The conference that I attended at the weekend was a great gift, describing as it
did the unmistakeable arrival of the new consciousness. It was very definite
about the conditions in terms of sound and light that accompany the new
consciousness. In stating this, it agrees with the same event described in other
literature, such as the veil of the temple being torn in two in Matthew; it is
also described in Blavatsky's The Voice of the Silence and Wilhelm's translation
of The Secret of the Golden Flower.

The arrow of our desire has to be pure enough to reach this point. If we do not
reach this point, then we are still aiming too low with our desire and our arrow
is being met with a lower level of response, a dialectical response. We are
still contenting ourself with conjuring up an idol; our prayer is not yet
sufficiently pure; we have to surrender the response and let it go because it is
still impure, still dialectical. To use the words Hans so aptly selected once
for one of his posts, we are conjuring up a low demon and are for the time being
content with him as our result. We have to go beyond this comfort of ours; to
recognise it for what it is the moment it appears, and surrender it. We have to
keep surrendering whatever we receive, until there is nothing whatsoever left
that could be surrendered.

Desire is a ladder, Jacob's Ladder, and there are many texts in existence which
describe the steps, it is often given in the form of a list. The Voice of the
Silence contains a very good description of the rungs of that ladder. The ladder
has many rungs, and Blavatsky describes them one by one. It takes time and
practice to fire the arrow of our desire high enough, to surrender sufficiently
even to reach the first one with our consciousness, but once we realise we are
looking at a ladder the way is open before us to leave the horizontal plane, the
path is there for us to choose.

Blavatsky's text is very good, too, at describing the impediments in terms of
beliefs, emotions and desires that clog our arrow and limit its flight. Some
days it is hard even to raise our bow to make the shot, but every time we try,
we identify and in consequence can shake off some more of the causes that hold
us back, and each shot makes the next one easier and helps free a greater space
in the chaos of dialectics that surrounds us, and gives more elbow-room for our
consciousness. On the lower rungs of the ladder, desire is a function of the ego
but, higher up, the ladder climbs out of the ego's reach, and a better term than
desire might be singleness of purpose, or one-pointedness: as the lower rungs of
the ladder are passed, the responses to the flight of the arrow bear less and
less resemblance to anything that the ego can conceive, and the consciousness
moves out of the area of the ego's operation.


Chris
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