Enlightenment - 1 - The 13 Seals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- //CONTENTS:// 01: The Seals in Overview * 02: Contextual Elaboration * 03: -Reserved- ///////////// 01: The Seals in Overview ------------------------------- 1. Matter 2. Shaped Matter 3. Structured Matter 4. The 4 Elements 5. Life 6. Judgement, Reason, Acting 7. Independence 8. Thoughts 9. The Force 10. Identity/The Light 11. The Receiving Spirit 12. The Producing Spirit 13. The Well/Source 02: Contextual Elaboration -------------------------------- Independence, what is that? Let's look at the 6th - whereby we learn: 'Judgement, Reason and Acting' are in-deed processes of intelligence, but a simple particle can also be found to exist within the range of these things. Take a ball. Once you throw it - what does it judge? Nothing yet it seems. What is it's reason? What its acting? When the Ball bounces against something, there is Judgement. The ball squeezes together and thus realizes that it is out of shape and thus judges that it must get back into shape, thus acting itself out and thereby bouncing back off of the wall. "Cause and Effect" - while certainly these are processes that are philosophically assigned as property to life. That is the 5th Seal, basically, which may finally encompass any experience that turns the individual into a believer in the cosmic force that at some point should make him consider that everything is life. Within the 4 Elements we realize the existence of Logic - general Form - or the idea of the image. The 4 Elements are no objective Truth as they are all composed of/from the same sub-structure - although it might seem that fire is different. Therein we may see the "Wisdom of the Universe" - but in general do we all at some point gain independence. Within this independence we begin to reason, thus opening the realm of thoughts to our mind. Thereby we become 'whole' as we are capable of identifying reality in concerns to our knowledge - living from the basis of the totality of what (our) nature allows us to be. The 9th Seal is finally the gate into what takes our consciousness that one bit further - which is to enter what only God can reveal. This is no 'external trick' that occurs within the scope of our mortal senses - it is deep in the center wherein the very essence of our existence resides. Logically. When removing everything that is only given to us - attached to what we are in origin - being reduced to our basic consciousness - everything that our mind perceives as external (interferences) is one in the same. What our mind conceives of it is within the realm of our Thoughts, and therein we produce our knowledge. Once the Testimony is given, this knowledge is "being blessed" - thus exceeding all the other thoughts in brightness and value. This experience can be regarded as "Life" - or as the experience of 'a Living Entity' that corresponds to a certain intellectual value posessed. Thus corresponding thoughts are being produced that once more expand this knowledge - while faith and re-assurance help making it more and more solid over the time. Thus knowledge, or rather 'cognitive understanding of reality', is growing through Experiences that affirm the 'regarded value' towards 'certainty'. Within what the individual thus regards as 'certain' the indivdual understand reality. From what it understands it reacts while its reactions supplement its reason from wherein consciousnes decides upon what is done. This is 'the independence of Life'. Within this independence there so is consciousness - and within consciousness mind is properly equipped to gain access to its own understanding thus being able to comprehend and analyze. This is founded within the realm of thoughts - and never is the human being in expanding beyond this. Concerning the things that are subjected to our choices, alias "the things we can do", the things we have power upon, we might regard this concept -flawed-. This is the world around us however that reacts to us, where we can see the cause and effect of things that relate to our doing that is furthermore only subject to our perception. As these are the limits, naturally, there is a Seal. That is the 9th Seal. If however nothing from the outside may ever break it, it must come from within, which however is again just another outside - which is wherein our consciousness resides; Thus 'within' is the within that is beyond logical comprehension. It is 'the Truth' of the Unborn, the one who has ever existed and is eternal as the root to all existence, the origin of our existence - we also say: 'the Father'. The son is what He is within the scope of our 8th in forms of appearances visible side, while the spirit is what He is within the scope of our 8th invisible side - our imagination and the meta-physical. Thus it is evident - but it can still furthermore be concluded: That each seal increases our cognitive understanding of reality once we break, opening a new sphere to our consciousness wherein we can individually grow and correspond to. Thus the 9th Seal is to also be opening into a reality that is once more increasing our general scope of correspondence. Nothing -however- can emmanate without emmanation. Nothing that appears will ever appear without appearance. Everything that appears will always become a part of our Memory. Thus to those that aren't yet in the 9th, the Truth thereof is furthermore described as 'the veil' - while a description of the experiences beyond the 9th will always be comprehended within the reality of the 8th unless the 9th is being perceived. Logically! Within the 8th the individual manages experiences to found its idea of existence. The elaboration of an experience can thereby only be understood in terms to the own pool of knowledge. One may explain to the other what Heat is, or Pain, or a really thick air, but he cannot understand unless he has experiences that are close enough. Close enough, however, is to say that the individual will try to understand and thus compose an image from what it is capable of. Eventually the individual is thereby capable of maximizing the probability of correctness - wherein the Truth must be found that the bottom line however is that words can't tell! As Enlightenment is related to the givings of the Source, it is only the Source that may allow entrance. As we have it within our acknowledgement of the Most High, Enlightenment is to be given by Him; And in conjunction to the Enlightenment given to me, there are conditions that must be met and then a prayer spoken; For naturally, how can one truly correspond to the source without awareness of its existence? Within the 13 seals we have it that the 9th Seal is called 'the Force' - beyond which it so goes on within the 10th called 'Identity'. Identity is on the way towards 'the Source'. As tradition holds it that Jesus is the only way to the Father and Baptizm the central pillar of co-existence with Him, baptizm can also be reviewed as the 'initiation' towards Enlightenment whereby the individual is made familiar with the general appearances of the Father within Son and Spirit that allow the individual to properly adjust to the Truth of His existence. Thus the 9th to the 13th Seal resemble the process of the Sources revelations. The Force is present within all things and constitutes son and spirit. It also constitutes the physical and cognitive reality known to our mind, as also our very being. Via an action from the Source we are connected to its reality - a System that is being created to regard those that have been attached to it. From there unfolds the rest - and while it is basically required to dwell in the 8th so that the 9th can be understood, one is required to dwell in the 9th to gain access to the 10th. In parts the experiences can be described where being not specific in their dependence on experiences of the 9th. From there one may also begin to see things a little bit more like God - as one has to consciously assimilate the truth that it is in deed beyond the comprehension of the 8th. It does however of course "flow" back into the 8th, as it all does always finally also inevitably "flow" back into the 1st. Therein we are founded as substance - without it, there were nothing that could be considered existent - where otherwise substance is the definition of something that is existent. What can be explained to the Understanding of the 8th as that which does arise from within the 9th is written in, as of me, within |IC-01.A.4-ENLIGHTENMENT-03|. 03: --------------------------------