THE SECRET OF LIGHT part II: 1 - Man's Two Supreme Illusions

1 - Man's two supreme illusions

The secret of Light is fathomable to man only by first solving his two supreme illusions. The greater of these is the illusion of the universe itself. Man has never known his universe for what it really is, but only for what his senses have made him believe it to be. His senses have deceived him mightily.

The other is the illusion of man himself. With the exception of the Nazarene, man has never as yet known man. Nor has he known his relation to the universe, nor to his still more unfathomable God.

The little that man knows of himself and his universe is what the eyes and ears of his body have told him they have seen and heard about himself and his universe.

But man has eyes and ears of the spirit which see and hear what man's sensed eyes and ears can never see or hear, for man is still too new in his unfolding. He is still but in the ferment of his beginnings.

Man senses motion, change, sequence, multiplicity, time, activity, life, death, good and evil. Of these things he is most certain. His senses have made him most certain of their substantial reality. In face of the fact that he has lived with his familiar universe all his life, it is not easy for him to accept the statement that it has no existence whatsoever, that it is all illusion, all of it, nothing being left upon which to even base that illusion.

He can accept the illusion of the railroad tracks meeting upon the horizon, but the railroad tracks are real, even though their seeming meeting is not. They, at least, still remain as a basis for their own illusion.

A mirage of a city is comprehensible to man also as an illusion. He knows it does not exist but he also knows of the reality of the city which thus repeats itself, ghostlike, in the mirrors and lenses of light waves of the heavens above the city. To tell him that the city, as well as its own mirage, has no existence is to lay too heavy a tax upon his credulity and patience.

Yet that is what the secret of Light reveals, and that is what we must sell, simply and convincingly, to layman, churchman and scientist alike, and in the language standards and methods which each requires for his conviction.

So come, therefore, and know God, His universe, and man with eyes other than our sensed ones. The eyes of the spirit are knowing eyes. God's universe of knowing is all that is. The universe of seeming motion does not exist.

“Why for be thou slave to sensing. Be Me in they knowing.”

“The heavens and the earths of My curved universe are father-mother of My universe, each of each and each to the other one. Neither one can be save the other also be.

“Nor can one leave the other, saying, 'Sit thou here while I journey to the far reaches.'

“Nor can there be aught upon the earth without the fathering skies, nor in the skies without the
motherhood of earth; neither man, nor bird, nor reptile, nor fish, nor beast of wild jungle; neither tree,
nor flower, nor shrilly singing insect; neither tempest, wild tornado, nor gentle breeze of calm ocean;
nor cloud, nor mist, nor dewdrop for flower petal; not one of these things can be born of earth alone
unfathered by the heavens, nor can heaven alone born them without the motherhood of earth.

“Again I say: I, the Light, am One. But my thinking is two, for thought is two in every repeating thing, two halves of One which never can be one. Always must they be two to go opposed ways from Me and back again to Me for reborning from the other one after finding rest in Me.”

- from The Divine Iliad