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The Fourth Lesson: The Unity of Life.767
degrees: opinion, science, and illumination. The last is absolute knowledge
founded upon the identity of the knowing mind with the known object.”
And Eckhardt, the German mystic, has told his pupils that: “God is the soul
of all things. He is the light that shines in us when the veil is rent.”
And Tennyson, in his wonderful verse describing the temporary lifting
of the veil for him, has described a phase of Cosmic Consciousness in the
following words:
“For knowledge is the swallow on the lake
That sees and stirs the surface-shadow there,
But never yet hath dippt into the abysm,
The Abysm of all Abysms, beneath, within
The blue of sky and sea, the green of earth,
And in the million-millionth of a grain
Which cleft and cleft again for evermore
And ever vanishing, never vanishes….
And more, my son, for more than once when I
Sat all alone, revolving in myself
That word which is the symbol of myself,
The mortal symbol of the Self was loosed,
And past into the Nameless, as a cloud
Melts into Heaven. I touched my limbs, the limbs
Were strange, not mine—and yet no shadow of doubt,
But utter clearness, and through loss of Self
The gain of such large life as matched with ours
Were Sun to spark, unshadowable in words,
Themselves but shadows of a shadow-world.”
And not only among the mystics and poets is this universal truth
experienced and expressed, but among the great philosophers of all ages may
we find this teaching of the Unity of Life originally voiced in the Upanishads.