21st Century Mysticism, blog #1

 21^st Century Mysticism, blog #1

(c) April 2021, George Lamplighter, all rights reserved.

 

In this my first blog, I will introduce a concept of what mysticism means to me, from a 21^st century perspective.

My simple definition of mysticism is that it is the study of the mysteries concerning how a person’s body, mind, soul and spirit relate with the Universe.

The purpose of mystic studying is to enable the student to evolve physically, mentally and spiritually to reach a superior state of consciousness known as illumination.

We are well aware of body and mind, but soul and spirit will need clarification so that we share a coming understanding of those two terms when used in mystic parlance.
From the Bible, soul can be interpreted to be an agent or representative of God that shares life with a person from cradle to grave. Soul’s purpose is to guide its human partner to be a successful caretaker of planet Earth. But a person is free to choose whether to learn from soul or not. An issue arises as to whether soul is immortal or not, bible scholars are divided on that subject.

[Ref1:1Thessalonians 5:25 for soul and spirit.]

Spirit is the emotional comforting and life support energies given by the Holy Spirit to all living entities to keep them alive.

 

Rosicrucian use different names for the two terms soul and spirit, i.e., soul becomes soul-personality an agent of Universal Soul; while spirit remains as spirit plus other cosmic energies.

The Holy Spirit of the Bible’s divine trinity does not have a role in Rosicrucian philosophy.

[Ref2: Rosicrucian Manual (free PDF download on Internet) for soul-personality.]

 

In my next blog I will attempt to describe the beginning of the Universe based upon the current scientific evidence available from Internet sources such as Wikipedia.