The soul now affirms that all is God’s Essence as the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory forever. In other words, it tries to convince the wayward mind and senses by a positive affirmation of Truth for Inner Realization and use. God is the Giver. God Himself is also the gift. God too is the Receiver, by the gift of His Grace of understanding. Only in power of Unity can the mind be held firmly to humility, self-surrender and selflessness.
This was the secret key to the alchemy of the ancients, which transformed the baser substances called metals, back to the selfless state of pure gold. The current power of transforming our earthy nature back into the Spiritual, by lifting the Essence up into its Source. This is the real Philosopher’s Stone which the alchemists endeavored to find and reproduce.
As previously mentioned elsewhere in this book, the early patriarchs recorded their success in this process of internal concentration and prayer, as mystic progeny. Positive results were recorded as sons given by God, and negative results were the daughters of men. the history of spiritual progress was all-important to the mystically devout patriarchs of old. Spiritual progress was the one aim and effort in their whole lifetime of wanderings on earth. The earth held little for them except the means of livelihood through their flocks. How could they be interested in writing a fixed physical history when their hearts were with God in all their trials and wanderings? The cry of the soul and its record is the same in all ages.
Sacred writings, songs and prayers are the mystic recordings and roots of spiritual history.
This is beautifully illustrated in the following poem by the Great Saint, Paltu Sahib, and translated into English by Professors Jagmohan Lal and Janak Raj Puri:
“An inverted well is there above, and therein burneth a lamp;
The lamp burneth therein without the oil and without the wick.
It burneth night and day; for the six seasons and the twelve months,
He alone seeth it who hath the Satguru with him.
For, without the Satguru it ever remaineth unseen.
From within the lamp’s flame cometh a He melody.
He alone listened to it who sits in ‘Gyan Samadhi.’
Whosoever listeneth to it, O Paltu, is the one with perfect fate.
In the inverted well above burneth the lamp burneth a lamp that never pales.”
(This is a very unusual form of poetry and is called a ‘’Kundli’’. Paltu Sahib was a Master of this particular kind of poetry. An attempt to retain the original form has been made in rendering this translation)
In the Bible this light within man is referred to In Revelation 22: 5 as follows:
“And there shall be no night there; and the need no candle, neither light of the sun;
for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.”
The Great Pyramid of Gizeh was built on the center of the earth, as a temple of God on earth, to commemorate His Creation and to give hints of its Inner Mystery to posterity.
It has symbolic passageways and chambers inside to further explain the mystery of man to himself. The Atlanteans had built a similar huge tower like that of Babel-and which resembled the Pyramid. The ancient Indians of North and South America also built mounds, pyramids and temples for a similar reason, besides the intention to worship either in them or at the base.
The original intention was to bring to man’s mind over and over again, in various ways and symbols that all these are but replicas of the real place of worship within himself. But, alas, man has forgotten the real symbolism and origin of the external temples, churches, mosques, tabernacles, etc. In which he externally worships God. These outer forms are venerated as sacred places while man’s real shrines, the soul is the soul within his own body, is neglected or forgotten.
“Mine own vineyard I have not kept”
(Song of Solomon)