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The Tenth Lesson: The Secret Doctrine.1067
may be known to the Spirit of Man, and His existence may be known and
proven by the exercise of the highest faculties of the reason.
Being Unmanifest is the One in its actual existence and being. If all the
world of objective life and manifestation, even to its highest forms, were
withdrawn from manifestation, then there would be left—what? Simply
and solely, Being Unmanifest—God the Father, alone. Into His Being all else
would be withdrawn. Outside of Him there would be nothing. He would be
Himself—One—existing in the phase of Being Unmanifest.
We are aware that this idea may seem to be “too abstruse” for the minds
of some of our students at first reading—it may appear like an assertion of a
Being who is Non-Being. But, be not too hasty—take time—and your mind
will assimilate the concept, and will find that it has a corresponding Truth
imbedded in its inmost recesses, and then it will know this to be the Truth.
And then will it recognize the existence of God the Father, as compared with
God, the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost, as we have said, is the Absolute in its phase of Manifest
Being. That is, it is God as manifest in the Spirit of Life, which is immanent in,
and manifest in, all objective life and phenomena in the Cosmos or Universe.
In previous series of lessons in the Yogi Philosophy, we have shown you that
there was a Spirit of Life immanent in, and manifesting through, all forms of
life. We have also shown you that everything in the Universe is alive—down
to even the minerals, and the atoms composing matter. We have shown
you that inasmuch as the Spirit of Life is the source of all Manifestations
in the universe, and the “God in the machine” of all phenomena of force,
matter and life, then it naturally follows that there can be nothing dead in
the world—that there is Life manifesting in every object, varying only in
the degree of manifestation. In our “Advanced Lessons” and in “Gnani Yoga”
this subject is considered in detail. Then what is this Spirit of Life? If God is
All, then it cannot be Something other than God. But it cannot well be God
the Uncreate—the Absolute in its Absolute phase—the Being Unmanifest.
Then what can it be?