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Tablet Four
<1>So
far the person was in his first three
chakras. Therefore, all his endeavors were toward establishing a
situation that would help him to have a fair share in society. As we
can see, the pitfall of the third
chakra was the
possibility of corruption of the person. That means he was still
attracted toward things which the external world offered him.
<2>By
overcoming this last attraction of the external world (the
possibility of being corrupted), he enters into the fourth
chakra, which is the
center of love and mercy. <3>This person longs for
righteousness. However, he realizes that changing the environment
takes much more strength and knowledge than he has. Also it needs
more detachment and realization of one's own
self. <4>He
realizes that all his fear, mourning, observance, meekness, and
hungering for righteousness were only related to his own limited
false ego. He wanted all these things to happen so that he is
able to have some fair share and to satisfy his materialistic
longings.
<5>After
this achievement, the person knows he needs more spiritual knowledge
and
self-realization. So he
starts to create a great compassion for those who are lost in the
power of the ocean of
Maya, <6>because
he realizes how hard it is to completely overcome that power. Even
those who hunger and thirst for righteousness can fall into the grip
of
Maya.
Their
concern for establishing the
righteousness is even for their own concern,
not with the pure ideation of being for the good of all.
<7>So,
they become merciful, forgiving, and create compassion for others. They are the ones who are called "merciful" (Matthew 5:7). By being
merciful and forgiving, they will "obtain mercy" (Matthew 5:7).
<8>However,
the pitfall in this stage is to become narrow in
mind. The person
creates mercy, but he has not created a universal sentiment. He
might follow a false philosophy or a narrow, dogmatic belief which
would stop his progress towards creating compassion for the whole
universe. He might become concerned only for a very small portion of
the universe. <9>This possibility of becoming narrow in
mind is shown in Rev.
2:20, by using the symbol of the "woman
Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess...." This symbolizes a
wrong belief about a teaching which did not intend to bring a narrow
view, but the people (or person) in this stage will fall into it
because of the
narrowness of the mind ("prophetess Jezebel"). <10>All
this description is related to our fourth seal (),
which is the symbol of the death of material longing, "...and his
name that sat on him was Death,..." (Rev. 6:8).
<11>However,
"he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will
I give power over the nations" (Rev. 2:26). So, whoever overcomes
this
narrowness of the mind
or these false teachings will become a universalist. Not only
will he be concerned about a small portion of the world, but he will
also be concerned about the whole world in general. He goes to
his fifth spiritual center.
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