The Path of Holiness – the 12 Gates.
Interval between Resurrection & Ascension.
And so today is Tuesday April 2, 2024.
We have April showers today where we live.
March brings blustery winds. April brings spring showers.
The spinach has formed its round leaves in our garden.
And the rest of the garden needs planting.

And so…we are now under the Mercury retrograde.
27 degrees Aries to 16 degrees Aries – till April 24th.

Capricorn moon today on this Tuesday – Mars day, Ray 6 day.
Capricorn moon days are practical days.
We put our boots on & tend to the work needed.

The moon is busy today – so we are too.
Moon passing by Saturn, Jupiter, Ciron, Uranus, Mercury, Venus & Neptune. A busy moon today & tomorrow.

Sun in Aries – Mercury & Chiron in Aries too.
Venus enters Aries Thursday night.

Time moves on, the planets keep circling the Sun and the season’s change.
A time for everything on earth & in the heavens.

Interval
Interval Between Resurrection & Ascension of the Christ.
Forty days after the Resurrection of Christ from the tomb of matter, Christ Ascends into Heaven (He returns to Shamballa, in the Gobi region, home of the Father, Sanat Kumara from Venus).
It was only the physical body of the Christ that was no longer seen. The Christ has remained on the Earth since that time 2000 years ago. He has not left the earth.

Fifty (Pente) days after the Resurrection, the Christ sends a messenger, the Holy Spirit, which opens the minds of His Disciples to be able to understand the language of the heart of all the peoples on Earth. Pentecost – fire of understanding in the mind & heart.

From Resurrection to Ascension, the Christ continued (continues today) to teach His Disciples the Christian Mysteries (the Teachings of the Pisces Age, fulfilling the prophecies of the Aries Age). Pisces was the fulfillment of the Aries Age. Love fulfilled all the promises & teachings of the previous Ages/Religions. This last statement is most important to understand.

We can ask the Christ (our Soul) to come into our hearts & teach us. As we ask this we become quiet, listening to the still small voice within. We are grateful. Gratitude & Goodwill open the Gates.

From Easter to the Ascension
And so from Resurrection to the Ascension the Christ taught His Disciples, not in the body of Jesus, but in His Sun Body, the luminous radiance of His etheric body. This is our “body of light.” The Christ in HIs Sun body taught His Disciples the inner esoteric teachings. And their days, forty days, were filled with wonder and revelations, their time together was intimate as they all communicated together with the Christ at the center.

This interval of time “lay between heaven & earth”. And the Christ told them that they would develop all the Christed (read “Soul”) powers from on high and they would step forward in the world inspired & illumined, messengers & teaching for the new world.

Each day in the interval between Resurrection & Ascension, the Christ blessed & taught His disciples. The Christ was a channel for ever renewing inflow and outflow of spiritual power. This did not cease when He ascending to the higher spiritual realms of the earth. He now is a channel for ht downpouring forces of the twelve celestial Hierarchy, the Seraphim, Cherubim and the Lords of Flame. Each night, as I have written before, He blesses the world, reciting the Great Invocation, standing under a pine tree.

And so, Ascension is 40 days after this past Sunday.
That means Ascension is May 9th this year, 2024.
And Pentecost is May 19th this year, 2024.

Study of the Path – the Twelve Gates
Each constellation (sign) is the home of great spiritual Intelligences, possessing wisdom and power beyond human comprehension. Each year, when the Archangelic Lord Christ makes His journey to earth as the solar orb (Sun) completes its circuit of the Zodiac, these mighty Hierarchies (zodiacal signs along with their helpers the planets), unite their spiritual forces with that of the Christ in order to sustain & nourish every living thing (all of life) upon the globe.

Thus it is for the illumined student to study the zodiac, each sign & to understand the function, purpose, art & science of astrology – which is a fundamental tool of enlightenment & self knowing.
Till that time we can participate in the Path of Holiness or the Way of the Christ – by studying the path through the Twelve Zodiacal Gates. I remember when I was a student with Sister Corita. She asked us what were the 12 Gates to Heaven. No one knew at that time what that meant. I don’t know if she knew what that assignment meant either, as there was no reference to astrology in that Catholic College. That question remained with me forever. But now I know the answer.

:Isaiah 35:8 wrote:
“And there shall be a highway, a pathway offered & it shall be called The Way of Holiness.”

From Matthew 7:13
“And wide is the gate & straight & broad the Way. It lead to life & who shall find it?”

From John 14:6
“I (the Christ, the Soul, the Teachings, etc.) am the Way, the Truth & the Life.”

We contemplate these words…love, Risa

Graphics:
1. Christ in His etheric Sun body.
With His Disciples – by William Blake

2 & 3. Christ at the center of the zodiac, the 12 Gates.

Continuing with the Esoteric Teachings.
On Easter Monday –
In the days & week after His Resurrection, the Christ, appearing in the physical body of master Jesus, could be seen in His luminous radiant Sun body. The Sun’s Light is its natural vehicle. The Christ, an Archangel from Sirius, also was in His natural Archangel body of Light – the Capricorn realm being the home of the Archangels. We remember the holy child was born in Capricorn.

There is an interval now between the Resurrection Festival (initiation) & the Ascension & 50 days till Pentecost (fire of the mind, Holy Spirit descending upon the Disciples – giving them all language, all wisdom) & the Ascension (when Christ returns to Shamballa). It is a 40-day interval (remember 40 days in the desert of Sinai, 40 days of Lent, now 40 days till the Ascension). 40 days (4 is a square, the Earth plane) of purification & preparation.

Christ taught the Disciples each of the days from Resurrection to His Ascension. These teachings took place on the inner deep spiritual plane, in the etheric plane.

Only Disciples who were able to function in the higher realms (upper room symbology) could take part. Humanity possesses a number of “bodies” – physical, emotional/desire, lower mental (personality), Soul, higher mind, intuition, Spiritual Will, Monadic (see Constitution of Man).

Christ appeared to His Disciples clothed in His Etheric (subtle light) body. On Easter Monday, the Christ was at the Sea of Galilee, teaching His advanced Disciples how to develop & use certain spiritual currents within themselves. The proper development & use of these currents protect the Disciple creating a shield of armour of pure white Light.

Let us Dine Together.
And the Disciples were in a boat and had fished overnight but they had not caught any fish. And the Christ appeared & told them to cast their nets to the RIGHT SIDE of the boat. And they cast their nets to the Right Side (side of Goodness) & their catch was great..
And Peter cast himself into the sea & brought the full catch of fish to the Lord.
And the Lord had already made a fire & he invited the Disciples to dine with Him.
And the Christ prepared the full net of fishes that Simon Peter drew in the net – 153 in all. There were so many fish in the net but it didn’t break. And Jesus said to them…”Come & dine with me.” And they ate the fishes together on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

Esoteric meanings:
The sea is the etheric realm (the four etheric atomic light around the physical body).
The boat is the Soul body, where the Soul functions & directs the personality.
The fishes are the Mysteries, the Wisdom Teachings, the Esoteric Truths given out in the Piscean (fish) Age (Christian religion) – offering to humanity the Stages of Discipleship.
Each of Christ’s Disciples represents one of the signs of the zodiac.
The number of the fishes – 153 = number 9 – Initiation,
The Right Side of the Boat – to attune to the positive currents of the Earth, under the direction of Mercury, the God of Wisdom, whereas the left handed currents are under the direction of Mars, ruler of the emotions.
Note: Mars & Mercury are the rulers of Aries.
We note in the turmoil of today that many of humanity have yet to cast their nets to the right side –
To unite Mars & Mercury – the head & the heart of each individual must be united.
Or the personality with the Soul.
The “fire” that the Christ made is the Kundalini fire that lights up the chakras, that rises up with Right Living. This produces the golden body of the disciple.

John 21:1-14
When they had gone ashore, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.” So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred fifty-three of them; and though there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.”

Fish, a dweller of the deep, a religious symbol, used by the early Christians, denoting the Piscean Age, the Age wherein the Law, adding to the Aries Ten Commandments, was to Love One Another, As I, the Christ (the Soul) love you.”

And they ate fish & honey from the honeycomb. When the Initiates has passed certain tests there is a drink given in thanksgiving – a drink of honey and herbs and there is a celebratory eating of fish & honey together.

The days after the Resurrection were wondrous days filled with Divine teachings, with revelations, with intimate & tender communion & closeness with the Risen Lord. Only those who were sufficiently advanced could participate in this glory of an interval between the Resurrection & the Ascension. The interval lay between heaven & earth. The days were holy.

“And there were so many wondrous things that Jesus did & said between the Resurrection & His Ascension. If they were written every one, the world itself could not contain them.” (St. John.

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In the 40 days ahead, we are quiet, poised, listening, observing revelations & teachings from the Lord.
We understand these things. We are grateful. Love, Risa