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psychic plexus in the brain where attention is finally to be fixed in dhyana (meditation).
The following passages from the Bible may be cited here as confirmatory of this esoteric view :
(i) "Jesus was not yet glorified” (John, vii. 39),
and
(ii) "wio for the joy that was set before him
endured the cross, despising the shame"
(Hebrews, xii, 2). The effect of the crucifixion of the bahir diman (bodily self), to come into the real life which is at once abundant and glorious, is manifested in
(i) the rending of rocks, (ii) the darkening of the sun, (iii) the rending of the veil of the temple from
top to bottom, and (iv) the opening out of the graves and the ap
pearing of the dead. These are all mystic allegories which have a hidden meaning that are being revealed to you for the first time in modern times.
(i) The rending of the rocks means the rending
of the adamantine knots of karmic forces in the inner constitution of the soul. You must have read in the Hindu and Jaina Paranas that the throne of Indra in the heavens is shaken by the asceticism of saints and that the attainment of omniscience on
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