2 Esdras 7: 48-51
"The evil impulse within us has grown and it has led us away from God's ways, brought us to ruin, put us on the way to death and destruction, and taken us far from life. It has destroyed not only a few, but almost everyone who was ever created."

"Listen to me", the angel said, "and I will teach you further and correct your thinking. Because only a few will be saved, God created two worlds, instead of only one. As you say, only a few people are righteous, but there are large numbers of wicked people'.

Two Worlds?

Rudolf Steiner
Occult Science
Two worlds have been evolving, as it were, in the human breast. The one is devoted to physical and sense-perceptible existence, the other is receptive to the revelations of the Spirit and though lacking direct vision, is ready to permeate the spiritual with feeling and emotion.

The inner tendencies to this duality of soul were already present when the Christ teaching found its way into the countries of Europe. The people received this new message of the Spirit into their hearts and drank it in with deep feeling, but could not build the bridge from it to what the intellect, directed to the senses, was discovering in outer physical existence.

Individualism in Philosophy
Thus the human being stands between two worlds; between the world that presses in upon him from outside and the world that he brings forth out of himself. His effort is to bring these two worlds into harmony. For, his whole being aims at harmony. He would like to live like the rose that does not ask about the whys and wherefores but rather blooms because it blooms.

The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception
The human being finds himself confronted by two worlds whose connection he must establish. One of them is experience, about which he knows that it contains only half of reality; the other is thinking, which is complete in itself, and into which that outer perceptual reality must flow if a satisfying world view is to result.

As a citizen of two worlds — of the sense world and of the thought-world, the one pressing toward him from below, the other one shining from above — the human being takes possession of science, by which he joins the two into an undivided unity. From one side the outer form beckons to us, from the other side the inner essential being; we must
unite the two.

Two souls alas! reside within my breast,
And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother.
One with tenacious organs holds in love
And clinging lust the world in its embraces;
The other strongly sweeps, this dust above,
Into the high ancestral spaces.

FAUST, Part I, Scene 2.
(Bayard Taylor's translation.)

Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
We can then say: The world is given to us as a duality, and knowledge transforms it into a unity.

But side by side with this world, the child knew another world, a spiritual world, which was just as real and tangible to him as were the forests, fields and mountains surrounding him. This spiritual world was filled with objects and beings, just as the world about him contained stones and plants and animals and people. Even before he was eight, the child could distinguish between these two worlds, and the one was as clear and immediate to him as the other.

The Christ Impulse and the development of the Ego-Consciousness
http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ChristEgo/19100502p01.html

And when the tinkling of the camels bell puts you into a deep sleep - will you wake up?

The Kore Cosmu; Virgin of the World
Hermes Trismegistus

Next Earth stood forth, in bitter grief; and (when she was given leave to plead) she thus began:

‘O King and Father President of the over-arching spheres of heaven, and Governor of us, the Elements, that stand before thee .. I am dishonoured; trouble has risen up against me from mankind.  Having naught to fear, they commit all manner of crimes; slaughtered by every sort of cruel device.  Men fall dead on my plains.
O Lord, and I am soaked through with the juices of rotting corpses.

Henceforward, Lord, since I am forced to contain beings unworthy of me, I wish to contain, together, with all the things which I bring forth, God also.

How long shall thy terrestrial world peopled with mortals, have no God? Bestow upon Earth; if not thy very self – that I ask not for I could not endure to contain thee – yet at least some holy efflux of thee’.

Revelation 21

1.  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

10. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.

11.  Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

12.  And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written theron, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

13.  On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

14.  And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

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Yes Vanity – I could not have said it better Dave.  Surely at some point traveling across the desert one reaches the understanding Divine interaction is working here - the very Divine interaction Whom created the Universes with all in it.  Not recognizing or worse dishonouring the Divinity of Creation is nothing less than vanity and the universe becomes a very small little place centered on ‘this is all about me – look at my power and see how great I am’. 

This is why Jesus said ‘Thou Will Father be done not mine’. 

Jesus, the Son of God, who healed the lame, cured the diseased, made the blind see and the death hear, who raised Lazarus from the dead, and who cast out plenty of demons out of people to make them well, who made the scales of film drop from the eyes so people could see the light.  And who said ‘It is not me it is my Father who worketh here’.

And for this they hated him because of their vanity they hated him. 

Jesus, the Son of God, came because He cared for humanity.  We could have been cast aside – a mean less rock floating in space with no destination, target for asteroids, (our planet could have been blown up long ago if it were not for God’s protection), and targets at the whim of darkness, those fallen entities who roam up and down.

Time, Times and Times half again the wheel turns.  For God has weighed this age, measured the years, and numbered the days.  Nothing will be changed until time has run its predetermined course.

Maybe, just maybe at some point the Angels will be told by the Father – don’t go down into the dark realms of man’s vain creations to rescue them – why they even say they rescue themselves. 

And still now God extends out his hand.  Is vanity preventing you from taking it?

It surprises me; all of you who claim to be spiritual travelers and seekers do not recognize God’s hand.  It is after all the very Essence of Spirit and Soul.

The subtle dishonouring and disrespect of this here in this forum is why I write this and is it not a sad day when a woman who is not ordained by God has to say these things to you? 

I write to anyone who cares to listen Blink.  Righteous anger belongs to something someone said to someone without
a thought of conscious in doing so.  This is my mirror Blink.

Keep well.

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Speak up, mate, I can hardly hear ye!!!