The period of belief in God, immortality, Christ, and the spiritual world prevailed in the first three centuries of Christendom. And until the end of the Middle Ages, in theory, this belief was held. However, by the end of this period, much of Christendom and Western society abandoned it, and with the onset of the Renaissance, many proclaimed sciences as the elixir of happiness. Belief, which is an act of goodwill, has been replaced by science, an act of intelligence.
Today, however, after more than five centuries of the Renaissance and in the heyday of science, a few human beings are beginning the third stage of their ascensional evolution beyond belief and science - toward the experience of God and the invisible world. If belief was an act of goodwill and science an act of intelligence, God’s experience is the awakening of reason, of Logos, of Christ.
The belief corresponds to the spiritual infancy.
Science is of spiritual adolescence.
The reason is maturity, the experience of God!
The vast majority of humans are still on the belief level or in a spiritual infancy state, where the only attitude is to believe in God and vaguely in the soul's affairs. It is unlikely that there may be humans who can surpass the stage of belief in a short time, as evolution in this sense progresses in quick strides over long periods. For them, belief is still necessary, for it is a disciplinary brake to contain man within certain limits of morality and ethics. Only a tiny part managed to surpass the belief based on others' testimonies and enter the experience of God and the spiritual world.
Those who lose belief without attaining the experience of God fall into disbelief.
These small parts of humans know that this experience of the ideal world is not a transient act but a permanent attitude, an openness or receptivity to the perfect world. Man must be invaded by the soul of the Universe, which is the Creator, to experience the invisible reality. However, for this cosmic invasion to happen, man must offer the invader open channels, for only receptive man can be invaded by this soul. This cosmic availability of man consists in a total ego-emptying, which, according to infallible laws, is the prelude to Cosmos-plenitude, which certain theologies call “grace”.
True meditation is identical to this ego-emptying. In the language of the Masters, it is a voluntary death of the ego, after which Christ, or the Kingdom of God, is born in the soul.
During this ego-emptying, the man ignores his human personality and becomes perfectly conscious of his divine individuality. It is a 100% aware and 0% thinking state. The Masters of the spiritual life are unanimous in demanding this ego-emptying, that the kingdom of God may be born in man: “If the grain of wheat (ego) does not die, it will become sterile; but if it dies, it will bear much fruit.” “I die every day, and that is why I live, but it is no longer I (ego) that live; it is the Christ (the divine Self) who lives in me.”
After the ego’s death and the birth of the inner Christ, man has direct and immediate experience of God, of his potentially immortal and now dynamically immortalized soul. He is no longer a conscious but an experienced or sapient one. This experience generates absolute certainty of God and immortality, an assurance that transforms the whole individual and man's social life.
There may be a possible return from belief to disbelief - but from experience, there is no return to inexperience.
The certainty of true initiate man does not come from belief, even less from science, but from experience. Man, who has no experience of God and immortality, has not realized the destiny of his existence.
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