Chapter 20. The Spirit Departs and Notes
I want to add that right now it’s April 3rd, I want to share some reflections. One
person asked me a question today regarding the fact that in the eighth volume I
was coming to know the remaining worlds after the four. That is, there was the
world of heaven, the world of earth, the world of the underground kingdom, the
afterworld, that is, the fourth. And back then I explained it this way too — that
these are all diametric figures, and that it’s like the seasons, but also we have
7 days in the week, and that after these four worlds there’s also a fifth, sixth,
seventh. And back then, in the eighth volume, I mentioned it like this: that
next we have the sun, the moon, and then the star. And there they are, these
seven worlds, like seven stages. But today, when I was asked about this, I gave
a completely different version — that I consider that if there are seven lamps,
if there are seven worlds, then it comes out to three on one side, three on the
other, and at the centre this equals death. That is, it comes out: heaven, earth,
the underground kingdom, death, and then again the underground kingdom,
earth, and heaven. That is, it comes out to three worlds on one side, three on the
other, that is, the sun and the moon. And when you’re above this — that’s the star.
And here a certain confusion arises. So which is correct? Both are correct. And
again, as I mentioned in the second and third volume — more likely in the third
volume, probably — that when I’m breaking down any kind of information, a
certain confusion can arise, in that everyone wants to take it all together as one,
as if it’s all one set of LEGO. But in reality it’s all different LEGO sets, and the
pieces from the first LEGO set, they may be similar, but they don’t belong to the
second LEGO set. In the second LEGO set you’re already building something
else. So, and here it’s likewise, after all — these are different volumes, and at the
stage of the eighth volume it was necessary to reason this way. At the stage of the
next volume it was necessary to reason differently already. But both are correct.
But now, to give some clarity, I decided to touch on this theme once more,
and let’s reason it through. That is, it comes out that the first version, the way
I reasoned it, there’s heaven, earth, the underground kingdom, the world
of the dead — this comes out to the elements. And next we have the fifth —