Man ... The "Little Cosmos"

We begin this post with the crude illustration above in the hope that it may prove somewhat useful in visualizing what follows.

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In the Universal Doctrine, the human being is seen as much more than just a physical body. In reality, the human being is a 'microcosm,' or cosmos in miniature.

The Microcosmic Firmament

The outermost layer of the human microcosm, surrounding us like an eggshell, consists of a magnetic field which we call the 'lipika'. The lipika can be seen, if you like, as the 'sky' of our own miniature cosmos, our own personal zodiac, because it is studded with many magnetic points like stars. These magnetic points act as filters, admitting from the cosmos into the microcosm only those energies which resonate with them. In most people, these magnetic points are attuned only to the dualistic order of existence, the universe of separation and death.

The Respiration Field

Inside this magnetic sphere is a space called the 'respiration field'. This space is filled with magnetic lines of force running from the magnetic points in the lipika to the material body of the temporary, mortal personality which is you or me.

The Subtle Bodies

As is widely understood these days, this material body consists not only of the physical body we can see and touch, but of more subtle bodies as well. Altogether there are -- in the present-day human being -- four physical bodies, each of different grades of subtlety, all interpenetrating each other. So our visible, material body is interpenetrated and surrounded firstly by the etheric or vital body, which guides and controls the life processes going on in the material body.

Interpenetrating the etheric and material bodies and extending some distance beyond them is the astral body. In this body, our desires and emotions, and our feelings of attraction and rejection are manifested and radiated outwards.

Then there is the mental body. This is concentrated mainly around the head and is involved in attracting and radiating all the forces concerned with our thinking processes. It is not yet really mature in the majority of human beings, so that in most people it is hardly possible to speak of a 'body' as such.

The Divine Seed

And now there is one last aspect of the microcosm we would like to mention – the Rose of the Heart, or spirit-spark referred to earlier. This Rose of the Heart is situated right at the centre of the microcosm at a point which coincides with the top of the right heart ventricle. The Rose of the Heart -- being the last remnant in the microcosm of its original, divine state -- is not affected by any of the forces at work in the dualistic nature order, the world of time and space. It can only react to the forces of the original, divine nature order.

So, until it can be touched by the divine forces it remains sleeping, dormant, like a seed. And like a seed, it contains the whole blueprint, the whole matrix, of the original, divine microcosm. It only waits for the divine sunlight to reach it, and then, with the cooperation of the human personality, it will be able to unfold and the whole microcosm will gradually be able to be restored to its original, divine state. But a lot has to happen before the human personality is willing and able to allow the divine sunlight to reach the Rose of the Heart.

The Path of Experience

We live our lives, we accumulate experiences, many of them painful, and then we die. When the physical body dies, the subtle bodies, too, are dissolved after a period of time, leaving only the sum of the experience gained in that lifetime, which is etched into the lipika. The microcosm then adopts a new system of physical vehicles through the process of birth. This is the cycle of birth and death, which goes on and on, lifetime after lifetime, until gradually -- mostly through suffering but sometimes through intense joy, too -- our consciousness and our desires are purified. At last the recognition begins to be born in us that our soul's deepest sorrow will never be alleviated by anything we might find in this world. The inkling may also dawn on us that our most profound moments of joy do not belong to the self we are accustomed to calling 'I' at all, but to something much higher. And there, at last, we stand before the Unknown, with open, empty hands. Still waiting, still hoping, but no longer expecting everything of the I-central self and its world. And at that point we can be helped.

LRC

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The foregoing will make no sense to many. Others may lose interest halfway through. That simply means that it is not time for them yet. But there will always be the few to whom what has been presented here may sound comfortably familiar. To summarize, it is the microcosm (what man calls "the soul") with its accumulated karma that re-incarnates, over and over. It is not us who repeatedly incarnate into the physical realms. Each incarnation, the microcosm assembles a new personality (Joe Smith or Jane Doe), whose job it is to neutralize and/or eradicate all karma so that the microcosm can be released from the bondage of having to return to the material sphere again and again. Upon its liberation, it will return to the divine kingdom, its former Home.

This is why we are advised to "get over ourselves". The issue that faces humanity is that personalitys are not doing their job. We get so caught up in the external influences of the material world, our karmic ties, our carnal desires and our self-identification that the connection with the microcosm is lost. As such, nothing gets accomplished during life, the personality dies a failure. All vestiges of who that personality was on earth dissolves, leaving an emptied microcosm. That microcosm has to wait many hundreds of years for a fresh opportunity and a new personality before it can try again.

We (personalities) are here to serve a single purpose...to liberate our microcosms. It doesn't matter who you are, what you do for a "living" or how low you may be on the totem pole. It doesn't matter if you're a thief or a priest, a whore or a king. Every personality has the same assignment and the opportunity to succeed in their assignment if they make the right choices during their walk on earth. The first thing that must be done is to stop looking at the "I" as the be-all and end-all of existence. We are not the show here...the microcosms that we are attached to are the stars of this show. We must cease our material striving and seek the Keys that will teach us how to accomplish this Great Work. The reward is liberation and immortality for the microcosm, continuity of consciousness and a re-establishing of the connection with All That Is, as Spirit unites with Matter..

For those who wish to take the first steps towards pursuing The One Goal of Life, The New Call is a good place to start.

This concludes a trilogy of posts. The other two being The Two Nature Orders and The Divine Spark

all love,

~ g