Chapter 14Earth · Mountain

The mountain is the symbol of the embodied consciousness based upon earth but rising up towards the Divine.

* The mountain always represents the ascending hill of existence with the Divine to be reached on the summits.

* The mountain always means the same thing — it is the ascending consciousness.

* The mountain is an image of the ascending consciousness.

* The mountain is a very usual symbol of the consciousness with its ascending levels. The flowing of water from the peak indicates some flow from the higher consciousness above.

* The mountain represents the ascending planes of the higher consciousness. The journey in the train is the passage from one consciousness to another.

* The bucket is the physical consciousness; milk is always a symbol of the flow of consciousness from Above; the mountain is the Adhar with its ascending levels from the physical to the Above.1 1 In a vision during meditation, the correspondent saw a stream of milk flowing down a mountain and filling a bucket at its base. — Ed.

The golden mountain is a symbol of the ascent to the Truth.

* The Golden Mountain is always the mountain of the Divine Truth which one has to ascend — at its summit is the dwelling place of the Divine.

* The experience of the great expanse of golden light on a mountain-top came because I had asked X to aspire for the higher experiences of the consciousness from above. The symbolic image of the mountain with the light on its top comes to most sadhaks who have the power of vision at all. The mountain is the consciousness rising from earth (the physical) through the successive heights (vital, mental, above-mental) towards the spiritual heaven. The golden light is always the light of the higher Truth (Supermind, Overmind or a little lower down the pure Intuition) and it is represented as a great luminous expanse on the summits of the being. X by concentrating on the light entered into contact with the higher reaches and that always gives these results, peace, joy, strength, a consciousness secure in the power of the Divine. It is of course through the psychic that she got into this contact, but in itself it is more an experience of the higher spiritual consciousness above mind than a psychic experience.

* The silvery narrow way upward is the path of the spiritual consciousness.