The Mystery Of Life And Death - II

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...Let us first take you to the nirvanic realm, which forms the basis for any genuinely divine human development.

The terms 'Nirvana', or 'being dissolved', or 'the world of not-being' are, of course, only approximations. Nirvana is attained by beings who have transcended all dualistic laws and hence all dualistic soul-life. Beings in whom all obstructing aspects have been dissolved return to Nirvana.

So the term 'Nirvana' conveys nothing about the Primary World in which the divine-human genesis takes place. The only thing it says in respect to us is that those who wish to enter the Primary World must have attained a state of 'not-being'. Taken superficially, it is of course silly to think that one can 'not be' and at the same time enter somewhere. That is why the word 'Nirvana' is translated as 'being dissolved', like a drop of water returning to the sea and becoming one with it. Nirvana is the eternal, unchangeable, Divine Totality. The class of entities to which mortal souls belong departed from from this realm in the remote past, and must return to it if there is to be any question of genuinely divine, eternal freedom (italics mine ~ g).

What do we mean by the word 'entities'? We mean microcosms. A microcosm is a complete life-system, a unity composed of many parts. One of these parts is, temporarily, the mortal soul with its personality. A microcosm is a miniature replica of a cosmos. Since concepts like 'small' and 'large' are very relative, we can justifiably compare a microcosm with an atom.

A microcosm possesses the structure of an atom. Natural science has shown that there are many different kinds of atoms. So we must now describe to you the atom that is the microcosm.

This atom has three nuclei. Two of them rotate very rapidly around each other at the center of the atom, while the third describes a wide orbit around the other two. These three nuclei can be referred to as the three souls. The two souls rotating in the center are positive and negative, or male-female, with respect to each other. The third soul is genderless, neutral; the providing, cohesive factor in the atom (g: think of the proton, neturon and electron atomic structure).

In the Bible, this realm, this manifestation is called 'the Kingdom of God'. This is not meant to infer that every microcosm is a God, a separate whole. No, it means that such a micro-atomic realm belongs to a greater whole, to a Gnosis, in the same way that a cosmos does not exist by itself, but belongs to a macrocosm, to a group of cosmos.

The organization of the tri-une (three-souled) atomic beings we have described must therefore be centrifugal and not centripetal; every atom must lose itself in the All-Manifestation, turning towards and surrendering itself to The Greater Whole, in total service. And it is in this way, through impersonal service, that the microcosm must manifest itself. Thus, by not-being, these tri-une beings live in a state of absolute being in the Primary Realm of Nirvana. Through centrifugal and thus, self-forgetting activity, all limitations fall away; spaces cease to exist, so that there are no longer any boundaries; there is only Infinity, Eternity. However, the moment such a tri-une atomic being turns its gaze inwards, beholding itself and thus acting centripetally, the divine law at the foundation of that particular type of atom is disturbed. The magnetic proportions are then put out-of-balance and a great, mighty fire arises.

When this catastrophe took place, the atom was split by the heat of it, to such an extent that one of the two soul-nuclei orbiting around each other in the center of the microcosm was ejected from the system and perished in space. In some microcosms it was the positive nucleus that was ejected, while in others, it was the negative one. That is the truth about the separation of the sexes. The microcosms struck by this catastrophe were, from that moment on, no longer tri-une, but di-une.

The results were terrible. Through centripetal endeavors, no longer serving the Kingdom of God, but willing and seeking the microcosm's own kingdom, boundaries were automatically drawn and the microcosms concerned found themselves in a spatial world according to natural laws.

And where boundaries are delineated, time holds sway. One sinks into the world of time and space, governed by the alternations of light and darkness, day and night. One is cast into duality.

As a result of the ejection of one of the atomic nuclei, through the tremendous heat of the fire, the inner kingdom was bound to collapse. In this way, death penetrated for  the first time. The microcosm that had become di-une could not keep its kingdom, which it had sought to maintain. The kingdom died. By seeking to maintain it, the microcosm lost everything! And having been emptied, the microcosm wandered in the night of the world, dragged along by the magnetic currents of the order of space and time.

From "The Mystery of the Fall" - The Mystery of Life and Death - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The foregoing may or may not be hard to follow. Here's the jist: The microcosms of this life-wave once had three soul-nuclei. These microcosms are now missing a nuclei. Some are missing a positive nuclei, others are missing a negative one. When the positive, negative and neutral nuclei were intact, the microcosms were in balance. This balance linked them to the Divine, providing access to Omnipotence and enabling them to carry out the wishes of the Logos. The microcosms were able to form physical bodies at will, without the use of sexual reproduction. These forms were not dense physical as we currently understand it, but were more ethereal, being composed of divine etheric material. These were the Days of Paradise, when nascent humanity was connected with the Tree of Life. Truly, man "walked with God".

At a given moment, a certain group of microcosms chose to serve themselves as opposed to serving The All. That group of microcosms was / is us, the human life-wave. Mark the following:

Any time an entity chooses to serve itself (centripetal) rather than to serve the collective (centrifugal), that entity will initiate separation from the Divine and bring trouble to its door. This was true in the high heavenly realms aeons of time ago, and is true today, here on the physical plane.

This is why we are consistently reminded to live in service-to-others. It is the only effective way to begin the process of bringing our microcosm back into balance so that it can return to the Divine Kingdom.

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