Where Were You Before the Tree of Life? - Horus Centre

“. . . I had a fleeting moment of desperation in which I hoped for help from Heart or the
Father of Manifestation. I felt angry at Them for not being present when I needed Them, but I also
felt turning to Them for help might make Me look weak. Lucifer’s merciless stare made me feel
like a fool and I began to fidget uncomfortably in front of him. Lucifer really felt superior then and I
was hating My position. I tried to give Lucifer a look of knowing, but it was not real.
“. . . I wanted help now, anyone’s help. I was feeling overwhelmed, powerless and
frightened, but I knew that I had to get Lucifer off of Me. I could not stand the vibration of Lucifer’s
laughter, and yet, I could not move to push him away from me. I hesitated to think that I might not
survive what was happening to Me, but it seemed possible that Lucifer had the power to
annihilate Me with sound.”
The Gnostic Christian scriptures deal with this influence of Lucifer upon the other spirits in
Creation, but in a much milder fashion, referring to Him as ‘the counterfeit spirit’ as in this
Gnostic text appropriately titled ‘The counterfeit spirit’:
“But for my part I said, Sir, then where will the souls of these others, who have not known to
whom they belong, reside?
“And it said to me, In the case of those others, the counterfeit spirit has increased within
them while they were going astray. And it weighs down the soul and beguiles it into the works of
wickedness, and casts it into forgetfulness (or deep sleep). And after it has come forth it is given
into the charge of the authorities, who exist because of the ruler. And they bind it with bonds and
cast it into the prison. And they go around with it until it awakens out of forgetfulness and takes
acquaintance unto itself. And in this way, when it becomes perfect it attains salvation.
“But for my part I said, Sir, how is it that the soul becomes thinner and thinner, returning then
to the nature of its mother or to the human being?
“Then it was happy when I asked this, and said to me, You are truly blessed, for you have
understood! That soul will be made to follow the guidance of another in which the spirit of life
resides, and by that other it attains salvation, and so is not cast into the flesh again.”
Here is where the microcosm and the macrocosm meet – in the concentric circles which
surround each and every one of us with our own spiritual planes, and the one which surrounds
the plane with its own “spirit-realms” – or levels of heaven, as referred to in the Kaballah.
Perhaps the most eye-opening account of an encounter with Lucifer is related by Louis
Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, from what they call “one of the most disturbing texts in the whole
of French literature,” Le Horla by the famous French author, Guy deMaupassant. Their account
tells how Maupassant “in an access of terror, and madness, in blood and sweat wrote in
precipitate haste” about the figure which appeared and could only have been Lucifer:
“Now I know, I can guess the truth. Man’s dominion is a thing of the past! He has come, the
being who was an object of fear to primitive races, whom anxious priests tried to exorcise, whom
sorcerers called up at midnight without ever yet seeing him in visible form, to whom the temporary
lords of creation attributed in imagination the shape monstrous or attractive, of gnomes, spirits,
fairies or goblins. After the vulgar ideas inspired by prehistoric fears, scientific research has
clarified the outlines of Man’s presentiment. Mesmer guessed it, and in the last ten years doctors
have discovered the exact nature of this beings’ power before its manifestation. They have
experimented with this weapon of the new lord of the world, the imposition of a dominant will on
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