The sage can condemn nobody, can regard none as outside his range of compassion, and can find a place in his heart for the worst sinner. He knows that duality is but a dream and discovers himself anew in all sentient creatures. He knows that the world's woe arises out of its false and fictitious sense of separateness.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 1 > Qualities, characteristics of the sage

#32340 – 16.25.3.288

BA11 – Z – D

He receives too many confidences ever to be surprised by any of them, too many confessions ever to be shocked … For his compassion and insight, his tolerance and realism embrace the whole range of human feeling or human behaviour.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 1 > Qualities, characteristics of the sage

#32341 – 16.25.3.289

BN – X – D

In every affair he knows where he stands, but more in the sense that he listens and obeys the higher guidance than in any other.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 1 > Qualities, characteristics of the sage

#32349 – 16.25.3.297

BN – X – D

No ugly qualities are left in him, no vicious remnants of the beast that became man.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 1 > Qualities, characteristics of the sage

#32364 – 16.25.3.312

BN – X – D

Even if the ego still lives in him, it lives thoroughly purified and utterly checked. His principle trends of thought and conduct proceed from a level beyond it.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 1 > Qualities, characteristics of the sage

#32368 – 16.25.3.316

BA11 – P – D

All speculation upon the motives and the methods of the illuminate will avail little. The light by which he works is denied to ordinary men. We should trust where we cannot see and wait patiently for the day of revealment, when we will find all made clear and all riddles solved to our satisfaction.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sage not easily recognized

#32439E – 16.25.4.387

BA11 – P – DE

It is my experience of world-wandering that those who most know truth are themselves the least known among men. This is partly because so few seek that kind of truth which is theirs—the highest—partly because it is their own wish to remain inaccessible to all except these few seekers, and partly because their completely ego-free character is utterly without any ambition to put themselves forward in public under any pretext whatsoever, whether to gain the benefits and advantages of such a position or to practise so-called service.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Isolation, privacy, reticence

#32469 – 16.25.4.417

BN – ZZZ – K

He stands outside all this drama and watches it as a spectator, sometimes with a slight smile of pleasure, sometimes with a mild frown of distress, never with a hard cold attitude but always with a settled resignation to the decree of karma or the will of Allah. If, now and then, he suggests a movement, a change, or a view-expanding idea to one of the actors, it is not to be regarded as an act of interference but as itself part of the person's own karma, or the higher will's grace.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Isolation, privacy, reticence

#32483 – 16.25.4.431

BN – ZZZ – K

He tries so to live as to acquit himself honourably before God rather than before men. He has lived long enough to hear many who once praised him, now abuse him. Hence he has lived long enough to know that unless he remains uniformly serene and inwardly detached from the world's opinion, there can be no true happiness for him. He has been taught by the Overself to stand unmoved by the disloyalties of so-called friends and the defections of short-sighted followers. He is too wise and experienced to expect either real justice or correct understanding from them. It will not be possible for them to understand him or his point of view or his logic by a mere exchange of words, so he refrains from attempting what is so useless.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Isolation, privacy, reticence

#32488 – 16.25.4.436

BN – ZZ

Such a man cannot help having his detractors, for people can see only what he permits them to see. And if that small part is misread by them, he has to remain silent. He will not force an affinity where it does not exist. They may have visited him and talked with him, not once but several times; they may think they know him well, yet in reality they have not met him and do not know him at all! Only the real pilgrims, who come with the correct mental attitude, have done so, and only they have been blessed by his grace and prized their good fortune at its correct value.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sage is usually misunderstood

#32530 – 16.25.4.478

BN – ZZZ – K

He must be prepared to find that others, because of their limitations—not necessarily or at all because they are evil—may seriously misunderstand him, misread his actions, and misinterpret his words.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sage is usually misunderstood

#32531 – 16.25.4.479

BN – ZZZ – K

Whoever has attained this blessed state would not be true to himself if he were not ardently happy to share it with others, if he were not ever ready to help them attain it too. And this desire extends universally to all without exception. He excludes none—how could he if the compassion which he feels be the real thing that comes with the realized unity of the Overself, that is, of the Christ-self, and not merely a temporary emotional masquerader! He himself could have written those noble words which Saint Paul wrote more than once in his epistles: "In Him there cannot be Jew or Greek, Barbarian, Scythian, but all are one man in Christ Jesus."

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sage is usually misunderstood

#32532E – 16.25.4.480

B_16 – ZEL1/3 – DE

Whoever has attained this blessed state would not be true to himself if he were not ardently happy to share it with others, if he were not ever ready to help them attain it too. And this desire extends universally to all without exception. He excludes none—how could he if the compassion which he feels be the real thing that comes with the realized unity of the Overself, that is, of the Christ-self, and not merely a temporary emotional masquerader! But when such a man really begins to become an effective worker in this sacred cause, the evil forces begin their endeavours to pull him down and thus stop him. They may inspire human instruments with fierce jealousy or personal hatred of him, or they may try other ways. It is their task to destroy the little good that he has done or to prevent whatever good he may yet do. It is an unfortunate but historic fact that many an aspirant is carried away by the false suggestions emanating from such poisoned sources.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sage is usually misunderstood

#32532E – 16.25.4.480

B_16 – ZEL2/3 – DE

Whoever has attained this blessed state would not be true to himself if he were not ardently happy to share it with others, if he were not ever ready to help them attain it too. And this desire extends universally to all without exception. Despite this, he soon finds that iron fetters have been placed on his feet. He finds, first, that only the few who are themselves seekers are at all interested; second, that even among this small number there are those who, because of personal dislikes, racial prejudice, social snobbery, or family antagonism, are unwilling to approach him; and third, that the mischievous agencies from occult spheres, through false reports and stimulated malice, delude a part of those who remain into creating an evil mental picture of him which is utterly unlike the actuality. It is an unfortunate but historic fact that many an aspirant is carried away by the false suggestions emanating from such poisoned sources.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sage is usually misunderstood

#32532E – 16.25.4.480

B_16 – ZEL3/3 – DE

Those who have malignantly attacked the person or injured the work of such a man through whom the divine forces are working for the enlightenment of mankind, create for themselves a terrible karma which accumulates and strikes them down in time. He himself will endeavour to protect his work by appropriate means, one being temporarily to withdraw his love from them for the rest of his incarnation until their dying moments. Then he will extend it again with full force and appear to them as in a vision, full of forgiveness, blessing, and comfort.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sage is usually misunderstood

#32537 – 16.25.4.485

BN – ZZZ – K1

It is such a man (the Sage) who most serves his fellows yet who least receives the recognition of his service. This is because humanity fails to understand where its true interests lie, what its true goal is, and why it is here at all.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sage is usually misunderstood

#32545 – 16.25.4.493

BA11 – P – D

It is possible that his actions sometimes puzzle those who put their trust in him. Those who judge only by appearances may be surprised and aggrieved at his seeming indifference. But with the efflux of time they may get to know more or all of the facts, and then their puzzlement will vanish.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sage is usually misunderstood

#32559 – 16.25.4.507

BN – ZZZ

Light the lamp and it will spread out its rays by itself. We are indeed blessed by the presence of these great souls on this earth and doubly so if we meet in person. They deserve not merely our respect but our veneration. But even if we are never fortunate enough to meet one of these masters, the mere knowledge that such men do exist and live demonstrates the possibility of spiritual achievement and proves that the quest is no chimera. It should comfort and encourage us to know this. Therefore we should regard such a man as one of humanity's precious treasures. We should cherish his name as a personal inspiration. We should venerate his sayings or writings as whispers out of the eternal silence.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sages merit veneration

#32576 – 16.25.4.524

BN – ZZZ – K1

Such rare peace stands out in poignant contrast against the burdens and fretfulness of our ordinary lives. Such rare goodness is needed by a generation accustomed to violence, atrocity, bestiality and horror, lunacy and hatred.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sages merit veneration

#32577 – 16.25.4.525

BN – Z – DK1

These great souls who have ascended to another plane of being altogether have sent us signals from that distant sphere. It is for us to heed those signals and to understand their meaning.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sages merit veneration

#32579 – 16.25.4.527

BN – X – D

The knowledge of someone far better than oneself shows human possibilities. The longing to become like him provides one with an ideal for living.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sages merit veneration

#32580 – 16.25.4.528

BN – X – D

A real need of humanity eventually finds its expression in flesh and blood. Just as an oppressive tyranny ultimately produces the rebel who overthrows it, so a growing hunger for spiritual guidance ultimately brings forth those who are to provide it.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sages merit veneration

#32583 – 16.25.4.531

BN – X – D

Those who inspire us to better ourselves, certainly deserve our gratitude and even deserve our love.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sages merit veneration

#32592 – 16.25.4.540

BN – X – D

It is those who create ways and means for others to follow in the search for spiritual fulfilment, the teachers and awakeners, who deserve our best honours.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sages merit veneration

#32595 – 16.25.4.543

B_01 – ZZZ – DK

Socrates tried to awaken the Greeks, Jesus tried to awaken the Israelites. Their failure was followed by consequences to their people which can be traced in history. If the higher power takes the trouble to send a messenger, it is better to tremble, listen, and obey, than to sneer, reject, and suffer.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage Part 2 > Sages merit veneration

#32602 – 16.25.4.550

A241129 – Z

If he refrains from the final mergence into Nirvana, it is not only because he wants to be available for the enlightenment of his more hapless fellows, but also because he knows that he has really been in Nirvana from the beginning and has never left it.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32608 – 16.25.5.3

BN – X – D

The sage makes the highest conceivable sacrifice in willing to return to earthly life for times without end solely for the benefit of all creatures.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32613 – 16.25.5.8

BN – X – D

People sometimes ask why anyone should give up even a part of his time to unpaid service. But the truth is that the sage is always paid by the friendship and gratitude, the trust and affection, which those he has helped return him. And if it be further said that these are mere intangibles which do not pay for the time and energy he gives, the answer is that they often are convertible into the most tangible of things. For if he is in real need of a home, a machine, a piece of domestic furniture, or a form of personal service, he has only to express that need and those whom he has helped will provide it. Nay, there are times when he need not even express it, when the silent magic of thought will prompt someone to offer the provision quite spontaneously and voluntarily. Anyway, the sage does not give his service with any thought about the getting or non-getting of rewards. He gives it because he thinks it right to do so and because he enjoys the satisfaction of giving a helping hand to the spiritually needy. In short, he is doing what he likes.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32614 – 16.25.5.9

BN – Z – K

When a man has attained this stage of perfection he may truly rest, for Nature has achieved her task in him. Yet, if he chooses the path of sagehood he must henceforth work harder than ever before! For he must now work incessantly through repeated rebirths for the enlightenment of others.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32615 – 16.25.5.10

BN – X – D

The question whether he shall share his knowledge with others or withhold it from them, will not be a real one to him. Its answer was settled long before, by destiny, by his character, by his past, by the World-Idea.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32617 – 16.25.5.12

BN – ZZZ – K

Helping others to attain what he has attained, guiding seekers to reach safely the glorious summit where he now stands, is not decided for him by personal temperament or choice but by the overpowering sense of a primary and paramount duty.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32618 – 16.25.5.13

BA11 – P – D

The sage will not be primarily concerned with his own personal welfare, but then he will also not be primarily concerned with mankind's welfare. Both these duties find a place in his outlook, but they do not find a primary place. This is always filled by a single motive: to do the will, to express the inspiration of that greater self of which he is sublimely aware and to which he has utterly surrendered himself. This is a point whereon many students get confused or go astray. The sage does not stress altruism as the supreme value of life, nor does he reject egoism as the lowest value of life. He will act as the Overself bids him in each case, egotistically if it so wishes or altruistically if it so declares, but he will always act for its sake as the principal aim and by its light as the principal means.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32620 – 16.25.5.15

BN – ZZZ – K1

It is not enough for the illuminate when the veil falls and the inner meaning of Universal Life is read. His efforts do not come to such an abrupt end. For he does not consider his own salvation complete while others remain unsaved. Consequently, he dedicates himself to the task of trying to save them. But in order to do this he has to reincarnate on earth innumerable times. For men can attain the goal here alone and nowhere else. This changes the whole concept of salvation. It is no longer a merely personal matter but a collective one. It also alters the concept of survival. This is no longer a prolonged enjoyment of post-death heavenly spheres but a prolonged labour through countless earthly lives for the service of one's fellow-creatures.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32621E – 16.25.5.16

BN – EL1/2 – DEK

It is not enough for the illuminate when the veil falls and the inner meaning of Universal Life is read. His efforts do not come to such an abrupt end. For he does not consider his own salvation complete while others remain unsaved. Consequently, he dedicates himself to the task of trying to save them. But in order to do this he has to reincarnate on earth innumerable times. For men can attain the goal here alone and nowhere else. It is a prolonged labour through countless earthly lives for the service of one's fellow-creatures. And yet, even this sombre path bears its own peculiar rewards. For he shall receive the fraternal love of those who have been healed, the encouraging thoughts of those who are beginning to find a foothold in life, the pledged loyalty of those who want to share, with their lesser strength, the heavy burden through untold incarnations.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32621E – 16.25.5.16

BN – EL2/2 – DEK

It is not enough for the illuminate when the veil falls and the inner meaning of universal life is read. His efforts do not come to such an abrupt end. For he does not consider his own salvation complete while others remain unsaved. Consequently, he dedicates himself to the task of trying to save them. But in order to do this he has to reincarnate on earth innumerable times. For men can attain the goal here alone and nowhere else.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32621E – 16.25.5.16

BA11 – X – DEK

The mystic who talks of giving love to all mankind has still not realized Truth. What he really means is that he, the ego, is giving the love. The Gnani, on the contrary, knows all men as himself and therefore the idea of giving them love does not arise; he accepts his identity of interest with them completely.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32624 – 16.25.5.19

BN – ZZ – K1

His goodwill to, and sympathy for all men, rather empathy, enables him to experience their very being in his own being. Yet his loyalty toward his higher self enables him to keep his individuality as the inerasable background for this happening.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32625 – 16.25.5.20

BN – ZZ – K1

The sage does not ask for service from others, but only to be allowed to serve them. He does not seek to attach them to himself, but only to God.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32629 – 16.25.5.24

BA11 – P – D

It is impossible for the materialist to perceive that we live and move and have our being in a universal Mind. But the sage, knowing this, knows also that this universal life will take care of his individual life to the degree that he opens himself out to it, to the extent that he takes a large and generous view of his relation to all other individual lives.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32632E – 16.25.5.27

BA11 – P – DE

So long as there are others acutely conscious of their spiritual need, so long must he go out among them. He does not do this by an external command but only by an internal one—the command of compassion. He no longer feels for himself alone but also for others. Indeed he cannot help doing so, for the same reason that Jesus could not help proclaiming the gospel to the Israelites, even though he foreknew the end would be impalement upon the Cross.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32634 – 16.25.5.29

B_11 – Z – DE

Fo Sho hing tsan: "I do not seek for any reward, not even being reborn in a paradise. I seek the welfare of man. I seek to enlighten those who harbour wrong thoughts."

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32637 – 16.25.5.32

BA11 – P – D

He has no wish to put his ego forward, makes no pretensions to spiritual superiority, yet he wishes to awaken others to the idea that enlightenment is possible, is worth seeking, and is accompanied by unparalleled felicity.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32642 – 16.25.5.37

BN – X – D

When he has found the truth, he has nothing to decide. He will realize that the ALL, this whole teeming universe, IS himself, that all creatures and all men are one. Therefore their interests and their welfare become his automatically. Therefore he will come back to earth again and again to help all beings attain truth and happiness. The notion of choosing selfish bliss or unselfish service does not occur to those who have realized truth.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32645E – 16.25.5.40

BA11 – Z

When he has found the truth, he has nothing to decide. He will realize that the ALL, this whole teeming universe, is himself, that all creatures and all men are one. Therefore their interests and their welfare become his automatically. Therefore he will come back to earth again and again to help all beings attain truth and happiness. The notion of choosing selfish bliss or unselfish service does not occur to those who have realized truth …

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32646 – 16.25.5.41

BN – X – D

What is the sage's reaction to the cosmos? It is very different from that of the ignorant who have never asked the question "What am I?" and who may regard the calm visage of a Yogi as a "frozen face." The sage has no sense of conflict, no inner division. He has expanded his notion of self until it has embraced the universe and therefore rightly he may say "the universe is my idea." He may make this strange utterance because he has so expanded his understanding of mind. Lesser men may only say "the universe is an idea."

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32648 – 16.25.5.43

BN – Z – K1

If the sage has to reincarnate perpetually because of his sympathy for the suffering world, if he cannot get freedom from this suffering cycle of rebirth, what is the use of the Quest and its labours? Reply: True, he can't get outer freedom, but he does get inner freedom, of mind and heart.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32652 – 16.25.5.47

BN – X – D

No worldly advantage can tempt the sage into desertion of his sacred task of serving humanity, nor can any egoism lead him into betrayal of those who trust him.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32653 – 16.25.5.48

BA11 – ZZ – D

The world play is but an illusion of the mind, but the integral vision of the sage enables him to act his part perfectly in the very heart of the world's tumult. The knowledge that all action is ultimately illusory does not prevent him being dynamically active. Supreme calm and silence reigns in his centre, but his harmony with Nature is such that he joins the world-movement spontaneously.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > A full identity of interest

#32655 – 16.25.5.50

BN – Z – K

He seeks no power over others, no claim to rulership over their lives, no disciples of his own, no train of followers clinging to his coat-tails. Yet he will not refrain from helping where such help is imperative, nor from giving counsel where the young, the inexperienced, the bewildered seekers have desperate need of it. But the moment after he will appear to have forgotten what he has done, so gracious is his delicacy, so strong his desire to leave others quite free and unobligated.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32662 – 16.25.5.57

BN – ZZ

His inner state will not be easily discernible to others, unless they happen to be the few who are themselves sufficiently advanced and sufficiently sensitive to appreciate it. Yet it is his duty to announce the glorious news of its discovery, to publish the titanic fact of its existence. But he will do so in his own way, according to his own characteristics and circumstances. He will not need to announce it in a speech, or print it in a book; he will not publish the fact in daily newspapers or shout it from the housetops. His whole life will be the best announcement, the grandest publication.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32663 – 16.25.5.58

BN – ZZZ – K1

That strange and sweet spell flung forever over sensitive, ripe, and ready minds by a sage, when he uses his wisdom and goodness, is like a caduceus to enchant them into becoming seekers after truth.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32665 – 16.25.5.60

BN – Z – K

Can one man transfer spiritual grace to another? If by grace is meant here can he give a glimpse of the Overself to another, the answer is Yes!—if the other is worthy, sensitive, and above all karmically ready. He can if the other man is capable of absorbing the stimulus radiated to him.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32669 – 16.25.5.64

BN – X – D

The awareness that he existed on this planet made its grievous and troubled life more bearable, gave a little meaning to what seemed otherwise quite chaotic. For his own higher development reminded, nay assured, us that there was some sort of an evolution going on, that there was a goal and a purpose behind it all. Thus, merely to know that this man was alive, even though we might never again meet him and could never hope to become intimate with him, sustained our faith in Life itself and helped us to live.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32676 – 16.25.5.71

BN – Z – DEK

Such a prophet is like a bell, calling its hearers to attend the true church within themselves.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32688 – 16.25.5.83

BN – X – D

He will be content to plant seed-thoughts, and wait and work patiently, knowing and believing in the inherent power of true ideas to grow in their proper time into mature, fruitful existence.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32691 – 16.25.5.86

BN – ZZZ – DK

The last thing he wants to do is to leave a sect behind him. Like the Buddha, he wants men to depend on the Truth rather than on a person.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32697 – 16.25.5.92

BA11 – P – D

The sage will help people on his own terms, not theirs, and guide them in his own way, again not necessarily the expected way.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32699 – 16.25.5.94

BN – ZZ

It is not for him to work for humanity by helping particular persons and by alleviating isolated distresses. His form of service must stretch over wider areas, must affect a multitude of persons. But this is possible only if he works in deeper ground and through secret unobtrusive ways.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32705 – 16.25.5.100

BN – ZZ – K

He may do nothing more than put his mite of cheering truth and softening goodness into the grim world around him, but this will be enough. He cannot contribute more than he has. The ultimate result of this contribution may be little, but he has tried to do God's will on earth.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32707 – 16.25.5.102

A250224 – Z

They tried to influence kings and rulers and leaders of men and culture. They even emerged into public view on rare occasions in order to quicken the pace of evolution by active external work; but when this happened, they did not usually reveal their true spiritual identity. Their efforts were not always successful because they had to deal with frail stubborn human nature and, moreover, they had to work within the karma of their own land.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32712 – 16.25.5.107

BN – ZZ – K

The truth flows from such a man all the time and not only when he speaks or writes. It flows silently. But whereas anyone can hear his spoken words or read his printed ones, not many can receive this voiceless and inkless message.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32714 – 16.25.5.109

BN – Z

The sage gladly opens to all qualified and eager seekers the mysteries and treasures of his own inner experience, that they may profit by his past struggles and present success.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32719 – 16.25.5.114

B_05 – Z – D

It is enough. He has sown the seed. He does not have to wait for roots to form, stems to grow, fruits to appear. His work is done.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32732 – 16.25.5.127

BN – ZZZ – DK

In this momentous period the true sage has special work to do in trying to protect the human race from its own folly. One way is intercessory meditation which may help to mitigate the effects of the world crisis. This requires solitude. It is an impersonal contemplation and must not be disturbed by those who break into it, either to unload their personal problems or to offer personal service which in the end has the same result.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32733 – 16.25.5.128

BN – X – DEK

Yes, some of us are genuinely aware of the soul's existence and intimately know its freedom and blessedness. Modesty has hitherto imposed silence upon us about the fact, although compassion induced us to break it on occasions. But we mystics must now stand on our own dignity. It is time that the world, brought to its inevitable and by us expected materialistic dead-end, should realize at last that we are not talking out of our hats but out of a real and impeccable experience. It would be an unpardonable treachery to our duty in the final and terrible world-crisis of this materialistic age if, out of false modesty or fear of intimidation by a cynical society, we who daily feel and commune with the divine presence, who realize its tremendous importance for humanity's present condition and future life, fail to testify to its existence and reality. If today we venture to speak more freely and frequently, our ideas may drop into a few hospitable minds and sublimely penetrate their consciousness.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32734E – 16.25.5.129

BN – ZEL1/1

It is not the sage's function to tackle the worldly problems which governments usually deal with: the social, political, economic, and technical ones. His particular work is concerned with first, his ordinary duty of professional service through whatever skill he possesses to earn his livelihood, and second, to make truth available.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32735 – 16.25.5.130

BN – Z

The Master who leaves a record of his own climb, or a testimony to the goal's existence, or a path pioneered for those who would follow, or an instructed disciple here and there, leaves something of himself.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32738 – 16.25.5.133

BN – X – D

It is his duty to communicate what he feels there, what he finds there, to those who are excluded from it. If at times, and with sympathetic auditors, his duty becomes his joy, at other times and with insensitive auditors it becomes his cross. Jesus exemplified this in his own history.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32746 – 16.25.5.141

B_11 – ZZZ – K

Even if he does no more than open the human mind to its higher possibilities, he does enough.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Help the sage gives

#32754 – 16.25.5.149

BN – X – D

He who arrives at this stage becomes so wise and understanding, so strong and dependable, so kind and calm, that those who seek to foster these qualities within their own selves will receive from his word—sometimes from his mere presence—a powerful impetus to their progress. They will catch fire from his torch, as it were, and find a little easier of accomplishment the fulfilment of these aspirations. And those who are able to share in his effort to serve, to collaborate with his selfless work for the world, will receive daily demonstration of and silent tuition in those still loftier and more mysterious qualities which pertain to the quest of the Overself: in the paradox of dynamic stillness, inspired action, and sublime meditation. Yet he accepts worship from nobody as he himself worships none. For he will not degrade himself into such materiality nor permit others so to degrade themselves through their own superstition or someone else's exploitation.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Effects of the sage's presence

#32770 – 16.25.5.165

BN – Z – K

When he penetrates to the still centre of his being, the thoughts of this and that subside, either to a low ebb or into a temporary non-existence. Since thoughts express themselves in language, when they are inactive speech becomes inactive too. What he feels is quite literally too deep for thoughts. He falls into perfect silence. Yet it is not an empty silence. Something is present in it, some power which he can direct toward another man and which that man can feel and absorb temporarily—to whatever extent he is capable—if or when he is in a relaxed and receptive mood. The communication will best take place, if both are physically present, in total silence and bodily stillness, that is, in meditation.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Effects of the sage's presence

#32776 – 16.25.5.171

BN – ZZ – K1

Association with or proximity to such a man not only brings out what is best in them but also, when it ends, invokes the reaction of what is worst.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Effects of the sage's presence

#32778 – 16.25.5.173

BN – ZZ – K1

Constant association with him [the Sage] can only benefit the sensitive after all. It exalts and tutors them. But it leaves the insensitive exactly as they were before. Long ago Jesus pointed out the futility of casting seed on stony ground. Not that this lack of sensitivity is to be deprecated. Nature has set us all on different rungs of her evolutionary ladder. No one is to blame for being what he or she is.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Effects of the sage's presence

#32779 – 16.25.5.174

B_13 – ZZZ – K

Let us not ascribe to the ordinary self of man what belongs to the Overself. The mystical phenomena, the “inner” experiences engendered by an adept, are done 'through' him, not 'by' him.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32845 – 16.25.5.240

BN – X – DK

The catalyst which by its presence enables chemical elements to change their forms does not itself change. In the same way the illuminate may be used by higher forces to affect, influence, or even change others without any active personal move on his part to bring about this result. He may not even feel, see, or know what is happening, yet he has started it!

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32847 – 16.25.5.242

BN – Z

He is an agent for the work of Providence, a carrier of its messages and forces. At times he is used with his conscious knowledge and acceptance but at other times without them.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32848 – 16.25.5.243

BN – ZZZ

Such is the wonderful infinitude of the soul that the man who succeeds in identifying his everyday consciousness with it, succeeds also in making his influence and inspiration felt in any part of the world where there is someone who puts faith in him and gives devotion to him. His bodily presence or visitation is not essential. The soul is his real self and operates on subconscious levels. Whoever recognizes this truth and humbly, harmoniously, places himself in a passive receptive attitude towards the spiritual adept, finds a source of blessed help outside his own limited powers.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32854 – 16.25.5.249

BN – Z – DK1

Those whom he never even meets but who direct their thought and faith towards him, receive inspiration automatically. The impact of his personality helps those whom he does meet, if they are sympathetic, but often without his even being aware of it.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32858 – 16.25.5.253

BN – X – D

Just by being himself, without preaching, without trying, the sage may awaken in others whose lives touch his, a longing for the higher life.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32860 – 16.25.5.255

BA11 – ZZZ – DK

The illuminate exerts his influence upon others spontaneously and effortlessly rather than deliberately and purposely. He need make no effort but the benign power and light will radiate naturally from him just the same and reach those who come within his immediate orbit. It is sufficient for them to know with faith and devotion that he is and they receive help and healing. The Overself works directly through him and works unhindered upon all who surrender themselves to it.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32862 – 16.25.5.257

BA11 – P – D

Grace flows from such a man, a Sage, as light flows from the sun; he does not have to give it.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32872 – 16.25.5.267

BA11 – ZZ – DK

He can take no credit of his own for the service rendered, and calls no attention to himself. How could he honestly do so when he is fully aware that it is only by ceasing from his own activities, by being inwardly still, and by abandoning his own ego that the power which really renders the service manifests itself?

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32874 – 16.25.5.269

BN – Z

Where do these phenomena originate? Not always from himself, but more often from outside himself, from the mysterious and unknown mind which is the soul of the universe and the ground in which all individual minds are rooted.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage as catalyst for higher powers

#32875 – 16.25.5.270

BN – X – D

Those who welcome the Truth-bringer must needs be few, those who want the truth must be fewer still, and of these again those who can endure it when brought face to face with it are rare.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage works with few directly

#32879E – 16.25.5.274

BN – Z

The realized man leaves no lineal descendants to take over his spiritual estate. Spiritual succession is a fiction. The heir to a master's mantle must win it afresh: he cannot inherit it.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage works with few directly

#32881 – 16.25.5.276

BN – ZZ – K1

He is the silent background counsellor for a few men who have the opportunity and capacity to serve mankind.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage works with few directly

#32893 – 16.25.5.288

BN – X – D

The illumined man becomes a channel of the Holy Ghost, a chalice of the Prophet's Wine. Yet even he cannot turn the absolute mystical Silence into finite comprehensible speech for more than a sensitive few. With most people he finds himself utterly dumb because they themselves are utterly deaf. This is the tragic pity of it, that just because his words have a value far beyond that of other men's, there is no audience for them, so few ears to receive them.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > The Sage's Service > Sage works with few directly

#32896 – 16.25.5.291

BN – ZZ – K

Not everyone who is illumined becomes a spiritual teacher of humanity. Only one whose previous tendency, general character, constant aspiration, allotted destiny, or personal capacity fits him for that function becomes a teacher.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Teaching and non-teaching illuminates

#32899 – 16.25.6.3

BN – ZZ – K

He could not tell others how to struggle out of the depths if he had not himself done so, how to realize the soul if he himself had not realized it. But this is only his first qualification. His second is that he has cultivated the special virtue of compassion for others throughout the whole course of his mystical life. Consequently he becomes its fullest embodiment when that life flowers into bloom. That is why he is a teaching sage rather than a cold self-centered mystic.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Teaching and non-teaching illuminates

#32906 – 16.25.6.10

BA11 – P – DE

The man of enlightenment who has never been a learner, who suddenly gained his state by the overwhelming good karma of previous lives, is less able to teach others than the one who slowly and laboriously worked his way into the state–who remembers the trials, pitfalls, and difficulties he had to overcome.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Teaching and non-teaching illuminates

#32917 – 16.25.6.21

BN – Z – K

The Master has found his way to the Overself; he daily enjoys the blessing of its presence; he has passed from mere existence into significant living, and he knows there is peace and love at the heart of the universe. He wants now to help others share in the fruits of his discoveries.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Teaching and non-teaching illuminates

#32918 – 16.25.6.22

BN – X – D

He is a true messenger who seeks to keep his ego out of his work, who tries to bring God and man together without himself getting in between them.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Advice, warnings to would-be teachers

#32926D – 16.25.6.30

BSG_4 – P – D

Do not pretend to be other than you are. If you are one of the multitude, do not put upon yourself the proud robes of the Teacher and pretend to be able to imitate him; unless you stick to the Truth, you can never find it. To put yourself upon the pedestal of spiritual prestige before the Master or God has first put you there, is to make the first move towards a humiliating and painful fall.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Advice, warnings to would-be teachers

#32929 – 16.25.6.33

BN – Z – K1

A writer, teacher, preacher, or spiritual guide who gives out high ideals ought to be the first man to follow them himself.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Advice, warnings to would-be teachers

#32931 – 16.25.6.35

BN – X – D

To play the role of spiritual adviser to any person is to accept a grave responsibility.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Advice, warnings to would-be teachers

#32963 – 16.25.6.67

BN – X – D

There are plenty of teachers to cater to the surface-seekers of this world. The true master does not choose to be one of them. He can be of service only to those who comprehend that the object of life is not to stand their bodies on their heads but to put the truth into their heads. But such seekers are few. For the one feat is spectacular and dramatic whereas the other is silent and secret. The real teaching work will be noiseless, without show, and in the background—behind the scene and not before the curtain.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Value of a qualified teacher

#32970 – 16.25.6.74

B_05 – ZZZ – K

The great teacher leaves his impress and exerts his influence upon his disciples without robbing them of their capacity to grow into their own individual freedom.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Value of a qualified teacher

#32971 – 16.25.6.75

BN – X – D

The master expounds truth to the disciple, telling him again and again, ”You are THAT reality which you seek: give up the ego and know it.” This holy message echoes itself repeatedly within the disciple's mind and eventually he too realizes its truth in his turn.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Value of a qualified teacher

#32979 – 16.25.6.83

BN – X – D

It is kinder in the end to tell an aspirant quite candidly the truth about his shortcomings than to keep his illusions alive. For they are the true cause of his misery, the root of his sorrow; why not let him look them in the face? If he is to grow at all, the shock of discovering them is inescapable anyhow. A teacher's duty is not to keep him emotionally comfortable, not to keep silent because it is easier to do so than to reveal what the seeker needs to know. The easy way renders a disservice. The hard way is the right way in the end. The sooner he attributes his troubles to some fault in his own character, the sooner are they likely to come to an end.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Value of a qualified teacher

#32982 – 16.25.6.86

B_07 – P – DE

He is a messenger come from a far place to tell people that there is a reality, and that truth awaits them; he points out the direction where they are to be found, and how.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Value of a qualified teacher

#32986 – 16.25.6.90

BN – Z – DK

The adept's external moods are infinitely variable, simply because humanity is infinitely variable, and he changes his conversation to suit the mood of his hearers. It is never his aim to appear wise by giving out ideas beyond the understanding of his audience. Always he adjusts his teaching to meet the needs of his students. He is quite unmoved if others think from his variability of behaviour that he knows not Brahman.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Value of a qualified teacher

#33014 – 16.25.6.118

BN – ZZZ

When the first meeting with the destined master takes place, the seeker will experience an emotion such as he has had with no other person before. The inner attraction will be immense, the feeling of fated gravity intense.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Seeking the sage

#33022 – 16.25.6.126

B_05 – P – D

If he has to meet someone who is regarded as a sage, he may quickly feel the stillness surrounding the man. If they sit down together and he feels disinclined to break the silence, it would be better not to do it but to take it as a signal to flout convention and let the initiative be taken by the sage himself.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Approaching the sage

#33038 – 16.25.6.142

BA11 – P – D

The essence of this path is the giving up of the "I," the ego, which means that in a crisis the heart must weep tears of blood. Deep wounds are made, which only time can heal. They will be healed some day and when the storm of hurt feelings goes completely, a great peace arises.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Qualifications for discipleship

#33056E – 16.25.6.160

BSG_4 – P – DE

Whoever wants to seek for Truth will learn more if he sets up as a standard: Nothing but the best—why settle for less?

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Qualifications for discipleship

#33057 – 16.25.6.161

BN – Z – DK

We know that Plato regarded his birth during his master's lifetime as better than all the good fortune that aristocratic birth had bestowed upon him. And yet Socrates himself declared that he had no regular disciples and that anyone or everyone was free to hear him.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Master-disciple relationship, general

#33066 – 16.25.6.170

A241129 – P – D

Every circumstance and environment, every fresh experience and personal contact is an instruction sent by the one unseen Infinite Mind, who should be regarded as the real Master.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Master is symbol of Overself

#33081 – 16.25.6.185

BN – X – D

In the end, it is no external person who can save us but only the internal soul itself. The master may point out the way to discover that soul, he may even be useful in other capacities, but he cannot do what it is ultimately the business of the divine in us to do.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Master is symbol of Overself

#33084 – 16.25.6.188

BN – X – D

Hence you may correctly say that the Teacher, Prophet, or Guide is a medium for the Overself. While he is still embodied, still using an intellect and body (an ego), he can only be a medium, not more. He is the Overself but working through, and therefore necessarily limited by, a human individuality.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Master is symbol of Overself

#33096E – 16.25.6.200

B_07 – P – DE

Go back to the hidden Ground of everything, the passive Mind or pure Being, the First, the unconditioned Origin of all. This is utterly inconceivable and unknowable. The very concept of it, this infinite mystery of mysteries, is so awesome that the little mind of man hesitates and trembles when it even approaches it in the deepest meditation. It is beyond the capacity of that mind to penetrate the reality behind the concept. A mediating principle is necessary here. This exists in the Overself, which is nothing more than a germ of that same infinite M I N D, although to the adventurous mystic it seems the unlimited End of all. > >If this were not present in man, not only would mystical experience be impossible for him but all religious intuition would be mythical to him. This is the divinity within him, but it is only a spark. The fullness of the flame is with the Godhead alone.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Master is symbol of Overself

#33096E – 16.25.6.200

UR_5 – Z – DEK3

It is a privilege to come into the company of a great soul, but even more so to come into intuitive affinity with him. This is far more necessary than coming into geographical propinquity with him, for when that happens the link will not be severed by death, but his unseen presence will continue to be a vital thing.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33108 – 16.25.6.212

BN – X – D

Either at acceptance or later, the disciple experiences an ecstatic reverie of communion with the teacher's soul. There is a sensation of space filled with light, of self liberated from bondage, of peace being the law of life. The disciple will understand that this is the real initiation from the hands of the teacher rather than the formal one. The disciple will probably be so carried away by the experience as to wish it to happen every day. But this cannot be. It can happen only at long intervals. It is rather to be taken as a sign of the wonderful relation which has sprung up between them and as a token of eventual attainment.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33109 – 16.25.6.213

BN – Z – K1

In the case of initiated disciples, suspicion cuts off the force inside the inner cable at once, while doubt renders it only intermittently effective. In the case of persons who approach him from the public outside, these attitudes yield consequences which depend partly on the master's own attitude toward them and partly on their karma.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33115 – 16.25.6.219

BN – X – K

The mere physical proximity of teacher and disciple does not constitute their association. Unless the lesser man catches by empathy and cultivates by effort something of the greater one's thoughts and feelings, he does not associate with him at all, whatever his body may be doing. It is not the person of a master but his Idea that is important.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33117 – 16.25.6.221

BN – X – D

It is not the human thoughts which the teacher sends out, so much as the spiritual power within the disciple which is aroused by those thoughts, that matters.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33137 – 16.25.6.241

BN – Z – K1

Deprived of the physical presence of his master, he is forced to seek and find the mental presence. At first he does this as a substitute for what he cannot get, but later he learns to accept it as the reality.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33143 – 16.25.6.247

BN – X – D

The power of the higher Self is such that he who becomes its channel can affect others—if Grace be granted them by their own higher Self—by the mere thought alone. He will need neither to be near, to touch or to speak to them.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33164 – 16.25.6.268

BN – X – DK

The illuminate can transmit his grace directly from mind to mind or indirectly by means of the visual glance, the physical touch, the spoken word, or the written letter.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33165 – 16.25.6.269

BN – Z

With a Teacher, it is the inward relationship that matters. What, then, is going to happen when there is only one Teacher and many thousands of students? How can all the wishes, dreams, and thoughts reach him, yet leave him time for his work? Obviously, it cannot be done. So Nature steps in and helps out. She has arranged a system very much like a telephone switchboard. The incoming "calls" are plugged into the subconscious mind of the Teacher. The "line" itself is composed out of the student's own faith and devotion; he alone can make this connection. Then, his wishes, dreams, and thoughts travel along it to the subconscious of the Teacher, where they are registered and dealt with according to their needs. In this way, they do reach the Teacher, who can, at the same time, attend to his own work. Sometimes, Nature deems it advisable to transfer a particular message to the conscious level. In such a case, it may be answered on either the conscious or subconscious level. Occasionally, too, the Teacher deliberately sends one out when he is guided to do so.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33169 – 16.25.6.273

BN – Z

Why is it that so many—if not most—seekers feel the need of a personal spiritual teacher? Beyond the obvious need of intellectual instruction, practical guidance, and emotional inspiration, there is a further, a profounder, and sometimes an unconscious need. There are some seekers who can draw from within themselves the guidance they need, the light upon their path, and the intuition to comprehend the Absolute. They can get along quite well without a master. Indeed it is better for them to work in lonely independence for they have the best of all masters, the Higher Self. But such souls are fortunate and blessed, and those others who do not come into their category need and must find a spiritual leader. First, they must find him in the world without. Later, with more understanding and increasing development, they must find him within themselves.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33170E – 16.25.6.274

B_07 – P – DE

There are several self-styled spiritual guides who can guide their flocks into all kinds of queer experiences, but they cannot guide them into the Kingdom of Heaven. That territory is barred to them. Consequently it is barred to those who meekly walk behind them. The reason for this is quite simple. Jesus explained it long ago. The lower ego with its baggage of desires is too big, while the door leading into the Kingdom is too small. In all their activities, these teachers fail to achieve a truly spiritual result because they are thinking primarily of themselves rather than of what they are supposed to be thinking. In some cases the process is an unconscious one, but in many it is not.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33170E – 16.25.6.274

B_11 – P – DE

Even when whatever is good and true from amongst current notions in different schools of thought is selected and sifted, and a compact doctrine is formed from the results, the tremendous vitalizing power of a master is often needed to make such truths tangible.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33170E – 16.25.6.274

B_03 – P – DE

The difference between a false teacher and a genuine one is often the difference between a dominating dictator and a quiet guide. The false teacher will seek to emasculate your will or even to enslave your mind, whereas the true teacher will endeavour to exalt you into a sense of your own self- responsibility. The teacher who demands or accepts such servility is dangerous to true growth. In the end, he will require a loyalty which should be given only to the Overself. The true teacher will carry your soul into greater freedom and not less, into stabilizing truth and not emotional moods. The true teacher has no desire to hold anyone in pupillage, but on the contrary gladly welcomes the time when the disciple is able to stand without help from outside.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33170E – 16.25.6.274

B_07 – P – DE

Those who openly court worship or secretly exult in it cannot possibly have entered into the true Kingdom of Heaven. For the humility it demands is aptly described by Jesus when he describes its entrance as smaller than a needle's eye.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33170E – 16.25.6.274

B_11 – P – DE

EXCERPT from the essay entitled: DISCIPLESHIP: The relationship between the spiritual counsellor and his disciple must first find an inward harmony as its basis. After that harmony there will emerge a telepathic reception on the part of the disciple. There is often much misunderstanding about this type of communication. Let it be stated categorically that whatever the counsellor communicates it would necessarily deal with the general rather than with the particular, with the higher emotions to be cultivated rather than with the things and happenings of this world, with the spiritual qualities to be unfolded rather than with the material affairs and special situations of the external life. It is common enough, however, for the seeker's ego to mistranslate the character of the help given to him, to turn the impersonal into the personal, the lofty into the lower, and even the pure into the impure.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33170E – 16.25.6.274

BN – Z – DEK

Where spiritual help is given telepathically, it is given as a general inspiration to remember the divine laws, to have faith in them, and to follow the higher ideals. It is not given as a particular guidance in the detailed application of those laws, nor in the day to day outworking of those ideals.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > True relationship is internal

#33170E – 16.25.6.274

BN – ZZZ – DEK3

In an adept's presence, as in the sun's presence, things begin to happen of their own accord. People feel a spiritual quickening and begin to call him master and themselves disciples. The whole institution of discipleship is nothing but a convenient illusion created by people themselves and tolerantly permitted by the adept for their sakes. He himself, however, is aware of no such thing, has no favouritism, but sends out his light and power to the whole of mankind indiscriminately. Yet this is not to say that the disciples' illusion is a useless or baseless one. It is indeed very real from their standpoint and experience and affords the greatest help to their advancement. Ultimately however, towards the final stages of the path, they discover him entirely within themselves as the infinite reality, not disparate from themselves, and the sense of duality begins to disappear. Later they merge in him and "I and my Father are one" may then be truly uttered.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Eventual graduation of disciple

#33171 – 16.25.6.275

BN – ZZ – DEK

When the concept of the ego is put aside, all those other individuals who are associated with it will be put aside with it. This will apply not only to family and friends, as Jesus taught, but even to the spiritual master.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Eventual graduation of disciple

#33174 – 16.25.6.278

B_11 – Z

It is a good master who is ego-free enough to recognize that his work is done, and it is a faithful disciple who will accept the fact and let him go. The master knows that however helpful he himself was in the past, his presence will henceforth be a hindrance. The disciple knows that it will now be better to depend upon his own intuitive self and work out his own salvation.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Eventual graduation of disciple

#33179 – 16.25.6.283

BN – X – D

If the life of Jesus be viewed symbolically—as the lives of such divine men often are in part—the same necessity, at a certain time, of physical separation from disciples to bring them into mental nearness, appears. This last stage, where the presence and picture of the Master are displaced by the pictureless presence of the disciple's own spirit, is accurately described in the words of Jesus to his disciples: "I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you. When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth". Any other interpretation of them leaves them without reasonable meaning.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Eventual graduation of disciple

#33181M – 16.25.6.285

B_11 – ZZ – DEM*

When a man has at last found himself, when he has no longer any need of an outside human Symbol but passes directly to his own inner reality, he may stand shoulder to shoulder with the teacher in the oldest, the longest, and the greatest of struggles.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Eventual graduation of disciple

#33182 – 16.25.6.286

B_07 – ZZ – DK1

The adept is happy indeed when a student comes into the full realization of the Kingdom of Heaven for whoever finds it, naturally wants to share it with others.

World-Mind in Individual Mind > Teaching Masters, Discipleship > Eventual graduation of disciple

#33183 – 16.25.6.287

BSG_4 – ZZZ – DK

Spiritual feelings are good and necessary but they are not enough; they need to be completed and complemented by spiritual knowledge. We have much to gain by learning the laws and knowing the processes which the World-Mind has imprinted upon the cosmos. Otherwise we are likely to violate those laws or interfere with those processes through ignorance. The result will then be suffering and unhappiness.

World-Idea > World-Idea > World-Idea

#33185 – 16.26.0.1

BN – Z – K

It is Man's true business in this world to discover his real self and to ascertain his relationship to the surrounding world. His mind will then shine with the Secret glory of human nature and his life will come into harmony with the cosmic order and beauty.

World-Idea > World-Idea > World-Idea

#33186 – 16.26.0.2

BSG_4 – Z – DEK

Man’s main business is to become aware of his true purpose in life; all other business is secondary to this concern. It is Man's true business in this world to discover his real self and to ascertain his relationship to the surrounding world…

World-Idea > World-Idea > World-Idea

#33186EM – 16.26.0.2

BA11 – ZZZ – DEK

Philosophy offers as a first truth the affirmation that we live in a universe of purpose and not one of caprice.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33188 – 16.26.1.2

B_02 – P – D

We live in an orderly universe, not an accidental one. Its movements are measured, its events are plotted, and its creatures develop towards a well-defined objective. All this could not be possible unless the universe were ruled by immutable laws.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33189 – 16.26.1.3

BA11 – P – D

The universe could not exist as such if there were not some sort of equilibrium holding it together, some sort of balancing arrangement as in the spinning of the earth on its axis and the planets around the sun. A little thought will show the same principle in the just relation of human beings to the World-Mind and among themselves. Here it appears as karma.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33192 – 16.26.1.6

BN – Z – K

The great worlds which move so marvellously and rhythmically through our sky, however, must leave the more reflective minds with a wondering sense of the sublime intelligence which has patterned the universe.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33198 – 16.26.1.12

BN – X – D

There is enough evidence in Nature and in humanity for the existence of a Higher Power. Those who say they cannot find it have looked through the coloured spectacles of preconceived notions or else in too limited an area. There is plenty of it for those who look aright, and who widen their horizon; it will then be conclusive.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33200 – 16.26.1.14

BN – ZZ – DM*

The Cosmos exists in a great harmony for it obeys laws which are divinely perfect.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33202 – 16.26.1.16

BSG_4 – P – D

Can we rightly say it is mere chance that our earth rotates around the sun, and does so in a certain precise measured rhythm? Is there not evidence of intelligence here?

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33206 – 16.26.1.20

BN – Z – D

If the universe were obviously based on mere chance, if it were in a state of complete disorder, if the moon, the sun, and the earth wandered about at their individual will, and if no sign of organization appeared anywhere in it, then we might justly assert that there was no Mind behind it. But because we see the very contrary of these things all around us, because the energy out of which the universe is made is everywhere inseparable from thought, we can definitely assert that a World-Mind 'must' exist.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33214 – 16.26.1.28

BN – ZZ – DEK

Events may seem to happen at random, but it is not really so. They are connected with our own thinking and doing, with the pattern of the World-Idea and with the activity of the World-Mind.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33215 – 16.26.1.29

BN – X – D

There is Infinite Intelligence always at work on this planet… Everything around us and every event that happens to us is an expression of God's will.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Meaning, purpose, intelligent order

#33216EM – 16.26.1.30

BA11 – P – DX

The order which has been established throughout the cosmos is a perfect one. If the human mind fails to see this fact, it is partly because human feelings, prejudices, aversions, and attractions sway it and partly because the World-Idea unveils itself only to those who are ready.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33222 – 16.26.1.36

BN – X – D

The universe is perfect because God is perfect. But it is for each man to find and see this perfection for himself, otherwise the trouble and tragedy in life may obstruct his vision and obscure his path.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33223 – 16.26.1.37

ME_01 – P – DK

The more intellectual they are, the more they feel that God has somehow blundered, that they could have made a better or kindlier job of the universe than he has, and that too much unnecessary suffering falls upon his creatures. The sage, however, with his deeper insight and his serener mentality, finds the contrary to be the case and is set free from such bitter thoughts.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33225 – 16.26.1.39

B_17 – Z

The moment we establish a right relation with the Mind behind the Universe, in that moment we begin to see as ultimately good certain experiences which we formerly thought to be evil, and we begin to see as dreamlike many sufferings which we formerly saw as real.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33227 – 16.26.1.41

UR_2.1 – ZZ – K

The answer to those who admit they can understand and accept the existence of suffering when it is the result of karma caused by man's conduct toward man but cannot understand and accept it when caused by Nature's havoc, by earthquakes and floods, by wild beasts and tornados, may not be a palatable one. It is that calamity and suffering, destruction and death, are ordained parts of the divine World-Idea, which needs them to ensure the evolution of entities. It is also that, after all, these things happen only on the surface of their consciousness, for deep down in the Spirit there is perfect harmony and unbroken bliss.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33228 – 16.26.1.42

B_01 – ZZZ – K

Just as we find strife, violence, and evil on the surface of human existence but divinity, harmony, and peace at its core, so we find cruelty, suffering, and malevolence on the surface of the world's existence but intelligent beneficent purpose at its core. It is ultimately an expression of God's wisdom, power, and love.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33229 – 16.26.1.43

BA11 – P – D

Pain and suffering belong only to this physical world and its shadow-spheres. There is a higher world, where joy and happiness alone are man's experience.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33236 – 16.26.1.50

B_17 – P – D

Because there is a Divine Mind back of the universe, there are Divine Wisdom and Goodness in the universe.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33238 – 16.26.1.52

BN – X – D

Let evil appearances be what they are, the revelation of insight contradicts them and shows the divine presence throughout the whole universe and behind all happenings.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33241 – 16.26.1.55

BA11 – ZZ – K

We must accept and submit to the World-Idea with its ascending hierarchy of creatures and pre-established order of things.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Ultimate "rightness'' of events

#33247 – 16.26.1.61

BN – X – K

Whatever we call it, most people feel—whether vaguely or strongly—that there must be a God and that there must be something which God has in view in letting the universe come into existence. This purpose I call the World-Idea, because to me God is the World's Mind. This is a thrilling conception. It was an ancient revelation which came to the first cultures, the first civilizations, of any importance, as it has come to all others which have appeared, and it is still coming today to our own. With this knowledge, deeply absorbed and properly applied, man comes into harmonious alignment with his Source.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33250 – 16.26.1.64

BA11 – Z – DK1

The World-Idea is self-existent. It is unfolded in time and by time; it is the basis of the universe and reflected in the human being. It is the fundamental pattern of both and provides the fundamental meaning of human life.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33252 – 16.26.1.66

BN – Z – K1

The World-Idea holds within itself the laws which rule the world, the supreme intention which dominates it, and the invisible pattern which forms it.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33253 – 16.26.1.67

BA11 – P – D

The World-Idea holds within itself the laws which rule the world, the supreme intention which dominates it, and the invisible pattern which forms it. Not only includes everything existent but also everything which is yet to exist.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33253M – 16.26.1.67

UR_4map – ZZZ – DXK

There is an infinite number of possibilities in the evolution of man and the universe. If only certain ones out of them are actually realized, this is because both follow a pattern—the World-Idea.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33254 – 16.26.1.68

BN – X – D

Just as the World-Idea is both the expression of the World-Mind and one with it, so the Word (Logos) mentioned in the Bible as being with God is another way of saying the same thing. The world with its form and history is the embodiment of the Word and the Word is the World-Idea.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33257 – 16.26.1.71

BN – X – D

The World-Idea provides secret invisible patterns for all things that have come into existence. These are not necessarily the forms that our limited perceptions present to us but the forms that are ultimate in God's Will.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33259 – 16.26.1.73

BN – X – K1

When the revelation of the World-Idea came to religious mystics they could only call it "God's Will." When it came to the Greeks they called it "Necessity." The Indians called it "Karma." When its echoes were heard by scientific thinkers they called it "the laws of Nature."

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33262 – 16.26.1.76

BN – Z – K

Jung's archetypes, as far as I know his thought (and I am not a student of much of it), apply to the unconscious of the human being. The archetypes of the World-Idea, if you wish to call them that, apply universally and are not concerned with the human species alone.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33266 – 16.26.1.80

BN – X – K1

The Stoics pointed to Reason ('Logos') as the divine spirit which orders the cosmos. Plato pointed to Mind ('Nous') in the same reference.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33267 – 16.26.1.81

BN – X – K

There is a universal order, a way which Nature (God) has of arranging things. This is why what we see around us as the world expresses all-pervading meaning, intelligence, and purpose. But we catch only a mere hint of these veiled qualities—the mystery which recedes from them is immeasurably greater.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33268 – 16.26.1.82

BA11 – Z – D

The intelligence displayed by Nature is an infinite one. This fact, once recognized, forces us to concede that there is a deeper meaning and a wiser purpose in life than our puny intellects can adequately fathom.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33269 – 16.26.1.83

BN – ZZ – DK

Immanuel Kant referred to "the hidden plan of Nature." Thus, without benefit of any mystical revelation but with that of acutely concentrated deep thinking to guide him, he sensed the presence of the World-Idea.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33271 – 16.26.1.85

BN – X – D

The World-Idea contains the pattern, intention, direction, and purpose of the cosmos in a single unified thought of the World-Mind. Human understanding is too cramped and too finite to comprehend how this miraculous simultaneity is possible.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33273 – 16.26.1.87

BN – X – D

The World-Idea holds within itself the laws which rule the world, the supreme intention which dominates it, and the invisible pattern which forms it. Not only includes everything existent but also everything which is yet to exist.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33277M – 16.26.1.91

UR_4map – ZZZ – DXK

There is a mathematical order in the cosmos, a divine intelligence behind life, an Idea for human, animal, plant, and mineral existences.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33290 – 16.26.1.104

BA11 – P – D

It is a paradox of the World-Idea that it is at once a rigid pattern and, within that pattern, a latent source of indeterminate possibilities. This seems impossible to human minds, but it would not be the soul of a divine order if it were merely mechanical.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33298 – 16.26.1.112

BN – X – K1

The World-Idea contains within itself, like a seed, all the elements and all the properties of a universe which subsequently appear. In this sense they are predestined to recur eternally even when they dissolve and vanish. The ancient Egyptian text puts it: "I become what I will." The World-Idea is thus the pre-existing Type of all things and all beings.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Nature of the World-Idea

#33300 – 16.26.1.114

BN – X – DEK

The World-Idea is what is ordained for the universe, its divine prescription.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > World-Idea is ultimate determinant

#33310 – 16.26.1.124

BN – Z – DK

The World-Idea is perfect. How could it be otherwise since it is God's Idea? If we fail to become a co-worker with it, nothing of this perfection will be lost. If we do, we add nothing to it.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > World-Idea is ultimate determinant

#33316 – 16.26.1.130

BN – X – K1

The World-Idea will be realized anyhow, whatever human beings do or fail to do.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > World-Idea is ultimate determinant

#33318 – 16.26.1.132

BN – ZZZ – DK

We reject all theories of the Divine Principle having a self-benefiting purpose—such as to know Itself or to get rid of its loneliness—in manifesting the cosmos. It is the Perfect and needs nothing. The cosmos arises of itself under an inherent law of necessity, and the evolution of all entities therein is to enable them to reflect something of the Divine; it is for their sake, not for the Divine's, that they exist.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > On the "why'' of "creation''

#33344 – 16.26.1.158

BN – X – K1

But if the universe has no internal purpose for the World-Mind, it has one for every living entity within it and especially for every self-conscious entity such as man. If there can never be a goal for World-Mind itself, there is a very definite one for its creature man.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > On the "why'' of "creation''

#33345 – 16.26.1.159

BN – Z – DEM1

It is not possible to answer the question "What is the purpose of creation?" But this will not deter the practical person and genuine seeker from continuing his attempt to fulfil the immediate purpose which confronts all human beings—that of awakening to the consciousness of the divine soul.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > On the "why'' of "creation''

#33347 – 16.26.1.161

B_05 – P – D

The universe was never created for the first time for it has always and incessantly appeared and disappeared, activated and rested, come forth, evolved, and retreated into latency.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > On the "why'' of "creation''

#33357 – 16.26.1.171

BA11 – P – D

The universe has never had a beginning, and cannot have an end, but its forms and states may change and therefore must have a beginning and end.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > On the "why'' of "creation''

#33362 – 16.26.1.176

BA11 – P – D

The cosmos is neither a phantom to be disdained nor an illusion to be dismissed. It is a remote expression in time and space and individuality of that which is timeless spaceless and infinite. If it is not the Reality in its ultimate sense, it is an emanation of the Reality. Hence it shares in some way the life of its source. To find that point of sharing is the true object of incarnation for all creatures within the cosmos.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33365 – 16.26.1.179

BN – X – D

Two points should be clearly understood. First, the world of external Nature, being eternal, is not brought into existence by an act of sudden creation out of nothing. Second, this world is rooted in the divine substance and is consequently not an empty illusion but an indirect manifestation of divine reality.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33366 – 16.26.1.180

BN – Z – DK1

Our world is but a fleeting symbol, yet we may not disdain it. For it is the arched entrance under which we must pass through to the infinite life.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33374 – 16.26.1.188

BN – X – D

What is the universe but a gigantic symbol of God? Its infinite variety hints at the infinite endlessness of the Absolute itself.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33376 – 16.26.1.190

BA11 – Z – DM1

When we gaze observantly and reflectively around an object—whether it be a microscope-revealed cell or a telescope-revealed star—it inescapably imposes upon us the comprehension that an infinite intelligence rules this wonderful cosmos. The purposive way in which the universe is organized betrays, if it be anything at all, the working of a Mind which understands.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33393 – 16.26.1.207

BN – Z – K1

To recognize that the order of the cosmos is superbly intelligent beyond human invention, mysterious beyond human understanding, and even divinely holy is not to lapse into being sentimental. It is to accept the transcendence and self-sufficiency of THAT WHICH IS.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33395 – 16.26.1.209

BN – Z – K1

Everything in the universe testifies to a super-intelligent power being behind it.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33397 – 16.26.1.211

BN – X – D

At the centre of each man, each animal, each plant, each cell, and each atom, there is a complete stillness. A seemingly empty stillness, yet it holds the divine energies and the divine Idea for that thing.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33399 – 16.26.1.213

BN – X – DK1

The Void which man finds at the centre—whether of his own being or of the universe’s—is divine. It holds both godlike Mind and godlike Energy. It is still and silent, yet it is the source of all the dynamic energies, human and universal.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33400 – 16.26.1.214

BN – X – DK

The smallest one-celled creature is alive with an energy which comes from the universal energy that is the expression of the World-Mind.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33402 – 16.26.1.216

BN – X – D

There is no moment when the unseen divine activity is not present in the Universe. Everything is being carried on by the divine Power and divine Wisdom. God is not taking care of us or, indeed, of everyone else. God is in every atom of the Universe and consequently in full operation of the Universe.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33404M – 16.26.1.218

BA11 – P – DX

The cosmic order is divine intelligence expressed, equilibrium sought through contrasts and complementaries, the One Base multiplying itself in countless forms, the Supreme will established according to higher laws. The World-Mind is hidden deep within our individual minds. The World-Idea begets all our knowledge. Whoever seeks aright finds the sacred stillness inside and the sacred activity in the universe.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33406 – 16.26.1.220

BN – Z – DEM1

It is not only man that is made in the image of God: the whole universe likewise is also an image of God. It is not only by coming to know himself that man discovers the divine life hidden deep in his heart: it is also by listening in the stillness of Nature to what she is forever declaring, that he discovers the presence of an infinite World-Mind.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33407 – 16.26.1.221

BN – Z – K1

He comes to see the whole cosmos as a manifestation of the Supreme Being. It follows that involuntarily, spontaneously, he brings himself—mind and body, heart and will—into harmony with this view.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33408 – 16.26.1.222

BN – X – DK1

The number of objects and creatures, stars and suns is by a natural necessity infinite. Infinite being can only express itself infinitely. The worlds cannot be counted; the space which contains them cannot be measured.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33416 – 16.26.1.230

BA11 – P – D

We live in a universe which is only one amid an infinity of other universes whose patterns, as we find with individual living things, show infinite differences of detail while sharing certain basic general forms.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33417 – 16.26.1.231

BA11 – P – D

Somewhere in her writings Blavatsky says that the universe, however vast, is finite. But Epicurus, in a sharply termed piece of logic, tries to demonstrate that the universe is infinite. He says, “That which is finite has an end; who would deny that? Again that which has an end is seen from some point outside itself; that too must be granted; but the universe is not seen from without itself; we cannot question that proposition either; therefore since it has no end the universe must be infinite.”

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33425 – 16.26.1.239

BN – X – D

Each universe, however vast, is finite. But the possible number of universes is not. The Infinite Being, by some strange necessity (from the human standpoint, contemplating a fathomless mystery), forever sponsors fresh universes as old ones decay and disappear. In this way It seems (again from the human standpoint), by giving expression to an infinite number of universes, to be expressing Its own infinite nature.

World-Idea > Divine Order of The Universe > Universe as emanation of Reality

#33426 – 16.26.1.240

BA11 – P – D

Not only is everything subject to change but everything also exists in relation to something else. Thus change and relativity dominate the world scene.

World-Idea > Change As Universal Activity > Everything changes

#33433 – 16.26.2.7

BN – X – D

There is no stability anywhere but only the show of it. Whether it be a man's fortunes or a mountain's surface, everything is evanescent. Only the rate of this evanescence differs but the fact of it does not.

World-Idea > Change As Universal Activity > Everything changes

#33437 – 16.26.2.11

BN – Z – K1

Despite the ever-confronting evidence that change is ceaseless throughout the universe and through all human experience, we persistently get the feeling of solidity in the universe and permanency in experience. Is this only an illusion and the world merely a phantasm? The answer is that there IS something unending behind both.

World-Idea > Change As Universal Activity > Metaphysical view of universal change

#33447 – 16.26.2.21

BA11 – P – D

There is no stability anywhere in the universe, given enough time, and there is none in human life. Yet the craving for it exists. There is a metaphysical meaning behind this phenomenon. It exists because 'THAT which is behind the craving person' is the only stable thing there is, or rather no-thing, because IT has no shape, no colour, is soundless and invisible and beyond the grasp of ordinary thoughts. It is this hidden contact, or connection, which keeps man seeking for what he never finds, hoping for what he never attains, refusing to accept the message of ceaseless change which Nature and Life continue to utter in his ears, and opposing the adjustments that experience and events demand periodically from him.

World-Idea > Change As Universal Activity > Metaphysical view of universal change

#33448 – 16.26.2.22

BN – Z – DK

There is no permanency anywhere except in ourselves. And even there it is so deep down, and so hard to find, that most people accept the mistaken idea that their ego's ever-changing existence is the only real existence.

World-Idea > Change As Universal Activity > Metaphysical view of universal change

#33449 – 16.26.2.23

BN – X – D

The new physics finds creation to be a continuous process, which has never had a dated beginning in the past. Its atoms and universes appear and disappear. What does this indicate? That the unspaced untimed No-Thing out of which all this comes is itself the Reality, and the Universe (Cosmos) a showing-forth.

World-Idea > Change As Universal Activity > Metaphysical view of universal change

#33452 – 16.26.2.26

BSG_4 – P – D

Energy radiates whether in the form of continuous waves or disconnected particles—"moment to moment," Buddha called it. It is this cosmic radiation which becomes "matter."

World-Idea > Change As Universal Activity > Metaphysical view of universal change

#33458 – 16.26.2.32

BN – ZZZ – K1

Every individual comes, in time, into possession of that very peace. The answer, so often summed up in one word, is paradox. For this is what sums up the world, life, and man.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Paradox, duality, nonduality

#33462 – 16.26.3.4

BN – Z – K1

The truth of paradox is possibly too deep for most persons to accept; apparently it is too self-contradictory. This is why the balanced mind is needed to understand that the contradiction is joined with complementary roles.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Paradox, duality, nonduality

#33465 – 16.26.3.7

BN – Z – K1

EXCERPT 1 on Yin and Yang: In Chinese philosophy the Absolute is often represented by a simple symbol: a plain white circle surrounded by a plain black line. Out of the Absolute comes forth a point. This point is the World-Mind. With it there simultaneously manifests what the Bhagavad Gita calls the pairs of opposites and what the Chinese call yang and yin. Yang is symbolized by a kind of white crescent with a black dot in the broader end, yin by a black crescent with a white dot. It is not exactly a crescent because one end swells out like a balloon, while the other end remains sharp and pointed like a crescent. When the two symbols are put together in a single picture surrounded by the circle of the Absolute they form a single but complete symbol of the All. The Chinese call it the Tai-Ki.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Paradox, duality, nonduality

#33466E – 16.26.3.8

A240901 – EL1/2

EXCERPT 3 on Yin and Yang: In Indian philosophy the Absolute is called Nonduality and the polarized universe is called Duality—or to be more precise Advaita, meaning the not two, and Dvaita, meaning the two. Yang is considered to be the positive element and yin the negative one; there is nothing in the universe which is not subject to the tension between these two elements. Therefore we human beings, who are part of the universe, are also subject to them. Their interaction brings about birth, life, and death.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Paradox, duality, nonduality

#33466E – 16.26.3.8

A240901 – EL2/2

Everything comes in pairs as death with life and darkness with light. Whatever seems to be necessary to existence is so only because its opposite is equally necessary. Duality is a governing factor of the world and everything within it including ourselves. That alone is outside the world, is nondual, which is the untouchable Reality. This is the Chinese idea of yin and yang, and the Bhagavad Gita's expression "the pairs of opposites" conveys the same idea. Duality is a fact. It is here. But it is also an illusion and the opposite truth which completes it is the nondual. We may deplore the illusory nature of our existence, but we need not get lost in it for it is fulfilled, completed, and finalized in its complement the Real.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Paradox, duality, nonduality

#33468 – 16.26.3.10

A240901 – Z – K1

All human thought and experience move through the contrasts between two things or through the difference between them. Otherwise, it would not be possible for us to think or to have experience. In all human consciousness there is two-ness: thought and the object of thought, self and the thing it is aware of. But in the deepest trancelike meditation, this duality vanishes and only pure consciousness, the nondual Reality, exists.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Paradox, duality, nonduality

#33469 – 16.26.3.11

BA11 – ZZ – DK*

All through Nature these two opposing principles Yin and Yang reveal themselves. All through human existence these contraries show themselves. Most of the ancient mythologies recognized it and certainly most of the Oriental religions, too, from the Far East in China and Persia to the Near East in Lebanon and Syria.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Paradox, duality, nonduality

#33476 – 16.26.3.18

A240901 – P – K

What I learned from the Hindu texts about Brahma breathing out the universe into physical existence and then back into Himself, not only referred symbolically to the periodic reincarnations of the universe but also and actually to its moment-to-moment rhythm of interchange of contrasts, differences, and even opposites. It is this interchange which not only makes universal existence possible but which also sustains universal equilibrium. Without it there would be no world for man to behold, no experiences in it for him to develop, no conscious awareness in time and space.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Opposites constitute universe

#33480 – 16.26.3.22

BN – X – K1

Everything in Nature is included within this law of contrasting conditions. Nothing is excepted from it. Even the universe of definite, spherical forms exists in its opposite—formless space. We humans may not like the law; we would prefer light without shadow, joy without pain; but such is the World-Idea, God's thought. It is the product of infinite wisdom and as such we may trust and accept that it could not be otherwise.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Opposites constitute universe

#33481 – 16.26.3.23

BN – Z – K1

It would be a mistake to believe that these two forces, although so very different from each other, are fighting each other. This is not so. They are to be regarded as complementary to one another. They are like positive and negative poles in electricity, and they must exist together or die together. They are inseparable, but the need between them is correct balance, or equilbrium.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Opposites constitute universe

#33515D – 16.26.3.57

BN – X – K

Heraclitus taught that the universe was a conflict of opposites controlled by what he called Eternal Justice and what we call Karma.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Opposites constitute universe

#33518 – 16.26.3.60

BN – ZZ – K

Experience teaches human beings that life is governed by duality, that like Nature itself, it holds contrasts and oppositions within itself. Just as day and night are positive and negative poles, so are joy and sorrow. But just as there is a point where day meets night, a point which we call the twilight, so in our experience, human experience, the joys and sorrows have a neutral point—and in Nature, an equilibrium. So the mind must find its own equilibrium, and thus it will find its own sense of peace. To see that duality governs everything is to see why human life is one tremendous paradox.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Opposites constitute universe

#33537 – 16.26.3.79

BN – Z – K1

These three cosmic forces—Attraction, Repulsion, and Rest—constitute the triune manifestation of the World-Idea. You will find them in every department of existence.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Cyclic unfoldment, reversal

#33545 – 16.26.3.87

BN – Z – K1

Infinite Mind releases from within itself an infinite variety of suns, stars, planets, substances, plants, and creatures. Even the process itself is an infinite one, countered only by necessary dissolutions and destructions, pauses and rests. Even universes get old and die off. All that is released into manifestation is subject to this perpetual law of movement and change, growth, decay, death, reappearance, and recurrence.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Cyclic unfoldment, reversal

#33556 – 16.26.3.98

BN – X – D

The course taken by each life-entity in its slow development is neither straight nor direct, but a winding one, going forward and backward upward and downward, curved like a series of interwoven spirals.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Spiral movement of universal flux

#33600 – 16.26.3.142

BN – Z – K1

Why should the waves of life-entities take this spiral-like two-way course? Why do they not go along a direct single one? The answer is that they have to gather experience to grow; if this experience includes totally opposed conditions, all the parts of each entity can grow, all its latent qualities can be stirred into unfoldment. In the oppositions of birth and death, growth and decay, in-breathing and exhaling, youth and age, joy and suffering, introversion and extroversion, spirit-form and body-form, it fulfils itself.

World-Idea > Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe > Spiral movement of universal flux

#33601 – 16.26.3.143

BN – Z – K1

The idea of man which exists in and is eternally known by the World-Mind is a master-idea.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33608 – 16.26.4.2

BN – X – K1

When we can learn what the true worth of man is and wherein lies his real salvation, we shall learn the most practical of all things. For this, more than anything else, will show us how to live on earth peacefully, prosperously, healthily, and usefully.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33609 – 16.26.4.3

BN – X – D

Against this immense cosmic background, we may see the paltriness of human pride, the ridiculousness of human conceit.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33618 – 16.26.4.12

BA11 – P – D

Although it is not possible to offer irrefutable scientific proof of the doctrine of spiritual evolution, it can be shown to be as reasonable a doctrine as any of its rivals. And for those who have had mystical experience of the divine presence behind the mind, of divine wisdom behind the cosmos, it is the only acceptable doctrine.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33619 – 16.26.4.13

BN – X – D

No living creature in the kingdom of animals knows more than its immediate surroundings or cares for more than the sustenance of its immediate existence. It lives in an immense and varied universe but that fact is lost to its mentality and outside its interest. Only when the evolving entity attains the stage of developed human beings does this unconsciousness disappear. Then life takes on a larger meaning and the life-force becomes aware of itself, individualized, self-conscious. Only then does a higher purpose become possible and apparent.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33632 – 16.26.4.26

BN – ZZZ – DK1

No animal has the capacity to get outside itself and to perceive itself quite impersonally. Some humans do have it and more will have it as they develop their potentialities.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33637 – 16.26.4.31

BN – X – D

A self-conscious creature is one that not only knows its own individual feelings and thoughts, its own mind, but can also reflect upon them. The animal has not reached this stage but the human has.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33638 – 16.26.4.32

BN – X – DK

Yes, let it be admitted that man moves and acts with an animal body but let it not be forgotten that he thinks with a human brain and feels with a heart capable of responding to calls for charity. More, there is something in him which aspires to spirituality.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33642 – 16.26.4.36

BN – X – D

The mineral, the plant, and the animal have the infinite Life-Power within them, too, but they do not know that they have it. Man alone can know his own divinity. Indeed he is not truly a man until he has known it.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33644 – 16.26.4.38

BN – Z – DEK

The animal's active possibilities are limited to eating, drinking, sex, and obedience to, or service of, human masters. It has no cultural possibilities, no aesthetic faculty or artistic appreciation, no intellectual development. But the highest possibility which separates man from beast is attainment of insight into truth, experience of his divine source.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33646 – 16.26.4.40

BN – Z – DEK

All animals must reincarnate but men may take to the Quest and with time stop the process.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33647 – 16.26.4.41

BN – X – DK

A tension holds all things in equilibrium between coming together of their elements, temporary maintenance of their forms, and passing away into dissolution. This includes the mineral, the plant, the animal, and the human. But when we look at the last-named, a new possibility opens up which could not have happened to Nature's earlier kingdoms. All things dissolve in the end, I wrote, but man alone dissolves consciously into a higher Consciousness.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33648 – 16.26.4.42

BN – Z – DEK1

We are not just higher animals and nothing more but are possessed of something that the other animals do not possess—a self-consciousness which can be developed until it matures into a thinking power as well as a totally superior kind of awareness—that of the Overself.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33649 – 16.26.4.43

BN – X – D

A human life presents the only opportunity for attaining the realization of Overself. It ought not to be taken away from any man, however evil he may be, and however remote from this goal, in punishment for his crime.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33650 – 16.26.4.44

BN – X – DK

It is questionable whether the advantages of being a human creature are outweighed by the disadvantages. The Buddhists think they are, the Epicureans think they are not, but the Vedantins think man is an immensely fortunate creature. Why? Simply because he may use his human faculties to transcend his present level and, as they call it, "realize himself."

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33652 – 16.26.4.46

BN – Z – DEK

If man walks upright, and most of the animals do not, it is because this upright posture is symbolic of his gradual progression into ruling his animal body and animal nature.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33654 – 16.26.4.48

BN – X – D

We cannot separate the importance of the body from the importance of the mind. We are animals in one part of our nature, human beings in the second part, and sometimes angelic in the third part. All make one creature. We learn what our bodies are through the physical senses. We learn a part of what the mind is through our thoughts. We learn still more about the mind's deeper phases through our non-thoughts—that is, intuitions.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33660 – 16.26.4.54

BN – X – DEK

Such is the triple nature of man—a lower self of animal instincts, a middle self of human thoughts, a higher self of divine nature.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33661 – 16.26.4.55

BT1008 – P – D

We may well wonder how animal lust, human cunning, and angelic nobility can come to be mingled in a single entity. That indeed is the mystery of man.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Man more than animal

#33662 – 16.26.4.56

BN – X – D

The ideas in a man's mind are hidden and secret until he expresses them through actions, or as speech, or as the visible creations and productions of his hands, or in behaviour generally. Those ideas are neither lost nor destroyed. They are a permanent part of the man's memory and character and consciousness and subconsciousness, where they have been recorded as automatically and as durably as a master phonograph disc records music. Just as a wax copy may be burnt but the music will still live on in the master disc, so the cosmos may be annihilated or disintegrate completely but the creative idea of it will still live on in the World-Mind. More, in the same way a man's body may die and disintegrate, but the creative idea of him will still remain in the World-Mind as his Soul. It will not die. It's his real Self, his perfect Self. It is the true Idea of him which is forever calling to be realized. It is the unmanifest image of God in which man is made and which he has yet to bring into manifestation in his everyday consciousness.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Divine essense of Man

#33669 – 16.26.4.63

BN – Z – DEK1

Human beings are what they are. Nothing can alter that. Out of the immortal, benign, eternal Mind they came, to It they shall return. Meanwhile It is their very essence, that is, It is life.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Divine essense of Man

#33674 – 16.26.4.68

BN – ZZZ – DEK

Though it seems entirely our own faculty, this thought-making power is derived from a hidden one, the Universal Mind, in which all other men's minds lie embedded. What he does with this power is a man's own concern, for better or worse, yielding him more knowledge or more ignorance.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Divine essense of Man

#33678 – 16.26.4.72

BN – X – K1

The man who, according to the Bible, is made in the image of God is not the earthly man, visible to all and speaking in a voice that sounds in physical ears. He is to be found in the deep centre of consciousness, where there is only a Void, and he speaks in silence to the attentive mind, not to other persons.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Divine essense of Man

#33679 – 16.26.4.73

BN – X – D

The man that is made in the image of God is not physical man or desire-filled man or thought-breeding man but he who dwells behind all these—silent, serene, and unnoticed.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Divine essense of Man

#33680 – 16.26.4.74

BN – ZZ – DK1

If we do not know the "why" of universal existence, we do know the "why" of human existence. It provides the field of experience for discovering the divine soul. The integral quest which ends in this discovery is, consequently, the greatest and most important of human undertakings.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33688 – 16.26.4.82

BA11 – P – D

There is something which he can and must know in order to fulfil himself, but it is not a piling-up of numbered facts; it is nothing other than his relation to the source of the cosmos.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33689E – 16.26.4.83

BA12 – P – DE

Man's experience is so limited and his mental equipment so small that his attempt to understand the universe would seem impertinent were it not for the assurance of great prophets and seers that where intellect and sense fail, intuition succeeds.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33690 – 16.26.4.84

BN – X – D

If human life has any higher purpose, it is that the human ego should find its way back to that harmony with the Overself which has become disturbed but never disrupted.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33692 – 16.26.4.86

BN – X – D

We must all give life what it demands from the human—that it shall seek to transcend its present state, that is, transcend itself in the end. For life as we know it is only one expression of the World-Idea, the inexorable will of the World-Mind.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33693 – 16.26.4.87

BN – Z – DEK

Everywhere in the advanced countries specialists, experts, and scientists are seeking more knowledge of the human body and its world or are applying this knowledge to practical use. Yet the highest work in which intellectual power can engage is to seek the reason for human existence. This will lead it to discover, and bow before, the World-Mind.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33694 – 16.26.4.88

BN – ZZ – DEK

The goal of life is to be consciously united with Life.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33696 – 16.26.4.90

BN – Z – DK1

Man's need is twofold: recollection of his divine nature and redemption from his earthly nature.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33697 – 16.26.4.91

BN – X – D

If it be asked whether there is any purpose in life, the answer must be "Yes!—to perfect ourselves and know ourselves; to find the happiness which comes as a fruit of such fulfilment".

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33698 – 16.26.4.92

BA11 – ZZ – DK

Attaining to our manhood is good chiefly as it provides us with the chance, during subsequent years, of attaining to our higher selfhood.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33699 – 16.26.4.93

BN – X – D

The higher purpose of existence is to advance man until he can live in the awareness of his divine selfhood.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33700 – 16.26.4.94

BT1008 – P – D

There is an orderly structure in the universe and an orderly pattern in the lives of its creatures. If everything else is governed by laws, why not the growth of man's spirituality?

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33704 – 16.26.4.98

BA11 – P – D

You are part of the World-Mind's World-Idea. Therefore, you are a part of its purpose too. Seek to be shown what that is, and how you may realize it, rather than mope in misery, frustration, or fear. Look upon your situation—personal, domestic, career, mental, emotional, spiritual—as having significance within that purpose, as teaching you some specific lesson or telling you what to do or not to do.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33707 – 16.26.4.101

BA12 – P – D

It is nonsense to say that any man is alone in his trouble. He is in the great World-Idea, part of it, belonging to it, sustained by it.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33708 – 16.26.4.102

BA11 – P – D

Every person is unconsciously trying to fulfil a higher purpose set for him by the Overself, and all the purposes fit together and combine to form a part of the World-Idea.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33711 – 16.26.4.105

BN – Z – DEK

How old is the series of experiences through which we moved unknowingly towards our present evolutionary position! How lofty is the level toward which we have yet to climb!

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33715E – 16.26.4.109

BA11 – P – DE

Every man is offered a chance to live again, not once but as many times as will bring him to his diviner being and establish him in that. Human existence is a kind of bewitchment; we experience what we are made to experience. All is simply the expression of the World-Idea—that is, of God's will—but we share in the making, participate in the divine ideation.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33718 – 16.26.4.112

BA11 – P – DE

The World-Idea's end is foreordained from the beginning. This leaves no ultimate personal choice. But there's a measure of free will in a single direction—how soon or how late that divine end is accomplished. The time element has not been ordered, the direction has.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Purpose of human life

#33721 – 16.26.4.115

BSG_5 – Z – DK1

When one is allowed a glimpse of the World-Idea, he feels that he understands at last why he came here, what he has to do, and where his place is. It is like an immense enlargement of the mind, an escape from the littleness of the ego, and a finding-out of a long-hidden secret.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Glimpsing the World-Idea

#33727 – 16.26.4.121

BSG_5 – P – D

He has come to the inner sight of the World-Idea's meaning for him: that he is to use the human self to lift his nature up from the animal one, and that he is to put himself at the service of his angelic, his best, self, to lift his nature up from the ordinary human. In this way he co-operates with the World-Idea. This is the use he is to make of his life on earth: his personal life, his family relations, his professional career—all must become subject to the higher purpose. The resolve made, the matter of success or failure is no longer urgent, for every subsequent embodiment will point in this direction. Philosophy has instructed him in the unreality of time and has revealed to him his indissoluble connection with the Overself. All this was seen by the sages long ago and symbolized by them in the Sphinx and the Pyramid.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Glimpsing the World-Idea

#33729 – 16.26.4.123

BN – ZZ – DEK

We see that life is encircled by a great Being, that the Mind behind the universe—although so still and uncommunicative and, apparently, unconcerned—is in reality sending its messages in varied ways all the time.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Glimpsing the World-Idea

#33730 – 16.26.4.124

UR_2.1 – Z – K

In those divinely captured moments when ego is loosened and Overself is present in awareness, the amazing pattern of the World-Idea shines clearly.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Glimpsing the World-Idea

#33735 – 16.26.4.129

BN – X – D

What they may expect to find with intellect at most is the slow uncovering of little fragments of the World-Idea: but with intuition the subtler meanings and larger patterns are possible. These include but also transcend the physical plane. A few fated persons, whose mission is revelation, are granted once in a lifetime the Cosmic Vision.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Glimpsing the World-Idea

#33742 – 16.26.4.136

BN – X – K1

Only to the extent that he unites his own little purpose with the universal purpose can he find harmony and happiness. Its strength will support him firmly in adversity and misfortune, as it will carry him triumphantly through misery and hostility.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Co-operating with the World-Idea

#33746 – 16.26.4.140

BN – X – D

The more one learns about the World-Idea, the more one wonders at it. To go farther and co-operate with it is to find peace.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Co-operating with the World-Idea

#33748 – 16.26.4.142

BA11 – P – D

If Nature keeps her lips inexorably shut to the questions of those who abuse her, she graciously opens them in perfect response to those who ask with a quieted, co-operative and harmonious ego.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Co-operating with the World-Idea

#33751 – 16.26.4.145

BN – Z – K1

We can be co-workers with the World-Mind only to the extent that we withdraw from our ego. Then only are we able to receive correctly the wonderful revelation of the world's meaning and laws, so that we can participate intelligently and lovingly.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Co-operating with the World-Idea

#33752 – 16.26.4.146

BN – X – D

When he sees the meaning of life, he cannot help but give it his acceptance. Circumstances previously rebelled against now fit into a reasonable place in the pattern of things.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Co-operating with the World-Idea

#33753 – 16.26.4.147

UR_0 – ZZZ – DK

All spiritual study is incomplete if it ignores the facts, truths, laws, and principles of cosmogony. To attempt to justify this neglect with the accusation that they belong to the world of illusion is silly and useless. For the accuser must still continue to live in an illusory body and use an illusory self governed by those laws. After every such attempt and for each violation of those laws—upon which the order and harmony of the universe depend—which his neglect brings about, he must pay the penalty in suffering.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Co-operating with the World-Idea

#33767 – 16.26.4.161

B_17 – Z – K1

It must be remembered that these higher laws are established throughout the cosmos, not merely in our part of it; that this higher truth can never undergo any alteration in itself, whatever way different men of insight may speak about it; that we human beings have the privilege, when purified, of partaking in the real holy communion which alone fulfils our highest prayers.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Co-operating with the World-Idea

#33770 – 16.26.4.164

BN – X – DEK

Learning what these cosmic laws are and trying to live in obedience to them is the only way whereby humanity can do what is best for itself. It will have to come to such obedience through the lessons of experience and cannot escape it.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Co-operating with the World-Idea

#33773 – 16.26.4.167

BN – X – D

It is no truer message than this: "Seek for the divine within yourself, return to it every day, learn how to continue in it and finally 'be' it".

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Co-operating with the World-Idea

#33776E – 16.26.4.170

BA12 – P – DE

The forces which move men and bring about events are not always to be found by rational analysis. There is another factor present which eludes such analysis. It may be called the evolutionary intent of the World-Mind.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33777 – 16.26.4.171

BN – X – D

All things and beings flow forth from the illimitable Power, all derive their consciousness from It. Nor may we stop with this acknowledgment. For they derive whatsoever they have of intelligence from It, too. Is it not a grand thought, full of promise and hope, that in the gradual progression of this intelligence from minute cells to celestial beings, it passes upward through man, enabling him in time to attain and know his own Divinity?

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33778 – 16.26.4.172

BN – X – D

To say that man is unconsciously seeking God, or rather his Higher Self, is the truth. To say that God is seeking man is an error based upon a truth. This truth is that in the divine idea of the universe, the evolutionary development of life-cells will bring them slowly up to an awareness of the diviner level; but the Higher Self, having no desire and no emotions, cannot be said to be seeking anything. Indeed, the evolutionary pattern being what it is, there is no need for it to seek, as the development of all beings from primitive amoeba to perfect spiritual consciousness is assured.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33780 – 16.26.4.174

BN – Z – DEK1

The development of all beings from primitive amoeba to perfect spiritual consciousness is assured.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33780E – 16.26.4.174

UR_4map – ZZZ – DEK

We may call it evolution if we wish but the actuality is not quite the same. The universe is being guided to follow the World-Idea—this is the essence of what is happening.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33781 – 16.26.4.175

BN – Z – DK1

Because mind is the basal reality, all this majestic progression is nothing else than an evolution from lower to higher forms of intelligence and consciousness.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33783 – 16.26.4.177

BN – X – D

We must begin by recognizing that this planet exists for a specific purpose and that the evolution of all creatures upon it is part of that purpose.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33786 – 16.26.4.180

BN – X – D

This earth, with the varied experiences of good and evil, joy and suffering, peace, and peril which it offers us, is a school of initiation.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33787E – 16.26.4.181

BSG_4 – P – DE

The world exists for the training of ever-ascending living things—from their early start as protoplasmic cells to their later development as human beings.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33788 – 16.26.4.182

BN – X – D

The world does not exist solely for the benefit of the human species. It is a means of development and expression for all kinds of creatures, a development in which the humans share so largely.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33789E – 16.26.4.183

BN – X – DEK

The differences in consciousness between an amoeba, an insect, an animal, and a human represent a line of growth.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33791 – 16.26.4.185

BN – X – D

Everything that has feeling or awareness, however dim, is capable of developing to higher and higher forms of existence. But only when it is individuated and attains the human form does it fulfil its possibilities.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33794 – 16.26.4.188

BN – X – D

The nature and functions of man are reflected in miniature in the cells which compose his body, while he himself reflects those of the Universal Mind in which he is similar to the cell.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33797 – 16.26.4.191

BN – X – D

There is not one cell in the whole organism of man which does not reflect in miniature the pattern, the proportions, and the functions of the immense cosmos itself.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33798 – 16.26.4.192

BA11 – ZZZ – DK1

There are different stages in the development of people: some stand on the lower, some on the higher ones—and others fill in the space between. There is no equality among human beings, in character or manners, in intelligence or intuitiveness. Those who resent this fact may deny it, thereby revealing their incapacity for understanding truth. Exploitation of the lower types by the higher ones has bred the resentment, and this in turn has blinded the eyes or the mind.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33807 – 16.26.4.201

BN – Z – DEK

It is significant that animals tend to live in herds. As man matures, he reaches more and more individuality.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33811 – 16.26.4.205

BN – X – D

Slowly, at times pleasurably and at times painfully, the human entity builds up its consciousness and capacities through the ages.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33812 – 16.26.4.206

BN – X – D

There is no choice in the matter, ultimately, although there is immediately. The entire human race will have to traverse the course chalked out for it, will have to develop the finer feelings, the concrete intellect, the abstract intellect, the balance between the different sides. If men do not seek to do so now, it is only a question of time before they will be forced to do so later.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33820 – 16.26.4.214

BN – Z – DK1

Man will be redeemed and saved. This is not mere pious wishful thinking but ineluctable destiny. The divine World-Idea could not be realized if this redemption and this salvation were not eventually possible and inescapably certain.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33821 – 16.26.4.215

BT1008 – P – D

It is easier to transform a wilderness into a garden flourishing with plants and flowers than to transform humanity into a spiritual race. But time and life, evolution and experience will all combine to do it. The movement up to higher levels will be slow and painful, the maturation of human character retarded and halting, but they will be sure because they are written in the fate of man.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33822 – 16.26.4.216

BT1008 – P – D

The World-Idea is operative on every level. It invites savage humans to outwit their fellow animals by beginning to use brain-power through arrows, slings, and primitive traps; at a higher level to compete with fellow humans and rise economically and socially by using the same power; at a still higher level to reduce sufferings and self-made miseries by practising control over self and avoidance of injury to others; then, at a still higher level, to discover and nurture their spiritual nature.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33824 – 16.26.4.218

BN – X – D

As the two interact—the human purpose and the World-Idea—each man slowly unfolds his intelligence, which is the fusion of intellect with intuition, and this culminates in Enlightenment, the ultimate and revelatory Insight.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33826 – 16.26.4.220

BN – X – D

The movement upward from the ego's "me" to the real "I" consciousness is as sure as the movement of the planets themselves.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33827 – 16.26.4.221

BT1008 – Z – DK*

Humanity will within a certain time—not in our time—humbly submit as it once did in prehistoric times to rulers guided by true sages and adopt the higher forms of government inspired by the true facts of life. Philosophers will then be not merely the witnesses of their age but also its activators. Then only will humanity at last prevent outer war, even though its own moral nature will still need much more growth. With that recognition, Nature herself will grow kindlier and the area of other forms of human suffering will diminish noticeably.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33837 – 16.26.4.231

BN – X – D

Even though we reach a higher kind of civilization one day, human differences will continue to express themselves.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33838 – 16.26.4.232

BN – X – D

Nobler and wiser types of humanity, standing at loftier altitudes of consciousness, will begin to emerge from the mass. If they are all too few today, they will be more numerous tomorrow.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33839 – 16.26.4.233

BN – X – D

The waves of life have moved across other planets before arriving on this earth and, when this has outserved its usefulness, will move on again.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33841 – 16.26.4.235

BN – X – D

The inhabitants of each planet belong to different stages of evolution: some higher and some lower. This applies not only to the human inhabitants but also to the animal and even the plant inhabitants. They pass in great waves from one planet to another at certain stages of this evolution, going where they can find the most appropriate conditions either for expression of their present stage or for the stimulation of their next immediate stage. Consequently the stragglers and laggards who fall behind pass to a planet where the conditions are of a lower nature, for there they are more at home. On the other hand, the pioneers who have outstripped the mass and can find no conditions suitable for their further development pass to a planet in a higher stage.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33842 – 16.26.4.236

BN – ZZ – DK1

The notion that God created this world spectacle for the benefit of man alone is an absurd and unwarranted anthropolatry, but the notion that life first attains individual self-consciousness in man is justified in philosophy and by experience. What is it of which he alone is conscious? It is of being himself, his ego. In all earlier stages of evolution, consciousness is entirely veiled in its forms and never becomes self-aware. Only in the human state does individual consciousness of being first dawn. There may exist on other planets creatures infinitely more intelligent and more amiable than human beings. We may not be the only pebbles on the beach of life. Nevertheless the piece of arrogance which places man highest in the scale of existence contains the dim reverberation of a great truth, for man bears the divine within his breast.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33843 – 16.26.4.237

BN – X – DEK1

Human beings have made too much fuss about themselves, their own importance in the cosmic scale. Why should there not be other forms of life superior to them, conscious intelligent beings higher in mentality, character, and spiritual knowledge, better equipped with powers and techniques?

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33844 – 16.26.4.238

BN – Z – DK1

There are existences for beings on levels and in times and spaces different from ours. The level we know and the humans we see only partially manifest the World-Idea.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33846 – 16.26.4.240

BA11 – P – D

There are beings not subject to the same laws as those governing mankind's physical existence. They are normally not visible to men. They are gods.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33848 – 16.26.4.242

BN – Z – DK1

The Gods are both symbols of particular forces and beings dwelling on higher planes.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > World-Idea guides evolution

#33849 – 16.26.4.243

BN – Z – K1

The human entity has travelled through joy and suffering, experienced birth and death, experimented with good and evil for the very purpose of becoming a fully conscious entity. How then could annihilation—Vedantic or any other kind—be its ultimate fate?

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33851 – 16.26.4.245

BN – X – D

We have not come from oblivion. All our past is present in our characters, capacities, and tendencies; therefore, we shall not go into oblivion. There is no death―only a change of state.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33853 – 16.26.4.247

BSG_4 – P – D

His destination is also his origin. But to say that he was born in the eternal Spirit starts the question, ”How can time, which is placed outside eternity, bring him to eternity?” The answer is that it does not bring him there; it only educates him to look for, and prepares him to pass through, the opening through which he can escape. Need it be said that this lies at the point where ego surrenders wholly to Overself?

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33855D – 16.26.4.249

BN – X – D

The Goal towards which human being is slowly travelling by successive steps is a threefold one: the fully developed environment, the fully developed intelligence, and the realized Soul. The last is the best and the other two are but servants of it, for here we come first to a comprehension and then to a realization of ourselves. Yes, we are on our way to the grand awakening into full Self-consciousness.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33856 – 16.26.4.250

BSG_4 – ZZZ – DK

All this vast evolution of environments and their entities has but one ultimate aim from man’s point of view and so far as he is concerned. It is to bring him into a miniature likeness to his divine Parent, to make him into an image of godlike beauty, power, wisdom, and being.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33857 – 16.26.4.251

BN – X – DK

The process of human evolution serves a twofold purpose. The first is to develop the physical, emotional, and intellectual characteristics. The second is to lead the individual to enquire into, and become fully conscious of, his divine origin.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33859 – 16.26.4.253

BN – X – D

The journey of life is both an adventure and a pilgrimage. We pass from body to body to collect experience. The fruit of experience is Enlightenment: the knowledge of Overself, established awareness of its presence; and knowledge of the Unseen Power behind the universe, established connection with it. The aspirant must take heart that one day his goal will be reached, even if there were no law of evolution to confirm it—as there is.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33860EM – 16.26.4.254

BA11 – P – DX

The journey of life is both an adventure and a pilgrimage to our essential being. All the reincarnations which are necessary to the unfoldment of our character and capacities must be lived through. We pass from body to body to collect experience. The fruit of experience is Enlightenment: the established awareness of the essential being's presence, the Overself or soul. The aspirant must take heart that one day the goal will be reached, even if there were no law of evolution to confirm it—as there is.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33860M – 16.26.4.254

B_01 – ZZZ – DXK

We are here in this world for a higher purpose than the obvious physical one of self-preservation, for even that is contributory to it. We are here to evolve into the consciousness of Overself. Every physical experience is only a means toward such spiritual development.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33861 – 16.26.4.255

BA11 – P – D

The highest form is hidden away in the lowest one. There is development from the blindly instinctive life of animals to the consciously thinking life of man. The blind instinctive struggles of the plant to sustain itself are displaced in the evolutionary process by the intelligent self-conscious efforts of the man.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33863E – 16.26.4.257

BT1008 – P – DEK

But because causation is shown to be illusory, and the cosmos uncreated and unending, this does not mean that our cosmology denies the truth of evolution. It denies only the conventional attitude towards evolution. For it takes all change and hence all progress out of the realm of ultimate reality and relegates them to where they belong, to the realm of immediate appearance.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33865 – 16.26.4.259

UR_2.1 – ZZ – K

We murmur against the world's obstructiveness to our aspirations: the body is our stumbling-block. Yet if we had to live always as disembodied spirits, our spiritual development would need an immeasurably longer time to accomplish itself. The sharper focus of physical consciousness quickens our pace.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33869 – 16.26.4.263

BN – X – D

Man, in his earlier phases of being, was connected with the Overself and aware of it. But his connection lacked his own control. Eventually, to fulfil the purpose of evolution, he lost this connection and with it his awareness. Now he has to regain the connection and reawaken this awareness by his own efforts and out of his own inner activity, through his own desiring and in his own individual freedom. What has he gained by this change to compensate the loss? His consciousness has become more sharply focused and consequently more clearly aware.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33870 – 16.26.4.264

BN – X – D

Our source is in the Overself; our growth is but a return to it, made fully conscious as we were not before.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33871 – 16.26.4.265

BN – ZZZ – DM

The immediate purpose of human incarnation and evolution is to develop a true and full self-consciousness at all levels from the lowest to the highest. The man who does not know himself beyond the physical intellectual ego is still only half-conscious.

World-Idea > True Idea of Man > Evolution's goal is not merger

#33872 – 16.26.4.266

B_01 – ZZ – DMK

Is it so unimportant to form an idea of God which shall be as near the truth as possible through containing so little error as possible? The Spirit which inspired and instructed Moses did not think so. "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me,'' it said. That is, we must not label the wrong thing with the name of God, or hold the wrong idea about him as if it were the correct one. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image'' was the next commandment. But an idol does not necessarily have to be made of stone or metal. It can be made of an idea.

World-Mind > World-Mind > World-Mind

#33875 – 16.27.0.1

BN – Z

If anyone wishes to call World-Mind the Lord of the Universe, he will not be wrong; but then if someone else wishes to assert that World-Mind cannot be a Personal God, neither will he be wrong. Is there any possible reconciliation of these two views? Yes, for in both cases these are only mental formulations, and it is impossible to describe God positively, accurately in intellectual terms. All mental concepts of God have to be discarded in the end. No dogmatic statement can hold the truth 'as it is': we merely get from the statement something to satisfy the intellect. For the Real is ineffable, that is, undescribable and untouchable by the ordinary finite capacity of humans. But because there is something godlike, somewhere, in man, intuition may reveal it.

World-Mind > World-Mind > World-Mind

#33876 – 16.27.0.2

BN – Z – DEK

This is the mistake all too often made by those who ask the age-old questions: they see that every creature's life has a beginning, so they assume God must have had one too. But the Life-Force which appears anew in every babe comes from God; it has always existed, taking on countless outward forms. God, its source, has always been and never began…

World-Mind > What Is God? > Differing views of God

#33891E – 16.27.1.15

BA11 – P – DE

What Jesus called "the only true God" is the ultimate formless reality, not the thoughts about it or the pictures of it created in human imaginations. It is an object of insight, not of sense or thought.

World-Mind > What Is God? > God beyond finite knowing

#33916 – 16.27.1.40

B_12 – Z – K

If God were not a mystery He would not be God. Men who claim to know Him need semantic correction; this said, their experience may yet be exceptional, elevating, and immaterialistic. But let God remain God, incomprehensible and untouchable.

World-Mind > What Is God? > God beyond finite knowing

#33922 – 16.27.1.46

BN – Z – K1

The one infinite life-power which reveals itself in the cosmos and manifests itself through time and space, cannot be named. It is something that is. For a name would falsely separate it from other things when the truth is that it is those things, all things. Nor would we know what to call it, since we know nothing about its real nature.

World-Mind > What Is God? > God beyond finite knowing

#33924 – 16.27.1.48

UR_4map – ZZZ – DK1

The atheist says, "God is nowhere!". The mystic says, "God is now here!". The philosopher says, "God is!".

World-Mind > What Is God? > God beyond finite knowing

#33928 – 16.27.1.52

BA11 – P – D

All verbal definitions of the World-Mind are inevitably limited and inadequate. If the statements here made seem to be of the nature of dogmatic concepts it is because of the inadequacy of language to convey more subtle meaning. They who read these lines with intuitive insight allied to clear thinking will see that the concepts are flexible verbal frames for holding thought steady in that borderland of human consciousness where thinking verges on wordless knowing.

World-Mind > What Is God? > God beyond finite knowing

#33932 – 16.27.1.56

BN – ZZ – K1

All scientific evidence indicates that there is a single power which presides over the entire universe, and all religious mystic experience and philosophic insight confirms it. Not only is this so, but this power also maintains the universe; its intelligence is unique, matchless, incredible. This power is what I call the World-Mind.

World-Mind > What Is God? > The active God we worship

#33934 – 16.27.1.58

BSG_4 – ZZZ – DM1

The World-Mind is unique, different from any other existing or conceivable mind in the whole cosmos. Indeed, all these others can only arise out of and within it, but can never equal or transcend it.

World-Mind > What Is God? > The active God we worship

#33937 – 16.27.1.61

BN – X – D

No human idea can account for its own existence without testifying to the prior existence of a human mind. The world as idea can only account for its own existence by pointing to a World-Mind. And it is equally a fact that the highest kind of existence discoverable to us in the universe is mental existence. In using the name "Mind" for God, I but follow some of the highest examples from antiquity, such as Aristotle in Greece, Hermes Trismegistus in Egypt, Asvaghosha in India, and the Patriarch Hui Neng in China.

World-Mind > What Is God? > The active God we worship

#33947 – 16.27.1.71

UR_3.2 – Z – K

For us who are philosophically minded, the World-Mind truly exists. For us it is God, and for us there is a relationship with it—the relationship of devotion and aspiration, of communion and meditation. All the abstract talk about nonduality may go on, but in the end the talkers must humble themselves before the infinite Being until they are as nothing and until they are lost in the stillness—Its stillness.

World-Mind > What Is God? > The active God we worship

#33948 – 16.27.1.72

BN – Z – K1

Modern man looks in all sorts of impossible places for an invisible God and will not worship the visible God which confronts him. Yet little thinking is needed to show that we are all suckled at the everlasting breast of Nature. It is easy to see that the source of all life is the sun and that its creative, protective, and destructive powers are responsible for the entire physical process of the universe. However it is not merely to the physical sun alone that the aspirant addresses himself but to the World-Mind behind it. He must look upon the sun as a veritable self-expression and self-showing of the World-Mind to all its creatures.

World-Mind > What Is God? > The active God we worship

#33952 – 16.27.1.76

BN – X – K1

In the sense that the World-Mind is the active agent behind and within the universe, it is carrying the whole burden of creation; it is the real doer, carrying us and our actions too.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33963 – 16.27.2.6

BN – ZZ – K1

The World-Mind is called Adi-buddhi in the Nepalese-Tibetan esotericism: meaning Divine Ideation, the First Intelligence, the Universal Wisdom.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33966 – 16.27.2.9

BN – ZZ – K1

We are frequently informed by religious and mystical sources that God is Love. It would be needful for those who accept this statement to balance and complete it by the affirmation that God is Pure Intelligence.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33967 – 16.27.2.10

BN – ZZZ – K1

The Intelligence which formulated the World-Idea is living and creative—in short, Divine. The so-called laws of nature merely show its workings.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33970 – 16.27.2.13

BN – X – K1

The World-Mind holds in one eternal thought the entire World-Idea.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33973 – 16.27.2.16

BN – X – D

Were the World-Mind beyond, because outside, the finite universe, then it would be limited by that universe and thus lose its own infinitude. But because it includes the universe completely within itself while remaining completely unlimited, it is genuinely infinite. World-Mind is neither limited nor dissipated by its self-projection in the universe. If World-Mind is immanent in the universe, it is not confined to the universe; if it is present in every particle of the All, its expression is not exhausted by the All.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33982 – 16.27.2.25

BN – X – K1

Inexplicable and incomprehensible though the fact must be to the human intellect, the One infinite Mind never loses its own character even though it is seemingly incarnated into the myriad forms of an evolving universe, never loses itself in them.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33983 – 16.27.2.26

BA11 – P – D

This is the Reality that is hidden in me and you, in the whole universe itself. It acts everywhere and exists eternally.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33990 – 16.27.2.33

UR_4map – ZZZ – DK

Outwardly all differ but in the deepest root of consciousness all are the same. This is the Reality that is hidden in me and you, in the whole universe itself. It acts everywhere and exists eternally.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33990EM – 16.27.2.33

UR_1 – ZZZ – DXK

Thus make it. Unseen itself, its presence is seen in every earthly form; unthinkable though it be, its existence is self-manifested in every thought.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33993 – 16.27.2.36

BN – Z – K1

The universe comes forth from the World-Mind, from its own being and its own substance. Therefore the universe is divine, therefore God is present in every atom and likewise in every one of us. Whoever denies the existence of God denies the very essence of his own self.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33994 – 16.27.2.37

BA11 – P – D

The World-Mind is in us all, reflected as "I." This is why ever-deeper pondering and penetration are needed to remove the veil of individuality and perceive BEING.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#33999 – 16.27.2.42

BN – ZZ – DEK

Swami Narayananda said, "God is the Subject of all subjects. In one sense He can never be known. It being the very Subject of all subjects how can we know it? To know means to objectify a thing, and the Supreme Subject can never become an object. In another sense, God is more than known to us. For it is our very Self. What proof do we want for our very existence?"

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > Attributes, characteristics, powers

#34000 – 16.27.2.43

BN – X – K1

The point which appears in space is a point of light. It spreads and spreads and spreads and becomes the World-Mind. God has emerged out of Godhead. And out of the World-Mind the world itself emerges—not all at once, but in various stages. From that great light come all other and lesser lights, come the suns and the planets, the galaxies, the universes, and all the mighty hosts of creatures small and great, of beings just beginning to sense and others fully conscious, aware, wise. And with the world appear the opposites, the dual principle which can be detected everywhere in Nature, the yin and yang of Chinese thought.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > As source of all

#34005 – 16.27.2.48

A240901 – Z – K1

If the divine activity ceases in one universe it continues at the same time in another. If our World-Mind returns to its source in the end, there are other World-Minds and other worlds which continue. Creation is a thing without beginning and without end, but there are interludes and periods of rest just as there are in the individual's own life in and outside the body.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > As source of all

#34008 – 16.27.2.51

BN – ZZ – DK1

The World-Mind is the conscious Power sustaining all life, the intelligent Energy sustaining all atoms, the divine being behind and within the Universe.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > As source of all

#34013 – 16.27.2.56

BA11 – P – D

The World-Mind eternally thinks this universe into being in a pulsating rhythm of thought and rest. The process is as eternal as the World-Mind itself. The energies which accompany this thinking are electrical. The scientists note and tap the energies, and ignore the Idea and the Mind they are expressing.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > As source of all

#34017 – 16.27.2.60

BN – Z – DK1

There is no power in the material universe itself. All its forces and energies derive from a single source—the World-Mind—whose thinking is expressed by that universe.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > As source of all

#34020 – 16.27.2.63

BN – X – K1

The statement "Light is God" is meant in two senses: first, as the poetical and a psychical fact that, in the present condition of the human being, his spiritual ignorance is equivalent to darkness and his discovery of God is equivalent to light; second, as the scientific fact that has verified in its findings that all physical matter ultimately reduces itself to waves of light, and since God has made the universe out of His own substance, the light-waves are ultimately divine.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > As source of all

#34032 – 16.27.2.75

BN – ZZ – K1

The Light of the World-Mind is the Source of the physical universe; the Love of the World-Mind is its structural basis.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > As source of all

#34034 – 16.27.2.77

BN – ZZ – K1

All the forces of the physical world are derived from a single source—the solar energy.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > As source of all

#34035 – 16.27.2.78

BN – X – K1

If we seek an origin for the consciousness, however small finite and limited it may be, that a man possesses, none other can be found except the universal consciousness which informs the entire universe and guides its development.

World-Mind > Nature of World-Mind > As source of all

#34039 – 16.27.2.82

BN – X – DK

How does God “create” the universe? Since in the beginning God alone is, there is no second substance that can be used for such “creation.” God is forced to use his own substance for the purpose. God is Infinite Mind, so he uses mental power—Imagination—working on mental substance—Thought—to produce the result which appears to us as the universe.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > How

#34043 – 16.27.3.1

BN – ZZ – DK1

Can anything be derived from something that is essentially different from it? This is impossible. Therefore existence cannot be derived from non-existence. If the universe exists today, then its essence must have existed when the universe itself had not been formed. This essence needed no "creation" for it was God, World-Mind, Itself.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > How

#34044 – 16.27.3.2

BN – ZZ – K1

The visible cosmos has come into being out of the invisible absolute by a process of emanation. That is why the relation between them is not only pantheistic but also transcendent.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > How

#34046 – 16.27.3.4

BN – X – K1

When Prospero says, in Shakespeare's play, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on,” he implies the existence of some greater Mind in which we are the dreams.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > How

#34051 – 16.27.3.9

BN – X – D

Every form of existence can be reduced to a form of consciousness. The final essence of all these consciousnesses is God.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > How

#34058 – 16.27.3.16

BN – X – D

The act of creative meditation which brings the universe into being is performed by the World-Mind. We, insofar as we experience the world, are participating in this act unconsciously. It is a thought-world and we are thought-beings.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > How

#34061 – 16.27.3.19

BA11 – P – D

Spinoza arrived at this truth by clear mathematical reflection, that "each particular thing is expressed by infinite ideas in infinite ways in the infinite understanding of God."

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > How

#34068 – 16.27.3.26

BN – Z – K1

In all these studies the principal concept should be returned to again and again: the entire universe, everything—objects and creatures—is in Mind. I hold all the objects of my experience in my consciousness but I myself am held, along with them, in an incredibly greater consciousness, the World-Mind's.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > How

#34069 – 16.27.3.27

BA11 – Z – DM1

It is the 'presence' of the World-Mind which makes things happen according to the World-Idea: the former does not need to put forward each particular activity.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > How

#34075 – 16.27.3.33

BN – Z – DEK1

Take the beginning and the end of the Greek alphabet and suppose that the first letter, Alpha, is the first faint stirrings of the universe. And take the last letter, Omega, to be the last vanishing trace of that universe. Imagine that Alpha is the reincarnation of the previous Omega, and you will have a key to what is really happening. But what is this mysterious invisible intangible source whence all this is derived and into which all this passes?

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > Distinguishing World-Mind and Mind

#34096 – 16.27.3.54

UR_0 – ZZZ – DEMK

There has been so much friction and clash between the different religions because of this idea: whether God is personal or impersonal—so much persecution, even hatred, so unnecessarily. I say unnecessarily because the difference between the two conceptions is only an apparent one. Mind is the source of all; this is Mind inactive. Mind as World-Mind-in-manifestation is the personal God. Between essence and manifestation the only difference is that essence is hidden and manifestation is known. World-Mind is personal (in the sense of being what the Hindus call 'Ishvara'); Mind is totally impersonal. Basically, the two are one.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > Distinguishing World-Mind and Mind

#34098 – 16.27.3.56

UR_3.2 – ZZ – K1

The World-Mind, however, has a double life. As Mind, it is eternally free but as the World-Mind, it is eternally crucified, as Plato said, on the cross of the world's body.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > Distinguishing World-Mind and Mind

#34101 – 16.27.3.59

BN – X – K1

Manifestation implies the necessity of manifesting. But it might be objected that any sort of necessity existing in the divine equally implies its insufficiency. The answer is that the number One may become aware of itself as being one only by becoming aware of the presence of Two—itself and another. But the figure Nought is under no compulsion. Here we have a mathematical hint towards understanding the riddle of manifestation. Mind as Void is the supreme inconceivable unmanifesting ultimate whereas the World-Mind is forever throwing forth the universe-series as a second, an "other" wherein it becomes self-aware.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > Distinguishing World-Mind and Mind

#34102 – 16.27.3.60

BN – X – K1

God-active, the Unseen Power, is (for us humans) the World-Mind. God-in-repose is Mind.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > Distinguishing World-Mind and Mind

#34103 – 16.27.3.61

BN – Z – K1

It would, however, be a mistake to consider the World-Mind as one entity and Mind as another separate from it. It would be truer to consider World-Mind as the active function of Mind. Mind cannot be separated from its powers. The two are one. In its quiescent state it is simply Mind. In its active state it is World-Mind. Mind in its inmost transcendent nature is the inscrutable mystery of Mysteries but when expressing itself in act and immanent in the universe, it is the World-Mind. We may find in the attributes of the manifested God—that is, the World-Mind—the only indications of the quality, existence, and character of the unmanifest Godhead that it is possible for man to comprehend. All this is a mystery which is and perhaps forever will remain an incomprehensible paradox.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > Distinguishing World-Mind and Mind

#34107 – 16.27.3.65

UR_3.2 – Z – K1

The World-Mind is a radiation of the forever incomprehensible Mind. It is the essence of all things and all beings, from the smallest to the largest.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > Distinguishing World-Mind and Mind

#34109 – 16.27.3.67

BN – Z – K1

If it be true that absolute divine Mind knows nothing of the universe, nothing of mortal man, then it is also true that the World-Mind, which is its other aspect, does know them.

World-Mind > World-Mind and "Creation'' > Distinguishing World-Mind and Mind

#34111 – 16.27.3.69

BN – X – K1

The Real stands alone. It is without any kind of support, and needs none. It is without any kind of dependence or dependent relationship.

The Alone > The Alone > The Alone

#34112 – 16.28.0.1

BN – Z

The emptiness of space is a symbol. The universe spread out in that space is also a symbol. Both speak of the Real that is in them, but each in a different way. Yes, within every localized point, every timed instant, That which Is proclaims Itself as the unique Fact outside relationship and beyond change.

The Alone > The Alone > The Alone

#34113 – 16.28.0.2

BN – Z

Philosophy defines God as Pure Mind from the human standpoint and perfect Reality from the cosmic one. The time has indeed come for us to rise to meditate upon the Supreme Mind. It is the source of all appearances, the explanation of all existences. It is the only Reality, the only thing which is, was, and shall be unalterably the same. Mind itself is ineffable and indestructible. We never see it as it is in itself but only the things which are its passing phases.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34116 – 16.28.1.3

BSG_4 – P – DE

The time has indeed come for us to rise to meditate upon the supreme Mind. It is the source of all appearances, the explanation of all existences. It is the only reality, the only thing which is, was, and shall be unalterably the same. Mind itself is ineffable and indestructible. We never see it as it is in itself but only the things which are its passing phases.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34116E – 16.28.1.3

BA11 – P – DE

The ultimate reality is one and the same, no matter what it is called; to the Chinese mystic it is TAO, that is, the Significance; to the Christian mystic it is GOD; to the Chinese philosopher it is TAT CHI, that is, The Great Extreme; to the Hindu philosopher it is TAT, that is, Absolute Existence. It has its own independent, everlasting, invisible, and infinite existence, while all worldly things and creatures are but fragmentary and fleeting expressions of IT on a lower sphere altogether. It lies deeply concealed as their innermost substance and persists through their changes of form.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34117 – 16.28.1.4

UR_2.1 – ZZZ – K

Absolute mind is the actuality of human life and the plenitude of universal existence. Apart from Mind they could not even come into existence, and separated from it they could not continue to exist. Their truth and being are in It. But it would be utterly wrong to imagine the Absolute as the sum total of all finite beings and individual beings. The absolute is not the integral of all its visible aspects. It is the unlimited, the boundless void within which millions of universes may appear and disappear ceaselessly and unendingly but yet leave It unaffected. The latter do not exhaust even one millionth of its being.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34121 – 16.28.1.8

BN – X – K1

With every thought we break the divine stillness. Yet behind all thoughts is Mind. Behind all things that give rise to thoughts is Mind.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34123 – 16.28.1.10

BN – X – D

That which is at the heart of all existence—the world's and yours—must be real, if anything can be. The world may be an illusion, your ego a fiction, but the ultimate essence cannot be either. Reality must be here or nowhere.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34128 – 16.28.1.15

BN – X – D

No one can see the Real yet everyone may see the things which come from it. Although it is itself untouchable, whatever we touch enshrines its presence.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34135 – 16.28.1.22

BN – X – D

There is but One God, One Life, One infinite Power, one all-knowing Mind. Each man individualizes it but does not multiply it. He brings it to a point, the Overself, but does not alter its unity or change its character.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34136 – 16.28.1.23

BN – Z – K1

The One Mind is experiencing itself in us, less in the ego-shadow and fully in the Overself, hardly aware in that shadow and self-realized in the light that casts it.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34137 – 16.28.1.24

BN – X – K1

The term nonduality remains a sound in the air when heard, a visual image when read. Without the key of mentalism it remains just that. How many Vedanta students and, be it said, teachers interpret it aright? And that is to understand there are no two separate entities—a thing and also the thought of it. The thing is in mind, is a projection of mind as the thought. This is nonduality, for mind is not apart from what comes from and goes back into it. As with things, so with bodies and worlds. All appear along with the ultimately cosmic but immediately individual thought of them.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34138 – 16.28.1.25

BN – ZZZ – DEK1

Nonduality simply means that there is nothing other than the unseen Power, nothing else, no universe, no creature.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34145 – 16.28.1.32

BN – X – K1

In The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga and The Wisdom of the Overself I unveiled that portion of the hidden teaching which negated materialism and showed the world to be immaterial and spiritual. In this book I unveil the remaining portion which shows that the person himself is devoid of real existence, that the ego is a fiction, and that there is only the One Universal Mind.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34151 – 16.28.1.38

BN – ZZ – K1

Just as the dreamer's mind appears to split itself up into the various figures and persons of his dream, so the One has never really split itself up into the many, but it has appeared to do so.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Mind alone Is

#34153 – 16.28.1.40

BN – X – D

When Mind concentrates itself into the World-Mind, it establishes a focus. However vast, it goes out of its own unlimited condition, it passes from the true Infinite to the pseudo-Infinite. Consequently the World-Mind, being occupied with its cosmos, cannot be regarded as possessed of the absolute character of Pure Mind. For what is its work but a movement of imagination? And where in the ineffable absolute is there room for either work or imagination? The one would break its eternal stillness, the other would veil its unchangeable reality. This of course it can never do, for Being can never become Non-Being. But it can send forth an emanation from itself. Such an emanation is the World-Mind. Through its prolonged contemplation of the cosmos Mind thus becomes a fragment of itself, bereft of its own undifferentiated unbroken unity. Nevertheless the World-Mind, through its deputy the Overself, is still for humans the highest possible goal.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Levels, phases, functions of Mind

#34154 – 16.28.1.41

BN – X – K1

Mind is the essence of all manifested things as World-Mind and the Mystery behind unmanifest Nothing.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Levels, phases, functions of Mind

#34156 – 16.28.1.43

BN – X – K1

Mind is the essence of all conscious beings. Their consciousness is derivative, borrowed from it; they could know nothing of their own power; whereas Mind alone knows all things and itself. When it knows them in time, it is World-Mind; when it knows itself alone, it is the unknown to man and unknowable Godhead.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Levels, phases, functions of Mind

#34158 – 16.28.1.45

BN – X – K1

The term Tao, as used by Lao Tzu, does not refer to the World-Mind, that which is responsible for the manifested universe, but to the pure, essential being of Mind-in-itself. What I have called the World-Mind, he calls Teh.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Levels, phases, functions of Mind

#34161 – 16.28.1.48

UR_3.2 – Z – K

The Mind's first expression is the Void. The second and succeeding is the Light, that is the World-Mind. This is followed by the third, the World-Idea. Finally comes the fourth, manifestation of the world itself.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Levels, phases, functions of Mind

#34165 – 16.28.1.52

BN – ZZ – K1

The Supreme Godhead is unindividualized. The World-Mind is individuated (but not personalized) into emanated Overselves. The Overself is an individual, but not a person. The ego is personal.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Levels, phases, functions of Mind

#34166 – 16.28.1.53

BN – X – K1

What is the meaning of the words "the Holy Trinity"? The Father is the absolute and ineffable Godhead, Mind in its ultimate being. The Son is the soul of the universe, that is, the World-Mind. The Holy Ghost is the soul of each individual, that is, the Overself. The Godhead is one and indivisible and not multiform and can never divide itself up into three personalities.

The Alone > Absolute Mind > Levels, phases, functions of Mind

#34167 – 16.28.1.54

BN – Z – K1