It is only when the teachings of Mystic Christianity are consulted that one receives any light on the subject.  The Occult Teachings are quite explicit on this subject so fraught with difficulty and lack of comprehension on the part of the orthodox teachers and students.

The teaching of Mystic Christianity, regarding the Holy Ghost, may be summed up by the great general statement that:  The Holy Ghost is the Absolute in its phase of Manifestation, as compared to its phase of Unmanifestation—­Manifest Being as compared with Unmanifest Being—­God Create as compared with God Uncreate—­God acting as the Creative Principle as compared to God as The Absolute Being.

The student is asked to read over the above general statement a number of times and to concentrate his or her attention carefully upon it, before proceeding further with the lesson.

To understand the above statement it is necessary for the student to remember that the Absolute may be thought of as existing in two phases.  Not as two persons or beings, remember, but as in two phases.  There is but One Being—­there can be but One—­but we may think of that One as existing in two phases.  One of these phases is Being Unmanifest; the other, Being Manifest.

Being Unmanifest is the One in its phase of Absolute Being, undifferentiated, unmanifested, uncreated; without attributes, qualities, or natures.

It is impossible for the human mind to grasp the above concept of Being Manifest in the sense of being able to think of it as a “Thing, or Something.”  This because of the essential being of it.  If it were like anything that we can think of, it would not be the Absolute, nor would it be Unmanifest.  Everything that we can think of as a “thing” is a relative thing—­a manifestation into objective being.

But we are compelled by the very laws of our reason to admit that the Absolute Being Unmanifest exists, for the Manifest and Relative Universe and Life must have proceeded and emanated from a Fundamental Reality, which must be Absolute and Unmanifest.  And this Being which our highest reason causes us to assume to exist is Being Unmanifest—­God the Father—­who cannot be known through the senses—­whose existence is made known to us only through Pure Reason, or through the workings of the Spirit within us.  In the material sense “God is Unknowable”—­but in the higher sense He may be known to the Spirit of Man, and His existence may be known and proven by the exercise of the highest faculties of the reason.

Being Unmanifest is the One in its actual existence and being.  If all the world of objective life and manifestation, even to its highest forms, were withdrawn from manifestation, then there would be left—­what?  Simply and solely, Being Unmanifest—­God the Father, alone.  Into His Being all else would be withdrawn.  Outside of Him there would be nothing.  He would be Himself—­One—­existing in the phase of Being Unmanifest.