The single eye in the forehead of man possesses spherical vision. In meditation that vision gradually expands for the yogi into an ineffable sphere of constantly changing luminosity, blissful and omnipresent.
After experiencing this vibratory vision of Aum as the Cosmic Light, the emancipated yogi goes beyond all delusive relativities of vibrations.
He then feels and realizes the Transcendental Lord - He who exists behind the transitory dreams of cosmic matter and its myriad components of cells, molecules, atoms, electrons and protons, "lifetrons" (prana or energy), and "thoughtrons" (the ultimate basis of matter).
In the transcendental state, God spins out His dreams of ideational, astral, and physical universes.
The physical cosmos, with its many "island universes" floating in the eternal void, is encircled by a nimbus of radiant energy that melts away into the larger astral world.
The astral cosmos is a grander manifestation of creation than the physical, and runs through and beyond the latter.
In the astral cosmos many luminous galaxies of various densities, with their astral solar and stellar systems, are roving in a vaster sphere of eternity.
The largest or causal cosmos contains countless causal galactic systems with their suns and planets, roaming all through the physical and astral cosmoses and far beyond their boundaries to the outermost sphere of vibratory space.
The causal universe is the womb of creation. In the causal universe, God's finest creative forces of consciousness, and highly evolved beings with their intuitive processes, objectify universes from subtle divine thought forces.
Through pure soul intuition, an accomplished yogi can behold the physical cosmos and its beings as the cosmic dream of God. Or he can project his consciousness into the astral world and perceive its panorama of indescribably beautiful island universes and beings made of etherial blendings of various coloured lights.
Or he can lift his consciousness into the sublime causal sphere, with its galaxies upon galaxies of dazzling wisdom-objects and beings and their interactions - a glorious diadem in the eternally still, endless skies of spirit.
The yogi who has attained complete control over his consciousness can behold the physical, astral, or causal worlds or go beyond to the transcendant vibrationless region of God.
He is able to perceive one portion of the Lord's consciousness as the transcendental eternal peace, and another portion as the ripple of cosmic dreams - the worlds of creation.
It is the vibrationless, blessed consciousness of God that in the last analysis is the causative and omniscient Supporter of the dream Cosmos and all its forces, subtle and gross.
The manifestations of the Divine are in evidence in the cosmic dream, but He - the Ruler - remains hidden.
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