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CONTEMPLATION – one of the four primary methods of petition-
ing the Divine (prayer, meditation, contemplation, soul trans-
port); a spiritual exercise; unrestrained examination of any
spiritual ideal and its application to one’s individual experi-
ence; recommended procedure which facilitates the emanci-
pation of consciousness; gives purpose to the focusing of
attention upon a spiritual principle, ideal, or the Presence of
the Master; incorporates and directs the mind, while discover-
ing, extracting, awakening, and purifying the attention faculty.

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS – Enlightenment in the divine mind;
harmonizing the three minds (conscious, subconscious, un-
conscious); pinnacle of the universal mind power.

CRUCIFIXION – Esoteric process of conscious purification,
wherein the initiated soul ascends in consciousness to escape
the encumbrance of the lower pinda mind; ultimately pre-
cedes entry into the third eye; total sacrifice of lower realities
for higher spiritual truths.

CULT – outwardly manifests as a group consciousness wor-
shiping a charismatic personality who manipulates the energies
of the followers; inwardly manifests as ego and personality.

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DASWAN DWAR – Third level of Heaven.

DEATH – Esoterically, the spiritual process of soul withdrawing
its sensory currents (attention) inward and upward, and estab-
lishing them in the third eye; dying while living is the gate-
way to eternal life. see: TRANSLATION; CRUCIFIXION.

DETACHMENT – one of the four fundamental principles of
spirituality (attention, attitude, discrimination, detachment);