Man’s Higher Consciousness

by Hilton Hotema

  With his five physical faculties inactive, closed and shut off from receiving any vibratory impressions conveying intelligence of the physical world, and also being unable to send forth any messages, the conscious mind of physical man is closed and dead to all physical existence.

  Such man is literally dead as he lives, so far as his conscious contact with the physical world is concerned.

  MAN LIVES IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

  Man is never more spiritually dead than when physically alive. His physical organs of higher function, which contact the Spiritual World, are dormant.

  Physical man in a state of physical unconsciousness knows nothing so far as the physical world is concerned. Were he actually dead, he could not know less of his earthly being. Yet his body otherwise functions physically as though nothing had happened. He lives physically, but the physical aspect of his Mind is blank. While in that state, he could enter the Spiritual World and return from it, but know it not. In fact, he could be living all the time in the Spiritual World, and be unaware of it.

  In the clever scheme to darken the Mind, the despots directed the scribe to write:

  “Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (Jn. 3:5).

  Then they neglected to delete the statement in the Luke that proves above statement to be false. It is written,—“The kingdom of God is within you” (Lu. 17:21).

  The spiritual darkness of today is the product of a plan invented at the First Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. The darkness was produced, as then and there decreed, by destruction of the Ancient Wisdom and the invention of a new theology that enthroned the priesthood and enslaved the masses.

  That Ancient Wisdom taught the dual personality and the natural immortality of man by revealing the fact that he is temporal in the physical but eternal in the spiritual.

  Nature, internally and externally, is filled with light—spiritual through and through. So is man, her highest product. But his spiritual light is within, not without.

  It is the scheme to lead man astray by teaching him to look here and there for the kingdom of God, when he should look within (Lu. 17:21).

  Go into thy closet, not to the cathedral, and examine the inner sanctuary of the throne of God, within the body, and there find the goal of all human desires (Mat. 6:6).

  The inner vision of the Masters was fully opened. They saw through Nature as through clear glass. They saw more through their mind’s eye than through their physical. To them all Nature stood revealed to her inmost depths, wherein they saw One Essence, One Spirit, of which all things within and without are but various phases of its manifestation. In it the Masters saw themselves as parts of the same phases, living, moving and having their being sustained by One Spirit which is both Life and Light.

  The Masters knew they must live a perfectly natural life, in absolute harmony with the spiritual and physical laws of the Cosmos, and were liable neither to death nor illness as result. They lived as parts of Nature, breathing in unison with the breath of sky and air, birds and beasts, trees and grass, their souls in tune with the Great Soul of Infinity Itself.

  The best spiritual, intellectual and moral men of today cannot be compared with the Masters whom we, in our dense ignorance of facts of the remote past, like to call savages and barbarians to make them smaller and ourselves greater. This is all part of the plan of the despots to darken the mind and control the man.

  PARTHENOGENESIS (VIRGIN BIRTH)

  In his book, “Sree Krishna,” Bharati states that the Golden Age lasted nearly three million years, and “was the most spiritual age of man” (P. 65).

  Men were then physically immortal, with a life-span of a hundred thousand years, and they died at will by sinking into a deep sleep, leaving the physical body behind and returning to their Spiritual Home.

  “Men and women had no need for sex life in the Golden Age,” he says (P. 68). The Law of Parthenogenesis ruled, and sexual generation was unknown-as so well described by Dr. George R. Clements in his masterful work “Science of Regeneration.”

  “During the Golden Age and the greater portion of the Silver Age,” says Bharati, “all men and women were what the Christians call virgin-born” (P. 136).

  When the Romanite missionaries carried to India in the 5th century the virgin birth story related in the Matthew and the Luke, but entirely omitted from the Mark and the John, it did not move the Hindu Masters. The Romanites were utterly ignorant of the fact that they had invaded the land from whence they had received the virgin birth tradition.

  The gospel story was based on a report taken from India to Asia Minor by Apollonius, who visited India between 36 and 38 A.D. and again between 45 and 50 A.D., and there received the account of the virgin birth. He brought back the Hindu religion and founded a communistic sect of Nazarites at the village called Nazarita.

  According to ancient history, the Hindu god Krishna was said to have been born in 3333 B.C., of the virgin Devaki. Concerning this Sir William Jones wrote:

  “In the Sanskrit dictionary, compiled more than 2000 years ago, we have the whole history of the incarnate deity, born of a virgin, and miraculously escaping in infancy from the reigning tyrant of the country” (Asiatic Researches, Vol. I, P. 273).

  Regarding the virgin birth, Bharati said:

  “The fuss that is made about this immaculate conception (by the Christians) succeeds only to excite a smile of pity in the Shrestha-enlightened Hindu—a smile of pity for the ignorance of the facts in the past history of humanity, of which they seem to know so little and care less to know more” (P. 136).

  THE KINGDOM OF GOD

  Ancient Science taught that man lives here, now and always in the kingdom of God; as that kingdom includes all, both the physical and spiritual worlds.

  There is One World with dual aspects: The Spiritual and the Physical. Man actually lives here and now in the Spiritual World, but knows it not because his mind is darkened by the teachings of established institutions, and because he is unable to contact the Spiritual World due to the degenerate state of his Spiritual Radio—the Air Chambers in the skull.

  Due to degeneration, the Five Spiritual Faculties of civilized man, of which his five physical senses are only the exteriorized products, are dormant, closed, inactive, shut off from receiving the vibratory currents conveying to him the cosmic intelligence of the Spiritual World.

  In wild birds and beasts, under the control of their vital powers, the organic currents of their higher vital activities tend towards correspondence, towards contact with the cosmic currents and forces.

  Such animals have instinctive knowledge of everything connected with the preservation of their being, and such knowledge was possessed by primitive man in even a higher degree. This explains many phenomena as to the conduct of these animals which scientists should be able to understand, but do not.

  Grasshoppers have weak sight, but their intelligence organs enable them to find distant regions rich in vegetation. Fishes find suitable spots to lay their eggs. A cat or dog tied in a bag and taken a long distance by train will return to the home some weeks later. A turtle found at Ascension and taken to England made its way to the English Channel and was found again two years later at Ascension.

  The Tampa (Florida) Tribune of October 16th, 1951, states that in 1949 Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Smith moved to California after selling their home in St. Petersburg, Florida. They gave their cat “Tom” to the buyer, Robert Hanson. Two weeks later, Hanson wrote them that “Tom” had run away; and that was the last the Smiths heard of the cat until two years and six weeks later, when Mrs. Smith heard a cat meowing in their California yard and asked her husband to go out and chase it away. He went out to do that, but instead of running away the cat leaped into his arms and began to purr. “Hey, Betty,” Smith shouted to his wife, “this is old Tom.” Old Tom was skinny and worn from his 3,000-mile hike, but happy to find his owners.

  Primitive people, in their unpolluted jungles, have the same extraord
inary capacity for orienting themselves. It takes the polluted air and environment of civilization to destroy the spiritual powers of man.

  For weeks before the terrible upheaval in Martinique in 1902, the population of St: Pierre, the capital city, lived in a state of panic. The volcano called Pelle showed signs of eruption. Scientists and geologists made careful investigations and assured the people there was no danger. The population remained quiet, but the animals did not.

  First of all the amphibian, next the mammals, and last of all the birds left the area. A day later the terrific eruption occurred, and the whole population snuffed out by carbon dioxide.

  Their natural powers warned the animals of the approaching danger, while degenerate Homo Sapiens was last in spite of his science and his scientific instruments.

  The same thing has happened in many other disasters, and will continue to happen. Wild animals leave the dangerous areas and are saved, while man, not being warned, remains behind and perishes.

  Man’s lost capacity to contact natural forces and cosmic currents is due to degeneration resulting from an artificial mode of living under artificial conditions in an artificial environment.

  His degenerate body is incapable of emitting or receiving the higher currents. He is incapable of receiving the electro-magnetic vibrations that give warning of cosmic dangers because the unnatural life he has led for thousands of years has degenerated the appropriate organs. In view of his higher development, he should get many times better results than the animals do—and the Ancient Masters did.

  When man loses his spiritual consciousness, due to the degeneration of his Spiritual Chambers, he is spiritually dead while physically alive, so far as his conscious contact with the Spiritual World is concerned.

  The Cosmic Essence that animatizes man’s body and intellectualizes his mind, contacts the earth in that subtil, invisible compound termed Air—a substance concerning which modern science knows little, as we saw in Lesson 21, yet so potent and paramount that “the Essence of the Universe is in the Infinite Air in eternal movement which contains ALL in itself” (Anaximenes).

  As this potent substance flows into man’s lungs through his nostrils, a certain portion enters and activates the “inner shrines” of the Temple of God, situated in the Golden Bowl (Skull), and termed Sinuses.

  In civilization this potent substance, without which man would die in a few minutes, is poisoned beyond description by his works and inventions. Polluted air fills the cities and homes, shops and hospitals, and deterioritizes and dormatizes the nerves extending to the Brain from the Five Sinuses, the “Inner Shrines.”

  As the function of smelling weakens and fails because polluted air has deterioritized and dormantized the nerves extending to the brain from the nose, so the spiritual function of the sinuses weakens and fails for the same reason—and man thus becomes dead as he lives, so far as the Spiritual World is concerned.

  FEEBLE MINDS

  Dr. Charles H. Mayo said:

  “Every second hospital bed in the United States is for the mentally afflicted.”

  Professor Eli G. Jones, M.D., a prominent American physician and educator of fifty years’ experience, said that every fourth physician was a drug addict.

  Civilized man, has not only lost practically all his spiritual powers of contact with the Spiritual World, but he is rapidly losing his physical powers of contact with the physical world.

  Carrel declared that in New York State one person out of every twenty-two must be placed in an asylum at some time or another. In the whole of the U.S.A. the hospitals care for almost eight times more feeble-minded or lunatics than consumptives. He continued:

  “In the whole country (U.S.A.), besides the insane, there are 500,000 feeble-minded. In addition, surveys made under the auspices of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene have revealed that at least 400,000 children are so unintelligent that they cannot profitably follow the courses of the public schools. In fact, the individuals who are mentally deranged are far more numerous. It is estimated that several hundred thousand persons, not mentioned in any statistics, are affected with psychoneuroses. These figures show how great is the fragility of the consciousness of civilized men” (Man The Unknown, P. 155).

  According to the press of November 28th, 1947, psychiatrists estimate that one in sixteen persons in the U.S.A. is mentally weak. The report says that Dr. Vladimir Eliasberg stated that there are 800,000 insane persons in various institutions, and eight million more are wandering through the cities, because their families and friends consider them harmless eccentrics and let it go at that. Millions more are in the beginning stages of paresis.

  Man is dead to the physical world when his physical senses fail, although still alive. He is dead to the Spiritual World when his spiritual senses fail, yet he is still alive.

  Civilized man has lost all contact with the Spiritual World, and is rapidly losing contact with the physical world.

  Much importance is given to physical food while no attention is given to spiritual food. Physical food is what we eat, while spiritual food is that which we breathe.

  While only a child, the poisoned air of civilization deteriorates man’s body, dulls his physical senses, and dormantizes his spiritual powers. He makes his world and his world makes him. Perfect Correspondence must prevail. That is cosmic law.

  ANCIENT SCIENCE vs. MODERN NONSENSE

  Modern science holds that man is only a physical body that functions as the result of “a series of chemical changes.” When body function stops, man’s extinction comes.

  Ancient Science taught that the body is a material instrument, and as such it is—

  1. Constructed by Cosmic Processes,

  2. Animated by Cosmic Power,

  3. Directed by Cosmic Intelligence.

  According to ancient philosophy, the Cosmic Breath of Life enters man’s body through his nostrils (Gen. 2:7), the channel provided for that purpose, and passes into the Spiritual Chambers of the head and on to the lungs. In the lungs it is absorbed by the blood and carried to every body cell, while Cosmic Intelligence, through the sub-conscious mind, directs the body’s involuntary functions.

  That ancient doctrine is a fact of observation, while the theory of modern science is the fancy of a weak mind.

  If man were taught the natural rules of health, and lived accordingly, he could not be sick. The body functions always in the direction of health, otherwise the sick could not recover. The lawful function of the body must be obstructed before sickness appears, and the symptoms of sickness rise from the body’s effort to remove the offending obstruction. To suppress those symptoms is dangerous and may result in death.

  “Those who have finished by making all others think with them have usually been those who began by daring to think for themselves.”—Colton.

  “The old thoughts never die; immortal dreams outlive their dreamers and are ours for aye; no thought once formed and uttered ever can expire.”—Mackay.

  LESSON NO. 24—PHYSICAL PURIFICATION

  “The blood moves through the arteries at the average rate of thirty feet a second. When you sit quietly, about five pints of blood pass through the heart each minute. That quantity is increased to thirty-five pints each minute if one runs uphill.”—Dr. Arthur Vos in Health Messenger.

  “Breath is Life,” wrote Pundit Acharya.

  The Breath of Life is the Power of Animation (Gen. 2:7). It fills the body with mysterious force that defies modern science. It moves the blood, makes the heart contract and expand, builds the body, and vitalizes and intelligentizes it.

  We can trace the course of the blood vessels, analyze the composition of the blood, show the action of the muscles, recognize the function of the cells, but no man can explain what Life is, whence it cometh nor whither it goeth.

  We can follow the blood stream to the capillaries, and there we must stop. We can trace the course of the air to the air cells of the lungs, and there we must stop. We can determine the amount of oxygen a
bsorbed by the blood and the amount of carbon dioxide excreted, and there we must stop. That is the limit of human knowledge in this field. Beyond those points modern science has been unable to go.

  The manner in which Life Force animates matter, in which cosmic rays and sunlight are condensed into blood and bone, in which breath and blood possess the sustaining power and productive properties—all this work occurring every second of time under our very nose, and yet they are cosmic secrets, and seem to be beyond human ken.

  All mankind stands in dumb silence and humble workship before the mysteries of the Cosmos, and modern science is no less confused than the man in the street.

  That Power which moves matter, makes substance more than form, gives condensed gas vitality and intelligence, enables matter to see, hear, taste, smell, feel, think and reason—these Seven Mysteries of Life—that Power has not yet been seen, nor heard, nor touched, nor named.

  Yet science claims that Food is the Source and Power of the Vitality, Intelligence, and Strength of the body. Science has formulated that theory and now must support it. To repudiate it would leave science empty and void,—a system of speculation without a stone on which to set.

  FUNCTION OF BREATHING

  Life is not individualized in the Infant until it inhales the first breath. Until that moment, the vitality pulsating in the Infant’s body comes through the mother, but not from the mother.