The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 76
Living Mind, at the same time
acknowledging that we cannot
fully understand it. We must
either do this or stop thinking
of the matter at all.
Let us now proceed to a
consideration of the nature of
the Universe as a whole and in
its parts. What is the Universe?
We have seen that there can be
nothing outside of THE ALL.
Then is the Universe THE ALL?
No, this cannot be, because the
Universe seems to be made up
of MANY and is constantly
changing and in other ways it
does not measure up to the
ideas that we are compelled to
accept regarding THE ALL, as
stated in our last lesson. Then
if the Universe be not THE ALL,
then it must be Nothing - such
is the inevitable conclusion of
the mind at first thought.
But this will not satisfy the
question, for we are sensible of
the existence of the Universe.
Then if the Universe is neither
THE ALL, nor Nothing, what
can it be? Let us examine this
question.
If the Universe exists at all, or
seems to exist, it must proceed
in some way from THE ALL - it
must be a creation of THE ALL.
But as something can never
come from nothing, from what
could THE ALL have created it?
Some philosophers have
answered this question by
saying that THE ALL created
the Universe from ITSELF - that
is, from the being and
substance of THE ALL. But this
will not do, for THE ALL cannot
be subtracted from, nor
divided, as we have seen and
then again if this be so, would
not each particle in the
Universe be aware of its being
THE ALL - THE ALL could not
lose its knowledge of itself, nor
actually BECOME an atom, or
blind force, or lowly living
thing. Some men, indeed,
realizing that THE ALL is
indeed ALL and also
recognizing that they, the men,
existed have jumped to the
conclusion that they and THE
ALL were identical and they
have filled the air with shouts
of "I AM GOD," to the
amusement of the multitude
and the sorrow of sages. The
claim of the corpuscle that,
"I am Man!" would be modest in
comparison.
But, what indeed is the
Universe, if it be not THE ALL,