Lunar Lords

2002-4-6 04:46:00

Glad to have you back on line Rick.

Yes, we do have a project which can use some editors. If anyone wants to help let me, Rick or Susan Carter know.

I have time for a brief post so I will tackle Mindy's question:

Mindy:
Would you mind explaining the last line? "This is the great deception; and the Maya of His Presence."

It's this one line that puzzles me.

"Cooperating in the plan of the Solar Logos in relation to His Karma a point oft overlooked. This Karma of His must be worked out through the method of incarnation and the subsequent result of the incarnated energy upon the substances of the form. This is symbolized for us, if we could but grasp it, in the relation of the sun to the moon. The Solar Lord with his warmth and light galvanizes the moribund Lunar Lords into spurious life. This is the great deception; and the Maya of His Presence.

"So runs the Old Commentary oft quoted by me in earlier books. The above concept has in it truth for the individual soul likewise." Pg 48

JJ Response:
You have to be a fairly advanced student to even ask a question like this. Most Bailey reader's eyes just glaze over when the reach quotes from the Old Commentary.

Let us use the Law of Correspondences.

We have seven spheres of existence within the Cosmic Physical. Within the worlds of form we have two worlds which seem to be real but are not built upon a principle and are not founded in reality.

The first is the physical which we see before us. The real physical is the etheric double.

The second illusion is the astral world which is created by smoke and mirrors and turns reality upside down. The astral world is created through the power of soul energy reflecting through the higher mental world. In the same way the power of our solar plexus is very illusionary because it is a reflection of the higher feeling nature of the heart center.

Does the Spirit of God work then in the illusionary Solar Plexus as well as the astral worlds? Yes, it does, but this power works as a reflection which distorts the true and the real so we can have a "not self" as well as a true self. Only through the duality of the real and the unreal can we learn to appreciate and use the real with wisdom.

Just as we have a real self and a "not self" we have real Gods, or Lords and illusionary Lords, but just as this physical world and the astral world of emotion seems very real even so do the lunar lords seem very real. But from the greater reality the Solar Lords represent the true God and the Lunar Lords, the illusionary Gods, just as the light of the moon is not its own, but a reflection of the sun. Even so just as the astral is created by the soul energy reflecting through mind, even so are lunar lords activated by the Spirit of God manifesting through astral or lunar energy. When this happens great illusion is the result, but such illusion is necessary for mankind during certain stages of evolution.

When man is centered in the astral or emotional world, then God must speak to him, however imperfectly, through his lower feelings.

When this happens we have "the great deception; and the Maya (illusion) of His Presence."

The seeker does not have the actual presence of God with him, but a reflection of his presence. He is deceived, yet still encouraged to move onward so the end is good.

When Moses ascended to the Mount he encountered a Solar Lord as evidenced by his shining countenance when he appeared before the people. He was given solar teachings on the first tablets, but when Moses saw that the people were worshipping the golden calf he destroyed them and then received the lesser laws on stone tablets from "the angel of the Lord" who was a lunar Lord. The Lunar Lord thus gave commandments which are repulsive to Solar people, such as killing men women and children of their enemies and stoning to death anyone who breaks even slight rules such as working on the Sabbath, being disobedient to parents, etc.

One of the missions of Jesus was to destroy the work of the Lunar Lords and bring our consciousness to the true Solar Lords, in particular the Logos of Jupiter in conjunction with the Solar Logos.