Hereafter Ye Shall See Heaven Open - Part 6

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" Hereafter Ye Shall See Heaven Open " - Part 6

 

The astral heaven of

light and beauty

described

 

(p.204) The astral kingdom is a realm of rainbow-hued light. Astral land, seas,

skies, gardens, beings, the manifestation of day and night--all are made of

variegated vibrations of light. Astral gardens of flowers, planted on the soil

of the ether, surpass human description. The blossoms glow like Chinese star

shells, ever-changing but never fading, adapting themselves to the fancy of the

astral beings. They disappear when not wanted and reappear with new colors and

fragrance when desired again.

 

Astral beings drink prismatic light from lifetronic fountains cascading from the

bosom of ethereal mountains. Oceans heave with opalescent azure, green, silver,

gold, red, yellow, and aquamarine. Diamond-bright waves dance in a perpetual

rhythm of beauty.

 

Astral beings use all their subtle senses as physical man uses them in the

dreamland. The difference is that inhabitants of the astral heaven consciously

and at will control their surroundings. The earth is so full of decay and

destruction; in the astral world, havoc caused by any clash of inharmonious

vibrations could be remedied by mere willing.

 

The astral kingdom is many times older and longer-lived than this earth. Every

physical object, form, and force has an astral counterpart. (p.205) This astral

heaven is veritably the factory of life, the world of life force from which this

atomic universe is being created. But the heavenly manifestations haven't the

limitations of earth life. Everything is vibrating energy. Though beings and

objects there have form and substance and therefore seem solid, one

manifestation can pass through another without collision or harm: just as with

photographic techniques so many physically impossible things can be done in the

movies.

 

Colors on the earth-plane are crude imitations of their astral source.

Lifetronic colors are beyond human conception, far more beautiful than any

sunset or painting or rainbow or aurora borealis. The most exquisite colors in

nature, if blended together in scenic portrayal, still would not depict the

beauty of the astral world; the motley physical hues are such dense vibrations

of their astral counterparts. In the delicacy of the astral land, neither dull

skies nor blinding sun assaults the senses. The astral luminosity dims all

physical light, yet is never harsh or glaring.

 

The boundary of the earth is the cosmic sky. The boundary of the astral heaven

is a deep circumventing nimbus, rainbow-like in the seven colors of the

spectrum--diaphanous, translucent rays blended with infinite taste and beauty of

the Father. Within this astral firmament are the " pearly gates " referred to in

Revelation 21:21. These " gates, " of the luster of pearls, are the primary

channels of ingress and egress between the vibratory spheres and the

vibrationless realm of God, and for the movement of creative forces and souls

between the astral and physical worlds. The pearly luster is the Lord's creative

white light tinged with the blue of Christ Consciousness flowing into the

vibratory sphere, where in the astral realm it is refracted into the multicolors

of rainbow hues.

 

Birth and death in the astral world are merely a change in consciousness. When

the physical body dies, a being loses the consciousness of flesh and becomes

aware of his subtle astral form in the astral world. At a karmically

predetermined time that astral being loses consciousness of his astral form to

undergo rebirth in the physical world. When the astrally garbed soul leaves the

astral world, at the end of its astral life, it is attracted to parents and an

environment on earth (or to similar inhabited planets in other island universes)

which are suited to the working-out of that individual's store of good and bad

karma.

 

No one is born of a woman's body in the astral kingdom. There is only spiritual

marriage in that realm, without cohabitation. (p.206) If children are desired,

they are created by inviting a soul--usually recently departed from earth--into

an astral body imaged by the immaculate method of condensing the positive and

negative thoughts, and will, and feeling tendencies of parents into the form of

a male or female child. A predominantly positive-charged thought of lifetronic

energy produces a male child, a predominantly negative-charged thought of

lifetronic energy produces a female child. The form of the child, as with most

astral beings, resembles that of their recently discarded earth body, but

without its decrepitude.

 

The earth memories of astral beings gradually fade, but they meet and recognize

many of their loved ones lost to them on earth--so many mothers, fathers,

children, friends, spouses, of so many incarnations; it becomes difficult to

isolate special feelings for one over another. The soul rejoices to embrace them

all in its consciousness of universal love.

 

Astral beings have all the faculties of perception and cognition to which man is

accustomed in his physical body, but as instruments of intuition independent of

the limitations of the imperfect mortal senses and rationalizing intelligence.

The astral land is thus conspicuous for the absence of books, a distinctly

material omnium-gatherum for storing and transmitting man's ideas and knowledge.

Astral beings can concentrate upon anything in the particular stratum to which

they are assigned and know about its nature through the instantaneous

knowledge-producing power of intuition. Though they need not depend on the

tedious methods of book-learning, advanced beings who wish to record their

special thought vibrations have only to visualize those concepts, which are then

immediately transformed into a permanent record of astral light vibrations.

 

As there are both highly developed saints and also ordinary beings in the astral

realms, they use their own degree of semi- or fully awakened intuition to

complement their highly receptive astral intelligence. Only after a soul

reunites with God is there no longer a need to read books or to concentrate upon

anything in order to know it by intuition. The soul identified with Spirit

already knows all and sees all.

 

Advanced astral beings can traverse any plane or region of the vast astral

heaven, traveling faster than the speed of light in a vehicular mass of luminous

lifetrons. Ascending to the causal heaven of ideational consciousness, the

causal being transcends time and distance altogether in the instancy of

thought--with every experience, consciously willed, an exquisite throb in the

tranquil essence of consciousness.

 

The Second Coming of Christ (The Resurrection of the Christ Within

You) Volume 1, Discourse 10, pg. 204-206

Paramahansa Yogananda

Printed in the United States of America 1434-J881

ISBN-13:978-0-87612-557-1

ISBN-10:0-87612-557-7

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