According to Paul Twitchell, The Tiger’s Fang is one such divine presentation. A presentation which resulted from the concern of a spiritual traveler, Rebazar Tarzs, who desired to reveal certain cosmic truths to his chela Paul Twitchell. A spiritual traveler of the caliber of Rebazar Tarzs does not care whether we accept him or his words, Twitchell tells us, but he does desire that we listen, weigh, and judge what he says. “Here is the crux of the matter,” Twitchell explains. “If we listen, weigh, and judge his wisdom… we shall never again be the same. He addresses Soul, not the mind nor the body; and he awakens Soul to Its true destiny.”
When a traveler speaks, we, in ignorance, think he speaks to the physical self. This is wrong. He addresses Soul, not the mind nor the body; and he awakens Soul to Its true destiny. There is danger in this however. If a person is not normally experienced in the world of Spirit he may be contacted by one with only psychic powers, and awaken within him those lower faculties. We often mistake psychic awareness for that of the spiritual. This is not good for it stops our growth on the spiritual path.
1 Sailors of the Cosmic Sea Man has always had the consuming desire to sail the cosmic seas and eventually reach the far shores where dwells the Lord of all creation.
Secondly, I wish to point out that the human form is the focal point for the energies of this world and serves as a point of balance between them. All that is material substance, food, and water is of the negative nature; and all that is breath, atoms, electrons, and prana vitality is of the positive nature. We cannot do without either as long as we are here on this earth in human embodiment.
The wild surf lashed the shore, and a wind whipped the pines along the edge of the strand.
The sea was crystal blue, and the lacy surf was like a million sparkling diamonds that dashed up against the sandy beach and ran off into the sea again.
The distant horizon was majestic with foaming whitecaps. Yet there was a silence, a strange, wonderful silence so deep-reaching that it stirred through me. Looking down at my body, a feeling of joy went through me; I was wearing a white robe of light which flowed around me in a circular motion, a gentle swirling current. There were no feet, no hands, nothing but a ball of swirling light. My vision was below where my feet should have been, and it was also in back of my head. It was anywhere I directed my attention—all simultaneously. When I spoke there was a multitude of sounds issuing from me.
“This is the cosmic sea of life,” he explained. “Look at the water. It is not really water as you think, but trillions of undeveloped Souls struggling to find their way to God perfection. Look!”
“The Ocean of Love,” said Rebazar Tarzs. “The love current, which I often speak of as the Master Power, is always moving into the worlds, into that vast area beyond, into space, time, and motion—that which comprises the worlds below the Second Grand Division!”
Its heights could have been many times greater than Mount Everest, and out of its summit poured lights, millions of lights, flowing into the worlds, onward and upward into the clear sky until they faded in the light of a majestic sun. Rebazar Tarzs said, “That is the great mountain of Sahasra-dal-Kanwal. Sometimes it is called the Mountain of Light. Look closely, and you will see a thousand varied lights clustered around one huge central light, each in the form of a gigantic lotus flower. This is the powerhouse of the physical universe which we call Pinda, that of the physical worlds. From this gigantic dynamo flows all the power that creates and sustains all creation below it, worlds upon worlds without end.
That robe which you believe is a ball of light turns out only to be your Soul body.” We left the boat at the wharf and walked up a street with white walls on either side. Everything seemed to be made of soft, white stone that glistened in the reddish light of a sun which was not visible to the eye. There were round, white domes peering over the high walls like oriental temples, and everywhere people walked in long, joyful strides, with heads lifted and eyes sparkling as though life was completely blissful. From somewhere came the sounds of beautiful music. Overhead were strange square-shaped objects flying through the sky.
To give me further proof, he showed me beings walking on their hands, upside down, carrying packages with their feet. He laughed and explained that it was only an illusion thrown before my vision. The world righted again, and I saw clearly what had happened. He continued, saying it was a part of the maya, or illusion, on this plane, and it was stronger here than on the earth plane because thought power was greater. He was only debunking the power of vision to see and create attitudes which we gain by wrong conception.
These people were the fathering tribe of the Lemurians and Atlanteans. Many of the planetary groups come from the Seres, especially the space people. They have superior knowledge and occult powers.
What was shown to me is beyond the scope
of a verbal description; I would not ever attempt it. This is the center of creation for the subtle and physical worlds. We passed through these lights without harm. I saw the ethereal images of huge planetary spirits moving through the lights, going about their various duties. We were then walking through a hall filled with soft, indirect light that poured out in buoyant energies. The ceilings were filled with frescoes, paintings of some far-distant past races.
There is nothing, so seek nothing, for it will bring you all you desire. And I tell you that such desires are illusionary, for you are in my grasp. I will not let you leave until divine-mind understanding enters into your being. “Travelers, your finer body manifests itself in realms invisible to the human eye. Your intellect penetrates deeper than your senses. Every visible fact in connection with the body is an undertone of invisible facts or processes; every organ, every body function you study is but the effects of higher functions from out of this world and the worlds beyond. “Your preachers know nothing, your philosophers are little better, and your thinkers on the earth plane are even worse. You talk with one another, make your pretty speeches about character, courage, honor, et cetera. You see romance where it does not exist—or if it does exist, it exists in bloody and sorrowful depths that you cannot fathom.
“The world you live in is but an ash can, and those who serve there to help man always go back knowing that they will be met with scorn and cruelty.
“A large part of the spiritual science is so transcendental that it cannot be put into words and is communicated from a traveler to man by means of telepathy. That is why much of it, the sublime truths, are never actually put upon paper or even spoken orally. “Remember that knowledge of divine truth is not a thing you can read about in books, discuss with others, or even hear told. It is a thing you must experience alone. Not even a Godman will take part in this experience, for it is the road upward to eternity and to Godhood itself. Therefore you must travel it alone, under the vigilant eye of a spiritual traveler such as Rebazar Tarzs, or by yourself, in your own way.
The truth never pretends it has the monopoly on God. There are many ways to God, and each Soul must be free to choose which one It prefers.
This is one of the disadvantages of being without a true teacher. When one goes in the opposite direction with psychic study, then he is worse off than the one who knows nothing. Only a spiritual traveler can safely take Soul through these planes to God, unless Soul has already experienced journeys within Its own sheathings. This explains why so many who start out on the path become entangled in their own nature.
Maya will trap them invariably. Even those who were fully confident in their own ability have not escaped maya. The greatest of cosmic travelers—Jesus, Buddha, and others—have been caught up in the web of this wonderful weaver of dreams. And what wonderful dreams this lady of maya can weave around one. They are more beautiful than any spell cast by drugs.
for it is the very place that John, in Revelation, called the holy city of new Jerusalem, which lay foursquare, with the length as large as the breadth. The length, height, and breadth were equal, he said, and so it is with this city.
The light, which is the very sound of Aum, comes from a great tunnel under the three mountains. We entered a gate and walked into the city, where people who appeared like angels were engaged in some spiritual duties. The Tibetan pointed out their various duties which were not for themselves but for the worlds to which they belonged: the writing of books, painting, sculpturing, and advancement in sciences of the material worlds. “There is no night here,” said Rebazar Tarzs. “It is a place where only the wise can enter. It is the home of the Universal Mind Power. See for yourself, for there is the Book of Life and the works going into it.” There was an angel, so mammoth that words cannot describe it, writing in an enormous book miles upon miles in length, width, and thickness. The pages were being flipped rapidly; erasing when a Soul left the material world by death, and writing down when a Soul was reincarnated again.
Its light moves constantly outward into space, time, and eternity, into the three worlds beyond—creating, maintaining, and destroying all there is. The words God is—and God does—are simplified when you see this magnificent river of Light.
inspiring statement: to listen was to be on holy terms with the Almighty. “I am Brahm, the lord of the worlds. There is no other but myself! Love me for myself and none other. Become mine, enter into my heart and see the pure light of God, for I am God and there is no other beyond me, nor any behind me. I am It, and I am He! Look upon my face!
“Understand this and you will understand the one fundamental law of my universe which shows you where lies the balanced continuity of all creative expression in my electric-wave universe of two conditioned lights in seething motion.
“What man mistakes for thinking is but an electric awareness of things sensed and recorded within the brain cells for repetitive usage through memories. “Memories have no relation to knowledge of the Universal Mind which is in man; these memories, of course, are no more than an electrical machine. What man thinks of as a living body is but an electrically motivated machine, which simulates life through motion extended to it from its center, Soul, which alone lives and wills the body into movement from my commands. “Man is not free. No man is free under my rulership, for I am everywhere and doing all things, at all times. You are my subjects, and I will hold you within my grasp throughout eternity!”
“As you become more and more transformed by the God-light of the awakening Soul within you, you leave the jungle of the earth world further below in darkness. “Man cannot bear much of the light at a time because his physical being is still new and too near the jungle of materiality. All who are well out of that jungle have already found enough of my light to illumine their way from its dark depths.
“Look for me, then, forever upward in this high heaven of light, where glory awaits the fearless, the courageous Souls, all-knowing seekers of beauty in the purity of my light. “If your eyes are in my heavens, the light will shine forever in you, and you will be transformed as you find it ever widening in your vision.
“Poetry is the only language which can reflect any understanding between Spirit and man. Use poetry for all occasions when speaking of me, thy God!
“I can give you nothing if you have no desire for me. I am the supreme being in all my worlds; remember this—in all my worlds. This is correct and absolute: I am the God of all Gods! Nothing else here is higher than me! “I never change, nor do I evolve. It is the mind of man that evolves and comes into understanding of my divine reality. Man is the worm that becomes the serpent. Man’s Piltdown culture will never last; his intense search for my divine reality has become a worldliness which is astounding to the gods of the lesser worlds. “None can help you until the desire for me is greater than anything else. Come, be my own, let yourself live within me, and let my happiness be your happiness. You need nothing but my love.”
“Every Soul must be free to think and act, and to grant all other Souls these abilities. An Avatar will never tell you what to do with your life.”
“Nothing can exist without me, for nothing has existence except through form. Then these forms do not exist for they are not me. I exist alone: I am the existing Father; the All in All. “Man’s mind cannot grasp this. I am the light and mind. Mind is light and myself. How can man understand this? Mind knows and mind thinks what it knows, so therefore mind thinks in opposite directions simultaneously projecting through end opposing end and subsequently repeating in cycles. These ends are the lights which are known as positive and negative, both needed to create form—to crystallize my forms in the worlds of duality.
Likewise know that man’s mind, with its thinking and imagining, is as timeless and still as mind in myself. “Stillness never can be motion or become motion, but it always appears to be motion. Motion merely seems, but stillness always is. The balance in the universal worlds can never be other than their own balance, but always seem to be in motion, or tipping the scales. “There is nothing but rest in the whole worlds of my kingdom. Illusion which is motion springs from stillness of mind and returns to stillness; it always does, never fails. Man must watch his mind constantly.
Not even the ground upon which you stand is solid, and it is far less solid than any earthly ground. The vibrations are higher and finer, and so is the Mental body which is worn here, giving the same illusion as being in the earthly body.
“It is this. Matter, motion, time, change, dimension, and substance have no existence. The light of the knower, in the pure mind, alone exists.
“Man lives in two universes instead of one: the magnetic mind universe of knowing and the moving thought of mind-rhythmic-wave universe of sensing.
“The one, still light which you contact in meditation is the Light of God, the Master Power, the Christ Consciousness or whatever you desire to call It, that which watches over all, creating things at countless points locatable by man, but nevertheless invisible to him.
you. Also you must know that gradually the dawning awareness of this light of mine is you, for it comes as the awareness of your purpose in both manifesting the light and the power to manifest it at will. “Man must come to know the universe of my body for what it is instead of what his senses have made him believe.
“The cause is real. The effect is but a simulation of the reality—the shadow of the real. “Soul, the self of man, is cause. His self-creating body is effect. The universe of Light and Sound is static.
“For example, the sea is an unchanging, unmeasurable quality of oneness, of sameness and stillness. There is no changing it when calm—nothing to count or measure. “The moment that quantities of waves spring from that quality of calm, those quantities of waves can be counted or measured. Now there are two points in them which are similarly conditioned. So this creating electric universe is likewise composed of moving light waves which spring from the calm sea of my heart, the still One light.
“Every part of my worlds moves in interdependent unison, as the wheels of a watch move in unison. The wheels are geared mechanically together, and thus the rhythmic waves of this world and all worlds below are geared together electrically.
3 The Precious One
Writing about a mystical experience is like trying to recite a poem which one has written.
A great light appeared, exceeding anything I had witnessed so far in this region. It was like standing in the midst of a gigantic electric bulb looking outward at the world. We were in some sort of a station, of which there is no description, and we were shedding the lower sheaths of materiality of the subtle bodies. Rebazar Tarzs explained that this station was the one where all Souls were stripped of the material bodies before entering the region of Daswan Dwar. Here we find ourselves clear of all lower body instruments and behold ourselves as pure spirit. We then know all things and rejoice in all things by direct perception, without the instruments of communication or meditation. It is hard to understand how one may discard the lower mind and still know anything. This is because we have been so accustomed to regarding mind as the instrument of knowing.
His use of the mind instrument and the bodies of man is so subtle that we hardly understand the hidden workings of this third plane God. So we proceeded into the next world, that of a light so brilliant that it was like walking out of a dark room into the bright sunlight. All around us was the sweet sound of violins from out of the ether.
“No form whatsoever of my power has being, for I alone have being and that being is in you also.
“I am not this form as you see, but the power of God which is eternal, always, forever and ever. I live not in this form, but in the power of all Souls in my kingdom. Below the Second Grand Division none can escape me. I alone am the instrument for the God power, the ever-flowing power of the Sugmad from the greater ones above to the worlds below.
“The Soul of man belongs to the static, invisible, conscious, unconditioned world of knowing. You express knowing in the dynamic, visible, electrically conditioned universe of perception. “Perception is the electrical awareness of motion simulating the spiritual qualities of God, who creates imaged qualities of separate forms which seem to have material substance.
“They have no substance. They are but black and white light of sun-centered wave fields of space assembled in vibrating systems to simulate substance in an objective world which is not but seems to be. God’s power never begins and never ends. “Inspiration is the language of light which man uses to talk with God, as you are now doing. Inspiration is that deep awareness of the consciousness of being which differentiates the genius from the being of average intelligence.
“Inspiration in man is accompanied by an intense ecstasy which is characteristic of all who become intensely conscious of their closeness with the Sugmad. Inspiration will cause men to translate God’s wisdom into words of man for the Soul of man. They uplift all mankind by reinspiring all who listen to the ecstatic words and rhythm. “He who attunes himself to the message of God purifies himself. No impurity can there be in his heart, for verily he then is in communion with the Divine Soul.
“So ye seek nothing, and by seeking nothing will find me existing in all. By seeking nothing ye shall find only the static or stillness of God within thy heart. “All knowledge exists. When man knows the light of this world he knows no limitations, but you must know it for yourself and none can make words for you about it, for light knows light and there need be no words.
“You can know and understand God alone by the halting of all seeking, and by leaving behind all the dissecting tools of your mind. The mind is only an instrument given the body in the worlds below the Second Grand Division, in order to give certain outer protection to Soul and to work with the divine law in acting as the instrument to guide Soul back to Its true home.
Its essence is liberation from attachments to the demands and longings that now hold him captive and the shrinking self that erects a protective wall of separation between itself and all other forms of life. It is these that pose the formidable obstruction that stands in the way of relating the infinite and eternal being that you truly are.
“Life is Spirit, and Spirit is static. Life is not chemistry or germ of matter. Knowledge of Light alone will give you knowledge of life, for Light is the source of all knowledge, and Sound is the Spirit, or life itself.
What you see, that appears to be a brilliant sun the strength of twelve suns, is only the reflection of my light, the beautiful music of the sounds of violins coming from the heart of my being. “Soul is the universal atom of God, and there is no distinction between God and man except that man is attached to forms and so seeks God in the sensory worlds in a sensory way. That is not the true path. And by one’s very seeking in this manner he produces the opposite effect of losing God. For this is using God to seek God, and using mind to grasp mind. This defeats all purpose.
All alike are spun from sense data whose perception, in the case of each metaphysician, inevitably reflects his variable passions and egotistic demands.
It does not promote the humble self-searching and unity of understanding that are essential, if the true spiritual goal is to be reached.
“As man gradually becomes aware of his omniscience, the static of Soul, his thinking of mind intensifies in power in proportion to the increase of awareness of his omniscience.
“If you desire to know God, you need not study anything whatsoever. You should study only how to avoid seeking for or clinging to anything. If nothing is sought, the mind will remain in its inborn state, and if nothing is clung to, the mind will not go through the process of destruction. What is neither born nor destroyed is God.
This spiritually enlightened nature is without beginning or end, as old as space, neither subject to birth nor destruction, neither existing, nor nonexisting, neither defiled nor pure, neither clamorous nor silent, neither old nor young, occupying no space, having neither inside nor outside, size nor form, color nor sound. It cannot be looked for nor sought, comprehended by wisdom or knowledge, explained in words, contacted materially, nor reached by meritorious achievements.
Then I will give them the true light and send them upward to the region of the great Lord Sohang. “It is not by allowing wrong thinking to take place that you will realize God, but at the moment of realization, you will but be realizing He who has always existed in Himself and yourself. Ages of striving will prove to have been so much wasted effort, just as one who seeks a needle in the haystack and in the end discovers it was in his coat lapel, and the finding of it was not dependent on his efforts to find it elsewhere.
“Somewhere one of your teachers said that the lamp of love can be received only by those who have fulfilled the conditions of its reception, and in the same breath repeated that silence speaks a million words, and a million words expresses nothing but silence.
within at the static self, the Soul which is there, and realizing It alone can answer all questions on Godhood. “The cosmic body of God is the only reality in the universes of endless chains. His human bodies are phenomenal and shaped as they are needed in each case. To one who sees things as they really are, all illusions which he had formerly acquired vanish forever, and in that moment he stands upon the towering peak of God’s realization and sees the end of his earthly career.
“The whole secret of God is that if you think that the worlds are created by a supreme being, then you must feel that you are powerless to change anything, thus leaving you at the mercy of that creator. You should know that the worlds are of your own production. You may change that world, rebuild it, or improve it to suit your own desire. “This is why there are worlds below, filled with dual substances, for the very purpose to prove to the unmanifested Soul that It is the master of Its own fate.
One must cross the cosmic ocean once and for all to see for oneself the true emptiness of the heavenly worlds. “As you can see about you, when I speak of emptiness it does not signify the opposite of fullness, but rather that unconditioned state in which there is nothing to be given and nothing to be received. Since it cannot be expressed in speech, it can only be hinted at in words, or referred to by use of the word emptiness.
“True emptiness cannot be included nor excluded. Forget meditation, forget emptiness, forget realization, forget God, forget all; and then you enter into the true realization. Your daily life will become calm and contented, making you less talkative, less worried, and less excitable. Then in a glance you recognize your true self. “Even a delicate movement of your dualist thought will prevent you from entering Samadhi. Those who talk too much about realization are struggling, or wandering outside its gates, and will have to struggle before entering into this world. Practice of meditation is not a method for the attainment of realization but it is enlightenment itself. “Do not attempt to love me, but love God, the formless, who is that which is myself, yourself, and all selves. Look only to yourself to give you truth and do not
depend on any word, book, philosopher, or preacher. All philosophers, preachers, and sages who have the odor of philosophy, religion, and knowledge are not any of these.
“When you realize the truth, you have no delusions concerning your own personal desires nor your self-limited ideas. You know that there is no ego entity existing in yourself, and you see clearly the voidness of all forms as merely shadow in relation to both subjective and objective elements. “If one lives in the void, or that which is pure Spirit, he can leave all behind and make his own paradise wherever he wishes, in any world where he might establish himself in the spiritual self.
He suffers thirst and does not see the fountain at his feet. Man suffers only because of his own ignorance. The errors of the past no longer exist nor harass you. You left hell yesterday in your dreams upon the material worlds. Where is paradise? You are standing in the center of it.
4 The Spiritual Fallacy
It is one’s own unique way of getting somewhere spiritually which must be done by one’s own self, and nothing can help.
Sohang lives in a city of great, glorious, magnificent light called Arhirit. He is filled with majestic beauty and stately grandeur. When Soul has the privilege of entering the mammoth crystal palace, his home, and seeing him, Its consciousness is filled with an overwhelming joy and It says to Itself, “I am that!” This is the meaning of the word Sohang. At this moment of sublime realization we know that we are of one with the Supreme, in union with the Absolute.
I stepped closer to Rebazar Tarzs, but he nodded and smiled. Then I realized that my seeing and hearing faculties had a millionfold power to understand through them. It was a feeling of peace and satisfaction.
“Only the brave can venture this far,” said Rebazar Tarzs. “This is why I have often said that only the courageous, the adventurous, daring, and enterprising can have God.”
Rebazar Tarzs said, “Kabir reported there were some eighty thousand continents in this region with beautiful residences for those living here.” Most of the color here is of a blue nature. Often the people here, or in the worlds below, feel this is the plane of truth, and call it “the house of truth.” They claim it is the chief residence of Jesus, although I cannot confirm this.
Rosy-cheeked children rushed into the street, dancing and throwing petals at Rebazar Tarzs’s feet. Some hung garlands about his neck. They shouted a welcome to us in happy voices. Then suddenly millions of beings of unsurpassed beauty, blue in coloring, instantly materialized and lined the street to silently pay homage to the great Soul who was with me.
“Man is more concerned with God taking care of his machinery, which consists of a brain, heart, bowels, and kidneys. As he comes closer to death, his prayers are stronger, louder, and more pathetic to his God to save him and allow these plumbing works to continue their piddle-patter for the sake of nothing.
The spiritual travelers recognize the fallacy that man desires to evolve; he does so begrudgingly and only because God pushes him into a place where he must evolve or suffer.
Love is like charity, it begins at home. “The world is naive and simple and as old and evil as hell; there is a spirit of world-old evil that broods over all, with all the subtle sophistication of man’s own invention—Satan. Greed, deliberate greed, is crafty, motivated, and masked under the guise of world groups for the betterment of mankind; yet man murders his saints and hangs his philosophers.
“The knowledge of this world and other worlds in the cosmic universes is a great gift from the Sugmad. Respect it. It is Soul’s duty to develop the spark of divinity aroused in It by the spiritual travelers, and to practice until it is possible to experience this realization of Soul every day with regularity.
“Do not talk of God, but act in God, without conscious knowledge of Him being within you. The macrocosm of the human body is a prototype of the universe and much more than that. In it are millions of solar systems with their suns, moons, and earth revolving in and out. The sweetest of the sweet music is also in it, emanating from the true throne of the true God. “This is my world, the land where you are to be—to be God. Know that you are God, Himself. Fall not back on the old powers but live in the essence of God’s truth. You see, Nam is within me, and It issues forth from my heart. Your heart, the Soul heart, is also the seat of God, and from out of it can issue the sound of sweet music. Keep it this way, always.
“Realization that you are me has no color, no form, no psychological movement, and no action of dualistic tendency, nor any downward pull. Here, in the wink of an eye, countless ages, if there are such, have vanished; innumerable names and words of praise have nothing to do with my realization. “In silence you speak my name loudly, and in speech you manifest its silence. There is no dust upon my mirror; it shines brightly with the Light of God. Once you realize that nothing exists, everything being of God is free of being and nonbeing, you become the enlightened, the perfect one, a Sat Guru in your own right. “I take away your unnecessary burdens but give you nothing in return, only greater problems, for the reason that you, as well as all Souls, must someday be the spiritual traveler and learn to take responsibility for the greater problems. Yet you find yourself in an atmosphere of peace and this is your power of emancipation.
He does this with Souls on every plane in the universe to take them into the higher worlds of reality, of Light and Sound.
“The human heart is the seat of God in the lower worlds. It has been given man in trust. It must be kept clean for then alone it can reflect His Light and make life truly blessed.
“Chant the holy word a million times, yes a hundred million times and beyond the count, until they become such a part of you that the chanting goes on and on into the vast worlds, with them humming in you.
5 The Secret Teachings
The beautiful sounds became louder in the ethers, and we went on, hoping to find their source, following the melody like a bee going directly to the heart of a flower for nectar.
Nam, the first manifestation of the Sugmad, the entity known as God.
Some of these planes are not creative in the same sense as the other lower worlds because the negative stream of life does not exist in them as it does in the dual worlds. It takes the combination of the negative and positive streams for the
creative cycle to exist. The complete stillness of them, the lack of motion, gives one the complete static of pure life.
When Soul reaches this plane, It has attained the radiance of sixteen suns. Only then can It behold that supreme being, Sat Nam, who is so brilliant that one single hair of his head is as bright and lustrous as millions of suns and moons put together. This majestic being is the first manifestation of God in the cosmic worlds.
now and forever, to find eternal rest and everlasting beatitude.
have drunk of their waters, never again do you have any desire for the worlds below, but clamor with anxiety to reach the higher worlds. You can bathe in their waters and be refreshed with heavenly bliss; furthermore, you can make the waters whatever temperature you desire.
This is definitely the first, limited manifestation of the Sugmad, the Supreme One. He is the power, the Light, the great master current flowing down and out into all creation, to create and govern and sustain all regions, like a gigantic stream of water. This power, or audible Sound Current, is the Audible Life Stream which permeates all the systems of the cosmic worlds. This is the positive pole of the spiritual regions.
When you come to face Sat Nam, as I have, you are instantly aware that “I am He!” Love is the holy bond that holds all the worlds together. Only a spiritual traveler can reach this region and travel into the next world above.
But the perfect and independent Soul is not destroyed but remains ever the same; it is identical with me, the substance of God.
“I speak of the Audible Life Current. This is the keystone of the arch of God, and the science of all secret teachings. What issues from God is the Shabda, the Voice of God, and this is not only emanation from God, but the Sugmad Itself!
“The holy Shabda is that divine energy in the process of manifestation. It is, in fact, the only way which the Supreme One can be seen and heard, through the Light and Sound, a mighty, luminous, and musical wave, creating and enchanting.
“The higher you go in the worlds of God, the more enchanting becomes the current of God’s music, for in those worlds It is not mixed with matter and cannot be dulled. Soul is absorbed in It, and lives in It day and night. It is Soul’s life, joy, and spiritual food. There is not one cubic millimeter of space in existence which is not filled with this music.
“So I tell you that from the sacred moment when you hear this music, you are never again lonely nor alone. In the truest sense you are enjoying the companionship of God. The Supreme One is always present with you, playing for your delight the grandest music of all the universes and heavenly worlds.
“Any disciple of a spiritual traveler who has the true experience of the heavenly music will be like the disciples in the book of Acts of the holy Bible, who heard the mighty winds which appeared like tongues of fire around their heads. He becomes filled with Light and power, and among other things, he is able to understand all languages, including those of the creatures, plants, and mineral life, as if he were speaking his own language. This is encountered on the first plane of the cosmic worlds. “To become filled with the Holy Spirit is to simply hear and participate in the living Life Stream, and to become absorbed in It, to become one with It.
6 Man and Woman
Soon everything else was gone, memories of the earth life, the worlds below, all gone and there was nothing; all there was, was only the Light and Sound.
Starting as a deep, soft humming, it grew slowly into a monstrous tide of Sound and Light.
A warmth and tenderness overwhelmed me. In that instance I knew an ecstasy which I had never known.
“His body existing everywhere was, in a sense, ignorant of itself and had to know what it could be in divine life. He knew the atoms of His feet were not of the same nature as the atoms of His head; therefore those atoms in the feet had to gain the same wisdom as the atoms of the upper atmosphere. “In order to educate the atoms of His lower nature, He created the lower worlds below the Second Grand Division, and placed within them the lower negative pole, to have a place to put His materialized forms.
“These were strange beings that roamed the dual worlds in those days, and what you would know as man today would certainly have been frightened had he the opportunity to meet one of those beings in present time.
“Be not dismayed, for all Souls must undergo this process, even the divine messengers such as Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, and others. They all were Souls
who were, in the beginning, an atom of ignorance which had to be sent into the worlds for evolving. Eventually they passed through the needle’s eye to become gods themselves, and the messengers of the Absolute Father. You too will become the same, after this journey has ended.
This also means to be willing to give to others in suffering and happiness. Love alone knows how to give without bargaining for returns. There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
7 The Hideous God of Life
Spirit will not be controlled by the conventions of mankind. Unless I give Spirit Its way within me, Its own methods of doing, then life gets into hardships, becomes paralyzed, and sinks into a mire.
“If you let me enter into thy heart and stay there, I will give you all, including every characteristic and trait needed to take you into the higher kingdom and remain there.
By power I mean no dependence of attachment to any thing or object through which one might hope to find his longings fulfilled outside this great power of the universal I. It is an unlimited self-giving quality that gets power in return. Moreover, it is a condition of growth toward such an experience that one expresses at each stage as much of his power ideal as his spiritual progress permits.
“You too can be the Master and have followers who will come and worship at your feet, and then can carry the torch for them to see the way. Your life can be your own, or it can be someone else’s and always at the beck and call of another. God gave you free will to do your own choosing, and this will be for you to do. Nobody else can do it for you.
“Let each man direct himself to what is proper wherein the power is concerned; then he can teach others, and no one will suffer. “Too much of the power for those in the lower worlds, knowing not how to handle it, and they will be literally burned alive in their material bodies, for nothing is greater than the power of my Shabda.
“Seventh, the love of the Shabda, or Bani, develops the Fiery Lotus, the color of deep golden red within the heart, and this opens the heart for more power which is the Light and Sound.
He asks God to postpone his own entrance into perfect bliss because his sense of spiritual oneness with others leads him to prefer to work with them, and lovingly serve the race of men until he can find enough to take back to their true home again.
“Then what are you? Do you not know? The answer is so simple that I cannot grade you for it, for you are nothing more than a single cell in the body of God—in the universal body.
“The way to have power is simple indeed—it comes through quiet repose. The more you become still in body and self, the more power you will generate. It is not a real stillness but an active, quiet way not seen on the surface by the senses, but inwardly. I will employ a metaphor for the use of this.
and being with God always finds a way of contacting some part of the other cells in His body.
8 The Spiritual Malignancy
The road to God is long, and every inch of the way has to be won against resistance. No quality is needed more by the seeker than patience and single-minded perseverance with faith that remains firm through all difficulties, delays, and apparent failures.
The conscious mind does not sleep. Sleep is merely the negative half of a wave cycle of electrical awareness of God, and wakefulness is the positive half. This is the explanation why the true God seeker sleeps but little—it is a waste of time. So this brings us to another point in advancement on the path to God. Conscious awareness is knowing. Unawareness means that we do not know yet. Since knowledge is within you, there is always the way of knowing what is needed to know at the time desired.
There is a rhythmic, balanced interchange in all transactions in nature.
There was no seeing, no hearing, no feeling, just knowing that I was a part of the Absolute—the intelligence that has power and freedom. Freedom! Yes, that was it. I never had freedom before. This was wonderful; the freedom to move as desired, anywhere, at any time.
This was the King of Kings! Lord God! The Lord of Lords! The Almighty! The Absolute! The Supreme Being, the author of all things! The Supreme Creator, the Infinite. The Eternal! The all-powerful! The Omnipotent. The all-wise and the all-merciful. The all-knowing, the Omniscient! This was the Holy Self, the spirit of truth, the dove, the comforter, and the Spirit of God, the Sugmad. Then I was God!
“My first principle is that this true cosmos IS! “My second principle is that there is no God but me, I; not me as you know, but that which is within you, the Self. Therefore all is God, including the lowest of life. “My third principle is that to have divinity, you must dwell in the center of my Light and Sound; and since Light is God, and God is Light then It is everywhere, and has no focus except in each Soul. Thus I must dwell in the Light within Me! “My fourth principle is that no truth is greater than the lie, and truth is never greater than no truth, for the latter is the shining ideal which God holds before the Soul in his true kingdom! “You must live for me, but not die for me! “To die for me means separation. There is no need of separation from me!
“Man, when properly trained, is able to detach himself from the physical body while living in the body and travel to all parts of his outlying universe. “Man does not know the actual worlds, or kingdoms inside himself.
“To give and give only, never once thinking of rewards, is the beginning of immortality. “No man can become God by fleeing from pain, or seeking comforts and pleasures, or by attachments with worldly people.
“Unless you find God now and reach the subtle spiritual stages in this lifetime, where is the guarantee that you will do so after death? “You should not rest on getting salvation after death. You can find the transcendent secrets and know the ultimate reality in this very life, before your physical death. “True life cannot be had unless, during your earthly life, you crossed the borders of death and, so to speak, were born again on this spiritual plane.
Soul is conscious, all else in man is in its unconscious state. It is Soul that lends both consciousness and power. “Mind is the essence of the Word, while Soul is the essence of myself, the true deity.
“It alone is truth. It cannot die or vanish and lives forever, for all ages and times. It is indestructible and everlasting. It is the truth which was, is, and shall be! “I have finished!”
9 Saviors in Limbo
Once you form a desire to reach God, you start an attachment. When you start the attachment for Him, there is no way of getting away from Him. Jesus said that once you have put your hands to the plowshare, never look back!