From the book "Gods About Us", Max Rempel
It is important to understand that even in the philosophy of the new times, success in life has great value. This is not about giving priority to material values. It is about love, first of all. Integrity of character, the respect of friends, a passion for ideas and the ability actually to bring ideas to life, creativity, inner and worldly well-being - these are important not only in this world; this is the very experience for which our souls come into this world.
The philosophy of the new times is far easier to accept once you understand that it is not new at all, but on the contrary, that it is very old. Everything I am describing now was already present in the "Secret Doctrine" of Helena Blavatsky, published 120 years ago in 1892. The basic ideas about the higher world, about the aliens, about the transition into the next density are easily found in Christianity, in Judaism, in Hinduism and Buddhism. They simply do not lie on the surface. So each religion has two facets - the surface one and the deep one. This is precisely how they developed over thousands of years - they preserved the deep esoteric knowledge for the initiated, knowledge that was hidden behind the surface interpretations intended for the uninitiated. So, for example, the initiated knew that the sacred texts should be understood not literally but allegorically. That King Solomon is not a real historical figure but simply a symbol of the sun. And that all his numerous palaces and concubines are allegorically encoded astronomical and astrological symbols. That the twelve apostles simply symbolize the twelve signs of the zodiac, that the cross again symbolizes the four cardinal directions and, correspondingly, the solar cycle and the days of the solstices and equinoxes, that the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ symbolize the end of the annual solar cycle on the day of the winter solstice - the dying of Christ-the-sun and his resurrection. All the rest of the story, perceived and depicted literally, is a trick, a deception, intended to hide from the uninitiated masses the true meaning of that same philosophy of the new times. This esoteric (which in translation means hidden, secret) philosophy, hidden in former times, was present in every culture and every religion. In Judaism it was part of the Kabbalah.
Not only the world religions but also folk and tribal cults carried this philosophy within them. It is, in a remarkable way, common to many or probably all peoples. This was convincingly proved by Blavatsky in the nineteenth century and by David Icke, our contemporary. I will not retell their works: my aim is to explain briefly how our world and the higher worlds are arranged from my point of view, and I rely above all on the modern channeled messages of Bashar and other channels, on the modern hypnotic research of Michael Newton and other researchers. It simply turns out that modern researchers are rediscovering anew what the esotericists, and in particular the Kabbalists, taught for many centuries. This coincidence of the old and the new science, in my conviction, testifies to its truth. Beyond this, the understanding that the philosophy of the new times is very old helps one accept it. It is not something radically new; on the contrary, it is something very familiar - our fairy tales and the best examples of world literature are saturated with these ideas. Rereading Bulgakov and the Strugatsky brothers, you are struck: they were obviously in the know. By some miracle they knew what has become clear to us only now.
And so, the understanding of the antiquity, the primordiality, of the secret doctrine, of the philosophy of the new times, makes it easier to accept, since it is not so much a departure from the old as a return to the source. Another factor that eases the transition is the realization that the choice does not necessarily have to be made immediately. That one does not have to choose at all. It is important to understand that it is characteristic of a person to sit on two chairs, that duality is characteristic of him. That this duality is laid into the foundation of our constitution and it is impossible to be rid of it. So the greater part of humanity believes simultaneously in God and in the modern materialistic philosophy of the Western type. These two philosophies coexist peacefully under one roof. In psychiatry such a split is called schizoid. For the modern person, the schizoid condition is as habitual as hypocrisy is for an insurance agent.
Therefore I am not calling on you to cast off your old convictions and put your faith in new truths just like that, all at once. Nothing prevents you from spending the rest of your life gradually parting with the old and gradually accepting the new. The voices from above explain that it is precisely in this - in inner transformation - that the chief task of our generation lies. We came, we incarnated into this world, precisely at this time, in order personally to take part in the transformation of old convictions into new ones. It is simply labor, performed unhurriedly.
Here we have returned to the most difficult question: in the name of what is this transformation needed? For me the answer is clear - in the name of truth, of course! But I am increasingly convinced that for many of my readers and listeners, truth in itself is not so important!.. perhaps what matters to you is rather its applied significance - namely, how, with this knowledge, one can become happier and more successful.
And here is precisely where we have reached that part of the philosophy of the new times where it departs rather far from tradition.
This is, above all, the law of attraction and the concept of the higher self.
That is, in order to apply the new philosophy, one must figure out who or what governs our life, our luck, and with whom we are conducting a dialogue in our prayers.
The human soul is a part of God, and the landing of the soul into our physical world is like playing a computer game or a board game. This world is real insofar as the rules of the game are universal for all souls playing the game "earthly life," but it is still a game. It is said that certain hacker-pirates somewhat spoiled our little game, so that the souls found themselves caught, mired in it. In this lies the idea of Buddhism, and the modern voices from above sometimes remind us of this. We are told that one rarely encounters a planet so mired in materialism. Other civilizations live in less separation from the divine and break through the veil of unknowing from the third into the fourth density more quickly. Nevertheless, it is said, we potentially have the capacity to far surpass many other civilizations, because if we do indeed make the leap, then we will turn out to be more vigorous and more resistant to evil than civilizations that grew up under more hothouse conditions.
What does it mean, "the soul is mired in earthly existence"? What is implied? That earthly life wounds and grounds the soul so much that it cannot break free of the cycle of earthly incarnations. It is implied that over a certain number of incarnations, somewhere between 50 and 150, the soul learns everything it needs about the earth and passes on to the next level. Moreover, each new incarnation makes it more perfect. The fact of getting stuck, of bogging down, in earthly existence occurs because a life that is too heavy and wounding does not allow the soul to perfect itself, but on the contrary leads to regression, deterioration, imbalance, a lowering of the level of spiritual life, a lowering of the frequency of vibration.