The Three Great Classes of Manifested Phenomena

The Three Planes of Manifestation
of Universal Activity, LIFE and BEING.

The "Trinity" or "Tri-unity"

The Great Spiritual Plane.

The Great Mental Plane

The Great Physical Plane

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The word "Trinity" is one of the most carelessly used and misunderstood words in the world of religious thought today. In the fundamental Christian thought, it is believed that the Infinite God consists of three persons in "One."

This belief originated in 325 AD when the Council of Nicea and the Council of Constantinople in 381 AD declared that the Son is of the same essence as the Father, and that the three persons are one God. The East and West branches of the church later disagreed as to how the Holy Spirit proceeds from the "other" divine persons. The Eastern church believed that the Son came from the Father, and that the Spirit comes from the Father through the Son. The Western Church held that Spirit comes from Father and Son together. A special activity has been ascribed to each of the persons. The Father creates, the Son became human, and the Spirit makes holy. There is much controversy and confusion about this subject even to this day....

Ancient Hermetic Philosophy carries this knowledge far beyond the ideas of the fundamentalists who have ascribed human qualities to an "Infinite God." No human qualities can or should be ascribed to the "Infinite ALL," in whose MIND the Universe is firmly held in existence, and by whose WILL it is governed of which there is NOTHING that can escape its PRESENCE. "Our FATHER" is pure SPIRIT without shape or form or any boundaries or edges, in space, time, and change....

The following is an excerpt from "The Kybalion" a book of which I would highly recommend to the person who is interested in discovering their origins and relationship to the Universe. The person who can read this book with understanding will discover how the Universe operates and what our function is within it. The reader who reads this Knowledge with understanding and who applies the "KNOWLEDGE" to his or her own life will never again view themselves, others, or everything around them as in the past. You will be enabled to see the enormous Infinite Presence of God for yourself that will put you in humble stupefied awe. You can’t help, but to have a very deep respect for all of Life and Creation. You will discover that nothing happens by "accident" or "chance." All your fears and uncertainties will be put to rest forever. You will have a grander vista of life and find yourself growing at a rapid pace that will make you stand "rock solid" in life. You will learn to be a mover on the chessboard of Life, instead of being a mere pawn that is moved around on the chessboard at the mercy and wills of others stronger than your own.

Written by three Initiates in the ancient Hermetic tradition of Arcane Truths.

The great Second Hermetic Principle embodies the truth that there is a harmony, agreement, and correspondence between the several planes of Manifestation, Life and Being. This truth is a truth because all that is included in the Universe emanates from the same source, and the same laws, principles, and characteristics apply to each unit, or combination of units of activity, as each manifests its own phenomena upon its own plane.

For the purpose of convenience of thought and study, the Hermetic Philosophy considers that the Universe may be divided into three great classes of phenomena, known as the Three Great Planes, namely:

These divisions are more or less artificial and arbitrary, for the truth is that all of the three divisions are but ascending degrees of the great scale of Life, the lowest point of which is undifferentiated Matter, and the highest point that of Spirit. And, moreover, the different Planes shade into each other, so that no hard and fast divisions may be made between the higher phenomena of the Physical and the lower of the Mental; or between the higher of the Mental and the lower of the Physical.

In short, the Three Great Planes may be regarded as three great groups of degrees of Life Manifestation.

You will kindly remember, however, that the Three Great Planes are not actual divisions of the phenomena of the Universe, but merely arbitrary terms used by the Hermeticists in order to aid in the thought and study of the various degrees and forms of universal activity and life.

The atom of matter, the unit of force, the mind of man, and the being of the arch-angel are all but degrees in one scale, and all fundamentally the same, the difference between solely a matter of degree, and rate of vibration--all are creations of THE ALL, and have their existence solely within the Infinite Mind of THE ALL.

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I. The Plane of Matter (A).

II. The Plane of Matter (B).

III. The Plane of Matter (C).

IV. The Plane of Ethereal Substance.

V. The Plane of Energy (A).

VI. The Plane of Energy (B).

VII. The Plane of Energy (C).

The Plane of Matter (A) comprises the forms of Matter in its form of solids, liquids, and gases, as generally recognized by the text-books on physics. The Plane of Matter (B) comprises certain higher and more subtle forms of Matter of the existence of which modern science is but now recognizing, the phenomena of Radiant Matter, in its phases of radium, etc., belonging to the lower sub-division of this Minor Plane. The Plane of Matter (C) comprises forms of the most subtle and tenuous Matter, the existence of which is not suspected by ordinary scientists.

The Plane of Ethereal Substance comprises that which science speaks of as "The Ether," a substance of extreme tenuity and elasticity, pervading all Universal Space, and acting as a medium for the transmission of waves of energy, such as light, heat, electricity, etc. This Ethereal Substance forms a connecting link between Matter (so-called) and Energy, and partakes of the nature of each....

A visual aide has been provided regarding the cycles of Life, death and rebirth in JPEG format to help the reader understand manifestation and evolution, two aspects of the same reality.

Scientists were perplexed when they discovered that the clusters of galaxies traveling through the Universe did not have sufficient physical mass to create the gravitational forces needed to hold them together in spite of their unimaginable total mass. Their equations indicate that there must be a something present that provided the galaxies with the needed gravitational force to hold them together that is not visible to human eyes. This led them to the discovery of "dark matter" that provided the galaxies with the needed gravitation to hold them together in a cluster family.

Galaxies, including our own Milky Way galaxy travel at two million miles an hour through space in a cluster group, while the Earth hurdles around the Sun. No man made object is capable of traveling that fast. Still, it is very slow compared to the velocity of cosmic rays that can travel through our earth as if she is transparent. Dark matter is a baffling mystery to astronomers and physicists because it cannot be seen, does not reflect light, and cannot be weighed. To further complicate matters for science, a something called "dark energy" was discovered to be present that fills all of universal space that was previously believed to be "empty space." Space is not empty as is believed by most humans but is now known to be filled with an extremely tenuous invisible substance that makes up the fabric of space that can twist, warp, and curve through the Universe and governs the direction and behavior of the clusters of galaxies as they travel through the Universe. This led some scientists to wonder, "Is it science, or is it philosophy?" "Are we looking at God?" Some scientists say, "Yes," while others say, "No" and the debates and arguments continue....

On June 30, 2001 a deep space probe called the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropic Probe (WMAP) was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base aboard a Delta II rocket. The purpose of the WMAP probe was to accomplish deep space research utilizing X-Ray Cameras to map the composition of The Universe. Two years later the results were examined and the finding are as follows regarding the composition of the Universe and are accurate to within five percentage points according to scientists.

DARK ENERGY - 73%
Dark Energy is an extremely tenuous invisible energy that pervades all of universal space and is the fabric of space itself. It is an unexplainable baffling mystery to science.

DARK MATTER - 23%
The invisible substance that generates the needed gravitational forces to maintain the galaxies in a cluster formation as they travel through space.

PHYSICAL MATTER - 4%
The familiar particle or material world that we see with our eyes, as we live, move, and have our being within it.

What does all this mean? First, physical matter or the material world as we are able to perceive, that which we can see with our eyes, consists of only four percentage points of the total Universe. Everything that our eyes can see our planet Earth, all human bodies upon our Earth, the stars in the sky above, is only a total material mass of 4% of the total reality of the Universe. This is not only a Spiritual concept but also one of scientific verification that our physical perception of the material world (4%) comes from an area of reality that is far greater than what we can see with our eyes. It may be said that physical matter is a manifestation, a filtering process from the pure infinite energy field called; "dark energy"; to the tenuous ethereal substance called "dark matter" and finally our familiar "material world" in which most humans live "unconsciously" without giving any thought to the composition of the reality they live in. This composition follows the ensuing UNIVERSAL COSMIC LAWS that hold the entire Universe in constant vibration in the microcosm of atomic particles and the constant motion of all celestial bodies in the Universe. This is the evidence of THE GREAT CREATOR at work in the constant manifestation of LIFE in the UNIVERSE, even if is not viewed as such by science or organized religion. For some who read these lines, the question is "to believe, or not believe." To the universally spiritually developed person it can be seen that science and philosophy walk on the same path to knowledge but with different methods of approach that will eventually be fused together. If this fact is ignored, then the world will continue in the familiar Dark Age concept with a similar misguided belief of the past that, "the world is flat," or "the world is the center of the universe." Many organized religions were forced to crawl back into the ignorance of their "dark age cave" by continuous scientific discovery and Spiritual advancement. All the religions of the world should take notice of the WMAP findings in that it is a confirmation of a very large invisible presence in the Universe and the Earth that was KNOWN to the ancient philosophers as, "THE ALL" and BELIEVED to be the God of heaven in The Christian bible. The Earth is suspended in the heavens (infinite space) or the "Dark Energy" of INFINITE SPIRIT and is carried and moved about by the will of The SPIRIT OF GOD while our Earth travels through the Universe. Science may see it as dark energy, dark matter, and physical matter, but the Masters and Adepts who are the keepers of the uncorrupted ancient arcane Knowledge see it as the Infinite Presence of, THE ALL. The WMAP research confirmed what the ancients have always KNOWN, while most religions in the world still grope and wonder if there is a God? Some religions will ask, "Do you believe in God?" Whilst this is a common question, it is not an issue for the spiritually developed person who can readily see that nothing happens by accident or chance and the question of "Do you believe in God" is not an issue for them because they KNOW. Even with all the evidence of GOD surrounding all of humanity, still they will wonder if it is GOD or not because no one knows what SPIRIT looks like. Well, SPIRIT is not a body of any kind because its presence is non-local, INFINITE, ALL POWERFUL, and EVERYWHERE PRESENT, without any edges or holes in space. If you are looking for a person or some kind of a body to speak to, you will be disappointed because there is none to speak of when looking for SPIRIT. Does it know us? You may ask. It KNOWS us before we were born even before the beginning of time. SPIRIT knows our beginning and our ending as well as that of the Earth. Don't expect a meteor to accidentally strike the Earth and terminate all of Life on this planet. If it does happen it will not be an accident in the grand design of constant change and renewal. There will be nothing physical that can stop it. We express fear in the destruction of our body because it is utmost important to us and is an aspect of our consciousness that enables us physical perception and makes us a complete being in the Human experience.

Disembodied humans are deprived of this physical perception and are the reason why strange and weird situations arise such as haunted houses for example. Are they dead you may ask? The answer is that they are not dead, but disembodied. Calling disembodied humans as being dead is a misnomer that is based on not knowing the TRUTH. The interacting medium of the body belonging to physical life is missing and they are unable to verbally communicate with us. This puts them at odds with physical humans because they may not understand what is happening to them and they may not even be aware that they are disembodied because of their Astral Body that resembles the physical body. Add this to the ignorance of embodied humans, and we have fear and chaos when an encounter occurs. Eventually the disembodied are overcome with extreme sleepiness and they fall asleep in a Soul Sleep while being nurtured and cradled in INFINITE SPIRIT. At this point disembodiment of the Astral Body occurs and the ghostly appearance ends. The Astral Body is out of business and floats around in the Astral Planes. It will eventually dissolve into The SPIRIT of THE ALL from whence it came. Most physical humans do not even know about these things and therefore express fear and the consequential superstitions about "Ghosts." It will happen to all of us if we disembody. Disembodiment is a "dead stop," or a deprivation of physical Life and material perception that we take for granted. We are droplets of "dark energy" that belong to the OCEAN of LIFE or SPIRIT that pervades the Universe and permeate our body and Soul and we are sustained and cradled in the SPIRIT OF GOD even in our disembodied state. Are we dead? It is not possible to die as mortal humans believe but it is possible to disembody. Because of the loss of our material perception that our physical body provides is the reason why we wish to return to Physical Life and this alone will perpetuate re-incarnation back into physical Life again. It is our powerful wish to be whole again so that we can "see" the contents of the Universe and bear witness of THE SPIRIT OF GOD at work in the constant manifestation of The Universe. As embodied humans we live in a world of effects with access to the process of CAUSATION to make changes to ourselves. A disembodied human only lives in a world of CAUSATION or SPIRIT where there is very little to change because their world of effects is very small. The realm of CAUSATION is an internal reality while the external reality of the material world is a reality of effects. Materialistic humans live in a world of effects and they swing back and forth like a pendulum with extreme high and low mood swings and is often the "cause" of violence in our world and personal relationships. They do not know that they can access the realm of CAUSATION to bring positive change to them that is an upward advancement of human consciousness.

We stand in stupefied awe as we find ourselves as co-creators working within the SPIRIT OF GOD. We are not the worms of the dust as we have been taught by organized religion. It is now time to step out of the brain washing conceptions of organized religions and step out fearlessly into the UNKNOWN, "the outside" of the box of organized religions that has limited humanity to religious ethnics, ceremonies, traditions, and rituals, for many millenniums. The religions of the world can change this too and help divided struggling humanity to bring unity, harmony, and peace. Religious cults who torture, murder, and maim innocent humans in the name of GOD should be abandoned by their members, for their power comes from the members in their group. They are extremely evil and are a vexation to The SPIRIT of GOD. There is nothing noble about their bestial activities. The world should not support these vexations of SPIRIT. To do so, would bring the same consequential results as the perpetrators of the vexations and the violence will continue to perpetuate and spread because of a lack of cooperation between nations and the power that Spiritual Knowledge brings. The answer to end all this is in The SPIRIT of GOD because it is the only absolute unifying power that can unify humanity and silence all these things. It will eventually be discovered that there are no mundane intellectual alternatives to this. The window of opportunity is becoming very small as we can see this in Nature as she is becoming increasingly violent while attempting to counter balance human activity. It is not in her nature to be violent but she will mirror to us what we perpetuate either in peace or war, good or bad, justly or unjustly. This is the work of The Sixth Great Principle of CAUSE AND EFFECT and holds all of us responsible in our world conduct. Her work is to maintain unity, balance and tranquility on our planet so that the Human Experience can be sustained. If we allow ourselves to go to extremes in violence and we contradict her tranquil works, she will remove the cause of the problems to restore unity, balance, and tranquility to this planet. Nature is governed by the fifth Great Principle of RHYTHM which rules the cycles in Nature. It is the swinging pendulum of the cycles that maintains and restores a central focus when human activity throws it out of balance. The effects may not be pleasant to humans because many humans may disembody in her work of balance but it is a necessity to maintain balance and harmony in Nature order to preserve and sustain Life. If we allow ourselves to become extremely violent with war, then will our wishes be granted and she will mirror and is capable of letting us use the weapons we created against ourselves even to the point of human decimation through nuclear destruction (in the scriptures, "He who lives by the sword, shall die by the sword...."). Afterwards, Nature will restore Life in peace and harmony and tranquility and balance in Nature is restored once again even in the absence of humans. Humans should observe the greater picture of LIFE instead of being focused on their meager short-lived egocentric needs which is the main problem in world Consciousness. One has to be willing to make a paradigm shift in the level of thinking to bring results. It can only be changed in the Human Mind and then can it be changed in the environment but not in the reverse because everything comes from MIND to bring external results.

The Universe may appear as being violent with explosions of nebulae, quasars, and the dangerous gamma rays these activities emit but you can rest assured that they are not violent but are the activities of THE CREATOR at work in the constant changes we experience on our planet. It appears to be violent only because of our fear in becoming disembodied. The violence is only in the perception of the beholder and depends on the degree of Spiritual development how it is perceived. Gamma Rays are energy particles that are thousands or more times powerful than the photons that the sun emits to keep our Earth warm and to maintain physical Life. We are struck daily by these cosmic rays, roughly about ten to eighteen particles a day from distant quasars. They pass through our bodies and the Earth as if it is non-existent. It is harmless in these amounts and may even be beneficial in some way. If we are struck by a massive amount of gamma rays, all of Life on this planet becomes scorched with heat and physical Life as we know it will end in an instant. It can only happen if it is in the Creative Design of our existence. It does not happen by chance or accident, there is no such thing. Life would end in a nano-second that is one billionth of a second to the -9 power with zero suffering. We will not immediately know what happened except that we are disembodied and standing in a powerful LIGHT, that is, The SPIRIT OF GOD. Why should we live in fear?

Every nation on this planet is responsible for the preservation and continuation of Human Life and is without exception. You are the stewards to whom responsibility has been given from a Higher Power and you are expected to live up to that responsibility. If you are irresponsible, you will eventually become dissolved. Like the many others who have walked the path in history before you and who have failed to abide by Life's Principles. None of you can escape the effects of your own conduct. Careful observation in today's world events and history will attest to this evidence. Yes, there is Spiritual and scientific evidence of GOD if humans will but open their eyes, ears and Minds. It will take more than just eliminating pollution to solve the world problems. The cause behind all this is in the Human Consciousness. If the polluting Human Consciousness can be convinced about their errors in polluting this planet and they are able to observe this on their own, then can great changes be accomplished in an atmosphere of cooperation in the absence of war. If this is not realized, only weak haphazard agreements can be drawn and signed by the nations while an atmosphere of mistrust and hypocrisy prevails. Nothing will work in this type of environment....

Re-incarnation is a choice that if a person wishes to experience physical Life again, SPIRIT will grand you the wish to be whole again, that is, a Spirit, Mind, and "Body" until you learn to step out of the cycles of Life, death, and rebirth and you are the Master of your own "consciousness." You will enter and exit pure SPIRIT at will and are no longer affected by entropy or decay. You have transmuted from mortality to Immortality, you are immortal in the presence of SPIRIT and you have become an adept of Life and knowledgeable in SPIRIT and its working Principles, utilizing them to your own advantage and giving assistance to struggling humanity where you are allowed and willing by those who are searching for an answer to the mystery of GOD. You are a Master of Life and KNOW GOD and you are experiencing for the first time "true freedom." You will always be precisely in the right place at the right time because of your focus on THE ALL. You are invisible to violent humans because you do not belong to the mental plane of their violent behavior. Principles Living in fear acts as a magnet that will attract all sorts of negative evils.

An experiment was conducted by Cambridge University utilizing a lead shielded and airtight Faraday chamber to conduct a particle experiment. In theory, if the internal chamber was pumped down to a vacuum environment such as in space and the temperature is reduced to absolute zero (-460F), all particles should stop vibrating and there should be no energy present in the chamber. What was discovered with their instrumentation is that the chamber contained an enormous amount of energy according to their equations. If it were possible to fill the inside glass bulb of a 100 watt light, there would be sufficient energy to bring the Earth's oceans to a boiling point. Now, imagine that the Universe is full of this free flowing energy. Would this not defy the logical equations of science? This experiment shows that there is an Omnipotent and Infinite presence in the Universe that is incalculable because our brain is too small and extremely limited in perceiving such an enormous presence. The most brilliant of humans only utilize 10% of brain capacity while the rest of us may only utilize three or four percent of brain capacity. Is it a wonder why most humans live in "unconsciousness," completely unaware of the reality they live in? Could this gross lack of conscious awareness (mentally dormant) cause the problems we experience in our world? How will we communicate with such a large non-local presence that does not display the physical features of the human body? Talking to "thin air" is a definite no-no in science because there is no particular body to speak to. Talking to thin air would be ridiculous besides there will be no response from the "thin air." There will not be thundering voice coming out of the sky to answer the questions of a scientist or any person for that matter. That only exists in the imagination of the fundamentalists and their over-enthused testimonials. Where do we go to speak to this "Infinite God?"

The secret lies in the human consciousness to communicate with THE ALL because THE ALL is a spatial INFINITE MIND that does not display the limited physical brain capacity of humans. Science may view this as the presence of a blind or "dead energy" that is at best a random energy field to them but the ancient philosophers know better because of the well developed intuitive faculties of their consciousness. They can see with the "Mind's Eye" and see the deeper reality in real time that escapes the human race that is for the most part dominated by technological gadgetry to keep their consciousness busy. The ancient Philosophers do not need computers or complex equations to tell them that the existence of THE ALL is real. Equations are only for those who wish to intellectually pick the Universe apart and end up with more questions than answers. Nevertheless, it is all still very interesting. To most humans today, consciousness is but a word that is difficult to explain because few humans pay attention to the intuitive faculties of their being. Intuition is the mental door that opens to the human consciousness the realities that cannot be perceived with the eyes or the brain. It is our connection with THE ALL. Most people have a brain that is too noisy with mundane short-lived thoughts that are quickly forgotten. These types of people display the wandering consciousness in their physicality and are an attribute of the wandering sub-conscious Mind when the person does not exercise a strong will to give it direction. They are unable to stop this wandering process because of a lack of a focused will in their Life Mind. The subconscious mind is not capable of directing itself and thus it will wander aimlessly. Sometimes is this condition being described as a "mentally dead person.”? This aspect is highly visible to the aware person in that they can see this person not being able to give him or herself direction and they display the lazy subconscious Mind. Like the pawns on the chessboard of Life are they moved about by forces greater than themselves and often become angry because they do not understand their situation. They have no direction or purpose in Life. This is often seen in teenagers whose parents have no direction in Life and the children follow their roll model in the footsteps. Ignorance begets ignorance and the trend continues until somewhere in time someone awakens and makes a coordinated effort to correct the situation. The sub-conscious Mind is the one that has all the phenomenal power to make things happen but has no direction or focus. The Conscious Mind has direction and focus but does not have the power to make things happen. One cannot be without the other like the working polarity of the cathode and the anode that gives electricity a direction of travel and can make things happen. When this Conscious Mind becomes lazy because of the lack of focused will the conscious Mind, like the sub-conscious Mind will wander along and leaves the door open to all sorts of misinformation and misguided directions and evils that we read about in our newspapers. When sub-consciousness and consciousness unite by the uniting polarity of the effort of the will, possibilities will open to the person that was previously believed to be impossible or non-existent. Spiritual development and advancement is of utmost importance to the race consciousness. The intellectual approach of solving problems in the world is at best superficial and often hypocritical and is not adequate to solve the problems of the world. Even when Spiritual Knowledge is presented, there has to be a desire and willingness of the person to want to develop oneself. No person can force another person to comply with religious beliefs or Spiritual Knowledge because it would violate the fundamental human rights of freedom of choice, which is an attribute of SPIRIT. Anything contrary to this is a very great evil because of contradicting the will of SPIRIT. This alone, makes each person responsible for their conduct and what they choose in Life and is always followed by the consequences of their choices. This is particularly noticeable in older people who have advanced in the aging process as they come to the realization that their conscious Life is very short and many of them turn to religion for comfort and assurance. The younger people, while they are young, may not be aware that they too are in the pipeline of entropy and will follow those who have walked the aging process before them. It is a matter of time. Spiritual Knowledge can enhance and prolong Life in longer healthful living. If a person does not have any Spiritual Knowledge to anchor him or herself, they will find that all their money and material possessions are of no avail to them in their last days of life because they are too weak to enjoy it. The younger person who practices being prejudiced against the older person does not realize that he or she will be in the same position in their later years and they will reap the consequences of their choices and experience their own prejudices in their life.

With the discovery of WMAP, in view of the greater invisible reality of the Universe, is it a wonder that strange and unexplained phenomena appears in the lives of humans such as haunted houses, ghosts, UFOs, space aliens, teleportation (traveling in the invisible) and various psychic phenomena that defies scientific treatment? There is a goldmine for science to do research in these areas if they can find the funding for non-commercial research. It should not be left to the Hollywood sensationalists who are unable to explain the reality of the invisible realm that is interwoven with our physical lives except to scare the public into deepening superstitious beliefs.

There are a great many organized religious cults in the world disguised as innocent religious institutions that are not viewed as such by the race consciousness, who are not worthy of the name "religion" and who are misguided by their blind leaders and their disgusting mental food (believes) that are mingled with the blood of innocent people, "blind leaders of the blind," they shall all fall into the same ditch of perdition in their virtual mental hell of fire and brimstone. They are rewarded and well paid for a well-deserved Karma, the CAUSE AND EFFECT for their extremely evil and wicked ways. To them, GOD does not exist because of their evil ambitions, and wicked, beliefs. With one breath they honor GOD with the other they curse The CREATOR by destroying what has been placed upon the Earth. They cannot advance and be prosperous and live in peace and happiness except to be trapped in their disgusting mental cesspool of beliefs in the face of DEATH. These humans exist in every country of the world some of which this has not yet manifested itself.

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