The Wave of Life and other principles of esoterical Phylosophy
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The Wave of Life and other principles of esoterical Phylosophy
..."What animates every form is motion”; I don’t know if
by ‘animate’ you mean ‘makes manifested’ or ‘makes
alive’...
Answer: an energetic essence of a higher kind (spiritual) expresses
its own ‘desire’ to appear, pushing a part of itself in manifestation.
This push is higher in vibration and ‘creates’ a form in the lower
substance (think of a slap in the water).
This happens when the higher aspect (the energetic nucleus called spirit)
‘animates’ with itself a heavier (slower) and material aspect of
substance.
How is it possible to animate an aspect below characterized by a slower vibration
(energetic sound)?
The animation occurs when the higher being impresses with itself a heavier
(slower) substance, penetrating it (this is the misunderstood ‘fall’
of the spirit in the matter).
This impression reflects in a denser plane the form of the higher being, ‘animating’
in this plane its parallel form. Because of this ‘similitude’ the
human conscience, not his body, is called the ‘son’ of a ‘divine
father’, which is the spirit.
The closest aspect to a physical conscience of the energy that animates it
is called ‘our’ soul. This is a mistake, because the soul doesn’t
belong to us, but rather, being its ‘form’, we are an expression
(manifestation) of it.
At this point, let’s focus on the sequence of animations that interest
the human, remembering that many tones and hues of those aspects intersect each
other:
A) The so-called super-consciousness: spirit, soul,
higher Ego or true Self,
B) The so-called consciousness or vigilant conscience:
the lower ego or personal self (reason)
C) The so-called sub-consciousness: instincts, impulses
and animality.
Let’s see, for example, a ‘descending’ aspect of this energy.
Will, determination, courage, strong attitude, physical will, strength,
violence.
Let’s now see the return, namely the ascending aspect or way back:
Violence, strength, determination-tolerance, intelligent strength, strength
of mind – spirit of sacrifice, intuitive intelligence, spiritual will.
In order to better express the idea of reflection and reflecting,
which is the aspect ruling the manifest world, we will use the image of the
sun that rises on a meadow.
We might think that there are thousands of suns reflected in the drops of
dew on the grass; or that thousands of drops of dew reflect the sun.
In both cases we would turn reality upside down. The sun, like a ‘Central
Unity’ (God), rises and reflects itself in a multitude of drops of water
(the form).
The drops ‘are’ (manifest) its reflection as long as it is there.
When it disappears on the drops there will be no trace of it. The drops will
then ‘die out’, although the sun’s life will continue elsewhere.
Here we are at the postulate: the energetic essence (the spiritual sun) lives
of itself even when there isn’t a form to manifest it. This is not true
for the physical form, which doesn’t exist without the ‘presence’
of the energetic essence or without its push to show itself.
We can guess, then, that the ‘presence’ of this energetic entity
is ‘life’; without it the physical form would have never appeared
on its material plane.
This is the relation under which we need to put the life that animates
and any apparent form, even the human appearance that many people
identify with, not recognizing the appearance of their primogenial nature any
more.
Through this postulate, esoterical Philosophy (called living Ethics)
starts dealing with the motives that ‘drive’ a spiritual essence
to show itself on the physical plane.
In the exoterical view, though, the causes that originate a manifestation
(the true whys) are confused with the effects that keep it on the material plane.
For this reason, the karmic motives will always be considered ‘effects’
and never causes. The Karma, in actual fact, is not a cause, but rather a consequence
of its (unconscious) ‘presence’ on the physical plane.
..."Which supports and keeps the physical form and its attributes
(the reason)” Is every thing manifested on the physical plane gifted with
reason, then? What do we mean by reason?”
Answer: by common definition, the reason is the mental aspect
able to express a thought, a judgment on self and others, people and facts.
It is the conscience of what we think we know or we think we want for our
wellbeing. We can find a wider ‘reason’ that includes every kind
of manifestation, more diffused because it involves every form of life.
It is the reason that drives to evolution. The evolutionary drive
is the reason that involves the inborn intelligence of every living form;
even the heaviest (slow) like mineral substances. This reason is the reason
of life.
..."Until it stops ‘reflecting’ to retire into a pause
of (material) silence, where it grows and re-generates a new tone of the same
note.”
I translate it as: a person dies, regenerates his vital strength and then
he re-incarnates.
Answer: the deduction from the point of view of the physical
form is defective because of its egocentrism. At the center of the idea there
is the vision of personality (person) that doesn’t regenerate absolutely
anything, because it is not designed to carry out the task of the soul, except
in some extraordinary cases (3rd initiation or major initiation).
The soul portrays the fragment of self used to ‘occupy’ its form
and makes it silent and inanimate (physically dead).
The soul, reflection of the spirit (individual Monad) withdraws in order to
re-generate the part of self that has been diluted with the physical matter.
At the same time the soul ‘reflects’ (excuse me this term) new strategies,
in order to become stronger on the material plane.
This project is the Great Work called consecration
of the matter.
When the Initiate blends his physical conscience with that of the higher Ego
or true Self, the ‘Bridge’ (Antahkarana or real arch) is created,
joining soul and personality. The latter is then called integrated (with the
project of the soul).
The integration and blending of the two wills (personal and animic) manifests
(embodies) an Initiate, who is called a divine Workman.
..."This is the ‘elevation of the spiritual conscience.’
In what sense? I thought that it was the manifestation of the Divine on the
Physical plane. Why do you say that it is the elevation of the spiritual conscience?
To say the truth: what is the spiritual conscience?
Answer: every physical form is, on its plane of existence
(subjective dimension) an expression of the divine. It contains its imprinting
(impression), although modified to make it suitable to the contact with the
denser substance (slower vibration of the more external and material dimensions).
The ‘spiritual fragment’, become physical conscience, must be
taken back to the original ‘splendor’ (illumination).
This fragment has become forgetful of itself, like in the saying: from
the stars to the barn stalls. It must be taken back to the memory of itself
and its true nature of divine origins.
Like a dethroned king the conscience must elevate (from itself) and bring
itself (by itself) back to the rank where it belongs, after awakening (by itself)
from the ‘torpor’ of the heavy (slow) earthly sensations. In order
for this to happen properly, it is necessary to follow a way of spiritual development
proved to be efficient, called itinerary of self-conscience.
In conclusion, it is a mistake to think that the ‘divine’ and
earthly dimensions are separated. Both concur to the same purpose, therefore
there’s no reason why they should be considered antithetical and conflicting.
In other words: they are two faces of the same coin called: (divine)
Life and (material) Existence.
Summarizing:
1) Is it right to deduce that everything (even stones, clouds, fire, etc...)
is alive?
Answer: all is alive until it contains a living
atom that animates its ‘reason of being’.
2) What do you mean by ‘reason’? Perhaps it means ‘Conscience’?
Answer: the physical reason, as we know, often thinks nonsense,
confusing good and evil. Therefore I exclude that reason and conscience can
be considered equivalent.
3) What do you mean by ‘spiritual conscience’?
Answer: there is a bigger spiritual dimension that surrounds
the physical dimension of the universe. Inside the physical dimension there
are ‘relative spaces’ of spiritual dimension that, so to speak,
exist inside every living concept.
As it is described in the «Ezekiel Scale», spiritual
parts descend whilst others ascend; this creates the cyclic motion
that, like a big pendulum, beats the rhythm of the divine manifestation
(see Great Book of Nature), made by light (appearance) but also by shadows (disappearance).
Light and Shadows, though, are two expressions of the same Unity: this is what
we are supposed to get to know.
4) Is it right to deduce that every thing that is manifested on the physical
plane is gifted with reason?
Answer: certainly. The concept, though, must be studied more
thoroughly.
5) Is the ‘Wave of Life’ a synonym of ‘Vital Strenght’?
Answer: the Wave of Life which some Masters working on the
first 3 rays talk about, is the long line of (intentional) causes and their
consequences on denser levels.
It is manifested through ‘tones’ (psycho-emotional sounds and
colors) that become the ‘phenomena’ that make life apparent; this
happens through a process of formal expressions that characterize the physical
forms that we know well.
The physical expressions, though, are only the last link (every link is a
different dimension) of life that evolves, generating the different forms of
existence. From here originates the distinction between life and existence.
In order to study the evolution of the Wave of Life (motion in expansion)
we should start thinking in terms of multi-dimensionality.
This concept is difficult only in appearance.
Let’s think, for example, of a space divided between many boxes, one
inside the other.
If we grasp this concept, it won’t be difficult to grasp the idea of
‘synchronicity’. Indeed, since all the relative
spaces are parts of a bigger space (dimension), all that happens in one of them
is communicated immediately to the others. This is the principle of synchronicity
that links every dimensional space, from the subtlest (divine and spiritual)
to the heaviest of the material plane.
6) Is the Wave of Life the ‘Hidden Life’ which Annie Besant
talks about in her famous prayer called ‘O Hidden Life?
Answer: I don’t think that a prayer can be considered
as knowledge. Perhaps as a metaphor. In this case, it is possible that it shows
the same principle. Metaphors, though, have a purely indicative value. If there
isn’t anything better, they can help directing the Traveler. In order
to proceed on the initiatory path or to approach the living teaching,
it is necessary to get used to thinking in terms of principles, omitting symbolical
terms that, with a metaphor, are part of the garden of the Temple.
It is necessary to learn how to knock at the Door of the Temple, waiting for
someone to open it and let us in.
Athos A. Altomonte
