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The Fourth Lesson: The Unity of Life.761
also of the consciousness of the Unity of Life—the Universal Life. This too is
not annihilation of individual consciousness, but an “infinite enlargement of
consciousness” as this Western writer Lloyd has so well expressed it.
The very consciousness of Life that every man feels within him, comes not
from something belonging exclusively to himself as a separate or personal
thing. On the contrary, it belongs to his Individuality, not to his Personality,
and is a phase of his consciousness or “awareness” of his relation to the One
Universal Life which underlies his existence, and in which he is a center of
consciousness. Do you grasp this idea? If not, meditate and concentrate
upon it, for it is important. You must learn to feel the Life within you, and
to know that it is the Life of the great Ocean of Universal Life upon the
bosom of which you are borne as a centre of consciousness and energy. In
this thought there is Power, Strength, Calm, Peace, and Wisdom. Acquire it,
if you are wise. It is indeed a Gift from the Gods.
In this lesson we are not attempting to build up your idea of the Unity
of Life by a series of arguments taken from a world of phenomena in which
separateness and non-Unity is apparent. No such arguments would suffice,
for it would be like trying to prove the existence and laws of color to a man
born blind, by arguments taken from his world of darkness. On the contrary
we are appealing to that region of the mind in which is stored the capacity
for intuitively apprehending truth. We are endeavoring to speak in tones
which will awaken a similar vibration in that part of your mentality, and if
these vibrations be started into being, then will you be able to feel and
know the truth, and then will your Intellect eagerly seize upon the new idea
that it finds within itself, and will proceed to apply the same to the various
problems that have been bothering you in the past.
This consciousness of Unity must come from the higher regions of the
mind, for the Intellect alone knows it not,—it is out of its field. Just as one
may not know that the earth is round by means of his senses which report
quite the contrary, but may and does know this truth by abstract reasoning
and higher intellectual effort; so may one know the truth that All Life is