What gives you the greatest Satisfaction and Content in Life?  Let us see.  Well, there is the Satisfaction of Immortality.  The human mind instinctively craves this.  Well, what that even the highest finite conceptions of Future Life have given you, can compare with the assurance of Actual Being, in and of the Absolute?  What are your petty conceptions of “heavens,” “paradises,” “happy-hunting-grounds,” “divine regions of the blessed,” and the other ideas of the various religious sects, when compared with the conceptions of your Infinite and Eternal Existence in Spirit—­your relation with The One—­that conception of Infinite Wisdom, Being, and Bliss?  When you grasp this truth, you will see that you are “in Eternity right Now,” and are Immortal even this moment, as you have always been.

Now, what we have said above is not intended to deny the “heaven-worlds,” or planes.  On the contrary, you will find much in the teachings regarding these, which the Yogis enter into with much detail.  But, we mean that back of all the “heavens” and “celestial planes,” there is a still higher state of being being—­the “Absolute Being.”  Even the “heavens,” and “heaven-worlds,” and regions of the Devas, or Archangels, are but relative states—­there is a state higher than even these exalted relative states, and that is the State of the Conscious Unity and Identity with the One.  When one enters into that State, he becomes more than Man—­more than gods—­he is then “in the bosom of the Father.”

And now, before proceeding to a consideration of the phenomenal manifestation of the Absolute—­the evolving of the Universe in the Infinite Mind—­we will again call your attention to the fact that underlies all the Universe of forms, shapes and appearances, and that is, as we stated in our last lesson: 

All Manifestations and Emanations of the Absolute are Mental Creations of the Absolute—­Thought-Forms held in the Infinite Mind—­the Infinite Spirit in them—­and they in the Infinite Spirit.  And, the only Real Thing about Man is the Spirit involved in the Thought-Form—­the rest is mere Personality, which changes and ceases to be.  The Spirit in the Soul of Man, is the Soul of the Soul, which is never born; never changeth; never dieth—­this is The Real Self of Man, in which, indeed, he is “One with the Father.”

And, now let us consider the Yogi Teachings regarding the creation of the Universe, and the evolution of the living forms thereon.  We shall endeavor to give you the story as plainly as may be, holding fast to the main thought, and avoiding the side-paths of details, etc., so far as is possible.

In the first place, we must imagine ourselves back to the beginning of a “Day of Brahm,”—­the first dawn of that Day, which is breaking from the darkness of a “Night of Brahm.”  Before we proceed further, we must tell you something about these “Days and Nights of Brahm,” of which you have seen much mention in the Oriental writings.