A new approach to the Vedas : an essay in translation and exegesis

A NEW APPROACH TO THE VEDAS

the right hand of the Father. Kristos and Agni, Son of God, and Sacrifice reflected on the Supernal-Sun, are that one Angel with the Flaming Sword who guards the gates of Paradise, and one Way-leader on the narrow path that leads across the Upper and the Nether Waters to the Grail Kingdom. There proven by degrees, perfected (sukyta) man, emancipated from individual modality, takes his seat at last with Brahman on “ the seat ‘Far shining’... which is ‘ Wisdom’ (prajia)

.. and the throne ‘ Unmeasured Life’ ...and to him Brahman says, ‘The Waters verily are my world, and are thine,’” Kausitaki Up., I, 3-7. So he comes into Lordship (aiSvarya) over all the possibilities of existence.

But that Plenum (fivna), that Wisdom (frajia), that Self (atman), and Spirit (prdna) are not the end.** There remains for the soul thus lost in and one with (sayujya) the Father a last death, parimara, parinirvana, fana al-fana, the “‘ Drowning ” and “ Despiration’’: there where ‘‘ God himself gives up the ghost . . . abiding to himself unknown, in agnosia and a-perception ” she must give up her-Self and God him-Self in a naughting of their common “ name” and coincident intrinsic “‘ aspect,’’ there she must abandon “ name and aspect,’ however ideally conceived. . . . “‘ Everything must go. The soul must subsist in absolute nothingness. . . . The third nature out of which the soul goes is the exuberant divine nature energising in the Father . . . the soul has got to die to all the activity denoted by the divine nature if she is to enter the divine essence where God is altogether idle.** This supernal image is the paradigm whereto the soul is brought by her (last) dying . . . dead and buried in the Godhead and the Godhead lives for none other than itself,’’84 Eckhart, I, 274-278: so also Blake, “I will go down to self-annihilation and Eternal Death, lest the Last Judgment come and find me unannihilate, and | be seiz’d and giv’n into the hands of my own Self-hood.”’