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A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga802
in the concluding lessons of the aforesaid “Advanced Course,” to which we
must refer you for further details, in order to avoid repetition here. You
will find a wonderful correspondence between these centuries-old Yogi
teachings, and the latest conceptions of Modern Science.
Well, to return to the main path once more, the Teachings inform us
that The Absolute “thought” into being—that is, held the Mental Image,
or Thought-Form, of—Chitta, or Universal Mind Principle. This Chitta was
finite, of course, and was bound and governed by the Laws of Finite Mind,
imposed upon it by the Will of The Absolute. Everything that is Finite is
governed by Laws imposed by the great Law which we call The Absolute.
Then began the Great involution which was necessary before Evolution
was possible. The word “Involve,” you know, means “to wrap up; to cover; to
hide; etc.;” and the word “Evolve” means “to unwrap; to unfold; to un-roll;
etc.” Before a thing can be “evolved,” or “unfolded,” it must first have been
“involved” or “folded-in, or wrapped up, etc.” Everything must be “involved”
before it can be “evolved;” remember this, please—it is true on all planes,
mental, physical, and spiritual. A thing must be “put in” before it may be
“taken out.” This truth, if remembered and applied to metaphysical problems,
will throw the clearest light upon the darkest problems. Make it your own.
Therefore before the process of Evolution from the gross forms of Matter
up to the higher, and then on to the Mental, from higher to higher, and
then on the Spiritual plane—that Evolution which we see being performed
before our sight today—before that Evolution became possible there was
a necessary Involution, or “wrapping-up.” The Spirit of the Absolute first
“involved” itself in its Mental Image; Thought-Form, or Creation, of the Mind
Principle, just as you may “involve” yourself in an earnest thought in deep
meditation. Did you never “lose yourself” in thought, or “forget yourself”
in an idea? Have you not spoken of yourself as having been “wrapped in
thought?” Well, then you can see something of what is here meant, at least
so far as the process of “involution” is concerned. You involve yourself in
your meditations—the Absolute involves Itself in Its Mental Creations—