Last Judgment Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Esoteric Christian traditions=== <!-- This section is linked from [[Afterlife]] --> {{see also|Second Coming#Esoteric Christian teachings|Esoteric Christianity}} Although the Last Judgment is believed by a great part of Christian mainstream churches; some members of [[Esoteric Christianity|Esoteric Christian]] traditions like the [[Essenes]], [[Rosicrucian]]s, the [[Spiritualism (religious movement)|Spiritualist movement]], and some [[Liberal theism|liberals]] instead believe in a form of [[universalism|universal]] [[salvation]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} [[Max Heindel]], a Danish-American astrologer and mystic, taught that when the [[Second Coming of Christ|Day of Christ]] comes, marking the end of the current fifth or Aryan epoch, the human race will have to pass a final examination or last judgment, where, as in the ''Days of Noah'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Teachings of an Initiate, by Max Heindel, Chapters I through IX |url=https://www.rosicrucian.com/tin/tineng01.htm |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=www.rosicrucian.com}}</ref> the chosen ones or pioneers, the ''sheep'', will be separated from the ''goats'' or stragglers,<ref>Cf. {{Bibleref2|Matthew|25:31β35}}</ref> by being carried forward into the next evolutionary period, inheriting the [[etheric plane|ethereal]] conditions of the [[New Galilee (Sixth Epoch)|New Galilee]] in the making. Nevertheless, it is emphasized that all beings of the human [[spiritual evolution|evolution]] will ultimately be saved in a distant future as they acquire a superior grade of [[consciousness]] and [[altruism]]. At the present period, the process of human evolution is conducted by means of successive [[reincarnation|rebirths]] in the physical world<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rosicrucian Christianity Lectures, Lectures 1β3 |url=https://www.rosicrucian.com/rcl/rcleng01.htm |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=www.rosicrucian.com}}</ref> and the salvation is seen as being mentioned in [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]] 3:12 ([[KJV]]), which states "Him that overcometh will I make a ''pillar'' in the temple of my God and ''he shall go no more out''". However, this western esoteric tradition states β like those who have had a [[near-death experience]] β that after the [[death]] of the physical body, at the end of each physical lifetime and after the [[life review]] period (which occurs before the [[silver cord]] is broken), a judgment occurs, more akin to a Final Review or End Report over one's [[life]], where the life of the subject is fully evaluated and scrutinized.<ref>Max Heindel, [http://www.rosicrucian.com/zineen/death5.htm Death and Life in Purgatory] β [http://www.rosicrucian.com/zineen/death6.htm Life and Activity in Heaven]</ref> This judgment is seen as being mentioned in [[Epistle to the Hebrews|Hebrews]] 9:27, which states that "it is appointed unto men once to die, but ''after this the judgment''". Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page