Note to the preceding post

In the preceding post I'm not attempting to give a theologically accurate and orthodox definition of Biblical baptism and the Lord's supper. I'm merely pointing out that these two things are mysteries and were called such by the early church, and that it is not off-the-mark to apply a practical, esoteric meaning to what is obviously an exoteric ritual that is meant to teach as a visual parable, and to provide an external sign and seal for a Christian entering and staying in the visible church.

If the Spirit has led you to and enabled you to see the practical meaning and to do it then so be it, recognize it.

I feel it is a serious thing even to write about such a thing, but if you can do it then you know the seriousness of it yourself. You know that the first conscious shock puts you on spiritual ground, and demands from you a discipline as if you are in the presence of holiness. The second conscious shock is contact with Real I, which is connecting with Jesus Himself, Real I being a monad of God. It is an opening and a communion (and an actual eating and even sacrifice (of your suffering) which practically is a transforming of H12 (which manifests as negative emotional energy) into H6 and 'renewing' the cycle of the food octave within you. This is an act of one who has recovered the very Image of God. It means you have access to Higher Centers which corresponds with a fully developed inner, spiritual body. It is not existence and being that normal, average human beings live and possess. It is all very new experience.

But I wanted to connect it to the covenant because this is the practical point where the covenant is literally entered and where it forms you (or forces you to conform to it) by your developing of necessity inner command and Real Will gratitude at the point where transformation of accumulated energy has to occur (the most difficult point not to indulge resentment and negativity and violence).

When you self-remember you are accumulating energy of consciousness (being filled with the Holy Spirit). We find we don't want to do this because it demands a complete change in us. It is holy ground and demands a demeanor very different from the comfort and sleep of everyday life. And eventually it demands an internal struggle where we have to give up our suffering (against the demands of our vanity and worldly pride and self-will), i.e. we have to die to the flesh and the world.

In all this you find power and control. Autonomy. Prayer and fasting correspond to the first and second conscious shock as well. Practically, esoterically, speaking. These two conscious shocks are the reins of Real Will. The reins of the Law of Will. And as they bring you into the covenant it gives substance to the Covenant of Redemption and give volition within that covenant (which is potential power for it is the Kingdom and where the Kingdom manifests here there is the power of the Kingdom (some of this teaching in the New Testament is connected with faith and prayer and miracles even). The two conscious shocks are acts of the elect in the Kingdom. Think of them as the Covenant forming you and as you having control in the Covenant, which is the Kingdom. Kingdom volition. Real Will.

This language is all over the board, I realize, but the fact is: the two conscious shocks correspond with prayer and fasting; the two sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper; the two great commandments to love God and love your neighbor as yourself; to the commands to be awake and love your enemy... Connecting, further, the two conscious shocks with the Kingdom of God (the Absolute II) is also obviously on-the-mark. When one is able to see the two conscious shocks and do them (not just read about them and philosophise and theorize about them, and hence distort them and more to the point not even know the first thing about them) one is of the elect, pure and simple. One has the Spirit in them illuminating them. One is capable of being in the Kingdom to ever greater degree...