The Other One

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Marsilio Ficino explained that the Spirit becomes ill when it feeds on too many dreams. Sickness through undernourishment weakens one, and a weak voice grows increasingly weaker. It is not heard; it cannot be heard, because the noise of society with all its fascinating but also heart-rending manifestations will drown it out as loudly as possible. Ultimately, it will thus grow silent, and the people will no longer be able to be bearers of the Spirit-spark, the last principle of the Light Soul. As life-sparks, they will then continue on their merry-go-round on earth, whereby they drive themselves and each other crazy, seek to kill each other, and eventually bring civilizations to an end.

Those who look around must brace themselves, they can see it happening, because guidance from above, inspiration by those who know, the bons hommes or the initiated, has vanished. And this has to be so, for the human being is not yet complete, and he must undertake the second part of his development himself, albeit under the stimulation and ultimately under the guidance of his inner inspiration, his living New Soul. This is why our era is so critical. It is still possible to hear this inspiration, this voice of the innate Soul-Spark, but the time is becoming increasingly precarious. It is certainly an exciting time in which we live. Something fundamentally different needs to be learned at short notice. What is it? What needs to be learned?

The human being himself is from nature. Everything contained in nature is also in him: growth and blossoming, learning, living, reproduction and ultimately, also sickness, decline and finally, even death. By learning to know himself, he learns to know the essence of nature and thus of the earth itself. By learning to know himself through and through, he learns to know four billion years of the earth.

Then that special psychological moment arrives in which the human being, deep within himself, recognizes, 'I am not yet complete, my development is not yet at an end, not at its peak. For the earth is also only half-way developed'. Is it then possible that he is also only half-way, like the earth? That depends. There is something more to it.  The human being must learn to know himself, certainly, but he must learn to know all of himself. For he is inclined to look always only at one half, to nature, being so close, while another, unknown half is certainly equally as important. The human being is indeed nature and of nature, but not exclusively so. In the magnificent physical body he has at his disposal, another principle is present. Deeply hidden, there is a Divine Nucleus, a Divine principle that in world literature is sometimes called the Rose of Infinite Beauty and also called the Sacred Lotus Flower Floating on the Water. The human being must learn to know this as well. Actually, this is what he must learn to know first of all. Being so near, it is a miracle that this Rose is not known, for it has inspired us with its life through which we can live. And also, this Rose of another nature has a plan and is destined to follow its own development. Its existence is found in a mighty, Divine Plan, not in time, but in the eternal.

 In fact, it has not been given to the human being to know what 'eternal' is. This is the prerogative of the Rose of the Heart, the Other One in the microcosm. And this One has been waiting. For how long? What for? Until the human being is finally able to read the characters of nature!

It is sometimes said that this Other One, this 'stranger' of the Gnostics, once underwent a Divine development, in a long-forgotten time, or rather, not long ago, but differently, outside of time. The Rose existed in Eternity. However, it was looking too much into the river of Time, too long, too intensely, causing the subtle balance of the mighty energies in which the microcosm was taken up to break, and the microcosm lost itself in Time. The human being lacks the senses to catch hold of how it was, or is, over there outside of Time. But the Other One knows and with its sensitive impulses, it awakens in the earthly human being that strange, inexplicable longing for unknown vistas, unknown beauty, for the Eternal.

But the Other One knows! Whoever can see this is able to recognize two parts, two principles, in the human being that are both engaged in a mighty learning process. On the one hand, there is the human being arisen from earthly nature and on the other hand, the Divine Rose of the Heart, originating in the Eternal, in The Other. Without this Divine Rose, we would be at the end of a long process of development. With it, the human being will experience standing at the beginning of a grand new phase in Life. The human being who decides to learn to know as well as possible both his own nature and that of The Rose, through and in the school of life, also with the help of a true spiritual school, will certainly understand...the essence of the earth, because he unfolded his inner self fully, and together with it, he went towards Unknown Horizons.

"A New Fundament"  Gnosis - Rays of Light Past and Present  Peter F.W. Huijs

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