231. The Light Of The Soul - 07. BOOK I - THE PROBLEM OF UNION - Part 5 - A. BAILEY

BOOK I - THE PROBLEM OF UNION - Part 5

The great teacher Patanjali, having led us through the various stages of the expanding consciousness, from "seeded" meditation to that in which the senses and the mind are superseded, carries us into a state for which we have no adequate terminology.  The yogi of the East applies the word Samadhi to that state of consciousness wherein the world in which the spiritual man functions and the formless levels or planes of our solar system are contacted, seen and known.  The field of knowledge of the three worlds, the realm of maya and of illusion, can be contacted at will by the seer using the instrument provided for him, but a new world opens up in which he sees his consciousness as one with all other energies, or conscious expressions of divine life.  The last veil of illusion is withdrawn, the great heresy of separateness is seen in its true nature, and the seer can say with Christ:

"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.  And the glory which thou gavest [111] me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."  (John XVII.  20-23.)