Another parable put he forth unto them saying, The kingdom of heaven is
likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field.
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among
the wheat, and went his way.
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit,
then appeared the tares also.
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him,
Sir, dids't not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it
tares?
He said unto them, an enemy hath done this. The servants said
unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root
up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in
the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the
tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my
team.
—
Matthew 13:24-30
The original plan of evolution for the human life wave
involved no "sin," or action contrary to law, with consequent
disease and suffering. A scheme of unfoldment similar to that of the angels
was being followed until the latter part of the Lemurian Epoch. At that time
man was in a carefree state, extremely limited in consciousness, led and
controlled by higher Beings, most of humanity being unaware that they had
physical bodies. However, there were pioneers among the women, who sensed the
physical world and began to tell man of this dimly perceived physical
existence Max Heindel says of them:
"Among the observations made by these seeresses was the
fact that at times a man lost his body, and it disintegrated. She saw him just
as before in the spiritual world, but he was gone from material existence, and
it troubled her."
From the angels she could get no information, but there was
a group of stragglers from the angelic life wave who assisted her. They were
too far advanced to take a physical body, but they could work through a
physical brain such as man had. These were the Lucifer Spirits and they
manifested to the woman's consciousness by way of the serpentine spinal cord
and informed her that man had within himself the creative ability to form new
bodies without the mediation of the angels. Thus came about the ignorant and
indiscriminate use of the creative force, and the consequent lust,
selfishness, greed, etc., which constitute the "tares" among
humanity.
By the time of the appearance of Christ Jesus upon the
earth, the "tares"had become alarmingly numerous. A large part of
humanity had straggled to the point of retrogression, and a powerful impetus
was needed to make possible their going forward in evolution. This impetus
came through the Christ making the Supreme Sacrifice and entering our earth at
the time of the Crucifixion, becoming its indwelling Planetary Spirit. The
radiations of the indwelling Christ Spirit have become stronger and stronger
with the passing years, and there have been many human beings who have
responded and "brought forth fruit."
This "fruit" is the unfoldment of the Christ
qualities inherent in every human being, and manifests definitely as the
luminous soul body. Those who possess this priceless "wedding
garment" will be the "elect" who will be gathered into
the"barn" spoken of by Christ Jesus. In other words, they will be
the ones who will be prepared for the next great evolutionary change or
division in humanity, when some will have to be left behind. "Loving, self-
forgetting service to others"constitutes the highway to "the kingdom
of heaven."
— Rays from the Rose Cross Magazine, April, 1975, page 166
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