Course XXVI - Teaching 8: The Knight of the Eternity

The physical Order is an image of the Astral Order.
Certain souls renounce in the Astral World to the peace and bliss of higher planes in order to continue their work for the sake of Mankind and, especially, for the sake of their brothers of the Order, those who fight for the same purpose and the same ideal: self-reformation and sanctification of the souls. These invisible Knights may be souls not incarnated for long on the earth, and also Knights who passed away and now join to this chosen group.
A beautiful legend states that when the first Knight dies, his mission is to remain on the Threshold of the Eternity, to wait for his companions and to point out them the way.
Usually this expecting Knight continuously dwells between the astral plane and the threshold of cold and darkness, looking with his clairvoyant eyes at the imminent hour of the wayfarer. As soon as he sees how death wraps in its thick veils his dying brother, he assembles and materializes all his companions around the dying Knight so that he may cross the threshold led by the hand and helped by holy company.
This consolation of the soul from a friend that distracts his attention facilitates his passage from one place to the other and then he does not suffer to much this dimensional change.
But there is something more. In the world there are places in which the Knights of the Tables mystically meet the mortal Knights who know how to move in their astral bodies. This takes place in points of the planet that, because of its extraordinary magnetism or by magnetism accumulated for centuries in Temples that exist there, become fit to the solemn realization.
Beyond Gobi desert, on the highest mountains of Pamir, there is one of these places. Some people believe that there the ancient mount of Kaor stood; there the astral Knights, in mystical assemblies, still fill the air with holy chants and sublime concentrations.
In Tibet, on a high plateau, upon a square and black massif, also these astral assemblies are held. In Europe they are held on the mountain of Monserrat and on the high mountains of Scotland; and in Africa, in Cape of Good Hope.
Also several points of this kind are located in America. The main point is in Colorado Canyon, the United States; and another point is on a high volcano, now extinct, the Lanín, which in the South mirrors on the quiet waters of the lake Hueche-Lauquen.
In the antiquity there was an important magnetic centre on the mountains of San Luis Province, Argentina, and still we are told about the existence of a Holy Temple there located, but this centre has been almost entirely displaced Southwards.
Seemingly, the so subtle atmosphere of these places becomes more ethereal than physical. In those regions, the “puna” (mountain sickness) that kills the body is non-existent, but certainly there is certain “puna” that destroys those souls which are neither so strong nor so brave to face the trials before their arrival at the place of the meeting.
But the East always is the grand point of concentration. When the Knights of the earth and heaven go to the Holy Temple, which only exists in the fourth sub-plane of the astral world, their focus and quest is centered in Pamir, in the ancient Kaor and, from there, in the Eternity.
Their last earthly visions that they perceive during these journey are of high plateaus, inaccessible peaks and virgin levels unknown to any mortal; as soon as the Knight, his feet on the mystical stair of ropes, looks behind, the last aura that he sees is the yellow light from the East, from India and from Tibet.
The vibrations transform the mantras of the Knights into currents of life, into an eternal language, which runs from one side to the other of the new world. Even here the divine self-sacrificed Knights are expecting and extending their arms to the astral Knights from the earth and from the physical body and helping across the flame of Hes.
The Knights of the Threshold, watchmen of the Eternity, resplendent in their silver aura of sacrifice, always hold their shining cups filled with nectar for the souls, which only those who have given all for love are able to take.