THE CYCLE OF THE SOUL
Part III
The Cosmic Life

Jozef Rulof

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© 2014 'De Eeuw van Christus'

When I woke up I was lying on a couch. Flowers were all around me, and nature itself looked like a fairy tale. I was in paradise and lay in a home that was open and decorated with flowers of the spheres. I gazed around me at all this splendour.

But what was that? Did my eyes deceive me? My God, how was it possible. Before me, carved of snow-white marble stood Marianne. With one jump I was over at the statue and felt and touched it on all sides. It was real. Pure earthly it was, but this statue radiated light. I still had not recovered from my first surprise when my leader entered.

‘Well rested, my boy?’

‘Yes, father, I am so happy.’

‘I am now your brother, can you accept that?’

‘With pleasure’, I said.

‘Come and sit down, how much don’t we have to tell each other. Did you sleep well?’

‘Yes, master, wonderful.’

‘Do you know how long you slept?’

‘No’, I said.

‘According to earth time you have slept ten days.’

‘I can hardly believe it, but you told me about this when I lived in the darkness.’

‘Now that you are awake and conscious, we shall take some long walks. There is much I want to explain to you, and afterwards more wonders will await you. You may ask me as many questions as you like, everything will be made clear to you.’

At last then, I had come that far. And what a meeting it was here in the spheres of light! Presently I began to ask my questions. Close beside my Marianne I seated myself. She had received a place in the centre of my spiritual home. How great had this surprise been.

My first question was: ‘Am I in my own home, master?’

‘Yes, Lantos, this is your heavenly home, your very own possession. Your home is equal to your inner attunement, according to the love you hold and feel for all life, which is God’s holy Life. On earth the human being builds himself a spiritual home, and the part where you are now is, if we want to make an earth type comparison, the room of love. A spiritual home thus shows the way a person feels and what he has of power in love. Everyone who enters here has and finds his own property, and this applies to all spheres.

In the first sphere we find dwellings, where thousands of people are together, but as the person develops himself, he builds his own house.

As you see, here we have flowers and birds and nature; the human being and all the other life changes, because we always move higher and higher until we reach the Divine Spheres. How would our life be if on this side we had to do without our earth friends the animals, nature, flowers, water, trees and all that God has created? It would not be complete, would it?

The people who have entered the hereafter, they who have reached the spheres of light, feel very happy. All our homes are open. Here we know or have no secrets. This, my brother, all this beauty and purity is your property. In your home are rooms were you can make connections yourself. There are the room of prayer, of faith, hope and trust; in short, of all the character traits a person possesses.

There are also parts of the house that are invisible to you, but which you will continue to develop. In another higher sphere these will become visible to you, and in this way you will come to know yourself. The higher you advance, the more your inner life changes, and everything else where you enter. There will be a continuous change in what you possess, and your inner self will grow. This then is your heaven.

The first, second and third spheres, are heavens already, but still purifying spheres; but when the human being enters the fourth sphere – which is the Summerland – he will feel himself free from his earthly life. This is the first truly happy sphere on this side. You feel yourself happy now, and think that you are in paradise, and find everything wondrous, but we know still other and higher happiness.’

‘Where does this statue come from, master, if I may ask?’

‘Certainly you may, I had this statue of Marianne sculpted for you and this is done for everyone whenever possible. With it I wanted to show you that she is the soul with whom you are joined cosmically. You both are twin souls.’

‘It is marvellous, master, you have made me very happy. Then it is possible for me to continue with my art?’

‘You can, Lantos. Here we have masters in all forms of art: music, which you can listen to presently, painting, the modelling arts and everything that a human being creates through that inner urge. You can develop your feelings for art further, but all that comes later, now we have to do other and more useful work.’

‘Where does one get that snow-white marble? It radiates light, it is luminescent.’

‘To explain this in earth terms to you is impossible. You can touch this statue and you feel that it is marble, but it radiates light according to the love power the being possesses, and is as the sphere it lives in. Inside of everything lies God’s holy Life and because it is life it will and must send out its inner light. On earth and in the darkness you have seen temples and buildings, but in the darkness everything is erected in an animal-like condition. What people accomplish there radiates a brownish-red flashing light. Their lives and their radiations are those of demons. But the higher you go the more beautiful the art, the human beings, the nature and the homes, buildings and temples will be.’

‘How enormously mighty that is, master.’

‘Everything – and you have experienced that on earth – originates on this side. The masters who allowed you to assist them on earth, descended from the second and third sphere to provide man with the highest there. Your Marianne is luminous because you have that spiritual attunement. But not only you, for when she dies she will enter here too. Otherwise it would not have been possible to give her likeness a place in your home. All of us here have our loved ones around us. If they are still living on earth, and the husband or the wife, the sister or the brother, or even the child, are already on this side, then we decorate their home and make it ready to receive the one who is coming. But if one of them has to go to the darkness, then you can understand that it may be many years before it can be done. And therefore you are one and will eternally remain one.’

‘Do you know whether she is on earth already?’

‘No, she is still in the world of the unconscious.’

‘Does connecting her with earth have to take so long, I mean, can she not go back sooner?’

‘It all depends on the inner life of the person. Hundreds of years may have to go by before the return can happen.’

‘Will I see her there, master?’

‘You will see her. We shall visit her when the time comes. All that belongs to my task, and when you have taken possession of your sphere we shall begin our great work together. But first, as I said before, we shall take walks, for there is much that I must explain to you.’

‘Do you live in the fifth sphere, master?’

‘Yes, Lantos.’

‘And still you come to me?’

‘From here our work starts. He who brought you here has told you about it.’

‘Will that master go back to that sphere?’

‘No, he has a mission on earth and receives a different task.’

‘Will he be born there again?’

‘No, his life cycle there is finished.’

Birds flew back and forth and I looked at them. They settled close beside me and caressed me by alighting on my shoulders.

‘Your friends the animals are coming to visit you, they feel the love of the person who lives here. Each person who enters here, either from earth or from the darkness, is received and greeted by life itself.’

I could not find the words for such a sublime event. How far distant is man on earth from all this beauty, I thought.

‘Come, let’s take a walk now.’

Together with my teacher I went outside. Wherever I looked there were people. How mighty is this life. I became still with happiness, when I gazed at all those marvellous temples and buildings. Everywhere art, built in an incomparable style. We paid a visit to the Temple of the Plastic Arts. It is impossible for me to describe my astonishment at seeing such wonderful art in life after death. While I was living on earth I would never have thought it possible and believed it even less. Sculptured works I saw as were unknown on earth. Quietly, deep in thoughts, I stood there and watched the masters at work. Women and men were gathered here. The man created wonders, inspired by the love of his soul. I also heard music and singing and saw beings splendidly attired. They were like angels. And yet I was only in the second sphere. Always higher must we go, I could now feel it fully. For this kind of art one should feel awe.

I knelt down and thanked my Father for everything given me. Long I remained absorbed in prayer. At last I freed myself. How great was what I saw here. The love of all these people smiled at me. I felt clearly that the woman was the inspiration. That inspiration was love. Ah, if only I’d been allowed to posses it on earth. But I realized that this was impossible because one needed this spiritual attunement. On earth I had not been so far and could not have had this kind of feeling for art. Mighty sculptures groups I saw. As an artist it attracted me enormously.

Here we spent a considerable time and then we went back to nature. Wherever I looked, everywhere was love and happiness. Heavenly was what I saw. For hours we walked on, everything smiled at me invitingly and for such purity my inner self stood wide open. Through my master I experienced this great and mighty event.

Afterwards I began to ask questions again. ‘Is there an end to each sphere, master?’

‘Yes, brother Lantos, there is an end. Don’t you wish to go to the third and fourth sphere?’

‘Yes, I do.’

‘When it is possible for you to enter there and call it your own, then all those spheres that lie below the first spiritually happy attunement will dissolve. Only there you will feel real spiritual happiness.’

‘Is it now already possible for me to go to the third sphere?’

‘No it is not possible and yet all those spheres run into one another and are linked.’

‘Then I can go on. Always and always further and still not come to a higher sphere?’

‘That is so. You have experienced it in the darkness, when you wanted to follow these shadows.’

‘Do you know about that, master Emschor?’

‘Did I not follow you in everything?’

Remarkable, I thought, how great are the powers of these beings.

‘Is it possible for me to float here too?’

‘You can, but you have to learn that first in your own sphere. You could have a try.’

I concentrated, but I could not move myself. I asked: ‘Why can’t I move?’

‘That is obvious, you cannot go higher than the powers in you.’

‘But yet I clearly feel an other sphere?’

‘That may be possible, for you feel further and deeper and that means that you already have connection with a higher sphere. Still you must master these last powers before you can move yourself in your own sphere.’

‘Then I can go wherever I want, but not higher?’

‘Yes, just like in the darkness.’

I understood. ‘If I feel correctly, then I imagine every sphere to be like a universe; is that a good comparison?’

‘You felt accurately. A sphere is like the universe. Your home, the sphere in which you live, and you yourself have a cosmic attunement.’

‘How many of such attunements do we have in the universe?’

‘Seven.’

‘Where does the earth belong?’

‘To the third cosmic degree.’

‘Have we come from the first cosmic degree?’

‘Yes.’

‘How many times did we have to go back there, before we went to the second cosmic degree?’

‘That’s impossible to determine, but it took as long as we needed to make that degree our possession and carry it within ourselves.’

‘I now feel the third degree in me, is that because I have finished my earth cycle?’

‘Very clear, Lantos, that’s it.’

‘Is all this cosmic?’

‘All this is of cosmic significance. The human being of the earth – and you have experienced that – has a material, a spiritual, and cosmic attunement. But already on earth that cosmic degree lies very deep within him, that means that he is attuned to God and can return to his Father. Were that attunement not in him, then man would never be able to go higher, but live forever over there and in this life.’

‘But where do we find the fourth degree of cosmic life? Is it a planet?’

‘Yes. The fourth degree of cosmic mentality is a planet hundreds of times larger than the earth. It too takes up its place in the universe as so many others.’

‘Do people live on it?’

‘Yes, but they are spiritually further than we.’

‘Do they not kill there anymore?’

‘No, they don’t. Would you still be able to kill someone?’

‘No, I could not do that anymore, not now any longer.’

‘So you see, that the human being – which is life – progresses ever further to attain the highest faculty, and that is the godly love.’

‘When a person dies there, where does the soul go?’

‘A person on that planet who dies, goes to the land in the hereafter, which is here.’

‘Here! you said?’

‘Yes, Lantos, here. They are invisible to us.’

‘And the highest ones too?’

‘Yes, the godly human also. You can sense that the soul or the life, that is the human being, lives between the pre-animal-like and the godly sphere. In the universe there are seven deegrees of mentality, and we now are in the third degree. But all people living on earth, all that life, we who already have shed our material bodies, up to and including the last and highest seventh sphere, are in the third cosmic degree.’

‘Is that fourth cosmic degree not visible to you either?’

‘No, it isn’t, not to me. But the masters who have reached the mental regions already have connection with the fourth mentality. Just as you have contact with the third sphere and can feel that connection in yourself, upon which from here you can tune in already, so can they connect with that degree and feel the life that lives there.’

‘Almost incomprehensible, master, how profound it all is.’

‘Look over there!’

‘I looked in the direction to which my master drew my attention, but I did not know what he meant. I turned to ask him and it startled me to find he was not there. What had happened?

At the same instant I heard him say however: ‘Do you hear me, Lantos?’

‘Yes, master’, I said.

‘Well then, at this moment I am invisible for you, and in this way the higher spheres that lie above mine are invisible to me. And so the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh cosmic mentality are invisible to all of us, and all these riddles and wonders will only then be solved when we have come to that stage of development.

I acted on you when you lived on earth. There I connected you with the past. Then in your cell it became possible for me to show myself. In all those other situations I let you feel life, and I also influenced you, when you brought about the meeting between the monk and that unfortunate woman. I helped you with all your work, and I did that from my own sphere. I kept up my connection and brought you in contact with your own child. Wherever you went and whenever you needed and asked your Almighty Father for it, you were sent that help by the masters.

You see, my Lantos, that a human being always is one and will remain so, as long as he wants that connection himself. You can see and feel, that all those miracles can only then be solved when a human being has reached that stage of his development. When you were living in hell I could not convince you of a Father of Love, but today, now that you have observed that one can go higher, you are ready to accept it and bow your head.

I withdrew myself to prepare you for even greater wonders that you will presently experience. I can connect myself with you, talk with you, but yet I am invisible to you, nevertheless it is reality. And so, those who call themselves the cosmic awakened ones, can and will see more of a continued going higher than we, and therefore it is possible for them to connect us with the highest wonder of all. That is the cycle of the soul, the reincarnation, the rebirth on earth. This wonder you will experience through these cosmic masters. I am speaking to you from the third sphere and will now return to you. Just watch, Lantos.’

Now I saw a slight haze approaching me and when it was a few dozen steps away, it condensed as it did in my cell and I plainly saw the master. Very slowly this process materialized, until he had accepted his former situation, in which I also lived.

‘It is a miracle, master.’

‘These miracles you can learn too and make them your own. Many of these wonders are already in you, but still it is always a new wonder again when you observe it. You can make yourself invisible for several spheres already. It will now be clear that we cannot see the fourth cosmic mentality, but all those beings live in and around us and will urge us to follow them.

God did not create the earth alone as was thought on earth. There are very many planets on which people live, and all that life is God. My instructions are, I have told you already, to convince the people on earth of our life and their cycle. You may tell all this to the earth, an other master will assist you with that. Through an instrument living on earth you will tell all of your life, and what you have experienced from your birth and death on earth, and also what you still will experience. This is my and your task, brother Lantos.’

‘That is a great favour, master. What have I done to deserve that?’

‘You belong to me, as I said once before, but also your life has certain aspects. Therein lie all your questions ‘why’ and ‘wherefore’ that you already have experienced, then your out of the ordinary passing over and entrance in this world, but especially because it is cosmically possible. This all is related with the earth, because humanity has come into a spiritual stage and the age of spiritual advance is approaching. On earth it cannot be perceived yet, but it is firmly fixed. The century of art is past, now life on earth will receive nourishment for the mind and people will come to know their true God.

Thousands are under way with us, on all corners of the world we are trying to establish connections. On earth he who opens himself up for a higher life will receive nourishment for the mind. From our side we try to convince them of our life, of an evergoing on existence, of love and happiness, of their lifecycle on earth, of laws and problems, and of wonders. Thousands, I said, no, millions are already on earth, and we all do one work, feel one love, know but one God and completely devote ourselves to serve the people, who are our sisters and brothers.

You are in truth chosen, and so are we all, to do this work on earth and tell of our happiness. Added to this is your connection with Marianne, your twin soul, and that you will meet her and Roni, as well as your parents, on earth. All of this will provide strength for the human being, so that they can prepare themselves for this great love. It is a great blessing to be allowed to do this for the masters, don’t ever forget that. At this moment work has already started, for your entrance here, your awakening and all the walks we will take, your own thoughts and experiences, belong to this work. Nothing of it will be lost. You will be allowed to tell everything, in shortened form, on earth.’

‘Am I strong enough to do that, master? Can I put all this in words?’

‘I told you already that you will receive help; this too will prove a miracle to you.’

‘How can I thank you, master?’

‘You may not thank me, but thank God for this blessing. We shall now continue and I will explain only that what has to do with our mission. I shall stick with a pre-determined plan. Many books can be written about eternity, and that is not at all our intention. See over there! Here you stand before the Temple of Music and there we shall go inside.’

I stepped inside a magnificent building and fell silent when I heard the music. How mighty, how heavenly, how godly it sounded! I sat down and listened with attention. How remarkable it was, to find, after death, music, painting and modelling arts, flowers, trees, birds and thousands, no, millions of other things that make human beings happy. That what I was listening to was a life-symphony, as the master informed me. Here was a rendering of life. It starts on earth and weaves through all sorts of life situations to make it into a whole. In it I felt love, loneliness, meditation, faith, prayer, trust, passion, destruction and many more traits a human possesses. One has to experience it if one wants to feel the depth and holiness of it.

For a time we stayed with the masters of music, after that we went on. All this is an experience for everyone who enters the spheres of light. Every human, all the life that lives on earth, will receive this.

It was weeks and months, no, years before I returned to my own spiritual home. Only now had I taken full possession of my own sphere. Now I knew how far I could go and that I need not try to enter the third sphere. Here too an invisible power called me an inexorable halt. This halt was called at the edge of the third sphere, and I had to listen. In this way our inner self shows us the place that belongs to us. Not a step further than what I possessed in inner strength could I go, and that is the love a person feels and has for the life that lives in everything.

When I entered my spiritual home, I saw everything different again. At the feet of Marianne I sat down to meditate. My master returned to his own sphere. Everything that had been shown and told me, I relived and felt through and through. A great task was awaiting me, and I had to prepare myself for it. There was much I still had to learn, but one day I would see my Marianne and on this side we would go hand in hand further towards the Divine Spheres. God created man, and in man lay good and evil. He must try to get rid of those bad and evil character traits, and change them into good ones. That was evolution, that was going further and higher, that were spiritual attunements and mentalities. I now understood it, for I could feel it in me. How fitted in everything! Thousands of years I was old, probably millions!

I meditated for a long time, and when I was ready I thought of my master. Soon he walked into my house.

‘Are you ready and did you call me, Lantos?’

‘I thought of you very deeply, master.’

‘Thinking in that way makes a connection with me. I received those thoughts. As you see, always connection, merging into other forces. People are one, because they are and signify life.’