Dictionary of all Scriptures & Myths

WINDOW OR SKYLIGHT

A symbol of an opening in the soul towards the spiritual realm, whereby the light of Truth may enter in and illuminate the receptive mind.

"And furnish a door to the vara, and let a self-shining window be left." - Vendidad, II.

The "door to the vara" is the same as the "window in the ark of Noah," it is the aperture to the buddhi-manas in the receptive lower quarternary, and is on the level where the lower Self becomes united to the Higher Self. It has the same meaning as the "bridge of manas." A self-shining window remains, that the soul may receive a glimmer of the rays of the Self. The interesting fact is this, that the higher Light of truth is seen and realised only as the reflection of the Divine radiance below in the lower self enables Truth to be perceived by the personality. It is through the experience of the lesser life that the Wisdom and Love of the Larger Life become known.

"Christ is our window, and self-consciousness the eye of the soul." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Man and Moral Freedom.

"If your soul gives way under affliction, it is because you have been identifying God and the eternal good with the partial when and fleeting expression of both. God withdraws anything, it is to give you something higher and better; when he withholds anything it is because you are not yet ready for the boon. I wonder why it so seldom occurs to us that the form under which we crave to possess it at any one time is of much less moment than the deepening of our capacity for possessing it." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Serm., Broken Souls.

"Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine. This universal soul he calls Reason; it is not mine or thine, or his, but we are its. That which, intellectually considered, we call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit. Spirit is the Creator. Spirit hath life in itself." - EMERSON, Essay Nature, Ch. IV.

See Also

BRIDGE OF HEAVEN
BUDDHIC FUNCTION
DOOR OF VARA
EXPERIENCE
EYE
HIGHER AND LOWER SELVES
LIGHT
PERSONALITY
QUATERNARY
SELF
SPIRIT
Sutratma