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Preface to Part 4
At no time is our general lack of perfection more apparent than when we make the attempt to speak of God in a way that might bring true understanding. In previous efforts it was given that the business of gods was expression. In order to help our understanding then supposing we view this process as “expansion”?
Science seems to agree that our universe is expanding. It might be helpful to use this as an analogy. Can we draw a parallel between expressing and expanding? The former being about God (spiritual worlds). The later being about man (physical/emotional worlds). The ever present great Law of Correspondences applies.
In this part of the story occasional references will be made to Biblical passages. This is not intended to be an endorsement of any particular religion. May the reader remember that the stories in Genesis were in existence, passed verbally generation to generation, long before they were first codified by man.
Regarding names assigned to spiritual planes. These are not to be considered absolute. It is enough to understand that they exist in layered form, each being somewhat less refined than it’s higher neighbor and each having distinct purpose in service to the highest, the source. The reader is encouraged to assign his or her own names to these to agree with his or her experiences.
Part 4 Before the Beginning
With any expansive force we find a degree of necessary thinning or dissolution of the source (material). This is true even in those highest of spiritual realms. And so, the ultimate, the timeless plane upon which we find the source (God) has created another, slightly less dense, perhaps we might say, but lower in purity from it’s source. At this point the observer would see that there are two spiritual planes in existence. A third is just about to appear.
A spiritual plane is not complete, functional, without those minds which will make use of it. This is true with all planes, even the physical as we humans will attest to. One most essential duty of these is the management of further expansions (of God). Now we find that each spiritual plane has managers, great ones who, in turn, develop these to best potential thus preparing for yet other succeeding expansions. Now the observer will find that there are three planes within his or her sight. So far we have not named these.
Names are not universally recognized. They all too often vary with cultures. The learned will agree though that this effect derives from the inherent separatist nature of our world. Such considerations may, then, be set aside as having little value. For the sake of clarity in tabulation may we call the highest plane the Monadic (Divine), the next lower the Atmic, the third lower the Manasic? These will, at least, give us points of reference.
The source (God) occupies the highest of all planes, the timeless one, The “I am”. The Monadic or Divine to many. The next of the planes formed as a result of expansion, the Atmic, is also populated. The beings which populate this slightly lower plane are those that we, today, remember traditionally as being angels. In our story the Atmic is the source plane of the angels. What we find so far is the created spiritual worlds that existed before any of the lower spiritual and the physical. But this is soon to change.
There does exist in the spiritual realms a great hierarchy of responsibility. The business of those who inhabit any one plane is the manifestation of what is directed from above. Not a complicated process. Familiar to us in our world today. Visualize now the angels on the Atmic. They, the first of these, have completed their training and are ready to assume new responsibilities. The next step in God’s expressiveness is about to occur.
Now in the Atmic pyramid our travelers are about to witness the greatest event known to mankind.
To be continued.
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