The God Principle

 

 

 

“Aliyah, it is time to graduate,” whispered the still, small voice within.

 

She recognized the voice and its implication with great excitement. A graduation it was meant to be, indeed, for she had come to recognize the glimmerings of a great plan for the race while engrossed in the mundane activities of bringing up her own daughter. From the almost unconscious beginnings of the baby trying to discover and master its physical body, to the emotional tantrums of the toddler, to the mental development of the primary and the high school kid, and on to college and graduation, she had seen a steady progression which reflected a soul’s primordial beginnings, its progressive exploration of physical, emotional and mental realms, through the orderly and planned regimen of learning that was imposed on it, to its graduation from that disciplined learning system.

 

For the developing child returned again and again to school every year, each time learning new topics and delving deeper into ones already learnt. It had assignments, quizzes and evaluations that decided whether it could move on to the next level. And it was subject to disciplinary actions that in some lands included physical pain for violation of laws. The child often felt constrained in its circumstances, having limited free will to do what it pleased, most of the time being under the watchful eyes of teachers and guardians who prescribed its activities. Here was a perfect reflection of a personality developing through earthly experiences, under the eyes of its soul guides and guardians, and subject to the backlash of the laws of retribution. The personality often wondered about the purpose of the apparently meaningless toil and its inability to control circumstances, and often thought of escape from what it was expected to do by the system.

 

The child did receive a respite in the form of vacations every year, but only to return soon and continue. Despite the rigorous and apparently monotonous regimen of learning, the child was given ample time for extra-curricular activities, to have fun, and to indulge as it pleased, subject to certain limits. The more mature it got, the greater the freedom it enjoyed. Its greatest freedom came upon graduation, when it was finally free from schooling, and also from the watchful eyes of its teachers and guardians. Aliyah had seen her own daughter take all the school books and study materials and fling them into the air, shouting, “Mom, I’m free! I’ve graduated! No more books and no more studies!” And with that, Eloise had thrown them all into the garage, where they lay for those who might one day find them useful.

 

* * *

 

It happened over the course of two days. Forty hours of progressively increasing trials and temptations. Aliyah felt turbulent, melancholic and sinister emotions rising within, like floodwaters that rose over levees, threatening to swamp and destroy everything they touched. One by one they came, rising within as a trickle at first, slowly picking up strength and a dreadful periodicity. She tried hard to exercise her will, hold these emotions in check, but there was no stopping the rush of the flood tide. Deep called unto deep, and on it came, its waves and its billows washing over her. She closeted herself and moved into prayer, trying to focus her attention on an imagined point of light within, which soon presented itself before her inner vision, glowing faintly.

 

As she watched, the fire within suddenly blazed forth, and in that light Aliyah saw herself as she really was for the very first time - not one unitary person that she experienced herself to be, but a multitude of personas⁽¹⁾, changing from one to another, each carrying its own emotions, concerns, memories, fears, and aspirations. And they were all slaving under the tyrannical rule of the mind, the builder⁽²⁾, working day and night, constructing, maintaining and beautifying the various edifices of her life. These personas were now struggling to break free, in a flood tide of emotions. But the mind refused to let go, holding on even tighter to its personas, or what it considered its sole means of survival.

 

Shadows now stirred within the depths of her unconscious emotional waters. From there they rose up into her waking consciousness where the waters met the land. Streaks of darkness snaked out from them, ravaging everything they touched, threatening to destroy all that she had built up through the ages. Like plagues, they ravaged the mind, those repressed elementals within her lower self finally set loose after eons of bondage. The shadows rose up high into the air of the mind, and even higher into the sky, blotting out her spiritual sun in a horrifying dark night of the soul⁽³⁾. Then the violent tumult within rose to a screaming crescendo and ended quite abruptly with the death of the ego, the firstborn of the mind⁽⁴⁾. The senses, the mind and emotions declutched themselves and she no longer identified with them. The red sea⁽⁵⁾ parted, revealing its depths, and the personas streamed out unfettered, carrying with them remembrances of old incidents, forgotten dreams, cravings, fascinations, fears, and also concepts and imaginations utterly strange and foreign⁽⁶⁾. Emotion followed emotion, concepts followed concepts, entities of thought complexes followed others, out from her subconscious and the deep unconscious.

 

For hours, the exodus continued. Driven by inner guidance, Aliyah managed to isolate herself during most of this time. The multitude of personas that composed Aliyah found little to sustain their natures in that isolation, for the fire had led them into a veritable desert where their tendencies could only burn out. And she trudged on towards a promised land of milk and honey.

 

But Aliyah never entered the promised land⁽⁷⁾. The neural rewiring process within the brain was consummated and her graduation was now complete. There was no longer any need for the books, study material and other paraphernalia. In a quick flash the structure that formed the subconscious and the unconscious emptied out the last of its contents, and Aliyah ceased to exist.

 

In that emptying was revealed the Light of a thousand suns.

 

* * *

 

“What do you mean Aliyah is gone?” Theo asked incredulously. “You are right here talking to me.”

 

“Oh, Theo! Aliyah, the individual that you knew, no longer exists! In here there is no personality left. There is only love, intelligence and life!”

 

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