The Eternal World Picture, vol. 2
19.8  The law for the formation of images, and God's creation of the human being in his image
How could this above-mentioned creation take place without the son of God experiencing the shadow regions that form the foundation for the formation of every image? How could a photograph exist without its shady regions? How could God's image exist without its shady regions too? Just as an image cannot possibly exist without its contrasts so God's image cannot constitute an image either without its contrasts. How could the image of the Godhead be experienced without its opposite in all areas? How could it otherwise be defined and thereby become visible? God's image is a living image. It shows God's nature, God's movement, God's manifestations and way of being, God's processes of creation, God's purposes and plans, God's planes of existence, God's all-penetrating mentality, God's infinite wisdom, omnipotence and universal love. But how could any being experience this image and become its likeness if it did not experience the opposite of every one of all these details in this image?
Symbol by Martinus
Symbol no. 19
Through the Darkness of Initiation (Hell or Armageddon)