THE CYCLE OF THE SOUL
Part II
The Spiritual Life

Jozef Rulof

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© 2014 'De Eeuw van Christus'

‘Are we going to Marianne?’

‘This is not the time yet. Still you will know how her life’s ending on earth has been, but later. We shall visit him who sent you to this world.’

‘But will I recognize her in her new life?’

‘Yes, certainly, because you will sense and have that feeling towards her, Lantos.’

‘Thank you’, I said.

I felt myself return and enter my own sphere again. I thought I noticed a bit more light than before. Inside I felt different. I was happy, because I had surrendered everything and let myself be guided. I followed willingly and bowed my head. Still I descended again in this life. Inkblack darkness surrounded me, but presently I was lifted up and on we went to an other continent.

The sphere to which I was transferred I recognized at once. It was the sphere of the demons, where the beings lived who had shortened my life. I saw people who were like animals. Horrid creatures they were, and it was frightening to watch them. Did he belong here with them? Did he live in this situation? In this hell? Were these people? If so, how far distant was he from me. I asked my master whether my feelings had been correct and he confirmed they were.

All the time I remained in contact with my master. Many of these beings walked right through me. I could see them, but my concentration flowed every which way, and was not focussed sharply; however the help of my master strengthened the power of my concentration. I learned this as I was moving along. The people I saw were like devils. Clearly I recognized that greenish radiation I had seen in my cell. Various hells I came to know, but the heavens I could not yet see. From the one spirit world I went to the other.

Finally I saw the earth again. Everything was as I saw it at my own spiritual attunement. Around me was a deep darkness, but in that darkness I observed life, the astral person who lives around the earth person. I saw clearly, that they followed the earth persons, wherever there were earth people one could find the astral being.

‘Is the person on earth aware of this?’ I asked the master.

‘No, they are not aware of it. They attune themselves to those living on the side beyond, and in this way the earth person enters into this life and vice versa. They both want the same life and the same experiences, they are one.’

I came to know forces of which I had never dreamed on earth. I was living in reality and discovered a horrible truth. These forces meant hell, doom, destruction and lust. Shadowy shapes I saw that still lived on earth and I understood now how all this could come about and what it all meant.

Suddenly I noticed where we were. We had returned to my cell.

‘Why’, I queried, ‘do we return here?’

‘Here you will connect yourself with demons. Listen, Lantos, now think of him, the one you want to see. Keep your thoughts concentrated on him and you will receive the connection with him. I want you to learn to do that. You have made connections yourself many times, but only through my will and power. At the moment you live in the spheres of darkness.’

‘I understand.’

I did what my master wanted and again we floated over the earth. Still I asked my master whether my concentration was tuned in clearly.

‘You are doing well, Lantos. I am letting you go ahead. In a short while I shall leave and then you can orientate yourself.’

‘You are leaving me alone?’

‘I have to leave you alone, for you must live your own life and go your own way. But only then when you know everything of your earthly lives and when the past has dissolved.’

I concentrated and kept on thinking. Suddenly we entered an earthly building where I saw many people going in and out. What was going on in here? We walked through the halls and I saw what man on earth did. Here they were celebrating and drinking a lot. The wine was flowing across the floor. Many were drunk, but they all wore rich clothing and belonged to the highest classes of society. When they would die they would arrive here in the same clothes, like me. They who lived here were the wealthy. Having possessions on earth meant happiness, that is if that happiness was understood. But the rich too could be influenced, for the astral person lived in and around him.

In one corner of the hall I saw a gathering of people and I felt I was being pulled towards them. I saw something that frightened me severely. The moment I saw it I wanted to turn away, but I heard the master say: ‘Stay, Lantos, he does not see you, you are invisible.’

It reassured me, so that I went a little closer. There before me I saw my enemy. How is it possible, I thought, that I found him in this vast infinity. I attuned myself to him and knew immediately what he was doing here. He held two earth persons in his powers, they were connected with a devil. At the same time I saw their kind of pleasures and felt where and how far they went. With him were the many women I had also noticed in my cell. Monsters they were. These were people like pre-animal beings. The earth person in his powers was a strikingly beautiful woman. But to me she was a frightful predator.

I now also understood, how in my cell I had tuned in on him. I had wanted it myself, otherwise he would not have been able to make contact with me. But, had I arrived on this side directly, he would have been waiting for me and may have dragged me across the ground, and beaten me up. Today this connection with him was severed and I understood what my master had explained to me. I had paid my debt! He now lived his own life and I mine. He would continue to ruin people, but they wished that themselves, otherwise he could not reach them.

I saw many earth women who were drunk. In and around this beautiful being I could see his power and influence. Their souls were one. Their feelings were brutal and I well knew what he wanted. I heard the people on earth speak and clearly understood every word. She was a decoy and used as such, but behind it all I felt a faith. A gentleman in rich, fine clothing was doing the talking. She listened attentively but he was held in the influence of my enemy. My enemy spoke through him and his strong will was obeyed. These beings were irrevocably lost, they were false, terribly false. They let themselves go and lent themselves to unsavoury practices. The one that sat before me was an ambassador of the religious orders. Gold and jewels were needed. On that a faith was built. I saw through it all, because I could feel it. They were to me like an open book. I read in their lives, made myself one with them, so that I knew what they were thinking. From out of his world the demon worked on them and in this way experienced an earthly event, which was terrifying. I now saw through that religious haze and felt the satanic influence of it. I had never known about this on earth. I would never have believed it, but here I experienced it.

The horrifically laughter of all these people bothered me very much. During my life on earth I had never wanted to associate with them, the meanness of their life had repelled me. Now, however, everything was different. It was impossible to describe how low these people had sunk. An earth being was corrupted and that person was supposedly serving his religion. The fortune she acquired was for her church. If she joined a rich man, that would provide gold, silver and jewels for her church.

Damned be your deeds, I was thinking, and with that I meant my enemy. I perceived him as a master in evil. Also I knew this kind of woman. She was dangerous, because her beauty served for all sorts of baseness. Now I understood this celebration. Their parties were only a side issue and all those people were but puppets. Truly, it had been well thought out. Among all those earth- and astral people there was but one human being alive and that was she, the ravishing beauty. She lived, all the others were living dead. Within the scope of her devilish plan she was alive, for she saw far, very far ahead.

All were demons, not one excepted. Loathsome this life was! On earth I had never joined such parties for I had no religious belief. But how lucky I was that I had not known or had a belief, for all this was vile, brutal and horrible. This game was directed by those who lived on this side. My enemy organized all this and lived himself out. Wherever I looked, earth- and astral beings were together everywhere. They lived inside of one another and the astral one lived himself out, he felt, experienced everything the material human being did. It was so simple to bring this union about, both were one in feeling. The astral man stood inside of him and man on earth was totally unaware of it. It was very sad!

I had now learned my enemy’s pleasures. No, that kind of pleasure I did not want, it was too beastly. Devils in human form they all were. Was this their life? They had spoken the truth, for they could amuse themselves on earth and they could love as much as they wanted. But was that love? An animal possessed more feelings than these people. I saw men inside women and women inside of men. They were one in feelings and those feelings were limitless, for they both lived themselves out. How deeply tragic it was, I thought. Where is the end?

I asked my master, who had followed me in everything but had not spoken a word: ‘Did you know that?’

‘Yes, Lantos, I have known for a very long time.’

‘Have you followed his ways?’

‘Yes, I know all his ways and this is not even the worst, they can sink much deeper yet, deeper and much more base, more brutal. What they wish they can receive, in short everything. And do not think that they feel unhappy here. On the contrary they are very, very happy.’

‘In this darkness?’

‘In that darkness they feel happy.’

‘When comes any remorse?’

‘When they begin to get enough of this life.’

‘Will that ever happen?’

‘Yes, some day they all will come to that point and seek the good things. But thousands of years will go by. Think about that, thousands of years and yet that is only a flash in eternity.’

‘Can I connect myself fully with them?’

‘You can.’

‘Master, I want to feel what their feelings are, is that possible?’

‘You can do it.’

I put myself inside an earth person and urged him to drink. At the same moment he raised his beaker and emptied it with one gulp. I even felt the taste which was a peculiar experience. How miraculous to undergo this from my own world. Next I made contact with a woman. Her thoughts came to me and I let myself go. Her thoughts were loathsome and quickly I returned to myself. Not that, no, not that, awful were those thoughts. Now I knew their love, their feelings entered mine. This was connecting, we were one in feeling. I understood their animal-like life. Human, oh human, who are you?

But how easy was this connecting. People came and went, went to sleep and rested. But rested they set out again and lived the same experiences again until they were shrivelled and worn out. Then death came and again they would be connected with those who had lived through them. The astral person would be waiting for them. With all their worldly possessions they rolled into the darkness and that was for ages. There they called out ‘why’ and ‘wherefore’ and for their mother and father! How intensely had I admired the wonderful lines of the female body! My whole personality I could have given her, but now I shied away from sculpting her. How terrible was a human being and yet he was a child of God. Now I understood all these kinds of people.

‘How false they look when seen from this life’, I said to my master.

‘There are many other situations much deeper and more evil than this hell.’

‘Where is the end?’

‘You will find that out too. Follow your way and make your own connections, then you will merge with what you want to learn.’

‘How deep can I go?’

‘Below this one are three more situations and these are hells in the true sense of the word.’

How is it possible, I thought, still more evil, more brutal and meaner than these?

‘We shall now be on our way for our last research and then I will leave you, but only for a short time.’

We left the sphere of the demons.