Etta D. Jackson
New York, NY 10025
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"Author's Thoughts" sounds much more enticing than... my blog... but that's what this is. Here I will be sharing with you, my online visitors, my thoughts, impressions and ideas about what's going on in our world and what we can each do, individually and collectively to advance the work of humanity towards its final destiny.
The Hanged Man-Reversal
Posted: 09/08/2008
The Hanged Man of the Qabalistic Tarot has been associated with Judas who supposedly sold Jesus out for thirty pieces of silver and represents the planet Neptune, which hides the true meaning of this very profound story of man’s redemption and transformation. The imagine of the Hanged Man is one of a man turned upside down, inverted, and in a position contrary to that in which we find most people. It represents what the basis of the occult approach to life states which is that the foundation of the everyday practice of a person who lives the life of obedience to esoteric law, is that of reversal to the more usual ways of thinking, speaking and doing. This Neptunian force of water further illustrates the quality of water as mute, silent; the unostentatious reversal of one's way of life while at the same time having perfect tolerance for other people's way of life-- characteristic of the practical occultist. It is his reversal of thought or his point of view regarding the reality to which most people adhere, and his alignment to Divine Law, the tree on which he hangs, that affords him such serenity and peace.
Richard Gardner in The Tarot Speaks says it best:
"I am the Hanged Man the sign of truth and most truth is like me, the opposite of what people think it is, so I have always been called wrong and my life threatened by a populace who have not passed through the eleven stages of growth necessary to be able to see."
The Institute for Conscious Global Change
Posted: 07/24/2008
I would like to tell you about this non-profit organization I founded: The Institue for Conscious Global Change. The information I communicate in my three books: Understanding Your Choice, Unveiling the Secrets of the Feminine Principle and The Role of Consciousness in Governance was designed to present a new outlook of our life here on planet earth. The Institute is meant to give a framework for the externalization of the great Divine Plan, which is mankind's liberation from ignorance.
In order for this divine plan to become a reality here, the physical, emotional and mental development of Humanity has to improve significantly. One needs to be in a state of receptivity and for that to take place, mankind's focus has to shift from the outer to the inner. It is not surprising that we are experiencing many troubles regarding all aspects of life...housing, jobs, oil, relationships, etc. In order to have a new reality the old one has to be destroyed and to accomplish this, one's thinking must change radically.
You might have heard the phrase: "Everybody wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die." One must die to the old to embrace the new and to that end we are on the threshold of a brand new reality on this planet. Welcome to the New Age!!!
I am inviting you to go to my website; www.consciousglobalchange.org. We are looking for your support in our effort to make a conscious change on this planet.
Happy Belated 4th of July!!!
Posted: 07/05/2008
I hope everyone has a memorable 4th of July. My third book "The Role of Consciousness in Governance" emphasizes the need for us as citizens to understand our responsibility to ourselves and our world. Ageless wisdom teaches that as an individual becomes more conscious he expands his understanding of loyalty to his brothers and sisters beyond his national boundaries. He becomes an internationalist and this does not mean that he negates his own country and the love he has for it but that he come to know that his brethen live in every land. Here is chapter eight from my book The Role of Consciousness..." The Idea That Is The United States of America-It's Occult Foundation.pdf (105KB) I hope it brings some insight into why the founding fathers established this great land, which belong not only to the citizens within the geographic boders of the United States of America but for all those who are and will become "American" wherever he/she lives in any land.
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My first blog-update! Posted: 06/24/2008
This is my first blog and I am a little unsure about how this will turn out. However, the need to connect with you my readers is greater than my intrepidation at doing this. I would very much like to start a conversation about the things I write about in my books and anything else you want to discuss along these lines. I have written three book:
Understanding Your Choice which I completed in 2001 is now widely available.through www.authorhouse.com, Amazon.com, Borders.com, Barnes and Noble.com and all online bookstores.
My second Unveiling the Secrets of the Feminine Principle is available at these sites also and I hope you will tell all your friends and family about it. I really feel that is book should be read by everyone and especially women who are central to humanity's liberation. And women, you MUST take your power back!!! Mankind at large is counting on you and without your true power being exerted in a healthy and conscious manner the work on behalf of humanity cannot be accomplished.
My third book, The Role of Consciousness in Governance is now available also and explains the fact that there is a Divine Plan which has been in place since the beginning of time and now you will know what it is. And, the United States of America is central to the unfoldment of this plan. I will post chapter eight of this book I titled "The Idea That Is The United States of America-It's Occult Foundation" This is my ongoing 4th of July birthday gift to us. If we only knew the great gift America is to our world we would be better stewards. I would love to hear your thoughts and start a discussion that will hopefully advance our collective understanding about the enigma called the Divine Mother, the awesome Earth she created and the Plan she put in place before she brought this planet into manifestation.
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The essential next step in the evolution of human consciousness cannot be further delayed to accommodate fear. We are now living in what the Ageless Wisdom teaching describe as the age of occultism—the Aquarian Age—as we move out of the Piscean Age of Mysticism.
A friend told me years ago after paging through my first book ‘Understanding Your Choice’ and seeing the words occult/occultism that the Christian community would greatly object to those terms and so she suggested I change them in my book. I, of course, told her I would do no such thing and that in fact they should be emphasized given the fact that according to the arcane mystery teachings, this Age of Aquarius is one of developing an occult understanding of life. The paralyzing effects of the fear of anything should always be countered by the light of knowledge and pure reason.
The first step of any sincere aspirant of this age is to take the time to understand the fundamental differences between the Age of Pisces and its dominant feature of Mysticism and the New Age of Aquarius with its dominant focus of Occultism.
The aspirant must have an understanding of the basic and enduring potencies of the last two thousand years of the Age of Pisces, and must be achieved so that they can be counted upon. And at the same time are balanced within the context of the new ideas and idealisms of the Aquarian Age to be brought into objectivity and expressed in a new way. This is essential for the new Aquarian civilization and culture to be wisely and sanely produced and for the foundations to be laid for the correct development of the human family in this new cycle.
It is important then to compare this new age ways of training and discipline with those of the old age of Pisces 1
I will lay out some of the objectives and orientations of each age to give a better understanding hopefully of the aims of the Spiritual Hierarchy in its continued goal of achieving humanity’s liberation.
The Objectives of the Mystical Age of Pisces:
The Objectives for the Occult Age of Aquarius:
This new age will be characterized by the many changes. We are beginning to see them, and they are generating much fear in the public at large who are seeing an almost radial departure from the way things were. This age is called one of Alchemy, Ceremonial Order and Magic, one in which the magical work will be that process in which man goes in search of the magical agent within himself used in the making of the Philosopher’s Stone—integrating the physical, astral and emotional bodies, not only in the individual man but the Body of the race of Man. Organization, Service, Relationship, Brotherhood and the rise of the Feminine to her rightful place of equality, power and rulership are some of the hallmarks of this age. The three things that will definitely be manifested on the planet are;
This new occult force will produce the Western School of Occultism just as the Piscean Age produced the Eastern School of Occultism. There will be a shift of the light in the East to over Europe and America bringing about a synthesis of the mystical way and the occult path. The rules of the road will not be discarded but, the same road will be followed, the same goals will be achieved but the procedures will be changed to accommodate the new types now in incarnation.3
In the comparison of mysticism and occultism, it must be noted that a mystic is not necessarily an occultist but the occultist embraces the mystic and in fact, mysticism is only one step on the path of occultism. The mystical path is one of “love” and can be termed the probationary Path while the occult path is one of “will”. The mystic fails in the purpose of his being if he is unable to co-ordinate love demonstrated in activity through the use of intelligent will, to become an occultist, which he must! In a similar way the occultist becomes a selfish exponent of intelligent power unless he is able to find a purpose of that will and knowledge to express, motivated through love.
Further, the mystic deals with the form in evolution and the God within that form and works from the center to the periphery, while the occultist deal with the form itself, God in outer manifestation, and reverses the process of the periphery to the center.
The mystic mounts the spiritual cross through aspiration and intense devotion to God or a Master who he recognizes, while the occultist attains by the recognition of the law that is in operation and wields that law, which binds matter. He then manipulates matter to meet the needs of the life that is within the given form. In essence, the occultist works with the Intelligences who work with the law until he attains that Intelligence Himself. The mystic at the final initiation is merged into the occultist for he now has become a student of the law who must work with matter. The occultist, therefore, includes the characteristics of the mystic.4
The Mystical Form Type:
The mystic broods on that inner center of consciousness as he concentrates upon the God within him. From this center he attempts to link himself to his Master, some saint or the Divine Himself. He pays little attention, however, to the bodies within which the consciousness dwells. In the elevation of his consciousness, he works with the divine fire within and moves from fire to fire, always concentrating on abstractions and on the essence of that life and not on the concrete aspects of that life. If the mystic had his way he would eliminate form totally, and as he harmonizes, loves, works and burns with fire through devotion, he aspires to leap from the plane of the emotions to that of intuition while attempting to eliminate the concrete mind in meditation. The only form the mystic is said to use if the ladder of fire, and through graded realizations of the indwelling Fire, plans to touch the fire of the universe. He is visionary, dreamy, impractical, emotional, and lacking the quality of mind called discrimination. The mystic is intuitive and prone to martyrdom and self-sacrifice, and before the mystic can achieve Initiation, he must:
The Occult Form Type:
For the occultist form presents very little resistance because with the Age of Aquarius embodying the Ray of Form and its focus being Ceremonial Magic, Ritual and Alchemy, the energy of this age powerfully facilitates a rapid development of occult knowledge and its easy assimilation. We will also see the appearance of many occultists in the outer world.
In contrast to the Mystic, the occultist is more pre-occupied with the form though which the Entity manifests, than with the Entity Himself. While the mystic attempts to transcend or eliminate the mind in trying to find the true Self, the occultist because of his interest in the form which veils the Self, and through the intelligent use of the principle of the mind, he arrives at the same point as the mystic.
He recognizes the bodies or sheaths which veil the true Self and applies himself to the study of the laws that govern the solar system that is in manifestation, of which he is the microcosm. In his study, he arrives at the central life by a process of elimination, and through conscious knowledge and control. He meditates on form (e.g. geometric symbols), until the form reveals to him the creator hidden within, and by that form. What is revealed is that the form and the Self veiled by that form are in fact one and the same and that—Spirit is the highest form of Matter, and Matter is the lowest form of Spirit.
The path of the occultist requires that he does the following:
In this regard, the Age of Aquarius offers great challenges and opportunities for self-knowing, adeptship and Initiation.
Namaste!
References
1Bailey, Alice A., Destiny of the Nations,
London: Lucis Press Ltd., 1951, p.112
2Ibid. pg. 115
3Ibid, pg. 132
4Bailey, Alice A., Letters on Occult Meditation,
London: Lucis Press Ltd., 1951, p.1475Ibid, 149
6Ibid, pg. 152
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The New World Order-The Government of the New Age
By
Etta D. Jackson
www.arvestacommunications.com
Government is to a society what the head is to the body.
We are told by the ancient wisdom teachings that in a desire to establish a divine kingdom on Earth, which would be a reflection of the kingdom Above, our many governmental systems were developed. The systems we see operating around the world are but imperfect reflections of the ideal of government divinely planned. They are works in progress and as each country matures and move through the three stages analagous to human development:
The divine structure and framework given to mankind for his evolution contains three basic departments:
With the understanding that the primary intent for setting up this experiment on planet Earth, was to bring together groups of souls from many different planetary systems in the galaxy to interact, find their common ancestry and to realize their connection as part of one family of human beings.
Through the process of incarnation, each has forgetten his relationship to his brother thereby creating a system based on scarcity, competition and survival. And like crabs in a barrel we would destroy anyone who would appear to get in the way.
Mankind is emerging out of the fog that a loss of memory created in his involutionary journey into the density of matter and materialism. Each government and each individual is beginning to remember his true relationship to each other. Communication through travel and technology is providing the opportunity to know more about one another and thus the barriers and boundaries are coming down. The discovery of the essential nature of Oneness is causing everyone to re-think this illusionary concept of separation and Unity seems to be breaking out everywhere.
We now have a new crop of human beings who we can rightly call the children of the future who are characterized by an understanding of the inter-relationship of all life. Since they are able to filter out of their consciousness the prejudices and ignorances of past generations, they will anchor the Aquarian government on Earth, with the hallmarks of:
Due to the loss of memory that humanity experienced as it involuted into matter, we concluded that there is little or no relationship between things that appear different. To heal this malady of the mind, the three basic areas mentioned previously were put in place to train the mind to penetrate the veils of appearances with the eye of the higher mind. We will then be able to see that, in fact, the essential nature of all things is the same and that all Life is part of one Whole irrespective of outer appearances.
There has been much talk about the role of government in the lives of the citizenry and the need to keep the government out but, it is my feeling that what society is yearning for is a government that is spiritualized. One in which the divine plan for Humanity is fully operational. However, when one is in separation, he is not able to recognize a government that reflects the Divine Intent for society.
Those with no vision and who are near-sighted are convinced that things are getting worse and are very aggravated. What is also true however is that even their ability to see these divisions is a function of their unfoldment and the tools that this new age now provides for greater transparency. They see no light in the darkness, and talk wildly of our civilization being doomed.
The opportunist on the other hand sees an opening in this discontent for him to assume prominence and to come to the forefront in some department of world activity like religion, economics or politics. Despite good intentions at times, these opportunists exploit the masses, and twist the situation to their own ends. In some cases it is because life, destiny, fate or karma casts them for that position to balance out past acts, and they become men/women of destiny. Yet all the time they are but pawns in the hands of The Spiritual Hierarchy who are working to some higher end.
The peoples of the world are essentially divided into four groups:
1. The ignorant masses: these are souls who, through poverty, lack of employment, illiteracy, hunger, distress, no leisure time or means for cultural advantages are in an inflamed condition.
They are developed just enough to respond to the mental control and suggestion of slightly more advanced people. They can be easily regimented, influenced, standardized and swept into collective activity by leaders of any school of thought. Whoever is clever enough and emotional enough can appeal to their material desires, love of country, and/or hatred of those who possess more than they do.
They can be controlled by fear, and therefore aroused to action by emotional appeal. Knowing no better and suffering so much, they are easily swept by the fires of hatred and fanaticism, and so they constitute one of the greatest and most innocent menaces of the present time.
They are the playthings of the better informed, and are helpless in the hands of those who seek to use them for any purpose they chose. They can be influenced most easily by emotional appeals and by promises, while ideas make but little impact upon their consciousness, since they are not yet developed enough to think for themselves.
For the most part, the majority of them are young souls. These souls are impelled by the need to feel that they are of value; they are also motivated by a desire to retaliate for not being recipients of more of the material benefits of life.
Unfortunately, because they are an unthinking, unreasonable mass of human beings, they can be easily manipulated and exploited by the idealism of the leaders and demagogues who propel them onto even violent actions with mob psychology, and mob rule. The masses of humanity fight and die on the urge of inflammatory speeches and seldom know what it is all about. In the end, however, they must come to know that their conditions can be bettered, through different means and not bloodshed and exploitation.
2. Secondly, the middle class, so called, is made up of the lower higher and the upper lower classes which is the bulk of any nation. They are the bourgeoisie—the intelligent, diligent, inquiring, narrow-minded, essentially religious-- though frequently repudiating the forms of religion.
This second group is the most fruitful field from which the new leaders and organizers are being drawn. They constitute an intermediate group between world thinkers, the intelligentsia, and the masses of men. They have benefited from improved educational opportunities. They are able to read and are intelligent and, through the new methods of propaganda such as the press, television and radio; they constitute the most powerful group in each nation. It is to them that the leaders make their appeal, and it is their backing and their partisanship which is demanded and ensures success by any leader.
In the final analysis, they are the determining factor in world affairs. They form the bulk of the partisans in the world, the fighters for a cause, and can be formed into great groups, either for or against whatever party.
If they are not literally fighting, in the physical sense, they are fighting with words, speeches and books. They love to recognize and choose a leader, and are ready to die for a cause, and to make endless sacrifices for their ideals, based upon the ideas presented to them by their chosen leaders.
This group is being greatly influenced by the Spiritual Hierarchy at this time who seek to use them to impose the new rhythms on the different peoples in a society such as,— political groups, religious idealists and fanatics, the protagonists of the new social order and economic regimes as translated to them rightly or wrongly by their leaders.
In the end, what they desire above all else is peace, stable economic conditions, and an orderly world.
3. The thinkers of the world: these are the highly educated and intelligent men and women, who have ideas and formulate them into ideals.
These people speak the words, write the articles and books, and utilize all the known methods to reach and educate the general public, and thus stir up the bourgeoisie to activity with the goal of influencing the masses.
The role they play is of great importance. From this group comes those who are steadily influencing the trend in world affairs, sometimes for good and, unfortunately, sometimes toward selfish ends but always working under the inspiration of this new age.
With the public platforms is in their hands, the power of the media and radio, they play upon the human mind as a musician plays upon his instrument and, their responsibility is enormous. In the main, they are dedicated to the amelioration of human conditions and the betterment of world affairs, giving hope for the future and the upliftment of humanity. These souls can be found in every government, party, society, and in every church and religious organization.
They constitute the most influential group today because it is through them that the large middle class is reached, influenced and organized toward political, religious and social ends.
The ideas and words of this group percolate down through the upper and middle classes and finally reach the ears of the more advanced of the undeveloped masses.
4. The Adepts—the emerging fifth kingdom of Humanity: these are the people who are beginning to form a new social order in the world. They belong to no party or government in the partisan sense. They recognize all parties, all creeds, and all social and economic organizations and recognize all governments. They are found in all nations and all religious organizations and are involved with the formulation of the new social order commonly, but not always accurately, referred to as the New World Order.
They do not fight to keep the best in the old order or for the betterment of world conditions. They have concluded that the old methods of fighting, and the partisanship of the leaders are out of date. They know that old ways of party battles and of violent attacks on individuals whose ideas or way of living are different are detrimental. And, most profoundly, that all sides have utterly failed humanity.
These methods have proven to be futile and unsuitable to bringing in the desired conditions of peace, economic plenty and understanding. And so, they are occupied with the task of inaugurating the New World Order by forming, throughout the world—in every nation, city and town,—a grouping of people who belong to no party, take no sides either for or against, but who have as clear and definite a platform and as practical a programme as any other single party in the world today.
The platform upon which they stand is: the essential divinity of Man. Understanding that a basic human characteristic is that of goodwill, this is the premise on which they build their program. They see no racial, national or religious barriers and therefore work to heal the breaches between people; to evoke a sense of brotherhood and foster a sense of mutual inter-relation.
At this time, they are organizing men and women of good will throughout the world, outlining to them a definite plan and framework within which they can meet.
This group of adepts state and know that their initial appeal has been such that, given the assistance of the trained minds found in the third group mentioned previously, with financial assistance for educational and media initiatives, they can change the world.
This They know can be accomplished without war, without arousing hatred, without attacking any cause or partisanship — and, that the new order can be firmly established upon earth.
It is the obligation of these initiates to watch over human evolution and to guide the destinies of men. This objective They carry forward by implanting ideas in the minds of world thinkers. This is accomplished, not through force which infringes upon the free will of the human spirit, but through the evocation of the human consciousness so that these ideas can be received, recognized and, in time, become the prevailing influences in human life.
Thus is the relationship of:
The Hierarchy → The Adepts → The Masses of Humanity
It is important to look at this issue from two different angles and to always remember that the objective of the new social order, new politics and new religion is to:
This is the goal to which all true knowers and spiritually minded men through the ages have committed themselves — to bring in the rule of the Kingdom of God, which is the era of peace on earth. This is indicated by the widespread emphasis upon world peace, as is voiced by great political leaders and as worked for by churches everywhere.
The Hierarchy is struggling hard against the so-called "forces of evil", which are not: armies of unrighteousness and sinfulness, organized under a figment of the imagination, the devil or some other supreme Antichrist, for such an army does not exist. There is no great enemy of God arraigned in battle against the Most High.
These “forces of evil” are none other than suffering, erring humanity that are still half-awakened, dimly sensing the vision, and struggling to free itself from the thralldom of the past with its tarnished allegiances and its unchecked loyalties. The forces of evil are, in the end, only the entrenched archaic ideals and habits of thought which have served the purpose of bringing the human race to its present point of development, but which must now disappear if the New Age is to be ushered in as desired.
The old Antichrist rhythms, inherent in the old forms of religion, politics and the old social order, must give way to newer ideals, to synthetic understanding, and to the new order. The laws and modes of procedure which are characteristic of the New Age must supersede the old, and these will, in time, institute the new social order and the more inclusive regime.
This work will bring about the conscious development of Universal Mind/Intelligence; Universal Love and Universal Will. These are recognized by all world religions, including the Christian religion as a required achievement in this new age.
There are many experiments taking place especially in the realm of government today as men everywhere attempt to apply the newly sensed approaching ideals.
In an attempt to bring in some aspect of this ideal to the new social order much antagonism and hatred becomes obvious. What we are really seeing are clear lines of demarcation and distinction as each group is convinced it is right.
The divine purpose for government was to set up a system wherein the liberation of humanity from ignorance can be achieved. It is toward that end, again, that the following three primary systems were established:
As humanity emerges out of darkness into light and matures from childhood to adulthood our systems of government will correspondingly more closely reflect the divine intent for governments based on Oneness, Divinity and the Right of all Life to enjoy what the earth so bountifully provides. Man will have more leisure time to contemplate who he is so the mystery of his divinity can be revealed to his conscious mind.

Happy 4th of July!!
You can now download a free excerpt from Chapter 8, The Idea That Is the United States of America from my third book, The Role of Consciousness in Governance here!!

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