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Invulnerable, Real and Constant among this changing world of forms and
force. You are above it all, and it revolves around and about you—Spirit.
(4) Read what we have said in the “Advanced Course” about Force or
Energy, shading into Mind-substance which is its parent. Realize that Mind
is back of all this great exhibition of Energy and Force that you have been
considering. Then will you be ready to consider the Oneness of Mind.
(5) Read what we have said in the “Advanced Lessons” about Mindsubstance.
Realize that there is a great world of Mind-substance, or an
Universal Mind, which is at the disposal of the Ego. All Thought is the
product of the Ego’s use of this Mind-substance, its tool and instrument.
Realize that this Ocean of Mind is entire and Whole, and that the Ego may
draw freely from it. Realize that You have this great ocean of Mind at your
command, when you unfold sufficiently to use it. Realize that Mind is back of
and underneath all of the world of form and names and action, and that in
that sense: “All is Mind,” although still higher in the scale than even Mind are
You, the Real Self, the Ego, the Manifestation of the Absolute.
(6) Realize your identity with and relationship to All of Life. Look
around you at Life in all its forms, from the lowest to the highest, all being
exhibitions of the great principle of Life in operation along different stages
of The Path. Scorn not the humblest forms, but look behind the form and
see the reality—Life. Feel yourself a part of the great Universal Life. Let your
thought sink to the depths of the ocean, and realize your kinship with the
Life back of the forms dwelling there. Do not confound the forms (often
hideous from your personal point of view) with the principle behind them.
Look at the plant-life, and the animal life, and seek to see behind the veil
of form into the real Life behind and underneath the form. Learn to feel
your Life throbbing and thrilling with the Life Principle in these other forms,
and in the forms of those of your own race. Gaze into the starry skies and
see there the numerous suns and worlds, all peopled with life in some of
its myriad forms, and feel your kinship to it. If you can grasp this thought
and consciousness, you will find yourself at-one-ment with those whirling