…..The easiest correlation to bear in mind between the Vedic and the Tantric is that whereas the Vedas emphasize the Jyotirmaya Purusha, ‘the Being or Person made of light’; the Tantras emphasize the Shaktimaya Devi, ‘the Goddess made of energy’.

My interest in Vajrayana often centres on the meaning of the word ´vajra´ Skt. mighty energy or force. The vajra is usually interpreted wrongly as a physical diamond. And, even worse the vajra sceptre which is the essential symbol of vajrayana Buddhism.

The vajra energy is to me the key to illumination and even more importantly the highter realm beyond space and time as well as space and time is the diamond energy which is the higher ástral jana, of the Dharmakaya level. I refer to the Trikaya Principle of Buddhism.

The idea of light as an energy also found in the healing light energy of beryl-lapis lazuli crystal which the blue medicine Buddha holds.

I will read your piece again more rigorously later today

Thanks, Tristan