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The Sixth Lesson: Within the Mind of the One.793
What gives you the greatest Satisfaction and Content in Life? Let us see.
Well, there is the Satisfaction of Immortality. The human mind instinctively
craves this. Well, what that even the highest finite conceptions of Future Life
have given you, can compare with the assurance of Actual Being, in and of
the Absolute? What are your petty conceptions of “heavens,” “paradises,”
“happy-hunting-grounds,” “divine regions of the blessed,” and the other
ideas of the various religious sects, when compared with the conceptions of
your Infinite and Eternal Existence in Spirit—your relation with The One—
that conception of Infinite Wisdom, Being, and Bliss? When you grasp this
truth, you will see that you are “in Eternity right Now,” and are Immortal
even this moment, as you have always been.
Now, what we have said above is not intended to deny the “heavenworlds,”
or planes. On the contrary, you will find much in the teachings
regarding these, which the Yogis enter into with much detail. But, we mean
that back of all the “heavens” and “celestial planes,” there is a still higher state
of being—the “Absolute Being.” Even the “heavens,” and “heaven-worlds,”
and regions of the Devas, or Archangels, are but relative states—there is
a state higher than even these exalted relative states, and that is the State
of the Conscious Unity and Identity with the One. When one enters into
that State, he becomes more than Man—more than gods—he is then “in the
bosom of the Father.”
And now, before proceeding to a consideration of the phenomenal
manifestation of the Absolute—the evolving of the Universe in the Infinite
Mind—we will again call your attention to the fact that underlies all the
Universe of forms, shapes and appearances, and that is, as we stated in our
last lesson:
All Manifestations and Emanations of the Absolute are Mental Creations
of the Absolute—Thought-Forms held in the Infinite Mind—the Infinite Spirit
in them—and they in the Infinite Spirit. And, the only Real Thing about Man
is the Spirit involved in the Thought-Form—the rest is mere Personality, which
changes and ceases to be. The Spirit in the Soul of Man, is the Soul of the Soul,