I
will tell you of that which is to be known, because such knowledge bestows
immortality. Hear about the beginning-less Supreme Spirit, He who is spoken of
as neither existent nor nonexistent. He dwells in the world, enveloping all, He
is present everywhere, shining in all the senses, yet transcending them;
unattached to creation, yet the source of all creation.
He
is within and without all that exists, the animate and the inanimate; he is the
Indivisible One. He appears as countless beings; He maintains and destroys
forms, then creates them anew. He is the light of all lights, beyond darkness; he
is knowledge itself, that which is to be known, the goal of all learning, He is
seated in the hearts of all.
An
explanation of the Holy Spirit II
Spirit
is motionless, vibration-less, both in thought and energy. It has no
dimensions, no relativity; it is like nothing in creation. It knows neither
pleasure nor pain. It is beyond the relativity of the four ordinary states of
human consciousness, pleasure, pain, indifference, and temporary peace.
It
is bliss, which is deeper than peace, and is always new and unceasing. That is
the only quality of Spirit. When we feel that and nothing else satisfies; then
you have true spiritual consciousness.
Spirit
is nameless and formless. If we try to name Spirit, we immediately limit it.
Spirit is not knowable by the limitation of understanding, but that does not
mean that Spirit is entirely unknowable, because Spirit can be felt.
From
the human point of view of time, Spirit is, was, and ever shall be. In Spirit
there is no past or future, only the present. Spirit is ever conscious.
Spirit's Cosmic Consciousness does not cease to operate actively, as does the
consciousness of man in sleep. Spirit has no alternating consciousness of wakefulness
or sub-consciousness like that of man, but has perpetual, enjoyable, active and
inactive wakefulness combined within Itself.
It
is said, that Spirit was Joy, but there was no one else to taste of this Joy,
so Spirit divided Itself to become the Enjoyer, the act of enjoying, and the
thing enjoyed, the Knower, the process of knowing, and the thing known.
This
triune division of Spirit into Knower, Knowing, and Known was accomplished by
the law of relativity. Spirit, being one and indivisible, had to imagine and
will Itself to be many. Expressed another way: Spirit divided Itself into God
as the Father, the Cosmic Consciousness or "Knower" remaining beyond
all creation; and into God as the Son, the Christ Consciousness or cosmic
intelligent subjective "knowing" power in creation; and into God as
the Holy Ghost, the cosmic intelligent objective creation itself, the thing
known.
Manifesting
in creation, Spirit divided Itself into subject and object, the Knower and the
Known.
What
is the difference between Spirit as subject and object?
Spirit
as God in the aspect of Christ Consciousness manifests subjectively in creation
as the power of perception of thoughts and feelings; and Spirit as God the
Cosmic Intelligent Vibration manifests objectively to produce the universe.
Everything is One, but when that One Infinite Spirit differentiates Itself into
many, It has many forms and many names. But Spirit, the great One Reality, cannot
be named.
The
word "God" means the manifested, transcendental Being beyond
creation, but existing in relation to creation. Spirit existed before God. God
is the Creator of the universe, but Spirit is the Creator of God. Spirit is not
the universe; Spirit is that which was and will be whether the universe does or
does not exist. Spirit includes everything.
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