A Journey Into Heaven - Conclusion

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The pupil of the sacred science of transfiguration wishes to have nothing to do with these self-styled "esoteric" schools and orders of the light-regions of yonder side, although they may also occasionally accomplish some useful work.

The spiritual revolution has begun, and just as the spheres of hell have been startled by the radiation of the hierarchical Light and, in their struggle for self-maintenance, have pounced in deadly fear upon mankind, so also the dualistic spheres of "heaven" are in a state of highly nervous agitation. The inhabitants of the various "heavens" have also pounced upon mankind in a frenzy of proselytizing, and anyone who is to some extent susceptible to these influences, will feel himself driven to act in accordance with them.

It is perhaps somewhat disenchanting to write in this way about the favored abode of millions, i.e., the heaven worlds. Death, however, changes only the body and the state-of-consciousness, whereas the character, the mind, the outlook on life and everything connected with it, remains entirely the same. And just as thousands of humane, virtuous, religious and very intelligent people on this side of the veil endeavor to achieve a better world, so it is over there also, the only difference being that the inhabitants of the hereafter possess many means by which they can influence those who are living on this side of the veil with their very diverse suggestions. Thus the circle is closed and the wheel of birth and death, the grinding wheel of duality, is kept in motion.

Behind the reflection-sphere of this earthly field of life, another heavenly world and another heavenly hierarchy have affected our complicated, miserable and tragic existence, both in the dualistic "heaven" and on the dualistic earth, in a historical revolution periodically recurring during the course of hundreds of thousands of years.  That is why all the powers of "heaven" and earth are in agitation. Once again, a spiritual, cosmic and nature-scientific process has set in, a process of which the seer of Patmos testified: "And I saw a new heaven, and the old had passed away".

All those affable and so radiant spirits who are indeed doing the best they can in accordance with their state-of-being, are highly nervous. Just as people, in the course of he years, have attempted to improve the world in numerous humanistic ways, so in heaven and on earth they are again trying, on account of the wild turbulence of ideas and desires, to assault the world and mankind anew with a flood of experiments. Spiritual movements, schools, institutes and so forth are springing up like mushrooms. One or more are started practically every week in every country, only to disappear again, usually after a very short existence.

Throughout the years, scores of different groups in the hereafter have made attempts to work via the School of the Rosycross in order to influence a consciously active spiritual public. We have rejected all these proposals in plain, unequivocal terms. Does this not make it abundantly clear that the forces of darkness can reach their greatest effectiveness through all these bungling good intentions? The School of the Rosycross wants no part in this feverish, nervous agitation in "heaven" and on earth, inherent in dualistic nature.

The workers of the Spiritual School serve the Immovable Kingdom as fishers of men. By applying the sacred science of transfiguration, they are making their way to this Immovable Kingdom, that is, to another Heaven and another Earth. Every pupil will be able to see that Heaven and that Earth descending from God out of the omni-revelation, if he perseveres in this process and is victorious.

The Universal Philosophy explains the laws, the logic and the rational-moral values of this process. That is why we see evil as a dualistic phenomenon and "good" as its anti-pole, keeping one another in balance. It is also the reason why we adopt the right of "splendid isolation" towards the "good" as well as the evil spirits, towards the inhabitants of the spheres of hell and those of the thousand-and-one "heavens", and we say to them: leave us alone! The bona-fide workers aim to fish mature souls out of the wildly agitated sea of life and to lead them, straight through the most beautiful dualistic spheres of "heaven", to the Immovable Kingdom, by means of the Royal Art.

A Journey Into Heaven - The Great Revolution - Jan van Rijckenborgh, Catharose De Petri

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