CALISTHENICS DECEMBER 10-11, 1980 HOLOGRAM
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You don't have to rely on my words, you can experience it.
The true way is to experience; experience is full.
We call this drawing the hologram. In the book (Prelude to the New Man), you will find what we call the square diagram and you will recognize it in the upper left corner of the drawing. The square is an expression, within the drawing of the hologram, of the ( ‡ ) symbol. This symbol looks something like a slice of watermelon and in our fantasy language we call this the "greenhorn". It represents the current position of mankind.
For those who don't know what a greenhorn is: In the deer family, when you have a young deer with growing horns, the horns are at first velvety, covered by skin. As long as they are covered by this skin, the deer is called a " greenhorn ", and when the deer sheds this skin by rubbing against trees etc., then he is considered to be a mature buck. Of course, in Western language a greenhorn is also called a "dude", new to the West, and is sometimes a "sucker".
In this drawing, we have three main symbols. The ( ▌) at the top left; the ‡ in the center, which contains the same component as the first, plus other aspects; and the ( S ) where you have the same components as the first two, plus something you find in the ( ‡ ). We call this last symbol ( S ) the spaceship.
There is as much difference between a real greenhorn (the animal) and a spaceship as there is between the man of today and what is represented by the ( S ) symbol. Symbolically speaking, the greenhorn is earthbound, the spaceship is at home on earth, in space, or anywhere.
I show this hologram to try to graphically convey what we do. But in order to understand even a little bit of what is going on, you have to adjust your consciousness and this is not easy.
The first situation to observe is: All human knowledge -- of any kind, including all spiritual knowledge (however high) -- is included in the ( ‡ ) symbol. This is included in the book, as I said, in the square diagram. This you accept as a base of operation. Whatever is known is contained in the ( ‡ ) symbol. This means that everything else is different. All known life and unknown life related to the life that is known is found in the ( ‡ ) symbol. Later on in the ( S ) symbol.
We have one order of life represented by the (▌) symbol; in the ‡ symbol we have another one; and in the ( S ) symbol still another one. Within each order of life, new discoveries are new dimensions . A different order of life means that everything is different.
However, when you deal with the hologram you have to be logical and realize that this type of classification belongs to the greenhorn. At the ‡ level, for instance, we do not classify, so we cannot say "another order of life". When you want to become aware of another order of life (whatever that is) you have to be ready to live in a way that is utterly different from anything known. This is not easy because, if you look in your own experience when we work with music, for example, the tendency of the consciousness is to make an image, a feeling, possibly a thought out of it. Now, the point is not to deny the image, feeling or thought, but to simply remind yourself that these are known and therefore belong to the greenhorn. Then, you drop them, because they're not what you want at the moment. You might use them at another time, but at the moment you want to he aware of another order, so you drop the reference that is known. You drop any reference that comes up, because, by definition, any reference would be of the greenhorn level and you cannot use it.
Now, we have used the labels A, U and M for three functions, and here we have three functions again. But the labels A, U and M belong to the greenhorn level. The position symbolized by ‡ cannot be called a U because it's another order. There is a tendency to project what is known by the greenhorn onto other orders. Catch yourself and say, "No, this is what I know at the greenhorn level, now what do I live at the level of this other order". Practice this kind of discipline time after time, year after year, until you become aware of the other order itself.
Symbolically speaking, the ( ‡ ) symbol and the ‡ symbol belong together as one whole. This means you know only a small part of yourself. Your center of gravity is higher than yourself. It's above, at the level symbolized by ‡ in another order of life.
There is a reflection of this at the greenhorn level: Everyone has the tendency to look for something higher at the greenhorn level you call it soul, the Monad, it's your choice, depending on what you've read. This is because your center of gravity lies within another order of life and you have no idea what it is. Fortunately, this other order doesn't have any idea either. This sounds like a joke, but behind the joke there is a reality. In the reality of it, you take advantage of having no idea in order to connect. If you have an idea you might connect to the image not the reality. As I said, this other order has no idea because it's another order of life and it functions differently.
.....In our symbolism the hologram, represents the whole creation, and, speaking symbolically again, it ends with man as a spaceship. Who is creating the spaceship? In fantasy words: the Pilot. The hologram being the whole of creation, beyond there is nothing. So the Pilot is a denizen of nothing -- just plain no-thing. So, logically speaking, how can you qualify the Pilot? You cannot qualify the Pilot.Now, there is a teaching that I have quoted a few times related to the Pilot and the three aspects shown on the chart:
When the Pilot dwells in the All-Encompassing Condition ( ▌) symbol, He is said to be the Seer.
When the Pilot dwells in the All-Encompassing Love ‡ symbol, He is said to be the Knower.
When the Pilot dwells in the All-Encompassing Beauty, ( S ) symbol, He is said to be the Doer.
There is in this teaching something that ought to awaken you some. The sentence is: When the Pilot dwells in the All-Encompassing Condition, lie is said to be ... The teaching doesn't say that He is. Can you hear? This applies all the way down the scale.
The consciousness you have, which reflects the situation, is going to say: "Okay, when I connect the Pilot at the ( ▌) symbol, I connect the Seer". No' If you connect the Pilot at the (▌ ) symbol, you connect the Pilot. It is only the noisy critters at the greenhorn level that say He is a Seer.
I'm coming through with something important. When this is assimilated, all else is much, much easier.
When you connect the Pilot at the ‡ symbol you say: "I connect the Knower". I tell you, no, you connect the Pilot.
When you connect the Pilot at the ( S ) symbol, you say " I connect the Doer". I say, no, you connect the Pilot.
You cannot put any label on the Pilot. Respect it. True spiritual discipline is quite demanding. Here you have an example. You know you apply labels all the time. The first thing you learn in school is to put a label on everything. Knowing this, you must hold yourself in check, discipline yourself.
You can say: "Okay here ‡ symbol, I have the Knower", then you drop it. Here ‡ symbol on the chart, you have what is here. If you connect to what this symbolizes you are the Knower, that is, you appear to the greenhorn awareness as a Knower. And, by definition, the function of a Knower being to know, he doesn't learn. This is kind of embarrassing for the mind. You were taught that you have to learn in order to know. Now here we have a Knower that doesn't learn.
In case you doubt it, go into your own experience, or go into experiences you find very often in literature: people have done impossible things out of Love (I mean L ove) -- without knowing how. When the Pilot dwells in the All- Emcompassing Love, He is said to be the Knower. Now measure this against what you call "knowing" --there's no Love -- there is sweat. Well, maybe not for everyone. Some people like to learn so it's a bit more rosy for them.
Don't confuse the Knower with what people call knowledge. We don't say that the Knower has a tremendous knowledge -- having lived so many lives, now He knows. This is how you understand knowledge -- at least in this century. There's a big difference between the function of a Knower and the acquisitiveness of acquiring knowledge. The Knower, as a function, doesn't work in terms of things. Whereas, acquired knowledge is stored in the brain as so many "items". There is definitely a thingness in the knowledge that is related to objects. You even speak of objective knowledge.
Man of today is mainly greenhorn ( ‡ ) symbol, and at the base is the Knower ‡ symbol. In the reflection at the greenhorn level we have the knowing. This is a reflection of the real knowledge , which cannot be called knowledge; in this case, it is a function. The way your consciousness functions, when you want to do something you tell yourself that you must first learn how to do it. So you learn to do it. Our education goes along that way. From childhood you learn to walk, to speak you learn, you learn, you learn -- and having learned you can do. If I say: "Don't ask me how -- just do it", you laugh. As the Doer ( S ) symbol on the chart, you just do. The function of the Doer being to do, He does. Another word would be "Creator". In the word "creation" there is an understanding that you come out with something new. If it is actually something new, how did you learn how first? In the order of life represented by the ‡ symbol, for instance, we do not speak of time and space. If you take the vectors time and space out of your mind and it's functioning the whole proposition of evolving, developing and so falls out. This aspect that we just spoke of (timelessness, spacelessness ) is everywhere, including at the level of the greenhorn.
Although the kind of education we have with the mind is always expressed in terms of time and space; your intimate experiences are very often not expressed in these terms. When your experience is sufficiently deep, sometimes you forget about time and space. There can be a very clear experience without the vectors time and space. When you live "it is so". or what we call a "now", you don't need time and space, you don't need the concept of growth, you don't need the concept of becoming. There is the evidence, that's all.
The human mind has reached the point where it begins to handle problems/dynamics without time and space. This is completely new. It was guessed before, but to make it operative is something different.
You certainly have heard me say very often that when we deal with you the whole of you is here. When we act, most of the time the real action is not done with the vectors time and space. There is a now. " Now"is a word borrowed from time and space, yes, but the now that stays now doesn't have a time. We cannot speak of growth (e.g., in time and space you see a plant grow), because the whole is here already. The mind just simply simply can't deal with these aspects simultaneously because it's functioning is still very poor -- pretty rigid. You can see for yourself that if you adopt a point of view you have a hard time changing it.
Incidentally, every once in a while you outgrow a position. When this happens ,the point of view you used up to that point is no longer good, so you are unhappy. When this happens what you usually do is make a distance between yourself and what has brought along the change. It might be an event, it might a person, it might be something you read. Very often it is this very group, so you feel a need to quit because you are unhappy. There is one very serious lesson you have to learn: the problem is never a problem of object, it is always one of relation. When you run into this kind of growth problem, try to be objective for once and realize that if it doesn't work anymore you need to change your way of relating. If you don't, you shut off the deeper link which is a very bad procedure. It means that you shut yourself off from ‡ . If you sever the deeper link you sever it with yourself. You might be called to work elsewhere, this is perfectly okay, but in most of the problems we have seen here over these last years this is not the case, and the first thing that suffers is the link. I call it "link ", you might call it something else -- it's that kind of deep feeling. It is often ignored for the benefit of the proceedings of the mind.
Do not underestimate what we call the link. If you run into trouble and the link disappears then look at the ways you relate. We go on constantly, the type of link you have one year is no longer very good the following year -- impulses change all the time, the shape that it takes has to change all the time. The link itself has no label, it's simply that you perceive the link in a certain way -- this perceiving has to change all the time.
Also, related to the link you have to realize that whatever newness comes is a little bit like music: you strike a note and you will have harmonics on every level, sub-levels, sub-sub-levels, and so forth. This is a principle you have to realize.
When you study the square in the book you will notice that there is a tendency that you have learned to adopt of looking for something new within the range of what you know. Nowadays we have three centers active, so when you have something new, the first thing that appears is new sub-levels of currently active centers. if you follow the symbolism used, you'll see that if we have three squares active we have only one-third, or three-ninths, of each working. You have six other possibilities within each square. Activation of these other possibilities will seem to be something completely new and you will, in the beginning, confuse these with the opening of a new square. But, if you actually open a new square, corresponding sub-squares will come alive as well and this is a rather big change.
What I have described is the usual tendency, until you learn to hold your mind in check. When you become more logical, more objective, you will see the play. If you see the play you can handle the situation much better.
One point you have to understand: The square diagram is the expression used in the book of the ( ‡ ) symbol.In the drawing, we have lines coming out of the heart of the ( ‡ ) symbol to the four corners of the square. It symbolizes that ( ‡ ) creates the whole field of action.This is why it relates to the four corners -- the whole field.The action goes from the heart of the ‡ symbol to the heart of the square diagram, but heart does not mean the center of the field. We had to do it this way because we wanted to make a diagram, but"heart"actually means that the action is in the heart of whatever is playing. If we speak of the greenhorn, this action goes through the heart of yourself . Now the very heart of yourself is not your physical heart, it's your identity -- what you call "me"--deeper than the ego image.
The ego-image is more related to the personality, the appearance, and is more related to the field. But you sometimes have an intimate feeling of yourself to which you often cannot even apply a label -- the action of ‡ is on this level.
When you learn about initiation, soul, the Monad, Atman, etc. from spiritual books -- all this is included in the ( ‡ ) symbol. You learn about the workings of the hierarchy up to the Solar Logos -- all this is included in the greenhorn. It's the rule, respect it.
There is one point on which you must not make any confusion: I do not say that the hierarchy is limited to the ( ‡ ) level. Possibly, possibly not -- depending on what you look for -- but most of what you know about the hierarchy is limited to ( ‡ ) . The Secret Doctrine, Alice Bailey's books, all that is contained within ( ‡ ) ). DjhwarI Khul taught, dictated very clearly to Alice Bailey; but however great a Master, he must use words adapted for the minds to whom he speaks. This means he is limited to these minds. It does not mean that the Master is limited in this way, but it definitely does mean that the human mind is limited this way.
...When we work here I encourage you to verify for yourself what is going on, and not rely on my words. For instance, we work with the relation between ‡ and ( S) This means that it is known to us. If this is known to us, there is the implication of working-along this line -- it does exist. You can verify it by yourself. When we play music, when we work together, you feel a change in you. It comes as a natural blooming in yourself and not as a product from me to you. if you were more attentive you would realize that it works through your very identity. You bloom. It works through your very identity. You will notice that I always try to help you verify for yourself.There is a veil around the greenhorn. That veil, in the time to come, is going to be lifted. In the work we do, it's lifted a little. This is what allows us to help you come forth more really yourself. Don't expect help from your own consciousness. The veil is absolute for the consciousness. You don't remember where you come from, you don't know where you are going -- that's a minor aspect of the veil. You can verify the reality of the veil by yourself. continuum exists in fact, but for you, as awareness goes, there is a dichotomy.
As I said, little by little, the dichotomy will be lifted. What I call The Christ Impulse is linked very directly with the Creator aspect, the Doer ( S) which means it triggers a shift from ‡ to ( S) . We are directly related with this shift.
In the work that we do there is a simultaneous action from ‡ to ( S) and the greenhorn condition is assimilated in the center of gravity of ‡ . The shift is not from greenhorn to spaceship. This is what people believe, but most people just don't know about ‡ .
So one aspect of the work that we do is to help build the spaceship. Sometimes you hear us speaking of Corpus Christi, the Body of Christ. Spaceship or Corpus Christi are the same for us.
Now I have asked you to check for yourself; you would be amazed at how much you can check in the field around people, without having to understand. If you look, for instance at the people across from you, you will notice that the field is slightly different, but you all have a common quality that is proper to the greenhorn condition. If you look at Georgette you will see, that there is a nothingness, an absence of what you see around the others which is kind of stunning. It is really true that we live another order -- it shows. Everything shows in the field, we are not excluded from this. You don't have to rely on my words, you can experience it. The true way is to experience ; experience is full.
When we work the action goes along the line of your own identity. Some of you might remember that I asked you to let us flow through you. if you do this, it will make things a lot easier. When I say "let us flow through you" I don't mean the guy called Martin, I mean the symbol. If there is possibly an inkling that something of this is true, drop everything and follow the inkling. If you register it as one greenhorn flowing through another greenhorn, forget it. It just won't work.
Now, as I said, we are involved in creating the spaceship. We are also simultaneously involved with you -- you, as mankind. We deal with you as mankind -- always. ( ‡ ), with the center of gravity at ‡ is used to build ( S) . Actually it's much richer than what I have said, but it cannot be expressed in words. That's why I use the sequential wording: ( ‡ ) is used by ‡ to create --( S) this you can understand. Actually when you have the shift, you have the Creator coming and it is just done. But the richness of what is done -- well, I just can't convey it.
We have to make The Christ Impulse operative within mankind. So, for instance, when you do respond, even if you don't understand anything, it's very useful for ‡ . It can be very frustrating for you. But later on when ‡ comes down, something comes down to ( ‡ ) as well. We have expressed it as centers opening etc., but we can also say that the veil is going. When ‡ relates to ( ‡ ) more closely, the veil goes.Now, action has been taken and the veil is already bridged this is why a part of what we do is possible.
Participant: Would you say a little more about our being samples of mankind.
Martin: You know, when you work for yourself you isolate yourself -- symbolically speaking, you increase the veil. The veil is an isolation from the play of the whole, so when you work in an ego-centered way you isolate yourself and the interactions we have been talking about are barely possible. This is why your whole understanding of initiation, the Masters, and things like this is so poor. You think that you (for yourself) must reach a high level. We say: make this high level operative. If you make it operative the veil is gone.
Getting back to what we do ... For those who have a feel for "the Work", try to see the concoction you make in your head about "the work" that we do, and then face the real situation.
There is another situation I forgot to tell you about: A few centuries from now, there will be conditions in which higher beings might materialize (be visible) for different purposes. People speak of teaching but it could be any kind of help. we have to prepare a way for that. It's part of the work we do. In this respect I want you to observe a point that is often forgotten. Remember, traditionally you are self-centered, self-reflexive all the time --this is how you are educated it is not a criticism -- so you don't realize that when we work, and especially with music, the room becomes crowded. If you are a little open and sensitive around you will notice that there is a density of life presence, that is bigger than the number of people here. Some feel it and some don't. Watch a little bit. Don't try to see, it's not yet time, but you can sense presence of life. You will notice that when I speak of these things they do occur in the field around Georgette. The field is not as featureless as it was -- it's inhabited.
Again, I say these things for you to verify for yourself and not "believe" in the words. We cannot do a thing with beliefs.
If you want to know how you can help, it's very simple: Symbolically speaking, there is the ( ‡ ) aspect of you within the veil, and there is, of course, the whole of you -- that which we see but you usually don't. You must come down so that you no longer have two, you have one. When you do this you really do prepare the way for these beings to come down too. You have a personality and if you are able to come down, to any degree, into that personality it is a help. I say "come down". The trend to go up is a reflection of the coming down. Learn to skip the reflection and act. If you do this you help directly. Then we won't be alone in doing the work. It's a far cry from the concoctions about the work. There are things to be done.
Coming down tends to lift the veil -- to some extent. Don't expect it to lift fully. This coming down might be the most important help that you can provide. You will notice that the coming down is not related with the striving of your mind. You can forget about the striving of your mind. Coming down is coming down. The implied awareness is nothing like the ordinary human awareness. The coming down implies aspects of awareness working within the human personality that are not the three levels known -- and in the three levels known, six ninths are new. This means you retrain the consciousness.
You know the consciousness that deals only with the vectors of time and space -- not without them. Now find the place in consciousness that is able to work without these vectors. It exists, it is simply an aspect you haven't trained. For this you need purposefulness and maturity --you accept the responsibility to do it.
It might help you also to realize that we are involved in a work not a teaching. We mean business. We are confronted with work to be done. We have no concern to teach you things -- not at all. If we can help you personally speaking, I am glad to do it, but it is not the purpose for which we are here.
In this respect also I come back to the traditional problem of growth. I want you to realize the discrepancy between the proceedings of the mind and the real work going on. Do you realize that in the real work there are no workings of this kind, and if you accept this responsibility you can no longer allow yourself to deal with this kind of fantasy. It is time for a certain discipline and a certain maturity to step in.
Yes, there is a veil, but it is not because there is a veil that you cannot live the whole , You can live the whole including the veil if you want. If you understand that there is the possibility for the mind, or at least for what you live intimately, to leave time and space aside, you have to realize that you are whole.
Man is now facing the Creator aspect. Sudden y you might be a bit more serious about what is written in the very beginning of the Bible: "Man was created in the image and likeness of God". Can you see what your conceptualizing has done to you? How long will it take for you to realize that we see you as you really are -- now. It is so for us, why can't it be so for you? It is but for one tiny point: the way you relate to the situation.
... You cannot be conscious of the action of ‡ . You can be aware in some way but the awareness is not of the greenhorn. So for all practical purposes forget about being conscious of ‡ , but be aware that through your very identity, there goes the life.
We have an expression in English: You stand behind what you do. This is the key to effectiveness. Now the "you" is your very intimate identity. You are present as ‡ . This comes close to the Doer.
Now I told you that ( ‡ ) does not shift over to ( S ). The shift is from ‡ to ( S ). We could say, in a way, that ( ‡ ) is a reflection of ‡ . When the final shift occurs the reflection will be gone. So you cannot, for instance, speak of the Doer blooming. You can speak of it that way from ( ‡ ) but not from ‡ . This is an example of making a projection from ( ‡ ). It is quite interesting to observe your own consciousness to see how easily you project from ( ‡ ) into any other condition.
Something else: In case you haven't understood it, the Pilot is God, because we have represented here in this hologram the whole of creation. If you accept the Pilot as creating the whole, then you have to realize that the whole comes out of nothing. The something is known as creation. You cannot say the Pilot is Love, as people say of God. This might come as disturbing for some people, but logically, obviously, you cannot. Love is something in the creation. In this case, when the Pilot dwells in the All-Encompassing Love He is said to be the Knower. And All-Encompassing is All-Encompassing. You have an attribute: He is said to be the Knower, but remember,He is said to be, this doesn't mean He is. Again, it's a discipline of the consciousness.