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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga788
active, suffering, rejoicing, feeling Spirit, partaking of the feelings of Its
manifestations, rather than callously witnessing them. It lives in us—with us—
through us. Back of all the pain in the world, may be found a great feeling
and suffering love.” And in this thought there is comfort to the doubting
soul—peace to the troubled mind.
In the Sixth Lesson, we shall proceed to deliver to you the further Message
of Truth, concerning “how” the One Absolute manifests Its Mental Images
as Universe; Universal Life; and Forms and Shapes; and Individualities, and
Personalities. We had hoped to include the whole Message in this Fifth
Lesson, but now find that we have merely laid the steps by which the student
may reach the Essential Truth.
But, lest the student may be left in an uncertain state of mind, awaiting
the conclusion of the consideration of the subject—and lest he may think
that we intend teaching him that the Universe, and all in it, including himself
are “Dreams,” because we have said that All Things are Thought-Forms in the
Mind of the Absolute—lest this misunderstanding may arise, we wish to add
a few parting words to what we have said.
We wish to impress upon the mind of the student that though all Things
are but Thought-Forms in the Mind of the Absolute Being, and that while it
is true that the entire Universe of Universes is simply a Thought-Form held
in the Mind of the Absolute—still this fact does not mean that all Things
are “illusions” or “dreams.” Remember this, now and forever, O Student—
that that which is held in the Absolute Mind as a Thought-Form is, and is all
there is, outside of the Absolute Itself. When the Absolute forms a Thought-
Form, It forms it out of Its own mental substance—when the Absolute “holds
anything in Its Mind,” It holds it in Itself—for the Absolute is All-Mind.
The Absolute is not a material Being, from which Material Beings are
created. It is a Spiritual Being—a Being whose Substance is akin to that
which we call “Mind,” only raised to Infinity and Absolute Perfection and
Power. And this is the only way it can “create”—by creating a Thought-Form
in Its Mental, or Spiritual Substance. The faintest “Thought” of the Absolute