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KIT 44 - Our Solar Initiation

You know, we exist on several levels - the level of the mind and
the level of emotion. You have to work with the intermediary
levels. That means that you have to purify your emotions from any
dark emotions: covetousness, resentment, hatred, jealousy,
intolerance, judgmentalism, and then, dishonesty, dire
manipulation, intrigues, so that the emotions become glorious,
luminous, diaphanous, golden, very beautiful emotions. That will
have an immediate effect on your aura. Thoughts become crystal
clear, no more ambiguity, because there is some relationship
between the emotions and thoughts. If your emotions are murky,
thoughts get confused, ambiguous.  When the emotions have become
clear, like when a cloud is moved and the sun shines upon the
landscape, then the thoughts become crystal clear, crisp and
clearly defined. You are carrying your thinking into further
dimensions, further frontiers of thought in the evolutionary
process.

In this condition consider the starry sky. Just imagine that your
body is in some way anchored upon planet earth; it is part of the
proliferation of the planet, yet somehow your consciousness is
able to reach out into the stars. Isn't that extraordinary? What
does a flower know of the stars? We are able, just with our
thoughts, to reach out into the stars. What an extraordinary feat
of evolution! The flower has become the human being in the course
of evolution and is able to have a more encompassing grasp over
the whole meaningfulness of the universe.

In the past, you've practiced getting into the consciousness of
beings by experiencing what it would be like to be your friend,
for example, someone you are very close to. Consider the sun as it
rises above the horizon of planet earth. Then consider that you
could take off and the sun would not be rising above the horizon
of the earth because the earth would be far away somewhere and the
sun would be seen now continually. Instead of looking at the sun
as an object of your vision, enter into the consciousness of the
sun. You realize that your body was originally the sun because the
planets emerged out of the sun, or at least the companion to the
sun. It's not quite certain which theory is correct, but in any
case, your body is of the nature of the fabric of the sun, the
galaxy and the Big Bang. Not only your body, but can you earmark
those qualities in your personality that you have inherited from
that being of which the sun, which we observe with our eyes, is
only the body. Don't think of the sun as being a glob of burning
fire suspended in the sky but think of it as a being whose body we
experience as a burning spark of fire.

Giving life by burning, that is the sun. The Sufis call the sun an
Archangel. They call it Prince Huraksh. Shams Tabriz had lost
himself totally in the consciousness of Prince Huraksh. That's why
he shattered the being of Jelaluddin Rumi by the radiance of his
being. That's the secret. So if you can identify with your solar
inheritance, realize that you are not only your body, but you have
inherited some aspect of your being from the Archangel of the sun,
Prince Huraksh. The being is covered by 22,000 veils but all you
have to do is peel off those veils which represent layers of your
personality to find, deep down in your being, the idiosyncrasies
of the Archangel of the sun. Then you will understand the words of
Jelaluddin Rumi, "I want burning." By burning on the sacrificial
altar of holocausts you give out light and illuminate all
creatures with your light.

Shahabuddin Suhrawardi called this a solar initiation. You have to
recognize in you, the quality that is the nature of the Archangel
of the sun. That quality is Ya Haqq - Truth. Dissipate the clouds
of ambiguity; bring everything to light. When you do that you are
operating as a sun. Unmask the hoax. One of the aspects of the
hoax is self-deception.  The dervish becomes like the sun,
truthful.  Now you proceed into the starry sky.  You leave the
orbit of the planetary system and you have to broaden your
horizons.  Remember, the earth bathes in the sun .  The sun does
not have a boundary so we are in the sun.  The earth is in the
sun, not outside the sun.  The sun itself, is bathing in the
galaxy so you are not reaching out from the planetary system. If
you did reach out in a spacecraft beyond the planetary would be
easier to grasp the immensity of the galaxy. Once more you would
realize that it is a most incredibly powerful Archangel,
humongous, even more glorious than Prince Huraksh. 

Can you imagine a being whose body is ten million stars,
intelligence, the emotion, the scope, the attunement of such a
being. Remember, if you are just in a spacecraft, you would still
be in your physical self-image, self-identity, but suppose that
you jumped out of the spacecraft and started to float in outer
space and while you were doing that, instead of identifying with
your body, you would think of yourself as an aura. Your aura is
spread out throughout the starry sky. Now the stars are not the
object of your cognizance anymore because your aura is made of the
light of the stars. It is contiguous - coextensive -  with the
light of the stars. In fact, the stars are not those little dots
in the sky but reach out into immensity. There's no space anymore.
You forget space; you reach beyond the idea of space.

You are part of it all. So the physical world is no more the
object of your cognizance. What is more, in that condition, you
realize that your thinking is of the nature of the thinking of the
universe, otherwise, you would never understand the universe
unless you thought the same way as the universe thinks. In fact,
at some level of your being, you are of the nature of the
Archangel of the galaxy. That's what is meant by the splendor of
the universe - the splendor of the being whose body may be
beautiful as the galaxy is beautiful - but splendor is beyond its
manifestation in the Now you are carried beyond any emotion that
you could ever possibly have experienced - into cosmic ecstasy. It
is so incredible! You shame yourself for having paid so much
attention or attributed so much importance to your puny problems
on planet earth. It's like picking up the crumbs when you're
invited to the banquet of the stars. It is participation in the
cosmic celebration of the heavens. You realize that the power of
that super Archangel, Dominion, is the wondrousness of sheer
majesty participating in the glorification of the cosmic
celebration. You see the whole universe born out of the cosmic
celebration. 

The whole physical universe is just simply a derived reality that
is trying to express the splendor and the meaningfulness behind
it. Now you see that you are a pilgrim on the planet earth and you
forgot who you were. Instead of climbing down the mountain, you
are climbing up the mountain and beyond it into lofty realms. You
see how inadequate our lives are when we've lost contact with our
real Self. No wonder we get confused, disenchanted and embittered.
We've lost the battle of life. Identifying with your solar
inheritance is your saving grace.   

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