PARADIGM
Ben H Swett
Temple Hills, MD
January 2000
This drawing is my concept of the spiritual universe. It is the
background diagram for most of what I have seen and said. I see it as
the area of Light radiating from the Source of Light. Like any other
kind of light, the law of inverse squares describes how the amount of
Light at any point in this area is inversely related to distance from
the Source. (From any circle centered on a source of light, the circle
halfway closer to the source is four times brighter, and the circle
twice as far from the source is four times dimmer.)
This drawing illustrates my understanding that the astral levels are
not flat; they are these circles centered on the Source of Light. We
think of them as flat because, as seers of all times and traditions
have said, UP is toward the Light, and DOWN is away from the Light. The
higher astral levels are brighter because they are closer to the
Source; earth is in the mid-astral twilight zone, and the lower astral
levels are darker because they are farther from the Source.
I did not label the Source of Light "God" because a god is an object of
worship and not all beings worship the Source. Some beings love the
Light and seek the Source. Some ignore the Light. Some hate or fear the
Light and flee away from the Source to hide themselves in the outer
darkness. In the outer darkness, the amount of illumination (and love
and joy and truth) is vanishingly small.
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