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The Divine Light and the Third Eye

divine spiritual third eye stuff
Seeing the third eye?
see The divine light is amply described in canonical literature and there is at least one yoga method for seeing it. One such method purports to open what is sometimes called the Divine Eye, eye of wisdom and so on. We just use 'the third eye' for it. In the very famous Autobiography of a Yogi there are mentions of a third eye. One of them:

During deep meditation, the single or spiritual eye becomes visible within the central part of the forehead. This omniscient eye is variously referred to in scriptures as the third eye, ... eye of Shiva, eye of intuition, and so on. [Paramahansa Yogananda, in Ha 154]


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Looking for the third eye

"Be still, and know that I am God" [Psalm 46;10]
There are more ways to the wood than one [Proverb].
       From ancient times, God is described variously as such as "I am I AM", life, light, love and a way. So what if there is not just one way (method) to God, but many ways? And what if the first vision - of "I am (as) I am" - suggests the foremost way inside? The highest description of the LORD in the Bible is centred on "I AM" as the basic nature of Yahweh.
       Contemplatives have for ages sought to abide in God, being still mentally, by defined methods, and some are still practiced in the Catholic Church. An enduring Christian classic on the subject is The Cloud of Unknowing by an unknown English mystic somewhere in the 1300s AD. A translation by William Johnston is okay. [See Clu in The Gold Scales' e-library]. Evelyn Underhill has translated the book too, but her translation is far from modern English. Anyway, it is in the public domain here: [Check]
       We bring selected verses from the book on the next page. We suggest you read it only after the four chapters below. For this terrain is difficult to many.
       Below we will go into some related, basic topics by and by. From the Old and New Testament we have gleaned information that states that you have no good reasons to get beside yourself in order to get into paradise. Au contraire (to the contrary), going into self-sameness equals being who you are, being who you will be, and is definitely in tune with God as "I am the one I am". Thus, you're not supposed to look a lot outside yourself in the Way - But there are many sides to this, and much depends on the fit interpretation. "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death." [From The Gospel of Thomas, loggion 1]


According to the Gospel of Thomas

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Below are quotations from that gospel. The numbers that are not in brackets, show the loggions (sections) where Jesus speaks.


LoAll came forth from the light of the whole world

see THERE is light within a person of light, and it shines on the whole world. If it does not shine, it is dark. 24
       Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there." 77 ¤


LoDarkness is from the divided, not of a unified mind

Old English Sheepdog JESUS said, "Images are visible to people, but the light within them is hidden in the image of the Father's light. He will be disclosed, but his image is hidden by his light." 83
       If one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darkness. 61—When you are in the light, what will you do? 11
       (A) slave returned and said to his master,
       "Those whom you invited to dinner have asked to be excused."
       The master said to his slave,
       "Go out on the streets and bring back whomever you find to have dinner."
       Buyers and merchants [will] not enter the places of my Father. 64 ¤


LoThe childen of the living Father have come from the light too

3 'WE HAVE come from the light, from the place where the light came into being by itself, established [itself], and appeared in their image.'
       If they say to you, 'Is it you?' say, 'We are its children, and we are the chosen of the living Father.'
       If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your Father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.' 50 [T+ 1.1] [Source]


Gist

Abstract service
  1. Big and small, all came forth from the light of the whole world.
  2. Darkness is from the divided, not of a unified mind
  3. The childen of the living Father have come from the hidden light too.
Simple adages Filled with light, have dinner (and celebrate). That's a briefing in line with parable teachings of Jesus.

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Words of Jesus and friends

Lo "The hidden light made what has been made, thus the light of your body is good. What is more, there is no darkness at all in the hidden light which is God." (Summary)

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LoThe true light of your body is good

see THE LIGHT shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. [John 1:5]—But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God." [John 3:21]
       Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. [Eph 5:11]—[The baptist John] came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. [John 1:7]
       But everything exposed by the light becomes visible. [Eph 5:13]—Now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light [Eph 5:8]
       This was the true light that gives light to every man who comes into the world. [John 1:9 alternate translation]—Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. [Luke 11:34]
       Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. [1 Thess 5:11]—Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you." [Luke 11:36]
       "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. [Matt 6:22]—Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light." ... Jesus left and hid himself from them. [John 12:36]—The Father ... has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. [Col 1:12] ¤


LoThe light made what has been made (John)

Old English Sheepdog JESUS ...: "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." [John 8:12]
       Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. [John 3:20]—See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. [Luke 11:35] ¤
       God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. [1 John 1:5]—Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. [John 1:3]
       But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! [Matt 6:23]


LoNot-light should witness the light

3 IN HIM was life, and that life was the light of men. [John 1:4]—The fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth. [Eph 5:9]—Find out what pleases the Lord. [Eph 5:10]
       [The baptist John] was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. [John 1:8] ¤


Gist

Abstract service
  1. The light of your body is good.
  2. That light made you what you are.
  3. The eye should see, and not-light should witness the light.
Simple adages Jesus healed the blind.

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Heavenward things

"Yahweh" talked to Moses some day.
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM (I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE). This is what you are to say to the Israelites: "I AM has sent me to you.'"
       God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, "The Lord (The Hebrew for Lord sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for I AM), the God of your fathers - the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob - has sent me to you." This is my name forever, the name by which I'm to be remembered from generation to generation. [15] - Genesis 2.14-15
Where is the LORD? In heaven, according to the two Testaments:
Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him." [Psalm 3]
       I lift up my eyes to you, to you whose throne is in heaven. [Psalm 123, v 1]
Where is heaven?
Jesus in the New Testament: "The kingdom of God is within you." [Luke 17:21]
How to enter heaven inside yourself can suggested in many ways, since they often are metaphors - Jesus loved that way of expression [See Matthew 13]
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves don't enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. [Matt 23:14]
       "Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves haven't entered, and you have hindered those who were entering." [Luke 11:52]
       "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves don't enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. [Matt 23:14]
       "Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves haven't entered, and you have hindered those who were entering." [Luke 11:52]
       "Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who's in heaven. [Matt 7:21]
       And he said: "Truly, unless you change and become like little children, you'll never enter the kingdom of heaven. [Matt 18:3] Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. [Matt 18:4]
       "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." [John 4:24] - og med dette:
       Jesus ..."Truly, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he's born of water and the Spirit. [John 3:5]
       "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. [Luke 13:24]
       "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. [Matt 7:13] But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. [Matt 7:14]
       Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, [John 3:14] that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. [John 3:15]
       I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you'll certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. [Matt 5:20]
       "Every female who makes herself male will enter the kingdom of Heaven." - Added in the Gospel of Thomas. [http://home.epix.net/~miser17/trans.html]
Gliding inside oneself in the right way should "work wonders":
"Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered the body, and whoever has discovered the body, of that one the world is not worthy." - Gospel of Thomas, Loggion 80]
Who may enter? Those who corrupt the work of God should seldom expect to be welcomed.
"Away from me, you who do wrong," says Jesus.
The image: Realising yourself as the image of God inside yourself is another facet of the teaching.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." [26] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. [27] ... God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and ... it was so. [30] - Genesis 1;26-30

What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honour. You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet ... - Psalm 8;4-6

"Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods'? ..." - Jesus. [John 10;34]

God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. [Hebr 2:4] It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. [Hebr 2:5] But there is a place where someone has testified: "What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? [Hebr 2:6] You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honour [Hebr 2:7] and put everything under his feet." In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not subject to him. ... [Hebr 2:8]

Firm and fit development could be marked by much else than this:
We will be changed. [1 Cor 15:52]
       "Where, death, is your victory?" [1 Cor 15:55]

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The third eye as the doorway to a heaven you may not have come across so far

Insider yogic teachings from the Autobiography of a Yogi

Lo HERE ARE other mentions of a third eye in the modern spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi. The medley shows what gurus of kriya yoga communicate. Thus, it is plain to see that some take the third eye seriously, even though few get converted like St. Paul on the road to Damascus.

1    The divine gaze is the Grail also

see "Directing his gaze inward to the spiritual eye, he became immobile ... a stiffened frame remained; the tenant had fled [i.e. died]". - [Pa 261]
      "X-raylike .. the divine eye is centre everywhere (...) You little fool". - Yogananda. [Pa 215]
      "Long concentration on the liberating spiritual eye has enabled the yogi to destroy all delusions ... he sees the universe as ... undifferentiated mass of light." - Yogananda, lining up to Matthew 6;22 [In Pa 278]
      Elisha prayed: "O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see." So the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw; the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. - 2 Kings 6:17
      Talking around Matthew 4;4: "Invisible power flows into the human body through the gate of the medulla oblongata. This sixth bodily [astral] centre is located at the back of the neck at the top of the five spinal chakras (Sanskrit for "wheels" or centres of radiating life force). The medulla, the principal entrance for the body's supply of universal life energy ... is directly connected by polarity with the ... single eye between the eyebrow: the seat of man's power of will." - Yogananda. [Pa 371n]
      Another summary: "Spiritual eye: The "single" eye of wisdom, the pranic star door through which man must enter to attain cosmic consciousness. The method of entering ... is taught". - "Say 119. ¤
      This is to suggest Bible relevance attached. In the old pact we have Aaron's prayer that links up to it, in our opinion. It could be an outer token of the same insider gnosis, presumedly.
The Lord said to Moses, "This is how you are to bless ...
      "the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace."" - ¤"Numbers 6;22-27.
"By sheer intuitional feeling, all astral beings see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. They possess three eyes, two of which are partly closed. The righd and chief astral eye, vertically placed on the forehead, is open. Astral beings ... employ the intuitional sense to experience ... they can see through the ... skin ... can taste through the .. skin." [Sri Yukteswar in a resurrection meeting in the Autobiography, the guru of Yogananda seems to tell and thought-transfer simultaneously] [See Pa 419].
      "Come," my heart says, "seek his face!" Your face, Lord, do I seek. - Psalms 27:8
      "The will, projected from the point between the eyebrows, is the broadcasting apparatus of thought." - Yogananda. [Pa 264n]
      Bible lesson: "Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. - Luke11;34-5 in [Say 119]


2    No matter what they appear to insist on in Bramble Garden, your forehead and the small space between the eyebrows can't be a dive-through place after all! (Insider teaching - should we add "holy" to it?)

Jesus said, "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" [or confusion] - Matthew 6;22-3.
      The fellowship gives us Ezekiel 43;1-2 and Luke 11;34-5 to go into along with this summary: "Spiritual eye. The single eye of intuiton and omnipresent perception ... a ring of golden light encircling a sphere of opalescent blue, and at the centre, a pentagonal white star [it could be Babaji]. (...) The spiritual eye is the entryway into the ultimate states of divine consciousness ... as the devotee's consciousness penetrates the spiritual eye ... he experiences successively ... new joy ... oneness with ... Aum ... and [what's called] cosmic consciousness ... omnipresence of ... vibratory manifestation [somehow]." - [Ak 481]
      "At death the consciousness of man is usually drawn to (the point between the eyebrows), accounting for the upraised eyes found in the dead." [Pa 41n]
      "The divine man first made by God had his consciousness centred in the omnipotent single eye in the forehead ... The all-creative powers of his will, focused at that spoit, were lost to man when he began to "till the ground"". - Yogananda [Pa 177] ¤
      Bramble Garden quoting: " I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. - John 10;9, and ¤Say 119.
      One wife received initiation, willing and ready: "He touched my forehead. Masses of whirling light appeared; the radiance gradually formed itself into an opal-blue spiritual eye ringed in gold an centred with a white pentagonal star." - [In Pa 286]


3    Don't try to get rid of the total reality of your whole body for the sake of gliding inwards into airiness

"The sun of the omniscient spiritual eye ... all men are ... affected". - Yogananda. [Pa 246]
      Yogananda also quotes the evangelist Luke: "Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you." - Luke 11;34-6.
      The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the body. - Proverbs 15:30
      Enlarging on Ezekiel 43;1-2, Yogananda states: "Through the divine eye in the forehead (east) the yogi sails this consciousness into omnipresence, hearing the World ... of many waters ... the sole reality of creation." - [Pa 274-5]
      "Using a secret yoga technique, I broadcasted ... through the "microphone" of the spiritual eye, the inner point between the eyebrows." - Yogananda. [Pa 264] ¤
      Many of these verses are fragmented, often ripped outside their context, if any. Further, fragments easily lend themselves to many interpretations, also opportunistic mentions. We'd better be well aware of that before reading Paramahansa Yogananda.
      After quoting Matthew 6;22 Yogananda adds: "During deep meditation, the single or spiritual eye becomes visible within the central part of the forehead. This omniscient eye is variously referred to ... as the third eye ... eye of intuition, and so on." [Pa 160]


Gist

Abstract service
  1. The divine gaze is calm.
  2. To focus "between the eyebrows" a bit could help to calm you down. There is some research indicating that effect on brain waves.
  3. What is called "the world", is sensed, perceived and thought about thanks to "old Adam", your body. Well planned mental diving (contemplation) may ease and improve its workings in some ways, but not all of them.
Simple adages The bet is you still needs fresh air and lovely scenery to thrive and go on.

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Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. SRF. Los Angeles, 1975.
       Ha: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 12th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). Los Angeles, 1981.
       Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition

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