We live and spend our allotted time on this earth among many forms in the three worlds of human endeavour.
1. The physical world of diverse and tangible forms which provide us with every manner of entertainment ranging from the grossest to the most refined.
2. The emotional world of astral forms (feelings), which offer a wide range of experience to all, and particularly to those who are emotionally inclined. These forms range from the coarsest to the finest emotions, and like the physical, we are free to pick them up or leave them whenever we wish.
3. The mental world of thoughtforms with a very wide range of concrete thoughts varying from the most ignorant to the most intelligent. For those who are more inclined towards these subtler forms there is enough material here to entertain for lifetimes.
So here we are engrossed in these three worlds; affiliated with an aggregate of forms which keep the collective consciousness thoroughly engaged and bewildered for aeons and aeons of time.
Beyond these three dimensions in which we are thoroughly embroiled, there lies the possibility of experience in other worlds. These are the formless worlds of abstract and intuitive mind. There have been many in the past, and those in this lifetime who experience the effects, even now, of these formless worlds. Mother Teresa, Einstein, Wordsworth, Gandhi, and many others who gain glimpses into these worlds, and speak of their experience in terms of Walking in the Daylight. In these moments of contact with that which exists above, the lower mind is freed from the ubiquitous thought-forms which drive it mindlessly hither and thither all day long. Consciousness slips through a doorway and becomes privy to something real and more beautiful.
We all experience to some degree the qualities of these higher worlds when we read uplifting material and inspired novels, when we hear beautiful music, or listen to sublime poetry which stirs the heart, and we sense strongly that our brothers have seen a greater light.
It is said that these formless worlds are accessed when we learn to centre the consciousness on the higher levels of the mental plane. When we are no longer deluded by the desires of the senses and learn to hold in our sight a vision that guides us out of the maze of lower life perceptions, we may enter a field of clear knowledge where daylight abounds. Until we grasp the possibility of this higher vision and possibility, we will continue to walk aimlessly in the dark without realising that it is, indeed, dark.
Two steps in this direction are suggested:
1. A constant and unfailing attempt to centre the consciousness in the mind through clear thinking, avoiding the habitual reactions of the emotional body. As we learn to regard the mind as the interpreter of our states of consciousness, holding steady the mental processes and emotional expressions, so we discover that point in the mind – the real ‘I’ – to be the true directing agent.
2. An understanding that all moods, sorrows, pain, and excitement are due to our identification primarily with objects of desire and with that which is material and illusive. We are to overcome our fixation on the obsessive acquisition of forms that are by nature, short-lived, and so turn the attention onto higher levels that are worthy of our attention.
Study, reflection, and self-discipline, founded on clear understanding of the evolution of consciousness are ever required as we walk towards the Light.
Let us learn to walk in the daylight and so leave the dark trails behind.
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