Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken a.k.a. Bo Yin Ra: About Spiritual Renewal

  ‘Dying to live again‘,

painting at the castle of Bussy Rabutin. France.

Picture by Daniel VILLAFRUELA

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‘…Spiritual renewal is not a renewing of the human being’s timeless spiritual scintilla, but rather a restoring of the soul’s receptive faculty for all the influences that not only can, but want to reach it from the Spirit’s world, for which the soul’s own spiritual center serves as the ‘antenna’.

Through words one cannot hope to represent the uniqueness of the soul’s connection with the human being’s spiritual scintilla; nor is able to explain it even through comparisons and images.

Although our ‘soul‘, for our apprehension, is the only true ‘reality‘, that is to say, the only energy that we experience in ourselves as ‘real‘, it is as such a pure configuration of dynamic elements from the eternal ‘ocean of the soul‘, organically structured according to inherent spiritual laws of harmony and rhythm. This configuration of dynamic energies, however, has its crystallizing center in the human being’s spiritual scintilla, which finds itself immersed within that timeless spiritual sea.

We are not able to perceive the spiritual scintilla of our being except through the engagement of the soul, and only thanks to its specific energies that probe the Spirit’s inmost realm and function as potential ‘feelers‘ of the soul.

Every impulse from the Spirit that seeks to reach our earthly consciousness must make its way through our being’s spiritual scintilla, where the ‘feelers’ of our soul receive and, through its special ‘organs‘, then transmit it to the apperception of our brain.

But, since, conversely, all clamorous perceptions of external life are passing through the channel of brain-engendered consciousness, and likewise force the soul to suffer this exposure, its infinitely subtle organism is constantly assaulted; and this diminish in varying degrees, not merely its receptiveness for spiritual influences, but may at times lead to a state much like paralysis, which even may persist for longer periods.

Those who have experienced this condition, and few there will be who have not, know on their own how this paralysis afflicting the soul will then in turn react upon the consciousness imparted by the brain.

A constant interchange occurs this way within the human being; and thus a form of ‘hygiene‘ of the soul is not of any importance than cleanliness is necessary in respect to the material body and its organs.

We are in need of constant spiritual renewal, that is to say, of reinforcing our soul’s resilient strength, so that it will retain its power to receive and to transmit impressions from the Spirit’s realm; in the same way as we cannot do without restoring our mortal body’s energies if we intend to meet the tasks of earthly life.’