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Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter I - The Egoic Ray - The Growth of Soul Influence |
After the major initiations are undergone, the state of
consciousness of the illumined and liberated adept is such that language serves only to
blind and to hinder true understanding. The consciousness of the initiate is of so lofty a
nature that it can only be described in terms of release, of negation, and through the
emphasis of that which it is not. It is a state of No-thing and Non-ego, for all
egoic awareness is superseded by a state of Being and of consciousness which is only
capable of comprehension and expression when form life is of no further use to the
perfected spiritual life. It is a state of non-individuality, yet with the subconscious
knowledge and gains of the individual experience. The center of consciousness is so far
removed from any individual separate identity that that particular factor has faded
entirely out, and only the macrocosmic life is sentiently realized. It is a state of
non-activity from our present angle of vision, because all individual reactions to the
activity of matter or to that state of being which we call egoic, have dropped away, and
Life and Mind can no longer be swept into motion by any of the factors which have hitherto
produced what we have called soul activity and form existence. Nevertheless, though the consciousness is other than all that has been hitherto known, and though it can only be expressed in terms of negation, the truth must be borne constantly in mind that the greater awareness must always include [32] the lesser awareness. Consequently all possible actions and reactions, identifications and focusings, awarenesses and contacts, ray impulses, approaches and withdrawals, and all possible expressions of the divine activity and qualities, phenomenal and non-phenomenal, are included in the state of Being which is now the natural state of the liberated and enlightened spiritual Existence. All are possible of recovery through the will or in response to a need, but the spiritual Being is no longer held by them or identified with them. Each of the stages on the great Path of Liberation or Enlightenment with which we have been concerned - Individualization, Initiation and Identification - have led the Life or the spiritual, interior man, from point to point, from quality to quality, from realization to realization, from phenomenal appearance to spiritual living, from physical awareness to sentient, emotional awareness, and from that to mental differentiation and separateness. He has been carried from hell to heaven, from heaven to Nirvana, from the life-conditioning of the personal Ego to that of the group soul, and thence to that of the liberated state of pure intuitional life. He has passed from form experience as a whole to that complete freedom from all vibratory impressions which it is the nature of pure Being (divorced from phenomenal existence) to demonstrate. But at the same time, nothing is lost of capacity, or quality or of sentient awareness. This is beautifully expressed for us in the words of the Old Commentary, found in the archives of the Masters.
(An expression of the truth of this can be seen demonstrating in the world each full moon of May, when the Buddha flashes forth into manifestation, for the fulfilment of the Plan and at the urgent behest of His own spiritual will.)
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