We now come to the final presentation in the series. We are on the verge of returning home. We started our journey from our causal body on the 2nd Triad. We descended into the mental plane, where we constructed a metal body. We then descended further and built out an emotional body. Finally we constructed an etheric body that was now ready to be attach to the physical-etheric body that has been prepared for us by a specialised class of devas. This organism carries a standard blueprint that has been modified by the Lords of Karma and the Agents of destiny, to avail the incarnating monad with a vessel that best reflects the lessons it is coming into incarnation to learn.
At birth, the Life Thread is attached and the monad proceeds to work through its life, hopefully, paying off its karma and not accumulating any new karma in the process. Faint chance of that happening. Three-score-years and ten later, the monad is called home by its guardian angel, who disconnects the Life Thread. A process then ensues that sees the envelopes of incarnation discarded in the reverse, sequential, order in which they were assembled. The monad withdraws its focus into the lowest remaining envelope and processes what needs to be resolved in that envelope. On the Emotional plane, the monad needs to rid itself of all the negative elements it has collected in its emotional body. This frees it to rise in the Emotional subplanes and enter ‘Paradise’. What is stored from your emotional experiences on Earth, are your traits and habits. If there are any of these that are not resolved and brought into balance, you have those aspects of yourself stored in your permanent emotional atom. They are known as Skandhas. These form part of your traits that you bring forth into either your next incarnation, or future ones, so that you resolve these traits and habits. It is therefore a good idea to clear up any vices or habits you are currently cultivating, so that you do not have to resolve them at a later date.
There is one confusion that is worth exploring when dealing with how emotions are experienced in their personal environment. When we talk about our emotions, they are always defined as ‘feelings’. Why is this? Because the only way a monad can register any event objectively on the material plane, is through one or a combination of its five senses. The term ‘feeling’ lets you know that your nerves seem to be involved. So your etheric and physical body are engaging in a process that starts in a higher envelope but is registered in the physical one. So how do you sense your emotions on the Emotional Plane itself? Well, they can not be engaged with as feeling, as you do not have your five senses active on the Emotional Plane. An emotion on its own level of activity is a real, solid object. It is an elemental. On Earth, you may scare yourself witless imagining you are about to be attacked by a wolf. On the Emotional plane, you try the same thing and you are going to be staring at a row of very sharp teeth. They are not real of course, but the terror they induce in you is going to be orders of magnitude higher than what could be ‘felt’ back on the Physical plane. Your emotions may have constructed the wolf, but it is your mental imagination that triggered the event. Remember, your mental body is still surrounding your emotional body. All these processes are occurring in four dimensions, which must make them even more exciting, although I can not imagine what that means in reality.
The emotional body finally outlives its usefulness and the monad realises that it is living in a world of fantasy and it is time to move on. It then, in the case off most of us, enters into a thought-world of its own making. The monad has finally reached Heaven. The only caveat is that this heaven is unique to the monad, as it is a fictitious environment cooked up by its own thought processes. Nevertheless, trapped in its imaginary world, the monad is able to process what it has achieved in its last incarnation, working up all the lessons that it has taken on board. Those lessons that are fully understood can go further up the chain. Those lessons that need some more work on them, are stored as skandhas in the permanent molecule, 47:4. It should be noted, no negative emotions are found on the Mental Plane. This is why this plane is thought of as ‘Heaven’. All negativity is left on the Emotional Plane below and stored in the 48:1 permanent atom, to be resolved at a later date.
After you have archived all the details of your last incarnation, it is time to dissolved the mental envelope. Before this happens, the lessons learnt and the wisdom gain from this incarnation, are transferred into the lower causal body that has surrounded the monad’s others envelops during the whole incarnation. This transfer occurs by resonance. Mental elemental essences can not enter an envelope that is on the causal plane, 47:3, but the resonances generated, can attract into this envelope, subtle causal matter that is programmed with the lessons learnt during the incarnation. The lower causal body is now ready to merge back with its parent body, the higher causal body. When this is achieved, the causal matter accumulated in the lower causal body is blended with the 95 per cent of the causal matter that never left the 2nd Triad.
The important thing to recognise at this stage is that the persona no longer exists. All that does exist are the lessons learnt and the wisdom gained. If the persona were to be remembered, there would have to be a permanent molecule in this structure as well. This would mean that after 70 thousand-plus incarnations, a monad would have a very crowded causal envelope. The lessons and wisdom gleaned are not associated with any persona. They are just a data base of attributes the monad can draw upon, at the suggestion of its guardian angel, to take into its next incarnation. This only happens if it is deemed beneficial to achieving the new objectives that would have been outlined in the upcoming sojourn back onto the Physical plane.
We talk about lessons and wisdom; how do they differ? A lesson can be thought of as ‘knowledge’, nice to have but useless until it is used in some productive manner. Wisdom is a state the monad achieves when it takes ‘knowledge’ and activates it by using it in some productive manner back on Earth. Once this is achieved, the monad gains wisdom. It really comes to know, what before, was just a hypothetical conjecture.
That brings us to the end of this short series of presentations on the cycles of reincarnation. It is worth examining what is known about these cycles that every monad must go through as it expand its consciousness. This occurs as it transits the 4th Kingdom of Nature. We have discussed how these cycles can be divided into five major stages, starting with the 1. Young stage and ending up at the 5. Enlightened stage. Rough designations are given as to how long a monad is expected to spend at each of these levels of consciousness development. The table presented, is just a rough guide. It can be seen that it take a very long time for a monad to work its way through the 1. Young stage of its conscious development; 40,000 plus incarnations. This frequency is aided by the fact that the time intervals between each incarnation is only about five years. One of the reasons that the process can be so short is that between incarnations, the monad does not reascend further than the Emotional plane. There is very little mental activity to process, so there is no point is entering a subjective thought-bubble to do so. It also takes time to disassemble and then eventually reassemble an envelope. This results in the monad waiting on the Emotional Plane in a dream-like state until it incarnated back into a new physical organism. Australian Aboriginals talk about the Dream Time, now you know what they are referring to.
For a monad that has reached the 4. Compassionate stage in its soul development, the gap between incarnations can space out to 1,500 years. Enlightened souls have free rein as to when they need to return. They are now coming back to either do a specific task for the Hierarchy or they are rapidly paying off the remaining karmic debt they have accumulated. There is an esoteric saying that it takes a soul 500 years to transit the Human stage of its development, where each day of the 500 years is an incarnation. You do the maths. This depressingly large number refers to a monad that is just prepared to flow with the current, rather than actively swimming downstream. The choice is yours.
I have presented 30 episodes in the series, The Further Adventures of the Monad. I think it is high time we had a recap of all the topics discussed so far. See you in the next presentation.