Becoming And/Or Being
This is actually two related principles — Being and Becoming.
Question: What is the definition of these two states and the difference between them?
Answer: To put it most simply I would say this. Becoming is the act of moving ahead with a decision to be actively involved in the creative process. To Become is to create.
To enter the state of Being one merely rests from the creative process. Being is basically rest and relaxation (R&R).
Question: What is the basic principle that explains these two states?
Answer: Basically, it is the night and day or the two cycles of the creative process of existence.
Question: Some say we should concentrate on just “Being.” Where is the correct emphasis that we should place on these two states?
Answer: Do we want to rest all the time or work all the time? Neither. We want a balance of the two.
Question: All things manifest in Trinities. Is there a third state? What is it?
Answer: This is an interesting question that takes us into territory not covered by most teachers –.
Many enter into the restful state of Being during meditation and the rest is so blissful that it is assumed to be our final most desirable state. Few realize that Being in this existence is merely a vehicle for rest. The time to take a long rest is when the creative workday is done in time and space. To take more than a short nap in the middle of the creative day is folly. Take the nap when the work is done.
One member presented the idea that there are several states of being and this is true. There are also several states or degrees of Becoming, but neither of these is the third state.
The third state cannot be achieved in this existence.
Let us use the Law of Correspondences and examine our three states in general living. The first is our general waking state (Becoming) and the second is our sleep state (Being). Where then is our third state?
It is death.
We cannot be dead to the body while we are living in the body. Even so we cannot enter the third state while living in this existence anywhere in the seven planes.
What then is the third state?
A reader used the right words: “Not Being.”
In the beginning of our existence in this universe the call went forth to all monads:
“To Be or not to Be. That is the question.”
Those who responded to the call came forth and experienced “Being” and “Becoming.” This is sometimes referred to as their spiritual creation, though they had an eternal state of ‘not being” before this.
Those who did not respond are still in the third state of “not Being.” They exist, but just in an abstract esoteric level and will one day choose “to Be.”
Those who chose “to Be” cannot go back to “not Being” though they can take a detour by choosing the dark, left-hand path that leads to the destruction of all the sheaths and clothing of existence.
Thus, even though Being is often presented as a state of nothingness those who teach such know not what true nothingness is. True nothingness (as far as this reality is concerned) is the state of not Being that cannot be entered when one is linked to the physical, astral, mental or energy bodies. If you are here living on the earth, you have not experienced “not Being” since you have decided “to Be.”
Question: What state does the meditation process create?
This takes us into Being but sooner or later Becoming dominates again. The advantage of such meditation is they become aware of Being, even as they evolve through Becoming. The disadvantage is some enjoy Being so much they want to focus there all the time. This will delay their progress in the end.
Question: Is the great rest just a esoteric level now? Where does the life principle fit into this?”
JJ: We have the great rest of pralaya, but before that happens, we still enter into cycles of lesser rest.
In the worlds of form Becoming dominates and Being is in the background, so to speak.
When we go out of form into pralaya then Being dominates, but Becoming is still there but in the background.
The life principle is always active, but just manifests differently while duality is at play.
Question: Why would anyone choose the dark path that leads to the destruction of our sheaths?
JJ: It is difficult to believe until you examine the actions of many humans.
For instance, many religions teach that if you commit adultery you will burn in hell for all eternity. Even so, many who believe this will still willingly go ahead and have an affair anyway. When you think of it, the limited pleasure you get from an affair does not compare in any way to an eternity of burning in hell yet many take the plunge. Fortunately, the burning in hell is not a correct belief.
Those who take the dark path are not quite as illogical as those who risk eternal punishment. They do give in to the immediate pleasures that pure selfishness will bring, but they have kind of a pyramid scheme going where it appears the winners or top producers can continue indefinitely. They all meet the same fate of destruction in the end, however and go back to the state of Not Being. Eventually they will come back into Being but a very long time will be lost.
There seems to be some confusion between the left and righthand path. The left-hand path is the path of selfishness that denies the soul and creates a reality devoid of soul, so the soul is eventually as if it does not exist. These people can speak of love, light, the will of God and have order, but their reality is not linked to the soul causing a loss of life force holding their sheaths together and eventually they disintegrate and go back to “Not Being.”
The right-hand disciple seeks the soul and higher realms and receives eternal life from them and thus can continue exploring and learning from the seven planes as long as he desires.
Question: If you were entirely becoming, how could you be in existence without being? And vice versa.
JJ: There is no such thing as being entirely in one or the other just like all of us are not entirely female or male. The word is polarization. This mean that a person is more centered in one aspect than another.
The person who is Becoming still has Being in the background and during periods of rest or meditation may enter into this state. During periods of Being one is still fomenting and Becoming, but at a slower pace through the principle of absorption.
Question: Is it even possible to go backwards in progression?
Of course, one is not going backwards when one is progressing. But when a person consciously chooses the left-hand path, he ignorantly chooses the path of retrogression and loses any connection to an increased intelligence because he loses connection with the world of the soul. The path of pure selfishness cannot take you forward toward increased intelligence. Increased cunning maybe, but not intelligence.
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses. —Chinese proverb
April 28, 2008
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