Thousand-petalled lotus

Turning our attention to the Turret Room of Da ath, to the right of the eastern serpent-framed window, there is a purple pull-rope. It is used to lower or raise a trapdoor in the ceiling ornamented with the Prithivi-Prithivi symbol of the Mercury center, and from it comes a ladder that enables one to ascend to the battlements of the tower, which correspond to the crown center, the Sahasrara-padma, the thousand-petaled Lotus. 

Now the object of Kundalini Yoga is to awaken this coiled and sleeping force by Pranayama and other Yogic practices, so that it shall become dynamic. She is thereupon immediately drawn upwards to that other static centre in Sahasrara, the Thousand-petalled Lotus, which is, in fact. Herself, but in union with the Shiva-consciousness, or the consciousness of ecstasy beyond the world of forms. When she sleeps man is awake in the material world, but when she awakens the Yogi loses all consciousness of the world and enters his causal body, passing thus to formless consciousness. 

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