A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga | Page 7

no such
wisdom, etc., for there is nowhere outside of the All from whence it
could come. The effect cannot be greater than the cause. If there is
anything unknown to the Absolute, then it will never be known to finite
minds. So, therefore, ALL KNOWLEDGE that Is, Has Been, or Can
Be, must be NOW vested in the One--the Absolute.
This does not mean that the Absolute _thinks_, in any such sense as
does Man. The Absolute must Know, without Thinking. It does not
have to gather Knowledge by the process of Thinking, as does
Man--such an Idea would be ridiculous, for from whence could the
Knowledge come outside of itself. When man thinks he draws to
himself Knowledge from the Universal source by the action of the
Mind, but the Absolute has only itself to draw on. So we cannot
imagine the Absolute compelled to Think as we do.
But, lest we be misunderstood regarding this phase of the subject, we
may say here that the highest occult teachings inform us that the
Absolute does manifest a quality somewhat akin to what we would call
constructive thought, and that such "thoughts" manifest into objectivity
and manifestation, and become Creation. Created Things, according to
the Occult teachings are "Thoughts of God." Do not let this idea disturb
you, and cause you to feel that you are nothing, because you have been
called into being by a Thought of the Infinite One. Even a Thought of
that One would be intensely real in the relative world--actually Real to
all except the Absolute itself--and even the Absolute knows that the
Real part of its Creations must be a part of itself manifested through its
thought, for the Thought of the Infinite must be Real, and a part of
Itself, for it cannot be anything else, and to call it Nothing is merely to
juggle with words. The faintest Thought of the Infinite One would be
far more real than anything man could create--as solid as the
mountain--as hard as steel--as durable as the diamond--for, verily, even
these are emanations of the Mind of the Infinite, and are things of but a
day, while the higher Thoughts--the soul of Man--contains within itself
a spark from the Divine Flame itself--the Spirit of the Infinite. But
these things will appear in their own place, as we proceed with this

series. We have merely given you a little food for thought at this point,
in connection with the Mind of the Absolute.
So you see, good friends and students, that the Intellect in its highest
efforts, informs us that it finds itself compelled to report that the
One--the Absolute--That which it is compelled to admit really
exists--must be a One possessed of a nature so far transcending human
experience that the human mind finds itself without the proper concepts,
symbols, and words with which to think of It. But none the less, the
Intellect finds itself bound by its own laws to postulate the existence of
such an One.
It is the veriest folly to try to think of the One as It is "in Itself"--for we
have nothing but human attributes with which to measure it, and It so
far transcends such measurements that the mental yard-sticks run out
into infinity and are lost sight of. The highest minds of the race inform
us that the most exalted efforts of their reason compels them to report
that the One--in Itself--cannot be spoken of as possessing attributes or
qualities capable of being expressed in human words employed to
describe the Things of the relative world--and all of our words are such.
All of our words originate from such ideas, and all of our ideas arise
from our experience, directly or indirectly. So we are not equipped with
words with which to think of or speak of that which transcends
experience, although our Intellect informs us that Reality lies back of
our experience.
Philosophy finds itself unable to do anything better than to bring us
face to face with high paradoxes. Science in its pursuit of Truth finds it
cunningly avoiding it, and ever escaping its net. And we believe that
the Absolute purposely causes this to be, that in the end Man may be
compelled to look for the Spirit within himself--the only place where
he can come in touch with it. This, we think, is the answer to the Riddle
of the Sphinx--"Look Within for that which Thou needest."
But while the Spirit may be discerned only by looking within ourselves,
we find that once the mind realizes that the Absolute Is, it will be able
to see countless evidences of its action and presence by observing
manifested Life without. All Life is filled with the Life Power and Will
of the Absolute.
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