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Adi Da Samraj (Bubba Free John) Whole Body of Enlightenment - The Sacrifice of Man - page 332
The Four Stages of This Way of Eternal Life
The first three stages of the Way of Divine Ignorance involve purification, regeneration, higher adaptation, and sacrifice of the whole and entire body-mind through transcendental Communion with the Living Divine. In the ultimate 'or perfect stage, which is named the Way of Radical Intuition, there is absolute conservation and dissolution of the whole and entire body-mind in the transcendental Divine, which is intuited and heart-felt to be the very Condition and Truth of the body-mind and the whole world of experience. Therefore, ultimately, the devotee simply abides in that Ignorance and Radiance that is prior to body and mind and all experience. He re-cognizes and sees the dissolution of all forms, moment to moment, in Love, which is the Radiance of Eternal Life. He exists only as that Intensity. Everything resolves in that Intensity. Truly, there is not any noticing at all-no body, no mind, no experience, no effect, no dilemma, no self, no time, no form to space, no world. He is blown out in That. His Destiny cannot be located by any one the body-mind. Experience is not necessary, or even a Way to the Divine Person. The body-mind is an illusion in the Play. By association with the body-mind, the Free soul, or the Self-which dwells in the planes of manifestation but is inherently free of identification with phenomena-suffers the illusion of identification with phenomena. Liberation in Truth comes when this association produces a critical sense of revulsion, thus permitting intuitive Awakening from the stream of experience. This Awakening is SelfRealization, and it is perfected in the sixth stage of manifest life. When there is this Awakening beyond the distractive power of experience, the Self may then begin to Awaken to the Single Reality, the Original Condition, the Divine Person or Absolute Personality. The Self, first Awakened, tends to abide within Itself, excluding experiential phenomena-since the Play of experiential phenomena is recognized to have been the very Process that originally caused the Self, or Free soul, to forget its Free Condition. However, exclusive Self-Realization does not permit Transcendental God-Communion, or Realization of the Divine Person, the Inclusive Ignorance-Radiance of the One Reality. Therefore, the Ultimate Liberation comes only when the Self yields its effort to exclude phenomena as well as its previous effort to maintain association with phenomena. In the first five stages of life, entities seek association with the various kinds of psycho-physical phenomena. In the sixth stage of life, entities seek to avoid association with every kind of experiential phenomenon, while abiding in the prior Bliss of the Self. But in the seventh stage of life, the Free soul, or Self, is yielded perfectly into the Condition of the Absolute Personality, or the Domain of the Divine Person. Thus, experiential phenomena are no longer either sought or avoided. They are simply recognized as unnecessary modifications of the Single Reality, which is Transcendental and All-Pervading. Thus, the Self becomes Sacrifice, Radiance, or Love, transcending not only experience but also the Unqualified Consciousness of the Independent Self (separated from the Infinite Radiance of Existence). Therefore, even the inward or exclusive Self-Position is yielded into the Bliss of Ignorance |
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