THE SPIRITUAL ORIGINS OF THE EARTH

 AND HUMANS

By Lubomir Dimitrov MSc,

Professional Astrologer, Australia

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In the previous two parts of this article we were able to see how what we know today as Earth was gradually formed during large periods of time. The four elements as we know them today, i.e. the fire, the air, the water and the earth were formed gradually during four subsequent ‘reincarnations’ of the Earth which we called the old Saturn, the old Sun, the old Moon and the present day Earth. We also said that the whole planetary evolution of our planet include 7 reincarnations in total, which means that in the future our Earth has two more future states, which we called the future Jupiter, the future Venus and the future Vulcan.

This introduced us to the concept of the importance of the number 7. If we look carefully in each of these reincarnations of the Earth we will see that each reincarnation comprises seven Great Epochs (or cycles). For the present state of the Earth these are the Polarian epoch, the Hyperborean epoch, the Lemurian epoch, the Atlantean epoch, the present day post-Atlantean epoch and two more Great Epochs which will unfold in the future. Each one of these Great Epochs is in a certain sense related to one of the 7 great reincarnation cycles of the Earth. For example similarly to the old Saturn reincarnation, everything on the Earth during the Polarian epoch consisted only of the fire element. Similarly to the old Sun, everything on Earth during the Hyperborean epoch consisted of the fire and air element. During the Lemurian epoch the water element was introduced just the same as it happened on the old Moon and finally the earth element appeared only during the Atlantean epoch, which is the reason why out planet today is called with the name ‘Earth’ - the element which was introduced last in this vast evolutionary process.

In present times we live in the fifth, so called post-Atlantean epoch. After the Atlantean Great epoch ended with what is described in the Bible as the Big Flood, there was a period of short rest. During this period the rain was constantly going on. After the skies cleared, Noah and his sons could see the rainbow, which was a clear indication that the water element was condensed at this point into oceans and seas. In comparison, the atmosphere of the Earth before this point of time consisted primarily of the air element. This was something new in the evolution of our planet, because during the whole Atlantean epoch the water element was widely spread in the atmosphere. Thus, the ancient Atlantean people lived in something what can be described as a permanent, tick fog.

Humanity had different tasks during the Atlantean compared to the present days post-Atlantean epoch. Back in Atlantean times people were naturally born clairvoyants. They were still not in a position to observe clearly the physical objects around them, but they were unsurpassed in their abilities to perceive the subtle bodies of the human structure. In those times the greatest prize and recognition of the society were given to those Atlantis people who were able to penetrate as deep as possible into the spiritual world. Atlantis people were still only vaguely aware of the existence of the material world. The greatest shamans of Atlantean times could interact and interfere with forces, the result of which seems almost impossible to achieve for present day people with a materialistic inclination of the mind. For example they could play up with the forces forming the ethereal (or life-giving) body of other people, animals and plants.

On this basis, Atlantis people produced vehicles which utilised the growing force that is embedded for example in the grains and that is the principle on which they built their cars. In order to imagine the power that this type of force gives, just imagine for a second a little stroke of grass that breaks the asphalt and grows through it. Ancient Atlantis people were in a position to utilize this force in order to build their vehicles to move around. On the other hand they misused a lot of these forces. Used with a malicious intent, a person possessing knowledge and abilities to control the ethereal forces could make another person grow to a gigantic size or, just the opposite, make him small and minuscular. The misuse of these forces by the ancient Atlantis people for personal gain and gratification was what ultimately caused that great catastrophe, described in the Bible as the Big Flood. Not to make the same mistake again, the new humanity which was destined to inherit the earth after Atlantis in the post-Atlantean, present day epoch was destined to follow a completely different path. Instead of great abilities to penetrate deep into the spiritual world and being able to play with these enormously powerful forces, the present day humanity was bound to descend deeper and deeper into the matter. For this reason, the organs, which quite naturally gave the Atlantean people the ability to perceive the spiritual world were now gradually closing down. People felt more and more lonely and isolated from the spiritual world. They were not in a position to obtain quick and easy answers for almost anything that was important in their lives.

However, the greatest gift which they received in return was the capacity to be able to develop their logical mind and conscious ability to think. These faculties are something that the ancient Atlantean people simply did not possess. The Atlantean people were not in a position to observe the external reality, make observations and draw logical conclusions. They were inborn clairvoyants and they simply ‘knew’ the answers without having to think about it logically. In fact their mental, processing abilities were very limited. The mind of the people back then comprised an enormous data base, where all experiences were remembered, including all experiences in previous lives and the experiences of their close relatives as mother, father, brothers etc. When Atlantean people had to make a decision they simply did a search in their mental data banks and looked for exactly the same situation which had happened before. However, they were not in a position to take an informative decision about a situation, which they did not encounter previously. In this respect they had to be guided by their intuition and ability to communicate with the spiritual world. This was also one of the reasons why only very, very old people were put into position of power and leadership.

The modern man today possesses only a minuscular fraction of that memory, which was available to the ancient Atlantean people. What we can remember today in our ordinary, every day conscious memory is many times less than 1% of what is actually held in our memory data banks. Everything else sinks deep down into the subconscious level and becomes ‘forgotten’. In fact we do not forget anything and this is very apparent immediately after death, when we gain access again to absolutely everything in greatest detail about what we have experienced in our last life plus all the information (again in greatest detail) about our all other experiences from all previous life times. However, today we have one definite advantage over the ancient Atlantean people - we can reason about situations, we can logically draw conclusions and thus we are able (at least most of us) to find solutions to situations in which we have never been before. Should we possess exactly the same type of mind as the ancient Atlantean people, we would never be in a position to build airplanes, work with computers and communicate over the phone. On the other hand, would we have had the clairvoyant abilities, which were inherent to the ancient Atlantis culture, we would never need those technical gadgets. We need a telephone in order to talk to somebody, because we are not in a position to communicate with others telepathically any more. If we were in a position to tune into anyone else’s mind and clearly get the message at any given time, the telephone would become obsolete. Similarly, if astral travel was a normal state of existence for every human being, then why we would need an airplane to go anywhere? To summarize, the whole purpose of the present post-Atlantean epoch is to develop the mental body of humans and their abilities to think logically and draw analytical conclusions based on facts. In order for this to happen, people had to lose their abilities to penetrate into the spiritual world.

Any Great epoch consist from 7 shorter cultural epochs, each one of which lasts approximately 2100 years. The present day post-Atlantean epoch started after the Big Flood, described in the Bible and consist from the following 7 cultural epochs:

1. The first cultural epoch of the present time was the Ancient Indian Cultural Epoch (7227 - 5067 BC). The people, who lived in this epoch were the direct descendants of the ancient Atlantean people. For this reason, a great many number of them still ‘remembered’ a great deal of how to communicate with the spiritual world. For the ancient Indian people, what we call today ‘a reality’ was simply a Maya - an illusion, a deception, something that is far from the real, spiritual world with which they were still in close touch. Vedic astrology, palmistry and many other gypsy divination arts stem from this first epoch of our times. The drawback of this epoch was that people to a great extent did not want to embark on the new path of development of humanity - they still wanted to keep their close connection with the spiritual world, whereas in reality exactly the opposite process had to be initiated at that stage. We can see this even today in many followers of the eastern teachings - the aim of their meditations, reflections, yoga and so on is the achievement of a blissful state on a personal level, for the benefit of one particular soul. They call this state ‘Nirvana’, where one can live happily in highly spiritual state, without the need to do the hard work on the physical plane. Even if this particular soul finds the road back to the source and reaches the state of Nirvana, then what can we say about everyone else who is not doing the mediations and exercises, prescribed by this teaching? The task at hand at present time is achieving spiritual development quite consciously, and once this is achieved we have to devote all our energy to help all the other people around us to achieve the same - in other words this requires very hard work on the physical level, not in isolation from the society - but quite the contrary in the centre of the social life in order to achieve the maximum ripple effect. For example what good would I do for humanity if I learn how to reach the state of nirvana and constantly live there in a personal bliss, but I never write even one single article, so that other people can also learn how to reach a greater spiritual development?
2. Following the ancient Indian age, a new cultural epoch in Persia sprang up (5067 - 2907 BC). During this time humans began to develop intellectually and thus lost the sharpness of their memory of the days of Atlantis. As a result they began to work with the physical world, building buildings, making pottery, ploughing the earth, etc. It was during this age that Zarathustra pointed to the physical object of the Sun in the sky and said that this object was just the physical appearance of a highly developed spiritual being. We could learn a great deal from his philosophy even today. We know that every human comprises a sevenfold structure, of which the physical body is the only visible part. In addition, we also possess ethereal body (giving us life), astral body (giving us our emotions), mental body (this appeared only after Atlantis and makes us capable of logical thinking), Higher mind (which enables us of abstract, conceptual thinking), Buddhi body (determining the major life periods in our life) and Higher Self (determining the soul path through a whole string of many consecutive life times). As the higher Self in our own body relates to our physical body, so the Higher spiritual being living on the Sun relates to the physical object which we call Sun. This being Zarathustra called Ahura Mazdao. This is nothing else, but the same substance from which later the Christ being was incarnated into a physical body on earth.
3. The next epoch is called the Egypto-Chaldean Cultural epoch (2907-747 BC). The Chaldeans looked upon other objects in the sky and learned to read their positions and rotations as the writing of spiritual beings. Nobody before them needed to do this, because the civilizations before this time vaguely perceived the physical bodies of the planets and stars, but they perceived the spiritual energy emanating from them (the ethereal and the astral bodies of the planets). The stars became more or less visible as physical objects around this time and the cultural epoch immediately preceding it. Thus, we can say that the roots of the modern astrology were established by the ancient Chaldean and Egypt priests. As the Persians had learned to divide the earth with their ploughs, the Egyptians during this epoch learned to divide it with the laws of space. Together the Egypto-Chaldean culture created astrology as a means for making decisions in harmony with the spiritual world. Today we still can learn a lot from this culture. No decision was taken in the political, social and economic life, before initially consulting the movements of the planets and incorporating the celestial harmony into the physical reality. The ancient priests (who were also the first astrologers) made a very long term plans, based on the planetary movements, which affected the wellbeing of the whole nation not only for the present generation, but also for many generations to come. In other words we can say that absolutely everything in the physical life of the ancient Egyptians and Chaldeans reflected the harmony of the stars. This approach is very different indeed from the short-term financial motivation, which is primarily driving our politicians today.
4. The fourth post-Atlantean epoch was the Greco-Roman Cultural epoch (747 BC - 1413 AD). During this time the spiritual world was intellectualized in abstract terms such as truth, beauty, and form. Art came into flower - human forms came to be portrayed in marble sculpture and human life in dramas. In Roman law, the concept of a will and testament came into being for the first time whereby one's will could survive one's physical life. As we follow the 7 cultural epochs in any cycle we will see that in the beginning of the cycle we always have an involution, or descend into the matter in the first half-period and then evolution, or ascend towards the spiritual world during the second half-period. The most important event in any cycle is always happening in the middle between the two half-cycles. Our, present post-Atlantean epoch makes no exception. Humankind's fall into the material world was nearly complete at this point, and required the appearance of Christ and His deed on Golgotha to stem our collective fall into the abyss, to move humankind upward towards the spiritual world again.
5. Modern Days Western Cultural Epoch (1413 AD - 3573 AD). Ancient Greeks and Romans reached the lowest point of descent into the matter exactly at the middle of the post-Atlantean epoch. Without the deed of Jesus Christ our modern culture would be doomed for gradual descent into the material life to the point when all people would lose a complete connection with the spiritual world. The Christ impulse, however, turned the things around and from this point onwards the humanity have a choice - to continue to its descent into matter, or to raise its consciousness back to the spiritual world again, but this time in full consciousness and using a new acquisition - the mental body. In other words, by following the Christ impulse we have the real chance to become co-creators of the Universe, since this time we can align our will with this of the creator in which way we can contribute towards the cosmic plan of evolution. Becoming a clairvoyant in our modern age and following the Christ impulse is very different indeed from the semi-unconscious state of clairvoyance typical for ancient Atlantis. And indeed, we can see how in our days humanity is almost separated into two distinct categories; we can call them for simplicity the materialistic humanity (or the followers of Ahriman) and the spiritual humanity (the followers of Christ). The first category (which is much larger in number) is completely immersed into the matter and continues to follow the path of involution, characteristic for the first half of the present cycle, while the second has embraced the spiritual impulse and follow the evolutionary path of spiritual development, which is the correct path of development during the second half of the present cycle.
6. Future Sixth Slavic cultural epoch (3573 AD - 5733 AD). Although most of the people are already divided into the above two mentioned categories, there are still some souls that are lost somewhere in the middle. During this epoch, which will occur in the future, a final division will be carried out between the souls of the people. In the final seventh epoch no changes will be possible. Thus, the sixth epoch will be characterized with an enormous spiritual advancement of the souls taken the second path. The capabilities which these people will possess at that time can be described from our point of view today as ‘magical’, ‘supernatural’ and ‘miraculous’. In this epoch, the spiritual people will be in direct communication with spiritual world and their deeds will be done primarily on the spiritual plane. For this reason their works can be explained in our language today only as ‘miracles’ or ‘magic’, because there will be no direct correlation on the physical plane between their actions and the results produced by their enormously strong willpower. This will be an epoch during which the people that have chosen the second path will acquire new supernatural powers and abilities, great strength of will and an extraordinary high level of spiritual perception. They will be the Christ people, who are described in the Bible as being dressed in white robes and sitting on the right hand side of His throne. At the same time the materialistic people will continue their descent into the matter to a point, where they will lose a complete touch with the spiritual world. Everything in the Universe that is alive receives its ability to live from the spiritual world, but these people will lose this connection and in order to survive they will begin an enormously big fight for stealing the power and energy from each other. During this battle each one of them will try desperately to rob the others from as much energy as they could. This will lead to total and complete submission of the will of the weakest to the will of the strongest. Ultimately such society will die in agony into what we can describe as ‘The war of all against all’. The first signs of this war are apparent even today, when one nation is in conflict with another, one family in conflict with another and in very recent times this war has spread even amongst the very close family members, such as spouses, parents and children - something unthinkable even not so long ago. But in the future this tendency amongst the materialistic people (or the followers of the Ahriman impulse) will reach monstrous proportions, where everybody will be everybody’s enemy. This is exactly the opposite principle of the Christ impulse, which teaches us to love everybody, even our enemies. Because ultimately, the love is the only principle which bounds everything together in the Universe and keeps it alive, without love, the materialistic, Ahrimanic group of people is bound for a slow and agonizing end, which is very well described in the ‘Apocalypse of St. John’
7. Future Seventh Cultural Epoch (5733 AD - 7893 AD) No further changes will be possible to make during this cultural epoch. The Christ humanity at this stage will be so highly developed in their spiritual path, that their physical appearance will resemble closely this of Christ. This moment is described in the Bible by referring that the Christ people will ‘bear the Christ signature of their faces’, while the Ahrimanic humanity will look similarly to their lord and even physically will resemble the Satan in all their actions, thoughts and physical looks. In so doing, these people will live in hell, even while still on earth. To make things even worse, because of the enormous amount of negative karma, which they would accumulate by that point, the gates to the spiritual world will be closed for them after death, which effectively means that their lives will become an awful sequence of sufferings - first on earth while they are incarnated in a physical body, then in hell after their death and then back on earth during their next incarnation and so on. On the other hand, the Christ humanity will not need to incarnate any more and will continue its path in the spiritual world.

From what we have outlined above, we can clearly see that it is still not too late (although the clock is ticking fast) to make a final decision and embrace the spiritual impulse within us. We can see that already most people have taken a conscious or subconscious decision to join one group or another. Don’t be scared by the numbers. The number of the materialistic, Ahrimanic group will always be far greater then the other, but ultimately these people will freeze themselves in human forms which will be impossible to change in the future, just as it is not possible to change today an animal, a plant or a rock. Present conditions of the Earth are designed for the development of human forms and all the other forms (animals, plants and minerals), which lagged in their development in the previous ‘incarnations’ of our planet have no chance any more to catch up. It is too late for them do anything today about it. Doesn’t matter how much we love an animal or a plant, we cannot teach them to use computers, to drive cars, to read newspapers etc. The group of animals were always much greater than this of people (maybe with exception of recent years with the extreme overpopulation of the earth), the group of plants was always greater than this of animals and the group of minerals is far greater than any other group. In the same way, the human group of Ahriman, which is bound to lag in its development, similarly to the animals, plants and minerals is going to be much greater in numbers then the humanity of Christ. However, it is exactly the humanity of Christ which is destined to inherit the future earth - which in esoteric language is called the future Jupiter - a highly spiritual and harmonious planet. The future Jupiterian humanity is going to look at the group of Ahrimanic beings in a similar fashion as people today look at animals. The choice of which group you want to be a part of is yours.

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