Dear Gail:
The subject is “Beyond God.” This is an expression used by many of the Sufi saints in trying to explain that in the original state of the Absolute, or beyond the beginning, there is the state of GOD-IS. In this state IT-IS — unbounded absolute vacuum prevails.
Now I am not getting into anything which can be stretched beyond your imagination, but holding it within bounds. Referring back to the Grand Divisions again, which I gave you in one of the letters, remember I said that within the Second Grand Division the name of God was known as Brahm, and is retained by many Indian saints to designate the ruler of the three worlds, including the physical universe.
This is the spiritual-material region, and beyond this is the unbounded void which many cross beyond reaching the Third Grand Division, where God is manifested in a spiritual form far purer than below.
The Second Grand Division is known as the Brahmanda, meaning the Egg of Brahm because it shaped in this manner
— of an egg. The upper portion of this world is Par Brahm and ruled over by Maha Kal. The lower region is called Tirkuti, which is the home of the Universal Mind you hear metaphysicians speak of so familiarly. The whole region is divided into countless planes or subdivisions, and in these regions are the heavens of the orthodox religions. I explain a great deal of this thought in The Tiger’s Fang. Here you find God as the Trinity of the Christians — also God the creator-preserver-destroyer of the Hindu religion. It is Brahm, the fountainhead who creates the illusions of the worlds below, as the eternal dreamer.
The state beyond the Second Grand Division is that which is known to the Sufi as the state of Wara-ul-Wara, or the absolute vacuum. This is that area which must be crossed in order to enter into the heavens in pure spirit. Now in describing this, one speaks of the State of God-Is — describing the state which prevails beyond the beginning of this beginning of creation. This is the world of nothingness which the Buddhists describe and Zoroaster spoke of it; I’m not certain if Christ brought up the subject at all in any of the gospels. However, most orthodox religions that speak of this area appear to think that it is that Ocean of Spirit out of which God manifests life — but it is the most finite creation point of the universes below. This is what might be called the OM point — the most finite point from which the Nothing projects out of Nothingness. This creation point is only that entity or Lord of the Second Grand Division we know as Brahm, who projects the creativity of God through Itself to the worlds below. His power is so great that many upon reaching this plane believe that they have found the heaven which their earthly religion has given them.
It is here that the original cause point is found — that which is called the OM point. This is where the original of the story of Adam and Eve occurred — for they were cast out of this heaven upon the earth where a gross body had to be used, and forever afterwards unhappy for they had left the Garden of Eden involuntarily. Here the word or Lahar is first heard by psychic sense of hearing. This void or world of nothingness is more than what it may sound, for it is a volcanic force of raw atoms which must be shaped into a living stream to become that of the negative nature to serve the worlds beyond. Remember that you do not get out of the negative world until reaching the Third Grand Division.
As I have stated, man or the individual thinks that he has
reached heaven upon getting into this region of the universes;
and because he hears so much about the void or nothingness which is on the upper level of this world he looks at it with the finality that nothing is there — therefore he cannot leave his world of paradise, and explore that space.
Actually there is the first raw power of the Absolute in this world of nothingness, and it is such a force of pure spiritual force that few entities can go beyond it into the world of the Absolute. Hardly any Jivatma can cross this world of nothing to enter into that far land unless he has a spiritual master to escort him — I speak of this in The Tiger’s Fang — of having to cross the world of darkness. The Void as the Buddhists call it, are little aware of what lies beyond.
I once talked with a Buddhist monk who made claims that it is the end of time — the divine state in which God rests as non-consciousness, and appears as consciousness in the first world — the world of Brahm. This was the extent of his knowledge as taught in the monasteries. When I tried to point out that this was only a place where the unending chain of alternating absorption and ejection of consciousness and impressions from out the state of pure spiritual worlds, he would have no part of the argument. He had reached his end of knowledge.
Actually this is a part of the evolution of the Jivatma, coming out of the realm of the highest world it must make its way down into the physical universe. There is a reason for this action; it is that the Absolute in Its creation of new atoms or Jivatmas, must have use for them — but they have to have a certain amount of experience or tempering like steel which can only be had in the worlds below; they must be tempered by the negative well as the positive. For this reason the Absolute created the lower worlds, and in Its long journey through the areas of time and space, being bound sometimes
by the negative power and other times by the positive power, It is being tempered for re-entrance into the heavenly worlds again. it has need for becoming completely pure, for the Absolute needs the pure atom or Jivatma in the running of his creations.
So when the Jivatma returns to the highest heaven again it is a pure Soul, completely tempered and made into usefulness for the Absolute, who can use it intelligently and wisely, and it having intelligence and wisdom now can serve its mission throughout eternity. Consider how many Jivatmas there are throughout all the universes in training for the return to the heavenly heavens; then you can understand what the greatness of the Absoluteness is — and how he uses everything in all his worlds for a purpose.
Now this land of darkness or the void is like a feathery world, and can be shaped according to the power of the Master. He will make it fearful, or a warm comfortable darkness through which he and his disciple can travel. Here one finds the strange humming sounds of the Audible Life Current so much greater than ever heard on the planes below
— and for the reason that the Life Current is in storage like a power station for some light company through the city; the deities below are given so much power to pass out into those worlds, and drawing from this void and forming into numerous aspects of life it is like a great river, or a flood of water moving over a landscape, but with that life-giving manna that feeds everything in the worlds below the void.
You can see now why the orthodox religionists believe that this is the end of the universe and where God dwells. And you can see why they are so greatly mistaken in this belief!
More later.
Paul
85. The Seven Fold Veil