Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00560)

Master K.H. wrote:

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. . . We are not Adwaitees, but our teaching 
respecting the one life is identical with that 
of the Adwaitee with regard to Parabrahm. And 
no true philosophically brained Adwaitee will 
ever call himself an agnostic, for he knows that 
he is Parabrahm and identical in every 
respect with the universal life and soul -- the 
macrocosm is the microcosm and he knows that there 
is no God apart from himself, no creator as no being. 
Having found Gnosis we cannot turn our backs on 
it and become agnostics. 

....Pantheistic we may be called -- agnostic NEVER. If people are 
willing to accept and to regard as God our ONE LIFE immutable and 
unconscious in its eternity they may do so and thus keep to one more 
gigantic misnomer. But then they will have to say with Spinoza that 
there is not and that we cannot conceive any other substance than 
God; or as that famous and unfortunate philosopher says in his 
fourteenth proposition, "practer Deum neque dari neque concepi 
potest substantia" -- and thus become Pantheists . . . . who but a 
Theologian nursed on mystery and the most absurd super-naturalism 
can imagine a self existent being of necessity infinite and 
omnipresent outside the manifested boundless universe. The word 
infinite is but a negative which excludes the idea of bounds. It is 
evident that a being independent and omnipresent cannot be limited 
by anything which is outside of himself; that there can be nothing 
exterior to himself -- not even vacuum, then where is there room for 
matter? for that manifested universe even though the latter limited. 
If we ask the theist is your God vacuum, space or matter, they will 
reply no. And yet they hold that their God penetrates matter though 
he is not himself matter. When we speak of our One Life we also say 
that it penetrates, nay is the essence of every atom of matter; and 
that therefore it not only has correspondence with matter but has 
all its properties likewise, etc. -- hence is material, is matter 
itself. ...

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Daniel
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