In the Light of Truth
Grail Message by Abdrushin
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85. And a thousand years are as one day!
Where is the man who has grasped the meaning of these words? In what church are they rightly interpreted? In many cases they are taken to indicate everlasting life. In all Creation there is, however, nothing that is not limited by time and space. The very word Creation supports this view, for what is created is a work, and every work has its limits in space, and what has its limits in space has its limits in time.
There are many different spheres where spirits dwell. These spheres vary in density according as they are nearer or farther from Paradise. Their degree of density corresponds to the degree of maturity of the spirits that inhabit them. The farther they are from Paradise, the heavier and denser they are.
Time and space shrink and narrow in proportion to the increasing density of matter, which again depends on the distance they are situated from the Spiritual Kingdom. This earth belongs to that section of Creation which comes second in order of density. There is one section which is of still greater density, in which the conception of time and space is still more limited. The difference in the conception of time and space depends upon the greater or lesser elasticity of the human brain, which regulates man‘s capacity to grasp abstract problems and ideas; and this again corresponds to the density of its environments, that is to say, to the nature of the substance of that section of the universe where the human soul happens to be at the time.
Thus we must speak of differences in the conception of time and space in the different parts or spheres of the universe. There are parts of Creation situated much nearer Paradise, that is to say, the Spiritual Kingdom, than that section to which this earth belongs. Those nearer parts are of another species of matter which is much lighter and less compact, and, therefore, offer greater possibilities and opportunities for consciously realising phenomena. We call this fully conscious, intuitive realisation.
In enumerating other kinds of matter we must mention a finer species of dense physical matter, a denser species of ethereal matter and pure ethereal matter. We are now in a world of absolutely dense matter.
The more rarified matter is, the more porous it is; and the more porous it is, the more extensive is the field in which a human spirit, living in a body of matter, can consciously realise phenomena, or, we may say: the greater is its capacity and its sensitiveness for receiving impressions. It is quite natural that in a dense body with its correspondingly dense brains (as transmitter of external phenomena) the human spirit is more fettered and closely encased than it would be in a more porous, less dense species of matter.
The less dense matter is, the more buoyant it is; it floats aloft and becomes translucent and consequently more luminous itself. Thus the nearer their lightness lifts human spirits to Paradise, the more luminous they become because the light from that region can radiate through them. Hence it follows that the farther the human spirit is able to lift itself out of its physical body into lighter and less dense surroundings, the greater its capacity for realising phenomena will be, and it will be able to register a greater number of impressions, so that in its surroundings it can realise far more in one day than the denser brain of man can in a whole year on earth. What a human spirit can realise and experience will correspond to the nature and degree of porosity of its surrounding substance; the spirit will be able to realise as much in one earth-day as in one earth-year, and when it is in the Kingdom of the Spirit, it will be able to realise as much in one earth-day as in a thousand earth-years. That is why it is said: “There a thousand years are as one day.”
All defends on the amplitude of realisation (the extent and range of experience) which increases in conformity with the degree of maturity attained by the human spirit. Man can best understand this, if he thinks of his dreams; when dreaming, his soul experiences joy and sorrow; it laughs, weeps and ages, realising the events of a whole life-time in the space of a single minute. In ordinary life, when awake, a man would require decades to realise such experiences, because mundane time and space are so limited that each single step takes a much longer time. Only in his dreams can man live so rapidly, for in his sleep he has partly freed his brain from its fetters and is transferred to lighter and more luminous regions. When he has become a free spirit later on, he will habitually realise in this rapid manner. Then, indeed, he will only need one day for the experiences of a thousand years — a thousand years will be as one day.
