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Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism346
The third step for the student is the mastery of the mental conception that
The Absolute must be possessed of the three attributes, (1) Omnipotence;
(2) Omniscience; (3) Omnipresence. The student is not asked to accept this
statement blindly. Let him examine it.
(1) Omnipotent means all-mighty, all-powerful. Not that The Absolute
is mightier than something else, or all the rest put together, but that it is
all-mighty—all-powerful. That it is possessed of all the power there is, and,
consequently, that all the power of which we are conscious is a manifestation
of The Absolute. There is no room for any other power, and all the power
that is manifested, of all kinds and descriptions, must be manifestations of
The Absolute. Do not try to evade this question and answer—it must be
met. Many persons speak of God being Omnipotent—of an Almighty, allpowerful
God, but they have merely the faintest conception of what the
word means. And they will “dodge” the truth inevitably springing from the
statement of All-power, namely, that all power must be of God. They would
attribute to God all the manifestations of power that are pleasing to them, or
which are conducive to their welfare, but when it comes to a manifestation
of power that hurts them, or seems cruel, they are afraid to attribute it to
God, and either ignore the question, or else attribute the undesirable thing
to some other power, the “Devil,” for instance, failing to see that if God
is All-powerful, there can be no other power in the Universe, and that all
manifestations of power, good or bad (relative terms), as they may seem
to be, must be from the same source. The trouble with man is that he calls
all the things that inure to his material comfort and welfare, “good,” and all
that interfere with it, “bad.” (“Good” weather is weather that is pleasant to
man—and “bad” weather is that which is unpleasant to him. If he were out
of the body, he would see them both as equally good, for neither would
affect him.)
(2) Omnipresent means all-present—everywhere present at the same time.
It means The Absolute is present in all space as we know it, and everywhere
else without regard to our relative idea of space. It is Everywhere—space