Questions & Answers With Lobsang Rampa

[lomax]

“Is there in existence now the original version of the
Bible? If noWell,t, what can one do to enable Christianity to
be taught as it was originally intended to be taught?”

if we could find the original version of the Bible
we could still not return to basic Christianity because the
Bible is just a collection of books consisting of “the
Gospel According to . . .”, and as I have been saying the
Bible is not necessarily the Teachings of Christ. Most of
the people in Christ's time couldn't write, anyway.

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“You mention in one of your books that a person has to
come back to Earth for every sign of the zodiac. This
would be twelve times if he learned his lessons well. Am
I correct?”

I have to tell you that you are not correct!
A person has to come back and live through every sign of
the zodiac and through every quadrant (30 degrees) of
every sign of the zodiac, and he has to keep coming back
until he accomplishes his task SUCCESSFULLY in every
sign and quadrant of that zodiac. So if he is a slow
learner he might come to Earth a thousand or two thousand
times, which makes it all a bit monotonous, doesn't
it?

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“Why do people sleepwalk?”

Well, just about everyone does astral travel when they
go to sleep. The astral body goes off, and the physical
body is meant to remain more or less passive, twisting
and turning a bit, of course, in order that muscles may
not be strained by being contracted for too long in one
position. But sometimes a person who is in the astral will
be so engrossed in his or her activities in that astral stage
that he or she will unconsciously relinquish part of the
control suppressing the activities of the physical back on
Earth. And so the physical tends by “sympathetic reaction”
to follow the astral body, and so we get a case of
somnambulism, or sleep walking. The person gets out of
bed and just ambles about, and it is better not to awaken
such a person because if he is awakened then the sudden
shock can bring back the astral body with yet another
shock which makes the combination of astral and physical
quite bilious. Sleep walkers who have suddenly been
awakened will certainly agree with me on that point.

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Another question is, “Is the Land of the Golden Light a
fourth dimensional world?”

Well, yes it is a fourth dimensional world while we are
in this third dimensional world. But when we are in the
fourth dimensional world the Land of the Golden Light
will be in the fifth dimensional world, and so on. You see,
when you move upwards the stage above you is always
more golden, that is, it has a more tenuous atmosphere
and a higher frequency of oscillation (why don't I just
call it “vibration”?)
Somebody is quite interested in this fourth dimensional
world because he says, “When you die to the fourth dimensional
world where does your astral body go?”
You always have to have a body, after all, think how
stupid you would be if you were trying to get about and
you hadn't got a body of any land, if you were just pure
thought. It wouldn't be much good to you, would it? So
down here on Earth we have a physical body. Now if you
can imagine what we were like on the second dimension,
then what is now our physical body would then have
approximated to the astral body. So we moved from the
second dimension into the third, which is on this Earth,
and then we occupied more solidly the Earth body which
was in effect the astral body of the second dimension. So
when we leave this Earth we shall vacate our Earth body
and then we shall go to the astral world and live in the
astral body which is then our physical body. Do you
follow that? Wherever we are at that moment we have a
physical body, and, of course, on each stage our body
will be absolutely as solid as all those other bodies which
are around us. We build up energy for a new astral body
from what we are doing on what is at that moment our
“Earth”, or the world of our physical existence, so that
eventually when you get to the—oh, what shall I say?—eighth dimension, you will have to live in the eighth
dimensional physical body while your actions and your
life force will generate the ninth physical body which
then, of course, will be your astral. And that astral body
will be in close touch with your Overself which is much,
much, much higher.

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QUESTION: You are not a Christian, you are not one
brought up to the Bible, so what do you think of the Bible?

ANSWER: Well, you have to remember, to start with, that
the Bible was written many many years after the actual events
related. Further, the Bible has been translated, and mistranslated,
and retranslated many many times. The Great Priest Soand-
So demanded a new translation, then someone else came
along with a fresh translation, and then King James I or somebody
decided that he would have an authorized translation.
Through all this, though, there is a great strain of truth, because
the real truths never die, they can be concealed to a
certain extent, but to the discerning the truths are always
there. In the matter of the Bible there are strange records
written in the mystery languages of prehistoric ages, but you
cannot always take the Bible at its actual face value. You
would not take the actual black and white letters precisely as
they were written, you cannot interpret them literally, you
have to use symbology.
The Bible is an esoteric book, and of course it is connected
with the Indian, Chaldean, and Egyptian systems of symlogy.
Christ went to Tibet and after passing through India
and studying Indian religions, He actually went and studied in
Tibet and came back to the Western world with a religion
basically of the East, but which had been altered to suit the
West. If you doubt this remember that if you study the Indian
systems you will find that all the glyphs and numbers are to be
found in the Indian systems, and if only these wretched 'scientists'
would have a correct reading of the Bible, bearing in
mind anthropology, ethnology, chronology, physiology, and all
that, they would have a very much greater understanding of all
that there was in history, for the Bible is a most invaluable
aid—if one can read it correctly—to what went on in bygone
ages. Before one can read the Bible one has to know all about
the Chaldean Hierophants, from which one gets the knowledge
of the Quabalah.
If you will carefully study the first five books of the Old
Testament you will find that they are actually legends, and
they are quite a useful dissertation on philosophical phases of
world cosmogony.
Everyone knows the story of Moses and how he was found
in the bulrushes by the Pharaoh's daughter. Well, it may interest
you to know that all this happened about 1,000 years
before because there are certain tiles, known as the Babylonian
Tiles, which give the story of King Sargon. He lived a long
time before Moses, a very long time before Moses, about 1,000
years before actually, and this story about a baby boy being
found in the bulrushes was the story of King Sargon. The book
of Exodus was not written by Moses, as has been generally
believed, but instead was ‘made up’ from various prior sources
by Ezra, and in connection with this the Book of Job is the
oldest in the Hebrew system and certainly dates long before
Moses.
Furthermore, any of the great Bible stories such as
Creation, the Fall of Man, and the Blaming of Women, the
Flood and the Tower of Babel, were all written long before the
time of Moses. These stories are actually rewritten versions of
what archaeologists know as the Chaldean tablets.
The Jews obtained their first ideas about creation from
Moses, and Moses got his ideas about creation from the
Egyptians, and the whole affair, which was taken from the
Chaldo-Arkadian accounts, was rewritten by Ezra. You will
find that the God is the Logos. You will also find that the
Bible actually starts with a mistranslation where it says, ‘In
the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.’ It was
not the actual physical Earth that was referred to but the
upper and the lower, the visible and the invisible.
There are a lot of discrepancies in the Bible; for example
consider the first part of Genesis: God said, ‘Let there be
firmaments,’ and a second God obeyed and made the firmaments.
The first God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and the second
God made some light. From which it is clear that God commands
some other God who must have been a lesser God because
he did the bidding of the first.
‘Let there be light.’ That does not mean daylight, sunlight,
or artificial light, it means instead spiritual light, it means lift
the soul of Man out of darkness that he may perceive the
greatness of God.
Again, Adam was not the first man created. The Bible tells
us that because in Genesis 4. 16, 17 it is said that Cain went
into the land of Moab with the intention of buying a wife.
Now if Adam was the first man created, what was the point of
Cain going into Moab in search of a wife, because there just
wouldn’t be any! Actually, Adam is a composite of ten
Sephiroth, and of course the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is
the three of the upper triad of the archetype world, while the
second Adam is an esoteric composition who represents the
seven groups of men—the seven groups of mankind, and which
thus formed the first human root race.
There were the Atlanteans who made a lot of researches,
and if you will read the Bible properly, esoterically, that is,
you will find that the seven keys which open the mysteries of
the seven great root races can be traced back to Atlantean
times. So the Egyptians obtained information from the
Atlanteans, the Jews obtained information from the Egyptians
and altered it a bit, and then the Christians came along and
they took all that information and distorted it quite considerably,
and then the translators who put it into Latin softened all
sorts of comments and made them fit in with the new Christian
ideals and ideas, just as nowadays politicians alter history to
suit their own country. I shall have something more to say
about religion later in this chapter, but that is enough about
the Bible for now.

[ThatMan]

I too visited some other realms and I saw people living there, human beings like me and you. They had houses like we.

About the "Land of the Golden Light", this is where I've seen my grandma, she was not alone, some ohter human beings were with her, working in a vineyard.

Everything was emanating this golden white light, this golden light was coming from all things, from within them, everything was made of this golden light. So according to what I read here, that's the fourth dimension and it could be that my grandma is there, in the forth dimension, or at least she came there to meet with me.

This thread is very interesting! So the elementals are those "entities" that try scare some of us, they look like dark smoke and seem to be energy eaters.

[lomax]

Thanks for your input thatman.

[lomax]

The only reference i've found about the 'land of the golden light',is from (who else) Josephine Maccarthy.
http://www.innerconvocation.co/visio...of_holies.html