TIME_DIMENSIONS
The World is Dead, Animated by Spirit
The physical world and its inhabitants are fundamentally 'dead' and inanimate, merely animated by the Spirit of God (breath/wind/spirit). This is part of the…
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WorldDeadAnimatedSpiritBreathWindEternal StructureIllusion of RealityDivine AnimationPre-patterned ExistenceLife-giving Spirit
Imagination
My dear, the world is dead, and people don’t know it – dead, dead as dead can be, even though they are walking it. The day will come that you will have this experience. You will know that what you are feeling within you, you could arrest; and as you look at the people round about you, you arrest their activity within you, and every one stands still. I don’t mean they are standing still like soldiers at attention when they can still blink their eyes and move the body; I mean they are dead! They can’t move an eye. They are not aware that they are standing still. And if you arrested that motion for 1,000 years, when you released it they would continue on their intention and not know for one moment that they were still for 1,000 years. This is all part of the structure of the universe. All that is taking place in the world belongs to the eternal structure of the universe. You didn’t get created; you are part of the eternal structure. All marriages, all divorces, all love, wayward love, lovely friendships, hates − it is all part of the eternal structure of the universe. So, when we speak of creation, I don’t mean erecting a little man of clay. Man was always a part of the structure of the universe. I am not speaking of the creation of life. We are only animated bodies now. The day is coming that we will become life-giving spirits. Then you will see the whole vast world is a dead body – as dead as the moon – and all the relationships are worked out in detail. If one could but see with the awakened eye as the child comes through the womb, the whole pattern of its life is there.
The physical world and its inhabitants are fundamentally 'dead' and inanimate, merely animated by the Spirit of God (breath/wind/spirit). This is part of the eternal structure of the universe, where all events and relationships are pre-patterned. Humans are currently animated bodies, destined to become life-giving spirits, at which point the 'dead' nature of the world will be fully perceived.