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One Solitary Life - Book 2:
From The Unknown To The Known?
by Anthony J. Fisichella
This is a tale of "One Solitary Life"--a mystical tale of all evolving life.
This is to be a mystical biography of a man called Jesus--it is correspondingly an allegorical statement of a seemingly inexplicable
cosmic process.
This is the life of Jesus--it is also a transcendental
drama portraying the ineffable Grand Design of the Universe and
mankind's ultimate purpose and legacy.
Essentially, this is a pilgrimage
into the mystical and the miraculous. We are to undertake the journey
of man's evolution toward divinity. With this, Book Two of the Trilogy
One Solitary Life, we shall set the foundation for an exploration into
the nature and the cause of man's appearance on Earth, culminating
in the emergence of the magnificent being who has profoundly influenced
mankind for 2000 years--Christ.
Warning! The Christ you will meet
within these pages may not be the one you anticipate. This Christ will
likely differ from the God/man you were introduced to in your religious
observances. He may challenge your comfortably established belief
systems. He may not even be "Christian.
From The Unknown To The Known? - Synopsis
Preface
We have concluded Book One of this trilogy within which we explored a host of issues that would act as prologue to the far more complex metaphysical topics that will occupy our attention here in Book Two, all to be culminated in Book Three, where we shall attempt a synthesis of it all employing the life of Jesus as the embodiment of the Cosmic Process we are examining. Among others, we’ve explored the traditions and belief systems that must be addressed in traveling the Path of spiritual evolution including the dogma and religious tenets that occupy the thinking of so many of us and with which we have been struggling. Also, there are the states of mind that hinder our passage as we proceed that must be confronted if progress is to be made. We’ve defined our field of inquiry, as the “Spiritual Journey” in which we are all involved, and some of the terms and concepts that will achieve greater clarity here in Book Two.
I’ve posited for your consideration the existence of an arcane body of knowledge, a “Perennial Philosophy”, the “Ageless Wisdom” or “Secret Doctrine” that has been the root system of the “Tree of Knowledge” and has provided man with the guidance necessary to, first: live honorably and responsibly in the world into which we have all incarnated and, ultimately, as a road map outlining the Path of return for the migrant, prodigal soul in search of a return to Its Source. We must learn to live intelligently and harmoniously in the world as honorable, loving and compassionate human beings in preparation for and as prelude to the journey ahead. The “Journey” begins where we currently stand and is assisted or hampered by our character, attained level of consciousness and incessant attitudes.
I’ve insinuated a Cosmic Process that has given birth to various Kingdoms of Nature, from the mineral, to the plant, animal and human, and suggested the existence of an emerging Fifth Kingdom that lies before us, and the Path that must be followed if entrance into this exalted state is to be achieved. The universe is in a constant state of genesis, an ongoing process of creation or re-creation if you prefer, called evolution. If evolution, in some form, is a fact, we must ask, with respect to mankind, evolution into what? The Fifth Kingdom, the Kingdom of Souls provides the answer. As we proceed in the following pages we shall flesh out the nature of all to which I have thus alluded.
Upon the underpinning thus provided we may now build our temple of true metaphysical knowledge and wisdom. We shall explore issues of great depth and complexity that have taxed my mental and intuitional faculties for many a year. I will make them as clear as my understanding and language will permit. The pursuit of Divine Knowledge (Gnosis) can take many forms; thus, the many different schools of Yoga. Unlike many current methodologies which seem to favor a devotional approach to spiritual awareness and understanding, our approach shall be more intellectual in nature (Jnana Yoga), exploring complex and sophisticated realms of metaphysics that will tax the full capacity of your mind, both conceptually and abstractly. Read with intent and deliberation. This is food for thought, but it is not “fast food” and will require that you masticate slowly and consciously. In the final analysis it must be digested and, in the words of “A Stranger in a Strange Land”, you will have to “grok” or merge with the essence that lies hidden behind the verbiage you are about to encounter. That is the nature of mystical awareness. Proceed slowly and cautiously and, above all, with openness and integrity.
The Concept:
The contention of the author is that there is an accumulated “wisdom of the ages,” which is the basis of the world’s religions. It has been referred to variously as the “Perennial Philosophy” (Aldous Huxley), or the “Secret Doctrine” (H. P. Blavatsky), and shall hereinafter be referred to as the “Ageless Wisdom,”. Simply stated, the purpose of human existence is to provide a medium for the awakening and expansion of the human soul through “self devised and self induced methods,” leading toan expanded state of consciousness, termed enlightenment or illumination, embodied and personified by Jesus, among others, leading to entry into a unique state of existence entitled the “Kingdom.”
This ageless wisdom is the connective tissue that binds us and guides us upon our journey of awakening. We will explore the esoteric reality that is the soul of the exoteric world of apparently separate forms. Understand the principles that are featured within the kingdoms of nature (mineral, plant, animal and human) and follow the pattern as it outlines the stages (initiations) of the next kingdom to be birthed within the cave of the human heart. All things are expressions of the expanding consciousness of the “One Solitary Life” that binds them. Life is a journey of awakening which we all share and in which we must partake. This is the tale of "One Solitary Life" – a mystical tale of all evolving life.
This is also to be a mystical biography of a man called Jesus – it is, correspondingly, an allegorical statement of a seemingly inexplicable Cosmic Process. This is the Life of Jesus – it is also a transcendental drama portraying the ineffable Grand Design of the Universe and mankind’s ultimate purpose and legacy. Essentially, this is a pilgrimage into the mystical and the miraculous. We are to undertake the journey of man’s evolution toward divinity.
Warning! The Christ you will meet within these pages may not be the one you anticipate. Two thousand years ago most of the community into which the Christ Consciousness surfaced anticipated a very different Being than the one they encountered as they trod the roads and byways of Judea. That confusion of identity set the tone for the surfacing Christian ideology and underscored much of the religious confusion in the world for centuries to come.
The Goals of these Books
After many years of study, I have concluded that the Christianity of the early centuries, and what we now know as modern Christian theology, are two entirely different things. Today’s commonly accepted ideologies and personal prejudices are held in high esteem in contrast to a sincere quest for truth and an understanding of the pristine teachings of the Christ. Religious truth is said to be the goal, and yet many end up settling for religious error for fear of having no religion at all. We have detoured so far from spiritual truth that religious leaders not only dispute, but hate each other. Truth is not a luxury. It is not merely a good idea to be taken casually. We are willing to accept the crudest and most incongruous of superstitions rather than admit that our envisioned ideal is non-existent or somehow faulty. Some of us even prefer the security of known misery, to the breathtaking trepidation of mounting unfamiliar spiritual heights. We have a choice between truth and empirical comfort and repose. Mankind tends to oscillate between these two states never acknowledging you can’t have both. Mohammed commented, “There are two things which I abhor; the learned in his infidelities and the fool in his devotions.”
We face a challenge, here and now, as we toil with the demands of life twenty centuries after Jesus lived. The Christ we are to explore in this text is not merely a person, but an embodied Ideal, the abstract idea of the Infinite Divinity incarnate within, not only Jesus, but all mankind. He was, and still is, for humanity, a point of reference by which we may set our spiritual compass, a literal “reference Being,” if you will, having set the standard, the benchmark of human development for ages to come. This is His true value to humanity, for we may mark our growth by the yardstick He embodied. He is the point where all evolution stands awaiting the next great transformation. He embodies the status where the whole universe must arrive as the spokes of the wheel must join at the hub. In Him the whole Cosmos is summed up. Moreover, He is a living bridge, spanning the chasm between the worlds of personal human development and the heavenly realms of the enlightened soul.
Beware, with this work I will be asking you to look past the biography of Jesus’ life into the allegorical implications of that life. We are to look beyond Jesus to the mission He initiated, the Process He represented and the relevance of that “Process” as it impacts upon our individual lives, and the promise of a resplendent future He embodied for each and all. I hope to reveal a face of Christ not seen, as yet, by most Christians. Likely, this Christ will wear many faces. Some you will recognize, some you may not. If you look close enough you may even discover your own.
This Christ will likely differ from the God/man you were introduced to in your religious observances. He may challenge your established belief systems. He may not even be “Christian.” He may, indeed, make you uncomfortably anxious. That is the inescapable consequence of delving beyond the traditional and surrendering the illusion of certainty imposed upon us by our religious beliefs. We are to risk losing the comfort of the familiar. The mystic Jacob Bohme warns; “In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One… The Numbers Game
- And God said, Let there be…
- One is the Lonliest Number
- Consciousness - The Ability to Respond
- Which Came First, God or the Egg?
- Who is That Lady?
- I and the "I" are One
- Soul Food or Are You Taping This?
- One Plus One Equals Three
- The Triune Nature of Being
- The Triune Nature of Man
- Three to Seven to Ten - Completion
Chapter Two… One Alive in the Many
- Worlds Within Worlds
- Consciousness Across Levels of Reality
- The Logoic Thought Form
- Soul vs. Personality
Chapter Three… The Process
- The Fall From Grace
- The Black Whole That Became Earth
- The Waves of Life
- The Original Coming
- The Tools of the Journey
- The Process Personified
- We Have Arrived?
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