Sunsets Into Sunrises
Bishop Martin - The Progress of a Soul in the Beyond
- Chapter 45 -
THE WORLD OF MIRON, THE SECRET OF THE EIGHTH CABINET. - THE SPIRITUAL AS FIRST CAUSE AND CARRIER OF ALL CREATION.
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(The Lord): "Behold, we are there! The door is open and you can see through it a new, vast celestial world, bathed in a pale green light. Here, too, you can see tall buildings and mountains of various heights emitting a bluish smoke. These smoking mountains are correspondences of the many fire-emitting mountains of which this planet, the most distant from the sun, with the name of Miron [Neptune], the marvelous, has the greatest number.
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Behind this planet you can see ten smaller globes - its satellites, which are of quite a different nature from their main planet. On Miron, you see something new every moment: trees floating in the air, and many other things you have never seen before. Even the smoke from the mountains assumes a variety of unusual shapes. The perfectly shaped human beings are mostly well-clothed so that you do not get to see much more than their faces.
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These men love music and poetry, and as spirits, correspondingly, they influence you, My children, by rendering your hearts, minds, and souls, receptive for these arts. They dwell in the respective human organs, adapting them for the right understanding and reception of music and poetry, toning man to harmony and lifting his imagination and capacity for enthusiasm. All the wonderful and so-called romantic emotions are evoked by this planet in a corresponding sense.
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Now you know the nature of this planet and what it is good for. Of course, you must not think of the real planet, although its nature is the same, but only of its corresponding image embodied in your spirit. This existed prior to all external, material creation, which was formed in accordance with what had already been present in every perfected spirit for ages. For the spirit existed long before all the world was created, which issued from the spirit, and not vice versa. Therefore, the planet within you is considerably older than the material one. If it had been absent from the spirit of even one single man, it could never have been formed materially.
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From this you can conclude that if you learn to know yourself completely, you will also come to know everything outside of you, for nothing can exist outside of you which has not already been present within you. And in the whole of infinity there cannot be anything that has not been within Me in perfect clarity from eternity.
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Just as I am the primeval source and supporter of all beings, thus now My children in Me are the fundamental substance of everything that is forever filling infinity. The infinite in Me is also present in you through Me, for My children are the crowning of My eternal ideas and great plans.
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Now you know all you need to know about this door. Therefore, follow Me to the ninth door, where you will see further wonders of My love and wisdom. So be it!"