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Lesson XII: Mind and Spirit.469
everything it knows, and the advanced souls avail themselves of this privilege
according to their degree of unfoldment. Such souls report the fact of the
existence of the Absolute, which had been predicated by the Intellect, but
they also report that they are unable to pass over the border.
So you see that the Absolute in itself is Unknowable—all that we can know
of it, is what the Universal Mind knows of it, and that knowledge, of necessity,
must come from “the outside,” the “inside” knowledge being found within
the Absolute itself. We may be able to solve the Riddle of the Universe, as
we unfold, but we can never hope to know the real nature of the Absolute
until we pass beyond the limits of even the highest manifestation of Mind,
and pass into a consciousness and realization of our Real Self—Spirit. For
this is the Truth, that in each and all of us is to be found a particle of the
Absolute itself, unconditioned and unlimited, and that the Real Self of each
of us is the Real Self of All—the Spirit, Atman, the drop from the ocean of
the Absolute—the ray of the sun of the Absolute—the particle of the Sacred
Flame. This Spirit, being the Absolute, of course knows the Absolute and its
mysteries and secrets, and when we finally enter into a consciousness of that
Spirit we shall then know all, for we shall be at One with the Absolute—at
Union with God. This is one of the highest teachings of the Yogi Philosophy.
The teaching is that this tiny bit of the Absolute—which is apparently
separated, but is not really separated, from the One—is the highest principle
within each soul. Even the lowest form of soul contains it. It is always there,
and we may perceive its light to a greater and still greater degree as we
unfold and our consciousness moves up a degree toward it. The Spirit
is ever there—changeless. But the consciousness of the Ego is constantly
moving upward toward the Spirit, and will in time merge in it. This is the end
of Spiritual evolution, and all the effort of the soul is toward this goal. Life
is the effort of the soul to free itself from its confining sheaths—a desire to
avail itself of its inheritance.
We come now to the great Mystery. The student who has followed our
teachings closely will now find himself asking the question—that question