The World Of The Virgin Spirits

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The 'World of the Virgin Spirits' actually exists, but the entities that dwell there are not virginal as regards Knowledge, experience and spiritual development, they are only virginal as regards sin, crystallization and death. The 'World of the Virgin Spirits'  is the Original world of mankind, as intended in the Divine Plan. It is the order of God, the Kingdom of Heaven (certainly not to be confused with the 'heaven' of exoteric Christians or the 'summerland' of the spiritualists, which we will explain later when discussing the reflection-sphere).

The 'World of the Virgin Spirits' is situated within one of the realms of the planetary cosmos. This cosmos is composed of seven realms of existence which together form one great Sphere. Our world is one of those seven realms.

The Original World of mankind is an everlasting glory. There, mankind fulfills the Divine Plan underlying world and mankind in perfect obedience, which should not be understood in the sense of blind docility or obedience, but as voluntary, conscious cooperation in a free binding of love with God. The dynamic human will, in which the Divine Fire is potentially present, is in harmony with God's will. In this state-of-being man does not wish to use his will power experimentally, speculatively or forcibly. Just imagine the state in which man is in possession of his Original, Divine faculties, so that he is able to speak the Creative Words: "he speaks, and it is so; he commands, and it is".

These faculties are glorious if they develop within the framework of a free binding of love with God, by God's hand. However, if anyone were to use these Divine faculties experimentally, speculatively, or forcibly, a disaster would develop, affecting the whole Universe. A tragedy of this kind is developing now that man, in an experimental urge for self-maintenance, is splitting the atom and thereby misusing the cosmic building materials in an effort to make them subservient to his self-willed objectives.

In using his will in this way, whether unconsciously or in negation of every cosmic tie, man is like a child playing with a hand-grenade. When we realize this we can understand something of the catastrophe brought upon us by the Fall. Man began to use his Divine creative faculties experimentally in self-will and in this way the human will became unbridled, the free will became a misused will: the forces unchained escaped human control.

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From "Involution - Evolution" Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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