11. MODERN MEDITATION IS CHRISTIAN

 This study wanted to present an overview of the basic forms of all forms of meditation. This was done in the following manner, as will now be summarized:

1. By using the method of introspection the progressive construction of the shapes of our world was brought to an understanding that occurs through the union of percept and concept. It became apparent that this is a rhythmic process that now turns to the side of the percept, now to the side of the concept.

2. It became furthermore apparent that this rhythm can be characterized as one of With and Without. Of great significance hereby was that in With and Without, as well as in the closing and opening of the connections, origination and perishing, reviving and dying away are intertwined.  This intertwining is differently natured, depending on whether the pendulum swing of our activity moves in the direction of the sensory world or in the direction of the spiritual world.

3. From observantly tracing these pendulum swings of our activity emerged the highly significant fact that by fully becoming aware of the pendulum swing which can be characterized as one of With, of the focus on the sensory world, insight in and consciousness of destiny can be gained – and that by fully becoming aware of the pendulum swing which can be characterized as one of Without, of the focus on the spiritual world, insight in and consciousness of reincarnation can be gained.

4. With that, the two primal forms of all meditation are designated. For meditation can, on the one hand, be nothing else than gaining insight into how the spiritual world is connected to the sensory world – and, on the other hand, gaining insight into how we ourselves connect ourselves to the spiritual world, how we connect the latter to ourselves. We gain these insights when we generate for ourselves complete awareness of the rhythmic process of our observance and the structure of objects that are built by the latter. The continually revised observance of our observation of our everyday objects and of the creatures of the kingdoms of nature surrounding us is the basic modern meditation. This basic meditation is divided into one of With and one of Without. From this, it emerges that human life is the more or less subconscious rhythm swinging to and fro between gradually rising consciousness and enactment of destiny on the one hand, as well as gradually rising consciousness and enactment of reincarnation on the other. The realization of what the school of life conveys to the subconscious part of our being is the basic modern meditation. This is thus the equivalent to the realization of what the supersensible little words With and Without express, when one understands them. What they harbor, harbors, even more difficult to overhear, yet all the more significantly resonating for the listener, the little word And. For the latter is, as has emerged, the riddle and keyword for the basic category of differentiation.

5. Who wants to know what meditation is, does well to frequently meditate on And. He will then in the screening and enduring of this basic category learn to recognize that in each one of our experiences (no less in the smallest than in the greatest) the world and man are always being disguised and unraveled, encoded and decoded. In every build-up of the shapes of our world the basic construction of the world and man is replicated.  In the continual process of becoming, from which all things emerge, in which all submerge, the original and future process of the becoming of world and man is repeated. Behind and within the basic word And (more powerful and contemporary that the Eastern syllable Om and Mu) everything is revealed that we can include in the words meaning, transformation and responsibility. In becoming aware of it, we experience the heartbeat of the world that, embraced in And, constantly throbs between With and Without. We become aware of how everyone of these pulsebeats in alternating modes of unification penetrate origination and perishing. This heartbeat of beingness is the original world perishing and a new world arising, and this origination and perishing of the world is at the same time material man perishing and spiritual man arising. A rhythmically polarized and enhanced fabric of origination and perishing as the never arresting heartbeat permeates the world and man. As With, it is the formation of reality, that half of the universal process which is the origin of man from the world, in which the world becomes man, since all its forces are condensed in man; it is the process of destiny. As Without, the formation of humanity is the other half of the universal process, in which the origin of the world out of man is depicted, in which man becomes the world, since through the meditative self-realization he not only develops a new state of consciousness, but also a new metamorphosis of beingness: it is the process of reincarnation.

 6. In And sounds the saga of becoming and perishing – yet no matter how sublime and intimate its sound, it does not want to please us, but to call on our willingness for active devotion. It includes the absorption in the consciousness of death. For man experiences his true nature as a perpetual arising from death. Modern meditation is Christian.

7. The main attribute of modern spiritual-scientific meditation that distinguishes it most clearly from all other older types of meditation is its productivity. It is not the reception of something existing antecedent and external to it. It is rather, not only in its preparation, but with decisive significance precisely in its result, a fulfillment and generation. It is the path on which the meaning of humanity is not found but brought forth.  Modern meditation establishes, unfolds and shapes freedom. Its basic conviction is the absolute superiority of a completely self-fulfilling striving over any other type of dwelling.