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Works: mahapralaya

quinta-feira 1º de fevereiro de 2024

  

The total cyclic dissolution that the Hindus call maha-pralaya, a dissolution that implies the annihilation of the entire Creation (samsara). [GTUFS: UnityReligions, Universality and Particular Nature of the Christian Religion]

Mahapralaya / Pralaya: The difference between the “particular judgment” and the Last Judgment, or between death and the end of the world, consists in the fact that at the time of death only the soul – and not the body, which belongs to our own world – is reabsorbed in the direction of the Principle in order to be judged, whereas at the time of this world’s ending it is the world itself that is thus reabsorbed. But there is yet a third and ultimate reabsorption to be reckoned with, the one marking the end of all manifestation: for the elect, this is not an ending but an exaltation in the “Uncreated Light.”* (* In Hindu terms, this is the mahapralaya, the great return into undifferentiation – pralaya being this return when applied to our world alone – and doubtless such is also the meaning of the apocatastasis of Western Antiquity and of certain gnostics.) [GTUFS: TreasuresB, Cosmological and Eschatological Viewpoints]