The Light-Vesture Of The New Man (3)

Transfiguration - The Transformation of Matter

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As stated in the first address, the condition of your light-vesture is decisive for your entire future. If you allow this statement to penetrate deeply into your consciousness, you will feel the urge to put your hand to the plow for, as you should realize very clearly, man's personality is animated by this interplay of vital fluids. As you now know, the light-vesture is called to a higher good, to a higher order, to a state of life which is lasting, eternal. That is why your light-vesture, your soul-garment, must be resurrected. In this resurrection your light-vesture must rise out of this nature of death. The entire resurrection of Christ is comprised in this mystery. The etheric man is the man of the future.

'Of course,' you will say, 'after death we will exist in a much more subtler vehicle.' No, friends, that is not what we mean! The process of arising about which we are speaking is a process in which the entire personality, and thus also the material body, participates. And the way in which this process works can now be explained to you, for the near future will give proof of it.

As you know, our philosophy states that the material atoms, the atoms from which the material vehicle is formed, are hollow and permeated by etheric atoms which are prismatic in shape. We would like you to visualize this image clearly: the hollow material atom, interpenetrated by the prismatic etheric atom. Through this link, the material atom comes to life. So the life of the material atom is totally dependent on the etheric atom with which it is permeated. The material atom lives by the grace of the etheric atom. From this, one can deduce that matter in general, everything that is manifested in matter, is dependent upon a law of vibration. And as a result, the various atoms acquire different properties, which they then manifest in their respective ways. So whenever we work with the various kinds of etheric atoms in the ordinary ways known to man, the material atoms are manifested as solids, liquids and gases.

The situation is quite different, though, when the vibration quality of the seven kinds of etheric atoms is intensified, becoming increasingly dynamic and fiery. In other words, when the fifth ether increases in potency and becomes dominant in your life, as is happening in our times, the properties of the material phenomenon known to us as solids, liquids and gases will change entirely.

We are explaining this in such a scientific way in order to show that the philosophy of the Rosycross is a clear, although as yet unknown, natural science. When the fifth ether begins to affect the world and human development, the minimum result will be that the material phenomena become less dense; they will dissolve and free themselves completely from their present material bonds.

This process of spiritualization, of the transformation of matter, is threefold. The legend of Jesus Christ's resurrection in three days, too, stems from this Universal Knowledge. This legend tells us how, at a certain moment, people came to the grave to find the gravestone removed and the grave completely empty.

Contrary to its aim, however, this legend has completely crystallized the Universal Knowledge. People speak of a miracle, but what happened was not at all miraculous. For when the vibration level of the co-operating etheric forces becomes more rarefied this always gives rise to what is called 'transfiguration'. And this is, among other things, the gradual changing of material phenomena into etheric manifestations. That is why the tomb of Jesus the Lord was found empty according to the resurrection legend. His physical body had disappeared; it had passed through the essence of death and risen into an entirely new, different life.

So you see that the philosophy of the Rosycross comes to you through the Christian revelation of two thousand years ago. The unfoldment of the Christian revelation is nothing else than the actualization of the philosophy of the Rosycross. The course of development which began 2,000 years ago inevitably had to end in a time like ours, in which an inter-cosmic radiation-field will bring all mysteries into the light of day and reduce to nothing all the myths and legends, replacing them with reality itself.

Dualistic man calls the process of Christ's resurrection a miracle. But you should now understand that every human being is capable of this miracle, by virtue of his light-vesture, providing that vesture and its vital fluids comply with certain laws. That is why it is said from time to time in the Holy Language: 'Be my followers'. Not followers in the sense meant by the church, but followers in an absolute, revealing way.

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From "The Light-Vesture Of The New Man" J. van Rijckenborgh
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