The symbol

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Preparatory Communication #72

“The symbol, in its basic structure, allows Man to understand certain things, that is, to realize them through the lower part of his mind. But it prevents Man from dissociating himself from the emotion of what he understands.” BdM

 

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The symbol, in its basic structure, allows Man to understand certain things, that is, to realize them through the lower part of his mind. But it prevents Man from dissociating himself from the emotion of what he understands. And sooner or later, the symbol will make him prisoner of some form of understanding, so that he can never completely free his mind, because the symbol will always link his mind to the chain of emotion.

The symbol has no real value unless it is given a serious value: then it becomes an indicator. And it is as an indicator that it should be used, rather than as an instructor. The symbol is a tool for Man and as a tool, it always serves the forces that dominate Man. For primitive man in real intelligence, as he is, needs to be nourished, and the symbol for him is great food, and the simplicity of the symbol becomes the mark of his intelligence.

But Man has another level of intelligence that is not symbolic. And this other level, when it is recognized in Man, instructs him of all that he must know, and any symbology is foreign to him because this intelligence is free of emotion, that is, it is free and above Man.

The symbol belongs to this category of things or mental forms that correct human action. But human action, when it is conscious, does not have to be corrected because it is predetermined, that is, it must be experienced so that a shock, or a descent of energy, is felt in Man to raise his consciousness, the vibratory rate of his subtle bodies, so that one day he can be in contact with the invisible universes, where the symbol no longer exists because the form is then under the control of Man, instead of him being under the control of form.

To understand that everything is symbolic for Man is difficult, as long as he has not realized the infinity of intelligence. Then it is easy for him to recognize that everything is symbolic, because he no longer has to interpret reality, he is in it. And when Man is in the reality of his higher mind, he sees everything from this reality and can no longer be subjected to the value of the symbol, because there is no longer any emotion in his mind.

A mind without emotion is a pure mind, that is, a mind that no longer cares about knowledge, but can know. The symbol is good for Man, if he does not care about it excessively. Then, it simply becomes a tool of the lower mind that allows it to develop better. But as soon as he takes care of it, or worries about it too much, this tool takes control of the mind by infusing it with an emotionality, or the emotionality of the symbol, and Man then loses his mind, that is, his power.

Man will discover, when his mind changes, that the universe is actually the opposite of what he believes, a little like in the case of the photographic plate. And the reason why the universe is the opposite of what he believes comes from the organization of his senses and the sense of his mind that the astral body communicates to him.

If the universe were perceived by Man as it is, it would be impossible for him to grow. For to grow biologically, the pressure of energy on forms must be reversed, i.e. neutralized, so that forms can take up space. If space is suitable for form, it is not suitable for spirit, for spirit is unidimensional, that is, it exists only in relation to itself, and not in relation to a reflection created by form. Hence, the need for Man to grasp everything, by symbolic means, and it is from this condition that the philosophical development of symbolic thought is born.

But the symbol loses its importance when Man merges with energy. For from this point on, his mind no longer needs reflection to become aware, for he is already free of form, in other words free in the universe of matter. Being free in the universe of senses, he is able to throw light where he manifests himself, whether on the material plane or on a parallel plane, because he uses his own light to illuminate the form, being then a being of light instead of a being of darkness.

It is darkness that has forced Man to develop a symbology, in order to better understand his path through darkness. But as soon as Man comes out of darkness, he will no longer need symbolic support, because then he will be free of form, because his mind will have become aware of his own energy, that is, of his origin. And when the spirit becomes aware of its origin, where it is in time no longer poses a problem, because time no longer exists according to the lower mind, subjective thought, but according to the events that are familiar to it.

Free of time, he can deal with the energy in him and his vibratory behaviour, depending on the events he creates so that his mind does not have to symbolically worry about anything, since he is no longer linked to emotion. This freedom is absolute and is becoming ever greater and more real, because it no longer stems from a psychological condition, but from events that are themselves dynamic forms containing possibilities for energizing the mind, so that it can become increasingly conscious of its infinity, of its immortality.

The symbol hinders the development of real intelligence, because it belongs to the ego. It is used by the ego, by the dark part of Man. And its usefulness – although valid in itself in terms of involution, must be neutralized when Man evolves towards a higher consciousness, or a consciousness that is no longer attached to form, but to spirit. But for Man to be completely dissociated from the symbol, he must experience fusion, that is, he must know the power of light in him, because only this light, this intelligence, can elevate him above the egoistic consciousness where the symbol is located, and where it is used.

When Man has progressed in his evolution, he will be able to recognize that the veils of the symbol extend from the negative to the limits of the positive in him. In other words, that the symbology covers the whole range of his subjective thoughts and this, up to the limit of his lower consciousness, that is, the dream. Hence, moreover, why it is impossible for him to penetrate behind the veils that hide the worlds of light and intelligence.

If Man could instantly be freed from his symbology, he would leave his material body in spirit, because the light in him would be too powerful and his pressure, his energy, would force him to move in time, making him free from space, and allowing him to know the worlds of real intelligence that have created and govern the universe. The symbol is so powerful in human beings that it is at the source of their ignorance. In other words, ignorance is symbological.

The symbol is so powerful in Man that it pushes him to create an all-powerful god for himself. Symbol again, taking origin in the need to understand the origin of things, when in fact everything is energy and everything flows from the evolution of energy, through time. The greatest security of the mind is in the creativity of its intelligence, not in the symbolic interpretation of that creativity. It is from the point where the mind symbolically interprets reality that it begins to merge, for it creates thoughts that are more and more subtle, more and more subjective, more and more tenebrous, of which the fifth subrace of the twentieth century is the saddest example.

The psychological activity of the symbol becomes evident when Man becomes aware of the energy of his mind, when he is no longer chloroformed by the value of the symbol. He can then begin to realize that the intelligence of his mind perspires through the symbol and seeks to communicate something new, new, therefore real, to him that he could not previously have imagined he could recognize. Then the game begins to turn, Man begins to become aware of his higher real intelligence and to see through symbolic intelligence.

He then begins to realize that the life of his senses is not real in itself, and that his reality is only a temporary convenience due to the balance of his subtle bodies. If this balance were to be upset, it would be in a parallel universe where the life of the spirit underlies the life of matter. The spirit of Man is a reality that can only be known outside the territory of the senses, because the senses bring impressions to the intelligence, which the latter must interpret symbolically so that the spirit maintains a balance with the ego.

But when the ego begins to free itself from the symbol, it can very well keep its balance, and at the same time become aware of the parallel worlds that are part of its internal limits, that is, of its total consciousness. But since the consciousness of the mind is constantly diminished by the symbol of subjective thought, it is normal that Man cannot recognize anything other than what he apprehends through the senses, hence his ignorance. The symbol always hides reality, because it can only be apprehended by the liberated mind of the latter.

In the world of death, of experimental memory, the memory of experimental consciousness is stored in the symbol of form, in other words in a form of energy whose symbolic value is identical to human psychology. This condition allows Man to remain in astral contact with certain symbolic planes, hence the dream. The dream is the symbolic experience of the world of death, and as long as Man does not live with a pure consciousness, the dream will have a symbolic effect on his awakening consciousness, because the link between the astral and the awakening consciousness will be maintained.

Man must understand the value of the symbol in order to use it properly. Otherwise, he will be subject to the symbol and will diminish his real intelligence, or the power of his mind. The ego needs the symbol to guide its psychological activity, but the mind can be free of it. And as long as the laws of form are not perfectly understood by Man, he will have difficulty grasping the value and symbolic power of form, for form, to be interpreted and made useful, must be grasped by the lower mind in a symbolic form.

As long as Man is unconscious, he suffers this symbolic condition, because he tends to take the symbolism of form seriously. When Man has reached a supramental higher level of consciousness, he will be freed from the symbolic importance of form, and will then be able to use form, not for reasons of psychological security, but for facts of construction, in order to elevate his relationship with it.

The symbol produces in the lower human mind such a dense partition between the ego and the spirit that it is impossible for the spirit to exorcise the ego from the form and use it for the benefit of the ego. That is why Man is ignorant, not because he is not intelligent, or capable of intelligence, but because his intellect, his ego, needs to symbolically interpret reality instead of leaving this task to the mind, so that he can benefit from it. In other words, the ego in its consciousness, or in its race to intelligence, to knowledge, has removed from it the power of the spirit. Then he found himself alone, trapped in a multitude of forms whose symbology had exhausted his possibilities of fully understanding reality.

That is why the future of Man will be based on the power of the spirit over the ego, the union of the two, the relationship between the two, so that the symbol cannot interfere between the ego and the spirit, or the real intelligence of Man. From this evolution will emerge two new principles in Man. First, he will be able to understand with great ease what will be given to him to understand through the mind. And secondly, he will no longer feel alone, that is, the presence of the spirit, once recognized, will allow the ego, the Man, to always have an explanation of the data of his existence. This will forever eliminate the need to symbolize what he does not fully understand.

The symbol, in its purest form, preoccupies the ego and forces it to contemplate the infinity of the spirit with which it has no contact. And this tension is at the root of Man’s philosophical attitude. Man is philosophical because his ego wants to serve what the spirit knows, but not by being in conscious vibratory and telepathic contact with him, but by means of the symbol that conceals the spirit and makes it powerless to perfectly enlighten the ego, so that the ego is lost in myriads of conjectures, which advances his lower mind, but cuts him off more and more from the power of his spirit, from his real intelligence. So, instead of his subtle bodies undergoing a constant vibratory change, because of the relationship between the ego and the spirit, they only distort more and more, until the day when pollution, where imbalance, puts Man and his race in danger.

The symbol translates for the ego what it wants to recognize emotionally as real, but does not allow it to know, to know. That is why the most symbolically affected ego finds it very difficult to transform its subtle bodies, because its intellect has replaced its real intelligence and it does not want, or refuses, to move from one plane of intelligence to another. Not because he does not want it, but because he cannot see that evolution has its own laws, its own mechanisms, and that the ego cannot counter these mechanisms of mutation.

The symbol makes approximate, according to character and temperament, the reality of which the ego wants to ensure itself, but its disintegration opens wide the doors of the annihilation of egocentric symbolism. And that is why Man lives fear before he knows. Fear comes from the symbolic interpretation of reality. This interpretation is not perfect because of the impossibility of the ego to know its condition or to partially understand it. Fear is to the ego what power is to the mind. The more the ego merges with the spirit, the more fear disappears, the more power passes through it, the more it is in the light and the less in the darkness.

The symbol creates fear, because in the depths of every being there is anxiety and fear of death. But this anxiety is born of the value we give to life, in other words, our symbolic interpretation of this value, and, in addition, of the inability to know what “death” means. So the phenomenon of dying also forces us to symbolically interpret this experience. From there, our helplessness in the face of death and our anxiety in the face of it. But if the ego and spirit were in harmony, these aspects of mortal life would be translated into terms of energy and real intelligence, so that the ego would no longer be enslaved by this fear, then it could recognize the right it has, to a continuity of consciousness after the disappearance of the material body, so that the fear of death would disappear, and the power of the spirit would increase in Man, until the day when he could command his mortal matter and melt his spirit into it, so that it would no longer be subject to the laws of matter, but to the laws of the spirit. That is why immortality is inevitable in man.

Then the symbol forces Man to question, without him realizing it, the power of the spirit over matter. And that is why Man, doubting his power, loses it and dies.

There is much more to symbology than Man can imagine. First, any symbology serves conditions other than those of the ego. In other words, symbology in one form or another predisposes Man to truth or lies. So that Man is always poorly served, because his ignorance will polarize his mind and once polarized, the mind loses its power.

For power to manifest itself in Man, his mind must not be divided between good and evil. It must be above these two manifested aspects of energy in the symbolized form. For the mind to invite the ego to its light, it must be able to live outside the duality created by symbolism. Then he can understand the truth and the lie, see and understand its root causes, but never be affected by it.

This is the free spirit of man. Symbology no longer has power over him and the ego is free to channel the energy of light. In other words, he can begin to be creative and generate forces on his plane that will serve to raise consciousness and perfect his life.

Symbolism touches all aspects of subjective thinking. And as long as it becomes important in the mental life of Man, it leaves a trail of anxiety that must disappear one day, if human beings are to come to be comfortable in their own skin. As long as symbolism is not extinguished, it produces reflection in the mind, and this reflection creates more and more forms, so that Man cannot be fully comfortable with himself, for reflection in his mind will push him to think subjectively instead of communicating perfectly with his intelligence, his mind.

Symbolism hinders evolution, but allows the development of the lower Man. It increases mental activity, but decreases the activity of the mind in the mind. It sharpens the vision of Man, but does not round off his knowledge. It occupies Man, but forces him to worry about things that can only be clearly explained by his mind.

As soon as Man has become fully aware that it is not he who thinks, but that there is a thinker, a creative force of his thoughts behind the veil of the ego, symbolism begins to lose its power over his mind and his astral consciousness, his body of desire. The latter adjusts to the thought adjuster and from this period on, the mutation begins. That is to say, Man gradually passes from the stage of Man to the stage of the superman. This is then only a time factor before he can move from one level of experience to another, and this factor is controlled by his mind.

The spirit of Man is the meeting point between the ray, or energy of the thought adjuster, and the mental plane. The meeting shock between the vertical and the horizontal emits an energy of planetary scope called “the spirit of Man”. This spirit then becomes its full reality. And as soon as this spirit is free enough to execute itself on the material plane through the ego, its light is active, creative and dynamic. The sixth race is born, and the Man of the fifth can no longer delay the evolution of the supramental being.

But symbolism is powerful, and its power is measured by the conflict it creates between the reality conveyed by the mind, or real intelligence, and its emotion. So that Man must gradually live his new state, so that his astral consciousness, his emotionality, adjusts to a consciousness whose laws are no longer psychological but purely creative, i. e. not symbolic. The reality of the spirit must proceed by vibration to be returned to the intelligence of Man, and this passage requires that human consciousness loses its appeal for the psychological security of the symbol.

The symbol intervenes in the life of Man and in his dream, because reality must be lived in, or under, conditions that are totally irreducible symbolically. And it is precisely this condition that makes reality terrifying for the unconscious and accustomed to symbolism.

Reality intervenes in human life to allow Man to experience an experience whose nature he could not fully understand if he were not free of symbology. It elevates Man to a status of superior life that coincides with an evolutionary mandate that was hidden from him before the veil of ignorance was torn. In either case, Man is no longer the same, and his life becomes a destiny that affects more than his personal being, but which can affect a community, precisely because of the extreme power of the mind.

In the past, the Man who knew or experienced reality was too closely linked to symbolism to understand it perfectly. Thus, he became a slave of the real, and his contact with the real served as a tool for forces whose intentions were hidden, veiled, from mortal.

In the future, the conscious being who knows reality after the mutation of his subtle bodies will no longer be trapped in his experience by symbolism, because his astral consciousness, the symbolic memory of Man, will have lost its power over his consciousness, over his spirit. So that the conscious being can see through the veil and deepen the reality of his consciousness, that is, he can move at will in the time of the spirit, instead of being trapped in the symbolic form, created and kept alive by his lower and astral consciousness. The role of the symbol in his life will be over, and the conscious Man will be able to begin to intervene etherically in the mental plane, and will be able to bring back from the mental plane the knowledge that will be stored in his etheric memory.

Man’s memory no longer being astralized, will allow him to build a new civilization that will be tested by the forces of domination, the test of symbolism. The sixth race will dominate the Earth and the Earth will again be fertile.

Man’s entry into the ether depends on the decontamination of his mind by the symbolism of the form. Symbolism binds Man to form, in other words it separates the ego from the spirit, in other words it denies the existence of the reality of the spirit in the experience of the ego. So the latter is forced to rely on what he sees symbolically, instead of being able, through his mind, to go beyond what he sees, to see something else that is real. Reality is not necessarily far from symbolic reality in itself, from the astralized reality of the symbol. But the fact that the astralized reality of the symbol is so powerful and so conditioned by emotion, creates an absolute distance between the reality of the worlds of intelligence and the unreality of the astral or imaginary planes.

Notice that Man’s experience in the astral is real, but it is not absolutely real, so it cannot be real. If something is not absolutely real, it can only be used as an experience by a being who does not yet possess a perfect consciousness of his mind, of himself, hence the phenomenon of fusion.

The Man of tomorrow will experience fusion, that is, the close connection between his mind, his ego and the ray. And this fusion will put an end to the symbolic role of the soul in the life of Man, and will put him in contact with reality, that is, with the destiny of his spirit, that is, with the reality of reason and the reason for his descent into matter, whose purpose and ends will be apparent to him, because of his close link with worlds that will suit his ego and his spirit. Then there will no longer be a division between material and etheric man. From this unity will emerge cosmic science on Earth and contact between Man and beings who have come from elsewhere to help him.

The union between the ego and the spirit leads Man to immortality, or life beyond the astral. Man’s concern about life stems from the fact that symbolism inexorably follows him in his blind journey towards inner search. However, the inner search depends only on the psychological support that his research seems to give him. The latter is only the product of its real powerlessness, that is, the lack of communication between the ego and the mind.

For symbolism to be overcome in future human consciousness, Man must have learned to recognize the illusion of his symbolic search, to lead infinitely to real intelligence, or the non-symbolic territory, within which the spirit can, without fail, elucidate and make clear the evolution of the ego.

The ego of the conscious Man, of the supramental being, will be totally traversed by the ray of intelligence. So that the latter will no longer live, will no longer have shade on the wall of his life. Free from shade, the ego will be able to venture without fear beyond philosophical limits, where symbolism becomes more and more powerful, more and more rooted in human consciousness, to such an extent that only the shock of the extrasensory can make the ego conscious, half aware of the fact that reality does not play a game, and that the conscious mind of reality no longer plays the symbolic games of the ego, regardless of their apparent values.

When the ego becomes conscious, it recognizes the symbolic in the light of the vibration of the spirit that is felt in it when a symbolic form is likely to be grafted to its mind. A subtle vibration then pierces the human mind to warn it that the word, the form, is only a symbology and that this symbology is not real, although it seems to indicate it.

Reality is vibratory and energetic. And the reality that suits this reality is not born of the ego but of the liberated spirit, so that Man enters momentarily, or for a longer period, into a world that was not once the domain of Man, neither in life nor in death.

Reality begins where the chain of cause-and-effect laws ends. And when Man enters this territory, he no longer belongs to himself, that is, he no longer belongs to the human race, but to a cosmic hierarchy. And the beings he meets are really his elder brothers, whereas the Man of his race is only the distant reflection of a covenant that has only had value through his senses and feelings. The being is then cosmic, he becomes aware of his role in the hierarchy and sits where he must sit, because he knows and knows his limits, so that he no longer works for Man, but for the evolution of Man.

As long as Man works for Man, he is a prisoner of the symbology of his ego. And as soon as he is freed from it, he realizes that life is a dimension of the spirit and that the ego can only live in, and of his spirit, because he can no longer be nourished by symbols, by forms, whose symbology belongs to a race inferior to the superman, to a race that was not born from the sun, but from the moon. And every race born of the sun feeds on the spirit because the spirit is solar. And the astral, the symbolic, the lunar, that is, the ancient and the primitive, no longer suits him.

The conscious being is so sensitive to symbols and realizes so much of their presence in the life of the form that he is constantly conscious of the illusion of human knowledge that arises from the symbolic search for the ego.

The supramental conscious being will understand that the symbol is a partition, is a veil and that, whatever its value, it cannot give Man any sense of reality. It is only a temporary game of involution, it serves only temporarily to develop its lower mind, and cannot bring to Man any clarity, any sharpness in his mind. For for Man to have a clear mind, he must be informed by the mind, and not approached by mechanisms that underlie the form and that are part of the laws of form.

The spirit of the conscious Man is a free spirit, because it is a spirit that can no longer conform to the laws of the lower mind. It is a spirit that, in its freedom, has the power to destroy any form that does not suit its intelligence, so that it can channel into itself the energy it needs to structure a higher mental dimension, so that eventually, with the help of a subtle and etheric vehicle, it can enter a higher mental plane, and understand once and for all, not only the mysteries of evolution, but also the secrets of those mysteries that are part of the higher coordinates of evolution, hidden from the eyes of the mortal by the infinite veil of symbology.

As much as the symbol has helped Man in his involution, it delays Man in evolution. The symbol ceased to be useful to humanity when Man began to be aware of his mind and to be able to communicate telepathically with it.

Update on 2024/08/11

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