Grace...

Noises and sights may be still present in the background of consciousness but the pull and fascination of the inner being will be strong enough to hold him and they will not be able to move his attention away from it.

This, of course, is an advanced state; but once mastered and familiar, it must yield to the next one.

Here, as if passing from this waking world to a dream one, there is a slip-over into universal space, incredibly vast and totally empty.

Consciousness is there but, as he discovers later, this too is only a phase through which it passes.

Where, and when, will it all end?

When Consciousness is led--by Grace--to itself, beyond its states, phases, and conditions where man, at last, is fit to meet God.



-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation >
Chapter 7: Contemplative Stillness > # 85
Paul Brunton