On the "Mystic Death"
© 2003
>> Rawn you wrote in the "EGO SELF" thread a while ago that the student doesn't lose his ego as the result of the Bardon practice, "There is no "loss" of identity in this process. There is only the *transformation* of identity." Then how does that confer with what Bardon states in IIH , "Only when he voluntarily surrenders his individuality and becomes one, will he voluntarily enter in to a dissolution which in mystical terminology, is depicted as the mystic death." ? <<
There is no *loss* in this dissolution of the Individual Self. It is instead, the Ultimate Transformation of identity, an expansion from the Individual to that of Unity with All.
Let me explain Bardon's terms a bit. Perhaps that will help you see what I mean more clearly.
"Individuality" here refers to the temporal mental body (in the Archaeous, this is the Solitary Mental Body) or Individual Self attributed to Tiphareth. The Individual Self is a projection into the stream of time from the Greater Self (the eternal mental body) attributed to Binah (the realm of Saturn). The personal or physical self is the time-space incarnation of the Individual Self or temporal mental body.
Upon physical death, the personal self becomes re-absorbed into the Individual Self. It "dissolves", so to speak, into the Individual Self.
When an Individual Self has evolved sufficiently and therefore reaches the natural end of its cycle of incarnations, it will either *voluntarily* merge with the Greater Self from which it springs or it will *voluntarily* retain its Individualized structure and serve as a temporal agent of the Greater Self, undertaking any tasks required within the temporal realm.
What Bardon described above is the voluntary merging of the Individual with Greater Self. The Greater Self, due to its position in the eternal realm, is our personal connection with "God" or The Unity, as I prefer.
When this dissolution of the Individuality structure occurs, that quanta of the Greater Self is reabsorbed and withdrawn from the temporal realm. There is no loss of awareness here -- only an infinite expansion of it.
My best to you,
:) Rawn Clark
04 Aug 2003
>> If I passed this point- a merging into the consciousness of the Divine godhead, would I have sufficient ego left to even care about the trivialities (perhaps a poor word, a better word being "details") of the past rungs on the tree of life? <<
If you did not possess this quality of caring in sufficient quantity, then you would not be capable of such a merging in the first place. The integration of Loving Kindness must precede the merging since without this level of caring, it is not possible to simultaneously manifest all four divine qualities.
My best to you,
:) Rawn Clark
04 Aug 2003