48. We have explained in the preceding portion of this treatise that the spirit-entity is endowed with bliss, intelligence, and energy. We propose now to depict a hypothetical case of an extreme conditioin of bliss, etc, of a spirit-entity. This will enable us to form some idea, through it may be very insignificant and rought of the condition of the Prime and Supreme Source of Spirit the True and August Supreme Creator.
49. It is possible to conceive of conditions of enrapturing imagery, of penetrating and refulgent intelligence, of intensely charming music, of glorious beauty, and of the exquisite joys of other senses, which may produce extreme states of ecstasy in individual cases.
Now, if the human entity, which is a most insignificant ray of spirit and almost a non-entity, possesses the potentiality of the various kinds of enrapturement we have depicted above, what must be the inconceivable state of bliss, intelligence, and energy of the Supreme Spiritual Source. It is His region which is entirely one of energy, joy, and bliss, free from all mutation and dissolution and immortal.
50. The relation of the Supreme Source of SPirit and His region, with the other regions of creation and their denizens, is discussed later on. Meanwhile, it would be sufficient to mention that His spiritual rays are present everywhere, but that His region is distinct and away from the region of matter and mind. This demarcation does not intruduce an element of the finite in the Supreme Creator, just as the presence of a cloud in the sky does not produce a limitation in the later. (This is discussed at length in Part III, Art. 79).
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