(Q) Discuss the various phases of spiritual development
before and after reincarnation in the earth.
(A) This may be illustrated best in that which has been
sought through example in the earth.
When there was in the beginning a man's advent into the plane
known as earth, and it became a living soul, amenable to the
laws that govern the plane itself as presented, the Son of
man entered earth as the first man. Hence the Son of man,
the Son of God, the Son of the first Cause, making manifest
in a material body.
This was not the first spiritual influence, spiritual body,
spiritual manifestation in the earth, but the first man -
flesh and blood; the first carnal house, the first amenable
body to the laws of the plane in its position in the
universe.
FOR, THE EARTH IS ONLY AN ATOM IN THE UNIVERSE OF WORLDS!
And man's development began through the laws of the
generations in the earth; thus the development, retardment,
or the alterations in those positions in a material plane.
And with error entered that as called DEATH, which is only
a transition - or through God's other door - into that
realm where the entity has builded, in its manifestations as
related to the knowledge and activity respecting the law of
the universal influence.
Hence the development is through the planes of experience
that an entity may become one WITH the first cause; even
as the angels that wait before the Throne bring the access
of the influence in the experience through the desires and
activities of an entity, or being, in whatever state, place
or plane of development the entity is passing.
For, in the comprehension of no time, no space, no beginning,
no end, there may be the glimpse of what simple transition or
birth into the material is; as passing through the other door
into another consciousness.
Death in the material plane is passing through the outer door
into a consciousness in the material activities that partakes
of what the entity, or soul, has done with its spiritual
truth in its manifestations in the other sphere.
Hence, as there came the development of that first entity of
flesh and blood through the earth plane, he became INDEED the
Son - through the things which He experienced in the varied
planes, as the development came to the oneness with the
position in that which man terms the Triune.
(Q) Are angels and archangels synonymous with that which we
call the laws of the universe? If so, explain and give an
example.
(A) They are as the laws of the universe; as is Michael the
lord of the Way, NOT the Way but the lord of the Way, hence
disputed with the influence of evil as to the way of the
spirit of the teacher or director in his entrance through the
outer door. [See Jude 1:9 in re Michael the archangel "when
contending with the devil about the body of Moses" when Moses
died.]
(Q) Describe some of the planes into which entities pass on
experiencing the change called death.
(A) Passing from the material consciousness to a spiritual
or cosmic, or outer consciousness, oft does an entity or
being not become conscious of that about it; much in the same
manner as an entity born into the material plane only becomes
conscious gradually of that designated as time and space for
the material or third dimensional plane. In the passage the
entity becomes conscious, or the recognition of being in a
fourth or higher dimensional plane takes place, much in the
same way as the consciousness is gained in the material.
For, as we have given, that we see manifested in the material
plane is but a shadow of that in the spiritual plane.
In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow
stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption
through the acceptance of the law (or love of God, as
manifested through the Channel or the Way), there can be
little or no development in a material or spiritual plane.
But all must pass under the rod, even as He - who entered
into materiality.
