It
is very hard to separate heavenly Paradise from earthly Paradise and that is
because besides being a distinct place in heaven, Paradise where the righteous
souls are gathered;
Nirvana
mostly is a state of mind that can also be reached here on Earth. You take that state of mind with you when you die. Released from your
body, besides aspects like bodily urges, material needs and physical pain and such, you also are released of lower emotions like hate, greed and jealousy which will enhance your feeling of
happiness. Except of coarse when the lower states of mind have always dominated
your life, leaving no room for feelings like love, charity and loving-kindness.
If you never knew anything else but hate, jealousy or greed, that is all you are
and that is what you take with you when you die and that is what you will be.
The more you got rid of these negative feelings, the better you're off. You will
reap what you have sown. You will be among kindred minds that will do to you
what you would do to others. Heaven is a state of mind and
it consists of souls and/or angels with that state of
mind no matter if you're alive or dead. The same goes for Hell; all wicked souls
and/or demons put together form Hell or Satan, which
amounts to the same. And it doesn't matter whether you're alive or dead. In
the Bhagavad-Gita it can be read that; This entire
universe is pervaded by Me, the unmanifest Brahman. All beings depend on Me, I
do not depend on them. BG 9.04
The Universe is expanding from its
center and we may assume that the closer you get to the source, in the center of
it all, from where everything
originated with a Big Bang, the closer you get to God. This core of Light is
present in everything from the tiny "solar system" of an atom; as its nucleus,
to within every living being; its self. From the
center of the Earth to the center of our
solar system; our sun. And from the center of our Galaxy; the core of our Milky
Way to the center of our Universe;
the Source. You might say, but isn't the center of our Galaxy a very hostile
environment and what about the Black Holes inside our Milky Way? Well, as an immaterial soul you
wouldn't be bothered by material obstacles. Flashing
through these stars, planets and obstacles might in fact be perceived as flying
through a tunnel and this Black
Hole may only be a Portal to another dimension through which you would have to go to
get there. But you cannot
take your luggage, your physical body with you and you have to go through fire and water to get
there. Figuratively speaking,
(mentally) here on Earth, being tempted by earthly pleasures and distracted
by illusions like fear and complexes, greed and fanaticism. Literally you have
to go through fire to reach the light of which all matter was made since the Big
Bang, the gigantic fireworks at the beginning of times, still sparkling in the
waters of heaven as the stars and Galaxies we see at night. These
stars are but sparks in a sea of suns, nebula and galaxies like our own Milky
Way, that is just a spark in the Cosmos that might look like an
egg shaped galaxy
itself.
The Romans called our galaxy; "Via Lactiae"- Milky way. The ancient Greek astronomers already thought that the Milky Way looked like a river of milk running through the sky, and that's where both "Milky Way" and "Galaxy" come from. Galaxy is derived from the Greek word for milk. The Egyptians called it the Waterway (Nile); the waters of heaven.
This here is our Milky Way.
Sokrates : Now in the time of Kronos [i.e. in the Golden Age of Man] there was a
law concerning mankind, and it holds to this very day amongst the gods, that
every man who has passed a just and holy life departs after his decease to the
Isles of the Blest
(Nesoi Makaron), and dwells in all happiness apart from ill. Plato, Gorgias
523a ff
Beyond the
inhabitable towards the east lies Paradise containing
three
hundred and ten worlds
and seven compartments for seven different classes of the pious. And God sits in
the midst of them and expounds the Torah
(His Wisdom) to them.
Towards the west is the ocean with many isles. Beyond that are the Plaines
That there are many earths, and men upon them, and spirits and angels thence, is well known in the other life, for it is there granted to every one who desires it from a love of truth, and thence of use, to speak with the spirits of other earths, and thereby to be confirmed concerning a plurality of worlds, and to be informed that the human race is not from one earth only, but from innumerable earths; and moreover to be informed what is their genius, manner of life, and their Divine worship. Swedenborg, Earths in the Universe sect. 2
This Waterway is the road to heaven, the journey through the worlds that all reincarnating souls must make should they want to go Home.
"Adapa [the name of an early man], thou art going before Anu, the King; "The road to Heaven thou wilt take. "When to Heaven thou has ascended, and hast approached the gate of Anu, the 'Bearer of Life' and the 'Grower of Truth' at the gate of Anu will be standing." - Sumerian tablet
Nor in this world nor in the next, do the wise find rest; they go from strength to strength until they appear before God in Sion. Talmud; Berakot.64a.
From Brahma's world down, the dwellers of all the worlds are subject to repeated birth and death. But, after attaining Me, one does not take birth again. Bhagavad-Gita 8.16
In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place. Joh 14:2 DBY
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The Eye of Ra
"Our God is a consuming fire." Heb 12:29 MKJV
Going there, you will leave the world of matter and enter the world of thought and dreams, so it would seem imperative that whoever goes there is able to control his thoughts and has left behind all violence, hate, greed and jealousy behind.
"Only the pure of heart will enter."
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And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden;
and from there it was parted and became four streams. Gen2;10
The four arms of the Milky Way.
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And again god Mihr (The Living Spirit) donned three garments from that purification—of wind, water, and fire, and went down to the dark earth. And in order to create the great building, the new paradise, ... he layered and put down over the dark earth four layers—of hot wind, darkness, fire, and water, one on top of the other. Mani; Shabuhragan, Construction of the earths; 1
The first world to exist was Muspell, a place of light and heat whose flames are so hot that those who are not native to that land cannot endure it. Beyond Muspell lay the great and yawning void named Ginnungagap, and beyond Ginnungagap lay the dark, cold realm of Niflheim. Surt sits at Muspell's border, guarding the land with a flaming sword. At the end of the world he will vanquish all the gods and burn the whole world with fire. Norwegian mythology
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The flaming sword whirling around
to guard the way of the Tree of Life.
Ge 3:24
And then all people will go through a wild river and an unquenchable fire, and all righteous will be wholly saved, but all the godless people will perish for all time…in the Elysian plains where the long waves are of Lake Acherusia. Sybb. Or. 2
And the angel Michael (one of the archangels) seized me by my right hand,
And lifted me up and led me forth into all the secrets,
And he showed me all the secrets of righteousness.
And he showed me all the secrets of the ends of the heaven,
And all the chambers of all the stars, and all the luminaries,
Whence they proceed before the face of the holy ones.
And he translated my spirit into the heaven of heavens,
And I saw there as it were a structure built of crystals,
And between those crystals tongues of living fire.
And my spirit saw the girdle which girt that house of fire,
And on its four sides were streams full of living fire,
And they girt that house.
And round about were Seraphim, Cherubim, and Ophannim:
And these are they who sleep not
And guard the throne of His glory.
And I saw angels who could not be counted,
A thousand thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand,
Encircling that house.
And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel,
And the holy angels who are above the heavens,
Go in and out of that house.
Book of Enoch Chapter 71;3
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Like any other Galaxy and like the Universe itself, our Milky Way has an Egg-shaped Aura around it of Dark Matter and Dark energy; which is only called "dark" because we cannot see it with our human eyes. It might in fact be a lot shinier than we can imagine...
...which is to show that the Universe isn't quite as flat as some say it is.
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Some astronomers are dead set on presenting the universe as a violently hellish and hostile environment, in fact saying; "There is no God and there is no Heaven or Paradise and we're all gonna die in agony, we're doomed, that's what we are; DOOMED!..... and yet here we are living our lives and doing our thing on of these planets in that very same universe.
Some say, the center of our aging galaxy has by now been rid of all the gasses and rubble and what has remained are millions of stars encircling a super massive black hole, hidden inside its egg shaped heart.
These super massive black holes, however, are millions of times bigger than your average stellar black hole and way more friendly.
It is not as if the encircling stars are "brutally stretched out and ripped apart", being "eaten alive" and "fed on" by this "horrible monster" lurking in the dark as some astronomers would describe it.
In fact stars will happily orbit the Black hole for most of its life and won't actually be sucked in, these stars are actually safe from the "fatal attraction" of the Black hole. Astrophysicist Andrea M. Ghez
Others say, the center of our Galaxy is actually crawling with stars and clouds of dust and Gasses. One thing is sure; the view at heaven from one of the planets encircling such a star must be amazingly spectacular and sure, we in our present state wouldn't last a second there, be we wouldn't be there in our present state and life has its ways to cope with "hostile" environments. What seems hostile to us, may be paradise to others. Even here on Earth there are organisms and animals in fact, thriving in underground pools of oxygen deprived water, or around volcano craters on the bottom of the ocean, swimming in sulfuric acid.
Who is to say what kind of life forms may exist around the center of our Galaxy, and who is to say that there aren't any.
And who says that they are material?
And they took me to a place where they were like burning fire, and, when they wished, they made themselves look like men. 1 Enoch 17.1
The kinds of extraterrestrial civilizations that SETI is looking for, according to the Kardashev scale are type I, II and III civilizations. In general terms, a Type I civilization has achieved mastery of the resources of its home planet (we're not even there yet), Type II of its solar system, and Type III of its galaxy and is able to play with black holes. If you are able to utilize a black hole's energy; you should be able to live near one.
Who knows what type III civilizations are out there utilizing the potential of black holes in the center of our Galaxy.
Could there also be a type IV civilization that is creating new dimensions?
Of course, if you go beyond the event horizon of this black hole, it's a different story. Even deeper towards the center, deep inside this super massive Black hole there is like a shield of super hot dense plasma, the stuff lightning is made of; produced by colliding energies. Anyone who should choose to visit this "super massive black hole" better be well prepared, because he would have to deal with this Ring of Fire; your ultimate Firewall which might be a frightening experience indeed for physical beings, but less so for ethereal souls.
And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean,
and testing them as gold is tested. Zec 13:9
Be advised though;
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I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, 1Co 15:50 RSV
but our souls might;
When you pass through the waters
I will be with you;
and through the rivers,
they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire
you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you.
Isa 43:2 RSV
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Your soul and spirit aren't subject to gravity. |
To
him who overcomes
I will give of the fruit of the tree of life,
which is in the Paradise of God and you will be in Paradise. Re 2:7
Sokrates : Now in the time of Kronos [i.e. in the Golden Age of Man] there was a law concerning mankind, and it holds to this very day amongst the gods, that every man who has passed a just and holy life departs after his decease to the Isles of the Blest (Nesoi Makaron), and dwells in all happiness apart from ill." Plato, Gorgias 523a
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And to think, that I used to be an atheist... |