| In our world of duality, we are given both the light and | | | | materialize and dematerialize their bodies and other |
| the dark. To know one is to understand the other. The | | | | objects and move with the velocity of light, and utilize |
| two are interchangeable. To have one, we must have | | | | the creative light rays to bring into visibility any physical |
| the other. In the world of Spirit, in the unmanifested, all is | | | | manifestation have fulfilled the Lawful Condition: their |
| One. We are all part of the Great One Spirit - no | | | | mass is infinite." |
| separation, no contrasts of light and dark. We are all | | | | Enlightenment can be an experience of total union with |
| part of the Great I Am - the Great One Spirit. | | | | God Goddess. The light can come in and dispel any |
| Cosmic consciousness is defined as a knowing of this | | | | "darkness" or negativity. In Spirit do we still have the |
| great oneness, a feeling and knowledge of this great | | | | duality? Can duality actually be the one continuous ebb |
| secret of expanding consciousness. It is an experience | | | | and flow of the one great creative force that unites us |
| that there is no separation - just one continuous flow | | | | all? |
| of the life force, the divine Presence, our Creator. All | | | | "Is God's Will What's Happening?" (my poem) Could |
| names for the workings of the Great Spirit in our | | | | every experience of good and evil be a chance to get |
| world. | | | | things into harmony? Maybe in the depths of us we |
| From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa | | | | are all already enlightened. We are already an |
| Yogananda: | | | | important part of the divine whole, a spark of the |
| According to Albert Einstein in his mathematical | | | | infinite, a star waiting to be born anew. |
| problem solving, the velocity of light, 186,000 miles per | | | | Every experience is a chance to bring forth the light |
| second, is the only constant of a universe in flux. The | | | | already inherent within each one of us. A chance to |
| famous equation, E=MC2 is described as "The energy | | | | "make things visible," to show the truth, and to answer |
| in any particle of matter is equal to its mass or weight | | | | any question with love. |
| multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. Light | | | | Our "crown chakra," opens to the light of the sun. (Son |
| velocity is a mathematical standard not because of | | | | or Daughter) The light of our Oneness with all that is |
| the absolute value of 186,000 miles per second, but | | | | and ever shall be. The light of the true Son or |
| because no material body, who mass increases with | | | | Daughter of God becomes the holy Love made |
| its velocity, can ever attain the velocity of light." Stated | | | | manifest. That Love makes all things flourish and grow |
| another way, "Only a material body whose mass is | | | | and brings the light of union with our own Divine Self. |
| infinite could equal the velocity of light." | | | | ©2009Merry C. |
| Yogananda relates to this theory. "Masters who can | | | | |