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One factor, as yet unmentioned, should not be forgotten: the speed of motion. At the
level of molecular activity, the speed at which molecules move takes the form of
measurable heat. At the human level, the possibility of accelerating the process of change
parallels the possibility of a greater or lesser intensity of response, either to the avataric
manifestation of a new aspect of archetypal Man or to an individual experience of one's
spiritual Self and the realization of one's existential dharma.
Intensity of response: how basic a factor in the lives of human beings these words
reveal! The "laggards" in human evolution are the slow-minded, the hesitant, the
individuals who, enamored of their narrowly defined sphere of being — of the contents of
the mandala of their personhood — "take a long time" to resonate to the great bell
announcing the opening of a new day. For whoever immediately takes hold of the
opportunity for self-transcendence and with tremendous intensity of feeling commits the
lesser in his or her nature to the greater — whose presence perhaps has been intimated
only by a seemingly trivial event — will find the implications of every phase of existence
appearing in a radically new light.
As the inertial resistance of the past and its traditional formations are overcome, such
an individual becomes resistlessly and undeviatingly attuned to the new Tone of the
Movement of Wholeness perceived by his or her inner ears. The individual's sense of time,
having lost its egocentric and culture-bound character, then can merge with the
immeasurable continuum of change, unconditioned by clocks and planetary cycles. For
such an individual, in fever of ever-accelerating experiences of culminating fulfillment, the
Movement of Wholeness may seem the prodigiously fast whirling of the wheel of being, as
sub-cycles are almost immediately compounded into ever larger cycles. The many colors
scattered upon the whirling disc of a universe vibrant with incredible speed fuse into
whiteness; and the whole Image of the cosmos which was envisioned by the Godhead at
the Midnight hour may appear projected upon this whiteness of limitless space.
Dimensionless, timeless, changeless: what else could the vision be called? The cyclic
motion is so great that the wheel of change appears to stand still, radiantly frozen in
Space, all relationships being worked out according to their formation in the
compassionate Imagination of the Godhead. For a supreme Instant, the heat of everchanging
existential relationships becomes the light of Wholeness — but only for an
Instant.
The consciousness that has experienced such a state of wholeness may retain the
mystery of the experience deep within; but seeking to formulate and perhaps
communicate what has happened, the mind struggles with words and concepts that only
dim and confuse the memory. Yet the numinous experience may have forever severed
ancient and obstinate forms of bondage. A powerful sense of inner dynamism and
unceasing movement may become a driving force of total transformation. As the "I"
becomes the movement itself, the now unresisted motion leads the transfigured human
being to his or her place in the Pleroma of Man, the sublime Company of all Illumined
beings in which the Creative Word experiences Its perfect actualization.
They watch; their united love sustains, even through the darkness that may follow the
experience of too much light for the individual to bear and assimilate. Above and Below
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