By Paul Brunton

This quantity deals a powerful remedy of what enlightenment is and isn't, and of the rules that underlie its arisal. studying claims of "union with God," it addresses forcefully the fallacy of equating even the top measure of person human illumination with the common intelligence during which person recognition is rooted. P.B. conscientiously distinguishes levels of enlightenment within the non secular hierarchy of mystics, saints, messengers, prophets, sages, and avatars.

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