TRUMP 20 - JUDGMENT
All of the cards that we have experienced up to this point discuss aspects of our individual personal growth, as well as aspects which apply to every human being. None of us is alone. But, as we stated many cards ago, the essence of religion is what each of us does in our complete solitude, in conjunction with those around us. Prayer, for example, is only valuable if each individual is, in their heart of hearts in the deepest recesses of their soul, praying directly to God. However, that becomes strengthened and multiplied when that prayer is joined with others.
So the pathway that we have seen leading from the pre-manifest Fool to the homecoming of the Sun, is a journey which every single one of us, in one form or another, must take. The card Judgment continues this process and shows us something which each of us must individually engage upon. However, this card does something which none of the others have. It shows visibly all of the other souls of God uniting with us on our pathway.
At this point, after we have our homecoming, we meet our friends and neighbors, our brothers and sisters. What is Judgment?
This card indicates several things. First, is the process of divine Judgment. This occurs in two ways, before and after death. Before death, God is constantly watching, guiding, judging and supervising our actions to determine the next step for us. The laws of--as you give, so shall you receive; as we forgive, so shall we be forgiven; as we seek, so we will find; as we knock, the door will be opened to us; as we ask, we shall receive--these laws are immutable and create the framework for our spiritual growth. We can spend a very long time or a relatively short time on the path. It is not necessary to debate actual years here. For some, the pathway is a matter of years or decades. For others, it is a matter of centuries. But such discussions, while not only controversial, are ultimately fruitless, because we do not know absolutely the structure of each soul’s growth. And much more importantly, by the time we reach the stage of Judgment, time is no longer a factor. The nature of the homecoming is to recognize God's eternal presence.
The only reality is here. The only time is now. And that here and now is an unending stream of divine consciousness, wherein time and space cease to exist in the mortal way that we think of them. God's judgment in our lives is constantly working to bring us to the awareness of our homecoming.
The second part of God's judgment refers to the ultimate judgment of each of our souls. Upon death, our lives are reviewed. We simultaneously do this from two perspectives, ours and those whom we affected. We see every single act, every single thought, every single word. We are reminded of our own motivations, and we see through the heightened awareness of the next world what those actions, thoughts, and words did, in terms of affecting other people.
There is great controversy today, and perhaps there will be forever on the Earth plane, about what happens to you after you die, or more importantly, immediately when you die. The card of Judgment is pictorially stating to us several things.
First, the dead will come out of their graves. We see several graves in a vast ocean of death. The dead rise up out of the graves in response to the trumpet of the angel who guards the Tree of Life. They come out of the graves, their hands outstretched, their faces pointed toward the heavens.
The following discussion is not meant to disturb or perturb anyone. However, if you are one of those people who are vehemently set in your ways as to what happens when you die, or if such discussions make you very uneasy, then I would advise you to skip the following.
It is felt by many, that we simply cannot know what happens after we die, but applying the tools and techniques of the revealing science of God, we are able to come to consensus, based on the most accurate accounts we have. The theory of atoms, electrons and neutrons is just that, it is a theory. We cannot actually see an electron. We cannot actually hold an atom. All we know is that every single experiment we have performed perfectly, matches the model which we have. In the same way, through performing experiments, through personal accounts, through a cross cultural witness which spans millennia, we do have a consistent framework as to what happens to you when you die. We have documented experiences of people who have died, have had absolutely no vital signs whatsoever, and have been resurrected so to speak, or resuscitated.
The following then, is the consensus, called from years of personal, scientific and scholarly research. You are, of course, free to accept or reject it as you choose.
Our souls are different from our bodies, you are not your body. That is absolutely, perfectly clear. The experience of soul projection is a verifiable, repeatable experience by anyone who is willing to take the time to do so. Soul projection, also known as astral projection or soul travel, is where a soul slips outside of the body, while the body is still alive.
This is really no different than a driver opening the door and stepping out of the car. But if you have spent so many decades inside of your car, and you forget that there is a door, then you might actually come to the point where you do not believe it is possible to leave the car, or else you will die.
This is simply not true. You can step out of your body and observe it. You can step out of your body and travel through the heavenly realms, while you are still maintaining a body that is alive.
Death, as we know it, is simply the rendering inoperable of the physical vehicle. Death is the moment at which your car ceases to work forever more, and it's time to be scrapped. You step out of the car for the final time. You are now dead.
Here we have great controversy, because some feel that at that point, you simply fall asleep until some point in the distant future where the angel of God calls to resurrect you. I do not wish to offend anyone's personal religious sensibilities, yet the overwhelming body of evidence is that that is simply not the case. There is a direct simple transition of consciousness, just as you step out of your car. You do not black out. You do not pass out. You still know who you are, and you still retain the same thoughts, memories and habit patterns.
It is exactly the same case with death. You slip out of the body. You usually see your body laying there, then you turn to the higher next world. There is a certain transition to get into the next domain, the world of heaven. otherwise known as the astral world. You step out of your car, and there is usually a walkway that leads you to a doorway into the next building you are entering. That is exactly the same thing with the transition of death. There is a certain gateway or passageway that leads you into the next world.
Once there, your life is reviewed, as I've stated, from your perspective and from the subjective perspective of those who you have affected. You retain your same thoughts; you retain your memories; you retain your desires. You are the same exact person.
There is, however, one profound and fundamental difference. The final buffer which you have relied upon for so long is now removed. By final buffer, I mean the actual forceful manipulation of the physical form.
We used an illustration many cards ago of snapping your fingers, which has to be a manifestation of your will, focused through your mind to think of such a thing, focused through your desire to want to do such a thing, and then placing that desire into the physical body to move the muscles and snap you fingers.
In the next world that final step is gone. You still have to focus your will. You still have to focus that will through your mind. You still have to clothe that mind with desire, but the desire is the doing. The Bible says to light yourself in the will of the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.
The next world is know by different people as Heaven. It is known as the astral world. It is known as the desire realm. This world is also known as Hell. It is one place, although you can wind up in very different states. If, during the course of your life, you have culled the higher faculties of love, devotion, philosophy, art, music, mathematics, science, intellect, then you will find that in the next realm, you are much better suited to pursue those avenues. If, however, your entire being has been focused upon the mortal frame, whether it is the acquisition of cold hard cash, or it is excessive indulgence in any form of physical stimulation, via drugs or alcohol, or any kind of physical activity which is almost void of any intellectual counterpart, then you find yourself in the realm of unfulfilled desire.
And that burning of unfulfilled desire is all consuming. It is the fiery flames of Hell, because you no longer have a body to distract the consciousness from its desires. I may want to go out and perform a certain activity, but I still have my body. II still have financial concerns. I still have a host of other things to temper my inability to do these.
In the next realm, desire is the body. You have a desire body. It looks just like your current body, only without any imperfections. That desire body is your all consuming reality, and what you desire is what you do. If your whole desire is focused on doing something, which is no longer possible in the physical realm because you are not in a physical realm, then you are deeply and truly in Hell.
The realms of the desire world are much more rarefied and vast than the physical world. Simply, the desire for music is the music. There is no need to physically express it through any form of mechanical device. Thinking of the music and placing it into your desire is the music.
This is why morality is so important, not simply in terms of regulating our physical behavior, but in terms of cultivating a soul, which is capable of traveling all of the pathways of God's revelation. This is why Jesus says if you lust after a woman in your heart, you have already committed adultery with her. Thinking and desire are the highest faculties which must be cultivated. If you think about something and desire it, but do not actually do it, your problem in the next world will be that you are unbuffered. In this way, we can see that the physical body is actually a set of training wheels. We are capable of gaining experiences and interacting with other people, while being protected with that final buffer between what we want and what actually happens.
When someone has the feelings of I wish I could kill him, and truly genuinely feels that, then that desire, that hatred, will be the only reality for them in the next world. The exertion of that desire is the exertion of the equivalent of murder in the next world. These are difficult things to comprehend, because most people conceive of the next world as being one of two different places, as being absolute and essentially unchanging. None of this is true.
There is one state, just like there is one world. Therein, are those who live in Heaven and those who live in Hell. In the next world, there is one world. Therein, are those who live in Heaven and those who live in Hell. But, these are not absolutes. Because just as in this world there are greater and lesser degrees of pain and pleasure, Heaven and Hell, so too in the next world, there are different layers or levels. The Bible refers to greater and lesser rewards at Judgment day. Although this is something which most people have a difficult time with, the desire body is not eternal. Jesus referred to many things which he wished he had discussed with his disciples, but they were unable to bear it then.
The entire discussion of life after death is omitted from the Bible. Anything that we gain from the Bible, we have to infer or derive from different stories which may or may not be allegorical, may or may not be factual.
When you die, your desire body is the next body you find yourself in. You currently have it. But at that point, there are still three layers of manifestation, the focusing of the divine will upon the mind placed into desire. You still have a buffer. You can think of something, but not actually want to do it.
We have all wondered what it would be like to do something in an intellectual or curious way, but have not actually had any desire to do it. When we are ready, eventually our desire body falls off., and we die to the desire realm. We find ourselves in the realm of pure mind. We have returned to the mind of God. At that point, we are one step away from the inner most throne room, where the will still must focus the mind. Eventually, the mental body does drop off, and we find ourselves in the limitless realm of God, pure divine will, capable of infinite limitless manifestation. And, there are domains of God's consciousness which lie outside of and beyond the mental desire and physical universe.
At that point, it is said, the true spiritual journey begins. We have completed the breath of God. As God knew us before the foundation of the world, and he blew into us having created our divine will and our minds and our desires and our bodies, that exact process will eventually unfold--by the dropping of the body, by the dropping of the desire vehicle, by the dropping of the mind and returning to the state of pure limitless divine will. God breathes out; God breathes in. This is the eternal cycle.
We are discussing things which lie far beyond most people's consciousness. We are discussing things far beyond our mortal experience. I present them to try and help focus your thoughts and prepare you, and hopefully, not have you be too terribly surprised when certain events do happen.
The last aspect of the Judgment card, which I want to be sure I focus on, is the fact that this is all being done together. Each of us is going through this process, but we are doing it in conjunction with uncountable, billions of souls. So what happens is that, as we ascend to God, the barriers which separate individuals, also break down. We all appear to have separate bodies, even though we are one flesh. We all share in different desire bodies, even though it is made up of the same heavenly stuff. We all have individual thoughts, even though there is only one mind of God. We all have control of our divine will, even though there is only one reality, that is God.
As we ascend, the barriers between people break down. It is not necessary to move your physical mouth in order to communicate. It is not necessary to exert any desire in order to share thoughts. All of the individual cells inside of the body of God come alive and are able to freely share their information with all other cells, at which point God's presence has gone from a preconscious state to a conscious state.
You see the breath of God is separated into four different divisions. God begins as He is. We were in the mind of God, but we are not consciously aware of that. We have no actual recollection of that state whatsoever, just as were in the womb with our mother, but have no conscious recollection of it. This is state one, the preconscious union.
Phase two, God breathes out, and we are born. This leads us to state two which is preconscious separation. God has breathed into Adam's nostrils; other has given birth to her baby. But, Adam is not fully aware of who and what he is. He is not yet awake. This child is not awake or fully aware of what he or she is. This is the state of unconscious separation.
Third, Adam partakes of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and becomes completely awake to what is and is not. The child, who has been born, becomes aware of what is and is not. This is me and this is not me. No! No! No!
We then enter the great period of conscious separation. We then have found that God has breathed out, and we are alive. God has died to himself, so that we can live. We then embark upon the journey which, being the phase where we are right now, occupies the overwhelming majority of our time and concentration, and we attempt to move into a realm of conscious unity--to love our mother, recognize that we are one family and one flesh, to love God as ourselves. At this point, we expire of our egos and God breathes back in.
So the breath of God, wherein God dies that we might live that we might die that God might live, passes through those four stages of unconscious unity, unconscious separation, conscious separation, and conscious unity.
When all of us have responded to the trumpet of God, and all souls ascend to the heavenly plains, then all barriers between people, and between God and people, break down. We then enter into a conscious union of all of our energies in a divine dance, the likes of which we, at this point in our lives, cannot possibly imagine. It would be like you gaining conscious control and awareness of every single cell in your body and having that ecstasy multiplied a trillion times over. That is the judgment we are all being called to. That is the glorious resurrection, and that is the pathway.
