Soul-Consciousness

Outward self consciousness coexists with inner Soul-Consciousness.
It is when the  "Night of the Soul" happens that the outer self first recognizes the presence of that Soul and start a process which will end in total identification, fusion, with that inner soul-consciousness.
From that moment one may say the path is not a human path anymore but a Soul-path.
In fact, it can be noted a progressive  spontaneou submission of the human tool as server of that soul-consciousness, and the sadhana it´s not understood as an effort and a strive and a control but rather an opening to the sure action of that soul which the outer self recognize as wiser and superior to himself. That is the reason of the -fusion-, there is no element of our nature to fight or rigidly control anymore as the whole sadhana is overtaken by the Soul and under its ways.

At all the effects the "Night of the Soul" is a, momentary, obscure overshadowing of our whole nature, not only of the Soul but of the outer self as well. As it were, in the absolute darkness the being has to discover and rely only on its own light, but that light do not appear at once, there is such thing as a temporary space, psichological space or inner space of absolute, sacred darkness before it remitts into a first settlement of that light-process. It is symbolized in many traditions, and in the christian is related with the three days the Christ spent in the sepulcre before the Resurrection.

It has remined definitely clear that this Death and Resurrection process is not only something related to christian church, and not only peculiar to Jesus Christ,  but a cosmic process of  the manifestation of the Light which has been called at times Christic Light and Supermental Light, Maitreya Light and as more recently, the Galactic Wave.
What is known as the Coming of Christ or of Maitreya refers to one same happening which is true at individual level as much at mass-consciousness level, or as an objective coming, as much the sidereal transformations needed to host this greater Light within it.