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Keely
"In such fields of research, Mr. Keely finds little leisure. Those who accuse him of "dilly-dallying," of idleness, of "always going to do and never doing," of "visionary plans," etc., etc., know nothing of the infinite patience, the persistent energy which for a quarter of a century has upheld him in his struggle to attain this end. Still less, if possible, is he understood by those who think he is seeking self-aggrandizement, fame, fortune, or glory.

The time is approaching when all who have sought to defame this discoverer and inventor, all who have stabbed him with unmerited accusations, all who have denounced him as "a bogus inventor," "a fraud," "an impostor," "a charlatan," "a modern Cagliostro," will be forced to acknowledge that he has done a giant's work for true science, even though he should not live to attain commercial success. But history will not forget that, in the nineteenth century, the story of Prometheus has been repeated, and that the greatest mind of the age, seeking to scale the heavens to bring down the light of truth for mankind, met with Prometheus's reward." [Keely - Cure of Disease]


Russell
"How long shall it be before he even begins to comprehend the meaning of that command to seek the kingdom of heaven which is within all men?" [Atomic Suicide, page 153]

"Each of the billions of nebulae and suns in the heavens is one of those giant cataclysms which must divide itself and die a heat death. They split up into other fireballs which, in turn die a heat death. All matter dies a centrifugally dividing heat death, but it also lives a centripetally multiplying heat life. Heat is a condition which is necessary to the creation of life in inorganic matter and organic as well. But heat is also necessary to create death. Matter would never disappear if it could be kept cold enough. Matter can die and disappear only by accumulating enough heat to consume itself. The cathode beginning of matter is an immeasurable low degree of heat. The anode ending of matter is an immeasurably high degree of heat. Flame is the maximum consumer of matter. All matter is self-consuming but its creation is an effort of its Creator. The Creator gives, but that which He gives must be regiven. That is law, and law must be fulfilled. Fulfillment is automatic, however. It is self-motivated by explosion from within itself. Flame is self-explosive but the heat which created the flame is a compressive effort. [Atomic Suicide, page 155-156] [anode ending of matter]

"There is a vast difference, however, in the meaning of the omnipresent heaven, which Jesus referred to as being "within" man and within all things, and the meaning of heaven which man holds as being a place up above and apart from the earth. For ages man has thought of heaven as a place above the earth where dead bodies and souls ascend. Literature and art are replete with symbolism which very vividly pictures that primitive concept. If we but enlarge our concept of the meaning of the word heaven to be that zero omnipresent vacuum which is everywhere within and without all things, as symbolized in Fig. 6, then the ages-long idea that we go to heaven when we die is literally true. The difficult thing for man to imagine, however, is the fact that he returns to "heaven" non-dimensionally, just as the dimensioned oak withdraws its huge dimensions into ultra-microscopic nothingness. That is man's difficulty. If he would but realize that his body is but the projected image of an Idea, and that Idea has no measure, it would help him." [Atomic Suicide, page 235]

"It would be well to simplify our thinking as to what Creation really is by putting it into simple words. Creation consists of the invisible universe of Mind, which Jesus called heaven and man calls space, and the visible universe of motion, which man calls matter and substance. There is a vast difference, however, in the meaning of the omnipresent heaven, which Jesus referred to as being "within" man and within all things, and the meaning of heaven which man holds as being a place up above and apart from the earth. For ages man has thought of heaven as a place above the earth where dead bodies and souls ascend. Literature and art are replete with symbolism which very vividly pictures that primitive concept. If we but enlarge our concept of the meaning of the word heaven to be that zero omnipresent vacuum which is everywhere within and without all things, as symbolized in Fig. 6, then the ages-long idea that we go to heaven when we die is literally true. The difficult thing for man to imagine, however, is the fact that he returns to "heaven" non-dimensionally, just as the dimensioned oak withdraws its huge dimensions into ultra-microscopic nothingness. That is man's difficulty. If he would but realize that his body is but the projected image of an Idea, and that Idea has no measure, it would help him.

"We must bear in Mind that the primitive pagan idea was that the earth was all of Creation. Man then thought of heaven as surrounding the earth. Heaven even had a limitation with holes punched in its boundaries for stars. Pagan man had no conception of limitless space and billions of suns and earths. He thought locally. Even his God was for this earth alone, and even for certain races alone. The Greek gods were man-formed and had human emotions and desires. That pagan, man-formed God still persists, a God made in the image of man, a God with arms and legs for which He has no use in a limitless zero expanse, a God who could be angry and wrathful with humans, who could not possibly be omnipresent because of his objective limits. The time must come when man stops praying to a God "up there in heaven" outside of himself, and talk to God within himself. The day of the brotherhood of man, with peace on earth and ecstasy in the heart of man, will never come until man awakens to an awareness of his own divinity, and finds God in the Light of Mind, which he, himself, is. May that day be soon for the many who are ready, and may they hasten the day for the still pagan-minded by awakening the Light within them." [Atomic Suicide, page 235-236]

"The inert gases are the "heaven" to which all things return when they die." [Home Study Course, Lesson 39, page 750]


Ramsay
together on radial lines from the center they appear grouped in various chords and combinations, dropping out and coming in in such succession as to constitute what Ramsay, whose genius was given to set this thus before us, calls "Nature's Grand Fugue." Beginning at F in the center at the top, and moving either to the right or to the left, after a run of 7 notes we have 4 consecutive Octaves, and then comes the Minor fifth, A-E, followed by the Major fifth, G-D; and this by another Major fifth, F-C; the combinations keep changing till at the quarter of the circle we come to F, A, C, E, G, a combination of the subdominant and tonic Major; and after another varied series of combinations we have at the half of the circle the elements of 2 minor chords, D, F, A and A, C, E, and one Major chord, C, E, G; at the third quarter we have a repetition of the first quarter group; and the various chords and combinations dropping out and coming in, fugue-like; finally we return to where we began, and end with the three-times-three chord, in which the whole 25 notes are struck together, and make that wondrous and restful close of this strange Fugue. No one can hear the thrice-threefold chord of this close and ever forget it; it is "the lost chord" found; and leads the saintly heart away to the Three in One who is the Lord of Hosts; Maker of Heaven and Earth, and all the host of them. [Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 103]

round a common center which is lying between them, as the double stars do in the astral heavens. When this plate is reversed we have before us exactly the minor scale, and all the parts and attitudes related in exactly the inverse way, each to each, so perfect is the duality in unity of the two modes. [Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 114]


Hughes

CHAPTER VII.
DIAGRAM IV.—THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWELVE MAJOR SCALES.
"Oh, how unlike the complex works of man,

Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan!"—Cowper.:: [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Diagram IV - The Development of the Twelve Major Scales, page 26a]

CHAPTER XV.
DIAGRAM XII.—THE CHORDS OF THE TWELVE MINOR KEYS.

"No development can help anything which does not have corrective causes working with it; some power must shape the growth, and work correctively by laws impressed and authority maintained. The law of progress must be operated upon and moulded by guiding forces. That which acts, lives; and the universe lives as much by its soul as we do by ours."

"And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic harps diversely formed,
That tremble into thought as o'er them sweeps,
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the soul of each and God of all?"—Coleridge.

"In all things, in all natures, in the stars
Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds,
In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone
That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks,
The moving waters, and the invisible air,
. . . . From link to link
It circulates, the soul of all the worlds."—Coleridge.
[Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Diagram XII - The Chords of the Twelve Minor Keys, page 37a]


THE above quotation from that beautiful work, The Pendulograph, shows how firmly its author believes that the Almighty Himself will be proved to be the key to His works; a belief frequently expressed also in a striking work, Nature and the Supernatural, by the Rev. J. W. Reynolds, M.A. For many years I have been endeavouring to resolve some of the intricacies of natural harmony with the same views. In the pursuit of knowledge it is eminently important to "avoid profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called" (I Tim. vi. 20), and to remember that facts gained from the study of God's marvellous works, that "ought to be had in remembrance" (Psa. cxi. 4, Prayer Book Version), and the truths of Holy Scripture, can never really oppose each other. Research shows us countless varieties developed by trinities springing from unities, and we find true scientific depth in the Scriptural phrases, where the whole earth is continually mentioned as worshipping the Almighty. This truth is beautifully expressed in the Te Deum Laudamus—"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty; heaven and earth are full of Thy glory." [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme1, page 43]

"Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light,
Angels, for ye behold Him, and with songs
And choral symphonies, day without night,
Circle His throne rejoicing; ye in heaven,
On earth, join all ye creatures, to extol
Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end." Milton—Paradise Lost, Book V. [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme2, page 44]

"Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be searched out by saucy looks."
Shakspere. [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme3, page 45]

"The owlet Atheism,
Sailing on obscure wings across the noon,
Drops his blue fringed lids and shuts them close,
And, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven,
Cries out, Where is it?" [Coleridge]. [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme4, page 46]

"Our aim is to promote that agreement by showing the correspondence between truly scientific conclusions and Holy Writ; by making it plain that scientific truths, like spiritual, have for ever been descending from heaven to man."— [J. W. Reynolds, M.A.] [Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Reflections on the Scheme4, page 46]


Cayce
"Heaven? Where? Within the hearts, the minds; the place where Truth is made manifest! Wherever Truth is made manifest it gives place to that which is heaven FOR THOSE THAT SEEK and love truth!" [Cayce 262-87]

"Just as has so oft been indicated, one doesn’t fall out of a tree into heaven, or an airplane, or fly into heaven, but one grows in grace, in knowledge, in understanding, in perfecting within self those applications of tenets and truths that bring to the activities the spiritual, the mental growth." [Cayce 2746-2]

"You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped." Cayce (3352-1)

"And as He has given, "In all thy getting, my Son, get understanding." This is putting proper emphasis in the proper places, and do not become sidetracked by things that would pertain to material or spiritual alone, or things of the body or things of the heavenly force. For you grow to heaven, you don't go to heaven. It is within thine own conscience that ye grow there. For there first must come peace and Harmony within thy purpose, thy ideal, thy hopes, thy desires. Thy wishes even must be in Harmony with thy ideal if you would make the experience in the earth of value to thee." Cayce (3409-1)

"For the individual entity GROWS to a haven of peace and harmony and understanding; or ye GROW to heaven, rather than going to heaven. Ye grow in grace, in knowledge, in understanding." [Cayce 1436-1]

(Q) What form of consciousness does the entity assume after Death?

(A) That of the subconscious consciousness, as known in the material plane, or the acts and deeds, and thoughts, done in the body, are ever present before that being. Then consider what a Hell digged by some, and what a haven and heaven builded by many." Cayce (5756-4)

"And each entity's heaven or hell must, through SOME experience, be that which it has builded for itself." Cayce (281-016)

"Now that we know that heaven is a cosmic cognizance or consciousness of that which matter is to that viewpoint - i.e. the essence or vital force of life, let us see what hell is like." Cayce (900-282)

"For the mind is the Builder, constructing a heaven or hell for the soul, depending upon how far that soul has drifted from its Creator." Cayce (364-013)


Quimby
Jesus had to establish a kingdom as the priests had done: theirs was based on opinions, his on science, so everything that they believed was only an opinion which his science could tear to pieces. So he begins by saying, ‘Seek first the kingdom of Heaven’; that is, seek wisdom or science, then all their craft could be explained. Then he says, ‘The kingdom of Heaven has come unto you and ye will not receive it’; that is, the science is here but you will not try to understand it. In the Old Testament, David called this science wisdom and exhorted his son to seek it first of all. Jesus called it the Kingdom of Heaven and calls on all men to seek it. If this Wisdom and the Kingdom of Heaven were not the same, then Jesus and David had different ideas of wisdom. Does the priest call on the people to get understanding? No. That is what they fear. The priests want them to have religion; that is, to believe in the creeds which cramp the intellect and bind burdens upon them so that they can lead them. They fear investigation, for it is death to their craft.” [Phineas Parkhurst Quimby]


Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth
9. The inherent characteristic of the Loving Intelligent Creative Power was LAW & ORDER.
The undeviating order and reliability apparent in creation, even governing the tiny entities ('cells') within the body, were astonishing and far transcended any human endeavor. Therefore, the entire universe was operating under a system of perfect LAW & ORDER.
I realized on ever higher and higher levels of spiritual exaltation that the 'creative power' exhibited intelligent purposefulness and loving concern for all living things. I realized that life was not something nebulous or amorphous but an intelligent loving creative power which I could actually feel within myself as a tremendously heightened state of being, perception, radiance, ecstasy, joy, love. I knew myself to be one with it - filled with it - and I was one with everything around me and one with the sky and stars.
And - most wonderful and glorious of all - the very 'Nature' and 'Function' of this 'Father - Creative Power' was to work in order to create joy, beauty, and comfort to ensure mankind's well-being, to work within mankind to provide interior joy, health and comfort, and to work through mankind, inspiring him with new realization and understanding.
Wonderful vistas of glorious creativity came to mind. Once we became truly 'at one', purified channels and instruments of the 'Intelligent Creative Power', we could gradually ascend in consciousness until we truly expressed through our minds and hearts the very 'NATURE' of the 'Universal Creative Power'.
Then 'life on earth' would indeed become a 'state of heaven' at all times and we would enter into a state of eternal life! [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 1, page 15]


Osho
Heaven and Hell
I AM REMINDED of one English philosopher, EDMUND BURKE. He was very friendly with the archbishop of England. Whenever Edmund Burke used to deliver a talk in the university, the archbishop used to come and listen to him. It was worth listening - EACH OF HIS STATEMENTS WAS COMING WITH HIS WHOLENESS, with great authority.

But he never went to listen to the archbishop on Sunday in the church. The archbishop said, "At least you should come one time. I always come to listen to you."

Edmund Burke said, "You come to listen to me because WHATEVER YOU KNOW IS NOT YOUR KNOWLEDGE - it is all borrowed, and you are not certain of it. Whatever I say is my experience, and I give every evidence and proof and argument for it. I can stake my life for my statements. You are just a parrot. But because you have asked, I will come next Sunday."

SO THE ARCHBISHOP PREPARED A REALLY BEAUTIFUL SERMON, thinking that Edmund Burke will be present, so the sermon has to be as great as he can make it. But he was surprised. Edmund Burke was sitting in the first row but there was no emotion on his face. The archbishop could not judge whether Edmund Burke liked it, disliked it, agreed with it, or disagreed with it; he was very much puzzled.

And as the sermon ended, Edmund Burke stood up and he said, "I HAVE A QUESTION TO ASK, A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION. Because your whole sermon was, in a condensed form, that the people who live a virtuous life according to your Christian ideology, and believe in Jesus Christ, will go to heaven after this life. Those who do not believe in Jesus Christ and live the life of a sinner, will fall into eternal hell after this life.

"My question is," said Edmund Burke, "THAT IF A PERSON IS VIRTUOUS BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, WHAT WILL HAPPEN? He is good; his life is a life to be praised, but he does not believe in Jesus Christ - where is he going to be? Or, a man who believes in Jesus Christ but is a great sinner - where is he going to be? You missed mentioning two very important points; your sermon was half. And I was waiting to see whether you were aware of these two possibilities or not."

The archbishop thought for a moment - THE QUESTION WAS REALLY DANGEROUS. If he says the good people are going to heaven whether they believe in Jesus Christ or not, then Jesus Christ and the belief in him become superfluous, non-essential. And if he says those who believe in Jesus Christ - even if they are sinners - will go to heaven, then sin is being approved by the church itself.

He was in a very muddled situation. He said, "Your question needs some time for me to think it over. Just give me seven days. Next Sunday, I will answer it."

For seven days, he tried all the scriptures, tried this way and that way, but... the question was simple... and he was caught in a dilemma. He could not sleep those seven days, because how he is going to face Edmund Burke and his congregation? And whatever he says seems to be wrong: either it goes against Jesus Christ or it goes against a virtuous life. He repented that he ever invited that fellow to come to the church!

He went early in the morning to the church, before the congregation came. He still did not have any answer. He thought, "In the early morning, when there is nobody in the church, I will pray to Christ himself to just show me the light, give me the answer. Because not only my prestige is at stake, his prestige is also at stake."

Seven days, continuously worrying, not sleeping... he was bowing down before the statue of Jesus Christ. HE FELL ASLEEP, AND HE SAW A DREAM. Naturally, because for seven days only one thing had been in his mind, the dream was also connected with it.

He saw himself sitting in a train, and he asked, "Where we are going?" Somebody said, "THIS TRAIN IS GOING TO HEAVEN." He had a great relaxation, and he said, "That's perfectly good. Perhaps this is Jesus Christ's doing, so that you can see for yourself who goes to paradise and who does not go."

As he reached the station of paradise, he could not believe - IT LOOKED SO ROTTEN. He entered inside the paradise. The people he met were almost corpses, walking. He recognized few saints and he asked them that, "I want to ask one question: where is Gautam Buddha? because he never believed in Jesus Christ or in God, but he was one of the most moral men you can conceive."

The saint said, "He is not here."

"Socrates? He was also not a believer in any god, but was a man of great virtue."

"He is also not here."

And he said, "WHY DOES THIS WHOLE PARADISE LOOK LIKE A RUIN? And saints look like the dead; there seems to be no joy. I used to think that angels go on singing with their harps. I don't see any angels, any harps, any song, any dance - just few dull and dead saints are sitting under the trees."

And whoever he asked, said: "Don't bother us; we are tired."

Just an idea came into his mind at that moment that PERHAPS THERE IS A TRAIN GOING TO HELL, also. So he rushed back to the station, and the train was standing at the platform, ready to leave for hell. He entered the train. And as the train started coming closer to its destination, he was even more puzzled. The wind was fragrant with flowers. There was so much greenery, lush green. THE STATION WAS SO BEAUTIFUL - he had never thought that a station could be so beautiful. And people looked so happy, so joyous. He said, "My God, is there something wrong or what?"

He enquired, "IS THIS REALLY HELL?"

They said, "It used to be. Before Gautam Buddha, Socrates, Epicurus, Mahavira, Lao Tzu, people like these came here, it used to be hell. But now THEY HAVE TRANSFORMED THE WHOLE PLACE."

He entered hell and he could not believe - IT WAS SHEER JOY! The very air was full of blissfulness. And there was dancing and there was singing, and he asked somebody, "Where is Gautam Buddha?"

And they said, "Do you see in the garden, he is watering the roses."

"And where is Socrates?"

And they said, "Socrates is working in the field."

"Where is Epicurus?"

They said, "He just passed by you. The man who was dancing and playing on the guitar was Epicurus."

At that very moment, the shock was too much - he woke up. He said, "MY GOD! WHAT A DREAM!"

And people had started arriving - particularly, Edmund Burke who was sitting in the front seat already, waiting for the answer.

The poor archbishop said, "I have not been able to find the answer. But I have seen a dream which I will describe to you, and you can conclude from the dream the answer."

He described the dream. Edmund Burke said, "Now you conclude also! THE CONCLUSION IS CLEAR: that wherever good people are, there is paradise. It is not that good people go to paradise - WHEREVER GOOD PEOPLE ARE, IT BECOMES PARADISE. And wherever stupid people and idiots are - they may be great believers in God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible, it does not matter - even paradise becomes a ruin. It becomes a hell."

I have loved this incident very much - because this is my approach, too. IF YOU ARE SIMPLE, LOVING, OPEN, INTIMATE, YOU CREATE A PARADISE AROUND YOU. If you are closed, constantly on the defensive, always worried that somebody may come to know your thoughts, your dreams, your perversions - you are living in hell.

HELL IS WITHIN YOU AND SO IS PARADISE. They are not geographical places, they are your spiritual spaces.

Ramaprem, CLEANSE YOURSELF. And meditation is nothing but a cleaning of all the rubbish that has gathered in your mind. And when the mind is silent and the heart is singing... just listen to these birds.

You will be ready, without any fear; but with great joy, to be intimate. And without intimacy, you are alone here amongst strangers. With intimacy, you are surrounded by friends, by people who love you. INTIMACY IS A GREAT EXPERIENCE, ONE SHOULD NOT MISS IT.

But before you can become unafraid of intimacy, YOU HAVE TO BE TOTALLY CLEAN OF ALL GARBAGE THAT RELIGIONS HAVE BEEN POURING INTO YOU, all the crap that for centuries has been handed over to you. Be finished with it all, and live a life of peace, silence, joy, song and dance. And you will transform... wherever you are, the place will become paradise.

OSHO
The Hidden Splendor
Ch #4: Who is preventing you? join the dance!
am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
(part 7 of 7)


Manly Palmer Hall
Heaven’s very simple and direct lessons to us are not taught in great books. They are swept with brushes of light across the sky. Everything around us that is natural and real tells us the story of heaven. And everything that is not quite so good, and not quite so permanent, not quite so happy, tells the story of man. Therefore, man builds an empire of his own in the midst of Heaven. If he builds it wisely, Heaven will sustain it; if he builds it badly, Heaven will force it to crumble in the presence of immutable law.” [Excerpt from “Zen For The Western Mind” © 1994 The Philosophical Research Society]


Alexander Roob
"This dew is the manna on which the souls of the just nourish themselves. The chosen hunger for it and collect it with full hands in the fields of heaven." [Zohar — & by Alexander Roob]

See Also


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celestial
cosmos
Death
Devachan
etheric
Hell
interetheric
invisible storehouse
Kingdom of Heaven
Latent Neutral
Latent
Mind of God
Neutral
omnipresent zero
Revelation
Scalar Potential
Scalar
Soul
Source
Spirit
Undifferentiated Mind
Void
Zero

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