definition, do not settle for mundane human

interpretations of the mystic's suprahuman experience. Thus Christ's

law is a living, cosmic and experiential one, and is actuated by the

awakening of the spiritual experience within the seeker, not by

intellectual study or by following those who themselves have not truly

had the experience. This directly parallels the eastern teachings; that

self- realisation, the pure spiritual awakening, is attained by the

righteous and itself gives greater righteousness. More so, self

realisation is a process of genuine, inner spiritual transformation

which must be experienced to be understood, since it lies beyond the

domain of scriptural description or theological definition. Since it is

gained by the grace of the Divine Mother( Holy Spirit) alone, it is

most certainly not possible to organise or institutionalise this

experience in human terms.

This

contrasts with the way in which the Churches have pigeonholed and

categorised Christianity in terms of 'blind faith', 'obedience to the

church' and empty ritual. In the Gnostic Scriptures, untouched by the

organised churches, Christ urges us to perceive and experience the

cosmic order for ourselves and not to rely on so-called scriptural

authorities -- such as the churches -- to prescribe it to us.

C.G.

Jung recognised the link between the Divine Feminine and the Eastern

principle of Kundalini. He understood that the Kundalini was the

representation of the Goddess within each of us. Is the Holy Ghost the

Kundalini? Was the Kundalini a central principle in early mystic

Christianity? Such an assumption would help us reinterpret many parts

of the mainstream bible, for example; In the Gospel of , Christ

explains to the Pharisee Nicodemus, " Verily I say unto thee, except a

man be born of water and the spirit; he cannot enter the kingdom of

God", this second birth far from being a licence for so many born again

Christian fundamentalists is something much more mystical and subtle in

nature. To be "born of the water and the spirit" describes the

awakening of Kundalini. She is often described as a divine mother whose

ascent within the spine of the seeker gives them rebirth into

mystic/gnostic awareness, the 'divine water' is its nourishing energy.

The Kundalini enters the Sahasrara and there unites the seeker's

awareness with the self or spirit. This is described as a blissful,

infinite experience of the kingdom of God within. Thus, Christ's 'born

again' Christianity might actually refer to those Christians who have

entered the realm of direct experience of divinity, in the state of

self realisation.

Other

Canon (mainstream) Scriptures can be more deeply understood in this

light. In the Gospel of , Christ says "Be Ye Perfect, even as

Your Father which is in Heaven is perfect". (Ch.5, v. 48). This is a

clear exhortation by Christ to strive and achieve spiritual perfection,

just as the Buddha and other Eastern sages taught their disciples.

Christ tells us about our innately divine nature "Ye are Gods" (Psalm

82, v.6; 10, v.34). Furthermore "Behold the Kingdom of God is

within you" (Luke 17, v.21), that is the experience of Heaven is an

internal phenomenon. This implies that the inner state of the seeker is

the source of their spiritual fulfilment. We could well say that

Christ's idea of Heavenly Salvation was an internal state of Godlike

perfection.

When

the seeker's awareness is completely united with the Eternal

Spirit/Self/Atman the true self (not ego, mind, intellect, personality,

body or memory) is experienced or realised. Since the spirit is no less

than a reflection of God itself then in the state of complete Self

Realisation the seeker experiences perfection" as our Father in Heaven

is perfect". The Eastern term for this state of Self Realisation is God

Realisation and it represents the final stage of our spiritual

evolution.

There

are deeper references to the chakras and kundalini in the Scriptures.

For example, Revelations may also symbolically describe the chakras in

St. 's spiritual vision;" I saw seven standing lamps of gold" (the

chakras emitting the divine light?), sees Christ as one of the

seven lamps (you will see the significance of this later), Christ is

holding the "seven stars" (demonstrating his command of the chakra

system?) and speaks of the "seven churches" (the divine institution

within each chakra?).

In

Genesis envisions a divine ladder directly connecting his earthly

being with God in Heaven- this precisely describes the experience and

purpose of the kundalini!

Consider this idea: The term 'Jesus of

Nazareth', does not (say German theologians) relate to Christ's times

in Nazareth. Proper understanding of the original language shows that

such a term is not linguistically possible (despite the fact that

uses it). The original term is more likely, "Jesus the Nazareen."

Nazareen is an Aramaic word meaning "one who has bound himself to the

service of God" or "one who is anointed." Compare this to the meaning

of Yoga, "Union with God" and 'Yogi' – one who has union with god or to

descriptions of the awakening of the Kundalini, "the mystical

anointment". The Nazaria were a group of Gnostics contemporary to

Christ. They taught a mystic spirituality similar to the Eastern ideas

already described. It has been suggested by some authorities that this

Gnostic word is ultimately derived from the Hindustani 'Nazar.' This is

a yogic term for the point between the eyebrows and above the nose (the

'third eye') where sages of old performed meditation. 'Nazaren' means

to envision or behold. Then a more accurate meaning of "Jesus the

Nazareen" would be "Jesus who has Yoga or Self Realisation" or "Jesus

who meditates". Considering Christ's status as the" Son of God" perhaps

a more appropriate meaning would be "Jesus who is the object of

meditation". Was Christ himself the object of meditation as are many

deities in Eastern cultures? Christ himself might well be the Nazaren.

The

Nazar physically corresponds to the location of the Agnya chakra, the

sixth vital chakra through which the Kundalini must pass before She

enters the Sahasrara.

The Agnya manifests physically as the 'optic chiasm' whose shape itself

is cruciform! Is the cosmic Christ represented within each of us in the

Nazar, Agnya chakra, just as the cosmic Mother or Holy Ghost is

represented within us as the Kundalini?

The position of the

Agnya chakra is such that it is the final centre to be crossed before

the Kundalini finishes its journey to the Sahasrara ( the 'Kingdom of

God Within'). Entry of the Kundalini into the Sahasara gives the

blissful experience of divine awareness. This literally explains

Christ's words, "None can enter Heaven except through me".

Ponder

also on Christ's instruction 'to be as little children' or "look at the

birds of the air for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns;

yet your heavenly father feeds them....which of you by worrying can add

one cubit to his stature?"( 6). The innocence of mind which he

describes is that same Zen awareness obtained in the state of

meditation, when the Agnya chakra is pierced by the Kundalini giving

rise to a heightened awareness of the present moment, all thoughts of

past and future neutralised. Consider also that Christ himself told us,

"When your two eyes become one, your body will be filled with light."

This implies that when we go beyond the physical sight ( the two eyes)

to the subtle experience or perception which occurs by opening of the

third eye and thus entry of the awareness into the Sahasrara our body

is filled with light, purity, grace etc.

There

is further symbolism eg. the twelve apostles represent six pairs which

are symbolic of the lower six chakras from Mooladhara to Agnya. These

six chakras are limited to dual awareness, ie. past and present, cause

and effect. However, the final chakra, Sahasrara, represented here by

Christ, who was the leader of the twelve apostles is non-dual, being

derived from an awareness higher than the causal plane.

Here

are some possible conclusions which are equally reasonable, though

entirely contrary to modern dogma about Christ and Christianity.

Christ's spirituality differed radically from our modern understanding.

His teaching was dynamic and zen-like focusing on the experience of

inner purification and transformation, the elevation of the seeker's

awareness into the state (not concept or dogma) of self-realisation. He

sought to overthrow the immoral culture of the Romans and to deliver to

the dogmatic, letter-bound Jews the mystic fulfilment promised to them

in the Mosaic covenant.

Central

to his teaching was the understanding that the feminine aspect of God,

God the Mother, was the means by which self-realisation and spiritual

evolution to god-awareness occurred. Christ venerated the Divine Mother

as the Holy Spirit. It is this power, described in the East as residing

in the human being as the Kundalini, that is the last vestige of the

Goddess-tradition in the Christian West.

was in her own right a divine being. She was venerated as such by

Christ and some of the suppressed scriptures describe her as the Holy

Spirit incarnate.

Why

did the Churches suppress these true christian traditions? Partly

because they are patriarchal institutions based on the questionable

dogma of who perceived women (and therefore the feminine

principle) as inferior entities. Partly also because spirituality which

focused on the Divine Feminine would also focus on the redemptive power

of God the Mother and on Her role as the grantor and matriarch of

mystical experience. This kind of understanding, like all mystics and

mysticism, defies organisation, dogmatic hierarchies and institutions

preferring the role of individual experience, revelation and

progressive growth toward divine awareness.

The

Holy Ghost, then, threatened to neutralise the fear-oriented dogma

which the Churches have used, in the name of Christ and Spiritual

Truth, to maintain their secular power and wealth.

Christ's

promise of a comforter, the "second coming", implies another divine

incarnation to bring about the redemption of humanity. As we have seen

it is the Divine Mother who has the power to redeem her children, the

Sons of Man (as the gnostics put it), in the eyes of God the Father.

Who better to comfort the children who suffer, as does the West and

much of the world from a culture whose ethic of materialism and

immediate gratification is characterised by terms such as "the lost

generation", "eco-disaster", "terrorism", "future shock" and

"psycho-social alienation", than the Divine Mother?

C.G. jung,

in his critique of the Western psyche keynoted the absence of the

Feminine Principle as a major cause of much of the West's

psycho-cultural imbalance. The return of the Divine Feminine would

indeed facilitate the spiritual redemption of Western Culture.

With this perspective we may be able to understand a key image from Revelations;

"A

great Portent in Heaven, a Woman robed with the Sun, beneath her Feet

the Moon, and on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars. She was pregnant,

and in the anguish of Her Labour She cried out to be Delivered. Then a

second Portent appeared in Heaven: a great red Dragon with seven Heads

and ten Horns; on his Heads were seven Diadems, and with his Tail he

swung down a third of the Stars in the Sky and flung them to Earth. The

Dragon stood in front of the Woman who was about to give birth, so that

when Her Child was born He might devour It. She gave birth to a male

child, who is destined to rule all the Nations with an Iron Rod....."

The

Divine Woman, a central figure of Revelations, is the Comforter

Herself. The crown of stars indicates that Her authority and heritage

is of the Divine Father, the moon, upon which She resides is another

symbol of the feminine.

As

the Divine Mother She is giving birth, ie. self-realisation, and

succeeds in producing a man-child. A man indicating spiritual maturity

and dynamic action and yet a child symbolising purity of heart and that

quality of innocence which Christ taught was essential to enter into

the state of Heavenly Experience. The child, having the mystic

awareness of self-realisation, rules over the nations indicating

command of the earthly plane as well as over the inner country, the

chakra system.

The child of the Divine mother is a Gnostic adept!

He

rules with an iron rod, the kundalini, which mercilessly slays the

forces of evil, the obstacles which obstruct her flow through the

chakra system.

The

dragon who stands over the Woman as She labours waiting to devour the

child could well be the Churches. Their 2000 year vigil against the

Divine Feminine lest she produce a race of Gnostics is evident in their

manipulation and suppression of the scriptures. Revelations tells us

that the Divine Children are destined to overcome the beast and

establish a New Age of divine awareness.

Consider Christs warning "he who has blasphemed against the holy ghost shall be damned forever".

What then of the Churches who have virtually edited the divine feminine

out of the Western Cultural tradition in order to maintain their grip

on the masses?

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L'Angelo Misterioso

*note also that when Saul,

who was responsible for finding and killing practicing Christians, was

on his trip, it was not that he came to a realization and turned to

believe and follow Christ/God, his name becoming , the rock of the

church, but that he created a scheme to take over the teachings to draw

the Christians out, and thereby directing, and taking over the

leadership of the masses. Today, those followers who were tricked can

be found within the Catholic church.../Saul...the first self

appointed pope. All references to what really Christ taught was all but

destroyed and shunned.

/Saul simple re-molded

the aspects of even older religions, which were based on even older

ones. Christ said to "look within". His power and teaching came from

this place, and you have but to "be there" to receive the same.

"This I tell you, you will do things greater than this...".