[mkirkpatrick]

By illumination I do not mean the light in the head.That is incidental and phenomenal,and
many truly intuitive people are entirely unaware of the light.The lightto which I refer is that which irradiates the Way.It is "the light of the intellect",which really means that which
illumines the mind,and which can reflect itself in that mental apparatus which is held "steady in the light".

Illumination reveals first of all the existance of glamour;it provides the distressing contrasts with which all true seekers wrestle,and then gradually it floods the life to such an extent,that eventually glamour completely vanishes.We see things then as they are-
a facade hiding the good,the beautiful and the true.

The opposites are then resolved and consciousness is superseded by a condition of
realisation of Being,The technique of Light becomes a permanant condition.

regards michael.