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1There are only certain fundamental truths that are true, per se, which possess definite reality. They are nine in number and I sup¬ pose, can be finally reduced to one, a Trinity of Trinities. The First Trinity is the primary concept of all things which has neither begin¬ ning nor end, unconditioned, therefore, boundless. For all speculative purposes; 1, MIND. 2. SUBSTANCE. 3, MOTION, may be con¬ sidered as; Intelligence or Mind; Ether or Substance; and Force or Motion; and the outcome of this triune concept is the evolution of the grand something upon which the entire fabric of the universe deGooqle O QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS 191 pends, and this is; CONSCIOUSNESS. The impersonal becomes, as it were, personal, and there comes into being “THE THING THAT THINKS” apart from the universal thought. From this comes the next or Second Trinity; 1, I am. 2, God is. 3, The Universe exists. This is very different from the first Trinity; because it contains only One indisputable fact, which is, I Am, this it knows. It believes that God is and that the Universe exists. It thinks because it sees. It can see the universe but cannot see God.
2You see, we are now getting into the realm of appearances, and this is because the Thing That Thinks, i.e., CONSCIOUSNESS, not being the universal mind, but an entity or differentiated atom of it, is not the universe; therefore, reduced, as it were, from knowing the unknowable; it can only see and think, and the consequent ideas must always depend on What it does See. The God Idea, is simply the over-whelming conviction, the con¬ sciousness of the awful powers by which it finds itself surrounded, tremendously greater than itself. The last Trinity is; 1, Life. 2, Change. 3, Creation, and this is at last on earth. Everything is alive, there is no death; only change, eternal change; and the idea, the Thing that Thinks, Creates; and is thus a conscious microcosm patterned after the boundless, unconscious MACROCOSM.
3This is a very simple little primer of spiritual and material truth, in which great truths, that would require big books to explain, are reduced to their simplest, primal concepts; and while there is nothing, beyond which, the mind of man can conceive, there is infinite space for theories and isms to grow between the lines; but, remember, that man has no friend but humanity; his Gods and Devils are found use¬ less and powerless against the genius of man. The live, green earth, is mans mother; and the earth and all that dwells therein are his by the Divine right of possession. The stars of heaven look down upon him, but there is no sympathy in their light; no companionship, in the real sense; but the earth looks up and bids him rest. She supports him and gives him of all she possesses of life and beauty. She pro¬ duces the flowers that gladden the heart of his childhood, and the rich harvest that gives strength to his manhood, and later she will cover up the useless mortal part of him, beneath the green, grassy mound of her bosom, down upon which, the distant stars, all uncono 192 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT scious of him or his destiny, will look without pity. So, Thank God; the great inconceivable Universal God of the Infinite Creation; that man exists; that he fives and moves and has his being in every stage of existence; from the living granite foundations of our mother earth to the angelic glory that surrounds the soul and sways the Sceptre of Ra.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1There are only certain fundamental truths that are true, per se, which possess definite reality. They are nine in number and I sup¬ pose, can be finally reduced to one, a Trinity of Trinities. The First Trinity is the primary concept of all things which has neither begin¬ ning nor end, unconditioned, therefore, boundless. For all speculative purposes; 1, MIND. 2. SUBSTANCE. 3, MOTION, may be con¬ sidered as; Intelligence or Mind; Ether or Substance; and Force or Motion; and the outcome of this triune concept is the evolution of the grand something upon which the entire fabric of the universe deGooqle O QUOTATIONS FROM LETTERS 191 pends, and this is; CONSCIOUSNESS. The impersonal becomes, as it were, personal, and there comes into being “THE THING THAT THINKS” apart from the universal thought. From this comes the next or Second Trinity; 1, I am. 2, God is. 3, The Universe exists. This is very different from the first Trinity; because it contains only One indisputable fact, which is, I Am, this it knows. It believes that God is and that the Universe exists. It thinks because it sees. It can see the universe but cannot see God.
2You see, we are now getting into the realm of appearances, and this is because the Thing That Thinks, i.e., CONSCIOUSNESS, not being the universal mind, but an entity or differentiated atom of it, is not the universe; therefore, reduced, as it were, from knowing the unknowable; it can only see and think, and the consequent ideas must always depend on What it does See. The God Idea, is simply the over-whelming conviction, the con¬ sciousness of the awful powers by which it finds itself surrounded, tremendously greater than itself. The last Trinity is; 1, Life. 2, Change. 3, Creation, and this is at last on earth. Everything is alive, there is no death; only change, eternal change; and the idea, the Thing that Thinks, Creates; and is thus a conscious microcosm patterned after the boundless, unconscious MACROCOSM.
3This is a very simple little primer of spiritual and material truth, in which great truths, that would require big books to explain, are reduced to their simplest, primal concepts; and while there is nothing, beyond which, the mind of man can conceive, there is infinite space for theories and isms to grow between the lines; but, remember, that man has no friend but humanity; his Gods and Devils are found use¬ less and powerless against the genius of man. The live, green earth, is mans mother; and the earth and all that dwells therein are his by the Divine right of possession. The stars of heaven look down upon him, but there is no sympathy in their light; no companionship, in the real sense; but the earth looks up and bids him rest. She supports him and gives him of all she possesses of life and beauty. She pro¬ duces the flowers that gladden the heart of his childhood, and the rich harvest that gives strength to his manhood, and later she will cover up the useless mortal part of him, beneath the green, grassy mound of her bosom, down upon which, the distant stars, all uncono 192 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT scious of him or his destiny, will look without pity. So, Thank God; the great inconceivable Universal God of the Infinite Creation; that man exists; that he fives and moves and has his being in every stage of existence; from the living granite foundations of our mother earth to the angelic glory that surrounds the soul and sways the Sceptre of Ra.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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