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Gleaning of a Mystic

Chapter IX The Coming Christ

Word Count: 1738    |    Released on: 17/11/2017

ce of divine leaders, and how they were eventually brought out of the water into a clear a

ariously colored light was differently absorbed by each. Thus diversity was inaugurated, when mankind went through the mighty arch of the rainbow with its variegated and beautiful colors. That bow may therefore be considered an entrance gate to "the promised land," the world as now constituted. Here the light of God is70 no longer an insipid single tint as in early Atlantis. The present dazzling pl

union of hydrogen and oxygen to the production of water; and as surely as emergence from the watery atmosphere of Atlantis into the airy environment of Aryana, the world of today, promoted further segregation into separate nations and individuals, who war and prey

rted remembrance of that fact. Those ships actually did founder upon mountain tops where the atmosphere was too rare to sustain them. Today our ships float upon the element in which the Atlantean ships were at one time immersed. We have now contrived various means of propulsion able to carry us over the highlands of the earth which we occupy at present, and are co

electricity, which we have partially harnessed. The law of gravity still holds us in its powerful grip, although by mechanical means we are trying to escape into the new element. We shall at a not72 distant time attain to mastery of the air, but as the ships of the Atlanteans foundered upon the mountains of the earth

d be spared many delusions and much uneasiness concerning the time of this. Whole sects have disposed of their belongings in anticipation of the advent of Christ on a certain day, and have suffered untold privations afterwards. Schemers have passed themselves off as Christ or even as God, have married, raised families, and died, leaving their sons, who

g to the most precocious among mankind. It may therefore be regarded as a detriment when an organization undertakes to graft a Hindu religion (which is excel

eek word used for "world" meaning "order of things" rather than our planet, the

oes not say as in the English translation, "There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body." I Cor. 15:44. He affirms that there is a "soma psuchicon," a soul body, and tells in the preceding verses how this is generated from a "seed" in the same way as explain

toriety to such schemers, though regarding them as a joke as well they may, for it would be preposterous to believe that the great and wise Being who guides e

day. Conditions there were exceptionally congenial and attractive so that, as declared by various scholars who have investigated the matter, Galilee was as cosmopolitan as Rome itself. It was, in fact, the "melting pot" of that day

ree great races. One, the Negro, has hair which is flat in section, and the head is long, narrow, and flattene

air is round in section, and the orbits of their eyes are

of the eyes, these features being especially pronounced in

are being amalgamated. It has been ascertained that here there is a difference in children belonging to the same family. The

t came from the most cosmopolitan part of the civilized world of 2000 years ago, it would be but logical to expect that if a new embodiment were sought for that exalted Being,76 His bo

d their plans come to naught. Meanwhile, progression continues to bring us nearer the Aquarian Age,

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Gleaning of a Mystic
Gleaning of a Mystic
“The contents of this book are among the last writings of Max Heindel, the mystic. They contain some of his deepest thoughts, and are the result of years of research and occult investigation. He, too, could say as did Parsifal: “Through error and through suffering I came, through many failures and through countless woes.” At last he was given the living water with which he was able to quench the spiritual thirst of many souls. He also developed to their depths pity and love, and could feel the heart throbs of suffering humanity.”
1 Foreword2 Chapter I Initiation What It Is and Is Not3 Chapter II Initiation What It Is and Is Not4 Chapter III The Sacrament of Communion5 Chapter IV The Sacrament of Communion6 Chapter V The Sacrament of Baptism7 Chapter VI The Sacrament of Marriage8 Chapter VII The Unpardonable Sin and Lost Souls9 Chapter VIII The Immaculate Conception10 Chapter IX The Coming Christ11 Chapter X The Coming Age12 Chapter XI Meat and Drink as Factors In Evolution13 Chapter XII A Living Sacrifice14 Chapter XIII Magic, White and Black15 Chapter XIV Our Invisible Government16 Chapter XV Practical Precepts For Practical People17 Chapter XVI Sound, Silence, and Soul Growth18 Chapter XVII The "Mysterium Magnum" of the Rose Cross19 Chapter XVIII Stumbling Blocks20 Chapter XIX The Lock of Upliftment21 Chapter XX The Cosmic Meaning of Easter22 Chapter XXI The Cosmic Meaning of Easter23 Chapter XXII The Newborn Christ24 Chapter XXIII Why I am a Rosicrucian25 Chapter XXIV The Object of the Rosicrucian Fellowship