(05-31-2010, 12:59 AM)Peregrinus Wrote: Enlightenment is a state of consciousness reaching the stream of intelligent infinity by means of a state of pure awareness, or perhaps the pure awareness is a result of enlightenment... Once this level has been attained and maintained, the physical vehicle will become sick, for the physical vehicle is designed for a low strength of the flow of energy. Although it is of the free will of the enlightened master as to when to ascend, the master will not remain long in this density.
Hermeticism teaches that Malkuth (ie the physical world) is the flower of the Tree of Life.
The goal of the path of return is for spirit to be fully realised in this world. If an adept reaches enlightenment, his physical body changes so that it can function with this increased state of consciousness. He becomes more than human, - I don't think that this would be a 4d body. as I am not sure that a 4d body can live on a 3d world.
This is what I have read, -I am not able to speak from personal experience
- just another side to the coin