World of Ghosts
All those who experience the earth as a prison, and every believer who cries for redemption – such people unconsciously evoke the world of ghosts.
Do it too, but be fully aware!
When on the way of Awakening you go thru the world of ghosts, you will gradually recognize that they too are nothing but thoughts that you can suddenly see with your eyes. This is the reason they look alien to you and like beings; for the language of forms is different from the language of the brain.
Then the time has come for the strangest transformation that can possibly happen to you: out of the people surrounding you, ghosts emerge. All those who have been dear to you suddenly become larvae, including your own body.
It is the most terrifying solitude that one can imagine, like a pilgrimage thru the desert: those who do not find the spring of life in it die of thirst.
-Gustav Meyrink
(the “world of ghosts” or “astral world” is nothing other than the world of deep-seated forces, partly individual, partly collective and super-individual, that are at work in man as a whole. These forces, as soon as the consciousness is freed from its connection with the lowest parts of the brain, are projected into and visualized as symbolic images. Man than sees outside of himself that which, being inside him, he could not previously know. In the world of ghosts he can know himself and must know only himself. At that time the apparitions look like larvae or ghosts, and a fearful sense of solitude sets in. This experience is eventually followed by another, to which Meyrink alludes when talking about the deeper meaning of each apparition; thru various energies, of which the astral images are a symbol, it is possible to go back to real and cosmic beings, under whose influence man has fallen, and who have been essential for his life. If a fire of knowledge and purification burns up the world of ghosts, what emerges form it is the fist experience of the Kingdom of Those Who Are – UR Group)
Do it too, but be fully aware!
When on the way of Awakening you go thru the world of ghosts, you will gradually recognize that they too are nothing but thoughts that you can suddenly see with your eyes. This is the reason they look alien to you and like beings; for the language of forms is different from the language of the brain.
Then the time has come for the strangest transformation that can possibly happen to you: out of the people surrounding you, ghosts emerge. All those who have been dear to you suddenly become larvae, including your own body.
It is the most terrifying solitude that one can imagine, like a pilgrimage thru the desert: those who do not find the spring of life in it die of thirst.
-Gustav Meyrink
(the “world of ghosts” or “astral world” is nothing other than the world of deep-seated forces, partly individual, partly collective and super-individual, that are at work in man as a whole. These forces, as soon as the consciousness is freed from its connection with the lowest parts of the brain, are projected into and visualized as symbolic images. Man than sees outside of himself that which, being inside him, he could not previously know. In the world of ghosts he can know himself and must know only himself. At that time the apparitions look like larvae or ghosts, and a fearful sense of solitude sets in. This experience is eventually followed by another, to which Meyrink alludes when talking about the deeper meaning of each apparition; thru various energies, of which the astral images are a symbol, it is possible to go back to real and cosmic beings, under whose influence man has fallen, and who have been essential for his life. If a fire of knowledge and purification burns up the world of ghosts, what emerges form it is the fist experience of the Kingdom of Those Who Are – UR Group)
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