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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga798
Manifesting Agent. Then this “substance” must be Mind? Well, yes, in a
way—and yet not Mind as we know it, finite and imperfect. But something
like Mind, only Infinite in degree and nature—something sufficiently greater
than Mind as we know it, to admit of it being the Cause of Mind. But, we
are compelled to think of it as “Infinite Mind,” for our finite Minds can hold
no higher conception. So we are content to say that this “substance” from
which the Absolute must create the Universe is a something that we will call
Infinite Mind. Fix this in your mind, please, as the first step in our conception.
But, how can the Infinite Mind be used to create finite minds, shapes,
forms, and things, without it being lessened in quantity—how can you take
something from something, and still have the original something left? An
impossibility! And, we cannot think of the Absolute as “dividing Itself up”
into two or more portions—for if such were the case, there would be two
or more Absolutes, or else None. There cannot be two Absolutes, for if the
Absolute were to divide itself so there would be no Absolute, but only two
Relatives—two Finites instead of One Infinite. Do you see the absurdity?
Then how can this work of Creation be accomplished, in view of these
difficulties which are apparent even to our finite minds? You may thresh
this question over and over again in your minds—men have done so in all
times—and you will not find the answer except in the fundamental Idea of
the Yogi Teachings. And this Fundamental Idea is that the creation is purely
a Mental Creation, and the Universe is the Mental Image, or Thought-Form,
in the Mind of the Absolute—in the Infinite Mind, itself. No other “creation”
is possible. And so this, say the Yogi Masters, this is the Secret of Universal
Creation. The Universe is of, and in, the Infinite Mind, and this is the only way
it could be so. So, fix in your mind this second step in our conception.
But then, you ask us, from whence comes Force, Matter, and Finite Mind?
Well asked, good student—your answer shall be forthcoming. Here it is.
Finite Mind; Force or Energy; and Matter; in themselves have no existence.
They are merely Mental Images, or Thought-Forms in the Infinite Mind of
the Absolute. Their whole existence and appearance depends upon their