METAPHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE, part VI

METAPHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE, part VI - by Guenther Zuehlsdorf, translation from the original German edition into Portuguese by Huberto Rohden and translated into English by Flavio de Mello.

 

 

 

For the profane man, attached to external empirical phenomena, the mystical experience is a path full of nebulosity, into darkness - while, for man who demands the freedom through the spirit, it is a transition from a light that actually is darkness, to a darkness that is light.

 

 

Certainly, it is not easy for man to break free of sensory appearances and find God in unseen realities - although these realities are within each of us.

 

 

The thinkers of the past taught that the outside world is far from the centre from where all dimensions of spiritual existence, moral and mental departs. Rediscovering this starting point is our main task.

 

 

Jesus, the Christ, referred to two areas of spiritual life when he spoke so clearly of John the Baptist, saying that he was the greatest of human beings, but the least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than John. With this he showed for all those who were able to comprehend the mystery of rebirth by the spirit, that among all the goods granted by men, none surpasses the gift of intelligence, the power to think, symbolized by the baptism of water - but the smallest spark of spiritual intuition, represented by the baptism of fire, is infinitely superior.

 

 

Although we often compare these states with light or darkness, yet the new dimension of consciousness is neither light nor darkness - it lies beyond both. In this state, knowing or not knowing are not real: real is only what is beyond any pair of opposites.

 

 

The experience of Reality implies an interior detachment, an inner receptivity, which is incompatible with any intellectual violation of all kinds of programming, of all that man wants and intends convulsively. Truth is revealed to man only when he enters into great silence: Truth is a consciousness of the divine Self, an immediate experience of the own Being, an interiorizing experience.

 

 

Man largely lost this basic ability of the consciousness of himself; hence, his mania to create imaginatively, external experiences.

 

 

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