Heavy Karmic Baggage

The question below was posed by a reader in the Comments section of "How Can God Have A Son?".

"I still have a problem in seeing that we return to earth because someone in the distant past ran up a huge karmic debt and the present human being in the microcosm has to pay it off!"

Understood. Let's try to eliminate the confusion.

That "someone in the distant past" was you. All of the "someone's" who have previously inhabited your microcosm were you. Man is a microcosm. You can think of the microcosm as a container. This container houses all of the accumulated force-centers, powers, attributes, experiences, karma and destiny of the entity. The microcosm is permanent, immortal. The personalities that it generates to experience life in the material world are temporary, mortal, finite.

It is the microcosm that is the individuality, not the personality.

The personality is a creation of the microcosm, sent forth into the material world to gather experience, knowledge and wisdom for the benefit of the microcosm. When the personality expires, the physical body disintegrates, the soul-bodies return to the reflection-sphere where they also dissolve, albeit more slowly, over time. At some future point (it may take hundreds of years), there will be nothing left of the personality that was you on this earth in 2017. The microcosm will have been emptied, as it were. The experiences gathered by that most recent dissolved personality will remain with the microcosm, where it will contribute to the overall advancement or deterioration of that entity. Another drop of water will be added to an ocean of water.

Understand that you are not 'separate' from all the previous personalities that have inhabited your microcosm. All of those personalities were/are you. When we say 'you', we mean the individuality, the microcosmic consciousness. It is like being an actor in a stage company. For one production, you will play Hamlet. When that production closes, you play Mary, Queen of Scots in the next. When that production closes, you will play a coal-miner from West Virginia. When that production closes, you will play a slave-owner, and so on. The stage remains the same. The roles played in each production change. All of the roles were different, but the actor behind those roles was the same individual.

The Karma that has been accumulated by the previous personalities in the microcosm automatically becomes the share of each new personality upon rebirth. Many look at the foregoing and think that it is patently unfair. "What have I done to deserve this burden? Why must I pay for what 'others' have done before me?". Why? Because you were those "others". The accumulated Karma is your microcosmic karma, generated over thousands of years of death and rebirth.

Of course, it is nearly impossible to expunge thousands of years of Karmic debt in one short human lifetime of 72 (on average) years. This is especially true when we are kept in ignorance and as a result continue to pile even more negative karma atop the heavy baggage that the microcosm already carries. This too, is seen as an injustice. But it is an injustice of our own making.

Fortunately, there is a way out. Even more fortunately, you are living in a time when the way out is being revealed to all mankind. This doesn't mean that all of mankind will accept the revelation, it simply means that the way out is being revealed so that all may have the opportunity to freely choose whether to abandon their ways and take advantage of That Which Is Being Offered.

The way out is Forgiveness. An attempt will be made to explain this in the next post.

In the interim, please take a few minutes to read the short story contained in the link to the 2015 post below. It may help to further illustrate what has just been written.

"The Scales Shall Be Balanced, The Debt Shall Be Paid"

~ g

The New Personality

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What do we understand by "person" or "personality"? The personality is that part of the human manifestation which consists of the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the mental body. These four aspects together are also indicated in the bodily figure. The personality or bodily figure includes a part of the soul, which is the earthly soul, or blood-soul. We will explain these aspects, as well as the soul-figure and the consciousness, in greater detail later on. What we want to point out now is that the personality, the bodily figure bound together by the earthly soul, is not acceptable to the Spiritual School any more than the soul-figure and the spiritual-figure. The personality, no matter how hard one tries, can never be the basis for a life in the Divine world order.

The personality is structurally not in a condition that is in harmony with the personality of the Original Man. The difference is not the degree of  'density', nor is it a matter of difference in vibration. There is a structural, anatomic-organic difference. As a consequence, the personality cannot enter the Kingdom of God, for "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God". This is scientifically impossible.

That is why it is said to everyone who wishes to approach the Spiritual School: "except that a man is born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God". The word 'water' stands for the Original Cosmic Substance or Root Substance, in the same sense as it is used in Genesis: "The Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters", whereas the word 'Spirit' refers to the divine spirit-nucleus (g: the divine-spark), the universal center of consciousness, which must be 'raised from the dead'. The words of Christ refer to the necessity of the resurrection of the Original Man, if there is ever to be a re-entry into the lost Fatherland.

The Original Man is now bound to an earthly personality which was not included in the Divine Plan, which enables him to express himself in the dualistic, material world. But he is and remains of this nature and shares in its transitory character in the uninterrupted death and decay of all that comes into being. Therefore, this personalty is also mortal. It may not and cannot maintain itself. Now this is the Great Mystery:  the spirit born of God that sighs and suffers in this fallen world and is chained to the rocks of duality is obliged, for the sake of its liberation and return to obedience to God, to build another, heavenly, Original personality.

This new personality is built within the old or dualistic personality. Sometimes it is called the heavenly body, or sometimes the True New Man. Those who possess such a reconstructed personality are eligible for initiation. Initiation is the building of the structure and potential of this new personality and its expansion and exploration. This process develops under the protection and guidance of the Spiritual School.

He who is conscious of the new personality will say, as Paul does in 2 Corinthians 5: "for we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our house which is from heaven". For others, Paul expresses the hope that they, too, may be found 'clothed' and not 'naked' at the death of the physical body.

There is no question here of an automatic, natural development, but of a development that must be attained through a great exertion, 'in fear and trembling'. When one has built this eternal tabernacle, then in him the words of Revelations 21 are fulfilled: "and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men". Not until then will he possess the Personality that truly is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

From "What Will Be Initiated?" - Elementary Philosophy of the Modern Rosycross - Jan van Rijckenborgh

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This is the sole duty and responsibility of every human presently alive in the physical world. You are an image-bearer of God who has been given a combination of vehicles specially-designed to assist you in accomplishing a Great Work. While enfleshed, it is your task to awaken your sleeping Divine-spark, locate the true Path of Liberation, effect a fundamental reversal of life and walk through the oh, so narrow Gate that leads back to the Original Kingdom.

If the physical life ends without your having taken at least the very first steps on the Path of Return, you can consider your incarnation to have been a failure.

~ g
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