The Container
"With our present consciousness we are, as it were, fused with the world and continually distracted by its changes.
The tumult of sense-impressions, the riot of thoughts, the surgings of emotions and imagination, the throngings of desires, have nothing central between them to steady them.
Between that which is pouring in from outside through the senses, and that which is going on within, nothing permanent intervenes to subject all these random activities to order, to bring them into alignment and produce a point of consciousness between inner and outer.
We cannot get enough strength to begin to disconnect ourselves from the continual draining-effect of outer things unless we have special standpoints.
An idea which belongs to a level above us must have more ‘reality’ than any of our ordinary ideas that we derive from natural, three-dimensional life. It must therefore have the power of drawing energy out of our ordinary states.
The pupil in the Hermetic treatise is told he must enlarge his mind beyond the range of the senses, i.e., beyond the world of three dimensions, and the body of three dimensions which he regards as himself.”
Try to associate yourself with the totality of your awareness within which all that you experience is contained.
'Time is the moving image of Eternity' - Plato.
In this sense the container here is Eternity or 'Now', within which Time takes place.
You are at the centre of every experience you ever have. You contain each experience, and so from your point of view the Container never moves.
“Now enters us with a sense of something greater than passing-time. Now contains all time, all the life, and the aeon of the life. Now is the sense of higher space.
All insight, all revelation, all illumination, all love, all that is genuine, all that is real, lies in now – and in the attempt to create now we approach the inner precincts, the holiest part of life. For in time all things are seeking completion, but in now all things are complete."
Quotations from "Living Time and the Integration of the Life" by Maurice Nicoll (1952).
