On
Dis-Identification
by Michael D. Robbins (PH.D)
Friends,
I applaud the great work in thought which is being accomplished in this
group. I regret that I have not been able to participate as I would have
liked. You are all so able and it a joy to see you at work. From time
to time I may say something. I am no expert. Many of you know much more
about this whole issue than I do and are working with it directly. I have
only one thing in my nature which inclines me to wish to speak to the
subject--in this incarnation I was born Jewish and feel some deep connection
to the first solar system group, with all its virtues and vices.
From my perspective, disidentification holds the key, for the Jews and
for all those who are identified with the material form (and by that I
mean anything that can be found focussed on the eighteen lower subplanes--the
dense physical body of the Planetary Logos).
The Jewish 'Race' has a ray one soul. The ray one technique 'Not This,
Not That' is deeply pertinent and should be applied among the more intelligent
who will form the nucleus of a universal humanity, as DK has suggested.
The 'Not This, Not That' approach will lead to the necessary disidentification
but, of course, will only be applicable with respect to those who are
more spiritually advanced.
We really need a reinterpretation and universalizing of all the warring
religions. Much will have to be thrown away and a much higher incentive
offered than any of the warring religions can presently offer. When that
incentive is offered (and it will be offered through the Ageless Wisdom)
many of the deeply-frightened adherents of worn-out faiths will gladly
give up there adherence to adhere to something more promising.
So much of our old mind-set needs to be destroyed. Not one of the religions
now focussed in the Middle East (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) will survive
the transition into the New Age--at least they must not survive in their
present formulations. Reinterpretations are of course desirable to make
a smoother transition possible.
Master Jesus has a lot on His hands as He is deeply involved in the karma
of the three groups. That He was Joshua tells the story of unresolved
first solar system issues in our present problem.
It seems to me that the Jewish Group is very intelligent and that acute
reasoning must be brought to bear. It is necessary, among other things,
to reason one's way out of the solar plexus. Of course, suffering helps
and it is far from over on this planet.
When writing to FCD (Roberto Assagioli) this is what DK said about how
to approach the Jewish Group:
"The work assigned to you, my beloved brother, will be work of profoundest
difficulty. You will meet with rebuff from those you seek to help and
from your own race; you will find very little understanding; you will
meet with encouragement and assistance from the enlightened among the
New Group of World Servers who are non-Hebrew in origin; this will make
your work possible but it will also greatly handicap you. The intense
pride of the Jewish people, their fixed and ancient stubbornness (closely
allied in their case to the instinct of self-preservation), their mental
approach to all subjects, their inherent weakness in the face of difficult
situations which leads them ever to choose the easy way out and not the
strong way, and the height of their racial walls will tend at first to
baffle you. Their natural separativeness, based on either sensitivity
or orthodoxy, will create difficulties and make your task extremely hard.
The beauty of their creative life, their ability to bring through ideas
into forms of grandeur on the physical plane, their close unshatterable
family relations, their dogged adherence to their divine heritage, so-called,
their sympathetic handling of all life materials and their philanthropy
and group enterprises for welfare and helpfulness are great spiritual
assets with which you must work. Their vices must be transmuted into virtues
and their virtues must be expanded into world usefulness. They must be
lifted out of the past which they ever over-emphasised and the future
must be held before them as one of radiance."
Anyway,
friends, the problem is profound. It is not merely a question of human
disharmony. The deepest issues concerning the collision of first solar
system values and karma with the second solar system programme lie behind
the entire problem. Add to that the renegade initiates of the first solar
system--i.e., the Black Lodge and the appalling facility with which they
arouse hatred based on first/second solar system issues. Only spiritual
occultism holds the true answers.
I think we must learn to wean all adherents from that to which they adhere--be
they Christians, Jews, Muslims etc. Our Uranian war is with Saturnian
limitation. At length we have to outgrow our addiction to comforting limitations.
If anything must be destroyed, it is that addiction.
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On Identification
Michael Robbins
I
think the issue of identification is paramount. How and with what do we
actually identify? Who or what do we think we really are? It seems to
me that we have to peal away one layer after another, divesting ourselves
of all identification with the lower eighteen subplanes so that we can
more effectively work through them.
The Buddha tried to help people loosen their identifications. The ancient
Indian method of Raja Yoga did the same.
The big service we can do for people is to help them realize that they
in essence are not Jewish, that they in essence are not Christian or Muslim,
etc. A radical approach is needed to tear people away from their mis-identifications.
The lunar nature will fight to hold on to comfortable identifications,
but no truly spiritual person can allow them to persist.
Yes, it's true that some people must be taught to get the best out of
their religion and the ethical/ethnic conditions into which they have
been born. But the most promising of students (and this should include
ourselves) must be taught to be none of the things we thought we were.
All problems arise in the misidentification we call "ego", and
our body and race are a very big part of ego.
That ancient Indian adage--"Thou Art That" is the essence of
the best approach, and it is all based on "Neti. Neti."--"Not
this. Not that."
Those who are most identified with race, language, history, culture etc.—good
as they may be in a conditional sense—are those who are most in
need of the use of the first ray in the process of disidentification.
They need to know that they are none of the things they HAVE—and
race, religion, ethnicity, etc. are all things they HAVE.
The pit of the peach must fall from the pulp. There are two major kinds
of peaches. The cling-stone peach and the free-stone peach. It is obvious
which of these we should be and what we should encourage others to be.
Deep in our meditational life we must KNOW that we are "Not this.
Not that". Only then can we do anything of real significance about
the Jewish Problem, the Muslim Problem, the Christian Problem, etc. If
we are identified in our deepest essence with any religion or racial type,
we are still personalities and not living as conscious souls, let alone
Spirits in the One Spirit.
I do not consider the attainment of the necessary dis-identification beyond
us at all. I think we are entirely capable of it. Our habits and conditioning
will work against us, but we are not our habits and conditioning.
The fundamental problem promoting wrong living and wrong consciousness
is the problem of Identity. We know that Identity is central to the Jewish
Problem and to the problems of all those who subtly or otherwise emphasize
their race, religion, culture, ethnicity, etc.
The true Jew is supposed to be a universal human being, the prototype
of universal humanity. Let’s make sure that each of us can become
what the true Jew is supposed to be.
When we can become universal in our consciousness (which is the Aquarian
way) then we can actually have some positive effect upon the problem of
misidentification, which is the core of the Jewish Problem and the problem
of all those who are enflamed by the solar plexus (far more than the majority
of modern Jews)—I mean precisely vast numbers in the world-wide
Muslim community. And let’s not exclude all of a fundamentalist
persuasion.
I am saying, that to be really qualified to deal with the Jewish Problem,
we had best see to our identifications and misidentifications. I am sure
that many of them have utterly escaped us, and that others we hug to ourselves
through the justification of familiarity.
I am a Jew. I am not a Jew. I am not anything. I am everything.
Let’s make these deeper realizations REAL for ourselves.
One Who Is and Is Not,
Michael
Relics, Destruction and the New World Religion
Michael D. Robbins
In
one way, time is on our side. The three religions which are together so
contentious are really fading out. DK's words below are strong, but capture
the truth. I think humanity will simply become bored to death with the
perpetuation of that which is outmoded and obsolete. The sixth ray is
actually being withdrawn, as we know. The fury of the moment is simply
indicative of the death throes of a ray cycle which is now terminal.
The "passing relics of three dead and gone religions" will be
abandoned. The Black Lodge seeks to provoke a universally destructive
war before boredom (fed by exciting new discoveries about subtle energy,
subjective life and the structure of the universe) takes over. Boredom
will mean the death of these old forms, but not of the life buried within
them. The life seeks new forms.
To these forms we must contribute, demonstrating the fact of the universality
of the soul to any who may be responsive. There are always some on the
borderland, leaving the fossils behind.
Much destruction lies ahead. It is inevitable. First ray influences are
emerging and the powers of dissolution are at work.
There are many "within the fold"--the fundamentalist fold--who
simply cannot be convinced. They are not ready and their minds and emotional
natures are so crystallized that only the coming destruction will release
them from the prison of their ancient misconceptions. Our work is not
with them. But there are some who can be reached if we sound the note
properly.
We look forward, really, to a New World Religion. None of the present
religions should stand...none of them. We should be among the first to
promote this Universal Religion made of the best elements which can be
salvaged and also of that which is very new in form, and Aquarian in its
symbology.
Some salvage (but not too much), much destruction and great intuitive
creativity for the creation of a new Vessel of Universality--this is what
is needed.
As Christ said, "Leave the dead to bury the dead." The more
we do for the teaching of the Universal Wisdom and for its propagation,
the more we will be contributing to the death of the relics and the transformation
of their best elements into a universally appreciated New Form.
The New World Religion is on its way, and this is the note that must be
sounded in the presence of reactionary human thinking. It will not earn
great appreciation at first, but will magnetically draw those who can
respond into future union of science, religion and art.
As for ourselves, we had better decide with utter honesty how attached
we may be to any of these relics, as good and beautiful as they may have
been in their day. We are builders of new forms and skillful repudiators
of the old. If we keep up that attitude (which is the hierarchically sanctioned
attitude) it will be done to the "point of crucifixion", but
it will really help the Hierarchy with its plans.
I know I have not been integrally involved in the good discussions underway,
but now and then, I thought to share my perspective as a DK Jew, who feels
close to Catholicism, to Protestantism, to Brahmanism, Hinduism and Buddhism--and
sick of them all. I far prefer to gather the life within them and assert
the Universal Religion now in process of formation.
Something far, far more attractive than anything the relics have to offer,
must now be offered. And we should be among those who are offering...
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Big Picture Therapy
Michael Robbins
I love the Title Maria, "ageless wisdom eye for the unconscious guy"? It's all about a change of perception. Great TV show!
And picking up on Phillip—what about “LOST---in the Second Solar System!” I am deeply saddened that I didn't realize the incredible value of humor in relation to this problem earlier!
Regrets, regrets! But what are you going to do when you've lost a whole solar system? You get used to loss.
Seriously,
it's SUCH a really tough problem. Is our fear so great (we Jews and first
solar system types) that they have to pry the first solar system out of
our rigor-mortised hands. Reminds me of Charlton Heston and the National
Rife Association....
Heston guns for fourth NRA term...
Charlton Heston: "From my cold, dead hands" “I'll give up my gun--when they pry it from my cold, dead, hands"
Our sin is refusing to move with the evolutionary stream. DK has told us this time and again. But the grip of "lunar fear" is reflexive and, mayhap, only destruction will help us set our sights on the current design for this solar system.
I'm a person with a Cancer Ascendant, but rather than look backwards (which one can do of course for great sources of wisdom—and I have done so), I would rather look into the timeless, the eternal and towards the Cosmic Astral Plane (one fine day) whither the Cancerian Creative Hierarchy is journeying. It's a big ocean of Love waiting for us.
But, you know, until one has become sick and tired of it all (and friends, I am indeed, "sick and tired" -- without minimizing the great contribution of Kabala and first solar system Wisdom) there is just no way to progress—radically!
Astrologically something really significant has just happened. Pluto (the planet of revulsion) has just entered Capricorn, the sign of crystallization and the personality sign of the Jewish Race/Religion. The implications are obvious and timely.
I am really a Jew...so I think. DK had some Jewish disciples and He told them they were not really Jews, but were just identifying that way in this life. But as for me...I think I really am. I can feel the sword in my hand in times when I wished I had spared the sword. I know what it means to conquer out of pride and arrogance--God said we should. I also know that without Lord Maitreya (and Joshua/Jeshua/Jesus realized it too) there is just no hope for us. Love will conquer and only Love.
So my approach is not to nurse the situation but to find those Jewish people who can take the big picture without revolting and to do my best with them, just as someone did for me. There was a time when as a singer in choirs I could not sing the name of Jesus without choking. I could not and would not sing that name...
But ten years conducting church choirs just to make part of a living for a young family changed my mine. I loved the music and the music opened me to the one they were singing about. But I wish I had a nickel for every Sunday morning I sat there in the pew feeling smugly superior to the benighted preacher who was going on and on about Jesus and Love. Forgive me brothers of the cloth…
Later, I discovered that I was the preacher...all along. What a shock!
For me now, there is no way but Big-Picture Therapy. Master M. tells us to "wear away irritation through cosmic perception" (James you will know the quote). It's tough medicine but it sure does bring on a virulent case of disidentification...the very thing needed. The solar plexus is the seat of irritation and consequent imperil. The Jews are the solar plexus of the Planetary Logos (in His expression as Sanat Kumara) and the Arabs and Islamists (the extreme ones) are even more the solar plexus plus a lot of sacral center thrown in.
Some of these people will not listen, but they are hanging on to dying religions as are the Christians and time is not on their side. We must reach the ones who will listen, just as some of us have been reached. And Master DK is a great "Reacher".
Well, friends, don't get me started...I can rev myself up quite well on this subject. But when is enough, enough?
Universal Humanity...that is what the Jews are supposed to be. That doesn't mean Jewish. It means universal, planetary, cosmic...the Big Picture. Einstein had it. Assagioli had it. Solomon had it...and also his Moslem incarnation, Akbar (who had one Christian wife, one Moslem wife and one Jewish wife...the hundreds of concubines do not here apply).
When one is seized by the Spirit of Universality, who can step on one’s toes? My toes are your toes. It’s about our planet, the Planetary Logos and the Plan. Anything less is unworthy of our consideration…Let the Jews rise into their great heritage, and learn, for Heaven’s Sake, to set a continuing example of universality. They/we—have it in them/us.
Rabbi? Preacher? Philosopher? How about Human Being?---really human, universally human, with identification with all and with none.