Recurrence

You can begin to see over the edge of reality when you see that people around you are in recurrence. Mechanical life afterall is recurrence. When you see this you can see what isn't recurrence. That gives the view beyond 'reality.' Recurrence really is a central idea - or reality - for understanding, even though G. and O. played it down because they said it could only be an idea. But they betrayed their real thoughts on the matter by discoursing on it to such length. At least Ouspensky did. Anyway, it can be observed. Not immediately, but with higher emotion you can observe it. It explains so much as well. Not in some intellectual way, but in a reality way. This is why people are as they are. When you see the correspondence with biblical teaching you have a rather authoritative validation. But you can see it anyway. Recurrence contains all the theories and fancies and beliefs about what happens when you die. It contains annihilation and reincarnation and going to another place, better or worse place. Those are like fingers, and recurrence is like the hand the fingers are attached to. Recurrence is annihilation because when you are in mechanical recurrence it's like you are dead in your time. Recurrence is reincarnation because in a real sense you 'live again', though just not as Cleopatra but as who you are now, cycling back into your own time. Recurrence contains also going to another place at death because you 'can' escape the wheel of recurrence. You can always develop within it, by degree, which causes change in essence and hence what life you attract to yourself. But also recurrence is not in conflict with the biblical teaching of heaven and hell. Hell is still there waiting for the people who ultimately want to be there. But it's after the judgment at the Second Coming that that occurs. Prior to that people - unbelievers - recur. Believers die and go to be with God in heaven.

Recurrence explains the action of the General Law on truly developing individuals. When you begin to leave your circle of recurrence you are, in the spiritual realm, leaving the camp of darkness. The Kingdom of Satan. And everybody in that kingdom sees you leaving and attempts to stop you. But if you have the Spirit of Christ - the Holy Spirit - they can't stop you, but they can give you alot of friction. This happens truly in the spiritual realm and manifests in this physical life now by the action of what the Work calls the General Law. People unconsciously confronting you, attempting to steer you back into 'place.' Like attacking a rogue cell in a body. Either getting it back into it's 'proper' place or destroying it.

You can begin to see all your life in recurrence. If you have accumulated higher energy in you that you are able to use. But it's a key to seeing beyond the edge of 'reality.' When you truly see recurrence, and the mechanical flow of life around you then you can see what is not in recurrence, and that gives the vista...