Sympathetic Vibratory Physics

Awakened

Highest of the three general levels of consciousness; body or animal, intellect or ego and Cosmic. Same as Christ Consciousness. It is believed this level of consciousness is the same as Keely's Compound Interetheric. Also known as Awakening, Satori, Christ, Enlightenment, Self Realization, Superconscious, Illumination

See Word, Etheric Elements, Subdivision

All words read herein (video above) are from the various works of Walter and Lao Russell. This unit explains Divine Illumination and Cosmic Consciousness both spiritually and scientifically. Divine Illumination, the ultimate goal of all mankind, which when understood and practiced, will bring about a real and true "civilization" of world brotherhood and sisterhood between all mankind. The supreme mystics mentioned herein, are to give the example of what man can become through the knowledge and inspiration of the kingdom of heaven within himself. We do not endorse or support any single religion or belief system. We are simply stating that every man is as connected to the Creator as much as these supreme mystics of antiquity. To the degree that you desire the light of illumination is to the degree you may express that power in your own creations and in your very being. This is the spiritual light of mind which the "profane", may in no way approach or enter into. Be pure of heart. Seek, and you will find.

Ralph Maxwell Lewis
“IF ONE IS TO BE BORN AGAIN, IN SPIRIT, one must first pass through transition. And yet this transition, or death, if you will, is not of the body; it is a transition of the consciousness. The consciousness is separated from its old order of thinking, from the world to which it has been chained fast. It is freed from enslaving ideas and from fears and superstitions. It soars forth into a new and higher realm. During this transition, the consciousness casts aside its dissolute, moral body, its wrong values of living. We are reborn in understanding. The new life is a spiritual one, and it is a life here and now, not in some remote place, or time. None of us is spiritually born until we become aware of the various sublime states of consciousness of which we are capable. The first birth of every incarnation is physical; it is when the soul enters the body. The second birth is when we realize the higher levels of our consciousness - when we experience Cosmic Consciousness.” [Ralph Maxwell Lewis]

Christian Bernard
'What is Cosmic Consciousness? In answering this question, I would first like to make clear that it is not a substance, but an essence. It is an attribute of the Universal Soul, which is an emanation of Divine Intelligence. We should not therefore separate it from all the forms of consciousness expressing themselves in the universe by means of the living beings inhabiting it. In other words Cosmic Consciousness is always to be associated with the vehicles it uses in order to manifest, however simple or complicated these vehicles may be. On Earth, they range from the tiniest living creature to the most developed, the human being.
We may therefore say that it is Cosmic Consciousness that prompts living beings to evolve towards the perfecting of their own nature. It is thanks to Cosmic Consciousness that they perceive what is around them and respond to the external conditions they came upon in their evolutionary environment.
Under its effect, they attract that which is in harmony with them, and use that which brings them a certain physical well being. Conversely, they repel that which disturbs them or which is a threat to their wholeness. In this sense, we can say that the most elementary living form displays intelligence, for the Cosmic Consciousness within it drives it to manifest to the greatest extent possible the divine attributes which its nature, however primitive, makes it capable of expressing. [Christian Bernard FRC. (Rosicrucian Reflections)]

"When I had moments of doubt that this could be so, the changes in the phenomena stopped taking place, and much later, I discovered that:

my thoughts, if strongly imbued with CONVICTION

could effect changes in the 'shimmer of motes'

(what science presently calls electrically charged particles)

and therefore produce changes

in the appearance of the rock or whatever I was studying.

It was at this point, that I came to realize the powerful effect that CONVICTION or unwavering FAITH had on the environment when stating a command or even a belief.
What was even more startling was my mind-opening, 'cosmic consciousness' realization that all I had been witnessing was really the 'Creative Power' of Divine Mind Itself made visible in the 'shimmer of tiny motes'.
Not only this, its appearance could be profoundly affected by the activity of human thought." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 1, page 11]

Bucke
What is Cosmic Consciousness?

Cosmic Consciousness was coined by the Canadian psychologist Richard M. Bucke, in his book "Cosmic Consciousness" 1902. He describes Cosmic Consciousness as a transpersonal mode of consciousness, an awareness of the universal mind and one's unity with it. Cosmic Consciousness prime characteristic is an awareness of the life and order in the universe.

An individual who attains the state of Cosmic Consciousness is often described as 'Enlightened' and such a person is also said to have a sense of immortality, not of attaining it but of already having it. Burke saw this state of consciousness as the next stage in human evolution, very much as spiritualists have always seen it.

Bucke argues that during the course of humanity's evolutionary development there are three forms of consciousness.

Simple Consciousness, our instinctual consciousness.
Self Consciousness, that self-awareness that allows a human to realize himself as a distinct entity.
Cosmic Consciousness, a new developing faculty at the pinnacle of our evolution.

Bucke outlines the evolutionary struggle on our planet which has produced self-consciousness and then describes the appearance of a new species that possesses Cosmic Consciousness, a consciousness that expands to become one with all. Bucke theorizes that, with increasing frequency, persons like Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, Walt Whitman and others are making their appearance on our planet and by their teaching are helping to transform life on this planet. This evolutionary process continues up until today. Bucke studied the lives of these persons that had attained Cosmic Consciousness and found common characteristics such as:

intuitive understanding
elevated moral stature
loss of sense of sin
intellectual illumination
sense of immortality
no fear of death
definite moment or period of transformation

"The person who passes through this experience will learn in the few minutes, or even moments, of its continuance more than in months or years of study, and he will learn much that no study every taught or can teach. Especially does he obtain such a conception of "the whole"... Along with moral elevation and intellectual illumination comes what must be called, for want of a better term, a sense of immortality."

From his book he describes how those he interviewed had experienced the state:

"Like a flash there is presented to his consciousness a clear conception (a vision) in outline of the meaning and drift of the universe... He sees and knows that the cosmos... is in fact... in very truth a living presence. He sees that instead of men being, as it were, patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance, they are in reality specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life. He sees that the life which is in man is as immortal as God is; that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all; that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love, and that the happiness of every individual is in the long run absolutely certain."

Cosmic Consciousness, then, is a higher form of consciousness than that possessed by the ordinary man which is not common to us and the higher animals, except that small part of it which is derived from the few individuals who have had the higher consciousness above named.
To make the matter clear it must be understood that there are three forms or grades of consciousness.
(1) Simple Consciousness, which is possessed by say the upper half of the animal kingdom. By means of this faculty a dog or a horse is just as conscious of the things about him as a man is; he is also conscious of his own limbs and body and he knows that these are a part of himself.
(2) Over and above this Simple Consciousness, which is possessed by man as by animals, man has another which is called Self Consciousness. By virtue of this faculty man is not only conscious of trees, rocks, waters, his own limbs and body, but he becomes conscious of himself as a distinct entity apart from all the rest of the universe. It is as good as certain that no animal can realize himself in that way.
Cosmic Consciousness is a third form which is as far above Self Consciousness as is that above Simple Consciousness. With this form, of course, both simple and self consciousness persist (as simple consciousness persists when self consciousness is acquired), but added to them is the new faculty so often named and to be named in this volume.
The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe. What these words mean cannot be touched upon here; it is the business of this volume to throw some light upon them. There are many elements belonging to the cosmic sense besides the central fact just alluded to.
Of these a few may be mentioned. Along with the consciousness of the cosmos there occurs an intellectual enlightenment or illumination which alone would place the individual on a new plane of existence—would make him almost a member of a new species.
To this is added a state of moral exaltation, an indescribable feeling of elevation, elation, and joyousness, and a quickening of the moral sense, which is fully as striking and more important both to the individual and to the race than is the enhanced intellectual power.
With these come, what may be called a sense of immortality, a consciousness of eternal life, not a conviction that he shall have this, but the consciousness that he has it already.
Cosmic Consciousness, by Richard Maurice Bucke, [1901]

Dialogue on Awakening
"There is no time and there is no space and I have no choice except to be with you because we are inseparable One. There is no special dimension which you at this moment are capable of conceiving. It is not vast, it is not small; it is. It cannot be known as a dimension because that would place a limitation upon it. It cannot be known as being so vast that you cannot conceive of yourself filling it up... these are games that will only entertain your mind. I suggest that you simply accept what I have said: there is no time, there is no space, there is no way for us to be apart because the Mind of God is whole and within that wholeness lies the Mind of His Son (Cosmic Consciousness) and neither are separate from each other or from any infinite aspect of Itself as It is expressed. Do not attempt to cenceptualize this in terms that your would relate to physical boundaries - it cannot be done. For the moment, allow yourself just the awareness of what I have said because it is." [Dialogue on Awakening page 143.]

The Emerald Tablets
"Know ye the gateway to power is secret. Know ye the gateway to life is through death. Aye, through death but not as ye know death, but a death that is life and is fire and is Light. Desireth thou to know the deep, hidden secret? Look in thy heart where the knowledge is bound. Know that in thee the secret is hidden, the source of all life and the source of all death. List ye, O man, while I tell the secret, reveal unto thee the secret of old. Deep in Earth's heart lies the flower, the source of the Spirit that binds all in its form. For know ye that the Earth is living in body as thou art alive in thine own formed form..
See ye not that in Earth's heart is the balance of all things that exist and have being on its face? The source of thy Spirit is drawn from Earth's heart, for in thy form thou are one with the Earth. When thou hast learned to hold thine own balance, then shalt thou draw on the balance of Earth. Exist then shalt thou while Earth is existing, changing in form, only when Earth, too, shalt change: Tasting not of death, but one with this planet, holding thy form till all pass away.
List ye, O man, drink of my wisdom. Learn ye the secret that is Master of Time. Learn ye how those ye call Masters are able to remember the lives of the past. Great is the secret yet easy to master, giving to thee the mastery of time. When upon thee death fast approaches, fear not but know ye are master of Death. Relax thy body, resist not with tension. Place in thy heart the flame of thy Soul. Swiftly then sweep it to the seat of the triangle. Hold for a moment, then move to the goal. This, thy goal, is the place between thine eyebrows, the place where the memory of life must hold sway. Hold thou thy flame here in thy brain-seat until the fingers of Death grasp thy Soul. Then as thou pass through the state of transition, surely the memories of life shall pass, too. Then shalt the past be as one with the present. Then shall the memory of all be retained. Free shalt thou be from all retrogression. The things of the past shall live in today. Man, ye have heard the voice of my wisdom. Follow and ye shall live through the ages as I." [The Emerald Tablets, Thoth (Atlantis, 36000 B.C)]

This excerpt is from the Parable of the Stone in the Yoga Vasistha.
Yogavāsiṣṭha (devanāgarī: योगवासिष्ठ) is a Sanskrit text of Indian āstika philosophy written between the 6th - 7th century and the 12th century.
"Vashishta continued: There is another story, O Rama, for further illustration of the same idea. Let me tell it now.
There is a huge stone, full of love and kindness, evident and palpable, soft, omnipresent, and eternal. Inside it bloom infinite fields of lotuses. Their petals sometimes touch each other, sometimes they don’t, sometimes they are visible on the outside, sometimes not. Some flowers face downward, some upward, and some have entangled roots. Some have no roots at all. All objects exist within it, although they do not truly exist.
O Rama, this stone is cosmic consciousness; it resembles a stone in its homogeneity. But within it exist all the diverse beings of this universe. Just as one can imagine various forms in a stone, so too is this universe imagined due to the ignorance present within this consciousness. Just as a sculptor 'creates' different forms from stone, and they remain stone, so too is this cosmic consciousness always a homogeneous mass of awareness.
Just as a solid stone contains potentially diverse figures that can be carved from it, so the diverse forms and names of beings in this universe potentially exist within cosmic consciousness. Whether or not anything is carved from it, the stone remains a stone, just as consciousness remains consciousness, whether or not the world appears within it. This external world is but an empty expression; its material is consciousness.
In reality, even these manifestations and modifications are nothing other than Brahman, the cosmic consciousness—although not in the sense of manifestation or modification. Even the distinction between modification as modification or in any other sense is meaningless in this consciousness. When such expressions are used in relation to consciousness, the meaning is entirely different, like the difference between water and water seen in a mirage. Just as a seed contains nothing but the seed itself, the flowers and fruits are of the same nature as the seed—the substance of the seed is the substance of all its subsequent outcomes. Similarly, the homogeneous mass of cosmic consciousness is the essence of all its subsequent effects. When truth is understood, duality ceases. Consciousness never becomes non-consciousness. Therefore, whatever is, wherever it is, and in whatever form—it is all consciousness. It always exists in its potential state within the mass of homogeneous awareness.
Vashishta continued: Time, space, and other factors in this so-called creation (which is actually just another aspect of the same consciousness) are nothing but consciousness.
When it is realized that all these are merely thoughts and concepts, and that the supreme consciousness is one and indivisible, can these aspects be considered unreal? There is nothing in the seed but the seed itself—there is no multiplicity. At the same time, there is a concept of possible diversity (flowers, fruits, leaves) that is presumably contained within the seed. Similarly, cosmic consciousness is one and free from multiplicity, and the universe of diversity is considered to exist only as a concept.
The stone is one, and the concept of numerous lotuses within it arises only in relation to this one stone. In the same way, the concept of diversity arises within consciousness without dividing this consciousness. But just as the water in a mirage both exists and does not exist simultaneously, so too does diversity in consciousness exist and not exist simultaneously. All of this is one infinite consciousness. Just as the concept of the existence of lotuses in the stone does not harm the stone itself, so too is consciousness unaffected by this world, which exists as the very nature of awareness within awareness.
There is no fundamental difference between consciousness and the world—they are synonyms. When reality is seen, only consciousness is seen. Just as all water in this world is simply the combination of hydrogen and oxygen gases, this apparent world is nothing but Brahman. The one consciousness manifests as the mind, mountains, etc., just as the colorful feathers of a peacock are already present in the peacock's egg.
This power or potential is present within infinite consciousness. What now appears as diverse objects in the universe, with the eyes of wisdom, is seen as Brahman or infinite consciousness. All of it is non-dual, though it seems diverse, just like the concept of diversity within the peacock’s egg. The concept of Brahman and the world is thus both dual and non-dual at the same time. What is the foundation of all these concepts of unity and multiplicity is the supreme state.
The infinite consciousness fills the entire universe, and the universe exists within infinite consciousness. Their relationship is like that of multiplicity and non-multiplicity, as the many parts of a peacock are contained within the single substance of the egg. Where, then, is the diversity in all of this?
Vashishta continued: All of this—ego, space, and so on—gained reality, even though it was never created. Where nothing was created, all of this is seen. Sages and gods remain in their transcendental consciousness, savoring the bliss of their own essence. They have abandoned the illusion of duality between observer and observed, and the streams of thoughts that arise from it. Their gaze is direct and steady.
Though sages are active in this world, they have no concept whatsoever of illusory existence. They are established in a state that rejects the relationship between the knower and the known (subject and object). Their life force is undisturbed. They are like painted figures, their mind unmoving, as the mind does not move in painted pictures. They have relinquished the conscious ability to form concepts.
They are engaged in appropriate actions with a small movement of thought in consciousness (as even the gods do). But such a movement of thought and the feeling of contact between observer and observed causes them bliss. Their consciousness is completely pure and free from all images, concepts, and ideas.
Such is the state of pure consciousness, the true essence of infinite consciousness. This is not a vision (a feeling of the mind and senses). It cannot be taught. It is neither too difficult nor impossible, nor is it far away. It is realized only through direct experience.
This alone exists, and nothing more—no body, no senses or life force, no mind, no memory, no latent tendencies, no individual consciousness, not even movement in consciousness, no consciousness, no world. It is neither real nor unreal, nor something in between, nor emptiness, nor the absence of emptiness, nor time, nor space, nor materiality. Free from all of this and the thousands of layers that cover the heart, one must feel consciousness in everything one sees.
It is neither beginning nor end. Since it is always present everywhere, it is mistaken for something else. Thousands are born and thousands die, but the consciousness that is everywhere, inside and outside, is untouched by this. It remains in all these bodies, etc., as if only slightly different from the infinite.
Skillfully performing various actions, remain free from the feeling of "I" and "mine." Because everything in this world is Brahman, free from characteristics and qualities; it is eternal, peaceful, pure, and completely balanced.
Rama asked: If Brahman undergoes no change whatsoever, how does this apparent world arise, which is both real and unreal?
Vashishta replied: True change, O Rama, is the transformation of one substance into another; like when milk curdles, the whey can no longer return to the original state of milk. This is not the case with Brahman, which was unchanged before the appearance of the world and remains unchanged after the world disappears. At both the beginning and the end, it is unchanging homogeneous consciousness. The momentary apparent modifications in this consciousness are merely slight disturbances in consciousness, not changes. In this Brahman, there is neither a subject nor an object of awareness. What a thing is at the beginning and at the end, that it is.
If it seems to be something else in between, this 'something' is considered not real. Consciousness is consciousness at the beginning and the end, and therefore in the middle as well! It never undergoes any transformations or modifications.
Rama asked again: In this pure consciousness, how does this slight disturbance arise?
Vashishta replied: I am certain, O Rama, that this infinite consciousness is the only reality, and in its nature, there are no disturbances. We use the word "Brahman" only to convey thoughts and teach, not to create the concept of one or two. You, I, and all these things are merely pure consciousness, and there is no ignorance at all.
Rama asked again: But at the end of the previous chapter, you urged me to investigate the nature of this ignorance!
Vashishta replied: Yes, at that time, you were not yet fully awakened. Expressions such as "ignorance," "individual consciousness," etc., were devised only to assist in the instruction of the unawakened. One must use common sense and appropriate methods to awaken the seeker before transmitting the knowledge of truth to him. If someone proclaims, "All this is Brahman" to the unawakened, he is like a man petitioning a tree to reduce his suffering. With appropriate methods, one can awaken the unawakened. The awakened one is enlightened by the truth. Now that you are awakened, I declare the truth to you.
You are Brahman, I am Brahman, the entire universe is Brahman. Whatever you do, always remember this truth. Only this Brahman, or the essence of all, is reality in all beings, just as clay is the real substance of thousands of pots. Just as the wind and its movement are not distinct from each other, so consciousness and its inner movement (energy), which causes all these manifestations, are not distinct from each other. The seed of a concept, falling into the soil of consciousness, causes this apparent diversity. If it does not fall, the mind does not sprout."

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