Stage Four
The Divine Realm
Each stage of life beyond death becomes increasingly difficult to describe. The Divine realm is vast and inconceivable beyond measure. And within it are many Divine worlds and ascending levels. This represents the most real and eternal level of creation, where we reside in direct communion with Divine Consciousness. (see Illustrations) In some traditions, this realm is called heaven or the celestial plane. But these concepts don’t do justice to the inconceivable Love, Beauty and Truth, which are the essential elements of this realm. This is the heaven of Plato’s perfect forms, the realm of the angels, archangels and the ascended masters who once walked on Earth.
To experience the Divine realm, we must have a spiritual body as a suitable platform of conscious experience. Only a body of pure Divine essence is refined enough to serve this function. After many cycles of Earth life, if we’ve accumulated sufficient Divine essence (in other words, if we’ve developed a spiritual body which is able to sustain a conscious presence) then we awaken in the Divine realm where we continue our spiritual evolution without the need of further incarnations on Earth. Occasionally, beings from the Divine Realm will choose to take another Earth incarnation as teachers, or to fulfill some other specific role in cosmic evolution. In this case, the spiritual body remains in tact and shines through into the physical body and Earth personality. We call these great spiritual lights Mahatma, Son of God, Buddha or Sat Guru.
Everyone has a spiritual body in some stage of evolution, and hence, some intuitive awareness (conscious or subconscious) of the Divine realm. It exists within us, individually and collectively, as our conscience, our inner guidance and highest Good. It’s this intuitive awareness of our Divine nature that we reflect off when we’re being courageous, selfless and true in the face of difficult circumstances. In other words, when we’re in alignment with Divine will.
At any point in cosmic evolution, we can only experience what we’ve evolved to, in terms of a body. In most cases, our spiritual body has not evolved sufficiently to sustain a conscious presence in the Divine realm. But it’s ok, because our Divine essence is never lost. It’s continuously added to our evolving spiritual body. And, when sufficient Divine essence accumulates, we awaken as a conscious presence in the highest and most real plane of experience. Many who are now on a spiritual path will reach a conscious presence in the Divine realm after this human life is completed.
Nothing in the relative creation last forever and even the Divine Realm has a definite lifespan. When cosmic desire is fulfilled, this cycle of creation will come to an end and all the planes of experience, as well as individual consciousness, will vanish like a dream. What remains is all that is and all that has ever been; Divine Consciousness.
