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Up till now, we've seen

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what we will call the eternal world, the world

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that contains everything that was, is and shall be,

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but then came creation.

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And this is where the book of Genesis starts.

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This is where in the beginning of the seven days, time

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and space, the dynamic, the world, Plato's world of ideas

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begins to manifest.

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Time goes into motion, space begins

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to appear outta the eternal and unchanging.

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And this is the second world of creation.

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So we have the first word of emanation,

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and then the second word of creation.

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Next one. And then there's a third world of formation,

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which we know in the Bible is paradise.

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Now, in the Platonic notion, you have an idea of something

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and then the formulation.

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Now we can put that in an everyday context.

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You want to build a house, you have an idea about the house,

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and you may think about this idea for many years,

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and then you begin to formulate it.

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Maybe you even make some drawings,

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but you may never actually build it.

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Now, this is the word of formation.

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You have the idea of a monkey or a tree,

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but here is the form of it.

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And here is Adam

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and Eve, which were originally spiritually, male

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and female, differentiated into two souls, soulmates.

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And this is where of course, the origin of the legend,

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the myth of soulmate comes from is they're actually part

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of the same spirit except they come from a higher world.

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Now, that higher world is represented here

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as the tree of knowledge.

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This is the world of creation.

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And the second tree is the tree of life.

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So there is a divine world, a creative world,

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and a world of formation.

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If you like, a world of will, A world of ideas

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and a world of forms

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and a philosophical one, you would say, oh, the world

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of origins, uh, the mental world and the astral world.

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This will be the equivalent of the astral world

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with the causal world at the very top.

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Next one here is the,

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uh, lowest world.

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This is Jerusalem where the manifestation

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of the higher worlds appears in materiality.

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So we have here fire and air and water in clouds and rain

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and the earth itself.

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So if you like the bottommost world, the material,

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the physical world is a manifestation, an end product

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of those three upper worlds of formation,

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creation, and emanation.

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We live in this world and this is the world

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of very transient time.

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The moving show, the passing show, the moment now,

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but that moment now is connected

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to what's called the eternal now of God,

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which contains everything that was, is and shall be.

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Next one. And here is

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the chain of worlds.

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This is from, uh, a 15th century manuscript from the,

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from the Yemen, a chain of being

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of the four worlds.

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We'll meet this again,

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and you can see it over here in its more filled out version.

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That's this diagram here,

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but you can see they haven't put the rest of it in.

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It was still very secret, very discreet. Next one.

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But here in the 17th century, engraving by a Christian, um,

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Mason Alchemist, Robert Flood, there is the four worlds.

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There's the origin of existence in the absolute,

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the divine world, the word of creation,

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the word of formation.

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And there with the fixed stars, the beginning

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of materiality, the solar system, fire

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air, and there's water

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and earth here with animals, vegetables and minerals.

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In other words, this is a picture, a speculum, a mirror

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of the whole of existence by which the holy one

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beholds the holy one.

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Now, all I can give you is an impression.

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I mean this, this is 40 years work literally in 40 minutes.

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Next one. But we'll come to the questions.