The Role of Satan in God's Creation - Part 1

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The Role of Satan in God's Creation - Part 1

 

(p.127) " Satan originated as the natural consequence of God's desireless desire

to divide His Sea of Oneness into waves of finite creation....The Adversarial

Force maintains its realms of influence by the gross obscuration of the true

God-nature of all created beings. "

 

(p.128) And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led

by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil....And

Jesus answered and said unto him, " Get thee behind me, Satan. " - Luke 4:1-2, 8.

 

(p.129) The consciousness of Jesus the man who had become Jesus the Christ was

permeated with the omnipresence of the Holy Ghost--one with the sacred Vibratory

Essence of God that upholds all manifestation. The universality of creation

became his body, in which his little Jesus-form lived and moved.

 

True meaning of

" being full of the

Holy Ghost "

 

To understand exactly what is meant by Jesus being filled with the Holy Ghost,

one must scientifically and metaphysically explode superstition with true

understanding of the significance as demonstrated by the actions and statements

of Jesus. He spoke of the Christ omnipresence in the Holy Ghost when he said:

" Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the

ground without [the sight of] your Father. " [1] Jesus, as also the divinely

realized yogis of India, not only could foretell the actions of people and the

distant course of events through telepathic vibrations of thought, but he also

could know all happenings within vibratory creation through the feeling of his

Christ omnipresence.

 

An ant's consciousness is limited to the sensation of its little body. An

elephant's consciousness is extended throughout its massive frame, so that ten

people touching ten different parts of its body would awaken simultaneous

awareness. (p.130) Christ Consciousness, experienced in oneness with the Holy

Ghost, extends to the boundaries of all vibratory regions.

 

The entirety of vibratory creation is an externalization of Spirit. [see

Discourse 1.] Omnipresent Spirit secretes Itself in vibratory matter, just as

oil is hidden in the olive. When the olive is squeezed, tiny drops of oil appear

on its surface; so Spirit, as individual souls, by a process of evolution

gradually emerges from matter. Spirit expresses Itself as beauty and magnetic

and chemical power in minerals and gems; as beauty and life in plants; as

beauty, life, power, motion, and consciousness in animals; as comprehension and

expanding power in man; and again returns to Omnipresence in the superman. [2]

 

Each evolutionary phase thus manifests a fuller measure of Spirit. The animal is

freed from the inertia of minerals and the fixity of plants to experience with

locomotion and sentient consciousness a greater portion of God's creation. Man,

by his self-consciousness, additionally comprehends the thoughts of his fellow

beings and can project his sensory mind into star-studded space, at least by the

power of imagination.

 

The superman expands his life energy and consciousness from his body into all

space, actually feeling as his own self the presence of all universes in the

vast cosmos as well as every minute atom of the earth. In the superman, the lost

omnipresence of Spirit, bound in the soul as individualized Spirit, is regained.

 

The superman attains this ultimate evolutionary state after " baptism " or

immersion in the Holy Ghost Cosmic Vibration [as described in Discourse 6] by

advancing from body consciousness through the successive stages of

superconsciousness, Christ Consciousness, and Cosmic Consciousness.

 

Two phases of communion

with the Holy Ghost Cosmic

Vibration

 

In the first state attained in the successful attempt of the soul of Jesus to

rise above the Cosmic Nature-induced habit of bodily attachment of incarnations,

Jesus the man felt within the limitation of the body the vibratory presence of

the Holy Ghost: the intelligent Cosmic Vibration heard intuitively in the

meditative state of inner communion. (p.131) In this state of metaphysical

development, the divine perception of Spirit as the Holy Ghost Comforter and the

power of attraction of God's love and intelligence in the Christ Consciousness

is experienced as bounded by the body occupying a little speck of vibratory

region on the earth.

 

In the second higher state, by immersion of his consciousness in the Holy Ghost

vibration with its inherent Christ Intelligence, the consciousness of Jesus was

transferred from the circumference of the body to the boundary of all finite

creation in the vibratory region of manifestation: the sphere of space and time

encompassing planetary universes, stars, the Milky Way, and our little solar

system family of which the earth is a part, and on which the physical body of

Jesus was but a speck. Jesus the man, a tiny particle on the earth, became Jesus

the Christ, with his consciousness all-pervading in oneness with the Christ

Consciousness in the Holy Ghost.

 

This state can be cultured externally by experiencing God's love in His

reflection as Christ Consciousness, which attracts matter and consciousness

toward Divinity, and then expanding that feeling of unconditional love to one's

family, society, nation, all nations, all creatures. And it can be attained by

internally expanding the consciousness in meditation on the Cosmic Sound of

'Aum', transcending semi-subconsciousness, semi-superconsciousness, soul

consciousness, semi-Christ Consciousness to the culminative all-embracing Christ

Consciousness.

 

A Christlike person loves all beings and actually feels every portion of the

earth and vibratory space as the living cells of his own body.

 

Once Lahiri Mahasaya, my preceptor's Guru, was teaching from the scriptural

Bhagavad Gita to a group of his students in Banaras. [3] While explaining the

meaning of 'Kutastha Chaitanya' (the universal Christ or Krishna Consciousness),

suddenly he gasped and cried out: " I am drowning in the bodies of many souls off

the coast of Japan. " The next morning the disciples read in the newspapers that

a ship had foundered near the coast of Japan, resulting in the deaths of a

number of persons; the fatal event occurred at exactly the time Lahiri Mahasaya

experienced the shipwreck in his omnipresence.

 

So it was with Jesus. He had successfully led his consciousness through the

ascending degrees of expanding consciousness to this second Holy Ghost

state--the Christ state of omnipresence. That is what is meant by Jesus " being

full of the Holy Ghost. "

 

The Second Coming of Christ (The Resurrection of the Christ Within

You) Volume 1, Discourse 7, pg. 127-131

Paramahansa Yogananda

Printed in the United States of America 1434-J881

ISBN-13:978-0-87612-557-1

ISBN-10:0-87612-557-7

 

Notes:

 

[1] Matthew 10:29 (see Discourse 41).

 

[2] These five evolutionary stages are referenced in yoga philosophy as

'koshas', " sheaths " that are progressively unfolded as creation evolves from

inert matter back to pure Spirit. (See 'God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad

Gita', commentary on 1:4-6.) ('Publisher's Note')

 

[3] Since India gained her independence, the original Indian spellings have been

restored to many words that had become anglicized during British rule. Thus

'Banaras' is now more commonly spelled 'Varanasi', or is referred to by its more

ancient name, Kashi. ('Publisher's Note')