Just as the mind is wider than the brain it uses, so the spirit is greater than the instruments in which it manifests itself. And, really speaking, the spirit is not a product of mind, rather, self-existent knowledge inherent in the Self is really the origin of mind. Aswapati now arrived at a region where Thought leaned on a Vision beyond thought. These planes create unrealised possibilities far beyond the ken of the expanding universe and they overtop the ceiling of life's soar. This region of the ideal Mind intervenes between the divine and the human and it is its mights that bridge the gulf twixt man and God. It is the light of these planes that fights against Ignorance and Death. It is in this region that living gods dwell, each trying to build a world in his own right. There knowledge is certain, joy and powers spontaneous.

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