very object—living or inanimate—is a result of countless subparts working in harmony to attain a certain look, E and function…as if knitted together. Even a stone would fall apart if the atoms or molecules did not adhere or function in a certain way relative to each other.
As we are about to see, even “God” is the apparent result of two essential components working together in harmony to create the All-Source. This is explained with some clarity in John 1:1-5 provided one understands what he meant by the
“Word” and the “Light” as below:
In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God. With it was everything made and without it was nothing made that made. In it was Life and the Life was the Light of Men. And the Light shone in the darkness and darkness comprehended it not.
Why did John speak of the Word and the Light? What did he mean by the Word? It is tempting to think back to Genesis Chapter One where God “spoke” or “commanded” Creation into being, and so take every utterance attributed to him as his “Word”. In mysticism, this is a rather simplistic view. And it would be even more simplistic to take “Word” to refer to the Bible. The bible was not there in the “beginning”. Other books I wrote also expose that it is not all the divine Word of God: it has too many mistakes for that.
How do mystics view “the Word” ? In the first place they have many other names for it, all relating to Sound: Shabd, Sound Current, Logos, Audible Life Stream, Kalma, Music of 41
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the Spheres, Lost Music of the Upanishads, and so on…all indicating that it is an audible vibration of sorts—akin to sound—and that it is the very substance of Creation, the very power of God, and, in essence, is God.
The “sound” of Creation, however, is only picked up by an
“inner ear”—the surat—which only a Savior can open inside a disciple. Evidently, the surat is an “organ” belonging to a subtler body—in our case this being the Astral body inside of us, according to the hierarchical arrangement we saw in the previous chapter. A “Savior”, here, refers to a being who has crossed the Maha Sunn into Sach Khand, the Eternal Region and, as such, is “one with the Father”.
Of course, there can be no sound without vibration, and there is no vibration without substance. If the Word created everything, and is everything, as John puts it, then, logically, an intimate understanding of “it” is even more complex than a profound understanding of the universe itself.
And, equally logical, understanding God is not separate from understanding Creation. This “Word”, then, has to mean a far greater entity than mere doctrines and instructions contained in a book. For us in this plane of existence—and knowing that matter and energy are but different forms of one entity—the lowest manifestation of “Sound” has to be matter, the dominant substance of our universe.
John wrote not of just “Sound” but also of “Light”. The common denominator here is that both are wave-like and are thus vibrations. As we saw earlier, Light is both a particle and a wave. And, naturally, in the particular case of “light”, the wave-or-particle conundrum has proven to be extremely perplexing for scientists to get a handle on.
Per mystics, Light is, on Earth, the lowest manifestation of consciousness, or sentience. That, I aver, is probably why, in quantum physics, experiments seem to merely follow what your mind wants the outcome to be.
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How is Light is rendered in John 1? When read as-is, it says that the Word has Life in it. If, for a moment, we take “Word”
to mean the Holy Bible as containing the “word of God”, then it suggests that the bible has the words to guide one to “Life Everlasting”, the hope of every Christian. Then it declares that that Life is encapsulated in Jesus, who is the “light of men (i.e.
of all people)”…though the darkness in their minds failed to see that light.
But that is not how I see it. To me, this is a redaction of the original phrase, which (I will show why) went like this: In it [the Word] was the Light
And the Light is the Life of men.
W hy have I changed the order of the last two lines? The way the wording is arranged slants things too much in favor of a book we are exhorted to read than in explaining how Creation came to be. Along with a later proclamation that Jesus is the
“only begotten son of God”, the passage aims to take the focus away from mystical elements and make it about Jesus alone.
But even before the time of Jesus, other Saviors, we saw, also knew about, and spoke of, a “terraforming” Sound that is the essence of God.
John’s original words clearly address the fundamentals of what constitutes the essence of God and Creation. And he is not quite done until he speaks of the Light—another Primal Vibration. In the established tradition of mystics, the Light represents “consciousness”. And consciousness is the “Life”
of every Soul, of “men”. Without awareness, one is dead.
In higher dimensions (“frequencies”) of existence the Nirat (“that which sees”) is a part of the Soul made to be the prime receptor of Light. However, only the pure, unfettered Soul can actually “see” this Light as consciousness…though we can now—with the help of instruments—see its effect on Mind, as in “brain waves”.
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Which is more primordial, the Sound or the Light? This is in fact a chicken-egg situation. You might need substance—a body—to house consciousness, but as we clearly saw you need consciousness in order to shape substance after a design. So, what created the other? My answer is that they both emerged complete as the Grand Everything.
Indeed, the factor of “all possibility” cannot be without the twin factors of substance and awareness. But as to how Creation is manifested, I held that it is all due to awareness. It is what directs substance, and whatever it wills is done. These factors have to work in harmony…almost as one. In any system, when all or some elements do not work together in harmony, chaos reigns. And chaos is the diametric opposite of the creation process.
Fundamentally, all the various paradigms are extents of the admixture of harmony and discord. Harmony is the very fabric that maintains their form and function—even the way the fabric is “knitted”. The make-up of each “fabric” comes through as a harmonious “sound” that can be “heard” with the surat (“inner ear”), and the awareness level and regulation of the paradigms are propelled by the “Light” which is seen with the nirat (“inner eye”).
Even in our physical, phenomenal Plane of Existence our greatest assets towards advancement are sight and hearing. A person misses out on much when disabled of hearing or sight as both inform him of spatial phenomena through different means. The deaf but sighted man might not hear a bus coming and could fall into danger. The blind man can hear the bus coming and even gauge its speed…but then not see where he might take quick cover if it is headed straight for him.
Order and harmony are expressed in both art (visual) and in music. Arrangements of the elements of both can be chaotic or orderly. But, quite as in music, “harmony” is most movingly 44
expressed in terms of Sound. Mystics thus describe God as a
“melodious harmonic”.
Indeed, we must see “God” as not a person, or a physical entity that can be seen and touched in the way that we touch objects in our physical plane. Rather, ‘God” is more like an Enabling Power, a “Current” flowing with Energy and Power, hence the mystical name Shabd or “Sound Current”. It is the Spirit behind everything visible and invisible.
In that case, much like electricity, there is a positive and negative end to that Power. In short, life can be both good and terrible. In the next chapter we explore what this means for us at the level of our daily existence.
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