I've mentioned in the previous post that the nature of consciousness doesn't change, that it exists only in the eternal present. However, that doesn't mean there is no movement within it. Only, the movement of consciousness isn't one we would qualify as “change”. Change is the inescapable law of the phenomenal world, a law that also implies the complete impermanence of all things. Yet, it is not so concerning consciousness.
Consciousness is like a light, a light that illumines everything it comes into contact with, thereby revealing and becoming conscious of it. Enlightenment is not something consciousness reaches or attains. It is its nature. The natural movement of consciousness is one expansion, intensification, not one of change. It is ever what it is, but, in a sense, naturally seeks to expand, seeks to BE more, in order to ever expand its field of awareness.
The meaning of spiritual illumination or enlightenment is therefore not a question of attaining anything. Rather, it is, first and foremost, a question of realizing the nature of consciousness within us and therefore to allow consciousness to expand naturally towards an ever greater field of awareness. Eventually, consciousness can become conscious of spiritual realities, of things that belong to the realm of the Soul itself, and even beyond that. It can grow, symbolically speaking, from a candle to a sun and beyond. Yet, light remains light, consciousness remains consciousness.