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14 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT our journey, we will in this place briefly add that spirit and matter, as we know them, are but the dual expression of the one Deific principle, due to differences of polarity. In other words, a unity under two modes of action. This duality can only be comprehended in its true relation¬ ship when viewed from both planes and realized by the science of correspondences, which science is but a material system of symbolism from which we can justly regulate our conceptions of all things. Plato once said, “Ideas rule the world.” So far Plato was right; for, before the divine idea was evolved from within the divine sensorium of the Infinite One, the universe was not. Hence the result of the divine idea was the evolution of a pure symbolic form.
2Just as symbols are the product of ideas, so, in their turn, ideas are the symbols of thought, and thought itself is but the symbolic response of the Ego to the pulsating throb of the Deific will, the divine radiant soul of the Infinite One. Back of this we cannot penetrate, even in our most exalted conceptions. Hence all serious study and meditation as to the nature and existence of God is unprofitable and cannot bring the student any substantial return either in this world or the next, seeing that the Infinite can never be comprehended by the finite. Therefore, we must rest satisfied with the certain knowledge that we can by one grand chain of sequences trace the transmission of thoughts, ideas and symbolic forms to their source. Thus the angelic world is but a prototype or symbolic expression of the divine sphere of the Infinite. The celestial world is a reflection of the angelic world. The spiritual world is a prototype and symbolic outcome of the celestial heavens. The astral world is the reflection of the spiritual sphere. And lastly, the material (our world) is but the concrete shadow of the astral kingdoms.
3Hence the reader can perceive that we, in our present state, are a long way down in the scale of creative life. But if we are, we know by the laws of our being that we can and shall win our way back through this valley of the shadow, this plane of inverted images and delusive appearances, into the bright realms of our former state, those spheres of pure angelic life where alone exist the ever living reals of all the infinitude of apparent realities. gitized by GoO^lc THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL-SECTION I THE GENESIS OF LIFE CHAPTER I THE REALM OF SPIRIT Involution “Being, Uncreated, Eternal, Alone,” says Dr. John Young, when speaking of “the Creator and the creation;” certainly no inspired writer ever penned a more sublime truth than is contained in the above words. Pure spirit is diffusive, non atomic, uncreated, formless, self-existent being. Silent, motionless, unconscious, Divinity; possessing in its sub¬ lime purity the one sole Deific attribute expressible in human language as absolute and unconditioned potentiality.
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.
14 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT our journey, we will in this place briefly add that spirit and matter, as we know them, are but the dual expression of the one Deific principle, due to differences of polarity. In other words, a unity under two modes of action. This duality can only be comprehended in its true relation¬ ship when viewed from both planes and realized by the science of correspondences, which science is but a material system of symbolism from which we can justly regulate our conceptions of all things. Plato once said, “Ideas rule the world.” So far Plato was right; for, before the divine idea was evolved from within the divine sensorium of the Infinite One, the universe was not. Hence the result of the divine idea was the evolution of a pure symbolic form.
2Just as symbols are the product of ideas, so, in their turn, ideas are the symbols of thought, and thought itself is but the symbolic response of the Ego to the pulsating throb of the Deific will, the divine radiant soul of the Infinite One. Back of this we cannot penetrate, even in our most exalted conceptions. Hence all serious study and meditation as to the nature and existence of God is unprofitable and cannot bring the student any substantial return either in this world or the next, seeing that the Infinite can never be comprehended by the finite. Therefore, we must rest satisfied with the certain knowledge that we can by one grand chain of sequences trace the transmission of thoughts, ideas and symbolic forms to their source. Thus the angelic world is but a prototype or symbolic expression of the divine sphere of the Infinite. The celestial world is a reflection of the angelic world. The spiritual world is a prototype and symbolic outcome of the celestial heavens. The astral world is the reflection of the spiritual sphere. And lastly, the material (our world) is but the concrete shadow of the astral kingdoms.
3Hence the reader can perceive that we, in our present state, are a long way down in the scale of creative life. But if we are, we know by the laws of our being that we can and shall win our way back through this valley of the shadow, this plane of inverted images and delusive appearances, into the bright realms of our former state, those spheres of pure angelic life where alone exist the ever living reals of all the infinitude of apparent realities. gitized by GoO^lc THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL-SECTION I THE GENESIS OF LIFE CHAPTER I THE REALM OF SPIRIT Involution “Being, Uncreated, Eternal, Alone,” says Dr. John Young, when speaking of “the Creator and the creation;” certainly no inspired writer ever penned a more sublime truth than is contained in the above words. Pure spirit is diffusive, non atomic, uncreated, formless, self-existent being. Silent, motionless, unconscious, Divinity; possessing in its sub¬ lime purity the one sole Deific attribute expressible in human language as absolute and unconditioned potentiality.
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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