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Buckshee » 18 Feb 2017, 02:47
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The Seven Stages of Self-Realization Volume II Stage Five. Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda

by which we are to test the Holy Scriptures.
Part II
If all creation were to disappear, then only one Spirit would exist. Spirit is the unmanifested Absolute. It has neither beginning nor end: God is the manifested Absolute. It manifested itself primarily as a "cosmic conscious vibration" or "Word", in the form of solids, liquids, gases, electrons and energy, which have both an end and a beginning. Vibration is a force, but why does this force appear in one place as ice, in another as water or earth, or as escaping gas or atoms, and again in another as a human being? The direct answer is that cosmic consciousness has an organized cosmic vibration that manifests as matter, life, human mind, and so on.
Spirit exists forever, is always conscious, always new joy and without vibrations. When the Spirit, as God the Father, created the temporary material universe, then His name was "God." God has been called the "Word" or "cosmic conscious vibration." The Being of the Spirit, its perception and the object of its perception are one, therefore there are no vibrations. Vibration is found in every mental, astral or physical (atomic) movement. Therefore, the Spirit first of all vibrated in Itself - in the Creator, God, in the creative force and in the finally created universe. This is vibrating consciousness.
This vibrating consciousness later manifested itself as cosmic conscious vibration, that is, as cosmic conscious energy or cosmic sound. These energies manifest in the human body as the spiritual eye seen in meditation and as cosmic sound heard in silence. When viewed with the spiritual eye, one can see the entire universe in light, just as a chicken, hatching from an egg shell, sees the great realm of sunlight. By listening to the sound, as indicated in the lecture on meditation, one can hear the cosmic vibration.
The dove as a Christian symbol embodies the Holy Spirit or Holy vibration. (1) Spirit, (2) God the Father, cosmic consciousness, cosmic energy, life force, cosmic energy manifested through the body, cosmic sound, Word, AUM, Pranava, OM, "voice of many waters". Holy Spirit or AMEN. The drumming and wind instruments used in many Indian temples represent the cosmic drum. The bells represent the "voice of the waters of many", the cosmic sound that comes from many elements, or the sounds made by many elements.
The consciousness that exists above creation is called "God the Father". The consciousness that exists in creation is called "Christ consciousness" and the vibration that exists in all of creation is called "Holy Spirit" which means Holy vibration. The entire universe is a physical body, and the consciousness that controls this great body is the Christ consciousness. The small human body is the universe in miniature, our narrow consciousness is the Christ consciousness in miniature. If you can expand your consciousness, then you can reach the Christ consciousness that is manifesting in the universe. Your consciousness is limited in the body. By listening to the cosmic sound that flows through the cosmic energy, your consciousness becomes one with it.
Sound from all atoms is the universal sound of OM, or the Holy Spirit. When you hear that sound, then the plug of ignorance is removed and a bridge is formed between you and the Christ consciousness. When you hear the cosmic sound, then you are one with Christ. This is the surest way to get in touch with God. Your consciousness is now occupied with mundane sounds, but when you hear this cosmic sound that can be heard in deep meditation, then your consciousness unites with the consciousness that is in all atoms. This consciousness, found in all atoms, is the consciousness of Christ, and this consciousness was embodied in Jesus. When you have Christ consciousness, your consciousness becomes able to see everything.
The active Mind of God the Father is Christ consciousness. The only means to achieve this consciousness is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit, the "Faithful Witness". When Jesus left, he promised to send the Comforter - the Holy Spirit. This is the great sound, or AMEN (OM), and when you come into contact with this sound, you expand your consciousness with it.
When only the sun is shining, you say, "Only one sun is visible." However, if you place a crystal ball in front of the sun, then you have 3 things - sunlight behind the crystal ball, sunlight in the crystal ball, and the crystal ball itself. So it was with the Spirit when He was One, before He began to create. His name was "SPIRIT". However, when the Spirit descended into the Cosmos, or cosmic vibrating creation, then the Spirit became trinity - God the Father (Father of all creation), Christ reflected in creation (the Only Begotten Son, so called because He is the only consciousness in all creation), and conscious vibration, which is called the Holy Spirit.
A true scientific view of the origin
How all things came into being is described in the first book of Moses. Unfortunately, very few people are able to understand the Bible. Biblical truths hidden behind a verbal wall do not need to be tested, but human interpretations need to be tested.
Origin or beginning of the universe according to Hindu scriptures
Indo-Aryan (Hindu) scriptures originated 10,000 years before Christ. They teach that the universe is divided into:
1. The spiritual or causal (causal) universe, which is the idea of ​​the action of matter, or vibrating force, on God.
2. Subtle, or astral world, with subtle forces, electricity, gravity, attraction and repulsion, electrons, life energy - forces that are not perceived by the senses.
3. The material universe with gross vibrations such as solids, liquids, gases, fire, water, earth, air and ether.
The vibrating force is controlled by the Divine mind, the solid, liquid and gaseous form of matter, etc. All of them appear in some form. The Universe is a matter formed by the Divine Mind. All things not only embody some idea, but also exist in a certain mutually beneficial relativity, for example, God created hunger, but He also gave food substances to satisfy this hunger. The spiritual universe is the cause of the subtle world, which, in turn, is the basis of the material universe. The last, material world is visible, and the other two worlds are invisible.

Part III
At the beginning or at the first time of creation, the cosmos consisted of subtle forces or heavenly and earthly matter. God created them only in idea, and for this reason the earth and matter were "formless and empty" (Genesis 1.2), formless.
And darkness over the abyss, and the Spirit of God (Divine Mind) hovered (vibrated) over the water.
(By "water" here is meant the mentally created elements.)
In the Bible, in the first book of Moses, in chapter 1, in verse 2, the word "darkness" has a special meaning: just as a calm sea cannot stir thousands of waves without wind, so the only Lake of the Spirit cannot be distributed in a diverse creature without dualism. God previously created the divine forces of electrons, heat and electricity, laws and matter only in thoughts. He then had to dismember His consciousness or unity into countless waves of ideas, using the storm of dualism.
And God said (vibrating strongly): Let there be light, and there was light.
The entire universe is made up of electrons, which are called "light".
The Divine Spiritual Mind vibrated lightly over the ideologically created elements, and then immediately after that God spoke or vibrated louder, and thus the ideologically created elements were roughly frozen in one cosmic light or cosmic energy. The subtle force and the gross 92 elements that make up the Earth's crust, stellar nebulae, human bodies and every thing are all nothing but various degrees of vibration of the same light, or different degrees of vibration of conscious cosmic energy. Thus, having created all things in thought, God created them astrally, vibrating in their light.
And God saw the light that it was good.
(Genesis 1, 4)
"Good" means that God saw that he could use this light for the creation that He wanted to produce.
God saw that "this light was good," ie. fit to help Him in His creative work. Thus He was divided into darkness and light, i.e. one part of It remained the unmanifested Absolute, and the other part manifested itself in the whole creation as an all-creating life energy.
And God separated the light from the darkness.
(Genesis 1.4)
The creation that creates light, God called "day", and the part where His being did not appear, He called "darkness" (night) (Genesis 1,5). These two states, i.e. the state of manifestation of His existence plus the state of non-manifestation of His existence, lasted one day, i.e. a cycle of time, maybe a million years. Many people are desperately groping for the interpretation of the word "day" as if it were a 24-hour day. For this reason, many Bible devotees blindly think that the Earth was created in just 7 days, contradicting certain scientific discoveries about the age of the globe. It took God a whole day, or a cycle, just to create the universe in idea and vibrate into subtle brilliant energy. The entire universe indicates to us that God had time to consider all things before He created them.
And there was evening and there was morning: one day.
(Genesis 1.5)
"Evening" signifies the period of mental creation and "morning" signifies the period of astral creation. "First day" means the first cycle, lasting millions of years, which God needed to outline the plan of this creation and then create it astrally.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it separate the water from the

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