These illustrations are but finite examples of the Infinite, but still they will give you an idea of the truth that we are trying to unfold in your mind.  But you must not imagine that You and I, and all others, and things, are but mere “imaginations,” like our created characters—­that would be a most unhappy belief.  The mental creations held by You and I, and other finite minds, are but finite creations of finite minds, while WE, ourselves, are the finite creations of an INFINITE MIND.  While our, and Dickens’, and Balzac’s, and Shakespeare’s creations live and move and have their being, they have no other “I” than our Finite Minds, while we, the characters in the Divine Drama, Story, or Epic, have for our “I”—­our Real Self—­the ABSOLUTE REALITY.  They have merely a background of our finite personalities, and minds, before which they may desport themselves. until, alas! the very background fades away to dust, and both background and shadows disappear.  But, we have behind our personalities the Eternal Background of Reality, which changeth not, neither doth it Disappear.  Shadows on a screen though our Personalities may be, yet the Screen is Real and Eternal.  Take away the finite screen and the shadows disappear—­but our Screen remains forever.

We are Mental Images in the Infinite Mind—­the Infinite Mind holds us safe—­we cannot be lost—­we cannot be hurt—­we can never disappear, unless we be absorbed in the Infinite Mind itself, and then we STILL ARE!  The Infinite Mind never forgets—­it never can overlook us—­it is aware of our presence, and being, always.  We are safe—­we are secure—­we ARE!  Just as we could not be created from Nothing—­so we cannot be converted into Nothing.  We are in the All—­and there is no outside.

At the dawn of the Brahmic Day, The Absolute begins the creation of a new Universe, or the recreation of one, just as you may care to state it.  The highest Yogi Teachings inform us that the information relating to this event (which is, of course, beyond the personal knowledge of man as we know him) has been passed down to the race from teachers, who have received it from still higher teachers, and so on, and on and on, higher and higher, until it is believed to have originated with some of those wonderfully developed souls which have visited the earth from higher planes of Being, of which there are many.  In these lessons we are making no claims of this sort, but pass on the teachings to you, believing that their truth will appeal to those who are ready for them, without any attempt to attribute to them an authority such as just mentioned.  Our reference to this high source of the teachings was made because of its general acceptance in the Eastern countries, and by occultists generally.