Unmasking - The Parasites

Light-Spirits - the Parasites of the Reflection-Sphere

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When a man falls asleep, his personality is cleaved. The subtle part of his personality steps out, as people call it; in fact, things happen in quite the same way as during the condition of death. However, we must remark here that, when the personality is splitting upon the approach of the condition of sleep, the human consciousness is also splitting.

When a man sleeps and the material body lies stretched on the bed, the etheric double  floats some inches above the material body, whereas the other subtle parts of the personality can, if he so wishes, move more or less to and from the material body. This cleavage of the personality having taken effect, the human consciousness is cleaving also, as we have said. Therefore, the normal human sleeping-consciousness differs from the waking-consciousness. For, part of the waking-consciousness remains with the material body during the sleep. This part of the waking-consciousness then is in a more or less dreamless, unconscious condition.

Now, many people supposed that it would be possible to transfer the total consciousness to the subtle part of the personality during the condition of sleep. The reasoning was as follows: 'When we, on falling asleep, cause to 'step out' that which, during the waking-consciousness, we call our total consciousness, then the "I", when awakening, can bring back the complete result of the investigation in the hereafter and etch it on the brains.'.

In order to be able to do this, the whole material body must be trained for the purpose. To this end, a training of the brains will be necessary, especially a change in the cells of the brains. The entire central nervous system is to be subjected to a series of adjustments for, normally, the brains do transfer the pictures of the nightly life, which we call dreams, but generally it is not possible to make head or tail of them, as everybody knows: they are confused, senseless and extremely veiled.

Well, the whole of this training of all the vehicles of the personality, for the purpose of transferring the total consciousness to the subtle personality, lies at the basis of the science and the practices of occultism. But a man who subjects himself to these practices thereby brings himself in a very great danger, namely the danger of heavy crystallization of the personality; a crystallization which is much more intense than what is possible in a normal human life. As we have explained already, he firstly tries to make this body live much longer than normally would be possible, by influencing the organic processes in various ways.

The occultist literally strives after a prolongation of the dualistic state-of-life. He trains the entire personality, the subtle as well as the more dense part. Thus, his personality's factor of crystallization changes completely and it is absolutely contradictory to the dualistic, natural law.

This, in short, is the manner in which a part of mankind, unlawfully and contra-naturally, have created for themselves a life in the reflection-sphere, in the land beyond the veil. Of course, this unlawful, contra-natural half-life tries to maintain itself in the reflection-sphere. Just as people on the material side of our nature try to maintain themselves by all means, they try to maintain themselves on the other side of the veil also. These people believe themselves to be alive, to have reached their aim; they think they are citizens of heaven, but in reality, they are anomalies in the dualistic nature. For this reason, they are, and at the same time create, a deadly danger for that part of humanity who are still living on this side because, in order to be able to prolong their lives on the other side and to secure their existence there, they are obliged to constantly feed themselves with light-ether.

Now you will understand, especially after having read the above treatise, what a brotherhood of the reflection-sphere really is. It is a collection of entities who unlawfully maintain themselves in the reflection-sphere and who are extremely dangerous for the world and mankind in view of the unnaturalness of the forced prolongation of their existence and its consequent practices.

Now you will also understand what the hierarchy of the reflection-sphere brotherhoods is. It is a combine of such brotherhoods whose only basis is: need of self-maintenance. For, generally, there is a great animosity or rejection among the various groups. But when need be, they join and form one combine of interests. In our days, the danger threatens them that they will not be able to continue maintaining their lives in the reflection-sphere because of a growing lack of light-ether. That is the reason they are developing The Great Play, the play of the coming again of the Christ, in order to urge humanity into an increase of light-ether production for these hordes of parasites.

In The Shadow of the Coming Events (detailed in this series of posts), we indicated the whole of this play in its various aspects and, furthermore, outlined how it will begin and how its course will be.

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End Part II

From "Armageddon" - Part II of Unmasking - J van Rijckenborgh

After the death of the physical body, the etheric, astral and mental bodies survive for awhile in the reflection-sphere (what man considers to be 'heaven'). As the microcosm ascends withdraws from the physical plane, it sheds each vehicle, one at a time. The etheric is left to decay with the physical body while the soul withdraws to the astral plane. Here, it is purged of earthly desires and the astral body is discarded. the soul then moves on to the lower mental plane, where the same is done for the mental body. This leaves the causal body, which resides on the higher mental plane.

That is the normal process of "death" for the personality, which normally takes hundreds of earth years to complete. However, as stated above, throughout the ages, there have been humans who, during their incarnation, have learned how to delay this process of dissolution, in order to obtain for themselves a sort of "immortality" in the reflection-sphere. They hang on to their vehicles, stubbornly refusing to allow their personality to dissolve. Leeching light-ethers from humans who are in the physical body is the only way they can maintain themselves in this fashion.

These entities will do anything to maintain their existence. They know that the end of this cycle is near, and that because of the degeneracy of mankind that accompanies such ending-cycles, there is precious little light-ether to be found on earth (as opposed to, say, the Middle Ages, when the churches were packed).

Remember, what has been before, will be again. These things are known because they have been recorded from times past. This knowledge has been made available to us now in keeping with the ancient promise that, before the end of this major world-cycle "all that is hidden, will be revealed".

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