Chapter 22The Descent of the Higher Powers · The Descent of Peace, Force, Light, Ananda

The descent of Peace, the descent of Force or Power, the descent of Light, the descent of Ananda, these are the four things that transform the nature.

* Light, Peace, Force, Ananda constitute the spiritual consciousness; if they are not among the major experiences, what are?

* Presence, Peace, Force, Light, Ananda, these are five things that most commonly come down.

* The being is not supposed to remain always empty. When the calm and peace of the pure existence is established, Force also has to descend as well as Light, Ananda and other things.

* Wideness is only the first step — there must be the descent of light, knowledge, peace, force or power and the settling of these things and their constant development.

* There is no rule, but the most normal course is for a certain Peace and Force and Light which is above the mind to descend and as the result of its workings the cosmic consciousness opens and in it higher and higher levels above mind. Many people get an opening into the cosmic consciousness first but without the basis of the higher Peace and Light it brings only a mass of unorganised experiences.

* It is not really the plane that descends, it is the Power and Truth of it that descends into the material and then the veil between the material and it no longer exists.