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Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism468
merely an emanation of it. The Mind—the Intellect and the higher phases—
gives us a report of what it finds within itself regarding the Absolute, and we
are able to say that according to the testimony of the Mind we must believe
that the Absolute is certain things, and has certain qualities and attributes.
But, the advanced student will see readily that even this conception and
testimony is relative and not absolute. It is only truth as we see it, and not
Truth Absolute, for the latter belongs to the Absolute itself, and is not
capable of being thought of by finite mind—even the Universal Mind. The
Universal Mind is not Omniscient—it does not know everything. It knows
every particle of knowledge (down to the finest detail) of itself, and of the
Universe. It must do this, for it is the Mind of the Universe, and knows itself
and all through which it works—itself and its tools. But it cannot transcend
or go beyond its own limits and it is confined on all sides by the “dead
line” separating it from the Absolute. This separation is only relative and not
real—that is, it is real to the Universal Mind, but not real to the Absolute. The
Universal Mind, however, knows positively the existence of the Absolute, for
it recognizes its presence at the point of apparent separation, and thus has
every evidence of the reality of the Absolute. It is able also to “know that it
does not know,” because it knows that it knows all within its own province,
and, of course, sees that that which it sees but cannot understand is the
Unknowable to it. So that there are some things that the Universal Mind does
not know, not in the sense of not having as yet found out, but in the sense of
their being “beyond knowledge,” as the Mind understands knowledge, but
which, of course, are fully understood and known to the Absolute itself. The
Absolute must know itself, and all things; for it is Omniscient or All-Knowing.
Omniscience is vested in the Absolute, and all other knowledge is relative,
imperfect, and incomplete. The student is again reminded that what we call
the Universal Mind, is not something through which the Absolute thinks, but
something through which the Universe thinks—the Universe being the sumtotal
of the emanations of the Absolute, and not the Absolute itself. The soul
of Man is capable of drawing upon the Universal Mind for a knowledge of