"The Book of Love"– 6th article: "On Love's Primordial Fire": Part 2; from the 7th volume of Bô Yin Râ's "Hortus Conclusus," posted on Three Sages in nine separate articles
ABEND AUF KORFU (Evening in Corfu) by Bô Yin Râ
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"The Book of Love"– 6th article: "On Love's Primordial Fire": Part 2; from the 7th volume of Bô Yin Râ's "Hortus Conclusus," posted on Three Sages in nine separate articles
We continue with our series of postings by Bô Yin Râ on the supremely important topic of love. Today's posting is the sixth of nine separate articles that serialize the complete English-language translation of The Book of Love, which stands as the 7th volume of Hortus Conclusus. Previous postings on the topic of love are the chapter entitled "On the Power of Love" from the book High Goal and the chapter entitled "Love" from the book Words of Life. We would advise our readers to take all the time you need to peruse and absorb this material. While it is written in crystal-clear language that retains its clarity and power even when translated into English from German, it also contains ideas that go well beyond customary treatments. Also bear in mind that Bô Yin Râ wrote his books in a cadence that more resembles the spoken word than any academic or journalistic treatment. This is also reflected in the fact that several volumes of Hortus Conclusus are actually written in free verse. It might even be said that love is the central idea of Bô Yin Râ's written expositions, perhaps reflecting his witnessing to love as the central force of all creation. This would naturally make love the focal point of human spiritual development as well. Indeed, what could be more important to understand in the present-day world crisis? And it is characteristic of Bô Yin Râ that he should begin his discussion of love with praise of the one he considers the greatest example and exponent of love who ever walked the earth—Jesus Christ. Part 2 of the chapter "On Love's Primordial Fire" continues with Bô Yin Râ's explanation of the pathway to celestial love and how that experience will transform our life on earth once enough people have come to experience it through the help available from humanity's sublime guardians, the Luminaries. The text takes us from "the signs of the times" through warnings against false prophets to the time when the last human soul returns to the light.
Who is Bô Yin Râ?
Bô Yin Râ is the spiritual name of Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken, who was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany, in 1876 and who passed away in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1943. In his explanations of spiritual realities and the inner path to realization, Bô Yin Râ openly identified himself as part of the same society of Leuchtenden des Urlichts ("Luminaries of the First Light") to which Jesus Christ himself belonged.
The Luminaries consist of those human individuals with ultimate responsibility for the spiritual destiny of all humanity on planet Earth. Their terrestrial headquarters are located in the heart of Asia, and they have been providing their guidance for millennia. The existence of the Luminaries is hinted at in the Bible by references to the Order of Melchizedek of which Jesus was a priest (Hebrews 7:1-28).
It is extremely rare for a Luminary to work openly and in public as Jesus and Bô Yin Râ have done. Bô Yin Râ wrote that the work of the Luminaries is still at an early stage. This idea is supported by the realization that in both cultural and ethical terms humanity is not far removed from a primitive state of savage barbarism. Events in the world today show this clearly. At the same time, humanity's spiritual hunger is shown by the proliferation of sects and cults trying to show the way, along with the course of the historic religions.
At present the number of people with spiritual hunger is substantial. During Bô Yin Râ's lifetime over a million people in the German-speaking world read his books until they were banned by the Third Reich. More and more people are reading the books in German today, and they are also being widely translated and read in other languages, including English. Bô Yin Râ predicted that a time would come when everyone on Earth who was seeking the spiritual life would read and study his works. We at Three Sages are trying to do our own small part in making them better known and more available in the U.S. and among other English-speaking people.
One of the key facts about Bô Yin Râ's teachings is that he clearly expressed the necessity of answering the fundamental question: What is a human being? If we are honest, we must face the fact that we really don't know the answer to that question. Not that there is a shortage of those attempting to provide an answer, many of these being quite fantastic. Rather the problem is often that the answers are incomplete, mutually contradictory, or self-serving. In the absence of a satisfactory answer, we lack the inner assurance and self-confidence needed to resist the negative forces that would enslave and exploit us during our sojourn on earth. On the other hand, true self-knowledge as defined by Bô Yin Râ, and previously by Jesus, has the potential to assist us in becoming truly joyful and free, both in this world and in the world we all must enter at death. How to accomplish this? Bô Yin Râ's teachings constitute what is always most rare: authentic guidance.
Bô Yin Râ's Hortus Conclusus is a comprehensive body of work but is broken down into 32 separate books, each of which approaches spirituality from a different though complementary angle. But the core is the trilogy consisting of 1) The Book on the Living God; 2) The Book on the Beyond; and 3) The Book on Man. The first of these three volumes, The Book on the Living God, may be read in translation in an on-line version published by the Kober Press of Berkeley, CA, which is available HERE. The second volume, The Book on the Beyond, is available from Kober Press, in the Books to Light translation published by Books to Light, and in the series presented by Three Sages HERE. The third book of the trilogy, The Book on Man, was also recently posted by Three Sages and is available HERE.
We can promise that if you read these books attentively you will not view your life and purpose in the same light as you did before you began. We wish you well on this most important, sacred, and personal of all journeys.
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"The Book of Love"– 6th article: "On Love's Primordial Fire": Part 2; from the 7th volume of Bô Yin Râ's "Hortus Conclusus," posted on Three Sages in nine separate articles
CONTENTS
Introduction Click HERE
Chapter 1: The great man of love – Parts 1, 2, and 3 Part 1 Click HERE; Part 2 Click HERE; Part 3 Click HERE
Chapter 2: On love's primordial fire – Parts 1 and 2 Part 1 Click HERE Chapter 3: The redeeming light Chapter 4: The creative power of love - Parts 1 and 2
On love's primordial fire – Part 2
The signs of the times should in truth be interpreted differently than the fancies which skeptics dream up, like acrobats juggling baubles of thought, in their search for the crowd's applause!!!
'Patience and the faith of saints' are needed here! Not those who deem themselves 'holy' because they slide out of any guilt and responsibility like slithering worms, but those on earth who truly suspect salvation, those who have in every age been the 'salt of the earth'.–
Our grandchildren will no longer know these days of delusion and blindness which are drawing to their end, even though their final end still seems far away.
For them will be hard to understand the sick state of minds which are now the scene of frenzied whirls because, ensnared by dark forces to which they have surrendered, they have thrown open the doors to folly; they believe that 'man' is but a poor animal of this earth – much poorer still than all the other animals of the earth, – and he perceives himself as such, as long as he is ignorant of the fact that he forms spiritual man's gateway to redemption.
Yet only this knowledge will bring the certainty that supreme love alone can give him unheard of power to change the countenance of this earth, so that all misery found on earth – sickness, need and grief – must disappear from the earth, just as those monsters disappeared, from which the first human animals once fled before learning to defeat them! – –
All of us who now are feeling the oppressive shadows of death over our heads in these dark days are the grave-diggers of an old age; at the same time we are fathering the new life, which shall one day fill the earth!–– –
All humanity yet to live on this earthly orb will demand accountability from all of us when the cosmic "It is finished!" will resound through all those spheres which once provided refuge to spiritual man, after he had separated from the Godhead and given himself up as precious game driven to an unknown fate! –
We are the ones who will either change the countenance of the earth or be an obstacle to its change, even if later generations will be the first to harvest the fruits resulting from the seed we entrusted to the earth!– –
Yet do not believe that we shall not be able to see with our own eyes the fulfilment of our deeds, even if we may only see blossoms where later generations harvest the fruit!
The sooner we gird our loins for wakeful action, the more certainly we shall see from this action which is a deed from the heart, the buds opening, promising fruit for posterity!
Fate has entrusted to our will incomprehensible greatness in these grave days, and – truly "it is a joy to be alive" at such a time – to all those who know how to value with wakefulness and responsibility the value of their own lives for all future generations.
Where are then those fools who once thought that their cerebral constructions would last forever!?! –
Vanished like the poorest beggar whose name is absent from all records, their work will fade away in a new age which they, intoxicated with knowledge, could not even imagine nor see coming; for they believed that the light of their thinking would enlighten all future generations.–
Thus there are today amongst us still many vain fools who think themselves wise; they find satisfaction in making the grand gestures of wise men of knowledge.
Not all know that they deceive; many think they are servants of the truth.– However, this age of the devaluation of all values has spawned far too many whose 'conscience' no longer hinders them, once delusion has got a grip on their febrile imaginations.
Thus they lead thousands, through their teaching, into destruction, intoxicated by their power to confuse human souls, and surrounded by a fog of vanity at the number of those who follow their banners.–
"There shall arise false Christs and false prophets…"
Pay heed to the signs of the times and save yourselves from ensnarement in infernal nets from which escape is rarely possible!
Just as you would not entrust yourself to some quack, if your life of your earthly body were in danger, so too you must not hand over your soul to anyone who claims he can preserve its life!
Though there may only be few things of which you feel certain, you surely carry within you the certainty of sensing danger which will never abandon you, once your poor earthly body is in peril!
You also possess the same certainty with respect to the life of your soul. But since you can lose your soul without forfeiting the life of your earthly body, you scarcely heed the warning signs in your inner being when there is a threat to the life of your soul! –
Yet even if you are only tolerably capable of making a judgment, suspicion will rise up within you as soon as some quack approaches when you are in physical distress. In the same way you will feel a 'warning' if a teacher offers himself to you in your time of spiritual crisis.
Even though he may be in greater need than you, you have called upon him because you knew of no other help! – –
Nonetheless, you are not exonerated for entrusting yourself to a teacher who leads you astray, for your quintessential nature has given you in your emotional abilities the power to differentiate.
It is only your own lethargy that prevents you from immediately seeing that you are giving yourself up to 'spiritual guidance' that is in itself in desperate need of rectification! –
In these grave days you must take twice as much care, since you now know, from what I have said, that countless future generations can be furthered by you, but – also held back!
The original fire of love wants to become alive within you, so that its life, continuing to propagate from you, will one day create new life – here, in the hearts of men struggling on this earth to attain their eternal form.
If you did not yourself take on life from love, how would you become the very agency of new life? –
Therefore I had to show you here, inasmuch as words allow, what love is – the love of which the ancient account speaks, telling you about the men of love in the supreme divine sense.–
Therefore I had to reveal to you the life of that 'greatest of men of love' who was once able to accomplish the ultimate act of love.
In the last perfection of his love he victoriously broke those rigid shackles which have held all human beings here on earth in their iron grip ever since the bondage through the very first immersion of the spiritual human form in the earthly animal form! –
He also taught: "Let any one who desires to be my pupil, follow me." –
Ridiculously foolish are those dreamers who believe they only needed to imitate the supposed features of this most sublime of men in external mannerisms to be recognized by him as his disciples or, as the scriptures actually say, his 'pupils'.
Would they suspect who he was and is, they would truly abandon their folly.–
But you to whom I address these words, should not be a bondsman to such a delusion! You have now indeed been taught sufficiently!
If you truly would prove yourself worthy of the carpenter, a Luminary of the First Light, as is also the one who writes these words, then be prepared to awaken within you the exalted love which must consume you, if it is to transform you into a new being!
Only then will you truly be his pupil, his disciple! Only then will he know you to be within his love, just as he knew himself to be within his 'Father's' love! –
Only then will he be able to recognize you as one of those who the 'Father' loves because they found perfection in the Father's 'son'…
Only then will Jehoshuah, the carpenter from Nazareth, of whom the ancient record speaks but who has been estranged from you by followers of the ancient myths of the gods – those who thought him far too close to humanity and therefore draped him in the apparel of their delusion of divinity,– –
Only then will he come close to you, and only then you may say in truth: "I know that my redeemer lives!"– – the 'Son of Man' who once could confirm to his disciples that he would be with them 'until the end of the world'!
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It is only possible from the original fire of the power of love to keep such a promise! –
For him who is perfected within himself it is an indescribably demanding sacrifice which is continually made, to keep himself, after the death of the earthly body, in a condition in which he is still accessible to human feelings confined to this earth …
But you must certainly not try to imagine that this continuation in the sphere of earthly human consciousness, experienced by myself and my kind, entails a 'miracle' shrouded in mystery!
We are talking about nothing other than a focusing of consciousness, precisely established in spiritual law, – which far exceeds the duration of the earthly human body – until the last vibration of the seeking of the soul in the sphere of this planet.
That this entails no small sacrifice arises already from the necessity to remain in a body – as the bearer of consciousness – which is self-created, though imperceptible to the senses of the earth, and yet subjected to the invisible physical world…
At the same time, nature requires this focusing of consciousness: to be obliged to share passion with all the suffering of the soul of total humanity.
Only the original fire of the power of love can make this shared passion with all human misery bearable to the Luminary's self-confined consciousness, until the last of his human fellow souls on earth has returned to the light.
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