| Table of Contents for The Road to Paradise |
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Why the people of the Earth live in darkness as regards their fate |
2. |
The beings' unhappy fates are not a "punishment" for "sins" committed |
3. |
What is it that makes people form notions about "paradise" and "hell" |
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People's passive and negative belief in life after death |
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Mesocosmic mental constructions on the physical plane of existence |
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Macrocosmic and microcosmic mental constructions on the physical plane |
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Why our experience of life constitutes the feeling of an "inner" world and an "outer" one |
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Why people believe that death is a complete cessation of life and existence |
9. |
The difference between the physical and spiritual faculties to experience life and to create |
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Ray-formed or spiritual matter |
11. |
A sensory area in which the living beings can sense and create independently of the physical organism |
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The so-called "dead" live a fully active life on the spiritual plane of existence |
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Why living beings must incarnate in physical matter |
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The living being's physical organism is but a temporary extension to its primary spiritual structure |
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Why the physical and spiritual planes must be separate |
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Why the living being must go through physical rebirths as a plant, an animal and a human being |
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The law of life that determines that the manifestation or creation of the living being must be logical |
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The recreation of the living being's consciousness in each new spiral cycle |
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Sufferings are cosmic sources of wisdom and constitute the road to love or the culmination of the experience of life |
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The being's acquisition of the most perfect ability to think and the cessation of reincarnation |
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The spiritual world is the land of joy and happiness, while the physical world is God's workshop for the creation of the "human being in God's image" |
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Death is the gateway to paradise |
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Death is a vital necessity for the attainment of the highest bodily and mental perfection |
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The being's transformed existence after death |
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Purgatory and paradise |
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Death as a divine liberation from old age, illness, sorrow and suffering |
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The spiritual plane of existence is a world of culminating light for all living things |
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The reciprocal mental copies of the spiritual and the physical worlds |
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The living being's consciousness and mental images |
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The living being's two sensory horizons: the physical and the spiritual |
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Where the "curses" upon "sin" set forth in the Bible occur and where they do not occur |
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Purgatory is an epoch of preparation for the experience of paradise |
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Where reincarnation becomes superfluous and ceases |
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Why all beings experience an individually adapted paradise |
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Why paradise is a culminating experience of light, and purgatory is a culminating experience of darkness |
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When the "curses" in the Bible turn out to be blessings for the human being |
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The epoch of paradise as a divine revelation of caresses for the living being in its passage through the spiral cycle's culmination of darkness |
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The world where dreams are reality, the beings' paradise or the sunny regions and home of life |
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The artists' paradise |
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The unfinished human beings' dream existence or paradise |
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The living being's absolute, true paradise |
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Where Jesus' words, "In my Father's house are many mansions...", become a reality |
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The Christian world religion's ecclesiastical teaching about paradise and hell |
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A judicial practice that is the culmination of injustice, and a Godhead who dictates to people a rule of conduct that He Himself does not practice |
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A derailed perception of God |
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The downfall of a derailed image of the Godhead and the birth of a new world epoch in which there is neither "sin", "punishment" nor fear of death |
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From a cosmic point of view all living beings are well provided for and taken care of |
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When people have a dark experience of purgatory because of their religion |
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The beings in purgatory and the intervention of the guardian angels |
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The beings' religious paradise and other dreams |
51. |
The inhumane or animal paradise |
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The humane or human paradise |
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The beings' communication with one another in paradise |
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The normal channel of communication between physical and spiritual beings |
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Situations in which physical beings can be possessed by spirits |
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The road of life or the road to paradise |
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Life's highest paradise |