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The Sixth Lesson: Within the Mind of the One.797
more by the line of Lotze’s thinking, as expressed in this sentence from his
Micro-cosmos: “The series of Cosmic Periods,…each link of which is bound
together with every other;…the successive order of these sections shall
compose the unity of an onward-advancing melody.” And, so through the
pages of Heraclitus, the Stoics, the Pythagoreans, Empedocles, Virgil, down
to the present time, in Nietzsche, and his followers, we find this thought
of Universal Rhythm—that fundamental conception of the ancient Yogi
Philosophy.
And, now, returning to the main path of our thought—let us stand here
at the beginning of the dawn of a Day of Brahm. It is verily a beginning, for
there is nothing to be seen—there is nothing but Space. No trace of Matter,
Force or Mind, as we know these terms. In that portion of Infinite Space—
that is, of course, in that “portion” of the Infinite Mind of the Absolute One,
for even Space is a “conception” of that Mind, there is “Nothing.” This is “the
darkest moment, just before the dawn.”
Then comes the breaking of the dawn of the Brahmic Day. The Absolute
begins the “creation” of a Universe. And, how does It create? There can be
no creation of something out of nothing. And except the Absolute Itself
there is but Nothing.
Therefore The Absolute must create the Universe out of Its own
“substance,” if we can use the word “substance” in this connection. “Substance”
means, literally, “that which stands under,” being derived from the two Latin
words, sub, meaning “under,” and stare, meaning “to stand.” The English
word “understand” means, literally, “to stand under”—the two words really
meaning the same. This is more than a coincidence.
So the Absolute must create the Universe from its own substance, we
have seen. Well, what is this “substance” of the Absolute? Is it Matter?
No! for Matter we know to be, in itself, merely a manifestation of Force, or
Energy. Then, is it Force or Energy? No! because Force and Energy, in itself,
cannot possess Mind, and we must think of the Absolute as possessing Mind,
for it manifests Mind, and what is manifested must be in the Manifestor, or