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What is Matter ?
When the unfathomably vast consciousness and energy which is the ONE split into the MANY, the fragmentation spanned a whole gamut, ranging from the simplest, smallest and least conscious to the largest, most complex and super conscious. The lowest ranges of this manifestation are perceived as matter, a condensation which provides the relative experience of form and substance. Within the heart of matter is locked in that tremendous energy of Being which cannot be made manifest without losing its form and substance.
Matter, while a condensation of spirit, can be regarded as separate from spirit and forming its vehicle, as far as the exploration of Being is concerned. The spirit-body connection is possible only because the organization of the body helps organize matter consciousness so that it is in resonance with the spirit, thus establishing a link. This link (or ensemble of links) enables spirit to control and manipulate matter. Spirit can never energize the body if matter itself wasn't crystallized spirit, and if the energies that course through the spirit could not find expression through the links established with the body. These links are referred to in eastern literature as '
chakras'. The more complex the spirit, the more complex must be the energy and consciousness network of the body.
Matter, thus being a dense and practically unconscious manifestation of spirit, is also enabled to reflect or conform to energies and patterns of a resonant Being, resulting in what is commonly expressed as "outward reality is an expression of inward reality". This is somewhat like clay being molded by hand, where energy and movements are supplied by the hand and a pattern results in clay. It is this ability of matter that gives rise to the
Principle of Reflection. It is its main function - that spirit or Being may know and explore itself from patterns reflected in matter.
The above manifestations of matter span a wide gamut and provide multiple avenues of expression, in progressively higher orders. These have resulted in the linking of spirit with more and more subtle vehicles or bodies, until at higher levels the subtlest of matter becomes indistinguishable from spirit. Here the consciousness and energy complex of spirit is perceived as a Being of Light. Expressions beyond this manifestation may be considered pure Being.
It may then be realized that matter-spirit is one spectrum, and that everything is ONE. Yet for all purposes of manifestation they must be discussed and experienced as if they are a duality. The Principle of Reflection is played out in this duality, and even
requires this duality.
Duality exists so that Being may know and explore itself.