LIGHT ON THE PATH - 58 : Kill out all sense of separateness - 3

🌹 LIGHT ON THE PATH - 58 🌹

🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀

✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

CHAPTER 5 - THE 5th RULE

🌻 5. Kill out all sense of separateness - 3 🌻

248. Suppose that all of us could develop the buddhic consciousness within ourselves simultaneously. Each one would realize that he had risen to that level, and that his consciousness included that of all the others, but he would still feel that inclusive consciousness to be his consciousness.

None of us would have lost his sense of individuality at all, only in it he would include very much more than he had ever done before. He would feel himself as manifesting through all these others as well. Really what we are experiencing is the one consciousness which includes us all, the consciousness of the Logos Himself.

249. It is on the nirvanic plane that we realize most intensely that all that we thought to be our consciousness, our intellect, our devotion, our love, were in reality His consciousness, His intellect, His love, His devotion, manifesting through us somewhat as a light might shine through a lens. That realization does not come fully to the man in the buddhic world, but it does so come to him in that next above.

250. In the Stanzas of Dzyan it is said, referring to man; “The spark hangs from the Flame by the finest thread of Fohat.”1 (1 The Secret Doctrine, Vol. I, p. 66.) That, I believe, is applicable at various levels; for us it may be taken to mean that the ego hangs from the Monad by the finest thread, and that thread runs through the buddhic plane. The finest thread of which you can think is all that represents the ordinary man at these buddhic levels.

As soon as he turns his attention to higher matters – when he is regularly thinking of them and aiming at them – that thread begins to thicken. It gradually becomes more and more like a cable, and later on it appears as a funnel, because it widens out up above (I am speaking of it now as one would see it clairvoyantly), and comes down into the causal body, which is a thing of definite size for the time.

Later on the causal body itself is enlarged by the inrushing of forces, and the funnel becomes very much larger, widening out at the bottom as well as the top. At the first Initiation (for many, this experience comes before that), the man abandons the causal body and plunges into the buddhic plane.

At that time, as I have explained before, the causal body absolutely vanishes – the one thing that has seemed permanent through his long line of lives, since he left the animal kingdom, disappears.2 (2 Ante., Vol. I, Part II, Ch. 2: The Life of the Bodies.) When that occurs this funnel shapes itself into a sphere. There are more dimensions there, so that I cannot actually describe it, but this is how it appears to one who is able to see it.

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22 Dec 2020