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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga522
of your own creative power, which you are now exhibiting for your own
inspection.” “By their fruits shall you know them,” is a safe rule to apply to
all teachings. The philosophy that teaches that the Universe is an illusion
perpetrated by you (God) to amuse, entertain or fool yourself (God), can
have but one result, and that is the conclusion that “everything is nothing,”
and all that is necessary to do is to sit down, fold your hands and enjoy
the Divine exhibition of legerdemain that you are performing for your own
entertainment, and then, when the show is over, return to your state of
conscious Godhood and recall with smiles the pleasant memories of the
“conjure show” that you created to fool yourself with during several billions
of ages. That is what it amounts to, and the result is that those accepting
this philosophy thrust upon them by forceful teachers, and knowing in their
hearts that they are not God, but absorbing the suggestions of “nothingness,”
are driven into a state of mental apathy and negativeness, the soul sinking
into a stupor from which it may not be roused for a long period of time.
We wish you to avoid confounding our teaching with this just mentioned.
We wish to teach you that You are a real Being—not God Himself, but a
manifestation of Him who is the Absolute. You are a Child of the Absolute,
if you prefer the term, possessed of the Divine Heritage, and whose mission
it is to unfold qualities which are your inheritances from your Parent. Do
not make the great mistake of confounding the Relative with the Absolute.
Avoid this pitfall into which so many have fallen. Do not allow yourself to fall
into the “Slough of Despond,” and wallow in the mud of “nothingness,” and
to see no reality except in the person of some forceful teacher who takes
the place of the Absolute in your mind. But raise your head and assert your
Divine Parentage, and your Heritage from the Absolute, and step out boldly
on the Path, asserting the “I.”
(We must refer the Candidate back to our “Advanced Course,” for our
teachings regarding the Absolute and the Relative. The last three lessons
of that course will throw light upon what we have just said. To repeat the