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some of the metaphysicians and philosophers have held that “Mind is All,
and All is Mind,” and that Matter and Force were “illusions,” or, non-existent.
This view has been followed by certain schools of metaphysicians of religiometaphysical
cults. The student will see that the Yogi Philosophy accepts
each and all of these views as partly correct, either viewed separately or
collectively, but teaches that underlying all three of the so-called “absolutes,”
“ultimates,” or “real things,” lies the only Reality—the Absolute, from which
the three Manifestations emanate. The Yogi Philosophy antagonizes none
of the schools of thought, but harmonizes and explains each set of theories,
under one grand system. Even among the various schools of Oriental
thought are found the above mentioned three forms of thought or theory,
but those who search among the head-waters of the stream of the Ancient
Teachings will find that all emerge from the true Yogi teachings of the One—
the Absolute—the Manifestor of All Manifestations, transcending Matter,
Force and even Mind.
Before leaving the physical scientists’ theories of Matter, we must not
neglect to mention that science has been forced to accept the theory of
an “ether,” or very fine form of Matter, which is stated to fill all space—the
space between the stars and solar systems—the spaces between the atoms,
molecules, “electrons,” etc., in so-called “solid” bodies. This “ether” is stated
to be quite thin, tenuous, rare, fine, etc., far more so, in fact, than any of the
finest gases or vapors known to us. No one ever has seen, heard, tasted,
smelt, or felt, this “ether,” but its existence is found necessary to account for
certain physical phenomena, the transmission of light and heat, etc. Science
has found it imperative to hold that Matter is infinite, and that it exists in
some form everywhere, and so it is compelled to formulate and accept the
existence of a very tenuous form of Matter to “fill in the spaces,” and so the
theory of “ether” arose.
The Yogi Philosophy has no quarrel with Western physical science
over this question of the “Ether.” In fact, it holds that this “ether” exists, in
seven different grades of thinness or tenuity, the Sanscrit term (in use for