The Mystical Heart

The heart is a mystery. It beats roughly a hundred thousand times a day. That comes down to forty million heartbeats a year and almost three billion heartbeats in a human life span of seventy years. We humans are able to hear our heart beating, continuously. This is so with other organs. The heart has its own rhythm, one we are able to feel not only at the pulse, but throughout our body. We are only able to feel other organs when something is wrong, such as a physical discomfort or illness.

In the human embryo the heart has already been formed around the twenty-fifth day after conception. Then, the heart starts beating already. The heart is the most powerful muscle of the human body. Contrary to all other muscles, the muscle tissue does not age. In a continuous rhythm of contracting and relaxing, the heart permeates man with energy, throughout his entire life. That rhythm is subject to change as a result of fear or other emotions, such a physical exertion, meditation and sleep. All the cells in the human body – around 75 trillion – bathe, as it were, in the energy of the heart.

Scientific research has shown that the human heart generates the strongest electric and magnetic fields in the body. The brain also generates electric and magnetic fields, but these are much weaker than the ones emanating from the heart. The electric field of the heart is approximately 100,000 times stronger than the one emanating from the brain. And the magnetic field of the heart centre is about 5,000 times stronger than that of the brain.

Natural science demonstrates that if we change the electric and magnetic fields around molecules, atomic changes will occur, which allows other processes to take place. In the new activity of the human heart lies the key to fundamental renewal of humanity and the world. This renewal originates from the flashes of the spirit-spark near the heart, near the top of the right ventricle, to be exact. As the name suggests already, it concerns a spiritual principle.

Heart surgeons cannot see this mystical or sacred heart with the bare eye or with microscopes, but some people in whom the soul has awakened, are able to experience it. It is referred to with all kinds of terms, which are only symbolic, like: divine spark, primordial atom, pearl, grain, rose, lily and jewel in the lotus.

Purification

When a person has become receptive to the omnipresent spiritual light, the spirit-spark is able to ignite and start off a process of purification, a cleansing of the heart sanctuary. This process is symbolically reflected in the myth of the fifth labour of Hercules, or Heracles. This Greek hero receives the seemingly impossible assignment to remove, in one day, the thick layers of manure of thousands of cattle from the stables of King Augeas. Still, he succeeds. How?

By re-routing water flow of two nearby rivers. First, through the stables and subsequently back to the former riverbeds, and thus Hercules fulfils this gigantic labour in only one day. If a person allows the living water or spiritual energies to access his life, his heart sanctuary will be purified and he will be gradually liberated from the passions that have been summarised in the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. Then, the foundation for further renewal has been laid.

In one of his writings, Jacob Boehme compares the inner spiritual transformation with turning man inside out. In the original man, the earthly or material aspect resides in Adam, the man of light. Because he eats from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he must leave paradise and is turned inside out, as it were: the earthly aspect becomes the outside with the light captured within.

Now the issue is whether man, on the basis of the awakened spirit-spark in the centre of the microcosm, will cooperate in a process of being symbolically turned inside out again, thus liberating the light and enabling the original man of light to shine in full glory again.’

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