The End of Times

The End of Times: God in Labour

The content and activity of the senses, thoughts, and feelings are all forms of appearance of the same ‘light’. They are a ‘play of light’, and, as such, they have the ‘being’ of ‘images’, they are ‘insubstantial’. The apparent ‘witness’ and ‘experiencer’ of this ‘play of light’ is also part of this play. It is simply a case of the ‘light’ ‘bending upon itself’, such that an apparent ‘centre of experience’ is constructed.

Where there is the presence of such an apparent ‘witness’ and ‘centre of experience’ there is always ‘partiality’ and ‘identification’. Such an apparent ‘witness’ and ‘centre of experience’ is always ‘partial’ and ‘identified’, as it ‘lives’ and ‘moves’ within the world of this ‘play of light’. It ‘lives’ within, and by virtue of, ‘subjective experience’. Such an apparent ‘witness’ and ‘centre of experience’ is always dealing with this ‘play of light’;- sense perceptions, thoughts, and feelings all ‘come and go’ and appear in diverse forms. This is the ‘world of experience’ that such an apparent ‘witness’ lives in, and lives by virtue of.

Such an apparent ‘witness’ may regard itself as being ‘impartial’, or as not being ‘identified’ etc, but these notions merely refer to subjective changes of ‘state’ and ‘functioning’. Such an apparent ‘witness’ may experience a whole range of ‘states’, but they all remain within this same realm of subjective experience, within this ‘play of light’.

The ‘death’ that is required in order to yield ‘re-birth’ is the ‘death’ of this apparent ‘witness’ and ‘centre of experience’. This ‘death’ brings an end to the ‘play of light’, to the ‘life’ that is lived within this realm of ‘insubstantial images’. This ‘death’ is often spoken of in terms of ‘sacrifice’ and ‘surrender’, though of course it is not something that the apparent ‘i’ can ‘do’. Such a ‘death’ occurs (it does not actually ‘happen’ as it is not a causal ‘event’) when the ‘witness’ has had its fill of experience, its fill of this play of light, and finally ‘sees its own non-existence’. This is really an ‘act from Above’, from beyond the ‘witness’ and the play of light. The ‘witness’ and ‘centre of experience’ is ‘dissolved’, taking with it the world of appearances and images, and only the ‘Beyond’ remains.

Up until this ‘death’, the ‘witness’ may have been a ‘spritual seeker’, and may have engaged in all kinds of practices and had all kinds of ‘insights’ and experiences etc, but all this remains within the same world of appearances and has no real bearing upon this ‘death’. Speaking in terms of God, such a ‘seeker’ may have been ‘seeking God’ in some form or another, or may have been seeking to ‘serve God’, and such a seeker may have had experiences which were deemed to be ‘of God’ etc, but all of this remains in the same realm of ‘partiality’ and ‘identification’. With the ‘death’ of the ‘witness’ and ‘centre of experience’, only God remains.

The true ‘birth’ is the birth of God in God, and as such it is a matter for God alone. All the forms of efforts and practices of the ‘seeker’ are as ‘child’s play’ in comparison, and though they may yield subjectively valuable experiences, states, and insights etc, they remain limited to the same ‘world’. None of this ‘acquired wealth’ can pass through the ‘eye of the needle ‘of this ‘death’. In reality, it doesn’t matter whether or not a seeker comes to this ‘moment’ of ‘death’, as, in reality, there is only God and the ‘Will of God’.