Another Choice

Because for us this matter we observe with the help of our senses, which we covet and which we try and comprehend, is all that exists and as a consequence what we name “consciousness” can but be a derived product of its activity, we think we may conclude according to assembled data that the entire universe, the totality of this matter, has an age: space, time and matter would have issued simultaneously out of one single origin the nature of which defies analysis.

And yet we have also been able to observe that the notions of space-time are relative.

Subjectively too we can verify that, depending on the state or position of our individual consciousness, our own experience of time and space varies considerably.

Where do we come from?

What are these memories?

Aberrations of our brain cells?

Reflections or echoes from other conditions, other realities, other milieus of existence?

Is it all a simultaneity, or is it a progression, or a succession, or else is it a hierarchical order, or then is it just an infinity of possibilities which nothing harmonizes and nothing informs with sense, meaning or intent?

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Within us, just there in its cocoon of living silence, sits the prince: the veritable person, the one who never separated, the child of the Supreme, the servitor of the Great Energy, the vehicle of future becoming.

There sits the prince and, when our awakened awareness learns and climbs the centers, it is this discernment that illumines and guides us, under the sweet pressure of the Force.

The prince? The princess?

The laughter of realization, the immediate intimacy, the security forever.

Neither this nor that: this and that and that too – unique in each being, in every being the Same.

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