The Majesty, the Greatness,
the Vastness of Dimensional God
Then, O King! the God, so saying,
Stood, to Pritha's Son displaying
All the splendour, wonder, dread
Of His vast Almighty-head.
Out of countless eyes beholding,
Out of countless mouths commanding,
Countless mystic forms enfolding
In one Form: supremely standing
Countless radiant glories wearing,
Countless heavenly weapons bearing,
Crowned with garlands of star-clusters,
Robed in garb of woven lustres,
Breathing from His perfect Presence
Breaths of every subtle essence
Of all heavenly odours; shedding
Blinding brilliance; overspreading—
Boundless, beautiful—all spaces
With His all-regarding faces;
So He showed! If there should rise
Suddenly with the skies
Sunburst of a thousand suns
Flooding earth with beams undeemed-of,
Then might be that Holy One's
Majesty and radiance dreamed of!
So did Pandu's Son behold
All this universe enfold
All its huge diversity
Into one vast shape, and be
Visible, and viewed, and blended
In one Body—subtle, splendid,
Nameless—the All-comprehending
God of Gods, the Never-Ending
Deity!
Martin Cecil November 4, 1979
"How great is God Almighty." We
cannot really know God Almighty. This term has reference to undimensional God,
supreme God. It would be impossible to describe that in dimensional terms. Because
we are properly present here in a dimensional world we find no necessity to try
to get out of it into some undimensional state in order that we might comprehend
what is there present. There is undimensional God and there is also dimensional
God. Dimensional God was described by using the word "Jehovah."
We have before considered that highest
spiritual substance of the most intense vibrational nature which merges into
the undimensional state. This substance fills the whole of what we would refer
to as the universe. There isn't any place, dimensionally speaking, where it
isn't. This substance is of such a vibrational nature that it is capable of
accommodating the spirit of love. The spirit of love is not separate from
God—God is love. So the essences of God in the dimensional world are the
essences of love, the union between this highest vibrational substance and the
spirit of love. Here is the substance that fills the whole of creation. It is
undifferentiated. All is love. Here is the union between the spirit of love and
this substance which is capable of being one with love, so that love may emerge
into the dimensional universe. At that level there is only love substance
filling and composing all that creation is to be.
In order for creation to take place this
undifferentiated substance must be differentiated. The essence of truth is
present initially in the process of differentiation of the original love
substance. At all the vibratory levels of substance below this highest substance
the essence of truth is present. It is by reason of the spirit of truth in
union with the essential substance that the differentiation of the original substance
of love may transpire. So there are the essences of love and the essences of
truth. At every level below the essences of truth, are present the essences of
life. Here is the holy trinity: love, truth and life in the dimensional world
by reason of the substance with which these spirits may find union. These
essences rightly pour forth through the substance which is present at lower
levels, initially what might be referred to as heart substance. When the heart
is pure there is an open door of connection between this holy trinity and the
earth, what we think of as the manifest world, the world of form as we
understand it. This pouring forth is spiritual expression in this world of form—mental
form, physical form.
The largeness is at the highest levels.
Here is the creative process by which something is coming into the world. It is
being differentiated and consequently narrowed down, brought to focus; and we
ourselves have a responsibility for allowing this differentiation to take place
at the level where we are. In order to gain perspective in this regard we may
well return to those simple words: "How great is God Almighty," who
in this process of creation has made all things well. But there is a very
specific way in which it happens, and properly we are a part of the happening.
Otherwise within the range of human experience the true happening is absent and
there are voids consequently on every hand.
I am sure that most of you have given some
consideration to The Song Celestial: The
Bhagavad-Gita, in the recognition that here is a portrayal in symbolic form
of the truth as it relates to human experience. The principal characters were
Krishna, the God in human form; and Arjuna, who was aware of the God in human
form. After a great deal of consideration of earthly things there came a point
when Arjuna felt that it was most necessary that he should begin to see things
as they really were. So he spoke to Krishna along these lines, and here is part
of what he said:
O Thou Divinest One
If this can be, if I may bear the sight,
Make Thyself visible, Lord of all prayer!
Show me Thy very Self, the Eternal God!
Krishna can be seen as providing a focus
point in the dimensional world for these highest essences. We might say here
was the Christ, the Word made flesh, the essences brought to a particular point
of focus. But these essences are not something all on their own. This highest
substance is present throughout the whole universal creation, everywhere. If it
is brought to focus at some point, that fact doesn't extract the essence from
itself; it is still the essence but merely brought to focus; it is still the
universal essence. Here is the Word that was with God in the beginning, the
Word that is God, God dimensional. There could be no God dimensional if there
wasn't first God undimensional, but you cannot separate the two; there's no
line of demarcation. This universal substance at the highest vibratory level
merges into the undimensional.
It is useless for us to try to examine the
undimensional. Insofar as we are concerned it would be nothing. It isn't
nothing; we discover that it isn't nothing by reason of dimensional God. Dimensional
God relates to these essences at the highest vibrational level, the love
essences, which in the creative process must be brought to focus,
differentiated into the various levels dimensionally speaking. We have noted
how this is achieved—the emergence through the connecting substance of the pure
heart into the world of creative action when we have a sense of the reality of
dimensional God, the essences of love.
These essences of love are not only brought
to focus on this little earth, but everywhere else in the universe in various
ways. Arjuna was asking for an awareness within the scope of his own vision of
what this would be, the essences brought to focus throughout the whole
universe. I think one should be a little cautious about asking for any such
thing. However, whether brash or simply trusting, Arjuna requested this, and I
have read the words. And here is Krishna's reply:
Gaze, then, thou son of Pritha
I manifest for thee
Those hundred thousand thousand shapes
that clothe my Mystery:
I show thee all my semblances,
infinite, rich, divine,
My changeful hues, my countless forms.
See! in this face of mine,
Wonders unnumbered, Indian Prince!
revealed to none save thee.
Behold! this is the Universe!—
Look! what is live and dead
I gather all in one—in Me!
Gaze, as thy lips have said,
ON GOD ETERNAL, VERY GOD!
See Me! see what thou prayest!
Thou canst not!—nor, with human eyes,
Arjuna! ever mayest!
Therefore I give thee sense divine.
Have other eyes, new light!
And, look! This is My glory,
unveiled to mortal sight!
