Daily Meditation: Tuesday, January 18, 2005

‘I is He’ - explanation of this formula

01/18/2005

Despite their diversity, spiritual exercises have as their one and only goal the fusion of the human being with the Deity. The initiates of India have summarized this sublime state of consciousness in the formula ‘I am He’, which is to say, he alone exists; I am only a reflection, a replica, a shadow. I exist only to the extent that I am able to dissolve in him. In reality, we exist not as beings separate from the Creator, but as part of him. This is why initiatic science teaches us methods for detaching from our illusory images of ourselves. By saying ‘I am He’, we understand that we do not exist outside the Creator, and we unite ourselves with him, we come closer to him, until one day we resemble him.