Only a limited number of literary works possess transformative force--the power to enable a seeker to gain a higher state of consciousness.
Seekers must prepare themselves by:
- Diligent study of materials to gain deepening discernment of
- which literary works contain genuine transformtive dynamism (and which do not)
- what the nature of this transformative power is
- higher meanings and illuminations in transformative material
- Sincere development of necessary attitudes:
- humility
- self-awareness
- emotional control
- Assiduous self-study and purification
- Intelligent search for a teacher or teachers who have the capability of opening the transformative power of chosen literature
The higher state of consciousness which transformative literature allows us to achieve is:
- more than intellectual comprehension
- an awakening of dormant faculties to make contact with spiritual forces about us
- Diligent study of materials to gain deepening discernment of
- which literary works contain genuine transformtive dynamism (and which do not)
- what the nature of this transformative power is
- higher meanings and illuminations in transformative material
- Sincere development of necessary attitudes:
- humility
- self-awareness
- emotional control
- Assiduous self-study and purification
- Intelligent search for a teacher or teachers who have the capability of opening the transformative power of chosen literature
- more than intellectual comprehension
- an awakening of dormant faculties to make contact with spiritual forces about us