Attraction, Repulsion and Gravity

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You know what gravitation is and how it works. Modern human being are particularly preoccupied by it, judging by the enormous efforts being made by scientists to overcome the gravitational forces of the earth.

Every object in space, including the earth, has an electromagnetic power of attraction. As a result of this power, everything that belongs to the earth, everything that us of the same essence, is prevented from leaving; it is kept in its place and in this way provided with the opportunity to live.

Gravitational forces have two aspects, two properties. The most obvious is the power of attraction. The other is repulsion. Through the power of repulsion everything that does not belong to the earth, and thus might be harmful to it or its creatures, is kept outside the system.

The two-fold effect of gravitation originates  from the tenth stratum of our earth. This is the heart of the earth, where the central focus of the Earth Spirit is to be found. This focal point deep within the earth determines the gravitational effects of all the other nine earth strata, which include the two aspects of the material-sphere, the four aspects of the etheric sphere, the astral sphere, and the two aspects of the mental sphere. So all the fields in which the personality is manifested are under the control of the gravitational influences emanating from the Earth Spirit.

This also applies to the vehicles of the personality itself, which, apart from the material body, also include the etheric body, the astral body, and a rudimentary mental body which is still in the process of development. In other words, it is not only the material body which is attracted by the Earth Spirit, but also the etheric body, the astral body and the mental parts of the personality.

This explains why the wheel of birth and death and its effects are confined to the Earth Spirit's various planes of manifestation. If a space traveller is able, by mechanical means, to escape the gravitational pull of the immediate physical plane, he must next pass into the gravitational field of the etheric planes, then that of the astral planes, and finally, into that of the mental border planes. Beyond that is nothingness as far as his personality is concerned, emptiness, because beyond that point quite different electromagnetic laws of gravity apply, which require quite different astral, mental, etheric and material conditions.

This outermost limit is set for every mortal, because the personality's center of gravity coincides with the heart of the earth, and is therefore bound to the Planetary Spirit. This also applies to the microcosm and to all the previous personality-lives that unfolded within it. No microcosm can ever simply detach itself from the confinement of this electromagnetic sphere. However, as explained in the previous chapters, there is yet another earth, completely invisible to the nature-born mortal, even though philosophically demonstrable. It is the holy Earth, the planetary system of the Planetary Logos

The Universal Doctrine draws a distinction between the Planetary Spirit, which has to do with our material earth, and the Planetary Logos. The Planetary Logos is the Lord of the original, inviolable, divine planet, the ineffable, eternal glory. From this holy Earth, from this original planet, our planet has emerged as a training school, a field of development which the microcosm must enter in order, after completing its studies, to ascend from it and return to the House of the Father. So the Planetary Logos is the beginning - the Alpha - and at the same time, the end - the Omega.

The point that we want to impress upon you is that the 'two natures' of which the Gnosis testifies are intimately connected. Even though they are quite distinct from one another, the two solar systems and the planets they contain -- including our earth and the holy Earth -- are fully inter-penetrating. So, the microcosm contains not only the 'land of exile' but also the 'Land of the Father'. And that is why you are told that the kingdom of God is within you'.

Excerpt from "Gravity Is The Root Of What Is Light" - The Chinese Gnosis - Jan van Rijckenborgh, Catharose de Pietri

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