Chris Nihill <christinanihill@...> wrote:

 

Hans:

Thanks for that summary, Chris.

 

I want to summarise in my own words what I have learned from this chapter.

 

I think the most important thing to me is that my I-consciousness is not connected to the Holy Nucleus of the microcosm, in Harry Potter called Lily. My consciousness is totally speculative, learning by experience, and motivated by the blood ego in the spleen-liver system. The Lily in my heart is dormant, but not totally dead. It receives the calling radiation of the magnetic field which the Universal Brotherhood has created. This causes me to be restless and never content with anything life has to offer. The Lily in my heart is like a jamming station that spoils my enjoyment of life in this dialectical world. If I want to plunge my whole self into the total enjoyment of a walk through a ravishingly beautiful part of nature, it will cringe, and say to me, as it were, "Hold on. This isn't right. This isn't what it's all about."

 

I know that the only way to find peace is to surrender to the Lily in the heart, so that the New Soul can be born. I have to make the Inner Christ the focus of my life; the sun, the centre. Once the New Soul is born I should go the way of complete self-sacrifice, saying, "He who comes after me is greater than I. He must increase while I must decrease."

 

A new serpent-fire will form in the sympathetic nerves, and my whole system will gradually be cleansed, purified and brought under the control of the New Soul, although that is still unconscious. Then one day the moment will come when my I-consciousness will disappear, to be replaced by a new consciousness which is completely attuned to the Inner Christ, and reflects its light as the moon reflects the light of the sun.

 

The most important things for every seeker for liberation is to realise that the I-consciousness, and therefore the person himself, is just a phenomenon of nature, just like a blade of grass. When the end of its life comes, it's finished; totally gone. The only salvation is to break down the old temple and build it up again in three stages.