The Inward Path: From Genius to Mystic
The Hierarchy of Your Illumination
Throughout history, there have been individuals who have seen something the rest have not.
They pierced beyond the surface of reality—beyond motion, form, time and beyond sensation of the electrical senses—and have perceived what lies behind it.
They have looked Beyond the Cosmic Veil.
The Genius
There have only been a handful of geniuses since recorded history, however, these mighty few have given us our world culture in the arts and sciences.
Michelangelo, Edison, Tesla, Aristotle, Aurelius, Musashi, Raphael, Goodyear, Einstein, Mozart, Bach, Twain, Tolkien, Archimedes, Newton, Imhotep and many more.
Many of us wonder what makes the genius different from us and think… what do they have that I don’t? I believe all of us have genius within us, but it must be awakened. Genius unfolds slowly, life to life, and is hastened only through a deep driving desire to express oneself creatively.
Most of us think through our senses to the outside world. We observe material reality, record sensed effects upon our brain, and then try and reason them into logical conclusions. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Geniuses don’t think this way.
Geniuses don’t think outwardly from the senses — think think inwardly toward Mind (God.)
The only difference between the genius and the average man is their measure of God-awareness.
Geniuses have begun to see with inner vision the as of yet unmanifested forms of God’s imagining and Knowing, and hear and feel the immortal rhythms of God’s cosmic symphony with their inner ears—and then interpret God’s imaginings into immortal works of art, invention and symphony.
To the rest of humanity, who think they are their body and not their immortal Mind, the Kingdom of Heaven is as if it never were.
We are creators, and the first inklings of awakening genius in us is the desire for creative expression.
We can only create with our Mind — and the brain is not the Mind. The brain is the switchboard and recorder of electrical sensations broadcast to it by the senses.
“I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop.” — Nikola Tesla
It is said that one must lose oneself in order to to find oneself. Put another way, one must become unaware and put aside one’s body so that they may become wholly Mind. By doing so, the genius begins to become aware of their divine Self and starts to working knowingly with God as a co-creator.
Genius is unfolded from the mind of man in two ways:
Anytime you behold a creation made by a genius in the fine arts, and you are re-inspired with their genius, you are illumined into the light of God-awareness to the degree of your inspiration. This is state is always accompanied by stillness and forgetfulness of one’s body while in rapture and awe.
The second way is achieved through meditation, of which the human race knows practically nothing about — not even the Buddhists, who only practice half of the cycle. Meditation means to commune with God, by becoming One with God in Mind, for the purpose of working knowingly with God. Meditation means to think inwardly toward your Mind rather than outwardly through your senses.
Thinking outwardly develops our physicality and physical desires while thinking inwardly unfolds our spiritual qualities.
God-Mind is all there is it is a Unity. We do not have individual Minds.
God-Mind and your Mind are ONE.
Geniuses have found that inner stillness of mind to a greater degree than most by partially severing the electrical sensations from their consciousness.
There is another class of man, however, which lies beyond the genius. These rare individuals are able to fully sever the electrical sensations...
The Mystic
Even rarer than the genius is the mystic. The mystic is so rare in fact that perhaps only twenty or so have ever been born.
Of these, there have been a number of lesser illumined mystics. Their teachings and works have uplifted mankind in varying measures:
Socrates, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, Paul, Lao Tzu, Plotinus, Confucius, Shakespeare, Walt Whitman to name a few.
Beyond these are the supreme mystics. They are the ones who have thus fully severed the electrical sensations of their body and become wholly Mind. In their Unity of Oneness in the light of all knowing with God they are given immortal and enduring messages of Love and Unity.
These supreme mystics have been the creators of great religions and have uplifted the countless millions who followed them.
I will name them:
the Buddha, Mohammed, the unknown writer of the Bhagavad Gita and Jesus of Nazareth and Walter Russell.
Of these, only the writer of the Gita, Jesus and Walter Russell were fully illumined. They were able to scientifically understand the principle of Love as God’s basis of creation.
They had omniscience to such a degree that they were able to fully comprehend their ONENESS and UNITY with God. All mystics say the same thing.
“Knoweth Me as I am, the very Truth… For in this world Being is twofold; the Divided, ONE; The Undivided, ONE. All things that live are ‘the Divided.’ That which sits apart, ‘The Undivided.’” — Ch. VII&XV, The Bhagavad Gita
“That they may be ONE; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be ONE in us… And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be ONE, even as we are ONE.” — John 17:21-22
“The basis of Creation is the Light of the Mind which created it. God is the Light of Mind. Mind is universal. Mind of God and Mind of man are ONE… In that Light there is no change, no variance of condition no form and no motion. In it are all of the Mind-qualities of knowledge, inspiration, power, love, truth, balance and law, which are never created, but are simulated in moving quantities in the divided universe of moving waves which we call matter.” — Walter Russell, A New Concept of the Universe
When the mystic’s electrical senses sever from their synchronization with their centering consciousness, they become wholly Mind and are practically unaware of their body.
This state of mental ecstasy of unity with God has been called many things: the Illumination, the Bible refers to it as “being in the Light” or “being in the Spirit”. In Hinduism, its called “Brahmic Bliss”. Mohammed referred to it as Paradise. The Buddha called it Enlightenment.
The following is part of one of Walter Russell’s writings on the experience of his Illumination as found in his Home Study Course:
“God took me up unto a high mountain top where inspired man is God-man and there gave unto me higher knowledge of the power of regeneration of my body through His all-knowing Light. Through the red-violet world. and the red, red world to the world of pure white Light beyond the world of blue — and back again to the world of pure white simulated light beyond the yellow world, the Spirit within me journeyed in an ecstasy for which there are no words of man to tell. In the ecstatic state of inner-knowing, the great truth of creating and decreating things was made known to me. That majestic swing of the cosmic pendulum spelled out for me the glorious rhythms of things to be and, then, not to be. The mystery of Soul was mine — the Souls of all creating things. The memory of ten times ten thousand lives mirrored themselves in Light from their records on my Soul to tell me that my body was still new — that my time of disappearance had not yet come.
The Destiny of Every Soul
And so we arrive at the great truth that underlies all of human history: that behind every masterpiece and every civilization-altering revelation, there was a someone who had learned — in some measure — to turn turn off the noise of the senses and listen to the silence of Mind.
The path from ordinary man to inspired man to genius, and from genius to mystic, is not a path outward into the world. It is a path inward — into the still, Undivided WHITE LIGHT from which all things emanate and to which all things return.
This is not a path reserved for the extraordinary few. It is the destiny of every soul, unfolding across lifetimes with the slow and certain rhythm of God’s cosmic pendulum. Each of us carries within us the seed of omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence, waiting only for the warmth of sincere desire and the silence of a mind turned inward.
The geniuses show us what is possible when we begin to awaken. The mystics show us where the journey ends.
And the journey ends where it began — in the Light of Mind — the ONE.
Seek that LIGHT. It is the source of all that has ever been created, and all that ever will be.
It is who you truly are.
Thank you for reading,
Michael R. Post, Creator, Beyond the Cosmic Veil