Heaven? Hell?

Neither heaven nor hell exists, at least the versions spoken of, and believed in, by Christians. I find it amazing that even when religious people believe they are going to heaven, they are scared to death to die. They are also extremely upset when a loved one dies, even when that person lives a long life. Why? They believe that they and their loved one are going to heaven, so shouldn’t they be happy? Of course, I’m not forgetting about the fact that the person who died will be missed, and that causes true sadness. But that is sadness for our loss, not theirs, if it is truly believed the departed are going to a better place. Eventually, it will be recognized that there isn’t any such thing as death in reality for anybody (not just those claiming religious superiority). And the day will come when we rejoice when a loved one departs this world because we will have a greater understanding of life’s process.

Hades means ‘place of death’, which it certainly is to the spiritual soul of man. When you descent into the darkness of the dense physical world and take a body, you are entering hell, viewed from the angle of the highest aspect of man, his spiritual soul, the father. Ancient translations and erroneous interpretations continue to plague Christianity, depriving its followers of a glimpse into the beautiful world of life. The focus needs to change from one of sin and crucifixion to that of life and resurrection.

So let’s talk about the reality of these two places, heaven and hell. With few exceptions, everyone on the planet is going to hell. What? I just said hell didn’t exist! The only hell you will ever know is right here on Earth, in a dense physical body, and it is an adequate one. You will return here many times until you have completed your evolution in this kingdom. People use the word reincarnation for that process but it can be more accurately represented by the term ‘rebirth’. You will be born here again and again until you achieve the heightened vibration that is required to enter the next kingdom.

Once you have put in your time on this plane you will transfer into heaven – everyone, without exception! Heaven can be referred to as the next highest kingdom in nature – as wonderfully different from life in the human kingdom and our life is from the animal kingdom. The plane of life is more correctly termed ‘The Kingdom of Souls’. And as I stated, everyone will get there in due time. No two people evolve in the same way at the same rate. We all have different experiences, some learning faster or slower than others, which accounts for the vast variances between people within humanity. There aren’t any privileged groups on the planet that have an early special entrance into this next world of life. None! There are, however, older souls and younger ones, all working toward salvation for themselves and for humanity as a whole.

And getting into the next kingdom of nature doesn’t complete our evolutionary journey. It is said there isn’t any end to the evolutionary process. So we will all evolve into higher states of being forever…however, I have heard it said – forever is simply a phase of something greater! How can that be? Forever is forever, right? Well, forever equates to time, and in the higher planes time isn’t, it has been left behind. Time exists so the brain can chronologically arrange events. Later you will exist in what has been called ‘the eternal now’, and a dense physical brain isn’t required.

Life is. God is. You will always be. Have faith in the beauty of life! It is wonderful beyond our wildest imagination!

Quote:

“The spirit of man is undying; it forever endures, progressing from point to point and stage to stage upon the Path of Evolution, unfolding steadily and sequentially the divine attributes and aspects.  This truth involves necessarily the recognition of two great natural laws; the Law of Rebirth and the Law of Cause and Effect.  The churches in the West have refused officially to recognize the Law of Rebirth and have thereby wandered into a theological impasse and into a cul-de-sac from which there is no possible exit.  The churches in the East have over-emphasized these laws so that a negative, acquiescent attitude to life and its processes, based on continuously renewed opportunity, controls the people.  Christianity has emphasized immortality but has made eternal happiness dependent upon the acceptance of a theological dogma: Be a true professing Christian and live in a somewhat fatuous heaven or refuse to be an accepting Christian, or a negative professional Christian, and go to an impossible hell – a hell growing out of the theology of The Old Testament and its presentation of a God, full of hate and jealousy.  Both concepts are today repudiated by all sane, sincere, thinking people.  No one of any true reasoning power or with any true belief in a God of love accepts the heaven of the churchmen or has any desire to go there.  Still less do they accept the “lake that burneth with fire and brimstone” (Rev. XIX:20) or the everlasting torture to which a God of love is supposed to condemn all who do not believe in the theological interpretations of the Middle Ages, of the modern fundamentalists or of the unreasoning churchmen who seek – through doctrine, fear, and threat – to keep people in line with the obsolete old teaching.  The essential truth lies elsewhere.  “Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap” (Gal. VI:7) is a truth which needs re-emphasizing.  In these words, St. Paul phrases for us the ancient and true teaching of the Law of Cause and Effect, called in the Orient the Law of Karma.

The immortality of the human soul, and the innate ability of the spiritual, inner man to work out his own salvation under the Law of Rebirth, in response to the Law of Cause and Effect, are the underlying factors governing all human conduct and all human aspiration.  These two laws no man can evade.  They condition him at all times until he has achieved the desired and the designed perfection and can manifest on earth as a rightly functioning son of God.”

– The Reappearance of the Christ, p 146-147, by Alice A. Bailey

 

Life after Death?

Do you believe in life after death – reincarnation? Existing after the body dies helps explain a lot. Evolving through the human kingdom from one life to the next would account for the great disparity among human units around the world. The truth is there isn’t any such thing as death. There is only life in its entire varied splendor. And that applies to all units of life on the planet, from atoms within dense matter up through and including the plant and animal kingdoms. There aren’t any groups of people or units of life within any kingdom of nature, including the human, that has a monopoly on eternal life.

Yes, it is true the physical form we inhabit will at some point become unable to support our life force and die. Then the indwelling life (our true being) is released, we don’t cease to exist, except in this world at that time. We live on. We continue to live upon more subtle planes until the call comes for our soul (the real life) to incarnate again. Then we take up existence on this dense physical plane once more, evolving into ever higher beings in each succeeding life; learning and growing from where we left off in our last life. It has been said that we are ‘more dead’ now than we ever will be! The subtler planes being composed of less dense matter provides for a greater livingness for our constantly evolving souls.

Death is one of the greatest illusions surrounding mankind. Fear of the unknown, lack of scientific proof, and the pain of involuntary change all add their quota to that surrounding fog. But that is all it is, fog! When the veil is lifted all that remains is ever changing and ever evolving life. There is nothing else! Always fresh beginnings and new starts, another chance to do better; to move forward into ever expanding rings of livingness. You will experience rebirth again and again, striving for a greater measure of perfection each time. And there isn’t any loss of identity or memory after death. We retain everything, even though separation has occurred from the dense physical form.

As our attitude changes toward the subject of death, as it most assuredly will, so will the fear and uncertainty that surrounds it. Each night when you sleep you die to this plane. When you leave the physical form upon the ‘death’ of that form you simply leave this plane for a longer period of time. You are alive and active elsewhere.

Erroneous teaching about heaven and hell has hindered humanity down through the ages from learning the true nature of death. There isn’t any hell! Life on this plane is the only hell you will ever know, and it suffices to be an adequate one. Descent by the soul into a dense physical form, with all its limitations, is true death and hell to the spiritual nature of man. Dying from this dense world is liberation and entrance into greater life. As the individual progresses in one form after another his/her attitude will eventually change and the prospect of death will no longer hold any fear. And then he/she can truly begin to live!

Appropriate quote:

“Have perseverance as one who doth for evermore endure. Thy shadows live and vanish; that which in thee shall live forever, that which in thee knows, for it is knowledge, is not of fleeting life; it is the man that was, that is, and will be, for whom the hour shall never strike.”

– The Voice Of The Silence #138, by H. P. Blavatsky

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