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into the service of the supreme object the Sadhaka has in view .... And the appeal of the Tantra is not for the individual only : it is an all-dimensional comprehensive appeal for all seekers' societies toiling into the higher realm of Power, Light, and Perfection."40
Please note: A few pictures and diagrams enclosed with this paper are just samples. Since they are symbolic one needs to read their descriptions and inner meanings to understand Tantra. You will find many such pictures and diagrams in authentic books on Tantra.
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Fig. 1 The everyday view of time and history
“The common-sense, materialistic-scientific view of time most., Western people hold is shown in the diagram. It resembles the view we ger by looking backwards only out of the rear window of a moving automobile; for We only look backwards in time, not forwards. Objects appear out of an invisible future within our field of vision, framed in our present moment, which defines our immediate sense-experience and knowledge. As time goes by things, as they get older, seem to recede towards.........the horizon. All things seem as though they must have beginnings and ends. A is a person we have known all our lives who has died. We can ‘see' his life entire from beginning to end. Other people and things, like B,
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