The Beginninng of the Upward Journey

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The Beginning of the Upward Journey

 

When the disciple is initiated, he reaches the starting point of his

actual homeward journey. With the ever-present help of the Master, he

will now break every fetter that binds him to the lower worlds and, borne

upward on the wings of the Divine Power that is the Word, will reach

the regions of eternal life.

 

This journey is started while the disciple is living on earth in the

physical body. For, as has many times been pointed out, we are not confined

to the physical body even while still living in it. We are imprisoned

in the body only because we do not know how to get out of it. How to

leave the body at will and enter the higher regions is one of the first

lessons which the Masters teach to their disciples.

 

Essentially, the method commences with the daily practice of meditation

in which the attention is concentrated and centered at the Third Eye

-- the gateway to the higher worlds. Sooner or later, according to the

rate of progress made, the disciple.....will pass out through the 'Tenth

Door' in the forehead and will enter the astral region. This is situated

just beyond the topmost border of the physical universe. It is in the

lowest part of the Brahmand, the second grand division.

 

The disciple 'is now in the position of a man who has been all of his

life confined in a semi-dark prison and has just been given his freedom,'

says Dr. Julian P. Johnson in his book, " With a Great Master In India. "

'He steps out from behind prison walls into a beautiful park or garden

in front of the prison, ready to begin his journey home. In fact, he

is now ready to actually begin to live, his freedom is intoxicating,

joyous.'

 

'At this point the student traveler enjoys so many new sensations that

he is quite bewildered, He is fairly intoxicated with delight. He is

conscious of a marvelous influx of power. His vision is lucid. Space

is obliterated. Time has disappeared; for now all events stand before

him clearly outlined, the past, the present, and the future. "

 

'He now realizes the shadowy nature of the lower worlds from which he

just escaped. He beholds its pitiful limitations.......its panorama of

births and deaths, under the wheel of karma, or the law of cause and

effect. All of these things are now clear to his illuminated consciousness,

and yet he has taken but the first step on the Path of the Masters.

For the royal highway begins just as you step through the Tenth Door,

out of the physical body, and into the first astral zone. " (Julian Johnson)

 

This is the true interpretation of Plato's famous 'myth of the cave.'

 

It is here that the disciple first meets his Master in his Radiant Form.

From that moment on, the Radiant Form is his constant companion, and

leads the way of the upward journey.

 

The disciple is now in a world he never saw before and of the very existence

of which most people are unaware. But it is a world which impresses itself

upon the traveler as being much more real than this world. It is also

much finer and more beautiful, and full of light and joy.

 

-- Joseph Lemming, " Yoga and the Bible, " RS Books, from a chapter titled,

" The Life Everlasting "

 

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This journey is started while the disciple is living on earth in the

physical body. For, as has many times been pointed out, we are not confined

to the physical body even while still living in it.

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