I just finished reading “The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary” (1793). This slim book consists of six spiritual letters by Eckartshausen on (genuine!) Christian Mysticism.
Here’s the full text of Eckartshausen’s book:
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Be sure to read the last letter, because he goes into specific detail (using Christian verbiage) of what’s required to elevate Man out of his/her Fallen condition.
I realize now that Rudolf Steiner was either heavily influenced by this, or was taught by the same tradition as Eckartshausen, because there’s a lot of specific overlap with “How to Know Higher Worlds” and Steiner’s division of esoteric development into Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. Both appear to be speaking from experience & common tradition.
Mainstream Christians have enjoyed but often been befuddled by the peculiar claims in this book.
• One claim is that there’s an ancient, secret, invisible “inner church” of awakened members who are in direct touch with the godhead, who know absolute Truth, and who are the wellsprings of knowledge for which religious rituals & symbols are but external dressing.
• Another claim is that the key to being reborn is awakening a higher Self, a higher awareness, a higher perceptive faculty, through which Christ or the Holy Spirit educates you on Truth.
He makes it sound very tangible, real, and realizable through a specific methodology. It’s not just general religious philosophizing or Christian street wisdom.
• And he uses certain terms, analogies, and metaphors that aren’t common in mainstream Christian writings, like talking about an “old man” that must be “rejuvenated.”
Well, it’s clear to me that Eckartshausen was an actual rosicrucian, or learned from them, and he was speaking in Alchemical language.
I don’t mean the Rosicrucian organizations you can buy memberships from today, but the real rosicrucians. They’re a secret society but not one that has regular meetings, headquarters, or even special clothing. More informal, yet also more serious & real than imitators that focus on pomp & circumstance.
As I’ve previously discussed, real rosicrucians are a benevolent network of Christian gnostic psychics who are in communion with divine NHIs and tutelary spirits, by whose grace they have exquisite knowledge & in some cases elementary demiurgic technologies like Alchemy.
So “The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary” is a rosicrucian text that uses Christian & Alchemical language to advocate for a hermetic path to enlightenment through soul purification, psychic activation, and uplinking to divine intelligence.
It’s therefore also a gnostic text, but not in the “it mentions Sophia & the demiurge therefore it’s gnostic” sense. No, a purer form that simply says: salvation is between you & the divine, not any human intermediate gatekeepers, and it leads to the opening of the heart, eyes, and mind to a higher reality where your true destiny awaits.
That’s why it was befuddling to mainstream Christian readers, as this comes from the deeper hidden hub around which the wheel of religion turns & depends.
This inner church is what Philip K. Dick referred to in his “Ten Major Principles of the Gnostic Revelation”
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Specifically PKD’s point #8:
“Probably the real, secret Christian church still exists, long underground, with the living Corpus Christi as its head or ruler, the members absorbed into it. Through participation in it they probably have vast, seemingly magical powers.”
IMO this refers to a 4D/5D/6D STO structure where humans and nonhumans are each linked up to the divine godhead, organized into levels by nature & capability.
The Christian path is one way to it, not the only. But the transcendent spiritual intelligence designated by “I” in “I am the way, the truth, and the life” is the central requisite no matter the path, the center of the hub of the wheel.
This one spiritual pole star has many spokes or angles of approach, each filtering through a particular mask/identity suited to the person & culture in question. Paul Brunton in his writings on the Oversoul makes this clear.
🔖 The Ten Major Principles of the Gnostic Revelation
by Philip K. Dick
The Gnostic Christians of the second century believed that only a special revelation of knowledge rather than faith could save a person. The contents of this revelation could not be received empirically or derived a priori. They considered this special gnosis so valuable that it must be kept secret. Here are the ten major principles of the gnostic revelation:
1. The creator of this world is demented.
2. The world is not as it appears, in order to hide the evil in it, a delusive veil obscuring it and the deranged deity.
3. There is another, better realm of God, and all our efforts are to be directed toward
a. returning there
b. bringing it here
4. Our actual lives stretch thousands of years back, and we can be made to remember our origin in the stars.
5. Each of us has a divine counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us to awaken us. This other personality is the authentic waking self; the one we have now is asleep and minor. We are in fact asleep, and in the hands of a dangerous magician disguised as a good god, the deranged creator deity. The bleakness, the evil and pain in this world, the fact that it is a deterministic prison controlled by the demented creator causes us willingly to split with the reality principle early in life, and so to speak willingly fall asleep in delusion.
6. You can pass from the delusional prison world into the peaceful kingdom if the True Good God places you under His grace and allows you to see reality through His eyes.
7. Christ gave, rather than received, revelation; he taught his followers how to enter the kingdom while still alive, where other mystery religions only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the “other time” in “the other realm,” not here. He causes it to come here, and is the living agency to the Sole Good God (i.e. the Logos).
8. Probably the real, secret Christian church still exists, long underground, with the living Corpus Christi as its head or ruler, the members absorbed into it. Through participation in it they probably have vast, seemingly magical powers.
9. The division into “two times” (good and evil) and “two realms” (good and evil) will abruptly end with victory for the good time here, as the presently invisible kingdom separates and becomes visible. We cannot know the date.
10. During this time period we are on the sifting bridge being judged according to which power we give allegiance to, the deranged creator demiurge of this world or the One Good God and his kingdom, whom we know through Christ.
To know these ten principles of Gnostic Christianity is to court disaster.