The physical eyes are a window into the physical world. All the senses are windows, and of the five the eyes are the most commonly used; through them we perceive and experience the substances that make up this world. We spend a great deal of time looking out of the eyes at the shapes, forms and colours in this world, interacting with and moulding the substance of this plane by our very Presence.
WHAT IS THIS PRESENCE? What IS IT that looks out of the eyes?
Whatever it is, it quickly becomes identified with the substances of the physical world, and in the blind rush to experience it becomes engrossed and forgets itself. This happens to each of us for the pull of substance overpowers easily the simplicity of Pure Presence – until we wake up, that is! Look at a baby and see how quickly its pure presence becomes mesmerised in time by toys and the insatiable appetite for things of the world! In the course of living, it soon believes itself to be something other than what it truly is . . . PURE PRESENCE.
It is useful to remember that the physical body is a sophisticated vehicle, beautifully equipped for the use of our Presence – WHICH IS NOT OF THIS WORLD. We come here to this dimension in order to see, hear, touch, taste and smell; to experience and to manifest what we understand in this world, and we use the physical body to do this.
The same theme runs through similar processes upon the inner planes. Our Presence learns in course of time to perceive what is there on the different planes, for that is its nature – to witness and experience; but again, it quickly becomes identified with the varying substances of these planes and, as with the physical, it begins to identify with the qualities of the substances there: ‘I am a man’, ‘I am a woman’, ‘I am a kind man’, ‘I am an intelligent woman’, ‘I am stupid’ and so on. This is identification with the thought substance of the plane of mind.
BUT WHAT IS THIS PRESENCE? What IS IT that perceives these worlds?
We are very familiar with the emotional plane, though perhaps we are not as skilled there as we are in the physical. This plane is composed of substance which comprises the collective accumulation of all human desires over countless ages. Its substance is attuned to every phase of human hankering from the lowest type of desires to the highest aspirations. Unlike the physical world, however, the substance of the emotional plane is volatile, ever-fluctuating, highly impressionable, sensitive, over-reactive, and very difficult to control. Of all the planes it gives the most trouble to our Presence and requires a highly trained mental perception and speed of recognition to wield it. Freedom from this binding emotional substance is achieved through long and steady aspiration and sincere devotion over time, but it is more readily achieved by the cultivated ‘light’ of mental substance which pours in from the plane above when that higher plane is duly activated.
The key to understanding lies in the revelation – simple though it is – that we are, in essence, a collective Presence . . . though we seldom realise it! Yet, there comes a point, after long and continual experience on all three planes (physical, emotional and mental), when the inner Presence quietly asserts itself; it becomes a steady presence in daily living and knows to differentiate effectively between all substances and itself. Slowly but surely it begins to dis-identify with the substances of the planes and knows itself to be free. As it learns to wield substance of the three planes more consciously, it comes into contact with a beauty sublime as it exists on higher planes, the likes of which it knows nothing when bound by the ring-pass-not of the three lower worlds.
I wonder whether we give sufficient time and thought in our daily living to the very real distinction between what we ARE and what we EXPERIENCE? If we fail to perceive the fundamental simplicity of this distinction then we are caught in the forces and energies of substance, and like feathers in the eye of a tornado we are displaced and disoriented by one experience after the other, forgetting all the while that we ARE, in fact, the OBSERVER of our experiences and not the experience.
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