The Realm of the Soul




 

Here I shall reveal to you the teaching on the soul as it was already known by the Luminaries in the dim and distant past.

This is the wisdom of those few men who also live today in the light of this teaching. –

Men in the west taught different doctrines, and even in the east you will rarely encounter this teaching, imparted by those who truly know through self-experience…

Nevertheless, anyone who teaches differently will lead you into error! – – – – – – – – –

 

So hear, and understand in your heart:

 

Really eternal is the human spirit, without beginning and without end. –

Eternally it lives in its own essential light, for it is itself light, – a blazing spark of that eternally self-begetting sun which sprays continuously its showers of sparks into space. – – –

Do not call this ‘sun’ ‘God’, for God is something different!

 

It will be difficult to make this understandable to you. –

I must use a word from everyday life to make it clear to you, and so I say to you:

‘God’ is the most refined distillate of the spirit, not the ‘spirit’ in its continually self–begetting ignition! – –

The eternal individual spirit of man, however, is like a spark of that eternally spraying sun, a spark in which the distillate of the spirit can form itself, – in which the living God can beget itself in endless variety …

Eternally the eternally sparking original sun of the eternal spirit begets itself!

Eternally, this revolving sun sprays its spiritual sparks as spiritual hierarchies into spiritual ‘space’!

The ‘sparks’ which it sprays out of itself, are still in themselves gigantic suns, spraying again eternally ‘sparks’, eternal ‘suns’, which again in the same way   continually spray smaller and weaker ‘sparks’ or sparking suns…

The spiritual spark which has given itself into captivity within the earth’s human animal and through which alone this human animal becomes ‘man’, is by no means the smallest of these sparks.

You can best help your imagination in this if you seek the ‘size’ of this ‘spark’ in the same relationship to larger and smaller ‘spiritual sun–sparks’ as is found between this planet earth and larger or smaller celestial bodies. – – –

It was in the nature of the spiritual spark which created its own prison within the human animal on earth, that it chose for itself the realm of the soul as its sphere of influence, and that, in the end, in order to become ruler in the realm of matter as well, it strove for a substance, a ‘body’ in the material structure.

However, such a ‘substance’ was already bestowed on it as a substance that though attached to matter, was not subordinate to matter. – – –

From fear of the material effects of its powers it attached itself to the body of the human animal on earth, which led to its striving to the ‘fall’.

This striving is a ‘fall’, yet at the same time an immersion into the profoundest depths in which a new consciousness can be born. – –

Although the spiritual spark lost in its fall consciousness of itself as a sun of the eternal spirit, the eternal power which nevertheless resides within it impels it back upwards towards itself, to recognise itself anew on its complete return, and in a majesty which can only be observed and felt from the depths into which it had  fallen ………………..

From the very beginning each of these smaller sparks of the spirit, these small ‘sparking suns’, must strive for the realm of the soul and only the vehemence of its striving makes it overshoot the goal it actually intends to attain. –

Each of these spiritual sparks must reach the realm of the soul if it is to create its own world and find itself within its own influence.

Prior to this, it has only knowledge of its own self as knowledge of its pure being.

Only within the realm of the soul it becomes aware of its own powers of influence. – – –

Only within the realm of the soul can it long for its own divinity, and only within the spirit longing for ‘God’, can the ‘distillate’ of the spirit form itself, can its living ‘God’ ‘beget’ itself within the spiritual spark. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

 

In that eternally revolving ‘spiritual sun’, conscious of itself alone in its immeasurable magnitude, which eternally sprays its ‘sparking suns’ into spiritual space, – there is no need for a ‘God’, for there everything is but a radiant unity of being …

For ‘God’ to exist, however, there must be something sentient which is not ‘God’, which does not only revolve within itself, sufficient and complete within itself ………...

Just as the white light of day can be split into bright and dark colours, so too must the original unity of the spirit be divided into different rays, if ‘God’ is to beget itself in the ‘spirit’…

In the essentially colourless white light of the spirit there must appear coloured shades so that the golden white light of the Godhead can manifest itself. – – – – –

To this end serves the realm of the soul.

Each human spiritual spark is immersed in this realm; around it develop, like crystals in a saturated salt solution, the spiritual forms which your western teaching calls: its ‘soul’. – –

Here in the west you believe that this ‘soul’ is like a self-contained body made up of invisible, fluid material. Your teaching has this spiritual organism come into being at your birth in the flesh; in this way it will not leave you again, in this way it will, having come into existence in time, be kept for you for eternity. –

However, your ‘soul’ is by no means this fixed and self-contained entity, for the realm of the soul is an invisible, fluid ocean in which there are no immutable forms, apart from those countless powers which could be described as atoms of the soul. These atoms form your soul temporarily, forming it from themselves. However, in every ‘soul’ there are thousands of them, indeed, more than a thousand times a thousand! – – – –

 

As soon as what you really are in the highest sense, that eternal spiritual spark, reaches the realm of the soul; as soon as it immerses itself in this fluid ocean, – these billions of powers will rush around it, and will be filled by the spirit’s inherent light.

Yet the spiritual spark strives deeper and deeper, as far as the bottom of this ocean where it encounters fear-inducing powers, leading it astray into seeking protection in the external realm of densest matter, so that it unites with the human animal and loses itself in that form.

It is now born here from a mother’s body as a man of this earth.

Yet even at the ‘bottom’ of the ocean of the soul, it always remains, in its casing of flesh and blood, engulfed by the ocean. –

Slowly it learns to recognise the forms which crystallise around it in its own, if darkly shrouded, spiritual light.

 

It is not the first time that these powers create such forms!

They were of use to many human spiritual sparks in earlier times and will continually release themselves and recreate anew similar forms, until the impulse which forced them once to create form has attained its complete fulfilment through the spark of a human spirit, until the spark of a human spirit can unite all the powers of this form in its own will. – – –

 

Thus it is that you discover sounds in your ‘soul’ which do not sound for the first time in this your earthly life, – – this misled the peoples of the east into believing that the human spiritual spark had to endure many times this incarnation as an animal on earth. –

It is not so, however, in the way it is believed in the east, and in the way also many in the west would like to think.

Although there are cases, which might be described as ‘failures’, in which a human spiritual spark is propelled a second time into that deepest fall, these are exceptional cases, so rare that they do not constitute a breach of the rule.

Suicide and premature death, as well as an exaggerated encrustation within the dense casing of the animal can create this impulse towards reincarnation, but here too only in particular cases which occur infrequently.

Do you think there are in you people who once lived in ancient times?!

Once you are one of those who have awoken to the spirit, you can make complete human lives sound out once more, and this memory of the power of the soul becomes conscious to you –  you who are living today on earth – but you were not the one whose life you relive today in this  way! – – – – –

You are only bearing those spiritual forms that had been created in his earthly life but which did not  achieve ultimate completion of the created impulses within him. – – –

 

What you call your ‘soul’ is a continually changing form within the sea of powers of the soul, within the realm of the soul.

Every thought, every impulse of the will, every deed can immediately change this form. –

If you are not completely encrusted in matter, you will have a different ‘soul’ from year to year, and according to the teaching of ancient wisdom you will certainly find every seven years completely different powers of the soul active within you. –

Certain forms of the soul will also repeat themselves in you, and those you do not help gain perfection, you will bequeath to human spiritual sparks which one day, in a later age, are to live this earthly life.

Connected with this inheritance is the continual possibility of recalling the life on earth of those from whom it came.

Thus it is that another person will one day be able to recall your life and come to the erroneous belief that he once lived your life here on earth…

The realm of the soul encompasses you in such a way that you could never find its borders, let alone cross them. –

With the forms of the soul which have crystallised onto you and are in continual change, you will always be moving within this fluid ‘sea of powers of the soul’, invisible to human eyes. – –

But even after the ‘death’ of this earthly animal body, nothing there will help you attain complete might before all the impulses you have brought about during your life on earth have found their final completion in later human lives. – –

Then you will be unable to change the forms of your soul!

You will have to hold onto them as they were when your earthly animal body could no longer satisfy the material powers of this world until the day when the very last of the impulses you have brought about will have found completion through a human spirit living here on earth in a later age …

However, be not afraid!

      Those who before you became free rulers in the realm of the soul will stand at your side; the time before your true ‘resurrection’ will not be wasted, even if it were to take ‘thousands of years’ by human reckoning. –

      But as you then await the last of your redeemers, so today human spirits, who in ancient times lived in the flesh on earth, await – you! – – –

See to it that in your life ultimate completion is found for what you carry within you from those previous lives!

See to it that you do not bring about new impulses, unless you are willing to completely exhaust them in your earthly life! – –

Although you shall create new impulses, they should only be those which you are sure to fulfil in your life on earth, according to human  judgement. – – – – –

What use is it to you, in creating impulses which to your mind serve the good of the whole world, if your hand then slips away from your endeavour before you could bring it to completion! – – – – – – 

You will only cause yourself and others to suffer; for in the realm of the soul nothing can be brought into being without its ultimate consequences exerting influence through the millennia …..

 

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I have presented to you here in simple words the teaching of the soul as it was found by the ‘Luminaries’ in the dim and distant past, and as it is known by ‘the ones who know’, who are few indeed in number.

If you have eyes that can see clearly and are not dazzled by prejudices, you will recognise this teaching in much where knowledge of truth and deceptive illusions have been interwoven into colourful arabesques.

But perhaps my hand has lain too firmly on your favourite beliefs, your favourite delusion? – –

Do not be deceived!

Neither in the realm of the senses, nor in the realm of the soul, are events ever directed by what you think! – – –

Secure paths have been laid in all realms of the universe, and life and action only move upon these paths. –

You cannot lay new paths, even though you might judge, to your understanding, that the old paths no longer appear accessible!

There are many today in the west who think that the core of truth is to be found in the teachings of the east …

Yet they blindly believe where they should look and sift. – –

You will not find amongst any people a ‘ready made’ teaching which perfectly reveals to you all truth!

Yet everywhere you will come across traces of wisdom; blessed are you, if you recognise  them! – – –

Then you will learn to avoid many long diversions!

We too want to protect you from paths which turn out to be diversions.

To this end let this teaching may serve you.

 

We only give you what we know to be certain from our own experience; and once, in past times, we too, could only believe when we heard these things. – – – – – – – – – –

 

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Bô Yin Râ