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A Series of Lessons in Mystic Christianity1066
The teaching of Mystic Christianity, regarding the Holy Ghost, may
be summed up by the great general statement that: The Holy Ghost is
the Absolute in its phase of Manifestation, as compared to its phase of
Unmanifestation—Manifest Being as compared with Unmanifest Being—God
Create as compared with God Uncreate—God acting as the Creative Principle
as compared to God as The Absolute Being.
The student is asked to read over the above general statement a number
of times and to concentrate his or her attention carefully upon it, before
proceeding further with the lesson.
To understand the above statement it is necessary for the student to
remember that the Absolute may be thought of as existing in two phases.
Not as two persons or beings, remember, but as in two phases. There is
but One Being—there can be but One—but we may think of that One as
existing in two phases. One of these phases is Being Unmanifest; the other,
Being Manifest.
Being Unmanifest is the One in its phase of Absolute Being, undifferentiated,
unmanifested, uncreated; without attributes, qualities, or natures.
It is impossible for the human mind to grasp the above concept of Being
Manifest in the sense of being able to think of it as a “Thing, or Something.”
This because of the essential being of it. If it were like anything that we can
think of, it would not be the Absolute, nor would it be Unmanifest. Everything
that we can think of as a “thing” is a relative thing—a manifestation into
objective being.
But we are compelled by the very laws of our reason to admit that the
Absolute Being Unmanifest exists, for the Manifest and Relative Universe
and Life must have proceeded and emanated from a Fundamental Reality,
which must be Absolute and Unmanifest. And this Being which our highest
reason causes us to assume to exist is Being Unmanifest—God the Father—
who cannot be known through the senses—whose existence is made known
to us only through Pure Reason, or through the workings of the Spirit within
us. In the material sense “God is Unknowable”—but in the higher sense He