The Epiphysis (corpus pinealis plexus), the pineal gland, Tisra Til (The Third Eye)

Many point on the forehead above the base of the nose and say: Here is the seat of the soul, meditate on this point. Bud there is a big dilemma, namely that no one really knows where the seat of the soul is or where the third eye is situated. What happens at the moment of death? Our external awareness, perception or consciousness is retracted from the lower extremities and are transformed in the internal secretory throat center. It continues from there to the brow-center, the epiphysis or pineal gland. Our life energy takes an upward and a downward direction. Where these two streams (the soul energy and the perceptory energy) cross each other’s paths, there is the seat of the soul, the primary consciousness.

It is easy to say: ”Here is the seat of the soul” and point to the forehead above the base of the nose, but to reach that and localize the soul there is difficult. Next to the seat of the soul, right below is the seat of consciousness, of the mind. Below that we find the seat of the intellect, of thought, of the ego. One can say that the soul, the mind and the thought are tightly connected with each other, that is why it is difficult for the average human being on an average level to grasp this and to differentiate between the soul energy and the perceptory energy. People use almost always the expression ‘Body and Soul’, which is a mistake, obviously. One can speak of Body and Soul in connection with such Masters who had freed themselves from the influence of the mind and of the perceptory energies. Of these we have only a few living on the Earth today.

Consciousness takes form and gain expression in three different forms or properties:

These are:

1. The Soul (The primary, original, unlimited, absolute, all-encompassing, unchanging consciousness)

2. The Mind (The secondary, universal, cosmic, limited, changeable consciousness, the consciousness of form, of matter)

3. The thought (The intellect whereby the consciousness and experiences of the soul and of the mind, come to expression, manifestation).

What should we do before we begin to meditate properly? First of all we have to learn to control, to master our intellect (the thought). The thought has to be bridled. Thought is like a loose dog. It is wandering here and there. We may have learned to master our thoughts, but that does not mean that we are able to master the mind. When we create a wish, the mind identifies itself instantaneously with the wish. The mind within the physical body is subtle, of astral nature. It acts in a subtle, latent manner. Everybody has all kinds of wishes and the mind identifies itself with all these wishes. When we create a wish to see or experience something, our mind identifies directly with this wish and we will see different beings, objects in the form of UFOs, light, and shapes of various kind, depending on the wish.

The mind instantaneously shows us the light, various phenomena in different nuances, already at the beginning of our meditation, while the experience we gain through right meditation, which has been explained by Jesus Christ and all the other competent Masters, begins in the dark and leads up to the spiritual light. The human body is not only five-fold, it consists of not only five elements (sight, hearing, feeling, smelling and taste). It is eight-fold in its construction. The five elements belong to the body, to matter and remain in the three-dimensional matter when we depart from it at the time of death.

The remaining three properties: the mind, the intellect (thought), the ego (the I) return to the astral world, and the subtle mental dimension after the dismissal of the physical body. There is no reality in the subtle mental world. Everything here is illusion and subject to constant change. The different regions of the mental world are only barriers keeping the soul from being able to reach its origin, its true home, Sach Kand (the home of the soul) before it had acquired all the experience within the material world that it needs to become conscious of the universe, of all the creation in its totality. The true home of the absolute consciousness, of the spirit, is beyond the mental world and the home of the other bodies (forms).