T.N.G. SIGNS OF THE TIMES - N.M. April 1, 2003 (#118)
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Dr. Russell Whitesell would talk about “the day of the Lord is darkness” - for those with esoteric eyes and ears. D.K. said the following about:
Dweller on the Threshold
The keynotes of Scorpio are test, trial and triumph. Two most occult factors emerge here - memory and the Dweller on the Threshold (a consequence of memory). EA 206
Saturn is regarded as the planetary Dweller on the Threshold. EA 164
The Dweller problem arises only when a man is an integrated personality. GLA 152
The Dweller can be defined as the sumtotal of the forces of the lower nature as expressed in the personality, prior to illumination, to inspiration and to initiation. The Dweller is all that a man is, apart from the higher spiritual self. GLA 90+
The Dweller does not emerge out of the fog of illusion and glamour until the disciple is nearing the Gates of Life and arrives at full potency prior to taking the 3rd initiation. GLA 39+
Discover the form (glamour, illusion, maya) which your Dweller is likely to assume as you come in contact with it. GLA 34
The Dweller on the Threshold, always present, swings into activity only on the Path of Discipleship. GLA 26
The Dweller on the Threshold is illusion-glamour-maya as realized by the physical brain. GLA 22
The Angel of the Presence and the Dweller on the Threshold are brought face to face on the mental plane. Where the sun sign and the rising sign coherently blend comes a point of crisis. EA 55
The Dweller is defined as the sum total of the forces of the lower nature as expressed in the personality. EP2 312
Complete detachment and discrimination must finally lead us to a condition of such complete aloneness that the horror of the great blackness will settle down upon us. We are treading the Way that leads to the Mountain Top of Isolation where we must fight the final battle with the Dweller on the Threshold, only to find that that too is an illusion. We are treading the Way of Purification and step by step all that we cherish is removed. The distress of emptiness is immediate, and we feel that the price of holiness is too high. The emptiness constitutes that through which light and love may flow to a needy world. EP2 34+
The Dweller represents all the mistakes and errors due to wrong reactions, unrecognized contacts, deliberate choices made in defiance of known good and mass movements which are not progressive in time and space. TEL 80
For many cycles of incarnation, a man is not a personality. He is just a member of the mass. Then the personality life persists for a large number of lives where man is aggressive, selfish in nature and very individualistic. Conflict between the personality ray and the soul ray rages as a war. This conflict terminates at the 3rd initiation (the Dweller on the Threshold does battle with the Angel of the Presence). As St. Paul said, "out of two, one new man." The majority of people are not personalities. Many truly integrated personalities can tread the Path of Accepted Discipleship. EH 506+
An avatar is a being who is capable of reflecting some cosmic principle or divine quality which will produce some desired effect upon humanity. There are two kinds of avatars: those who embody the Angel of the Presence and those who embody the Dweller on the Threshold. EOH 291+
Darkness/Dark Night of the Soul
Vision reveals both the light and the dark. DN2 14
Doing ever precedes knowledge because knowledge is gained through experiment and experience. The disciple always works in the dark. The reason for this is that the soul knows nothing but being, and light and dark are one and the same thing. DN2 393+
Virgo symbolizes depths, darkness, quiet and warmth in the valley of deep experience where secrets are discovered and brought to light. EA 260
Devas do not suffer pain as does mankind. The devas build and humanity breaks, and through the shattering of form man learns through discontent. Pain is the upward struggle through matter to the Logos; pain is the following of the line of greatest resistance and thereby reaching the summit; pain is the smashing of form and the reaching of inner fire; pain is the cold of isolation which leads to the warmth of the central Sun; pain is the illusion of the Father's disowning, which drives the prodigal straight to the Father's heart; pain is the cross of utter loss, that renders back the riches of the eternal bounty. Pain leads the human soul out of darkness into light. DNA 677
Blindness is a prelude to all initiations. Blindness, which is imposed by the soul, is part of the curriculum imposed upon the candidate. Occult blindness is not related to dim vision. It is spiritually induced and blacks out the promised attainment and reward. (Isaiah talked of "treasures of darkness".) There is only blackness. The mystic calls it the dark night of the soul which is a very exalted state of being. RAI 197+
"Darkness" is pure spirit. Pure darkness is the very antithesis of darkness as the unenlightened understand. It is a center point of such intense brilliance that everything fades out. RAI 174
At the very center of the light in the head is a point of dark indigo blue - midnight blue (the dark night, the midnight hour, the zero hour. RAI 42
Pain is the upward struggle through matter which lands a man at the feet of the Logos. Pain is the smashing of form and the reaching of the inner fire. It is the cross of utter loss and leads the human soul out of darkness into light. TWM 533
The initiate has to face two major tests - "the burning ground" and the "clear cold light." The burning ground is found upon the threshold of every new advance until the 3rd initiation. The clear cold light is the light of pure reason, of infallible intuitive perception. This light reveals after the scales fall from the eyes bringing about paradoxically the "dark night of the soul" - the sense of being alone, i.e. Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. RAI 39+
It is the man who persists in spite of warnings and of pain who eventually becomes a brother of darkness. The dark brother recognizes no unity with his species, only seeing in them people to be exploited for the furtherance of his own ends. They respect no person, they regard all men as fair prey. They use everyone to get their own way enforced, and by fair means or foul they seek to break down all opposition and for the personal self acquire that which they desire. The dark brother considers not what suffering he may cause; he cares not what agony of mind he brings upon an opponent; he persists in his intention and desists not from the hurt of any man, woman or child, provided that in the process his own ends are furthered. Expect absolutely no mercy from those opposing the Brotherhood of Light. On the physical and emotional planes, the dark brother has more power than the white brother - not per se, but because the White Brothers choose not to exert Their power on those two planes. LOM 134+
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A blind man needs eyes, not light. A brilliant presentation is still dark.