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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga758
The fall of Lucifer has many correspondences upon the occult plane, and is,
indeed, in itself an allegorical illustration of just this law. Remember, always,
that you are but a Centre in the Ocean of Life, and that all others are Centres
in the same ocean, and that underlying both and all of you is the same calm
bed of Life and Knowledge, the property of all. The highest and the lowest
are part of the same One Life—each of you has the same life blood flowing
through your veins—you are connected with every other form of life, high
or low, with invisible bonds, and none is separate from another. We are
speaking, of course, to the personalities of the various students who are
reading these words. The Real Self of each is above the need of such advice
and caution, and those who are able to reach the Real Self in consciousness
have no need for these words, for they have outlived this stage of error. To
many, the consciousness of the One Life—the Universal Life—in which all
are centres of consciousness and being—has come gradually as a final step
of a long series of thought and reasoning, aided by flashes of truth from
the higher regions of the mind. To others it has come as a great illumination,
or flash of Truth, in which all things are seen in their proper relations and
positions to each other, and all as phases of being in the One. The term
“Cosmic Consciousness,” which has been used in the previous series of these
lessons, and by other writers, means this sudden flash of “knowing” in which
all the illusionary dividing lines between persons and things are broken
down and the Universal Life is seen to be actually existent as One Life. To
those who have reached this consciousness by either route just mentioned—
or by other routes—there is no sense of loss of individuality or power or
strength. On the contrary there is always a new sense of increased power
and strength and knowing—instead of losing Individuality, there is a sense
of having found it. One feels that he has the whole Universe at his back, or
within him, rather than that he has lost his identity in the great Ocean of Life.
While we are speaking of this phase of the subject, we should like to ask
you if you have ever investigated and inquired into the real meaning of the
much-used word “Individuality?” Have you ever looked up its origin and