The Soul with its limited faculties cannot know anything from beyond the Abyss. It vaguely wanders from idea to idea, forgetting about itself and eventually falls into dreams. In the Hypostasis of the Archons this condition is explained: the Soul being fashioned from the same substance as the Demiurge inherited it's ignosis.

The Spirit with its supernal faculties is able to impart a sense of knowing (Gnosis) from beyond the Abyss, easily. In humans this faculty remains inactive and dormant.

It's a race against time to awaken the consciousness before the Soul perishes to the matter of the archons and is taken by the receivers (archons) and cast into another prison (reincarnation) again.

All of the great masters, prophets and teachers have repeatedly emphasised that our consciousness is asleep. Jesus said so, so did Buddha, so did the Apostles, so did the Kabbalists. 

“The Being gives us higher cognition to see reality.”(We have to raise our level of Being to see the bigger picture of reality.) Gnosis is Knowing and Being. We cannot seperate each other as it’s a collaborative work with our Being/Inner God to awaken our consciousness"

The process of awakening the consciousness can be seen on the tree of life- a model of consciousness. The sephiroth are like exits or "trapdoors" through which the Soul has descended into the body and through which it must reascend by a process of meditation.

At the bottom of the Tree of Life is Malkuth, which is the physical body. Related to the physical body is our vital energy and our sexual impulse (Yesod), our emotions (Hod), and our mind (Netzach). We can directly experience all of that, right now, when we sit to meditate.

If we go beyond the lower sephiroth,  a little bit above to Tiphereth – that is when we start talking about consciousness itself.

The true state of meditation is going beyond the limited faculties of the Soul. The Hypostasis of the Archons reveals the gross body, vital, mental and lunar astral are the vehicles of the Soul. Otherwise known as the four Sin bodies as they were created by the Demiurge and are thus unreliable and corrupted.

Actual meditation is getting out of your physical senses, out of your thinking, and out of your emoitions. To reside within consciousness: that's meditation. When you are in that place you are at the lower levels of Nous.

Beyond a certan threshold, you cross over what we can call human consciousness, to something much more broad and related to our inner divinity. Beyond our human conscious we have what we call our divine consciousness. This is related to the sephiroth Tiphereth, Geburah and Chesed. 

All of the information we recieve in meditation is from those superior sephiroth, as the state of meditaiton becomes more integrated and stable, the level of intuition (in-tuition) and understanding deepens greatly. 

The consciousness, when it's active, when it is not caught up in all of our lower aspects, can easily perceive and receive that type of information from our inner spirit, otherwise known as Gnosis. 

At that level this is a type of mystical experience: knowing that we're not just consciousness, but that we are emanating from an individual spirit, experiencing that directly.

Our individual spirit however, is related to something even more abstract. This can be called cosmic or universal consciousness. What this means is the capacity to perceive in any particular spirit.

Since our spirit is a drop within the universal spirit of life, if we become aware within cosmic consciousness we can perceive in the perspective of any other particular spirit.

You can understand the reality of a different spirit. It's a very abstract universal level of Being. There is no differentiation between any particular point of light. Everything has merged into one. This is a very abstract experience, very far away from our individual sense of self, but, it is something possible in meditation.

This is not the end though. Beyond that is the Absolute, Source, Tao, Adavaita, Ain Soph Aur or as it was known to the Gnostics, the Pleroma.

Outside of the matrix is the Absolute, an ocean of abstract space which is symbolized or illustrated by the mantra OM. It is possible in meditation to go to that place temporarily. You need to have the right conditions, of course. But it should be known and understood that it is possible for us.

Awakening