LIVING ETERNALLY
12 Stages of Death & Rebirth
COMMENTS TO MY READERS: In the first paper of this Advanced series, the subject of death and rebirth was briefly discussed in conjunction with the Eternal Spiritual Atoms. It was explained how our individual ESA and our soul are the means by which our worldly history, life experiences and spiritual progress are carried forward from life to life. Most Christians believe in eternal life through Jesus Christ; and it is true that an eternal life experience does take place following the purging and purification stages of the soul. However, eternity is experienced primarily because time does not exist in the heavenly realms; but this not the end of the soul’s journey. Christians don’t seem to consider that living eternally means living from one life to the next consecutively through the 7 Days of Creation; and at present, we are only a little past the mid-point of the fourth day. (See diagrams in: Perception)
For Christians, living multiple lives gets overlooked even though Jesus clearly explained it to the apostles on the Mount of Transfiguration in Matthew 17:1-13. The apostles knew the prophesies said that Elias would come before Christ and they asked Jesus about this following the Transfiguration, and He explained that Elias had come in the person of John the Baptist.
For myself, I do not hesitate to write about this subject because on 3 separate occasions in meditation, I experienced what I would call “a living scene” of myself in unique and different historical settings. Each scene summarized my life at the time as to the historical period and occupation, and two showed the setting and people I was interacting with at the time. In the third, there were no people visible, but someone out of view spoke to me in my study about my work. In all of these lives I was male and this one makes the fourth, and I get the distinct feeling from these lives that I am the same astrological sign as I am now. As the historical settings showed, there was a significant amount of time between each life which corresponds with the teachings in this paper. I know living multiple lives is part of God’s plan and the material being presented here is true.
Most people are disconnected, uninformed and apprehensive about death, simply because it remains an unknown; they don’t seem to realize that life itself is an unknown mystery for them also. They live in the materialistic illusion of their ego-personality never realizing they are living life in a waking dream. All of this worldly experience will remain a mystery until they awaken to who they truly are within. In order to understand death and rebirth, it is necessary to understand who we are, where we are going, where we have come from and where we were before we were conceived.
The subject matter of death and rebirth is deep, thus, it is necessary to explain how human consciousness and third-dimensional reality interact, how humans affect the macro cycle of death and rebirth and where all this is taking us. The first thing to be distinguished is the difference between the human body and the human being. In the macro cycle of the soul, the physical matter of the body comes and goes, returning to the earth at the end of each life; the being and soul in the body are eternal and a part of the Triune Self which compels and causes new bodies to be born.
It is God, the Father’s plan for us to live multiple lives in order to reach the supra-spiritual states of consciousness revealed to us by Jesus Christ. Even the best among us are light years away from “doing these things I do and greater than these.” I don’t know, but I feel that it will take light-years for us to be like Jesus, but if we are living eternally, what does a little time matter?
“Seeing that the soul is immortal and has been born many times, and has beheld
all things both in this world and in the nether realms, she has acquired knowledge
of all and everything…thus, it would seem, research and learning are wholly recollection.”
Plato
Who We Think We Are
In our present world, the self-conscious human being is a drop in the bucket compared to the divine being we are meant to be. In this material world, we live in a complex delusion as to who we truly are. Our view of reality is equivalent to looking through the knot hole of a large fence. And the irony of it all is how egotistical people are about who they think they are. In comparison to the universe, seen and unseen, earth and humanity are drops of water in the ocean. And to add irony to irony, neither the sun nor the Galactic systems are the center of the universe – humans are! Humans are the central focal point of the universe because we were created in the image and likeness of the Creator; we are the living off-spring of God.
Why? Because God has a plan and purpose for us and Jesus Christ is the model we are to follow for this plan to be carried out. This plan requires for humans to let go of their overinflated egos and surrender to the Divine Image in which we have been created. Unbeknownst to most people, this divine image resides eternally within each of us and God gave us a living example of it in full expression in the person of Christ Jesus. Through a simple deductive thought process, it is not difficult to recognize that present day humanity is nowhere near the divinity of Jesus.
It is delusional for any Christian to believe that when this life is over and they reach heaven, that that is the end of their journey and they will remain in heavenly bliss for eternity. Sorry, but there is more to it than that! This paper will explain with the best knowledge currently available that I know of, what that more is and what we humans must do to get with the program; or not. We all have a right to choose and each choice we make has the potential to redefine the configurations of our future destiny; as creators of our own life it becomes very important to keep an open mind when making life-altering decisions.
Using the term “humans” to describe ourselves is an extremely vague term for who we actually are. It usually denotes what we think and feel about ourselves which includes what we see, hear, taste and smell, but that is not who we are; even though we feel this body, we are not the body. Our self-perception is deeply rooted in the ego-personality; and this ego-persona is the center of our self-identification. Any further elaboration on the ego-persona is like adding accessories to a device: married or single, education, occupation, children, hobbies, etc.
However, we all have different histories and experiences which we associate with our ego-persona and these histories and experiences carry much greater weight when we are trying to describe who we are. In reality, describing to a new friend who we are, based on history, is actually describing who we were. Consequently, without knowing it, most people’s idea of who they are is actually an incomplete or an embellished notion of who they were. Hence, the majority of people in the world have no idea of who they truly are, nor do they know where they are going.
The image above is the triune image and likeness of God in which we were created and integrated into a body. We human beings are configured in a triunity of knowing, thinking and doing so we are synchronistically, energetically and spiritually aligned with the Holy Trinity. The Knower, Thinker, and Doer are our spiritual Self, which means the majority of our spiritual nature resides outside of the physical body in the higher, subtle energies of the etheric world. This physical body would have no connection to the higher Self whatsoever if it were not for the breath-form (the living soul) and the breath. The body without the soul is an elemental automaton, an animal body driven exclusively by its hunger and instincts. The breath is the key to life for the human being; it is also the key to death. In the diagram above, the physical body is surrounded by the energetic emanations of its 4 vital systems.
4-Fold Human Body
The human being we know is a combination of the fourfold physical body, the breath-form, and the Doer portion of the Triune Self which integrates with the body; the Triune Self receives its Light from the Omnipresence and Omniscience of the Celestial Light of Intelligence. The breath-form together with the four senses in the head and the physical body comprise the “vehicle” for the ego-personality in which the Doer part of the Triune Self is housed. The physical body is a condensation of the four elements and belongs to nature; its form is not permanent. The body is a mere mass of nature-matter which is constantly changing.
The matter of the body consists of billions of elemental units from the four states of matter on the physical plane. These units of matter are either transient units which constantly stream through and around the body; or they are compositor units which detain some of the transient units and compose them into the visible, tangible mass of the cells for all physical bodies in the world. These units of earthly matter are ever-present and continue their work from birth to death and from life to life; death interrupts their activity. Transient and compositor units are summoned at the time of conception, and resurrected into new bodies. Thus, there is a continuity of these transient and compositor units. They fabricate and furnish new bodies for the Doer until they are established in permanence in a body which does not die; that body is a balanced, immortal, sexless physical body.
The fourfold physical body, (diagram below), consists of a radiant or astral body, an airy body, a fluid body, and a solid body, which becomes visible because of the compacted mass of its cells. The matter of the radiant body holds together the airy, fluid and solid units of the cells and is given form by the breath-form. The breath-form (soul) clothes itself in this radiant matter and breathes through all four bodies. The radiant, airy and fluid bodies are intra-cellular and connect all the parts of the solid body with each other. The radiant body operates the nervous systems and receives and transmits messages among these systems and the breath-form, and so brings about changes in the makeup of the body and executes bodily movements.
Integrated with the physical body, so as to be a functioning part of the ego-personality, are four elemental beings comprised of nature-matter, the senses: of sight, of hearing, of taste and of smell. Each has a dual function of receiving and of acting. They operate the four bodies and the four systems; the sense of sight works with the generative system (fire), the sense of hearing with the respiratory system (air), the sense of taste with the circulatory system (water), and the sense of smell with the digestive system (earth).
It is the breath-form which enables the sight, the hearing, the taste, and the smell to contact the things which they see, hear, taste, and smell; and finally, to coordinate and bring the sensory sensations of the four senses into contact with the feelings of the Doer. Thus, the senses maintain a constant stream of activity by and through the human body between nature and the Doer. The body exists in a physical atmosphere, (diagram above), which is the emanation of the transient units as they are breathed in and out by the breath-form.
The Waking Dream
The elemental body of matter is not conscious; the Doer is connected to the body and is conscious as feeling and desire; the Thinker is connected to the heart and is conscious as reason and rightness (conscience); and the Knower is connected to the pineal/pituitary glands and is conscious as Self-knowledge and Self-Identity. When the Doer integrates with the physical body it becomes the body-mind (See: Ego-Mind).
The Doer-in-the-body says to itself, "I see", "I hear", "I taste", "I smell", "I touch", but it does nothing of the kind. It cannot see, hear, taste, smell, or touch. The sense of sight looks through the eye, sees through the eye, and imprints on the breath-form a record of what it sees. The breath-form carries the impression to the feeling of the doer. The desire side of the doer passes the impression on to the body-mind to have it translated and interpreted in terms of feeling the impression brought in by the sense of sight.
Then the feeling of the Doer, which pervades the body, identifies itself with the sense of sight, which does the seeing, and says to itself, "I see", but this is an error. The Doer is only conscious of what is seen, heard, tasted, smelled and contacted by the senses. It does not itself do any of these things. It feels identity with or as the senses, because it is conscious of them, but it is not conscious that it is not the senses and that it merely feels through them. It merges itself with the senses by feeling and then cannot be separated from them. Feeling will be merged with these senses and be conscious of itself as these senses until it desires to awaken from the illusion of the material world and the bodily desires.
The Doer in the body can also say, "I feel", "I think", "I know", but in this it is nearly as much in error as when it believed that it sees or hears. It is true that the Doer-in-the-body feels and thinks after a fashion, but the real "I" does not feel and does not think. The error lies in the conception of what that "I" is. The "I" of which the embodied portion of the Doer is conscious is a delusion, it is a false "I;" the Gnostics referred to it as the counterfeit spirit and today we know it as the ego-persona. The false "I" is feeling/desire of the body-mind which identifies itself with the feelings and desires of the physical body and the senses; it is the basis of the actions of the human being.
There could be no conception by the feeling-mind as an "I" if there were not actually an "I" present. This "I" is the I-ness of the Triune Self, and more specifically, it is the Self-Identity of the Knower. This I-ness or Self-Identity is our true Individuality which is always present throughout our life; it is “who we are.” Our ego-personality may get crushed from a bad mistake, a failed relationship, or a self-esteem issue, but in the subtle regions of the higher Self is the unwavering presence of our Individuality. We may have variations in the ego-personalities in the lives we live, but our Individuality never varies; it is present with us in each and every life we live.
The spiritually unawakened Doer/body-mind is not conscious of the Individuality. Only when the Doer awakens to the reality that it is living in a third-dimensional illusion and turns his/her attention within through the practice of meditation or quiet contemplation, can one awaken. Being conscious of the presence of the "I," causes feeling/desire and the ego-personality to make the mistake that it is what it feels (illusion), whereas it only feels a sense of the "I", but it is not that "I" any more than it is the four senses. Feeling tries to find the "I" in desire and desire wants to get the "I" from feeling. This interaction of each trying to get the "I" in the other adds to the mystery of identity – of what is the true "I" and what is the true Self.
By their thinking, feeling and desire can never give a correct interpretation of this mystery, because the feeling-mind can solve the mystery of feelings, and the desire-mind can solve the mystery of desires, but these minds cannot solve the mystery of the "I" and of selfness. Rightness of the Thinker does not confirm but leaves them in doubt. The subject they are dealing with is a truth, a reality, but their solution is not right. The mistake about the "I" and the self of the human being is due to a delusion which is produced by thinking under the pressure of feeling-and-desire. So the Doer-in-the-body is conscious of itself as being something which it is not; thus, it is not conscious of what it actually is. This delusion of the false "I" lies at the basis of the human being, which is partly ego-personality and partly the body-mind of the Doer.
The ego-personality, the physical body and the four senses are all operated by the breath-form, i.e. the soul’s form within the body. The ego-personality is an inseparable combination during life. It is a mask or a costume; and it does not work alone. It works in conjunction with the embodied portion of the Doer which has become the body-mind. The Doer identifies as the body-mind and uses the ego-personality, speaks through it, acts at its behest and conceives that it is the ego-personality. The combination of the ego-personality and the embodied portion of the Doer is the “human being.” Thereby it shuts out the possibility that its thinking and self-perception are flawed. It does not realize its feeling and desiring and thinking are all done in response to the nature-body which keeps humans trapped in the illusion of the elemental world.
Ironically, the primary issue people have about living multiple lives is centered on their concern about whether or not they will come back as the same person; never realizing this attachment to the ego-personality they carry through life is a full blown illusion in their mind. This boils down to a simple realization – the vast majority of humans are incapable of distinguishing between reality and illusion. They dismiss the notion that this life experience is an illusion, a waking dream, a holographic projection by collective humanity onto the background of creation. The truth is this life experience is a conception of a perception of the projection.
People are trapped in this waking dream; and they staunchly embrace this illusion thinking it is real. Only by recognizing the reality of the true Self within can they begin to disengage from the illusion and build their foundation on solid ground. Unfortunately, most humans are happy to indulge in the entertaining pleasures and enticements of this world. They have no desire to awaken to inner truth which opens one’s “real-eyes” producing stability and faith in the goodness, order and perfection of creation.
“It would seem that the physical life on earth is for the purpose of preparing the immortal
and everlasting Spirit Soul. Every act, thought, word, and emotion
of the individual’s physical life contributes to this end.”
Nine Faces of Christ by Whitworth
The Creator’s Eternal Plan
God has given humans the freedom to live in this world and to believe in whatever they want. As explained above, the lack of understanding about who we truly are enables humans to believe whatever they want including the belief that there is no God; or that their opinions and beliefs are reality; or that they can ignore and defy the Quantum laws and principles of Creation because they want to be something they are not nor can ever be. Many live and act without moral guidance, inflicting pain and confusion on others both physically or emotionally.
Though we have been endowed with freedom to live life as we see fit, nevertheless, we live within a Grand Plan God has created for this Eternity System; it is for the exaltation of humanity and one we follow to reach the power, glory and love God has prepared for us. God has shown us in every way possible how He wants us to live and how He wants us to be, even sacrificing His son who personally revealed the reality of the divine potential God gave to each of us who would follow the Way of Life. We are bound to God’s eternal plan and those who resist it will be cast aside, by their own willful choices, stubborn thinking, and illegitimate actions. See the parable of the wheat and tares, in Matthew 13: 24-30.
It is ludicrous for anyone to think that present day humans are capable of perceiving and fully understanding the spiritual reality Christ Jesus. Humans have only been self-conscious for about 600 years and the majority of that time they have been focused on new scientific, astronomical and technological discoveries as well as the ego’s emergence into the modern world with all its materialistic pleasures. Since the beginning, humanity has been in creation for billions of years, in the physical earth realm for millions of years and yet, most Christians believe a life of less than 100 years, regardless of how pure, qualifies them to life in heavenly bliss for eternity!? Most Christians have faith in God and Jesus Christ, but of those, very few have any internal spiritual experience of their higher Self or the Light and Spirit of Christ within.
Below is a diagram from the Cosmo-Conception by Max Heindel which gives a more realistic portrayal of God’s eternal plan; the diagram below is the configuration of an Eternity System. This diagram shows a total of 777 incarnations in this eternity system over a 7 cosmic-day period; the number of lives is an ideal possibility. The reality is many souls who make this journey won’t live that many lives. Many will be stragglers who are slow to awaken, dull and unmotivated. Many of these are people who resist change and are unwilling to learn. Some are people who are stuck in one of the many illusions of the materialistic world or people who are downright evil, who hate and resist the Light of Christ and require hundreds of years to purge their souls between lives.
Nevertheless, this grand plan moves forward and those who advance from life to life without resistance will evolve the most. They advance by learning how to live as Christ showed us so they can move unscathed through the stages from death to rebirth. This is the key to eternal happiness – learning how to live so death and rebirth are just a part of resting and regenerating before beginning a new journey in life.
In the diagram below, at the mid-point of the 7 World Periods is the Earth globe, and at the lowest point on this globe (D) is the earth experience humanity is presently in. This is the fourth kingdom spoken of in Daniel 7:23, “Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.”
At the lowest point of involution into this eternity system, Jesus of Nazareth entered into this eternity system to live a preordained life which would release humanity from the sins of its ancestral past and reveal the divine potential God and the Elohim created in the archetypal Adamic body. The baptism of Jesus Christ would imprint the collective World Soul of humanity with the Divine Fiat of Christ, awakening a godlike configuration designed to release the spiritual potential of all humans who follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ halted the involution of spirit into matter and initiated the evolution of matter into spirit; we are 2,000+ years beyond the midway point of the 7 Days of Creation (near the E).
Jesus Christ revealed the Father’s plan for humanity so the miraculous, latent powers in the human body would blossom and come alive in each of us. We would ascend into the realms of divine glory and manifest the powers of Christ in prototypal expressions unique to us individually. We would be like Jesus Christ but with our own unique talents, creative abilities and flawless beauty with perfect immortal bodies of light. It is my belief that if people knew what a miraculous journey God has designed for us, they would be awed beyond their wildest dreams and truly feel blessed and humble.
7 Revolutions around each Globe
6 Nights between the Globes
The only way we can reach this destination is to allow for the fullness of our inner being to be realized and made manifest, by cycling higher and higher, perfecting new bodies while awakening to our True Self. The human body only lives for a short time, and as stated above, one life is not enough to manifest the powers and love of Christ and it is obvious, considering the current state of the world, we are light years away from being like Jesus. What I am trying to communicate about humanity’s eternal destiny is represented in the images below. These diagrams are the Tree of Life in different dimensions.
The first image on the left is the Tree of Life from the Kabbalah. It represents the unfolding creation, but more importantly, it represents the primordial Adam in whose image humans were created. Adam becomes the pivotal symbol linking God, Man, and the World; he is the precursor of all things, the first archetypal form to emerge in the Void, and the sole vehicle through which the Tree of Life and all the worlds are emanated. Humans, created in God’s image, are comprised of the same archetypal, structural design and nature which comprises the body of Adam as well as the Light-body of the new Adam, Jesus Christ. Adam is said to emanate the light of consciousness which becomes the Tree of Life in the form of the Light World, Life World, Form World, and Physical World, in conjunction with the 4 organs of sense: the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
For me, the first image is how most humans presently perceive themselves and the world; as one-dimensional, meaning humans have always lived on the earth’s surface and everything they deal with is unconsciously perceived as a surface. When we go within and embrace our spiritual nature we become like the second image. The third image is the fulfillment of humanity on the sixth day of creation; and on the seventh day we rest. We humans have a tendency to get stuck in our little world; we need to open our minds to infinite possibilities.
Transition of the Human from the World
There are three cords or threads of life: the umbilical cord, the silver cord and the Archetypal Cord. The umbilical cord sustains the life of the embryo during the period of gestation and pre-birth. The silver cord, the soul’s cord, enables one to release the everlasting body from the physical body at night during sleep; it is also the means by which one withdraws from the physical body at death. The Archetypal Cord, the spiritual cord, determines one’s response to Spirit and works with the soul to determine the length of life. In death, the silver cord is severed in three 24-hour intervals. After death, each person undergoes a period of time in the Archives of Introspection and Retrospection, and remains conscious and present in life, though invisible to the living, for 84 hours. After the record of the former life is reviewed, one enters into rectification as required by the soul after death. (See: Ecclesiastes 12:6-7)
In the highly-evolved person, the silver cord becomes inactive after the records of the soul have been read. The Archetypal Cord takes command and the deceased unites with the higher purpose of the afterlife. One who is less evolved continues to function through the silver cord and enters into a purgatorial state of rectification. The silver cord consists of a veil-like magnetic and etheric substance, which has five connection points which are correlated to the spleen, the liver, the heart, the throat and the crown of the head.
The mood for approaching death begins by the relaxing of the silver cord. During the first three days after death, the silver cord is loosened and withdrawn from its five connection points. The Archetypal Cord or Thread is the connecting link between Spirit and soul. This cord has a heavenly frequency or vibrancy called a Hum. The Hum of the Archetypal Cord sustains the true identity of the spiritual self, its Individuality. When the Hum of the Archetypal Cord decreases, the silver cord loosens its mesh-like hold upon the spleen and slackens its attachment to the liver; and the silver cord’s tendrils, upholding the flame of life within the heart, are relaxed. (See: Eternal Spiritual Atoms)
With the decrease of the Archetypal Hum, the physical body begins to disintegrate, and the person, regardless of age, enters a dying state. The soul’s record of past lives and the record of deeds in the present life determine the length of life and the timing of death. The Archetypal Cord, working with the record of the soul, withdraws its Hum when the purpose of one’s life is completed. Whether one dies as an infant or in full maturity, one has fulfilled God’s equation in some manner. Even though the promise of one’s full expression may appear to be incomplete, the person has answered and responded to the demands of the soul’s record.
Rectification & Purification of the Soul (An Overview)
Whether people believe in re-existence or not is irrelevant. The soul and the Doing self transition through the same process cycle after cycle in the twelve stages following death. The stages do not alter, but the individual experience in the second stage after death varies relative to the purity of the soul and the spiritual evolution of the being; this will alter the amount of time it takes for a soul to make the transition. As explained above, some souls pass right through; willful and sinful souls can take hundreds of years to purge their souls before they can move to the next stage; some never do.
In the beginning of this paper, I have gone to great lengths to explain how the present day human thinks and feels; how they live in a false persona of the “evolutionally youthful” newly awakened ego or self-concept in humanity; how they are estranged from their true identity by living in a waking dream they think is real; and how they are free in this life to believe in whatever they choose; although beliefs don’t necessarily represent reality.
The sole purpose of this lengthy explanation is to help people understand that how they live life now is creating their hell or purgatory or their heavenly state. And by awakening spiritually, they can alter the after-death experience entirely. Like the middle image above, if they can awaken to their inner reality and begin to know their Individuality, they will receive intuitive guidance and never feel alone again. Many people who are pure in heart pass over these purgatorial experiences because there is nothing to purge from their soul and they go directly into the heavenly experience. They live many more lives than the rest of humanity so they are more evolved and advanced in their body, heart, mind and soul. In the 12 stage macro cycle of death and rebirth, it is only in the stage of life that we gain experience and knowledge which advances our souls.
Aside from the cultural mores and societal laws governing people, there are no restrictions on how a human must live, think or be. Thus, lesser evolved people thoughtlessly direct innumerable negative thoughts and deeds toward other people because of their selfishness, anger and insensitivity. There are billions of vengeful, selfish, mean, irreverent, insensitive, lustful, lying, hateful, harmful, degenerate and sinful thoughts and words expressed every day by people against others; not to mention the murders and violence. Each human, by their thoughts, words, and deeds, sets the stage for their end of life experience because karmic forces do accumulate. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” The heart and soul of each person carries the sum total of their life experience, its light and love or its darkness, willfulness and selfishness.
2 Timothy 3: 1-5 says it best, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
Between re-existences the portion of the Doer with its breath-form which had been in the human being, recedes from the outer crust of the earth through the earth towards the inner crust; and in certain zones between these two crusts the Doer with its breath-form has its purgatorial or hell experiences. During the journey the human being is divested of all carnal desires, which comprise one’s hells until they are “burned away,” and later, the Doer is enveloped in a dress of his/her nobler desires which make the heavenly experience.
Between the outer and the inner surfaces of the earth's crust (approx. 600 miles thick) there are passages, lakes and giant chambers like cavities in a sponge. In the book, Thinking & Destiny, Percival writes of his visions of the earth’s interior in great detail and describes many scenes of people and groups in hell and purgatory. It reminds me of the book, The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri published in 1321; below are a few of the illustrations from Dante’s journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven which are very similar but different from Percival’s descriptions.
In the inner crust, each Doer portion has its own karmic experiences which are the development of its thoughts and deeds during the past life. No new thinking takes place. Each concentrates on and repeats automatically the thinking done in life, and this conjures up the psychic setting of these various events and the related thoughts. The run of human beings are not developed beyond feeling-and-desire so their thinking deals with these psychic conditions and identifies themselves with them. After death, the Doers are mostly in states of being relative to their past as shown below.
In life, humans have only known one dimension, surfaces, and to these they are limited after death. The exceptional human being whose life is not dominated by materialism and the lower feelings and desires, will go beyond these surfaces into the inner sphere (See: Tree of Life diagrams above). In life, the Doer/body-mind conceives of itself as an entity, the human being; and this entity does not know itself any better after death than it did while it acted through the ego-personality in life. The false identity does not change, though the desires and the thoughts change as the human goes through rectification and heaven after death. The portion of the Doer that was embodied does not recognize its Individuality or its relationship to the Triune Self as a whole, because it did not know it during life. The journeys from the outer crust towards the inner are made by the identity that the Doer carried with it in life.
NOTE TO READERS: Knowledge of the 12 portions or prototypes living multiple lives in this eternity system were only found in two books of the thousand+ books I have read on mystical/esoteric teachings, Thinking & Destiny, by Percival and Archetypal Kingdom, by Colton. However, these are two authors, among a small group, who I respect the most on this subject. Although I discovered Colton’s book 30 years after studying Percival’s, the similarities in the underlying structure of their differing presentations (plus tidbits from other books & my own experiences) were enough for me to validate and write about these visions and revelations.
To continue: The twelve portions of the Doer are one and inseparable; in total, there are six males (fashioned from desire) and six females (fashioned from feeling). They live successive existences, six as males then six as females; each re-existing portion or prototype of the Doer takes up its own life and not the life of any of the other portions. Each portion is what makes the human being of the Doer conscious as a human, distinct from other human beings throughout the period of his or her life on earth. Only one of the twelve portions of the Doer is embodied at any one time. Each portion represents a different aspect of the Doer and re-exists to accomplish a definite purpose. Each of these prototypes is a separate portion and yet is related to all the others because the Doer is one Doer.
A human prototype is conscious that he/she is conscious, but he/she is not conscious as that which is conscious; he/she is not conscious that he/she is only a portion of a Doer, or that there are the other portions, or of relations between him/herself and these non-embodied portions. He/she is conscious of his/her feeling, desiring, and thinking and of his/her ego-identity. He/she is conscious of the ego-personality "I" but not as the Individuality"I" and he/she does not know the real "I" or higher Self.
Since that prototype of the Doer which re-exists is not conscious of its connection with the other portions, at the end of the heaven period, that portion enters again into a relationship with the other portions and returns to its place among them. It remains there until the other portions have re-existed, each in its turn; then it re-exists again. Each portion is responsible for itself, makes its own destiny, takes up its own life and reaps what it has sown. Each of the 12 has its own life, but with the same Individuality and its own people which meet up in each new life to be lived in a specific way for maximum soul growth based on the group’s pre-configured plan of destiny. In order to have the full complement of life experiences, each portion will choose a different astrological light-stream; in one life, one may choose to be an Aries and in the next a Leo. This is God’s way of giving each human the opportunity to incorporate all of the experiences necessary for his/her evolvement and perfection.
When one finally incorporates the total essences and substances provided by these Archetypal prototypes, he/she becomes a composite identity correlating to the perfect human being i.e., to the Lord Jesus Christ. We humans are configured like Jesus and the 12 apostles – we are also the 12 and the Triune Self or the Thirteenth. It is hard to imagine what our experience will be like as we approach the seventh day and our 12 portions or prototypes become one. More on this subject in the next paper.
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Comments to the Reader: The subject matter below of the 12 Stages of Death & Rebirth comes from the book Thinking and Destiny by Harold W. Percival, which is in the public domain. This book is the most comprehensive and reliable source of knowledge on this subject. However, be advised that the subject matter will not be as meaningful if the reader does not have the self-context and understanding of this being a journey of the self and soul through eternity. So please understand the content above before proceeding to this next part. Considerable time has been spent putting this paper into an order so the reader will be able to comprehend this complex subject matter.
THE 12 STAGES FROM DEATH TO REBIRTH
The large circle symbolizes the psychic atmosphere of the doer. From the center to the circumference the twelve lines enclose sections which represent the stages of the symbolical roadway through which each doer portion, in its turn, passes successively after death, from its life on earth to its next re-existence. The circle of the lowest section represents the physical life on earth. The opposite and highest circle represents the heaven period of happiness. The five circles on the right represent the after-death stages through which the doer portion passes to prepare it for its period of happiness. The five circles on the left represent the stages through which each doer portion in its turn passes on its return journey for its re-existence in the lowest circle as an appearance on the earth stage of physical life. The lowest line on the left separating the circles is the line or gate of birth. At the moment of birth the breath of the breath-form enters with the first gasp and the breath unites with its form in the heart. The lowest line on the right separating the circles is the line or gate of death. The half circle within that section represents the length or span of the doer's inner life and thoughts in its rise from birth to its fullness and decline and death of the body. The outer part of the circle represents what is said and done to outside nature as the expression of its inner thoughts. Likewise, each of the circles signifies what the doer goes through in itself, and its effects on the stage through which it passes.
The following is a brief summary of the occurrences in each stage. The breath-form (the Living Soul) in the early stages following death is the primary focal point of activity. In the first stage of death, the breath-form is with the Doer and ego-personality in a dream-like state. In the 2nd stage: the breath-form is separated from the Doer portion during the separation of the desires. In the 3rd stage: there is a further separation during the separation of the thoughts. The 4th stage: is the purification of the breath-form. In the 5th stage: the breath-form is purified. In the 6th stage: the breath-form is united with the doer portion, which is in its heaven. In the 7th stage: the form of the breath-form is inert. The 8th stage: the form and breath are summoned for activity. In the 9th stage: the form enters the mother of the doer portion next in line for re-existence. The breath is in the psychic atmosphere of that doer portion. This is the embryonic period. The 10th stage: placental life begins. This is the fetal period. The 11th stage: Fetal period continues. Human body is made ready for birth. In the 12th stage: the breath enters through the infant's lungs and unites with its form in the heart, being the breath-form at the moment of birth and until the death of the body.
The Twelve Stages
From Thinking & Destiny:
The twelve states, stages, or conditions constitute one round which each Doer portion passes through from one life to its next life on earth. When the Doer eventually becomes conscious that its body has died, it awakens as after sleep. If the fourfold physical body has not yet been dissipated by cremation or by the decay of the flesh body, the Doer may be held by its desires on the form plane of the physical world. If the body has been dissipated, the Doer, when it awakens, is in its psychic atmosphere on the form plane of the physical or the form world. The Doer does not know any more of these planes than it knew of them in life. (My Note: The form world is the invisible matrix of all objects and things in the visible world. This invisible matrix holds everything together in the visible world; when we are no longer in the body, the form world becomes more apparent and real.)
In either case the Doer is with its breath-form and its four senses. It can see, hear, taste, smell and feel, and it is conscious in its breath-form. It lives over its past life, not from childhood to the time of death, but its entire life is made a composite and it lives that composite. It is in its own world, in its psychic atmosphere. Its acts, its events and its environments are those as they were on earth and as real as it perceived and felt them to be in life. It is dressed in its favorite attire as in dreams, or with the composite attire. It meets the people it met on earth and speaks and acts with them and they with it, similarly as in a dream on earth. These are not the earth people or Doers, but a reproduction of them as impressed on the breath-form, by thoughts of them during life. In this state, the Doer does not go through extreme sorrow or extreme joy.
Some Doers go through this state for an hour and others for many years of earth time before going to judgment. Some receive their judgment as soon as they awaken. Nothing more is there known about the after-death states than was known during life. Sooner or later in this way the Doer becomes aware that it is to be judged for its thoughts and deeds on earth. It goes through what impresses it to be a passage and emerges in what seems to be a hall of Light, which is present in every part of the Doer. The Doer would retreat into the passage to escape the Light, but the passage has disappeared. It seeks a way to escape from the Light; it seeks something to shield it from the Light; but the Light is everywhere; there is nowhere for the Doer to go and nothing that can intercept the Light.
It tries to call upon God, as it thought of God during life, to save it, but it cannot pronounce His name. It calls upon its friends, its protectors, its dependents, its money, its power, its good works, but none can enter the Light. It would accept the help of the very devil, if it believed in a devil, to get out of that Light; if its bad works would convict it and damn it into hell it would summon them, but it is conscious that not even these would take it out of the Light. It feels that this Light, the Conscious Light of Intelligence, is conscious of everything, and that it is now alone in this.
Gradually the Light makes the Doer aware that it does not even own the form it is in; the Doer and the breath-form separate. The Doer feels naked, stripped of its very breath-form, but is conscious. The breath-form with its four senses stands before it. There is silence. The Doer cannot see or hear. The Light which is through the breath-form brings out all the thoughts that were invisibly impressed upon it during the life which has passed. The deeds in life, the objects with which the Doer and the body were concerned, the persons and the places and the settings, are brought out by the Light and shut off from the Doer. They appear with the thoughts which the Doer issued about them during life. These thoughts in their stages toward exteriorization are shown through the breath-form. The Doer feels as though it saw and heard all that appears upon the breath-form that was its own. The entire life passes and is felt by the Doer.
The Conscious Light is Truth. It reveals and makes the Doer conscious of what the Light is conscious of. As each thought, act and event is brought out, the Doer is aware of the Judgment of the Light and that the judgment is true, without favor or ill will, and is the judgment of the Doer itself. This, too, is impressed upon the breath-form. It is as though judgment were pronounced and recorded; the Doer feels naked, in the Light without its breath-form. The Light withdraws. The Doer reenters its breath-form and is in darkness and unconscious of the judgment through which it has passed, though it feels that it has been judged. All that the Doer had or did in its past life and that was made invisible and inaudible by the Light in the Hall of Judgment rushes in and makes the world in which the Doer is presently in. The world changes at once and instead of being the physical world as it appeared to the Doer on earth, it becomes the world which it really was, but which the Doer did not then know. A period of suffering begins as the Doer now enters the first stage of hell.
There are in hell no torturers, no fire, no brimstone, no foul smelling waters, nor any of the infernal agonies which theologians of various religions have fabricated for a multitude whom they have damned to suffer them; nor is there a cloven-hoofed, fork-tailed devil. Yet there is suffering in hell for sinful thoughts and acts while on earth; the only devil is its own devil. The breath-form, on which all thoughts, their exteriorizations, and their effects had left their marks, which were illuminated and adjudged by the Light at the time of judgment, now shows the pictures one by one. As they come, the Doer lives through the desires it then had. The persons and objects connected with the desires are there, but there is no physical body and no means of satisfying the desires. Desires can never be satisfied; they can be weakened for the time by the exhaustion of the physical means of gratification. The more desires are fed, the stronger they get and the more the means of gratification are weakened.
That was so in the physical world, but now on the form plane of the physical or the form world, the Doer has the desires again and no means of gratifying them. They rage. The ordinary person with his desires for food, for sexual intercourse, for drink and for comfort, in their various forms, suffers by having these desires without any means of gratifying them. There is a hunger, a burning desire for satisfaction which eats into the Doer without destroying it. Normal and moderate appetites do not produce this suffering in hell, but only the inordinate, intemperate, vicious desires which the Doer felt to be wrong.
Selfishness and covetousness in the past life, the desire to possess the things of others and to hold them for oneself return to the Doer in hell, but all physical things have been swept away together with the means of getting them. The Doer longs, and this longing pains like the pangs of hunger. Arrogance in life will come back to the Doer after death and then the Doer has the arrogant desires, but where there is no wealth, power or station, there is an emptiness which consumes the Doer itself. These feelings of hunger, of burning, of being consumed, are similar to the physical states. The difference is that the fleshly body is not there, but the Doer has its breath-form with its four senses, and it feels and yet it is not destroyed by the feeling.
The devil that accompanies the Doer through hell is its ruling and chief desire, which was its evil genius in life and is its devil after death. The lesser desires are the little devils under the chief. None of the devils has form here; they cry, they pull on the Doer; they goad, strain and burn, each according to its own appetite, longing or lust. The sins against one's own body and against itself, the Doer lives over the desires in the psychic state only. The sins against the bodies and Doers of others produce a different effect.
The Doer lives over not only the desires which were involved in those sinful thoughts and acts, it is accused by the people whom it wronged. Those who inflicted injuries or death by violence, by criminal negligence or by adulterated food; landlords or employers who caused the degradation of their tenants' or workers' bodies; the rulers, statesmen and party politicians who connived at such wrongs; cruel prison keepers, hard or indifferent judges, and those who sinned against the Doers of others by encouragement to acts of indulgence: these hear again the accusations and the things they knew of in life; they see their victims, sacrificed to their greed, selfishness, corruption and indifference; they see them and they feel what the victims felt – pain, disease, shame, degradation and despair.
This phase of hell is worse than the sufferings of those who wronged only themselves. All the Doers in hell suffer, but they do not learn anything there, they do not repent, they have no remorse. The opportunity for learning can come only on earth in the next life. The suffering is not for the sake of punishment but to purify the breath-form. Punishment also is reserved for the next life on earth. After the Doer has suffered from its desires, it remains on the form plane of the physical world or of the form world. The Doer so far has experienced only its feelings and desires – its psychic destiny.
Mental Destiny
It now begins to exercise one of its phases of thinking, which is mental destiny. The Doer feels itself; it is conscious of itself as the human. Thoughts it had in the past life come to it, of the stifling of conscience, of mental laziness, of clinging to ancient creeds when outgrown, of bigotry, of lying, of perjury, of denial of a life after death, of time-serving, of treason and of ingratitude, all thoughts by which it sinned against itself and thoughts by which it sinned against the Doers of others, by which it kept other Doers in darkness and delusion. The Doer feels the presence of its conscience. Its thoughts which conscience in life told it were wrong, cry out against it. It feels anguish, remorse, and mental agony. In that state of hell, the Doer feels that it must make reparation for these sins. It only suffers; it does not learn anything. Life in a physical body on earth is the time for learning.
In both of these states, those of living over again the feelings and the desires and the thoughts the Doer has had, it has its breath-form and its four senses. The anguish, remorse and suffering from its feelings and desires and from its thoughts, loosen the Doer from its breath-form. During the loosening process the elemental beings which built up the scenes made by the feelings and desires and thoughts are perceived by the Doer. These elementals are the various colors, forms, movements and actions in the scenes. Now as the Doer is loosening from its breath-form and everything is breaking up, separating and vanishing, the Doer perceives that the things which seemed to be real in life and in hell were made up of these elementals.
The Doer fears; things seem unreal; it passes through another after-death stage. The Doer may try to hold on to its breath-form or to any of the objects in the dissolving scenes, but it cannot grasp or hold. The forms change into other forms even while it tries to hold them. Then the breath-form itself seems to dissolve into the other forms and disappears. At the time of parting and disappearance, those feelings and desires which were associated with the four senses and are attached to outward things, assume a few or numerous animal forms, of beasts, birds, fishes or reptiles, of ever changing types. The Doer feels at the same time that it is, and that it is not these feelings and these desires. The Doer struggles with itself.
This continues until the Doer distinguishes and refuses to identify itself as these animal forms. Then the forms of the feelings and desires disappear and the Doer is free from them. The desire forms coalesce. There is usually one dominating desire form, into which the multitude of lesser desires merge. There are other desire forms which remain separate. Now that the conscious Doer has withdrawn, these desires no longer change the forms they have become. These forms, few or many, are now ready to leave the radiant state whenever there is a time and place for the physical animals of which they are types, to be conceived. At the birth of the animals they go into the bodies and are the animals.
The Doer, now without the breath-form and the senses, is in its psychic atmosphere, on the form plane of the physical world. It is no longer conscious as the past human. It is conscious as the Doer portion that was in the body. It goes through the feelings, desires and actions which engaged its thoughts during life. Only the feelings and desires come without the persons, objects and events that caused them. The Doer cannot see, hear, taste, smell or touch, but it feels the feelings unmixed and apart from the things which produced them. The feelings are affection, passion, anger, need, envy, hate or greed. The feelings and desires only are there, turbulent and strong. They move and fluctuate, they rise and fall and they turn and whirl and simmer. The Doer is in this state with itself and only feels and desires.
Gradually another kind of feeling comes. This is the feeling of right and wrong. The Doer is conscious of the righteousness or wrongfulness of these feelings and desires, and this starts the turmoil again. Now feelings of remorse, repentance and sorrow are added; feelings of duties not done or violated are felt. Gradually a different feeling comes – the feeling of I-ness. First there was only the raging desire without objects or form, and then came the feeling of remorse, now the third is the feeling that identifies the raging passions and weighty sorrows with the Doer itself. The Doer feels then that the passions and the sorrow are itself, and it suffers.
The fires of the raging desires and the sorrow for the duties violated purify the Doer and separate the feelings and desires and the sinful from the righteous. The sinful roll away when the righteous part refuses to identify itself as these desires; and they form the basis for the desire body of the Doer, to haunt the earth or to lie in wait to be re-embodied with the Doer. These feelings and desires are not attached to outward things, but seek an interior gratification and want to absorb, to hold or to control.
They are the selfish attitude of the Doer, which is gratified by the "outward" desires that went into animal forms. Throughout all the stages in hell, that which is now the desire body or cloak of vices was the cause of its chief suffering. This was the devil, the ruling desire of the Doer. Those feelings that conform to the standard of duty, being now purified and free from dross and slag, rise to the light plane of the form or the physical world. They are the Doer that has passed through hell and is purified.
Heaven is a Reality
On the light plane the Doer meets and feels the presence of what is to it an angel. It becomes one with that angel and finds itself in heaven. When the Doer parted from its breath-form and during the Doer's struggle with its desires before it separated from them, the breath-form seemed to dissolve. The struggle of the Doer was also a purification of the breath-form, and a burning away from it of all that suffering could dissolve or burn away, and then the breath-form rose to the light plane of the physical world. There it awaited and met the Doer and was the purified angelic being, the Doer's own glorified form, his breath-form, which the Doer took on and with which it entered heaven.
In heaven the Doer is a glorified being; it has its breath-form and senses and can see, hear, taste, smell and touch. It continues its earth life as if there had never been any interruption. But the life is idealized. No sins, no trouble, no sorrow, no poverty, no loss, no sickness, no death; no anger, no greed, no envy and no selfishness will be found in heaven. Heaven is a state of happiness and everything that mars unalloyed happiness is absent. There is no sex, no thought of sex; no shame and nothing to be ashamed of. The relations of sweethearts, husbands and wives are there, but idealized.
Carnal thoughts, sensuality and dross were burned off in hell. Mothers have their children, whom they lost on earth. It seems as if there had never been any loss. Friends find their friends; there are no enemies. The Doers in heaven carry on the occupations they had on earth, but only if their occupations were ideals to them. The good country priest or pastor is the shepherd of his flock and takes care of them as he did on earth; the kindly physician is happy because of the recovery of his patients. The chemist discovers new things which he sees are of benefit to the people. The statesman works in his ideal government. All occupations are free from the thought of gain through loss by others; the heavenly joy lies in the service which is rendered.
There is no sleep, no darkness and no weariness in heaven. There is no eating and drinking for its own sake. There may be eating and drinking if that was a part of the ideal occupation, as a mother's or a host's preparations to give enjoyment to others. There are rivers, beautiful scenes, flowers and verdure, if the Doer longed for them. There are lights, jewels, decorations and heavenly music for those whom this will make happy. The dress of the beings in heaven is as they conceived it as their ideal attire, while they were on earth. The Doers in heaven have their religion in heaven if they had it on earth, purified from sordidness, commercialism, bigotry and fanaticism.
God will be there in heaven in whatever form he was conceived on earth and the Christ and saints and angels, all will be in heaven as they were believed in on earth, but in an idealized, glorified, exalted state. There is nothing tame, colorless or inane about heaven. The pulse of life and enjoyment runs higher than it does on earth, for there are no drawbacks or obstacles to lessen enjoyment. In life on earth things are so mixed that there is usually some interference with full enjoyment, but in heaven the interfering sentiments are screened off from the Doer, therefore the feelings, affections and joys in heaven are keener and more alive than on earth. These are things the Doer longed for, yet they could not be realized because of impediments on earth.
Now, while it rests in heaven, the realization of every good thing it thought or worked for comes without drawbacks. Heavenly enjoyment is the result of what the Doer thought and did in the earth life. Nothing is added to what the Doer wished for or aspired to while on earth. The Doer learns nothing new in heaven; the earth and the earth only is the place for learning, because there all the spheres and worlds intermingle on the physical plane. Heaven is not a mere belief, a fancy, a beautiful mirage. It is nearer to reality than anything on earth. A Doer interprets as realities that which it is thinking and experiencing at the time and under the conditions in which the Doer is.
On earth there are flesh and blood relations between the Doer and its parents, husband, wife or child; and relations of friend, neighbor or acquaintance; and relations to those whom one sees, hears about, reads about and thinks about. These relations make up the physical world while the Doer is on earth. They are not merely physical, they are psychic, and some may be mental. After death the physical world and the physical body with its physical atmosphere have gone; in hell the grosser, sinful feelings have been burned out, but the relationships remain. When the grossness has been removed and the Doer enters heaven, the relationships which have remained with the Doer are realities to it, and are more real than they were on earth.
The Intelligence has no heaven as has the Doer, yet there would be no heaven for the Doer if the Light of the Intelligence did not fill heaven. Heaven is a part of the psychic atmosphere of the Doer, at any rate for the vast majority of Doers. This part was unmanifested during earth life. During life the Light of the Intelligence is not in the psychic atmosphere, but when the Doer is in the heaven state the Light of the Intelligence is there. The Doer in heaven is back in its original happy state for which it longed during its earth life.
Heaven is not a community heaven or a theological heaven. It would be impossible as a community heaven, because no two heavens could be alike. The ideals of earth life are different to everyone, and although people include many others in their ideals, their ideals of them are different from their ideals concerning themselves. If they were to carry out their ideals, it would interfere with the carrying out of those of others, and then there would be no heaven for them; but there would be the discords of earth. In order for souls to be in heaven, it is necessary that each should be in their own heaven and not in that of someone else, because then neither would have one. But each can be in the other's heaven according to the ideals of that other.
Heaven is not made up of successive scenes and events, of growing and aging, of changes, of beginnings and endings. Heaven is a composite of all these. It would not be heaven if there were a succession of changes in people or events. The changes are there, but they are there only in the composite, which is a whole. So a mother would not see or think of her son as the baby, the child, the bridegroom, the head of the family and the man of affairs, but she would see him as a composite of all these. The absence of change makes heaven completeness and eternity.
There is no time in heaven. Heaven is an eternity. There is no time and no eternity in the Doer itself, but only in so far as it sees time and eternity in nature. The Doer is in its psychic atmosphere at all times, in life and after death, but it is conscious in one part during life and in another after death. During life it has a mixed hell and heaven; after death there is a sorting out and a separation of the Doer from its garment of lower feelings and desires, and a passing in a purified state to its own heaven, all within its own psychic atmosphere. In rare cases it may also pass into its mental atmosphere and enjoy a mental heaven in the contemplation of mental problems.
The three atmospheres of the Triune Self are within the sphere of its Intelligence, and the Intelligence by its Light brings about all these experiences. Whatever the Doer's ideal as to time or eternity had been on earth, will be carried out in heaven. If one believes that heaven is eternal and without an end, it will be so to the Doer. To those who do not pay much attention to the thought of heaven, as such, their ideals make their heaven. There is an end to heaven for every Doer when it has lived out in heaven all the ideals it had on earth. Then there comes a state of sweet rest without activities and without any appearance of ending. The Doer separates from its breath-form as it did in deep sleep on earth and in the second stage of purification, and remains in its psychic atmosphere until it is again to return to earth.
Gradually it passes from the form world to the light plane of the physical – the Light of its Intelligence is obscured by the physical world and that Doer portion is in a state of forgetfulness. When the breath-form with the four senses parted from the Doer, the breath was disunited from the form and the senses were loosed. The four elemental beings which had served as the senses then returned to their respective elements and acted with the elemental races.
The Doer portion remains in the state of rest until each other Doer portion has lived its life on earth, each in its turn. Then when the time of its appearance in a human body fits in with the lives of those whom it has to meet, the form of the breath-form is activated from within which causes the breath-form to enter the atmospheres of the future parents; the form enters the mother and then or later bonds the seed with the soil. Then elemental beings are summoned in their order and build up and fill out the astral, then the airy, the fluid and the solid parts of the fourfold physical body, in fetal development, according to the model of the astral, furnished by the form of the breath-form.
The summons is answered by the different entities in nature, whether they are in the four elements, or in vegetable or animal bodies. The animal feelings and desires themselves begin to come in from nature with the beginning of placental development. They are the same feelings and desires with which the Doer struggled and which were loosened by its suffering in hell and from which the Doer separated when it separated from its breath-form. These feelings and desires, of which the new breath-form bears a symbolic record, are built into the astral body accordingly. With these feelings and desires the Doer must deal again at the seasons when they manifest in later life.
The fetus gradually develops and is prepared for birth. It waits for the right swing of the breath – this may be for hours or for days or weeks – and is then born into the world. Up to the time of birth the fetus has no distinctive physical atmosphere. Only the form of the breath-form is in the fetus. The fetus is developed in the mother's physical atmosphere. The breath of the breath-form enters with the intake of the breath into its form as the breath-form; and the breath-form is then the living soul of the newborn infant body. With the intake, the physiological change of breathing takes place. Then the infant begins to live in its own physical atmosphere.
Later, the Doer portion enters and lives in the body, and the three atmospheres of the Triune Self penetrate and surround the physical atmosphere of the child. The desire body or cloak of vices which rolled away from the Doer when it entered heaven may have passed through many conditions, but it awaits the Doer and oozes or is breathed into the physical body at a later period of life. This is the course of the Doer from the time of death to the beginning of re-existence of the succeeding Doer portion on earth.
There is, and has been for ages, much confusion about such terms as reincarnation, transmigration, and metempsychosis. They have been used as synonyms, but while they have been related they mark twelve different stages in the history of the Doer and of the entities composing the body, from the time of the death of the body until the Doer returns to earth.
Let go and Let God
Surrendering to God’s will is the highest goal for those who follow the Way of Life. We willingly submit knowing that we are one with God; we are the living offspring of the Creator who wants only the best for us. The Father is leading us to the grandest and most miraculous possibilities for our life; greater possibilities than we can imagine. All we have to do is follow in the footsteps of our Lord Jesus Christ. He clearly stated in Matthew 17:1-13 that living multiple lives was a reality and for me, it is the only conceivable path for living eternally in the 7 Days of Creation.
From Meditations on the Tarot – Letter V - The Pope, page 104: “Reincarnation is the successive lives of the same Individuality – this is a fact of experience, as are the successive periods of wakefulness belonging to the day, which are interrupted by sleep at night. Buddha recognized the fact of reincarnation as such, but he considered it regrettable. This is why the aim of the eightfold path which he taught is to put an end to reincarnation - because nirvana is the end of successive terrestrial lives. Thus Buddha recognized and at the same time denied the fact of reincarnation. He recognized it as fact and he denied it as ideal – because facts are transitory; they come and go. There was a time when there was no reincarnation; there will be a time when it will no longer be. Reincarnation commenced only after the Fall and it will cease with the Reintegration (of the world-mine). It is therefore not eternal, and therefore it is not ideal. There are therefore two truths: one is actual or temporal and the other ideal or eternal.”
