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The Fifth Lesson: The One and the Many.779
see further into the Truth! These teach that Matter is God, and that God
is Matter. But if you be among those who reject the Materialistic teachings,
you will not be satisfied with this answer. Even if you incline toward a Nonmental
Infinite, still if you are familiar with the results of modern scientific
investigation, and know that Science has seen Matter resolve itself into
something like Electric Energy, you will know that the Truth must lie behind
and beyond Matter.
Then is it Pure Energy? you may ask. Pure Energy? what’s that? Can you
think of Energy apart from material manifestation? Have you ever known
of such a thing? Do you not know that even the Electron Theory, which
is attracting the attention of advanced Modern Science, and which holds
that all things are composed of minute particles of Electric Energy, called
Electrons, from which the Atoms are built—do you not know that even this
theory recognizes the necessity of a “something like Matter, only infinitely
finer,” which they call the Ether, to enfold the Electric Energy as a unit—to
give it a body, as it were? And can you escape from the fact that the most
advanced scientific minds find confronting them—the fact that in all Energy,
and governing its actions, there ‘is manifested “something like Mind”?
And does not all this teach thinkers that just as Energy creates from itself,
that which is called Matter, and then uses it as a vehicle of expression and
action—so does this “Something like Mind” create from itself that which we
call Energy, and proceeds to use it, with its accompanying phase of Matter,
for its expression? Does not all advanced research show us that in all Matter
and Energy there are evidences of the operation of this “Something like
Mind”? And if this be so, are we not justified as regarding Matter and Energy
as mere Effects—and to look to this “Something like Mind” as the more
fundamental Substance? We think so—and Science is beginning to think so,
too. And soon will Science be regarding with the most profound respect,
the Metaphysical axiom that “All is Mind.”
You will see by reference to our “Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy,
etc.,” the general Yogi teachings regarding the Emanation of the One,