Removing the veil of separation

[Ming the Merciful]

Another thing I find interesting, and almost funny is the continuation of the Bible quote in my previous post. It's about the second death. The first quote I see as being freed from the veil. And this second quote is about remaining trapped in the veil. The second death then means being trapped in the veil forever. Can't happen since the veil is a temporary cosmic trick for the purpose of growth and development.

"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." - Revelation 21:8

And the "lake of burning sulfur" can be seen as the first stage in esoteric alchemy, the blackening stage where the veiled self is burnt to ashes.

Beware of Veils. They may become curtains, and then walls. It is time to remove the Veils, (of discontent). What if we approach this from another angle? They do not exist. Or, they do, only if we create them. As an advocate of Nonduality, (and everything is perfect and in its rightful place). The Veils, (of our own making), are nothing more than stumbling blocks and are there to deceive us. It is the natural, AS IT IS. For years I wondered about the subtitle of the ISKCON edition of the Bhagavad-Gita, (AS IT IS). It is indirectly relating to Nonduality, (not in so many words). So, how many words are there in AS IT IS? The natural order of everything. The problem with Philosophy, it is too Philosophical, (and that is the problem). Then this brings us back to Zen, (of which I am also an advocate). In Zen, the "Nothingness" is the "Everything", (and the "Absolute Neutral State"). Within the "Neutral State", Veils cannot exist. That place before even the Nothingness existed, before the "God(s)" spat out the Universe.

Beware of spitting God(s), worse than Cobras. You can read the mind of a Cobra, although you can never read the minds of the God(s).