”The LAND BEYOND”
Translated from Landet Hinsides - descriptions from astral world– book taken down ca 1908 through “Ænor” /Oscar Busch | this in pdf
audiobook mp3 in 6parts a 30 min link- downloadable via rightclick + save as
Stories/descriptions from the ASTRAL WORLD (from 1910)
ps- the pictures seems partly to be misplaced by the web-reader in this doc.-so better read the pdf-version
illustration
above is interpretation of
the book’s original (see some below) of the dimensions layers
around the earth- up/down- I have added colors (r.ø)
through ‘AENOR’ from ca.1908
A colored version
of the book's illustration of the
astral plane 'location
in different dimensional "frequency layers" around the Earth -
but note that each plane is located at a
specific vibration frequency,
in the same way as
the various television / radio
channels creates their own "realities" or "rooms"
- that only those who are ON or in tune with frequency can experience.
Shortcut to what RØ feel are the most important headline- “what is
the astral matter/substance.”
WITH FOREWORD by OSCAR BUSCH
LITTERATURFÖRLAGET
page 02 in orig. have only this text:
O.L. SVANBÄCKS BOKTRYCKERI
Remark: scan errors may
occur here that are not detected. And as a Norwegian I am not an expert in swedish/English
– so see this as an amateurs work on this translation! (Rune
Ø./03-2013)
The CONTENTS Page.
Foreword
A few words
about the cosmos and its construction
The similarity between a world globe and a human
WorldGlobe/Earth’ss physical death and resurrection
WorldGlobe/Earth’s
reincarnation
What is natural and
what is astral matter?
II The Earth's astral realms
The seven astral spheres
The large air-sea
Transport and
communications in the spheres
Spheres lighting
conditions
Time in this worldlevel
Animal World on the
astral plane
III Life in spheres
hell Sphere
The sphere
other spheres
third sphere
fourth sphere
Fifth sphere
Sixth sphere
The seventh sphere
higher worlds
Shortcut to what I think is the most ‘important headline’- “what
is the astral matter.”
FOREWORD.
If someone wants to undertake a trip to a foreign country,
and especially if he intends to stay there, he likes to be pre-informed of its
nature and the benefits, and of the living and social conditions. Now -
it's a journey that we all must
sooner or later take, and from which we can not turn back to our present
circumstances. It is the journey through
the portals of death to the land beyond. Would it then not be of the
highest interest to learn anything about this; this so “distant”, unknown
country, where it is located, and how life/conditions are there? I think many on this question is ready to
answer: certainly it would be of great interest, but who can give information
about it, from the dead turn no back, and the living do not reach out there.
In general, such is the case, but in all times there have been a few seers with
the ability to peer into obscurity, and especially in our days (though this is
written more than 100years ago) have for some receptive minds, a small tab been lifted of the veil
which separates the invisible world from the visible. In all countries have
also messengers from the other side rushed through the veil and by the means
they have at their disposal, given people some of their experiences. The
literature is rich in such testimony.
One such voice has made itself heard in the following little work.
Regarding its creation I feel I should mention that it is dictated - or more
terms - written down consciously under direct influence
of a discarnated intelligence, which therefore speaks in the first person. It
is not a word for word rendered dictation, but it is the person on the other
side giving the thoughts, reproduced by his Secretary words.
Much of what is written is doubtless inspired by these invisible intelligences,
but in most cases, the one holding the pen, is not aware of this inspiration. He believes it to be his own
thoughts he writes down and that he/she is rightly the author. Otherwise is the
case, when the writer is aware of this influence and can distinguish between
their own and the dictating spirit’s thoughts. Then he is only a secretary. The
invisible intelligence is the author.
So this work must also be assessed.
One note, as most likely all will do, who read this book, I want - in a few words beforehand –to meet.
It will
be said that these stories are all too tangible, too Earth-like to be true.
The spirit world must surely still be quite different from the physical world,
something that we simply can not understand.
Yes, it's true, the world, which is located above the physical plane, is in
many ways so different from Earth, to our comprehension, which lacks concepts,
and our language lacks expression of certain aspects of the conditions that
prevails there. They become for us while we walk in the flesh, always an
enigma, and prepare us always a surprise, when we first open up our eyes to a
different world. But in other respects, are the conditions there and here so
alike, that all that exists here, even in one form or another is found there.
It has often been said, that the physical world alone is an incarnation of the
astral, a densification or crystallization in the matter of the models, which
houses the astral world. The astral
world is the original, the physical are the copies. (As fx a car, must in every detail be
thought of/planned or ‘constructed’ - first in the thought form- i.m. ‘drawn’ - before made physical. Rø-rem. )The
matter/substance of each ‘world’ is infinitely different, but the external forms
are very similar. In the first respect they are hardly comparable; in the
latter they are fully comparable.
What then is then more natural, than the books,
we obtain about the ‘country other world’, get to be about the conditions that
resemble the Earth, and for which we thus take both concepts and expression,
while the other, the purely supernatural, must become us a mysterious ‘terra
incognita’.
Oscar Busch.
ps-some of the pictures down seems partly to be misplaced by the web-reader in this doc.-so better read the pdf-version
A FEW WORDS ABOUT COSMOS AND
“ITS CONSTRUCTION”
Infinite as space, is also the creation,
filling the same. In the rambling ranks orbits solar systems beyond solar
systems, each individually a physically and ‘mechanically finished’ completely,
apparently independent of other similar entities, and yet keep them all
together as members of one great body, all dependent upon each other, all
influencing each other by forces, that in our time (ca 110years ago – and still
are. Rø-rem), science
is only partially and very imperfectly able to perceive.
Theories of the grandiose mechanism succeed one
another: but there is a big, wide universe common central sun, around which
planetary systems and nebulas in eternity, along paths are looping. Though it
is said, that such a central sun is not needed, the centre around which this
rotate, might as well be a floating point, an imaginary world, whose gravity
force alone is the resultant of all the real worlds through their respective
loads of attraction.
But so are the hypotheses concerning the large
works ‘of the cosmic clocks’ or mechanism - not exhausted. New such schools
arise as far as the occult (cosmic/hidden/universal) knowledge makes new
progress. For the next great discovery, which in this area will be made, that
is, that there are other forces than gravity and its corollaries centrifugal
and centripetal forces, which here run their game; magnetic and electric, and
indeed astral forces, of whom the latter, science still does not have a
clue.
Only when they get tracks on those, can schools
of new hypotheses be made, new tracks broken for astronomy, the highest of all
exact sciences. Until then, we all go blundering and wondering, and must, if we
want to be honest, admits our deep
ignorance. Only one we should hold as an axiom: the universe is a coherent
movement, where all worlds, how infinitely different in space they may be,
intervene in each other like cogs in a big mechanism. To suppose otherwise,
would be to set the coincidence/chance, in the high seat.
If I thus, for my small part, realize that there are subtle, yet for science
unknown forces, which influence on the celestial mechanism and without whom
this unsatisfactory can be explained, I am by no means ready to present any
theory or hypothesis for the same ; thereto requires deeper studies than I
conducted, greater knowledge than I possess. I have only as an introduction to
what I really want to talk about, the
astral spheres around the planet. Thought I will draw attention – that the
cosmos becomes us an unsolved mystery, until we penetrate into the astral
worlds’ secrets, before we come to know the forces which act, and who through the astral matter influence
on the physical.
The similarity between a world globe and a human.
Even the fact that there are astral world globes, which are quite
unknown to Earth astronomers, show how Paul was right when he said: "We
see so little, and understand so little."
Our earthly scientists
see only one side of creation, who is dressed in physical matter. They have - with a few exceptions -
not even got as far as to admit that man beside his physical body, also has an astral body that survives
physical death and represent her clothing when she crossed the line and
become citizens of a higher world , the astral.
But long will it not be, before materialism is forever
defeated, it is already in its death spasms, and an old truth lives up again
and go conquering the world, namely, that man after death survive in an
‘airier’, for the physical eye invisible body, as she already during
his/her earthly life, is wearing a robe
below the physical.
Russian dolls
are a good example to illustrate
the different bodies that we carry
"inside/into each other" albeit
on different dimensions and "density
level." One shell
"dies" but that inside/ the
‘interior’ - takes over.
It was this invisible, astral body, which Paul
called soul. There are thus two kinds of
human beings: those who walk on the earth, dressed in both astral and physical
bodies, and those who reside on the astral plane, only dressed in an astral
body. Or, as they tend to put it simpler: there are both
incarnate and discarnate people.
The innermost core of the human being, whether
she is on the earth or on the astral plane, IS the Spirit, an emanation of God,
the universe’ creator and sustainer. ‘He’(/’she’/IT)
that lives in all, and yet is so far above the universe, that He af no thought can be fully understood.
This truth, which so far is only covered by a
few spiritually awakened people, is now about to make its foray into the world
as a generally recognized fact. It will grow out of severe ‘pains of
childbirth’ )*, by which the people will come to writhe in pain, and at the
same time great social upheavals will happen - but this is not the place to
that effect prophesy.
) * A
real correct prophecy was this, as it was written down before 1.worldwar-ie book publ. in 1910th.
(Rune comment 2013)
The truth, which next will be revealed, is almost regarded as a corollary of
the former and reads thus: Even world globes are built of both physical and astral
matter, although they have in their physical body an astral body, which is the power source for the
spheres’/earthball’s
life .
And as man at death throws away the physical
body and survives in the astral, which Paul called "a transfigured
body", so can a world globe die, its physical materiality falls apart - a
truth that even astronomy recognize - but it does not end to exist, it survives as an astral globe, invisible
to incarnate astronomers gaze. Just as there are incarnate and discarnate
humans, so there are also incarnate and discarnate world globes.
(this
is just logic acc.to Martinus and his logic cosmology on the theme ‘life on
higher spiralcirculations. Rø-rem.)
But the parallelism
between humans and world globe, does not stop there, it goes even further. Just
as man after a longer or shorter time on the astral plane, for its further
development, is again attracted into matter and assumes a physical body,
reincarnated, so to even the astral globes again incur physical matter and thus
again appear on the physical plane theatre, as visible suns, planets or moons,
therefore, in the fullest sense reincarnated) *.
If also this parallel is quite accurate, are there however, quite naturally a
very big difference in regard to the lifespan for a human and a world globe.
The latter is of such an enormous extent that it can not be measured with
standard measure of time. Just as the distances in space outside the solar
system, to be taken, not can be measured by our usual measures of length, but
for this purpose have had to resort to a new unit length of such a staggering
degree, as the length the light travels in a year - it has been called a
"light year") ** - so also must the planetary life, to be understood/taken,
be measured by a unit of time, which is related to ours year - like "light years" relates
to the mile.
) * This view was already covered by Immanuel Kant.
) ** Equals 946 080 000 000 mil, or in round numbers
one billion mil. (1 mil = 10 km.).
This unit (‘normal lifespan of a living life ball-planet’) is not yet defined by science, of the simple
reason that the planetary biology (+
life on those other levels) is still a completely unknown science. The
highest man – along that road – have come, is to an idea that even the World
Globes are subject to birth and death.
Our ignorance of these ‘pieces/themes’ - are
neither not much to wonder about. All knowledge is in the rule based on the
experiences and how would we be able to possess any experiences on the changes,
which extends over such vast periods of time? By its very nature, the level of
knowledge about this, we may be able to obtain, must be out of authority of
anybody. Intelligences, which stand infinitely higher than us and whose skills
have a depth and extent of which we are unable to make us a concept, a
superiority, which is many times greater than that which the earth's most
learned astronomer possesses. They are always ready to seek human spirits
communicating to, so much of their knowledge, which they can receive and
assimilate. But they do not persuade the knowledge on others or require
immediate being believed. They just say: so it seems to us, but do not receive
our opinion that a complete truth, employ it only as a working hypothesis,
which can be confirmed or contradicted, it can stand or fall.
Well, though I by no means am an intelligence of rank, I here suggested, but
only an applicant human spirit, which is wondering and inquiring before the
cosmos’ many mysteries, so I here would like to seek to give new comments, from
which I think these riddles must be considered, in order to eventually be
resolved.
The first and most important is the already
implied, that the cosmos is composed not only of the gigantic creation of physical
planets, suns, moons and comets, as earth people with their eyes and their
optical instruments can perceive, but
also of an even richer collection of astral world globe, which also revolve
in strictly lawful paths around in astral solar systems by merely astral
matter, and with the physical worlds around the Suns, built of both physical and astral matter.
Surely exist worlds of still higher order, built of even finer matter, but I will
not speak of that now, I stick to the astral plane.
World Globe/Earth’s
physical death and resurrection.
Everything on the physical plane is subject to dissolution or rather
transformation into new forms, not even suns and planets are to exempt.
Our solar system consists, as we all know, of a central body, the sun, and
around her circling planets, asteroids, moons and comets whose paths, size and
rotation periods have been with all desirable accuracy specified, all built of both physical and astral matter. But
thus are not all members of our planetary family registered. There is also inside the (-planet-)family, what we from the earthly point of view could call
‘dead children’. Planets and moons, who once had a ‘physical/living body’ - but
who left it and now only appear in
astral form.
Thus, for example
has, as astronomers quite really believe, existed between Mars and Jupiter - a
large plane, which is now in mortal eyes disappeared. Its physical matter is
not destroyed - nothing is destroyed - and also not completely dissolved into
for us invisible gases. But like a dead human body disintegrates and dissolves
into gases and in solids, long resisting decay, so also the dead planet
physical body has fallen apart and left behind a lot of solid fragments, which
are now in the shape of asteroids are scattered within this belt, where the
former planet was wandering its metered path. But this is not all of the
planet's story, it has ceded from the physical plane scene path, but now
appears on the astral plane in the transfigured body, it continues as astral
orb in its orbit around the sun, which by the astral mass still leads its
‘freed children’.
Similarly circuits also around our earth, an astral moon - invisible to Earth humans, but
visible to us, who ourselves belong to the astral plane. For us we see the astral moon even clearer
than the physical, for we see with the astral eyes and understand why the
only astral construct is fully tactile and real, whereas the astral matter that
is encapsulated in, and therefore, as it were clouded by physical matter , for
us is slightly darker.
Where has this moon's physical materials gone? Do those still revolve, as small
diminutive world globes or miniature moons, around the Earth? It is possible
that this is to a part possible, but certainly they are so small that they
could not be caught by astronomers searching glances. (today
– a 100y later- some can be traced. Rø-rem.) It is also possible, yes, certainly
the relationship with the vast majority of smaller fragments, they wandered and
wander into space as wayward vagabonds, attracted hither, thither, until
perhaps struck by a meteor on earth or sucked into any of the planetary
mosquito swarms, which we call comets.
Surely there is in our solar system, several such astral world globes, those I
do not know, but it is also not my intention to give here a complete list of
them, or at all to explain the building of the astral solar-system. I only
wanted to draw attention to the existence of these astral globes, without whose
knowledge, we will never learn to properly understand the cosmos.) *
) *
Astral World globes are mentioned also in the remarkable book "Oahspe"
by JB Newbrough. O. B.
One may wonder, how is it that a few balls in the
planetary family die sooner than others. It seems not to be the size, that is
the controlling force, because, of the examples I have cited -one was a planet,
and the other a moon. Nor, it seems the age, since we surely can venture the
supposition that a planet between Mars and Jupiter must have taken a position
in the system. But aren’t the relationship similar in the human family? There
is not the size or the age, which determines whom are in line to move over to
the astral plane. One is harvested in its full manhood, the other as a diluted
child, while the elderly may go and wait for liberation.
And just as we are not, at our present
position, to get on the trail of a law for the length of human life, - as
little, yes even smaller is it possible for understanding the planetary life
and its incalculable measure of time. Here we are - as in so many other cases –
in front of a mystery that will have to wait for their solution.
World Globe/Earth’s
reincarnation.
Is the issue of World Globe/Earth’s
so-called death, an intractable problem, where we are only able to touch with
parallels and hypotheses, the question about their rebirth, their appearance
again on the physical plane, is yet more obscure. It seems - but I can not
express any definite opinion - as if Kant-Laplace
theory of the worlds “creation”, how well it seems to explain the purely
physical process, is not enough to solve the whole problem, as viewed from
astral standpoint, and also includes the worlds/planets rebirth. Here we hardly
come beyond resolving concerns.
Hypotheses regarding the lapse of such a reincarnation are not missing, but
although I have devoted quite much time to the study of such, I have not been
able to find anyone which seems quite satisfactory to me. The most appealing
and also which have won the most recognition, is based on the experimental
spiritualism with the materialization phenomenon.
A human being on the astral plane, thus wearing an astral body, can as we know,
under certain favorable conditions, take up or attract the right etheric
matters from the medium, and from present Earth human physical bodies, and some even from the atmosphere -
take in and such compose for himself a physical body.
Thus - by an act of will, and of perfect spiritual impulse, an astral man can
temporarily assume a physical body of the same kind of matter, as of the earth
human’s flesh and blood. She can not
keep it, it's true, it dissolves very quickly, but it's also quite
natural, when its main components are a loan of a medium and of the séance
participants, a loan which must be returned, if not the medium will die in the
process.
But the duration of the phenomenon, is of secondary role, the main thing is
that by an act of will, one materialization can be brought about.
There is then, natural to assume that the materialization should be able to
endure, if the material - of which it was conducted, were not a loan, which
must be returned, without being one’s own property, of his disposal, which
furthermore possessed this capacity. This is also confirmed by experience. Such
skills can not be made by without training, but the high masters, who are
humanity's pioneers and leaders, have through long development stages,
eventually gained such knowledge and such a mastery over nature, that they can
live alternately on the physical and alternately on a higher plane, or in other
words that they are at will able to dissolve their physical body and re-densify it, provided always that the wonderful thread that
binds it to the physical life, is not broken. Should this be the case, they
must be born again in the flesh as the child of an earthly mother.
Well, if now an astral man, not only temporarily but for a long time, may take
on a physical body and then leave or put it off, why should not also an astral
world globe/planet do the same, to incur a physical material body and form a
physical world globe? The willpower that would perform such a materialization -
for a will have to be brought into action, as the engine - - can come from an outside intelligence, as
the globe/planet’s own guardian spirit, whose power is in proportion to the
work he performs. So, why not from the eternal
SOURCE HER-/himself, He/she/it who never ceases and
certainly will and can never stop creating.
But whence collect material for such a materialization? Because the matter must surely be from
somewhere/-what; from nothing comes nothing. Alas, the cosmos is full of stuff.
Why should not fx asteroids,
those of the disrupted planet's debris, or even finer distributed matter, be converted into a physical envelope around
some astral planet or globe?
But how the actual process is occurring, which
laws of nature is used, of that we are in similar ignorance as regarding the
course of a normal materialisation.
There is nothing in this theory, which violates the laws of thought, but that's
not why I said it is correct. Its strength is that it is so logically joins the
parallel between people and a planet/world globe, between microcosm and macrocosm, (yes,
again; exactly as the logic
cosmology of Martinus, 1890-1981, similar
tell and are. Rø-rem.) - which take so many similarities, but its
weakness is that it requires the universe’ intervention - one would almost say
disturbing - volition.
What do we know about the laws that regulate
the relationship between the physical and the astral matter? What do we know of
these subjects’ inner nature?
Let us stop for a moment with the question:
What is physical and what is
astral matter?
This issue marks a new point of view for Earth
humans to consider.
What physical matter is that we always have ‘in
front’ - we believe to know, even if we do not have a clue about its essence.
But we have arrived at its tracks and with the help of this knowledge, we
utilize Matters’ opportunities, and increasingly, the longer we penetrate into
the secrets of nature. Ourselves bound by this matter, we feel at home in the
world of matter and establish us there in the best way. For us, the physical
matter in a solid, tangible reality, which in our hands can change the shape
and shade, but not to the extent that can be transformed, that it completely
evades our powers of observation. It should then be no wonder the hypothesis,
as more and more begins to make itself felt, that the matter would only be a temporary
manifestation of vibration and thus basically an illusion. This appears
to us as a philosophical speculation unsupported by experience, without
confirmation from the exact science.
Yes, as this has the question been in our
times, but - mind you - now have an experience seeped its way to give a strong
support to the hypothesis.
What has happened since?
Well, not once, but countless times at spiritualistic séances, has fixed
objects, without changing shape, penetrated right through each other, so that
objects that found themselves at a great distance from the closed séance room,
fell down on the table in front of the participants eyes. This fact is now so
clear that only those who do not wish to see - and they are yet in the
overwhelming majority - deny its possibility.
But some have been honest enough to not deny
what they witnessed with their own eyes; they have also set up hypotheses for
the phenomenon’s explanatory.
When Professor Zöllner
)* (1834-1882) - during a séance with the medium Slade, witnessed a seashell,
which he placed under a silk handkerchief on the table, fell across the table and
down to the floor and then was found unharmed but burning hot.
)*His experiments began in
December 1877. He was assisted by William Edward Weber, a professor of physics;
W.Scheibner, a professor of mathematics; and Gustave Theodore Fechner, a
professor of physics who, to quote Zöllner's words,
became "perfectly convinced of the reality of the observed facts,
altogether excluding imposture or prestidigation."
Professor Fichte, of
He
resorted to his hypothesis of "space of fourth dimension," a
statement, which was even more incomprehensible than that which could be
explained.
Professor William Crookes produced a hypothesis of a
fourth state of aggregation, which he called "ray-substance" and thus
came closer to the truth.
However, the hypothesis is not included as
"ray-substance" and would be a new substance-form, in series with the
three already known. Then Zöllners seashell
penetrated the table, this can not be explained by a resolution into a thinner
substance-form and a condensing back again to the solid form. A piece of ice
can certainly be melted, assume gaseous form and condensed to water and then to
ice, however, the original ice piece’ form has been lost and can never be
recovered.
Zöllners seashell however was completely
undamaged. Yes,
what is more, it provides examples of living flowers, and even a living human
being, having been, in this way, moved from one house to another and which
ended up in a room with closed doors. ) *
) * This happened, for example
medium, Mrs. Guppy 1 London June 3, 1871 in the evening, while dressed in a
gown in her home, with pencil and notebook in hand to set down her notes, she
suddenly disappeared. At the same time, there sat a small circle of her
acquaintances in dark séance with closed doors in another house some distance
away. They heard something fall down on the table and lit candles. There sat
Mrs. Guppy in deep trance with pencil and her book in hand. She was followed home
by three people, who would investigate how it behaved. These were given by Mr.
Guppy and one in family accommodation Miss Neyland,
the confirmation that Mrs. Guppy immediately prior to her conduct in the séance
room – had been sitting at home in her own room. The event was witnessed by 12
people, who gave their names and addresses. See Emma Hardinge
Britten Ninetheenth
Centuries Miracies.
Here we must hold that the object in question, whether it be a dead thing or a
living creature, always retains its shape and its identity, but its matter
undergoes such a change, that it ceases to be physical matter of common terms -
that evades the natural observation methods - to be immediately resuming its
previous state of existence as physical matter. The body literally
dematerialized to short then again becoming rematerialized. Does this not
suggest, that this "solid physical matter" - is not so very solid after all, that it is
rather a manifestation of vibrations which are so adjusted or adapted, so they
could be perceived by the earthly senses?
For we know that of the sun specter’s
rays, only some have the vibration velocity – as to the eye could be perceived
as light, but those who have a larger or a smaller rate, can not be
perceived by sight. Can not as analogous hereby we assume, that the atoms, from
which the solid body is composed, and that the science already know are
vibrating motion, in fact vibrate at a rate that is so adjusted, that it can make an impression on earth
human five senses, - but this speed/frequency/vibration, can be increased
and the object at the same moment ceases
to be physically perceptible matter, but
still continues to exist with unchanged internal properties. And
when the vibration speed is reduced, the object again appears in the same solid
form, as by the senses are perceived as physical matter? Unthinkable isn’t it.
One wonders then, how such a disorder of
vibration speed can be achieved, and once again we get to the answer: it must be through willpower, a new
expression of the spirit mastery over matter. By the above indicated
phenomena, one must assume that one “dead” / free-from-coarse-body intelligence
was behind the force, and he wanted so, and with his knowledge of the forces of
nature, he has been able to do what he wanted.
It is not a miracle
that has taken place, it is an equally as law-bound work, the photographer
does, when he in a moment on his sensitive plate, captures the moving image of
a face. (Remember this is of
the photo-tech from more than a hundred years ago. Rø-rem). Since the well-known laws is known, the art of
applying them is not great, but still the science of the
coarse-level/physical, know only too incomplete on the laws which govern the
physical world.
If we now turn to
the astral matter, so is earth human’s ignorance regarding this, naturally even
more, because they have generally not
even acknowledge that such matter exists. But here I speak from my own
experience, because I myself live on the astral plane, dressed in an astral
body.
What is then the astral substance?
Yes, what it is - in its essence, we do not
know any more of, than we know of what ‘physical matter’ really is, but as
hypothesis can also here be said, that
the supposition, that it is a manifestation of vibration, tuned in tune with
the sense organs, which the people on the astral plane are endowed with.
Organs that is fully analogous with those of earth man.
A world of astral
matter is thus to/for the astral man just as real, just as solid as the earth
is for the earth man.
It has fixed mountains, its has lakes and rivers, it
has forests and meadows, it have a beautiful scenery as well as the earth, it
is even more beautiful. And astral man can of the astral world of matter, build
themselves huts and castles, villages and cities, yet only much easier than
earth man on this heavy earth.
And why easier? Because the astral matter is so
immensely more easily to form, than the physical, it sounds with utmost ease
conform, not only formed by the tools with which they are processed, but in
some cases, directly through human
willpower - again a testament to the spirit dominion over matter. Here is
also the essential difference between the physical and astral matter, the
latter is far more than the physical, man subservient.
It could be written many volumes about the
astral substance’s properties and astral man's ability to exploit its
possibilities, but it partly means greater difficulty than I can overcome so,
through an imperfect medium of earthly languages. To describe
conditions that are so alien to earthly terms, that language therefore lacks
expression and IT is the most penetrating study of astral conditions, and is
beyond the scope of this little essay.
Only so much may here be added that, though the
astral world, in many respects is to Earth man incomprehensible, because it is
governed by forces that are to them unknown. Same as there - on the other hand
- is hardly any phenomena on earth who do not take their full equivalent of the
astral plane. The physical world is as it were an incomplete crystallization of
the astral, a mirror, which only vague
reproduces the features which characterize the astral archetype. (Again – that
astral/thought level – is the original –
and the physical is the copy, not the other way. Rø-rem.)
You hear so often repeated the proposition that the astral matter is infinitely
thinner than the physical. Yes, such may be seen from an earthly point of view,
as the earth's astral world, which extends beyond the surface of the earth and
thus surrounds it, is (from OUR sensing-frequency) so transparent, as rather to
the earthly eyes; nonexistent. Then it does not block even the smallest star in
the heavens, not to mention that people normally have any
senses of the departed friends, who, dressed in astral bodies, get to visit
them or follow them as guardian spirits.
But from our point of view it seems different. For
the astral man is the astral world the most real, the one with full objectivity
appears to her/his senses, whereas the physical world emerges in a somewhat
subdued light. If one could imagine oneself that the physical matter
which was not penetrated by astral matter, I fear for that the astral man would
be imperceptible, for our astral senses, as they are not adapted for the
vibration, in which the physical matter atoms oscillate. But now we to know that even the firmest physical matter, yes the whole
earth, is "animated" by a corresponding astral body, which, of
course, by their vibrations impresses in harmony therewith tuned senses.
And it is these astral counterparts we see, but then they say are
clouded by the physical matter, in which they are encapsulated, so we see
them somewhat more obscure than we see the astral world’s phenomena. However,
clear enough to get a perfectly valid idea of everything.
If therefore - physical and astral matter are strictly non
are fully comparable from only “earth”/physical or only astral standpoint, so they are, no doubt, seen from a
higher point. And then it has to been understood, that astral matter is far
thinner and lighter, more plastic in the will influence and more useful for the Beautiful
manifestations than physical matter. The former may thus with good
reason be said to be higher than the latter, as much higher as the human
astral body, the soul, is higher than her physical body.
With reason, can now the question be: are these two forms
of universal matter, the only existing, or is there possibly matter, which is
denser than the “physical” or thinner than the astral?
The latter is undoubtedly the fact, it is with certainty
not one, but several modifications of universal matter, which are thinner than
the astral, and for us astral people - equally so imperceptible and unreal, as
that astral matter is for the earth people. But for those I have not the
knowledge, so that I can speak about it. Whether it also exist a matter, which
is coarser than the physical, I leave unsaid. I have heard that statement
folded with great certainty, but of it, I have no self-knowledge.
I only wanted to draw attention to, it exits astral matter
as well as physical, and that you have to study them both to get a deeper
insight into the ‘World building’, a greater knowledge of how the worlds are
composed/ created, and perish, a truer picture of the cosmos .
(Comment by rune when I scans and proof reading this in March 2013: the density of matter is- also on our physical level - illusory. Both the macro-atom / the solar system as the micro-atoms, are incredibly small and yet, most of an atom is empty space, as most of the solarsystem is similar= “empty”space. The entire atom volume is around one trillion (1000000000000) times more of that of the very core. If you compress all the planet's physical atoms, then everything would fit in - believe it or not – in matchbox-see below.. Our "density" is therefore illusory, and has something to do with what the Danish wiseman MARTINUS (1890-1991) CALLS ‘THE PERSPECTIVE PRINCIPLE’)
matter
/ substance is not as tightly packed; as it seems and as we normally think: Acc. to head of Research JAN M. DØDERLEIN, INSTITUTT FOR ATOMENERGI and his book "ATOMKRAFT",
are there 500000000000000000 atoms in a needle-pin. If all those atoms were
laid out beside each other,in
a row- so that the outer tracs of the atoms just made
contact, then it would be a measure of reach: 170000 km = 6 x dictance to the moon!!
-If
all the atoms that EARTH rooms - with all its mountains, valleys, oceans,
forests, cities, deserts, etc.-in short, ALL MATTER IN AND ON EARTH - IF ALL
THIS MATTER WAS COMPRESSED SO THAT THE ATOM'S OUTER ORBITS WERE TOUCHING EACH
OTHER - yes, then would the WHOLE EARTH fit into a matchbox ....
...
but if further being shrinked- so that the atoms
(micro solar systems)own inner volume were filled up...... then the WHOLE EARTH
would fit in a ... pinhead!
End rø- comment and back to the orig.book
from more than a hundred years ago:
Humans have not from the beginning emerged, such developed
as they (earth-coarse-people) are now. During times of immense extent, they
eventually developed their latent physical potential, and each generation has
given to the next, the inheritance of their development, they self attained.
So, the experience passed on. It is not really new thoughts that have emerged,
it is the sensitivity of the current, which through training have been worked
up and developed. Talk of a "sixth sense", which would be under development,
is thus not quite correct: it is the susceptibility of the peculiar sight and
sense of hearing, which is being tightened, so that by the corresponding astral
bodies could capture vibrations of other natural frequencies, than the
standard/normal, and thus be enabled to see and hear, what is happening on a
completely different plane, the astral.
-
The people in our time, who still very incomplete have the
powers of observation, could note, that the earth man is not sharply limited by
his physical body and -senses, but also - it can be observed - an astral
envelope, an aura or charisma of particular color, which are different,
depending on the individual's temperament and varied for different sensory
movements.
This aura extends several
centimeters outside the body, has an ovoid SHAPE and appears diminish in
density outwards. That this waning is not uniform, but
rhythmically, thus with alternating denser layers and intermediate thinner,
seemingly evident as of a scientific experiments, carried out by de- Rochas in
Well, even in this respect is there,
as we shall see, a striking similarity between humans and a world globe/planet.
The
seven astral realms.
Our planet, the Earth humans, consider to be so sharply
limited by the spherical surface, on which they themselves live and travels, as
from an astral standpoint, is alone considered to be a part of this celestial body, its inner physical core.
The Earth is surrounded - namely
outside its physical body - of seven concentric spheres or parts thereof, all of astral matter of varying density,
(and vibration/frequency), all absolutely invisible to the earthly sight.
They are not directly on the earth or on another, but are
separated by a layer of “astral air” of varying depth and density. Each sphere
has a certain thickness and thus a top and a bottom. These are of relatively
“hard” material, enclosing between them an inner and “softer mass.”
Only the first, closest to Earth is
located as an entire sphere, which circles round the globe. The rest serve as a
spherically curved, wider or narrower belts round the equator and on either
side of it, but leave open the polar
regions.(comment – this is seemingly
how the concept of the hollow earth is founded or created - “earth” is really a
lot of frequency layers, which has an opening thru those “layers” at the poles.
Rø-rem.of 2013- the rest of the book is taken down a hundred years before
this!!)
Thus ranges:
The second sphere to about 60 gr.latitude
The third sphere to about 45
degrees. latitude
Fourth sphere
to about 35 degrees. latitude
The fifth sphere to about 30
degrees. latitude
The sixth
sphere to about 25 degrees. latitude
The seventh
sphere to about 20 degrees. latitude
everything on both sides
of the equator.
(INSERT PICTURE OF SPHERES)
When the spheres thus become narrower the higher up the
lie, it forms on the both the north and south and around the earth, like an amphitheater staircase of gigantic
dimensions.
It is very difficult to give any definite
measures of the
distances between the spheres, but to still give some idea of it,
I would - from a source, which I
consider reliable – leave the following data, that might apply for what it can,
but they must always be regarded as very approximate. Acc.to those datas, would
the distance between the “earth-surface” (i.m. “our”) and the first sphere to
be about 300 mil, (1mil=10km) and the distances between the different spheres
vary between 75o and 500 km, so that the distance between the Earth and the 7th
sphere would be about 7000 km. When the radius of the earth in round numbers is
6360 km, then would the astral diameter of the sphere thus be more than twice
as large as the physical. The thickness of each sphere is acc.to the same
source some few miles. (1 Swedish mile =10km)
The image in the beginning of the book shows after these measures
a section of the globe with its astral realms. (Inserted above)
As nothing in nature is purposeless, do you at once the question: what is the
meaning of this great astral creation, what is the task of the spheres? I want
in this context give an answer as short as possible. We return later to a more
detailed treatment thereof.
These spheres form the worlds, where the vast majority of people after
retirement from earth’s hard life. The world where they, dressed in their new
bodies, "enlightened flesh bodies", get rest after mortal toils and
trials, re-register the experiences they harvested, continue their developments
under – hopefully – more favorable conditions and gather strength for a new
life in the world of matter. This when those from the Earth reaped experiences
are not enough or sufficient as a basis for further progress.
Here is all distributed according to their purity, so that each one
comes to the realm, where he feels most at home, and whence he through his own
efforts must strive further upwards -until he after any period of his own
imperfections, anew is pulled down in the matter and into a new life on earth,
whose external conditions with natural essential consistency portrays itself as
a fruit of the faults or merits of his previous earthly life and from those
enclosed as seed. As you sow, you shall
reap.
But let us return to our picture of the globe.
The
large “air sea.”
Each sphere except the first, is in both the northern and
southern hemisphere limited by the parallel circle, the 2nd at 60 th latitude,
"the third in the 45th and so on. Beyond this limit takes what might be
called “world-ocean”. The boundary is the “coast”, which is by no means a
mathematical circle line but have depth bays and headlands projecting the rich
variety. This sea has certainly – seen from the mainland - the same appearance
as a sea. On the surface, shifting between quiet and calm agitated waves, but
its physical condition is not very common with Earth's water. It resembles more
air. It appears in this sea without the slightest danger how great you may dive
or sail, and not only on the surface but
just as much in depth. Yes, in fact, there goes big “route paths” which
convey transport and communications between the spheres, (“world-levels”)
across participating seas from “coast to coast”. This sounds for the “earthly
ears” - certainly not as a little amazing/ adventurous, but is seen from here, very natural.
It is not more difficult for one of the astral world
inhabitants, that from a higher sphere, descend through this “air-ocean” and down to a lower level, than
it is for an eagle to fly from
a high mountain peak, thru or across a cloud bed and
instantly shoot down
into a valley.
It comes with incredible rapidity through this
for all spheres of “common sea” as easily as you walk on the earth in a
straight way. See THERE one of the astral world’s wonders.
This large “airsea”, which fills the spaces between the spheres and reaches
high above the 7th, extend over both poles and fills thus in every sphere, what
is missing of the spherical shape. Its density is highly variable, most
dense, closest to Earth and waning upward, but by extension of each sphere, the
upper surface adopts the same - one more water-like consistency, which lends it
the appearance e of a sea. A counterpart to this exists also on earth. For an
air-glider )*, that is above the clouds, they often
appear as a stormy sea. )*Swedish; ‘luft-seglare’-
but this book came thru BEFORE the motor aeroplane
was discovered, but otto lilienthal had just flown his glider in those far
years/1891. But remember this is dictated from the astral level, and also from
there they supposedly saw how the upper cloud layers look like. Rø-rem.
It is a peculiarity of the astral world, that “air and water” to its physical
conditions stands so close, that they specially in the “big air sea” - is
almost imperceptibly blending into each other like air and clouds on Earth. A similar
relationship has also been on the earth's surface in an earlier period of the
planet's life. The study of ancient Atlantis' history, preserved in the astral
libraries, suggests that the air in that time was much denser and more water
filled, than now is the relationship.
Besides the large “big air sea” – there is
also, in every sphere, lakes and rivers whose waters are of a slightly denser
texture)*, until it runs out of the “air sea” - where it assumes its density.
Else describes the water in the same sphere, the same cycle as the earth. It evaporates on the surface of the sea, forming clouds in the
sky and fall down like rain.
)* read
how the passing soldier from ww1 – James Legget – felt this when he bathed in a
small lake on astral for the first time:
”it was as the water had a mind of its own. As hard as I tried to push myself
under, I popped up again…” | this book is really a jewel on life on the other
side and also about the transition problems, and can be read online on
this link (here on norw./Danish)
Transport and communications of spheres.
Another of the astral world's great wonders, as in terrestrial conditions has
no parallel, is that with the greatest ease and at an amazing speed, you can
move wherever you want in the field, where you are or have the ability to
tread. Any correspondence can be found in the birds' flight, but they are not
enough to symbolize the astral human’s locomotion.
Like a balloon in the Earth's air circuit of
himself rising to the air layer, whose density is equal to the balloon's own,
but not able to rise above that, so induces the, by death liberated spirit,
himself to ascend to the sphere with which he by his spiritual development and
his astral body’s related purity best match, and where he therefore rightly
belongs. Here he right of domicile, but the higher he can not raise. Within the area, which lies between
this his own sphere and the earth, he has the ability to move freely, but of
own power to rise higher, he needs through
spiritual purification have to be free himself of his burdensome astral
matter. Similar as the balloon to rise in the air, where the air is thinner,
must eject any part of his ballast.
This does not, however, prevent that with the
help of someone else, who inhabits a higher sphere, and with proper
authorization – can do a short visit, and even stay to do a particular
activity. But often such involve an extension of his own
sphere, so how pleasant it is, in some respects, it may be a discomfort. This
can be likened to the ‘light shade’ that sticks to sight, also after he is
exposed to a stronger light than his eyes can endure.
The ability to move freely is probably in the lower realms, in many ways
limited, but the higher the spirit rises, the more he can serve himself
thereof, and by training make it to an incredible degree of speed and accuracy.
But beside this individual mobility, in the astral world, inhabitants also have
a tremendous highly developed communication-level. From the 7th sphere’s
"coast" are going into both hemispheres, several broad “road-paths”
(energy-corridors) in a steep slope, tangent to ‘coastlines’, such going from
sphere to sphere down to the 1st (astral-) and across this and to
the surface of earth.
The first sphere is namely, in the region where
these routes cross roads, large seas, which form a cut in the solid mass of the
sphere to pass traffic to the earth. Along these “roads” is a colossal traffic,
done through the means of transport of many different kinds, of which I find it
hard to even to a small degree, giving any real idea.
If I were to compare it to electric railway
train, it would be a too clumsy, earthly image of the infinite lightly, airy
and fast means of transport, but there is not even anything equivalent on
earth, who could give a correct idea of the technical perfection
of exchange, which admit a continuous frequency plus one for earthly concepts
just unimaginable speed, which, however, operate with a sense of security and
precision which is admirable.
In addition to these major “routes roads” are
also in all spheres vertical shafts "through which transport and
communications conveyed in a way that is
very imperfectly - can be likened to electric elevators through floors of a
house. These devices operate with the same dizzying speed. (may be a kind of
flying saucer type “craft”- but remember neither those nor any kinds of
airplanes were to compare on more that 100years ago…rø-rem.)
Men of average type, who come over and fall into one of the lower realms, have
hardly any idea of the complexity of the means of transport, of
which avails here. She/he does not know how she comes up, so thinks to fly. The
more developed understands it is an extremely ingenious craft, but has not any
concept of the forces put it in motion .
She knows that its designers as well as its top leaders belong to a plane, which
is located high above the astral. Perhaps it gives a truer picture
of those crafts, if one does not think of them as mechanical machines,
but as organic such, something like the circulatory system of a body.
In addition to these common means of transport,
have more developed spirits, even their private use, small airships with which
they in all directions traverse the vast “air sea”.
(Again- the conception of
“ufo”/magnetic flying saucer, did not exist on the time this was transferred to
the physical earth-level more that a 100 years ago. Rø-rem.)
Communications within each sphere are very different depending on the sphere's
position in the seven point scale; they produced the same variety and the same
types as things on earth. Man walking on foot, going by horse and carriage,
having something like railways and tramways, having a kind of electric
automobiles, dirigible balloons and airplanes, only that these means of
transport here are immensely more developed, more refined, easier and more
convenient.
Thus, there is a not insignificant difference
especially concerning speed between the crafts which goes in the vertical direction
between the different spheres and those that act in the horizontal travel,
within each sphere. The latter produce
more similarity to underground conditions.
To appellations also include the various ways
of transferring the thoughts from one individual to another.
Language barriers in the lower spheres equal to the earth. Here exist in every
sphere, places or nationalities just as on Earth, and the liberated spirits
seek to the rule, their known tribe folks within their sphere, where they are
at home. These distinguish themselves; here too, for the same traits and the
same temperament as on earth, and in the beginning, i.e. in the lower realms,
they also speak their earthly tongues.
But in the fourth sphere, there is already a tendency
to fusion, in that it is a communal language begins to be used, together with
the other languages. A kind of Esperanto, which is then
widely spoken in the higher spheres. This suggests that even on the
physical earth, a common language will be included as an important factor in
human development.
For messages over distances, one uses on the
higher stages most of thought-projection, a kind of wireless telegraphy, built
on the same principle as this: on harmony to harmony - but this of spiritual
nature between sender and receiver.
To a friend
one sends thus only ones thought/mind, which he/she easily reads) *. In
other cases, of course, even here is (a kind of…) post, telegraph and telephone.
) * Compare William Steads ability to write messages from friends living
on earth, residing many miles distant from him. O.B.
They also have their private communication wires to those with whom are in constant touch. A guardian spirit, for example,
which has to monitor his protégé on earth, does not always follow him close. He
may have his home in a higher sphere, but is connected with his protégé through
an astral thread, by which he receives the impression of his thoughts and
intent and can give him impetus for his action. He finds his presence needful,
he can easily and quickly move down to earth.
As we see, the astral world inhabitants have to
rejoice infinitely easier means of transport. As an earthly idea, it may sound
as a not little fable, when talking about these almost thought- rapid
movements, especially in the vertical direction, but we may remember that the physical incarnation, largely limit the
human understanding.
He/She can hardly make a concept about it for
the astral specific characteristics, and it includes, among other things, the
immense light transport and communications between the different spheres. Only
after he/she self had tried this themselves, it would be completely natural.’
Spheres
lighting conditions.
We know that the astral realms even in equatorial countries, where they lie in
seven layers over the other, for the earthly eye, would obscure outer space.
This is quite natural of the reasons that the astral worlds’ atoms as above
told, is swinging with a vibration speed, which is not making the slightest
impression on the earthly eye, as they are in the physical sense of sight -
absolutely invisible. But how will this be to an astral man in one of the lower
realms, who himself dressed in a body of the same astral density, as the realm
he inhabits and to the sense organs that perceives the astral matter. He feels
them just as solid as the earth humans perceive their..
(..world as “dense/hard”).
Yes, if there were overlying spheres, where all
was of the same astral density/frequency, they would certainly be seen as an
opaque dark blanket over the greater part of the underlying sphere.
This, however, is not the fact, due thereon, to
the density of the astral matter, from which the various spheres are
constructed, very significantly
vary. It is greatest in the first sphere, decrease for
each overlying sphere and is least in the seventh sphere. Thus, if it is the
same kind of matter, it has such different densities, so the same astral eye
can perceive a part - its own sphere - as solid and opaque, but another parts -
a higher sphere - as transparent.
Haven’t we examples of the same density conditions in the physical world? Water
and air are the same kind of physical matter such as granite, and yet they have
such different density, so to the earthly senses, the granite is hard and
opaque, water makes little resistance and are nearly transparent - while the air is hardly perceptible to the
senses.
It
should not then be something to the thought, inconceivable, how it is possible
that overlying spheres of less (frequency) density, not to any appreciable
extent obscures the extraneous light. At its height to overhead spheres could (be thought to) appear as heavier or lighter clouds
over the part of the underlying sphere, which covers thereof.
The northernmost even as the southern zone, who
both shoot a few degrees forward of the overlying sphere are of course
completely unveiled, from there you can freely look out into space. The higher
up you go, the more developed also become sensory organs, so that the eye
eventually get the ability to see right
through astral matter, only it has a lower density than that, of which the
astral body is built. Although these conditions are the astral world so
specific, that the earthly comprehension is difficult to put into them.
Lighting conditions in micro spheres appear thus as follows:
In the 1st sphere have both
The sky is not always clear - why, it would
mean a sad monotony. The beauty "as the skies impart on the earthly
landscapes" especially at sunset, the astral spheres have even more to
offer, but these cloud formations have the same cause on earth.
The light source for spheres is just as on
Earth; in the first place the sun,
however, we must not we make it so, that it would be the sun with the same kind
of the “physical rays” enlighten
both the astral and the physical world. The sun, seen from Earth, has in fact
also the astral shells and these emits a peculiar kind of rays or
rather vibration, which of the astral eye is perceived as light. The
astral sun therefore appears to be slightly larger than the physical. The same
ratio is also about the light emanating from the fixed stars.
With
the moon the situation is somewhat different. The moon, who sprinkles
his magical glow over the earth nights, seems barely on the astral plane,
because the astral body is shrunk within the physical shell and
obscured by it, and is therefore not in the same degree able to reflect
sunlight. This situation on/of the moon seen as an archaic
character. But, as before, already stated, there is also a purely astral
moon, which had once been physical. This does not appear from the earth, but its
lights reflected astral light of our nights.
Time feeling / division.
With the
‘light-things’ is also related to the question of the time’s division/
classification / subdivision of the astral plane.
You so often hear the speech, that "in the spirit world, time and space
does not exist."
I would not speak about everything, which can
be attributed under the term "spirit world," for indeed exits it on
its highest stages, circumstances "of which we scarcely have any idea, and
such events unknown to me. I speak only of the seven astral spheres
which surround earth.
And regarding the conditions on them, I can
confirm that as well as any of its inhabitants, can and must distinguish the
place he/she IS ON, from where he is not, there must possess a concept of room,
as well there are a conceptual world of a past, a present and an additional, ie a concept of time and consequently
happenings. Well notice that this is not the case of the subjective
perception of the time’ length, an idea which - already on the physical plane -
can be quite different, depending on the time elapsed during the grief and
suffering, or joy and pleasure. And on the astral plane can such, take
extremes, so that one man in his excruciating anxiety loses all control over
the time and think of ‘what is’ a few years - to be an eternity, while another
one in her restless love service, finds a century to be like a short day. Here
is the only question of the precise objective time- measurement.
Now when the astral spheres surround the earth, and follow her in her
movements as well around the sun, as around her own axis, it is quite
natural, that we divide the time just like on earth in years and days, and that these time dimensions have the
same length as with you. As we follow the earth's daily motion and get our
light from the sun, we also have a variety of day and night, though our nights
are never as long and as dark as the (physical-) earth.
Yes, in the higher spheres, the night is of
very short duration and as bright as a faint dusk or dawn, depending on the
diffuse light, that in the astral world plays an even greater role as on earth.
Then on the astral spheres polar axis coincides
with the Earth's axis and thus have the same inclination to the ecliptic, it
follows that we also have a variety, corresponding earth seasons, although the difference between summer and
winter is not so marked as in the (physical) world and also decreases in
the higher spheres, which, course is also quite natural, since the higher
spheres are only narrow equatorial belts. An earth man, which at its transition
to the astral plane will f x come to the sixth sphere, may therefore easily
imagine that in her/his new homeland, scarcely any change between day and night
or between seasons may be and but portrays everything as "an eternal
spring." Whereas the one who ends up in the first
sphere, can complain about constant twilight without a ray sun (as
told in the first part of “a wanderer in the spirit lands”).
So the various data on conditions in the spirit world could thus be both true
and so by purely natural grounds.
Animal World on the astral plane.
Before turning to
the portrayal of life in the spheres, I want to give some few words about the
animals here in our world.
Perhaps I hereby immediately meet a reader with
the suspicious question: are there also animals in the other worlds? They are
surely not immortal, as man? Yes, indeed they are so. The wisdom and hunch, the
affection and fidelity, the touching maternal tenderness as, for instance, dogs
- are but so purely psychic/soul- characteristics, as it would be foolish to
deny this soul-characteristics /attributes from our faithful friends. Only the
narrow-minded types, those true childs of arrogance
and stupidity, can be so inconsistent that for them to claim the life after
death, but will judge his faithful dog to eternal annihilation. Has he
any heart in the body, he shall at his entry into our world, become pleasantly
surprised, when his dumb friend, here welcomes him with high joy-jumps.
Such a reunion between master and dog to the
mutual joy is not uncommon here. It is also natural and logical that the
intelligence that manifests itself in a higher animal must be the same as
immortal as that which distinguishes humans.
But if the dog has an immortal soul, must
surely also other animals have such; where else would the line be drawn. Our
time’s idolized Science has with a certain pride emphasized its discovery, that
matter is indestructible and hence eternal. You also get to hear from the
scientists, admitting that life has a certain continuity that it is in a sense:
indestructible. Next discovered - and it is not SO far - shall be, that
everything in nature live in various stages of
development, and that this life is just as indestructible, just as eternal as
matter - and that the source of this life is the spirit of nature, God,
who lives and manifests in all his ‘work’.
We are
all his children, but at different ages. The plant is a younger brother of the
animal, and the animal is a younger brother to man and man is a younger brother
of the angels. If we in foolishly pride, do not want to acknowledge our kinship
with our younger brothers, so we also need to be consistent renounce any
kinship with the angels - so much the worse for us.
But whether it be or IS, human theories and beliefs are plenty, and it is a
fact that our world, the spirit world,
as you Earth people a little improper to call it - takes a rich fauna of the same types as on Earth, but with the
restriction that the wild predators missing in those spheres. They have
their domicile elsewhere.
As for the spheres’ inside builders, the astral
man, is the immortal part of the earth man, since she has slung away her mortal
physical garment, there are also the astral worlds’ animals, to be nothing but
the imperishable part of earth's animals, then those in the death process
deprived of his physical body. Astral Man consists of spirit and soul, whom the
latter is the astral body, where Spirit manifests on the astral plane. Astral
animals consists of only the soul, it has
not yet received the Spirit. Therefore, the astral world is the animal heaven, it can not come higher.
But even in the animal world, there is a
diversity of development levels, represented by an infinite variety of
different types. The lower animals, which have not yet reached the development,
where they take individual existence, belongs here - just as on Earth - any for
the same genus common group soul, which manifests itself in a variety of numbers. The higher developed
animals, however, are individually an individual, who, after his earthly death
survives on the astral plane with the
individual soul.
Life up here is for the animal as well as for man a rest time, until both
one and the second have to incarnate on earth. Specially are pets, as in so
many cases suffered during human’s harsh, sometimes cruel treatment, here in
our world, to get compensation for the sufferings endured, - and so are the
object of the most tender care.
Often is a life in the service of man, also the last, that it as animal, such
require to be on earth. So are the animal development progressing, since it
exceeded the threshold of individuality -through a series of earthly life,
until it is ready to receive the last stage, which transforms the animal to
human. Before that, however, on a different planet, it will undergo a special
training, which I am not able to describe in detail. Thus equipped, it at last
gets the
Spirit, and is born for the first time as a human being on earth.
At that stage of development as the animals find themselves - here in the
astral world, they have no other task than to enjoy life and receive good impulses,
at the same time as they delight people and contribute to bestow life and
beauty to nature. The animal on the
astral plane is man's friend and servant, but never his/her slave, let
alone her sacrifice. No-one overexerts their friends there/animals, never kills
an animal to eat its meat. And the animals themselves ingest none other. People and animals are vegetarians here.
The astral animal may also not be killed by mortal concepts, and like the
astral man disappears here, because being reborn to the earth, and come back
here when it dies on physical earth. Here animals thus do not need to
reproduce, that do belong to the earth.
The mammals do not give birth to kids and do
not need to give milk, no birds lay eggs. But nevertheless - there is a rich
wildlife, seas and lakes teeming of fish, and forests of wildlife. Trees and
parks echo of birdsongs, and the pets are good friends to the people.
Then - could anyone ask - the reason why the
cruel predators are excluded from the spheres, and where they take the road,
when they die on earth? They are excluded for not having their wild and
predatory habits disturbing the peace and rest of the spheres. Perhaps also
because they would not be able to feed themselves by the plant food they only
find here, because the animals here, needs food just as on Earth. They have
another refuge, of which I can not provide more detailed information, a place
that better suits them and from which they again descend to (physical-) earth,
some still like predators, others, who on this plane are allowed to be tame, to
such animals of a pious nature.
It would take me too far in this little essay, to include the question why some
animals need to be wild and bloodthirsty, while others are pious and harmless.
Only so much do I want, in this context to emphasize, that even by the animals,
there are a willingness, to be faced with a choice.
No one is forced to be born as a predator, but
they, who from the start are turned in such a direction, - are drawn
irresistibly to a group soul, which have the nature of the predator prevailing.
They could be "converted" already as animals, but they could also
persist in the nature of the predators, and with these tendencies, go into the
human world, where they are able to develop much power and intelligence, but
where they can do much evil, before they learn to bend.
There is not in all creation somewhat whimsical selection from a higher
authority, where some are life seeds for good, others for evil. Even at the
lowest stages of development, is given to each one, by his higher aspects, the
freedom to choose. And during the course of evolution, one small lifsmonade,
can through free choice, turn into the life form that best suits him. And
always under lovingly caring from some high spirit, who indulged in this work,
because each species, each group soul, has a supreme leader one angel.
If people knew, in which close relationship they are to the animals, and how
they are jointly responsible to the great task of raising the lower creation,
yes, how they some day will be judged for how they turned and did this task,
then they would with more tenderness nurture about their dumb friends.
III
Life in the spheres
If a creature that has never been on earth, would
ask to get a sketch of the conditions on this planet and this would first be
given him by an Eskimo, and then, for example, by a highly educated Frenchman,
these books would become from another so different, that the requester perhaps
felt compelled to wonder who of those had lied, or whether the two had gone
with falsehood.
In the same position, is the Earth human to the
astral world. They have certainly been there, but
the memory of it is completely obliterated from the day/normal-awaken-
consciousness. She/he asks and get an answer first from one direction –
and so from another, but the data seem to stand in clear contradiction with
each other. What will he/she think? May he the to be remembered, though, that
the astral world offers even more varied conditions than the earth, and that
therefore different stories may to be true, even if they are in seemingly
essential elements to differ from each other.
A major difficulty in the portrayal of extraterrestrial/’other levels-‘ conditions, are
also what the language is causing, which are just adapted to what belongs the
earth. While it is true that the astral world in a certain sense, are so
similar to the physical world, that hardly anything exists in the latter, which
does not has its counterpart, or rather the original/archetype in the astral,
it is on the other hand no less true, that the two worlds are so different from
each other, that they strictly can be compared.
Yes, the astral world, can not thru earthly
language be fully comprehensive depicted, because the
language lacks expression of so many conditions that for the astral world are
special/peculiar. Thus, if the subsequent descriptions would be said, that they
are all too tangible, then such a statement is to some extent justified, but -
be it noted - the reason for this is found in restrictions of the language.
When the astral conditions must be interpreted in an earthly language - and
something else is the not possible/available - so must the interpretations in
the sense, not be other than deficient.
This although the narrator's
subjective perception, and even his temperament plays a major role in his
portrayal. We
know how “on earth”/ in mortality, the mood plays a big part into the human
perception of external conditions; joy and peace spread the glory of even a
bleak sky, whereas sadness and anxiety may ‘darken’ even a sunny day. This is
even more the case on the astral plane, whose matter is very formable to the
spiritual impulses.
Even if it is also the truth that nature here is something quite objectively,
as our world ALSO has its mountains and forests, its lakes and rivers, valleys
and plains, IT IS perceived quite different, by the many individuals, and it
is therefore some truth in the claim, which can often be heard, that man on the
astral plane, creates his/her own environment. Especially is this case with the
unfortunates who agonize over a sense of guilt and afflicted of evil
conscience, and from these BAD (‘inner’-that here also become external-) images, for those they become tangible
realities.
Very introspective, contemplative natures, immerse themselves often so in themselves, that for
them the whole external world almost disappears. And you may therefore not
infrequently from the world, hear the opinion that the 'spirit world not
possess any real reality - but only a condition, a state of mind '. Even such a
testimony can have a part-truth, equally to those entitled, that I am here to
present.
I've wanted to make or pre-send these
recollections to the extent possible, to prevent the mistrust and
misconceptions that so easily creep in the study of such topics.
Hell Sphere.
We will now, if also quite volatile, make
a visit to the various spheres
that surrounds the earth, and
study conditions on their surface,
but before we begin our journey through
these worlds, we must, in order to get a good overview
of the various living conditions, which meet the people after death, first take a look at the
purifying realms, where mankind's most wayward
creatures, are initially ‘stored’ (or ‘thought-prisoned’).
Just as the wilder predators, at death are separated from other animals and meet a different world than the (higher-) spheres, to which not raise
concerns/problems/disturbance, so are also the coarser
criminals moved to
another place, more suitable for
them, where in one form or another, they have to face the consequences of their actions/crimes. With crimes, I do not only
mean those who sinned against human
law, but also those who knowingly sinned against the higher laws of life, the love, truth and
righteousness. This despite whether they “in the world's eyes” lived
an impeccable life or already on earth was affected
by the ‘legal arm’.
These are still too evil to stay in (higher-) spheres, where they
would never come to any remorse, they would just do much interfering with the peaceful development, which there must be conducted.
Where this place is located, I can not tell here. It belongs
not, however, to the seven earth- spheres. Its
location is also of subordinate meaning; it is how life there unfolds or takes
shape, which is of interest to
study. It is not by an external act of judgment, that the unfortunates are led to this God’s cleaning-sphere/level/’world’ - but they
condemn themselves, they are pulled there by their own
inner evil, and where through wailing and
anguish, is having a grim existence, until they
in true repentance, will bend
their knees.
Then the conscience repentance has filled its mission,
the disastrous one melts and shouts:
Father forgive me, I am a poor, sinful one!!
And at the same time, the anxiety is released, and a bright figure, the guardian
spirit, who watched over the
wayward, come forward and leads their minions across
the border to another and better
world. Nothing is eternal hell.
*
In the deepest part of hell, reigns an almost impenetrable darkness, only occasionally scattered by
intersecting lightning, which, however, is not accompanied by a rolling thunder. The silence is
horrible and oppressive; it
is broken only by the groans, cries
and wailing cries
that like cuts through the air.
Misery is terrible; no one cares about the other. Each one just wants to shout out his own anguish, but scorn
is the consolation the others
give him.
There are burning hot areas, where the air is thick as of sulphur-smoke, slippery ground of solidified blood
and the atmosphere poisoned
by fetid gases,
and not one drop of water for the unfortunate who
find them perishing
of thirst.
There are marsh
areas, in whose
quagmire the miserable crawl around without any
support to hold on to,
they rise and fall, they strive with their utmost
forces, but cannot come up. There are areas where the cold is unbearable, and where the unfortunates, who
scarcely have clothes to cover themselves with, feel themselves freezing to ice.
There are caves
inside the mountains, real prison rooms, with bare damp rock faces, where the
poor is imprisoned, not out of
the external jail, but by his own terrible inner pains and walls.
There are also
castles and palaces, even entire cities,
a
) * Those
willing to take a closer look at this, and study the situation in hell spheres, recommend
to study, particularly the into many diff.
languages, translated book "A Wanderer in the
spirit lands - of Franchezzo". O. B. (no-link of same)
But what are these excruciating external conditions, which
are in fact only reflections,
though real enough, -of the internal
state – what do they mean compared to the agony
they represent? Where
those poor unfortunates, are sitting in silence with
the entire mind alert and all the nerves tense and
see how the passing life like a living movie. See the
many lives slowly go by, as living pictures.
Crimes and misdeeds, which they thought would never come
to light, come forward and grinning
against her perpetrators and require to become indemnified.
Soon the scenery shifts and other paintings are
rolled up, to show how life might have unfolded if the unfortunate had used
his/her opportunities and said NO to the temptation. Then grows the anxiety,
the agony becomes unbearable/ insufferable. No verdict of the society else could
have him overthrown in this misery. It is he himself, who judged and judge
himself, and it is he- himself - who once again will be able to come and save
himself, through a true and sincere repentance. From deep
inside, Heart Weeping, and nothing else, can release him from this place of
torment.
Time after time, bright messengers from higher
spheres, comes to preach penance
and call for humble submission,
but usually they are talking
to deaf ears. Only those who have suffered “enough”, as into exhaustion of agony state,
are ripe to take the
saving hand, which is reached out to him in this dark resident.
(Again- this is shown in the first part of the video production ‘nosso-lar’ - ASTRAL
CITY – link to video, also on that site. Rø-rem.)
In other districts of the hell realm, is the darkness not so intense, but a
deep twilight is oppressive heavy over
the landscape. This part can be
likened to a desert. Not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass, only sand, fine, easily moving sand. No
roads, no communications, you wade in sand.
Whirlpool storms/tornados rage and tear up whole mountains of sand, just sand. It is a must for the unfortunates, to seek protection for
themselves, lest they will be
buried in the sand storm.
Ideally they would like to sink into dormancy, but are kept awake by the efforts of
the elements, that induce rage. And
even if they for a moment leave them in
peace and drowsiness, he is soon roused by
the inner voice that awakes the terrible memories, to be active in his consciousness and is crying at him.
The air is heavy and oppressive, at times burning
hot, at times biting cold. Here and there one
encounter small miserable
huts, where people stay several together in cramped
barracks, however they have shelter. Work
Blessing is denied
to them, but in very primitive schools, one is announced to “force-free”/voluntary teachings.
Many people, and especially those that come directly
from the earth, prefer not to
visit those schools. They harden themselves and live
an isolated life, in torment -like inaction.
Hunger and thirst, as in the first described places, are for this population the constant scourge. But for
helping on this, are given fruits and food,
which are sent here from earth spheres. But
the gluttonous are never satisfied. He can hallucinate
to the most delicious dishes and the choicest
wine, but when he eagerly is stretching out
his hand for the dish or cup, all is lost. The story of Tantalus is a terrible truth.
Another hallucination, no less painfully, is the hoarded, as he sits and
counts his gold, which still
runs away between his fingers. He counts and
he hide (money), pull his hair
in despair over how
everything disappears.
Yes which role the imagination plays in the
unfortunate’s afflictions, one can hardly imagine. There are, of course,
in their location, always a basis of objective
reality in the rugged terrain,
where these wretches have their domicile. But the subjective perception, affected as it is
of the remorse horror pictures, is of far
greater importance. They seem to see the victims of the torments
he gave them, the “friends” they
cheated, they see them sneering against him, and
though it is only fun images of their fright
grand imagination, so stand these images with
a for step process reality.
Those who come here from even more horrible districts, have in all generally
easy to submit to
the penances or purification
processes required to move forward, and that after having passed the earth
wanderings, ending up here, may stay
long in inflexible defiance.
Sooner or later, however, the hour comes, when the humble
repentance has set in, and so being relieved
and get moving to a nicer locality.
*
Still other districts in the hell realm show up
high mountains and vast deserts and occasional small
lakes, but not a
trace of vegetation, the ground is everywhere stony and hard. For those
who waded into the desert, it is a relief to walk on hard stones, and a pleasure to splash
their feet in a lake. Here you also have to work.
They themselves have to build or construct
their own primitive homes of timber, which are
given from 2nd earth realm/sphere.
They learn woodcarving
and other simple handscrafts and in the schools they get instructions in
the rudiments of normal
subjects.
It is a strange but wise way of God/All-entity, that those who end up in the hell realm and often
are intellectually, highly developed individuals, keep this intelligence, as long as they are turning away from God in defiance, but when they have repented
and BEGIN the
arduous penance way up through the higher realms
and spheres, this intelligence are
stripped from them. They become as large ignorant children.
This is not so to understand, that their once
acquired intelligence should for
all time be deprived from them, but this is withheld
or obscured, and they will
gradually re-acquire this, as they move forward.
Full/completely, it will not return, until they
have reached the level/realm/sphere, whence they went down to their last
earthly life that he/she wasted. They
are at times fully aware of this, and often impatiently clamoring to regain
their lost cultural standpoint. It does not help; they must by themselves earn
it back. This is also generally done much faster than for the uncultured man,
who for the first time is walking this path of evolution/development.
The memories awake and he/she learns quickly, but never faster than the moral development
keeps pace with the intellectual. This is just as loving, as a wise
arrangement, for it greatly facilitates the development of the astral plane.
Would a highly developed intelligence have dragged through all the rough and
primitive living conditions, the spirit on this ‘cleaning-road’ have to pass,
it would only increase the suffering and make the work more difficult.
Now it is to be noticed, that nothing in the
universe is so uniformly marked out, so there not are exceptions. Rather, one
could say, that as not two individuals are identical to each other, so it is
given nor two life stories, which run through exactly the same stages.
It is difficult to set up a general scheme of human evolution - rather we are
all exceptional.
Thus do not all need to crawl this cleaning-path, step
by step? Some highly developed, strong spirits, who have fallen deeply, could
also through
an intense suffering and after severe tests, -in great leaps regain the
height, they once had reached. If they fail in such a test, they naturally fall
back, and then have to crawl back to the level, that they were able to reach
with leaps. Such cases are rare, however.
However, it is not only in the astral world,
that such regret-“walk” is done, in the rule must also “the fallen” - through
repeated earthly lifes- atone for what he has done/broken life-laws (“made bad
karma”) and whitewash his character.
*
Since we now cast a glance in the
“cleansing-department” of this world, justly called hell, I now turn to a
depiction of the seven spheres that surrounds the earth.
We start our survey where to the nearest “fine matter land” is located:
Those up is made of RUNE ØVERBY – to the left from this book- right of prinsipple on “traveling” thru higher-dimensions on REAL spacetravel.
another illustration of the
spheres, made of Jurgen Ziewe
after his own experiences from conscious
astral travels
The first sphere.
Here we meet a barren
and harsh nature. Over the
Closer to the equator increases the permanent
twilight, caused by the overhead spheres. Here, the land is more flat and
desolate; big stone- and sand deserts alternate with marshlands and swamps. The
seasons, especially in the temperate zone, is switching between hot summers and
harsh winters.
One might think that this inhospitable nature
would not be suitable for residence for human beings. And yet is this sphere harboring quite a numerous population,
larger than any of those ‘overhead’, since a large proportion of those who die
on earth, do not get higher than this sphere. Here are collected namely,
first and foremost, the majority of so-called savages. They might be
good-natured and inoffensive, but are raw and undeveloped.
Here you meet Eskimos, patches, Hottentots,
Negroes and Kaffirs,
each of which visit the districts, who in climatic terms is most suitable for
their habits and lifestyles. These belong to the first sphere's better
elements. But then come here a lot of people from the civilized peoples, not
the cruel, rude criminals - but the moral ‘minimum stocks’ of all nations, such
as: rough and spiritually sleeping, having lived a purely material life. Those (ignorant-) having given
no thoughts that they are immortal beings. And
finally, those of bad-dark thoughts- who are smutty in spiritual dirt, because
they understood no better, because they have been unavailable for higher
influences. Finally, are the first
sphere recruited of those individuals who come from
the hell realm, and must pass this realm on his/her journey up to their true
home. (As told in this book) If they behave well, their stay
here very shortly. There are also those who just make a sort of walk through
this realm, on the way to the next.
The various nations unite here, as on Earth,
in different kingdoms, each with its capital and its ruler. He cannot be among the country's
population. He is appointed of Advices from higher spirits, among more
prominent personalities in some higher sphere, usually the 3rd. Such
a task is a difficult test, and those who do it well, thereby acquiring the
right to move to the next higher sphere.
To lead such uncultured crowds, it is necessary
that governance is despotic/dictatorial.
But the ruler may be a good person, who does not usurped their power, but
elected by an even greater leader, for whom he is accountable for the
management, and not to abuse his authority and also make sure, that his
servants not to do it. But on the other hand, he also has in his hands; the
power to make his will felt/done.
The best method for upbringing people - for
individuals at this low position - is a severe and persistent work. They are
employed under the watchful supervision of leaders and work f x with mining and
stone cutting, and timber work, building construction, shipbuilding and
manufacturing of household goods, to which the timber are imported from the
second sphere and also with factory work of many different kinds.
In the towns are namely large factories,
especially for the production of woolen fabrics and blankets. The workers live
in barracks and get their food in large common kitchens. This is prepared of
corn, turnips, bananas, etc., which are imported daily from the 3rd and 4th
spheres.
Those who on earth belonged to the rural
population, prefer to stay in small houses, which they themselves construct,
extremely primitive and uncomfortable, but still own creations. Here, they live
a similar life as on earth. They keep animals, of which they may not have any
advantage, they dig and chop the hard earth, but get just nothing to grow, they
occupy themselves with various handworks, and receive in exchange for to work -
the food and the materials they need. It is a hard and joyless life they live,
but the get, however, to work and it is a great help in their situation.
The first sphere is no nuisance
-locality in the same way as hells, but it is a hard school, which the raw and
undeveloped spirit undergoes a first grinding process in order to be released
from his grossest errors and delusions. And thus provide an opportunity to rise
to the next higher sphere, or with better conditions to go down to a new life
on earth.
But not all will open up to the development’
opportunities offered, and no one is forced. Many go as hermits into the
wilderness and there live a completely isolated life, brooding over their more
or less gloomy memories. Others keep a wandering life, driven by concerns that
never want to let go.
Still others, who have been hard and callous to
the sufferings of others and led a selfish life, - they go to the
For the newly liberated from earthly life, it
is not so easy to immediately find their way in the new world, where he was so
unexpectedly transferred. Especially is this the case, with those who died a
violent death by some accident or natural upheavals, or who died in war or
succumbed to their own doings.
They are initially very confused and do not
understand their situation. They usually think they are still living on earth,
and are not seldom wild and unruly, when you want to remove them from their old
surroundings. In particular those having done suicide are deeply regrettable,
they have often an excruciating feeling - which they again and again perform
their murderous deed, and have thus again undergo the terrors of death.
But at the same time, their memory of things
else is at first very stupefaction that they do not have any concept about
where they find themselves, or who they are. Sometimes they resorted to by a
dizziness, though embarrassing, however, seems deafening, but soon returns the
consciousness, and with this; nameless sufferings, both physical and spiritual.
To help all those unfortunates are there in the lower realms, ambulances,
hospitals and asylums, which is managed by loving doctors and mercy-sisters
from higher spheres, who give up the glorious life of its own sphere, for to these
unpleasant surroundings give the tenderest solicitude to their suffering fellow
men. The unfortunates are cared for such, as for so long, until they become
calm and aware of their plight, as they brought to the place where they are
by/through their last earthly life, prepared a place.
In the first sphere are also given, in relation
to current builders developed state, a good education or teachings, which are
given by teachers from a higher sphere. There are great schools, representing
public schools elementary/lowest classes and in urban areas are also public
libraries, each of which is the reward for the work, and is him/her-self able
to choose books, which become own
property.
For the industrious, who divides his time
between work and study, there is obviously not much time to rest to look around
elsewhere. In the rule, each one is tied to its place, and any convenient
communications within the realm, do not exist. But instead, there runs through
this entire realm, a sucking desire to go down to earth. There were in many
ways better than here. The (mentally-) poor ones, who are staying in this low
sphere, too, are so earth-bound, so coarse material, that their only desire is
to visit the earth, mix with people, participate in their lower pleasures, enjoying
of their debauchery and excite them self to new orgies, and leading them to
real crimes. Because free choice is the divine fundamental principle, nobody is
stopped from doing what is wanted. He/she has the right to try everything,
but must bear the consequences and responsibility for their actions. Hence will
the first sphere people, widely avail himself of the right to ‘walk down’ to
earth, usually for both themselves and the people there, making no small harm.
One can then ask: how can a loving
First we must remember that no one may be
misled, which do not allow him/herself to be misled. Or in other words, which
does not have - in its inner essence, though so concealed, there has a desire
of evil in one form or another. The one, for example, which is completely
elevated above drunkenness enticements, is also completely protected against
the evil influences in this direction to reach him from an unseen world. They
are bounced back from the armor of purity he/she has acquired in that respect.
Those left - who could still be in for such a temptation, will not be
total free of the evil inclination, till they have learned to resist
the temptation, independent of under which circumstance it may approach, thus
also if it comes from an invisible instigator.
No sustainable development is gained through a
hermetic suspension from all evil influences, as long as it inside the human
beings, is a germ of evil, he/she is not safe for a “fall”. The temptation can
get over her like a thief in the night, when she is least prepared to make resistance.
And - mind you – they are always responsible for their actions. The temptation
may sneak up on her from any direction. In the conscience, we have a safe
beacon, which cannot fail.
It is then understandable, how it can be to the best help - that this dark side, this mental weed, may come forth so much that he/she gets a hold of it and can pull it up by the roots. And hence, it is also clear, how these secret temptations from invisible beings are means of a providential hand to promote the good.
Mephistopheles introduces himself to Faust as
”Some of the force, whose lot is always to like
the evil,
But always do good."
The Second sphere.
This sphere does not differ much from the first;
however, the conditions are, in many respects more favorable. Nature here too,
is harsh and barren, but there are, however, in several places the opportunity
to cultivate the soil, though is only sparingly worth the effort. However,
there are vast forests of spruce and pine, and in smaller amounts also of birch
and oak and beech, lime and cedar. Fruit trees are not present.
The Rural population's chief occupation is logging and wood processing. Wood and processed wood products is exported in large quantities to both higher and lower spheres. However, any farm can one hardly speak of. Also is worked a lot with metals, smelting of the ores mined in the first sphere, and after a preparatory procedure from there imported. Metals such as raw materials exported from here to the higher spheres for further processing, but before such a transfer to a higher sphere happen, the metal - by heat- is released from the slag, which belongs to the lower realm and are given a finer or lighter form/density, which corresponds to the density of the sphere to which it is moved. It is thus not only the astral man, which must be refined in order to rise higher; this also applies to natural creations.
In the cities are, like in the first sphere, large factories, but the work is not as hard as there. You have more freedom and feel more satisfaction of the work. Anyone who has undergone the first sphere’s hard school finds out with joy that when he comes here, he has gone a step forward. But ALL must work, and that is what they need most, and come here to realize. No one is forced, but when they realize the work is the blessing for them, they are also willing to work.
Those who on earth were idlers and
loafers, but plagued his subordinates with a rigorous work, - here get
themselves learning to work. They, who as in idle lagged a futile existence,
become through this work, which they now cannot evade, elevated into energy and
Courage.
Spare time is spent on teaching, reading and games. As entertainment and
sports, is even practiced hunting, especially of Indians, whom you often see on
horseback with a pack of dogs to hunt antelope, deer and deer. Well - notice
that they could not kill or even hurt anything there. The hunt is a game that
amuses as both the hunted as the hunters and dogs. The talks of the Indians’
happy hunting grounds have here its real counterpart.
Government is also here despotic (Dictatorial). The Sphere’s own residents are non-voting, but the various nations’ rulers are chosen, as in the first sphere, of advice from a higher sphere and equipped with power and authority. Only important matters are transferred to the Council. Nations do not fight in wars; peacefully and quietly they are working on the completion of the program, which has been presented to them and, as always, is suitable for their abilities and capabilities.
In the first sphere, there is hardly any religious cult. The crude and uncultured or spiritually disinterested individuals living there have no need of religious association, but in the second sphere, there is a keen church-if not always religious interest. The various believers join together in different denominations, Catholic, Protestant, Reformed, Baptists, Methodists, etc. Who strictly keep to their own orthodox doctrines and reject all others. They lie in constant polemicists with each other and argue on their dogmas. Here come namely those, who on earth has been religiously fanatical and intolerant, and here they thunder still in their condemnation of all that is not consistent with their own sharply formulated schools.
The Catholics have a certain advantage; they go with banners and crucifix in procession through the streets to make proselytes. They have their Pope, sometimes having two who mutually communicate. Monasteries are also found, but it is generally poorly with holiness within their walls. At the low cultural position, whereupon the sphere’s people are, they have not the ability to build great Gothic-like cathedrals; they have to settle for modest parish of wood, which they adorn with sordid Madonna pictures, crucifixes, flags and paper flowers.
In the Protestant cities, unite the different sects in different neighborhoods and fight for their beliefs, vicarious righteousness, christenings and adult baptisms. Being a teacher for these fanatics is something of the most desolate work, the spheres have to offer, for none are as blind as those who will not see. But as soon as someone is ready to drop their locked intolerance, he is also in this respect through with this, the religious intolerance’s sphere and must move to a higher level.
On the astral plane govern a purely, on ethical grounds, footed ranking scale, which do not have counterparts on Earth. Not only are the specific spheres as many in steps in this scale, so that one may NOT enter a sphere, which is higher than the one, by to the degree of their development - belongs. But also within each sphere are divisions or classes, living side by side with each other, but have different benefits and life-conditions, just as a city on earth has its poor neighborhoods, their factory districts and their wealthier neighborhoods.
But while on the earth, money alone is what determines where to live and how to live, it is in the (astral-) realms, the ethical development, which in this respect is controlling or setting. Each one appreciates the justice in this, and all abide this. Such things as the poors, being envy and having class hatred towards the better situated, do not exist here. Each one knows that through obedience, diligence and kindness makes them self eligible to enter the better terms, as a higher class or a higher realm has to offer and such promotion is gained immediately, as soon as deserved. The leaders, who must therefore be highly developed, watch with tenderness and love of their “children” and ensure that justice befalls all.
If someone requests, to move higher, before he thereto is called, this will be granted at times, but is a test. If he fails there, he may go back again, possibly as to a lower, whence he came.
Third sphere.
Here nature adopts a friendlier touch. Large fertile plains alternate with
beautiful forest parks and
Rural population lives in small nice cabins,
usually with a small garden plot around. Here you can thus see a beginning to
own home with genuine cosiness, which is such an important factor for the
development of individuals. The houses, as well as furniture and household
items, bear the stamp of a nascent art; they are not as bulky as in the 1st and
2nd sphere.
Cities occur quite numerous, but they are small and inconspicuous with wide,
straight streets. There lives the ruling people, and there are schools and
libraries, and even concert halls and theaters, all though of rather primitive
types.
This sphere can be described as the astral
world granary. Most of its inhabitants are farmers. Here are grown almost all
of the grains, which occurs on Earth, as well as several types of root vegetables,
all of which are mainly exported to the lower realms. Agricultural work is
carried out mainly by steam engines, because they believe that the horse is for
good to carry such a heavy work. Also are grown vegetables and some simple
fruits. A strange species is the so-called “cup fruit”, which has the shape of
a pot with a lid. When the fruit is ripe, the lid opens and the cup contains a
tasty liquid - similar to milk. Another fruit like pomegranates, but taste like
boiled eggs - a good substitute, as cows there is not milked and chickens not
lay eggs.
The population in this realm are recruited
mostly from the better part of earth's rural population, which in their homes
(-on physical earth-) having been farmers. They are virtuous, good-natured and
friendly people rather do not stand at very high cultural level. To begin with,
while those belonging to the lowest class, they are often burdened by a certain
drowsiness and long – as on the earth - go his sleepy time between the cottage
and stables, but when they wake up, are moved to a higher class. There they
become more living, lively and get more intellectual interests, they begin to
understand that they have a spirit, which requires nutrients for its growth.
As the earth there is easy-grown, and very
fertile, the work is not heavy, and much time will therefore also be for
growing of dawning spiritual faculties. Schoolwork, who is cared of from
teachers from some higher sphere, is not neglected, and yet there is always
enough time for recreation. You often - in the evenings - see the farmers with
their wives; dressed in their national costumes, get into the nearest town to
hear a lecture or a concert or a visit to the theater.
Good actors are considered, in the astral
realms, of a very important upbringing method and therefore exists theaters as
early as the third sphere. It is a traveling companion, as this give simpler
folks play, always of good tendency and free from trivial and obscene scenes.
In this realm, inhabitants possess a limited right to vote, they choose from
themselves the lower rulers. The higher Regents are selected, as in the 1st and
2nd of the realms of the Council in a higher sphere. They exercise their power
of patriarchal authority.
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It may sound strange that the astral
world's inhabitants, "spirits", as you call them, have the same
needs, live “the same life”, and have the same pursuits on earth, they break
the rock and fell forests, timbering the housing and building ships. Plow, sow
and reap, in other words, that they may keep toiling to get themselves a home
and food just as the earth. Can such be possible? You inquire. Do spirits
need food, clothing, housing and homes, just like when they went in the flesh
and blood on the (physical-) earth - what
is the difference?
Yes, the difference is on the astral plane's lowest stair level - not so great.
The undeveloped or ethically retarded individuals, who there are having their
domicile, are in fact so earthbound and their bodies built of coarse astral
matter - mind you that they have flesh and blood - have therefore as purely
physical needs of both food and sleep, that their lives is substantially
similar to life on Earth. Their ethical development is also best conveyed by a
persistent, but by no means slave bound work, which is enforced by these needs.
And yet it is also in the lower realms, a big
difference between the situation there and on the earth, a difference that can
not be described, because - as mentioned above - the language lacks expression
of the peculiar conditions that makes life on the astral plane so light and
comfortable.
What now regards the
need of food specially; there exists the big difference, that this need on the
earth is imperative? Here, however, one can not starve to death, the astral
body has an unconscious capacity to absorb, from the atmosphere, the little
nourishment it really needs. Therefore can also the unfortunates, who live on the wrong side of
themselves, apathetically brooding on their hateful and vengeful thoughts,
during times of immense extent, survive without consuming food or drink. Hunger
can tear their guts and thirst burn their tongue, but they do not perish, it
only increases their pain. But when the hapless finally turns in repentance and
begins a new life with a wholesome activity, then is the ingestion of food a
much needed recreation after work. Food and drink is a stimulant, which imparts
force to the new efforts. Food is never
of coarse nature, it is entirely vegetarian, and the higher man rises on
the astral plane's seven point scale, the lighter it becomes, and the more he/she becomes independent of both
food and sleep.
Fourth sphere.
Here ‘smiles at us’ the pretty nature, here is the "summer land"
where the weary wanderer must rest after mortal toil and trouble, sorrows and
disappointments. Ending up in the fourth sphere is like coming to a resort
after a strenuous work or over the ending of a disease. However you can not be
here and surrender yourself to a narcotic idleness. But the work is easier, the
variety richer, schoolwork more interesting and above all, home life more
pleasant. Those who are happy for each others sit together and start a family.
They could have very different occupations in the public service, but free time
and especially evenings are spend together at home or at a concert, lecture,
etc.
This grouping into families is based solely on
sympathy and love. Spouses, who on earth lived in a happy marriages, reunited
here and keep a pleasant and ennobling intercourse. Is one of them more
developed and thus eligible to enter a higher sphere, he/she stops or stays in
the lower, for to be with his beloved, until he/she also is ready to move
higher.
Those who on earth loved each other but were
denied the joy of living united, seek each other here and make the marriage, they
longed for. But not a marriage in the earthly senses, of outer bands justice,
but one of the higher spirits blessed compound without being forced on either
side.
Even new -on tenderness tied bonds- between
spirits, who first on this world (-level) get to know each other - is tied
here. Bonds, as if they are strong enough, will make connection to each other
during their next earthly life. Here meet friends, who have followed each other
in the evolution/development, yes, even
those who may not have seen each other in a thousand years, but which, however,
if sympathy was genuine, recognize each other and are happy to re-establish
friendly bands.
The family consists so usually, except of the
two, who love each other - husband and wife - even of one or more related
friends, often those of any earthly life were children of both or either, and
even here occupy the place as an adult son or daughter in the family. Children
in earthly sense, of course, are they not, as natural reproduction there, like
in the animal kingdom - is not needed and therefore not present.
(The sex-life on those levels
are acc.to the Danish seer/wiseman MARTINUS- such of intimate exchange of
sympathy-feelings thru the whole body,
and not only thru the sex-organs as on earth’s coarse/physical level. Rø-remark).
Every family is living
spacious and comfortable in their own house, in all respects very similar to
conditions on earth. Often - the lower floor are of a large common room, which
is also a dining room, a private office and a library, which for the latter, is
also the family room for anniversaries and devotion, where you can retreat for
study and meditation.
Upstairs lie the bedrooms with their balconies.
The roof is usually flat, and up on the patio you can stay happy for a while after
sunset. Each villa includes in general a garden that supplies the house with the fruit, which gives the finest nutrients,
and is often picked directly from the tree, and added to each meal together
with any wine that is not making intoxication.
Flower cultivation is very high, and often sees
loggias and verandas covered with the most beautiful climbing roses. In general
they are serving them self, but some stick with servants, usually volunteers
from the third sphere, who thereby is
accelerating their development. Their duties are very light, and they are
kept as members of the family.
Villa plots usually lie close together and form
large communities or villa towns with wide streets, grassy walkways and an
electric tram in the middle. Each city has its library, its concert and lecture
halls, theaters and churches, all in the rule built of wood. The religious cults have here adopted purer
forms. Admittedly, are also found in this realm different faiths and
different denominations, but they do not lie in conflict with each other, they
thrive in good tolerance by each other.
Although the various nations, as in reference to the people’s
nature/disposition and temperament are unequal as on Earth, they here live on
peaceful terms with each other. Any standing armies are not needed -
only some security guards, who monitor that no one do
bad or wrong things to others. More severe violations in this respect involve
always a demotion to a lower realm, so it is so easy to maintain order in the
(astral-) spheres.
In the fourth sphere are also evident, as above mentioned, an initial tendency
into grouping/merging of the different nations in the communal language, as
here, to some extent- are beginning to be used.
A particularity of the fourth sphere is that here come those who on earth died
in infancy. Well, not always. This is why we here find so many creches,
orphanages and children's gardens, where the most tender care is given to
these, that is early torn away, who
initially also on the astral plane are children.
The situation is namely so, that when man dies down there on earth, and
so enter our world wearing the astral body, he/she had to bear inside his/her
physical body, and which initially always bear the stamp of, or constitute a
faithful likeness of the body he/she left. If he /she die as a little
child, she is therefore also here in our (astral) world to start as small
childbody who needs care and being protected. She may be an old spirit, which
has undergone a long series of earth-lives, but as long as her organs (and the
astral-) are undeveloped, they will be restraining, so that the spirit can not
make their capabilities forth - just as the case is on
schools on the earth. (Physical level).
Many are also those, who here engage in care of these children, usually the
women, who on earth longed for, but never had a taste of motherhood’s
happiness, or mothers who soon become deprived of their children. Here you get
the opportunity to use the maternal tenderness, that she during her earthly
life had to wear as an inside treasure.
But here, as everywhere is exercised strict control. Nobody, that is not clean,
gentle and good, may bring up a child, and those who proves unworthy of such a
mission, are immediately taken away from there. A child is considered somewhat
sacred and is therefore treated by all with the greatest tenderness. It is a
joy to see how cheerful little ones playing in their gardens and parks. Often
female teachers take them down to earth to let
them be on the excursions in the countryside, as school children down there
to do, when the season and weather conditions are favorable. A well-behaved
children can also as reward, come on a short visit, to follow his/her teacher
to a higher sphere, where this has home.
If children, when they die, get to the fourth
sphere, one may ask the question: what is it that determines where an adult
after death will end up? The above suggested - that it is alone the ethical
development, which in this respect is of crucial importance, but this calls for
an addition. Each one comes in first rule back to the sphere, whence he/she went
down. There, he/she initially examine its last earthly life and compose
a story or a record of their actions and their motives. Only after this is done,
she will occupy the place, which he/she by their earthly life is prepared. It
can happen, she must move to a higher sphere, or stay where she is or rarely -
go lower. During his custodial time, she can at least move forward in the
development and rise higher, until she earned the store of experience from the
earthly life, as she for such development needed.
Then he/she is gripped again by a ‘grounding’
longing, for she realizes that it is in the Earth school, we have to get the
additional nutrients she needs. That’s where
we have to undergo a new treatment process in order to rise higher. And
so he/she was born again “as new” - as a small child on earth.
The fifth sphere.
Nature is in this realm very varied and indescribably beautiful. Within the
comparatively narrow belt that forms on either side of the equator, are
tropical vegetation in voluptuous shapes and colors. But there are also the
highlands of a wild beauty and magnificent alp like realms with snow-capped
peaks and rushing waterfalls. The climate is mild and pleasant, no bothersome
heat of the lowlands, no nasty cold in the
This sphere can be described as one of the fine
arts of 
Here come those who are ethically justified and
the artistically gifted, which have an open eye for nature. They take out their
sketchbooks and tighten their canvases, they are drawing and painting, they
revel in the colors.
Here you also have the best line in the
artistic schools and art academies of painting and sculpture, which constitute
this sphere in pride and ornament. But it is not only painting and sculpture,
as is practiced here. This also is including music and drama, which here have
their academies and temples with teachers
from a higher sphere. Often are played large concerts and, more often, good
acting, and classical pieces from the world's best repertoire, and newer pieces
by prominent authors in the spheres. The actors are often great talents from
the 6th or 7th sphere.
When a new play is done, audience from these
spheres is invited to the premiere. Good writers and poets are here standing in
this high reputation, they contribute to its extent, that by pressing their
beauty stamp on this sphere and make it into “the free/liberal arts republic”.
From this level are teachers in these subjects,
going down to the earth and also to lower spheres, as happy messengers, who
proclaim the gospel of beauty. It goes without saying, that life in this realm
bear joyful character, but it is not the delirious joy with their harsh sounds,
which often distinguishes the artists' life on earth. It is a still with
devotional parade - joy, which rejoices thankfully to Him, who is all beauty’s
source.
Something that also significantly contributes
to make life in the fifth sphere cheerful and pleasant,
is the sport that this large-scale undertaking carried. In winter time is
practiced Nordic skiing and ice skating, summer time ball games, boating and
sailing, etc. Contests are held, and the prize is awarded, but nothing may go
to extremes.
It could of this description may seem as if
everything in this sphere were shooting at spreading and enjoy happiness.
However, this is not the case, here is done too much work of another kind,
especially manufacturing of thinner fabrics, chasing and other fine metalwork
etc. Here flourishes magnificent arts. All factory work is very easy, and
the artistic effort is its own reward.
There is a general principle in the management of the (astral-) sphere’s
economy, which to such a big degree, contributes to make life here easy and
pleasant, and this IS; that each one for a certain amount of daily work, which
is smaller and lighter, the higher one rises, are entitled to have everything
you need to keep a comfortable life, and beyond that even what the person of
all his heart is yearned for, and all this without pay, because money
exists not here, - they are only upon
the earth (physical level).
Sphere’s (astral-)
free societies have, thanks to a mild providence genius devices, solved the
social problem in an exemplary manner. There are here no poor ones, no
dissatisfied. All do their duty and enjoys of that, and get from the rulers a
generous remuneration, in that way as getting all that they reasonably could
wish for.
pictures
from video NOSSO LAR /
ASTRAL CITY
Sixth Sphere.
This realm offers not such variation of the landscape- forms - with so rich
variety - as of the 5th, but is if possible, even more comfortable. It seems like a large park or garden.
Here and there are interrupted by cedar and rocks, idyllic lakes. Nature has
lavished in extravagance- its wealth and its people are diligently to shape it
after their ideals of beauty, everywhere you meet magnificent parks with
terraces, ponds and fountains. The climate is mild and pleasant like in
Here people live in magnificent villas of wood
or stone, usually marble, sometime malachite, and each villa includes a garden,
and the the larger - even a park. This means that communities are less densely
populated; they spread out over a larger area, but have instead so much more convenient
and faster transport. The large building complexes, one sometimes sees on the
heights, are science colleges and the ecclesial communities’ temples, which
often lay side by side, a visible expression of that science and religion here,
in consensus best work for the same goal, humanity's enlightenment and
refinement.
One imagines may be, that in the lovely climes
I here depicts, the religious sentiment should take the form of one for all
common faith with the corresponding joint Rites. That this is not the case depends upon the individual in man's
power, for the gratification of her greatest longing, as belonging to God. They
do not so easily let go of their pattern of thought, least of their religious
beliefs. Life after life we have, for example, belonged to the Catholic Church
on earth, so he/she will then also remain as a Catholic during their of
Freedom-time between incarnations. They join together with like-minded, and
they form churches that worship the Almighty for their beliefs and their cardiac
force - just like on Earth.
But here in our world will eventually her
religious concepts become purified, she may learn to see mistakes in their
faith, she learns to see the "heretics" with different eyes. And the
same way that the various church’s teachings are thus reformed, and all for
them common foundation appears, they come closer to each other and their
followers will be filled with understanding and tolerance for their different
thinking.
In the sixth sphere has such an internal
association of significantly degree, already reached, even if the outward forms
are yet to distinguish the great churches apart from each other.
The distinctive feature of this sphere is the scientific and religious studies,
as must go hand in hand, and with so much success, conducted under the guidance
of teachers from a higher world.
Here are the finest
universities, where teaching is focused on discovering and developing every
one's individual talents. From here goes down to the physical earth, to incarnate, many who are
destined to become the pioneers of science and religions.
It might then seem strange, that still so much
division and intolerance prevails between churches and sects in the (physical)
world, and that there still so much deception can be regarding the divine
truth. We must remember, however, that he/she who goes down to the earth as a
teacher, and he is also in the spheres given the very best education, - but
down there is born as a little child, so that his intelligence is encapsulated
in the physical body limitations. So he is gradually forced to learn the
lessons, the people for centuries has formulated and preserved to be handed
from generation to generation. It is
needed a high spiritual power and great personal courage to break these
centuries-old dogmas and let the light of the little candles, from which he
only has an intuitively clue, from the teachings he was given up here.
Is it strange that evolution on earth is so slow?
The seventh sphere.
We have now reached the last and highest realm of the astral plane. Here, each
one, before he can rise higher, undergoes a kind of refresher course of what
he/she has learned during his walk through the underlying spheres. All his
records of past lives on Earth must be gone through and adjusted. They are here
given over for examination of the respective leaders and then stored in large
archives.
Spirit is here to undergo a kind of final test.
Does he/she have any desires; they will be pulling him to the ground/physical
earth. He has to go down in a new life on earth to be purified or to atone.
Only after he has in all respects comprised their tests and come to a full
understanding of his own being, his peculiarities and errors, he may move to a
world, which is located above the astral.
Many linger here very
long, up to several centuries, before they dare to take the important step into
another, completely new world, which is for them almost as unfamiliar as the
astral world for Earth humans.
Here you have that also in all respects so
beautiful, they are happy to be desired. Nature, which even in this realm carries earthly characters, is of an
ideal beauty. The material, of which the sphere is built, is in
comparison to the others lighter and more formable. For those, who from a lower
realm first time, is coming here as a guest, everything seems as almost
translucent. The natural scenery seems more like air forms, than realities. The
beauty is so captivating, that he would exclaim: This is heaven, fairer, it can
not be, can not be a sweeter life to unfold! The old saying that "to be in
seventh heaven" means a literal truth, which certainly has been known of
the old, who was in close contact with the country beyond. Now it has been
forgotten, which is why the term has become an empty phrase.
‘Since we have become
a citizen of this world, however, it is just as real and solid as any of the
lower, because our bodies then undergone a similar refinement and been adjusted
in harmony with nature here’.
Life in this realm is shaped substantially the same
as in the sixth sphere, only that things have reached an even higher development. Here is reached only those who on
earth led a pure and unselfish life. Many, who held a prominent position as
statesmen, teachers, artists and writers, will meet here, but also many who stood low on
the social scale, but quietly practiced well and quietly cultivated
his/her spirit. Here you get the
rich pay for your efforts and work.
But nowhere is there a passive rest; everything
is life and activity. In this realm is the astral world’s capital, the seat of
the High Council, which has the top management of any of the underlying
spheres. From here they “dictate”/inspires with as much love as wisdom and with
the undeniable power of authority - all those subordinate leaders and teachers
in the lower realms. Over all is
exercised tight control, but everyone also befalls not only justice but also
love.
From here, many goes with the work on the
earth, to inspire good and educated people to a blessed work of authors,
inventors, engineers, patrons, etc.., Yes even
themselves going reincarnated into a new life on earth as humanity's pioneers
and benefactors.
From this realm, even also from the immediately underlying
levels/spheres, is finally carried out a very extensive missionary/helping
activity in the lower realms. (as f x is told of in
the book
‘A wanderer in
the sprit lands’ and in SEVEN STEPS TO ETERNITY.
Rø-rem.of 2013)
There is so much spiritual distress in the
world, not only on earth, but even more
so in the astral world’s lower spheres, and
most especially in the deeper located hells. Commandments of love, which is
the constitution of the universe, that all the good being with joy obey, invite
each other help. - One after the measure of his strength; to support, help and
save them, as been locked in perverse mind, turned away from God and squirm in
self-inflicted suffering, or gone astray and groping in spiritual darkness.
Everywhere is needed as supportive hands, tender care, loving guidance.
This help are hold out of countless warm hearts
in all spheres, but it is only when the spirit has reached a certain
development stage, as he gets the strength to accomplish the difficult
acquisition. It is therefore only from the higher spheres that a missionary
activity, may properly be sent out. Many are also those who largely refrain
from domestic life’s pleasing, to go down into the lower realms and hells - in
order to preach the gospel of love. They have their homes up here, but their
daily work in a lower world, which can be thousands of miles away, a distance
that they without any significant efforts can do almost with the speed of
thought.
The difficulty is not to travel the long way.
The difficulty is to penetrate the heavy, dirty atmosphere that prevails in the
worlds, where these unfortunates have their domicile, and be able to make them
selves perceptible. It applies to those who, for example, will “dive into” the
deepest hell, to compress his body with fluids from the atmosphere there, in
order to penetrate into the foul fumes that surround this kingdom. And there
make themselves visible to the person or unhappy one; he/she wants to visit.
And what this means of pure physical discomfort for a spirit, who have reached
a higher purity, one can hardly imagine.
Often will the person engaged in this service
of love, become so infected of the poisonous exhaustions, which he meets there,
- so he afterwards feel a pure physical nausea. Diseases do not occur among the
good and happy astral people, but the discomfort they feel by getting in touch
with such a low world, seems at times like a fever dizziness of transient
nature.
And yet, what is the bodily discomfort against the spiritual suffering, the
loving missionary experiences, by seeing this misery and hear all this doom and
feel some helpless by so little that could be done to help and relieve. Often
he/she is met of scorn and derision; often he sees his warmest efforts being
met by apathetic lethargy or stubbornly obstinacy.
But no work in service
for the good is without his merits, and the grief over the ninety-nine who
resist his loving zeal, gives the hundredth, which he manages to bring over the
border to a tolerable existence, the richest compensation, for indeed it is
true words, that "be joy in heaven
over one sinner who repents and improves himself."
Higher worlds.
We have now thrown an introductory overview of the astral worlds seven spheres,
and saw how everything in this world, though an increasing degree of
sophistication, bears the stamp of earthly conditions. Nature presents the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms exactly the
same types as on Earth, the metals mined and processed, the same species occur
in forests, the grains are grown, the flowers adorn the fields and gardens, the
same animal species contribute to bestow life and beauty to nature . And
although man to its outer shape, as to their lifestyles, occupations and
requirements of food and sleep, basically are the same, though increased
development and highly refined and spiritualized in his/her outer living
conditions.
But the astral plane of existence is by no
means the highest step. Far from it. Above the astral
plane is another, the mental, as in reference to forms of existence, is as much
subtler than the astral, as this is more subtle than the physical. And above
the mental is other world levels, even more refined, yet more spiritual,
divided also in spheres denote shades of sophistication of the matter, of which
the plane is built. But about these higher worlds, I do not have any closer
understanding. That is why I do not dare the delicate task of describing them.
Earthly language is too poor for such an attempt to succeed. It may in this
respect, be enough to acknowledge that they exist.
I therefore stop on the astral world's top
border. If one here scouts out into space or embark on reconnaissance, to
discover, where the mental world is located, so will you be as disappointed as
the earth man, who, not having received his astral vision being opened, seeking
to explore the astral world . The Mental world is for the astral man, just as
imperceptible, as the astral world is for Earth humans. It has no senses to
perceive the vibrations that characterize the higher worlds, than this as man
himself belongs.
The transition from
the astral to the mental world is also associated with a process that is
somewhat similar to the physical death. You will lay away the astral body and
is then found dressed in a mental body, as is carried under the astral, just as
man on earth in the physical body carries both an astral and a mental body
under the physical, but generally have not a clue about it.
These various bodies are so closely interwoven
to each other, that not even from a higher point of view, is it possible to
distinguish them from each other, but in death - either the physical or the
astral – are those elements that belongs to the lower world separated, and
the next higher body-shell enters forward and are shaping the new man, which
then belongs to this higher plane.
When we speak of an astral death, we shall not,
however, paying the same concept of a painful and ugly transformation with
subsequent decay of the body- elements which characterize the physical death. Far from it, the astral death is an
easy and comfortable sleep, during which the transformation takes place, and
the astral mortal clay, which is deposited, evaporates like dew in the sun's
rays.
One can then ask: is the person who has gone
over to the mental plane - let's call her/him/it- ‘mental man’ - then not able to go
back and make itself perceptible on the astral plane? Oh yes, indeed, we have
such a capability and use it to a large extent - whether in quest of his old
friends, or to perform any task on one of the astral levels, as a teacher or
leader. For we also know that the astral man, under certain conditions, has the
ability through the "materialization" - to make
him/her-/ itself visible on the
physical plane.
For the mental man is it infinitely more easy
to extract/attract/suck, the necessary ingredients from the astral atmosphere,
to create matter for (a flash-quick-) building of an astral body and keep it as
long as he/she, as a guest, stays in the astral world. And then just as easily
take off the ‘borrowed costume’ when she returns to her ‘own’ mental world.
Conversely, the astral man cannot, other
than in exceptional cases, take off his astral body to make a visit to the
mental world. Just as on Earth - only occult trained people possess this
ability visit on the astral plane.
One word at last on
the essential distinction that exists between the astral world and the earth's
social conditions.
We have seen how the astral world's inhabitants
are separated after their moral content, so that those ethically standing
lowest are remaining in the lowest sphere, and how each step in the seven point
scale is achieved alone by a corresponding higher development. It follows from
that, so that each sphere are inhabited by in ethical view, of those of about
similar individuals and that therefore all the disturbing elements of moral
seen lower standing people/ inferiors - are excluded. Then with teachers and
leaders, that in the rule comes from some higher sphere, one can understand
which security and rest-life that such staying in the astral worlds higher
spheres might entail.
On Earth, however, are people of all denominations mixed for each other on a
single plane in a colorful jumble, and all go with the mask, which hides what
they really have in heart. It is then not surprising that there appear so many
tensions and frictions, so much split and fight. But it's also there, as the grinding of the character is going on -
through friction between so many selfish interests.
Earth (physical-) life is the hard but necessary schooling. Life in the astral
world, however, is a holiday time, when you get rest after mortal sufferings
and hardships; assimilate its reaped experience by getting it infused it in its
essence, and gather strength for a new wrestling in Matter world. For it is through a series of
incarnations on earth, that spirit eventually rises from the savage primitive
position - to that of the angel.
Which then is not in need to go down to the earth again, because he/she can
complete the development in higher and happier worlds, but perhaps by mercy and
love - still goes down, to spread a light on the earth for the guidance to
those left there - into the darkness' groupings of brothers and sisters.
How wonderfully wise and loving is not the entire
universe organized by laws that never need to be improved or changed, which
never loose control of the means, which inevitably lead to the big goal: all
beings development and blessed in perfection!
May our tongues faint praise and glorify ‘Him’ -
"who did not hang on to his ‘wall-mason
cinquefoil vertical’- when he did masonry work on the world!"
(Backside of this Swedish old book – reduced size)
scanned +
translated by Rune Øverby, in feb.2013
www.galactic.no
more on similar: http://galactic.no/rune/livdod2.htm#English
Here left/up is to read that the book
Sådd och Skørd -english,
“sow and
reap”
costed kr.1,50 in those
far days - more than 100 years ago!! One can still get it – but now it costs
more than 100times that: 199 sek (link)
