WHAT The MYSTICS HAVE TAUGHT
Ernest Holmes
Cosmic Consciousness ~ Illumination (Concluded)
"In moments of deepest realization, the great mystics have sensed that One Life flows through all, and that all are some part of that Life. They have also seen Substance, a fine, white, brilliant stuff, forever falling into everything; a Substance indestructible and eternal. It is at such times of complete realization that they have been blinded by the LIGHT of which we have been speaking.
Remember, all of this takes place in a perfectly normal state of mind and has nothing whatever to do with the psychic state. It is not an illusion but a reality; and it is during these periods that real revelations come. Perhaps a good illustration would be to suppose a large group of people in a room together, but unaware of each other's presence; each is busy with his own personal affairs, suddenly the room is illuminated for a second and they all see each other. Afterwards they try to tell what they saw. In flashes of illumination, the inspired have seen into the very center of Reality, and have brought back with them a picture of what they saw and felt. Briefly, these have been their conclusions: they have been firmly convinced of immortality...immortality NOW, not to be achieved at some future date; individuality, God as personal to the individual; the inevitable overcoming of all evil by good.
Therefore, they have taught that in such degree as one's concept of God is sufficient, evil disappears. How are we going to make this practical, other than feeling this in our meditation for practical work, for healing, for demonstration? This is what we mean by a method, a procedure a technique and a realization: that accompanying the method and technique should always come as much of the realization as we can generate at that time. In the method and the technique, something is said. This is a moving thing, but when we reach that other place - illumination - nothing is said...something is FELT."
Ernest Holmes
Cosmic Consciousness ~ Illumination (Concluded)
"In moments of deepest realization, the great mystics have sensed that One Life flows through all, and that all are some part of that Life. They have also seen Substance, a fine, white, brilliant stuff, forever falling into everything; a Substance indestructible and eternal. It is at such times of complete realization that they have been blinded by the LIGHT of which we have been speaking.
Remember, all of this takes place in a perfectly normal state of mind and has nothing whatever to do with the psychic state. It is not an illusion but a reality; and it is during these periods that real revelations come. Perhaps a good illustration would be to suppose a large group of people in a room together, but unaware of each other's presence; each is busy with his own personal affairs, suddenly the room is illuminated for a second and they all see each other. Afterwards they try to tell what they saw. In flashes of illumination, the inspired have seen into the very center of Reality, and have brought back with them a picture of what they saw and felt. Briefly, these have been their conclusions: they have been firmly convinced of immortality...immortality NOW, not to be achieved at some future date; individuality, God as personal to the individual; the inevitable overcoming of all evil by good.
Therefore, they have taught that in such degree as one's concept of God is sufficient, evil disappears. How are we going to make this practical, other than feeling this in our meditation for practical work, for healing, for demonstration? This is what we mean by a method, a procedure a technique and a realization: that accompanying the method and technique should always come as much of the realization as we can generate at that time. In the method and the technique, something is said. This is a moving thing, but when we reach that other place - illumination - nothing is said...something is FELT."
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