The Testament Of
Secrets November
1991 THE DAWN HORSE TESTAMENT (1991) Chapter 39 And You May Have Many Visions Of The Source Of
“things” Human intelligence tends to be organized around visual
sensations even more than it is around auditory sensations.
Therefore, in the Way of The Heart, self-enquiry, and
ascending mahamantra meditation, and also the technically
“simpler” “lay congregationist” practice of formally
acknowledged ascending feeling-contemplation of me, may tend
to collect heart-feeling and attention toward visualized
objects more than toward objects of audition. Many light-forms, discrete objects, environments, and
beings may be perceived in subtle vision as heart-feeling
and attention rise in the cosmic mandala toward the
apparently objective divine star. In the Way of The Heart,
the primary objects to be perceived are my subtle bodily
form, the full presentation of the cosmic mandala, and the
five-pointed divine star. The entire cosmic mandala, including the divine star, may
be perceived even in gross internal vision. The divine star
and the cosmic mandala are tangibly projected even into the
structural pattern of the gross body, including the brain,
of every human being, just as they are also projected into
every body-mind, plane, or realm of experience in the cosmic
domain. Therefore, those who practice meditation in the Way
of The Heart may, before long, have some visionary
experience of the cosmic mandala and even the objective
white star. The great mandala of the conditional or cosmic domain may
appear in vision, both during life and after death. The
various cosmic planes or worlds may be perceived, as in a
dream, or more concretely, with varying degrees of clarity,
detail, and completeness, with all their kinds of beings,
forms, and events, and with varying degrees of your
participation. Just so, the great cosmic mandala itself may be perceived
in vision. It appears as a circle. The circle is itself a
gathering of circles, each set within the other, concentric,
formed as a radiant wheel or a well or a tunnel of great
formative lights. The outer ring is narrow and red in color.
The next ring is yellow, and it is wide. Then there is
another narrow ring, of a moonlike whiteness. Then another
narrow ring, apparently black, or the color of indigo. And
the last ring, at the center, is a radiant blue, wide as the
yellow. In the center of the radiant blue is the brilliant
clear white five-pointed star. Each ring of color is an energy-field of a certain range
of vibration. Within each ring, there are countless worlds
and beings, each characterized and limited by the vibratory
field in which they appear. The outer rings are grosser, or
of a lower vibration, and existence in them is brief and
difficult. Those closest to the center are subtler, or of a
higher vibration, and existence in them is more pleasurable,
more prolonged, less threatened, but nonetheless
conditional, changing, temporary, made of many limits, and
moved by a necessary struggle. The radiant blue is the most
subtle, and existence there is limited by great powers and
great longing for divine love-bliss, which is finally
realized only in the exceedingly “bright” feeling-domain of
self-existing and self-radiant divine love-bliss. And the
human world is also within this cosmic mandala of lights, in
the outer or grosser fields of red and yellow. The vision of the cosmic mandala may be perceived as a
whole, or in part, either enlarged or reduced to a point.
Therefore, a point or a spot or a circle may be perceived,
made of any color, or a group of any of the rings of
associated color. In any moment, a sudden spot of light may
be perceived to fly out of the eyes, or one of the eyes, or
else flash before the internal vision, attractively. Any kind of pattern or scene may appear in meditation or
random vision. Any kind of adventure may be experienced,
before or after death, in this or any other conditional
world. All worlds are a psycho-physical display, made of divine
self-radiance, by spontaneous and conditional and merely
apparent modification of that radiance. All conditionally
manifested beings are spirits, or conditional modifications
of transcendental divine conscious light. All visions are
made of the same mandala of modified clear white light, the
light or self-radiance or inherent spiritual radiance of
transcendental divine being. Therefore, in the process of divine translation, all
conditional worlds, all conditional beings and events, all
conditional forms of the psycho-physical self, and all the
cosmic colors yield to the divine star, and, therefrom, to
the most prior source-condition of even the divine star,
and, thus and so, enter into the divine “brightness” of
self-existing being, which all-outshining “brightness” is
itself the divine self-domain. In that process of divine translation, the divine star
ceases to be an object. Indeed, divine translation occurs
only if my devotee is fully awake to all the forms of my
revelation of the divine person, and, therefore, only if my
devotee is established in the transcendental, inherently
spiritual, and divine self-condition, divinely recognizing
the apparently objective star, and all objects, and even the
feeling of relatedness itself as the only one. Therefore, in
the event of divine translation, the apparently objective
divine star, divinely recognized, becomes a transparent
doorway at the heart, the same as the self-existing and
self-radiant field that is consciousness itself, the
“bright” itself, glorious beyond conception, full, without
the slightest absence or threat, more than wonderful, all
delight, heart-feeling without limit, the unspeakable
“embodiment” of joy, God-Great! How will this divine translation be accomplished? By
love! Only submit to me in loves embrace, attracted beyond
the separate and separative self. Therefore, hear the one
who is love. See the one who is love. And practice in the
heart-manner I am revealing to you in this testament of
secrets. If, in the earlier course of practice in the Way of The
Heart, any subtle visions appear, simply notice them, and do
not otherwise indulge in such appearances, but simply
continue to engage the exercises appropriate to your stage
of life in the Way of The Heart. However, if visual objects capture your heart-feeling and
attention in the responsible course of formally acknowledged
ascending practice in the Way of The Heart, always look to
the “head” of the spirit-current. That is to say, always
look above what is presently perceived, and always look to
the middle of the visual field. Whatever object is
perceived, whatever conditionally manifested environment
appears, or whatever appearance the visual field may
conditionally assume, always look up and toward the middle,
to locate the apparent source of the light or illumination
in the present field. Do not hold to any limited object or
field that is presently before you. Do not seek to the left
or the right. Hold heart-feeling and attention to an
upturned view, and constantly turn and yield toward the
center. Always feel beyond what presently appears, and
always be moved toward the indefinable central source-space
above. If I am perceived in a vision of my bodily form, I will
lead your attention upwards. Therefore, if I appear in
vision, look toward me, hold on to me, ascend with me, and
realize the most ascended source-space of my appearance. If
I am not thus perceived, then simply look above for the
source of light, and hold to the highest center or most
ascended source of the field, rather than to what may be
perceived to the left or the right. If the cosmic mandala is perceived, or if any spot or
circle or shape of light is perceived, look to its center
and be drawn upwards. The apparently objective central star may be perceived in
vision even by a little concentration in the brain core. If
it is perceived in the course of the ascending stages of
life in the Way of The Heart, look to its center and be
drawn upwards. In this manner, the star may be perceived
again and again, each time in a different or more subtle
plane of the cosmic mandala. Then penetrate the present star
in the manner I have described, even until there is no more
ascending motion, and there are no more light-changes, but
only absorption in love-bliss. In your course of ascending practice in the Way of The
Heart, do not be concerned with mapping, or categorizing,
the various lights, environments, or beings according to
their relative position in the cosmic mandala. Constantly
submit all heart-feeling and attention to me. Let the by
grace revealed spirit-current carry you upwards via the
central source of the field, and do not seek or hold to what
is perceived on the left or the right. Simply be released
into what is most above. If my bodily form appears, or if
the cosmic mandala appears, or if the divine star appears,
let that vision carry you upwards, via the center, up and
back, to the source-space above. In the course of your ascending practice in the Way of
The Heart, it may be found useful on occasion to apply
finger pressure to the eyes, to turn them toward the ajna
door, to aid in sighting the lights and visions above the
brows. Simply press the middle finger and thumb of the right
or left hand against the lids of the closed eyes, while
resting or lightly pressing the index finger on the
forehead, between and just above the brows. Eye pressure
should be firm but not beyond comfort, and it should be made
by pressing the outer corners of the lids, then drawing the
fingers down and then up via the centers or near the inner
corners of the eyes. This gesture will close the lids firmly
and turn the eyeballs upwards. The effect of this exercise will be to emphasize the
concentration of visual attention at the ajna door and
above. It will also tend immediately to stimulate internal
light phenomena that appear to be a kind of discharge of the
light-energy accumulated from environmental visualization.
The visual mechanism will also tend to relax via this
exercise, and various kinds of internal light-forms may be
perceived. In any case, this exercise remains confined to
the rather peripheral or superficial visualizations of
phenomena associated with gross bodily awareness and subtle
visualizations associated with the gross brain. Therefore,
practice this exercise only briefly, and then let eyes and
arm return to rest. The purpose of this application of finger pressure to the
eyes is simply to serve the general submission of attention
via the ajna door. The experience of the higher phenomena of
meditation can occur only when the body is totally relaxed
and attention goes beyond conceptual thinking and gross
bodily sensations, into the planes above.
Of The Divine World Teacher
and True Heart-Master,
Da Avabhasa
(The “Bright”.)
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