Part 73 (1/2)
”God thought out different ideas within Himself and projected the out decorated in all her colossal endless ornaories of the causal body, God elaborated all the complexities of man's nineteen astral and sixteen physical counterparts By condensation of vibratory forces, first subtle, then gross, He producedto the law of relativity, by which the Pri manifold, the causal cosmos and causal body are different from the astral cosmos and astral body; the physical cosmos and physical body are likewise characteristically at variance with the other forms of creation
”The fleshly body is made of the fixed, objectified dreams of the Creator The dualities are ever-present on earth: disease and health, pain and pleasure, loss and gain Hus find limitation and resistance in three-dimensional matter When man's desire to live is severely shaken by disease or other causes, death arrives; the heavy overcoat of the flesh is temporarily shed The soul, however, remains encased in the astral and causal bodies {FN43-7} The adhesive force by which all three bodies are held together is desire The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all otism and sense pleasures The compulsion or temptation of sensory experience is more powerful than the desire-force connected with astral attachments or causal perceptions
”Astral desires center around enjoys enjoy the ethereal ht of all creation as exhaustless expressions of changing light The astral beings also sht
Astral desires are thus connected with an astral being's power to precipitate all objects and experiences as forhts or dreams
”Causal desires are fulfilled by perception only The nearly-free beings who are encased only in the causal body see the whole universe as realizations of the drea in sheer thought Causal beings therefore consider the enjoyross and suffocating to the soul's fine sensibilities Causal beings work out their desires bythem instantly
{FN43-8} Those who find themselves covered only by the delicate veil of the causal body can bring universes into manifestation even as the Creator Because all creation is made of the cosmic dream-texture, the soul thinly clothed in the causal has vast realizations of power
”A soul, being invisible by nature, can be distinguished only by the presence of its body or bodies The nifies that its existence is made possible by unfulfilled desires
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”So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot ross physical receptacle is destroyed by the has-astral and causal-still re the Oh wisdo vessels The tiny hues, free at last; it is one with the Measureless Aht on the high and mysterious causal world
”The causal world is indescribably subtle,” he replied ”In order to understand it, one would have to possess such tremendous powers of concentration that he could close his eyes and visualize the astral cosmos and the physical cosmos in all their vastness-the lu in ideas only
If by this superhu the two cosmoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, he would then reach the causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between s--solids, liquids, gases, electricity, energy, all beings, Gods, men, animals, plants, bacteria-as forms of consciousness, just as a h his body is invisible to his physical eyes and is present only as an idea
”Whatever a hu can do in reality The ence is able, in ht to another, to skip mentally from planet to planet, or tumble endlessly down a pit of eternity, or soar rocketlike into the galaxied canopy, or scintillate like a searchlight over s in the causal world have a reater freedohts into instant objectivity, without any material or astral obstruction or kars realize that the physical cosmos is not primarily constructed of electrons, nor is the astral cosmos basically composed of lifetrons-both in reality are created froht, chopped and divided by MAYA, the law of relativity which intervenes to apparently separate the Noumenon fronize one another as individualized points of joyous Spirit; their thought-things are the only objects which surround thes see the difference between their bodies and thoughts to behis eyes, can visualize a dazzling white light or a faint blue haze, so causal beings by thought alone are able to see, hear, feel, taste, and touch; they create anything, or dissolve it, by the power of cosmic mind
”Both death and rebirth in the causal world are in thought
Causal-bodied beings feast only on the as of peace, roam on the trackless soil of perceptions, swiht thought-bodies zoom past trillions of Spirit-created planets, fresh bubbles of universes, wisdoolden nebulae, all over the skiey blue bosos remain for thousands of years in the causal cosmos
By deeper ecstasies the freed soul then withdraws itself from the little causal body and puts on the vastness of the causal cosmos
All the separate eddies of ideas, particularized waves of power, love, will, joy, peace, intuition, calmness, self-control, and concentration er does the soul have to experience its joy as an individualized wave of consciousness, but is ed in the One Coshter, thrills, throbs
”When a soul is out of the cocoon of the three bodies it escapes forever from the law of relativity and becomes the ineffable Ever-Existent {FN43-10} Behold the butterfly of Os etched with stars and moons and suns! The soul expanded into Spirit reht, darkless dark, thoughtless thought, intoxicated with its ecstasy of joy in God's dream of cosmic creation”
”A free soul!” I ejaculated in awe
”When a soul finally gets out of the three jars of bodily delusions,”
Master continued, ”it becomes one with the Infinite without any loss of individuality Christ had won this final freedoes of his past, symbolized in his earth-life as the three days of his experience of death and resurrection, he had attained the power to fully arise in Spirit
”The undeveloped o countless earthly and astral and causal incarnations in order to ee from his three bodies