"Cosmos Crafter" is a phrase coined by The Master I.F. to depict the Seeker on the Path who has reached the level of a beginning co-creator with the Lords of Light. This seeker is building, or crafting, his own "Cosmos," i.e., reality in congruence with the Natural Order of the Cosmos.
The cover drawing, reproduced from a drawing done by I.F.'s own hand, is uniquely relevant to the materials within. It shows the serpent of wisdom, the symbol for the regeneration which each seeker must undergo. Upon the serpent are the alchemical symbols of transmutation, the holy tettracytes of Pythagoras, the Alpha and Omega of all processes, the Yin and Yang energies, and the sacred triangle of pulsating involution/evolution.
REALIZATION
Dear Cosmos Crafter: Realization and all that it implies, is one of our major goals in life. If we are to understand life and death, we must understand time. If we are to understand the self, we must surrender all ownership of likes and dislikes. Above all, we must want with our whole heart and mind to know what is, and this entails surrendering all previous ideas we have about it, all images, all views, etc., for these cause trauma and give direct rise to all our suffering.
We want freedom from poverty, from suffering, from disease and death. Freedom from something at all times. It is our want for freedom that causes us to react. WE WANT FREEDOM FROM SOMETHING. If we examine this concept carefully, we observe that this sort of freedom is not freedom at all. Any reaction is forever tied to its cause and all bonds are a lack of freedom. To be free, one must act, there cannot be any reaction.
Dear Cosmos Crafter:
There is no direct, easy, or instant road to Realization. The truth, if one is to accept it, is that there is no path, save that which each one of us alone creates. The word "intelligence" is made of two Latin words -- "inter," which means between, and "lige" meaning line. Therefore, the world intelligence means TO SEE BETWEEN THE LINES -- that is, to be able to see what is actually happening around oneself rather than to be caught up in one's hopes, wishes and desires; to be able to see what is actually happening in any given situation without becoming entangled in its symbolic representations. Dear Cosmos Crafter:
Any time you get emotional (agitated motion) about anything, you trigger off your subconscious mind to take you over, push you back into the past, and make you a complete robot totally run by images, concepts, thoughts, and memories and evaluations from the past -- most often having NO relevance to proper function in the here-now of the present.
You will not SEE what is... You will not HEAR what is... You will not TASTE what is... You will not FEEL what is... You will not SMELL what is...
Hence, the input data from your environment will be incorrect and foggy -- your mind then uses this data to evaluate from -- which is thus wrong.
Dear Cosmos Crafter:
Mind is only the mental instrument through which the consciousness of the Real Man finds expression through the function of concrete ideas from thought-forms in the mental world. These thought-forms, in turn, find expression through the mechanism of the brain. Man is, therefore, not a mortal because he is neither merely a human-animal nor its personal mind, nor does he cease to exist when he withdraws from his physical instrument at death.
The Real Man is essentially a divine, Spiritual Being, an emanation of the Universal Causeless Cause, an individualized Ray of the Universal Cosmic Spirit, which men call God; an immortal soul trying to express through a mortal body.
Dear Cosmos Crafter:
It is an axiom in Hermetics that everything COMES FROM THE UNSEEN, FROM THE ABSTRACT TO THE CONCRETE. These abstractions become more and more concrete as they approach our plane of existence; until they finally phenomenalize in the forms of the material universe, by a process of conversion strictly analogous to that by which steam can be condensed into water, and water frozen into ice.
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