The Rebirth Of The Soul

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Let us now return to the five aspects of Transfiguration and try to form a clear understanding of them.

What we call the soul is a fivefold revelation of the astral fire in our personality. It fill the seven cerebral cavities and is taken up into the system by means of the magnetic respiration of the brain. This astral fire and its connection with the head-sanctuary form the nucleus, the deepest being of our soul-state, of our entire life. Owing to this animation, we call ourselves "I". As long as this soul is to be explained entirely out of dialectical nature it is mortal.  After the death of the body, the soul, too, undergoes a process of decay. At first it remains for some time in the reflection-sphere, but after that, nothing remains of it: the soul volatilizes to ordinary cosmic fluid.

However, as soon as the new state-of-consciousness becomes a fact, owing to the influx of the new astral fire in the sevenfold system of the head-sanctuary, one can speak of a new soul-being and consequently of the sign of the Son of Man. From that moment on, the Soul is no longer mortal. After the death of the personality this immortal soul no longer needs to occupy itself with the reflection-sphere because it no longer has a reflection in the earthly territory. Therefore, at the parting of the material body, should you possess a soul-state renewed in the Gnosis, then the earthly is swallowed up and the Unearthly exists. This Unearthly Being cannot be found in the reflection-sphere. That is why we have always said that a pupil who dies after having accomplished the task will find himself in the Vacuum of Shamballa.

When your soul-state has become immortal, there will be no further question of the need to return after the death of the personality. Notwithstanding this, there will be several among us who will return, but that will be on a voluntary basis for the sake of those who stay behind to maintain the Spiritual School in the service of the Universal Brotherhood as long as that is useful and necessary.

We emphasized that as soon as the new state-of-consciousness has become a fact our soul becomes immortal. This offers a great consolation, in particular to the older among us, for it will be better to cast off the crystallized and worn-out cellular structure of the earthly personality than to try to renew from below upwards. When the transfiguration of the soul has taken place and death has been conquered due to the possession of the immortal soul-state, the new personality can also be constructed in the Vacuum of Shamballa. The transfiguration of the soul can be realized by you within a comparatively short time.

If you ache for the New Life, if your thoughts are directed to the Spiritual School and your state-of-faith is without criticism, then make room in your head-sanctuary for the Light of the Gnosis, so that the sign of the Son of Man may be stamped on your forehead. Then you are released from the nature-of-death. Then, as regards your soul-state, you have become immortal. Moreover, as soon as the Immortal Soul has become a fact, you are free from the Wheel of Life and Death, unless you would like to return on account of a voluntary load that you would shoulder in servitude to humanity. You need not return any longer for the renovation of your personality.

You will now realize that, when the New Soul has become a fact, it takes over the task of the old soul. And as you know: a state of consciousness is a state of life. The soul, the consciousness, governs, builds and maintains the personality and the body. When a new soul-state has been born in us and the New Soul takes over the function of the old one, wonderful consequences follow. The soul has five fluids: the astral consciousness-fire, the serpent-fire, the hormonal secretions, the nerve fluid and the blood. These five fluids emanate from the nucleus of the soul and together form the soul-state. If they are realized in the body by the reborn Soul, then it will be clear that the effects will be borne out in the body. Therefore, transfiguration is not an obscure wonder but a scientific process.

To summarize: liberate the Path within you for the Light by means of the twofold magic of Faith and Life. Be absorbed by the merciful rebirth of your entire soul-state. Then you no longer need to be anxious about the rebirth of the entire state-of-being, as that will be an automatic result of the rebirth of the soul.

From "The Rebirth Of The Soul" - The Gnosis In Present-Day Manifestation - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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That's 'Faith' as in faith in the transfiguristic process and 'Life' as in actively living out of the required New Attitude of Life. Without these two cornerstones, one is only talking about the Path, not walking it.

Make no mistake, there is an alchemical process that can enable man to return to his former position as an immortal Child of God. The minimum requirement for being able to begin this process is a life of unselfishness and unceasing service-to-others. The focus must be away from the self and what the self wants. Without this minimum foundation of Love and Service, it will be impossible for one to attract the Gnosis, the Divine catalyst that can awaken the Rosebud and herald the Rebirth of the Soul.

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