by Ernest L. Norman
Let us again take one of the more popular and well-known Biblical portrayals of the life of Jesus and try to clear up some of the mysticism, the miasma, and other various mental derelictions which concern the more ultimate truths in these diverse expressions which were uttered by the Nazarene. Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Except ye be born of the spirit, ye cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven,” and Nicodemus wondered and asked, “How can it be that we are again born from the womb?” and Jesus said, “Nay, ye are not born of the flesh, but ye are born of the spirit.”
This particular philosophical utterance has been the cause of much concern among the Christian adherents in different translations from which they have attempted to evaluate a very complete abstraction of the evolutionary principle in which all individuals are so vitally concerned. This is the emancipation or the freedom of the individual from the various carnal earth world existences and their numerous reactionary experiences – to supplant all of this past evolutionary reactionaryism with a more fundamental and basic concept of life which is lived in spiritual worlds, more highly developed than the material worlds, and minus the different emotional and reactionary methods of life which have, up until this time, supported all human beings.
If we look into the various evangelical elements which have attempted to dispensate, or to otherwise moderate this teaching to their different adherents, we will indeed find strange and rather obnoxious practices. The minister or the priest will succeed, through a very vehement display of oratory, in arousing his congregation into a hypnotic frenzy; and in this released hypnotic frenzy, inhibitions will vanish, the various adherents will hit the sawdust trail, as it is called; they will roll around in the aisles, sit on the mourner’s bench, howl, scream, and froth at the mouth. After this horrible display has ended, they will happily go home believing they have been born again of the spirit, and have received Christ, or the Lord, etc. From that day on, at least for sometime into the future, they are quite likely to go about the world in a rather unrealistic position. They are still mesmerized or hypnotically projected from the reality of their existence; they are constantly attempting to reverify or resubstantiate this false position in their varied attitudes of life.
The proposition of being born into the spirit is indeed a far different process than that which has been preached by the evangelist, or by other different ecclesiastical dispensations. Being “born into the spirit,” in reality, means that we continue on into the higher spiritual worlds over a period of many hundreds or even thousands of lifetimes, or many hundreds of thousands of years, earth time, in different elements and phases of living wherein we succeed in extracting the various values of experiences and interweaving these concepts with a more complete and abstract understanding of what the Infinite really is.
This is the normal way in which most people succeed in evolving into the higher spiritual worlds. There are, of course some shortcuts, I shall say, which can be included and which can save numerous and painful life experiences. Being reincarnated into the flesh and living these experiences out, in the more normal reactive measures of these lives, can indeed be quite painful and distressing, and can also carry the element of danger that we may incur certain types of blockages which will precipitate us down toward the more ultimate and disastrous end of oblivion. We can also incur very serious psychic disturbances which will manifest themselves in our physical anatomies, and in the surface consciousness of our various life dispensations as they are lived from one life to the next.
This evolution of consciousness is indeed quite complex if it is approached and realized in a more complete infinity within the present moment of consciousness; however, it does not necessarily need to confuse anyone who so approaches the Infinite, in the sense that these principles can be rationally integrated; we can form different necessary basic concepts, and above all we can assume a more completely dedicated purpose and intent toward the Infinite in our desire to incarnate into a higher life.
It is at this point that we should remember the approach to the Infinite must always be made, as it was described by Jesus, “as little children.” In other words, we cannot approach the Infinite with very definitely formed convictions which we have derived from other lifetimes in the past. We cannot constantly compare the Infinite with that which has transpired in our former earth life experiences, or with any other previous affiliations or denominational orders. We cannot classify the Infinite in generally accepted terms of relationship with political systems, religious dispensations, credos, etc. The Infinite must always be considered as the Infinite Perspectus, that is, we can, at any time in our evolution, completely evolve our mental consciousness with the combined elements of Infinity, as they are so presented to us, and not necessarily compound them from out of our past experiences into the present mental tense; or the recombinations of these various elements become a compromising dispensation of life which seems to flatter the immediate apparency of this life as it is understood by us.
From time to time we have had a number of students write to us in regard to their endeavors to understand Unarius; and in these respects they have reverted to this common and quite fallacious practice of trying to compare Unarius with other previous contacts which they have made with such religious or metaphysical orders they have studied. This is a common practice and one which should be dealt with quite strenuously, inasmuch as we must first supplant within our consciousness an entirely new concept of Infinity. Unarius is just another name for Infinity; it cannot be classified in this respect with any other existing interdenominational orders; it cannot be classified as a religion; and it cannot be classified, in the material sense, as a material or third dimensional science. Although it is scientific in nature and does include the basic elements in our material science, it must be remembered that material science, in turn, has merely included or borrowed from the Infinite, certain basic concepts or principles which have made this physical science possible up to this point. Unarius, therefore, can be considered to be something like a large slice of watermelon taken across the entire section of the melon, and in this section we can see the various formations wherein the seeds are held firmly within the fleshy portions of the melon. Unarius, in a sense then, is a cross section of the Infinite and the beginning of your understanding of the Infinite.
At this point we can also make another analogy; we can say that your approach to the Infinite, through Unarius, is, in all respects, an attempt upon your part, to again be born into the spirit or “born of the spirit.” Being “born of the spirit” means much more than being consciously aware that such a thing as a spiritual world exists; or that there are heavenly kingdoms or mansions as Jesus spoke of them. In order to live in these more highly developed or evolved ways of life, it is most necessary that we understand them. Mere recognition does not give us the power to live in these higher worlds; we must become thoroughly acquainted with the entire proposition of life in a higher world in a sense that it is a definite reality of existence. Therefore, if we look back in our own present lifetime to that day when we were born, and we began a whole new system of re-orientation into the present life with some of the more basic elements of life which we have lived from past lifetimes, then the first six or eight years of our lives – classified by the psychologist, as being the formative period of life – were indeed trying times for us, just as they are for all children.
You had to constantly day by day, hour by hour, orientate yourself to various different emotional values and experiences which came to you, or through which you passed in this developmental process. However, as the years passed such things became familiar to you and you developed sort of an automation to them. You immediately adjusted yourself to them and, as a whole, this continuously variable form of constantly readjusting yourself to the new circumstances and experiences of life, comprised your life. The same situation is quite true in your approach to the Infinite, and as Unarius is your first fundamental and basic approach to the understanding of the Infinite, it is therefore quite conceivable that it may necessarily be quite complex to you. This is so because it also presents to you the unknown. For up until this point you have not had any reality with this Infinite, therefore, it remains rather intangible to you even though you have, to some degree, recognized or envisioned within your own mentality, the possibility, or even further, the various forms and attitudes of life which may be lived in these higher worlds. This however, does not make it possible for you to live in these higher worlds; so again we have the same approach, the same subconscious human frailty of constantly reverting back into the past and taking numerous extractions and derivatives from past emotional experiences and compounding them with the present time. If this is done and constantly practiced in your approach to Unarius, you cannot hope to succeed very realistically in the different integrations of the numerous and rather complex elements which comprise your approach to the Infinite.
It always must be approached without the conviction or without the comparative emotional reaction to these various past dispensations. You cannot say that this is similar to some other order of expression which you formerly studied or of which you were a part; you cannot say that Unarius was derived from any of these expressions; in fact it is the reverse. These other interdenominational orders or numerous other infractions of religious expressions or metaphysical groups, which you formerly studied, were, in themselves, only the acknowledgment of the Infinite and an attempt to verify the Infinite into a system of justifications based on the emotional values of earth lives. This is quite the reverse in Unarius. For we must, at this point, begin to understand the Infinite as a basic system of evaluation wherefrom all different dispensations of life are extracted, not the reverse as has been just previously described.
In this sense then, Unarius can be considered to be completely in reverse to any and all known religious systems or orders; it is also in reverse, so to speak, with all known material dispensations of life, because it has immediately transferred the point of focus from the physical or earth world to the adjacent and adjoining dimensions where it properly belongs. Therefore, from the varied points in the basic elements of understanding the Infinite, we can make all the necessary compensations and evaluations as they should most correctly be made, and without the constant subconscious reversion back into the past and the emotional complexes which have substantiated life to us, in these former expressionary elements.
One more point which should be interjected at this time is that other common frailty of human nature, which is simply this: when we arrive at some particular position in the various intellectual processes in which we are involved, the thinking processes, or the evaluations which we make, we must always remember that we are constantly, to some small or large degree, being dominated or subverted by the subconscious, or we cannot make a constructive approach to the realization of the Infinite. These subversive values will always exist until we learn to recognize them as they appear on the surface of our consciousness; they immediately can be recognized if we desire to do so. This does however, in all effect, tend to completely tear down the past understanding; it also tends, in a sense, to deflate our own personal egos, inasmuch as ego is the common derivative of all known and understood factors of your present lifetime.
The understanding of the Infinite, therefore, makes this ever-constant demand, that it cannot be influenced or intimidated; it cannot be subverted from the past. The conscious surface of your mind and the various inflective thinking processes are oscillating wave forms which are so necessary in forming the constructive picture of your analyses. These must always be predicated upon the re-emphasis of the future, as they are so reflected into your consciousness from the higher Superconscious Self, in conjunction with the sundry suggestive factors which are included in the lesson courses, the taped messages, etc., as they are being explained to you.
Here again in our analyses we have arrived at that most inevitable point – and a point which is constantly recurring in all of our various analyses and introspections – that our old self is our worst enemy. Inasmuch as we cannot eliminate this old self at any time, we are therefore our own worst enemy. When this fact is fully recognized by all people in their varied daily life introspections, they can be considered to be persons, individually speaking, who have taken the first definite and tangible step in the right direction, whereby they eventually can be born into the spirit and live in the higher spiritual worlds.
For life in these higher dimensions, as has been previously explained, is quite different than these earth lives. The various factors which involve life in these higher spiritual worlds, to a large degree, are quite unknown to most of the earth people. There is, at the present time, a small minority group of earth people who recognize the possibility of these higher ways of life; they recognize the possibility of the higher spiritual worlds, but as yet, it has not become a reality to them in the sense that these concepts can be justified, or that they can be realized in the different lifetime dispensations which are lived from day to day.
Therefore, the material man will, for some considerable length of time or for many hundreds of earth lives in the future, live such similar earth lives as the one in which he is presently engaged. This is the true evaluation of karma, the constant and never-ending repetition of certain cyclic paths of life as they constantly recur in the various patterns of daily life of these people. They wear different clothing, they may read newspapers, or have electronic apparatus, etc., which may not have been in existence in these previous lifetimes; yet the psychology of their existence is basically the same. It is an elemental psychology based upon the reactionary values of each life experience and as emotionally biased creatures, they must react to them. In this respect, the common man, as he is seen in the material world, is no better than any of the other animal creatures which inhabit this planet. He is different from them only in the respect that he has begun to recognize or to envision in his consciousness the possibility of a higher way of life; and in this respect he has erected the sundry systems of deifications which are called religion. These however, are not necessarily true; they are merely attempts at sublimating some of the various otherwise unexplainable values in the generally accepted frame of reference of earth life.
If you would be “born of the spirit,” then do not attempt to preface this rebirth upon former extractions or derivatives in the emotional values of your previous life. Unarius or Infinity is one and the same; they are synonymous. Therefore, Unarius cannot be classified as a religion or any other particular type of dispensation which may be familiar to you at the present time. Unarius is a complete abstraction of the Infinite, wherein this Infinity is explained in a practical and realistic manner. Your approach to the Infinite can be fully realized; also it can be very strongly supported from the extra transcendent energy which is always at the disposal of the various students who are entering into these studies. For, at any time they so desire, the complete rebirth can occur; and when this moment does occur there will indeed be a tremendous and intense emotional experience, wherein the different past lifetime dispensations are, to a large degree, completely dissipated and cancelled out.
In fact, the entire vibrating rate of the atomic constituents of the physical body are again reinstated into a much higher rate of vibration with the Infinite. Here at the Center, we describe these various processes as “work outs” wherein the students, who have reached this particular climax in their studies of Unarius, have manifested numerous major or minor physical and mental reactions, to the degree that partial or temporary physical incapacity is entered into. This is so because there is a definite misalignment, to a degree, with the former past lifetimes, as they were lived through the various portions of the psychic anatomy. As these different portions are so cancelled out, or they are rebuilt, there is quite naturally the consequence of temporary misalignment until realignment can occur in a higher dimensional respect.
It is interesting to note, that all students who have entered into the study of Unarius and who are so actively connected with the Center, have entered, more or less, into this climactic position in their working out periods. In this sense then, we see many of these students again actually being reborn in the spirit. They no longer have the same relationship to the physical world; the former strong appetites and the various expressions which they considered most necessary in their worldly life are no longer dominant factors in their daily lives; they have become indifferent to them. The true values of the higher spiritual world, in turn, become the more dominant factors of their existence. Yes, under these conditions even the most valuable of earth life condiments or expressions are almost wholly lost. They can be lost to the extent that it becomes a rather difficult proposition to live the remaining years of life upon the earth. They must constantly be compromised in various attitudes, manners, and ways in which Unarius so explains in the entirety of its science.
In fact, the whole concept of Unarius as a philosophical approach to the Infinite, does supply more than these cancelled out elements of daily life. Therefore, in the future, if you personally enter into this phase of relationship with your studies, where there is a definite strong psychism which enters into your life at some particular point, that you feel like your physical body is coming apart, that your legs are like rubber, that you have crying spells, etc., do not be alarmed, but rather, feel joyful that this is an occurrence which is called being “born of the spirit.” It is most necessarily severe at this time because a great deal must be accomplished in a short period of time. The contact with Unarius has given you great power over these past lifetime dispensations. In this effect, through your studies you are cancelling out the negative quotient of these countless millions of life experiences as you formerly lived them.
Remember also, at all times in these various manifestations, that you have the constant and never-ending support of millions of highly developed spiritual personalities who can, and do, constantly project very strong mental energies unto you; energies which will help you in all ways, manners, and forms, to overcome the old self, and to be “reborn into the spirit.” For this does, in effect, mean truly that the old self must die; you must be reconstituted in entirety, in concept, in manner and demeanor, and in all ways and forms, to the higher way of life. It cannot be otherwise. For these higher spiritual worlds are entirely different from any of your realizations of the material world. They are relevant in principle, only when we derive the basic abstraction of principle as the regenerative function of Infinite Consciousness.
Infinite Perspectus – Chapter 21