Chapter 8: The Transcendental Vision The Ultimate Truth of All
Religions True religious “faith” is simply the awakened intuition
of the Living Spirit of God. The secret of religious faith, or the Spiritual
Realization of the Living God, is not any logical or
illogical belief, nor any strategy of mystical
self-manipulation, nor any knowledge about the interior or
the exterior domain of Man. Rather, the secret of the
awakening of the intuition of the Living God is simply to be
present when the Revelation of the Living God is made. But the Revelation of the Living God is not a final or
once and-for-all historical event. The Revelation of the
Living God is taking place in every moment, to everyone, and
everywhere in space. The Living God is simply and eternally Present. The
Living God is Self-Revealing, or always Shown. The problem
is that human individuals are not themselves always or
profoundly present to the Living Reality. Human individuals
are commonly involved in a chaos of self-conscious motives
and self-possessed distractions. Therefore, if we fail to be
intuitively and directly present to the moment to moment
Revelation of the Living God, we will also fail to be truly
religious or Spiritual in our understanding of human
existence and our participation in the higher Way of
Man. God is eternally moved to be Present to the world and
every being, because God is not other than the Living
Spirit, the All-Pervading Current of Life and the very
Consciousness in which all manifest conditions and all
beings are arising, changing, and passing beyond all worldly
knowing. Therefore, Man is obliged to be constantly present
to the Presence of the Living God. And the Way in which we
may be present to the Divine Presence is the whole bodily
Way of heartfelt, mind-transcending, and direct and
breathing bodily Communion with the Radiant Current of Life,
Love, and Transcendental Consciousness. Such is the eternal, true, mature, and esoteric religion
of Man. And all temporal, specific, or historical
revelations of this Truth, via the words and experiential
conceptions of any individuals whatsoever, are only
inspirational and more or less reliable guides to our own
present religious and Spiritual practice of Transcendental
God-Communion.
