Last week we spoke about the manifesting power of the consciousness and briefly mentioned the trouble that can arise as a result of not knowing the true nature of The True Self. What we are going to present today is an expose on the nature of that trouble, its causes and its remedies. We will describe much about the Astral World including its source, its effect upon physical existence and upon the Individual Consciousness as well as its effects upon the mind.

In order to understand how the astral comes into being we must look back to the file which tells about the nature of the Omnipresence of The Consciousness because the Astral and all its levels are manifest as an hierarchy of varying levels of density of matter which manifest gradually out of the Consciousness. It is rather like water which fills gradually with crystals until it becomes solid ice. Imagine, crystal clear water appears invisible while if we put some other liquid into it it begins to be seen. Or it is like pure air that is slowly filled with smoke etc...

However we must understand the difference between physics and metaphysics.

Physics is the science used to describe the physical Universe. While metaphysics is the study of being and knowing. Physics is about the why of Physical events while metaphysics is about existence itself.

There is great confusion and discord amoung all the worlds religions as to the true nature of the Astral world etc. and/or the location or existence of heaven and so forth. Each putting forth a belief system which states that their god is superior to all other gods or that their way is the best or only way to attain god. That you must practice their religion or be left out of gods kingdom to come, or worse still that you will be subject to some victimization by an evil being which lives in a place called hell and so on and on and on. Argue argue argue and squabble.

Let it be said that looking at the whole in the context of omnipresence is the only thing that makes any sense at all, the rest will not stand up to an analytical scrutiny, whereas The oneness of omniscience can stand any and all analyses. 

For example: Viewing the Idea of the Astral plane in the context of the omnipresence reveals quite readily, that the physical manifestation of the physical Universe (just as is proved by modern science) comes into being gradually in an hierarchical sense by degrees of solidification of light/wave vibration etc........ This means that The Omnipresent One exists at all levels of manifestation within each category of the hierarchy as well as all the steps between the manifestation of any and all dimension, Loka, Heaven, Hell, Valhalla or what not.

Thinking as described above easily shows that in the process of the solidification of the Cosmic manifestation all the varying levels and dimension appear out of the consciousness and manifest within the same thing from which it arises. Water once being water is now ice..

Nothing else makes any sense. We can use all manner of description and hair splitting mumbo-jumbo we like but nothing will ever come close to the inclusiveness that is needed to describe the whole. The only human thought which comes close is the thought of omnipresence/omniscience does.

Why? because anything else, any religion, any creed, any belief system no matter how elaborate or complex requires the exclusion of some other mode/manifest part of the omnipresence in order to stand whole and unconquered by some other philosophy.

In short all religions and philosophies, exclude something or someone or some part of the whole, how ludicrous, when the Cosmos is a unified whole?

The reason for this exclusivity (which exclusivity may not be mentioned or possibly even thought of in a given philosophy) is that they rely upon exclusion for their very definition (if you admit that which they exclude then the philosophy falls short of the mark) . Any Concise and true philosophy would therefore need to be all-inclusive or fall due to exclusion.

Philosophies which revert to imagination, deification, and/or nebulous imaginary descriptions of archetypal or super-beings, planes, Gods etc when they are put to the test of honest analysis can never measure themselves against the task of expressing The Omnipresent Truth because at some point the philosophy upon which they are grounded is shown to be exclusive. (e.g. A philosophy which is found wanting in the crucible of truth must lose its exclusivity and therefore be absorbed into the One Omnipresent Truth).

However the problem is that everyone runs about saying that this particular philosophy or that one, is the whole truth nothing but the truth so-help-me-God... or saying why should I accept what you say as the truth. They might even say that there is no Truth at all or that nothing is true but which I can see or pull apart etc...... They might even say The Truth is the Koran or The Bible or Kant or Emerson or Locke or Blavatsky and so on.. Even going so far as to kill others who will not accept their brand of the truth etc.

Many others go about trying to force what they think is the only truth down the throats of others or suppress whole races and nations under some guise of truth; all this is wrong. all of it. Why? The Omniscient Omnipresent CONSCIOUSNESS is the knower of all modes of knowing and of all types and levels of understanding..... Some reading this might think that they or someone else knows something the Omniscient does not know or that what they know they alone know. or even that they own the knowledge of this or that saying "I Myself Am The Knower Of This or That".

But this is ridiculous because there is only one Cosmos, only one manifestation within which all exists. There are excuses or contentions relating to what was just said which might say: That "I am a Soul" "I am The knower within this Body" and so on. But if this were true then the Idea or expression of Omniscient Truth is ridiculous as is the Idea of Omnipresence also ridiculous.

But to think that the Idea of omnipresence is ridiculous and untrue is to say that there is no such thing as a philosophy under which all of existence can be grouped or exist. Exclusion would be the truth as would discord, disharmony, randomness, and meaninglessness.

Any Philosophy would then be nothing more than a device used to delude us into accepting the unfairness and emptiness of life. I dare say that in a life without meaning all philosophy, religion and goodness would be used by the unscrupulous to gain power wealth and dominion over the masses.

There are also some who might quote the words of some prophet or other that said such things as "Those who do not believe" or "Those who say or do such and such" are excluded or rejected or thrown out of/excluded from heaven etc. by God.. deprived of gods love as it were... These statements either by the Prophet or by the followers of such prophets are exclusive by their very nature. That prophet, that follower are therefore saying things which are utterly against the nature of omnipresence.

This makes one think that such a founder or philosopher of such a creed/religion (if he or she said such as the above) could not possibly be enlightened or have any real realization of any depth. Either the followers ruined his teachings long ago or he was not a real master. Because as we saw earlier in this file "If a philosophy is exclusive then it cannot be the whole truth".

Yet the fact of the omnipresence of the Omniscient Consciousness allows for variety and even for so-called evil or degrees of right and/or wrong, as well as good, because all this knowing is still what is known by the Consciousness. It is the knowledge which the Consciousness has of the different modes of knowing, and of differing attitudes and colors of meaning, good and evil therefore and all flavors of them both is mere knowledge. If this is also erroneous then the omniscience is itself a fraud.

 So then that which is known as The Astral Plane and it supposed inhabitants, is nothing other than the manifestation of subtler levels of the knowership of the Consciousness while that which Views the Astral through the Conscious mind of the one who travels, visits or exists in the Astral as well as the Waking and Deep Sleep State, is nothing other than the Absolute Consciousness itself.

However one who has realizations during meditation and/or visits the Astral Plane... is not seeing or realizing God in his actual or real form at all, but is merely seeing the Atman in another manifestation which is more subtle and hence of more moment than the physical being or mind which reports the experience to the watching Consciousness.

It is a matter of an assumption of identity at a higher level. Those beings which are realized or seen etc.. are archetypes .... effigies which the mind perceives as God.... constructs of the mind's attempt at giving credence to a God with form etc.... Why? because they appear as separate beings or effigies in some place or other.

The truth is that the place which exists in space and the occupier of that space is one and the same Presence.... Is it not present in the same Time? --- Space-Time cannot be separated........ PRESENCE... NOW-NESS exists NOW.

So then if Presence.... space and time are one......... mere presence of this or that in the space of the present... means nothing is really there but the Omnipresent.....

Thus all that exists is the Consciousness!

Those therefore who expound the merits of the Astral Plane and the desirability of its attainment are doing a disservice to serious, committed or devoted seekers after the truth because the richness of the Astral in Terms of its power to delude the mind into believing all sorts of things, far outweighs the power or lure of the physical realm because in the Astral anything is possible due to the fact of the mind being its creator. To seek Astral mastery is a fools errand because the mind builds it to delude itself.

The Astral Plane can be thought of as the source of the creative power of the imagination where all things exist in a half-formed still to become manifest, on the way to becoming manifest in the physical realm. In between the Astral and the density and solidity of the manifestation of the physical we come across all sorts of levels of density, and dimension. The point is that the countless levels are themselves also parts of the omnipresent such that any and all parts are not the Final realizable Truth or God.

We can easily see that the way it is described here is the only way of looking at it that makes sense because it is inclusive of the whole and does not exclude an iota of the manifestation.