Continuing the lectures from the book of revelation, we reach the discussion of the Church of Philadelphia, which in Sanskrit is called the chakra Ajna. Lecture quote:

"To understand what is written in the book of Revelation requires practical work on oneself.  Of the seven churches, it may be said that this Church of Philadelphia is the one in which we can start to work practically in the most immediate sense, because it’s concerned with an aspect of our own psychology and physiology which any one of us can confirm, can experience.  When we read in the book of Revelation about the Church of Philadelphia, we have to understand that this church is related to certain physiological and psychological functions that we all have within.  And in particular, this church is related to what in modern terminology is called the ‘third eye,’ which is a center of perception, latent in most of humanity.  Or in other words, it is inactive in its full sense.  However, because we all have the capacity to perceive, according to our own conditioning, we do have the capacity to understand how this center functions.  And to some degree we can begin to experience that and understand that.

The function of this third eye, or this chakra Ajna, the Church of Philadelphia, is related closely to the endocrine system.  This church is related most closely to the pituitary gland, which resides towards the front of the brain. The pituitary gland is closely related to the pineal gland. Of course the function of these two glands is known to a certain extent in medical science, but they do not really understand or study the true function of these glands.  For that we have to look beyond materialistic science.

In truth, we understand that we have physical senses, which we all are using right now, and these physical senses afford us the opportunity to receive certain levels of vibrations, certain kinds of phenomena that are received through these senses and are translated, delivered into the brain, so that we have a sort of interaction, or relationship, with any given phenomenon.  So, for those of us who have the capacity to see with physical eyes, we have then the capacity to interrelate with phenomena which are transmitted to us by means of light.  And light is a vibration of energy.  But visible light is a particular band, or a particular vibration, of energy. It is not the extent of all light.  It is a very narrow slice of the light which exists.

If we take certain kinds of tools and use them in conjunction with our physical sight, we can extend the range of that sight.  So for example, we have cameras and devices which can see infrared light.  Our physical eyes unaided cannot perceive that, but with a tool we can perceive that.  Likewise with ultraviolet light, which is a lower vibration; slower.  Having understood that, even with those kinds of tools, we are still perceiving a very narrow range, very narrow band, of the light tha