 112. Mysticism (Inner Sky & Sun) |
In the sixth stage of human life, the root of mind and conventional self-consciousness is found, and the mental self submits or dissolves in the Radiant Energy or Consciousness in which the bodily self is arising (as a contraction, or superficial modification). This is ego-death from which the "eyes" of the true Self or Transcendental Consciousness open, beyond all qualification by mind, internal psychic phenomena, or any gestures of self-attention. Then the Radiant Life of the world stands clearly Revealed in all conditions of existence. And the body becomes the single instrument of Divine Communion or Sacrifice in the Living and Radiant Reality.
-Franklin Jones
The "Spirit" and the "Single Eye" in the Teaching of Jesus and the Ancients
The ancient esoteric religious or spiritual initiations, which are the core of even all modern religious and spiritual traditions and symbolisms, were made by various means (archetypal, ritualistic, yogic, and so forth), but they always ultimately involved initiation into the same primary experience. It is the state of awareness prior to ordinary bipolar bodily perceptions and the dualistic mind of verbal associations. It is the "monognostic" or exclusively single and inverted cognition or state. And one of the primary mystical and esoteric initiations into this state was the inverted visual perception of the circle or "eye" of light - golden yellow at the rim, blue toward the center, and white at the very center - which appears to internal vision when attention is focused at the brain core. THE CENTRAL WHITE LIGHT WAS REGARDED AS THE HIGHEST OBJECT OF CONTEMPLATION AND THE DOORWAY TO GOD*, HEAVEN, HIGHER WORLDS, AND SO FORTH. (The exclusive contemplation of the central white light, undistracted by all other colors or visions, leads to further revelations and magnifications of white light, until there is transcendence of the perception of light itself.)
Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva** are ancient Hindu names that correspond to these three primary lights of the "eye," or the levels of manifest experience. Siva corresponds to white, Vishnu to blue, and Brahma to golden yellow. And each of these lights, which may also be seen or valued independently, has formed the psychophysical basis for the cult and tradition surrounding one or more of the great religious or spiritual figures in human history.
*Inner Sun - ancient sun worship
**In the Hindu Trinity, Brahma is the Creator aspect, Vishnu is the Sustainer aspect, and Siva is the Destroyer aspect of the One Divine Person. Who is the Transcendental Consciousness and Eternal Life in which all things and beings arise and change and pass away.
