The Flight of the Feathered Serpent, written by Armando Cosani, is an extraordinary book that reveals the purpose of the act of Judas long before the gospel of Judas was discovered. It was first published in Spanish as "El Vuelo de la Serpiente Emplumada" 1953. It is not your every day novel and the reason I have chosen to write about it is to let other people discover its depth in spiritual matters.
It is divided into different parts and in the first part A. Cosani tells his story to portray his friend, who asked him to publish these writings. The other two parts are written by his friend, who actually appears to be Judas himself.
In traditional christianity it is believed that Judas betrayed his master. However this does not seem to be true at all. Jesus knew what Judas had to do and and asked him to do it in Gospel of Judas just like in The Flight of Feathered Serpent:
"But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man who bears me."
From: Gospel of Judas, Jesus speaks of the Baptized, and of Judas's Act of Turning Him In (55,21-57,20)
In the Gospel of Judas it is not quite explained why Judas must turn Jesus in, however this is elaborated more in The Flight of the Feathered Serpent.
From my lips emerged a reflection of light which was there and I answered: "Blessed be you my Rabbi, Son of God, for you are the yes, there, where I will be the no f or man. Here I see you like the light that dispels darkness, and I will be your reflection in that very darkness so that man know which path to follow, which to avoid, in the soul by the light of your love, from the flames of fire, my jealousy sprouts."
My Rabbi looked at me and said to me: "In virtue of your jealousy many will understand that I am the path, the Truth and Life, and will not reject me."
Again his grace illumenated my understanding and I added: "But I am the desert, illusion and the death, and many will come to me."
From: Flight of the Feathered Serpent, Third Book, Chapter 9My Rabbi looked at me and said to me: "In virtue of your jealousy many will understand that I am the path, the Truth and Life, and will not reject me."
Again his grace illumenated my understanding and I added: "But I am the desert, illusion and the death, and many will come to me."
I cannot possibly give this book justice by just writing about it, only by showing. This is a quote from A. Cosani's friend, talking about the immortality of the soul, from the first book. I have chosen this text to give an understanding about the coming text that I am going to to put up, describing the diagram below.
"You are blinded by your own ideas, and as long as you stay in that condition you cannot understand anything. Observe a fact: if the soul was something that we naturally have secured, religious writings wouldn't insist so much that we need to make an effort to save it. There wouldn't be a need for philosophy or religion. We would know it naturally and no one would fear death as they do. Listen to me: we form the soul in this life based on what animates us. If the motives, ideas and ambitions of our life are transitory, they are things of the immediate moment then our soul will also be transitory, impermanent, subject to what we want."
WAKE UP! KNOW YOURSELF!
The mysterious impulse which focuses your attention upon these scriptures is nothing but the echo of the cry which has awakened the immortal essence of your own blood. And by evoking the glorious forces of Life, simultaneously you have evoked the sinister forces of Death.
The former and the latter are yourself, so do not fear.
Confront them, know them, subdue them.
Your destiny is to be Master of both.
And even though you often believe that you have lost The Path which takes you to the awakening, you will never be alone. And your losing the way is nothing but a testing ground with which you alert intelligence attempts shy steps along all tracks, shaking off the lethargy of everything that is mortal.
It is necassary that you obtain experience.
Never ask anybody "What do I have to do?" because that is the most fatal question of all. If you ask a fool, one who is asleep, you will be inviting him to drag you into a dream and with it you will fall into double foolishness and it will twice as difficult to wake up again. And if you ask a wise one, an awakened one, you will perceive how useless it is, because an awakened one will always answer:
"Do what you feel is best. If you put your heart in it, always acting in a state of alertness, you will gain a great experience."
In the end you will make out of Solitude and Silence your most precious companions, immersing with them into the depths of yourself. You will gradually be astounded at all the horror of your Dream, which is your human slavery. And, by the same token, your strength to fight back for your freedom will increase.
Not everyone chooses this path which takes you to the very heart of things.
If you have evoked your friends, you have also put your worst enemy on guard. The one and the other will appear within you and outside of you, and infront of you, in a thousand different forms, and you will often confuse them during your first steps. Your friends will not always be the most charming or pleasant because they will deprive you from everything you regard as stable. Then your jealous enemies, smirking, will display in front of your inner vision thousands of possibilities to elevate you to your actual condition. If you give in and bite the poisned fruit which they offer, you will become tied up with triple chain of illusion and of sleep that always takes over those who are naive and do not know the value of experience and opposition.
Soon, however, you will know your friends in the infinite silence that you will throw yourself into, longing and thirsting for words of truth. It will be then that you will feel that "something" flowing, rough or smooth, depending on the circumstances, and the mere fact of feeling it will show you that you are on The Path to the complete awakening.
Because the word, that "something", is you yourself, the Master, the Creator.
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Study this drawing attentively. With it you will learn to use all your faculties to awaken.
Each link in the Chain of the Immortals contributes one grain more in order to alleviate the load of the one who is coming behind, but each soul who adventures in this single task is an original experiment of Life in order to make of this planet Earth a World of Devine Vigilance as well.
Each man who aspires to this vigilance must make his own track and walk alone, attentive solely on the step of instance, without being preoccupied neither with triumpth nor defeat, nor uneasy about this earthly end.
This is to live in the Eternal Now.
Otherwise the experience of Man upon Planet Earth would be worthless.
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To awaken is to use them, and not confuse them with you.
Until now you have thought that the five senses inform you about the external world. This is not the case. There is no such external world, nor any internal world. Those are illusory concepts that cannot penetrate any further than forms. But what is real is that you are not a form, and that being Life, you are everything that there IS.
Observe that bow and arrows do not point in one sole direction, but upon two simultaneously. To understand and live this simultaneous way, soon you will realise that you are not a body, but that which live in your body, that which animates your body, and, lacking any better expression, I will call it you Devine Being, the Hidden one.
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Watch with your five senses, attributes of the ego form, it is not given to you to penetrate further than the surface of froms. When you are conscious that it is your Devine Being who uses your five senses, it will be given to you to penetrate into the meaning, the essence, the spirit of all things, that are also the Devine Being.
Latent in the Brain, impregnated in the brain, is that which is called the Mind - that with which you can perceive what your five senses capture and Who captures it for them. Going deeper, I have drawn the heart at the centre of your whole life. From this center, extending to the Mind, will arise your individual Being, the essence of your soul, longing for life in the spirit and to worship truly.
Observe that Thought and Feeling connect also your personal Being with your individual Being and I have placed them in the middle of the illuminated half of the Vital Circle, the Awakened Consciousness, because they can be the light which reflects the truth of yourself in the darkness of your personality.
And because they are the senses of the true vigilance, they are the ones which, uniting with what is called the Holy Spirit, establish a vigilant contact with the Devine Being within you, and the Divine Being outsife of you, on God but the Father God, with whom you can share communion, helped by Christ, the Lord.
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If in your heart an intense uneasiness does not burn to the point of embracing you to the consummation of your body, you cannot invoke neither God nor the Holy Spirit. And you do not know how to ask, and that is why your heart has not yet reached you.
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"Watch and pray" was the heritage left by Christ for the courageous.Watch is to do everything awakened; pray is a feeling of aradent yearning to be one with the Being.
However, he who prays and watches, even though they do it in an imperfect way, will receive generous help and he will learn to receive generously as well...
The help is in the Here and it is Now.
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