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control of will before God-consciousness can arise in the soul ; in different language, they have to be crucified with the lower self in the place called Golgotha, literally, the human skull, i.e., the important nervous centre in the head which is the seat of personality.* The friendly and pious thief of St. Luke is believed to be the current, which, in conjunction with kundalini, the current of life passing through the shushumna, i.e., the spinal canal, in the advanced stages of Yoga, leads to the rousing of the higher centres and, consequently, to the development of the spiritual powers of the soul. Hence, Jesus promises paradise to it along with himself. Even according to Mahomedans, “the angel who notes down a man's good actions has the command over him who notes his evil actions" (The Koran, by Sale, p. 384). Thus understood, these passages acquire great significance, but in the historical sense they only go to create confusion.
* The darkening of the sun referred to in Luke XXIII. 45 also bears reference to the lower personality. There is nothing in the crucifixion of a human or superhuman being to cause the darkening of the solar orb; but, in the language of symbols, sun represents knowledge which is either full and perfect and all-embracing, i.e., omniscience, or partial and incomplete. The former of these is independent of tbe senses and mind, and arises only when their activity is completely stopped by spiritual meditation. The latter is the knowledge arising from the functioning of the senses and mind. It is the withdrawal of the little gleam of consciousness working through the mind for the acquisition of the inferior kind of knowledge which is signified by the darkening of the sun ; for mind is then plunged in darkness, so to speak. Thus, the darkening of the sun' always accompanies the loss of the lower ahumkára, symbolised by the crucifixion of Jesus.
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