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Soul? The dark Underworld - Hades.
"The Soul has, in the time of the outer body, three mirrors or eyes of
all three worlds; this is the mirror she turns to, out of which she sees?
But, by the Rights of Nature, she does not have more than one, that is
fire-lightning, as the fourth figure in the dark world, in Loco, where
the Principium originates, where the two inner worlds separate, one
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into darkness and the other into Light ... And when you place 1.) the
light-world into its right fire, against as in primo principio? And 2.) the
dark-world in the fire-Root? And 3.) the external elemental World
among the ordeal of the stars, between all that moves the great
Mysterium of the Soul-fire? The Soul adjusts and devotes herself to
this world, and she receives from this world the beginnings of her
imagination? But, she has joined Adam in the Spirit of this World, and
led her imagination therein, now her greatest desire lies in the ordeal
of the Sun and the Stars and produces with it the Spirit of the external
world, with the Being of the four Elements, always within her, and she
has the greatest joy therein, where she is a guest in a strange lodge,
because the abyss is below it, and there is great danger."
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-(Jacob Boehme, Sex Puncta Theosophia)
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The Rebirth as the Mysterium of Initiation
Even today, Plato's words are fully valid, when he said that those who sink in the
mire, entered into the underworld uninitiated and unchastened, and only those who
went through a mystical life, will enter into eternity.
-(Phaidon)
According to Apuleius, the initiation is a voluntary death and it is a rebirth to a new
and higher Life.
The endeavour towards true wisdom is comparable to dying, because the true
Philosophers aspire to nothing more than the secession of the Soul from the earthly
body? As long as the Soul is bound to the transitory body and is affected by it, the
Soul cannot reach her true being, because the sensory perceptions are deceiving and
nothing certain can be found in it.
The actual truth cannot be recognized by means of the body, but only through the
Spirit, which has withdrawn from everything physical, the enlightened insight, the
truth in us, that which is eternal and unchangeable.
The Spirit must concern itself with pure thoughts, which have withdrawn from
everything earthly, that means sensual? The one who totally immerses himself into the
pure Spirit, lives solely in truth? For the true Philosopher, death does not contain any
terror! Also, all the higher ethics must be based on the liberation of the Soul from
everything earthly.
Only when the Soul is alone with herself, and she observes the pure, the eternal, the
immortal and what always remains unchangeable in and through herself. then is she
united with the wisdom? Then the Soul lives, as the Initiates say, in the Divine.
It is not possible for anyone to enter into the Society of the Divine, unless he has led a
mystical life? He has to be totally free from everything earthly and transitory, such as
only an Initiate, whose only endeavour is wisdom.
Those Souls, however, that are totally bound and incarcerated by the body are of a
coarse earthly substance? Through this, they become coarsely material and impure? It
is impossible for them to enter into the other world in a pure and clean condition, and
they always pass away burdened with the earthly body, and that is why they do not
reach the point, where they unite with the Divine, Pure and being One.
That Soul, however, that follows the higher insight and remains loyal to it, considers
and nourishes herself always with the truth and the divine, and all that is superior to
the intelligence-speculation, will be transformed into the nature of this divinity? She
(the Soul) does not have to fear when separating from the body (while death occurs),
that it enters into the chaos and that it will be torn apart there, and will be strewn into
the winds and dissolved.
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Even Human Beings, who are purely sensuous, have the spiritual-divine powers
hidden within them, but only within the Initiate have they manifested in reality?
Therein lies the transformation that took place in the Mystic rebirth. The external
world made a sensuous Human Being out of him, and he then was left to himself?
Nature thereby fulfilled its mission? Nature cannot bring him to a higher perfection,
than what is according to its own being? But wherever Nature stops, the art must
begin? Therefore, Human Beings must take over by themselves, when it comes to this
perfection? He must resurrect the God that is concealed in him by himself.
In antiquity, Human Beings were subjected to secret procedures in those places,
where the mysteries took place? His lower earthly nature was killed in that manner,
whereas the higher and divine within him was awakened to life.
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The reason for the initiation lies in the confession, which were once given by
Apuleius, who passed through the Isis-Mysteries himself:
"I was close to the Kingdom of Death, after I crossed over the
threshold of the Goddess of Death Persephoneia, I travelled through all
the elements and returned again? In the middle of the night, I saw the
Sun shining radiantly; I was close to the gods of the Underworld and
the Upperworld, and I worshipped them from countenance to
countenance."
And he adds to this, and rightfully so:
"See, I have reported something to you, which you do not understand
yet, even though you have heard it!"
Much can be said about the Initiation into the Mysteries and about the rebirth, but to
whosoever is not himself initiated and has not experienced the rebirth himself, these
words are only sound and smoke.
Only the Initiated consider themselves to be authorized to speak about God and
immortality? They know, whosoever has not passed through the Mysteries, and
speaks about this, says something, that in principle he does not understand himself?
Because, in the uninitiated, the Divine and the Eternal has not yet been awakened, and
therefore, it does not exist alive? Would he speak of someone Divine, then he speaks
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