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Working with Light - Illumination III
by
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Inspired by the vision of
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Practice
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Distinguish the different levels of physical light of your aura. They form the sub-structure of what one really is, which is one’s insight. Insight needs an understructure. That is physical light.
There is a point where physical light becomes insight. The light that can be seen has become the light that sees. Recognize that point. It is where you realize your consciousness is your celestial consciousness instead of your physical consciousness.
Then consciousness is no more of physical light. Everything is seen from the point of view of celestial consciousness. It is what the Sufis call the consciousness of the heart. You distinguish people by heart quality instead of mental assessment.
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ED. Note: The following steps of working with light form a continuum with those outlined in previous lessons (Illumination, part I. and Illumination, part II).
7) Now envision luminous intelligence threaded through your glance. Represent the divine glance as passing through your glance. Imagine: God sees through your eyes.
Practice
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The key to doing this is instead of thinking that you are the spectator, imagine that the real spectator who is looking through your eyes is God.
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Najm ud-Din Kubra:
| You thought that you were the Spectator, the witness of what you experience, but the real witness in you is your angelic counterpart – the witness in the Heavens. Each time a light rises up from you, a light comes down towards you…when the substance of light has grown in you, then this becomes a Whole in relation to what is of the same nature in heaven: then it is the substance of light in Heaven which yearns for you, is attracted by your light and it descends toward you.
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If you want to find Him you will find Him in the higher intelligence. When intelligence manifests itself on the surface, that is God.
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The secret of realizing oneself as the light of intelligence is to overcome one’s conviction that one’s consciousness is the witness. If you identify with the light of intelligence, you can envision your glance as that of the divine glance of which it is a focalization. Then you will understand the Qur’an. Everywhere you look you will espy the Divine countenance trying to transpire through that which appears.
You are as the reflected eye of the Unseen Person. In that eye, His eye sees His own eye.
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8) Realize that your glance is the divine glance but focalized as through a concave lens.
| It is in the intelligence of an individual; but the collective working of many minds as one single idea, and the activity of the whole world in a certain direction, are governed by the intelligence of the planet.
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Jami:
| When you look for God, God is in the look in your eyes.
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| When we look at the all-pervading intelligence as centralized intelligence we call it God, because it begins with centralizing; from this point manifestation begins. For manifestation there must first be centralization.
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| The Omnipotent Light by this tendency becomes concentrated.
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| It is intelligence when there is nothing before it to be conscious of, when there is something intelligible before it the same intelligence becomes consciousness. Intelligence confined to knowledge becomes limited, but when it is free from all knowledge then it experiences its own essence.
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| The pure consciousness has so to speak gradually limited itself more and more by entering into the external vehicles, such as the mind and the body, in order to be conscious of something. Consciousness must always be conscious of something; if it is not conscious of anything, it is Intelligence. Intelligence confined to phenomena becomes limited but when it is free from all knowledge then it experiences its own essence
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This is awakening or illumination: Suddenly everything becomes clear.
| This light becomes a torch for the seer who is journeying towards the eternal goal. Wherever the light of pure intelligence is thrown, things become clear.
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Doing this practice, you will find that your glance unveils the Real from the appearance we call reality.
| There comes a time in the life of the prophet or of anyone who contemplates, when whatever object he casts his glance upon opens up and reveals to him what it has in its heart.
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9) According to the Sufis, God discovers His potential being through your personality. Furthermore His potential being becomes a personality through your personality and through the configuration of your countenance. This becomes revealed to you if you reverse your vantage point and try to see as God sees, representing your glance as the Divine glance.
Baba Kuhi:
| When I looked with God’s eyes, only God I saw.
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Ibn 'Arabi:
| Be the One who looks at me, and hide Thyself from my glance
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Ibn 'Arabi:
| Through Thine own eyes, may I look at Thy countenance!
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Ibn 'Arabi:
| I contemplate Thee through Thy glance
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Ibn 'Arabi:
| I see God through the same gaze through which God sees me
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Ibn 'Arabi:
| When God discloses Himself…He discloses Himself to the manifest dimension of the soul and perception takes place through sensation in a form within the barzekh (threshold) of imagination. Self-disclosure also occurs through the name manifest (Zahir) to the non-manifest dimension of the soul. Then perception takes place through insight (Basira) in the world of realities and meanings disengaged from substrata…This only takes place within the meanings.
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Just stop to ponder upon the miracle whereby your thoughts or emotions configure the muscles of your face. More so, fashion the fabric of light of your aura into your countenance which transpires through your face.
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