ON THE PATH TO WHOLENESS
by Cornelia Völksen

Summary

The article details the ascent of the human spirit to his Father.  At that high point the spirit  connects with the disciple in order to forward the processes of evolution of the whole within the limitations of time and space. The Whole works through the part, and the part puts itself in relation with the whole in the course of its evolution; it learns to affirm the Whole increasingly and, in the end, elevates the Whole to a higher level of wholeness. This process culminates in the merging of Spirit and man.

When the Whole is expressed through the form, then divinity directly shines on earth

We call this manifestation a soul-integrated personality, or a soul which acts through its personality.  When this happens the spirit begins to guide the soul and it becomes increasingly expressive on earth until he himself is manifested on earth.

It is an eternal circulation that ceaselessly generates and adapts itself anew from out of the sum of its parts. We call it ultimately the appearance of a son of God on earth. Every human being will at one time have the Christ resurrected in him/herself and will be able to testify, by his deeds in earthly life, to this inner divinity.

It is not the realization of this perfection that makes itself known first, because it occurs on a higher plane of awareness.  Rather, it is, first and foremost, a realization that transpires in one’s physical expression. In the beginning this may still take place unconsciously, but it eventually becomes conscious and one sees oneself placed in a direct relation to one’s soul, and later to Spirit itself.

The progressive overcoming of personality

When the soul expresses itself, that which was formerly dominant in one’s life, does not live in one any more. The soul, on its own level, lives in complete oneness, and is only pulled into a limitation via its relation to its respective point of manifestation in incarnation. The soul, on its own level, and that with which it has come into contact on the earthly level, begin to work with each other in mutual exchange, in order to testify to their mutual expression, with deliverance from limitation as the last goal. In this last act of liberation the human soul on earth enters the undivided state of the world’s soul and becomes progressively the Spirit until it itself becomes the Father. Then the inner Christ rightfully can say: “It is finished,” because the inwardly resurrected Christ and the Father again are one.

To arrive at this Oneness the human being has to strive through the stages of the cross. For many, many lives he/she will have to suffer on various levels in order to attain liberation in the end. The cross, in its threefold form, becomes a vehicle of ascension within the confines of time and space. Within time there is the division and separation of the Whole into its respective parts. Within time the undivided Spirit can get into touch with himself, in order to generate increased experience through its parts.

It is a heightened experience that lifts the individual to a higher thread of the cosmic spiral, to a level that comprises a centre in an even higher cosmic being. This being animates this centre to “burn a little more” and thus activates it—making it more sensitive to its own cosmic environment. This is evolution, not only for humans, but for the Whole as well. Thus man is integrated in order to reach wholeness on a higher level as part of a perfectly organized whole.

Outer experience becomes inner understanding and the path

As with all things in our three worlds, the first impetus to move forward on the path comes from outside, from the side of form. This impulse is processed and transformed to a subtler level and in this way religions prove a valid approach, through writing and pictures. Idealism leads to reason which permits the entrance of new horizons. The mental realm enables us to overcome religious idealism through the spirit which expresses itself via the mental realm.

When this happens the human being climbs upwards along a self-made rope, directly to the highest throne of God. A transformation takes place, man becomes the expressive power of his/her soul and one with Spirit. Everything before is situated in the past--he can still recognize its outer shape, but he has overcome it within himself. He lives in what he has long since overcome, and at the same time in that which is to be found in the Oneness of all being.

Along this string, which is made of divine substance, Spirit can flow downwards directly into humankind, as what the string is in each of its “moments” (if I may use a term which may show most likely what is to be transmitted here) is the earthly expression of personality on its way to

becoming divinity. Here we realize that the human being has to become the path before he/she can begin to understand what is meant here, because something of the “same” kind has to exist within the other as a note which has been brought from outside. Humankind as a whole is on its way to becoming a conscious disciple of the world, thus this thought becomes relevant.

Man himself spins the thread through heaven directly into the heart of the Father, because we are polarized in our second solar system, in our highest being in the second divine aspect of love-wisdom. Through this thread the human being can experience divinity dawning in himself and can manifest it in the end. It is not taking on another identity; it is the successive transformation of the many colours into the One. It is a transformation that is attained through spiritual work. Here religious enthusiasm becomes spiritual striving. The latter transforms the human being in such a way that he himself becomes the path.

Testifying undivided divinity within the distinction of time and space

Let us assume that a human being manages to manifest divinity in some form of graded awareness. He then shows that part of the Whole (outside of time and space) which is connected, via time, with that which manifests divinity on earth. We can then see the same undivided divinity appear on earth on some level of his graded chain of manifestation.

If this divinity can be lived on earth (at this stage the personality itself does not have to be conscious of it) the life of the personality has gone beyond its own level and belongs to the past.

Since, within the Whole, we are dealing with an intelligent organization which forms itself as that goal which is the final goal of all striving, we can assume that the final goal will become true, as all parts of the Whole have emerged out of the Whole and are “secretly impregnated” with the goal of the Whole.

If the Whole rules in the transitory part of the Whole and expresses wholeness on some level of its realization, then the radiance of splendour begins to shine through form. This we call radiation; it is liberation from the limitation of the human spirit on some level of its experience into the widened dawning of consciousness of its own origin. In their perfect manifestation man and Spirit are now consciously one.

Conclusion:

These ideas presented in this article have attempted to transform the impression of divine completeness to the level of differentiation within time and space, so this process can be seen as an external drama, before the inner eye of the reader. It has been an attempt to mediate the “shining down” of divine splendour on a self-spun thread of the path, where the form testifies its own divinity on some evolutionary level in theTemporal-Terrestrial.  The form stands here for the whole cosmic-physical level as that is, in the end, what it is regarding the whole cosmic experience. Within this cosmic-physical level, parallel to the Whole, run the partial process of this Wholeness on their respective levels, to generate Wholeness on earth as in the Cosmos.