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Friday, 31 October 2014

Secrets of the Soul, Spiritual Dynamics of Evolution


by Carlo Dorofatti
HORUS CENTRE
Organization for Philosophical and Esoteric Studies
from HorusCentre Website

 
 
 
The Horus CentreOrganization for philosophical and esoteric studies
www.horuscentre.org
 
The HORUS CENTRE is a non profit organization founded by Carlo Dorofatti whose goal is to promote the research about philosophic, esoteric and socio-spiritual subjects, through seminars, meetings, conferences and courses.
It is also designed to be a school and a repository of knowledge, where students learn the principles of occult science and the various elements of esoteric philosophy.
The teaching includes both abstract concepts as well as their more practical applications.
 
 
 
 
 
Perception and Reality

Reality surrounding us is made of what we normally perceive and live. This reality is not the whole reality, that is the ultimate and complete concept of Being and of Real in the absolute sense.

Our plain of existence is just one of the possible manifestations of the Being defined by the meeting between “what that is” and our senses.

The modern scientific holographic paradigm perfectly demonstrates this creative process and the absolute evanescence of our illusory material reality.

Between the two extremes – the reality coming from our senses and the Real - there are different intermediate levels of reality which are the pillars of the bridge towards the Absolute.

At the beginning of this theoretical bridge there is our personal opinion of what the reality is. In our jargon this is called “quasi-real”. It is the subjective reality related with each one of us, mediated by our personal interpretation of events and meanings.

The next level regards the consensual reality defined by our physical perceptions which are elaborated by our mind according to the current abilities of our species on this planet. This level corresponds to the so-called plain or existence, that is the reality filtered and translated by our senses.

Also the physical reality in itself is something wider in respect of the portion perceivable by us. Investigating the borders of our reality means to explore the borders of our perception. If we could be able to develop a different and wider sensitivity, then we would dramatically modify the reality since our reference plain of existence would be changed and extended.

Esoteric Physics says that our Universe is a field of laws through which the Being finds a possible expression. There are many universes and each of them is a manifestation always original and unrepeatable of the Absolute.

Any universe is one expression of the Real which is mediated by “laws”.

According to many myths there are elevate forms of Consciousness (primeval divinities) which expand and evolve through universes as different opportunities of experience of the Being.

Our Universe is the Universe of the Forms and the Humankind, as a spiritual essence, is that primeval divinity which, through the forms and their whole meaning, has to explore and comprehend the experience of the multiplicity and of the becoming in order to integrate itself again in a more evolved expression of the Consciousness.

The Myth of the Mirror tells that the primeval divinity was a big mirror and broke up into multiple pieces inside forms. Each fragment, in spite of its partiality, is able to reflex the completeness of the Whole. All the parts of this mirror must be reintegrated so that the transcendent primeval mirror could be unified again into a higher dimension, thanks to the experience acquired through the conquest of this universe.

It is like the light (Being) which passes through a prism (Universe) and decomposes in many different colors (forms). The original light must be recognized by observers (divine sparks) through multiplicity: each observer will discover that the whole of the colors recomposes the primeval white light but with a new perceiving experience: that of colors. This means that each observer could grow by having a new experience of the Being.

The act of will expressed by the primeval divinity of Humankind creates that anomalous perturbation which produces that singularity we call universe of forms and all its possible material worlds, dimensions and plains of existence.

The main characteristic of the universe of forms are: multiplicity, diversification and dynamicity. Our universe is made of many different worlds, with specific density, dimensions and temporal directions, vibrating on specific frequencies.

All the different possible worlds coexist and are distributed in different states of perception: they are separated but compose, in their whole, the same universe, by sharing its fundamental laws and evolutionary direction.

We live in one of those worlds and determine our plain of existence, within its specific parameters.

Each world is based on particular ratios of laws since the universal laws find a precise and exclusive combination which is functional to the manifestation of that precise possible expression of forms.

In jargon those ratios are called “temporal matrixes” and are the codes of functioning of the universal laws in an oriented time.

The knowledge of those matrixes is fundamental for the esoteric physics, magic technology and alchemy.

Each level of reality has got its own science. For example, psychology and humanistic sciences explore the processes of the quasi-real, just like physics, chemistry and biology investigate the mechanism related with space/time and material forms as they are manifested in our plain of existence (nuclear forces, electromagnetism, gravity).

Beyond this façade, it works the wider nature of our specific world according to our temporal matrixes which refer, in their turn, to the fundamental constitutive laws of the universe. The esoteric physics deals with this deeper level of reality, beyond the sensorial and material illusion, and the endoteric physics investigates its meanings related with the human being.

Inside and beyond the universe and its worlds, throughout the threshold (an intermediate state between Forms and Real), the Being is, and knowledge and experience transmute into the completeness of the Consciousness: where the Magic works.

The human being, thanks to its spiritual essence, by working on itself and its reality, can and must be the bridge between the matter and the Absolute: the forms and their ultimate meaning.
 
It can and must learn to spiritualize all the events and comprehend the divine language of the Great Work which brings back all the parts to the Whole, all the moments to the Eternity, and the becoming towards what-that-is.

 
 

Structure of the human soul
The theory of individual personalities, coming from many ancient and modern spiritual teachings (from Egyptian and Greek Mysteries, Shamanism, Lamaism, Theosophy till to Jung, Crowley and Gurdjieff) says that many personal souls which can support their own potential evolution in the same space-time context with the same criteria, share their incarnation in the same unique physical body and alternate themselves at its management, in a more or less evolutionary way.

This means that more “individuals” compose a complex spiritual structure referred to the same psycho-physical vehicle (the body) which consciousness is organized by more or less mechanisms of awareness, so that each part can express itself, perceive and participate to the reality and, thus, potentially evolve.

During the “current incarnation” the experiences of the personalities coagulate and a new identity (called “personality in formation”) is born.
 
This forming personality is particularly related with the current life and its specific meanings.
 
 
 
 
Let’s call “soul” the whole structure composed by those individual souls sharing the incarnation in the same body, that we simply call “personalities”.
 
 
 
 
The individual soul is an organized structure basically composed by two parts: the whole of the personalities and a spiritual essence which, in the jargon of the esoteric physics, is called attractor.

Just to refer to a well known tradition, from the kabalistic point of view the terms are the following:
  • Jechidah: the individual divine spark, of which we are going to talk later.
  • Chiah: the individual spiritual mission.
  • Neschamah: the inner Spirit that esoteric physics calls “attractor”.
  • Ruach: the personalities.
  • Nephesch: the conditioning due to the instinct, education and environment.
The attractor is a principle of absolute intelligence. It is an aspect of the Real permeating each form as a part of the Being.

The name “attractor” has been given according to the particular function that this spiritual principle expresses inside each soul structure. In fact, at the moment of the formation of the soul structure, some days before the physical birth, the attractor attracts and assembles those personalities which, potentially, would be able to obtain a perfect synergic integration in order to achieve the best evolutionary result during the incarnation.

The attractor is an immanent aspect of the Absolute (the Real, or the Being), and it must not be confused with the concept of the primeval divinity that is the principle of consciousness which is applied to the Being but substantially different from that.

Attractors are, in their turn, attracted by any opportunity of complexity and are “activated” in order to combine matter with its energetic, psychic and subtle expression. We can imagine that one attractor pulses or “comes” from the Real (its natural kingdom) and join the form by crossing the threshold where find and assemble different personalities (quanta of information, memory and complexity) which have the right characteristics to enter that form (incarnation, or better re-incarnation) in order to evolve and complete themselves inside the suitable material context.

Of course nothing “moves” but it is rather an activation of states that “precipitate” in this plain of the being, inside multiple forms and individual entities.

At the physical death of the individual, the soul leaves this world: the attractor “gets back” to the Real and the personalities are released in what we normally call as “netherworld” (the threshold) where they follow different possible destinations accordingly with mechanisms which are quite far from the general religious or superstitious belief (even though these believes can actually originate coherent subtle environments where people could find themselves during a certain period after death, according to their interpretation and expectation).
 
 
 
 

What is the divine spark?The divine spark is a fragment of the mirror potentially aware of itself.
 
It is an active aspect of the primeval divine essence related with species which are evolved at a sufficient level of psycho-physical complexity.

Forms which are carrying a divine sparks and all its spiritual attributes (free will, inner senses etc...) are called as “bridge-forms” since they should mediate the meanings between the material experience and the spiritual and re-integrate the divine essence.

On this planet, our current human species is still a bridge-form.

Below a precise level of complexity the divine principle participates to forms just as an unaware passive aspect, which is immanent and present into each thing. In this case the divine principle is not leaded towards the evolution by its consciousness, but through the mechanism of the universal laws following the development of the complexity. The attractor is the only intelligent reference until the complete awakening of the divine consciousness inside the matter.
 
Evolution is a natural process to support and consolidate the universe as an expression of the Being: the divine principle accumulates experience and, ideally, at a certain point, starts becoming active.

The divine component grows through the mechanism of the forms and “switches on” when the physical vehicle reaches an adequate level of perception and interaction with the reality so that it can represent a convenient vehicle for an active higher experience. Therefore the divine spark knowingly participates to the nature of forms and events and progressively experiments its distributed immanence. It must untangle itself into the labyrinth of different possible choices inside a complex environment of interacting multiple forms and options and recognize itself through diversified references.

The free will, the doubt and the choice are born: from that moment, thanks to the bridge-forms, if an ecological and holistic vision of the reality prevails, then the universe can be definitely leaded towards the Being and “get back” to the Absolute.

At the opposite, if the functional characteristics of the universe are negated, the awareness of the reality is lost and illusion, sense of separation, fear, egoism and violence prevail, then universe is leaded toward its destruction, together with the related evolutionary opportunity. This is the way to disenchant, and the renounce of the soul and eternity.

Free will is a double-edge power.
Until that moment any form could not do anything but obeying to the laws of its own nature, but now, thanks to the power related with its level of complexity, it is involved in a game of interferences between the divine aspect and the human identity, spirit and matter, relativity and completeness.

Inside a bridge-form, the divine spark is the element that magnetizes the various personalities on the attractor and merges in each one of them. Ideally the divine spark should attend the personalities in a more and more active way toward the physical and spiritual evolution.

Through our inner personalities, the divine aspect participates to the dynamics of the forms until the complete realization of the Consciousness, reintegrated through our material experience. Actually, we are not human beings which have to become “divine”, but rather divine beings which explore humanity through this possible universe.

That inner force (divine spark) develops in parallel with everything e it is not something motionless: it wants grow.

At the beginning we have inherited the seed of that power and, even we don’t understand this, we have chosen to be “used” in order to increase its knowledge: every time we learn, it learns as well. It is inside of us.
 
It is us.
 
 
 
 
Each personality represents the experiential content of a series of lives; it is an “individuality” which, inside a soul system, takes into a precise function by expressing talents and abilities through its actions.

The whole of our personalities makes our soul structure. According to our usual awareness, we are not fully aware of their presence.
 
Our aware part (the one which makes us saying: “I am”) is managed in turn by one personality (which in that moment we called “dominant”) of which we are normally aware for a 0.2/0.3%: the rest is the “unconscious”.
 
 
 
 
Personalities dominate the individual in turn, according to a circadian rhythm. On one hand, each one of them tends to consolidate itself, even by subduing the others; on the other hand, it tries to find a harmonica integration and balance in order to find a common direction towards the integration of the experiences and of the divine essence.

If the first attitude prevails, then inner conflicts will occur, with consequences, progressively heavier, regarding mind and body.

Each personality is related with subtle parts of our being and with physical organs of our body as well. Sometimes, in order to keep the dominance, one personality enters in conflict with another one and “attacks” the correspondent physical organ.

There are specific psycho-therapeutic and NLP methods which are specialized in acting on the individual personalities in order to re-harmonize this kind of inner conflicts and sort out the related diseases.

From the esoteric point of view it is also possible to directly act in the soul structure in order to integrate or compensate its dynamics through particular subtle and energetic actions made by spiritual healers.
 
 
 
 
Basically, the human being has got three fundamental natures which are three converging and integrated bodies composing the microcosm: physical body, subtle structure (soul) and spiritual essence.
 
Each one of these bodies has a complex structure: the physical body has its organs and systems, the soul has personalities and divine spark in evolution and the deep spiritual essence, the intelligent attractor, brings back the whole microcosm to the macrocosm (the Real).

These three natures converge and set the individual in each his physical, subtle and spiritual part, which are coordinated by chakras which connect the various bodies and refine and manage all the spiritual, subtle and vital energies which are indispensable for existence.

Personalities compose the subtle and energetic structure of the individual.

According to the rhythm with which each personality guides the person, we can distinguish:
  • main personalities: they assume command according to a precise rhythm;
  • minor personalities: they join main personalities as “passengers” which are present and aware in the “pilothouse” but don’t manage;
  • marginal personalities: they are occasionally present during extremely particular situations.
 
 
 
Historical personality is the elder member of the group, that on which the major number of experiences have been stratified and that represents an existential continuity.
  • Male and female personalities are those that express the related principle and correspond to different ways to manage perception and interpretation of reality.
  • Incomplete personality, even if it is a main personality, is the youngest one and the most immature. It is quite easy to recognize it.
  • The personality in formation doesn’t dominate, but its presence is active and triggers a very important mechanism which we’ll understand later.
  • This simple scheme shows only the fundamental components. Soul structure is more complex and includes lots of different minor personalities.
  • Each personality has at its disposal its own specific sector of the individual memory which mainly is kept in the sub-conscious.
  • Information, data, knowledge and experiences are recorded by the dominating personality according to its own criteria.
  • The access to all the information is available to all the personalities, regardless that personality which recorded them during its domination.
Each personality has got its own method of filing. The dominant personality can directly collect that information which has been recorded by it. Otherwise, if it looks for information that has been recorded by a different personality, then it has to scroll all the files in sequence, affecting the reaction time.

The personality which collects “its” data is able to receive the complete information made of perception and original related feeling. At the opposite, a different personality is not able to collect the original feeling and can receive only the mere information (perception) and complete it with the feeling of the current moment.

There are also elements which are generically and directly available and used by all the personalities: they correspond to those basic programs of psycho-physical management of the person. This means that the generic behavior, the way of moving and talking, gestures, are not aspects that distinguish one personality from another. Distinctive elements are talents, attitudes, trends, some aspects related with taste and the way of reacting to intense stimuli.

According to our current possibilities, since personalities turn in relation with subconscious mechanisms, learning is a non-sequential process which cannot be stratified on one specific personality. This means that our knowledge is not streamlined and optimized and our performances are not 100% effective.
 
We have lacks of information and, on the other hand, the same information has been recorded many times by different personalities. All the personalities must share some precise basic information; however, if we knew how to knowingly manage ourselves, then we would be able to specialize each personality in order to obtain a synergic and controlled system of turning.

Through specific techniques of hypnosis we can learn how to become “lucid medium” of ourselves and maximize our evolutionary processes.
  • What’s that element which prevents a personality to simply reproduce its “character” even if in different situations and circumstances?
  • Is it enough that the geographical and temporal environment and context change in order to produce different reactions?
  • Are we so available to change and to overcome our limits and prejudices?
Let’s go through what really allows us to potentially change and evolve.

The dominant personality of the moment, which is “driving” our conscience, is never alone. In fact, in the “pilothouse” there are other “passengers”; at least one: the personality in formation. The dominant personality’s availability to listen to the advices coming from the other passengers depends on the level of integration achieved; nevertheless it cannot avoid interacting with the personality in formation which is the true leading role of the current embodiment.

This unconscious mechanism triggers on the doubt, which ideally is the most important factor of transformation and evolution.
 
 
 
 
“Male” personalities, which are more techniques, rational and used to logical and sequential processes, prefer using the left hemisphere of the brain. At the opposite, “female” personalities, which are more creative and related with art, imagination and intuition, tend to use the right hemisphere.

The personality in formation automatically uses the complementary hemisphere in respect of that which is used by the current dominant personality. This is just to intensify the mechanism of the doubt and to promote the use of wider logics.

Moreover, take into consideration that only the age of the personality in formation matches with the biological age of the individual: the others can express a different level of maturity which conventionally corresponds to different ages. This creates consequences on the behavior and, through the related physical parties, on the body. For example, we can have a strong and healthy heart which corresponds to a young personality.

When we sleep, there isn’t a specific dominant and all our memory is directly manageable by all the personalities which, during this particular status, work through different mechanisms related with the oneiric plain. When we get up, the dominant personality of that precise moment activates itself and re-composes, remembers and interprets our dreams.

Sometimes it happens that some sensations, related with particularly intense experiences, trespass on the current dominant personality and affect all the other personalities and the whole structure. This is the case of traumas.

In order to cure the consequences of a negative traumatic episode, it is needed to act on the dominant personality which suffered it by containing and re-structuring the original feelings.

Beyond hypnotic, self-hypnotic and psycho-therapeutic techniques, through the suitable magical and alchemical knowledge, it is possible to intervene on the individual soul by adding compensative personalities (in order to re-establish the balance) or by acting on the related characteristics and talents to promote the resolution of inner conflicts and the perfect integration.

For example, when a reincarnation is programmed, one specific personality is selected and recalled by intervening on the incarnation path. The attractor will compose the whole structure accordingly.

Of course I am talking about a very complex magic and theurgical rituality which cannot be deepened in this context.
 
Moreover, the theory of the soul and of the personalities involves many aspects in the field of hypnosis, therapy, NLP and in the more specific and exclusive field of esoteric and initiatic pathway.

 

Reincarnation

When a soul has completed its own experience inside forms, it doesn’t follow just a sort of orbit on the threshold in order to come back into the material world accordingly with the reincarnation processes, but, technically speaking, merges itself with the attractor and “go” to the Real by taking all the richness - developed during its vital cycles - to the divine consciousness.

Now, we have to deepen the process which leads to this supreme realization which is not as linear as we ideally would, but that, nevertheless, can potentially be achieved in one life.

Remember that personalities are real individualities.

Each personality has got its own experience, formation paths, memories and ways of thinking and of interacting with the reality.

Incarnation by incarnation, we are an always different complex of personalities which, more or less, can find a shared evolutionary line which is coherent and continuative in proportion with the level of synergy actually achieved.

Ideally, it should be possible to find a precise leading thread which is represented by a consciousness in evolution from one life to another.
 
 
 
 
The continuative individual line is potentially represented by the personality in formation.

As a matter of fact, this personality, since about 70/90 days from the physical birth, progressively develops during the existence and, finally, should welcome in itself the experiential synthesis of all the personalities of the structure, this way representing the whole meaning of the incarnation.
 
This is a sort of evolutionary distillate.
 
 
 
 
This way, it will be able to be present, together with other attracted personalities, in the successive soul system as a complete personality carrying complexity in evolution (it should be the historical dominant personality).
 
 
 
 
And so on: another personality will be created and will get, together with the others, the result of a new incarnation till the completeness of the consciousness. From a theoretical point of view, a bridge-form should be able to complete the process in only one incarnation, by properly using the power of the free will.

Unfortunately, this is not what that normally happens.

Due to the current human condition on this planet, in order to develop the described process it is needed a complex initiatic pathway of “awakening”.

If, during the experience of life, the different personalities - making the individual soul structure – integrate themselves, create a balanced inter-relationship and find a common evolutionary direction, then, at the physical death – when they are released in the threshold – they will be connected and merge in that personality that during the life was the so-called “personality in formation”.
 
This way, they will be present (through one unique mature personality) in the next soul structure, in order to participate to a sequence of stratified experiences, memories and values.

Nevertheless, normally, some of them disperse and their destiny will follow different pathways on different attractors. In general, this is due to the fact that our individual personalities don’t achieve – during the vital dynamics – that attunement which potentially the structure is based on.
 
This means that the ideal spiritual harmony – due to the natural compatibility between the personalities in order for them to share an evolution in that specific context – must be supported by the natural dynamics of incarnation and of life, the exercise of the free will and the growth meant as a conquest.
 
 
 
 
Unfortunately, this is a mechanism which our way of living got accustomed to and we consider as normal those inner disharmonies which cause our cyclic spiritual dispersion in the time and which – during our life – cause conflicts that can even generate serious psycho-physic diseases.

Each personality produces its own karma and carries specific talents and aptitudes. Each dominant personality – in its moment of driving – elaborates thought and acts.
 
 
 
 
The so-called “soul weighing” – after the physical death – regards the personality in formation which, more or less, has integrated in itself those personalities which are in harmony: it is the witness and the carrier of the actual growth which has been achieved during that specific incarnation.
 
 
 
 
According to the esoteric physics, the “soul weighing” is a universal mechanism: the individual complexity is compared with the average complexity of the events in its temporal package: this way it is possible to measure its level of growth or reduction and to determine the direction of its next life inside a commensurate scenario.

It is a natural process in which basically each one is the unique and the final judge of itself, even if there are wider spiritual mechanisms involving divine forces, which can be more or less attuned with the human development, and disembodied entities called as “Masters of Karma”, about which it is not possible to explain more in this book.

The personality in formation which carries the essence of other personalities and those personalities which have not been integrated and must proceed on different soul structures, must be embodied in that space-time which is suitable from the point of view of the evolutionary opportunities, chronologically in the future or even in the past in respect of the incarnation which they come from.
 
In fact, this process occurs outside the time regardless any conventional sequence of time and human idea of progress, and involves measurements strictly related with the process of the spiritual evolution.
 
 
 
 
Personalities are not scattered – and unable to stratify their development – only because of the reasons described above, but they are also subjugated by predatory forces of different level which participate to the subtle and divine ecosystem but are not in harmony with the natural and human evolution anymore.

When – by using different possible techniques – we do a research of the past lives, usually we work on the historical personality. This research is useful in order to know those aspects of ourselves which can help us to understand and face some aspects or problems of our current life. In doing that, we must consider all this complex mechanism and find out the pathways of our personalities in different soul structures where they shared experiences also with parties that don’t belong to us now.

The research of our current lives, of how to knowingly manage our personalities and to properly identify ourselves with our spiritual essence is a pathway toward a deep attunement with ourselves, acceptance and love.

Love, meant as acceptance and communion, is the keystone to achieve a complete union and integration of our inner personalities. It is an emotional process of inner union overcoming any form of ego.

Actually, at the moment we are dominated by our personalities and our body, our thoughts and emotions are subjugated by the dominant as we are somnambulists. In order to join the consciousness we have to learn how to knowingly lead ourselves.
 
 
 
 
The needed pathway in order to be more aware of ourselves and of what we really are is:
  • Know our personalities
  • Define their talents and experiences
  • Sort out inner conflicts by reciprocal acceptance and by finding and sharing a common evolutionary direction
  • Create a functional relationship
  • Identify each personality and the whole structure with a more complex identity and essence
This work starts from the self-observation and develop thanks to specific techniques.

Of course it is needed a concrete relationship with what is outside of us: the others and all the events of our daily life, inside a concrete context which make us able to really measure our change regardless our personal conviction.

Perfect integration of personalities involves an alchemical process of union of the male and female principles which are kept inside each one of us, in order to re-integrate the mythic Androgen. This is the integration of the two perspectives from which we express our vital energies, perception and interpretation of reality.

This is a fundamental step toward the complete consciousness, without which it is not possible to really comprehend ourselves and the reality, to awake the power of our thought, to be truly free and realize the Real.
 

Evolution of the human soul
Each form holds in itself the completeness of the universe and only through the filter of our senses manifests itself as apparently separated from the whole. Regardless it is a stone or a complex biological body, it is always the receptacle of a spiritual principle which affirms the Being.

Each thing expresses functions and values according to the context it finds itself, and it is made of a physical structure (mass/energy/time), a commensurate soul structure and an essential spiritual principle. This simple scheme matches with the parts of the macrocosm: Forms, Threshold and Real.

Basically, the soul of each thing is a whole of experiences, information, memories and functions we call as “knot of complexity”.
 
 
 
 
Each form – regardless its level of complexity – participates to a temporal flow and to an individual cycle of existence inside which it develops complexity.

On one side there is the evolution of the forms according to the universal laws, on the other side the evolution of the complexity, that is the subtle meaning, more or less evolved, expressed by forms in terms of functions and experiences. During this process, what we called “knots of complexity” – related with simple forms – become “personalities” – related with bridge-forms like the human being.

Each form has got a soul structure which reincarnates and evolves according to universal and spiritual laws.

At the moment, the human species on this planet is (still) a bridge-form, even if there is a serious lack in consciousness which makes it unable to express its natural divine possibilities. This is due to complex reasons related with terrestrial and extra-terrestrial occult history of this planet and humanity.

It is possible to list the main steps toward the whole of the consciousness, according to many traditions, religions and myths. This is just a way to describe the pathway toward the re-composition of the divine mirror and the divinization of the matter.

It is a mystic and magical reawakening which goes beyond any theoretical scheme.
 
Nevertheless, it could be useful to conventionally describe the steps of this wonderful alchemical process through the following ideal achievements:
  • Conquest the power of the free will as a concrete divine faculty, by overcoming all our conditionings and feel/find/chose our own pathway
  • Achieve a status of real stratification of knowledge, memories and experiences from life to life and a complete attunement with all the natural, human and divine ecosystems. This step corresponds to the INITIATION
  • Re-compose and integrate our own personalities (ENLIGHTENMENT)
  • Free ourselves from the cycle of reincarnation, stabilize the reached evolution and transform the experience in consciousness (METAMORPHOSIS)
  • Reawaken the Inner God (divine consciousness), that is the reawakening of ourselves
  • Divinize the material reality, re-compose the divine mirror at a higher level and realize the Real
Knowledge and, especially, experiences needed to proceed along this ideal trail of transformation and trans-substantiation are acquired through the initiatic way that – in the case of the Endoteric Order for the Global Ascension – is called as “Thelemic School of Meditation” which is a very practical and concrete system of realization.

The evolutionary process described above involves the development of a consciousness which progressively allows us to knowingly act and change the reality.

Each tradition developed its own system of evolution: i.e. the alchemical phases, the progressive reawakening of chakras or the cabalistic pathway through the Tree of Life.

Once we have understood how much our soul and its mechanisms are complex, it is normal to put an important question:
“… at the end of the story, who am I?”…
The possible answers to this question change according to the achieved level of consciousness.

If we reduce ourselves within the limit of our current physical perception and the reality within the mere material manifestation, then our SELF is just identified with our material body, with the duration of our physical life.

In this situation we are at the mercy of the dominant personality at that moment (which we are not aware of) and tend to a very superficial “one-way reading” of reality.

Nevertheless, even if we are stuck in a restricted vision of reality, we still hold a deep spiritual essence able to lead us toward more authentic orientation. This “voice of the conscience”, which is often source of a precious uneasiness, is that stimulus which leads us to seek, to put questions to ourselves and to look for more complete meanings of our existence.

When we allow this principle to guide us and our action, we can develop a more lucid vision of reality and give room to our free will not interfering with our deepest being. This process helps us to make the right choice.

Is there one right choice?

Which is the key to cross our existential maze?

The achievement of the consciousness is in the completeness off all the possible experiences, nevertheless, at the same time, there is a precise direction in order to find the best way to exercise what we can call as the “intelligent good”.

Endoteric physics says that one action can be right, wrong or… aware.

Often we look for the right key outside of us, in a doctrine, in a method or religion, without considering looking for the solution inside of us. Actually, we have to work on our inner lock so that everything can become a key: any choice, any action and everything we experience can be part of the key and open us to the Real. It depends on us.

Our inner spiritual reference gives us back the reins of our destiny and the relationship with the values of the sacred. Nevertheless, we have to take into consideration a particular interference which, due to our current spiritual position, prevents our soul to grow from one life to another.
 
This interference is caused by those “forces” which, in our complex ecosystem, exercise a predatory action with our vital energies, during our life and especially after our physical death, and affect the natural process of the evolution of our experiences and the mechanism of the reincarnation.

As long as the human being is “sick” in the current condition, gods will get life from its disease, like energetic fields sucking nourishment from the attention given to them. But when the human being will be able to re-project in itself those forces, taking them back to the Principle which created them, then they will be controlled again by their Primeval Lord.
 
Human being has to reconcile these gods, inside and outside itself.

We have to give concrete expression to our inner voice and exercise the power of our free will. Each one of us should not just seek but find its own way inside a suitable context of knowledge and especially of energy able to create a relationship with the Beyond and to develop, share and safeguard the natural and spiritual evolutionary ecosystem.

To enter in contact with this kind of reality means to access the possibility of the Initiation: it is the meeting with the Master, inside and outside.

At this point, it is possible to meet that knowledge which, if applied, leads us to a progressively wider vision of the reality and of our own identity.

We’ll learn how to recognize the dominant personality, to comprehend and manage the mechanisms of our soul and to be aware of our personality in formation which is our “becoming self” during our current existence.

This way, the long Journey to find and re-compose our parts, know ourselves and our deepest nature begins.

We have to completely identify ourselves with the completeness of our soul structure and investigate what our True Will is:
  • our program
  • the orbit of the star we are
  • the position of our “fragment of mirror” inside the mosaic of the multiplicity
The initiatic choice is a sort of little enlightenment: the Initiate knowingly chooses to take the responsibility of the power of the knowledge, for the others.
It is a real reborn. It is an action of free will which involves and orientates all our personalities.

From a certain point of view, it is fear to say that the complete Enlightenment snakes through different phases and doesn’t correspond with only one moment.

To be aware of our soul structure and its different parts is one phase of the enlightenment as well as the reunification of our inner alchemical male and female principles: the royal marriage between the Sun and the Moon which the hermetic tradition talks about.

Moreover, the integration of our personalities leads us to another fundamental awareness: our simultaneous extension in the Time. In fact, all the experiences and memories related with each of our personalities’ past lives can be reawaken: we access the Memory of our past lives not because we remind them, but rather because we are living them. We are aware of our dimensional and temporal identity. Windows open on our past lives, which can also be located chronologically in the future, and on real parallel and future possible lives.

The dimensional and temporal completeness of ourselves is the natural step toward our Metamorphosis.

The progressive evolution toward the reawakening of the inner God involves the rehabilitation and the development of the inner senses, that is that deeper sensitivity which makes us able to harmonically build, inside and outside of us, the bridge toward the absolute.

Inner senses allow us to project on the reality our inner light in order to perceive and extract superior meanings beyond the illusion of forms, space and time. The whole concept of reality will be completely revised by our superior consciousness.

We’ll be more aware of our subtle and spiritual parts and will be able to give a wider meaning to our emotions. We’ll know the real power of our mind which is infinitely inter-connected with the entire universe.

We’ll extend our simultaneous perception on ourselves inside the different times of our incarnations and will be able to investigate the subtle worlds and the threshold, to use the power of our will and of our thought and act on the synchronicity. We’ll be connected with the experiences of all the other human beings and will perceive our divine origin by entering in relation with superior forces.

In order to fully support these possible perceptions, which otherwise are removed by our mind or reduced as superficial sensations, it is possible to use precise techniques and methods of rehabilitation, just like in a gym. Of course we have to follow a precise plan and use specific instruments (magic tools), which are able to anticipate some effects and, at the same time, to promote the exercise of our latent faculties.

All this must be pursuit inside a harmonic and concrete ethical and spiritual context.

Metamorphosis is a dive in the completeness of the Being, the unification between the soul (as a loyal reflex of the Whole and reverberation of our True Will) and the eternal Spirit.

Once the individual is identified in the completeness of its soul structure and has completed the experiences and all the meanings through this universe, it overcomes the threshold of its identity as a “drop” in order to be the entire “ocean”.

Personalities are now something complete and merge themselves in the completeness of the attractor (the Real inside).
 
 
 
 
It is a process which involves a total transformation of our body, our mind, and our vital and spiritual energies.

As a matter of fact, our material form is not the most advanced expression of the complexity: there are many other levels up to those big multi-dimensional geometries (superior Beings) we can call as “divinities”.

Metamorphosis is a different “state” of the being related with the definitive stabilization of an evolutionary process of complexity and the achievement of a new order.

It is the overcoming of the Abyss: the renounce of your self for your Self and of the one inside the One.

Metamorphosis is a conceiving.

The completeness of the experience, achieved through the vital cycles of the personalities, seeds the attractor, the primeval cosmic egg. From the union between the totality of the meanings related with forms and the completeness of the immanent attractor, the inner God is born: the re-integrated conscience of the Being, evolved through the universal meanings.

Before this moment, the attractor was the element able to link the Absolute with the relative: now the whole of the consciousness is supported by the Divinity reawaken inside the matter.

At this point it doesn’t make any sense to distinguish the individual in personalities (which are now merged in one unique Whole), attractor (which is a sort of “vicar force”) and divine spark (which is simultaneously “drop” and “ocean”).

What it was “possible” has become Real, abiding substance in the consciousness of the Primeval Divinity of the Humankind.

Now it is useless to distinguish the universe of forms from the threshold and all the subtle and spiritual beings, and these from the Real, which is here and now.

Forms are divinized and the Divinity is reawakened: the multiplicity and the dynamicity are now matching with the eternity: All is One and One is All. Change is stability, perception is infinite participation. Questions and answers coincide.

Who am I?

If – from one side - it has always been like that, only now I am God.
 

The Grail
The powerful and pure individual and universal crucible which can hold the trans-substantiation and the divinization of the forms is the Grail.

The esoteric concept of Grail is not necessarily (and only) matching with the saint chalice of the Christian tradition: it is a spiritual mysterious Force which embraces all the human, non-human and superior energies. It is an absolute inviolable ethic reference for the highest and sublime values which each being must tend to.

 

The Esoteric Orders
A complete universal Metamorphosis is needed to build and support the global considerable experience for the reintegration and the regeneration of the immanent and transcendent divine human consciousness.

The primeval mirror doesn’t recompose through single human beings just like we know them on this planet.

The metamorphosis and the reawakening of the Consciousness is a personal achievement. Nevertheless, the autonomous individual metamorphosis is physiologically impossible due to the current physical and spiritual restrictions of the human beings on this planet. Therefore, in order to develop the complete pathway toward the metamorphosis, more complex living structures are needed, which can be able to support a complete material and spiritual progress.
 
The Esoteric Order (as an initiatic collective body) is the only virtual super-individual which, in its whole, can evolve and create the suitable context in which the individual – as a part of a more complex alchemical being - has got the realistic possibility to overcome the Abyss. Of course, it is not in principle like that (and what I said is not an absolute), but rather a concrete strategy.

We can also say that at the moment the “mirror” can be recomposed through precise collective alchemical structures (i.e. initiatic orders or spiritual brotherhoods) because they are enough complex to represent a meaningful piece of the recomposing mosaic.

Potentially each individual should be able to do this, but, in practice, now, the single individual cannot represent something sufficiently complete to support the whole process. This is due to genetic and spiritual limitations that the terrestrial human being suffered during its long story on this planet.

The “Order” is not just a group of people strongly motivated and linked by their initiatic status, but it must be a multidimensional “body” holding and integrating specific alchemical elements and be connected with particular manifestation of life, intelligence and complexity.

This way it become a macro-entity acquiring a specific identity which will accomplish the metamorphosis and trigger on a process involving each one of its parts (initiates).
 

The Masters and the Council of the Light
Often we talk about Enlightened Masters, which can be embodied or incorporeal. In general we can say that these Beings, which eventually have already achieved the complete freedom and realization, are aware that the divinization of the matter and the re-composition of the mirror are something more than their own consciousness: the Work is not finalized yet since it has to involve the entire humankind and universe or, at least, an adequate “critical mass”.
 
This is the reason of their voluntary return: they take specific missions in a wider scenario.

These beings, at different order and level, are the Masters of the Council, the Great White Brotherhood, the Astrum Argenteum, the Council of Light or however we call them: a collective of Energy and Consciousness beyond time and space. These Masters (embodied or not, which is the difference?) participate - at different levels of knowledge and power – in order to lead humanity to its principle and aim.

And more after that.

 

Conclusion

In order to walk the ways of the universe, God has an extremely need of human being.
 
Only the human being can allow the integration and close the circle. Without the conscience of the human being, God cannot take conscience of itself and, human being, in its turn, cannot complete its existence without taking awareness from the Absolute: the centre and the circumference.

The generative and evolutionary process of the human soul snakes through the more complex universal realization toward the Real.

Here and right now.
 
 

Friday, 3 October 2014

Full blown Kundalini Awakening


/Ref Openhand Foundation        
Life changing phenomenom...
Prior to my kundalini awakening I had no knowledge of what kundalini energy was. Like a bolt out of the blue, one unsuspecting evening, I was taken by complete surprise by this life changing phenomenon. My story is testimony to the fact that whilst walking the path of spiritual evolution, there is a time, place and natural order for everything...

Following the Soul

It was the end of the summer about seven years ago. I'd already spent a few years following the guidance of my soul, shedding layer upon layer of the sludge that seems to build up around all souls over time. I had a growing sense of the colossal shifts bubbling under the surface. Life was relatively miraculous and joyful. The outer world largely reflected the peace I felt within - a direct result of only making those choices aligned with my soul. Any feelings of being out of kilter always subsided quickly by honouring my higher truth.

Kundalini rising

Late one evening, I felt undeniably moved to lay upon a green and lilac blanket in the middle of the living room floor. I relaxed, closed my eyes and felt the awesome stillness of the moment. Nothing more. Meditation was new to me. Neither seeking nor efforting, my only agenda was to surrender to the experience and trust the evolutionary journey.
As I let go, I was over come by a deep sense of peace. All thoughts faded into the realms of silence, whilst the universe fell away from beneath me. I was on the edge of the void with a soulful longing to reunite with the depths of beingness.
A feeling so profound came over me that words could only ever offer a signpost hinting at it's fullness. I was embodied of the space between the spaces - an experience of non-identified pure presence. In retrospect, I am quite thankful that I was unable to engage in thought at the time - perhaps my brain would have fried to a crisp!
Then it happened!

A bolt of lightning

Out of nowhere a megalithic wave of energy surged from the base of my spine up through the central core of my body and out through the crown of my head. A bolt of energetic 'lightning' sent my entire body into a huge convulsion (somewhat like you'd imagine if someone had died and been brought back to life with a paramedic defibrillator machine!). From lying in a relaxed position, my entire body tensed into the height of rigidity as I was thrown upwards and then immediately collapsing into a heap on the floor. It was as if every cell of my being had been fiercely squeezed out.
Clearly once was not enough - this happened seven times in rapid succession. Each time I'd experience a bolt of lightning from the base through to and beyond the crown accompanied with an involuntary convulsion, throughout my entire physical body. The last vestiges of the 'me' that I thought I was were being shattered, whilst my entire being was infused with universal life energy.

My world was shattered

It was totally exhausting! This event didn't come with a text book explanation so initially I felt major disorientation. It's not every day that you have seven 'lightning bolts' shoot through your body after all! It's not the type of thing that you learn about in high school. Before to the experience, I had no concept in my brain about kundalini energy. At the time, all I knew was that it was exceptionally powerful and a defining moment in the journey of my spiritual evolution.
My whole frame of relating to the world had been shattered again (it had happened once before in previous years during my Awakening, although the universe had deemed that I was not at that time ready for a full blown kundalini activation). My body felt peculiar. I struggled to understand that it had anything to do with 'me', unsure how I was able to move my limbs. When I did, I observed with astonished fascination as if it were the first time I'd been infused into a physical body! Gazing into the mirror in the bathroom was really puzzling. I didn't recognise my own image! In fact "Who are you?" was about the only sentence I could muster for a while.

Soul infusion

Over the next few weeks I encountered constant experiences of soul infusion and spiritual intensity. The journey took me through a myriad of different practicalities providing an first hand education into the intricacies of kundalini awareness.
On one day I would experience the left side of my body become infused with darkness, whilst the right side would be infused of the purest light. As I learned to embrace it all, the lessons came thick and fast. Without judgement, I would rise through each spiritual encounter as non-identified pure presence, turning each page of the cosmic library with lightning purpose.
On another day I would experience intertwining columns of light rise up my spine as the universe dissolved from around me. There would be intense surges of electrifying energy that served to show me any internal blockages within my bodily vehicles (of which I learned that we have quite a few).

Universal life force flows

I noticed that unless I completely embodied the flow of higher consciousness, then this extraordinary kundalini energy would rebound relentlessly around my body. I consistently went into the heart of the moment, surrendering anything I was 'holding on' to. Universal life force was then able to flow with increasing fluency.
Whilst this period of my life was interspersed with times of pure presence, the integration was at times almost too intense to bare. I thought that maybe I'd been given more than I could handle, yet in my heart I knew that this was on my destined path. Necessity taught me to let go and surrender into the experience. Each time I did, I felt an infusion of soul into my beingness that far surpassed anything I'd previously come to know.
I was no longer following the pull of my soul, instead I was living AS the soul in every moment!

The purpose of kundalini

This is the purpose of a full kundalini awakening - to allow the completeness of universal life energy to flow through our entire being in order that our soul can fully infuse and act as our primary vehicle of expression. This truly is spiritual evolution.
The journey of spiritual unfolding is unique for us all, yet this chapter in our journey doesn't come easily. It's not going to be handed to us on a silver plate! Depending on what we have incarnated here to encounter, it may be more gentle than my experience or even more intense. It may happen in untold different ways. I don't know, we are all different. One thing I do know, is that when we are ready, it will happen of its own accord as a result of following the authentic path of the soul. It can be infinitely helpful to engage with practices that can help us attune to universal life energy beforehand, thus achieving a familiarisation with the process. But having said that - when it is ready to happen, it will just happen and there will be little we can do to stop it.

A word of caution

I would highly recommend against forcing the energy to 'rise'. I have heard many first hand stories of forced kundalini awakenings that have happened only to go awry! It will take us to the edge of all we thought we knew and be deeply destabilising if we are not ready.

Surrender

My advice is universal... if you come up against an area where you are 'stuck' - go to the heart of it. Deny nothing! Embrace the all of it with profound self honesty. You'll find that kundalini activation happens of its own natural accord, animating your being and showing you the way through. Be prepared for the world to change though. After the miraculous change that signals your Transfiguration, nothing will ever be the same again!!!
Soul to Soul
Trinity
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Tuesday, 29 July 2014

The Sant Mat Cosmos.................





 
 
 
 



 
 
 

The Inner Journey of the Soul 

back to its Origin, by George Arnsby Jones

             

       THE PATH THROUGH THE ASTRAL REALMS
                                
                                    by
                
                 George Arnsby Jones, Litt. D., Ph. D.

   

             This is part one of a four-part essay which
             appeared in Sat Sandesh magazine in 1975-76, on
             the Inner Journey of the Soul back to its Origin.
             Dr. Jones was initiated by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji
             in 1955 into the Path of Surat Shabd Yoga. He
             had a distinguished academic career and published
             seven books; he was chosen by Kirpal Singh to tell
             the story of His Second World Tour in 1963-64,
             which he did in the book "The Harvest is Rich."
             He just recently passed on, to the Inner Realms.
             ------------------------------------------------


     According to the teachings of the mystic adepts, there are
seven cosmic islands and nine immense divisions in our universe of
universes.  These divisions, "Mansions in the Father's House," may
be conveniently divided into four Grand Divisions of the cosmic
scheme of creation: 1. The purely spiritual region; 2. The spirito-
material region; 3. The materio-spiritual region; 4. The material
region.
                
   The mystic adepts inform us that the exploration of the inner 
realms (consisting of the first three Grand Divisions) is the heritage 
of each soul, and if we do not go within and traverse these regions the 
fault is ours.  

   Kabir, the poet-saint of India, probably described these regions 
most completely in his writings, but they have also been described by 
Guru Nanak, the first guru of the Sikh religion, Swami Ji and Baba 
Jaimal Singh Ji, two supreme mystic adepts of the nineteenth century, 
and, in the present century, by Baba Sawan Singh Ji and his spiritual 
successor, Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj.
  
   The third and lowest inner region, the materio-spiritual region, 
is the nearest Grand Division to that of the physical universe. The 
central power-source of this materio-spiritual region is known in the
oriental terminology as Sahans dal Kanwal (Lotus of a Thousand Petals), 
and it is from this power-source that the entire physical universe 
derives its motor energies. This third materio-spiritual region is 
also known as the "astral plane" in western occult literature and in 
theosophical writings. The time-scale in the astral region is shorter 
than that in the second spirito-material region, but it is in the 
Astral realms still much longer than that in the physical universe.

   The astral realm, up to and including the region of "universal mind,"
goes into dissolution at the end of a lesser cosmic life-cycle, which 
lasts for many millions of years. The "heavens" of most of the world 
religions are located in this region. Here can be found the Heaven of 
Christianity, the Paradise of Islam, and the Swargas of Hinduism.
These "heavens" are very beautiful, but they themselves are subject 
to eventual dissolution.
   
   The commencement of the mystical Path of Love, the way of return to 
our true home, takes place in the fourth and lowest division of creation, 
which comprises the entirety of our physical universe: all the planets, 
suns, stars, solar systems,  galaxies and cosmic schemes known and 
unknown to modern astronomy. Matter in our physical universe is in its 
most coarse, most dense form, with a very limited admixture of spirit 
substance, just enough to vivify matter and maintain life. The physical 
structure of our universe is the lowest projection of a cosmic idea 
channeled through the medium of "universal mind." The entire physical 
universe, with its millions of galaxies, separated by immeasurable
numbers of light-years, is as a speck of dust in comparison with the 
inner realms beyond it.
   
   The beginning of the mystical Path of Love takes place within the 
human consciousness, when the aspirant has focused his attention at 
the third-eye center, between and behind the two eye-brows. The third 
eye possesses its own illumination, being vivified by the light of the 
soul, and thus is not dependent upon external forms of light as our 
physical eyes are. Through the grace of a mystic adept the aspirant 
has been given a simple technique to transcend body-consciousness and 
to rise into the inner realms. First, he closes his outer eyes and 
sees with the inner third eye. He also closes his outer ears and hears 
with the inner spiritual ear. When these things are achieved, the 
current of consciousness throughout the body will withdraw and become 
concentrated at the third-eye center. The body itself will become
senseless, but the aspirant's awareness of his soul, his true self, 
will thereby be heightened. This is the initial stage of what the 
mystic adepts call turiya pad, the fourth state of existence, which 
is the state of transcendental or super consciousness.
  
   The disciple of the mystic adept has previously been given a 
Simran (repetition practice) of five charged words as the first step 
for rising into the spiritual realms. He collects the entire current 
of consciousness - mind and soul - at the third-eye center, and the 
repetition of the five holy words mentally helps him to achieve the 
required result, and he finds his consciousness withdrawing from the 
physical world. His first view of the astral region may differ on 
occasions. He may behold a magnificent blue eye, a brilliantly 
lighted window, or a blaze of radiance before him. He passes through 
this way of light and sees a colored symmetry, with a bright astral
point of light within its center. The initiate then meditates upon 
this glorious light and soon finds himself impelled into an azure 
blue sky that appears to his inner vision as a circular disc or a 
chakra.
  
   Through the loving grace and protection of the mystic adept, the 
devotee may bypass the lower astral levels; although sometimes these 
are revealed to him for his own instruction. The lowest astral level 
is a place of unbridled desires, a true infernal region, where 
unregenerate and bestial people gravitate to after death. In these 
dark and terrible surroundings, evil entities reap the harvest of  
their wicked deeds on earth.
  
   This is not the "eternal hell" of the scriptures [no "hell" is
ever eternal, according to the Masters], but a place of correction 
and eventual release. There are other levels, gradually improving in 
environment, on this lower astral plane; some are extremely pleasant, 
with wonderful scenery and "inns of rest" for ordinary people who are 
awaiting reincarnation upon earth.
      
   The aspirant, having quickly transcended these lower levels, finds 
himself travelling through a truly "astral" region, studded with stars 
and glowing suns. He hears the Sound Current as an unending melody and, 
ascending through the stellar sky, he passes through a Sun and Moon, 
which appear to dissolve or shatter as he passes through them. These
stellar bodies are not like the physical stars, planets and satellites 
with which we are familiar in our physical universe, but spheres that 
are far more luminous and refulgent than our physical luminaries. 
The aspirant now hears the melody of a celestial bell and becomes
absorbed in its sonorous tones; then he hears the melody of a conch 
and becomes saturated with its music.
      
   As he progresses onwards and upwards the aspiring soul becomes 
increasingly aware of the Sound Current, or Audible Life Stream, the 
unstruck and unfathomable Word that underpins all creation from the 
realm of pure spirit to the plane of matter. As the river of life 
this "God-in-expression" power exists in a fluid state, altering its 
tonal nature from level to level, yet always remaining the same in 
its primal essence. The practice of linking with this ineffable Word 
is a prerequisite of ascending the mystical Path of Love, as Guru 
Nanak has stated:
         

                By practice of the Word, one speeds
                  on to the Higher Spiritual Planes
                  unhindered;
                By practice of the Word, one gets
                  into the spiritual planes openly
                  and honorably;
                By practice of the Ward, one escapes 
                  the bypaths of Yama, the king of Death;
                By practice of the Word, one gets in
                  close touch with the Truth.
                O, great is the Power of the Word,
                But few there be that know it.
                                      
                                      THE JAP JI
         
   
   As the aspirant ascends further into the astral realms he is 
confronted by three paths. The path on the left hand side is a dark 
forbidding region, where strange rishis, yogis and adepts of a lower 
order abound. This left-hand path is the abode of Kal, the Negative 
Power, lord of the realms of mind and matter. Kal is also known as 
Brahm in some of the oriental teachings, and he is the ruler of the 
Fourth Division and lower levels of the Third Division of creation.
        
   However, while Kal has dominion over the lower levels of creation,  
he  still works under the divine laws of the Supreme Lord Himself. 
Modern theosophy and other mystical schools of the present day affirm 
that there is an "inner government" of the world, and that its primary 
task is to control the stream of evolutionary influence among all 
races and nations, while also serving the cause of world betterment. 
This occult government comes under the jurisdiction of Kal.
  
   The term Kal literally means "time " and Kal thus comprises within 
his being the past, the present and future, as commonly  understood by  
human  beings.  However, it is impossible to fix a cosmic date for the 
origin of Kal, or to predict when he will come to an end. Beginnings  
and endings are unreal concepts, created by man's outgoing senses, 
which see an apparent commencement and an apparent termination to 
everything that transpires in his environment.  From a viewpoint of 
higher awareness, that which can be seen as the beginning of an event 
in the physical world has previously been occurring invisibly as an 
idea in the mental-astral realms; and beyond these realms are regions 
which transcend time (or Kal) itself. Nevertheless, it may be said 
that the "duration" of Kal extends from one major cycle to another, 
during which the composite universe of mind and matter remains in its 
manifest form until its dissolution.
  
   It is the primary duty of Kal, as the Negative Power of creation,  
to bind humanity to the Wheel of Birth and Death, and mankind's long  
upward struggle against the force of the Negative Power is designed by 
the Supreme Lord to purge us of our sins and impurities and to make us 
ready for our journey to our True Home, the Abode of all love and all 
bliss. Once man's evolution through the Wheel of Rebirth is achieved, 
his work in the physical universe should be completed; but the 
downward flowing pull of the Negative holds the soul of man in material 
thraldom.
  
   Kal is the author of the laws of nature, which all must obey while 
living in physical incarnation. As the creator of the lower worlds, he 
is known as "God" to most of the social religions. He is served 
faithfully by the hierarchical agents of the lower mental, the astral 
and the physical levels of life. Only the mystic adepts and their 
disciples know of a higher God than Kal, and yet the Negative Power is  
worshiped by millions as the supreme Lord of creation. In comparison 
with the perfection of the true Supreme Lord of Love (known as Sat 
Purusha in the oriental terminology) Kal is only a subordinate in the 
hierarchy of the cosmic universe, and as such a subordinate he is not 
entirely free from imperfections. However, compared with the majority
of mankind, Kal is an exalted being, an embodiment of light, wisdom 
and power.
  
   The hierarchical representatives of Kal, known in the East as 
"incarnations of Brahm," are the avatars and prophets, whose mission it 
is to incarnate themselves in every age in order to root out 
unrighteousness and evil, to protect the good and punish the evil doers, 
and to establish  righteousness in the world. These incarnations thus 
bring the promise of redemption to the righteous; but such redemption 
is still bound by the time-scale of the lower worlds and thus is not 
lasting. The current of Kal, or "time," is endless in its course for 
humanity, but souls with the help of a mystic adept of the highest 
order may transcend time and space and ascend into the timeless realm 
of the Supreme Lord of Love. Such a mystic adept is not part of Kal's 
inner government, although he has a deference for all who play their
roles in the ordering of creation. But the mystic adept is an emissary 
from the Supreme Lord, and is commissioned to save  souls and  escort  
them to their True Home.
  
   The inner domain of Kal, then, is the left-hand path of three paths 
that the aspirant beholds on his upward journey through the astral 
realms. In this domain, thousands upon thousands of holy men, enthralled 
by the wiles and blandishments of the Negative Power, are to be found 
absorbed in deep meditation. Embodiments of lower spiritual powers,
known in the oriental terminology as riddhis and siddhis (miraculous 
powers), are the guardians of this left-hand region. These embodiments 
are concrete and visible and are endowed with advanced consciousness. 
Standing as implacable sentinels of these regions, in order to obstruct 
the further ascent of the soul, they will offer the aspirant great 
knowledge and psychic power; but they cannot stand before the Simran of
the five holy names, given by the mystic adept, and they will dissolve 
before the uttering of these names.
  
   People who have wandered into these astral regions without the 
guidance of a competent mystic adept have often been grossly misled by  
these supernatural powers; and many of the occult cults that have 
mushroomed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries derive their 
inspiration from the riddhis and siddhis. There are also millions of 
prophets, of greater and lesser degrees, together with incarnations of 
minor deities and spiritual hermits, who are stranded in these regions.  
Until they are  released from the bondage of Kal by a mystic adept of
the highest order, they will be unable to proceed to the regions of 
pure spirituality. No soul who has traveled this way without the 
assistance of a mystic adept has ever reached the spiritual planes of
pure love, which  are far beyond the materio-spiritual planes. However,  
for the aspirant who has been initiated by a competent mystic adept, 
the way of ascent lies free of any obstruction.
  
   The path on the right, facing the aspirant, provides ingress to far 
higher universes; but the true high road of the mystic adepts is the 
central path, an immeasurable luminous way which leads ultimately to 
the realm of the Supreme Lord. The aspirant ascends this bright way 
until he eventually arrives at the region of the Bankanal, which is 
the vestibule of the mental or causal regions. It is at the high level 
of Sahans dal Kanwal, in the upper regions of the astral realm, that 
the aspirant beholds the radiant spiritual form of the mystic adept,
and this is his first inner revelation as to the true nature of his 
spiritual guide, whom he has hitherto only seen in the covering of a 
physical body.
  
   Tulsi Sahib, a mystic adept of the highest degree, declared that in 
the inner realms: "Blinding light flashed forth from the nails of the 
Master's feet and illumines the very soul of the devotee." Maulana 
Rumi spoke of the experience of seeing the luminous form of the mystic 
adept thus: "As the light of the Master dawns in the soul, one gets to 
know the secrets of both worlds." Guru Arjan stated: "The Blessed Form 
of the Master is in my forehead. Whenever I peep within I see Him 
there." And Khawaja Moeen-ud-Din Chisti spoke of this inner contact 
with the mystic adept in these poetic words: "O Master! the sun cannot 
stand the resplendence of Thy face. The moon also has covered herself 
with cloud to escape Thy dazzling light.... In the very Person of the 
Nabi (Prophet), the Light of God has taken up a material form, just as 
the light of the sun does in the body of the moon." The Christian
scriptures have also described the experience of seeing the luminous 
form of the mystic adept in graphic detail:
  
                
                  And I turned to see the Voice that
                  spake with me and found One like
                  unto the Son of Man, clothed with
                  a garment down to the feet and girt
                  about the paps with a golden girdle.
                  His head and hairs were white like
                  wool, as white as snow, and his
                  eyes were a flame of fire. And his
                  feet like unto fine brass, as if they
                  burned in a furnace, and his Voice
                  as the sound of many waters.
                                
                                REVELATION I: I2-I5


   The luminous form of the mystic adept now reveals the highest 
levels of the astral plane to the gaze of the aspirant; and, in the  
company of the mystic adept, the aspirant finds himself in the region 
of Sahans dal Kanwal, the thousand-petaled lotus of cosmic energy,
powerhouse of both the astral and physical universes. Sahans dal 
Kanwal is a glorious pulsating cosmos in itself, and this radiant 
region is illuminated by a central flame of the most intense radiance 
in all the astral realms. Countless melodies and harmonies of ravishing
beauty proceed from this great flame, and those who dwell in this 
region truly believe that they are in the highest heaven. And yet they 
are only on the first step of the great ascending highway of the mystic 
adepts of the holy Shabd, for it is from this plane that the real 
journey of the soul, in the company of the mystic adept, truly 
commences.
  
   On arriving at the region of Sahans dal Kanwal, the human mind 
awakens to the awareness that it has truly slumbered for countless 
incarnations, and it is now consciously awakened to the reality of 
the higher realms of the inner cosmos. Sahans dal Kanwal is the final 
and highest plane reached by even the most advanced yogis, for the  
life-currents, termed pranas by eastern mystics, which are necessary 
in yogic practice, cannot reach beyond here. This high astral level
is incredibly vast and awe-inspiring, and the holy ones who dwell 
here cannot comprehend that countless more beautiful and far higher 
spiritual realms lie beyond Sahans dal Kanwal. But the disciple of  
a mystic adept must ascend much higher in order to gain true 
spiritual liberation.


THE PATH THROUGH THE CAUSAL REALMS   
                                
                                    by
                
                     George Arnsby Jones, Litt.D., Ph.D.
   

                 This is Part 2 of a four-part essay which 
                appeared in Sat Sandesh magazine in 1975-76, on 
                the Inner Journey of the Soul back to its Origin. 
                ------------------------------------------------
 
     
   When the aspirant ascends beyond Sahansdal Kanwal, the negative 
powers working under the lordship of Kal are at their worst. Kal can 
neither create nor destroy a soul, but he can keep souls trapped in 
the causal, astral and physical realms. He imprisons the souls of men 
with the chains of worldly pleasures, and when a soul aspires to return 
to its True Home, Kal brings his forces to bear in order to prevent the 
soul from ascending. But the Supreme Lord of Love, Sat Purusha, is the 
highest deity of all, and He is the creator of all the universes. The 
perfect mystic adept is His incarnation and can escort the soul safely 
through the regions of Kal.
  
   In the higher astral planes, immediately before he reaches the 
vestibule of the causal planes, the aspirant meets indescribably 
beautiful men and women, and these offer incredible allurements in order 
to prevent the soul from further ascent. However, the protecting Shabd-
power of the mystic adept will render these seductive astral beings 
invisible to the aspirant. No negative power of any kind whatsoever can  
approach the Shabd-radiation given out by a perfect mystic adept. 
Maulana Rumi has spoken of the protecting grace of the mystic adept: "O 
brave Soul! take hold of the garment of One who knows well the various 
planes - physical, mental, supra-mental and beyond - and who is able to 
remain with thee as a true friend, whether in life or in death, in this 
world or in the next."
  
   The aspirant now prepares to take the second stage of the upward 
journey; but before it can enter the causal regions he has to pass 
through an incredibly narrow pathway, a crooked tunnel or curved pipe, 
known as the Bankanal to the oriental mystic adepts.  Kabir has described  
this tunnel to the mental worlds as one-tenth the size of a mustard seed, 
and he likens the mind to the size of an elephant in its striving to 
effect an entrance into this tunnel. Guru Nanak has also described this 
tunnel, comparing it to a passage that is one-tenth the width of a hair. 
Other mystic adepts have compared it to the eye of the finest needle. It 
is impossible for the aspirant to pass through this tunnel without the 
help of a competent mystic adept, but with the help of such a master of 
spirituality the pathway is widened, and the aspirant may then ascend and 
descend without further difficulty.

   Thus the initiate enters the causal realms through the U-shaped tunnel  
of the Bankanal. The way of progress extends straight and level for some 
distance, and then descends suddenly.  After a descending curve the way 
again ascends and the initiate traverses a level pathway which leads to 
a region that has been termed the "seventh heaven" in Sufi literature.
  
   When the initiate has journeyed to the higher end of the Bankanal 
tunnel, his vision and perspective appear to be reversed, and he sees 
everything as if from the opposite side of a veil or mirror that he has 
penetrated. He is now in the second great Division of creation, known as  
Brahmanda (the Egg of Brahm) in the oriental mystical teachings. 
Brahmanda is so called because of its apparently eliptical shape. It 
embraces within its totality both the materio-spiritual and the physical 
universes, but it is far more vast than the combination of both of these. 
In point of fact, the three lower Divisions of the entire cosmic creation 
may be conceived as a totality, with the summit of this region as 
Brahmanda, the spirito-material Division, and the middle section as the 
astral realms, the materio-spiritual Division, and the lowest section as 
the physical universe itself.
        
   The inhabitants of the causal regions are unutterably happy, but they 
are still subject to eventual rebirth into the physical universe after a 
long sojourn in Brahmanda. They are thus not immortal as are the 
liberated souls in the purely spiritual realms, but they do live in an
infinitely vaster time-scale than do the beings in the astral and physical 
universes. Brahmanda is ruled by Maha-Kal, also known as Par-Brahm in the
oriental teachings. Maha-Kal is the higher aspect of Kal and resides in 
the upper and more spiritual regions of Brahmanda, as Kal himself resides  
in the lower and more material regions.  In the lower regions of Brahmanda,  
mental matter is supreme, for it is the plane of mind, and mind itself 
is composed of a subtlized form of matter with a certain admixture of 
spirit.
        
   The aspirant ascends into the lower planes of Brahmanda and finds 
himself in the realm of Universal Mind, known as Trikuti in the oriental 
teachings. This realm of Universal Mind has been erroneously conceived of  
as "God" by many metaphysicians and mystical theologians, but it is still 
only the beginning stage of the second step of the upward journey of the 
mystic adepts and their disciples.  As he ascends through this region of 
Trikuti, the aspirant hears an exalted melody, which resembles a tonal
enunciation of the word "Om." It is a resonant and rumbling sound, 
reminiscent of the thunder of the storm clouds on earth, but with an 
unearthly sweetness  and harmony. In my book, "The Journey of Sounding 
Fire," published in 1956, I referred to the soul's descent into 
incarnation, through the planes of Universal Mind, in the following 
words:

   "Thus I returned to Myalba (earth), through the rumbling planetary 
   pathway, regained the numbing cloak of sentient self's desire, to 
   take  once more my Journey of Sounding Fire."
  
   Trikuti is a plane where the soul can journey through a "rumbling 
planetary pathway," quite literally a pathway through pulsating planets. 
As the soul of the initiate gazes upwards, in the direction of the 
"rumbling planetary pathway," he passes into a region of fortress-like 
buildings, with high towers and turrets. He lingers for a period of time 
in this region, and filled with the attributes of devotion and faith, he 
sees himself as the lord of the  mental planes. The fortress region is 
the storehouse of human karmas, the record of the actions and reactions 
of the past and present. The Law of Karma, the immutable law of cause and  
effect,  governs the entire three-fold creation of the causal, astral
and physical universes.  Each person's individual karmic pattern has 
determined his destiny. The way in which a man has acted during his 
present life, and during past cycles of life, ordains what he is at the 
present time. The karmic law works constantly, for "as a man thinketh in 
his heart, so is he."

   How can man's karmic debts be completed or rendered ineffective, other 
than by the long and apparently endless cycle of birth and rebirth? Part 
of the answer to this question lies in the fortress region of the causal 
worlds; but no one can get there without a competent spiritual guide.  
On the physical levels it seems that as soon as man has atoned for past 
mistakes, he creates new karma for himself, and the just law of action 
and reaction must take its toll. Kal holds the supreme court of judgment 
in the causal, astral and physical universes; he is the Lord of Karma, 
and only one embodiment can be empowered to change certain decrees of Kal, 
for the purpose of liberating a soul from the Wheel of Birth and Death. 
Such an embodiment is the mystic adept of the highest order, known in the 
oriental terminology as a Sant Satguru. Once such a mystic adept has taken 
an aspirant under his protection, that aspirant is freed from bondage to 
Kal, the negative power, and his karmic debts-part of which are dissolved 
at the time of initiation - are subsequently dissolved through the grace 
of the mystic adept.
  
   When, through the grace of the mystic adept, the disciple reaches the 
fortress region of Trikuti, the seeds of his past karmas are eventually 
seared to nothingness, although the soul still retains the stain of much 
impurity garnered through many incarnations. During his stay in the 
fortress-realm, the disciple gazes above the high turrets and sees dark
clouds of great vastness, from which peals of cosmic thunder constantly 
resound. Then, when the purpose of his stay in the fortress-realm has 
been fulfilled, the initiate ascends beyond the black clouds and beholds 
that the entire sphere is a sublime cosmos of vibrant red color, with a 
glorious red sun in the center of the sky, imparting its crimson tones to 
the entire region.
  
   Trikuti, in addition to being the grand storehouse of human karma (a 
vast reserve which has been accumulating for millions of lives), is also 
the region of knowledge. It is within this sphere that the three cosmic 
attributes - harmony, action and inertia - have  their origin, and the 
creation of the astral and physical universes was made possible by their
interplay. These three attributes are personified in the Hindu scriptures 
as Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, which are collectively termed Mahadev (Great 
God). Under the glowing red skies of Trikuti, reminiscent of the most 
beautiful dawn that can  be seen  on earth, the radiant form of the 
mystic adept is seen in an even greater glory, and the initiate 
experiences higher impulses of the heavenly Shabd in a manner that 
overshadows all his previous experiences in the astral and physical 
regions.
  
   The initiate sees the cosmic form of a resplendent four-petaled 
lotus, and its predominating red color evolves into exquisite details 
and manifold radiant tones, becoming more and more pronounced as he 
approaches it. He now hears the magnificent sound of a collossal drum, 
beaten incessantly, and its deep tones accompany him on this stage of 
his upward journey. As the initiate progresses onwards, he wheels 
through the profound space of the causal regions, with the melody of 
the drum sounding all about. He now consciously grasps the import of 
the celestial Shabd, the audible life stream, from which primal power 
all creation has come into being. The initiate ascends through a pulsating 
stellar pathway, speeding onwards and upwards, with innumerable suns, 
moons and stars appearing and disappearing. Words are completely 
inadequate to describe this experience, for the disciple now fully 
realizes his complete separation from the universe of materiality and 
from the languages of the physical world.
  
   Rising to the upper regions of the causal realm, the initiate becomes 
intoxicated with the joy and bliss of his newly found freedom. He speeds 
across glowing cosmic mountains and glorious plains.  Below him, he sees 
wondrous gardens where vibrant flowers are arranged in symmetrical 
patterns everywhere, in a symphony of color and sound.  Radiant rivers  
and canals of ethereal "nectar of Brahm" flow abundantly through this 
region, and ultimately the initiate approaches a great ocean of radiance  
and crosses this ocean on a mighty bridge of light. He now sees before 
him the awe-inspiring prominences of Mer, Sumer and Kailash, the 
incredible cosmic mountains from which the region of Trikuti derives its 
name. This level  of consciousness is the ultimate end of spiritual 
attainment, according to the Vedantic teachings of the old rishis (holy 
men), who meditated upon the nature of the cosmic universe from their
snow-capped mountains in the Himalayas. But it is yet only the second 
stage on the mystical Path of Love.
  
   Guru Nanak has described the realm of Brahmanda in the following way:
  
  
                Countless the Fields of Action, 
                  countless the golden mountains,
                And countless the Dhrus (saints) meditating therein.
                Countless the Indras, countless the suns and moons, 
                  and countless the earthly and stellar regions;
                Countless the Siddhas, the Buddhas, the Naths, 
                  and countless the gods and goddesses.
                Countless the Danus (demigods) and the Sages, 
                  and countless the bejeweled oceans.
                Countless the sources of creation,
                  countless the harmonies, countless 
                  those that listen unto them,
                And countless the devotees of the Word,
                Endless and unending, O Nanak! this realm.
                                  
                                                THE JAP JI
 

   This glorious realm, then, is the plane of Universal Mind, through 
which the Supreme Lord has created the cosmic universes. However, the 
Supreme Lord is not that Universal Mind, in spite of statements to the  
contrary made by many modern metaphysicians and mystics. Universal Mind 
is a projection of the Will of the Supreme Lord to manifest part of 
Himself in His creation. Man himself, made in "the image of his Creator," 
also creates through the medium of his own mind, but he is not that mind.
Man is a living soul, a spiritual entity who is the essence of God, and 
on his upward journey the aspiring initiate sees that the human mind is 
still far lower on the ladder of the inner universes than the spiritual 
aspects of the human being, in spite of the mind's wonderful functions  
and creativeness.  Beyond that realm of Universal Mind is that region of
which Christ spoke:  "There is nothing covered, that shall not be 
revealed, and hid that shall not be known." (Matt. 9:26).
  
   The aspirant must remain in this causal region, a realm of unalloyed 
delight, for a period of time, during which his entire karmic burden is 
liquidated in the fortress-like dominion. He is instructed by the mystic 
adept to meditate for a long time in this causal realm, so that his soul  
may be further cleansed of impurities.  When this purification is 
achieved, the mystic adept urges the initiate on to the higher regions 
beyond Brahmanda,  The ascent now must be made to the supercausal realm, 
known as Par-Brahm (beyond Brahm) or Daswan Dwar (the Tenth Gate) to 
the oriental mystics.                        



 THE PATH THROUGH THE SUPER-CAUSAL REALMS   
                                
                                    by
                
                    George Arnsby Jones, Litt.D., Ph.D.

              
              This is part three of a four-part essay which 
              appeared in Sat Sandesh magazine in 1975-76, on 
              the Inner Journey of the Soul back to its Origin. 
              Dr. Jones was initiated by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji 
              in 1955, into the Path of Surat Shabd Yoga. He 
              had a distinguished academic career and published 
              seven books; he was chosen by Kirpal Singh to tell 
              the story of His Second World Tour in 1963-64, 
              which he did in the book "The Harvest is Rich." 
              He just recently passed on to the inner realms.
              ------------------------------------------------


     When the initiate leaves the region of Brahmanda, he traverses a 
great stretch of inner space in order to reach the super-causal realm 
of Daswan Dwar, where the final purification of the aspiring soul must 
take place. In Daswan Dwar all the veils and coverings are lifted from 
the soul, which then shines forth in its pristine splendor. It is in 
this immense region that the soul bathes in the cosmic lake of 
immortality, known in the oriental terminology as Mansarover or 
Amritsar.  Once cleansed of its last impurities, the soul yearns for 
blissful union with the Supreme Lord of Love.  Of this wonderful 
realm, Guru Nanak has written:
  
  
                Next, the Realm of Ecstasy, where
                  the Word is enrapturing;
                Everything created here is marvelously strange 
                  and beyond description;
                Whosoever tries to describe the same
                  must repent his folly.
                Herein the mind, reason and understanding 
                  are etherealized, 
                  the Self comes to its own, and develops 
                  the penetration of the gods and the sages.
                                        
                                               THE JAP JI


   Guru Nanak stated that the spiritual lake of Amritsar was the only 
true place of holy pilgrimage, lying within Hindu, Christian, Muslim,  
Sikh, believer and unbeliever alike. It is a cosmic center of
spirituality, where the questing soul can be shrived of its sins. A 
few world religions have had their inception in the super-causal realm, 
but these are exceptions to the general rule, for most of the social 
faiths have emanated from the causal realm, with Kal or Brahm (under
various names) as their supreme deity.
 
   Mystics and disciples who ascend to this rarified plane, where spirit 
is blended with subtlized matter in varying degrees, are very rare 
indeed.  The entire cosmic region of Daswan Dwar has the configuration 
of an eight-petaled lotus, which is permeated with divine melodies that 
are reminiscent of stringed musical instruments on earth. However, here 
again any comparison or analogy is totally inadequate, for the sounds of 
our physical plane music cannot in any way compare in grandeur to the 
Unstruck Music, the Anahad Shabd, that plays endlessly in this exalted 
realm.
   
   The spiritual lake of Amritsar is also known as Tribeni, the union of 
three rivers of spiritual energy.  These three cosmic streams of love, 
light and power descend from the Supreme Lord to support and sustain the 
universe of universes. This is the true shrine of holiness, where the 
aspiring soul becomes immaculate or immortal after its bath of 
purification.  It has now transcended its causal, astral and physical 
coverings, and has none of the qualities of the three lower regions of 
mind and matter. The immaculate soul, radiant and refulgent, now shines 
with the light of twelve suns.

   It does not have to reincarnate into the lower planes again, unless  
commissioned to do so by the Supreme Lord Himself.  It has tasted the 
nectar of the Unstruck Music and it has a complete insight into the 
true nature of creation.
  
   In the realm of Daswan Dwar, the liberated soul now fully realizes 
that it is of the essence of love, the essence of the Supreme Lord of  
Love Himself.  The soul now truly knows where the Supreme Lord resides, 
and its most sublime desire is for complete union with the Supreme Lord. 
Of this state of consciousness the mystic adepts have stated that no 
one is a true theist unless he has realized this God-essence within 
himself. Until that great realization takes place, the aspirant relies 
on the testimony of saints and sages.  Such testimony has been 
recorded in most of the world scriptures, but the reading of holy 
books - however desirable in many ways - can never give the individual 
a conscious experience and awareness of the Supreme Lord within. 
Referring to outer spiritual practices, and comparing them to inner 
seeking, Guru Nanak has said:
 
 
                Pilgrimages, austerities, mercy, charity 
                  and almsgiving cease to be 
                  of any consequence, when one gets 
                  an ingress into the Til - the Inner Eye;
                Communion with and practice of the Holy Word, 
                  with heart full of devotion, procures 
                  admittance into the Inner Spiritual Realms,  
                  washing away the dirt of sins at the Sacred
                  Fount within.
                                    
                                              THE JAP JI

   When the soul has been bathed in "the Sacred Fount within," the 
lake of Amritsar, it joins the company of other pure souls, known as 
hansas (swans) in esoteric literature, and enjoys the wondrous and 
enchanting beauties of this realm.  Then the soul ascends to the 
higher levels of Daswan Dwar and, at a certain stage, beholds on its 
right the Inconceivable Island Kingdom (the Achint Dip), with its  
glowing configuration of a twelve-petaled lotus; and on its left it
sees the Blissful Region (Sehaj Dip), with its Magnificent 
configuration of a ten-petaled lotus. Then the soul reaches the first 
vestibule of the terrifying Tibar Khand or the Maha Sunna, the region
of darkness.
    
   At the vestibule of the Maha Sunna, the soul is given the most 
esoteric knowledge of creation.  This knowledge may only be imparted 
at this high spiritual level, and it may never be revealed in spoken 
or written words on the lower planes of creation. When the soul has
imbued this knowledge it starts across the great Maha Sunna, which is 
a vast void of unutterable darkness.  In this somber region Maha-Kal,  
the highest form of the Negative Power, has placed a myriad of 
frightening obstacles in the path of the aspiring soul. Only the soul
who has crossed this black void once, with the help of a mystic adept, 
is free to traverse the Maha Sunna at will, from that time onward.

   Countless souls, each shining with the radiance of twelve suns,
dwell within this region, but they are unable to extricate themselves 
from this bondage; for even though the soul has such a great radiance, 
it finds itself overwhelmed by the stygian darkness, and it cannot pass 
through the black void without the benign grace and protection of a 
mystic adept of the highest degree.
    
   Before the soul starts its journey across the Maha Sunna, it is 
apprised of the existence of four secret spiritual regions, which are 
not mentioned in the outer teachings of the mystic adepts. These secret 
regions are the planes of the highest spiritual prisoners, known as the
bandivan in the oriental terminology.  These prisoners are under no 
duress in their own realms, but they cannot travel beyond them. Some of 
them will sometimes see a soul which is ascending in the company of a 
mystic adept, and they will implore that soul to plead their cause, so 
that they too can ascend to the higher spiritual realms. Only the mystic
adept may accede to such a request if he sees fit to do so, for he is an 
indispensable guide to the soul who would make a safe journey through 
the expansive dark void of Maha Sunna and the other secret regions.
  
   Beyond the region of Maha Sunna there are five immense spiritual 
realms, each one of increasing importance as the soul ascends.  The 
lowest of these is Bhanwar Gupha (Whirling Cave), the final region 
before the soul arrives at the realm of the Supreme Lord, the True Home 
of the spirit. As the soul approaches this ineffable region of Bhanwar 
Gupha, it hears the melodies of four sound currents, each emanating 
from invisible sources.  One of these cosmic melodies predominates 
above all others, and the soul finds its melody ineffable and 
indescribably beautiful. The soul also beholds five egg-shaped 
universes, all of which are macrocosms of other cosmic creations. Each 
one of these cosmic systems has a predominating color, like yellow or 
green, and each one is permeated and governed by a great Brahm-like
spirit. In comparison with these regions, the entire universe beneath 
the realm of causality appears as insignificant as a speck of dust.


                              

                               THE FINAL PATH 
                  
                                    by
                
                    George Arnsby Jones, Litt.D., Ph.D.

              
              This is part four of a four-part essay which 
              appeared in Sat Sandesh magazine in 1975-76, on 
              the Inner Journey of the Soul back to its Origin. 
              Dr. Jones was initiated by Sant Kirpal Singh Ji 
              in 1955, into the Path of Surat Shabd Yoga. He 
              had a distinguished academic career and published 
              seven books; he was chosen by Kirpal Singh to tell 
              the story of His Second World Tour in 1963-64, 
              which he did in the book "The Harvest is Rich." 
              He just recently passed on to the inner realms.
              ------------------------------------------------


   After emerging from the dark void, the Maha Sunna, the soul reaches
that inner level known as Bhanwar Gupha (Whirling Cave) in the 
terminology of the eastern mystic adepts. This is the fourth inner realm 
above the physical plane, and it is a region of spiritual substance with 
the admixture of very little matter. As the soul progresses onwards, it 
crosses a high luminous pass above a vortex of spiritual power known as 
the Hansni tunnel; then it enters the massive entrance of the glorious 
Rukmini tunnel, and there it beholds an incredibly beautiful structure. 
The radiation from this structure impinges upon the sight of the soul, 
and thereby causes the soul's nirat (power to see) and its surat 
(power to hear) to attain complete consummation and true peace.
  
   The soul then transcends to a higher level of this spiritual realm, 
seeing on its right side bright cosmic islands of unfathomable beauty, 
and on the left side many continents with radiant palaces, which appear 
to be constructed of pearls, with their top stories fashioned with 
rubies and studded with emeralds and diamonds. The beauty of all these 
cosmic scenes fills the soul with a wonderous intoxication. Bhanwar 
Gupha is ruled by a great spiritual Lord, whose name is translated as 
"That am I!" in the terminologies used by the mystic adepts of the
Middle East and Far East alike. In fact, the Sufi adepts know the 
entire region as Anahu, which again has the meaning of "That am I!"
  
   It is within the region of Bhanwar Gupha that the soul comes into its 
fullest realization of its kinship with the Creator, consciously knowing 
itself as a drop of that divine Essence in the Ocean of all-Spirit.  
Maulana Rumi has written about the plaintive strains of a flute, played 
upon a mountain top, which tells of the separation of the soul from its 
true Source. The music pervading this realm is that of a supernal flute, 
and it was this music that sounded in the consciousness of the great 
Rumi.  Nevertheless, here again there is nothing in the physical world 
that can compare with the beautiful strains of the melody of Bhanwar 
Gupha.

   This enchanting sound emanates from the glorious cosmic mountain 
which rises majestically above this region, and above which the soul 
beholds an immense sun that shines with a dazzling white light, 
thousands and thousands of times more brilliant than the physical sun 
of our solar system. Of this region Guru Nanak has sung:
  
   
                Higher still stands Karm Khand,
                  the Realm of Grace,
                Here the Word is all in all, and
                  nothing else prevails.
                Here dwell the bravest of the brave,
                  the conquerors of the mind,
                  filled with love Divine,
                Here dwell devotees with devotion,
                  incomparable as Sita's
                  illumined with beauty ineffable,
                All hearts filled with God,
                  they live beyond the reach of
                  death and delusion.
                                 
                                       THE JAP JI
  
  
   Bhanwar Gupha is truly a realm of beauty and light, and the souls 
who dwell there imbibe the elixir of the Sound Current as we on the 
physical plane take in our daily food and drink.  However, Bhanwar Gupha 
and all the regions below it - supercausal, causal, astral and physical -
must eventually go into dissolution, according to the mystic adepts.
Dissolutions of relatively short durations extend to the top of the 
causal region, whilst the immeasurably long Grand Dissolutions extend 
through the supercausal realm of Daswan Dwar into the realm of Bhanwar 
Gupha. And so the aspiring soul must journey further upwards in order 
to attain true spiritual liberation, for only Sach Khand, the fifth  
inner region above the physical plane, is unaffected by any cosmic 
dissolutions, great or small.  And Sach Khand is the True Home of the 
soul.
  
   This purely spiritual region is termed Sat Lok in Hinduism, 
Muqam-i-Haq (realm of Truth) in the teachings of the Sufi sages of Islam, 
and Sach Khand (the name used by the Indian mystic adepts or Satgurus) 
in Sikhism. Sach Khand is entirely devoid of physical, mental and
spiritualized matter.  In the words of the mystic adepts it is 
"unchanging and eternal; all joy and all bliss; all wisdom and all love; 
the Abode of God.  Here, in ineffable wonder, dwell the perfected 
spiritual beings and the supreme saints of all time."  Guru Nanak has 
said: "Here dwell the Bhagats or Sages drawn from all regions, who 
rejoice in the True One and live in eternal bliss." 
                       
   In Bhanwar Gupha, the realm below Sach Khand, there are eighty 
thousand universes, and the inhabitants of these universes are all
followers of spiritual adepts who have themselves attained access to 
that region. But in Sach Khand itself, tens of millions of spheres come 
under the benign rule of the True Lord, and cosmic Isles of the Blessed 
revolve around this realm, as our tiny earth circles its own sun. 
These spheres are the abodes of hansas, pure souls who have never 
descended to lower planes. In Guru Nanak's words:


                Sach Khand or the Realm of Truth
                  is the seat of the Formless One.
                Here He creates all creations,
                  rejoicing in creating.
                Here are many regions, heavenly
                  systems and universes,
                To count which were to count the 
                  countless;
                Here, out of the Formless,
                The heavenly plateaux and all else
                  come into form,
                All destined to move according to
                  His Will.
                He who is blessed with this vision,
                  rejoices in its contemplation.
                But, O Nanak, such is its beauty
                  that to try to describe it is to 
                  attempt the impossible.
                                
                                      THE JAP JI


   The Lord of Sach Khand is known in the oriental terminology as Sat 
Purusha, the True Being. The esoteric scriptures state that this Lord 
of Love radiates a light that is equivalent to the light of billions 
of suns, although this is still a poor description of Him, for He is
beyond the capacity of human language or intellect to describe. Sat 
Purusha directs and controls the creation and dissolution of the 
entire cosmic system of universes beneath Him, but His own realm is 
immune from any such change.  This True Being ultimately draws His
power from the highest Lord of all, known to the mystic adepts as 
Anami Purusha, the Nameless One.
  
   Sach Khand can only be inadequately described in the language of 
poetic imagery  and symbolism, for the mystic adepts state that there 
are no possible comparisons that can be made with even the most 
beautiful things in this world. Sach Khand is the Father's House, 
and the Father is Sat Purusha, and the soul is an emanation from Sat 
Purusha, from Whom it descended eons ago. According to the mystic 
adepts, the soul has the light of sixteen suns and moons combined 
when it reaches this realm.
  
   Guru Nanak has sung of the region of Sat Purusha in his inspired 
hymn:
  
                How wonderful Thy gates:
                  how wonderful Thy mansion,
                From whence Thou watchest Thy
                  great Creation.
                Countless the instruments and harmonies 
                  that play therein,
                Countless the measures, countless
                  the singers that sing Thy praises.
                                
                                           THE JAP JI


   Swami Ji has also described the palace of Sat Purusha as a 
fortress-like structure of ineffable beauty.  In Swami Ji's description, 
the pilgrim soul must locate the supreme Lord of Love upon His throne 
when he arrives at that region, and must know the Lord of Love as the 
True Lord of the entire universe of universes. Swami Ji has described 
the wonderful fields and parks of the forecourts of the palace of Sat 
Purusha, but again repeats that the scenery thereof is utterly 
indescribable in earthly terms.  Reservoirs of spiritual nectar abound 
on this plane, from below which f(ow abundant rivers of light to supply 
distant regions with spiritual sustenance.  Golden palaces appear to 
hover above cosmic gardens of silvery light, and the beauty of the 
hansas, the pure souls who dwell there, is incomprehensible.
 
   The pilgrim soul advances to the vestibule of the palace of the Lord 
of Love, Sat Purusha, and a guardian hansa enquires of the newcomer how 
he managed to reach this lofty region. The soul replies that it came to 
the holy feet of a mystic adept or Satguru, when it was dwelling on 
earth, and the mystic adept bestowed upon him the inner knowledge of 
that high realm. The soul is then led into the palace, where he confronts 
a shining lotus of ineffable beauty. A voice sounds from the central 
light of the lotus and asks the soul its identity and for what purpose 
or object it has ascended to that region. Swami Ji describes the soul's 
reply as: "I met a Satguru and he gave me full instructions. Through his
kindness I now have the privilege of your darshan (blessed sight)." 
It is now revealed to the soul that he is truly in the presence of Sat 
Purusha, Whom he now recognizes as the spiritual power that ensouled 
the mystic adept on earth and in the lower spiritual realms. The soul 
now rejoices at his supreme good fortune and derives great pleasure 
from the spiritual sight, or darshan, of the Lord of Love.
  
   Then the Supreme Lord informs the soul of the mysteries of the 
higher regions, and with His own spiritual power of love He aids the 
soul on its further ascent through these regions. The mystic adepts have 
said that the music of Sach Khand may be compared to that of a vina; all 
the spiritual masters who have spoken of Sach Khand have testified to
the enrapturing wonder of its music.  Like its heavenly music, the light 
of Sach Khand is inexpressible in worldly language, even in terms of 
billions of suns.
  
   The mystic adept who initiated the aspiring soul into the mysteries 
of the beyond thus has the duty of accompanying the soul safely to its 
True Home, Sach Khand. Thereafter, it is Sat Purusha Who infuses His 
own divine energy into the soul and sends it into the higher spiritual 
regions of Alakh Lok (Invisible Region), Agam Lok (Inaccessible Region), 
and Anami Lok (Nameless Region, which is the highest spiritual realm 
of all.) To all intents and purposes the spiritual aspirant can only
grasp the concept of Sach Khand as being the highest spiritual realm, 
and it is certainly a region of pure spirit and the True Home of the 
soul.  Nonetheless, the mystic adepts speak of the three higher realms  
beyond Sach Khand, although they deem it completely pointless to 
endeavor descriptions or explanations of these realms of spirituality.
  
   Sufficient to say that, through the grace of Sat Purusha, the soul 
is impelled into the next spiritual region of Alakh Lok, and then 
proceeds to the cosmic palace of Alakh Purusha, Lord of that realm. When 
the soul has received the darshan of Alakh Purusha, it goes higher to 
Agam Lok, where it beholds the Lord of that region, Agam Purusha, and  
receives His darshan,  Again the mystic adepts endeavor to describe the
radiance of these regions in terms of billions and billions of suns. 
Concerning the final region of Anami Lok, the mystic adepts keep silent. 
In a few words Swami Ji has said: "From one step to another, the soul 
beholds strange things which cannot be described in human language. 
Every region and everything is utterly beyond words. What beauty and
glory!  How can I describe them?  There is nothing here to convey the 
idea. I am helpless!"

   The soul has now beheld the ruling Lord of each of the spiritual
realms beyond Sach Khand, and it has united its own being with them. 
This is the summum bonum of the Mystical Path of Love, for the mystic 
adepts have said that love is the supreme power in these holy regions. 
When asked about Anami Lok, Swami Ji said simply: "It is All Love!"
  
   Thus, on the Mystical Path of Love, the combination of the mystic 
adept and the Shabd lead to jivan mukti, or spiritual liberation, and 
the ascension of the soul to its True Home. If the spiritual aspirant  
faithfully fulfills the mystic adept's commandments, if he lives 
completely the way of love, this spiritual liberation may be completed 
in one lifetime.  The aspirant will hear the continuous symphony of 
love, the supernal Music of the Spheres, and he will realize that 
his true Self and the divine Word is of one and the same essence.
The music is so glorious that the chattering of the unregenerate mind 
is stilled and the focus of the soul is absorbed completely within the 
audible life stream, and is thereby drawn upwards beyond the planes 
of mind and matter.
  
   As the aspirant rises into the higher realms of life, he discovers 
that this is indeed the only true freedom to which a human being can 
aspire. It is the freedom from bondage to his lower self, the fears, 
fantasies, hatreds, preferences and dreams which haunt him as he walks
the long road of recurring births and deaths. Man, individually and 
collectively, can never be truly free on this physical plane of 
existence; only the individual who has attained higher spiritual 
consciousness, fulfilling his true birthright, has attained freedom 
in the most complete sense of the word. The liberated soul may never 
again be enslaved by the false appetites of the lower self or by
the machinations of those who believe that they control the transient 
world of man by virtue of their own temporal power.
  
   Spiritual consciousness is both the reason and the summit of man's 
evolution, and its nature is beyond words, which are merely invented 
symbols of human ideation, for it is a truly wordless and timeless 
state of beatitude. He who has attained this spiritual consciousness
knows at the very center of his being that he is a free spirit, living 
in the eternal realms of spiritual liberation.  He has risen on that 
celestial symphony of the spirit, as Guru Nanak has reiterated:

 
                By practice of the Word, one rises
                  to universal consciousness and
                  develops right understanding;
                By practice of the Word, one develops 
                  clairvoyance and transvision 
                  of the whole creation;
                By practice of the Word, one is
                   freed from sorrow and suffering.
                            
                                           THE JAP JI


   Once he has transcended physical consciousness, the spiritual 
aspirant becomes fully aware of this tonal power of the universe. 
In the inner realms its radiant tones are experienced as a miraculous
mosaic of subtle energies, sounding lights and luminous tones. As 
Kabir has said: "The natural inner music is continuously flowing of 
itself, but only a rare soul knows of this communion; the true simran 
consists in the perpetual attunement of the soul with the inner music 
without any outer aid. He who contacts this hidden crest-jewel is our 
true friend."
  
   Through contact with this inner music the aspirant loses his lesser 
identity and eventually becomes "at One with God."  Though he continues 
to live out his allotted span in this world, he is "in the world but 
not of it," being a jivan mukti, a liberated being. He is no longer an 
impotent slave of the mind and the senses, but is established in true 
Godhead.   He lives perpetually in the divine light of the spirit and 
listens constantly to the divine music in his soul. Eventually he
returns to Sach Khand, the Abode of Bliss or Muqam-i-Haq, the home and 
source of the sounding light and of the soul itself. The spiritual 
aspirant is now a conscious and liberated soul. This is the true 
Salvation, Moksha or Nirvana, in the ultimate and most complete sense
of all.





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