Soul-death and Spirit-life
The plain fact is that attaining Enlightenment, Nirvana, or the Kingdom of Heaven through the Inward Path requires the slow death of the body, or as close to death as is possible. Asceticism in the West and Yoga in the East essentially teach this technique. One learns to stop all the senses, even eventually stop breathing, to attain this rare state.
This is the opposite of the life of the Spirit in the Outward Path, which requires evolution of the material world to higher and higher being until Godhood is attained at the epiphenomenal zenith of evolution in the Kosmos.
The Inward Path of the Revealed Religions can lead to revealing the Soul Within, which is this experience of emptying the mind and the senses. When attained this state offers the blissful experience of Nirvana, however, contrary to Tradition, it is a high immanent, not a transcendent state.
Experiencing Nirvana gives a blissful, virtual experience of the power of Godhood, or the power inherent in Godhood, but it is vital to see this as virtual Godhood, not real Godhood. True Godhood must be evolved to in the Outward Path, in the phenomenal and epiphenomenal world.
At the deepest aspect of the Soul, or at the Zenith of the Soul, exists the Spirit, and here we find both immanent and transcendent qualities. The Spirit is the activator of life, working in conjunction with evolution, and It derives from Godhood at the beginning of the Kosmos. We might venture to say that, at least symbolically, the Soul is cerebral, and the Spirit is reproductive, which is a transvaluation.
The plain fact is that attaining Enlightenment, Nirvana, or the Kingdom of Heaven through the Inward Path requires the slow death of the body, or as close to death as is possible. Asceticism in the West and Yoga in the East essentially teach this technique. One learns to stop all the senses, even eventually stop breathing, to attain this rare state.
This is the opposite of the life of the Spirit in the Outward Path, which requires evolution of the material world to higher and higher being until Godhood is attained at the epiphenomenal zenith of evolution in the Kosmos.
The Inward Path of the Revealed Religions can lead to revealing the Soul Within, which is this experience of emptying the mind and the senses. When attained this state offers the blissful experience of Nirvana, however, contrary to Tradition, it is a high immanent, not a transcendent state.
Experiencing Nirvana gives a blissful, virtual experience of the power of Godhood, or the power inherent in Godhood, but it is vital to see this as virtual Godhood, not real Godhood. True Godhood must be evolved to in the Outward Path, in the phenomenal and epiphenomenal world.
At the deepest aspect of the Soul, or at the Zenith of the Soul, exists the Spirit, and here we find both immanent and transcendent qualities. The Spirit is the activator of life, working in conjunction with evolution, and It derives from Godhood at the beginning of the Kosmos. We might venture to say that, at least symbolically, the Soul is cerebral, and the Spirit is reproductive, which is a transvaluation.
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