THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL

 
Just as anything may happen to a man travelling over an unknown path in the pitch blackness of the night, so anything may happen to one who must pass through the fourth plane without the guiding hand of a Perfect Master. That is why, for all its dazzling splendour and power, the period of going through the fourth plane is termed in Christian mysticism, the Dark Night of the Soul.

If the advanced pilgrim is at all able to resist the allurements and treacheries of "the dark night of the soul" he enters the mental sphere (Mana-Bhumika or the Alam-e-Jabrut) by the fifth and final double seven-in-one achievement which occurs on the same lines as the fourth.

All the folds of the veil are removed together with the relative knots, desires, colours and impressions; the sixth and seventh doors (as represented by the right and left eyes) are crossed and the fifth plane of light and love is reached.