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Lesson XII: Mind and Spirit.463
being possessed of Mind and power of Motion, which, to a certain extent
is correct, although the three manifestations are somewhat different, and all
proceed from one original source—the Absolute.
So you see the Yogis teach that all Matter (as known to our senses) is the
result of a Thought; and that Thought is “Mind in Action”; and that Action is
the outcome of Energy; and that Energy is the product of Mind-substance—
therefore indeed Matter is Mind—All is Mind—not only in a metaphysical
or mystic sense, but in reality. The teaching conveys the remarkable truth
that everything in the material world has been thought into existence. In this
teaching may be found the practical explanation of the theories of the
metaphysical schools and cults which claim that “All is Mind,” and that “Matter
is Nothing,” and then build up a structure of metaphysical and religious
theory upon that foundation. But such thinkers often ignore that great
underlying Truth, that both Mind and Matter—Mind as well as Matter—are
but relativities and do not exist in themselves, but are manifestations and
emanations of the Absolute, which is the only Real Being; which is All there
Is. Beware of making a God of Mind, or of Matter—both are false gods. The
Absolute is the One—the only One.
We have taken Western physical science into consideration in our
explanation of the Yogi teachings of the Three Great Manifestations, in order
to show the points of agreement and difference; and that the Western mind
might be able to more readily absorb the Oriental thought by associating
the same with the thought more familiar to the Western world; and also
that the student might perceive that the mind of man, as it unfolds, travels
toward the same intellectual conclusions and seeks to make truth axiomatic
and self-evident. But we wish to add, at this point, that although using the
Intellect just as the Western scientists are now doing, the Yogi Fathers or
ancient teachers (as well as their advanced modern followers) verify their
conclusions by the use of the unfolded higher faculties of the mind—the
region of the Spiritual Mind. In some of these higher mental states, made
possible by Yogi development, the Yogi realizes that he simply “knows”