The Becoming

Course XXXVI - Teaching 1: Death

To a materialist, death is a black point, a burst of sensation, a void and nothing more. To a religious person, death is the step toward a higher life, which is more perfect and happier.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 2: Elementals

The terrestrial element, Prithivi, creates elementals as guardians and caretakers of terrestrial movements, growth of trees, vegetation, and reserve of lands that the man should not contaminate. For an old legend, these beings are short, long-bearded and grotesque; according to tales and mysteries arisen from fantasy of the people, they have been called dwarfs, goblins, gnomes, et cetera.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 3: Inner Life of Earth

In the times of the Atlantean race, an immense heat, a nitric fire, was boiling in the earthly entrails. The planet did not receive calories from sun rays because the atmosphere was covered by thick clouds and vapors.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 4: Astral World

Every hour, thousands of souls leave their bodies in order to be at the hereafter, and while open graves swallow cold human images, remaining souls think and knock at the tomb, and anxiously ask: Where are they gone?

Course XXXVI - Teaching 5: Astral Divisions

The universe is based on a sevenfold plan. Material, energetic and mental states respond to seven divisions and sub-divisions. Men already know five material elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 6: Mental World

All beings dwelling in the astral plane are directly influenced by the mental world by different thickness. Even unconsciously, beings of the seventh, sixth, fifth and fourth astral plane pass through the mental world; otherwise, to them it would be impossible to bring energy in order to face the new life.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 7: The Grotto of Ras

Whatever is concealed, some day will be exposed. Christ said, even the more insignificant words of creatures had to be exposed too. Grotto of Ras is the name given by the esoteric symbology to this place where actions of all past-present beings are recorded.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 8: Worlds of Devas

Spiritual monads beyond the Human plane dwell on higher planes called “Worlds of Devas”. In these Worlds there are three chains of Hosts-Builders: Host of the Shadow, Host of Humanity and Stellar Hosts.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 9: The Whole Man

A being is a microcosm, a universe in miniature. To know sufficiently the outer and inner complex of man is to know the universe. Like the cosmos, a being is triple and sevenfold in his structure.

Course XXXVI - Teaching 10: From Man to Cosmos

Nothing new under the sun and any law is a repetition of other similar law. Bigness is reduced in littleness, and smallness is synthetic image of immensity. A unique, basic, invariable principle expands toward infinity, and contracts to become infinitesimal.