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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...He receives only as much as he is able to hold--God does not try to put a quart of Intelligence in a pint measure. A No. 3 man does not receive a No. 7 amount of knowledge. And note this coincidence. As the soul develops and unfolds it begins to partake of more of each of the three attributes of The Absolute. It begins to know more--to have more power--to be able to master space and matter. And as the soul unfolds and grows it will continue to partake in an increasing ratio of the three attributes of The Absolute--Omniscience, Omnipotence and Omnipresence. We will not speak of our attitude toward The Absolute--our duty toward God--in this lesson. This properly comes under the head of "Bhakti Yoga" in our next lesson, and will be touched upon there. In this lesson we have spoken only of the philosophical side of the knowing of God--Gnani Yoga. Now, right here, we must warn our students against a common mistake of students of the Eastern Philosophies--a mistake not alone common among students, but which also is apparent among some teachers. We allude to the proper conception (or the lack of it) of the relation of the Centre to the Emanation. While Man is of God, he is not God--while he is a manifestation of The Absolute, he is not The Absolute itself. He is but the Finite expression of the Infinite. We hear Hindus, and Western students of the teachings of the East, running about crying aloud, "I am God.

" They are so overpowered with the sense of the Oneness of All that has burst upon them--are so carried away with the consciousness of their relationship to The Absolute, that they think that they are equal with God, or are God himself. No wonder that the stranger to the teachings is shocked by the apparent impiety, and both his reason and...