An Esoteric Map of the Cosmos
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Channeled with the upmost clarity for the average person, this book answers some of the really big, deep questions about the nature of existence, such as:
1. Who and what is God? Is God truly a loving Being?
Does God care about and intervene in our lives? How does
God figure in the recent discoveries of cosmology, such as
"The Big Bang" theory?
2.Why am I here? Is there any purpose to my life? How can I make my
life more meaningful? Is there a spiritual way I can empower myself?
3. What happens after I die? Is this life all that there is? Where was I before I was born?
Will I be coming back in a human or other type of life form? Does heaven exist?
4. Why do bad things happen to good people? How can a loving God allow good
people to suffer and bad people to flourish? Why am I still alive while others my age
or younger have passed away? Can we stop bad things from happening to us and the ones we love?
Is there any power in prayer?
The Ascended Masters allow the reader to visualize a new way to think about themselves and the very nature of reality.
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An Esoteric Map of the COSMOS
GUIDANCE FOR SPIRITUAL EVOLUTIONBy C. E. HoganAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2011 Rev. C.E. HoganAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4567-3960-7
Contents
Acknowledgments...........................................................................vForeword..................................................................................ixPreface...................................................................................xiIntroduction..............................................................................xiiiA Statement by Master Kuthumi.............................................................xviiChapter 1: Paradise.......................................................................1Chapter 2: Involution and Evolution.......................................................5Chapter 3: God's Day and a Week of Creation...............................................11Chapter 4: Seven Planes/Dimensions/Heavens of Earth's Manifestations......................15Chapter 5: What Are You Made of?..........................................................19Chapter 6: How Do You Work Through Dharma, Karma, and Sin?................................23Chapter 7: What Are Your Lessons? How Do You Work Through Them?...........................27Chapter 8: Twelve Basic Beliefs That Will Help Guide You on Your Path.....................31Chapter 9: The Seven Rays and How They Influence You......................................43Chapter 10: The Universal Laws............................................................51Chapter 11: Working Your Spiritual Path with the Universal Laws...........................67Closing Comment by the Ascended Masters...................................................77References................................................................................79
Chapter One
ParadiseGod's home is known to we Ascended Masters as Paradise. This is the main non-changing creation in God's domain. This is where Mother/Father/ Only Begotten Son resides. This is the first aspect God created. Then the start—the Big Bang, God's out breath, the surroundings of Paradise.
There are seven High Heavens or dimensions, or you can call them planes of existence. Within these dimensions are the consciousness and attributes of God's energies, which are used for creating all of God's manifestations, whether it be manifestation of something as large as a universe or solar system or as small as a bug. The seven High Heavens that surround Paradise are where the Hierarchy lives and works. After the seventh High Heaven, comes your heavens, your seven heavens (or dimensions or planes of existence), and they each have seven levels within seven, within seven, within seven, and so forth—many levels of Heaven, or as the Bible puts it, "many mansions" (John 14:2), or universes.
Do not think of heavens as being up or above you; they are all around you. Paradise is the center, and all of creation expands from that point outward, although some of your scientists' points of view are that with the Big Bang, all went forward. There were many big bangs that went forth in many directions. There are many dimensions/planes of existence/vibration levels/heavens in creation. Something we would like you to remember is that heavens, dimensions, planes of existence, and vibration levels all mean the same thing. They are levels of creation, and we will substitute any one of them throughout this work to mean one or many levels of creation.
The Seven High Heavens
Within the Central Universe, the first of the seven High Heavens is the home for the seven lords that sit on the seven thrones at the feet of God. (The rest of the High Heavens are where the rest of the Hierarchy lives.) The seven lords are co-creators with God; they combine the God's aspects or God's energies that we call the seven high rays (from them comes the seven lower rays). The seven high rays put in motion the universes and solar systems. Each of the seven lords is a planetary Logoi (they are the head of the Hierarchy for their round of Creation). Master Djwhal Khul, channeled through Alice A. Bailey (Bailey 1997) has described in a similar fashion the following attributes of God:
1. The work for the first High Heaven (or dimension or vibrational level) is the expression of creative energy—the will or power aspect of God.
2. The work for the second High Heaven is the first formulation of the plan—the wisdom and love aspect of God.
3. The work for the third High Heaven is the active building force—the clear intellect aspect of God.
4. The work for the fourth High Heaven is to produce qualities and greater detail—the harmony and conflict aspects of God.
5. The work for the fifth High Heaven is exactness in action— the intelligence aspect of God.
6. The work for the sixth High Heaven is devotion or idealism— the intuition aspect of God.
7. The work for the seventh High Heaven is ceremonial order and magic—the perseverance aspect of God.
From this point downward (for lack of a better word), your first heaven, which is your highest dimension, goes downward all the way to your seventh heaven, which is your heaven next to Earth—the astral plane. God's home is more than just the energies of the High Heavens we have put before you, but we hope that this has helped make God's home a little bit clearer.
Universes
The universes your scientists are now finding are just a part of the heavens we have been telling you about. Every universe is a different dimension/ plane of existence/vibration level/heaven, and yes, you are not alone, for there are many forms of Creation.
So you see, Paradise/God's Realm is in Havona (Heaven)/the seven High Heavens in which the Hierarchy lives. The High Heavens are within the Central Universe, which is within the Grand Universe. Within the Grand Universe are the super universes, and within the super universes are smaller universes. Within the smaller universes are solar systems, and within solar systems you have planets and so forth, all the way down to Earth.
Chapter Two
Involution and EvolutionWe the Ascended Masters watch you very closely; we witness your involution and your evolution. We help when we are allowed, and we are always willing to help Earth and all things on it work toward evolution. At this time only the human kingdom is in evolution; the rest of the kingdoms on Earth (mineral, plant, and animal) are working toward that goal, but they are still in the involution process.
Involution
When the sparks of God wanted to experience His knowledge and wisdom, they went forth (or away) from God (the Big Bang). All the sparks of God's consciousness went forth. The sparks (you) experienced the forming of all the universes and even the earth and all of its growth, which is the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms . This is involution. You, a spark of God's consciousness, had to work through all the experience of the mineral kingdom. Then you moved on to the next kingdom, the plant kingdom. You, the spark of God's consciousness, then worked through the plant kingdom's experience. Then you moved into the animal kingdom, and when you learned all those experiences, you, the spark of God's consciousness, moved into the human kingdom. When you have done this you started your evolution. All of this took many incarnations.
Evolution
How does this work on Earth for the human kingdom? When a spark of God has moved through all the other kingdoms and is ready to be given the opportunity to become self-realized, the spark is brought forth into human form. This human kingdom is one of experience and learning, and it has curriculums on many levels. Each spark has to go through all levels of learning to (1) become self-aware, (2) become God-aware, and (3) become aware that you are a part of all of Creation, that all of Creation is a part you, that all of Creation is a part of the One, and that you will someday return to the One (God). Now it takes many lifetimes to learn all what is needed to reach the third awareness and become a compete child of God on Earth (a Master).
You might now be wondering how this is accomplished. You become a complete child of God, as Buddha said, "By being enlightened." You can do this by bringing up your energy, or what we call your vibration.
So how did involution and evolution come about? The best way for us to explain it is to take you back to the beginning of time, before Earth's evolution, when the Source (or what you think of as the Creator) knew it was the I AM, which is recognizing the fullness of self. This is the name God gave to Moses; God was the I AM. The I AM realized it had thoughts; it was consciousness and conscious of self. It was conscious of its own knowledge and wisdom. At that time the Source became aware of two forms of consciousness within itself, one being creation (female) and the other being action (male).
The best way we can explain what happened next is to say that God divided Himself into two, somewhat like an embryo cell would do at its own beginning. In the ascension belief system, the two are what we call positive and negative (or male and female) energies or vibrations. God is neither male nor female but rather both energies in perfect balance. This is the Mother/Father vibration; Mother blesses you with creation abilities, and Father blesses you with action abilities.
The two-in-one God then created the Son, the truly Only Begotten Son, within Himself/Herself. We see this as the One/Source/God; within those names are the Father/Mother/Son vibration—the Trinity. You could call this Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost being the female side of God; all three energies exist within the One.
This Only Begotten Son is not the man you call Jesus, although Jesus' soul energy did come from the Only Begotten Son energy of God. We will go into more detail about this later in the book
At this point, the Creator wanted to go forth and create and be more than just existence, so it sent out a great number of its energies (which we call God sparks) to experience what Mother/Father/God already knew and also to help with creation. (This is what we the Masters would call leaving the Garden of Eden.) And so when the Creator started to create the cosmos and all its many levels (the Big Bang), the God sparks had to learn the basics of creation from beginning to the end (which has not yet been reached). So all of us were new consciousness just starting out and learning the difficulties of being at all levels of creation. If you look at this in a simplistic way, you could say that our consciousness started out learning what it meant to have awareness of being gas, fire, rock, water, amoeba, fish, plants, and animals, remembering that even at this most simplistic stage of involution, these simple forms of life are still a God spark with consciousness that grows and learns even though it does not have self-awareness.
After involution comes evolution and the beginning of awareness. At this point man/God spark became self-aware, wanting to know where he came from and who created him and his surroundings.
Here the Bible relates this time to the story of Adam and Eve coming out of the Garden of Eden. In ascension belief systems, Eden was in the astral plane (lowest part of Heaven), so the God sparks were coming out of the astral plane and onto Earth, for it is on the earth that you chose to do your involution through to evolution. Remember, involution is working down from the Creator and learning. Evolution is when you have self-awareness and are working up toward the Creator and learning but also putting the learning into the right action. This can take a long time for you to do correctly. At this time you are in God's image. We do not mean His/Her physical image but more of a vibration in a spiritual, mental, and emotional body. Your physical form is more of a vessel that allows a portion of your God spark to experience Earth. As a human, you start the long process of evolution by learning, growing, gaining more personality, and having ego. When you are on your "spiritual evolution," as we call it, you are on your spiritual path. You are learning to be more balanced in all of your bodies, eventually bringing more God spark/soul guidance into your life rather than being guided by just your personality and ego. This process takes you many lifetimes to learn to become a divine being on Earth as Master Jesus did.
At this time we would like to explain our concepts of evolution for humankind. We will be using very basic concepts and simple terms. We hope this will help you understand evolution and your part in it a little better. Remember, the Hierarchy gives to humanity a little information at a time, and it is usually done in symbolic terms. Everything that has been given to man has been to help him understand about God and His/ Her kingdoms. This knowledge has many meanings at different levels: esoteric ("veiled") and exoteric ("on the surface"). All is truth but not full truth. Man can only be given partial truth about the Creator and His/Her creation at the rate of humanity's own evolution. So if you would study all religions, occultism, metaphysics, and the mysteries, you would find that they all have partial truth. If you bring it all together, you get a better, though not the whole, picture of the Creator and His/Her creations.
The Bible refers to "many mansions" in heaven. These are really many different levels, or what you might call planes of existence. Different philosophies explain it a little differently. They are all similar but not exact, so we will give our philosophies on your part of God's plan. Remember, this is just one way to look at it. We would like to tell you about the seven days and seven weeks of God's creations, which are called chains and rounds. We will show you a chart that shows the first day of all universes being created. The earth also goes through the same form of involution and evolution (called chains and rounds), just at a different level of growth.
God's Day and a Week of Creation–Chains and Rounds
The round is a day in the Source's life. The theory is that it takes seven rounds, or ten or twenty depending on the philosophies that make God's week. We have no real understanding of just how long God's weeks or years really are, for creation has no time line. The round is the life cycle of involution (coming down) and evolution (going up); it is also a guiding energy that helps the universes and souls, let's say the ones on Earth, to learn and grow. On Earth, souls experience and learn through all seven rounds of creation. Each round has a spiritual energy within it—its own gender. The gender for this fourth round on Earth is the Christ/Christos energy, or you can call it prana, chi, gold liquid light force, or life force. There are many names given to this energy, which helps you on your spiritual journey.
The chain is the involution and evolution growth of the universes and Earth and the souls on Earth. The chains can be likened to what is called in this day and time energies/dimensions, or you can call it a spiritual ladder. In a way, it is a growing time. For Earth, the first three chains are the involution, coming away from God and going toward matter; then the next four chains are going upward to enlightenment (or going back to God), which is evolution. When we finish the seventh chain, we have completed one round—one day for God—in conclusion 7 chains = one round and which equals one day and 7 rounds equals one week - whether it be the universes or Earth. So our chart at this time shows the first day (or round) and the chains (cycles or dimensions of growth) for the universes. But remember, the earth mirrors the cycle of the universes, only at a different vibrational level.
Chapter Three
God's Day and a Week of CreationEarth's Chains and Rounds
We would like to explain the esoteric belief behind this occult understanding. We will do this as simply as we can. We will explain how the chains and rounds work for the earth. Remember, other dimensions have chains and rounds also, but that is not important at this time.
As one of whom we think highly, Ellen—a friend of the author's—stated, "Thank God it's Friday" (the fifth day of God's week). Many of you are working within some of this "time line," or you could call it working within the fifth dimension energies and moving forward spiritually on your paths.
The vibration of spiritual energy within the round stays the same until the seventh chain of that round/God's week has been completed. The chain (or Earth) moves up the spiritual ladder. When all the souls on the planet, as well as the planet itself, have reached their highest spiritual vibration. This is when the seventh day on the last round ends and God breaths in. God is in a rest (or sleep energy); when God reawakens, He/ She then breaths out, and a new round is started (a new day, a new time line) at a vibration level that is higher than the last one. This is how a new vibration level of creation works. The round's new spiritual level will influence involution and evolution growth.
(Continues...)
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Where we store your personal data
We principally store data, both electronically and on file, at our office.
Personal data may be transferred outside of the EEA by processors acting on our behalf. For transfers to countries not considered adequate by the EC, we will ensure that personal data is adequately protected, as required by the GDPR. This would include by use of the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the EC to protect personal data.
Your rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the right by law to request:
access to your personal data. This enables you to ask to receive a copy of the personal data that we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
erasure of your personal data.
object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
restriction of processing of your personal data.
transfer of your personal data to another party.
Links from our website
Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties that we permit to make such links. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We recommend that you check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on our website, so please ensure that you are viewing the correct version.
Please contact us if you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Policy.
Last amended May 2021.