"There
is no word in the English language which adequately describes it. It is not
mind: for mind is a limited instrument through which Cit is manifested. It is
that which is behind the mind and by which the mind itself is thought, that
is created." (sacred-texts.com)
Thus shall the earth open
to divinity
And common nature feel the wide uplift
Illumine common acts with the Spirit's ray
And meet the deity in common things.
Nature shall live to manifest secret God,
The Spirit shall take up the human play,
The earthly life become the life divine.
(Sri Aurobindo)
the
FALLEN
the
UNITY of CONSCIOUSNESS
self
consciousness
Wherein the point is to enter into the thing itself, become it beyond all
descriptive melody,
to embrace and be the annhilation that promises godhead.
"The
world is in crisis. Men of all ages look in despair on the chaos which is
their inheritance from countless generations of forbears, and join in what
has become a universal cry of disillusionment: "Stop the world - I want
to get off."
"Unfortunately,
it isn't that easy to get off. Answers are not as simple as some might have
supposed. And assuming they were, where would people go, once they got off
the merry-go-round? Many centuries ago, certain sages approached the problem
from another angle, and found what they considered a practical solution. If
life is sorrow, then the only thing to do is end this sorrowful existence
by getting off the perpetually revolving wheel of existence. Life follows
life, incarnation follows incarnation - and all of them spell anxiety and
sorrow. For these sages, it was apparent that it might be millions of years
before the masses of humanity would develop enough insight to be able to terminate
the sorrowful cycle of existence. But for the illuminated individual who will
apply himself to a specific psycho-spiritual discipline, escape might come
aeons sooner for the average member of mankind.
"This release,
they learned, comes only through the achievement of a higher conciousness,
the mystical experience, communion with God - all spell the same message -
"release". None may know it for another. Each man must himself attain
for himself awareness of his own oneness with "Infinite Life"- the
conciousness that a state of separateness exists only within his own mind.
"Not until
man does recognize that he himself is a microcosm of the macrocosm, a reflection
of the universe, a world within himself, ruled and governed by his own divinity,
can he escape from the wheel. It is the achievement of this one realization
which all schools of mysticism, magic and various forms of occult teaching
refer to as the Great Work."
~ Regardie, Israel.
"The Middle Pillar." St. Paul MN, Llewellyn Publications 1938.
