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DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE RAPTURE?
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE OR NOT BELIEVE ABOUT IT?
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE OR NOT BELIEVE ABOUT IT?
On the higher astral levels this direct experience is of a more ecstatic kind, of a higher, more refined emotional nature, corresponding to the higher astral levels of the heart centre. A person who has attained a certain level of development before death experiences an almost constant ecstasy and joy on those levels, a sense of beauty and splendour which is the reflection on that plane of Buddhi or Love-Wisdom. Buddhi is actually a state of rapture which can be expected on the physical plane when a high degree of buddhic contact is achieved during meditation.
When a person has achieved a certain degree of mental focus he will not stay on the astral plane for very long for the astral vehicle would by then be relatively refined and harmonious. It will be able to dissolve more rapidly so that its particles can return to the reservoir of astral matter or energy, as did the etheric vehicle to the etheric plane. Incidentally, all these planes the etheric, the astral and the mental levels are only sub-levels within the cosmic-physical (and are, of course, really states of consciousness). It may explain it better were I to say that the Masters are conscious on cosmic-physical, cosmic-etheric, cosmic-astral and the cosmic-mental planes.
The experience on the mental plane is of an entirely different, more mental kind. Here it is less a matter of rapture than of knowledge or wisdom; not only the rapture but the great significance and meaning underlying it can be known on that level. Someone sufficiently evolved, intuitively aware, understands this and the purpose and the Will of God.
For more advanced people existence on the mental plane would be the last experience before coming into incarnation once again. But it is possible that the mental body in its turn might be dissolved, after which the individual concerned would live in a state of pralaya, in Devachan. This is a non-mental, non-astral, non-material state of existence somewhere between death and life. It is a state of being, out of incarnation, where the life impulse is in abeyance. It is a state of unending bliss, an experience of perfect peace. To live in pralaya does not mean that one is unconscious but no conscious learning process takes place prior to taking incarnation again. It is being taken up into the Absolute, from whence one returns under law when group need demands it.
In pralaya the soul lives in its own realm with no other purpose than to be the soul. Because there are no lower vehicles in this state of existence, the soul will not gain any experience, as it does on the other levels. Progress of a specific kind can only be made on these other levels. The soul comes into incarnation directed by the Logos in accordance with group purpose and the Plan. It is a great sacrifice for the soul to descend onto the physical plane and take incarnation, which takes place under the self-sacrificing will of the soul. This self-sacrificing power of soul-will is a great driving force. In pralaya there is no will to incarnate. It is possible to remain in pralaya for a few dozen to thousands of years until such time as a group of souls is sent out of pralaya into incarnation because the time is right and the circumstances suitable. The soul body, or causal body, gains experience in this manner. The causal body receives more soul-knowledge, soul-consciousness, as its vehicles become more refined.
Then, I realized some truths; the church was all wrong. So I and stayed in limbo for a while, agnostic, if you will.
Now, I understand that the bible is a very Spiritual book, Jesus is an Enlightened Spirit, and he did walk the Earth. He was human, but Enlightened to the max! He was not the son of God like the church teaches, but the son of God, like we can be; Enlightened to his Higher Self. God = Energy. Energy = Spirit.
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The best way to make an ass of yourself is to believe in the "end of times". Sorry, but it's been done. Jesus told his disciples repeatedly that he would return and establish his kingdom "within their lifetime". [Matthew 23:36 & 24:34, Matthew 24:29-35 NAB, Mark 13:30-31 NAB, Mark 9:1 NAB, Luke 9:27 NAB, Luke 21:25-33, Matthew 10:23 NAB] Didn't happen, friends. Perhaps worth noting.
The only rapture I've found worth believing in is when an amorous female favors you with her attention. Now that will make you disappear in a heartbeat.
How's that C.?