FINDINGS
In this chapter we are going to take into consideration the 4 perspectives in larger detail. we are going to search in to the dying practice as well as the nature of lifestyle inside the greater planes, as witnessed by way of the eyes of Western and Eastern occultism. evaluation on the religious ideas anent death, dying as well as the after-death state will present us a clearer photograph of what on earth is generally thought by the normal particular person. we are going to offer with religious ideas not in the standpoint of any unique religion, but from an all round, normal watch. The findings of modern-day researchers on the paranormal will considerably boost our comprehension of nature's laws, although Tibetan teachings about death will present us a much better insight in to the functions of lifestyle as well as the liberating nature on the death practice. we are going to go over these numerous perspectives using a metaphysical knowing.
The metaphysician is really a seeker of empirical and pragmatic truths--truths and laws which can be relevant and appropriate to a single's lifestyle. The metaphysician, like a healer of guy's souls, is really a searcher for not just theoretical, but sensible, factual, and experiential expertise. these expertise, as an accumulation of appropriate info, presents the materials essential to acquire wisdom, insight and knowing of God's strategy, as well as the privilege of participating inside the imaginative function on the universe. expertise on the death practice as well as the functions of lifestyle presents us a specific ability to pre-determine our fate inside the greater worlds and in subsequent incarnations with all the workout of our God-given present of free-choice as well as the divine-will of our greater Self.
Religious Beliefs
Followers of religions have seen death, or even the passing around to a brand new dimension, in contradictory terms. On a single hand, there is really a lively anticipation and wish for the wonderful future-state within a heavenly paradise, and about the other, a pronounced dread of eternal damnation and torture in an everlasting burning hell. The ideas of heaven and hell are prevalent to most religions, and in the occult stage of watch, there is really a foundation for these ideas; nevertheless, heaven and hell as comprehended by the masses and unenlightened clergymen really are a distortion on the truth underlying these states.
Hell, in accordance to religious tips, is really a site inside the afterlife for your punishment of wicked, immoral and sinful guys and ladies. it truly is described to be considered a site of eternal torture, a site stuffed with fire and brimstone, a site of horror and terror, a locality wherever a single suffers discomfort and misery indefinitely. Judaism refers to this hell as Sheol and Gehenna, although the historic Greeks referred to as it Hades and Tartarus. In Buddhism, the hell-state is called Avitchi. Hell happens to be described in literature because the Inferno, the Abyss, the Pit, the Darkness, Limbo and so forth. In Paradise misplaced, Milton referred to as the funds of Hell, Pandemonium, which figuratively, refers to a state of chaos, lawlessness and anarchy. inside the Gospel tales the Piscean grasp referred to a pit exterior the walls of Jerusalem--a pit utilized like a rubbish incinerator. This burning pit was applied as an illustration, within a metaphorical and symbolical method, on the nature of Gehenna. Not knowing the symbolism, followers of Christ have accepted the grasp's explanation within a literal feeling. It need to also be mentioned that historic mystics deemed this earth plane to get a single on the hell areas.
In the scriptures we're informed that God is really a consuming fire. This fire is synonymous with all the fires and flames of hell; on the soul, greater vibrations are constantly fiery in nature. What do the flames of God eat? They eat temporarily the manifestation on the fake ego with its expressions of pride, hatred and cruelty. They cleanse the delicate bodies of psychic dross. inside the alchemical custom, fire happens to be a symbol on the processes of transmutation and purification. inside the very same esoteric feeling, the fiery stimulus of hell leads to a purification and transmutation on the soul which effects in soul-awakening. when the soul realizes its mortal mistakes and repents, it rises in the fires of hell and enters in to the planes of "purgatory" for your up coming phase on the purification practice. From one more standpoint, the flames of hell could symbolize a soul's lust for your bodily world--its ungratified consuming want, and rage or resentment in the direction of all that opposes its egoistic will. independence from these a hell is a straightforward issue of extinguishing lowly needs as well as the acquisition of humility. Sufferings a single knowledge in hell, apart from the previously mentioned situations could also be the consequence of remorseful emotions for a single's previous unfavorable deeds, a single's "sins" of omission and commission; or even the consequence of a single's anger and displeasure for not possessing the potential to resume the life-style a single had earlier acknowledged. This frequently induce what on earth is referred to as an "earth-bound spirit."
The notion of purgatory was initial formulated by Pope Gregory I, who lived inside the sixth century AD. whilst turned right into a dogma in some Christian sects, this unique doctrine is primarily based on truth, because it is validated by the experiences of psychics and mystics. Purgatory is surely an intermediate plane amongst heaven and hell; nevertheless, in actuality, all planes are purgatorial in nature. Purgatory, in a particular feeling, is really a plane of consciousness, a dimension wherever souls sojourn temporarily to cast off materials and carnal routines, attitudes and emotions. It is really a realm of purification of a single's ideas, feelings and needs. Purgatory is wherever a single also commences the assimilation of experiences of a single's incarnated lifestyle. when this purification has taken site, the soul goes to a single on the heavenly areas correct for its expression. This takes place immediately with no any authoritarian decree or overseeing.
To believe that that a loving, form and merciful God would banish and exile wayward souls to eternal condemnation and punishment is really a sacrilegious mindset and feeling, and an injustice in the direction of our Creator. The loving Omniversal head on the Cosmos would never ever have conceived of these an strategy. God won't punish. The numerous hell areas have been not established by God but by guy's guilty conscience, by guy's evil tendencies and propensities, by guy's willful disobedience and violation on the Cosmic Law of Harmony. This isn't to say that hell and its tortures tend not to exist. They do exist, but as an illusion of maya. they can be tangible but are phantasmagorias. Hell is surely an interior state of darkness within just the consciousness projected and objectified onto astral substances. Hell is really a state of head and consciousness externalized and reflected in a single's astral, and even bodily setting. Sojourners of hell unconsciously construct, share, and knowledge a collective thoughtform.
Religion inside the collective feeling, paints hell in frightful kinds and photos. In actuality although, the majority of the devils and demons torturing souls in hell are mere phantasms arising in the psyche. The wrathful deities, creatures and demons uncovered in hell, these as Satan, Beelzebub, Ashtaroth, Mara, the Raksasas, the Furies, the Harpies, the Erinyes, Chimaeras, Cerburus and Hydras, are all unfavorable ideas and emotions within just a single's soul externalized in an illusory, hallucinatory feeling to torment oneself for a single's previous misqualification of soul-energies. apart from hell, these gruesome and grotesque photos will also be witnessed and seasoned at a specific phase on the bardo. These terrifying demons are mere symbols of unfavorable human behaviour. The guilty conscience of guys and ladies evilly-inclined erupts in the unconscious to manifest as horrible illusions. basically set, a lousy conscience and temperament produces the knowledge of hell. Cornelius Agrippa, the eminent occultist on the 16th century, referring on the illusory nature of hell as seasoned by hell-sojourners says that souls,
". . . are most cruelly tortured inside the irascible faculty with all the hatred of an imaginary evil, in to the perturbations whereof, as also fake suspicions, and most horrible phantasms they then drop, plus they are represented to them unfortunate representations; from time to time on the heaven falling on their head, from time to time of getting swallowed up in to the earth . . . and from time to time of getting taken, and tormented by devils." (1995:596)
In the Gathas, a single on the holy scriptures of Zoroastrianism, hell is described because the site on the worst believed, and because the property of Lies. The folks of Ahura Mazda thought and even now believe that that in hell a single is tormented by the daena, or conscience; nevertheless, they tend not to propose this to get construed and deemed like a lasting state--a notion expounded by theologians of numerous other residing faiths. Eternal punishment is illogical, senseless, and with no function, and goes towards all spiritual rules and values. it could be extra practical to watch a merciful God ending soul-identity and consciousness instead than to photograph the Almighty banishing and gloating on the sufferings and miseries of wayward souls. consequently, the function of hell isn't that of punishment but to awaken the soul of its spiritual poverty, of its want to flip in the direction of the Divine Light. right here we emphasize the notion of hell in the standpoint of Zorastrianism for it's considerably influenced the Semitic religions which in some way distorted the transmission of esoteric expertise.
Hell need to not be witnessed as an eternal state. It exists for your soul only for so long as the soul refuses to acknowledge and deal with the Light of God, of reality, and quit its resentments, hatreds, and also other unfavorable emotions. Not all souls sojourn in hell or purgatory. Lofty, pure souls bypass the decrease worlds to head straight for his or her site inside the heavenly areas. just about every soul goes on the plane most correct for its nature. This practice or process isn't directed arbitrarily by any getting, there is certainly nobody to coerce and force us to get in any realm. this is certainly all executed in accordance on the Law of Correspondence. guy's spiritual attainment or lack of it determines wherever he would go. It is really a issue of frequencies. a single's particular frequency attunes a single in to the correct dimension vibrating on the corresponding wavelength. consider for those who will, a wicked sinner acquiring forgiveness on the final hour and goes on the heavenly worlds. The incredibly presence on the sinner would transform heaven into hell, for his innate wickedness, his unfavorable character, would pollute the surrounding setting. Death won't transmute our character. We carry our very same individuality, character, minds and feelings wherever we go. If we're in regular discord with our setting, with our numerous relationships right here on this earth plane, we'd express no in a different way inside the delicate worlds. The presence of negativity leads to the soul, the astro-mental bodies, to presume a specific density in its energy-structures and fields, a specific atomic body weight which binds it on the decrease areas of hell or purgatory. Heaven is thereby secured from trouble-makers. irrespective of whether in hell or purgatory, the soul suffers all of its misqualified and misspent energies on your own. The duration of time that a single sojourns in hell or purgatory is dependent on a single's self, on a single's unique interior want to boost a single's character, on a single's want to get free of charge, the want to forgive self and others--to request forgiveness from these wronged, as well as the want to serve some others.
Concerning heaven, Christians have very long visualized it to be considered a superb metropolis with streets paved in gold and ornamented with treasured stones. The guide of Revelations has carried out substantially to mould Christian beliefs relating to this issue. What isn't acknowledged on the normal Christian is the fact that the apocalypse in Revelations is symbolical and that it is really a function published by excellent initiates for lesser initiates learning the mysteries of God, and that to interpret it virtually will be to deceive and mislead oneself. it will take an incredible offer of familiarity with all the occult, the Qaballah, as well as the initiatory teachings on the ancients to effectively interpret the serious importance of its spiritual contents.
Heaven, typically, is thought to be considered a site of rewards, of eternal relaxation. historic Greeks referred to as heaven the Elysian Fields or Olympus. Followers of Zoroaster explain it because the property of Suns, as well as the abode on the very best thought--a site wherever the sun never ever ceases to shine--no doubt alluding on the luminous nature on the plane. To Hindus, heaven is Surga, and it lies inside the greater lokas. Theosophists get in touch with heaven "Devachan." historic Egyptians referred to it as Sekhet-hetepet. To Scandinavians it truly is Asgard; and spiritualists get in touch with it Summerland. Heaven as an abode of peace, joy, and abundance is really a essential religious perception in just about every culture, historic and modern-day. As hell is thought to be considered a site of punishment, so heaven is thought to be considered a realm of rewards because of on the virtuous, the "322 in spirit" and also to these who serve God faithfully.
Like hell, followers of religion have similarly misunderstood and misconceived the nature of heaven. within their theology, most religions lay as well substantially anxiety on externals with no thinking about the mystical nature of their teachings; this applies most especially to these ideas as heaven and hell. The Bah
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