“And as Helgi's troops emerge with a refreshed mind from the field of enlivened silence and the king spurs them to highest pugnacity to attack the new warriors sprightly and boldly, they just Don't see any use in this fray - they even doubt the value of the enterprise.

“By directing their attention, under the mighty guidance of the king, to the fifth group of warriors Savala has brought forth, the king's soldiers enter the fifth main state of consciousness and attain to cosmic consciousness.

This mixed state of consciousness consists on the one hand of permanent pure consciousness, but associated with this pure, deep, recuperative relaxation is the relative waking consciousness or the relative dream consciousness - like the shining full moon is associated with dark flashes.

“The king Helgi knows the state of cosmic consciousness from his own experience, and he therefore knows that only cheerful encouragement will serve his soldiers; because the cosmically conscious is by nature not interested in the limited which he experiences as restricting - he is open only to the comprehensive.

“The soldiers see no sense anymore in the whole outer petty war - an attitude which in cosmic consciousness is only natural; because the cosmically conscious experiences the world of his outer limited action as completely separate from his cosmic existence!

“On the everlasting level of light of the field of enlivened silence he experiences himself as unmoved, unperturbed, eternal, cosmic, and: as if separate from any outer, transient circumstance: he experiences himself completely independent even from his own thinking - just like a diver at the bottom of the sea experiencing himself separate from and unmoved by the waves that are far away at the surface - even if maybe at that particular moment some people up there are fighting for their survival in the billowing waves.

“Spontaneously the diver does not feel like interfering with the distant waves only to struggle with death, because the silence and the deep rest at the bottom of the ocean appear more attractive to him than the turmoil of the stormy waves up there; and in the same manner the one in cosmic consciousness - from the nature of his own world of experience - is in no way inclined to act in the outer hectic limited world; because through the blissful, restful alertness which he permanently experiences in the depth of his cosmic thinking he is already entirely satisfied and fulfilled; he does not long for additional, perishable, if not upsetting pleasures in the outer turmoil.

In the bright, clear, serene full-moon light of his pure consciousness he rejects, already on the level of his cosmically unfolded mind, the outer events of the world that intrude on him like dark lightnings.

“Someone in cosmic consciousness sees all relative, outer limited perception and all restrictive business of strained activity as immeasurably less satisfying than his own, unchangeable and everlasting, inner blissful rest he is used to - his very personal, complete, inner peace - from which no one shall stir him.

“Thus it appears absurd to the cosmically conscious person to compare the outer excitement of thinking or acting with his own, inner, quiet bliss - as if one would compare the many little splinters of an indiscriminately crushed diamond with a large, splendidly cut diamond.

“The king Helgi knows this experience, and he also knows his own duty: he has to induce the cosmically conscious to further, intense activity in order to ensure their further progress.
Therefore the king persuades his soldiers with immense effort to at least pretend fighting - just for show, playfully and without any obligation or useless exertion.