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Lesson XII: Mind and Spirit.461
We are unable to exhibit to the physical senses of students a “piece”
of Mind-substance as proof of its existence, and although the student of
advanced psychology or occultism may have seen many manifestations of
it as a force, still this evidence is not as yet accepted by material science.
And yet everyone is conscious of that activity of Mind-substance that
we call “thought.” Mind-substance, as well as Energy and Matter, must be
accepted by the student in somewhat of an abstract way, for all these three
manifestations may be known only by their forms of outward expression.
Thus, the Ether, the highest form of Matter, cannot be sensed by Man, and
only when its atoms combine in the shape of solids, liquids or aeriform
matter do the senses take cognizance of it. In the same way Energy itself is
not in evidence to the human mind, and only is sensed when it manifests
through matter in what we know as forms of Force or Motion. And the
Mind-substance is known to us only as thoughts; thought-force; etc. Matter
is the thing the soul uses to clothe itself in; Energy is the thing the soul uses
to act; Mind-substance is the thing the soul uses to think with.
Mind-substance is the thing by which is set into operation the Energy
that causes Matter to be in Motion. The theory of the material scientists
which they call the “vortex-ring” theory, is very close to the facts as taught
by the Yogi Philosophy, and the latter carries the theory into the region of
Mind as well as in that of Matter. The Yogi teaching is that the “ultimate atom”
of Matter is really a “little whirlpool” of ether, in the ether, formed by the
action of Energy upon the Ether. The ether itself, being frictionless, the “ring”
loses none of its motion, and becomes “permanent” (in the relative sense of
course, when the Absolute is considered) and possesses all the properties
generally ascribed to matter, i.e., dimension, volume, elasticity, attraction,
extension, etc., and also possesses motion in itself. These “rings” are of various
sizes and rates of vibration, which fact accounts for the different “kinds” of
atoms that have been puzzling science, which explanation of “kinds” may
throw some light on the question of the seventy odd “ultimate (?) elements”
of Matter, that have confronted science. (It may be seen that if the rate of