Notes On The "Eternal Nothingness"

The following is a follow-up to the previous post entitled "Where's Your Proof?".

Re: the immortal microcosm and the mortal personality

We are emergency-order beings, temporary instrumentariums designed for a specific function and commissioned for a specific purpose: to begin the Great Work of liberating our microcosms from its imprisonment in the nature-of-death. If, after transition (the death of the physical body), a personality has not at least begun to walk the Path of Return, that personality will have failed in its purpose. It will move to the reflection-sphere where, over a period of several centuries, it will slowly disintegrate, leaving only an emptied microcosm.

Conversely, those personalities who pass on while walking The Path, who are engaged in building the New Soul Body prior to death, will not return to the reflection-sphere but will transition to the Vacuum of Shamballa, a region that allows those who have begun the Great Work while incarnate to follow the Process to its completion.

The microcosm itself does persist; it is immortal, it cannot 'die'. A microcosm that remains tied to the Wheel of Rebirth must always empty itself after the death of the in-dwelling personality and prepare itself to accept a new one.

The other option for the immortal microcosm is the one mentioned above, where the personality, during earth-life, begins the work that will eventually enable the re-unification of the Divine Spirit with a Reborn Soul, thereby restoring the immortal microcosm to its former Glory. In this scenario, after discarding the physical body, the microcosm, along with the remaining vehicles of the personality (etheric, astral and mental) will enter Shamballa where the Great Work will continue.

Finally, there are microcosms that become so damaged by thousands of incarnations wasted by indulgence in wickedness and error, that they must be completely erased, returned to the primordial essence (the proverbial "lake of fire"). The damage to such microcosms, the level of crystallization, has to be extreme in order for this to take place.

Re: "Eternal Nothingness"

This portion of the chapter was meant to illustrate the ignorance of earthly speculations. The authors did not mean to imply that it was a true statement. The full sentence reads:

"...In other words, our destination lies neither in the reflection-sphere, nor in the material-sphere, but in the 'Eternal Nothingness', as it is called by the dualistic world and all it aeons and entities".

In occult circles they speak of the Atmic (3rd plane) and Buddhic regions (4th plane) as the highest attainable. There are two more regions above those, the Anupadaka (2nd plane) and the Adi (1st plane) which most occult systems speak very little of. In all, there are seven of these planes. It is planes 1 and 2, the Adi and the Anupadaka, that the occultists refer to as "the Eternal Nothingness". Not because there is nothing there, but because they are unaware of what takes place beyond the 3rd, or Atmic Plane.

All seven of these planes are sub-divisions of the 7th Cosmic Domain, which is the lowest Cosmic Plane and represents the Cosmic Physical Plane. That means there are six more Cosmic Planes above this one, and each of those is sub-divided into seven sub-planes! There is a Cosmic Astral Plane, Cosmic Mental Plane, Cosmic Buddhic and Atmic Planes, etc. We know nothing of these Higher Cosmic Planes because we have not yet evolved the sense organs necessary for us to perceive them.

So, in truth, there is no "Eternal Nothingness". There are simply regions of the Cosmic Universe that are currently unknown to us, teeming with True Life, Glory and Wonder. This is what the transfigurist aspires to. It is his or her desire, his or her duty, to free his or her microcosm from the Wheel of Death-and-Rebirth, to extricate it from this Physical Plane so that it may resume (notice the word is "resume", not "begin") its Journey upwards, proceeding from Power to Power and from Glory to Glory.

~ g
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