The
World Jewish Glamour
A Change in Attitude
(Transcript from the USR Conference 2011)
The Methuselah Project is an initiative started in 2007 by a group of students of the Ageless Wisdom that seeks to address the world glamour related to the Jews. We are well aware of the controversy and the difficulties surrounding the Jewish situation.
The separativeness which seems to be inbuilt in the Jewish people and a corresponding rejection by the rest of the world has compounded an ancient and deep-seated glamour.
The Master Djwhal Khul (D.K.) has called this a major
world problem, and has stated that because of its great significance, it is
definitely part of his Ashram’s work.
Hence The Methuselah Project seeks to contribute to the New Group of
World Servers a fresh understanding, through the creation of a new thought-form
that will absorb and redeem the old one. The Methuselah Project also
gives subjective support to all individuals and groups who are seeking
solutions to the Jewish question.
In
order to heal this world problem, we need to make the effort to look beyond and
beneath the outer appearance, penetrating deep into the roots.
As
esoteric students, we cannot not focus too much upon the points that
the Master D.K. made about the causes of the problem created by the
Jewish people, thereby driving the problem deeper into
matter, perpetuating the cycle of blame instead of devitalizing the
already crystallized maya. The esoteric technique teaches us to
focus upon the points made by Him, related to the solution of the diagnosed problem. In this case specifically, it is called the "Technique of Light".
Even DK told his disciple Roberto Assagioli (in an unpublished letter), to
pretend that Zionism did not exist and to get on with his work. We must build
for the future and let the dead bury their dead. We must generate more light to
dispel the darkness.
We are all Jewish. DK has said that the Jews are
Humanity in microcosm, expressing the lowest and highest of human nature. “When
the Jewish problem is solved, the human problem will be solved.” Love will be
the solution, but how do we invoke that love?
And what does it mean to be Jewish? Is it any of the following attributes,
selfishly or unselfishly interpreted?
- to be a brilliant intellectual?
- to be a wise-guy comedian?
- to be a leading scientist?
- to be good with money?
- to be a leader in the world of dramatic arts and film?
- to punch above your weight in any field of human endeavour?
It is all of the above, but how different is that from the rest of humanity?
It is not. Hence the Jews as a microcosm of humanity.
Being Jewish is not necessarily living in Israel, where one third of the 15 million world Jewish population live. Being Jewish is not necessarily being Zionist. Being Jewish is not necessarily being a follower of Judaism.
Because of their unique evolution, the Jewish people embody the development of the mental principle, hence all the intellectually advanced of Humanity are Jewish in quality.
If we consider the mental unit, it is on the fourth subplane of the mental plane, giving a hint of the goal of our final evolution and liberation in buddhic consciousness. (See diagram below.) The fourth ray of Harmony through Conflict is most likely the ruler of the Jewish Race mental body.
The mental unit upon the fourth subplane of the mental plane.
Hence, the Jewish dilemma
is the mind of Humanity that has rejected the soul of Humanity. Yet, although
the Jewish people are at the vanguard of intellectual development, their
special role as the ‘chosen people’, though they may not know it, is
related to the transformation of human emotion:
“The
fourth type of force, which is responsible for the state of world affairs at
this time [WWII], is that of the Jews; they, as a whole, constitute the
solar plexus of the planetary Logos; their problem is being used today to
focus, qualify and condition the world feeling-nature and the emotional
reactions of the sensitive nature of humanity and of the planetary Logos ...”.[1]
Elsewhere,
in relation to the planetary solar plexus centre, DK states the following:
"… what is truly taking place in the world today is the transference
of the energy of the planetary solar plexus to
the planetary heart centre … I am not
speaking idealistically or mystically. I am pointing out the immediate
goal; I am indicating a problem of our planetary Deity; I am giving you
the clue to a scientific process which is going on under our eyes and
which is today at a point of crisis.”[2]
The situation has not changed since this was written in World War II. It is still a problem of great urgency for the Hierarchy, particularly in this cycle up to 2024 whilst Pluto is transiting through the sign of Capricorn, the personality of the Jewish people.
Energy |
Chakra |
1. Shamballa energy |
Head |
2. Hierarchical energy |
Heart |
3. N.G.W.S. |
Ajna |
4. The Jewish force |
Solar plexus[3] |
The solar plexus in any entity is the clearing house for energies of all the lower chakras, to be raised above the diaphragm to the heart. The Jewish people embody the planetary solar plexus and are hence the clearing house that collectively absorbs and transmutes the sensorial nature of all kingdoms. The following diagram illustrates this function:
The Solar Plexus as a Golden Chalice
The New Group of World Servers is the ajna centre and its purpose is to link to other centres. Here it links the head, heart and solar plexus centres. The following diagram shows this relationship:
Ajna
Centre in Relation to the Other Planetary Centres
Diagram
adapted from DK’s teaching on
raising the solar plexus to the heart.
The Methuselah Project group is working with the hypothesis that the Jewish people also embody Humanity’s
throat centre, because of their powerful intellectual polarization.
This makes them capable of transmuting human emotion because they have run the
gamut of human experience - this is their service and sacrifice; it enables
them to bring about an emotional transmutation through control from the mental
plane.
The Centres of the Planetary Logos
The Centres within Humanity
Planetary Centres and the Centres of Humanity
The Jewish Scapegoat
The Jewish People’s long history is a karmic thread
that winds its way back into very ancient times, to the first solar system
where the principle of mind was developed - just as the principle of
love-wisdom is the goal of this second solar system in which we live.
The Jew has been the Capricornian scapegoat who takes the blame for the
sins of the humanity. The Jewish Race, as a Capricorn personality, has been
that scapegoat.
The concept of the Scapegoat has been distorted
somewhat. We can see the word scape-goat reading as ‘escape goat’ - in
other words, to escape or evade responsibility.
The illumination that streams from the constellation of Capricorn into the dark
corners of the Earth, hints at a spiritual function that can invoke the highest
potential from the Jewish personality.
The Christ was born into a Jewish body and was the
ultimate scapegoat born in Capricorn. This is what is meant by the Christ,
‘dying for the sins’ of Humanity.
"And
I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me."—John 12:32.
The Jewish Racial dharma is to emulate what the Christ demonstrated. To
demonstrate the best qualities of the redeeming nature of the DIVINE SCAPEGOAT.
Blame and Responsibility
The
Jew has been scape-goated for thousands of years for many reasons, several of
which originate with the Jews themselves.
They have been persecuted unfairly yet they also know how to blame, scapegoat
or persecute others, which is at once a part of their defence mechanism and and
also their racial shadow.
When the blame game is played, no party wants to take responsibility.
Individual or racial group shortcomings are projected upon another individual
or racial group. Saturn as ruler of Capricorn teaches us the lessons of
personal and group responsibility.
Like the personalities of most races and nations, the Capricorn personality of
the Jewish people is not yet fully responsive to its Virgo soul.
Saturn rules the third ray of active-intelligence, the ray of the Jewish personality – enhancing the brilliance and diversity of the Jewish genius, yet also catering to the evasiveness and manipulation of its not yet fully integrated personality.
Saturn rules the throat centre and Humanity are the planetary throat centre. The Jewish people are the throat centre of
Humanity.
This brings us back to the mental principle again because the throat is the
major expression of the mental body.
Hence Jewish people and intellectually polarised Humanity have the task of
leadership of the rest of Humanity. Especially now in this quintessential
development of the fifth branchrace of the fifth subrace of the Fifth Rootrace
(5.5.5).
The Jewish People: Virgo Soul, First Ray Soul
Yet what is the factor missing with all this aforesaid emphasis? Earlier it was
said ‘love will be the solution’.
The Jewish people are a first ray soul and a third ray personality – power
expresses through creative intelligence and this can be a potent combination
often selfishly appropriated; the second ray of love-wisdom is the bridging ray
between these two.
1 SOUL – will,
power
2 mediating potential – love-wisdom
3 PERSONALITY – active intelligence
Fortunately, the Jewish people are a Virgo soul, the sign said to embody the intelligence of the last solar system, from where the Jews have wandered into this solar system.
Yet in this solar system we are told that in
this cycle that the second ray of love-wisdom pours stronger through Virgo than
any other zodiac sign.
So how do the Jewish people invoke this Virgo soul in a way that is not simply
the distorted expression of a religious adherence to a kosher diet and hygiene,
or the expression of the lower critical mind?
How to invoke the nurturing, caring qualities of Virgo the Mother who serves sacrificially the child? For the Jewish people, the leadership potential of their first ray soul represents the father aspect. It is complemented by the Virgo soul, representing the mother aspect, who can nurture younger Humanity, the child.
Virgo is also a sign of service, and one of the main ways love can be invoked is through service - bringing about a balanced expression of intellect and love wisdom, of the head and heart.
Yet the majority of thinking Humanity do not serve
these younger souls within the rest of the planet. Some in this mentally
polarised group exploit and look down upon them with disdain and condescension.
These individuals constitute the advanced of Humanity but are at the same time
Humanity’s shadow or dweller.
The Pisces Polarity of the Jewish Virgo Soul
We reconcile the pairs of opposites individually or
collectively through the zodiacal pairs of opposites. Hence one of the answers
for the invoking of the love principle lies within Virgo’s polar opposite sign
Pisces.
The Christ Avatar who was born of a Virgin into a Jewish body 2,000 years ago,
inaugurated the Age of Pisces. The Christ’s main message was one of love and
forgiveness.
DK has told us that the Jews have not yet passed through the Age of Pisces,
still grasping the Age of Aries and all the traditions of those times.
The Age of Aries was from approximately 4,000 to 2,000 years ago, marked a high point for the Jewish people in their mental development and the taking of the first racial initiation.
The Age of Pisces relates symbolically to the
conquering of the waters and the second racial initiation. The goal of this age
is related to the unfoldment of the heart.
It is fortunate that the Age of Pisces has not finished yet, as it still gives
some time for the Jewish people and thinking Humanity to catch up
and learn this lesson. It is also fortunate that the second ray of love-wisdom
is still in incarnation.
Zodiac Age |
Initiation |
Level |
Achievement |
Aries A (Mind ruling) |
First |
Physical |
Integration-Transmutation. Mental unit is reached. Throat centre. Concrete mind. |
Pisces L (Heart ruling) |
Second |
Emotional |
Awakening of the heart = Fusion, transformation. Causal body is reached. Heart centre. Soul. |
Aquarius K (Abstract mind) |
Third |
Mental |
Awakening of the heart in the head, transfiguration. Higher mind is reached. Manasic atom. Higher triad. |
Symbolic Racial Initiations in the Zodiacal Ages
As the table above shows, it could be
very tempting to leap from the Age of Aries, tapping into the mental forces of
Aquarius, without having integrated correctly the experiences of the Age of
Pisces. No one can be a true Aquarian Water-Bearer unless they have learnt the
lessons of the waters of Pisces first.
Pisces and Forgiveness
Pisces is most amenable to the expression of love wisdom, as Virgo in its lower
expression tends to bring in the factor of the separative critical mind. Soul
energy will always distort through an unreceptive or unintegrated personality.
The forgiveness message of the Christ Piscean Avatar is for many not an easy
one to receive, as forgiveness is primarily a function of the soul, and most
people are not soul conscious.
It is a process that must be learned and forged by the
personality, invoking the soul, in order to truly effect a lasting forgiveness.
We must look at the dynamic quality of forgiveness, stripped of all its
new-agey connotations. It is primarily a process of the spiritual Will. It is
synonymous with the words absorption, redemption, and sacrifice, all words
relate to the raising of matter into light.
Forgiveness, Absorption, Redemption and Sacrifice are a deeply occult
techniques along the first ray line of will or power. Pluto as the soul ruler
of Pisces has much to do with this process.
On the theme of absorption, Humanity must exoterically integrate the Jewish people
and the Jewish people must esoterically absorb Humanity.
We can glimpse the ultimate symbolism of the soul and personality of the Jewish
people, the Earth signs Virgo and Capricorn. Virgo purifies matter; the
Capricorn Scapegoat in the wilderness scavenges all matter and redeems it.
Let us return to the term, ‘forging forgiveness’; it describes the process to which an individual or group submits itself. This forging activity relates to Vulcan the Divine Smithy, ruler of the Jewish first ray soul and also the veiled ruler of its Virgo soul.
Hence the Jewish soul must, like Vulcan, ‘forge in the depths’, to ‘find the material upon which to expend its innate art - and to fashion that which is beautiful and useful.
Ft -
LV
Vulcan and Pluto, co-rulers of the 1st ray,
rule the Virgo-Pisces polar opposites.
So what can Vulcan hammer-out for us that is practical, beautiful and useful? Glamour is a kama-manasic substance. The glamour related to the Jews has been created by humanity, Jews and non-Jews, down the ages.
It is the New Group of World Servers who can and must
deconstruct and dissipate it.
This involves several things (as outlined by DK
in the book Glamour):
1. As
a preliminary step, to become aware, own and transform our own contribution to
this glamour.
2.
To
cultivate an attitude of non-judgment and harmlessness.
3.
To
look at the phenomenon with an impartial-scientific (or neutral and mental)
approach, aimed at a complete and balanced point of view.
4.
To
build a lighted thought-form of solution, based upon a planetary vision.
5.
To
pierce the glamour subjectively through group meditation.
6. To give subjective support to all individuals and groups who are actively working to solve this world problem.
To respond to these tasks, The Methuselah Project offers several activities:
1. Stimulating the aura of the esoteric community by bringing a fresh approach to the problem.
2. Creating a new understanding of the Jewish problem by
acknowledging the well known causes and bringing a fresh energy to
neutralise it.
3. Diverting attention from the problem and focusing on the solution.
4. Cultivating a new thoughtform of forgiveness, understanding, and compassion -
inside ourselves and the group. This new thought form will absorb and redeem
the old one.
5. The Methuselah Project website at http://www.methuselahproject.net,
offers articles and essays on the subject.
6. An online forum for discussion.
7. Meditation exercises for group members on the dissipation of glamour.
8. A twelve-week course on the Psychosynthesis of the Jewish people, based upon
Dr. Roberto Assagioli’s work with psychosynthesis – and his work as a Jew with
fellow Jews.
The
Conference Workshop
1. An opportunity for a meditative group inquiry and sharing into the deeper
levels of the Jewish archetype.
2. To help build the new lighted thought-form of transformation.
3. To offer a taste of how Roberto Assagioli approached the Jewish predicament,
applying the technique of psycho-synthesis, how
he introduced the concept of the Soul of a
Nation.
Closing Group Mantram (Adapted from the ‘Mantram of Fusion’)
"I am one with my Jewish brothers, and all that I have is theirs. May
the love which is in my soul pour forth to them. May the strength which is in
me lift and aid them. May the thoughts which my soul creates reach and
encourage them."