The brain speaks through words; the heart in the glance of the eyes; and the soul through a radiance that charges the atmosphere, magnetizing all.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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As the brain is the instrument of the mind, which is invisible, and the heart of flesh is the vehicle of the heart within, which is above substance, so it is the illumination of the soul, our invisible being, whose light is reflected within this physical body. When active it beams through the eyes, through the radiance of the countenance, charging the whole environment with a magnetic atmosphere.
The phenomena of the radiance of the soul are apparent to the student of the human body. The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.
Every soul radiates an influence which charges the atmosphere all around. The more powerful the influence the wider it spreads, forcing its way even through walls. There is no barrier of water or space which can keep that influence from spreading. The stronger the influence the longer it lasts. … Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume XIII – The Gathas, Series III: Kashf (Insight) )
The heart of a human is like a globe over the light of the soul. When the globe is dusty, naturally the light is dim. When it is cleaned, the light increases. In fact, the light is always the same. It is the fault of the globe when it is not clear. When this radiance shines out, it shows itself not only through the our countenance and expression, but even our atmosphere. The soul-power, so to speak, freely projects outward, and the surroundings feel it.
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
In the explanation of the idea of *Logos* included particularly in the Christian religion, it has been forgotten that each word or doctrine has three discrete interpretations according to the *degree of understanding* and according to the *plane of application*. Really these two mean the same thing, for accordingly as the understanding is expanded, so will the more subtle plane be contacted.
However, when people lost the power and ability to contact the higher sphere, the mind began to consider the manifestations of three Logoi, as if they were all separate, and spoke of the triune God. This trinity has no reality except in the human mind; at the same time it is a very real thought and arises from the natural tendency of the human mind to analyze. And so it can be said at the same time that God is Triune, yet in the absolute sense God can be and is nothing but Unity above all explanations. Mentally interpreted, Logos means word, or perhaps reason or doctrine. The brain, as the delegate of mind, expresses physically through words. But on the heart plane, Logos means Light and Law (Latin lex, legis) and one can see the resemblance between these words showing that they came from one root. The actual root was this Divine Light as expressed in the mental plane. As Jesus Christ said, “The light of the body is in the eye,” so that Divine Light from the heart plane, passing through the mental plane is divulged in the physical eye of humanity.
But while Logos means word or thought or reason or doctrine mentally, and Light or Law spiritually, it is also true as the Bible teaches, that first was the Logos, and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God, the Logos was in the very beginning with God. That is to say that Logos was and is the very emanation from the Arsh-Throne of God and is this universal Power-Love ocean-stream of vibrations.
Emanation individualized is called Ruh by the Sufis, but it is nevertheless one with this Universal Ocean of Love, and when vivified cannot be confined to any part of the human personality. So when the soul awakens, this energy magnetizes the complete atmosphere of the person, and even a much greater area around one.