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The Heart and the Light  
An Introduction to The Pneumaton by Jonathan Condit, Ph.D. 
xv
   
 I. The Bright Is the Heart and the Light 
xvii
  Reality’s Revelation of Itself  
    
 II. The Traditional Searches for the Light 
xxxiii
  The Essence of All True Spirituality  
    
 III. The Way of the Heart and the Light 
xlvii
  The Divine Process of All-Brightening  
    
 IV. The Bodily Revelation of Heart-and-Light 
lxxi
  A Celebration in Words and Photographs of Avatar Adi Da’s Divine Gift of His Transcendental Spiritual Self-Transmission  
    
 Overview of The Pneumaton 
lxxxv
   
PART ONE 
Religion and Spirituality 
3
  
 

The Dogmas of Social Morality Versus The Esoteric Spiritual Teaching That Is At The Origin of Traditional Religions

 
5
   
 A Prophetic Criticism of “Great Religions” 
26
   
 

The Western Prohibition Against Higher Knowledge and Realization Versus The Eastern Advocacy of Higher Knowledge and Realization

 
33
    
 The Culturally Prescribed God-Idea of Exoteric Religion Is Not The Divine Itself but Only A Cultural (and Entirely Conditional) Means For Turning To The Divine 
31
    
 The Necessity For A Global Unity-Culture To Replace The Ancient Bi-Polar Culture of Separate West and Separate East 
36
    
 Exoteric and Esoteric: The Public and The Secret Dimensions of Religion 
41
    
 The Wisdom of Esotericism 
45
    
 The Criticism That Cures The Heart 
46
    
 The Three Great Principles of All Truth 
54
   
PART TWO  
The Seventh Stage Revelation 
57
    
 God-Talk, Real-God-Realization, Most Perfect Divine Self-Awakening, and The Seven Possible Stages of Life 
59
    
 The Seventh Stage Way 
98
 The Forty-Six Divine Statements of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi 
PART THREE  
The Unique Life-Revelation of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj — Including His Thorough Process of Investigating, and Transcending, The Traditional Realms of Mysticism 
101
    
 The Bright and The Thumbs Are My True First Room 
103
    
 My Life-Demonstration of The Guru-Devotee Relationship 
116
    
 My “Learning” of Mysticism — In The Hindu Manner  
143
    
 My “Learning” of Mysticism — In The Christian Manner 
153
    
 My Most Perfect Re-Awakening As The Bright 
175
  
PART FOUR  
Devotion To The Spiritual Master Is The Foundation of All True Spirituality 
187
    
 Adept-Realizers Are The Root of All Esoteric Traditions 
189
    
 Beyond The Cultic Tendency In Religion and Spirituality, and In Secular Society 
192
    
 Cultism Is The Beginner’s Level of Human Existence 
196
    
 The Great Esoteric Tradition of Devotion To The Adept-Realizer 
199
    
 The Super-Physics of Divine Enlightenment 
209
   
PART FIVE  
The Non-Conformist Moral, Devotional, and Spiritual Teachings of Saint Jesus and The Conventional Public Religious Message of Institutional Christianity 
217
    
 The “Official” (Exoteric) Fabrications and The Secret (Esoteric) Truth About Jesus of Galilee 
219
    
 The Forgotten Spiritual Esotericism of Saint Jesus and The Christian Social Exotericism That Succeeded It 
236
    
 The Universal Non-Religious Message of Jesus of Galilee 
266
    
 The Principal Christian Idea  
274
    
 All Illusion Is False Explanation 
277
    
 The Necessity For The Conversion of Christianity Into A Non-Jewish Esoteric Spiritual School of Life 
279
    
 The “Official” Christianity That Won, The “Official” and Non-“Official” Christianities That Lost, and The Original Christianity That Would Yet Succeed Them All 
284
    
 Beyond The Scapegoat-Christ 
291
  The Original Way of Jesus of Galilee 
    
 The Secrets of The “Kingdom of God”  
295
   
PART SIX  
The Spiritual Gospel of Saint Jesus of Galilee, Re-Told — and Revealed Again — By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj 
299
   
PART SEVEN  
The Spiritual Instructions and The Spiritual Transmission of Traditional Yogis and Saints 
333
    
 Conversation of Saint Seraphim with N. A. Motovilov
Translated by J.C. Troncale, PhD, with Teresa Hudson
 
335
    
 Sri Ramakrishna’s Transmission of His Own Spirit-Person Into The Person of Swami Vivekananda 
363
    
 The Spiritual Teachings of Swami Muktananda — As Written To His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj 
365
    
 The Spiritual Teachings of Bhagavan Nityananda— As Recorded and Revealed By His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj 
371
    
 My Example of The Formal Transmission, Via The Traditional “Rite of Inheritance”, of The Inherent Right To Transmit and Teach The Process of Spiritual Ascent 
376
    
 The Process of Spiritual Ascent 
380
  The Progressive Steps of The Fifth Stage of Life 
   
PART EIGHT  
Real Ecstasy 
383
  
PART NINE  
Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga 
401
    
 The Intrinsically egoless Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam 
  
PART TEN  
Cosmic Spiritual Baptism Versus Divine Transcendental Spiritual Baptism 
509
    
 The Lesser and Greater Traditions Associated With The Kundalini Shakti 
511
    
 My Unique Avataric Self-Revelation of The Divine Process of Transcendental Spiritual Self-Transmission of The Bright 
518
    
 The Divine Yoga of My Crashing-Down Avataric Descent 
523
    
 Cosmic Spiritual Baptism Versus Divine Transcendental Spiritual Baptism 
538
  
PART ELEVEN  
Hridaya Rosary (Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction) 
573
    
 Prologue: The Rose Garden of The Heart 
575
    
 First Thorn: The Essential “Method” (Right, True, and Full) of Direct and Whole bodily (or Total Psycho-Physical) Devotional Communion With Me 
587
    
 Second Thorn: The Four-Part Exercise (Right, True, and Full) of Whole-bodily-Responsively ego-Transcending Devotion To Me 
593
    
 Third Thorn: The Process Associated With The Four-Part Exercise (Right, True, and Full) of Whole-bodily-Responsively ego-Transcending Devotion To Me 
596
    
 Fourth Thorn: Details of The Right, True, and Full Practice of “Samraj Asana”, The “Healing Pose” of Whole bodily (or Total Psycho-Physical) Devotion To Me 
603
  
PART TWELVE  
The Fundamental Practice of Total Psycho-Physical Turning To Me 
615
    
 Make Divine Yoga Out of Each Moment  
617
    
 Devotional Communion With Me Is Inherently Prior To egoity 
620
    
 Always Transcend Your Own Childish and Adolescent ego-Patterning 
624
    
 The Secret of Practicing True Devotion To Me 
628
    
 Turn The Principal Faculties of The Body-Mind To Me — and Disregard Their Contents 
635
    
 When You Devotionally Recognize Me, The Faculties Follow, In Devotional Response To Me 
643
    
 The Only Liberating Discovery 
648
  
PART THIRTEEN  
The Reality-Way 
651
    
 The Way of The Mirror Is Me 
653
    
 Mere Concentration Versus True Surrender  
673
    
 The Ancient Walk-About Way  
690
    
 My Spiritually Bright Silence  
704
    
 True Devotion To Me Is Prior Coincidence With Me — Not The Search For Union and Unity With Me 
708
    
 True Devotion Is Perfect Knowledge Demonstrated By Renunciation 
716
    
 My Transcendental Spiritual Transmission-Work  
723
    
 The Essentials of Reality-Practice In The Reality-Way of Adidam 
726
    
 Acausal Adidam  
728
   
PART FOURTEEN  
The True Divine Transcendental Spiritual Process 
743
    
 Reality Itself Is Not A Size  
745
    
 No Seeking / Mere Beholding  
753
  Transcendental Spiritual Initiation of The Primary Practice of The Radical Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam  
    
 The Thumbs Is The Fundamental Sign of The Avataric Crashing-Down of My Divine Person 
805
    
 The Divine Reality-Way of Adidam Is Revealed and Given Only By Me — Avatarically, From Above and Beyond 
826
   
PART FIFTEEN  
The Transcendental Spiritual Revelation and The Transcendental Spiritual Transmission of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj 
833
 Testimonials By His Ruchira Sannyasin Devotees  
    
 Introduction  
835
    
 Avatar Adi Da Is The Eternal Divine Body of Conscious Light 
839
  by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba 
    
 The Love-Bliss of The Da Avatar  
883
  by Ruchiradama Nadikanta Naitauba 
   
PART SIXTEEN  
As Is 
929
    
 The Perfect Word “Is” and The ego-Word “I”  
931
    
 The Way of Is 
941
   
PART SEVENTEEN  
The Boundless Self-Confession 
949
   
LAST WORD   
I Say This 
991
   
   
APPENDICES 
    
 The “Secret Gospel” of Mark 
997
    
 
Avatar Adi Da’s Esoteric Revelations Relative to Certain Christian Symbols and Doctrines
 
1007
  Selected Passages from The Pneumaton 
    
Notes to the Text of The Pneumaton 
1019
   
GLOSSARY  
1059
  
BIBLIOGRAPHIES:  
    
 An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Writings and Discourses of His Divine Presence Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Relating to the Seventh Stage Way of Adidam and the Esoteric Spiritual Traditions of the Fourth and the Fifth Stages of Life 
1121
    
 Selections from Avatar Adi Da’s Basket of Tolerance Bibliography, Relating to the Esoteric Spiritual Traditions of the Fourth and the Fifth Stages of Life 
1145
    
The Universal Offering of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj 
1159
 by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba 
   
The Sacred Literature of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj 
1165
   
INDEX 
1187

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