“Here to fulfil himself was God’s desire.” Aswapati realizes this great truth and sets himself to do arduous yoga-tapsya for long years. He now knows that this fulfilment can come about only if the divine Power incarnates herself here upon earth. He approaches her and offers his prayer to her and invokes her, rather compels her to take the mortal birth by which alone the desire can be carried out. ~ RYD

As Aswapati rose into the realms of higher consciousness beyond ordinary humanity, he found that a great and strong descent was coming suddenly upon him:

...a Might, a Flame,

A Beauty half-visible with deathless eyes

This Power and Light penetrated into all the parts of his being and as a result, his soul “...was torn out from its mortality.” And he was drawn back from seeking loneliness to a great spiritual Power which was wide and pure. Henceforth his mind became a blank to this Divine Spirit and opened to cosmic widenesses and the sweep of the Transcendent. This experience completely ealizedoned his consciousness and its values. Henceforth he seemed to breathe a superhuman air. Thereafter

The python coils of restricting Law

Could not restrain the swift arisen God.

His individual self became wide as the cosmos,—as the poet says:

The soul and cosmos faced as equal powers.

Henceforward the scope of his consciousness was widened without limits.

Hereafter everything was opened to his view in the vast field of cosmic operations. His natural instruments were heightened in their capacity and the occult powers working in the cosmos began to reveal their hidden processes to him so that they might serve him in the ealizedon of his divine work. The narrow limits of ordinary human instrumentation serve only to keep the little human being safe against the invasion of the forces of the universe. But man has to grow beyond his limitations if he is to fulfil his highest: destiny. An occult machinery is provided for this transition. The mind of man is itself only a “mediator divinity”, it is not the final, the highest and the omnipotent instrument. Mind can release many occult forces and powers of matter and of life. It can eves develop many occult and miraculous powers of its own. For instance, it can mould events by its “bare silent will” and “Acts at a distance without hands or feet”. Mind can go to the heights and “Call in the Omniscient and Omnipotent”.

Mind can exercise its inventive faculty and bring out all the suppressed possibilities of Matter and Life. It can also become aware of the future, and awaken faculties which appear abnormal in their operation. It is when Mind turns all its faculties to the service of the Spirit that mental movements find their proper place and justification and value in the total field of the divine governance.

There is an occult order which is behind the material and mental order known to man. And it is that unseen and unknown occult world which governs from behind this outer material, vital and mental life. Faculties of the inmost, i.e. subliminal mind disclose the knowledge of the world’s mystery. An ascending and a descending order of worlds from Eternity into Time and from Time back to Eternity was thus revealed to Aswapati. Everything that is imperfect here is found there, behind in the occult, and has its perfect correspondence. Whatever life is seeking here is found there ealized. A divine unity was seen, reconciling all the discords of multiplicity. From Matter the evolving cone rose to the peaks of the Spirit, to the supernal regions of the One. Aswapathy saw and entered,—

Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts of delight

Stretched out in an ecstasy of widenesses

Beyond our indigent corporeal range.

There he could enter, there awhile abide.

A voyager upon uncharted routes,

Fronting the viewless danger of the Unknown,

Adventuring across enormous realms,

He broke into another Space and Time.