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APPLICATION
14 STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
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1 - The suspension of karma - On this path most our remaining karma
recedes into a latent, inactive state. Since latent karma does not obstruct our progress up to stage 11, we become able to experience the character of the higher stages. Yet we are unable to maintain this high state and always fall back to the lower stages. The ascent beyond level 11 is blocked as long as our temporary inactive, yet nevertheless existing emotional attachments to experiences on lower levels (i.e. our undissolved latent karma) obstructs all further advancement.
It is not required to experience level 7 to 11 sequentially. We may e.g. bypass all these levels to get a feeling for stage 11 and then later go back at will to explore any of the levels we sidestepped.
Stage 8 opens up entirely new and hitherto unknown abilities. We recognize ourselves in everything we encounter. In stage 9 we experience an expansion of the abilities of stage 8. In stage 10 we dissolve or deactivate even the subtlest forms of greed. In stage 11 we begin to perceive the real majesty and splendor of our consciousness for the first time. We get a notion of the eternal, majestic being we really are beyond the limits of this universe.
At the end of our stay in stage 11 the latent deluding karmas become active again, our longing for further experiences within material. limits again takes over our consciousness and we go back to level seven, eight, nine or ten. From there we may ascend again.
2 - The dissolution of karna - On this path we dissolve our remaining
karma once and for all.
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