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"From dust we come, to dust we return."
- Biblical Verse
 

When we hear "From dust we come, to d ust we must return" recite d at a religious ceremony we probably think of the dirt of Mother Earth; for this is where our physical body is finallyinterred once our spirit has left it.

However, since our bodies did not originate from the earth below  us, the Dust which is mentioned in this Biblical Verse cannot bereferring to the earth into which our material remains are placedfor final safe keeping. This "Dust" must be referring to something else.

When we think about earth and Dust in this manner, we can only come to the conclusion that the Dust mentioned in this Biblical verse must be referring to, and reminding us of, a Dust of a completely different substance which exists in an entirely different realm or plane.

As the Word "dust" does appear in numerous ancient texts, we are left to wonder what exactly do these texts and verses mean when they tell us "from dust we come, to dust we return".

Dust is not the symbolic dirt into which a person's material remains are placed when their Spirit has left. Nor is Dust the ashes which remain after a funeral pyre or a cremation ceremony. For both dirt and ashes are nothing more than gross,
mundane and solid forms of matter which were themselves originally created from a more subtle form of matter...Dust!

So then, what is Dust?

Ancient texts inform us that as spirit descends into its current Incarnation in the world of matter it passes through seven spheres of creation prior to assuming its full physical form; with each of the seven spheres applying a heavier and denser
form of matter to the descending Spirit.

Therefore our physical beings contain all forms of matter which exist in the universe; from the most subtle to the most dense.

All of the matter that exists in our physical being is an equally proportioned, scaled-down, representation of all the matter which exists in the universe (including the rare elements and minerals found throughout the universe) along with the Spirit which brings all these forms of matter into physical manifestation.

Therefore this Dust, which is referred to in ancient and religious texts, is the most subtle, pure, mystical and magical "Dust" which exists in the highest and most pure realm of matter; that mystical and spiritual dimension that Borders the realm between spirit and matter.

This Dust is the "first matter" or prima materia which is referred to in Hermetic and Alchemical lore; it is the initial "building block" from which all matter in formed.

Dust is the first and most subtle form of matter our spirit clothes itself with when entering the material realm and the last form of matter our spirit divests itself of when leaving material realm.

This Dust is the final physical Border which our Spirit must cross in its re-ascent into the spiritual dimension. Once our spirit crosses this borderland of dust it enters the realm of spirit whereit once again becomes spiritually free.

Joseph Panek

http://www.aseekersthoughts.com/2012/01/dust-mythology-mysticism-and-symbolism.html