CHAPTER XII
Supra–Consciousness
Sight–Hearing–Taste–Touch–Smell
When we take the Short Cut of Fasting we not only rearrange our whole being, but we rearrange our position in the great Universal Etheric Vibrations.
We give ourself a new place in our own firmament and throw around us new expressions of Cosmic Life with which we must again normally connect.
We find new gifts on our path toward rightness and these new gifts are accentuation and intensification of all our human senses. Sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell awaken with a new, thrilling sense of finer use, becoming merged into a vivid new sensation, which is a blend of all.
All senses are used, not disused, but used in a sort of overtone of function which perceives without contact and translates with the deeper perception of the essence-sense rather than the crude extracts of the old senses.
Where others see only empty space and hear no sound and find no perfume, the Illuminatus rarefied with his Fast, sees colors and visions, hears voices and merges himself with the music
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