The tiny system of images (the ego) must become, when its terrestrial contingency is left behind, a star immortalized in the halo of Divinity. Beyond the stars burns the Sun of the Self in its blazing transcendence and in its infinite peace.

The ego is at the same time a system of images and a cycle; it is something like a museum, and a unique and irreversible journey through that museum. The ego is a moving fabric made of images and tendencies; the tendencies come from our own substance and the images are provided by the environment. We put ourselves into things, and we place things in ourselves, whereas our true being is independent of them.

 

Alongside this system of images and tendencies that constitutes our ego there are myriads of other systems of images and tendencies. Some of them are worse or less beautiful than our own, and others are better or more beautiful.

 

We are like foam ceaselessly renewed on the ocean of existence. But since God has put Himself into this foam, it is destined to become a sea of stars at the time of the final crystallization of spirits.

 

The tiny system of images must become, when its terrestrial contingency is left behind, a star immortalized in the halo of Divinity. This star can be conceived on various levels; the divine Names are its archetypes; beyond the stars burns the Sun of the Self in its blazing transcendence and in its infinite peace.

 

Man does not choose; he follows his nature and his vocation, and it is God who chooses.

 

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Frithjof Schuon: Light on The Ancient Worlds

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