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In the dark night of the soul, “the darkness that covers the land” is the weight of each individual’s own returning karma as he is also learning to come to grips with world karma. Both types of karma eclipse for certain cycles the light of the soul and therefore its [[discipleship]] under the Son of God. When that personal karma is balanced by the soul, it must forge the Christ-identity, pass through the [[alchemical marriage]] (of the soul’s union with the Christ Self), and be in a position, if required, to hold the balance for some weight of planetary karma. The latter occurs as the initiation of the dark night of the Spirit which each initiate must face as the supreme trial of his Christhood. | In the dark night of the soul, “the darkness that covers the land” is the weight of each individual’s own returning karma as he is also learning to come to grips with world karma. Both types of karma eclipse for certain cycles the light of the soul and therefore its [[discipleship]] under the Son of God. When that personal karma is balanced by the soul, it must forge the Christ-identity, pass through the [[alchemical marriage]] (of the soul’s union with the Christ Self), and be in a position, if required, to hold the balance for some weight of planetary karma. The latter occurs as the initiation of the dark night of the Spirit which each initiate must face as the supreme trial of his Christhood. | ||
The dark night of the soul, karmically created by individual free will, is the test of the soul’s confrontation with its own karma of relative good and evil (the sin that can be forgiven); the dark night of the Spirit is the initiation of the soul’s encounter with the Great God, Absolute Good, and, by that Good which he has become, of the vanquishing of Absolute Evil, its antithesis. This is experienced as the presence and the absence of Light, as Christ and [[Antichrist]], as well as the active and passive participation of the Son of man in the cycles of [[Armageddon]] within and without. This initiation deals with the sin against the [[Holy Ghost]] which is unforgivable<ref>Matthew 12:31.</ref>—the deification of Absolute Evil and the nonsurrender of the [[dweller-on-the-threshold]] in the very face of the living God. | The dark night of the soul, karmically created by individual free will, is the test of the soul’s confrontation with its own karma of relative good and [[evil]] (the sin that can be forgiven); the dark night of the Spirit is the initiation of the soul’s encounter with the Great God, Absolute Good, and, by that Good which he has become, of the vanquishing of Absolute Evil, its antithesis. This is experienced as the presence and the absence of Light, as Christ and [[Antichrist]], as well as the active and passive participation of the Son of man in the cycles of [[Armageddon]] within and without. This initiation deals with the sin against the [[Holy Ghost]] which is unforgivable<ref>Matthew 12:31.</ref>—the deification of Absolute Evil and the nonsurrender of the [[dweller-on-the-threshold]] in the very face of the living God. | ||
The dark night of the soul is the tolerance of the Law, a period of grace for the soul to separate out from error and to transmute it; it is the prerequisite for the dark night of the Spirit. Those who have been given the cycles necessary to pass through the dark night of the soul, but have not done so, must move on, regardless, to the initiation of the dark night of the Spirit. This is the initiation of the I AM Presence. It is the Self-limiting principle of the Law which does not tolerate the abuse of Christ by [[Antichrist]]. | The dark night of the soul is the tolerance of the Law, a period of grace for the soul to separate out from error and to transmute it; it is the prerequisite for the dark night of the Spirit. Those who have been given the cycles necessary to pass through the dark night of the soul, but have not done so, must move on, regardless, to the initiation of the dark night of the Spirit. This is the initiation of the I AM Presence. It is the Self-limiting principle of the Law which does not tolerate the abuse of Christ by [[Antichrist]]. | ||