unchanging stability.
LUC:12:3 You ask me about the higher vision. Again it is difficult to express myself in words. It comes as a brilliant light, but not like the blazing
glare of the sun, before which men are forced to close their eyes. It is a spiritual form of light, shining only to an extent within the ability of the one granted the vision to receive it. Those who, like my own master, can drink deeply at the well of visions, are lulled into a sound spiritual sleep outside the mortal body, and can remain long in the place where visions reflect reality
more clearly.
LUC:12:4 Such men are true Illuminated Ones, and they are not many. By far, the greater number are deceived by the upward reflections of illusion, but because these appear as glorious visions, they accept them as reflections of Truth. This is always the great danger, but there are tests to guard against
deception.
LUC:12:5 Sometimes, when an illuminated One speaks of the Sphere of The Holy Spirit, its power will flow down into him to such an extent that his mortal senses will become blocked out. He will then appear to lose the trend
of his own speech and, instead, his mouth will become an outlet for the flooding channel of inspiration. Sometimes, in such cases, it is difficult for the listener to grasp what the illuminated One is saying, unless he, too, is in
equal harmony with the Sphere Above. The words race ahead of his understanding. If sitting in darkness or gloom, it will be noticed that, at such times, a light or radiance surrounds the Illuminated One, and it is this, which establishes the reality of his spiritual elevation.
LUC:12:6 Spiritual things are far more difficult to understand than earthly things, and their study requires much greater effort and self-discipline. That is why there are so few spiritual people. The lower mortal mind can gain
only a faint insight into them through spoken words, and then only by a supreme effort of understanding. This proves too much for most people, and so spirituality goes into a decline. If the effort directed towards destructive or purposeless worldly things had been directed towards spiritual ends, the race of man would now be a race of Mangods. LUC:12:7 There are some among you who do not understand the mystery of rebirth. It means rebirth into spiritual consciousness, and this is the central secret of all time, the knowledge of which will change men into Mangods. The reborn man can bid his soulspirit go into any place he chooses, and it will be there quick as a thought. It will pass over the seas or penetrate
through the denseness of the forests, not as a thing moving swiftly, but as a thing already there. The soulspirit, once freed, can rise above all denser material things, though it cannot penetrate into the upper subspheres of
creation in the Sphere of The Holy Spirit. LUC:12:8 Now, those of you who have experienced the power and speed of the soulspirit and examined, by careful study, the reality of the experience,
can surely understand the nature of the Supreme Spirit. If you can do these things, how much more capable will He be of doing them. Therefore, expand yourself to the utmost limit; break out of your confinement, slip away from
the mortal body, and escape the shackles of space and time. Behind and beyond this, you will see the gateway at the path leading to the door of The
Supreme Spirit.
LUC:12:9 If, however, you prefer to imprison the soulspirit within the body and to treat it with contempt, saying, I know nothing and fear to reach out into the unknown. I fear the limitless spaces, the unfathomable depths and the boundless heights. I am afraid to seek too deeply in order to discover what I am or what I can do, or what I will become," if you are numbered among those who tremble and fear, then you are not fully alive; you are already more than half dead. You can understand nothing of the truly beautiful; you cannot perceive glory and if you love the mere mortal body so much, then you cannot really know good and are easily inclined towards the
bad.
LUC:12:10 Even the slumbering soulspirit can know, through its dreams, the joy originating from its affinity with the Sphere Above. It is experienced when the restlessness of the thinking mind is stilled, in the joyous lilt of the heart filled with melody, in the glory of a sunset. In the warm smile of love, in the confidence of a child, in the sweet scents of a garden, or in the cool caress of the wind. The cumbersome words of Earth cannot describe its glory or reveal to mortal mind the majestic picture of Truth. These words of mine
do no more than reflect a pale shadow of the splendours of reality. Once again I repeat; the true knowledge of the Higher Sphere can be gained only from personal experience, through self-awakening.
LUC:12:11 The soul spirit is potentially beyond spatial limitations and exists outside earthly time. It knows that everything is everlasting; yesterday remains where it was; it is man who has moved on and left it behind, out of sight. Life is a steady advance, it flows on like the waters of this stream and cannot turn back on itself. The same stream passed this way a hundred years
ago. It remains the same, though moment by moment every drop passing by is new. So it is that we cannot return upstream, through the waters of life, to yesterday. However, when cast upon the bank by death, no longer swept onward by the flowing stream, yesterday becomes approachable. LUC:12:12 These are vital truths known to all Illuminated Ones. The childish mind of the worldly man sees things in unreality. The partially awakened, while in trance or ecstasy, see reality as though through a veil. They realise that the mortal eyes see only the unreal and deceptive, but they
are between two spheres, seeing neither clearly, and so do not see reality either. The illuminated One alone sees clearly and so knows for certainty that
he is an immortal being. LUC:12:13 The discipline of the moral teachings, when fully practised and lived, is the first essential step towards illumination. It is only by completely eliminating his own self-centredness that man can become aware
of the communicating point within himself, whereby he can contact the reality above. By this means alone, he escapes from a world of shadows and illusions. When the greater self awakens within, the peace and joy of spiritual consciousness fills life with splendour, but first the childish struggle for worthless, unreliable things must cease. The spirit of man is like a caged beast, ever restless, ever seeking to escape to a greater sphere, but too often the restlessness is stilled by drugs of worldliness. LUC: 12:14 The unenlightened man is unaware of anything beyond his limiting mortal wall, or outside the scope of his own ideas and interpretations. Yet, his ideas are clouds of preconceived prejudices and his interpretations deceptive illusions. He is dead to reality, entombed within
himself.
LUC:12:15 The man who sees a treestump in the night and mistakes it for a man is deluded. Yet the treestump is real enough; it is the misinterpretation by the man that makes it what it is not. Likewise with the Earth and material things; they too have a reality of their own, but man misinterprets, making them something they are not. His mortal body is also real, but this, too, he has misinterpreted, to make it something different. The Earth, material things and his body are not what man mistakes them to be; he is deluded in the
nightmists of agnosia. LUC: 12:16 The soulspirit is truly awakened when it has a personal experience proving the reality of the Sphere of The Holy Spirit, and this is a far from easy accomplishment. There may be brief glimpses in a half
wakened state, but these are not enough, nor are they satisfactory. The Higher Sphere can be known and experienced; it is not something completely cut off from the knowledge of man. There, the answer is to be found; there, the secret of the opposites is revealed; there, Truth shines with greater clarity. There you will discover that the soulspirit is a fragment of The Supreme Spirit containing the essence of His creative power. LUC:12:17 Thought, combined with the power of The Holy Spirit, can create whatever it desires, whatever it wills to come into being will do so. The originating creative thought has been modified on Earth by the thought activities of many soulspirits, and so there is much that cannot be directly attributed to The Supreme Spirit. Meditate on this, for it explains much. Man remains generally completely unaware of his own powers, his limitations being in fact no more than the result of his own lack of knowledge and awareness, his lack of insight and preference for walking in the comforting