The Mystery Of Life And Death - III

The Emergency-Order

and the

Divine Plan of Salvation

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Who could save this system, driven out of Nirvana, out of Paradise? The microcosm was living-dead, and suffering purposeless, intolerable woes.  How could it make a new start? How could it return?

In theory, the solution was obvious: the ejected soul-nucleus should return to the system, linking itself in total surrender to the other, remaining soul-nucleus, so that the Original Kingdom would become possible again.

But where was the ejected soul-nucleus to come from? Surely it had died, vanished into space, returned as power to neutral sources of energy? Could a new spark be sent out from the Radiance of Eternity into the lustreless spaces of the night, to complete the di-une system, making it tri-une once again so that its Majesty could be restored?

It is clear that this would have to be the solution. But without further precautions another disaster would be caused. The entire microcosm would explode and dissolve into neutral energy because of the tremendous power and explosiveness of such a Divine Spark, and the differences between its vibration and that of the nature of death.

So before God could send his Son, His spark, into the fallen system, a large number of advance preparations would have to be made. That was the immense problem with which the Universal Brotherhood was faced.

In Chapter One we approached the mystery of the Fall and saw that the original microcosms lost their tri-une nature and became di-une. We compared the microcosms with an atom and discovered that originally it had three nuclei, three souls. With the aid of this system, the microcosm could create and manifest itself autonomously.

Just as an atom belongs to a larger system, to a group of atoms, so a microcosm ought not manifest its self-creating faculty in a centripetal way, but centrifugally. Enormous energies were accumulated in the microcosmic atom and by manifesting them centrifugally the microcosm could make a joyful contribution to the manifestations and preservation of the Universal Body, the Universal Kingdom of God, without doing its own system any harm.

However, if the radiating energies were to be turned inward, the heat and power generated would prove too great for the microcosmic system. The result would be burning and de-naturation. Something resembling this actually did happen, as we explained in the last chapter. One of the three atomic nuclei was ejected from the system and lost in space, leaving behind an atom with two nuclei. As a result of this de-naturation, this atom was obviously no longer able to express itself and could no longer be used in the Original Realm. All the microcosms that became di-une in the way we have explained were therefore ejected from the Divine Realm on purely natural, scientific grounds, to wander aimlessly in the domain corresponding to their own state-of-being.

The Universal Doctrine calls this domain 'chaos'. People are in the habit of understanding this 'chaos' as 'disorder', but they are mistaken. One should interpret 'chaos' as 'the absence of order', or 'a completely unformed state'. So the fallen systems entered the welter of a totally unformed space. As a result of their de-naturation it was impossible for them to return to the  Primordial State.

What in fact developed was a new type of microcosm, not foreseen by the Logos, but which was the product of the counter-nature, the result of the misuse of freedom. Thus the new type no longer had any purpose in the gnostic sense; it did not fit into the  All-Manifestation, it was a dissonance in the Harmony of the Spheres. That is why we drew your attention to the enormous problem this new variety of microcosms must have formed for the Universal Brotherhood, the problem of how to rescue this fallen multitude.

You must understand clearly that a microcosm is immortal. Although death gnaws at it and has become lodged within its system, in essence its existence remains unaffected. Even so, it is burdened with the results of countless errors and further de-natured by them. Perhaps you can imagine something of this situation. Picture a microcosm that has been ejected from the Divine Order into chaos for the reasons we have been explaining. Such a system has no purpose; it has become useless and inactive, for there is no plan behind it, no Universal Energy. And if such energy were present, it would only be swallowed up by the centripetal nature of the new microcosmic type. Since such a system is equipped with a certain measure of consciousness, you can imagine the suffering to which these systems were subjected to in their chaos.

So, in chaos, a cosmic emergency-order was created for the countless fallen microcosms, a universe of time and space, a universe of death. This universe was subject to the laws of duality, to rising, shining and fading, to alternate expansions and contraction; it was a totally relative universe. Thus we can speak of a Divine Plan to help our fallen state, and so it would be foolish to confuse the Divine Plan of Salvation with the Original Divine Realm itself. We need to emphasize this to prevent you from falling victim to confusion or, if you have already done so, to enable you to free yourself from it.

We would now like to consider the essence of the Divine Plan of Salvation, but first we need to familiarize ourselves with the structure of the microcosm as it is found on our plane of existence.

From "The Doctrine of Reincarnation" The Mystery of Life and Death Jan van Rijckenborgh

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'So what's all this have to do with me?' one may ask.

This entire universe, the star systems, the suns, planets, galaxies - all of it - exists on a temporary, emergency basis only. This 'emergency-order' is a universe of death, a universe of change, contrasts and opposites. The emergency-order was designed to provide a temporary (if one can successfully manage to view trillions of years as 'temporary') location for all fallen microcosms who had dis-possessed themselves of their Divine Birthright.

These fallen microcosms cannot die, and yet they cannot return to their Divine Home in their present condition. This essentially leaves them in a state of limbo. They must be rescued from this state of limbo and, more importantly, restored to their former Divine condition.

This is where you come in.

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