43. Consciousness – Life – Form

In fact, there are three states of consciousness of the physical body: waking consciousness, dream consciousness and dreamless sleep consciousness. For the initiate, the dullness of the last two states of consciousness brightens; through this illumination, he lives in higher worlds, just as the unawakened person lives in the physical world during waking life. There are thus five states of consciousness, which, according to their increasing brightness, can be categorized as follows: