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The acquisition of spiritual consciousness, Illumination, endows the mortal
mind also, with a degree of power sufficient to penetrate the veil of
illusion--the _maya_; the disciple then sees for the first time, all things
in their true light. The separation between the personal self, and the
spiritual being that we are, is so fine as to be like a cob-web veil, and
yet how few penetrate it. The suddenness with which this awakening (for it
is like awakening from a dream of the senses), comes, startles and
surprises us, and then we become astonished at the transparency of the
bonds that bound us to the limitations of the mortal, when we might have
soared to realms of light.
"By perfectly concentrated meditation on the correlation of the body with
the ether, and by thinking of it as light as thistle-down, will come the
power to traverse the ether."
The Zens say that the way of the gods is through the air and afterwards in
the ether. This means that we must evolve from the physical to the psychic,
and thence to the etheric or spiritual body.
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