– Today, the question I want to ask is a practical and philosophical one, Theophile the Younger announces very seriously. Spiritual paths, as well as religions, hold forth that we shall return to the Source, for the ones, or to God, for the others. As for me, I’d rather go ahead, evolve, and progress towards the Goal, which seems to attract and absorb me. The concept of the Source seems to take me backwards.
– Our journey is a motionless one, Theophile replies. Quantum physics will help you understand. In effect, we bounce from one dimension to the other. In each dimension, we proceed step-by-step, from one point to the other. Each point is a world in itself. We stay there for the shortest possible time so as to keep on maintaining our progress dynamics. Most of the time, our spiritual guide sets the pace of our journey. He gives us pushes. The soul progresses from one point to the other (chakras) and the guide provides all the contact details for the different quantic leaps. They are ‘initiations’, from the Latin ‘in ire’, meaning advance within, go within.
– How does he make it?
– He uses the resonance principle: the guide creates in himself the dimensional condition required, then he transmits to his disciple, who throws himself into the unknown.
– He has to be trustful then!
– Past experiences bring about faith and confidence, but it is the mutual love between the guide and the disciple that works wonders.
– So we simultaneously progress towards the Goal and return to the Source?
– Yes, to 0, more-or-less indefinitely.
Let us switch to the meditation mode, thus you will understand better. Just connect mentally to the Source, Theophile the Elder leads on.
– I receive transmission from the Source; it is very soft, the young man whispers to himself, I feel as if I were bathing in a water infused with love.
The esoteric symbol.
– Now, focus on the Goal, the spot of light in the symbol, the Elder goes on.
– I can feel I am sort of sucked up into a vortex. There is strength, power. I have the certainty that, thanks to that transmission, nothing will stop my progress now.
– Then connect yourself simultaneously to the Source and to the Goal, the Elder continues.
Theophile the Younger looks delighted.
– It’s impressive – a motionless movement, a forceless force, that is at once sidereal and stunning! Absolutely beyond description!
– You can open your eyes now, and beware you keep that condition; what you have just lived is the real reflection of the ‘source/goal’. Indeed, it is exactly the same thing. Some would call it the Alpha and Omega.
– It is a circle: it has no beginning and no end; both are merged, the young man explains.
– Yes, and that is why we talk about the infinite zero, the leap into the ‘eternal present’. It is “a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is no–where” for it is infinite.
– Is that the divine omnipresence?
– Exactly! Hence the motionless journey we have in our own centre.
– If I guess it right, the source that made me think of the past, and the goal I associated to the future, all that is but another mental projection of mine. In fact, the Goal and the Source are totally merged, aren’t they?
– The eternal present in your heart makes you access it. Love is the binder, the best–looking trans-dimensional courier.
– I imagined transmission was like a flow that came from the Goal, from the Centre?
– That is right, too. The flow is the Word–Creator manifested. The farther away from the Centre the Word is, the denser it seems. It shows its force only from the cosmic region (the second star of the symbol and the density comes from the world as it is manifested (first star)).
– Let us meditate on that now, will you? the old man says as a conclusion.
So, supported by an infinite love, they left together for a motionless journey of the souls.
Theophile the Elder
An excerpt from Dialogs with Theophile the Elder
Theophile the Younger’s initiation
Further readings:
The Centre
The drop and the Ocean