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--- On Mon, 5/4/09, Paul Turner <[email protected]> wrote: From: Paul Turner <[email protected]> Subject: [MD] Dialectics To: [email protected] Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 10:39 PM *The dialectical nature* Our life-field is ‘dynamica’, ‘dialectics’ or the ‘dialectical nature’, in which everything manifests itself in pairs of opposites. In our lives we wander within the many pairs of opposites: from dark to light, from light to dark, from war to peace, and vice versa, from freedom to captivity, and from captivity to freedom. To this nature belong both the material life on this side as well as the immaterial life in which one arrives áfter the detachment of the physical body. Though the dialectical nature can only exist by the grace of divine force and energy, it is nevertheless separated from the Divine. It is an emergency order that serves to bring human beings through experience to awareness of their fallen state. The dialectical nature remains a prison for the human being until the spirit-spark atom can be awakened and impelled to life. *It is a good thing to dwell on this point for a moment, because from this it follows that our prison is not only a penal settlement for the original human being, but at the same time a place of mercy, where efforts are made to help us regain the sonship of God. Now it has become clear to us that there are two atmospheric fields. Not one here and another somewhere else, but present simultaneously and existentially, just as there are also two electromagnetic fields existentially present. The one condition represents the state of fall and mercy, the state of patience and help; the other condition, absoluteness and divinity. Both conditions are present at the same moment, in the same space, here and now. The Kingdom of God and its life-atmosphere is nearer than hands and feet, yes, it is within you.* So both life-fields are a reality, the higher life-field interpenetrating the lower one, but not vice versa. They do occupy the same cosmic space, however. This is why one cannot say that freeing oneself from the earthly nature is the same as ‘renouncing’ or ‘fleeing from the world’. Rather it is a question of returning to the one original reality. *The perception of statics* Both life-fields can be perceived. For this to be possible, however, suitable organs of perception must be present. As dialectical human beings we have very limited organs of perception at our disposal. With these organs we can perceive only that which forms part of the dialectical nature. We do not have any means of perceiving the divine life. Why is this so? Because the dialectical personality – the I-human being – is composed entirely of elements of the earthly nature. This applies to the body of coarse matter as well as to the tenuous bodies. The human being’s consciousness is formed out of the sum total of the consciousness-nuclei of the atoms and cells of his body. This consciousness is determined by matter and so remains bound to matter. In other words: we perceive only that which has the same degree of density as the matter of which we are composed. So we perceive only the crystallized part, and we mistake this for the reality. To our consciousness the space between the forms is empty. We are unable to perceive and experience the divine nature with its higher vibrations and radiations. Therefore, we can perceive on earth only the results of God’s works, but we cannot see the driving force behind this. As personalities born in matter, we can only make assumptions and speculations about this. The result is that the world is laden with allegations and contradictions about the nature of God and about eternity. This is why there are so many religious views, hypotheses, arguments, wars, and persecutions. Plato, the great Greek philosopher at the cradle of the Occident, already expressed this lack of power of observation. *The allegory of the cave (from Plato’s *Republic*, Book 7)* *We human beings have been imprisoned in a cave since childhood. We cannot turn our head to see the entrance but are forced to look at the back wall of the cave. Behind us in the cave, a fire is burning that casts its light on the back wall. Between the fire and the chained human beings, all kinds of objects – representing ideas – are carried past. They cast their shadows – this is the world of appearances – onto the high wall at the back of the cave. The chained human beings in the cave mistake these shadows for reality. They argue about the origin and the purpose of these images, and think that it is the task of science to examine these silhouettes. However, if one of them were able to burst his chains and turn around, he would see the objects themselves and see the reality instead of shadows.* This allegory wants to make it clear to us that the knowledge that we amass through our senses is no more than a shadow. Everything on earth is a projection of the reality. Loosening the chains and leaving the cave is the process of liberation. But just knowledge of this is not sufficient. *Fundamental reversal of the system* This knowledge has a liberating effect only as soon as it is put into practice. For this reason the human system must undergo a fundamental reversal. The senses by which the divine order can be perceived must be developed again. The gospel according to John calls this development ‘the rebirth from Water and Spirit’ (John 3). That is: rebirth from the primordial substance of the divine life-field. Without this rebirth one cannot come to know the divine world nor enter into it. <Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God>, Paul says. The rebirth out of Water and Spirit is the process and the goal that are shown in the Gnostic-Christian doctrine of redemption and which is explained by Jesus the Christ. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
