Daily Meditation: Thursday, September 5, 2002

You get dressed in the morning and in the evening you get …

09/05/2002

You get dressed in the morning and in the evening you get undressed. If you had learnt to think about the gestures of day-to-day life and interpret them, you would have understood that we are merely repeating the process of incarnation, the descent into matter, and then the process of disincarnation, the ascent towards the spirit. When we get dressed we put on the thinnest, lightest clothes first - vest, shirt, and so on - and the heavy overcoat last, in the same way that in order to descend to earth we enter increasingly dense bodies until we get to the physical body. And we do the reverse to go back up towards the spirit. If human beings have not yet managed to know themselves as they truly are, it is because they are covered in several thick layers. To know themselves, they must shed all their clothes, in other words free themselves of their physical, astral and mental bodies in order to live only in their divine bodies, in other words their causal, buddhic and atmic bodies.