Angels, Fairies, Demons, and the Elementals. John Van Auken

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СКАЧАТЬ world or level of consciousness to the higher dimensions of awareness, the heavenly realms:

      Passing from the material consciousness to a spiritual or cosmic . . . oft does an entity or being not become conscious of that about it; much in the same manner as an entity born into the material plane only becomes conscious gradually of that designated as time and space for the material or third dimensional plane. In the passage the entity becomes conscious . . . of being in a fourth or higher dimensional plane takes place, much in the same way as the consciousness is gained in the material. For, as we have given, that we see manifested in the material plane is but a shadow of that in the spiritual plane.

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      It was teachings like this one from Edgar Cayce that encouraged me to budget time in my incarnate life to practice and experience the higher dimensions, and from my early twenties I have used Cayce, ancient Eastern, and Kabbalistic methods and concepts to become conscious of making passage through the heavens without losing touch with my life and relationships in this world. And just as Cayce said, we awaken to the higher, heavenly dimensions in the same way that we awaken to a more expanded consciousness of this world. As to the nature of perception in the higher dimensions, Cayce explains that this plane of existence is like a “shadow” of the invisible realms: “There is no difference in the unseen world to that that is visible, save in the unseen so much greater expanse or space may be covered!” (5754-3) My experiences with the higher dimensions is just as Cayce indicated; they feel more expansive than the physical world, more open, and my spirit/mind seems to move through them easily and quickly. Many others have had the same experiences with the nonphysical dimensions. It’s a shift in consciousness, in perception, from finite to infinite, from an individual to a universal. This is one reason why so many meditators describe feeling a profound oneness with all life when in deep meditation. Aloneness or individualness dissolves into collectiveness and universalness.

      When Cayce talked about soul travel—not bodily travel—he described the three-dimensional objects—planets, stars, and the like—as “shadows” of their higher-dimensional condition. In Cayce’s trance-state perception, our solar system is a physical expression of mental and spiritual realities. Here’s an example:

      As an entity passes on . . . from this present [time] or this solar system, this sun, these forces, it passes through the various spheres—leading first into that central force . . . known as Arcturus [this star is Cayce’s “star gate” in and out of our solar system]—nearer the Pleiades—on and on—through the eons of time, as called—or space . . . [Eventually, an entity passes] into the inner forces, inner sense, then may they again—after a period of nearly ten thousand years . . . enter into the earth to make manifest those forces gained in its passage. In entering, [the entity] takes on those forms that may be known in the dimensions of that plane which it occupies, there being not only three dimensions—as of the Earth—but there may be seven, in Mercury—or four, in Venus—or five, as in Jupiter. There may be only one as in Mars. There may be many more as in those of Neptune, or they may become even as nil—until purified in Saturn’s fires.

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      Keep in mind that he is not talking about landing on the physical surface of these planets but rather entering their higher dimensional realms of consciousness, vibration, and non-physical existence. Think of our world and our condition here as H₂O in solid form or ice, and then the next highest realms or heavens are like H₂O in a more fluid, liquid form, and the even higher realms are as H₂O in vaporous or cloud-like forms. This may help us get some sense of how a being can exist in different conditions—solid, liquid, and vapor—and yet retain its fundamental essence, H₂O in this example. These conditions of H₂O are comparable to physical, mental, and spiritual conditions: solid, liquid, and vapor.

      Let’s continue. Cayce identifies our soul’s motivation as follows:

      “As [the entity] moves from sphere to sphere, [it] seeks its way to the home, to the face of the Creator, the Father, the first cause.” (136-83) Cayce identifies the first cause as: “. . . that the created would be the companion for the Creator.” This is the reason we were created, and as a result, the created (our soul) is given opportunities to “show itself to be not only worthy of, but companionable to, the Creator.” (5753-1) Now we should realize that we are talking about being companionable to the Creator of the entire universe, so we do not want to be boring companions! For this reason, our souls are well motivated to explore, learn, and grow!

      As I mentioned earlier and wrote about in my book Edgar Cayce and the Kabbalah, there are Kabbalah texts teaching one how to ascend through the “heavenly palaces” (Hekhalot means “palaces of heaven”) and what the experience will be in these various non-physical palaces or realms of the seven heavens. There are also Kabbalah texts teaching how one may draw down angelic spirits to interact with us. Cayce’s readings are not against this, but they encourage us to let God send the guides and angels, for God knows best, and we have a tendency to attract the wrong energies, or at least the lesser ones. Cayce’s instruction would be to ask God to send angelic help rather than attempt to evoke such with our own will and desire. And whenever possible, Cayce encourages us to lift our minds and hearts up into the heavens rather than draw entities down from heaven—just as the channeled angel instructed earlier.

      There are several larger documents of the Hekhalot texts, such as Hekhalot Rabbati (in which six of the seven palaces of God are described), Hekhalot Zutarti, Shiur Komah, and 3 Khanokh (which is also known as 3 Enoch, and contains “The Book of the Palaces,” “The Book of Rabbi Ishmael the High Priest,” and “The Revelation of Metatron”). There are also hundreds of small documents, many little more than fragments, which address the concept of heavenly realms (palaces, firmaments, and planes) and describe methods for traversing them (though this is very dangerous and requires much practice and skill—as well as a pure heart and a focused and shielded mind). I’ll describe these in a moment.

      The meditative journey through the seven heavens was also known and practiced among various Gnostic groups and some early Christians—often in secret. As I wrote earlier and bears repeating, it would appear that the disciple Paul had made this passage: “I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.” (II Corinthians, 12:2) Paul appears to have used a method in which the Spirit draws us up into a level of Its presence. In this case, Paul was “caught up” to the third heaven. Notice also that Paul could not determine if he was in his body or out of it. Out-of-body experiences are so much a part of our modern culture that we now have an acronym for them: OBE. But this is not just a modern phenomenon, it was known back in Paul’s time as well, coming from the Greek term for “self watcher,” meaning viewing the surrounding environment from a position outside of one’s body. The English word for the original Greek word is “autoscopy.” Also associated with OBE are astral projection (meaning the separation of the astral body from its connection to the physical body), soul travel, and spirit walking, even the most modern of experiences—“near-death experiences” (NDEs)—are among out-of-body experiences—they are a result of modern medicine’s abilities to revive a dead body under certain circumstances, and the revived person then describing how they saw their dead body and what the doctors and nurses did to revive it. Paul experienced one of these transcending events, and it allowed him to visit, or at least perceive, the third level of the heavens.

      In the Koran, dictated to Mohammed by the archangel Gabriel, it is written, “See you not how Allah [literally in Arabic, “the God”] has created the seven heavens one above another, and made the moon a light in their midst and made the sun a lamp?” (Sura 71)

      In most teachings of the Kabbalah, the seven heavens are listed from lowest to highest as follows:

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