Awaken the World Within

Prof. Hilton Hotema

• Publisher: Muriwai Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781787208971
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

World Famous alternative health writer, esoteric author and mystic Hilton Hotema gives a fascinating exposition of his theories.This course of study, 58 wonderful lessons, contains a clear and simple exposition of what all must learn, if they would get out of the fog of false teaching and travel the great way of regeneration and redemption.

 

Lesson No. 1—ANCIENT WISDOM

Science now says that it requires 220,000,000 years for our Sun to make one revolution of its vast orbit, and that it has made thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of complete revolutions. If it has made but a thousand, that covers a period of two hundred and twenty billion years.

Certain scientists say that man is millions of years old. The evidence dug from the ruins of past ages shows that thousands of years ago man had a Science of Human Life so much superior to what we now have, that the Ancient Masters were competent to write in symbol and allegory a description of that science which is incomprehensible to the most advanced scholars of this day and time.

That science was concealed in the Ancient Zodiac, which was used as a chart to teach select students the Mysteries of Life. As the first vow of the candidate was silence, no description of the initiatory ceremonies was ever permitted in writing that could be understood by the profane.

The whole purpose of initiation was to teach the worthy ones the Secret Knowledge of Man and his relation to the Universe. The Initiate was bound by a terrible oath never to divulge the secret to anyone not entitled to receive it.

The only written record of this ancient wisdom that the western world has, appears as the last book of the New Testament. Had that book been written in clear language so its contents could be understood, it had been destroyed and never found a place in the Christian canon.

Scores are the number of those who have tried to interpret the book of “Revelation” in the Bible. Prof. Roswell D. Hitchcock, D.D., LL.D., says in his Analysis of the Bible, published in 1886, that—

“1. Chapter I-ΙII. ‘Things which are’ or the then present condition of the churches. This portion, besides an account of the manner in which the writer was commissioned to write, contains seven separate addresses of epistles, to the seven principal churches of Asia, which distribute warnings, reproofs, and praises, as is deserved.

2. Chapter IV-XIX. Things which shall be,’ or a prophetic view of future ages. It is this later portion of the Revelations that has given rise to such an infinite number and variety of interpretations.”

As the student proceeds-he will be amazed to learn how little the Christian authorities know of the scriptures they use as the foundation of their religious system.

In the eyes of the orthodox, the “wicked” are those who belong to no church and are bound by no man-made creed. Those who do belong are those who fear the wrath to be meted out to the “wicked” by a God that is claimed to be “all love.”

The Apocalypse does not treat of “things which are,” nor of “things which shall be.” It treats of Man and his Redemption, not by a “Redeemer” but by himself.

The only Redeemer is a Clear Conscience, and the only Heaven is a state of the Mind.

Lesson No. 2—THE APOCALYPSE

Emanuel Swedenborg was a prominent Mystic. He was one of Hitchcock’s eighty commentators on the Apocalypse who are worth reading. He wrote in Latin a book of 1200 pages, published in 1874. The English translation was made by Rev. T. B. Hayward, and revised by Rev. John Worcester at Boston. On the title page appears this statement:

“The Apocalypse Revealed: wherein are disclosed the Arcana there foretold, which have hitherto remained concealed.”

The Preface begins with this statement:

“Many there are who have toiled in the explanation of the Apocalypse; but, as the spiritual sense of the Word has been hitherto unknown, they were unable to see the Arcana which lie stored up in it, for these the spiritual sense alone discloses; on which account expositors have conjectured various things, and the most of them have applied the things about ecclesiastical matters. The Apocalypse, like the whole Word, does not in its spiritual sense treat at all of worldly things, but of heavenly things; consequently not of empires and kingdoms, but of heaven and the church.”

The Preface ends with this statement:

“Every one can see that the Apocalypse can by no means be explained but by the Lord alone; for each word therein contains arcana, which would in no wise be known without a particular enlightenment, and thus revelation: on which account it has pleased the Lord to open the sight of my (Swedenborg’s) spirit, and to teach me. Do not believe, therefore; that I have taken anything herein from myself, not from any angel, but from the Lord alone. The Lord also said to John through the angel, ‘Seal not the words of the prophecy of this Book’ (Chap. 22:10); by which it means that they are to be made manifest.”

For centuries an attempt was made to give the Apocalypse an historical interpretation. Failing in that, it was next interpreted as prophecy. Then Swedenborg stepped in with his mystic knowledge and sought to show what “The Apocalypse Revealed.” We shall see that he lived in darkness as dense as did the many before him, “who have toiled in the explanation of the Apocalypse,” and failed to find that it does not at all treat “of heaven and the church.”

It is only too true that this book can be explained but by one possessed of a particular enlightenment. Such enlightenment has little relation to “heaven” and none to the “church.”

The book treats of both terrestrial and spiritual things. It treats of Man, the subject of the Bible, as a dual entity, related to the temporal and eternal worlds, and describes his Redemption—not by a Redeemer but by himself.

As some doctors, for profit and power, teach people to believe that “disease” is a mysterious demon that can be subdued only by them, so some of the clergy, for the same purpose, teach people to believe that man’s Redemption can be accomplished only by their work.

Had the body not the power to correct its disturbed equilibrium, it could not be corrected; and had man not the power to achieve his own Redemption, it could not be achieved.

Swedenborg, a noted Mystic, used 1200 pages to try to explain the text of the Apocalypse, and explained nothing. He increased the confusion. He beheld the book in the wrong light. He believed that it treated of “heaven and the church.” The Master who wrote it knew of synagogs but never heard the word “church”; and he knew that “heaven” is a state of the Mind and not a region in space, and said so (Rom. 14:17).

FORGERY AND INTERPOLATION

In the oldest manuscript of the book, the title is simply “Apocalypse.” As it appears in the New Testament, it is shot through and through with forgery and interpolation. Many times it has been taken apart and reassembled, and much material added.

There have been many versions of the book, of which six are ancient. Our Bible’s version is taken from the Latin Bible and its Vulgate Edition. Of this version, there are eight different manuscripts written between the sixth and fifteenth centuries. Then there are the Syriac, Armenian, Egyptian, Sahidic, Ethiopic, Arabian et al versions.

These versions are all different, as each country made the book appear as “the Revelation” of its god, “which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass” (Rev. 1:1).

MORE PIOUS FRAUD

The Apocalypse is purported to be the work of “St. John The Divine,” who is also accredited with the fourth gospel. The Bible says that he was an ignorant, unlearned fisherman (Mk. 1:19; Acts 4:13).

The fourth gospel and the Apocalypse are not the work of the same man. The fourth gospel was compiled from a biography of Apollonius, written by Damis, a Greek historian, and the most beloved disciple of the Master that he loved so well. The compiler had orders to delete the name Apollonius wherever it appeared and insert the name Jesus. Then the original manuscript was to be destroyed, but it was not.

Damis was not an ignorant, unlearned fisherman. That class does not produce philosophy. He was a prominent writer, and in the fourth gospel he defined Life (6:63) in the words of his Master. That is more than modern science has been able to do.

The Apocalypse contains in symbol and allegory the Science of Man and the Secret of Regeneration. Modern science has not yet gone that far.

The Apocalypse is the great parable of the New Testament. It deals with the allegory of Genesis as to the Fall of Man. Both books refer to the human body and its deepest functions.

The Ancient Masters taught the science of unfolding the faculties of the higher nature by means of self-discipline. By this technique spiritual truths are capable of re-verification by each generation. That secret science is contained in the Apocalypse.

In his book published in 1892, J. M. Roberts states that the Apocalypse is the work of Apollonius, the great philosopher of the First Century, who retired to the Isle of Patmos in 69 A.D. and remained there for approximately two years. In that retirement the desire came to him to write an allegorical account of the initiatory ceremonies of the Sacred Ancient Mysteries, of which he was a Master. Roberts is partly correct and partly not.

The Apocalypse is a scripture of extreme antiquity, written many ages before anyone ever heard of the gospel Jesus, and reproduces what is far older than itself.

The book is a sublime Kabalistic summary of all the occult figures. It divides its images into three Septenaries, after which there is a silence in heaven. There are seven seals to be opened, i.e., seven mysteries to know, seven difficulties to conquer, seven trumpets to sound, and seven cups to empty.

The book is as obscure to the profane as the Sohar. It is written hieroglyphically with numbers and images in order to conceal from the profane the secret knowledge the Masters taught to their Initiates. The author often appeals to the Intelligence of the Initiated. “Let him who hath knowledge, understand! Let him who understands, calculate!” he often says after an allegory or the mention of a number.

The Work is the completest embodiment of Occultism. It contains far more meaning than the words convey. Its expressions are as figurative as poetry, and as exact as numbers.

The text of the Apocalypse as it appears in the Bible, did not become fixed in its present form until the art of printing put a stop to biblical forgery and interpolation. It was not until the 16th century that the Bible in English took its present shape.

THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE

Bronson C. Keeler, in his “History of the Bible,” says that the Bible, as we have it today, is scarcely more than three centuries old (p. 126).

Roman Catholicism was founded as the Roman state religion in 325 A.D., and was financed and promoted by the power and tax-money of the great Roman Empire. Churches were established and trusted bishops were appointed to supervise and systematize the work.

In the fifth century one of these bishops named Theodore made to his superior a report in which he said:

“I found more than 200 such books (an...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PROLOGUE
• INTRODUCTION
• THE BIG QUESTION
• WHO WAS JESUS
• THE MYSTERY MAN
• Lesson No. 1-ANCIENT WISDOM
• Lesson No. 2-THE APOCALYPSE
• Lesson No. 3-THE FISH GOD
• Lesson No. 4-APOKALYPSIS
• Lesson No. 5-KEY OF THE GNOSIS
• Lesson No. 6-THE MYSTERY MAN
• Lesson No. 7-THE TERRIBLE PERSECUTOR
• Lesson No. 8-TESTIMONY OF ANTIQUITY
• Lesson No. 9-IN JERUSALEM
• Lesson No. 10-SPIRITUAL VISION
• Lesson No. 11-PAUL’S GHOST RETURNS
• Lesson No. 12-THE CHALLENGE OF HIEROCLES
• Lesson No. 13-THE PATH OF POWER
• Lesson No. 14-CYCLES OF LIFE
• Lesson No. 15-ASTRAL PLANE
• Lesson No. 16-ASTRAL BODY STRUCTURES
• Lesson No. 17-THE ZODIAC
• Lesson No. 18-RIDDLES OF REVELATION
• Lesson No. 19-SELF CONQUEST
• Lesson No. 20-A SCROLL
• Lesson No. 21-ISRAEL
• Lesson No. 22-THE SKY BATTLE
• Lesson No. 23-BORN AGAIN
• Lesson No. 24-HIGHER FUNCTIONS DORMANT
• Lesson No. 25-THE ACTORS
• Lesson No. 26-ZODIAC AND APOCALYPSE
• Lesson No. 27-THE MASTERS’ TEXT-BOOK
• Lesson No. 28-INITIATION OF IOANNES
• Lesson No. 29-Chapter 1:7
• Lesson No. 30-Chapter 2: 1-7
• Lesson No. 31-Chapter 2: 12-17
• Lesson No. 32-Chapter 3: 1-6
• Lesson No. 33-Chapter 4: 1-3
• Lesson No. 34-Chapter 5: 6, 7
• Lesson No. 35-Chapter 6:1, 2
• Lesson No. 36-Chapter 7: 1-3
• Lesson No. 37-Chapter 8: 1-6
• Lesson No. 38-Chapter 9: 1-12
• Lesson No. 39-Chapter 10: 1-4
• Lesson No. 40-Chapter 11: 1-3
• Lesson No. 41-Chapter 12: 1, 2
• Lesson No. 42-Chapter 13: 1-4
• Lesson No. 43-Chapter 14: 1-5
• Lesson No. 44-Chapter 15: 1-4
• Lesson No. 45-Chapter 17: 1-5
• Lesson No. 46-Chapter 18: 1-3
• Lesson No. 47-Chapter 19: 1-8
• Lesson No. 48-Chapter 20: 1-3
• Lesson No. 49-Chapter 21: 1-5
• Lesson No. 50-Chapter 22: 1-5
• SUPERSTITIOUS BIGOTS DETERRED
• Lesson No. 51-PROPAGATION OR PRESERVATION
• Lesson No. 52-THE LIFE GLANDS
• Lesson No. 53-THE GREAT PARABLE
• Lesson Number 54-THE SERPENTINE FIRE
• Lesson No. 55-BOOK SEALED WITH SEVEN SEALS
• Lesson No. 56-BRAIN POWER
• Lesson No. 57-AWAKENING OF KUNDALINI
• Lesson No. 58-THAT GOSPEL CHRIST JESUS
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