Unreality

The human being suffers the afflictions of delusion.
He is tormented by unreality.

He lives in time, but time is a fiction, and thus he does not live in the absolute sense.

Yet, buried deep in his microcosm, a tiny spark is left of the Original.

And if that tiny spark has not yet been entirely extinguished, a Call can resound in him, like a voice from afar; a Call to return to the Original nature, which still exists in all its pristine glory, and in which the Spirit can be active, is active.

From: The Living Word, by Catharose de Petri

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There are, as we said, two natures. We call them the Nature of Life and the nature of death, the Divine Nature and the dualistic nature. In the dualistic nature the alternation of opposites prevails. Because people do not understand how this alternation works, it causes them much sorrow and misery, particularly when they cling to one of its aspects and try to make it lasting.

The dualistic nature is meant to be the Training School of Eternity. That is why it is necessary for things to keep on changing, coming and going, and for opposite aspects to keep on alternating with each other. This explains why, throughout the nature of death, we see changes occurring not only in the various aspects of human society -- changes which are caused by rotation and interchange of radiations -- but also in the fundamental nature of things.

In this way, from time to time, the structure of our planet changes. Continents sink and others rise up from the depths of the ocean. Through the precession of the equinoxes, climates change because of the displacement of the poles. But there are also times when the entire planet dies and dissolves. So the entire solar system is a life-form which is subject to successive incarnations. Therefore, it is not only the human personality that passes away and evaporates, but also the whole planetary manifestation. The life of the sun, too, is subject to ending and re-vivification.

What we want you to do, now, is to make this image as vivid as possible in your inner being. Impress upon yourself the fact that, before your personality existed, something else was, namely your microcosm or monad. Before you existed, there was an indefinite, non-material being, whose life-state, compared to yours, was peaceful and calm. What a difference! You: a creature of turmoil. Your monad: originating from and existing in that entirely Other Life. This same relationship exists with respect to the earth. Before the earth existed, too, there was an indefinite, non-material being. The earth contorts from time to time because of the turmoil which afflicts her and which forces its way upwards from her interior. But the Other Earth, the one John saw descending (Revelations), is completely non-material. So there is a distinction between the Planetary Spirit, which is a material manifestation, and its monadic counterpart, the Planetary Logos. The same relationship also exists with respect to the life of the sun, the lives of the zodiacal systems and galaxies, and the whole totality of the dualistic universe.

What is not delusion, and hence the reality with respect to yourself, is the microcosm. The microcosm is eternal, real. The personality is finite, unreal.

With regard to our cosmos (earth) there is the Planetary Logos. With regard to the sun there is Vulcan. With regard to the universe there is the Other All Manifestation, the high, great reality, the nature of the truly living waters, Tao. It is from this Tao that the microcosm originates, as do all the Planetary Logoi, Vulcanides and Cosmocreators.

So now you see clearly the contrast between the material and the non-material.  The non-material -- the great reality of the true, divine universe -- exists independently. It stands alone, by itself, and does not change. It pervades everything, and yet, is not endangered. In essence, it is the Father-Mother of the other universe, the material one.

Excerpted from "Before Heaven And Earth Existed, There Was An Indefinite Being" - Chapter 25-II - The Chinese Gnosis - Jan Van Rijckenborgh, Catharose de Pietri

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