Compiled from Temple Teachings
by Annegret Liebig, April 2015                                  

Dear Temple-Sisters and -Brothers, dear Friends,

Easter-time is near and we open our hearts with delight to the softness and beauty of the shooting buds of the trees and bushes. We decorate our windowsills with the first hyacinths and tulips. The birds are singing cheerfully. The sun warms our body and soul, and we turn our attention to the happening of the resurrection that the nature shows us symbolical because we celebrate at this time of year the resurrection of the Lord, the victory of light over darkness.

The TT tells us about the regeneration and resurrection of the soul.

“Transmutation is accomplished by the action of spiritual fire, and by a process akin to an explosion.

It must be understood that this process is in fact the process by which the regeneration and resurrection of the soul of man takes place. The fire – spiritual light – accomplishes this by means of the two opposites of nature, pain and joy. It is well to remember that this fire or light is not an illusion. It does to the nature of man, just what objective fire does to matter; it either purifies or consumes.“ (TT I, Nr. 179, “Fire“, p. 447)

Before the resurrection comes the great Ordeal by Fire. And if the pilgrim passes this trial, he has to face the final degree, his resurrection from the tomb.

“After … his resurrection from the tomb … he may pass unhindered back and forth between upper and lower regions at will.“ (TT I, Nbr. 108, “The Great Temple” , p. 280)

Only one who has passed this final degree, and who can pass back and forth between all regions has the right – and the love – to say: “I shall stay with you until the end of time.”  As Jesus promised.

“We who believe in the perfect operation of Karmic law, cannot conceive of the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus as being due to anything but corresponding evil in some physical manifestation of the Ego which incarnated as Jesus; but this does not affect the statement that he died for the sin of the world, for the sins of the world were His sins in a double sense.”

The fact that Jesus first appeared to Mary Magdalene who stands even today as the epitome of all evil in woman, when his resurrection was completed, should teach those who presume to call themselves Christians the truth regarding this subject.

A true Occultist is never at loss to reconcile that statement with what he knows to be the requisite purity of body and mind for an accepted chela. Mary the mother stands for ignorant or passive purity – that state of purity that knows no temptation; Mary the Magdalene for conscious and active purity; two poles of one great attribute.“ (TT I, Nbr. 4, “Qualification for Chaelaship” p, 12)

By experience only do we get to know the positive substance forces that lead us the way to the Initiation Chamber.

“You will doubtless remember that it is said that after the resurrection of Jesus he bade one of his followers to refrain from touching him. Before his crucifixion he touched and healed many, and even his clothing brought healing to others.” (TT II, “The Holy Spirit” p. 100)

Why should His touch no