by Dana Howard

Reaching For The Dawn

Just a few years ago the idea of traveling to other planets was looked upon as a virtual impossibility. Scientists affirmed it would require several generations to traverse the millions of miles of space. Ships would necessarily have to house a whole colony of people to provide human seed to carry an excursion into space. This fantastic theory has been scrapped today. We’re not sure what we’ll find, but we have provided ourselves with a new yardstick equipped with other-dimensional measurements. The obsolete earth’s yardstick belongs to the Planet Earth. Special measurements are needed for space. Perhaps we will discover that both time and distance will disappear in the absolutes. That space travel will be possible within a span of weeks (or even days) rather than hundreds of years as was expected only yesterday.

The bizarre and fantastic is strange to us when we meet it for the first time. But eventually it becomes commonplace. We must be open-minded, broad in our point of view, seeking rather than retracting. When we learn to accept the unusual we can embrace without prejudice the knowledge that follows. Knowledge is our roadmap into tomorrow. It will lead us into that land of the strange unknown.

Today we inject many kinds of additives into our foodstuffs. Why not inject a special additive into the realm of thinking? The novel and the new bring fresh inspiration. Inspiration weans the mind away from the humdrum and drab.

The Space Age was ushered in with spectacle. The much maligned flying saucer was the proverbial football, tossed about with ridicule and scoffing from one star reporter to another. Yet, if we are honest in our thinking, the flying saucer has alerted us to the coming of new things. It has been the greatest single factor in spurring space-thinking. Today our governments spend billions of dollars on space-preparedness but they are proceeding from a purely objective and therefore barren point of view. The objective without the subjective will indeed be empty, for only through the subjective can we learn of the links in the cosmic chain.

Have we known periods in our earth’s history comparable to today? While archaeologists have searched old tombs and beneath the earth’s surface, it remained for the coming of the Space Age to help us gain a better understanding of our sacred literature. It has helped to explain the Bible, the Vedas: books long moldy with age. In reviewing the prophets and their wisdom we know that tradition has served us well. But we must now leave tradition behind just as we will be leaving the earth behind us. We have heard sibilant whispers from far out in the voiceless spheres. Millions of ears are listening today. Wisdom and knowledge are slipping through the golden veil. It is a wisdom that cannot be found in the worm-burrowed books that cram our library shelves, or when we do find it written there, the meaning is obscured and we do not recognize it.

Much of the knowledge being channeled today is coming direct from higher spheres. Channelship is becoming an acceptable word and an understood concept. It is being dangerously abused, to be sure, but there are many true channels. They are sensitives who have been taught how to tune in. Many have tapped sources of knowledge gleaned through the great ones who have preceded us in the evolutionary march. Channeling from higher spheres is not new. In every crisis, wherever and whenever there is destined to be a change in pattern, messengers and teachers have come to our assistance. They are messengers filled with brotherly love and ever-lasting patience; messengers who are ready to assume responsibility for erring humanity. Theirs is a gigantic task, but like Job, they have listened to the lamentations. They know our needs. They are ready to guide us gently toward the Light. Yet so very few of them will be received with warmth and gratitude. The stubborn masses want none of their kindly message. “Begone,” they shout. “We want no aliens in our midst.”

Slowly but surely they will be drawn into the fold. Prophets and diviners have always been treated with scorn and ridicule. It is the load all pioneers must carry. Should the Master Jesus walk the streets of earth today he too would be inundated with ridicule and scorn. They would not know Him. If he made an appearance in heavy raiment the mobster-minded masses would call him a spook, an apparition. If He appeared as His own simple self, the rich would call him an impostor. If he came in richly garb the poor would say: “You’re a fraud.” And that is how it goes.

But the ignorant masses cannot halt the cycle of time. When the substratum is made secure, the new world will be built. But it must be erected on secure sands. It is not a task for a single man this time; even a Master could not do it alone. Many men in the past have carried the torch of progress. Many will carry it this time. There will be no heralding tribute paid to any one person. Earthman will merely lend his consciousness to make it easier for the Cosmos.

The mysteries have always been with us. Each age has been forced to find its own applied science. It is the work of those who are open-minded; those who are daring enough to go ahead. Even while we are building on invisible, subjective sands, one day those sands will become as tangible as our solid earth. It is for this reason we cannot ignore the bizarre and fantastic. Whether we know it or not, we are being immersed into the greatest educational program the earth has ever known. We will see the mysteries of the past revealed in action. The subtle sciences will again mount the throne of service.

That we might be enabled to learn and apply these subtle sciences to life and living, there is no further need for rigorous asceticism. No need to sit cross-legged in a mountain cave. No need to be detached from the world and its inhabitants. In days long past the priests were the teachers. They alone could disperse knowledge. The pupil studied in the temples. The earliest civilized governments were priestly governments. The gods worked with the common man. But for centuries now we have been climbing toward a pinnacle of material greatness. We are at the apex and we can either go up or go down. If we go up we must learn to use the sciences of the past. These are sciences we have never wholly mastered.

When we learn to use the subtle sciences constructively, we will be able to leave our bodies at will. We will have vision through our central eye. We will know the principles of alchemy. We will be adept in all creative work. If we use them selfishly we will go down to destruction as we have many times before.

The sages have said: “Whatsoever man can imagine, he can ultimately achieve.” If it comes through the alembic of the mind as thought it has existence somewhere. Thousands are looking to the Space Age to wing in beauties and luxuries beyond our wildest dreams. Many will be blessed with an ecstasy of spirit, something the greats have written about but few ordinary mortals have experienced.

All new discoveries must be based on science and fact. But what is fact? It is difficult to convince the so-called realist that our etheric system is quite as real and substantial as the Planet Earth. It is fortunate for us that new canons of science are in the making. That young minds are beginning to penetrate deeper and deeper into the far-off spheres. Evolution presses forward and with each step greater strides are being made.

While man is reaching out toward the Universe, the Universe is racing closer to man. Many are beginning to realize nothing is impossible in the realm of thought, nothing beyond realization in the theater of action. We are constantly charting new levels just as we charted the roadmaps of yesterday. We made mistakes then. We will make them again. The one way mistakes can be avoided is to stay close to the balance line. Through our long cycle we have been taught to think in terms of physical fact. Now we must be schooled in the realm of principle. “In my Father’s house there are many mansions.” These are the worlds we will find in the outermost limits of space. We have embraced all the lesser kingdoms, now we must learn how to live in the kingdoms of celestial sovereignty. We have gone to the extremes in objectivism. We must go to the extremes in subjectivism. Then we must find the balance, the center. When we make up our minds that we are going to succeed we will be able to bring about a liaison with heaven and earth. We will compel a response from the inanimate just as Edgar Bergen put life into a polished chunk of wood he named Charley McCarthy. This means searching out the hidden potentialities. It means uncoiling to action fearlessly and courageously. It means entering into a warm and sympathetic partnership with all life.

The avenues of space must first be penetrated by the human mind. Each dimension has its own length, breadth and thickness. It has its founts of knowledge. This knowledge can be tapped by sensitives once they have opened the door. Modern education has drawn tight bands of limitation around the faculty we know as intuition. But intuition leads to pure perception. The deeper we go into the realms of thought, the finer the shades of thinking. Concepts aid in the expansion of understanding. Right thinking produces right action. Through the expansion of understanding the inner secrets are revealed. At the very core of thinking we find pure idea, the heart of the Cosmos itself.

There is perfect timing in the universal scheme. A time when all things are correlated and put in order. In the past few years we have become alive to potentials larger than ourselves. If we are to accept the messages channeled from space, our brothers on the advanced planets long ago learned how to bring manifestation into being by way of mental application. We have crippled our independent action because we have limited our scope of thought. Where is this glorious dimension we have heard so much about? Perhaps this new dimension will present a picture far different from anything we have imagined. Dimension can best be described as levels. There are levels of stratified remains in the earth. There are levels of rarefied substance in the higher ethers. To transit into a higher dimension means to be released from the bondage of one sphere (domain) then find lodging on another level. The first advance will be mental. The mind must go on ahead.

The transition will come whether we assist or not. It can come in a reasonable and due time. Or it can be delayed for many centuries. But it is all in the Cosmic Plan. The time table set for the Year 2000 has been speeded up. The timing was changed when, through the pressure of survival, we smashed the atom. On that fated day a grave responsibility was placed upon the few to enlighten the many. Old patterns must now be quickly destroyed to make room for the new. It has represented an almost insurmountable task, for only a handful was physically prepared, none were completely ready.

But day by day the pattern is being more clearly revealed. We are beginning to see a definite relationship between the dimensions. The subjective awareness of yesterday is rapidly becoming today’s objective reality. Higher dimension means higher arc. To use a concrete example: We earthlings live in a three-dimensional world overshadowed by a fourth dimension. For those who are functioning in a higher rate of vibration, the fourth dimension is no longer nebulous. It is vibrating and concrete. But, looking up it has not yet been molded into form. It is in a state of becoming. Perhaps we will experience that reality in its fullness when we make the transition. For eons it has been at the stirring stage. For eons the concrete mold has been in the process of densening. But in the next few years we might be able to watch the abstract becoming the concrete in many ways.

Now let us bring the example down to the common kitchen and the everyday housewife. The batter is being prepared for morning pancakes. Before the heat is applied, the batter is at the running liquid stage. With the application of heat it hardens into a solid. It turns into a browned, delectable dish, appealing to the appetite. This is where we stand today. Our fourth dimension is being made ready for the application of heat. When the heat is properly applied the new dimension will harden and take on form. Perhaps it will not be altogether solid as we know manifestation on earth today, but the relationship will be the same. It will appear to be as solid as the earthly state.

Every sensitive the world over is beginning to feel these convulsions going on. We are in the throes of change and cannot escape. Materialism is disintegrating. We are reaching out toward Oneness. The change will not be brought about altogether by man. Nor can we name the date when the change will come. It could happen next year. It could happen in our lifetime. It might be a time in the far-distant future. But, considering the swiftness with which events take place today, it could come “in the twinkling of an eye.”

In the past we have operated on a vacillating consciousness, the pendulum swinging first to the left and then to the right. At the center of these opposites we will find the point of power. It is here activity ceases and a uniform state is produced. The merging of opposites is a means of integration.

It is difficult for the mind of man to discern where one dimension begins and the other leaves off. He knows when it happens but he cannot always see it happening. We do not know where time begins and time ends. The same applies to space. Our earth was built according to specifications of law and pattern. Each life cycle adopts something of the life of its predecessor. Throughout this long cycle the changes have been gradual. Our great empires were built on a series of complex movements. Complexity was essential to earth growth. But complexity has reached its peak. It is now degenerating into confusion. We’ve been signed, sealed and delivered to miles of red tape and we don’t know where to cut the thread. Nothing makes sense because the pattern is worn out.

Today’s complexity produces tomorrow’s failure. Man is not geared to this complex ball of speed. Ritual and routine have relegated him to the deepest bondage. They have created chains of ceaseless causation. We give birth to each new event in a vortex of confusion. This state of affairs will continue until we decide to resolve life back to its simplicity; when we find harmony at center; when we know the great potential that is hidden there. There are times when earthman has a great yearning to reach out and grasp the beyond. But he is trapped in a net from which he cannot escape. One mesh creates another until, literally, it eventually becomes a trap.

We must embrace new concepts or sink with the old. Most of us are face to face with the unfamiliar and we need the Light to guide the way. There is strength and assurance in knowing that knowledge flows on forever. It helps us to realize that we are part of the Great Universe and the Universe is part of us. That there is a mutual interchange and all things have existence as part of the universal pattern. But the average individual counters: “It’s so hard to learn new things. I can’t seem to comprehend.” This is where he misses all the fun. To delve into life’s mysteries provides a glow of all-absorbing pleasure. It inspires new enthusiasms. “But what of tangible rewards?” they ask. Perhaps in due time the earthly rewards will be far greater than anything we have ever known.

Now where do we start? It was the great electrical genius, Steinmetz, who said: “The greatest scientists of the future are those who chart and explain the spiritual laws.” Only when we begin to build spiritual history will we learn something of the miracles of nature, miracles that were cast into the dust heaps as superstitions. For centuries we have looked upon them as hoaxes of wizards and charlatans. But let us think for a moment! If they lived to produce evil they likewise have the same potency to produce good. The value of the subtle sciences has never been lost. The holy men of India and Tibet have carried them on. They understood them. They revered them. They made them work.

When we start to sift the ashes from the cauldrons of medieval alchemists we will realize at last that in gaining a knowledge of these sciences we will be reaching for the miracles. Magic is not witchcraft. It is a definite technique designed to bring magical powers into play. It was the immortal Hermes who said: “One single world, one single soul, one single God . . . as above so below . . . in all things unity.” We discovered oil by digging deep into the subsoils of the earth. We will find the greater treasures when we start boring into the ethers of space. The Lord of Dreams is the shaper of things to come. The subtle sciences can help to direct our energies into newer and more productive channels.

But life only moves along a step at a time. Humanity can only bite off a chunk at a time. The cud must be chewed, digested and eventually eliminated. Then we can take another bite.

Today we are biting off a chunk of space. We are seeing for the first time those sky phenomena. Yet, seemingly, they have been with us through the ages. We are seeking a new ark, a new haven of security. Has the earth plane lost its power to make us secure? Extrasensory perception is being developed in the scattered few, but out of the few, the many will be inspired. Those who are being persecuted for what appears to be a fantastic ideas might be called by the future historians the Neo-Christians. But, whether we agree or not, the Space Age is supplying us with a new philosophy of life in an upset world. Many of the books that have been served us are little more than trash. Others are pure gold, supplying us with something we can live by. They can help us find the true path into the next state of existence, with their aid, we can go through without fear and trembling.

The UFO picture is moving into another sphere. The era of sightings is passing. Phenomena and contact stories have worn thin. But behind the sightings and the contact phenomena is a science that remains intact. This science cannot be destroyed. Since life is never-ending it goes on and on. This brings us to the sudden realization that the atom is not the final answer to our questing. Many feel there is something beyond the atom. Scientists and pseudo-scientists are seeking new elements, questing for the essence of creation itself. We’re anxious to know what unknown quantity we have failed to find. Will the human race live long enough to open the doors to God’s mysterious storehouses? Or will we be felled by the atom bomb before that happens? It has been a rugged road, but perhaps the faithful will find their great reward in this new era. They will live in health-giving surroundings. They will know the true meaning of a well-rounded education. They will worship as they please. Out of it the new race will be born, a race endowed with perceptions enjoyed only by a few today.

Disappointments will come along too. Space might be very different from what we have pictured in our minds. It might be grander, or it could fall short of our expectations. When we reach for the stars we will touch the stars. We are rapidly being introduced to new world thought; we must put that thought to work. New ideas, new concepts, new ways of exploring the unknown have been our means of growth. But today our chief enthusiasm is the further exploration of space. Space is an unknown reality … a new dimension.

What does this new dimension mean? Does it mean being lifted up bodily to another realm? Definitely not. It means that human consciousness will transcend its present limitations. It means that all will be changed. “And I, if I be lifted up will lift all men with me.” Those who have penetrated the higher realms by means of the subtle body tell us we will dwell in a world of color-splendor – that we will bring forth in a different manner than the present earthly plane. We will find this arc of consciousness permeated with the living presence of The One.

Flying saucers has served us by leaving us with a definite blueprint. Their speeds and maneuverability have sent our heads spinning. We have tried to emulate them. Missiles and rockets and satellites are the result. They didn’t tell us. They showed us. Little man will play but a small role in changing the earth’s pattern. He will merely follow the blueprint provided him.

Excerpt from The Keys To The Citadel Of Space

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