THE CYCLE OF THE SOUL
Part III
The Cosmic Life

Jozef Rulof

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© 2014 'De Eeuw van Christus'

Soon the master was ready, and we set out walking. It was a magnificent figure that accompanied me on my way. I thought of nothing, all I did was observe and marvel at all that I encountered. The further we went, the more nature changed. Where I had lived first, there was ink black darkness, afterwards it had changed to twilight, and now a glorious light shone on me. I felt myself in paradise already, and still we kept going on.

‘To which sphere will you take me?’ I asked the master.

‘Your sphere now is the second spiritual attunement. There an other master is waiting for you, and that’s where your path leads.’

The second sphere, I thought, could I enter there? A great feeling of happiness rose up in me. The further we went the more beautiful it became. I asked the master many questions and he answered all of them. How mighty is the life in the spirit. An enormous stillness, love and spiritual joy I felt growing in me. Not a word could I bring out anymore. All was so holy what I saw. I saw green and trees, flowers in the most exquisite colours, temples and buildings. Inside I cried, I was so moved by all these wondrous things God has set aside for His children.

Only now I thought of Marianne. Oh, to be here with her, to walk around hand in hand, in all this loveliness, how would our happiness be then?

Already we had entered the first sphere in this land of the spirit. I noticed that now everything was changing again and nature becoming even more beautiful. It was like a fairy tale. What made me deserving of all this? I knelt down and fervently prayed, thanking the Creator of heaven, earth and other planets for all this beauty. How terribly had I cursed all this in my life on earth. But still I could be happy and take in all this beauty, with my head held high gaze at everything, for I had made good all that I had misdone to others. I felt liberated of all my sins.

When I awoke from my prayer I saw the master waiting for me in the distance. I went over to him and he said: ‘We all, brother Lantos, don’t quite know how to thank God when we enter the spheres of light. All our happiness can not be expressed in words.’

‘It is of such greatness’, I agreed, ‘who can even imagine something like this? Who on earth will believe this? Miracles, I was allowed to experience, but this is the greatest wonder of all.’

‘Don’t say that, for you will see still deeper and mightier wonders, you are not at the place of your true spiritual attunement yet. As you see, the sky is changing.’

The sky in the first sphere was cloudy, like on earth, but the further we went the more the sky changed, the blue turned into mauve.

‘Over there lies your sphere’, the master said, after we had walked for a long time.

I cannot express in words how I felt. Everybody who enters here and experiences this, will fall silent and feel the insignificance of his own ego. That is how I felt too. I was nothing compared to this splendour. And still I was not even in the second sphere, not in the third, the fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh heaven! And after that, and further and further! I could not picture any of this in my mind, it was too overpowering. Here was no day or night, here it remained light, and that light could not be compared with sunlight. What I saw here was spiritual radiation.

The sun, moon and stars were part of the material world. For the spirit universe was not visible, unless he applied his concentration to it. And yet I lived in the universe, with all these millions of planets and solar systems around me, but invisible for the spirit who had entered the spiritual world.

Everything I was presently observing, outdid the life on earth by far. My hell had changed to heaven. It all was still too mighty for me to understand but I was going to meet my heaven. I saw that we were going over into still an other condition. I had already noticed it in the sky, but now I saw it in nature too. As we advanced further, I felt myself growing younger. I now experienced one wonder after another. I saw the master beside me transform. He now had a younger, more handsome face and wore a most splendid garment. When I saw that and stared at it in astonishment he said to me: ‘Are you surprised, brother Lantos? If I did not know better I might be surprised about you. Take a good look at yourself.’

I glanced down at myself and stopped still. I too wore a spiritual garment, and my hands were like a carved sculpture. ‘My God’, I said very loudly, ‘how can I thank Thee.’

While I was looking at this, I felt an even greater stillness coming in me. How I had changed, how lovely, how marvellous it all was, and how my garment shone. I touched myself and did not understand it at all. In heavenly joy we walked on, while I tried to digest this miraculous happening. I must absorb all this within me, and accept it, for it was mine!

‘My God’, I repeated over and over again to myself, ‘how can I thank you.’

Around me and everywhere I saw beauty, and the happiness of the spheres shone out and met the eye. Men and women were together and they all were radiant like suns. They walked around in nature, and I could feel their happiness from afar. Now that were people! People from the earth who lived in a paradise: the hereafter! I had now entered the life of the spirit. It was extraordinary, for I lived in reality.

In the distance I thought I saw an other light. The light remained and the sky had taken on its own colour again. When I would go further the firmament would also change, until I reached the highest spheres, only to keep on changing again, up to the godly spheres, where it merges into the All. Then man is divine! The thoughts that were coming to my mind were sent straight to me and I knew from where they came. The master spoke to me in the language of the spirit, and I accepted everything that came and was given to me. The light I had seen in the distance was coming closer and closer.

Suddenly there came to me: ‘Do you see that light?’

‘Yes’, I replied in thoughts, ‘I see it.’

‘Get yourself ready’, said the master.

I trembled for I felt what would happen.

‘The second sphere’, said the master, ‘we have entered!’

I believed that in that light I saw a figure and that apparition I knew. Once, no, twice before had I seen that figure. Quickly I flew forward and stepped up to my own master and leader. When I nearly drawn up close to him I knelt at his feet. ‘Master Emschor, father, my father, here I am.’ Then I knew of nothing more, I had fainted from happiness.