Chapter XXVI   The Ascending Series of Substance   There is a self that is of the essence of Matter ―there is another inner self of Life that fills the other ―there is another inner self of Mind ―there is another inner self of Truth-Knowledge ―there is another inner self of Bliss. Taittiriya Upanishad.1   They climb Indra like a ladder. As one mounts peak after peak, there becomes clear the much that has still to be done. Indra brings consciousness of That as the goal.   Like a hawk, a kite He settles on the Vessel and upbears it; in Hi

Chapter VIII   Memory, Self-Consciousness and the Ignorance   Some speak of the self-nature of things, others say that it is Time. Swetaswatara Upanishad.1   Two are the forms of Brahman, Time and the Timeless. Maitri Upanishad.2   Night was born and from Night the flowing ocean of being and on the ocean Time was born to whom is subjected every seeing creature Rig Veda.3 .   Memory is greater: without memory men could think and know nothing. . . . As far as goes the movement of Memory, there he ranges at will. Chhandogya Upanishad.4   This is he who is that which sees, touches, hears,

Chapter XXI   The Ascent of Life   Let the path of the Word lead to the godheads, towards the Waters by the working of the Mind. . . .1 O Flame, thou goest to the ocean of Heaven, towards the gods; thou makest to meet together the godheads of the planes, the waters that are in the realm of light above the sun and the waters that abide below.2   The Lord of Delight conquers the third status; he maintains and governs according to the Soul of universality; like a hawk, a kite he settles on the vessel and uplifts it, a finder of the Light he manifests the fourth status and cleaves to the ocean tha

Chapter XIII   The Divine Maya   By the Names of the Lord and hers they shaped and measured the force of the Mother of Light; wearing might after might of that Force as a robe the lords of Maya shaped out Form in this Being.   The Masters of Maya shaped all by His Maya; the Fathers who have divine vision set Him within as a child that is to be born. Rig Veda.1     EXISTENCE that acts and creates by the power and from the pure delight of its conscious being is the reality that we are, the self of all our modes and moods, the cause, object and goal of al

Chapter XXVII   The Sevenfold Chord of Being   In the ignorance of my mind, I ask of these steps of the Gods that are set within. The all-knowing Gods have taken the Infant of a year and they have woven about him seven threads to make this weft. Rig Veda.1   WE HAVE now, by our scrutiny of the seven great terms of existence which the ancient seers fixed on as the foundation and sevenfold mode of all cosmic existence, discerned the gradations of evolution and involution and arrived at the basis of knowledge towards which we were striving. We have laid down that the origin, the continent, t