The Monadic Redemption of Hell - Jon Eden Khan

Image: Baccio Baldini - Dante's Inferno

In the 14th Century, Dante Alighieri described the levels of hell in his Inferno.

Hell is real. I’ve come to see that is true. Not in the way Dante described it though. Not as a place that souls go to be punished forever for having sinned against puritanical ideals. Not as an underworld hellscape in the bowels of the Earth.

But there are frequencies of reality where parts of us become so split off, disconnected, and consumed in their own suffering that they putrefy into something else.

Into entities that dwell in hell.

I think it’s important to explore this topic. I think doing so could help us illuminate the path of healing that is possible and necessary for us all.

I think it helps us feel what is required on the path of initiation, the significance of monadic life, and of the 2025 Shamballa Impact.

And I think exploring it helps us understand and bring wisdom and compassion to some of the darkest human behaviours.

So, I felt to share my own version of Inferno. My own sense of the levels of hell and the process of their redemption.

First, it’s good for us to start with a recognition that for certain of the ancient mystery schools that took their stance in the view of the soul, the world of humanity already is the underworld, what the Ancient Greeks called Hades, and what Christian theologians came to call Hell.

For the ancient mystery schools, our embodied selves already are in the realm of the dead, with the dead being all souls who have forgotten who they truly are and that have become (seemingly) disconnected from divine Life.

This is why in the ancient Egyptian mystery school, those who awakened were called the ‘Living Ones’. They were beings who had remembered who they truly are as divine souls while here on Earth.

*Note here how this perspective clarifies the error of most Egyptologists that the ancient Egyptians were obsessed with the afterlife and that their temples, including the pyramids, were tombs. This was not the case, at least initially. Rather, the underworld they were so focussed on was this world. And what Egyptologists often think of as the afterlife was their vision of what it meant, as a soul initiated being, to awaken in the realm of the dead and become one of the Living Ones.

So for certain of the ancient mystery schools, our personality realm was the underworld, Hades, or Hell. And yet, there are still levels of hell that extend deeper into the realms of suffering on the mental, emotional, and physical planes.

To start to illuminate them we can begin by recognising that everyone has an emotional body that tends to seek what feels good and avoid what feels bad.

Sometimes when we have painful experiences, we half consciously weave painful, disempowering stories around them. We are unable to fully process our feelings. And we disconnect from and invalidate our basic, normal, healthy human needs.

Emotional complexes develop, and we find ourselves in emotional reactivity and painful, compulsive behaviour loops around this or that situation.

When they reach a certain level of intensity, we speak of these complexes as trauma. Trauma is where parts of the psyche have experienced levels of pain the being was totally unable to manage and have split off as a result.

From that point forward, these parts inhabit an even deeper underworld. One that exists down burrows and energetic caves in the body. While life on the surface of our experience goes on, these parts remain locked in the painful story of what they perceive happened.

Locked in the overwhelming emotions that came with it. Locked in the shattering experience of their normal and healthy human needs feeling impossible to be met. And locked in with the massive energy the body produced to take care of itself but that was never able to be expressed or discharged.

Here, in the domain of trauma, we have entered the first layers of hell proper.

And yet there is more.

Underneath the trauma layer, the next domain is reserved for those parts of us that have been split off in traumatic stories, unfelt feelings, and disowned needs for so long that they have started to putrefy, decompose, and rot.

By that I mean they have become so consumed in their painful stories about self, others, and the world, that they become consumed by those stories.

They have transformed. No longer are they parts of the psyche that are painfully locked in trauma. They have now seemingly released all hope for redemption and healing. They have forgotten that that is even possible. They have accepted their experience of total disconnection and become strong in it. They have become citizens of hell.

Demons, if you will.

There are hell realms filled with such fractured off parts that live in us all and that carry over from life to life. In some people these realms are more populated than others, but we all have them.

At the centre of each of our own personal hell is its ruler. This is what the teachings call the Dweller on the Threshold. Our own personal Satan.

The dweller is that part of us that descended at the beginning of our soul’s journey into the densest layers of the body, charged with the mission to maintain and protect our survival for as long as it takes for the soul – for love – to eventually arrive.

That’s a long time – in each of us individually and for us all collectively. And in the meantime, the dweller is that part that has not only grown strong in the realm of hell – in the domain of pure survival where all hope of love, redemption and healing has been released long ago – but is that part that has learned to RULE there.

It does this through increasing mastery of every method of deception, manipulation, control, domination, exploitation, violence, and coercion.

All exacted according to the law of I - ME -MINE.

The dweller – our lord of hell – sits upon a throne of pure power.

That throne is our base chakra, and the dweller’s power is sourced in the seed of monadic life that resides there as kundalini. This is what provides the dweller with its power to influence us, individually and collectively, mostly unconsciously.

So, these are the basic levels that descend into hell as I see them:

• Emotional life with its regular likes and dislikes, pleasure and pain

• Emotional complexes where we become locked in cycles of reactivity

• Emotional traumas where parts of us become disconnected and locked in their pain – here we enter the first layer of hell

• Parts that become so lost in their suffering that they morph into forms that live on it – our personal demons

• The dweller – the lord of hell – our own personal Satan

I believe that the darkest human behaviours that happen in our societies, where humans abuse, torture, enslave, and exploit each other in the most horrifying ways – come from these lower three levels. Particularly the lower two. There are many examples of this in our world today.

What is important about this point is that it illuminates how the darkest aspects of us are essentially innocent parts whose needs simply went unmet for too long.

On this foundation, we can start to work with them.

In doing this though, we must not be naïve. Those parts of us that dwell in hell are beyond the reach of loving consciousness to work with. We must not imagine that simply inviting our demons and inner lord of hell beck into love and light is going to be enough.

Remember these are parts that seem to have left behind any hope of redemption long ago and have ruthlessly accepted the laws of hell as the law of their jungle. As such, they cannot be psychologically worked with, at least initially.

What is needed first is the affirmation of an energy that is at least as strong as them if not stronger. An affirmation of divinity and its energy of will. This is the energy of Shamballa and the monad.

What is needed is for the soul to become a sheath for the divine power of spirit to descend all the way into hell, beyond even the demons and dweller to the monadic life underneath them, to ignite a remembrance in those deepest pits of hell of the true divine essence of all that dwell there.

This becomes possible as monadic energy starts to activate in the individual in the latter stages of the 2nd initiation. And there is a reconciliation of dweller and soul in the 3rd under the impress of monadic power which reveals the same divine life at the core of each.

This ends the age-old conflict between the soul and dweller and begins their cooperation to act as emissaries of the divine life of the monad. This is where the love of the soul starts to become the source of redemption for the dweller, and the manifesting force of the dweller starts to become the dragon throne on which the soul can land.

Some further thoughts:

The distinction between the traumatised layers of us and those that have descended deeper is important. Sometimes I feel like I have seen people familiar with the teachings label their traumatised parts their dweller.

The more vulnerable truth is that what they may be sensing is the very painful stories present in their profoundly vulnerable trauma, which rather than being labelled as an opposing force in their being would be better met compassionately and with active love.

Additionally, something to consider is that if the above has some basis of reality for each of us as individuals, then it must also have some reality for the planet. Here is a lens through which we can further understand the nature of the Black Lodge on Earth and its destiny.

This gives us further insight into the significance of the 2025 Shamballa Impact, where finally an energy is starting to come into the collective field of the planet that is strong enough to meet and reset the powerful dweller energies running so much of our civilisation. This Shamballa energy needs channels for it though, and we are invited to be among those channels.

Lastly, while much of humanity is becoming increasingly trauma-aware, it feels critical that we also trace the most horrendous acts we inflict upon each other back to their essentially innocent roots.

Then, we must each follow in the footsteps of Christ, as is described in that mysterious passage in the New Testament called the Harrowing of Hell, where after the crucifixion Christ descended to hell for 3 days to liberate spirits there.

Of course, Christian theologians struggled to understand this, as from the perspective of conventional theology, those in hell are already eternally damned, so why would Christ descend there to help them?

And yet the mystical significance is clear:

Each of us, as souls connected to the power of the father and mother, must descend to our own inner hell realms, sound the affirmation of essential divinity, and begin the liberation of all aspects of ourselves trapped there until not one remains.