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For
those who are content with ready answers for the fundamental
questions of our human existence, here too, as in anywhere else, one
will not need to make any effort of deeper introspection. They will
only have the work to choose . Because each religion, sect or
philosophy has already undertaken that responsibility and has made
available to those interested, a singular conception of life after
death, which ends up automatically valid for a specific region of
the globe, according to the geographical area in which this belief
is disseminated. Thus, apart from the countless nuances of
denominations and interpretations, the majority of the western
civilization population will go to somewhere like heaven or hell,
based whether or not they followed the belief guidelines. The
majority of the eastern civilization population will disappear into
some type of nirvana or will undertake the supervision of those
still alive on Earth. As for the
materialists, who despite their lack of spiritual conviction, number
within the millions throughout the world, will became the “absolute
nothingness” so much desired.
On the extreme opposite are those that devote their
lives in search for the solution of the unfathomable mysteries of life
and death based exclusively on the intellect, excluding therefore
any further higher understanding. As the intellect is nothing more
than a product of the earthly brain, it will never be capable –
because of its own constitution – of examining things that are above
the concepts of earthly time and space. Due to this, those that make
up part of this group are in no better condition than those of the
aforementioned groups that placidly accept, apathetically, any
transcendental explanation through a third party. No doctorate in
theology serves as a safe-conduit and much less as an escort for the
beyond.
In reality both groups
communally share the same vice, denominated “blind faith”. This is a
very appropriate name, as none of the integrants really manage to
see around the blinkers imposed by lifeless beliefs or inflexible
studies that have been exclusively built upon intellectual thought.
But with regard to the materialists it is not exactly blinkers,
instead it is a spiritual shroud woven with exacting skill by they
themselves, with which they have wrapped themselves in form head to
toe parading through life, showing their false pride.
There is really no reason why one should waste time or words with
these that have skillfully dug their own spiritual grave. Let them
continue, as their task seems so important, so edifying, to them that
they shall bury themselves mutually in a collective grave.
Only a tiny part of humanity is
in condition of examining what is waiting for them at the other
side of life. They are the few that instead of bowing down to the
impositions of the brain follows courageously the principles of the
heart; they are the ones that try to hear and follow their inner
voice, the intuition, opposing the orders of the intellect. With
regard to faith, they are the ones that only accept what they can
understand, and thus the only ones that doing so , allow themselves
to become alive inside. In short they are the ones who are truly
owners of themselves, of their own destiny, but not slaves to the
intellect or rigid dogmas. And those, free like this, are
unfortunately few in number.
But it is precisely these ones
that shall intuit, with crystalline clarity, what eventually each one
shall find on the other side awaiting for them. And that will be
exactly what they forged for themselves, through all that they
emanated, whether thoughts, or actions, or their inner desire.
Nothing more than this, for they know, with all clarity, that in the
next life there can simply neither be distinction or separation of any
creed or species, or any differentiation engineered by the earthly
intellect. There, there are no more ideologies, there are neither
hymns nor flags, and there is no money or honors. There are no
Christians, Jews, Moslems, Spiritualists, Hindus, Buddhists or Shin
Taoists, but human souls, simply human souls that have to render
accounts of how they used the time granted them whilst they were here
on Earth.
There, there is no longer any outer form of blind
faith, mechanically memorized, but only the true inner faith, and in
the exact measure in which this is truly alive in the respective human
spirit. It is the content, and not the shape that counts. In that
world what counts is the legitimacy of the veneration to the Creator,
and the vivacity of the gratitude to Him, and not the quantity of
prayers recited during the years on Earth. What has true value there
is the true love to the neighbor, profoundly intuited, and not the
number or value of the alms distributed on Earth, as so many suppose
in their un-confessed foolish hope that these should be credited to
them somehow in the next life, like a metaphysical investment of
guaranteed return.
Only living faith, vivified by the person himself,
can transform itself into conviction, and only an inner conviction is
capable of propelling him or her to ascend spiritually, to become an
ever better human being, which is in fact a precept that has always
been a fundament of any true doctrine. Only much later, when the
followers and leaders of these pure original doctrines decided to
“perfect them” through their own accord, were these very fundamental
teachings relegated to second or third levels of importance, or even
completely suppressed. Then in their place were inserted the empty
forms of blind faith that do not demand any effort of inner
improvement, and that is why they were always warmly welcomed by the
followers, because of their chronic spiritual indolence. The millenary
ode of dogmas took care in carefully wrapping their already half
sleeping spirits, into a comfortable spiritual death-slumber.
We ourselves are the ones that have formed the
material of the world that we shall step into after our death. This
construction material that is at our disposition are the actions,
thoughts and intuitions. These are the invisible bricks with which our
much feared “beyond” is built of. And it is impossible to ascend the
other realms of Creation without first entering this world and
remaining there for a period of time; this world is nearest to our
Earth of gross matter. And only those apt to proceed on the spiritual
ascension and enter into the beautiful world of Paradise,
correspondently more elevated, built in the conformity with the Laws
of Creation from whence everything is sent forth for development and
improvement.
These laws of Creation, or natural laws, are so
simple, so logical and clear that they just escape present-day man’s
comprehension. Yes, they are so simple that he is no longer capable of
understanding them, being impeded by the sophisms of his intellect.
They permeate throughout Creation, thus also acting down here, on our
small planet, with identical inflexibility, imperturbable, in its
eternally uniform rhythm. If we make an effort to move to those
blinkers one side, no matter how slightly, so that we can examine
these Laws of Creation with a free spirit, we would already be able to
recognize them without any difficulty.
We know, for example, that in a paddy field no
stalk of wheat can ever sprout, and that in a bean pod there will
never be a soybean. That is why if we sow thistles, we are certain
that not a single flower will bloom from this seeding. It is so
obvious that nobody doubts this fact. However, the same natural law
that acts there in such an implacable manner, not admitting the
slightest deviation in its effects, are the very same laws that
equally act over the human being. Nor could it be any different, as it
is nothing other than a mere fruit of Creation, as so many other
things are.
When Jesus spoke the phrase:
“WHAT A MAN SOWS HE WILL HARVEST”, he was transmitting the statement
of this law, called “The Law of Reciprocity”. This Law of Creation
that acts so unyieldingly with regard to the seeds produced by Nature,
to the point that we don’t fully understand it, also act with the same
inflexibility, with the same sureness and implacability with regard to
the seeds produced by human beings, which are their intuition, their
thoughts, their words and their actions.
These human seeds are equally
planted in the “other world”, of a different material consistency,
ethereal matter, also producing the respective fruit, which will
have to be harvested and also consumed by the owner of the sowing,
that is, by the one that generated them. What this generator did not
harvest here on Earth, as the retroactive effect of this same Law of
Reciprocity, he will unfailingly have to harvest in this so-called
“beyond”. After his death he will then have to go to the world that he
himself helped form, through the irrefutable effects of the Laws of
Creation, delighting in happiness or enduring the torments, side by
side with souls of the same vibration as his.
Because of this, it is in the
hands of the human being himself, not only just to forge his destiny
here on Earth, but also to categorically choose the type of world he
is going to inhabit after death. Only he creates for himself this
world according to his sowing, of which can either be pleasing, warm,
full of light and happiness... or his own living hell.
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