Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

CONFLAGRATION, GENERAL 

The physical element transmuted by "fire" (buddhic) which thereby signifies its dissolution at the close of a cycle. Astral dissolution follows physical dissolution.

"And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire. And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire." - REV. xx. 14,15.

The first death is the death of the physical vehicles; the second death is the death of the astro-mental (Hades) vehicles, and the "lake of fire" stands for transmutation and dissolution. If any mental quality was not perfected it was transmuted and its lower nature dissolved.

"The reality of all things even in this visible world is God, and thus the final issue must be upward, until everything ends in Him as it began in Him. This is the end of all things visible and invisible, when all visible things pass into the intellectual, and the intellectual into God, by a marvellous and unspeakable union.' 'Everything that is shall return into God as air into light. For God shall be all things in all things, when there shall be nothing but God alone.' (Erigena). As evil is a negation, an unreality, it has no place or being in the final consummation." - R. M. JONES, Mystical Religion, p. 126.

"The only real is the spiritual, the physical is the unsubstantial, and when the time comes for the seeming duality to end, it can only be by the spiritual transmuting the physical into itself, swallowing it up, as it were, in that which can never know corruption and decay." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., The Fact of Death.  

See Also

AAT (waters)
CHARIOT (sun)
CHRIST'S SECOND COMING
FIRE (destroying)
HORSE (white)
Judgment DAY
KALKI AVATAR
REGNAROK
RENOVATION
RESURRECTION
SOSIOSH