The Mystery Of Life And Death - IV

Engraving by Theodore De Bry

Microcosmic Restoration - Your Role in the Divine Plan

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A microcosm is spherical in shape. Around the sphere is a complex magnetic field. If we view this sphere from a distance, our attention is attracted, first of all, by the auric being. This surface layer is sevenfold in composition and within it we find a magnetic system, a combination of magnetic points. The auric being also possesses an atomic nucleus with which the system of magnetic points forms a unity which is is to a greater or lesser extent conscious. When we speak of this conscious unity, we use the term 'auric self' or auric soul'.

The interior of the microcosmic sphere forms a void called 'the field of manifestation' and precisely in its heart a second atomic nucleus is to be found. This nucleus is known as 'the rose of the heart'  or 'the miraculous jewel in the lotus', or 'the unknown, latent soul'. On closer examination we discover that the auric soul has not one single connection, not one single contact, with the rose-heart. Although there are magnetic lines of force running inwards from the auric self, and although the field of manifestation is a space continually criss-crossed with powerful vibrations, the rose-heart does not react to them; it is asleep. So we see that we can only speak of genuine life when we look at the auric self; within the sphere's field of manifestation we only see a 'void' as far as life is concerned.

When we speak of the auric self as living, you need to understand clearly what we mean, for the life inhabiting it is very strange and not at all like the life-forms we know. The life of the auric self is neither mineral, nor vegetable, nor animal, and it certainly cannot be thought of as superhuman.

We can best approach the auric self's state of consciousness by comparing it with the consciousness of an elemental, a consciousness which is the result of the combined activity of magnetic forces, and will be clear or dull, strong or weak, good or bad in conformity with the effects of the processes going on within and around the sphere. Such a consciousness will therefore be without any deep, inner psychological reactions of its own; it will be a completely automatic, neutral consciousness.

If the consciousness is automatic, then it is clear that the microcosm must be in possession of a governing soul-being if it is to live in the highest sense of the word. However, in the conditions we have been describing, such a soul-being is not present at all. There is only the latent life in the rose-heart, and life in the auric soul which is life in name only. Apart from that, there is nothing! It is hardly possible to say that such a microcosm lives, any more than one can say that it is dead.

That, then, is the condition of an emptied microcosm in our domain of life. Such was the fate of all microcosms after the third soul in the system had died. Remember that the third soul-nucleus, in cooperation with the rose-soul, had originally caused a Glorious Personality to exist in the microcosm's field of manifestation. But this Personality disappeared and evaporated from the field of manifestation at the moment when, through centripetal activity, the arrangement of the system was disrupted.

What could be done about this situation? Well, the third soul-nucleus would need to be brought back into the system. It would need to realize unity with the rose-soul and in this way restore the original state-of-being. But where should the third soul-nucleus come from? For the third aspect of the soul had vanished; it had dissolved into energy in the heat of the fire.

This was the tremendous problem with which the Logos was faces, a problem still in the process of being solved, since not all of the microcosms have yet been rescued and brought back to the Original Kingdom.

As we explained, a cosmic emergency-order was established. Its aim was to create a being, a living being that would be able - temporarily - to inhabit the place formerly occupied by the soul and the Original Personality that had vanished. If this surrogate-being were able to act as a substitute in a microcosm's field of manifestation, this would enable a magnificent process of Transfiguration and hence, of Return.

It may be difficult for you to accept that you are the transitory end-product of an emergency-order plan. At birth, you represent the vanished third-soul nucleus, and your newly-born body represents the Glorified Figure of Old. Both this soul-nucleus and this young body are introduced into an emptied microcosm. This is, as it were, an operation, a transplantation: an organ originating in the emergency-order is implanted in a Being from quite another Order. And now it must be proved whether the transplanted organ is willing and able to 'take'; whether the plan to return - the aim of the operation - will be achieved.

By following a path of transfiguration it is possible to make you conscious of your state, to make you conscious of The Great Aim.  If you are able to link harmoniously with the rose-atom, the neutral auric-self will immediately react. The great process of salvation will begin. With regard to you, as a product of the emergency-order, a great and intense wonder will then unfold. When an organ is transplanted into the body and it begins to react, this enables the whole body to live, so that the transplanted organ can share in its life. In the same way, by following the fivefold gnostic procedure -- the method of transplantation -- you can be taken up into the Life of the  Original Order. You will then leave the emergency-order to which you formerly belonged and enter a Higher Order, along with the system into which you were introduced. In this way, you will be incarnated, transplanted, in a Divine Being and, with that Eternal Being, you will live eternally. You can then justly be called a 'twice-born' one', born once as to what is of the earth, earthly, and once as to the Heavenly Being.

If this ascent, this Second Birth, is not successful, you will know yourself what the end must be. You will die the death of your earthly state ('you are dust, and to dust you shall return'), and your microcosm, one delusion richer and often in a severely wounded state, will have to wait for another chance.

From "The Doctrine of Reincarnation" The Mystery of Life and Death - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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Read the fore-going as many times as you have to. Sobering? Perhaps. Shocking? Maybe. Glorious? Absolutely! This is the Divine Plan of Salvation for those who have Fallen. This merciful Plan is tended to and lovingly administered by countless entities from numberless realms who have made, and are still making great sacrifices as they unceasingly try to show us The Way Home. The Divine Plan of Salvation is the essence of, the Truth of, the Purpose for and the Reason behind your present existence.

If you fail to comprehend and implement this Plan, if you retreat from doing your part to effect this Mighty Restoration, 'you' will not get another opportunity on the Wheel of Death and Rebirth. Do you now see what is at stake? Do you now see why the common troubles and desires of the material-world are useless, misleading and delusional?

For all those people who have ever wondered. "What is the meaning, point or purpose of my life?", well, you have just had it revealed to you. May you take this Knowledge and keep it with you as you begin your journey from darkness back into Light.

all love,

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The Mystery Of Life And Death - III

The Emergency-Order

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Divine Plan of Salvation

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Who could save this system, driven out of Nirvana, out of Paradise? The microcosm was living-dead, and suffering purposeless, intolerable woes.  How could it make a new start? How could it return?

In theory, the solution was obvious: the ejected soul-nucleus should return to the system, linking itself in total surrender to the other, remaining soul-nucleus, so that the Original Kingdom would become possible again.

But where was the ejected soul-nucleus to come from? Surely it had died, vanished into space, returned as power to neutral sources of energy? Could a new spark be sent out from the Radiance of Eternity into the lustreless spaces of the night, to complete the di-une system, making it tri-une once again so that its Majesty could be restored?

It is clear that this would have to be the solution. But without further precautions another disaster would be caused. The entire microcosm would explode and dissolve into neutral energy because of the tremendous power and explosiveness of such a Divine Spark, and the differences between its vibration and that of the nature of death.

So before God could send his Son, His spark, into the fallen system, a large number of advance preparations would have to be made. That was the immense problem with which the Universal Brotherhood was faced.

In Chapter One we approached the mystery of the Fall and saw that the original microcosms lost their tri-une nature and became di-une. We compared the microcosms with an atom and discovered that originally it had three nuclei, three souls. With the aid of this system, the microcosm could create and manifest itself autonomously.

Just as an atom belongs to a larger system, to a group of atoms, so a microcosm ought not manifest its self-creating faculty in a centripetal way, but centrifugally. Enormous energies were accumulated in the microcosmic atom and by manifesting them centrifugally the microcosm could make a joyful contribution to the manifestations and preservation of the Universal Body, the Universal Kingdom of God, without doing its own system any harm.

However, if the radiating energies were to be turned inward, the heat and power generated would prove too great for the microcosmic system. The result would be burning and de-naturation. Something resembling this actually did happen, as we explained in the last chapter. One of the three atomic nuclei was ejected from the system and lost in space, leaving behind an atom with two nuclei. As a result of this de-naturation, this atom was obviously no longer able to express itself and could no longer be used in the Original Realm. All the microcosms that became di-une in the way we have explained were therefore ejected from the Divine Realm on purely natural, scientific grounds, to wander aimlessly in the domain corresponding to their own state-of-being.

The Universal Doctrine calls this domain 'chaos'. People are in the habit of understanding this 'chaos' as 'disorder', but they are mistaken. One should interpret 'chaos' as 'the absence of order', or 'a completely unformed state'. So the fallen systems entered the welter of a totally unformed space. As a result of their de-naturation it was impossible for them to return to the  Primordial State.

What in fact developed was a new type of microcosm, not foreseen by the Logos, but which was the product of the counter-nature, the result of the misuse of freedom. Thus the new type no longer had any purpose in the gnostic sense; it did not fit into the  All-Manifestation, it was a dissonance in the Harmony of the Spheres. That is why we drew your attention to the enormous problem this new variety of microcosms must have formed for the Universal Brotherhood, the problem of how to rescue this fallen multitude.

You must understand clearly that a microcosm is immortal. Although death gnaws at it and has become lodged within its system, in essence its existence remains unaffected. Even so, it is burdened with the results of countless errors and further de-natured by them. Perhaps you can imagine something of this situation. Picture a microcosm that has been ejected from the Divine Order into chaos for the reasons we have been explaining. Such a system has no purpose; it has become useless and inactive, for there is no plan behind it, no Universal Energy. And if such energy were present, it would only be swallowed up by the centripetal nature of the new microcosmic type. Since such a system is equipped with a certain measure of consciousness, you can imagine the suffering to which these systems were subjected to in their chaos.

So, in chaos, a cosmic emergency-order was created for the countless fallen microcosms, a universe of time and space, a universe of death. This universe was subject to the laws of duality, to rising, shining and fading, to alternate expansions and contraction; it was a totally relative universe. Thus we can speak of a Divine Plan to help our fallen state, and so it would be foolish to confuse the Divine Plan of Salvation with the Original Divine Realm itself. We need to emphasize this to prevent you from falling victim to confusion or, if you have already done so, to enable you to free yourself from it.

We would now like to consider the essence of the Divine Plan of Salvation, but first we need to familiarize ourselves with the structure of the microcosm as it is found on our plane of existence.

From "The Doctrine of Reincarnation" The Mystery of Life and Death Jan van Rijckenborgh

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'So what's all this have to do with me?' one may ask.

This entire universe, the star systems, the suns, planets, galaxies - all of it - exists on a temporary, emergency basis only. This 'emergency-order' is a universe of death, a universe of change, contrasts and opposites. The emergency-order was designed to provide a temporary (if one can successfully manage to view trillions of years as 'temporary') location for all fallen microcosms who had dis-possessed themselves of their Divine Birthright.

These fallen microcosms cannot die, and yet they cannot return to their Divine Home in their present condition. This essentially leaves them in a state of limbo. They must be rescued from this state of limbo and, more importantly, restored to their former Divine condition.

This is where you come in.

~ g
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The Mystery Of Life And Death - II

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...Let us first take you to the nirvanic realm, which forms the basis for any genuinely divine human development.

The terms 'Nirvana', or 'being dissolved', or 'the world of not-being' are, of course, only approximations. Nirvana is attained by beings who have transcended all dualistic laws and hence all dualistic soul-life. Beings in whom all obstructing aspects have been dissolved return to Nirvana.

So the term 'Nirvana' conveys nothing about the Primary World in which the divine-human genesis takes place. The only thing it says in respect to us is that those who wish to enter the Primary World must have attained a state of 'not-being'. Taken superficially, it is of course silly to think that one can 'not be' and at the same time enter somewhere. That is why the word 'Nirvana' is translated as 'being dissolved', like a drop of water returning to the sea and becoming one with it. Nirvana is the eternal, unchangeable, Divine Totality. The class of entities to which mortal souls belong departed from from this realm in the remote past, and must return to it if there is to be any question of genuinely divine, eternal freedom (italics mine ~ g).

What do we mean by the word 'entities'? We mean microcosms. A microcosm is a complete life-system, a unity composed of many parts. One of these parts is, temporarily, the mortal soul with its personality. A microcosm is a miniature replica of a cosmos. Since concepts like 'small' and 'large' are very relative, we can justifiably compare a microcosm with an atom.

A microcosm possesses the structure of an atom. Natural science has shown that there are many different kinds of atoms. So we must now describe to you the atom that is the microcosm.

This atom has three nuclei. Two of them rotate very rapidly around each other at the center of the atom, while the third describes a wide orbit around the other two. These three nuclei can be referred to as the three souls. The two souls rotating in the center are positive and negative, or male-female, with respect to each other. The third soul is genderless, neutral; the providing, cohesive factor in the atom (g: think of the proton, neturon and electron atomic structure).

In the Bible, this realm, this manifestation is called 'the Kingdom of God'. This is not meant to infer that every microcosm is a God, a separate whole. No, it means that such a micro-atomic realm belongs to a greater whole, to a Gnosis, in the same way that a cosmos does not exist by itself, but belongs to a macrocosm, to a group of cosmos.

The organization of the tri-une (three-souled) atomic beings we have described must therefore be centrifugal and not centripetal; every atom must lose itself in the All-Manifestation, turning towards and surrendering itself to The Greater Whole, in total service. And it is in this way, through impersonal service, that the microcosm must manifest itself. Thus, by not-being, these tri-une beings live in a state of absolute being in the Primary Realm of Nirvana. Through centrifugal and thus, self-forgetting activity, all limitations fall away; spaces cease to exist, so that there are no longer any boundaries; there is only Infinity, Eternity. However, the moment such a tri-une atomic being turns its gaze inwards, beholding itself and thus acting centripetally, the divine law at the foundation of that particular type of atom is disturbed. The magnetic proportions are then put out-of-balance and a great, mighty fire arises.

When this catastrophe took place, the atom was split by the heat of it, to such an extent that one of the two soul-nuclei orbiting around each other in the center of the microcosm was ejected from the system and perished in space. In some microcosms it was the positive nucleus that was ejected, while in others, it was the negative one. That is the truth about the separation of the sexes. The microcosms struck by this catastrophe were, from that moment on, no longer tri-une, but di-une.

The results were terrible. Through centripetal endeavors, no longer serving the Kingdom of God, but willing and seeking the microcosm's own kingdom, boundaries were automatically drawn and the microcosms concerned found themselves in a spatial world according to natural laws.

And where boundaries are delineated, time holds sway. One sinks into the world of time and space, governed by the alternations of light and darkness, day and night. One is cast into duality.

As a result of the ejection of one of the atomic nuclei, through the tremendous heat of the fire, the inner kingdom was bound to collapse. In this way, death penetrated for  the first time. The microcosm that had become di-une could not keep its kingdom, which it had sought to maintain. The kingdom died. By seeking to maintain it, the microcosm lost everything! And having been emptied, the microcosm wandered in the night of the world, dragged along by the magnetic currents of the order of space and time.

From "The Mystery of the Fall" - The Mystery of Life and Death - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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The foregoing may or may not be hard to follow. Here's the jist: The microcosms of this life-wave once had three soul-nuclei. These microcosms are now missing a nuclei. Some are missing a positive nuclei, others are missing a negative one. When the positive, negative and neutral nuclei were intact, the microcosms were in balance. This balance linked them to the Divine, providing access to Omnipotence and enabling them to carry out the wishes of the Logos. The microcosms were able to form physical bodies at will, without the use of sexual reproduction. These forms were not dense physical as we currently understand it, but were more ethereal, being composed of divine etheric material. These were the Days of Paradise, when nascent humanity was connected with the Tree of Life. Truly, man "walked with God".

At a given moment, a certain group of microcosms chose to serve themselves as opposed to serving The All. That group of microcosms was / is us, the human life-wave. Mark the following:

Any time an entity chooses to serve itself (centripetal) rather than to serve the collective (centrifugal), that entity will initiate separation from the Divine and bring trouble to its door. This was true in the high heavenly realms aeons of time ago, and is true today, here on the physical plane.

This is why we are consistently reminded to live in service-to-others. It is the only effective way to begin the process of bringing our microcosm back into balance so that it can return to the Divine Kingdom.

~ g
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The Mystery Of Life And Death - I

Before reading the next series of posts, you are advised to put aside all pre-conceived notions and prior teachings on life, death and reincarnation. The information that follows will not only challenge those preconceptions, but if understood correctly, will explode all former myths and misconceptions and replace them with the bright light of Truth. ~ g

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We would like to look more closely into the mystery of life and death. And in doing so, we intend to repudiate the ancient occult doctrine of reincarnation as being contrary to reality. For many seekers of Liberation, reincarnation will have been the last straw to which they can cling. Many think: 'If I am unable to attain rebirth in the liberating sense, then, at least I will have the possibility pf rebirth in the horizontal sense. I will return to this vale of tears, and see what happens next'.

For many people, this serves as a kind of "life insurance". 'Suppose everything I have learned about the Doctrine of Liberation turns out to be wrong,' they say to themselves. 'Never mind! At least I can be sure that I exist. Look at the number of people there are who remember their incarnations'. Volumes have been written about this.

'At the moment, I am here; before long, I will be on vacation in the heavenly spheres, and when it is time for me to return, I shall take good care to choose the right cradle'.

'I am getting on in years, and my time will not last much longer. Soon I will be going to my summer resort. In the meantime, let those in the material-sphere destroy each other with hydrogen bombs. When the storm is over, I will come back and bask beneath the palms'.

'The wheel of birth and death may turn in duality, but still it goes on turning and so, in essence, does not affect the existence of my I-being'.

Those who have been accustomed to consoling themselves with the apparent comfort of the reincarnation process will be filled with amazement, protestation and secret fear  as they read this chapter, for their final certainty in life will be under attack.

Are there philosophical grounds for what we are saying? Can this standpoint be verified experimentally? Can proof be presented from the history of the transfiguristic brotherhood? How is this standpoint to be reconciled with Divine Justice? In taking this view, are we brought down to the level of the insight-less insight of orthodox religious communities, with their threats of "only one life", after which one comes before the divine judgement-seat?

These, and many other questions will arise, and we will answer them, if necessary, with such a barrage of scientific facts that in the end, everyone will be able to understand what we mean.

To begin with, then, here is an outline of the standpoint in question:

- You live only once.

- After death, your life's flame is gradually extinguished after a longer or shorter time.

- Not a glimmer of it will ever be found again.

- At this moment you are a living soul; not in the eternal sense, however, but only in the sense of space and time.

- The personality made use of by the soul is to be accounted for by that soul-state

- Your personality dies, and so does your soul. The Bible, the Universal Doctrine and the facts leave no room for doubt in this respect.

- This leads to the conclusion that it is in this life that you must decide about life and death.

- If you don't do so now, another soul vivified in your microcosm will have to do so, perhaps in a few thousand years' time, but that other soul will certainly not be you.

- New-born souls do not come from the invisible planes of life and neither are they one with, or to be explained from, a microcosm;  they are purely the material product of two material parents.

- Your soul-existence is generative. The collective of earthly souls is infinitely divisible. One soul goes and another one comes and everything remains as it is.

- In the domain of duality, there are countless soul-waves just like our one, each differing in vibration, as a result of which there are countless variations of form and consciousness.

- Soul-life has nothing to do with the life of the spirit, and the attempt to see a spirit in a soul is like saying that opposites are the same.

- So, either the ancient doctrines of reincarnation have another meaning altogether, or they are a delusion.

That is the problem, broadly speaking, and we would now like to try and unravel it for you.

From "The Mystery of the Fall" The Mystery of Life and Death - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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