Words From the Writer - Professor Deon Kesting

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1

Through you is ushered in a world unseen, yet truly there. A Course in Miracles MT29:8

Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. Gospel of Thomas 3

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First in the Unseen has been many years in the making. At its core is an oracle given to me and my wife Hélène. Its message, called a Vade-mecum (‘go with me’), was delivered over ten months in 1976, in a mode of automatic writing. The communicator defined himself as a divine intermediary. The message, once given, was never to be resumed. It was clearly self-contained, encompassing, all-embracing, final.  

The Vade-mecum is expressed in characteristically poetic, cryptic, resonating language—and here structured into 81 one-page thematic units. Coverage is extensive, forming a comprehensive curriculum for mind, body, and spirit. The prevailing mood of spiritual optimism alternates from exposition to meditation to hymn to prayer. The principles underlying the Vade-mecum create a template of spirituality for the seeker committed to ‘travelling by no track’—in the knowledge that there is no ‘exclusive method whereby the inner kingdom can be discovered.’

To realize its potential, and fulfill its aspirations, is the work of a lifetime—or perhaps more. It provides keys to self-knowledge, to ‘embodied triumph in the totality of one’s being,’ to ‘finding oneself on the great highway, the upward road formerly trodden with bleeding feet.’ It ends on the confident note that ‘with the formulae given, we shall transmute the base metals of ordinary occurrences into the gold of triumphant life.’ Above all, communication with cosmic intelligence in the unseen is dynamic and continuous: ‘I turn my mind to that source—the innermost interior of my consciousness, the innermost interior of all things—and I communicate. And: questions are answered, problems solved, love manifested, and divine will revealed.’ ‘So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.’

The multilayered but internally consistent core text has been juxtaposed to echoes in perennial philosophies—ancient, medieval, and modern. There are about one hundred such citations of literary gems from many cultures, each reverberating with potent ‘under-meaning.’ The juxtaposition is augmented with essays pivotal to esoteric and supra-doctrinal Christianity, as well as the pinnacles of the major religions. Some essays deal with early orthodox misperceptions of Christian principles, and the urgent need for the modern reconstruction of ultimate reality in western thought. Restoration is twofold: to dismantle the edifice of misdirected ecclesiasticism, and to re-establish the pristine foundations of Christ’s perennial philosophy of human life as the divine impetus of love.