The Veils Between Life And Death - Conclusion

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The coming era will have a most beneficial and inspiring influence on creative artists, particularly in music and painting. The extension of the invisible color spectrum and also of our known scale of notes from seven to nine, is inherent in the atmospheric revolution. Infra-red and ultra-violet will become visible and, at the same time, the corresponding sounds will become audible, because hearing, as well as sight, will be extended.

A new manifestation of form in painting will bring what is remote closer to us, and could thus exert a very liberating influence. Our modern painters, who have long had more than enough of painting ordinary pictures and who, inwardly, are no longer able to sustain their extremism, may be very helpful to the Spiritual School through a pictorial art that will give form to breaking the chains and gaining Liberation. Music will likewise be able to surmount its present superficiality and break through to new possibilities.

However, there is one formidable dark cloud on the horizon, for technology will also utilize the consequences of the atmospheric revolution to develop a kind of sound-bomb with an ultra-violet radiation field. This sound-bomb, which will emit a very high, piercing tone, will not cause an explosion but a sudden disintegration, a sudden pulverisation of all solids, liquids and gases (BG: did someone say 9/11?  Oh, sorry, that was me).  The overall effect of this will be even more terrible than that of the atomic bomb.

We do not wish to occupy ourselves any longer with a further prognosis of this extraordinary future. This chapter would then become too spectacular; we would miss the mark, giving our readers one-sided information. It should be fully understood that the atmospheric revolution, with all its extremely complicated consequences, is only one aspect of the new omni-genesis. The serious and interested investigator of the future will need to possess a versatile faculty for keen observation. The esoteric student of the New Era will in no respect resemble the student of the past.

A call to reflect upon a New Era, a new task, and accordingly upon a totally different initiation-mystery, is now resounding over the entire world to all those who are spiritually sensitive. By stating this, we do not wish to injure anyone or anything, nor to diminish the glory of the ancients; we are thankful for what our predecessors have given us. They have drawn our consciousness out of the lower self, directing our attention to sublime concepts of great value. Now, however, they want us to attune ourselves to The Call and the demands of the present.

The initiative which the modern Rosycross is currently taking may not be viewed as the activity of a sectarian group; what the Spiritual School has to offer is meant for all.

The spiritual revolution will commence in Europe and from there continue its triumphal march over the entire world. The spiritual field over Europe is pregnant with events which are soon to be born. In this chapter, we have tried to describe something of these coming events so that their arrival will not find the reader entirely unprepared.

"The Veils Between Life and Death" - The Great Revolution - J. van Rijckenborgh

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