Chapter 74The Plant World · Lotus

A lotus flower indicates open consciousness.

* A lotus signifies the opening of the (true) consciousness.

* The lotus is always the sign of the consciousness opening somewhere — when the consciousness opened from above, you be-came aware of a new plane of being of which you were not aware before.

* 1 In a vision the correspondent saw a luminous sun sending forth a multitude of flowers. — Ed.

It [the lotus] means consciousness. The opening of the lotus is the opening of some part of the consciousness.

* The opening of the lotuses2 means, I suppose, the opening of the true vital and physical consciousness in which the spiritual being (the Swan) can manifest with all the consequences of that opening.

* The lotus must represent owing to its numerous petals the “thousand petalled” lotus above the head which is the seat of the higher consciousness above the thinking intelligence. The vision may mean the opening of the consciousness there and in it the adoration of the Divine.

* A lotus usually indicates an opening into the spiritual. The white and red are symbols of the Mother and the incarnating Divine.

* The white lotus is the symbol of the Mother’s consciousness, — it does not indicate any part of the individual consciousness.

* The red lotus is the flower of the Divine Presence.

* The red lotus is the presence of the Divine on earth — the sun is the Divine Truth. It indicates the Divine manifestation on earth raising earth consciousness towards the Truth.

* The red lotus signifies the presence of the Divine on the Earth.

* 2 The correspondent wrote about a vision in which two lotuses blossomed in his body, one at the navel region, the other at the base of the spine. — Ed.

It [the blue lotus] can be taken as the (Avatar) incarnation on the mental plane.