The Divine Darkness...

The final grade of inner experience, the deepest phase of contemplation,

is one where the experiencer himself disappears, the meditator vanishes,

the knower no longer has an object--not even the Overself--to know for duality collapses.

Because this grade is beyond the supreme "Light" experience

where the Overself reveals its presence visually as a dazzling mass,

shaft, ball, or ray of unearthly radiance which is seen whether the bodily eyes are open or closed,

it has been called the divine darkness..

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— Notebooks Category 28: The Alone > Chapter 2: Our Relation To the Absolute > # 147
Paul Brunton