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The Second Lesson: The Inner Teachings.1147
all proceed from that, and that that is thinkable when all these secondary
conceptions are thought away. That is the one thing behind which and
beyond which the human mind is unable to think—which the human mind
cannot think out of subjective existence, for it is the very foundation, or
the background, of Thought itself. And it will be found that that is back
of all conceptions of Deity, personal or impersonal—all god conceptions
emanate from this fundamental conception. The best Hindu teachers have
always held that that was incapable of being expressed in words—was
unthinkable and unspeakable in terms of description—that to “define It
was to limit It, and thus consequently to deny It”—it transcends the power
of the human understanding and imagination, and is beyond the range
and reach of human thought. But yet, the human mind, if it thinks of the
subject at all, is inevitably compelled to conceive of the existence of that.
It cannot be thought out of subjective existence in the consideration of
the nature of Things, any more than can the “I” be thought out of existence
by the individual when thinking of personal things. It defies the power of
description, and yet must be postulated as existing. When we reach the
consideration of the various philosophies and religions of India we shall see
the structures that men have attempted to erect upon this basic foundation,
and under all of them we shall discover the same elementary conception of
the Ancient Hindu Teachers, although often almost covered up and hidden
by the temporary structures built thereon. And these structures will pass
away as have all of man’s theories and creeds—but so long as human thought
exists these Fundamental Truths must be accepted as basic and necessary.
And if you will examine the philosophies and religions of the Western world,
you will find that same basic foundation under them all—if this were not so
they could not stand.
The above mentioned Fundamental Truths of the Hindu Philosophy
regarding that are regarded by their best thinkers to be axiomic and
beyond doubt or question. In order that you may understand the reasoning
manifested through the subsequent lessons, when the various conceptions