The herald., 1896-07-13

ing and thinking, Is called Arm Soph.
He Is the space of the universe and all
its manifestations.
In the Divine Pymander, fifth book, We
find Hermes Trismegestis saying: This
is God that is better than any name:
this is he that Is secret; this Is he that
is most manifest; this is he that is to be
seen by the mind; this is he that is visible
to the eye; this is he that hath no body,
and this is he that many bodies. rather
there is nothing of any body which Is
not He"
The ancient Greeks deified every force
In nature and wove around each and all
a poetic character, giving to them spe-
cial characteristics and personal his
tory.
Plato claimed that as the world was
sensible it must have been produced from
an effectual cause.
Pythagoras believed and taught that
numbers form the root basis of all forms.
Xenophones maintained unity-the
universe to be God.
Anaxagoras recognized a-supreme in
telligence as the principal of life and
arranger of the primitive chaotic atoms
into perfect molecular forms.
The Christian tells us that God is pri-
marily and fundamentally and essen
TALLY Thought! I'm the beginning was
the word ard the word was with God and
the word was God" What is the mean
ing of such statement? Does it explain
to us what God is? First, let us see what
relation Thought bears to THE Word" :"
The brain is the organ of the mind and
its secretion is thought, consequently
When the mind receives a thought in or
DER TO give it expression it needs word.
NOW, we can understand from the fol-
lowing what the Christian conception
or God is from the following:: I'm the
beginning was the word" A word is
the expression of thought. THE word
was with God" Then the expressed
thought was with God. And the word
was God Therefore the word or God
was Thought or Mind-divine ideation or
divine mind from which the Thought
emanated. This is exactly the Theo-
sophical conception.
The doctrine of the Trinity is to be
round In all the principle religious sys-
TENS as we'll as belief In the Absolute
the Unknowable
Christianity offers in their trinity.
The Son-the manifested Logos. "The
WORD the falling of spirit into mat
Ter or the manifestation on the objective.
Inc Holy Ghost = the unmanifested
word, that which is with the absolute
diVine tr location seen only by its effects
The Father-'the word" the highest
conception of divinity, the absolute. the
unknowable
IheosophtstS claim according to the
first postulate' of the secret doc
trine' that there Is an omnipresent
eternal boundless and immutable prin-
ciple back of all manifestations" and "is
peyond human speculation because it
transcends the power of human concep-
tion and could only be dwarfed by any
human explanation or similitude. being
beyond the reach of human thought" !"
Therefore the God of the Theosophists
IS that which every man who is capable
OF thinking for himself Is forced to ad-
NIT, let him call it what he may, it makes
no difference whether he calls it AL
mighty matter or eternal spirit. Brahnl
Para- Brahm, Abrahm, Osiris, Ormuzd.
Ain-Soph. Zeus, Allah, Manitou. Thor
or God. What is there in a name? We
search for truth in all religions all scien-
ces and all PHILOSOPHERS and claim there
IS no religion higher than truth" and 1
do most certainly believe that this divine
principle is essential. Truth il manifest
ed in the harmony of the spheres, mani
Tested in every phase of life. manifested
in our self-conscious knowledge of di-
vine love and gives to man the power to
and know the roots
Of intuition from divine ideation and
proves to him that all things are gov
erned by love and harmony. and that
they emanate from this universal di-
vine principle, the root of all. from which
all proceeds and within which all shall
be absorbed at the end of the great cycle
of being.