Lesson 12 - The Intelligent Ball of Light
The study of awareness is a great study. "I am aware." The key to this
entire study is the discovery of who or what is the "I am." It is the
key to the totality of your progress on the path of enlightenment. What
is awareness? As you open your physical eyes, what is it that is aware
of what you see? When you look within, deep within, and feel energy, you
almost begin to see energy. A little more perception comes and you do
actually see energy as clearly as you see chairs and tables with your
physical eyes open.
But what is it that is aware? When awareness moves through
superconsciousness, it seems to expand, for it looks out into the
vastness of superconsciousness from within and identifies with that
vastness. This is what is meant by an expanded state of awareness. What
is awareness? Discover that. Go deep within it. Make it a great study.
You have to discover what awareness is before you can realize the Self
God. Otherwise, realization of the Self God is only a philosophy to
you. It is a good philosophy, however, a satisfying and stable
philosophy. But philosophies are not to be intellectually learned,
memorized and repeated and nothing more. They are to be experienced step
by step by step. Get acquainted with yourself as being awareness. Say to
yourself, "I am awareness. I am aware. I am not the body. I am not the
emotions. I am not the thinking mind. I am pure awareness."
It will help for us to make a mental picture. Let us now try to
visualize awareness as a round white ball of light, like one single eye.
This ball is being propelled through many areas of the mind, inner and
outer, and it is registering all the various pictures. It has, in fact,
four eyes, one on each side of it. It is not reacting. The reaction
comes when awareness is aware of the astral body and the physical body.
It is in those bodies that reaction occurs. We are aware of the
reactions in these bodies, for the physical body and the astral body are
also part of the vast, vast universe of the mind.
Each individual awareness, ball of light, is encased in many bodies. The
first and nearest encasement is the body of the soul. The second
encasement is the astral or intellectual-emotional body. The third
encasement is the physical body. The radiation from awareness, this ball
of life, is the aura.