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Lesson VI: Gnani Yoga.351
of bees, and he will feel as did an acquaintance of ours who was a doubter
until he began bee-culture, when his eyes were opened to the wonderful
work of “Nature.” He said that his thought when gazing at the workings of
the hive was: “Nearer, my God, to Thee.”
Man is not developing Intelligence—he is merely developing the power
to receive and absorb Intelligence and Knowledge from the fountain head.
He receives only as much as he is able to hold—God does not try to put a
quart of Intelligence in a pint measure. A No. 3 man does not receive a No.
7 amount of knowledge.
And note this coincidence. As the soul develops and unfolds it begins to
partake of more of each of the three attributes of The Absolute. It begins to
know more—to have more power—to be able to master space and matter.
And as the soul unfolds and grows it will continue to partake in an increasing
ratio of the three attributes of The Absolute—Omniscience, Omnipotence
and Omnipresence.
We will not speak of our attitude toward The Absolute—our duty toward
God—in this lesson. This properly comes under the head of “Bhakti Yoga”
in our next lesson, and will be touched upon there. In this lesson we have
spoken only of the philosophical side of the knowing of God—Gnani Yoga.
Now, right here, we must warn our students against a common mistake of
students of the Eastern Philosophies—a mistake not alone common among
students, but which also is apparent among some teachers. We allude to
the proper conception (or the lack of it) of the relation of the Centre to the
Emanation. While Man is of God, he is not God—while he is a manifestation
of The Absolute, he is not The Absolute itself. He is but the Finite expression
of the Infinite. We hear Hindus, and Western students of the teachings of the
East, running about crying aloud, “I am God.” They are so overpowered with
the sense of the Oneness of All that has burst upon them—are so carried
away with the consciousness of their relationship to The Absolute, that they
think that they are equal with God, or are God himself. No wonder that
the stranger to the teachings is shocked by the apparent impiety, and both