The metaphysical point of view of Death and Life After Death Part 3
FINDINGS
In this chapter we will consider the four perspectives are closer. We will look into the dying process and the nature of life in the higher levels, as seen through the eyes of Western and Eastern occult. The analysis of religious ideas anent death, dying and death for our country will have a clearer picture of what is generally believed by the average person. We will not deal with religious concepts from the perspective of a particular religion, but from an overall strategy, general view. The findings of modern researchers of the paranormal will greatly improve our understanding of the laws of nature, while the Tibetan teachings on death us a better understanding of the purpose of life and the liberating nature of the death process. We will discuss these different perspectives with a metaphysical understanding.
The metaphysician is a seeker of the empirical and pragmatic truths – truths and laws that are applicable and relevant to their own lives. The metaphysician, as a healer of the human soul, is a seeker, not only for theoretical but practical, factual and experiential knowledge. Such knowledge, like a collection of relevant data, provides the material needed to gain wisdom, insight and understanding of God’s plan, and the privilege of participating in the creative work of the universe. Knowledge about the death process and the purposes of life offers us in a certain power that determine our destiny in the higher worlds and in the later incarnations with the exercise of our God-given gift of free choice and divine will of our Higher Self.
Religious beliefs
followers of religions have seen death, or the transition to a new dimension in contradictory terms. On the one hand there is a lively expectation and hope of a glorious future state in a heavenly paradise, and torture on the other, a pronounced fear of eternal damnation and burning in an eternal hell. The concepts of heaven and hell are in most religions, and from the occult point of view there is a basis for these ideas, however, are heaven and hell, as understood by the masses and unenlightened cleric of distorting the reality underlying these countries.
Hell, according to religious ideas, is a place in the hereafter for the punishment of the wicked, immoral and sinful men and women. It describes a place of eternal torment, a place with fire and brimstone, a place of horror and terror, a place where one suffers pain and misery will be occupied indefinitely. Judaism refers to these as hell Sheol and Gehenna, while the ancient Greeks called it Hades and Tartarus. In Buddhism, the hell-state as Avitchi is known. Hell in the literature as the Inferno, the Abyss, the pit, the darkness, etc. Limbo was described in Paradise Lost, Milton called the capital of Hell, Pandemonium, which refers in a figurative sense, to a state of chaos, lawlessness and anarchy. used in the Gospel stories of the fish-master after a pit outside the walls of Jerusalem – a pit as a waste incinerator. This burning pit was used as an illustration, in a metaphorical and symbolic way, the type of Gehenna. Not understanding the symbolism, have accepted Christ’s followers of the Master’s statement in a literal sense. It should also pointed out that these ancient mystic earth plane to be one of the regions of hell.
In the scriptures we are told that God is a consuming fire. The fire is synonymous with the fire and flames of hell, the soul, are always higher vibrations fiery nature. What to consume the flames of God? They use the temporary manifestation of the false ego with his expressions of pride, hatred and cruelty. It purifies the subtle body of the mental dross. In the alchemical tradition of fire has been a symbol for the processes of transformation and purification. In the same esoteric meaning, causes the fiery appeal of the hell of cleansing and transformation of the soul which results in soul-awakening. Once the mortal soul realizes its mistakes and regrets, it rises from the fires of hell and enters the plains of “purgatory” for the next phase of the cleaning process. From another perspective, it may symbolize the flames of hell a soul the desire for the physical world – its use unsatisfied longing, and anger or resentment against anything that is against its selfish. The freedom from such a hell is a simple matter of lapse of the lower desires and the acquisition of humility. We experience suffering in hell, apart from the above conditions could also be the result of the repentant feelings for his past deeds are negative, is a “sin” of omission and the Commission, or the result of their own anger and resentment at not possess the ability to resume the life-style had been known before. These often cause a so-called “earthbound spirit.”
The concept of purgatory was first used by Pope Gregory I, who lived in the sixth century AD formulated. Although shot in a dogma in some Christian sects, this teaching on the reality as it is the experience of the mystic and clairvoyant is validated. Purgatory is an intermediate plane between heaven and hell, but in reality, all aircraft are in the purgatorial nature. Purgatory, in a specific sense, is a level of consciousness, a dimension where the souls stay temporarily cast off material and carnal habits, attitudes and feelings. It is a realm of purification of thoughts, feelings and desires. Purgatory is where one begins and the assimilation of the experiences of one’s life embodies. After this cleaning has taken place, the soul is appropriate at one of the heavenly regions expressed. This is done automatically, without authoritarian decree or monitoring. To believe
that a loving, kind and merciful God would banish and exile wayward souls to eternal damnation and punishment is a sacrilegious attitude and emotion, and an injustice to our Creator. The loving spirit of the cosmos Omniversal would have never thought such an idea. God does not punish. Hell many regions were not created by God, but disobeyed by the people the bad conscience of evil people, moods and preferences, by the people and violation of the law of cosmic harmony. This is not to say that there are not hell and its torments. They exist, but as an illusion of Maya. They are tangible but are phantasmagoria. Hell is an inner state of the eclipse projected into the consciousness and objectified on astral substances. Hell is a state of mind and consciousness externalized and reflected in the astral and even physical environment. to build unconsciously Sojourners hell, share, and the experience of a collective thought form.
religion in the collective sense, hell in terrible shape and color images. In reality, most of the devils and demons are tormenting souls in hell mere fantasies of the psyche. The wrathful deities, creatures and demons found in Hell, as Satan, Beelzebub, Astaroth, Mara, the Raksasas, the Furies, the Harpies, the Furies, chimeras, and Cerburus Hydras are all negative thoughts and feelings in the mind externalized in an illusory, hallucinatory sense to torture for his past misqualification the soul-energy. Apart from the hell are these cruel and grotesque images also seen and experienced in a particular phase of the Bardo. This terrible demons are mere symbols of negative human behavior. The bad conscience of men and women bad breaks inclined to manifest from the unconscious, so terrible illusions. Simply put, a bad conscience and temperament creates the experience of hell. Cornelius Agrippa, the famous occultist of the 16th Century, referring to the illusory nature of hell through the hell experienced strangers, says that the souls,
Are “… the most cruelly tortured in the irascible faculty with the hatred of an imaginary evil in which the disturbances, as well as false accusations and horrible fantasies fall then, and they are sad, they represent images, sometimes the sky falling on their head, sometimes of being swallowed up in the earth … and sometimes the being taken, and tormented by devils. “(1995:596)
In the Gathas, one of the sacred writings of Zoroastrianism is the hell as a place of the worst ideas described, and like the house of lies. The people of Ahura Mazda believed and still believe, that in hell one is plagued by Daena, or conscience, but they did not understand the intention of this and to consider as a permanent condition – a concept of theologians of many different faiths presented. Eternal punishment is illogical, meaningless and without purpose, and goes against all the spiritual principles and values. It would be unrealistic to ban a merciful God ended soul-identity and awareness rather than to picture the Almighty and gloating over the suffering and misery to see the wayward souls. Therefore, the purpose of hell is not to punish but to awaken the soul to its spiritual poverty, the need to turn to the divine light. Here we emphasize the notion of hell from the perspective of Zorastrianism for it has much the Semitic religions, which somehow distorts the transmission of esoteric knowledge influenced.
Hell should not be seen as an eternal state. It exists for the soul only as long as the soul does not want to admit and face the light of God, truth, and shall give their resentment, hatred and other negative emotions. Not all souls reside in hell or purgatory. Lofty, bypass the pure souls of the lower worlds, especially for a place in the celestial regions head. Every soul is in the plane best suited for nature. This process or procedure is not arbitrary from a being, there is no one to force and compel us to be judged in each area. That’s all running according to the law of the match. One spiritual realization or lack of it down, where he would go. It is a matter of frequencies. A personal frequency to join in the corresponding dimension vibrating at the corresponding wavelength. Imagine if you will, a wicked sinners receive forgiveness in the last hour and goes to the heavenly worlds. The mere presence of the sinner would turn heaven into hell, for his innate wickedness, its negative character, would pollute the environment. Death does not transform our character. We carry our same personality, character, spirit and emotions, where we go. If we are in constant discord with our environment, with our many relationships here on this earth plane, we would not express it in the subtle worlds. The presence of negativity causes of the soul, the astro-mental body, to a certain density in their power structures and fields, a certain atomic weight, assuming that it binds to the lower regions of hell or purgatory. The sky is so protected by troublemakers. Whether in Hell or Purgatory, the soul suffers all his misqualified and wasted energy alone. The length of time that people stay in hell or purgatory is dependent on itself, to your own inner desire to improve his character, at his own request, to be free, the desire, forgive ourselves and others – for forgiveness request those wrong, and the desire to serve others.
visualized in terms of the heaven, the Christians have long it will be paved in gold to a magnificent city with streets and decorated with precious stones. The book of Revelation has done much to Christian beliefs on this matter, mold. What is not known to the average Christian, that the apocalypse in Revelation is symbolic and that it initiated a work of great initiates of lesser degree is written, the mysteries of God, and that it has to be interpreted literally, to deceive and mislead themselves. It takes a great familiarity with the occult, the Qaballah, and initiation to interpret teachings of the ancients really the true meaning of its spiritual content.
Heaven, the general expectation is that a place of reward, the eternal tranquility. Ancient Greeks called Elysian Fields to heaven or Olympus. The followers of Zoroaster describe it as the house of the sun, and the whereabouts of the best ideas – a place where the sun never ceases to shine – no doubt an allusion to the nature of the illuminating surface. To Hindus, the sky is the ratio of that and it is in the higher lokas. Theosophists call the sky “Devachan.” The ancient Egyptians called it Sechet hetepet. To Scandinavians, it is Asgard, and call it Summerland spiritualists. Heaven is as an abode of peace, happiness and wealth one fundamental religious belief in every culture, ancient and modern. How the hell thinks a place of punishment, it was believed heaven is a realm of rewards by the virtuous, the “poor in spirit” and those who are to serve God faithfully.
How the hell are followers of the religion also misunderstood the nature of heaven and wrong. In their theology, most religions lay too much stress on externals without regard to the mystical nature of their teachings, this is especially true for the majority of concepts such as heaven and hell. The Baha’i religion, as an exception, believe heaven and hell to mental conditions rather than mere places. In its theological teaching, the sky is the proximity of consciousness on the throne of God is defined, and hell as one of the remoteness of the heavenly deity. This is in line with the words of the Nazarene, that the kingdom of God within. Although the notion of paradise among Christians has a different meaning proclaimed as the Kingdom of God as the Master – the former believe that it will be a place – it could be considered in fact as such, as a place or places reflects the internal state of the soul, just like hell – although we seem to contradict our earlier statement about Christian emphasis on externals. As mentioned above, heaven and hell as places were to be justified by the discoveries and experiences of the mystic and clairvoyant. However, we note that the diverse external reality, but is a reflection of the internal condition or state of mind. We have done this before, but when it is necessary to reaffirm its importance.
Although the sky is so beautiful and glorious, as described by religions, it is not a place of eternal rest. A paradise of peace and idleness is a static condition. Inertia does not exist in the universe. Everything is in motion and in a continuous change. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that “everything.” All Sparks, or God’s creatures are forever on. Everything is in a dynamic state of the transition to a higher expression and manifestation. Heaven as experienced and understood by mystics, is a state of intense activity. The sky is not a place where people sing hymns and play the harp all day long (unless that is what we enjoy), it is a place of education for the evolving soul, where the mysteries of the universe and studied cosmic laws. In the higher worlds, one learns to exercise his creativity in myriad ways. One also spends his time in the sky all creation are active in various functions in accordance with an innate abilities and talents. In the heavenly regions, there are no angels with wings and halos adorn, as the painters represented in its art. In heaven, angelic beings, with their purity, love and other positive virtues adorned. What wings are simply magnetic radiation are streaming from their people.
One of the salient features of religious belief, that during the transition before it passes on to heaven or hell, you have to submit to a verdict. The ancient Egyptians, Tibetans, Christians, Muslims and many others have had their sentence and scenes in their theological concepts. This is deeply rooted in the eschatology of religion and, as a fact on the basis of truth, which we will see later, when we consider the Bardos. It is sufficient here to describe certain aspects of the Judgement scene.
The Judgement scene almost every religion has one judge, one of the balance scale, a clerk, and of course, to judge the soul. For the ancient Egyptians, Osiris was the judge of the soul, Anubis the balance of the scales, while Thoth, the scribe was. The human soul is often portrayed as Hawk-tip. In Zoroastrianism, Mithras, Zoroaster, or sometimes sitting on the bench, with Rashnu as Wiegers and Sraosha as recorder. Tibetans called her a magistrate and clerk Dharmaraja Shinjé – the ape line. Christians believe that Jesus is the one to judge the “quick and the dead”, to be with angelic as his staff secretary.
In the Judgement scene, like the ancient Egyptians, who is understood from, or the heart of the soul against Maat, or Truth, symbolized by a spring weighed. The deceased is a long confession, affirming his impressive work. The negative work of soul goes unspoken and unproclaimed – the soul of hope that his past sinful deeds are overlooked and not disclosed. But then comes the weighing of the scales, where the testimony of the soul can be measured by its truth. If found not to measure up to his honesty, the soul is led into the hell of Typhon, who are tortured as one of the presiding demons, otherwise it is shown the way to paradise. The Judgement scene of all religions, more or less follows along similar lines.
According to some religious and cultural beliefs that before the verdict or the entry into the underworld, the soul had to cross a river or rivers, before passing on to its destination. The soul is usually conducted over the river in a boat or through the use of certain bridges. Ancient people used these symbols to mean the processes of transition. Muslims call the bridge “Sirat”, while followers of Zoroaster call it “Chivat. Ancient Greeks called the underworld river Styx, Acheron, Cocytus and Phlegethon. These names rivers, the four streams of the Garden of Eden match: Pison, Gihon, Euphrates and Hiddekel. Occult, they probably relate to the four essential levels. Scandinavians believe in a river to cross the souls in the world had Cthonians. You call that “Wimur.” Ancient Babylonians believed that cross the river had soul to the Huber prior to reaching the “mountain of justice”, or convicted scene.
Psychologically, rivers, oceans cover, pools, lakes and all the subconscious element in man. lurk in the depths of the Freudian “id” various monsters – phobias, psychoses, neuroses and repressions. In an occult sense, these monsters of the psyche are together known as the guardians of the threshold. Crossing rivers in its symbolism, brings encounter with these monsters, the suppressed images in the death process, and that in the Tibetan Thanatology, this is exactly what happens in the Bardo. All religious doctrines teach the danger that the soul can face in the intermediate state.
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