Technically there is a veil at 7.4 preventing the dense physical body from detecting energies and another at 5.4 preventing the lower mind from picking up input from the higher mind.
Both veils can be eroded by upright living and both can be dealt with by direct intervention.
The lower mind exists on 4 subplanes 5.7 to 5.4 and each has to be managed and refined so that the higher light can enter. Meditation is one means
Technically there is a veil at 7.4 preventing the dense physical body from detecting energies and another at 5.4 preventing the lower mind from picking up input from the higher mind.
Both veils can be eroded by upright living and both can be dealt with by direct intervention.
The lower mind exists on 4 subplanes 5.7 to 5.4 and each has to be managed and refined so that the higher light can enter. Meditation is one means
Gibberish: Dividing-up our being is subjective, even arbitrary. The seven times seven recipe is just one of many. Whatever recipe is used there is overlap.
Dividing-up our being is subjective, even arbitrary. The seven times seven recipe is just one of many. Whatever recipe is used there is overlap.
Not so much "7 X 7" as "7 / 7" (i.e., seven main components each divided into seven sub-categories, and so on). Even so, your point is sound (I've said the same thing myself on occasions ).
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Technically there is a veil at 7.4 preventing the dense physical body from detecting energies and another at 5.4 preventing the lower mind from picking up input from the higher mind.
Both veils can be eroded by upright living and both can be dealt with by direct intervention.
The lower mind exists on 4 subplanes 5.7 to 5.4 and each has to be managed and refined so that the higher light can enter. Meditation is one means
Gibberish: Dividing-up our being is subjective, even arbitrary. The seven times seven recipe is just one of many. Whatever recipe is used there is overlap.
The Snr Deacon must await the return of the Jnr Deacon.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
The importance of these observations is obvious. Once again we have apparently found a realm in which the physical and astral worlds merge. Additional research in this domain of phenomena would be physical, and would not require the services of a medium. Nevertheless the ability to form a window or vortex between two vibratory planes might result.
First of all, what are these forms? Are they abandoned etheric bodies or disintegrating thought forms? Etheric bodies, which are regarded as links between the physical and astral bodies, are abandoned soon after physical death, according to the theory, and they slowly disintegrate in a vibratory plane known as the ‘astral cemetery’ which lies very close to the vibratory limits of our visible physical plane. It is also supposed that these empty etheric bodies remain close to the decaying physical bodies until they are dissolved into their original basic elements. Being held nearby by various subtle affinities, these etheric shells are said to be the cause of reported graveyard phantoms.
This thread got rather lost from the topic: where do humans fit into the greater scheme?
The best we got was: humans do fit into the greater scheme. This however does not give us much guidance as to roles that humans might be expected to perform.
This thread got rather lost from the topic: where do humans fit into the greater scheme?
The best we got was: humans do fit into the greater scheme. This however does not give us much guidance as to roles that humans might be expected to perform.
I've never really given this much thought. I guess we're expected to do what comes naturally -- that's what happens when you are part of a greater scheme. Like it's been said, "It's better to do your own dharma poorly than another person's well." Would we aid this greater scheme, if we went off on our own, doing what we think this scheme expects of us? There may be a certain degree of error in out-guessing the nature of the scheme.
Let's say that the greater scheme is evolution, both in form and content. How can we take part in evolution? To evolve. Do we evolve by being more complex or more simple? I can see pluses on both sides. The Catholic philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, did see an evolving humanity toward a maximum level of complexity and consciousness, which he called the omega point. He sees the omega point as equivalent to the Christian Logos or Christ, who "draws all things unto Himself." There is a simple solution for a Christian by asking "What would Jesus do."
I don't know what a Buddhist would do, but s/he would certainly do something in the greater scheme. As would a Hindu or Muslim. So, what is our role in all this? How do we evolve? We've asked the wrong questions. It's not "our role", but the role, not "we evolve" but "creation evolves?" In a short story two super-aliens are creating universes and one universe is blown up. The other alien asks peevishly, "Must you always be doing?" Homo sapiens evolved to this spot in the scheme of things and I trust it will continue to do so with or without my help. We cannot see the glories that await us in some distant future, but we can go with the flow until we (or no longer we, but I) reach that omega point.
We are told that a Freemason's lodge extends from East to West and from North to South and from the center/surface of the Earth to the Heavens. This seems to indicate that Masonic ritual interacts with the whole Earth and out into the heavens. Thus Masons at least do apparently have a role or roles in the greater scheme. What could it be?
If brethren move from one position in the lodge to another, does this mean that there several functions for humans operating in the lodge that extends across the Earth into the Heavens?
I think the human race is moving on the question of where humans fit into the Cosmos a good deal faster than we did in this thread.
For example:
" the court recognised Colombia's Amazon as an "entity subject of rights", which means that the rainforest has been granted the same legal rights as a human being."
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