The following are excerpts
from “The Second Coming of Christ by Paramahansa Yogananda.
The purpose of these writings
is to present the teachings of Jesus from an esoteric perspective. This will
provide a deeper understanding of the intent of what is written in the Old and
New Testament.
The writings will also show,
that the teachings of all legitimate religions lead to the One God. The ways
are many but the goal is One.
In the beginning …with these
words the cosmologies of the Old Testament starts to explain creation.
BEGINNING refers to the birth of finite creation, for in the Eternal Absolute –
Spirit – where there is neither beginning nor end. When no object of any kind
had come into being, Spirit existed as the Unmanifested Absolute, ever
existing, ever conscious, ever-new Spirit.
Prior to creation, there was
no space or time, no dual conception or law of relativity, as space, time and
relativity are categories of objects.
This field is also referred
to as the Void, as it is Void of any phenomenon.
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
“In the beginning was the
word and the word was with God, and the word was God.
All things were made by Him
and without Him was not anything that was made. In Him was life and the life
was the light of men.”
John 1:1 – 4
“Word means intelligent
vibration, intelligent energy, going forth from God, giving rise to the
creative process.
Yoga often describes the
universe as being a vibratory dream motion picture of God’s thoughts on the
screen of time and space and human consciousness.
Why then came creation into
being? We can only speculate.
“My thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, “saith the Lord.
“For as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts
higher than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8 – 9
All creation is nothing but Spirit, seemingly
and temporarily diversified by Spirit’s vibratory activity. The unmanifest
Spirit became God the Father, the creator of all creative vibration.
God the Father in the Hindu
scriptures, is called Ishvara (the Cosmic Ruler} or Sat (the supreme pure
essence of cosmic consciousness), the transcendent. That is, God the Father
exists transcendentally untouched by any tremor of vibratory creation as
separate Cosmic Consciousness.
In the creative process, the
vibratory force emanating from Spirit is the Holy Ghost., also referred to as
the Word. In Hindu scriptures it is called Aum or Maha-Prakrit (Great Nature,
the Cosmic Mother had given birth to all creation).
These things said the Amen
(Word, Aum), the faithful and true witness, the beginning of creation of God.
Thus, the Holy Cosmic Sound of Aum, Amen is the witness of the unmanifest Divine Presence in all Creation.
Trinity explained
The transcendental
consciousness of God the Father became manifest within the Holy Ghost vibration as Son – Christ Consciousness, (first
born out of the pure transcendental field),
God’s intelligence in vibratory creation. Hence, the pure reflection of
God in the Holy Ghost indirectly guides it to create, preserve and mold
creation according to God’s divine purpose.
God the Father, Son and Holy
Ghost, are similarity acknowledged in the Hindu scriptures as Sat, Tat and Aum.
Christ Consciousness or Son
is the conscious presence of God’s intelligent Divine Plan in creation, and the
eternal witness of the work of the
Holy Ghost, which is called Holy, because it acts according to the will of God and
manifests in the immanent Christ Consciousness.
Spirit as the manifest Holy
Ghost, creative Aum vibration, transforms itself into matter by changing the
rate of the cosmic creative vibration.
Cosmic Intelligence becomes
cosmic intelligent motion, or vibration of consciousness, which changes into
cosmic energy. Intelligent cosmic energy changes into electrons and atoms.
Electrons and atoms change into molecules of gas, gases change into water and solid
matter.
As cosmic vibrations, all
things are one; but when Cosmic Vibration becomes frozen into matter, it
becomes many – including man’s body, which is a part of this variously divided
matter.
Science and the stuff the
universe is made of
Recent recoveries in
theoretical physics on the subject of string theory are leading science toward
an understanding of the vibratory nature of creation. Refer to Brian Green,
John H. Schwarz, Edward Witten, or The elegant Universe, Superstring Hidden
Dimension.
The theory suggests that the
microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational patterns
orchestrate the evolution of the universe. Professor Green writes that the
length of a typical string loop is about a hundred billion times smaller than
an atomic nucleus.
Different Dimensions
Spirit through the creative
vibrations of the Holy Ghost, produce a triune creation. An ideational or
causal world of fine vibrations of consciousness; an astral world of light and
life force and lastly, the material world comprised of gross atomic vibrations
of matter.
These worlds are
super-imposed on one another. The grosser depends on the subtler and all three
ultimately on the sole support and consciousness of God.
Macrocosm and Microcosm
As in the macrocosm of the
universe, so in the microcosm of man there are three independent bodies. Man’s
soul dons three coverings that serve as instruments through which the incarnate
spirit can perceive, comprehend and interact with God’s creation.
The first covering, the soul,
which individualizes it from Spirit, is one of pure consciousness; it is
composed of God’s ideas, that cause the other sheath and is referred to as the
causal body. The energy emitted from it produces the astral or energy body,
which empowers all the senses and functions of the physical body. The physical
body is merely a gross materialization of the causal ideas activated by the
life and energy of the astral body.
All of these vibratory
manifestations of the macrocosm and the microcosm are derived from the Holy
Ghost Vibration and the transcendent consciousness of God.
Son of God
“God so loved the world, that
He gave his only begotten Son. “
John 3:16
to redeem it; that is, God
the Father remained hidden beyond the vibratory realm that went out from His
Being, but then secreted Himself as the Christ
Intelligence in all matter and in all living beings in order to bring all
things back to His everlasting blessedness.
Sons of God
Saint John said: “As many as
receive him, to them gave he the power to become sons of God. “John 14:6. The
plural number in sons of God shows distinctly, from the teachings he received
from Jesus, that not the body of Jesus, but the state of Christ Consciousness
was the only begotten son; and that all those who could clarify their
consciousness and receive God, could become sons of God.
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