“…By illumination I do not mean the light in the head. That
is incidental and phenomenal, and many truly intuitive people are entirely
unaware of the light. The light to which I refer is that which irradiates the
Way.
It is "the light of the intellect",
which really means that which illumines the mind, and which can reflect itself
in that mental apparatus which is held "steady in the
light".—Glamour: A World Problem, Pg 3
Illumination reveals
first of all the existence of glamour; it provides the distressing contrasts
with which all true aspirants wrestle, and then gradually it floods the life to
such an extent, that eventually glamour completely vanishes. Men see things
then as they are - a facade hiding the good, the beautiful and the true. The
opposites are then resolved and consciousness is superseded by a condition of
realisation of Being, for which we have no adequate term. The technique of
light becomes a permanent condition.—Glamour: A World Problem, Pg 241
With most of the
advanced students at present, all that is felt is occasional flashes of
illumination, but later will be felt a steady irradiation. —Letters on Occult
Meditation, Pg 211
Through diligence,
application, high endeavour, and the long and patient following of the rules
laid down, there comes a time when the student is suddenly conscious - right
within the physical brain - of certain unexpected events, an illumination or a
seeing that has before been unknown. It is something that is so real, yet so
momentarily surprising, that no amount of subsequent apparent disproving can
take away from him the knowledge that he saw, he contacted, he felt. —Letters
on Occult Meditation, Pg 288
“Ponder On This”, pages 185-188
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