Dealing with the spiritual fall in our daily lives
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- This page is part of an ERW course: Internal Guidance, section Fallen nature and the fall.
- By John Eagles, September 28, 2009.
The fall of man is not a pleasant topic to deal with, neither when we are confronted with people to whom it happened, nor when we try to understand more about it. It's a bit like it goes with cancer. If you or someone near to you has it, you would rather ignore it altogether, but you also know that you have to take charge of it or you will be dead one day.
I know of people who take the position that because the spiritual fall transpired between Eve and the first archangel in spirit world, Lucifer, therefore it could not happen to them. They imagine that Eve had some kind of magical meeting with Lucifer and she let herself be tempted by him, but because these same people are not aware of having met Lucifer, they think that the spiritual fall would never occur to them.
I do believe that the spiritual fall between Lucifer and Eve took place, but at the same time we should be aware of the fact that Lucifer is not the only angel who has fallen. The term 'Satan' does apply to the identity Lucifer in particular, and to all other angels and even human spirits who came under Lucifer and who are promulgating sins.
As long as people exist who haven't entirely restored themselves, there will be 'evil' spirits in the spiritual world. How many people are dying each day without having found the heart of God? All these people add up to the legion of fallen spirits who still are under the dominion of Satan, to a larger or lesser degree.
Each of these spirits, and also all the angels who haven't been restored yet, could tempt us into the spiritual fall.
So what is the spiritual fall?
Do we need to see the fallen angel who is tempting us in order for the spiritual fall to take place? From the spiritual attacks that I have undergone myself and from the many people whom I have seen fallen spiritually, I know that most of the time it is not determining to see the evil spirit. What is essential is that certain feelings of false love and certain wrong thoughts and feelings can come to us from the spiritual world. To be attacked by such desires, feelings and thoughts is not yet spiritual fall, but it is a difficult reality that we all need to deal with, many times in our lives.
The spiritual fall can happen to men and women alike. It is not the 'prerogative' of Eve. Also men are subjected to these kind of attacks from the spiritual world.
The beginning of each spiritual fall is when our thoughts and feelings begin to change because of the environment in that we are. Have you noticed how your ideas can change after you saw a movie or read a book? Here could be the beginning of spiritual fall. Certain evil spirits could come closer to you because of what you did and whom you met and where you went, and these spirits could attempt to change your thoughts and feelings about God.
Now all this is not yet complete spiritual fall. It rather is the prelude to it, and we need to recognize it as such in order to prevent that we become victims of further attacks from the spiritual world.
I have met men and women who came under the spiritual fall. Actually, they commonly said that they had had a very special love experience with 'God.' But when they said this there was a strange feeling about them. And soon enough, the results of what had happened became clear. They began to complain about their lives and mission, they developed feelings against God and could not anymore overcome their jealousy in many situations in which they had taken a heavenly viewpoint before.
The only way to prevent the spiritual fall to happen to us is when we are always connected to God through prayer and by going our course as wanted by God. Even this does not give us complete protection, because we could stll be attacked in situations of restoration. Yet through our love for God we can hold on to the Creator in such difficult and challenging situations.
The spiritual fall begins with feelings and thoughts that aren't centered on God. The completion of the spiritual fall is a full union of love between an evil spirit or angel and another spirit, either in spirit world or living in a physical body. The completion of the spiritual fall is extremely destructive. We better cut off the head of the snake when he is still small, because once we let him come nearer he grows and grows and could overpower us.
Comments
- Question: The circumstances in which this spiritual fall is being experienced remain a bit vague for me. Spiritual fall = sexual, genital experience between two spiritual bodies, right? However you did not use the word "sexual" even once in your entire article! Can this spiritual fall occur without being spiritually open and without seeing or feeling anything in a realm other than the physical world? In my wider faith community I have never ever come across any testimony or report about a spiritual fall, other than the one that occurred between the archangel and our female human ancestor. They had had a very special love experience with 'God. What makes them think it was with 'God'?
The spiritual fall: A sexual, genital experience? Yes, in its final completion. Yet as I mentioned in my article, there are stages preceding that complete spiritual fall. Like it is true for the completion of a physical fall, there are events leading up to it, sometimes even over longer time.
Suppose that a man and a woman are always spending time together and they love each other more than the spouses they both have. Even if they would never have a full sexual relationship, don't you think that something is wrong nevertheless?
To see the fall as a one-time event instead of a process that gradually takes place and could end in a complete fall, is to fail to recognize how people can be lured into it.
The spiritual fall can happen without someone realizing clearly by whom he or she was approached from the spiritual world. Just like the essence of the physical fall is an unprincipled love relationship, the same is true for the spiritual fall. The sexual aspect of it is important because when the unprincipled love relationship becomes sexual as well, it means a completion of the fall. But the essence of each sexual relationship is that love is exchanged and it is through the love that elements go from one to the other. When this love is unprincipled it harms both participants. The sexual completion makes it much worse because more love is exchanged.
The spiritual world is around us all the time. Because many people don't realize this doesn't mean that they would be protected against influences from the spiritual world. A spirit has feelings and thoughts and desires just like physical people. These feelings and thoughts do influence us all the time, whether we realize it or not.
We often think that our thoughts and feelings are entirely our own, while in reality they are also a product of the spiritual environment.
It is by our making effort in prayer and critical self-examination that we can detect how we have been influenced by the spiritual world. We need to be very disciplined in that. Learning this is also a path that opens our spiritual senses more and more. It is a good thing to learn this as long as we do it guided by our sincere prayers.
Spiritual fall can take place when a spirit approaches us with the intention to bring us under his or her influence. Now remember that all people are spirits, also people in the physical world. When their spirit is in their body, they cannot approach us from spirit world, but they can nevertheless send tempting desires and feelings. These feelings and desires come spiritually to us even we are in the physical world.
If those desires are unprincipled, it can open up the first stages leading to spiritual fall. Even such a spiritual fall never reaches completion, because it is a spiritual event and it hampers our spiritual development, it can be understood in a similar way as spiritual fall.
We speak about true love and about false love. It is through the temptation of false love that we can be pulled into fall. It is a love that is not centered on God. Although it feels like love, it is self-centered.
Those people whom I met after their spiritual fall almost always thought they had had a love experience with God. Only some time later they sometimes realized they had been deceived. When an evil angel or spirit approaches a person with the intention to commit the spiritual fall, would they tell or give the feeling that they are evil? No, usually they try to give the feeling that they are coming from God or even would be God.
- Question: "The spiritual fall can happen without someone realizing clearly by whom he or she was approached from the spiritual world." Can the spiritual fall happen without realizing anything AT ALL? Can the spiritual fall be initiated by or connected with a dream? "When this love is unprincipled it harms both participants." 'As in the day you eat of it you will surely die'. Is it possible to say what particular vital part of our being gets critically damaged through unprincipled love? Is it a chakra or another particular spiritual mind/body part that is getting damaged by illicit sex? Thank you.
The spiritual fall can happen to somebody not realizing it, yes. Many people have no personal relationship to God. Even if they adhere to a good religion, they live according to rules and dogmas and external traditions. When people practice religion like that, they may not realize it when they fall spiritually. Somebody notices it who has a deeper relationship with God, because after the spiritual fall that connection to God gets disturbed or cut off.
There are many degrees of spiritual fall. Often people are gradually dragged into this until there may occur a really bad and terrible event that pulls them down very much.
At the extreme there exist people who consciously commit the spiritual fall. In the old Egypt there were women in a group who had the mission to have a spiritual sexual relationship with a deceased pharaoh. Similar things take place in groups that worship Satan. In many religions of the past centered on evil deities, there was temple prostitution.
This had the significance that a woman in the temple who had a spiritual love relationship to a deity of that religion, usually an angel or a powerful spirit, would pass that on in a physical sexual fall with a man visiting that prostitute. I am sure we all recognize the pattern of physical fall preceded by spiritual fall. In some cultures this was a practiced tradition with the purpose to bring people under the spiritual control of an evil deity.
The spiritual fall and dreams: It is possible that spiritual fall occurs in a dream, but only if the person on earth made really bad conditions before. Usually though a dream like that warns you of something and when you pray about the dream, you can figure out what you were warned for.
For example, a woman may center her illicit sexual desires on a man, or a man does this to a woman. It often happens that a person sexually satisfies him- or herself thinking of somebody else.
If you would be that somebody else, you could get a dream about this, warning you that something is wrong. That is not a spiritual fall yet, but if you don't protect yourself in such a case, the situation could evolve into one in which spirits come to you having a similar desire for you. When we get a dream like this we must pray about it and find out what to do to protect ourselves.
It is important to realize when we speak about spiritual fall, that there are stages leading up to a complete spiritual fall. Fall is fall and it is a sudden and steep breaking down of your good spiritual merit and abilities to love in a pure way. But often people don't fall, but stumble. Some people fall many times a little bit, others fall very deeply and suddenly. All this is not good and it always makes our relationship to God much more difficult.
About chakras getting damaged and parts of our bodies being influenced through the fall. Yes, the fall heavily affects our chakras. This is a very big topic also and I shall only say a little about it here.
At any rate the chakra that gets damaged is what we call the root chakra, which is the one connected to our sexual region. Through the fall this chakra gets filled with dirty and selfish energies.
Because all the chakras are interconnected, these selfish energies will then flow up to the higher chakras that control functions like our thinking, our spiritual abilities and our relationship to God.
As selfish energy from the root chakra connected to the sexual region fills those higher chakras, they can result in many diseases. The chakras that are located in the trunk of our body control the good health and functioning of our body.
The selfish energies also affect the chakra of our thinking so that we cannot think properly anymore. We begin to believe in egoistic philosophies and many other forms of untrue thinking. Guilt feelings confuse our relationship to God, which on an energetic level is connected to the chakra at the top of our head. All this takes place on chakras' level. It is however not absolutely necessary to understand about chakras in order to prevent the fall to take place or to understand about the bad results of the fall. One other result of the fall is the breakdown of mind-body unity centered on God. Suppose that someone lives a life with love for God and from that love, the mind is inspired to direct the body to do good deeds. That is what we call good mind-body unity.
Now through the fall, the heart of love loses the connection to God. Selfish desires come in and will then work on the mind. The mind now is getting direction from two different sides; one is the original God-centered influence, the other are the selfish desires. The mind in confusion cannot anymore steer the body. Therefore mind-body unity is broken through the fall.
Each time that a person sins, there takes place a reinforcement of the selfish desires. This will make the 'good' mind weaker and mind-body unity becomes more problematic.
At the other extreme there is the mind-body unity of a very evil person. That person's mind is entirely centered on doing evil and entirely selfish deeds. Such a mind is strong and has powerful control over the body. There is mind-body unity but centered on an evil purpose. That is of course not the mind-body unity that we are striving for.
- Mind-Body Unity needs to be taken in context that the body has needs too. For example, many misinterpret the word "indemnity" to mean suffering, when actually it means to do the right thing. We have to nurture and nourish and care for the body and that means something other than to constantly punish it. I see too many spiritual people so caught up in punishing their bodies, they lose track of what is love. They need to love their body to learn how to love their children, and spiritual children, too. Don't you agree?
You are making very important points. Mind-body unity is an often misunderstood goal. It is often seen as having to chastise and discipline the body, while in reality it should be done with a loving heart centered on God. That doesn't mean we should let the body follow its own desires, but it means to direct the body with love.
Our body is the most beautiful creation that God ever made. You are so right about indemnity too. Indemnity only becomes suffering when there has been failure. It is never meant that way. It is only when we can love ourselves as children of God, both our spiritual and physical aspects, that we can stand as a guiding rod and a loving flower to give out love, guidance and beauty to the ones around us, our children and spiritual children or archangels.
My own rule for life is to never do something I don't like to do. If I must do something and I don't like it, I pray until I understand and like it and only do it then.
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