Sand, Heaven and Eternity

Sand, Heaven and Eternity

In relation to conscious evolution, higher centers occupies the summit of scale and is the center around which, all ideas and concepts of the system revolves.

When we speak of scale, we refer to the different levels of cosmos that are subject to the same objective principles or laws. A microbe experiences it’s life just as fully as Man, as do the planets and galaxies. The difference is the speed at which each cosmos operates. On every scale, each cosmos in it’s own way, breathes, feeds, lives, loves and dies. The one characteristic that is common across all scales of creation is unconsciousness. However, given only to the microcosmos Man, is the possibility to be freed from the unconscious state.

Relativity is understanding the value of system ideas and practices in relation to higher centers. For example, self-remembering and transforming suffering are the pinnacle of efforts that lead to inconspicuous presence. Non-expression of negative emotions, external considering, refraining from unnecessary talk and gesticulating, and all the exercises and tasks that one may encounter in the School, are tools that the steward employs to maintain standards in the four lower centers.

If the above seems somewhat dry, and intellectual, then let us look to the arts to inform our understanding. Leonardo’s masterpiece of St. John the Baptist, is symbolic of a mature steward reflecting the beauty of higher centers, pointing towards inconspicuous presence.

William Blake, who’s life was filled with mystical experiences, gives us a beautifully poetic description of scale and relativity in four short sentences of conscious wisdom:

To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour.

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Saint John the Baptist, Leonardo da Vinci

Louvre, Paris