BECAUSE so few even of Occult students know just what is the Sun, we will give some thoughts herein that may prove of deepest interest, especially to those who are students of the Sun Center teachings.

Most people, yea, most authorities, deem what appears as the source of light to humanity and the physical world to be a planet, around which revolve all the other planets of our Universe. Instead we will show what must be and is the real cause of this appearance.

First we ask you to try to realize our Universe as a great sphere of space which we will call consciousness, the center of which is the Sun, which is immediately surrounded by a realm of consciousness we will call the Mercury realm, which is surrounded by the Venus realm, which is surrounded by the Earth realm, outside of which are the realms of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, in the order named, according to modern astronomers who have determined their respective distances from the Sun.

If you can see this as being so, then you can realize that instead of Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc., being planets revolving around the Sun, they must be states or realms of consciousness surrounding the Sun, layer after layer, to the outermost of our Universe. If you can see that, then you can also see that the humanity of Earth, because of its being now in that realm called Earth, must have started from the outermost and have passed through the Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars realms, and is now approaching the Venus realm, seemingly on its way to the Sun.

Now we know the Sun to be the source of light and life to the humanity of Earth, and we naturally assume that it must likewise be the source of light and life to all other beings in all other realms of our Universe. If it is the source of all light and life, it must be something much more than a planet—it must be a great Intelligence, a great Love, a great Power, in order to supply light and life to so vast a realm of consciousness and to hold all in such perfect control. In other words it must be what we know as God.

If the Sun realm of consciousness is God, then His Life, Intelligence and Power must comprise the consciousness of everything in our universe, and all consciousness in it must be His Consciousness expressing in different rates of vibration; relayed out in each different realm, according to its distance from the innermost, or the Sun Center of the Universe.

Then it must also be that God as fast as possible is bringing the consciousness of our humanity (as well as all outer consciousness) back into conscious oneness with His Consciousness, having brought it from the outermost through the intervening realms to the Earth realm, where it is now gaining the experience that will enable it to enter the Venus realm, after which there is only one more realm to pass through before returning to its source in the Sun Center—or to its Father’s Home—God’s Consciousness.

Therefore the Sun in its reality cannot be a planet, or what a planet is commonly supposed to be; it must be the Center of Consciousness of All Being—what we know as God, into oneness with Which all other centers of life and being in our universe must return, drawn by the attractive and redemptive power of the Light radiating from It.

Now, in order to understand the real meaning and purpose of all this, we point you to man’s own consciousness. Remember, all man really is, is consciousness. Man’s mind or outer consciousness then must be on its way back to his Father’s Home in the center of his being. Humanity as a whole then must have passed from the outermost through those states of consciousness indicated by astronomy as Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. We will give you a hint only of the Mars realm, the realm of generative and creative forces, where all forms from the lowest and densest of the mineral kingdom to those of men’s physical bodies were created—Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter being outer realms in which consciousness involved itself preparatory to outmanifesting itself in forms. In other words, humanity’s consciousness passing through the Mars realm is what was described in the first chapter of Genesis.

If you can orient yourself as a center of awareness outside of your mind’s present consciousness, and can view the state of intelligence of average humanity, with its sense of separation from God, its belief in a material world, yet with an intellectual understanding of God as the Source of all life and light, and of many of the laws of being, you will glimpse somewhat the nature of what we call the Earth realm of consciousness, through which humanity is now passing.

Now let us see if we can show you how you as a center of awareness are passing through the Earth realm. Where were you, for instance, when many eons ago you were a “cave man,” with very little more intelligence than an animal, hunted by ferocious, gigantic animals, and compelled to fight every moment of your life for mere existence? You then must have just entered the Earth realm from the Mars realm. That entrance is pictured in Chapter II of Genesis, in the 5th, 6th and 7th verses, where it says:

“And no plant of the field was yet in the Earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the Earth; and there was not a man to till the ground; but there went up a mist from the Earth and watered the whole face of the Earth.”

“And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

All the time since then you have been gaining the intelligence you now have, with its knowledge of earth, of man’s nature, and of God—which you must admit is still very limited for the average man; and you can possibly see how far he still has to go before he has finished with the Earth realm and is ready to enter the Venus realm.

Let us see if we can give you some idea of just what that means.

The average man is still living largely in a material state of consciousness, though far from that of the “cave man.” But most of you who read are beginning to be less and less concerned about the outer or material side of life and are turning within toward the Soul or Inner life, are learning more and more about it, and are yearning to know it fully and to free yourselves entirely from the bondage of the flesh and of the outer life. In other words such are approaching and are gaining glimpses of the Venus realm.

Where is the Venus realm? Why, it is within man’s mind—within his own consciousness. For remember, all man is, is consciousness, and he is but a center of awareness within a vast ocean of Consciousness, which we have shown you is our Solar Universe. But also remember, man is aware only of his own consciousness—or only of what is in his consciousness, of what he sees therein and has accepted as being so. He has not yet fully learned that in his mind—or deep within his consciousness—is the “Kingdom of Heaven”—and that it may be the Venus realm.

If the Venus realm is within him and is the Kingdom of Heaven, then the Mercury realm must be still deeper within and may prove to be another Kingdom of Heaven for those in the Venus realm; while in the very center of being must be the Sun realm, or the Source of all of man’s life and intelligence, the highest Kingdom of Heaven of our Universe. Remember, Jesus said, “In My Father’s House there are many dwellings,” and as the Father’s House is His Consciousness, in it must be many states of consciousness. And in Revelation John saw “a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,” proving that each new realm through which consciousness passes has a new heaven awaiting, or a higher realm that will be its next stage of evolution.

Consider with us just what this means. Deep within one’s mind must be realms of consciousness far beyond our present capacity to understand. In fact, if the Venus, Mercury and even the Sun realms are within the consciousness of each one of us, which must be so, if we as consciousness are on our way to the Sun Center; and if God’s Consciousness is that of everyone and everything in our Universe, and if It radiates out through everyone and thereby also forms as it were a way and a means of reaching the center of our being, or the Pure Consciousness of God within us,—then the more our minds become capable of realizing this, the closer we must be getting to the Sun Center within, our Universal Father’s Home.

Do you now get a glimpse of what is the real Sun? Let us help make it clearer. The real Sun is God’s Holy Consciousness of Purest Love and Wisdom, Whose Light lighteth every man that cometh into the world, and is the Life that is expressing through the consciousness of everything in the Universe. Which means that It is the light and life of your consciousness, and of all other consciousness.

But God, the One Consciousness, is not the Light—the Sun we see. He is That which is within, back of, and is the Cause and Source of the Light.

Yet there is That which represents and expresses Him as His Light. Jesus Christ, as His Only Begotten Son, is that Light—is the Sun—Son. He it is Who is the Light of the World—is His Perfect Expression—is the only visible Sun or Sign of Himself, Whose Glory and Radiance gives Light and Life to everything in the Universe.

Listen to this from The Secret Doctrine, translated from the Papyrus of Pheremonnes:

“Glory to thee, O Sun, divine child! . . . thy rays carry life to the pure and to those who are ready. . . . The Gods (the Sons of God) who approach thee tremble with delight and awe . . . Thou art the first born, the Son of God, the Word.”

And also to Plato:

“Know then, Glaucus, that when I speak of the production of Good, it is the Sun I mean. The Son has a perfect analogy with his Father.”

Iamblichus calls the Sun “the image of Divine Intelligence or Wisdom.”

These are but evidences that back through the ages the true meaning of the Sun as the Son—or Christ of God—was known and taught to those “who were ready.”

Try to realize then that the Light is within—is the Sun Center of—all consciousness; that the outer Sun is but a belief-picture in our minds in whose consciousness is reflected from within as in a mirror the true Sun—the Light which lighteth every man.

Those who have read and studied the statements in this Magazine until this truth was perceived will understand the above, but for those who are new to it, we will explain that what we see with our eyes is only what we see in our minds. Back through the ages the light of the Sun, Moon and Stars, these reflections of the lights shining within man’s consciousness, have been so long accepted by humanity as being without—as have all other things that the eyes see—that they have become as concrete things in consciousness; that is, they have assumed forms and are believed to be real and material. But if you can see it, these beliefs are the only things that are material; for all things that the mind sees are mental, are but mind’s creations—are thought things, and exist only in the mind.

The Son or Sun within then must be the most real “thing” of our being; for It is both the Light and Life of our being, and is the “Son of God” which is our true Being. It is that part of us which says “I AM,” and is I AM—is ALL that we are. It is the Reflection of God in us; it is His Great Love that as the Essence and Supreme Reality of His Consciousness shines in the innermost—the Sun Center of our being, and radiates to the outermost of our human minds, when all sense of separation and difference from Him are cleansed from our consciousness. Then the consciousness of the mind, the soul, the Son of God and the Christ of us, becomes the Pure Love Consciousness of God, for we have returned to our Universal Father’s Home.

In that day we will know and can say, “I AM in My Father’s Consciousness, My mind is in My Consciousness, and My Consciousness is its consciousness. My Father, My mind and I are ONE.”