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Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism476
in such a case, must be begotten of the nature, character and quality of the
parents. The Spirit must be of God, and be the soul of the soul—the sheaths
of Matter, Mind and Energy must be the body of the child. And both the
soul and body of the child must have been begotten of and composed of
the substance of which the parents were composed, for there is nothing else
from which it could have been produced. A Western writer named Calthrop
hath truly said: “Of the very substance of God (in perfect accordance with
the law of all parenthood) we, his children, body as well as soul, come. Verily
we are begotten, not made; being of one substance, and children because
we are so in very deed and truth.”
Like the human child that is plunged into low material form at the
beginning, only to grow by degrees into consciousness, self-consciousness,
manhood, until it is one with its father in power, form and intelligence, so
is this Divine child projected into the lowest form of Matter (which may be
called “the body of God”) and as it unfolds it rises from lower to higher
form, and then on to still higher and higher and higher, until the mind reels
at the thought. And at the end when maturity is reached, the soul finds itself
before the mansion of the Father, and the doors are opened for it, and it
enters and flings itself upon the breast of the Father that is waiting to receive
it—and then the doors are closed and we may not see what follows. Safe in
the bosom of its father the Soul, now grown to maturity, is resting—it has
come home after many weary years of wandering—it has come Home.
Another illustration, that has a meaning that will be apparent to the more
advanced of our students, is as follows: As the Sun is reflected in the Ocean,
and in every tiny drop of the ocean if they be separated, so is the Absolute
(God) reflected in the bosom of the Great Universal Mind and in each
individual manifestation of that Mind as a “Soul.” The Sun when reflected in
the Ocean of the Universal Mind is called The Absolute (God)—when it is
reflected in the centre of the drop called the “individual soul” it is called the
Spirit. The Reflection is not the Sun itself, and yet it is not an illusion or a false
thing—for the Sun has sent forth a part of itself; its energy; its heat; its light;