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A Series of Lessons on the Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India1146
It was held that just as all phenomenal manifestations of Matter must
be an appearance, reflection, expression, or emanation of the first aspect
of that—Absolute Essential Space; so all phenomenal manifestations
of Physical Energy or Force, or Power must be an appearance, reflection,
expression, or emanation of the second aspect of that—Absolute Essential
Motion; and all phenomenal manifestation of Universal Laws must be an
appearance, reflection, expression, or emanation of the third aspect of
that—Absolute Abstract Law. But these three aspects were recognized as
but different views of the One Reality, and not as three “parts” or “principles,”
or “persons.” It was not a Trinity, but a One viewed from three viewpoints.
As to the abstract conceptions of these three aspects—so far removed from
phenomenal manifestations, it is scarcely a matter of wonder that Western
thinkers have thought that the Hindu metaphysicians taught that “All is
Nothing,” so high did their conceptions soar up into the thin and rarefied air
of transcendental philosophy. But the “No-Thingness” of the Hindu is very
far removed from the “Nothingness” of the Western Mind.
The Western thinker often expresses surprise that Life and Mind are not
included in the list of aspects of that, by the Hindu thinkers. But the latter
considered the Mind and Life of the phenomenal world as merely reflections
or appearances of the being of that, and not as any of the aspects of It—
that is, as phenomenal counterparts or reflections of the whole Being of that,
rather than of any of its aspects. They could not conceive of the being of
that as possible without an Infinite Existence and Knowing, but they made
a subtle distinction, and would not say that “lived” or “thought” (these
being phenomenal manifestations and attributes), but simply said that
“is,” the statement of Real Being carrying with it the conception of Infinite
and Absolute Life Existence and Knowing, of which Life and Mind are the
phenomenal reflections.
From this Hindu Root-Thought of the One Reality—that—proceed all of
the various conceptions regarding the Universal Substance—the Universal
Energy—even the Universal Soul–the highest conception being that they