The Guardian of the Threshold

When meditation with the intense thought life is finished, one tries to create complete silence within oneself – to live in the soul element. Then, one day, when you have reached a certain point in your development, you feel as if you were surrounded by a great darkness, a void, an empty space, and at the same time you feel as if you were expanding more and more, indeed it is as if you were losing yourself in the dark infinity. You are seized by fear. But at that point, you should say to yourself, “I live,” so as not to slip away completely and lose yourself.