By Day of Greenleaf, the Founding Yaiyr
The most detailed description of our teachings on Reincarnation, Heaven, and Hell – and related topics like ‘The Spiral Ladder of Being’ and ‘Spiritual Evolution’ is found in my (Day of Greenleaf) book titled Essene Teachings: The Book of Doctrines. In that book, that topic appears as ‘Doctrine Nine’ of our church. I provide that entire article below.
Because the concepts of “heaven/s,” “hell/s,” “reincarnation” and the “eternal life” of your “soul” are intimately linked, this doctrine – and the subsequent commentary on this doctrine – will treat those related concepts together, side-by-side, placing each in the context of “The Spiral Ladder of Being” and “Spiritual Evolution.”
In regard to the related concept of “heaven/s” and “hell/s,” Nasarean Christianity – based on The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of The Essene Way – believes that both Heaven and Hell are VERY REAL. However, our understanding of the nature of heaven and hell is quite different than the mainstream Christian doctrine. The mainstream Christian teaching is that, based solely on this one brief incarnation, you will either go to Heaven forever or will BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY. They teach that the vast majority of humans will BURN IN HELL. We reject that teaching as false. The notion that a SUPREME BEING would send the majority of human beings to BURN IN TORTUROUS AGONY FOR ETERNITY based solely on their status in this one brief incarnation is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! Such a “God” would actually be a “Devil!” [Speaking of the “Devil,” I should inform you in regard to our beliefs about “Satan.” Yahshua and Miriam, in our ancient Essene manuscripts, do not teach the existence of ONE EVIL COUNTERPART TO GOD/GODDESS; however, they do teach the existence of various demonic beings including a particular “fallen angel” called “Satan.” So, there certainly is a “dark brotherhood.” There are demons and archdemons of various ranks and potencies; BUT NONE OF THESE DEMONS – INCLUDING THE GRAND DRAGON SATAN – are powerful enough to be considered a dualistic counterpart to God/Goddess. They are simply lost souls in need of heavy-duty repentance. The “Ultimate Satan,” according to Nasarean teachings, is not any one particular Being but is the “Way of Satan,” the way of evil and hurtfulness.]
Our church follows the teachings of the Lord Christ and Lady Christ on Heaven and Hell. Their main teachings on heaven and hell are as follows:
1) There is not only one Heaven and one Hell; rather, there are countless Heavenly realms and countless Hellish realms.
2) Beings live in the realm of the universe they deserve to (including the planet they live on), — according to the universal law of karmic justice (CAUSE and EFFECT) that works in conjunction with DIVINE MERCY.
3) Heaven and Hell are experienced first inwardly — as inner states of being — and then become manifest in our outer circumstances as well.
4) Although there are countless heavenly realms – and hell realms – within the Mother Ovum (the Nasarean term for our Universe is “Mother Ovum”), the highest heaven – “Heaven Most High” – is outside of the Mother Ovum, surrounding it as a circumference. Heaven Most High is the home of Jah (God Transcendent) and Jahlah (Goddess Transcendent) and will be the future home of those beings who join the Lord Christ and Lady Christ in their mission of mercy and thereby ascend upon the Spiral Ladder of Being and persevere to eventually enter that highest of the countless heavenly realms.
The type of body that you have in any particular realm will always correlate with – be appropriate for – that realm. Thus, the Eternal Self that we call the “Soul” will likely reside in many body types, wearing each like a garment of clothing, moving from one body to the next over the ceaseless duration of Eternal Life. Thus, Nasareans believe in REINCARNATION, THOUGH WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT, AT A CERTAIN STAGE OF OUR SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION, WE WILL HAVE A PERMANENT BODY OF LIGHT THAT NEED NOT REINCARNATE. Even at that advanced stage of spiritual evolution in which we are no longer required to reincarnate – the stage where we are said to be “off the wheel of required birth and death” – we may choose to still take occasional incarnations – to reincarnate into physical bodies – in lower realms where those bodies are appropriate AS ACTS OF MERCIFUL INCARNATION to serve as teachers/helpers – “Hands” – of Christ in those worlds.
COMMENTARY ON DOCTRINE NINE
In regard to reincarnation, Nasareans teach the following main points:
- Souls reincarnate in order to have appropriate body types for their current stage of development on the Spiral Ladder of Ascension in spiritual evolution.
- All creatures – not only humans – continue to reincarnate until they reach the level of soul development – via spiritual evolution – where they are no longer required to reincarnate.
- There is typically a time of rest and reflection between lives wherein a soul contemplates deeply the lessons learned in that incarnation and becomes aware of further lessons that can be learned in the next incarnation.
- According to various manifestations of Karma – the collective Laws of the Universe including The Law of Cause and Effect – what we do in one incarnation will follow us into our next incarnation (or another future incarnation), as suggested by the following saying of Yahshua: “As you sow in one life, so will you reap in another.” That teaching is echoed by Miriam: “The hurt you cause in the morning will overtake you in the evening.” She similarly declares: “Hurt comes to the hurtful.” But she also makes clear that, as long as we are kind to all creatures, we need not fear our future incarnations: “Yea, I tell you truly, those that are kind to all creatures need not fear their own futures.”
- Once we are sufficiently evolved and need not reincarnate anymore, we still are free to choose to incarnate in a lower realm where mortal flesh must be worn as a garment if we are to be seen and heard by those that we wish to teach and help. Unless we manifest a body that is within the spectrum of vibration that the people we are ministering to can sense – be aware of – and communicate with, we must remain invisible to them and serve them in other ways such as serving as prayer angels.
In regard to point five above, once we reach a certain level of spiritual evolution we will have angelic bodies that never die. At that point, we are not required to reincarnate anymore. That does not mean we will be done learning and growing – the universe is infinite and we will always have new lessons to learn. But, at that point, WE WILL HAVE TRANSCENDED THE WHEEL OF REQUIRED DEATH AND REBIRTH. However, in order to be seen, touched, and considered “real” by physically incarnated beings of a lower evolutionary level whom we wish to help, we may sometimes CHOOSE to incarnate physically. Such a CHOSEN incarnation motivated by divine compassion rather than bondage to flesh is the act of an “AVATAR.” This explains why Yahshua and Miriam, the SUPREME AVATARS and SUPREME CHRISTS, take physical incarnations even though not bound to the wheel of required physical birth and death: DIVINE COMPASSION!
All of the above information on “heavens, hells, and reincarnation” can only truly be understood in the context of a mature understanding of SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION ON THE SPIRAL LADDER OF BEING.
Spiritual Evolution on the Spiral Ladder of Being
One of the most beautiful chapters in The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of the Essene Way, is titled The Great Dance of Jahday and Jahnah. It begins with the following twenty-four verses and is pertinent to the topics named in the title of this Doctrine Nine:
1. It was ordained by Jah-Jah that Jahday and Jahnah would be Saviors of the children of the Mother Ovum.
2. For, it would be through the merciful intervention of Lord Christ and Lady Christ that Jah-Jah would intervene in the pain of evolving Beings and worlds.
3. Yea, for this purpose Jah-Jah anointed the Lord and Lady with oil from the Tree of Life, which oil is the Water of Life.
4. But, behold: it was also ordained by Jah-Jah that Jahday and Jahnah would be the Father God and Mother Goddess of the children of the Mother Ovum.
5. And it was ordained in the plan of Jah-Jah – which was engraved within Jahday and Jahnah – that the Mother Ovum would be a universe of space, time, number, letter, form, elements, and principles, in which the Children of the Mother Ovum would play, learn, and work.
6. Thus, the first duty of Jahday and Jahnah was that of Creation.
7. Yea, the Dance of Creation was Their Dance!
8. Before the beginning of Their Dance, the Mother Ovum was Bohu, a dark void of desolate emptiness.
9. And this void was Tohu, without form.
10. And this void was dark because there was yet no Aur haBahir, no Light of Illumination.
11. And this void was desolate because the Spirit of Yah was with Elohim in Tzimtzum.
12. Then, bursting outward in ecstasy from Tzimtzum into Bohu, the Spiral Dance of Creation began.
13.Behold: Elohim Karim!
14. Which is to say, Elohim Dances!15. Elohim danced the Karar HaAur, the Dance of Light, a whirling motion with the sound of a hum.
16. And the hum of the Light Dance is the music of Their Dance.
17. And the music of Their Dance is one with the lyrics of Their Song.
18. And those lyrics are the words sung by They Who Dance.
19. And They Who Dance are Jahday and Jahnah, our God and Goddess Immanent, Elohim.
20. And the lyrics They sing while They dance the Dance of Light are The Words of Light: “Yehi Aur!”
21. Which is to say, “Let there be Light!”22. Lo, Elohim sang “Let there be Light!” and there was Light!
23. And Elohim knew that the Light was Good.
24. And when the Light entered Bohu, the darkness of the void, the Light comprehended the darkness, but the darkness comprehended not the Light.
In the above excerpt, we read that Jahday (the Lord Christ that later incarnated on Earth as Yahshua – “Jesus”) and Jahnah (the Lady Christ that later incarnated on Earth as “Miriam” – “Mary Magdalene”) danced the Karar HaAur, the Dance of Light. What is the “Dance of Light?” The Holy Megillah reveals that this dance was “a whirling motion with the sound of a hum.” This dance burst forth from Tzimtzum at the center of the Mother Ovum. Prior to this ecstatic burst of Sacred Dance, the Mother Ovum was “Bohu” and “Tohu.” Bohu is a Hebrew word that means void or emptiness, and Tohu means without form. So, from the center of the formless, primordial void, the Dance of Light, which is the Dance of the Lord and Lady, burst forth as “a whirling motion with the sound of a hum.” The Holy Megillah reveals that this “whirling motion” was a “Spiral Dance”; we read: “Then, bursting outward in ecstasy, the Spiral Dance of Creation began!” The Megillah also refers to this Spiral Dance as a creative “whirlwind.” The Hebrew word for this creative whirlwind is sa’arah. We read:
25. And the Spiral Dance was the Sa’arah, the Whirlwind.
26. And the Whirlwind was the Breath of Yah upon the void, the Air of Being blowing upon the void of Non-Being.
27. And from the Sa’arah came forth Sparks of Light, Nitzot haAur.
28. And each Spark of Light is a Seed of Light, a Zera haAur.
29. And each Seed of Light is a Soul, a Nephesh, a Spiritual Being.30. Behold: Elohim created each Being in the embryonic image and likeness of Elohim, male and female, each wearing Yah as a Crown of Glory.
31. And the image is manifest in the Attributes.32. Yea, Jahday and Jahnah danced Their Dance of Creation!
33. In the balance of Their embrace, They danced.
34. And always the center of Their Dance was Yah, which is I AM, which is Their Oneness, which is the Crown of Glory.35. Lo: Their Balance was not without motion; it was balance in motion: He spun around Her, and She around Him, and always They were centered in Yah.
36. Lo: Yah is the center of the All and of every aspect of the All!
37. Yah is the center of the Masculine Aspect and the Feminine Aspect; for, behold: those aspects exist for the expansion of Yah and the bliss of Yah according to the Gracious Wish.
38. And this is YHWH.
39. Yea, YHWH is The Great Dance of Creation.
40. Jahday and Jahnah danced in ecstasy!
It is significant that the Dance of Light, which is also called The Great Dance of Creation, is described as a Spiral motion. The significance of spiral motion has been noted by the most brilliant esoteric scientists. One of them, Walter Russell, in his The Universal One, writes:
All energy of motion expresses itself in waves. All waves are opposed spirals…. All opposed spiral waves accumulate mass and simultaneously redistribute that accumulation. All accumulating mass is aiming toward gyroscopic perfection of motion…. The direction of all pressure is spiral. All direction is therefore curved. All curves are spiral. All orbits are spiral. An object freely moving in space must move in a curved spiral line whether that object be a planet, a corpuscle, a ‘ray’ of light or any other expression of energy.
Not only does Russell use the Nasarean term spiral to describe creation, he also uses the Nasarean term whirlwind [Nasarean Hebrew: Sa’arah/Creative Whirlwind]. In the same book, Russell writes:
All effects of motion are whirlwinds. The nearer the gravitational center, the greater the whirlwind. For example, the solar system is a whirlwind with Mercury swirling swiftly near the gravitative center where the vast pressures whirl it around the sun in eighty-eight days at a speed of about thirty miles each second, whereas the speeds of the more outer-orbit planets are progressively slower: the Earth orbits the sun at eighteen miles per second, Jupiter at eight miles per second, and Neptune at three miles per second. The gravitational center of any rotating mass in motion is the point of greatest density and least speed of rotation…. Motion ceases at the vortex of a whirlpool in the equilibrium of maximum motion-in-opposition….
In Figure One below, Russell illustrates the concept of the Sacred Spiral and the resulting electromagnetism of creation:
Figure 1: Spiral Loops
In Figure Two below, the “Still Zero” is represented by the column of White Light that is always the center point of any cross section of the spiral. So, whatever point of a spiral you point to, that point is always centered by the Still Zero.
Figure 2: Wave-Shaft as Still Center
The sort of double or twisting spirals that, according to Russell, all waves consist of, and the whole idea of the “Stairway of the Heavens” or “Spiral Ladder of Being,” is well illustrated below by the illustration of the DNA double helix spiral:
Figure 3: DNA Double Helix Spiral
Guy Murchie, in his The Seven Mysteries of Life, uses the term “spiral staircase” to describe DNA:
After World War II, when the electron microscope suddenly made it possible to magnify a pinhead to the size of the Pentagon building and new ex-ray equipment started “seeing” chromosones as fibrous, twisted cords, the gene molecule at last came into focus, resolving itself into a beautiful and intricate spiral, now deservedly famous, if not exactly familiar, as DNA…. In fact it proved (on close analysis) to be a double helix ladder, something like a spiral staircase with curving but parallel sides cross-linked every millimicron of the way by steplike rungs embedded at both ends…
The universality of this extraordinary material is quite beyond comprehension, but a slight idea of its scope may be gleaned if you can realize that on Earth alone DNA is widely presumed to have existed since “life” began some three billion years ago, and it now directs in detail all cellular growth in every kind of organism.
Again I quote from Murchie’s classic book, The Seven Mysteries of Life:
If all the tightly wound DNA in even a single cell nucleus of your body were uncoiled and the pieces laid end to end, it has been estimated the invisible genetic thread would extend five feet, which would make the DNA in all your fifty trillion cells stretch out fifty billion miles or enough to reach to the moon and back 100,000 times.
In Chapter 3, I likened DNA to magnetic tape of a mystic origin, which seems an apt analogy for this extraordinary “onedimensional” molecule that holds all the essential data of a lifetime. Yet, amazingly, DNA is made of nothing but common elements put together as twin backbones of repeating groups of sugar and phosphate with crossrungs of nitrogen compounds whose numerous variations spell out the ineffable code of life.
You might think that the four standard chemical rungs of adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine (usually abbreviated A,T,C and G) would be much too simple to convey all the sophisticated information and intricate instructions needed to assemble an entire organism, but a leading geneticist has calculated that if we were to translate the coded messages of a single human cell into English, they would fill a thousand volume library. So the four rungs somehow seem to manage to express themselves. And increasingly overwhelming evidence shows that they do it in stages, even as do the simpler dots and dashes of Morse code compose letters that write books that fill libraries.
It is significant, moreover, that all phonetic alphabets contain about twenty letters, which, not by chance, is the number of different amino acids that surge through protoplasm and its genes. And the very A,T, C and G rungs in those genes, operating like linotype machines, are what pick up the amino molecules, one by one, to mold from each the equivalent of letter type, whose sequences spell out words in the 20-letter amino alphabet. Indeed this is the source of the long polypeptide chains that stream from DNA like ticker tape, the hundreds of amino words in a typical one composing a complete genetic paragraph….
When the genes are… awake and “turned on” – that is, actively replicating themselves into more protoplasm in the cell’s protein factories (called ribosomes) – the chromosomes puff out in noticeable swellings…. For decades geneticists could not figure out what was going on inside these chromosone puffs…. What we have learned, however, is that this is the first stage of cell growth, of reproduction….
What happens is that, as the two strands of the DNA separate [Day: to make room for the reproduction – birth – of the new cell that has come from their union], each strand is bereft… leaving it feeling incomplete, like a bride-to-be at the church door. But it has been unzipped down the middle of each rung, so to speak, precisely between the two letters that form the rung (these being always either the AT or CG, or their reverse orders of TA or GC, a total of four alternatives) so that each A is now yearning for another T and each C for another G and vice versa.
The “yearning” of DNA referenced in the last sentence above – “yearning for another” – is seemingly sexual, as is the content of the entire paragraph. In his book, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells, Dr. Robin Kelly links the spiral dance to the DNA Double Helix, putting the Zero Point at the “heart of the matter” (and “at the heart of matter”):
It has been calculated that if we were to unwind the DNA in each of our cells and stretch it out on the floor it would measure over 5 feet. So it is obviously in its coiled shape for packaging reasons – but as I have already hinted, maybe there are other secrets held deep within the double helix….
Let us step back – just briefly I promise – into the world of secondary school physics. The standard electrical coil we find in our electric kettle consists of conducting cable through which passes an electrical current. Around the coil, an electromagnetic field is produced…. When the coil forms the figure-of-eight shape… the Mobius Coil… all the magnetic fields cancel each other out, leaving a magnetic vacuum…. This space, like the entangled space connecting electrons of opposing spin, is the opening to another dimension; an energy that exists outside our concepts of space and time, known variously as free, zero-point and scalar energy.
Kelly continues, comparing the Mobius coil with the well-known infinity sign:
Scalar energy is non-local and non-temporal. Information does not travel from ‘here’ to ‘there’; it coexists in both places simultaneously. The double helical DNA is constructed of many tiny, but powerful Mobius coils laid end on end. We are beginning to understand that every molecule of DNA within every fifty trillion cells is continuously transmitting this non-local scalar energy to receptors all around the body….
The microscopic double helix of the DNA therefore leaves its imprint within the matrix of the whole body…. Some scientists speculate that the DNA acts as a projector for a 4-dimensional state, as time itself is processed by this remarkable molecule….
It is complex, outside our wildest imaginings, as trillions of information fields projected by our DNA interact with each other, as countless ripples on a lake. It is even more mind boggling to realize that these fields are also in direct contact with morphic fields ‘outside’ our body – from our society, nature and the boundless cosmos….
Our understanding of DNA deepens, as we perceive it as a vital link between our earth-bound mortal/physical body and the more ethereal realms of our immortal, timeless soul. It is perhaps no coincidence that the shape of the Mobius coil is the classical sign of infinity.
In The Human Antenna, Dr. Kelly provides the following caption related to DNA:
The DNA molecule is an exceptional generator of energy. It is proposed that it functions as a relay station, connecting our inner and outer worlds. It appears that the fundamental nature of reality is contained within fields of information. Our perceived real world ‘collapses’ down from these realms.
Our excerpt from Kelly continues:
If we were to view the DNA molecule from either of its ends, it would appear as a donut-shaped ring – like the torroidaol coil…. In the central hole, the magnetic fields are cancelled out, opening our window to another dimension. If we were to shrink ourselves down enough to sit inside this hole, it is likely we would experience a wonderful state of peace while all around us we would see this fierce electrical storm raging. Those who find themselves in the eye of a hurricane often experience an eerie calm, while the storm forms a formidable whirling wall around them….
As I started to appreciate the holographic nature of the universe, I became more aware of the significance of patterns, shapes and proportions. What appeared before to be visual metaphors now began to convey more profound meanings. I started to consider whether the hole in the DNA, the eye of the hurricane and the way my bathwater disappeared down the plughole were more closely linked. I was seeing whirls everywhere…. The chakra openings were described as whirling vortices, as were the acupuncture points.
Physicist John Wheeler theorised that space itself comprised an infinite number of tiny spiral wormholes; he named this phenomenon ‘the quantum foam’…. Another word for this pure form of information is consciousness.
Above, Dr. Kelly ended by linking the “Spiral Dance” with consciousness, as does the following excerpt from the Megillah. The following excerpt from The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of the Essene Way, is unique in that it is an actual enchantment – an ecstatic verbal chant of magical affirmation – taught by the Magdalene to her her first seven disciples, all women. The term used in the title of the enchantment and as a repeated chorus-like affirmation throughout the enchantment – Sulam HaAliyah (pronounced soo-lahm ha-ah-lee-yah) means Ladder of Ascent, and is, throughout the Megillah, described as a Spiral Ladder, the two poles being the masculine and feminine polarities, the central column being the Still Zero.
These same three aspects – the masculine and feminine polarities and the Still Zero – are also The Creative Trinity of Nasarean Cosmology; that Trinity builds a spiral ladder of creative expansion that perpetually perfects itself via spiritual evolution.
The following enchantment is directly related to the subject matter of this doctrine; it is from Chapter 30 of Godspell (Godspell is the New Testament portion of The Holy Megillah: Nasarean Bible of The Essene Way):
Sulam HaAliyah: “The Ladder of Ascent”:
A Magical Enchantment by Miriam the Magdalene
678. Miriam said to Her seven: “Chant with Me a holy enchantment, Sulam HaAliyah.
679. Yea, let us chant it up!
680. In the names of Jah and Jahlah in Yah, in appreciation of the Divine Plan, we offer this enchantment for the uplift of all Beings in supernal light and unfathomable love.
681. Now in forever in Yah, amen!”
682. The seven disciples replied, “Now in forever in Yah, amen!”
683. Miriam said, “Birdsong will drum.
685. Miriam chanted the enchantment, a magical prayer, and the seven raised their voices with Her, and to the rhythm of Birdsong’s drum they chanted, then sang, the holy words.
686. “Sulam HaAliyah!
687. Sulam HaAliyah!
688. Sulam HaAliyah!
689. Sulam HaAliyah!
690. Sulam HaAliyah!
691. Sulam HaAliyah!
692. Sulam HaAliyah!
693. “The Ladder of Ascent!
694. The Golden Spiral of Ascension!
695. The White Door!
696. The Way of Enlightenment!
697. The Path of Illumination!
698. Increasing Empowerment in Eternal Life!
699. The Hierarchy of Heavens in the Creative Whirlwind of the Great Dance of Eternal Life in perpetually increasing Goodness in spiritual ascension, blazing as Shemesh in Shemayah, now in forever in Yah!
700. “Sulam HaAliyah!
701. Sulam HaAliyah!
702. Sulam HaAliyah!
703. Sulam HaAliyah!
704. Sulam HaAliyah!
705. Sulam HaAliyah!
706. Sulam HaAliyah!
707. “Oh My!
708. Ecstasy!
709. Let it be!
710. Great joy for every Being!
711. May all Beings ascend the Great Ladder of Being, ‘Sulam HaAliyah’, the ‘Ladder of Ascent’, unto the Highest Heavens of Existence and Consciousness in Bliss, according to the Motivating Power of Love, which manifests as the Perpetual Expansion of Goodness, now in forever in Yah, amen!
712. “Sulam HaAliyah!
713. Sulam HaAliyah!
714. Sulam HaAliyah!
715. Sulam HaAliyah!
716. Sulam HaAliyah!
717. Sulam HaAliyah!
718. Sulam HaAliyah!
719. “Now in forever in Yah, Amen!
720. “So be it!”
The above Magdalene enchantment or “magical prayer” implies that, though one can walk up or down a ladder, the universe – and the YOU-niverse (you are created in the Image and Likeness of the Universe) – is a good thing and continues to get better. The reason that is true can be expressed in one boldfaced and capped word: LOVE. This is the one most important word in Nasarean Cosmology and, as the above excerpt from The Holy Megillah makes clear, the reason that Love ascends is that, in Divine Compassion and Mercy, it reaches low on the spiral of ascension to aid those at lower rungs in their own evolutive ascension; that Universal Love expressed in Divine Compassion is the evolutive power of the universe. It is what expressing Universal Christ-Consciousness is all about.
The term Spiritual Ascension that appeared in the above Magdalene enchantment can be likened to the idea of Spiritual Evolution. Most mainstream scientists do not go far enough in their application of the concept of evolution; they confine their application of the term to physical reality, and even in that physical realm are very narrow-minded, not even considering character issues or personal ethics. But many spiritually-oriented thinkers now apply the idea of evolution also to higher dimensions of reality, including the spiritual dimension.
One such “highly-evolved” thinker is Gary Zukav; he became famous for his now-classic book on the “new physics” titled The Dancing Wu Li Masters. In another of his excellent books – The Seat of the Soul – he treats us to the following discussion on Spiritual Evolution.
The evolution that we learned about in school is the evolution of physical form. We learned, for example, that the single-celled creatures of the oceans are the predecessors of all more complex forms of life. A fish is more complex, and, therefore, more evolved than a sponge… and so on, up to human beings which are the most complex, and, therefore, the most evolved Life forms upon our planet.
We were taught, in other words, that evolution means the progressive development of organizational complexity. This idea is an expression of the idea that the organism that is best able to control both its environment and all of the other organisms in its environment is the most evolved. “Survival of the fittest” means that the most evolved organism in a given environment is the organism that is at the top of the food chain in that environment…. We have long known that this definition of evolution is inadequate, but we have not known why. When two humans engage one another, they are, in terms of organizational complexity, equally evolved. If both have the same intelligence, yet one is small-minded, mean and selfish while the other is magnanimous and altruistic, we say that the one who is magnanimous and altruistic is the more evolved. If one human intentionally sacrifices his or her life to save another, by, for example, using his or her own body to shield another from an unseen bullet or a speeding car, we say that the human who sacrificed his or her life, indeed, was one of the most evolved among us. We know these things to be true, but they are at variance with our understanding of evolution…. Our deeper understanding tells us that a truly evolved being is one that values… love more than it values the physical world and what we see in it. We must now bring our understanding of evolution into alignment with this deeper understanding.
Zukav then makes clear that there are countless rungs higher on the spiral ladder of spiritual evolution than that of the typical human being. Like the Megillah does – and as does Walter Russell – he refers to a “spiritual light” that is senior to – even parent to – physical light and its finite speed:
Thinking of the universe in terms of light, frequencies, and energies of different frequencies – in the terms that have become familiar to us through the study of physical light – is not merely metaphorical. It is a natural and powerful way to think of the Universe because physical light is a reflection of nonphysical Light. Physical light is not the Light of your soul. Physical light travels at a certain velocity. It cannot go faster. The Light of your soul is instantaneous…. Instantaneousness, therefore, is very much a part of your life. In nonphysical reality, the decisions that you make in terms of how you choose to use your energy have effects that are instantaneous. They are one with who and what you are…. Just as visible light is one portion, like an octave, in a continuum of energy of graduated frequencies that extends below and above what the eye can see, the continuum of nonphysical Light extends below and above, so to speak, the frequency range in which the human exists. The human experience is a particular frequency range in the continuum of nonphysical Light in the same way that visible light is a particular frequency range in the continuum of physical light. Other intelligences inhabit other ranges of frequency. These forms of Life do not exist elsewhere from us. Just as infrared light, ultraviolet light, microwave light and many, many other frequency and ranges of frequencies coexist with the visible light spectrum, but are invisible to us, the Life forms that are characterized by different frequency ranges of nonphysical Light coexist with us, but are invisible to us. In the place that you now sit exist many different beings, or groups of beings, each active and evolving in its own reality and in its own way….
Our species is evolving from one frequency range in the spectrum of nonphysical Light into another, higher range of frequency. This is the evolution of the five-sensory personality into the multisensory personality. The multisensory personality is more radiant and energetic than the five-sensory personality. It is aware of the Light of its soul, and it is able to detect, and to communicate with, forms of Life that are invisible to the fivesensory personality.
The Universe is a hierarchy that has no bottom and no top. Between the levels of the hierarchy there is an understanding that higher perceptions can be a part of, and are encouraged to be a part of, the experience of lower plane spirits as they strive to expand there own awareness. Thus, there is always a higher level of assistance…. Our nonphysical assistance comes from ranges of nonphysical Light that are higher in frequency than our own. The intelligences that assist and guide us… are of a higher rank in creation….
Does the above not strike you as a much more “evolved” version of the concept of evolution than that taught in mainstream schools? Evolution is a Grand Spiral consisting of uncountable spirals within spirals within spirals. Within the spiral of our Milky Way Galaxy are uncountable sub-spirals within spirals within spirals, and, the Milky Way is itself, in its wholeness, one Grand Spiral within countless other even grander spirals.
In Nasarean theology the grandest spiral of all is Unlimited Love; only THAT spiral is inclusive of all; thus, only it is the Supreme Archetype, and that Nasarean teaching is called, “The Nod of Wisdom to Love,” which is the motivating power of ETERNAL LIFE that manifests as THE GREAT HOPE, the HOPE FOR EVENTUAL UNIVERSAL SALVATION OF ALL BEINGS IN UNIVERSAL LOVE!
The Nasarean teachings on heavens includes the clarification of “The Kingdom of Heaven Within” and “Group Consciousness Heavens,” and also describe a universal pattern based on “Realms of Seven Heavens.” As long as we be heavenly within, we experience THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WITHIN. When we live with other Beings that are also being heavenly in their personal vibrations, we co-create “Group Consciousness Heavens.” But no matter how heavenly our current realm is, chances are very good that there are even higher heavenly realms in our future experience of Eternal Life in the everlasting duration that we call The Eternal Now.
In the same manner that our inner level of heavenly consciousness continues to rise – expand, increase – as we continue to evolve as spirit-souls (Beings) on the Spiral Ladder of Being, so do the countless Group Consciousness Heavenly Worlds/Realms also continue to spiral in heavenly ascent, solar system by solar system, galaxy by galaxy, the relatively higher heavens being of such fast vibrations as to currently be ‘invisible’ to human beings. Although it is too complex to address in this commentary, I will ask that readers of The Holy Megillah also pay close attention to how the “Group Consciousness Seven Heavens” of THIS solar system correlates with the Seven Primary Chakras of the human being and the colors of the light spectrum.
Readers of The Holy Megillah will learn the Nasarean names of The Seven Heavens of our Solar System in the section of that Nasarean Bible called “The Nasarean Book of Enoch,” as well as descriptions of each of those heavens.
Even within your own body-mind-soul complex are countless spirals within spirals. All of these spirals, together, are the “Great Dance of the All” called Universal YHWH. And the spiral form is that of the Trinity – the masculine spin and the feminine spin centered in YAH (gender neutral Zero Point at the center of the Number Line) that generates electromagnetism and makes possible the physical realm as well as all other realms that collectively emerge from the Zero.
We each, the Megillah makes clear, are free to either rise or fall on the Spiral Ladder of Being. That, my friends, is where religion and spiritual practices come into play. It is also where Nasarean Cosmology – leads to Nasarean Spiritual Practices.
The word Nasarean stems from the Hebrew root Nasa, a verb – used also as a noun by Nasareans – meaning ascend/ascension – and that ascent is linked to the above notion of the Grand Spiral of Life. That ascent is aided by acts of kindness and goodness – the ‘Ultimate Good’ being Universal Love – and is hindered by unloving thoughts, words, and deeds. The rung – level in the cosmic school system – that we occupy any given moment comes with its own level of expectations in regard to the standard of behavior considered adequately “loving” to result in further ascension to still higher rungs of the Golden Spiral of Being. For example, the level of behavior for a wolf to be making upward progress is not the same as, say, a Buddhist monk… or, say, you.Many of the readers of these words have reached a level of consciousness that enables you to now consciously participate in your Spiritual Evolution. While all Beings are on the spiritual path in the sense that all are part of the evolutionary process itself – all Beings are somewhere on the Grand Spiral – not all are yet at a level on the Spiral Ladder of Ascension so as to be able to consciously participate in their own spiritual evolution. Those souls that are able to participate consciously, enter a phase of great potential acceleration in spiritual evolution…. And that fact brings us face-to-face with our next Nasarean doctrine, the Nasarean Spiritual Practice called Essene Yoga.
