The second entry in the Castlevania series takes place seven years after the original, where Simon Belmont has been unable to recover from the injuries he suffered from his last battle with Dracula.
Incidentally, to describe this, Bentov uses the analogy of a very deep sea, comparing the still depths of the sea to the dimension of the Absolute while assigning the storm-tossed waves above to represent the physical universe with which we are familiar.