The Gate in the East

artwork from EchoHawk

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All paths do converge -
Before the gate in the East.
Enter with One Heart
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Though we are born into or may find, any number of path-ways to use as platform to seek union with the Divine Beloved. In joy, we ultimately discover, we are all One Family. Where we had thought there was controversy and differences, we discover as we near the source, controversy born of petty ideology differences fade to unimportance. 

As we near 
‘the gate in the East / ‘the spiritual eye’
- we come to know:
“…if therefore thine eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of light.”

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Matthew 6:22
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”

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Matthew 7:14 
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

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“The strait gate of goodness in its restrictive singularity is less easy to pass through; and its path narrow and difficult, like climbing uphill; fewer are those who choose this more arduous path of virtuous inclinations (gate) and righteous actions (way), which leads to everlasting life. Virtue arising from spiritual aspiration, though seemingly difficult and unattractive in the beginning and shunned by the worldly minded, yet leads those who persist in pursuing the singular way of goodness into a kingdom of undreamed-of-splendor and unending bliss.”
Then a bit later in this writing …
“The ‘strait gate’ and ‘narrow way’ refer also to the gateway in the subtle astral center at the base of the spine, which opens into the astral spine’s narrow, extremely fine pathway through which the life and consciousness ascend to the higher cerebrospinal centers of spiritual perception – the sole path to realization of God and union with Him.”
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST / The Resurrection of the Christ Within You.
By Paramahansa Yogananda
Pages 549 - 550

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The 5 pointed star of the Spiritual Eye / Kutastha Chaitanya

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