The Central Intelligence

The "center of all things" is a place most mystically inclined people ruminate over time and time again. Our ruminations regarding the whereabouts of this omniscient center take the form of questions: "Where is my center?" "Where does the central intelligence exist?" "When am I going to find the enigmatic center?" "When will the atman (human center) find brahman (the ultimate center)?" We ask these questions not out of idle philosophical curiosity but rather out of spiritual longing. We want to know the "center of all things" because we realize the regnant power of transcendental vision arises from it. We know that all the rays of creation come from this center. Better yet, we know our salvation exists in the ultimate center and, concurrently, the supreme activation of the axial center of our hearts.

Whether we are conscious of it or not, we are always seeking the central intelligence, or the Great Mind that lurks behind the opaque curtain of flesh, flora, and finite things. We can do nothing but seek out this center, because each of us is a ray of creation. Every single one of us is an expression of this central intelligence. As the expression has issued forth from the center to the circumference--from a state of immutable immateriality to mutable materiality--the expression experienced states of consciousness where it was rather translucent, transparent, and luminous. Now we see ourselves as being rather opaque at the circumference of things. This is because we now inhabit a particular domain of reality where certain concepts and constructs seemingly control the wheel of our lives. This domain, a place where the Divine Expression has become fully manifested, isn't doomed however. Nothing that is a veritable expression of the immovable center can be doomed or banished from realms higher than those at the circumference. We are simply here to experience a certain mode of existence on the great mandala of consciousness. After we pass on from this realm, we do have volition over where we care to go and what dimension we care to inhabit. Some beings fulfill their torrid spiritual longing and reach the center, and others move to another dimension. This is inevitable.

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love under will."- Aleister Crowley