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The Sound Current – Part 1

This is the first of a three-part article from a booklet published in 1972.


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The Sound Current – Part 1

Many people have asked about the Light, and MSIA has quite a few publications and discourses that teach about the Light. We’ve given it the acronym, Living In God’s Holy Thoughts. And we’ve said that Light is a part of the essence of spirituality; it’s a part that can be recognized and related to readily because it can be seen. It’s both an inner quality and an outer quality. The inner quality is more of the Spiritual Light and the outer quality is more of the Magnetic Light. It’s good to keep those two things separated, since they are different qualities. We say everyone is the Light and this is very true. I think we all know that there are different degrees of Light as well as different colors of Light; so to say that someone is not the Light would certainly be an unawareness pattern.

The Sound or the tone of the Current that flows out of the heart of God is referred to as the Sound Current, and if we were to use an acronym for that, we might say, “Speaking Of Ultimates Now Divine.” That’s the Sound Current. The Sound is a much different quality than the Light. We see the Light when we are working in the lower realms of Light—on the physical, astral, causal, mental and etheric realms—and it’s very beautiful. When you reach the Soul Realm, you are impressed with the Light, and that is the Sound Current. On every level of Light, in every plane, in every dimension there is a keeper of the Sound Current. This is the One appointed by Sat Nam, out of the Sach Khand (this is in the higher realms of Light), who is given the keys to the Sound Current, and who is referred to as the Mystical Traveler.

The Mystical Traveler, through the Preceptor Consciousness, has the keys on every realm for the flow of the Light and for the Sound Current. On any realm, including the physical, you must find that One who has the connection to the Sound Current if you are to be connected to the sound that is inside of you and to the Sound that pervades all existences. You might feel that the Light is enough and wonder why the Sound is important. When you are working with the Mystical Traveler Consciousness through MSIA, you will be traveling the inner realms of consciousness in Soul Consciousness. We are not involved in astral body projection or in traveling in the causal body or the mental body or the etheric body. In the higher realms, the only vehicle that we are involved with is Soul Consciousness, which is the one that you want to work with if you’re going to work in the line of Masters of the Sound Current. When you have illuminated yourself, through the help of the Mystical Traveler Consciousness and the forces of Light that work with It or under It, then you can illuminate your way in the inner worlds of your own universe and in the outer universe; so that wherever you go, you won’t stumble or fall, according to the orthodox doctrine of man’s fall. But you won’t really move rapidly on these levels until you are very familiar with the territory. You work more with the Light in the lower realms of consciousness. The Light is a tremendous force of energy and you must gradually learn to work with it, to attune to it, and to use its power. This is why we say, “Don’t become a spiritual glutton and read every book on the market or listen to every tape of every seminar in two weeks.” It will turn against you because you won’t be able to handle that force of energy. These things come gradually. After you’ve learned to traverse the astral realm in Soul Consciousness, you will move into the causal realm and learn to handle that. And then you will move into the next realm and so on. One of the keys is that the higher you get, the more refined the quality of Light and Sound becomes; but in that refinement, it is more secure. In other words (and this may sound like a little double talk), the less solid it becomes, the more lasting it is. On this physical level, the quality of Light and Sound is extremely transient. The physical body is sustained here for an average of sixty or seventy years. If you live to be eighty or ninety years old, you’re considered an old person and maybe fortunate to have lived so long or cursed to have lived so long, depending upon the type of life that you have had. Most people want to live a long time on this level even if they seem to be miserable, because this is the realm with which they are most familiar.

The Light is a nice key; you can work with the Light and call in the Light and bring the Light into yourself, and it will come in to work with you. The Sound Current doesn’t necessarily work that way. If you want that, you have to move your consciousness to it. You don’t wish it to yourself or imagine it to yourself or anything else like that. The biggest “storyteller” in the group doesn’t have it by telling the story that he has it. You have it or you don’t, and there’s no imagination involved in it. This is a very high form of ultimate reality. Quite a while ago, I was talking to a lady who sometimes seems to come across as a self-proclaimed Messiah. In my own quiet way, I had been teaching her about Soul Travel for about a year, and the last time I visited with her, she was telling me about how high she’d gone in the Soul Realm and how she had reached into God-consciousness. I said, “My, what does it look like there?” She said, “You tell me.” I said, “I don’t have adequate words.” She said, “Then I’ll just tell you the best I can. The Light there is fantastic. And there are the most beautiful things there.” I couldn’t really argue with what she said so I said, “That sounds pretty familiar. I wouldn’t want to say that’s not so. However, could you tell me anything that’s really noticeable about the Soul Realm?” And she went on to repeat pretty much what she had already said. And then she asked, “Did I answer your question for you?” I said, “Yes, you did. You have answered my question.” She had answered it because she couldn’t. When you get into the Soul Realm and above, the noticeable thing is the Sound. The Light is not only seen; it is heard. It’s Sound.

The “storyteller” within somebody may say, “I’ve done this and I’ve done that,” and the Mystical Traveler may just sit and observe and not say, “Yes, you have,” or “No, you haven’t,” but he Knows full well whether you have or haven’t. It’s never necessary to take anyone’s inventory and say, “Yes, this,” or “No, that,” because ultimately it will all come back to the person who created it. So it becomes again the avenue of—you must always save yourself. You must always become responsible for yourself and all your actions. You must progress individually. No one else can do it for you. The Mystical Traveler can’t. Jesus didn’t. Other great teachers didn’t. They can direct, guide, help; but, at some point, you have to step forward, and that is the beginning of your own salvation. “Salvation” may be a poor word to use, but we use it for lack of a better one. I think you understand that what we’re saying is that you become free and have spiritual liberation in this physical level of consciousness, that you become spiritually free and that you know it. If a person asks me how they are doing spiritually, the unspoken answer is that they are still in spiritual bondage because they don’t know their spiritual freedom yet. In other words, they are still working out a lot of karma. And so, of course, the next person thinks, “I want people to think I’m spiritually free so I won’t ask how I’m doing.” They are just as bound. Until you’re free, you’re not. The words don’t make you free. The actions don’t make you free. What makes you free is your freedom. Do you understand that? It’s a beingness, a state of existence. It’s not tomorrow or next week; it is right now. The whole action of the intellect, the emotions, the imagination, the body, and the Spirit exist NOW. If you wait for the end of some great dispensation, say the year 2000, to be free, you might as well wait until the year 2025 or 2050 or come back in 3000 and live it again. Spiritual liberation is possible HERE, NOW. And if you can’t do through your consciousness, you become free through the Mystical Traveler Consciousness. And when you reach up to the Preceptor Consciousness, you are becoming a co-creator with the Sugmad.

The Sound and the Light were talked about in the Bible: “Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” The “rod” is the Light and the “staff” is the Sound. The rod of power is the Light, and the staff is that thing that always sustains, and that is the Sound. Those who had the keys and were working with the Light and the Sound in Biblical days are the Master forces that we’re working with now. It’s nice to know that we’re not just sitting on the edge of a freaky consciousness, but that we’re sitting right in the center of universes, and all we have to do is flow and release and move through this level, keeping attuned to the consciousness of Light and Sound. When you really understand what I’m saying, you’ll find out that the hang-ups of this level no longer exist. Everything becomes “situations” and you don’t have problems; you have situations. As an example—I have a situation when I sit with my legs crossed. When I uncross them, I have a new situation. The “problem” comes only from your perception. So if you talk about “situations” and “change” instead of “problems” and “blowing it,” you have immediately elevated your consciousness and placed yourself within the flow of the Sound and the action of the Light. So the quest is releasing karma, turning to the power of the Light and the Sound of God, and letting the Mystical Traveler give you the keys on the inner realms. It’s rather simple. The Mystical Traveler gives the keys away just as rapidly as you open to receive them. People who have been studying in MSIA for three or four years are having those experiences where they’re here with their eyes open and they’re there with their eyes open, and they’re saying, “You know, up until I did it, I didn’t really know what you were talking about, but now that I’m doing it, I can’t tell you what you were talking about, but I know it.” And I look at them and say, “I know that you know. You didn’t have to say that.” It sometimes seems unnecessary to talk about these things, but we have to fulfill this level also, and that’s why we have seminars and Light Studies and programmings and aura balancings and tapes and discourses. They help complete this level.

If you take any sound, any word, and say it enough times, you will alter your consciousness. Let me give you an example that comes out on a level that you can probably see without too much effort. The girl’s name is Harriet Smith. She marries Bob Schneider. Now her name is Harriet Schneider. Before she married, she really loved the guy and they got along well. Now, after one year of being Harriet Schneider, she seems to hate her husband and can’t get along with him. She has picked up the new frequency that is reflected in the new name, and it doesn’t fit her. So she’s having a rough time. Many people come up to me and say, “Now that I’m divorced, I want to change my name back to my maiden name. What do you think?” I say, “Suit yourself.” They know their married name didn’t fit. There is an art of finding out the frequency that is best for you, the name that is best for you. Let’s say a man was named “Schmergleheimer Besendofer” and he wanted to change his name because “Schmergleheimer Besendofer” wasn’t really a good frequency for him. So he went to someone who had the ability to meditate in order to find the best frequency and bring it forward. He was given a new moniker, and he accepted it. But the new one was “Swilderagerpinarthagerpurdleof” which didn’t take him too far because it wasn’t really a change of frequency. The names Mary and Marion are really the same name because they’re the same frequency. So you might be aware that you must sometimes change more than a few letters to change the frequency. And yet, sometimes a very subtle change will change the frequency. Let’s say that Suzie Hanson married James Hansen; she might not be able to hold to that new frequency because it is different, even though there is only one letter of the name that has changed.

Chanting something over and over continually will alter where you are; it will move your consciousness into that new frequency. But you must form a positive attitude to what you’re chanting in order to make it work for you. I have never understood why a person will come into a spiritual group to learn something and then be negative all the time that they are being presented with the new ideas. If you’re going to learn, you’ll have a positive attitude towards learning. Too often, people say, “I don’t want to do it that way. If it’s going to be done, I want to do it my way. Make it work; show me, in spite of myself. If I have to be positive and happy to feel good, then how do I know something’s taking place? But if I am negative in my expression and it still takes place, then I’ll know something was really there.” This is like saying, “Lord, walk on the water; now take my bag and put it over here,” and then saying, “I really didn’t want it here. I wanted it over there. You should have read my mind. You’re no Lord. I can trick you. I want a new Lord.” You may find out that not too much happens except that you get to come back again. In the human consciousness we tend to think that we are really great. And we are. But the abuse of greatness is the abuse of the power of your potential greatness. And the idea of humility is fine. But if you’re so humble that you don’t let anything shine out, you’re not going to be able to Light up the path for anyone. It’s one thing to have pride and it’s a different thing to be arrogant. Those are different qualities, even though they’re based on the same feeling. It might be best if we kept in mind the protective quality that it is the Father that does the work, that it is the Spirit that does the work, that it is the Inner Master, the Mystical Traveler, the Preceptor, that One that we can’t define, who does the work. And we seek only to be an open channel. And when you keep that in mind, you can walk the high ground, and there is nothing that can be denied to you. But, then, why should it be denied to you when you’re in a positive consciousness, working with positive energy? You’re on a positive path of unfoldment.

When a person studies conscientiously—and that means as an on-going process—in MSIA for a minimum of two years, they may receive the first physical initiation which connects him to the Sound Current of God. These initiates become more the direct representatives of the Mystical Traveler Consciousness than anyone else in the Movement, regardless of how well someone else can say the words, because the initiates are reaching into the Sound Current. Even though the initiate may be working out of the causal realm, they will reflect the pure essence that issues forth out of the causal realm on the Sound Current. Another person who is working from the causal realm may be karmically laden, which may cause you to pick up all sorts of funny things from his expression. The teachings of MSIA, through the Mystical Traveler Consciousness, become more and more pure as you listen to the Sound. The interesting thing is that all the teachings are inside of you. The prototype of the universe resides within the nucleus of each cell of your body. So, if you want to see universal consciousness, just look to your cells, and on that level, you can see that you are indeed involved in a form of universal consciousness.

Baruch Bashan

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