by Bubba Free John (Adi Da Samraj) pp. 415-436
Chapter 7 - The Enlightenment of the Whole Body
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The Anatomical Secrets of
Mysticism and the Higher Evolution of Man The fibrous white conductor
material of the brain core, ex-tending like a corona via the
corpus callosum into the cerebrum, and associated with the
higher brain functions, is the mediator of the highest
functional reach of Man. When the Radiant Life-Current or
Bio-Energy of the bodily being is fully polarized toward the
brain, all functions and perceptions are released from their
objects, and they invert, or become transparent, to the
All-Pervading Divine Radiance which is the Source,
Sustainer, and ultimate Destiny of the entire
body-mind. The spinal cord is a continuation
of the white fibrous conductor material of the brain, and it
contains a functional core of gray matter as well. The
general mass of gray matter in the brain surrounds the
coronal core of white matter. But the gray matter is
secondary, being only an extension or "effect'' of the white
core, which forms the primary conductive material for the
functional nerve-force of the body. The fibrous white material of the
corpus callosum joins the two hemispheres of the brain and
provides a "roof" for the precious core of the brain,
wherein the individual is defined and organized, bodily and
mentally. A corona of white fibers, called the corona
radiata, extends from the corpus callosum and invades the
entire brain with Life. The system of ventricles, or brain
spaces, surrounds the corpus callosum and the brain core
with the cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid provides a
protective cushion around and through the subtle structures
of the spine and brain. The system of ventricles in the
brain is curiously shaped and it is traditionally likened to
the form of a bird with extended wings. In the Hindu
tradition, a yogi who has stabilized the bodily cur-rents in
the brain is thus called a "Swan" or "Great Swan'' ("Hansa"
or "Paramahansa"). And when Jesus was baptized by John, the
Spirit, or Life-Power, Awakened in his brain was likened to
a Dove descending from God (or transmitted to the head of
Jesus via the hand of John). The "wings" of the swan are
pressed toward the front of the brain, and its "neck" and
"head'' are ex-tended into the upper rear of the brain,
above the cerebellum. Because of the functional association
of the ventricles of the brain with the cerebrospinal fluid,
the brain core, the corpus callosum, and the coronal network
of white fibers, the higher brain states and psychic states
of traditional yoga are often related to the image of a swan
resting on a lake, with the sun shining behind. Also,
be-cause of the association of the Awakening of the brain
(in the fifth stage of life) with internal sound, the brain
core is also traditionally likened to the shape of a conch,
which may be made to emit the "Om" sound, or the "Word,"
that represents the Creative Vibratory Source of all
psycho-physical phenomena (or all the experiences of Man).
The corona of white fibers in the cerebrum also may be
likened to an open and upturned flower, and so the image of
a lotus rising from a lake toward the sun is also commonly
used in the traditional symbology. This complex circuit of white
fibrous material, in functional association with the organs,
fluids, and ventricles of the brain core, provides the true
"cave" or "royal road" of mystical religion and esoteric
yoga. The mystic and the yogi work to reverse the down-ward
and outward polarization or disposition of the bodily
core-the root system of the spine and brain. By various
means, a disposition of inward or balanced and upward
contemplation is established, wherein the current of
nerve-force or bio-energy in the body is polarized toward
the highest center of the brain. In this process, the
auditory and visual functions come ultimately to epitomize the entire
psycho-physical system. The bodily currents are redirected
or polarized, via the spinal line, to the brain core. And
attention in the organs and functions of hearing and seeing
is inverted, or turned in toward the brain roots of these
perceptions. In this process, the brain centers associated
with lower bodily attention and the activities of the speech
mechanism and the verbal mind are sublimated and bypassed.
Attention passes along the lines of nerve-force, from the
organs of vision and audition, into the brain interior. On
the way, many levels or forms of perception and cognition
are revealed. The experiences are primarily of sights and
sounds, in the form of both subtle physical and subtle
psychic or mental states. These experiences are
characteristic of the brain core itself, independent of the
gross environment. The route or way within the brain
core follows and touches upon the various functional
mechanisms of the brain associated with the "swan on the
lake.'' The shape of the "swan'' is traced, making a curious
pattern of arcs and tunnels, provided by the various
features of the brain core. Particular forms of internal
lights and sounds appear at each station. And various forms
of sub-conscious and pre-mental "visions" (including the
"crescent" or "quarter moon") may appear spontaneously, to
characterize the state of mind at each station. Ultimately, the bodily and brain
currents stabilize in the region of the "head" or "eye" of
the "swan. " This primary center of the brain core,
associated with the pineal body, is traditionally called the
"third eye," the "ajna chakra," or the "bindu" (the lesser
center). It is the ultimate locus of personal consciousness
in relation to the subtle field of the brain's relations,
perceptions, and cognitions. However, this is not the
terminal realization of mysticism and yoga. A highly
developed self-mastery, mental intelligence, and mystical
experience may appear in the case of an individual in whom
the internal Current of Life is stably polarized to the
pineal body of the brain. But the ultimate fulfillment of
the process of upward contemplation is in the release of the
Current of Life and Consciousness from all binding
association with the independent psycho-physical mechanism
of the personal body-mind. The Realization of the Radiant
Divine involves perfect transcendence of all specific and
self-defining functions of body and brain. Therefore, the higher dimension of
the religious and spiritual Sacrifice of Man is associated
with the release of the bodily concentration of the
Life-Current, from the brain core into the white fibrous
corona of the total brain. This is attained by relaxation
and feeling-release of the concentrated energy of the pineal
body, the "eye" of the "swan," into the "beak" of the
"swan," where the proverbial pearls are separated from the
milk. The "beak" of the "swan" is the
"Maha Bindu," the Great Center, or the primal root of the
function of vision, in the upper rear of the brain, just
below the aperture or indentation in the crown of the skull.
When the Current of Life is able to pass from the personal
and bodily mechanisms of the brain core, or from the "bindu"
to the "Maha Bindu," then there is release of all limitation
by independent psycho-physical states. In that Event, the
Life-Current breaks out of the bodily mold and the psychic
structures of the brain core, and literally Enlightens the
entire brain and body. This Bodily Enlightenment is
initiated via the spreading of the Illuminating Radiance of
the Life-Current into the white fibrous corona of the
cerebrum, and thence to the entire body. That corona of a
thousand or more fibers is the "sahasrar," the "thousand
petalled lotus" of yogis, and the "halo" of the
saints. This entire mechanism and process
is inspected, experienced, and its limitations transcended
in the later stages of practice in the Way of Divine
Ignorance. In the third stage of practice, the Way of
Re-cognition, stable upward contemplation in the brain core
is established. But in order to make the sacrificial
transition from the psycho-physical awakening of the brain
core, or "bindu," to the release of the entire body-mind,
via the "Maha Bindu" and the white fibrous corona of the
brain, into the Unqualified and All-Pervading Divine
Radiance, there must first be the Radical Awakening of the
heart, or the disposition of the whole body-mind, to its
ultimate Identity and Condition. Therefore, before the ultimate
Sacrifice, or Divine Translation, may be Realized, the
illusion of independent existence must be dissolved at the
heart. Mere upward contemplation is not sufficient for
Divine Translation. The heart must break in radical
intuition of the Condition of consciousness. Thus, in the
fourth stage of practice, the Way of Radical Intuition, the
Awakened Heart, or the Divine Self, rather than the awakened
"soul," or the purified but independent self, is the
foundation of the Process of the Way. And the Radiance of
the Heart penetrates the brain core to its Root, Brightening
the total brain and the entire body-mind, and releasing all
of it, beyond sound and sight and form, into the Radiant
Divine Consciousness and Absolute Bliss of Transcendental
Love. By this means, the Sacrifice is fulfilled in the
Dissolution and Translation of the psycho-physical
individual into the All-Pervading and Transcendental
Radiance of Divine Existence.
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The Structure and
Process of Transcendence in the Last Three Stages of Born
Existence What we commonly acknowledge to be
mind, or the activities of thought and self-conscious
association with differentiated phenomena, is a
psycho-physical process that is epitomized and expressed
through the complex of functions in the brain core. That
complex of functions is physically defined by the corpus
callosum above and the higher portions of the brain stem
below. This "mind region'' of the brain is
also the area of mystical contemplation-or mental-psychic
experience of functions above the verbal mind and of objects
subtler that the gross physical. The gray matter of the
cerebral cortex is an extension of this brain core, and it
generally serves the various functions of the mind,
including the management and unification of physical
activities of all kinds. However, the white matter above the
brain core is the terminal circuit of the Life-Current in
the body. It is the region above the conventional mind. It
is the borderland of all physical and psychic limits. It is
that mechanism which is brought into function when the
Life-Current is Realized in its All-Pervading Condition,
prior to the structures of the body-mind and the independent
subjective self. The brain core is the region of
thought and mystical subjectivity. The region of thought, or
the verbal-intentional mind, is associated with the eye
level of the head, and lower. The region of mystical
subjectivity is associated with the level of the brain that
is at and just above the brows. The region of mind associated with
the functions of the brain at and somewhat above the brows
is the general region of the "third eye" and the mystical
experiences of subtle or heavenly realms of the cosmic
order. But the white matter above the brain
core-particularly the corona radiata-is the Platform from
which the mind is sacrificed into Infinity. Such is the
"sahasrar," or the region of the Transcendental Liberation
of Life. Therefore, mystical processes lead
attention above the verbal-intentional mind, via the
Life-Current in the spinal line, culminating in the
structures at and above the upper extremities of the brain
stem. But attention cannot go higher than the deepest
profound of subtle objectivity in the brain core. Thus,
mystical interiorization cannot penetrate to Infinity.
Attention cannot pass from the "third eye" to the "sahasrar.
" In the fifth stage of life, yogic
mysticism raises attention into the extremities of subtle
experience-or the heavens of ascended knowledge. But
Liberation in God is not Realized at that stage or by such
means. In order for the Life-Current to cross the Divide
between the "third eye" and the "sahasrar, " or between the
body-mind and Infinity, the gesture of attention and the
illusion of an independent conscious self must be utterly
Dissolved in the true Self. The highest extreme of the ascent
of attention is called "nirvikalpa samadhi," or total
Absorption of self-consciousness in Radiant Transcendental
Consciousness. But, in fact, the seed of differentiated self
remains in such ascended Absorption of attention. Attention
is yet extended outside the heart, or the root of
self-consciousness, as a gesture toward an independent
Object, and, therefore, such "samadhi" is not only
temporary, but it re-mains a form of subject-object
Contemplation. Thus, even though the independent
self may appear to transcend its own limits and the limits
of all objects that are less than Infinity, as long as the
gesture of attention is not itself Transcended, there is no
Perfect Absorption. For this reason, even "nirvikalpa
samadhi," or selfless Communion with God, is actually a form
of "savikalpa samadhi," or Communion between self and God.
It is simply an extreme form of Absorption, in which the
self appears to be Transcended, but in which it is simply in
a profound state of distraction. Therefore, the mind is not truly
transcended in the fifth stage of life. And in the second
phase of the Way of Re-cognition, wherein the fifth stage of
life attains maturity, the subtle distinction between self
(or attention) and the Radiant Reality is observed and
re-cognized. When this occurs, the Process moves into the
sixth stage of life, wherein the gesture of attention is
re-cognized in the heart. In the sixth stage of life, the
body, the contents of mind, and attention itself are all
re-cognized, or obviated, in the soul, or the Free
Disposition of Unqualified Consciousness, located in or via
the heart. In this manner, the soul is Liberated from
distraction, by Realizing its Identity with the true Self.
That Identity is not true of the manifest or covered soul,
the "I," the body-mind. Rather, it is priorly or Eternally
true of the Free soul, prior to the "I" of the body-mind.
Therefore, when the "I" is made a radical Sacrifice in the
heart, the soul Awakens to its Transcendental
Identity. Even so, the sixth stage of life is
not the terminal or Perfect stage. Enlightenment is not the
Realization of the inner being, the soul in its strategic
independence from the phenomena of differentiated
experience. Rather, Enlightenment is Ecstasy, or
Transcendence, which neither includes nor excludes
phenomena. Only in this Disposition is the soul Free. And
only when the soul is in this Disposition do its
psycho-physical or experiential, coverings become gradually
obsolete and fall away, through motiveless non-use or
non-reinforcement. Thus, in the seventh stage of life,
or the Way of Radical Intuition, the soul Exists in Ecstasy,
as the Heart (rather than in the heart, or the inner being).
And in this Perfect stage of life the Bodily Life-Current is
Released or Liberated from the body-mind and all association
with the internal mechanisms of the brain core. When the
devotee abides as the Heart, re-cognizing all phenomena as
only unnecessary modification of Itself, while It neither
embraces nor resists any experiential condition-then the
Bodily Life-Current becomes not only naturally polarized
toward the brain, and thereby Released from concentration in
the lower functional body, but it is actually Released even
from concentration in the brain. This is due to the fact
that the mind, or the independent gesture of attention, is
itself Dissolved through re-cognition in the
Heart. Therefore, in the Way of Radical
Intuition, the Bodily Life-Current is Released from its
structural association with the body-mind. This only occurs
when the root of the body-mind, which is the gesture of
attention, is re-cognized or Dissolved in the Heart. It is
not that attention, or the mind, passes up with the
Life-Current, through the crown or fontanelle, beyond the
gross body, into an astral body and astral realms of
experience. Rather, the mind is itself Dissolved in the
Heart, the Divine Self. Therefore, the Life-Current of the
body-mind is Released from the structural destiny of the
covered soul. In this manner, the "sahasrar" is not merely
Illuminated in itself, but the Bodily Life-Current is
Identified with the Universal All-Pervading Radiance of the
Heart, the true Self. Therefore, the Life-Current does not
itself pass up and out through the crown, but it is Diffused
Universally in the Heart, via the body-mind as a whole. (The
Life-Current in the spinal line is polarized to the crown,
but it simply Radiates as a whole, in all directions to
Infinity, without passing up and out. Movements up and down
are not true of the Life-Current itself, but they only
reflect the motion of attention in the Life-Current, and
attention itself is, in the Terminal Event, Dissolved in the
Transcendental Ecstasy of the Heart.) Such is the mechanism
of Whole Bodily Transcendental Enlightenment. It is
Perfected only in Ecstasy, or utter Transcendence of the
structural limits of the body-mind and the independent
subjectivity or differentiated self of the inward soul.
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Beyond the Heartbeat and the
Mind There is a Current of Vibratory
Force pervading the entire body. It is the body's Life and
the Light of its mind. It may be felt to be identified with
either the whole body itself or with the prior Condition of
the whole body. It is perfectly identical to the whole body
itself, but it is ultimately not qualified by the finite
body or any of its conditions. It appears to be structured
and limited via the mechanisms of the gross body, and its
principal functional locus is thus identified with the
spinal line, running from toe to crown, and vice versa. The
elemental and outer aspect of the whole body is controlled
by the pervading Current, as etheric, or electrical and
magnetic, energy. Thus, the illusions of conventional
subjectivity and inwardness involve a turning of attention,
the egoic expression of the Life-Current of the manifest
bodily-being, from the lower body and its outward functions
and toward the upper body and the brain, which is the
controlling core of the outer functions. But the Truth of
the whole body is at the heart, where the prior Condition of
the Current of the body is intuited, prior to all
differentiation of form and thought and self. The brain controls all of the
psycho-physiology of the gross being. That is, the
Life-Current of the whole body controls the gross processes
via the brain and the descending structures of the nervous
system. Thus, the heartbeat is also controlled or regulated
via the brain and nervous system, but the heartbeat itself
originates at the heart itself, in its direct association
with the All-Pervading Life. The region of the heart is the
central and senior dimension of the whole and entire body.
Indeed, the heart, the dimension of feeling-intuition, is
the epitome of the whole body, whereas the brain is only a
part of the whole body. The heart is the dimension of the
manifest being wherein the Current of Radiant Life that is
pervading the structures and controls of the whole body is
contacted directly and intuitively, prior to perception and
conception. Life is "located" at the heart, prior to all
limitation-even prior to the heartbeat. The heartbeat is a manifestation of
the extended and defined being. It is, like thought and the
mechanics of the brain, an expression wherein and whereby
the All-Pervading and Prior Condition of the Life-Current of
the whole body is interpreted and defined in limitation. The
Truth of the whole body is at the heart. That is, the
Transcendental Condition and Life of the whole body is
intuited, through penetration of the limiting reactivity of
the whole body, to be prior to the heartbeat, and thus prior
to self, mind, body, and all relations. Therefore, the Way in Truth is not
toward or within the bodily structures themselves, nor even
toward any perception or conception, gross or subtle,
impressed upon the All-Pervading Current of Life via the
nervous system and the brain. The Way of Truth is at the
heart, prior to recoil and structure, prior to every
extension and action of manifest existence and experience.
It is the Sacrifice of the whole body at Infinity. It is
Love rather than Yoga. In the Process of this Way, the
psycho-physiology of body, life, and mind, even of the
higher mind and the inner self, is transcended. The tyranny
of the heartbeat and the bodily structures wherein
consciousness is defined and the Infinite is differentiated
are all obviated released of the power of implication and
limitation. Then the very Divine stands forth, in radical
intuition, as the Truth of the All-Pervading Current or
Radiant Life, of which all differentiated conditions are the
present modification. When the heartbeat, the structures
of the body, the brain, and the mind cease to define the
consciousness, then consciousness is Realized as the Heart,
the Condition in Reality, the Radiance of God prior to all
knowledge. Such is ultimate Self-Knowledge, the Foundation
of Bodily Enlightenment. True or Perfect Enlightenment is
Sacrifice of the whole body at Infinity, rather than the
attainment of consoling structural and subjective states of
the differentiated being, high or low. When that Sacrifice,
Love, or Radiance is perfect in Ignorance, the body-mind
Dissolves in Divine Translation of Consciousness, from the
planes of unnecessary modification to the Perfect Domain of
Bliss, wherein there is Perfect Responsibility for all
Experience. That Translation is the necessary Destiny of
devotees in the Way of Radical Intuition. It is the Gift of
God. Until it is given, the arising of manifest conditions
continues, during the present life and in conditions after
the present life is past. Until then, all conditions are
tacitly re-cognized, on the basis of radical intuition of
the Real Condition of all present arising, and no condition
has power to suppress the essential Bliss or Radiance of
Divine Ignorance. At last the unqualified intuition of the
Real Condition is transformed into unspeakable Glory beyond
the worlds of mysterious problematic embodiment.
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God Is the Transcendental
Consciousness and Radiant Life That Pervades the Body, the
Mind, and the World The entire world, and every living
individual, is pervaded by a Transcendental Consciousness
and Radiant Energy that is the single Identity and Ultimate
Source, Sustainer, Mover, Transformer, and Destiny of every
thing and every one. That is God, the Divine, the Real, the
All-Pervading, Transcendental, Bliss-Full
Ignorance-Radiance. The individual body-mind is a
temporary and dependent ex-tension, reflection, and
modification of the Very and Living Divine. The individual
does not in any way create or sustain itself, or determine
its ultimate Destiny. The individual is wholly and always
presently dependent on the Divine, which is alive as all
beings. Only cooperative, conscious, and self-released
participation in the Divine by the individual body-mind
permits the Divine to Sustain and Determine a benign or
ultimately positive and transforming individual life-cycle,
and to draw the individual into the Destiny that is Divine.
But if the individual recoils from the Divine Life and
Identity, then the life-cycle degenerates, and reactive
experiential destinies bind the individual to illusions,
until he is Awakened from self to God. The Divine as All-Pervading
Radiance spontaneously individuates as the bodily form, and
pervades that form as Life, whereas the Divine as
Transcendent Ignorance eternally transcends all forms as
Unqualified Consciousness. The Life-Radiance is ex-pressed,
or spontaneously modified, not only as the bodily form, but
also as its states of feeling and mentality. The range of
experiential states-bodily, vital, emotional, and mental, as
well as unconscious, subconscious, conscious, and
superconscious-is broad and complex, ordinary and
extraordinary. But no experiential state, however high in
the structural scheme of our born possibilities, is itself
the Realization of the prior Divine Condition or Absolute
Truth of the body-mind. And unless that Condition and Truth
is Realized in the present moment of experiencing,
experience itself, no matter how extraordinary, is
self-binding, deluding, degenerative, and an instrument of
separation from the Bliss of God. Individual existence in a world is
a riddle and a torment, unless it may be established in
right Relationship to the Radiant Reality that is its Life,
or Energy, and in right Identity with the Transcendental
Ignorance, or Unqualified Consciousness, that is its very
Self. And the Way in which we may live in such right
Relationship and Identity with the Divine Reality, free of
fear and illusion, is in conversion, or the "turn about" of
every aspect of the body-mind, from self-possession to
Ecstatic God-Communion. All the religious and spiritual
"Ways" that have been communicated among men are historical
gestures toward the self-sacrificial or Ecstatic Communion
of the individual with the One and Ultimate Divine Reality.
The Way of Divine Ignorance is simply a most radical,
summary, and completely considered form of this necessary
obligation of Man. Communion with the Radiant and
Transcendental Divine is ecstatic sacrifice of the whole and
entire body-mind into the Radiant Energy that pervades it
and the Unqualified Consciousness with which it is
Identical. And the process of such Communion assumes a
particular character in the case of the human individual,
because the structure that must yield into the Divine is
constructed or fabricated according to a specific complex
design. Clearly, the common characteristics
of human individuals are bodily, vital, emotional, and
mental. Therefore, the most rudimentary form of Divine
Communion is the intuitive turning of all bodily, vital,
emotional, and mental functions, conditions, experiences,
and relations into forms of functional surrender to the
Radiant Divine Life. Such is the whole bodily religious
obligation presumed in the Way of Divine Ignorance by
members of The Free Communion Church. In that process, the
Living Power of God is permitted to pervade, enliven,
sustain, transform, and Awaken the entire bodily being. And
the primary instrument of that process is the whole bodily
disposition of ecstatic or self-releasing sacrifice into the
Divine. That disposition is the one of total, profound, and
free feeling-attention, or relaxation of the entire
body-mind into the All-Pervading Life through love. The
means of this sacrifice includes devotional practices, forms
of personal functional discipline of a wholly regenerative
kind, and a continuous moral orientation to others through
heartfelt service and clear-minded intelligence. As the individual matures in
Communion with the Living and Transcendental Divine, the
unique and specific design of his own structural condition
becomes more and more apparent. Therefore, the process of
Sacrifice in God begins to take on more of the "esoteric"
form of a highly sophisticated yogic exercise. And growth in
this Way begins to include higher psycho-physical awakening
to the structural design by which the individual body-mind
mediates the Radiant Energy and Unqualified Consciousness of
the Divine. The illusion of independent
existence as a subtle body-mind or "soul" is a great
temptation in the advancing stages of spiritual maturity,
just as the illusion of independent existence as a gross and
worldly body-mind tempts and occupies the usual man in his
subhuman ordinariness. Therefore, the Sacrifice of the
body-mind in the Living Divine must continue and become even
more pro-found as the subtler experiential revelation of the
structures of the human body-mind increases-or else such
growth can itself lead to an intensely deluding form of
psychic self-possession. All of the functions of the human
body-mind must ultimately participate in this Ecstatic
Sacrifice. But there is a primal core to the body-mind that
represents its fundamental structural orientation. It is the
disposition of this core that determines whether experience
is subtler and more mental or grosser and more physical, and
whether experience will be an end in itself or a form of
participatory sacrifice in the Radiant Divine
Reality. The central white fibrous core of
the brain, extended into the gray matter of the brain mass,
together with the central white and gray core of the spinal
column, is the primal structural feature of the human
body-mind. The white fibrous material of the brain core is
the central carrier of the bio-energy that is extended from
the All-Pervading Radiant Current of the Living Divine. All
thought, perception, sensation, form, and activity develop
as an extension of this white vibratory core of the
brain. Therefore, as the individual
matures in the Way of Divine Ignorance, more and more
sophisticated inspection and responsibility arise relative
to the structural and bio-energetic core of experience.
However, that bio-energetic core is not Truth, nor is any
experiential modification of that core a form of
God-Realization. Rather, that core itself must become the
ultimate Sacrifice in God. The experiential core of the
body-mind is secondary to the Divine Disposition or Ecstatic
Sacrificial gesture of the whole body-mind itself.
Therefore, at every stage of practice in the Way of Divine
Ignorance, structural responsibilities of either a
functionally extended or a primal variety are awakened, but
all experience of the body-mind is re-cognized, or yielded
into the very Divine. Thus, the whole bodily disposition of
the heart is senior to the primal structural core of
experience, whose primary seat is in the upper rear of the
brain core and in the crown as a whole. The body-mind itself
is secondary to Love, or the Ecstatic Sacrifice of the
body-mind. In the seventh stage of human life
in God, which coincides with maturity in the Way of Radical
Intuition (the fourth or perfect stage of practice in the
Way of Divine Ignorance), the whole and entire body-mind
becomes a perfect Sacrifice into the Radiant Divine, and
Translation into the Divine Domain of Existence occurs. The
mechanics whereby this Translation occurs may truly be
understood only in the case of actual Realization. But the
primary structural armature or root of the Sacrifice is the
one defined by the intercourse or Living Connection between
the root terminal at the right side of the heart (or the
Awakening to Identity with the Un-qualified Consciousness or
Divine Ignorance of the Real) and the primal terminal of the
brain, the corona radiata and the rear-most upper extensions
of the corpus callosum and the pineal body (or the Awakening
to Perfect Sacrifice of all experiential states in the
All-Pervading Transcendental Radiance of the Divine
Reality). This Spiral Current between the heart and the
crown is simply the primary evidence of a Process wherein
the Awakened heart Radiates simultaneously in every part of
the body-mind, and beyond the body-mind, to the degree of
Infinity. The Radiance of the heart is a single
Transcendental Medium, whereby Dissolution of the
in-dependent experiential states of the body-mind occurs in
the ultimate spiritual Realization of God. All of this talk of structural
esotericism and Divine Translation is remarkable, most
profound, and clearly beyond the capacity of the ordinary or
subhuman understanding common at this stage of evolution on
Earth. But the whole affair is necessary and in-evitable. No
thing can remain separate from God forever. Both a basic
understanding of this process and a most direct Awakening to
the Divine are within the capacity of anyone who responds to
the Argument and the Person of the Spiritual Master. It is
only necessary to "hear" and to "see"-to renounce one's
loveless and self-possessed independence, or one's
childishly self-possessed tendency to dependence, and to
surrender in a "manly" fashion (whether male or female) to
the Divine Understanding and Presence that is Inherently and
Eternally at Work in every world, and in every man, and in
every part. This was made clear to Bubba by the
Graceful God and En-ightener of Krishna and Gautama, Moses,
Jesus, and Mohammed, Ramakrishna, Shirdi Sai Baba, Divine
Nityananda, and Beloved Ramana Maharshi. Do not be deceived
by the madness of the times and the sophistications of
ordinary men. The same God that Awakened Me is at Work in
the heart and even in the bodily cells of Man, and that same
One can remove the doubts and torments of any one at
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The Evolution of Man and the
Sacrifice of the World Man is only a brief design in the
numberless evolutionary stages of the World. And the
individual human being is only a moment, a specimen, a
partial realization of Man. The individual is not made for
his own sake, but to be a sacrifice toward Man-so that Man
may fulfill his evolutionary destiny. And Man is not made
for his own sake, but to be a sacrifice toward the ultimate
evolutionary process of the World. And the World is not made
for its own sake, but to be a sacrifice to the unqualified
and eternal Divine. If the design of Man is examined, he is
revealed to be a composite of all previous creatures,
environments, and experiences. His body below the brows is a
machine of animals and elemental cycles. He is full-made of
horses and crocodiles, honey bees and swans, sardines and
earth forces, redwood and fruit palm, Amazon, Pacific, solar
fire, Everest, weather of water and air, all the usual
stars, and antique ocean mammals leaning away from Earth. He
is not truly unique below the brows. He is, rather, a
summation of all that came before him and every thing that
he already knows. But Man is also a new stage in the
event of time. His newness or uniqueness is hidden in the
brain. His lower or vital brain, including his rudimentary
speech and thought, is part of the summary and reflection of
the past. But the middle range of his brain, beginning with
the higher verbal or abstract mental functions, is the
doorway to the future. And above the thinking and imaging
function of the middle brain is the naked mass of yet
unadapted purity, the higher brain, which Communes with
Light. This higher brain is the structural cauldron of the
present and future evolutionary changes of Man and what is
beyond Man in the scheme of the World. The individual is only a moment,
and his structural adaptation of the whole body-mind to its
potential above the brows is generally quite modest, if it
occurs at all. Man, at any moment, is the summary of what
has been. Therefore, the millions or billions of men and
women who live and die in every generation may add a
fraction of development to the destiny of Man. But the
Teaching of Truth is also given to all, so that the
principles of structural evolution may be grasped and
fulfilled by at least a few in every generation. Thus, the
realization of these few is also added to Man, and all
future men and women may be raised up by such
means. The Spiritual Master is given the
task of communicating the Laws of evolution and of sacrifice
to his own generation, so that Man may be raised up in God.
And the Spiritual Master himself advances the evolution of
Man by a difficult process of personal psycho-physical
transformation. But what he realizes cannot be added to Man
until many representatives of mankind embrace the Way of
Truth and submit to the process of transformation and
sacrifice. The individual is a sacrifice to
God through Man. Man is a sacrifice to God through the
World. The World is a sacrifice to God in every present
moment. Therefore, all things and beings are a present,
past, and future sacrifice toward a Condition that no one in
time can appear to have Realized Perfectly-since everyone in
the present summarizes the past, and a few, at best,
demonstrate an Awakening to the future and ultimate
Condition. But even the Spiritual Master generally appears
to others in the bodily form of the present state of
Man. Even so, the radical Realization of
the ultimate Destiny of the World is possible in the present
and in the case of any individual who will give himself up
to the Divine in Truth. This is also the Teaching and the
Demonstration of the Spiritual Master. Most individuals are
content to pursue an ordinary personal destiny, by
exploiting what Man has already become. Such individuals
live a basically subhuman life, and they add nothing new to
Man. Others are not content unless they can exceed
themselves. But unless they transcend the old creature and
enter into the development of the higher brain, they do not
exceed the present state of Man. Therefore, only a few
individuals in every generation enter into the evolutionary
module of the higher brain, through which the whole body is
brightened in the universal Field of Light. Such individuals
work changes in themselves by exploiting the potential of
Man. But until what they do is also communicated and lived
by greater numbers of individuals, even their experiment is
not added to the Incarnation of Man. Therefore, the Spiritual Master
appears, to communicate the Way of the transcendence of self
and the transcendence of the present stage of Man so that
mankind may more generally fulfill the higher trend of
evolution, rather than fall back upon itself in regressive
self-possession and exploitation of the elemental
Man. However, the Spiritual Master is
also full of Transcendental urgency. He also communicates to
Man. He reminds Man that even he is a moment, a process,
grotesque when seen in himself. He reminds Man that his
beauty and happiness are in his Ecstasy, his sacrifice
toward what is yet to come and what is Perfect. He reminds
Man that his true Destiny is not in his own evolutionary
fulfillment, but in the fulfillment of the sacrifice of the
whole World, which includes everything before and after Man,
as well as Man himself. Therefore, the Spiritual Master is
most profoundly devoted to the Awakening of individuals and
Man and the whole World to that Process of Sacrifice that
transcends not only the past and present but also the future
of all evolution of self, of Man, and of the World. His
Teaching ultimately exceeds all evolutionary prescriptions.
He moves his devotees through the structures of self, of
Man, and the World, until these devotees can be the
Sacrifice of even the World itself. Therefore, his Teaching,
his Demonstration, and the ultimate Demonstration of his
devotees is the one of Perfect Ecstasy, or the Sacrifice of
self and Man and the World into the Condition that is
Divine. To such devotees, the Spiritual
Master Communicates and Reveals himself in that Form which
is beyond Man, and he also is Revealed to be the Sacrifice
of even that Form, beyond all consolations and attainments.
This is what moves us to Love. And we may be the Liberation
of self and Man and the World, if we will abandon all
withholding, fear, and doubt and if we will turn out from
all subhuman, human, and superhuman self-possession into the
Ecstasy of Worldlessness.
Enlightenment
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