THE SPIRITUAL WORLD, ITS REALITY AND
NATURE THE SPIRITUAL WORLD, ITS REALITY AND
NATUREFor many centuries people knew very little about the nature of natural substance. We saw matter in its various forms, but we did not know what was behind it.
Some sixty years ago science talked about cells and molecules and atoms. But these atoms, the smallest building stones of solid matter, were still solid and hard. Chemical affinity between atoms was explained by hooks on the atoms of one element and eyes on the atoms of another element. Molecules were formed by the hooks hooking into the eyes.
But this view on the building blocks of matter left too many questions unanswered, and so science developed a new concept. The atom was not hard, but actually a combination of much smaller particles, circling around each other like planets around a sun. Then Einstein came with the idea that matter was nothing but an appearance of energy.
Think of it. What we see around us, what seems so real and solid, is nothing but an appearance of very small particles flying around at high speeds. And what is even more fantastic, we see this with eyes and brains that are made up of the same small particles. We see an appearance with an appearance. This is a strange concept indeed. The reality of matter has become much less real.
These new developments and ideas can help us to get a much better idea of the reality of the spiritual world. While energy is the fundamental substance of the natural world, love is the fundamental substance of the spiritual world. Everything in the spiritual world is an appearance of love. This idea is not any stranger than the idea that everything in the natural world is an appearance of energy.
In the past people have found it hard to imagine that there could be
a complete world outside the real natural world. But today the natural
world has lost some of its reality, and the reality of the spiritual world
has become much more visible and plausible.
