A New Heaven And A New Earth - Part I

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Before continuing on our discussion...it is necessary to give you an explanation of a magnetic field and its nature. We so often speak about the magnetic field of the New Life and that of the ordinary nature, and the whole Universal Doctrine needs to be understood in connection with magnetic forces and can be explained from them so completely that it is a vital requirement for every pupil to understand and to visualize what we are speaking about when we are referring to magnetic fields.

Particularly in times like these, when all kinds of events can be explained only from magnetic influences, it really is a vital necessity that the pupil understand the connection of events.

As an introduction, we would like to call your attention to a saying written on the bronze plate in the sepulchre of Christian Rosycross: 'There is no empty space'.

This saying has a multiplicity of meanings; so many that one could easily say an infinite number. And, in general, one could say of these descriptions that what we call space, or infinite space, is the field of an equally infinite number of developments, developments that inter-penetrate, surround, and fill each other and that are distinguishable from each other by a difference in magnetic laws.

Each development has its own magnetic system, its own magnetic law, and hence is absolutely separated from every other development, although existing in the same space. We see a sun and other conspicuous heavenly bodies. We experience their influences noticeably. We know we belong to their system. There is an order in which all these things fit and in which all factors co-operate with each other virtually infallibly, and we know that all this is held together by an all-embracing law.

Everything rotates and revolves and describes spirals according to the norms of one fundamental magnetic law. Our world image, our image of space, the impressions we get of the universe, our own nature and state, the situation and figuration of our microcosm, all these things are brought about by, and can be explained out of, the same fundamental magnetic law.

One cannot say of our omni-revelation that is an illusion in the sense that it does not exist. But when we speak of 'duality' and Jacob Boehme speaks of the 'nature of death' as being the whole visible space, as being all that stretches out between and around the stars, then we mean and he means that this omni-revelation is undivine, not united with the Divine Nature, not to be explained from it.

If we nevertheless did interpret it as divine or considered any part of it so, this would be an illusion. When transfigurists spoke of the Immovable Kingdom, the Kingdom not of this world, people always ask mockingly where that Kingdom, that field of life, might be then. People call it a figment of the imagination, absolute nonsense, delirium, etc. They never understood what transfigurists were talking about. Many pupils probably have the same problem. What answer would you give if someone asked you that question, eyes sparkling with ridicule?

People can imagine an event such as described in Matthew 24: an earth and a heaven that pass away in a catastrophe. Astronomers know of stars that vanish and new ones that appear. But when something disappears in our universe, something else takes its place. The universe remains, albeit in a much different order. The sun could be extinguished and thus bring the end to our solar system but the universe exists.

Telescopes  can see immeasurable distances into space, and new telescopes explore spaces where no human eye has been able to penetrate. And there is a dispute about the problem of whether the universe is finite or infinite. It has been discovered that light rays bend and return to their point of origin. It is known that some stars are moving apart at enormous speeds, while others are approaching each other. People talk about expanding and contracting universes. But all these things are based on our world picture, on our vision of the universe, on our fundamental magnetic law of our fallen nature-order.

For this reason it is no surprise that the nature-religious person seeks the Kingdom of God in the reflection-sphere, or on some other star or planet to which one could travel in a space ship. 'Well, if the divine kingdom is not here and not in the reflection-sphere, it must be somewhere outside of it', or so a primitive pupil of the Spiritual School might think.

No, even if you were to travel through the entire universe, you would not find the Kingdom of God, because this Kingdom can be seen and entered only by means of a different magnetic law or order.

"A New Heaven and a New Earth" - The Gnostic Mysteries of Pistis Sophia - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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End of Part I

When we speak of 'two universes' you must not think in terms of this visible universe being 'over here' and the other one 'over there'. They both exist here and now, in the same space! We cannot observe any other universe but this dense, physical one because our five senses are attuned to respond only to dense, physical plane stimuli. To perceive any other universe, we would have to develop the necessary sense organs attuned to a particular universe.

There have been, and there are now, certain humans who are able to view the higher planes in this physical universe. However, these humans are simply viewing the reflection-sphere of this universe, not a different universe.

The end result of the twin processes of transformation and transfiguration is to enable the candidate to perceive and participate in a completely different nature-order, a divine nature-order. All the equipment needed to make this transformation is contained within the human's four vehicles (physical, etheric, astral, mental). What we are missing are the keys, the instructions for bringing this change about. That is what the Path is for -- to show us The Way to deliver our microcosms safely from this fallen nature-order to the divine one.

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