 124. Philosophy � Greek |
In contrast to such men of power, I speak for the primary element inherent in all human experience, knowing, and culture. That element inherent in all human experience, knowing, and culture. That element was allowed a level of acknowledgement and even primacy in Ages past, but it this new Age of scientism it has been propagandized out of the mainstream of human understanding and acculturation. I speak for the truly religious or spiritual dimension of our conscious existence. What is commonly recognized and sometimes defended as religion in our Age is only the most superficial and factional and often dim-minded and perverse expression of ancient national and tribal cultism. Therefore, I speak for the Truth of religion and spirituality in the highest, most universal, discriminative, benign, and rightly esoteric (or profound) sense. And, like Teachers in Ages past, I am not merely a scholar or a worldly revolutionary, but I come full of spiritual experience and hard-won understanding and the powers of blessing that Radiate through Man in the Presence of the Living God.
The popular apologists of our academic and scientific culture argue for a human future that is founded entirely upon the rule of scientific materialism. If they consider or honor religion at all, it is almost invariably and superficial and factional exotericism of the "great religions" (which are nothing more than the historically dominant cults). Therefore, true or ultimate religion, or the universal spirituality of the Adepts (which was the foundation of all great religious movements of the past), has not yet emerged in our Age as a dominant cultural influence, and the prospect of a future human culture founded upon a new religious and spiritual understanding of Man in the universe is not yet seriously contemplated in the popular realm. Indeed, the Adept, or spiritual genius, is, in our Age, as subject to abuse by the dominant worldly and cultic powers as in any previous Age.
Consider this. In the Age of worldwide political and social interdependence, of super-technology space migration, and the atomic bomb, and of esoteric sciences of the kind initiated by intellectual geniuses such as Einstein, the people must not fail to be equipped with a true, practical, supremely intelligent, universal, and full esoteric understanding and practice of spiritual religion. If they remain in the embrace of the archaic, myth-laden, exoteric, divisive religions of the past, they will only be subject to exploitation and negative dominance by the superior esotericism and popular persuasiveness of scientific materialism. To persist in the old cults is, in effect, to be bereft of religion in the Age that is upon us.
-Franklin Jones
In the physics of the worlds, ether or functional energy is the senior and most subtle of the gross elements, which also include solid, liquid, fiery, and gaseous substances (the ancient esoteric elements of earth, water, fire, and air). Ether, the most subtle state of gross or material appearance, is the all-pervading element of the physical universe, analogous to space itself. The etheric dimension of force or manifest light pervades and surrounds our universe and every physical body. It is the field of energy, magneticism, and space in which the lower or grosser elements function. Thus, your "etheric body" is the specific concentration of force associated with and surrounding-permeating your physical body. It serves as a conduit for the forces of universal light and energy to the physical body.
In practical terms of daily experience, the etheric aspect of the being is our emotional-sexual, feeling nature. The etheric body functions through and corresponds to the nervous system. Functioning as a medium between the conscious mind and the physical being, it controls the distribution and use of energy and emotion. It is the dimension of vitality of Life-Force. We feel the etheric dimension of life not only as vital energy and power and magnetic-gravitational forces, but also as the endless play of emotional polarization, positive and negative, to others, objects, the world itself, everything that arises.
"Prana" is a Sanskrit term meaning "life-energy" or life-force. In yogic esoteric teachings, "prana" is also a specific technical name for one of a number of forms of etheric energy in the bodily being. The term here more generally, in reference to the whole dimension of living energy that pervades and sustains the physical and vital processes of Man. Thus, "prana" is the manifest life-energy. It is an aspect of the Transcendental Current of Life, which is All-Pervading, but also Eternal - but manifest or "pranic" energies are only temporary phenomena of the Realm of Nature.
