THE PROCESS                  

                                                     Church of the Final Judgement                                     

              London

             March, 1970

                        

                         COMMUNICATION TO ALL BRETHREN (INFORMATION)      

 

   

 

Brethren, As it is,

  At the core of every being, there is a soul. And in the beginning the soul is pure; an infinite pinpoint of perfection, within the terms of the being; a life source, which is awareness itself and has access to all knowledge, within the reality of the being; a spark of undistorted truth; conscious awareness of all reality, within the scope of the being's existence.

   The pure soul is a manifestation of the ultimate truth, because truth is the knowledge of all relevant reality.

   Distortion of reality, incomplete knowledge of reality, obscuring of reality, brings about the opposite of truth which is a lie.

   Reality is different for every being in the universe. But truth is the same. Because truth is not reality, but the knowledge and awareness of reality.

   And the soul is the core of the being; the centre, and the source point of its individual life-force.

   Around the soul is wrapped the shell of the body.

   Whereas the soul gives the being its infinite nature, its unbounded existence (within the ultimate boundaries provided by its own personal reality), the body, being itself finite, bounded by precise limitations and governed by specific laws, gives the being its finite existence. It defines it and fixes its position in time and space.

   The soul has no boundaries within the scope of the being's reality. It has no dimension within the overall dimensions of the being's existence. Whereas the body has both boundaries and dimensions, inside the limits of the being's existence.

   Imagine a shapeless, formless, weightless, massless pinpoint of conscious awareness, floating free inside an empty hollow sphere. That is the nature of the soul with no body. The ultimate limit of the being's scope of reality is the inside surface is the inside surface of the sphere. Outside that limit is not relevant to its existence; it is not part of its reality.

   So that within the terms of its existence, within the scope of its reality, its awareness is complete and its nature infinite.

   Now imagine that it creates a finite existence for itself within the sphere, a solid dimensional object, which does have limits and boundaries; shape, form, weight and mass; and is governed by the laws relating to these things. That is the nature of the body.

   And the soul inhabits the body.

   Thus the being has two poles; two points of reference; the spiritual to give it life, and the physical to give it definition; the soul whereby it exists, and the body whereby it defines its existence.

   In the space between the shell of the body and the pinpoint of the soul is nothing; void. And the void is the perfect link between body and soul. Its very emptiness and non-existence is its perfect state as a medium of contact. Contact between soul and body, in this state is complete, direct, perfect. We speak the literal truth if we say that in a state of purity, nothing exists between the body and the soul.

   Both are free within their own terms. The soul is at one with the body, and is free, and the body is at one with the soul, and provides no barrier against it. The body gives the soul limits and dimensions, but only as the soul requires and chooses at any given moment.

 

   The body derives its existence from the soul, which means it is created by the soul. It has no defined existence of its own that is independent of the soul. Thus the soul, because it has complete knowledge and awareness of its own reality, and because its contact with the body is perfect, has perfect and unlimited control of the body. The body will always respond with co-operation to whatever decision the soul might make--that is due to the perfect contact-- and the scope of the soul's decision is unlimited--that is due to complete awareness.

   So the soul has the power to move the body at will; to change its shape, its form, its nature, its mass, its structure, its weight, its size; or to destroy it altogether and recreate it. The soul cannot decide to change or create the body into a form outside its capabilities, because its capabilities reach to the limit of its awareness. And its awareness does not reach outside its capabilities, which would be outside its reality.

   The soul is the creative element in the relationship; the body is the receptive element. The soul creates and controls; the body responds. The soul gives life; the body receives it. There is no conflict, no rejection, no resistance.

   This state of complete freedom; complete balance between the two poles of existence; harmony, contact and acceptance; is a state of union; division without separation; duality without dichotomy; opposition without conflict.

   This state of union constitutes the Essence of the being; the central core and the outer shell, in perfect accord with one another; the reality and the image; the inspiration and the manifestation; the internal and the external; the substance and the accidence. The union of opposites; the Essence.

   Now the soul of the individual is itself a creation. In relation to its body and its own Essence, it is the creative element. But in relation to its own creator, it is the receptive element.

   It is a part of a chain of creation, which stems originally from a fundamental life force at the centre of all existence.

   This fundamental life force, which is GOD, is infinitely small and has infinite scope. This is the basic nature of the two pole universe; zero and infinity; nothing and everything. GOD is a non-existence with a awareness of all existence.

   In its own terms, the tiny pinpoint of awareness which constitutes the soul, may be infinitely small, just as in its own terms its scope of awareness is infinitely large. But within it, is its creator, and outside its own scope, are the boundaries of the scope of its creator. And within its creator is its creator's creator, and outside those boundaries are the even wider boundaries of scope of its creator's creator. And ultimately within is the infinite non-existence of GOD, and ultimately without are the are the infinite non-boundaries of the scope of GOD.

   And from that ultimately infinite state, GOD creates and thereby defines Its existence, with a finite creation.

 

diagram: INFINITE SCOPE OF GOD

 

 

   So GOD divides Itself into a creative element, the central core of infinite nothingness, and a receptive element, a limited existence wrapped around a central core. And the receptive element, which is the original creation, contains innumerable individual elements, each of which then itself becomes a source of life, and in imitation of its creator, also creates, and thereby divides itself into a creative and receptive element.

   And the chain of creation goes on and on, spreading outwards in ever widening circles in terms of existence, and moving inwards in ever decreasing circles in terms of scope.

   The nature of creation, pure creation, is such that a being only has material outside itself with which to create.

   Its awareness reaches from its creator, within, outwards through itself, through the "material" which surrounds it, to the outer limits of its reality. Basically, that is its complete scope of reality. Nothing exists for it inside the inner limits of that scope, nor outside the outer limits. It can know of existence beyond those limits, through its direct knowledge of existence within them, but it cannot experience it. It cannot feel it.

   Now in the pure state, there is nothing between itself and its creator, no 'material' with which to create, no real scope as such, just itself, and its creator and the link between them. At that end of the scale it is virtually identified with its creator. In that direction it has no power to create or uncreate or change or modify. In that direction it has no choice. But in the other direction, it has the full scope of the 'material' which surrounds it, outwards to the point where its reality ends. And within that scope, it can create, uncreate, change, and manipulate. That is its own area of creation, and therefore its own area of choice.

   So when we speak of the scope of a being's reality, or the terms of its existence, we generally mean that area of usable 'material', that area of choice, extending from itself as a central creative element outwards to the outer limits of its scope. Taking its inevitable, and in its terms unchangeable, link with its creator for granted, that is the way it sees itself.

   But why does a being create at all? Why does it divide itself?

  In order to define its existence within its scope. Its existence is already defined within the scope of its creator; but the being itself, because its awareness reaches to the limits of its scope of reality, feels infinite; it is a one pole existence. Therefore it creates for itself another pole, a vehicle which is finite in its terms, and thereby it gives itself definition.

   The 'material' of creation is everything that exists within the scope of the creator. Before creation, this is an undefined and homogeneous mass. The creator gives form, shape, and definition to a part of this mass. That is creation. But because in order to do this the creator must give life to the material which he uses, in its created form it becomes a part of the creator. It becomes the creator's other half. Thus the division comes about; the creative element and the receptive element; the part which gives life and the part which receives life.

   And as long as creator gives life to the creation, the creation contains, and therefore is a part of the creator. As long as the creative element gives life to the receptive element, and the receptive element accepts and manifests that life, then they represent two halves of one entity, a division, a duality.

   When the creator ceases to give life to the creation, when he withdraws the life force, the creation ceases to be part of the creator. It dies. But death does not mean that the material contained in the creation vanishes. It means that it loses the power which gave it form and definition. Therefore it returns to its original state of being a homogeneous part of the homogeneous reservoir of existence 

   For example, when the body dies; in other words the life force from the soul is withdrawn from it; it gradually decomposes and eventually returns to 'the dust from whence it came'. No actual material is lost, only form and definition.

   But while life flows from the creative element to the receptive element, the form and the definition of the creation remain. There is division and duality.

   And that is the Game; a game of division and duality.

 

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   But division does not mean discord or conflict or dichotomy. In its pure state, it means the balance of opposites; union; two existing as one.

   There can be no union without division; no balance without duality.

  However, when division becomes separation, estrangement, alienation, two existing as two, either without any contact at all with one another or in conflict with one another, then there is no union, no balance.

   The Essence of the individual being is the existence of the soul and the body in union with one another; but perfect co-ordination.

   The Essence of the Game is the existence of the creative element in union with the receptive element; duality but perfect harmony.

   When the creative and the receptive elements are separated, and either estranged from one another or in conflict, the Essence of the Game is lost.

   When the soul and the body are separated; estranged or in conflict; the Essence of the being is lost. 

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   What maintains harmony in division? And What destroys harmony in division?

  If both elements retain an awareness of their common origin, then there is harmony. If either element loses sight of their common origin and sees only their differences from one another, or if the difference takes priority over the common origin, then there is separation. Either there is loss of contact, or if contact is unavoidable, then there is conflict.

   By nature the elements are opposites. Therefore, if there is contact between them, then either they complement one another in a state of union, or they strive against one another in a state of conflict.

   If both soul and body retain their knowledge that the life force within both of them is the one and same entity, originating from one and the same basic source, and that knowledge takes priority over the apparent differences between them, then harmony reigns. If not separation begins.

   The life force of the soul--which within the scope of its reality and in relation to the homogeneous mass around it, is itself--and the life force of the body, are one and the same entity. The nature of the soul, within the terms of its existence, is a life force, and in order to create a body, in order to give form and definition and duration to part of the homogeneous mass around it, the soul has to project itself into the material which it takes from that mass and uses to create.

   So both soul and body are driven by the same central power, which is the basic life force of the being. So basically they are two halves of one and the same entity. If knowledge of this is maintained on both sides, then no separation occurs.

   "The awareness of a fundamental unity, preserves harmony in a duality."

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   But the Game is not only a game of division. It is also a game of ignorance, of blindness, of unawareness. It is a game of mystery, not only without, but also within. Beings are in mystery about their creations without and their creators within.

   This is not inevitable simply because of the chain of creation; because the creation is always outside the creator; which means that whatever the creator may choose to do with the material between itself and the bounds of its own individual scope of reality, whatever barriers it may set up without, nothing need come between itself and its creator, who is within. Although with the chain of creation, mystery without is inevitable, it is not inevitable within. Contact can still remain perfect in that direction, therefore harmony can still be maintained.

   But, for another reason which will become apparent, the creative and the receptive elements do not retain awareness of their fundamental unity. They do not remain aware that basically they are not really two but one. The two poles of the universe, the two halves of existence, the soul and the body, the internal and the external, the reality and the image, the inspiration and the manifestation, the substance and the accidence, lose sight of their fundamental common denominator.

   So the Game becomes a game of separation, of conflict, of strife, of struggle, of paradox, of contradiction, of obstruction, of the irresistible force against the immovable object. It is a game of war.

   As long as there is a defined and finite existence within the dimensions of space and time, there is a division. And as long there is ignorance and blindness- not a controlled limitation on knowledge without, which a finite existence might create, but a forced compulsive blindness within- then that division becomes separation and conflict.

And all of us, to some extent or other, are blind and ignorant within. Even when we know with our external consciousnesses, that we are all part of the same basic unity, driven by the same basic life force; as long as we do not feel it with our entire beings, then we are still too blind to rise above all conflict.

   Feeling and knowledge are one. If we cannot feel something, we do not truly know it. We only know of it or about it.

   But at least that conscious 'knowing of', can prevent us from descending into despair. It is part-knowledge, a major step towards full-knowledge. At least we can know why the Game is so full of unavoidable conflict. We can accept the conflict at least on the most superficial level.

   We may still be in mystery, but we need not be mystified.

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   The world of men is mystified; completely and utterly mystified by its own predicament.

  It oscillates faster and faster from one extreme to the other; from the permissive to the disciplinarian, from tolerance to intolerance, from submission to subjection, from expansion to contraction, from expression to inhibition, from peace to war, from appeal to demand, from gentleness to ruthlessness, from laxity to rigidity, and back again; and at the same time from hope to hopelessness, from optimism to despair; all the time searching for the way out of conflict; looking for the key that will bring peace and fulfillment and rest and harmony and satisfaction and love and happiness, and all the other qualities that go with a state of union; the secret of the elimination of all struggle.

   Listen to their minds, as they ask the questions:

  'Which is the best way; right or left? One seems too much; the other too little. One too harsh; the other too lax.

  'A happy medium? A compromise? We have tried that and sunk into a halfway house of negative nothingness, futility, boredom, frustration; while the struggle went on around us. The middle is neither one thing nor the other; the worst, not the best of both worlds.

  'So we go on searching. And we feel that we have so little time to find the right way. And if we make a choice and the result is still struggle and conflict, we wish we had made the other choice. And now it is too late.

  'And we panic; because the weights are heavy on both sides. And we have got to be right. We must not make a mistake. Otherwise we will alienate our wives, our husbands, our children, our friends, our colleagues and we shall do nothing after to reduce the state of conflict around us.

  We shall fail, like everyone has failed; and we shall look back on our lives with wistful regret, and have to justify our mistakes-- or try to forget them-- like everyone else does; while a new generation blames us and tells us where and how we went wrong, as we blamed the generation before us and told them where and how they went wrong.'

   A new terror of growing old; to become part of the blamed, the mistaken, the 'wrong' generation.

   And even that is the voice of only a few. Most have abandoned the struggle, and settled either for apathetic resignation or complacency.

   At the beginning there is confidence; the confidence of blind idealism. 'It's easy. All you have to do is...All you have to be is..." But such optimism exists by looking only at the realisation of the dream. It dismisses the existing reality as irrelevant.

   Only after years of struggle--against struggle--does the truth, on some level, begin to dawn. Few--understandably--are willing to admit such an absurd defeat, and certainly not in the face of a new generation of idealists, with their bright young scorn and their energetic optimism. Disillusionment is too appalling a sin.

   But the fact is inescapable--even if blindness to it is not. The Game is a game of struggle. The Game is a game of conflict.

   That is its nature, though not its essence. From the most gentle dichotomy, scarcely discernible behind delicate facades of hopeful reason, to the cataclysmic holocausts of open warfare on a grand scale. One is no more nor less than a microcosm of the other. And both are part of the nature of the Game.

   And while there is blindness there is no way out.

   Many have sincerely tried; tortured themselves to squeeze their unwieldy beings and those of others, into a mould of harmonious co-ordination. The struggle to create 'good', both in themselves and others. And the only part of which they are convinced, is the 'struggle' part. The 'good' part is always just beyond their reach.

   And they are mystified.

  But we need not be mystified by conflict. We can know why it is so inescapably with us in the Game. It is because we do not fully know the Unity.

   But we can begin to know it.            

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   But why is the mystery there? Why is there blindness within?

  In its pure state, in order to exist divided from its creator, and in order to be able to create for itself in its own terms a finite existence, a creation has access to the life-energy of its creator. And the nature of the soul of the creation, which is truth, complete awareness of everything within the terms of its existence, is its link with its creator. And knowledge and energy, which is life, flow from the creator to the creation, and thereby it has existence.

   And because there is nothing between the creator and the creation, the contact is perfect, the control is precise. Because both creator and creation have nothing between them to obscure the mutual awareness of their basic unity, harmony reigns; division and union.

   The soul of the creation maintains a pure knowledge and recognition of its creator. It validates its creator. It understands its relationship with its creator. Thus a pure flow of life-energy passes freely between them.

   But at this point the creator does not allow the situation to remain as it is. The creator introduces a new duality, a new division. This division is not a part of the Essence of the Game; it is not a union, but a conflict.

In its pure state the soul of the creation recognises no choice in its relationship with its creator. It has choice with regard to the formation of its own receptive element, its own body, its own creation. Within the terms of its existence it has a whole series of alternative permutations from which to choose in this matter, and that choice it recognises and understands and makes its decisions accordingly.

   But with regard to its creator, it is aware of no choice; and correctly, because it has none. (Ultimately of course by creating it in a particular way, the creator predetermines its decisions of what to create for itself. But there is no awareness of that, because the terms of its existence include the power of outward choice.) They do not include the power of inward choice. Between creator and creation, the choice logically and naturally, belongs exclusively to the creator.

   But the creator goes against this logic, and deliberately introduces between himself and his creation the illusion of choice.

   He does this simply because it is a pattern that is handed down from creation to creation and stems from GOD and the original creation, which was given choice with regard to its relationship with GOD, in order to introduce a second duality into the Game.

   And the reason for this introduction?

  From it stems the concepts of Life and Death, Beginning and End. Without it there would be no Life and no Death, no Beginning and no End, within the nature of the Game. The Game would have no cycles, only an endless and infinite continuation.

   How the creator introduces the concept of choice within, will be explained when we come to its passing on once more, this time from the soul of the creation to the body it creates for itself. Also we shall explain why the outcome is inevitably as it is, and always the same.

   But for the moment, let us simply tell the story.

  Choice is introduced. The soul of the creation, having recognised no choice in relation to its creator, suddenly becomes aware of one, only one, a simple choice between two alternatives.

   It's not a real choice, because the outcome is, for reasons that will become clear, inevitable. But it feels like a choice, it may look like a choice; it is what we would call a choice and recognise as a choice. And it becomes a part of the soul's reality, part of its awareness.

   Like Adam and Eve in the Garden, the soul is faced with two alternative paths which it can take. Either it obeys the command of its creator, which quite suddenly does not appear to be in its interests, or it can disobey, and follow the opposite path, which does appear to be in its interests.

   If this choice is before it, than it has already lost sight of the fundamental unity of itself and its creator. How this has happened, we shall also discover, but it has.

   Suddenly the interests of itself, and the interests of its creator, appear to diverge, and the soul must choose which it is to follow.

   The basic choice is drastic-- and invisible now to the conflicted creation. It is a choice between retrieving and maintaining the perfect link and the free flow of life-energy which passed between itself and its creator, and casting off from its creator, taking with it only the life-energy currently contained within it, and becoming not simply divided from its creator, but separated, estranged, alienated, detached; a disconnected entity; an entity with no direct link with its creator, no direct knowledge of its creator, only the potential memories inherent in the store of life-energy by which it continues its existence.

   But all the creation sees is the conflict of interests. And the creation chooses the path which appears to be in the interests of itself. It casts off, and moves away from its creator.

   The cycle of alienation has begun.

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   But remember, the creation is also a creator. The creation has its own creation. The soul has its own body. And the pattern is once more handed down.

   The soul was given choice by its creator. Now, in accordance with the Universal Law, it gives choice to its creation. It gives the body choice, not only in how it goes about creating its social environment, but within, in its relationship with the soul.

   The soul gives to its outward manifestation the conflict of whether to obey or disobey; the conflict of right and wrong.

   Now, instead of being a physical existence, which moves and acts and behaves and performs without thought or question or doubt or hesitation, precisely according to the dictates of the soul; the body becomes, apparently, a will of its own. The outward limited consciousness is given freedom to choose whether to obey or disobey. And just as the soul inevitably disobeyed its creator, the body repeats the pattern, and disobeys.

   But how is this choice--which is really no choice--given? How is the sense of choice created? What is it that is used to instill doubt and dichotomy in the created consciousness? And why is the outcome inevitable?

Just as the being, in its pure state, has a harmonious two pole existence with regard to its own activities; the soul and the body; where the soul gives life to the body and the body returns unquestioning response to the soul; so the being has a two pole existence with its creator, where the creator gives life-energy to the soul, and the soul returns unquestioning response to the creator.

   But just once 'the fall' has taken place; once choice has been given to the soul, and separation has been the outcome; then that circuit is blocked. In reality there is still contact, there is still a flow of life-energy. If there were none, the soul itself would die and return to its original formless state. But the circuit is blocked and twisted. The flow is no longer free and direct, but filtered through a very heavy resistance. So that not only is it considerably reduced, but there is also no clear awareness of it at the receiving end.

   As far as the soul is aware, it is no longer receiving life-energy from its center.

Whilst it felt that it was receiving life-energy it felt free to pass life-energy on to the body. At the same time, as it received validation and response from the body in return, this too it passed back to its creator, and a flow like an electric current was set up. But now nothing appears to be coming from its creator. It has a store of life-energy, but it cannot pass it on, and as it is no longer giving to its creator in return, it cannot receive from its creation. The entire flow seems to be halted, and it must conform to the pattern. It must block the contact between itself and the body, in the same way the contact between its creator and itself was blocked.

   So in imitation of its creator, the soul now sets about giving choice to its creation.

  It takes the stored life-energy within itself, and instead of allowing it to flow directly into the body as before, it divides it into two halves, sets one half against the other and thereby sets up a conflict in the void between itself and the body. And one half of the life-energy, one side of the conflict, is linked and identified with the existence and nature of itself, the soul, and the other half is linked and identified with the existence and the nature of the body.

   Previous to this, remember, the flow between the soul and body is free and unconflicted. The void in between them is no barrier. The body sees the soul and its relationship to the soul with clarity; receives from it and gives to it without hesitation or uncertainty. It is aware of its own nature, of the nature of the soul, of the link between them, and above all, of the basic unity which they represent.

   But now the body loses sight of the soul itself; and instead what it sees is opposite alternatives; one identified with the soul and the other identified with itself; Immediately it lose sight of the unity. It loses sight of the common origin. It sees only its own separateness from the soul, manifested in the fact that these two elements, one representing its own interests and the other the interests of the soul, are in conflict.

 "The reason that the body must choose for itself and against the soul, is inherent in that conflict. It can no longer identify with the soul."

   There is no longer any reason why the body should follow the interests of the soul. It has no memory--not at this stage. Memory is created from stored life-energy. The pure free-flow relationship does not require a memory, because all relevant knowledge is available at any moment when needed. Memory is only necessary when there is separation, alienation, loss of direct contact; and at this moment, before the choice is made, the body has not created for itself a memory, having had no need for one. It has unconscious survival instincts, but no conscious recall of past reality.

   So all the body's consciousness sees of the soul is a direct opposition to its own interests. So it chooses, as it instinctively must, against the soul. It disobeys.

   This begins the separation. Ironically, the body has reinforced the stemming of its own life-energy, by making a choice which it thought was in its own best interests. Now it feels the effects; separation, alienation.

   But despite the consequences, which the body feels with an emotion hitherto unknown to it--pain--the conflict remains. The dichotomy continues. And now that it too is denied the constant flow of life-energy from within, it builds a life memory for itself, beginning with that initial pain of separation which came hard on the heels of opposing the interests of the soul.

   So now, on one side the interests of the body, with the promise of further satisfaction to the body, and on the other side the interests of the soul, with the threat of further alienation from the soul. An equal struggle.

   Between body and soul, instead of the void of perfect contact, there is an image of the soul set in opposition against the image of the body; A two pole existence within a two pole existence; the outer pair separated by the conflict of the inner pair; soul and body separated by--the mind.

   And because the image of the soul and the image of the body are set in opposition against one another, then automatically everything which seems to the body to be in the interests of the body, must, within the mind, be in opposition to the interests of the soul. If one force directly opposes another, then every element of the first force must be assumed to oppose the second force.

   And there is no escape, because the separation at this stage is not a complete discontinuation of the flow of life-energy. The circuit is not broken, only distorted. The fundamental link remains, though the awareness of it, and the perfection of it, are lost.

   Soul and body are still connected; no longer by perfect contact, producing a perfect control, but by a tortured conflicted contact, producing strife and suffering.

   And as long as that contact exists, the body lives; confused, uncertain, searching for the key which it has lost, but in its terms, alive. Nothing fosters the contact, except the body's hazy memory of the original agony of separation. And however hard it tries to escape from the mind's image of the soul, because it seems to oppose its wishes, its desires and its inclinations at every turn, it cannot, because it is just aware that without the soul it cannot exist; and as long as it maintains the link, even through the murky link, even through the murky haze of that painful dichotomy which now fills the void between them, the dichotomy rules its every move.

  And everything it tells the body is a contradiction

 

  Life is in the interests of the body. Therefore according to the mind, death is in the interests of the soul.

 

  Success is in the interests of the body. Therefore, according to the mind, failure is in the interests of the soul.

 

  Pleasure is in the interests of the body. Therefore according to the mind, pain is in the interests of the soul.

 

  Happiness is in the interests of the body. Therefore...

 

  Joy is in the interests of the body. Therefore...

 

  Comfort is in the interests of the body. Therefore...

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   So now the mind, and not the soul, controls the body. And the mind is no pure and one directional intention as the soul was. It is in permanent conflict, torn two ways. So the body is torn two ways. And where the soul, in its pure state, could create and uncreate, and freely motivate the body, because of its own purity and lack of conflict, the mind can only strain at it, drawing in two opposing directions at once; able neither to create nor uncreate it at will, because it cannot resolve its own tortuous conflict.

   And the cycle of the mind is seemingly endless. Because all the being's life-energy is either governed by it or locked within it. And neither side of the conflict must do more than temporarily defeat the other, because, ironically, depends upon the other for its existence. They too, like the soul and the body, are basically two halves of one existence. The image of the soul cannot exist without the image of the body, and the image of the body cannot exist without the image of the soul. Neither can exist alone.

   And as long as the soul's life-energy is locked within the conflict which separates the true soul and the true body from one another, the entire being is trapped. For the soul is trapped inside the body, which is controlled by the mind. And the mind is a heavy mass of tortured anguish.

And to maintain an outward visible and logical balance, through an equal apparent weight of validity on both sides of the conflict, the pain suffered by opposing the interests of the soul and by following the interests of the body, is explained by giving the concepts of 'good', 'right' and 'virtue' to the failure and death side of the conflict, the image of the soul; while the concepts of the soul; while the concepts of 'evil', 'wrong' and 'vice' are linked with the success and life side of the conflict, the image of the body.

  "On one side of the conflict of the mind there is failure, but with the promise of heaven. On the other side there is success, but with the threat of hell."

   An even struggle; a painful conflict; the very root of the human predicament.

  And the conflict is the embodiment of fear; fear of failure and death on one side, the side of the body and the image of the body; fear of hell--which is ultimate alienation from the soul--on the other side, the side of the soul and the image of the soul.

   But ultimate alienation from the soul is death; the point where soul and body finally part. So the fear on both sides amounts in the last analysis to the same fear; fear of death.

   It is scarcely a surprise that both sides of the conflict threaten the body with death. Remember, the main effect of the introduction of choice into the Game was the introduction of death.

   The first and foremost function of the mind is to bring about the separation of the soul and the body; which is why the mind represents, above all things, death.

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   The God SATAN is the ruler of both soul and body in their separated state, in their state of alienation from one another.

   And within the mind, the image of the soul is ruled by the God JEHOVAH, who represents the interests of the soul through the failure of the body. He represents the creative element within the Game; and as the nature of the game is conflict, He rules the creative element within that vital component of the Game, the mind.

   And within the mind, the image of the body is ruled by the God LUCIFER, who represents the interests of the body. He represents the receptive element within the Game, and therefore within the mind.

   JEHOVAH and LUCIFER stand at the poles of the battle of the human mind, and confront one another in direct conflict, within the Game.

   And the two aspects of SATAN, the creative and the receptive, stand at either end of the being, split apart and alienated from one another by that raging conflict in between.

And the Game is dominated by these four elements; on one side, JEHOVAH, linked with and in support of the creative aspect of SATAN; on the other side, LUCIFER, linked with and in support of the receptive aspect of SATAN.

   JEHOVAH and SATAN on one side offer death and salvation, through the image of the soul. LUCIFER and SATAN on the other side offer life and damnation, through the image of the body. And humanity quakes in terror at the prospect of both alternatives.

The body of man is mesmerised; trapped between Scylla and Charybdis, and completely unable to make up its mind which form of death will be the least agonising.

 

                     diagram: Soul - SATAN
                                  Image of the Soul- JEHOVAH
                                  Image of the Body - LUCIFER

                                  Body - SATAN

 

   But what precisely is in the mind, to create such effects on the body?

  The image of the body holds out that the body is all important; the needs, the desires, the inclinations, the wants, of the outward manifestation of the being, which includes its conscious thoughts and emotions and problems, as well as its physical structure, are to be followed. Its demands are to be met.

   At the same time this side of the mind brings down a veil of obscurity in front of all internal realities. It cuts down the awareness of the existence of the soul, and it cuts the sensitivity to all spiritual existences.

   On the other hand it enhances the awareness of physical and natural beauty, and the sensitivity to environment. It makes the world seem a good place to be, if the body can create the right circumstances for itself.

   It stresses the importance of conscious feelings and emotions; that they should be cared for, fostered when positive, eliminated when negative. It leads the body away from suffering, ugliness, tension, strife, anything which will make the body uncomfortable, anything which will make physical existence undesirable.

   It fosters good health in the body; physical energy and vitality; to add to the feeling that life is worth living for its own sake. It directs the body towards comfort, ease, satisfaction--for others as well as for self, because in order for the world to be a really acceptable and comfortable place to be, all misery, not just the body's own, must be eliminated.

   This side of the mind places all stress on the importance of the outward manifestation of things, and cuts down as far as possible all concern for the inner, invisible, unconscious aspects. Thereby it appears to promote exclusively the interests of the body.

   And this is the side of the mind which is governed by LUCIFER.

   The image of the soul holds out that the body is unimportant in relation to the soul; that the needs and inclinations and desires of the body should be opposed; that the outward manifestation should take the hard painful road, going against its own wants and wishes; sacrificing them for the satisfaction of far more important spiritual needs. Its demands are not to be met.

   At the same time this side of the mind opens up the awareness of internal realities, non-physical things. It enhances the awareness of the existence of the soul, and the sensitivity to spiritual presences, projections and emanations. It relegates the visible and promotes the invisible.

   It makes the world seem an unpleasant place to be, and creates visions of a much more attractive existence outside and beyond the limitations of physical existence. It makes suffering and hardship a valuable and useful experience, promoting the need for expiation rather than indulgence, sacrifice rather than satisfaction.

   It undermines the body's health; drains its energy and saps its vitality; to add to the feeling that life is decidedly not worth living for its own sake. It leads the body towards suffering, ugliness, tension, strife, anything which will make physical existence undesirable. And it leads the body away from comfort, ease and satisfaction.

   This side of the mind places all stress on the importance of the inward source of things, and cuts down as far as possible all concern for and sensitivity towards their outward manifestations. It stresses the invisible, the spiritual, the unconscious aspects and creates a highly sensitive awareness of these things. Thereby it appears to promote exclusively the interests of the soul.

   And this is the side of the mind which is governed by JEHOVAH

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The nature of the mind is such that when the balance tips, when one side dominates, negative means are used by the other side to level it again. So in general it is the negative aspects which dominate.

   And the irony of the conflict of the mind lies in the inversions embodied in this dominance of negativity.

   A soul without a body is static; unchanging, unmoving, directionless, purposeless, meaningless. It is like a body without an environment--which is the body's creation--like a man floating in space, or wandering alone in a desert; unbounded, unlimited, within the scope of awareness. He may be limited by the bounds of the universe or by the boundaries of the desert, but because his own awareness does not reach beyond those bounds, they do not seem to him to be a limitation.

   He needs a structure of his own in which to build a finite existence for himself.

  And for the same reason a soul needs a body.

   Yet the mental image of the soul, together with the soul itself in its alienated state, both insist that the body does not exist in the interests of the soul, and that the soul is really better off without the body.

   On the other side, a body without a soul is dead, lifeless, inert, and therefore equally purposeless, directionless and meaningless. It is like an uninhabited city; nothing to give significance to its existence, nothing to preserve it from decay. A deserted city decomposes in exactly the same manner as a lifeless body. It is a creator's creation, which has been abandoned, rejected, cut off from its life source. A city needs people to give it life and meaning, just as a body needs a soul.

   Yet the mental image of the body, together with the body itself in its alienated state, both insist that the soul does not exist in the interests of the body, and that the body is really better off without the soul.

   The irony is that both sides are at the same time right and wrong. In their state of alienation, they do not exist in one another's interests, and of course as each reacts to this the situation intensifies. Each blames the other and piles blame on blame. Their existence becomes less and less in one another's interests. But on the other hand, as we have established, without the other each is purposeless, directionless and meaningless. Like a couple who live in constant strife, yet each would be lost without the other.

   Human beings and the man-made human societies which they build around themselves, their group relationships, their social attitudes, the complete format of social behaviour, codes and customs which individuals create for themselves, are another level of creator and creation. They cannot do without one another. Without the society which they have created, without the social structures and conventions within which each individual exists and with which he creates for himself his own personal group environment, without any of this, human beings would become aimless, directionless wanderers. there would be no group, no mass, therefore no co-ordination and therefore no survival.

   Equally without human beings, without man the individual, human relationships, social structures, mass agreements would become empty unapplied theories floating in a vacuum, and would gradually dissolve.

   Yet human beings are compulsively driven towards destroying their own social structures. The concept of the individual--equivalent to the image of the soul--is set in opposition to the concept of the mass--equivalent to the image of the body.

   Each individual creates his own set of external relationships. Within the scope of his existence and from the material to hand--other individuals--he builds his own society, his aspect of the mass, his own social, as opposed to individual, existence.

   The fact that the individual cannot exist without his social existence, and the fact that his social existence is meaningless without him, are lost in the perennial struggle between the concept of one and the concept and the concept of the other. And this manifests most clearly in the endless struggle between 'right' and 'left'.

   Pressure emanates from the concept of the individual, to oppose, negate and invalidate the mass. 'The mass' ,it puts out, 'is not in the interests of the individual'. While pressure at the same time emanates from the concept of the mass, to oppose, negate and invalidate the individual. 'The individual', it puts out, 'does not subscribe to the interests of the mass'.

   Consequently, just as the body is torn by the mind between preserving and destroying itself, so humanity is torn by the conflict of these two concepts between preserving and destroying itself, between negating the individual in the interests of preserving the race and destroying the race to promote the interests of the individual. This is politics.

   And the concept of the individual brings pressures to bear on humanity, just as the image of the soul brings pressure to bear on the body. The concept of the individual creates a complex ideology; moral, economic, social and political realities are evolved and directed towards humanity, influencing and moulding it, apparently in favor of the individual; just as the image of the soul influences the body, apparently in favour of the soul.

   The same pattern. If you can see the mass itself as the sum total of every individual's personal creation of a social world around his own individual world, you will see the exact parallel. And it explains the mass conflict; the intensity of it; the compulsion of it, and the precise dichotomy of it.

   It is the racial equivalent of the human mind, and stems as directly from the separation of the individual from his relationships, as the mind does from the separation of the soul from the body.

   And at the current stage of the Game, when we speak of humanity, meaning the social, political and economic structures which human beings have created for themselves, we do not mean the simple basic outward manifestation of the individual, as it would be in a pure state, we do not mean the social co-ordination of a perfectly integrated group or mass of human beings, we do not mean freely controlled relationships. We mean the tortuous laws, customs and conventions, and the struggles, which stem from that vast and complicated conflict of ideologies and principles and theories and moralities, with which the individual has separated himself from his relationships with those around him.

   And the irony is the same. The individual and his relationships, the individual and his social environment, the individual and the mass, cannot exist meaningfully without one another, any more than the soul and the body. But even a conscious awareness of this--which undoubtedly people have--does not lessen the conflicting pressures, any more than a conscious awareness that the soul and body cannot do without one another, reduces mental conflict. The conflict is compulsive, because the Game is a game of conflict.

And the patterns are precise, even though the manifestations are confused due to the conflicting influences.

   At first glance we see what appears to be an inversion. The harsh political extreme, the Jehovian element, seems to promote the preservation of social structures, while the other extreme, the Luciferian element seems to promote their overthrow. But if we look at the effects which these two extremes create, we find that the Jehovian element imposes a heavy discipline on the mass, a restrictive structure, just as it does with the body. It attempts to relegate the importance of society as a whole, in favour of the freedom of the individual to fulfill and express himself to the limits of his capacity. Whereas the Luciferian element fosters the overall well being and satisfaction of the mass, at the expense of the personal idiosyncrasies and ambitions of the individual.

   Remember, we are talking about pressures here, not policies. No one would admit to a policy as stark and unequivocal as either of the two set down above. The world is a compromise, a synthesis of conflicting forces, a swinging pendulum. There are biases, sometimes extreme biases, but no ultimates at either extreme, only conflicts.

   Outside the JEHOVAH-LUCIFER conflict on this racial level, there are the Satanic elements at both ends of the scale. And they are just as ambivalent as on the individual level. Anarchy and fascism are worlds apart, and yet basically one and the same thing. The complete overthrow of all social structures and the triumph of individualism, go confusingly hand in hand with the crushing of the individual and the liberation of the mass--or have we already confused them?

   So expect no clear definitions in the outward manifestations, only confusion. Clarity is only to be found by analysing the separate forces and influences involved.

   If we look for pure Jehovianism in politics, we shall not find it, any more than we find it in people. And similarly with the other two patterns. We find only leanings and biases. But if we look closely, and separate the characteristics, then we can find the individual pressures, which are pure--within their own terms.

   The drive towards pure Jehovianism is there--most strongly of course in the Jehovian; the instinct to subject the mass to the overriding will of the strong and dominant individual, this is the pressure which tells us to force our relationships into the directions which we require; to demand of them, to impose our will on them. But this instinct is met head on, even within individuals, and certainly within groups, by an equal and opposite instinct to shackle the will, the power and ambition of the individual, in favour of the group or mass; this is the pressure which tells us to allow our relationships to direct us and mould us to their pattern, to submit to the will of the majority.

   If people were outside this conflict and could really see the validities on both sides of the argument, the essential interaction of individual and group how each can complement the other, then balance and harmony would result. But they are not outside it; they are inside it and subject to it, and driven in both directions, far more intensely and effectively by the invalidities on both sides, than the validities. Negation, as with the soul and body, is far more prevalent, on both sides, than validation.

 The result is the same kind of confusion and disorder on a racial level, which the human mind creates on an individual level.

   And just as on an individual level, the body comes to an end of its life cycle and dies, separated completely from the soul; so on a mass level, civilisations come to the end of their life cycles and die, separated from the individuals who created them; and finally on a world level, humanity, the overall structure of civilisation, is coming to the end of its life cycle, and is about to die, separated from human beings, who have lost contact with the social structures which they have created around them.

   It is like watching a person in agony from an incurable disease. There is a temptation to put him out of his misery; to complete the separation; to break for good a circuit which only gives pain. But equally there is a recognition that nature will do this at the appropriate time; neither too soon nor too late; and whatever is suffered, has to be suffered for the purpose of the Game.

   This applies to humanity. If we try to hurry the Game, we shall be frustrated.

  And if we try to take sides in terms of right, left or centre, we can only be caught up in the inevitable conflict. The Game goes on, and we are part of it.

   But if we expand our vision to take in the entire structure of existence, we can detach from all single obsessive drives; to promote the soul and negate the body or the opposite, to promote the individual and negate the mass or the opposite.

   First, we can recognise that resolution is to be found, not in the success of one side or the other side of the conflict, but only in the coming together of both sides in harmony, individual and mass in harmony, so that the decisions and desires of the soul manifest without resistance in the body, and the inclinations of the body conform willingly and without strain to the decisions and desires of the soul; so that the will of the individual manifests freely and naturally in his relationship with the mass, and is not submerged by it, while the structure and the activities of the mass are the outward expression of the will of the individual, and are not sacrificed to it.

   And more important still, we must recognize that we cannot bring about that state within a Game whose nature is conflict. It is pointless to try. Again we shall only invite failure and frustration. Instead, we must be aware of the inevitability of conflict, as long as the Game lasts in its present form.

   The cycle cannot be reversed. It must come to its natural end, and in its own time. Just as the body must die before it can be reborn, so humanity must die, before it too can be reborn. That is the nature of the Game.

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   Whether we are considering an individual soul and body, or human beings and humanity, life exists when the creative and the receptive element are in contact with one another.

   The ultimate life is when the contact is perfect; when there is complete harmony, co-ordination, interaction; a state of union. The ultimate death is when the contact is non-existent; when there is complete and final alienation. And in between those two extremes of the cycle, there is a sliding scale of contact; distorted contact, incomplete contact, blind contact; mystery, conflict, struggle, alienation, separation, to varying degrees.

   And the contact deteriorates as the cycle moves from life to death.

  And at the point of death is the negative end of all patterns. JEHOVAH, together with the soul aspect of SATAN, the creative element, directs all power towards the negation of the body, the receptive element, leaving none for the validation of the soul; while LUCIFER, together with the body aspect of SATAN, the receptive element, directs all power towards the negation of the soul, the creative element, leaving none for the validation of the body. There we find the presence of death. Soul and body part completely. Human beings and humanity separate totally.

   And for the soul, and for human beings, this is the ultimate failure; the final enactment of the Jehovian failure pattern. The soul's function within the being's duality, is to give life to the body. The individual's function within the duality of the human race, is to give life to humanity. When either of them finds itself no longer able to do this, when the body dies, or humanity dies; that is the ultimate failure.

   And for the body; and for humanity, death is the ultimate futility; the ultimate disillusionment; the final enactment of the Luciferian futility pattern. The body's function within the being's duality, is to channel the life which the soul provides. Humanity's function within the duality of the human race, is to channel the life which the individual provides. When it finds itself no longer able to do this; when the life energy is blocked off altogether and the body dies, or humanity dies; that is the ultimate futility. Nothing is more futile than a lifeless body, a body with no soul to energise it, except perhaps, except perhaps a dead civilisation, with no living individual to realise it.

   And death is the ultimate separation; the final enactment of the Satanic pattern of separation. Soul and body, the individual and the mass, the creative element and the receptive element, are finally torn asunder. Perfect contact has become distorted contact. Death is the ultimate triumph of separation; the negative fulfillment of the separated soul and body, which are ruled by SATAN.

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   Now we can see the entire cycle from the beginning to end.

  Imagine a cone made up of discs one above the other. And the top of the cone is the original unity of all the elements in the Game; one piece; a miniature cone; a microcosm of the entire Game, but with no division. In this piece soul and body are still undivided; and the receptive elements are still one entity.

   Lift up this pinnacle of unity, and below it is the first disc, which represents the first move in the Game; division. In the centre is a scarlet core. on the outside is a black surround. This is the soul and the body divided but in perfect contact with nothing between them. This is the individual and the mass in perfect harmony and co-ordination. This is the union of the creative element in the centre and the receptive element wrapped around it. This is the Essence of the Game.

Lift this disc and we find the first move in the separation. The scarlet central core remains the same; but between it and the black surround, which has moved away, are two thin circles; a black one next to the scarlet core, a white one next to the black surround. The first step into the Game of conflict. Satan at the center and on the outside, ruling the now separated creative and receptive element; and in between them, JEHOVAH linked with the creative core, and LUCIFER linked with the receptive surround.

   Lift that disc and the pattern is basically the same; except that the gap is wider between core and surround, the black and the white circles are larger, and although the core remains static and unchanging, the surround has grown a little thinner. The Game progresses--downwards. The contact deteriorates. The separation increases. The receptive element weakens.

   The soul remains static, the body moves away and decreases; while the mind expands between them. The individual remains the same, the mass is further removed from him and deteriorates; while the human structures, the ideologies, the system, the moralities, all the social and political pressures on both sides of the conflict grow in size and complexity.

   Below the disc is another, again larger as we descend from the top of the cone. The soul is still the same, the body thinner and the mind wider than ever.

   That is the way of the Game.

  The creative aspect of SATAN remains at the centre, becoming further separated from the receptive aspect which grows weaker as it moves closer towards death. JEHOVAH and LUCIFER increase their territory between.

   And everything moves downward from ultimate life at the top to ultimate death at the bottom.

   Finally the black surround, which represents the body and the social structure of humanity, disappears altogether. That is the point of death. The soul has lost the body altogether; the individual has lost the mass.

   The triumph of the Separation. And SATAN at the centre receives the body-less soul and the raceless individual. And SATAN on the outside receives the soul-less body and the indistinguishable mass of a dead civilisation. Ultimately in death they become one and the same: many souls finally separated altogether from as many bodies. SATAN began the Separation. The soul negated the body in the Name of SATAN, and the body negated the soul in the name of SATAN.

   Adam and Eve became aware of their power of choice through the agency of SATAN.

   Adam and Eve chose to disobey their creator at the instigation of SATAN.

  This is SATAN in His role of the Adversary; the Separator; the creator of conflict. He begins the separation of the two sides of the relationship. And to do this He must rule both sides, so the alienation is mutual.

   And death, the ultimate separation, is the triumph of SATAN as the adversary.

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   Body and soul at the top of the cycle are in a state of division and union, which is life. That is the nature of the Essence. Descending the cycle, they are in a state of division and separation, which culminates in death. That is the nature of the Game. What is the basic difference between their state at the top and their state at the moment when the descent begins?

   Remember the difference between union and separation.

  "The awareness of a fundamental unity preserves harmony in a duality."

   Soul and body at the top retain their awareness of their fundamental unity, even in their state of duality. It is the loss of this awareness which begins the cycle of separation downwards towards death.

   The Lord CHRIST represents the fundamental unity of the soul and the body, of the creative element, and the receptive element of creator and creation, of the inspiration and the manifestation.

   CHRIST represents divinity and humanity undivided--not divided, but in a state of union; but undivided. Hence He represents the unity of all existence, which ultimately is the Unity of GOD; GOD undivided, unscattered; GOD before the moment of the original creation.

   So CHRIST rules the Essence, because awareness of Him makes duality without conflict possible. In the presence of CHRIST, the Essence can manifest. In the presence of CHRIST a state of division and union can exist.

   Now SATAN is the Adversary, descending the cycle, rules the soul and body, and represents their division and separation. But at the top of the cycle, in a state of union, the soul and the body become the Essence, and are ruled by CHRIST.

   Yet they are still the same soul and the same body, and thereby linked to and identified with the same great being. So at the point where soul and body come together in a state of union, CHRIST and SATAN come together, as one entity, in a state of unity.

   Before the Separation begins, CHRIST and SATAN are one; undivided; ruling over the Essence; the union of soul and body.

   The beginning of the separation of the soul and body, is also the beginning of the separation of CHRIST and SATAN. And during the cycle downwards CHRIST and SATAN are divided and in opposition to one another; one half represents coming together, the other splitting apart. Another aspect of the Game of conflict.

   But in this case there is no division and union. CHRIST and SATAN represent the vital unity which can prevent separation. Therefore when They are divided, the unity is lost, and separation begins. Their own separation is a part of the overall separation.

   In this case CHRIST is the creative element, SATAN the receptive. CHRIST remains static, continuing to rule the concept of the Essence, continuing to represent the spirit of unity; SATAN moves away, identified with the separation.

   This does not mean that CHRIST created SATAN. Because what we are describing here are roles, not the fundamental nature of these two great beings. We are describing Their rulership and representation of certain aspects of the Game. In relation to the beginning and the ending of the Game, the initial separation and the final reunion, CHRIST plays the creative role and SATAN the receptive role. CHRIST in this context is to be found at the central core of SATAN.

   As regards the creation of the mind, the image of the soul, ruled by JEHOVAH, is a creation of the soul, ruled by SATAN, and encircles it in the same way as the body encircles it. The image of the body, ruled by LUCIFER, is also a creation of the soul and encircles it. Therefore within this aspect of the Game, JEHOVAH and LUCIFER both play the receptive role and SATAN the creative. SATAN in this context is to be found at the central core of both JEHOVAH and LUCIFER. (But this does not mean that SATAN created both of them).

   And it is the soul aspect of SATAN which plays the creative role in both cases. Again, another division for SATAN, and an essential one if He is to play the mind game. And it works as follows.

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