Objective scenes seemed ever to be _adaptations_ to my state, and would
often vanish as I became aware of the minds or spirits suggested by the
scenes.
“All human sensations, as sight and hearing, are readily perceived
by one awakening to spiritual states to be but _manifestations of
consciousness through the physical limitations_ to which the spirit in
its mental states of earth becomes accustomed. But _here_ all is merged
in _perception_--where one _perceives_ and _understands_,” thus said
the Guide.
This added consciousness--uniting or releasing the faculties--is not
all at once: I found myself thinking in the accustomed channels, in
_words_ as well as thoughts, _listening_ for replies instead of knowing
that the answer had been _thought_ to me, really was there before I had
questioned; of _looking_ for beautiful _forms_ and scenes instead of
_perceiving_ the _Soul of Beauty_ which was (is) everywhere.
I became more and more aware that the whole of me, released from the
fetters of the bodily senses, could perceive and receive more perfectly
the answer to every question, even before its formulation in thought.
“Formulation is a process of limitation, sometimes of hindrance,” said
the Guide. “A feeble comparison of what ‘perception’ really is may be
found in an artist (of Earth) whose _prepared mind_ (and therefore
vision) sees the beauty in a landscape, a sunset sky that another sees
not at all, or dimly. Prepared senses are the result of prepared minds,
of being pervaded by the _awareness_ of the Spirit,” said the Presence.
It is of little avail, however, to attempt to bring into outward forms
of thought and expression the _perceptions_ one is aware of while
one is in that inner state, excepting that they relate to conditions
under which those loved and loving ones in that state can reach and
change for the better the sorrowing hearts in human life, the shadowed
conditions of earth existence.