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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga732
mind. May we not then draw the inference that the elements of mind are present in
those chemical elements—carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus,
sodium, potassium, chlorine—that are found in the cell. Not only must we do so, but
we must go further, since we know that each of these elements, and every other, is
built up out of one invariable unit, the electron, and we must therefore assert that
Mind is potential in the unit of Matter—the electron itself…It is to assert the sublime
truth first perceived by Spinoza, that Mind and Matter are the warp and woof of
what Goethe called ‘the living garment of God.’ Both are complementary expressions
of the Unknowable Reality which underlies both.”
There is no such thing as non-vital attraction or repulsion. All inclinations
for or against another object, or thing, is an evidence of Life. Each thing
has sufficient life energy to enable it to carry on its work. And as each form
advances by evolution into a higher form, it is able to have more of the Life
energy manifest through it. As its material machinery is built up, it becomes
able to manifest a greater and higher degree of Life. It is not that one thing
has a low life, or another a high life—this cannot be, for there is but One
Life. It is like the current of electricity that is able to run the most delicate
machinery or manifest a light in the incandescent lamp. Give it the organ
or machinery of manifestation, and it manifests—give it a low form, and it
will manifest a low degree—give it a high form, and it will manifest a high
degree. The same steam power runs the clumsy engine, or the perfect
apparatus which drives the most delicate mechanism. And so it is with the
One Life—its manifestations may seem low and clumsy, or high and perfect—
but it all depends upon the material or mental machinery through which it
works. There is but One Life, manifesting in countless forms and shapes, and
degrees. One Life underlying All—in All.
From the highest forms of Life down through the animal, vegetable and
mineral kingdoms, we see Life everywhere present—Death an illusion. Back
of all visible forms of material life there is still the beginnings of manifested