A Journey Into Heaven

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When the reader has recognized the truth of the foregoing and realizes the dramatic situation into which mankind has been led by the events of everyday life; when he has clearly understood that this struggle has become a personal matter for every individual, he will then be able to reflect fruitfully upon the work which the Heavenly Brotherhood has undertaken as a consequence of these developments.

If a human being wishes to escape the grasp of earth-bound entities and make his way towards The New Life, to which all of mankind is invited, it becomes his task, first of all, to orientate himself, and then to accept the consequences with all his soul, heart and mind. It is the aim of the Spiritual School to provide some help in this.

In the first place, the candidate should understand that the interpretation given by the Universal Doctrine to the concepts "heaven" and "heavenly brotherhood" is quite different from the usual one. People attach the name "heaven" to a certain region of the reflection-sphere of this material world where those dead have their abode who, when they were still here among us, led worthy, "good" or pious lives, and who were directed to this region by virtue of the high quality of their moral and spiritual state-of-being.

In the same way, people speak of "hell", meaning the region of the hereafter to which the evil, morally deficient person departs when he dies, in accordance with his state-of-being on this side of the veil.

On this side of the veil, good and evil are mingled in the blood, and both of these forces are active in all of us, be it positively or negatively. On yonder side, however, when the material body and the material blood-soul have fallen away, good and evil are existentially separated, "frozen" so to speak, although they maintain one another as anti-poles. Nevertheless, whether we exist in the body on this side, or out of the body on yonder side, we are, and remain, of this dualistic nature-order; we remain bound to the wheel of death-and-rebirth.

Whether a person be pious, mystical or very humane, or has an occult tendency, whether he has profound philosophical insight, or is evil, anti-social or criminal, his normal, natural death can never be the basis for an eternal state-of-being. Heaven and hell, as such, are transition stages leading to a new journey into matter -  a new birth. Everyone who believes in evolution will agree with this.

Let us be cautious, however, for the Universal Doctrine makes it clear that there is no progress, no evolution, no true spiritual development in these turnings of The Wheel. We hope that every human being, when he presently departs this life, will celebrate his dualistic journey to heaven. After a shorter or longer period of purification, all, without exception, will enter their heavenly home, but (be aware) that it is an entrance with a beginning and an irrevocable end (re-birth into matter).

Here, as well as in the hereafter, one can cultivate "goodness" to the highest degree, or explore the depths of evil within our two-fold life-sphere, but only to a certain limit which cannot be surpassed. One remains bound to this nature-order with its rising, shining and fading.

The "hereafter" is just one great delusion, one formidable hoax for all. Every group on this side of the veil finds in the hereafter its own particular heaven to which all will be admitted in accordance with the law that "like attracts like". There is a Catholic and a Protestant heaven (as well as Moslem, Jewish, etc.); there is an abode for theosophically-oriented souls and one for students of the Rosycross, for astrologers and for all the various sects. In short, everyone finds what he or she is looking for. Whatever one is in one's innermost being, here will be found also.

Very comfortable, friendly and agreeable -- as a matter of fact, not at all unpleasant.  Those to whom one was deeply attached here will be found again over there. Those who made life difficult for us here and from whom we could not, for one reason or another, free ourselves, will be unable to bother us there because of their different state-of-being.

End Part I

A Journey Into Heaven - The Great Revolution - Jan van Rijckenborgh, Catharose De Petri

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The dualistic heaven-worlds are not divine, nor are they eternal.  Even the realms of "hell" are temporary. The churches and religions have kept this knowledge away from humanity, the better to control their "sheep".

Thus we have a situation where humans hurtle through life as if it were some sort of board game, trying to accumulate as much as they can, experience as much as they can and feel as much as they can. The object is to "get the most of out of life" because "you only live once". Of course, there is the other motivating factor for the behavior of many, and that is to live this "one" life in such a way as to earn their "eternal" reward, a trip to "heaven" where they can "be with the Lord" and blah-blah-blah.

No matter which region of the reflection-sphere one goes to after leaving the material-sphere, there are only two certainties:

1. the stay will be a temporary one
2. one must return to physical existence

We are trapped in an endless cycle of death-and-rebirth. This is why the doctrine of Liberation must be made known to all of mankind. It is the only way to get off this cosmic hamster-wheel.

Humanity must be shaken awake from their slumber of ignorance. That is why these lies are being, and will continue to be exposed during this period of Unmasking that is now underway and has yet to reach its climax. Mankind will be given the truth during this ending-cycle, for that is the will of the Divine.

"One thing, o mortals, is established here by us, namely: that God has decided that before its end, the world will be presented with a stream of Truth, Light and Greatness, such as He ordained should accompany Adam in Paradise!".

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