| The Law of the Mount | | | | because the misuse of it & the powers arising |
| The Tantric lives on the Mount & fulfills the Law | | | | from it is conducive to general and personal evil. |
| of the Mount. Therefore comes to him Wisdom, | | | | Tantra reckons that this wisdom is unfit and |
| Grace and sovereign power, transcending anything | | | | dangerous to the ordinary human mind and liable |
| his uninitiated fellowmen can yet conceive. His | | | | to perversion and loss of virtue if revealed to |
| standards are high; aesthetic, moral & ethical. He | | | | vulgar & unpurified spirits. Hence the ancients |
| is there to see that the world does not fall into | | | | veiled this Wisdom with symbolism and allegory, |
| greater corruption than its present state. | | | | lest it fall into hands of the immoral. Only the |
| Initiates are the salt of the earth, the light of the | | | | initiated or the pure can comprehend its subtle |
| world because without their leavening presence, | | | | mysteries. Therefore Tantric philosophy is often |
| the world would sink into greater corruption than | | | | veiled in symbolism, myth & allegory. |
| it at present suffers. It is his Wisdom and | | | | Behind all manifested phenomena is the |
| knowledge which balances the evil and sin of this | | | | Unmanifest Self, which is hidden, hidden and |
| world. | | | | hidden. Worldly intelligence seeks this Sanctuary in |
| His light and life is given to balance here | | | | vain. All is undecipherable to the unprepared. He |
| The dark account of mortal Ignorance ! | | | | can see nothing, read nothing in its interior ! Such |
| The Initiate is he in whom a higher law hath been | | | | a knowledge must perforce be occult, because |
| revealed. His aim is the Absolute Self, which is the | | | | the mysteries of the Universe are not for the |
| Via, the Veritas and the Vita ( The way, the | | | | laity. To a mind divinely intoxicated, Tantra |
| Truth, the Life ). He has to reduce his Ego and | | | | becomes the Voice of the Universe which dicates |
| control his desires, lest the negative aspect in him | | | | its furthur thought. That Point where Truth, Art & |
| becomes the dominant player. For erasing the | | | | Science meet is only accessible to the Tantric |
| Ego, he indulges in selfless service. His desires are | | | | divinely intoxicated mind ! |
| controlled by an indomitable Will power. | | | | The Sevenfold Mode of Cosmic Existence |
| In the inital stage of Tantra one can feel that | | | | Tantra recognises the septenary priciples that |
| some mighty force, not situated in the body but | | | | pervade the Universe. They are |
| possessing it, is thinking for him and feeling for | | | | Matter |
| him and that his entire body is moved by that | | | | Mind |
| great force and not by himself. When he | | | | Life |
| progresses in Tantra, he rises in Awareness to | | | | Supermind |
| the highest Cosmic level and becomes one with | | | | Existence |
| the Universal Consciousness. the popular world | | | | Consciousness |
| cannot come upto the Law of the Mount, the | | | | Bliss |
| Mount of higher ethical and moral values, but then | | | | The ancients had called these seven principles the |
| he has to set an example for others to follow. He | | | | seven colours of the light of Divine Consciousness, |
| becomes a personification of the principle " | | | | the seven Rays of the Infinite. They constitute |
| Example is better than precept". All the tantric | | | | the entire fabric of the Universe, Not only are |
| techniques he has undergone had made him the | | | | they one in their reality but inseparable in the |
| perfected Initiate, ready to don the garb of the | | | | sevenfold variety of their action. The lower trilogy |
| Redeemer. He knows the task that lies before | | | | of Life, Mind and Matter are only instruments of |
| him is immense, but then he is ready to die for it. | | | | the higher divine quartenary of |
| Hard is the World Redeemer's heavy task | | | | Existence-Consciousness-Bliss-Supermind. Mind is |
| The whole world becomes his adversary, | | | | merely an instrumentation of the Supermind, only |
| Those whom he came to save are his enemies | | | | a subordinate action-power of the Supermind. |
| Those he would thus save are his adversaries. | | | | The Higher Trilogy of Being-Knowledge-Bliss is |
| This world is in love with its own Ignorance | | | | what all heavens and Nature yearn! |
| Its darkness moves away from its Saviour Light I | | | | The Bliss for which the world's derelict sorrows |
| It gives the cross in payment for the crown ! | | | | yearn |
| Despite the immense opposition he faces, he is | | | | The Light of the which the world's Ignorance is |
| undaunted. | | | | the shade ! |
| He still keeps to the high and difficult road | | | | The aim of Tantra is to transcend the gross |
| That sole leads to the Eternal's peaks ! | | | | physical plane and rise to the realm of Spirit, that |
| He knows that the opposition & the enormous | | | | of Being-Knowledge-Bliss. Even though external |
| difficulties which he faces are merely parts of the | | | | symbols are used, the path is the way of Intuitive |
| process and tests of fidelity. He knows the tantric | | | | experience. Behind the phenomenal world is the |
| processes and the great struggle for supremacy | | | | transcendental Reality which Intuition alone can |
| between the black & white opposites of good and | | | | see. Tantra becomes the scientia ultima, the |
| evil, light and darkness, prosperity and adversity is | | | | ultimate science which can lead man to Self- |
| fought out within ourselves. We are the place | | | | Actualisation. The Lord descending into earthly |
| where the great battle is fought, where all the | | | | existence is all this. All this that is is the Universal |
| worlds meet but then his aim is conquer the | | | | Life. Humanity we see is the body of the Lord. It |
| negative aspect with the positive aspect; what is | | | | is He in manifestation. The entire Universe is His |
| known in Tantra as the conquest of the lower | | | | play. He did not create the world, but had become |
| self by the Higher Self. | | | | the world, with Matter as the lowest principle and |
| This esoteric wisdom should be preserved for the | | | | pure Being as the highest. Tantra recognises this |
| initiated few. He has been instructed to hide this | | | | hidden Being-Knowlege-Bliss at the heart of all |
| Science from the unfit, from the profane as this | | | | things and shows the way to spiritual salvation. |
| science can only be taught to worthy men | | | | |