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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga756
reaches the higher altitudes of The Path of Attainment. Therefore, we must
ask you to consider with us, in this lesson, some further teachings regarding
the Unity of Life.
All the schools of the higher Oriental thought, as well as many of the
great philosophical minds of the Western world, have agreed upon the
conception of the Unity of Life—the Oneness of All Life. The Western
thinkers, and many of the Eastern philosophers arrived at this conclusion
by means of their Intellectual powers, greatly heightened and stimulated by
concentration and meditation, which latter process liberated the faculties of
the Spiritual Mind so that it passed down knowledge to the Intellect, which
then seized upon the higher knowledge which it found within itself, and
amplified and theorized upon the same. But among the Eastern Masters
there are other sources of information open, and from these sources come
the same report—the Oneness and Unity of Universal Life. These higher
sources of information to which we have alluded, consist of the knowledge
coming from those Beings who have passed on to higher planes of Life than
ours, and whose awakened spiritual faculties and senses enable them to see
things quite plainly which are quite dark to us. And from these sources, also,
comes the message of the Oneness of Life—of the existence of a wonderful
Universal Life including all forms of life as we know it, and many forms and
phases unknown to us—many centers in the great Ocean of Life. No matter
how high the source of inquiry, the answer is the same—“All Life is One.” And
this One Life includes Beings as much higher than ourselves, as we are higher
than the creatures in the slime of the ocean-bed. Included in it are beings
who would seem as archangels or gods to us, and they inform that beyond
them are still higher and more radiant creatures, and so on to infinity of
infinities. And yet all are but centers of Being in the One Life—all but a part
of the great Universal Life, which itself is but an emanation of The Absolute.
The mind of man shrinks back appalled from the contemplation of such
wonders, and yet there are men who dare to attempt to speak authoritatively
of the attributes and qualities of “God,” as if He, the Absolute, were but a