Our job as animals is to open to the Anima, to the Light from which we spring that personifies us and calls us into Being. The animal we are lives on the horizontal plane, the linear plane of history. This assuredly disappears when we die.
To die before we die means to live in accord with the vertical plane. To die before we die means to detach from the horizontal, to cultivate the energies of the vertical, the spiritual. When we die, the transition is already familiar.
We accomplish this through contemplation (going to and dwelling in the templum, the clear open space known by the augurs, the diviners), through faith in the Light, through love and gratitude, and through gnosis (knowing).
We "lay up our treasures in heaven." We develop our resurrection body even now.
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As babes, we lie horizontal striving to be vertical. Sadly, too many stop soon after those initial steps are learned.
ReplyDeleterecently a person on facebook asked if we will be responsible for what we've done to our bodies now, in the hereafter...I commented that I didn't think we would HAVE bodies in the hereafter. She said, "I believe in Christ. He promises that we will be restored to our bodies in the resurrection just as His was restored to Him" Hmmmmm...Interesting belief but, I believe "in Christ" too, and I think that the denseness of the 3D world is a wee bit too dense for the Vertical Plane? - huh...I'm not sure if I want to identify with this horizontal plane for infinity!
ReplyDeleteA pleasant treat to find this in my gmail inbox, as always, George--thanks again and again...
ReplyDeleteWas pondering the thing we call death a few weeks back, and as i examined it, i realized that in a sense, we've already been there (that void of sorts) before, before we were gifted this body and all of its capacities and limitations. i don't remember it being an undesirable or scary place, as many often suggest it might be...i'll be happy to go back there when the time is right, stay for a while, and then perhaps start this whole adventure over again...
i miss bumping into you on the streets of Flagstaff. i hope you and Karen are doing well.